The rain kept falling.
Mud and water flowed down the walls of the corridor.
The arrow deeply embedded in the wall had begun to tilt slightly in the moist and soft soil, showing signs of slipping out.
Song Yang shouted upwards, "I'll go down and take a look. Lu Chenfei, shoot an arrow down!"
Lu Chenfei moved quickly and accurately shot an arrow towards Song Yang, which pierced into the earth wall. A new rope was tied to the arrow.
Xia Jing lowered his head and said to Song Yang, "Be careful."
Song Yang looked at him and nodded.
Then, he pulled the rope with one hand, slid down quickly along the rope, and fell into the water below in a few seconds.
Everyone was feeling a little anxious.
When You Ye fell, she was hit in the chest. If she could be rescued and sprayed with medical spray, she might still be saved.
But I was afraid that after You Ye fell into the water, he would be unable to struggle and would just sink all the way down. Then...
Thinking of this, Fei Shengxiao's eyes turned red and he looked at Chai Feng who had caught up with him.
Chai Feng climbed up regardless. Noticing this gaze, he said coldly, "I didn't do it this time. The supernatural power that attacked the kidnapped person just now has nothing to do with me. Isn't there a mysterious person among you? He was the one who did it."
Fei Shengxiao froze.
The kidnapped man seemed to have regained consciousness. He shuddered and said, "What, what was attacked? Me, me?!"
Seeing him look dazed and pale, I knew that I couldn't get anything out of him.
At this moment, no one spoke, and everyone looked at each other with strange eyes.
Xia Jing simply ignored the strange atmosphere, raised his head and said to Lu Chenfei: "Lu Chenfei, can't you see the next cave yet?"
The young man's calm voice brought Lu Chenfei back to his senses.
He pursed his lips and looked up.
Then, he suddenly trembled and said, "There seems to be a cave about thirty meters up!"
It was also at this time that the light in the entire corridor began to become brighter.
The rain began to subside, which seemed to indicate that the heavy rain was about to stop.
Their vision began to clear.
Everyone looked up and easily found the cave that Lu Chenfei mentioned. At the same time, they made another discovery.
——A circular opening of light gradually appeared right above the corridor.
Bian Ya narrowed his eyes and asked, "Is that the exit of the entire corridor?"
They could even vaguely see the thick clouds in the sky outside through the circular light hole!
——That's the world outside!
As long as they climb up to the cave above, shoot an arrow towards the circular light hole, and swing through it, they can completely leave this strange underground world!
However, at this moment, everyone has not forgotten that their two most important things have not been completed.
The atmosphere suddenly rose and then suddenly fell, and everyone seemed to be hit by a hammer and regained their consciousness.
There was a sound of water below.
Xia Jing was the first to look down.
Song Yang emerged from the water and shook his head at them.
Everyone's heart sank.
Song Yang quickly climbed up along the rope and panted, "The underwater vision is a little unclear. I can't find her."
No matter how muddy the water is, the cross-section of this corridor is just a circle with a diameter of more than ten meters.
The time Song Yang spent in the water just now was enough for him to swim a full circle.
The fact that he didn't find You Ye was enough to prove that You Ye had really sunk.
...This also means that You Ye is in great danger.
Lu Chenfei clenched his teeth, seeming a little unwilling.
Song Yang said, "Let's continue going up."
Lu Chenfei stared at him.
Song Yang's gaze did not avert its gaze: "This mud corridor has become very slippery now. If we stay here any longer, the arrows will not be able to hold on to the mud wall, and we will all fall down.
They have done their best, and they have more important things to do next.
This sounds cruel, but at this point, there is really no other way.
Lu Chenfei closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
He opened his eyes, grabbed the rope, and climbed up.
The team moved again in silence.
Xia Jing felt Song Yang gently touch his ankle and lowered his head.
The man gave him a silent gesture and pointed downwards.
Xia Jing raised his eyebrows.
*
It took them more than twenty minutes to finally climb into the last cave with Chai Feng.
Everyone looked a little embarrassed.
Their bodies had already been thoroughly soaked by the rain, not to mention Song Yang. His clothes were all wet and stuck to his body, and his hat was hanging down heavily because it was soaked with water.
Just now he had to cover his hat while swimming, which was simply an inhuman exercise.
