Chapter 22 The Underground River
"I'm not so unlucky, right?" Lin Xi stared at the huge canyon ahead with a stunned look like a natural chasm.
He had already made sufficient preparations before setting off. In addition to Luoshenjian, there are two natural dangers in Sunset Valley, and one of them is Sunset Gorge here.
But when he was rushing to escape, he didn't care where he should go. There was no sun in the sky, so he had no reference area to distinguish the direction, and then he was completely lost.
Now, in front of him was a cliff that was more than a thousand meters, and the other side of the cliff had already left the Sunset Valley. Without any tools, he could not have flew through this canyon that was nearly a hundred meters wide, let alone climbing a cliff that was thousands of meters high.
He looked back and saw that the huge movement from Luoshenjian had disappeared for nearly ten minutes. Most of the mutated creatures had recovered and returned to their habitat. There were less than ten mutated creatures who continued to chase after him.
But the weakest of these ten mutant creatures are all third-level, not to mention that he doesn’t even have the strength to run now, so where can we get the strength to resist?
"Are I really going to die in this place today?" Lin Xi sighed. Is his dreams and hopes really coming to an end today?
Lin Xi is not afraid of death. If he is afraid of death, he will not enter the crisis-ridden field training ground many times. But what he is afraid of is that one day his parents and sisters saw his cold body, or even his body was not seen...
"No, I can't die!" He would never want to see his parents' heads with white hair, and he would not allow his sister to cry again.
"Hmm? Is there a sound of water?" Lin Xi suddenly heard a vague movement from the depths of Sunset Gorge. The sound was very light, but in his experience, there was an underground river below!
He quickly weighed the risks in his heart. If he continued here, he would definitely die when the mutant creatures caught up. Although it was still extremely dangerous to jump, he didn't even know if there would be any more terrifying creatures at the bottom of the valley.
Obviously, he had no choice, he would die if he stayed, and there would be a trace of vitality if he jumped.
"If there is really a god in this world, please bless me to survive the disaster!" Lin Xi prayed silently, then jumped down without hesitation.
In just over a dozen seconds, the mutant creatures rushed to the edge of the cliff. They looked at the bottom of the valley and wandered around for a while to make sure that there was no one there, so they shook their heads and scattered the area.
The valley was filled with endless darkness, silently as if he was about to swallow people. Lin Xi's falling speed had exceeded 500 meters per second, and a strong airflow passed through his ears as if he was about to lift the whole head away.
"Why is the bottom of this valley so deep?" Lin Xi felt that she had been falling for more than a minute, but she still had no end.
But he had no way to help him slow down. His sword had long been thrown away, otherwise he might have relied on the uneven cliff wall to reduce his falling speed.
"Plop!"
With a crisp sound, Lin Xi finally plunged into the cold water. Even though the resistance of the water helped him slow down, he had already sunk to a deep place before he stopped falling.
A large mouthful of water poured into his mouth and nose, and a heart-wrenching pain swept towards his head, but Lin Xi knew that he could never fall into a coma. If he fainted, he might drown here.
He bit his tongue hard and tried to wake him up. He waved his arms vigorously, and his legs, as heavy as if they were tied with lead, burst out with force again.
"call!"
After a long time, a head finally poked out of the water. Lin Xi breathed in the fresh air around her, and her brain gradually recovered from the lack of oxygen.
"This seems to be an underground river at the bottom of the valley?" Lin Xi felt his body moving with the turbulent water flow.
As human physical fitness improves, he also has a certain ability to adapt to the dark environment. After a few minutes, Lin Xi gradually saw the situation at the bottom.
The cliff walls on both sides are not wide, only a dozen meters away, and it seems that there are no mutated creatures at the bottom of this valley. But Lin Xi has completely lost his sense of direction. He does not know what direction the river is flowing, and what will be waiting for him at the end of the river.
Lin Xi grabbed a floating log, and his tired body finally got a chance to rest. The double overdrawn physically and mentally made him fall asleep instantly.
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At the Seventh High School in Suhang Base City, Xu Zinuo and Xie Heng stood in Lin Xi's room. They faced Lin Xi's communicator and looked at each other, and neither of them had the courage to dial the number of Lin Xi's family.
"Forget it, I'll do it." Xu Zinuo finally pressed the call button.
Soon, a pretty girl's face appeared on the screen.
"Brother, you are not..." Lin Ling happily turned on the communicator. She thought the training was over early, but the screen was filled with two strange faces, "Are you?"
"Hello, are you Lin Xi's sister? We are his friends. My name is Xu Zinuo, and his name is Xie Heng." Xu Zinuo introduced himself while thinking in his heart how to tell them the bad news.
"Oh, Sister Zinuo, Brother Xie Heng, I heard my brother talk about you. He said you are his two best friends." Lin Ling said innocently. She had not realized that she would get news like the sky collapsed and the earth broke.
"By the way, Sister Zinuo, where is my brother?" Lin Ling asked. This communicator was obviously Lin Xi's, so why didn't he appear by himself?
Xu Zinuo could no longer hold it back, so she quickly handed the communicator to Xie Heng, covering her face and sobbing.
Lin Ling was shocked and suddenly had a bad premonition.
"Brother Xie Heng, my brother...has something happened?" Lin Ling asked in a trembling voice.
"Lin Ling is sorry, we didn't take good care of him. We had some accidents during training in Sunset Valley. Lin Xi fell into the mutated biome in order to protect us." Xie Heng lowered his head. He felt that he had no face to meet Lin Xi's family.
"Click!"
The communicator in Lin Ling's hand fell to the ground. Just now, countless possibilities flashed through her mind. Maybe her brother was sick, maybe she was injured, maybe she caused some trouble at school, but she didn't expect that such bad news was actually the bad news.
The communicator in Xie Heng's hand was pitch black, and he could only hear sobs coming from the other end...
"Xiao Ling, come and open the door and see what we bought today!" In the evening, Lin Haijun and his wife came back from the company.
However, there was no sound at home. If it were usual, Lin Ling should have been jumping around and opening the door for them.
When the couple opened the door, they were stunned. The communicator was broken on the ground. Lin Ling lay on the sofa and sobbed, and his eyes turned red without realizing it.
"Dad! Mom!" Lin Ling seemed to finally find a trace of comfort, and tears kept flowing down like a flood that broke through the dam.
"Xiao Ling, don't worry, what happened? Tell me slowly!" Wang Rong hugged her daughter's head tightly and gently stroked her.
"Wuwuwu, mom and dad, something happened to me." Lin Xi said with a hoarse and vague accent.
Dong!
The things the couple were holding in their hands suddenly fell down, as if they were shocked.
......
Under the sunset valley are underground rivers with well-connected underground rivers. Lin Xi is lying on the log and drifting with the waves. The stone walls on both sides are becoming narrower and narrower, and can only accommodate a small boat to pass through.
Following these rivers, it penetrated the entire Sunset Valley from west to east, and finally leaned on a shallow. No one knew that all rivers had only one end point, that is, Luoshenjian, which is known to have even the powerful war gods, who have gone back without returning, because everyone who knows it was dead.
Chapter completed!