Chapter 6: The Bottomless Cliff

  Zhao Jian died like this, right in front of everyone, just as he was about to exit the cave, and his body was crushed into a pulp by the enormous pressure underground, at least 100 meters below the surface. That's why so much blood seeped out, just like when you put a lemon in a juicer and "whoosh", all the juice is squeezed out.

  This scene is terrifying, frightening and disgusting!

  Sarah and several others covered their chests and began to sob, even Su Mu Ran, who was covering her mouth with her palm, had a flash of unbearable pain and deep-seated guilt in her eyes, because she had guessed that the person walking at the back might be in danger, but for her own safety, she did not say this guess out loud.

  At this thought, Su Mu Ran's eyes involuntarily turned to Xiao Xuan. She had a premonition that if she could guess that the last person would be in great danger, then wouldn't this calm and courageous man with meticulous thoughts also be able to guess it?

  At this time, Xiao Xuan's gaze happened to turn over, and the two people's gazes coincidentally collided. Su Mo Ran hastily shifted his own gaze, leaning his body against the rock wall on the other side, starting to adjust his emotions. The real task had just been issued, and greater danger was still waiting for him. At this time, he didn't have much need to excessively grieve and feel guilty here for Zhao Jian, because it was very possible that he would soon die here too, and he wasn't qualified to feel sad for others yet.

  Xiao Xuan looked at Su Mo Ran's eyes as they gradually calmed down, then walked towards her and leaned against the rock wall with her, saying in a voice that only the two of them could hear:

  "Put your hands behind me."

  Su Mu Ran was taken aback by his words, but she still obediently stretched out her hand behind Xiao Xuan. Here, Xiao Xuan used his body to block the view of Sara, Beth and Ruo Nu, and these three women were also shocked by this scene, so no one noticed what was happening here. Xiao Xuan also stuck his right hand on his back, and hooked it together with Su Mu Ran's hand. Su Mu Ran slightly furrowed her brow, she wasn't clear what Xiao Xuan was trying to do, but she instinctively rejected the touch of a member of the opposite sex, especially in this way of holding hands.

  However, the next moment, Su Mo suddenly felt a shock in her heart, because she suddenly felt that her palm was sinking, and a chill fell into her own palm. From the shape of the touch, it was a gun!

  Where did he hide his gun? He clearly had nothing in his hand just now!

  Su Mo Ran was still unclear that the ring on Xiao Xuan's nameless finger was a space ring, so when Xiao Xuan suddenly "changed" out a gun and put it in her hand, she felt very surprised.

  "Be careful to protect yourself." Xiao Xuan whispered a sentence, then let his body leave the rock wall and walked to Sarah's side, while Su Mo Ran also neatly put away the gun.

  Upon hearing the faint sound of the handgun behind her, Xiao Xuan's mouth curled up into an almost imperceptible arc, it seemed that she was indeed a skilled shooter.

  "Nobody move, don't move, stay calm, stay calm!"

  Runo pressed down on both hands to signal everyone to calm down, after all, this unexpected event was really beyond people's expectations, especially for Runo, the organizer. Zhao Jian's death could be attributed to her, and she also managed to calm down with great difficulty.

  "Don't worry, we can't go anywhere, the way back has been completely blocked." Beth replied coldly, her face already filled with anger.

  "How is that possible? The travel guide didn't say there were three other exit channels here, did it, Zeno?" Sarah asked, turning to the person beside her.

  However, Juno's face was expressionless and she didn't respond. Sarah felt a wave of doubt in her heart and asked again: "Juno? Juno? Quickly take out the travel guide to check the route."

  "I didn't bring..." Juno replied.

  "What?" Sarah said disbelievingly.

  "Even if I had brought it, it would have been useless." Zeno continued.

  "What did you just say? Right, you registered with the mountain rescue team, didn't you? If we don't make it out, they'll send someone to rescue us." Sarah asked, clinging to a glimmer of hope.

  "Hehe, if we were at the Poehler Cave, they would indeed send someone to rescue us. But this isn't the developed cave we agreed to explore earlier, is it, Juno?" Beth asked.

  "You've led us into the wrong cave, Juno?" Sarah felt this was absurd.

  "No, I didn't, because I think the Bailong Cave is originally for deceiving tourists, and I don't want to go to those developed caves for adventure!" Zhūnō finally spoke out her true intention, she deliberately chose a wild undeveloped cave to bring everyone in for exploration.