Lu Chenfei had a broken leg and blood soaked his trouser legs.
Even though his broken leg was still in his arms, at this critical moment he had no mood to ask Song Yang to help him suture it.
No one spoke for a moment.
Lu Chenfei was the first to stand up with difficulty. He said in a cold voice, "The people who were in front of You Ye just now were Fei Shengxiao and Feng Shi?"
Feng Shi was silent for a moment, then said, "Yes."
Bian Ya raised his eyes, looked between the two, and said, "If the mysterious man used a prop, we would still be able to see the shadow of the prop for a split second. Since we didn't see it, the mysterious man was most likely using a shadow."
"The shadow of the seal is an umbrella, which can only be used for defense, not for attack. The wound on You Yezheng's chest is clearly the result of a knife, sword, or dagger."
Fei Shengxiao paused, his eyes red as he said dejectedly, "...I didn't do anything to You Ye."
Li Mian quickly walked over and stood in front of Fei Shengxiao, saying coldly, "There's no way it was Shengxiao who did this."
Xia Jing stood up and calmly analyzed: "You Ye made a sound at that time. Besides those who could touch her, anyone who heard her voice could also take action."
"The person who attacked us must have moved their shadows long ago and waited beside us. That's why we didn't hear any wind or feel any airflow before You Ye was hit."
——Just because the other party had been prepared for it.
He might not even be targeting Youye specifically.
If any of them had made a sound at that time, he would have controlled the shadow without hesitation and pierced the other person's chest silently.
Song Yang exhaled and said slowly: "Among us, the ones who can inflict that kind of wound on You Ye are Fei Shengxiao and Lu Chenfei——"
He looked at Chai Feng and asked, "What's the shadow of the last person left on your side?"
Chai Feng said coldly: "Why should I tell you? He has been controlled by me. If it was really him who attacked You Ye, then wouldn't it be equivalent to me doing it? But I have already said, it wasn't me."
Xia Jing suddenly asked, "What is his special ability?"
Everyone was stunned.
The last chess piece left by Chai Feng was one of the two psychics.
The person whose superpower was jumping is no longer here. What is the superpower of the only remaining person?
Chai Feng still asked the same question: "Why should I tell you?"
Xia Jing chuckled and said, "Then what are you going to do standing here now?"
Chai Feng froze.
"You should understand that with your current power, you can't take away any of our points. Leaving the dungeon by accumulating 10,000 points is no longer an option. Your only option is to join us in killing the mysterious man and the main monster."
Xia Jing's casual words made Chai Feng's face look ugly.
Xia Jing tilted his head and asked again: "So, what is the superpower of the person next to you?"
"Since the beginning of the dungeon, he has stared at our members several times," Xia Jing paused and said, "Can his ability help him see the points hidden by players?"
Everyone was shocked.
Chai Feng was as stiff as a stone.
Although he had already known the intelligence of this young man in the "Bionic" copy, and knew how much higher the IQ of this young man and Song Yang could surpass others when they joined forces.
However, at this moment, Chai Feng still felt an indescribable sense of embarrassment.
He clenched his fists.
What Xia Jing said was actually not wrong. Things had come to this point, and he had no other choice but to cooperate with them.
Chai Feng replied with a certain humiliation: "...Yes. His ability is to see things that others want to hide."
Everyone thought of something and their expressions became serious.
Lu Chenfei said with a serious face: "Then, among us, who's points have increased now?"
The points of the person who killed You Ye should have changed by now.
The psychic next to Chai Feng looked at them numbly.
Chai Feng paused and said, "No one's points have increased."
Feng Shi was stunned: "What?"
Li Mian said coldly, "Then how can we be sure that your points haven't increased?"
Chai Feng directly pulled up the sleeve of the psychic next to him and tore off a skin color sticker on the other's arm, revealing the person's score - only 1098 points.
Chai Feng tore off the skin color sticker on his neck again. His current score is only 1785 points.
You Ye's points alone are already more than 3,000 points. If her points were really swallowed up, the points of these two people would now be more than 4,000!
Things suddenly became weird.
Bian Ya frowned.
He thought for a moment and said, "If You Ye hadn't died from that wound, then the copy might not have determined that the other party had killed her, and the points would naturally not have been transferred to the other party."
