Old Wei had a gun, so Liu Huangshu should have been afraid of him. After all, from that distance, Old Wei could kill him with one shot!

But to my surprise, Liu Huangshu was a tough nut. Even after Old Wei fired, he didn't stop, continuing to hack at the rope bridge with his pickaxe, trying to break it!

Seeing the rope bridge swaying more and more violently, I quickly shouted, "Old Wei, shoot him quickly, or we're all going to die!"

Hu Wazi also urged, "Old Wei, shoot! Shoot!"

Old Wei wasn't a coward. He had already shot Huang Mao Xiaoming before. In this critical situation, he didn't hesitate. He raised his gun, squinted his eyes, aimed at Liu Huangshu's torso, and fired two shots without saying a word!

As the gunshots rang out, I saw Liu Huangshu on the opposite bank twitch twice. Then, the pickaxe fell from his hand, and he staggered off the bank, plunging headfirst into the underground river below the rope bridge.

Seeing this, I finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Hu Wazi gritted his teeth and said, "Damn it, killing that bastard with two shots is too good for him! I should have tortured him properly to vent my anger!"

Xiao Liang pointed to the opposite bank and said to everyone, "Let's cross over first. This bridge is still shaking badly. Don't let it collapse..."

But as soon as Xiao Liang finished speaking, I suddenly heard a "crack" from where the rope bridge connected to the opposite bank. Then, the four-thousand-year-old rope bridge collapsed, the stone slabs under our feet flipped over, and we lost our balance in that instant!

"Damn!"

"We're done for!"

"It really collapsed!"

"..."

For a moment, we were in chaos, shouting and screaming. I felt my feet leave the ground, and my body fell rapidly downward.

As I fell, I could vaguely hear Yun Jie, Er Jun, and the others shouting from the opposite bank behind me.

As my body fell, I suddenly felt utterly despairing.

Sister Xiao Mei was in the Crystal Palace on the other side. Xiao Mei and I were less than a hundred steps away, but we couldn't reunite despite the short distance.

Looking back, Liu Huangshu must have damaged the rope bridge earlier. A four-thousand-year-old rope bridge might not have been able to support us even without human interference, let alone with Liu Huangshu constantly hacking at it with a pickaxe.

I don't know how long it was, maybe less than a minute, before I fell directly into an icy, dark underground river.

With a splash, my body sank continuously in the water.

But fortunately, the fall wasn't too high, and I fell directly into the water, so I shouldn't have been injured. I just choked on a few mouthfuls of water uncontrollably.

After my body came to a stop in the water, I struggled to surface. The current in this river wasn't too turbulent, so it was easy to swim out.

After surfacing and taking a few breaths, I shouted on the water, "Old Wei! Hu Wazi! Xiao Liang! Xiao Liang!"

I shouted a few times, but no one responded. I rummaged through my backpack and found a diving headlamp.

I put the headlamp on my head, turned it on, and the scene in front of me became clear.

I saw an underground river that wasn't too wide, the water flowing slowly into the depths. The underground river was located below the Crystal Palace, but there was no way to get to the Crystal Palace from here. Separating us was a cliff.

I floated on my back on the underground river, looking around for my companions. Soon, I saw a person floating on the river not far away, a slender person.

I quickly swam over to take a look and saw that it was Xiao Liang.

She must have hit her head when she fell, and now she was unconscious and had choked on a lot of water. She looked quite miserable.

I quickly dragged her to the riverbank and pulled her ashore.

I laid her on her back on my lap and began to pinch her philtrum.

At first, she didn't respond, but soon she coughed. As she coughed, she spat out water, but she still didn't wake up.

I was so anxious, fearing that she would suffocate from choking on too much water. Helpless, I didn't care about the difference between men and women. I simply laid her flat on the ground, unbuttoned her shirt, exposing her chest, and then pressed on her chest while giving her artificial respiration.

After doing this for about ten minutes, Xiao Liang finally vomited all the water she had choked on, and she finally woke up.

"Cough cough... cough cough cough!"

In a burst of coughing, Xiao Liang opened her eyes, and the first thing she saw was my face.

"Ah... Chen, Chen Rongsheng, what are you doing!"

Xiao Liang asked nervously, and also glanced down at her unbuttoned shirt.

I quickly said seriously, "I'm saving your life. You choked on water and fell into a coma. If I hadn't helped you restore your breathing with artificial respiration in time, you would have lost your life."

"Is, is that so..."

Xiao Liang quickly buttoned up her shirt and subconsciously licked her lips. Because I had used too much force just now, her lips were a little swollen, and they looked quite full.

She probably recalled the scene just now, and a blush instantly spread across her cheeks, but she wasn't the kind of person who would make a fuss over this kind of thing.

After getting dressed, Xiao Liang quickly asked, "By the way, what about Hu Wazi, Old Wei, and that old man who led the way? How are they?"

I shook my head and said, "I don't know. I turned around on the river and only saw you. I was only thinking about saving you at the time, so I didn't pay attention to them."

Xiao Liang looked up at the rope bridge we had fallen from and said, "Oh my god, it's so high to fall from up there, at least ten meters, right? Chen Rongsheng, do you think Old Wei and the others will be killed?"

"Below is the underground river, they shouldn't be killed by the fall. The two of us didn't die, Old Wei and Hu Wazi must be fine too," I said quickly.

Before I finished speaking, I suddenly saw a figure emerge from the surface of the river, the figure slowly drifting towards the bank with the waves of the underground river.

"Someone!"

I said in a low voice and quickly got up and walked towards the figure.

Xiao Liang shouted, "Chen Rongsheng, wait for me, I'll go with you!"

After speaking, she followed me like a shadow, walking towards the riverbank together. When we arrived at the bank, I used the light from my headlamp to shine on the figure, and only then did I see clearly that the figure was the old man who had led us.

He was lying in the river with his back facing up, his body motionless. I walked over, grabbed his shoulder, and turned him over, only to see that his eyes were wide open. He was obviously dead!