The Blue Adventures

Another One?

"He is not Wu Xie" Xiao Ge whispered softly, so soft that it seems like he is talking to himself, but Pang Zi can clearly hear it, he went wide-eyed and asked him
"What do you mean?!" Pang Zi
Xiao Ge got silent still looking up at nothing, as if he is also trying to take in what had just happened to them
"Just now.. he just smiled" Xiao Ge whispered, his voice is soft, but there is a hint of confusion and his thought is disturbed and disoriented

Pang Zi, "!!!"

Pang Zi sighed, "Xiao Ge, you shouldn't joke like that", they are now in a place where they can lose their life at any moment, so any dispute or disagreements inside the group will only make the situation worse, but seeing the complicated expression of Xiao Ge face, Pang Zi knows that it is real.

"Maybe he.. he is just confused, or you are looking at it wrong" Pang Zi tries to calm down but his voice still stuttering in shock and frightened. The both of them sit down first, looking at the flowing waterfall that directly goes nowhere at the bottom, if they fall from there, they will definitely be injured. Xiao Ge is still thinking about what he had just seen while Pang Zi just sits there not really knowing what to do,

"Let's go up and meet up with Wu Xie first" Pang Zi said but Xiao Ge didn't say anything
"Xiao Ge, we are both tired mentally and physically, I know that you can sense your way well, but sometimes under a lot of pressure we can think of the unimaginable or hallucinate something that is not real, so you just probably see it wrong" but Xiao Ge keep silent again, Pang Zi can only sigh "Then, now what, you just gonna leave Wu Xie alone up there?", but Xiao Ge frown deeply

"Xiao Ge, he is sick, and furthermore he has been taken hostage by someone that we didn't know, right now the enemies are in the dark while we are in the light, staying together for now is the best choice we have" hearing this, Xiao Ge seems to have calm down a little and nod, thinking that he must had seen it wrong, the horror in his heart has slowly faded. Pang Zi scan the stone around them and asked

"Can we climb from here?" Pang Zi
"It is too slippery, let's get out of here first" Xiao Ge
While walking here and there, they find a small pathway that they can climb, at around this time Pang Zi suddenly remember something
"Where are Jin Ye and his men? Did they really died just like that?" Pang Zi suddenly got curious
"They went to a different stream than us" Xiao Ge replied after a moment of silent
Pang Zi suddenly turn his face to face Xiao Ge, a shocked expression on his face "Isn't there only just one way, why are they being washed away on the other way" Pang Zi is bewildered by the situation, Xiao Ge is also not sure what to say, but they are really being washed away on the other side. Seeing that there are no better explanations, they will put it aside first and discuss it later

After a couple hours of walking and climbing, they finally arrived, but Wu Xie is not in sight, Pang Zi's heart feels shaken a bit, worried that something might have happened to him again
"Tian Zhen? Wu Xie!!" Pang Zi shout out loud but still no response. They quickly get their bag from the hiding spot and search the area for a while, but still no result, when they started to panic thinking that maybe he is in danger again a muffled sound coming from below them, very dim as it is very far away

"Guys!! Is that you guys?" Wu Xie shout
"Tian Zhen? What are you doing there?" Pang Zi peak from the cliff aside carefully not to lean too much, he can't see him, but he can surely hear where the sound is coming from
"Thank God, I thought the both of you are dead. I come down to search for you guys" Wu Xie shout back

Pang Zi side eye Xiao Ge 'See! You must have seen it wrong' he turned back and asked Wu Xie to stay still and they will come down to fetch him. Without waiting a moment longer, they hurried to climb down again to meet up with Wu Xie.
"You guys alright?" Wu Xie asked when they are finally down, Wu Xie clothes now is a little dirty with leaves and dirt, but overall he is still fine
"No problem, we just.." Pang Zi tried to explain what they just encountered when Wu Xie suddenly cut him off
"So, what should we do now? Getting back to the first place?" Wu Xie
"Ehm.. no? Since we have the equipment now, we can plan a more strategic plan, so we can have a higher possibility to find a way out compared to before" Pang Zi
"You mean from the waterway?" Wu Xie
"Yeah.. Then we have another problem, where should we go now, there are suddenly two paths of water now" Pang Zi murmured, Wu Xie looked at them weirdly but decided to stay silent
"How about the path that Wu Xie fell down before?" Pang Zi
"I would say we tried the last one" Xiao Ge suddenly said
"Why?" Pang Zi
"It is deeper, and the waterfall here directly goes deep inside the ground, it has a high possibility for it to lead somewhere compared to before" Xiao Ge simply explained