The Chosen System: Counterattack with Husband

"Hiss... I was careless. I didn't even notice there was a trap here."

Xu Yiyu, who had just disappeared in front of the other three members of the pathfinder team, was now lying in a mud pit with water up to his calves. He gritted his teeth and moved his left arm and shoulder, which he had just used to cushion the impact of falling.

Xu Yiyu looked at the mud and dirty water all over his body and smiled bitterly: "This is really bad luck!"

Half a minute ago, when Xu Yiyu stepped on a patch of ground mixed with fallen leaves and dirt, he suddenly felt his feet go empty. He fell down without any warning and landed on a place that looked like an underground slide. He slid down along the slide for a long distance before finally stopping.

The incident happened suddenly, and Xu Yiyu started to slide down without any preparation. Because she was sliding down too fast, she didn't even have time to think about her situation and could only react instinctively.

While sliding down, she tried various braking methods to slow down her speed. She tried to step on the sides of the slide with her feet, but because the slide was too slippery, her feet could not always stand firmly, which made her slide down faster.

She tried to grab the sides of the slide with both hands, but she couldn't because it was too slippery.

She also tried curling up, hoping to increase friction and slow down her descent, but these efforts didn't help much.

When he fell into this deep pit located somewhere in the mountain, the outdoor bag on Xu Yiyu's back was completely soaked in the muddy water at the bottom of the pit. His whole body was no longer as clean as before, and almost every part of his body was covered with mud and dirty water stains.

"Host, are you okay? My terrain scanning system was blocked by a mysterious force for a few seconds, and I didn't have time to remind you!"

"It's okay, I just twisted my shoulder a little bit, nothing serious."

After moving his arms for another half minute, Xu Yiyu groped his way to the bottom of the pit under the accumulated water and slowly stood up.

The left shoulder sprain is not serious and does not affect normal activities.

The way she looks now... she must be in a very miserable state.

After standing up straight, Xu Yiyu looked up and found that the height of this deep pit was very high and it was not the end of the slide just now.

There is also a passage more than one person tall hidden in the dark, and it is unknown which direction it leads to.

In the darkness, Xu Yiyu relied on his excellent night vision to fumble for a spare high-brightness flashlight from his outdoor backpack.

She held the flashlight tightly, turned it up to maximum brightness, and then, with a glimmer of hope, gently waved it a few times above the slide.

…There was no sign of any response.

Very good, it seems that this place is far away from where Xu fell, and the three people outside the trap should not be able to see the light of the flashlight at all.

"Tongzi, try to see if you can contact Xu Cheng's system. It doesn't matter if you can't."

"Okay, I'll try."

This was the closest the Chosen System had come to panicking since it bound itself to the host. It didn't even bother to refer to itself as "this system", and its tone became increasingly anxious.

——This was also the first time it felt the danger of the Blue Star plane.

Even though it is the closest to omnipotence, it cannot avoid all risks to the host on this blue planet.

"I can't get in touch with them. There is also a force in this place that has blocked the interconnection channels between systems."

"It's okay, I can find my own way."

The anxiety and worry in Tongzi's tone had almost solidified into substance. Xu Yiyu gave a comforting smile to the blue entity whose data flow rate had increased by more than twice, without a trace of blame in his tone.

Xu Yiyu didn't dare to be arrogant by relying on her own strength. She knew that the danger in the dark could come at any time. She held the spare flashlight tightly in her hand and adjusted it to the second gear with moderate brightness. The weak light illuminated the narrow and rugged road ahead.

She carefully groped the mud wall at the bottom of the pit, feeling the cold touch and dampness of her fingertips. The water under her feet had already reached her calves, and it was freezing cold, but she couldn't stop.

Although she could not contact the outside world, her own son provided her, Xu, with an extremely crucial piece of information.

——Even Tongzi’s nearly omnipotent scanning system was blocked by a mysterious force, which proved that this trap that he seemed to have fallen into randomly must contain some extraordinary objects.

Xu Yiyu walked forward for a full minute in the calf-deep water before the water beneath her feet became shallower and now barely reached the top of her shoes.

Although the flashlight was shining deep into the passage, all she could see was the slippery side walls of the passage and endless darkness.

However, the passage was not completely silent. Xu Yiyu could still hear the ever-present sound of flowing water. As she went deeper and deeper, the sound of flowing water, which could only be vaguely heard at the beginning, gradually became louder and louder, and the air in the passage became more and more humid.

Whether it was the slide that she had just accidentally stepped into, or the passage that extended far into the depths, there were countless traces of artificial excavation, and the possibility of natural formation... was almost zero.

After walking forward for nearly half a minute, groping along the side wall of the passage, Xu Yiyu suddenly stopped and turned off the flashlight as quickly as he could, while his breathing also became much lighter.

If nothing else, the faint smell of blood that suddenly entered his nose was already a sign of danger not far ahead.

Xu Yiyu stood there motionless for a few minutes, but the smell of blood in front of her was still so obvious that she couldn't ignore it.

The smell doesn't sound like that left by an injured wild animal.

Xu Yiyu, who had been on guard the whole time, listened quietly to the movements in the darkness. Sure enough, after another half a minute, he heard the voices of several people talking in low voices.

"We don't know when this mission will end. Hinata-kun, are you used to staying here? Are we going to suffer with him..."

"Are you going to die? You are talking about Hinata-kun here. Don't you know how scary he is?"

What I heard was the obvious island language, but the two voices had completely different emotions and timbres.

The person who spoke first had obvious complaints in his words, but the second person who spoke seemed to be very afraid of the "Hinata-kun" mentioned by the first person, and interrupted that person without even thinking.

"You are too cautious! There is no one here except for a few bodies of the Idali people and this ordinary-looking knife we ​​have been guarding. Hinata-kun will not appear here in the next two days, so what are you afraid of!"

When the first person spoke again, his tone was tinged with disdain, as if he didn't care about his companion's excessive caution.

The corpse of the Idali?

Knife?

Xu Yiyu, who was hiding in the dark, became more and more frightened as he listened. While quickly digesting the man's words, he also captured two most critical pieces of information.

Suddenly, a bizarre guess flashed through Xu Yiyu's mind, which was extremely outrageous but extremely suitable for the current situation.

...Is the reason why there is a corpse here related to the knife that person mentioned?

This knife is probably the key to blocking Tongzi's Internet channels.

"Idiot! Don't you know how long this knife has been soaked in these people's blood? Don't you know what this means? You still don't know what kind of knife this is!"

The second person who spoke lowered his voice deliberately. The anger and fear in his tone had almost solidified into substance, as if he didn't dare to disturb anything, and he scolded the first person who spoke in a very disappointed manner.

"It's just one... Wait! Could this be the one that has always been placed in the family altar—"

"Shut up! Don't say that name in front of it!"

As the conversation deepened, the details of Xu Yiyu's guess became more and more specific, so specific that she almost couldn't help but feel frightened.

Being able to influence Tongzi in a foreign land, and the sword comes from an island country...

Terrible thoughts gradually formed in her mind. Xu Yiyu frowned silently, and her heartbeat gradually jumped out of her control.

The right eyelid that had been quiet just now was twitching wildly, as if foreshadowing some answer.

There has never been a moment when she hoped as much as she does now...that her guess would not come true.