After leaving the team, the adventurer ladies regretted it deeply

Crawling forward for a short while, he saw something strange.

Bloodstains.

Confusion flashed in Lin Da's eyes.

Under the light of the glow stick, the red, dripping fresh blood was visible.

It spread forward, reaching deep into the tunnel.

All sorts of thoughts crossed Lin Da's mind—was it Lia's 'that' kind of blood?

When they returned, he was leading the way; even if Lia was bleeding, he wouldn't have seen it.

Recalling Lia's lively and jumping figure, he was pretty sure that today was not her physiological period.

Meaning, it was another kind, the worst-case scenario.

Someone else had found this tunnel and entered before him!

Lin Da narrowed his eyes, feeling slightly more tense.

The depth of the tunnel was engulfed in complete darkness.

'Adventurers shall not kill each other in the Great Mystery Continent,' does this imperial law still apply here in the dangerous Dragon Forest, and in this kind of pitch-black tunnel where not even the hand is visible and no third person would discover?

Rather than trusting in the other party's goodness, Lin Da preferred to trust himself.

Moreover, the bloodstains might not necessarily be from an adventurer.

Lin Da turned off the glow stick, moved stealthily, and squirmed forward in the narrow tunnel.

The flow of underground magic power was chaotic. Aside from earth system magic users and Battle Qi users, everyone else was as good as blind.

Lin Da could only rely on the tactile sensation on his palms to navigate.

After crawling for about forty meters.

He reached out suddenly.

What he caught was no longer the damp soil.

Incredibly soft, and huge.

The first thing that came to Lin Da's mind was some kind of obese insect.

Perhaps right now, it was opening its gaping maw, ready to bite the hand he'd extended.

Just the thought of it made his spine chill!

Before the opponent could bite him, he struck back fiercely, subduing the 'insect'!

Lin Da used both hands at once, firmly covering the 'insect.'

The spongy 'insect flesh' oozed out between his fingers.

"Hmm..."

An unconscious moan sounded from beneath him.

Lin Da's eyebrows raised—was this voice that of a 'Human Face Worm'?

It could produce the lovely voice of a woman, luring adventurers to check it out.

When the adventurer bent down, the Human Face Worm would leap from the ground, cling to the adventurer's face, and insert its appendages into nostrils, mouth, ears to suck blood.

To ensure that the other party was not a Human Face Worm, Lin Da moved one hand to feel around.

Well, well.

There was another round and plump 'insect' next to him.

Beneath were the waist, belly button, thighs...
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Between the thighs...

Lin Da fell silent.

He released his hands and took out his glow stick again.

Before him lay a beautiful female face.

Silver hair was disheveled, with plenty of dirt on her forehead.

Her lips were devoid of any color—a face as pale as paper.

Her chest rose and fell very slightly, her breathing was barely noticeable.

This was why Lin Da, upon reaching her, only discovered her presence after grabbing the 'big fat worm.'

And this woman happened to be an acquaintance.

The prospective member of the Phoenix Tail Flowers—Tasya?!

Lin Da was utterly stunned.

What was Tasya doing here?

Where were the people from the Scarlet Adventure Group?

Had Dawen and the others been attacked by the Doomsday Sect?

Theoretically, Tasya shouldn't have known about this tunnel.

When he farmed the tenth layer of the instance in the Great Mystery Continent, he used a different character.

Her being here could only be described as a coincidence.

"Wake up," Lin Da called softly, patting Tasya's face.

Tasya's eyes were closed, her brows furrowed tightly, occasionally letting out a pained groan.

Looking carefully, a purple -100 appeared above Tasya's head, indicating she was continuously losing health points.

Lin Da's gaze sharpened as he placed his hand on Tasya's forehead: it was cold, like touching a block of ice.

"Excessive blood loss, and poisoned as well!"

"Dawen is an experienced adventurer; how could he let Tasya get so seriously injured? What happened to the Scarlet Adventure Group?"

Lin Da was full of doubts.

He first chanted a Healing Art, restoring 2500 health points to Tasya, then took out a commonly stocked Antidote from his Space Ring.

The Antidote was contained in a slender triangular glass bottle, filled with blue liquid.

"Open your mouth, it's me!"

Not knowing if Tasya could hear him, Lin Da pried open Tasya's icy lips and poured in the Antidote.

Perhaps craving hydration, Tasya instinctively swallowed, consuming all of the Antidote.

