Chapter 335: Survival in the Deep Valley
Chapter 335: Survival in the Deep Valley
Xue Huang looked at the scenery on both sides that was constantly receding, and suddenly it overlapped with the last memory of the past.
For a moment, she couldn't tell whether everything that happened in this life was just a dream. Didn't she get reborn?
Until Mu Guang shouted: "Wei Xuehuang! What are you doing? Use the Thousand Machine Line!"
Xue Huang was awakened by his loud voice and quickly took out a small and exquisite bronze box from her waist.
After pressing the mechanism above, a small hook flew out from it and wrapped around the tree trunk on the cliff.
Xue Huang managed to stabilize her body temporarily, but she felt the hand holding her wrist loosen. She quickly grabbed it with her backhand and found that Mo Yunchen was too seriously injured and could no longer hold on.
He barely raised his head to look at her, but the backlash pain was so severe that he couldn't speak.
Xue Huang wanted to throw him down and kill him.
If it weren't for the extremely strong Thousand Machine Line, he would have fallen to death.
She extended the thread bit by bit, pulling him down with great effort.
Fortunately, there were many trees on the cliff. After she stabilized Mo Yunchen, she also stood on it.
Xue Huang looked at the environment below. It seemed to be a river, and it had not yet frozen.
She felt a little strange that there was no ice in such a cold day.
But the distance below was estimated to be at least six or seven feet.
If she hadn't been injured, this distance would have been no problem for her.
But now she is not only seriously injured but also carrying a burden, which is really strenuous.
Mo Yunchen had fainted and was lying there unconscious.
Mu Guang gave her some of his strength to help her heal her internal injuries.
"Fortunately, Rong Yu arrived in time. Otherwise, you would have been doomed this time."
"He's not much better now." Xue Huang glanced at Mo Yunchen, "What should we do with him in this state? Can your power help heal his wounds?"
"Try it." Mu Guang said. "Put your hand on his heart."
Xue Huang did as she was told, and a force was transmitted through her to Mo Yunchen.
"Alright." Mu Guang withdrew his strength, "But my strength can only barely protect his heart meridian. He was forced to use his internal energy when his internal energy was in chaos, and he suffered backlash. His injuries are still very serious."
"As long as you don't die, that's fine." Xue Huang said.
"This Thousand Machine Line is about to be used up, and the distance is too far to be retrieved. You have to find another way to get down."
Xue Huang grabbed Mo Yunchen with great effort and released the Thousand Machine Line again. Sure enough, when she got down to another tree, the Thousand Machine Line was used up, but there was still a distance of three or four feet to the bottom.
She could only take off her coat and tear it into strips. Fortunately, her winter clothes were thick and sturdy.
After Xue Huang tied the rope, she wrapped it around Mo Yunchen's waist and then slowly lowered him onto the tree below.
Then she jumped down again, but the tree below seemed to be a dead tree. When she jumped, the tree broke directly.
Xue Huang and Mo Yunchen were caught off guard and fell down. There was river water below and the two of them fell directly into it.
Dead.
Xue Huang thought.
The coldness of the river water hit her in an instant, but it was not as bone-chilling as she had imagined. However, it was still so cold in this winter that Xue Huang's hands and feet were cramping.
She gave up struggling and soon floated toward the surface.
Mu Guang told her that if you can't swim after falling into the water, don't panic and struggle, you will slowly float up.
In order to verify this, she tried it when she was a child and scared Rong Yu and Mr. Guigu half to death.
But the facts proved that what Mu Guang said was right.
Xue Huang quickly floated to the surface of the water. At the same time, she saw that Mo Yunchen was better off than her. The tree under him was stuck on the rocks on the river bank, so he did not fall into the water, but she could not point at him at all.
Fortunately, the rope made of clothes was still tightly wrapped around her hands. She could only endure the pain and crawl towards the shore little by little along the rope.
Mu Guang kept shouting at her, "Hold on. If you die, he will die. If he dies, Gu Qinglan will die too. Don't die!"
Xuehuang thought to herself, you are really good at encouraging people.
It took her a lot of effort to climb to the shore and she lay there for a long time to relax.
Mu Guang used his strength to maintain her body temperature, otherwise she would have frozen to death.
"Luckily I'm here." He sighed. "Get up quickly and find a place to warm up."
"I have no energy left."
"Don't fall asleep!" Mu Guang forced her to concentrate, "If you fall asleep, you won't be able to wake up."
Xue Huang looked at the distant blue above her head, gritted her teeth and climbed up, then used all her strength to help Mo Yunchen up. "Which way are you going?"
"Upstream." Mu Guang said. "I seem to feel a hint of warmth ahead."
Xue Huang supported Mo Yunchen and swam upstream with difficulty.
Because the road was so difficult to walk on, I fell several times along the way.