Lu Chenfei said coldly, "This is very likely something the mysterious man had planned long ago. His plan was to use the accumulated water below to completely kill You Ye. This way, he would lose our members without exposing his own identity."
Song Yang said to Chai Feng, "Report all the points you can see now."
Chai Feng seemed quite unhappy about being treated as a tool.
But he still took a deep breath, controlled the psychic around him to observe, and said: "I can't see the points between you and Xia Jing."
Song Yang said calmly: "Because we two are not 'hiding'."
Since it is not a "hidden thing", the supernatural power of this psychic naturally cannot reach it.
Chai Feng seemed to be choked.
Then he said sinisterly: "Lu Chenfei scored 3681 points."
"Sealing 2192 points."
"2091 points on the cliff."
"Fei Shengxiao——"
"Alas, the gods are being bullied again."
A sudden voice interrupted Chai Feng.
Everyone was stunned and turned around quickly.
This last cave suddenly began to transform into a scene.
The back entrance of a school appeared before them.
Two people were standing inside and outside the door.
The people outside the door are "Jiangying".
His injuries this time were particularly serious. His face was almost covered in blood, his eye sockets seemed to be cracked, and his eye whites were full of bloodshot, which looked particularly scary.
His scarred hands tightly grasped the iron bars of the school's back door. He said painfully to the person inside the door: "Are you really not going to help me?"
And the people inside the door——
It was actually a summer scene.
"Xia Jing" was wearing a school uniform with his hands in his pockets.
His appearance doesn't seem to have changed much from now, except that the school uniform adds a touch of youthfulness to him.
The young man's black hair fluttered slightly in the wind, and his phoenix eyes looked at "Jiang Ying" with interest.
He didn't seem to be surprised by the appearance of "Jiang Ying", nor was he frightened by the bloody appearance of "Jiang Ying".
"Jiang Ying" knelt on the ground, as if worshiping his own gods, begging for the other party's support: "Xia Jing, you taught me to fight back, didn't you? I really tried to fight back, but there were too many of them. I, I couldn't beat them. Xia Jing, can you help me, just like before, can you help me retaliate against them?"
The scene that appears in this cave is very special.
At this moment, everyone in the cave not only saw the scene in front of them, but also saw some of Jiang Ying's memories through his mind.
When Jiang Ying was suffering from all kinds of bullying, was it really Xia Jing who taught him to fight back?
It seems so, but it also seems not to be.
What they saw was that Xia Jing, out of some personal interest, had taken action once when Jiang Ying was being beaten.
In fact, everyone who knows Xia Jing knows that this young man has no helping complex at all.
But perhaps the scene in which Xia Jing appeared before Jiang Ying was deeply engraved in Jiang Ying's heart.
Since then, this cowardly man has indeed learned to pick up a stick and imitate Xia Jing's posture to fight back fiercely.
The initial counterattack was successful, and he felt like he had opened the door to a new world.
He waved his fists excitedly and pounced on his enemy like a wild dog, biting him.
He hit the enemy with a wooden stick again and again until the enemy was seriously unconscious. Then he timidly dropped the weapon and turned to run away.
Maybe it was because he had tasted the wonderful flavor of violence.
He later even used this violence against some people who had simply had an argument with him.
I hope he won't squat in front of the store all the time and affect business.
I hope he won't keep staring at me with such a confused and weird look.
Even people who accidentally bumped into his shoulder because of the crowded street.
…
It seemed that in Jiang Ying's heart, everyone was hostile to him and everyone was targeting him.
He would follow the opponent until he reached a deserted place, then he would raise his club from behind.
However--
Fei Shengxiao said in a trembling voice: "These are not what Xia Jing taught him!"
Jiang Ying worshipped Xia Jing as a god in his heart. He imitated Xia Jing's behavior, but abused it on innocent people.
Lu Chenfei sneered and said, "Isn't that what he did later using Shadow City to do?"
He later even dragged Xia Jing, the person who had helped him, into the Shadow City.
No one can deny that Jiang Ying's past experiences were indeed tragic.
But in fact, whether a person is miserable or not has nothing to do with whether he is a good person.
Jiangying is in a very miserable situation.
But at the same time, he is also evil.
His evil obviously did not come from the hatred in his heart, but was something that was in his nature.
It was just that his tragic experience made him feel that his evil seemed justifiable.
