Hidden by the rocks in front of them was a small cave. The two of them walked into the cave, talking and laughing. Yet, it was a whole new world inside. It was cold, and stalactites were everywhere. Light and shadow were changing in the most splendid way.
The two of them found the 'Green Water Pond' that Guo Chunfeng mentioned at the bottom of the cave. They scooped up the spring water and had a sip. It was indeed refreshing and refreshing.
"Good water!"
Li Yao complimented and was about to fill an empty bucket with the water.
"Wait."
Guo Chunfeng's eyes were glittering. He suddenly said, "Don't fill the bucket in a hurry. There is another benefit to the 'Green Water Pond'. A certain type of Bamboo Shoot Worms live at the bottom of the pond and at the edge of the wall. They are very fresh and delicious. It's the season right now. Let me look for them."
The pond was not deep. It was only half a meter deep. Guo Chunfeng did not care about his image. He crouched at the edge of the pond and groped for a long time. Then, he squatted in disappointment and shook his head. "Bad luck. I can't find anything."
"Let me have a try!"
Li Yao was intrigued. He crouched at the edge of the pond and extended his hand into the water like Guo Chunfeng did.
"Then, don't use your spiritual energy. Such Bamboo Shoot Worms are most sensitive to spiritual energy. I assume that I used part of my spiritual energy just now and scared them back into the mud."
Guo Chunfeng reminded him.
"Alright!"
Li Yao concealed his spiritual energy to the minimum. He seemed to have turned into an ordinary person. Half of his body was in the water as he groped for the worms wholeheartedly. Even his head was soaked in the water.
Behind him, Guo Chunfeng was like a tree that had been hollowed out by worms. He stuck to the ground in silence.
Or maybe he was being swallowed by an invisible swamp inch by inch. There was a struggling expression on his face.
Sometimes he was unwilling, sometimes he was angry, sometimes he was ferocious, sometimes he was dejected, sometimes he was full of nostalgia for his old life, and a strong reluctance to part with his wife and daughter.
The veins on the back of his hand bulged three times in a row before they calmed down. When they bulged again, they were even thicker, taller, and more twisted!
Li Yao was completely unaware. Half of his body was immersed in the spring water as he carefully groped for the Earthen Bamboo Worm.
When his veins bulged for the fourth time, Guo Chunfeng's pupils had completely melted into his eyeballs and turned pure black. He had almost turned into a different person. But at the last moment, he seemed to have thought of something and grunted. With cold sweat all over his body, he lowered his hands in frustration and took two steps back. His air was exhausted, and his face was full of confusion and desperation.
"Let's go back."
Guo Chunfeng said weakly.
"Wait."
Li Yao straightened his back in the pool and wiped off the cold water droplets on his face. "I'm almost there. Let me try again."
"Don't try."
Guo Chunfeng said anxiously. "Perhaps they have been dug up by the experts. Let's go. Everybody is waiting for us!"
"Alright!"
Li Yao shook off the water on his body and filled the two empty buckets with spring water. He handed one of the buckets to Guo Chunfeng and glanced at him strangely. "Brother Guo, are you not feeling well? Why are you sweating so much? "
"You're still asking? Of course, it's because I'm exhausted! I asked you to help me more, but you stayed in the refining workshop for a couple of days without any time to shoot a promotional video. Is there a hero of the Federation like you? "
Guo Chunfeng glared at him. Taking over a bucket, he turned around and walked out of the cave. "Let's go back now. I'll show you how good your brother is at making tea!"
"Okay!"
Li Yao said with a smile. Carrying another bucket of spring water, he followed Guo Chunfeng. The two of them crawled out of the cave one step at a time.
While crawling, Li Yao said casually, "Right. Brother Guo, there's something that I want to ask you. You can tell me if you want, but it's fine if you don't."
Guo Chunfeng did not even turn his head. "Go ahead. I've given you the highest clearance in the first place. You are qualified to know most of the secrets."
"It's not a secret."
Li Yao scratched his wet hair and said casually, "I'm just curious why you didn't attack me when I was crouching next to the pool. It was your only chance to kill me! "
Guo Chunfeng was suddenly frozen at the entrance of the cave. He turned around slowly.
Li Yao and Guo Chunfeng, one tall and the other short, confronted each other in silence in the cave where gloomy wind was blowing.
"It seems that we won't be going back anytime soon," Guo Chunfeng said coldly.
"I don't mind.
We can talk while we walk, but I'm afraid that you will mind, Brother Guo. "
Li Yao opened his hands and said, "Although Brother Guo is' Jin Dan, the strongest in the Heaven's Origin Sector ', it is only in terms of breadth, not depth. In terms of absolute combat ability, Brother Guo is no match for me.
"Right now, I've just recovered from my heavy wounds, and my capability hasn't been fully recovered. I haven't even repaired my Crystal Suit yet. Also, I'm not prepared at all. My spiritual energy has been restrained to the minimum.
"If you want to kill me, this is the best, if not the only, opportunity to do so. If you miss this opportunity, after I fully recover the combat ability of the Yuanying Stage, few people in the three Sectors will be able to kill me. Brother Guo, you are definitely not one of them!
