"No, I'm not blaming you."
Xia Yibing suddenly hugged her tightly, buried her face in her hair, and rubbed and sucked it hard.
"I just feel that as expected... silly Aisuen is also very cute. Or maybe this kind of Aisuen is the normal Aisuen. You are not that old, are you?"
I don’t think—
"Let me go!"
Being treated like this, Hitzfeld felt only shame.
Even though her two lives combined only put her at just over 18 years old, well, two lives are two lives, one more worldview, and the concept is different.
How can you compare me with those ordinary little girls?
Still cute?
I think you look so cute when you hug me and call me daddy when you have a nightmare——
After breaking free from the woman, the flame of Chang Xia's sword went out instantly.
Hitzfeld didn't want to pay attention to her. He took the (purple potato pudding) from Lily and put it on, then put on the dried nun's robe. He turned around and saw the woman shining a flashlight in front of him.
Xia Yibing was only wearing a short-sleeved shirt and shorts, but she got dressed faster than her.
"There's a fork in the road."
The woman motioned for her to come over.
Hitzfeld looked at the tattered purple sweet potato pudding in his hand, thought for a moment, wrapped it around his wrist, walked over barefoot, looked down in the direction of the flashlight, and sure enough, he saw two forks in the road.
That’s the good news, but the bad news is – both roads look like they’re heading downhill.
"How to choose?" Xia Yibing asked her.
"Go in the water and swim up?"
"Or go explore?"
Need I ask?
Hitzfeld said nothing, turned around and walked towards the pond.
But suddenly - a cloud of mist burst out from the pool.
Following Lily's barking and the woman's "danger", she felt her arm being pulled, and she was hugged tightly again and slid down a tunnel.
Chapter 32: Abyss Nest II
The imagined pain of friction does not exist.
The humid environment easily breeds some algae and fungi that cling to the rock walls. The cave tunnel was filled with an unknown substance that was very slippery, and the two reached the bottom in an instant.
"Splash!" The sound of water exploded in his ears, and Hitzfeld felt his body sinking into the water again.
Xia's hands seemed to have separated as she fell into the water. Human fear of the unknown environment and darkness made her struggle instinctively. Her head rose and fell on the water. Besides the sound of splashing water and shouting, a burst of fierce dog barking could be heard.
It’s Lily... Lily is coming down too?
Hitzfeld gradually steadied himself in the water, wiped his face, and forced himself to open his eyes despite the irritation of the sea water. He saw the woman holding a long summer knife, confronting the giant eel on the shore.
This giant eel, is it the thing that's making a splash on it?
So we didn't choose to go into the water immediately, but to rest by the fire first to recover our strength. It was really the right choice...
Hitzfeld swallowed his saliva, sank into the water, and began to swim towards the woman.
Don't be fooled by this confrontation scene...it seems that the giant eel is afraid of them. In fact, Hitzfeld estimated that the fear was more directed at the barking Lily.
This ugly deep-sea creature had probably eaten humans before. It would have eaten any humanoid creature it came up to. But this was probably the first time it had seen a Sheree dog. People who lived by the sea probably rarely took a dog out to sea.
Therefore, this confrontation situation is very fragile, and once the balance is broken and the giant eel is determined to attack, Hitzfell is not optimistic that the Changxia Sword can play a role.
The distance was getting closer... Hitzfeld swam as carefully as possible.
The white light emitted by the Changxia Sword somewhat illuminated the dark environment. She looked up at the water surface, and through the broken refractions, she could vaguely see the shadow of a woman standing.
She also took off her stockings...her two long white legs are still easy to recognize.
Gradually, Hitzfeld moved closer to the center of the confrontation.
She reached out from the water and grabbed the woman's ankle. Her spiritual thoughts were attached to her limbs and transmitted to her. The light of the Changxia Sword quickly faded, revealing the outline of a sharp blade in the darkness.
"Chi--" The change in light and shadow seemed to make the giant eel a little uncomfortable. It chirped a few times and shook its head, as if it wanted to retreat.
Xia Yibing stared at it very carefully. She was particularly nervous now because after the white light disappeared, she would almost be blind until her eyes adapted to the darkness.
She discovered the biggest flaw of Changxia's materialization - it could no longer emit light on its own. If there was no fire lighting in the environment, it would just be a sharp knife that could not provide any vision in the dark.
Hitzfeld silently pinched her left ankle.
left?
Then he pinched my right ankle again.
Switched to the right?
A little annoyed...Through these hints, Xia Yibing knew that the girl must have seen the shadow of the giant eel with her left eye. It didn't seem like it really intended to leave, which made her feel very unlucky.
If possible, she didn't want to fight something that could be described as a "sea monster".
The other party is not an evil species, and has not been affected by the evil god. It is just a fish that was born naturally from the deep sea. Even if it is to be punished for "eating people", it should not be done by the director of the Security Bureau himself. A few gunboats... If it doesn't work, use a warship. This thing cannot survive.
But if we fight it in such a small and dark space, even if we win, the smell of blood will drift into the sea through the pool.
This sea area is not normal to begin with, and who knows what monsters are hiding underneath, so of course it would be best if there is no bloodshed.
But reality is not always what we want.