  "Damn it, you're cheating!" Beth cursed directly.

  "Listen, Beth, I didn't want this to happen either. I always thought that if there wasn't a little bit of risk, but rather complete safety, then there wouldn't be any point in exploring at all, would there?"

  "Stop making excuses, you cheat!" Beth continued to scold.

  "Alright, let's stop arguing for now, Ruo Nu. Do you know where we are right now?" Seeing that the few women were about to lose control from their argument, Xiao Xuan finally came out to calm things down.

  Ruo Nu shrugged and said, "This is a new cave system, it's wild, no one has ever discovered or explored it before. I was thinking that we could have the first exploration rights together, and later this cave might be named after us. But now, this cave doesn't even have a name, so I don't know which part of the cave we are in right now."

  "Mother of God, are you kidding me?" Beth exclaimed. She had thought that even though Juno hadn't taken them to the pre-booked cave, he would at least take them to a systematic one. But this...this was just an undiscovered wild cave. For a moment, Beth felt utterly hopeless.

  "How are we going to get out, and what if there's no exit at all? Are we going to be trapped here forever?" Sarah suddenly felt a chill run down her spine and involuntarily leaned in closer to Xiao Xuan.

  "There's no way back now, we can only move forward and find a new exit." Zhūnō picked up her things, preparing to continue onward.

  "What are you doing? You said this expedition was for Sarah's good, to help her take her mind off things. What is this nonsense you're pulling now?" Beth continued to protest.

  "Listen, the probability of a cave-in is small, but if we stay here any longer, we'll definitely die. Let's keep moving!" Juno waved her hand and beckoned to her companions to follow.

  At this time, others also resigned themselves to their fate, gathered their belongings and followed suit. Suddenly, Xiao Xuan's ears picked up some faint sounds, his flashlight pointed in the direction of the sound, a black shadow flashed by.

  "What's wrong, Xuan?" Sarah asked.

  "Nothing, let's just follow Juno." Xiao Xuan already knew that they had entered the cannibal demon's territory and there were cannibals lurking nearby. His gaze turned to Su Moran again, signaling him to stay vigilant, and Su Moran nodded slightly to indicate he understood.

  The team continued to move forward, except for Xiao Xuan and Su Mo Ran, no one would have expected that they had actually entered a very dangerous area, with pairs of eyes watching them around.

  However, for some reason, the cannibal demons did not launch an attack here, and instead allowed Juno's team to continue advancing. After about half an hour, they encountered another cave, which was the only way forward. With no other choice, they crawled inside again. After a bit of struggling, they emerged from the cave after a minute or so, and arrived at a relatively open space. In front of them, there was a large pit, which was the direction they needed to head in.

  Sarah naturally wanted to move forward, but was caught by Xiao Xuan's hand on her arm. This time Xiao Xuan used a lot of force, almost pulling Sarah down.

  "Xuan, what are you doing!" Sarah complained while rubbing her buttocks which had just hit the rock.

  "In front, can't go." Xiao Xuan looked at the leading Ruo Nu, "In front, is a cliff."

  Ruo Nu's face showed a look of surprise, and at the same time she took out a firework stick from her backpack and threw it over. The firework stick fell straight down, and gradually, in front of everyone, a cliff appeared, and Sara almost stepped forward one step.

  "Are you trying to kill Sarah?!" Beth exclaimed, grabbing Juno's collar.

  Xiao Xuan stretched out his hand to separate Beisi and Rouna, calmly saying: "This is not her fault. The rock composition on this cliff wall is special, it can absorb the light from our helmet lights, making us form a visual blind spot, subconsciously thinking that the front is still the ground."

  After hearing Xiao Xuan's words, Bess finally calmed down, but her gaze at Runo was still very unfriendly.

  "We must go." Zhūnò looked at Xiāo Xuàn and said, she now discovered that in the team, apart from herself who could lead people, this Xiāo Xuàn also had a very special temperament. Because Zhūnò felt that Xiāo Xuàn was still very calm even until now, and extremely calm.

  "Yes, we have to go." Xiao Xuan nodded and immediately opened his backpack, taking out a set of pitons and ropes, saying: "We'll cross from the top."

  Sarah and the others looked up together, and indeed, less than a meter above their heads was the rock layer. Everyone could use ropes and pulleys to hang from the top of the cliff, but below was an endless abyss. The firework stick had been thrown down, but no light could be seen at all, which was enough to show how deep the abyss was, as if it could swallow everything...