"I've said that I will get to the bottom of Abyss. Brother Guo, you should know that I am a man of my word!
"If you kill me here, not only will you have the best chance, but there will also be no witnesses. You can easily shift the blame to the remnants of the Patriots Partnership. Although it is not a perfect plan, it will seem that you have no other choice!
"You hesitated three times, and your killing intent was almost condensed on the fourth time. But you gave up in the end. Why? Brother Guo, Director Guo, or … Abyss? "
Li Yao's face was relaxed, and his voice was not high, either. But every word that he said was like a flying sword that pierced into Guo Chunfeng's body deeply.
Guo Chunfeng was too weak to carry several kilograms of spring water. He opened the kettle, and the cold spring water flowed out in splashing noises.
"Water!"
Li Yao exclaimed. "Water is flowing out!"
Guo Chunfeng could not bear the coldness in the cave anymore. After a moment of rigidity, he continued crawling out toward the brightness on all fours.
After he crawled out of the cave, he sat on a rock that was full of moss nearby, letting the sparse sunlight between the treetops warm his cold shell.
Li Yao crawled out of the cave, too. He sat down next to him and tilted his head, looking at him.
Gudu! Gudu! Gudu! Gudu!
Guo Chunfeng drank up half of the water in the kettle. Looking at the boundless sky in a daze, he mumbled, "I never knew that the spring water here would taste like wine when drunk too fast. The strongest wine."
"Well, Brother Guo," Li Yao said, "can we talk nicely? Don't make it sound like we are about to have a duel! I'm just asking casually. It's fine if you don't want to tell me. "
"Huh?"
Guo Chunfeng was dumbfounded. "Is such a thing even acceptable?"
"Of course!"
Li Yao nodded. "Why don't you just pretend that I didn't ask you anything? You can get another kettle of spring water, and we can go back."
Guo Chunfeng stared at Li Yao with his bloodshot eyes, as if he were looking at a monster.
Of course, to some extent, Li Yao was indeed an out-and-out monster.
After staring for a long time, Guo Chunfeng was frustrated again. With a bitter smile, he said, "Forget it. Whatever you are up to, I'm too tired to pester you any longer. I can tell you everything. But before that, I'd like to know something. How did you speculate that Abyss did exist, and how did you know that Abyss was me?"
Li Yao drank a mouthful of the spring water, too. He smacked his lips and said, "There is no taste of alcohol at all. It's just water! About Abyss, come on. Let's analyze it carefully!
"First of all, what puzzled me the most was Elder Nether Spring's death!
"Let me rewind the scene. At that time, I snuck into the base of the Patriots Partnership deep inside the East Ocean by myself and released Neltharion to pry into the secrets at the core of the base. I happened to run into the members of the Patriots Partnership, who interrogated Elder Nether Spring with 'soul-searching *'!
"Then, Elder Nether Spring was killed right in front of me. Wasn't it too weird?"
Guo Chunfeng was dazed for a moment. "Elder Nether Spring was a great man of his generation. He secretly hid some drugs such as' brain stimulants' inside his head. When the drugs were condensed to a certain extent, he killed himself at the critical moment when his base was sabotaged so that he would not suffer. What's so strange about that?
"It's not strange that he killed himself, but why did he do it when I snuck into the base?"
Li Yao opened his hands and said, "Think about it. Elder Nether Spring's death triggered the series of events that followed!
"If Elder Nether Spring hadn't died at that time, the Patriots Partnership wouldn't have extracted his memories and imported them into the Jade Crystal Disc.
"Without the Jade Crystal Disc, I wouldn't have had any critical evidence to reveal Lu Zui's real face. It was very likely that I wouldn't have been able to stop the war between the two Sectors!
"If that was the case, perhaps the two of us would be in the middle of smoke, bullets, and corpses right now!
"It is even safe to say that Elder Nether Spring destroyed the Patriots Partnership with his own death and indirectly avenged his capture and torture by Lu Zui!"
"Is it really a coincidence?"
Guo Chunfeng frowned. "It's getting weirder and weirder. What else can it be if not a coincidence?"
Li Yao narrowed his eyes and said, "When I snuck into the undersea base with Neltharion, I was very careful on the way, fearing that I might run into battle-type Yuanying experts who might sense Neltharion! Thankfully, there were only three battle-type Core Formation Stage Cultivators and one research-type Yuanying Cultivator in the interrogation room! With their Cultivation, it was unlikely that they would have sensed Neltharion!
"In the past, I've always thought so. But after reviewing the whole thing and sorting through every detail over the past month, I suddenly realized that I missed a very important person!
"In the interrogation room at that time, there were indeed battle-type Yuanying Cultivators!
"Elder Nether Spring! He used to be a very strong demon emperor. Although his strength system had been transformed and he had been tortured, his level was not lowered. His senses were still as keen as before. With the stimulation of drugs such as' Brain Stimulator ', his senses were multiplied and unbelievably strong!
"He was an out-and-out battle-type Yuanying Cultivator!
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