Xue Huang said nothing and walked laboriously for about an hour before she saw a waterfall in front of her.
It flows out from the cracks in the mountain, merges with the river water on the surface, forms a pool, and then flows out from the pool to the distance.
The important thing is that it is hot.
No wonder the river didn't freeze.
There is also a concave cave next to it, which can barely shelter from the wind and rain.
Xue Huang took off Mo Yunchen's coat and threw him into the pool. Then she continued to walk forward for a distance. There was no water in front of her, but a barren and old forest. However, if she walked along the cliff, it seemed that she could go all the way back to the top.
Xue Huang recalled the place and distance where they fell, and it seemed that this was really a way out.
But they can't go back now, so they should rest up first and then find a way to leave.
She found some dry branches and returned to the cave to build a fire.
Mo Yunchen hadn't woken up yet, his face was pale, but his breathing was still steady.
Xue Huang leaned against the stone, feeling somewhat helpless. It was clearly he who owed her, yet in the end she still had to save him. What a fickle fate.
As she was thinking, she couldn't hold on and fell asleep.
Mo Yunchen didn't wake up until two hours later. When he opened his eyes, he saw Xue Huang sleeping curled up beside a stone.
He came out of the spring, picked up the clothes on the ground and covered Xue Huang with them, but saw that she had several wounds on her body and her palms were all worn out.
Mo Yunchen touched his waist and found only a medicine bottle for treating external injuries.
He first treated the wounds on her palms and wrists, then helped her up and undressed her.
At this moment, Xue Huang suddenly woke up.
The next moment, Mo Yunchen pressed her acupoints.
Xue Huang was speechless.
"I'll help you treat your wound, don't think too much." Mo Yunchen said calmly.
He turned her body around and slowly pulled her clothes off.
Xue Huang had one wound on her left arm, one on her right shoulder, and one on her back at the butterfly bone. The wound on her arm was caused by the Dark Moon Pavilion Master's sword, so it wasn't serious. The wound on her shoulder was scratched by the demon's sword, and there was blood. The most serious one was on her butterfly bone, which was left by Tian Chi's sneak attack and was about two inches long.
Mo Yunchen looked at her pale and hideous wound and frowned slightly. It was obvious that the wound was made worse after falling into the water.
This was not the place where they fell, which showed how far she had dragged him alone.
Mo Yunchen carefully applied the medicine to her wound, then pulled her clothes on and turned her body over again. He was a little surprised to see that she was not angry.
He untied her acupuncture points, "I thought you would be angry."
Xuehuang fastened her clothes. She wanted to be angry, but she had to decide when to do it.
I'm so badly injured that staying alive is the most important thing. I don't have the energy to worry about these things.
She took out a medicine bottle from her waist. It was the life-saving pill that Xu Yao asked Wei Yunzhou to give her before leaving. Fortunately, it was not lost.
"Eat this." She handed it to Mo Yunchen.
"what is this?"
"It can speed up the recovery of the three internal forces in a short period of time."
"Only one?"
"Your injuries are more serious than mine, so you need it more."
"You won't die." Mo Yunchen said calmly.
Xue Huang grabbed his chin unexpectedly and stuffed the medicine directly into his mouth, "You are so heavy, I don't want to drag you half dead any longer."
Mo Yunchen's gaze fell on her worn palms and the blood all over her body. Everything she did to him was out of her feelings for another person.
His mood at this moment was complicated and indescribable. He wanted to be sober but also wanted to sink, to stay away but also wanted to get closer. He could hardly control himself.
Mo Yunchen added some branches to the fire, and then sat aside to recuperate from his injuries.
After a good night's sleep, Xue Huang felt much more energetic. She got up and walked around, checking out the surrounding terrain.
The forest was covered with snow, and only the place where the waterfall flowed was warm.
The further upstream you go in the river, the closer you seem to be to the ground.
She still had a Thousand Machine Thread in her hand, so climbing up would not be a problem, but the prerequisite was that her and Mo Yunchen's injuries had to recover a little.
"Do you think there will be food here?" Xue Huang asked.
Mu Guang sighed, "That's tough."
"But there are footprints here." Xue Huang stopped in front of a snowy field.
"footprint?"
"Yeah. Like a dog!"
Mu Guang was silent for a moment, then suddenly shouted: "What dog? That's a wolf!"
"As long as it's edible," Xue Huang said.
"Eat your head!" Mu Guang said speechlessly. "Get out of here quickly."
Xue Huang immediately turned around and ran back, but at this moment a wolf howl suddenly sounded behind her.
You don't need to look back to know that there must be a lot of people behind you.
Xue Huang had just run a few steps when she felt a strong wind coming from behind. She immediately leaned to the right, and a wolf pounced on her from the left side, almost brushing against her body.
