Ning Cheng didn’t have time to think about it and jumped straight into the lake, he didn’t even have time to ask Yin Kongchan what the reason was. What he was afraid of was that Xu Yingdie did not know how to swim and this lake was very deep.
From the time Xu Yingdie disappeared into the lake to the time Ning Cheng jumped into it was only a breath or two.
Yin Kongchan watched in awe as Ning Cheng jumped into the lake, and only after a long time did she realize that Ning Cheng had not asked her for a specific reason. She sighed, if it were her, even if she were to go down to save someone, she would have to ask what was going on first.
She knew that Ning Cheng was not some abusive person, yet she also understood why Ning Cheng would be eager to save Xu Yingdie. It should be that Xu Yingdie had finally affected him, he just hadn’t noticed it yet.
The Life Burning Pill burning life span to save Ning Cheng, the previous slitting of his wrist and bleeding to feed it to Ning Cheng, and the three words ‘I’ll help you’ with no room for manoeuvre ……
Some things may seem absurd to others, but when used on someone like Ning Cheng, it is just too appropriate. What she said to Ning Cheng before was completely wrong, before she said that Xu Yingdie slit her wrists and bled to save Ning Cheng because she did not understand Ning Cheng. Now it seemed that Xu Yingdie did not not not understand Ning Cheng, but she understood him too well. It was just that because she and Xu Yingdie were standing from different angles, they saw things differently.
This seemingly stupid thing had left an increasingly heavy mark on Ning Cheng’s heart, or maybe even Ning Cheng himself did not notice it. It suddenly occurred to Yin Kongchan that if she had been the one swept into the bottom of the lake just now, would Ning Cheng have jumped in immediately to save him without asking anything? Or would he have asked for clarification first and then tried to find a way to save him? Or would he not have saved her at all?
Ning Cheng had just jumped into the water when he immediately understood what was going on, when a band-like object came straight over and wrapped itself around his leg. Before he could react, another ribbon-like object wrapped around him.
Ning Cheng did not hesitate to pull out the three-pronged thorn in his calf and directly cut this band that was wrapped around him. This thing that was wrapped around Ning Cheng also seemed to know that it was afraid of pain, and immediately after Ning Cheng severed one of them, the rest of them quickly retracted.
Knowing that it was these kelp-like algae things that were causing the trouble, Ning Cheng was relieved in his heart instead. His speed quickly increased and he soon reached the bottom of the lake, while catching Xu Yingdie who had already been dragged down by the algae.
Xu Yingdie was scrambling around, but when she suddenly grabbed Ning Cheng’s hand, she immediately grabbed it back.
Ning Cheng was shocked, once he was grabbed by Xu Yingdie, he would not be able to help Xu Yingdie cut off the algae on his body, and even he himself would be in danger.
Just when Ning Cheng wanted to avoid Xu Yingdie, Xu Yingdie seemed to sense that it was Ning Cheng and she actually let go of her hand. Ning Cheng’s heart was relieved and the three-pronged thorn in his hand stroked a few times in quick succession.
The algae wrapped around Xu Yingdie’s body immediately retreated, and soon Xu Yingdie’s body was empty, and Ning Cheng grabbed Xu Yingdie and quickly brought her up to the surface of the lake.
When Yin Kongchan, who was tense at the edge of the lake, saw Ning Cheng bringing Xu Yingdie up, she let out a sigh of relief and hurried up to help.
After Xu Yingdie got on the shore, she hurriedly stood to the side and vomited out several mouthfuls of clear water before she looked at Ning Cheng softly and said, “Thank you.”
“It’s just a mutual help, you helped me before ……” Ning Cheng’s words ended abruptly.
Before, he hadn’t cared because he was busy saving people. At this moment, Xu Yingdie’s clothes were all plastered to her body, and under the bright moonlight, the curves were clearly reflected, causing Ning Cheng, who had been practicing the Clasping Yang Divine Technique, to feel his mouth dry and brown. Subconsciously, he took another look at Yin Kongchan, who looked exactly the same as Xu Yingdie.
When Yin Kongchan saw Ning Cheng’s gaze, she wasn’t half shy, she just looked at Xu Yingdie and said, “You said you would help him, you guys go and do it, I’ll pretend I didn’t see it.”
Xu Yingdie still looked at Ning Cheng as clear as water, the gentleness in her eyes almost melted people, obviously she did not mind at all what Yin Kongchan had just said.
Ning Cheng coughed, picked up the half of the water algae he had just brought out and said, digressing, “I don’t know what this is, it can actively entangle people.”
Yin Kongchan and Xu Yingdie both shook their heads, neither of them knew this kind of water algae either.
“I want to go down again and take a look, I feel that this water algae seems to be of some use.” Ning Cheng said as he raised the half of the water algae in his hand.
Hearing that Ning Cheng still wanted to go down, Xu Yingdie said in a panic, “You’d better not go down, I feel that there is something weird in this lake.”
Yin Kongchan also said, “Why don’t we wait until tomorrow in the daytime to take a look, there are indeed many oddities at night now.”
Ning Cheng felt that it was also true, even if he wanted to go down and have a look, he did not need to go down now.
After this incident, Yin Kongchan and Xu Yingdie no longer dared to rush into the lake, they just washed themselves at the lake.
After the three of them had finished washing, Ning Cheng used a three-pronged thorn to cut down some poplar branches and set up a temporary tent. The tent was not small, so even if the three of them were resting, there was still a large space available.
