"Then you leave me here and go out. I'll see where I end up. Maybe after we crack the hidden compartment, we can get out." Ling Xiao seemed to have thought of a good idea.

"I think you've lost your mind. Do you know how dangerous it is down there? If you go there, I might never see you again. How could you have such thoughts?" Xie Yuhua's tone was far from kind.

“I’m just helping out… Besides going to the mezzanine, is there any other way? We’ve searched so many times and still can’t find the mechanism. What if the mechanism is in the mezzanine? How can we know if we’re right if we don’t try?” Ling Xiao’s expression was somewhat agitated, and his body even heaved with his words.

"You said it yourself, what if we can't get out? Then we'll be trapped inside forever!"

After Xie Yuhua finished speaking, the two of them tacitly remained silent.

"Put me down. We can't get out of here. Carrying me is a waste of your energy. Maybe we're in one of the mezzanine levels from the very beginning," Ling Xiao advised him.

"Let's go two more. If there's still nothing after two, we'll rest." Xie Yuhua was somewhat stubborn in trying to find an exit, and Ling Xiao let him go.

"There's a sound, can you hear it, child? Child?" Xie Yuhua heard the sound of flowing water, which meant they had found a way out, but when she turned around and called Ling Xiao, he did not respond.

Xie Yuhua carefully put him down, afraid that any sudden movement would worsen his injuries. Then she gently let him lean against the cold wall, hoping that this would make him a little more comfortable.

At this moment, Ling Xiao was already very weak, his lips had turned white, and he didn't even have the strength to open his eyes. His eyelids had also turned an abnormal white. Even so, he still held the luminous pearl tightly in his hand, not letting it fall.

“Little child… wake up… Brother Xiaohua has found a way out… don’t sleep, I’ll take you out now, don’t sleep…” Jieyuhua called out to Lingxiao softly, her voice choked with sobs.

A moment later, he took a deep breath, gritted his teeth, hoisted Lingxiao back onto his back, and strode forward at his fastest pace toward the intermittent sound of flowing water.

He didn't know where he was when the sound of flowing water suddenly stopped. He thought he might have gone too far, so he hurriedly went back.

Gone.

Everything is gone.

That fleeting moment of relief and the straw he clung to for survival were all snapped in an instant. Finally, utterly exhausted, his legs gave way, and he collapsed to his knees with Ling Xiao. His eyes were empty and vacant, and he seemed to have lost his soul, motionless and lifeless.

"Don't...don't cry." Ling Xiao seemed to sense the man in front of him trembling, and with a slightly strained hand, he tried to wipe away his tears, but he couldn't get them away no matter what he did.

"I'm sorry..." This time, it was Xie Yuhua who said it.

"It seems like we can't get out." Xie Yuhua lowered his head; he didn't want to face any of this.

Ling Xiao patted him on the back, holding the luminous pearl in his hand, seemingly lost in thought.

“We walked through 24 rooms in total. Every room illuminated by this luminous pearl looked the same. Perhaps... it's not a problem with the rooms.”

Ling Xiao placed both hands on the luminous pearl, but his hands couldn't cover it. However, Xie Yuhua still noticed something. In a moment, the layout of the room changed, and Xie Yuhua's eyes lit up again. She quickly put the child down and held him in her arms, and went with him to look at the luminous pearl.

The four hands were stacked together, preventing the light from the luminous pearl from shining through. When it was opened again, everything was distorted for a moment, as if it were a projection.

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