It was a skinny hungry wolf, and it turned around and stared at her fiercely after landing. Its cold eyes glowed with a faint green light, as if it had not seen food for a long time.
The other wolves also gathered around and stared at her as if she were prey.
Snow Phoenix took a quick glance and saw that there were probably about twenty or thirty of them.
Xue Huang never expected that there would be a pack of wolves in such a deep valley.
She drew out the Qingshuang Sword and dealt with the first hungry wolf that pounced on her.
The remaining hungry wolves also kept pouncing on her, but were all dealt with by Xue Huang.
But they seemed to have been hungry for too long, and even though five or six of their companions had fallen dead in front of them, they still refused to retreat.
Wolves are animals that work in teams, and after realizing that Snow Phoenix was difficult to deal with, they changed their strategy and pounced on her together.
Snow Phoenix was injured and had a hard time dealing with the wolf. She accidentally got a claw on her arm.
The wolves became even more excited after seeing the blood, and approached her aggressively, as if they had already determined that she would fall.
Xue Huang covered his wound and took a few steps back, staring at them vigilantly.
Suddenly, two wolves from each side pounced on her at the same time.
Xue Huang forced himself to mobilize his internal energy, swung his sword and knocked down the hungry wolf that was pouncing on him from the right. It was too late for him to turn around and deal with the wolf on the left.
Just as their fangs were about to bite her, at the critical moment, a stick swirled over and knocked down the two hungry wolves.
Mo Yunchen appeared beside Xue Huang holding a torch, and frowned when he saw that she had new injuries. "It's only been a short while, and you're injured again."
"You stand back." Xue Huang tightly grasped Qingshuang and stabbed a sword into the heart of the hungry wolf that pounced on her. The spurting blood splashed all over her body and face.
Mo Yunchen also held a torch and tried to drive away the hungry wolves, but it was of no use at all. They were not afraid of fire at all.
He had no choice but to use the torch as a sword and kill the hungry wolf together with Xue Huang.
The two of them turned their backs to each other and gave their backs to each other.
Thanks to cooperation, they killed a few more, but there were still twelve left.
But Xue Huang had no strength left. She covered her chest and gasped for breath.
Mo Yunchen's situation was even worse. Although he had taken the elixir, he had not had time to recover much of his internal strength. Coupled with the backlash, he was extremely weak. After a few rounds, he fell to the ground on one knee.
Xue Huang barely fought off the hungry wolf in front of him, "If you can't do it, don't try to be brave."
Mo Yunchen didn't say anything. He looked at the patches of blood and corpses on the snow in front of him, his eyes seemed to be in meditation.
He held his forehead, this scene was so familiar.
The battlefield back then was also covered with ice and snow, and there were corpses and patches of blood everywhere, and he was the only one there.
It was also from that moment that his fate changed completely.
Xue Huang had no time to check on his appearance. She could only try her best to stand in front of him and kill the hungry wolves. Unfortunately, she was alone and had no strength to do anything. After she shot down one, another one bit her arm.
She ignored the pain and stabbed the wolf's neck with her sword before throwing it away.
But the next moment, another wolf came at her neck and bit Xue Huang. It was too late to avoid it. She could only watch the wolf pounce on her. Suddenly, a hand embraced her and protected her in its arms, and then used its arm to feed the hungry wolf's bloody mouth.
It’s Mo Yunchen.
He bought time for Xue Huang.
Xue Huang took the opportunity to cut down the hungry wolf with a sword, but Mo Yunchen's sleeve was torn apart, revealing a wound deep enough to see the bone.
There are still nine of them, still refusing to give up, pressing forward step by step.
Xue Huang supported Mo Yunchen, and his true colors were revealed.
"Who asked you to block for me?"
"I have to protect you at least once." Mo Yunchen said calmly.
"No need. Just don't die."
Mo Yunchen was drowsy, "I said...if you die, our deal will be over."
"Don't even think about it!" Xue Huang shook him, "You owe me this, you don't deserve to die." After she finished speaking, she pushed Mo Yunchen away, forced her internal energy to turn around again, condensed a row of flying blades in front of her, and hit the hungry wolf with all her strength when it pounced.
The sword blade condensed from ice and snow was extremely sharp, like a steel arrow piercing into the body of the hungry wolf. Some of the hungry wolves were killed on the spot, while some were only injured and lost their ability to attack.
The crisis was over, but Xue Huang didn't have time to breathe a sigh of relief before she spat out a mouthful of blood, and then her head was spinning.
Mo Yunchen took her in his arms and saw that her face was completely bloodless, so pale that it almost melted into the snow.
When Xue Huang closed her eyes, she seemed to hear Mo Yunchen calling her, "Wei Xue Huang, listen carefully, our deal will be over if you die!"
Shameless villain, Xue Huang thought. Even at this time, he is still threatening her.
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