This is the most terrifying thing about this kind of person.
He can always make the bad things he does logically consistent in the end.
It was all forced upon him by others, it was all forced upon him by the dirty society. He had no choice, he was in great pain, he was just fighting back.
Before anyone knows it, he will put a hat and a crime on everyone in his heart.
And in this scene, when "Xia Jing" did not say "Okay, I'll help you" as "Jiang Ying" expected.
Instead, she squatted down, tilted her head and looked at him for a moment, then asked with a half-smile, "What do you see now?"
"Jiangying" froze.
He followed "Xia Jing's" gaze and looked across the street.
There is a shop there.
The exterior walls of the store are large floor-to-ceiling glass windows.
The figures of two people were reflected on the glass window.
"You said that a person's shadow changes with their mood."
"Xia Jing" has a gentle voice, as pleasant as a clear spring.
What he said made the "Jiang camp" tremble more and more.
"What does your shadow look like now?"
At this moment, "Jiangying" suddenly turned around.
He met "Xia Jing's" eyes, which were curved with a smile.
The young man observed him as if he were observing something interesting.
It seemed that the "Jiang Camp" realized this so clearly for the first time.
He seemed to have been poured over his head with a bucket of cold water. His face turned pale, and he stood up suddenly, shouting in a hoarse voice: "I said I can't see my own shadow!"
"Xia Jing" stood up.
That smiling look told "Jiang Ying" that he had never believed what he said.
At this moment, "Jiangying" suddenly began to fear "Xia Jing".
He took a step back, eyes wide open, and asked, "Are you really not going to help me?"
Xia Jing's tone was very flat: "I don't think I've ever helped you?"
"Jiang Ying" stared at him in disbelief, as if his inner world had collapsed, and tears flowed from his eyes.
…
Then, the "Jiang Camp" fled from there.
He returned to his home.
He angrily picked up a stick and began to vent his anger on random people on the street.
After injuring several people, he ran into a group of thugs head-on.
One of the thugs was actually the passerby who had been beaten half to death in the alley because he bumped shoulders with him.
"Jiang Camp" was stunned.
He never expected that the other party would come back to find him with so many brothers. This development was completely beyond his expectations.
This number of people is even greater than the group that came back to take revenge on him today. There is no way he can defeat them!
"Jiangying" turned around and fled in panic.
Cause and effect, reincarnation, everything has retribution.
This was the worst beating he had ever received.
He howled in pain and begged for help while punching and kicking.
His consciousness gradually weakened, but the resentment in his heart increased exponentially.
Then, silent darkness came out of his mouth.
His shadow began to materialize.
The shadow that had frightened him, that was so distorted that he himself couldn't understand it, had now taken on a more detailed and specific shape.
But even though he had already refined it, this afternoon, when he saw the dark shadow behind his head, he still couldn't figure out what it was.
It was an indescribable dark behemoth.
Until this moment, when this black shadow came out of his mouth, "Jiang Ying" finally understood -
This is a city.
A city that can imprison countless humans and be dominated by him.
…
Song Yang glanced at Xia Jing.
Even when he saw his former self appear in this scene, Xia Jing remained calm.
He just folded his arms, as if waiting for something.
The figures of "Jiangying" and the gangsters disappeared.
All scenes disappeared.
There is only one "Xia Jing", standing in the cave with a smile.
The god's cold voice rang out: "The god hates him the most. It's because of him that Shadow City finally appears! Everyone should hate him along with the god! It's him who has implicated you all!"
Lu Chenfei said coldly: "Are you taking the blame again?"
The god frantically said, "Quick, hurry up and eat him up bite by bite!"
Fei Shengxiao was shocked and said, "What?!"
eat?
It wants the player to eat the NPC Xia Jing?
Are you serious?!
Among them, only Xia Jing has not awakened his shadow yet. It wants Xia Jing to eat himself?!
Everyone's attention was instantly focused on Xia Jing.
Xia Jing smiled.
He said something that left everyone confused.
"Jiang Ying would never choose to kill me by 'eating'."
"If it was the old him, maybe he would. But the new him would definitely not dare."
Xia Jing raised his hand, pressed the hat on his head, and said with a curled lip:
"You are not the will of 'Jiang Ying'—has the god really changed?"
The others were shocked.