Chapter 440: 440

Lu Shu was right . He was not the only one who got lost in the underground tunnels . Further inside, the passage gradually widened .

But it seemed that they were nowhere near the end . At a new fork in the road, there was a marking beside the left branch . After some deliberation, Lu Shu carved an identical symbol on the right branch too…

Lu Shu had seen many markings along the way, but they were then rendered useless thanks to him…

Within a few hours, his prank had started to cause other people trouble . Those who happened to return to their starting point would realize, to their horror, both ways had been marked…

Had both routes been explored?!

“From…”

During the process of finding his bearings, Lu Shu had run into his own markings as well, regarding the three points about the remains .

Now, there was another sentence scrambled beside . “Say! What are the three points?!”

Haha, you will never get the relic with such low IQ…

Suddenly, a thought crossed Lu Shu’s mind . Why not be worry-free and stay here to create his walls of arts, while the old man was on his way to the relic? The distress points earned would already have made the trip worthwhile .

He had ignited the fourth star with the help of a celestial fruit, and was only three quarters away to the fifth .

At the moment, he was startled by a series of footsteps in the tunnel behind . It sounded like a huge crowd . Could it be some big organization with their enslaved individual Practitioners?

With no intention to interact with them, Lu Shu immediately left with his Corpsedog and Concealed Arrow .

However, indistinctly many footsteps were heard from in front as well . Was it a bloody reunion between two teams?!

In the next instant, the two organizations came into sight . An Australian team and the leader of the Pledge with dozens of individual Practitioner followers . The atmosphere was somewhat awkward, but the most awkward among them all, was Lu Shu… who was stuck in between…

The encounter was totally unexpected . Then, curious stares were soon drawn to the young man in the center . Who was he?!

Clad in a new set of clothes, Lu Shu looked no different from the other unaffiliated Practitioners . Earlier, there were a number of them who ducked into the tunnels before everyone else, and it would be hard to recognize him without knowing his true face .

Suddenly, someone spoke from the Australian group of individual Practitioners, “Why are you here alone? Come over here!”

Lu Shu turned to see Meng Jingchan . “Oh . “

The leaders of the Australian team fixed Lu Shu with a cold stare . In fact, who would be bothered to remember the faces of over hundreds of individual Practitioners in the darkness, especially for a messy group like this? Moreover, individual Practitioners were expendable resources to them, so they could not be less concerned about whether the new man was an original member of the team .

In the meantime, the leader of the Pledge directed his team back with slight hesitation . He inferred from the situation that the relic was not in the direction ahead .

Lu Shu joined the group of individual Practitioners . After a long moment of silence, Meng Jingchan whispered, “This system of tunnels is like a labyrinth . Any new discoveries?”

“Nope . I’m lost too…” Lu Shu replied honestly .

Suddenly a person in front shouted, “There are words on the wall again!”

Meng Jingchan smiled . “Did you notice those words? I wonder what kind of expert would be so fond of pranks! Carving so many words on the walls in the process of searching for the relic!”

Lu Shu paused for a few seconds . “He must be handsome, caring and full of childlike innocence . “

Meng Jingchan, “…”

It must have been you! I knew it!

The crowd muddled their way along . Actually, leaders from both parties did not make any attempts at communication, as they were all aware that the top priority now was to find a way out, not the relic!

The relic might be located at the exit of the maze . But everything would be meaningless if they could not get out .

More importantly, torches were the main lighting device for the majority, yet there were limited batteries .

To make things worse, many of the torches were already running out of power, as the average battery life of a normal torchlight was not long after all .

They could not even find the right way with their lights on, then what about in the darkness?

Tension began to build up due to the approaching danger .

Small discussions were sparked off among individual Practitioners, brainstorming for any possible solutions . But Meng Jingchan noticed that Lu Shu was calm all along, as though totally unconcerned .

Many had witnessed the fighting scene between Lu Shu, Li Yixiao and Nogiwa Takenobu, as well as Lu Shu’s golden glow .

Actually, Meng Jingchan was curious about his power too after he defeated a Class B practitioner . Meanwhile, she had also thought it through and concluded that the person that she had wanted to rope in was not on the same level as her .

Suddenly, someone shouted, “Water! I can hear flowing water!”

Others heard it too . Instantly everyone started to search for clues of water, which could possibly lead them to the exit!

The group in front marched forward at a faster rate, with some cheering!

“Exit! We are saved!”

“Hahahaha, we’ve found it!”

The crowd thronged towards the exit . Outside the tunnel was an unprecedentedly vast underground space with a black river running through it rapidly .

One person hurried to the riverbank, cupped a scoop of river water in his hands and observed it under the torchlight . The water was transparent . Thus, the black appearance of the river was probably due to lighting .

Suddenly, he felt a sting on his ankle . Looking down, he gasped in shock as countless black beetles crawled out of the river . Immediately a black spot started to grow from his ankle .

“Save me!” the individual Practitioner ran back at once, but was sliced into halves by an expert’s highly concentrated air sword .

He demanded cold-bloodedly, “All of you, go and settle the bugs!”

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