Her right ankle was pinched violently. As her vision gradually adapted to the darkness, the woman vaguely saw a fast-moving shadow. Coupled with the more intense barking of the dog, she immediately jumped hard to the left and stabbed the long knife lightly to the right.
"Thorn-"
"grumble!!!"
The loud sound like cloth being cut and the roar of the sea monster sounded almost simultaneously.
The woman was splashed half way by a cold and wet liquid, her face was unusually grim in the darkness, and she determined that the opponent had paused in his slide by following the force of the blade stuck in his body - instead of retreating, she took a step forward and stretched out her hand to tightly grasp a piece of protruding scale armor.
"Puchi!" Then he used the scales as the force point, pulled out the long knife and stabbed it in fiercely.
“Quack!”
A fishy wind blew over the place, and the woman, who had anticipated the situation, quickly jumped away.
Hitzfeld in the water took the opportunity to loosen her ankles, and the gathered thoughts dissipated from the blade, and Changxia burst into white light again.
This time, both of them could see the whole picture of the monster more clearly.
Most of its body had already emerged from the tunnel, with only a small part still inside. On the left side of its body, about seven inches from the snake's body, a four-meter-long wound was cut open, and blood was gushing out continuously.
Hitzfeld was still submerged in the water - she knew her fighting power was limited, and there was no room for error in this small-scale fight. In addition, the terrain was uneven, so she couldn't really let a woman hold her and fight her as she had been trained to do.
Just keep it like this, try not to become a conspicuous target, and don't drag Xia down.
The white light illuminated the giant eel's head. It opened its huge mouth full of sharp teeth, and its neck twitched almost madly, roaring silently at the white light.
Xia Yibing was not moved at all. This time she protected Lily behind her, holding the knife in both hands, and refused to retreat no matter how the monster threatened her.
Finally, perhaps because the pain caused by the wound was too great, or perhaps because it weighed the pros and cons and felt that it was not worth paying more for hunting, the giant eel closed its mouth and shrank back from the tunnel little by little.
"Ouch!"
Without waiting for the two to go up and check, Lily ran over with her tail wagging, barking at the cave entrance.
Did you win? You are so proud...
Xia Yibing grinned, handed Chang Xia to her left hand, swung her right arm to stretch it, reached out to the pool of water, and pulled up Hitzfeld, who had been lying in ambush the whole time.
"This fire was in vain." The woman looked at her with a smile, "I still have matches. I don't mind doing it again later."
"Let's wait and see." Hitzfeld was rarely angry.
"What are you worried about?" Xia Yibing gradually stopped smiling. She also realized that the situation was still not optimistic.
"From the fact that it was able to catch up to us, it seems that it not only hunts with its eyesight, but it also probably has a good sense of smell."
The girl said, staring at the blood on the woman.
"We're not sure if there's only one..."
"Just wash it off." Xia Yibing frowned.
The smell of blood is indeed a problem.
Being injured in the sea is much more serious than being injured on land.
"Also, if it's always guarding outside, how can we escape?" Hitzfeld continued, "There is no tunnel leading to the upper level in the cave above. The only way for us to go is to keep going down..."
The problem is even more serious.
Humans are not designed to live in water, and if they stay in water for too long, something bad will happen.
Besides, there is no fresh water or food in the cave. What can you do with just a few boxes of matches?
We must find a way to break through the monster blockade.
"Just find a way to kill it." Xia Yibing was still relatively optimistic.
Judging from the battle just now, this thing's agility and strength are within the range that can be dealt with.
With the sharpness of the Changxia Sword, she only needed to find the right angle and wait for it to hit her, and she could end the battle without even any effort.
But Hitzfeld didn't reply.
After thinking for a moment, the woman continued, "You said you were worried it wasn't the only one...what do you mean?"
They don't have evidence now, right?
After all, it is a ferocious predator. Even in the deep sea, there shouldn't be many of these monsters...
Xia Yibing had never heard of eels moving in groups. She only knew that dolphins and killer whales liked to do so.
"Just now, when you used Chang Xia to shine on it, didn't you notice?"
Hitzfeld stared at the top of the cave and spoke slowly.
"Both of its eyes were retracted."
Shrink back?
The woman was slightly startled.
But she quickly remembered... the first time she witnessed the giant eel jumping out of the abyss and snatching away the starfish, she seemed to see... one of its eyes was bulged out.
But the one we just faced seemed to have both eyes closed.
So it's not the same one?
Did I see it wrong?
Or has its eyes been blown out?
Leaving the woman alone in a daze, Hitzfeld shook his head and walked to the side to check other cave entrances.
She still didn't give up and wanted to find a way to the upper level.
But this is undoubtedly fraught with difficulties.
There are even more tunnels around this cave.
There are six in total, and without exception, all of them open downwards.
After checking the entrances of the caves one by one, Hitzfeld was about to go back and discuss with Xia whether to go back the same way to check, when he suddenly felt something under his feet.
A bit hard...
It hurts a bit too...
Half squatting down, the girl took the thing off her feet. Using the white light from a distance, she carefully identified it and could roughly see... it was a dark green scale the size of a palm.
Like that thing on the eel.
But why is it in this place?
This place is quite far from where the battle just took place.