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Early the next morning, Ning Cheng was awakened by noisy noises. He opened his eyes, only to find that Xu Yingdie and Yin Kongchan beside him had also woken up at the same time.
The tent that Ning Cheng had set up was not small, so the three of them did not need to sleep crammed together like this. Moreover, Ning Cheng knew that Xu Yingdie and Yin Kongchan had to take turns to stand guard, so how could they have fallen asleep? And they dared to sleep next to him?
“There are ghosts in this lake, we don’t dare to stay outside.” Seeing Ning Cheng looking at them in confusion, Yin Kongchan hurriedly said.
“Let’s talk about this later, there are noisy noises outside, it seems that many people have come, go out and take a look.” Ning Cheng said and had already walked out of the tent first.
Outside, many people had indeed come, seven men and women in total, in addition to that, there were two beast carts.
These people were completely different from the two men who lacked water in the desert before, apart from some sand and dust on their bodies, they were all considered full of energy and looked no different from ordinary people.
At this moment, these seven men were surrounding Ning Cheng’s tent, seemingly waiting for the three of them to come out.
At the head of the group was a small-eyed man with a dark complexion, who at a glance was a very shrewd kind of person.
When he saw Ning Cheng come out of the tent with Yin Kongchan and Xu Yingdi, he seemed a little surprised, and when he saw Xu Yingdi and Yin Kongchan again, shock even appeared in his eyes.
Yin Kongchan and Xu Yingdie had once again regained their original beautiful appearance as they had taken a bath and had their clothes re-washed.
When Ning Cheng saw these people, he immediately stopped, he was ready to pull out his three-pronged thorn and make a move at any time, but the other party did not act as Ning Cheng had thought.
Instead, the small-eyed man at the head of the group politely stepped forward and asked, “How many of you are also here to look for algae Yuan tendons?”
Algae Yuan Tendon? Ning Cheng had no idea what algae tendons were, so he had to say, “We are not looking for algae tendons, we just accidentally lost our way because we had mistakenly entered the desert, may I ask how long it will take to walk out from here?”
When he heard that Ning Cheng and the three of them were not looking for the algae tendon, the small-eyed man was slightly disappointed, but still said enthusiastically, “There is still half a month’s time to go out from here, and you can follow our beast carriage to Aaron City by then.”
“Thank you very much then, my name is Ning Cheng, these two are my companions Yin Kongchan and Xu Yingdie, I have not yet asked for my friend’s honorific?” When Ning Cheng heard that he could follow these people out of the desert, he immediately clasped his fist in gratitude with joy.
“My name is Ma Ang, this time we have all gotten together temporarily to collect algae elemental tendons here as well.” Ma Ang politely replied to Ning Cheng’s words, while also introducing the people around him to Ning Cheng.
Ning Cheng saw that one of the young men was holding half of the kind of algae that he had brought up yesterday in his hand and asked Ma Ang in a puzzled manner, “Brother Ma, may I ask if the algae tendon you are talking about is a kind of algae that grows in this lake?”
Ma Ang hurriedly said, “Yes, yes, it is this kind of algae. Because this kind of thing is far from Aaron City and still in the desert, and extremely difficult to obtain, it is extremely valuable.”
“What’s the value?” Ning Cheng also felt that this kind of algae was not ordinary.
Ma Ang said solemnly, “The algae tendon contains a kind of Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi, in this space we live in, things that contain Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi are extremely rare, and the algae tendon is one of the most valuable ones. Because the algae tendon contains this kind of heaven and earth Yuan Qi, the Yuan Qi in the algae tendon can be extracted and made into a kind of algae Yuan pill for some martial artists to cultivate. Because of this, the value of the algae tendon was very high. It’s that small cut that can be sold for a silver coin.”
Ning Cheng said in his heart that no wonder, when he cut off the algae Yuan tendon, he felt that it had value. It turned out that this thing also contained Yuan Qi, and it looked similar to a Qi gathering stone.
“There are a lot of algae yuan tendons down here, why did you say it was hard to get?” Ning Cheng thought about how last night when he went down to the lake, in just a short period of time, he had gotten tangled up in this algae yuan tendon, so it was evident that there were everywhere under this lake.
Ma Ang sighed and said, “Brother Ning, you don’t know, algae tendons are exceptionally tough, and when one is not careful and gets entangled, it will be a situation of death without life. Every time we come here, we have to go through a lot of trouble to get a little bit of it.”
Extraordinarily tough? Ning Cheng thought about how his own three-pronged thorn had simply severed an algae Yuan tendon, how could he say that it was exceptionally tough? He quickly reacted. The tools these people were carrying were all made of some ordinary iron, and were simply the worst weapons.
His three-pronged thorn, although rubbish, was also one he had refined from decent materials and was clearly not comparable to the weapons these men were carrying.
“And this lake is dangerous to stay here at night, this lake is called the White Ghost Lake. It’s easy to lose your soul here at night and turn into a walking corpse. That’s why we don’t dare to stay on this side at night, and you three were really lucky to stay here all night last night without anything happening.” Ma’ang continued to explain.
Ning Cheng suddenly remembered what Yin Kongchan had said earlier and thought to himself, could there really be ghosts in this lake? But he had gone down yesterday and up until now, nothing had happened, right?
Thinking of this, Ning Cheng once again said, “Brother Ma, do you think this will work? I’ll go and get the algae yuan tendons, and we’ll split the money we make in half.”