Chapter 424 - 452 Searching the Mountain (Third Update)
Chapter 424: Chapter 452 Searching the Mountain (Third Update)
Gu Xiaoxian lowered his head in silence, while Xue Qin couldn’t hold back her sobs. Peng Bo and the other three looked incredulous. In their hearts, their leader had long been mythologized, and even if he fell off a cliff, he wouldn’t get hurt.
Ding Yueqiu felt darkness before her eyes, not because she was sad, but because she was worried about her life. After all, if Lin Xi was dead, who would she get the antidote from?
The other classmates had initially felt a bit of relief when they heard that bunch of people were all dead, but when Instructor Yang said Lin Xi had fallen off the cliff, their hearts grew heavy. After all, Lin Xi was their savior, and he was also their classmate.
"But, I believe Lin Xi won’t die. It’s just a cliff. He’s definitely waiting for us to rescue him somewhere!" Yang Feifei looked at everyone’s downcast faces. She had to cheer them up, and she had always convinced herself in this way.
In the next moment, except for the seven severely injured people, including Peng Bo, everyone rushed towards the cliff, heading downhill to search for Lin Xi.
Simultaneously, Yang Feifei called her grandfather, who immediately sent people over to search for Lin Xi’s whereabouts and handle the matter of the Black Fiend Duo.
Below the cliff was a steep, primitive forest, but the path inside was clear, making it relatively easy to search. However, the area was vast; even with seventy to eighty people like Yang Feifei’s group, they only searched a small section in an hour.
Fortunately, Elder Yang had sent several hundred soldiers, and they were skilled in search operations.
By around six in the evening, the entire forest below the cliff had been thoroughly searched, but no trace of Lin Xi was found.
The crucial thing was that near many of the rocks that had fallen from the mountaintop, Lin Xi’s figure was nowhere to be seen.
He seemed to have vanished into thin air.
But one must consider that they might have missed some areas, given the vastness of the place.
Seeing the fatigued expressions of the classmates, Yang Feifei had to make a decision to forcibly take them back; otherwise, accidents might happen at night, and wild beasts might appear in this forest.
However, since they found neither the living Lin Xi nor his corpse, Gu Xiaoxian, Yang Feifei, Ding Yueqiu, and Peng Bo had higher expectations. After all, they knew Lin Xi was not an ordinary person.
The soldiers stayed behind, forming teams to continue the search.
While everyone was searching for Lin Xi, he lay unconscious in a cave.
After several hours, he slowly awakened, but as soon as he did, he felt a pain throughout his body, as if it were about to split open.
"Where is this?" Lin Xi remembered falling from the cliff for a long time, then everything went black. "Could it be that someone saved me?"
With difficulty, he lifted his head and looked around. He realized he was in a cave, with a pool of water in the center, so blue it was a bit eerie.
Apart from a narrow path, the entire cave was a closed space.
Wait, fifty or so meters above him, he could vaguely see strands of moonlight filtering in, brightening the cave.
"Is it nighttime already?"
Lin Xi couldn’t help but rub his head. Hadn’t he been lying here for at least seven or eight hours? After all, it was still morning when he fell.
"What kind of place is this?" Lin Xi couldn’t help but call out curiously, "Is anyone there?"
After calling several times with no response, the cave fell silent, eerily so.
Alright, it seemed no one had saved him. He must have fallen here by himself; otherwise, no one would leave him lying here.
"Is this cliff really that high?" Lin Xi suddenly felt puzzled. The old man often trained him to jump off cliffs, saying it was for training fear and courage. Except for the first two times when he was seriously injured, it was usually just scratches afterwards.
Logically, this Cloud Vein Mountain wasn’t even as tall as Yunlong Mountain; it was almost impossible to have such a high cliff!
Could it be some kind of sinkhole?
After pondering for a while and getting nowhere, Lin Xi decided to stop thinking about it. Instead, he looked at the dark blue pool not far away, as he was unbearably thirsty!
However, due to his severe injuries, it took a significant effort for him to crawl to the pool’s edge. As he prepared to dip his hands into the water, he couldn’t help but think to himself, "This water must just be a bit dirty!"