A chuckle came from the darkness.
Hitzfeld frowned, moved his palm downward, pressed his index finger against the curve of the woman's waist, and pushed it in slightly.
"Oh~!" Xia Yibing's playful smile suddenly disappeared. That was a big itchy spot in the human body, and she couldn't help but feel the stimulation. "Don't do this... I'm a wounded soldier..."
"This is the first time I've seen a wounded person teasing someone." Hitzfeld poked her waist a few more times in annoyance. The stimulated woman trembled back and forth in her arms like a fresh fish.
Of course, she knew her limits. The fact that she could still joke proved that Xia's injuries were not serious. The two of them did not bother to check the mysterious objects they had just seen, and continued to support each other to the shore and checked their physical conditions.
Hitzfeld was also injured.
There were varying degrees of bruises and abrasions on her side face, near her right ear, right shoulder, inside of her right arm, inside of her right palm, and right side of her hip.
This was caused by going against inertia and forcibly dodging the giant eel's impact, as well as pulling Xia Yibing against the rock wall.
But the overall problem is not serious. Before the examination, Hitzfeld thought that the most serious injury she suffered might be above the buttocks - or even the area above the coccyx - because she slid there for almost a hundred meters.
But the results of the examination were quite optimistic. There were abrasions but they were not serious. This might be due to the quality of the robe, or the seaweed growing in the cave was too thick and slippery.
Thanks to Haizao, she walked barefoot and had no injuries on the soles and soles of her feet. So she herself was basically fine.
Xia Yibing's injuries were more serious.
First, her left arm was dislocated.
Just as Hitzfeld guessed, the Changxia Sword cut into the giant eel's body in virtual form and then suddenly turned real. This tactic could indeed cause huge damage to the giant eel, but the arms of the two men were almost torn off.
"Your right hand is badly injured," Hitzfeld whispered. "There are some cuts... probably from the bones when you reached into it."
Xia Yibing curled her lips and disagreed.
In the eyes of the girl, it was a "serious injury", but in reality? It was just a small cut.
No bones were broken, and no tendons were cut. In the past when the evildoers were active, this kind of injury would not even be considered a minor injury, and it would be fine after applying a few ointments.
But Aisuen cares about me... well...
This is a good thing and there is no need to refute anything.
"I won't take over..." Hitzfeld turned to look at her drooping left arm, "Can you do it yourself?"
"I can recover." Xia Yibing nodded and then shook her head, "... right now, I don't have much strength."
She is not Hitzfeld. Thanks to her insomnia, her physical strength recovers faster than that of ordinary people.
But the powerful recovery from insomnia comes at a price, and this price has been proven by predecessors to be the consumption of the body's vitality.
So if possible, Xia Yibing didn't want Hitzfeld to be too tired. Even though she herself didn't want to use this ability, it was not up to her to decide.
"That's enough, Aisuen... Your physical strength is probably not as good as mine. It's too much to continue to consume it like this. I suggest you..."
"Shut up."
Hitzfeld covered her mouth and moved his face closer to look her in the eye.
Xia Yibing blinked and licked the girl's palm with her tongue.
Hitzfeld's face immediately turned red.
"Ow~!"
Xia Yibing's tongue was lightly pinched by her fingernails, and she let out a "symbolic" scream.
Just like a child.
Hitzfeld was a little helpless.
Xia is not a carefree person. I have always felt that she is calm and reliable during our previous interactions. How come she shows a tendency to develop towards Darent after they have really established a relationship?
"I just feel...it doesn't matter."
Seeing that she was serious, the woman had to open her mouth to defend herself.
"I like you, Aisuen."
"Shut up!"
"No! I'm going to say it!" Xia Yibing became excited. "As long as I'm with you, it doesn't matter! It doesn't matter if we're here or die somewhere together!... Anyway, the direction of our efforts, our work and ideals are almost the same, aren't they? As long as it's not worthless... then why not? As long as I think of you being here, it doesn't matter to me! I'm not afraid of anything!"
That was why, after discovering the hole in the rock wall and the tombstone, she did not force herself to accompany the girl to check, but instead immediately collapsed due to exhaustion.
She didn't care—they were trapped down there anyway, and the rock wall and the stone tablet weren't going to move, so there was no time for them to miss a look.
And this was in front of Aisuen.
In front of the person you like the most.
She doesn't need to pretend... doesn't need to insist...
she……
The more critical the situation, the more she likes to show this look in front of her.
That's enough...
Hitzfeld raised his hand to his forehead.
She could feel her cheeks burning, as if she had stuck her head into a furnace and was being roasted by the high temperature.
