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Chapter 623 was thrown out

The obviously strange feeling underfoot made Zhu Yu want to quickly pull back the step he had taken, but his center of gravity had already uncontrollably tilted forward. His body swayed and he fell forward, his two feet staggering as they landed on a soft patch of ground.

Then, she began to sink uncontrollably.

Zhu Yu panicked for a moment. She quickly searched her mind for a solution to the situation and remembered what she had read about how to survive when trapped in quicksand.

Therefore, she dared not make any violent movements, lest she waste her energy and cause herself to sink even faster.

Based on her past "experiences" from elsewhere, she slowly and gently lay back when her knees were about to sink in, while opening her arms to spread her entire body out as flat as possible, so that she could have the largest possible contact area with the material below that was neither quicksand nor mud.

Logically speaking, this method should work.

Even if she hadn't personally tried it, she had at least seen many such experiments and knew the principles behind them.

Under normal circumstances, she should be able to stop sinking by doing this, and then slowly try to turn over, or simply not turn over at all, and gently and slowly move towards the hard "shore" she had just been on, until she can find a place to hold onto, and then she can be completely out of danger.

But then, something strange happened.

As she gently and slowly lay back and flattened herself out, she discovered that her sinking speed had not slowed down at all; on the contrary, it had accelerated considerably. She sank rapidly, and the thick, dark substance around her enveloped her and submerged her.

Zhu Yu felt a tightness in her chest and couldn't breathe. She tried to struggle, but her limbs felt like they were covered in thick mucus, and she couldn't move at all. No matter what she did, she couldn't break free.

Just as a feeling of near despair began to spread through Zhu Yu's heart, suddenly—

A drop of cold liquid landed on her face, bringing Zhu Yu to a sudden moment of clarity. Then she felt a damp, chilly sensation coming from her back, a feeling that was not pleasant at all.

Then... tormented by this damp and cold sensation, she suddenly opened her eyes.

She was lying face up in a grove of trees, with bright sunlight overhead. Some branches and leaves blocked her view, and water droplets on the grass slowly slid down and dripped onto her face.

Beneath her lay a patch of wet grass, clearly soaked from a heavy rain the previous night. The water had seeped into her clothes, creating a damp, cold, and uncomfortable feeling.

Zhu Yu propped himself up from the ground, quickly checked himself, and found that he was completely intact, with no missing arms or legs, and seemed to have no other injuries.

I stood up and moved my limbs around, and everything was fine. Apart from feeling cold, I didn't experience any dizziness or lightheadedness.

She looked around, but the small wooden house was no longer in sight, and she had no idea where she was.

As she was looking around, she suddenly heard a rustling sound. Zhu Yu quickly hid behind a slightly thicker tree.

A moment later, Fu Wen appeared not far away, seemingly searching for something, his movements cautious. Upon seeing Fu Wen, Zhu Yu breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that he must be looking for him, and quickly appeared, not daring to make a sound, but instead waving vigorously at Fu Wen.

Fu Wen immediately spotted her, and judging from his expression, he breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly came forward: "Second Master! We've finally found you!"

"Where are the others?" Zhu Yu asked hurriedly.

Actually, seeing that the runes were all fine, she was already relieved, but since she had been separated from the others, the reason for this was still a mystery, and she still wanted to find out.

"The others are also looking for you. I'll inform them right away!" Fu Wen quickly put his fingers in his mouth and whistled, the sound short and sharp, like the chirping of birds in the forest.

Soon, there was a rustling sound around them. Lu Qing and Fu Lu quickly came over. When they saw that Zhu Yu was alright, Lu Qing's originally stern expression finally eased.

Before Zhu Yu could speak to him, Fu Wen suddenly knelt down with a thud.

"Sir, it's all my fault. When we went in to investigate, we didn't find anything wrong, which is why the four of us almost ended up in danger."

Although Second Master has been found and is not seriously injured, he must have been quite frightened.

"It was my fault for not handling things properly; please punish me, sir!"

"Get up first." Although Lu Qing still looked a little displeased, she didn't intend to punish Fu Wen. Instead, she reached out and pulled him up from the ground. "You were indeed not careful enough in this matter, but the four of us are indispensable right now. Let's learn from this lesson and be more vigilant next time."

"What exactly happened?" Zhu Yu hadn't fully grasped the situation yet. She could only guess half of it, and the rest was still a mystery. "I guess we were tricked by someone in that small building last night, right?"

After I sat down, I touched a bone that I couldn't tell was from a chicken, duck, or goose—any kind of poultry. Judging from its smoothness and intactness, it didn't look like it had been eaten by a wild animal. There were no feathers left around it, so it couldn't have died naturally inside.

So I immediately concluded that it must have been gnawed on, which meant that there were people inside the small wooden building.

When I turned around, I found that all three of you were gone, and there were only many doors around.

Now that I'm clear-headed, when I think back on that situation, I realize I was probably under some kind of drug, so everything I saw and experienced was a hallucination.

Why they ended up here is completely unpredictable.

Lu Qing first instructed Fu Lu to find relatively dry firewood to start a fire and help Zhu Yu warm herself up. At the same time, he pulled her in front of him and pressed her wet back against his chest, trying to make her feel some warmth so that she wouldn't be too cold.

“The situation of the three of us is basically the same. We were indeed drugged and hallucinated in the building and couldn’t wake up.” He answered, while pulling Zhu Yu’s wrist and placing his fingers on it to check her pulse. “The four of us were thrown out of the small wooden building and were scattered. When we woke up, we couldn’t find you and were afraid something had happened to you. Fortunately, you are safe.”