He quietly waited one minute.

-100.

The unchanging purple numbers popped up.

Lin Da scratched his head, muttering, "Seems like it's not an ordinary toxin."

Even with Tasya's level 34 Battle Qi, she had been poisoned into unconsciousness.

There was excessive blood loss, accompanied by severe hypothermia.

The situation was very grim.

Only by identifying the source of the toxin could Lin Da find a solution.

"Pardon me."

Internally apologizing, Lin Da undid the thick layers of Tasya's maid dress, searching for wounds.

Persistence pays off.

On the left side of her chest, he found a small cut.

Pus oozed from there, and the blood was purple.

Now wasn't the time for hesitation.

Lin Da bit onto the wound, sucking out the poison.

He disinfected it and wrapped it with bandages.

Throughout this process, Tasya remained unconscious.

Lin Da's heart grew heavier.

This indicated that the toxin had spread to the brain; if not treated promptly, it could be life-threatening!

"The wound keeps oozing pus, with a necrotic stench, like rotten fish." 'The Encyclopedia of Magical Creatures,' page 708, records these symptoms as those of a level 32 Orange-Rare Magical Beast, the Cold Poison Feathered Snake's bite."

"Though the Cold Poison Feathered Snake has weak combat abilities, its toxin is incredibly lethal. Adventurers succumb to unstoppable bleeding, unconsciousness, hypothermia, then suffer Magic Circuit damage and brain corrosion from the toxin, eventually falling into eternal sleep."

Identifying the type of toxin was the good news.

However, the bad news was that the toxin of the Cold Poison Feathered Snake was extremely fierce.

With the materials Lin Da had on hand, he could not concoct an Antidote.

In no more than three hours, Tasya would become a cold corpse.

"If I had not chosen to continue forward and had instead returned to the communal area by another route, Tasya might have..."

Thinking this, Lin Da felt a chill in his heart.

The current situation was not entirely without solutions.

If he could gather some Dragon Blood—Dragon Blood is of the Fire Series and has a strong suppressing effect on the toxin from the Cold Poison Feathered Snake, combined with Antidote Herb, saving Tasya wouldn't be difficult.

However, collecting Dragon Blood was extremely difficult.

A drop or two of Dragon Blood wouldn't be of much use—it needed to be at least a teacupful.

Lin Da felt overwhelmed with trouble.

He was only a level 26 support; where could he find so much Dragon Blood?

He couldn't be wishing for the Forest Dragon to be female and coincidentally in her physiological period...

Even if such Dragon Blood was available, its quality couldn't be guaranteed.

"Could there be a stroke of luck?"

Lin Da suddenly thought of the places where the Forest Dragon battled with the Sunrise Level adventure teams, where some Dragon Blood should have been left behind.

To his knowledge, three Sunrise Level adventure teams had ventured deep into the Dragon Forest. Defeating the Forest Dragon may be out of the question, but injuring it should be sufficient.

Cradling Tasya, Lin Da looked ahead with sparkling eyes.

With or without Dragon Blood, they could only move forward.

If all else failed, he would ask those Sunrise Level adventure teams for some Dragon Blood.

He wondered if the name Phoenix Tail Flower held any sway among those at the Sunrise Level... Right, the leader of the Holy Rock Adventure Team was Aiko's father—it might be worth considering this relationship.

Afterwards, he would owe a favor to Aiko and Holy Rock. Wait, Aiko had strained relations with her family; mentioning her name might backfire, mightn't it?

Lin Da's head was in turmoil, his mind feeling numb.

"Overthinking is futile; first, I must get to the Forest Dragon Cave, and then improvise as necessary."

He crawled forward.

At the same time, he held Tasya tightly, sharing his body heat with her.

Tasya, who usually sweated easily and was always warm, now felt as cold as a block of ice.

As the team leader, seeing his teammate injured made Lin Da's heart ache as if she were his own daughter raised by hand, not willing to let go of any.

Feeling Tasya's body growing colder, a fiery urgency kindled in Lin Da's heart.

Half an hour later, they reached the end of the tunnel.

Carrying Tasya on his back, he cautiously pushed open the stone slab and looked outside.

Thanks to the moonlight, the surroundings were barely visible.

The huge creature that had been guarding the entrance to its lair had vanished.

The ground bore many signs of battle.

Huge pits, shattered trees, rocks, blood...

Lin Da's excitement surged: might that blood be the Forest Dragon's?