Always say weird things in critical moments or after a crisis...
What good is it to move me?
I would never have the absurd idea of "living a little more happily before dying".
"Aisun?"
Xia Yibing waited for a long time without any response, so she cautiously tested her. At the same time, she raised her right hand with some effort and poked the hem of the girl's dress twice.
Holding the long Xia knife in her left hand as a light source, Xia Yibing then noticed that the wet robe perfectly highlighted the outline of Hitzfeld's body.
Those curves...sandwiched between maturity and youth.
Ah... it seems more attractive than before when I was naked...
"Snapped!"
Hitzfeld slapped her hand away, stood up under her gaze, and looked down at her with a blushing face.
"......?" Xia Yibing was confused by the look on her face. She lay on the ground and looked left and right, but she didn't find anything unusual.
Looking at Hitzfeld again, she had turned her back and reached into the collar of her robe, pulling out an unexpected "equipment".
"...Aisun?" Xia Yibing shook her head to refuse: "I don't want this!"
"So you're just hanging one arm and it's always painful?"
The girl glared at her, then knelt down again, untied the white silk stockings wrapped around her wrists, wrapped them around her bra to make two reinforced straps, and used this equipment to hang the woman's left arm up.
"You rest here." Hitzfeld clapped his hands and stood up.
"I'll go check if that thing is dead."
"Also pay more attention to the movements above." She turned back again.
"Lily…I hope it can smell us."
Leaving the other person lying alone, she waded forward, dived into the water, held her breath and swam for more than a minute, quickly reaching the other side, close to the hole where the giant eel fell.
She was very careful because the cave and the ground were very slippery. If she slipped and fell, she would not be able to get out even if the giant eel died.
The first thing I smelled when I looked inside was a fishy odor.
This fishy smell is not unfamiliar. Xia Yibing also has a little bit of it on her body. It should be the smell of fish blood, but the one here is particularly strong.
This indicates that the amount of bleeding is heavy enough.
Well... that's good news.
Looking further down, one can vaguely glimpse two forked bodies entangled together.
Not moving at all, not even making a sound.
This is probably dead.
Reassured, Hitzfeld carefully retreated back to the pool, and while swimming back he glanced at the "tombstone" in the pool.
pause.
After thinking about it, she decided to go back to find Xia first.
After all, she had no means of lighting, and the vision enhanced by the divine eye was limited, not enough to help her see the details of the tombstone.
After massaging Xia Yibing's shoulders and legs to make sure she had truly recovered, the two of them supported each other and walked to the tombstone.
When I got closer to this thing, I found that it was bigger than I imagined.
Three meters high.
Two meters wide.
The overall shape is irregular, but you can still see some edges and corners that show signs of being cut by a knife or an axe.
Xia Yibing raised the long Xia knife with her right hand.
The white light illuminated the surface of the stele, and they saw a large area of pits and depressions.
“It was chiseled out.”
Xia Yibing said.
"Someone destroyed the original contents before we found this place."
Hitzfeld didn't say anything, as if he was thinking about something.
“Do you think this is a tombstone?”
Xia Yibing asked her.
If it is a tombstone, there must be a corpse.
But these are basically all tunnel cavities that are similar.
It's impossible to bury the body at all.
"Go over there and have a look."
After checking both stone tablets and finding nothing, Hitzfeld pulled her towards the stone wall.
The two of them came down together, looked up, and were both amazed by these magical follicles.
This is an underwater beehive.
The follicles are like eggs laid by bees in the holes of a hive. They cannot glow in the dark by themselves, but if you shine a light on them during the long summer, they will reflect a dreamy blue light from the inside out.
Hitzfeld leaned in close to a follicle and examined it carefully.
This thing is about the size of a regular safe and is roughly spherical. Every time a blue light is emitted from it, she can capture a tiny black dot in the center of the follicle.
"What do you think laid these eggs?"
she asked the woman.
"Is there any need to ask?"
Xia Yibing raised her eyebrows.
"What about the big eel?"
Although it was quite unscientific, for example, she had never heard of eels sticking their eggs on the wall like shit... but there were so many unscientific things in this damn place.
The mother of the eggs - if such a thing exists, it would not allow other creatures to get close to it.
It could only be eel.
Xia Yibing couldn't think of any other possibilities.
“Not an eel.”
Hitzfeld shook his head, his tone affirmative.
"what is that?"
Hitzfeld didn't answer, but held his breath and suddenly dived into the water.
Xia Yibing understood what she meant and extended her lightsaber down to help her illuminate the room, guessing that she was trying to check the eggs soaking in the water.
"Wow!"
