Chapter 2348: The Final Escape

"Mr. Hamilton, if you have any methods, just use them directly."

Granny Xinnuode said on behalf of the others, while handing the small satchel on her body to Xia De:

"Do it now, but take this."

Inside it was the incomplete compass and the information collected by the group so far regarding the compass and the Heart of the Earth.

"Granny, what do you mean by this?"

"You are the one most likely to get out of here. Don't say so much; Miss Knight has the consciousness of sacrifice, and I am not without it. As long as one person can escape from here, my operation this time will not be considered a failure."

She sighed softly, and Xia De pursed his lips and put the bag away:

"I don't dare to guarantee what will happen, but... we will go out together."

They did not notice that Miss Sander at the back of the team made an expression of wanting to say something again, but finally lowered her head and said nothing.

Thus, Xia De rummaged through his pocket and found a small piece of normal soil and a few pink ordinary flower petals, held them in both hands, and reached into the seal again:

"Power of the Earth · Healing Aura!"

The thrown soil and petals dissipated silently in those golden lights, and then the earthy yellow aura almost instantly filled the center of the three golden rings.

Those auras quickly gathered toward Xia De's hands, and after a dozen seconds, they formed a brand-new earthen holy grail in his hands. It was just that the worm imprisoned and sealed looked only slightly smaller than before; this kind of "purification" did not exert much effect.

"Can this divine art be used repeatedly?"

Granny Xinnuode asked from the side, and Xia De shook his head:

"No, only the first time is effective."

He lowered his head to look at the "Earth Holy Grail" the size of a small wine glass in his hand; the inscription on the cup was "Worm":

"It seems this is all that can be done; do you still need to do anything?"

He looked at the ladies:

"If there is nothing that needs to be done, turn around and get ready now. As soon as I take action, everyone run toward the direction we came from."

"Do not worry about your companions."

Granny Xinnuode added again, the expression on her aged face very serious:

"Everyone listen, we all came here for the Heart of the Oasis; if we didn't have that persistence, we wouldn't have walked to this point. Now that the Heart of the Oasis is about to be found, do not stop your steps because of worrying about other things. Run forward; in a while, no matter what happens, no one is to look back."

"Yes, Granny."

Only the female knight answered her, but everyone knew that if someone really needed to be sacrificed, Miss Knight would probably be the first one willing to sacrifice herself.

Miss Sander and Miss Mester also turned around and prepared to run back quickly, and Granny Xinnuode stood behind Xia De and was the last one to turn around.

Thus, Xia De reached his hand toward the compass fragment inlaid on the golden ring. He had originally thought that taking it off would require spending some power. Unexpectedly, after his fingers touched the compass fragment, it actually fell off on its own:

"So easy?"

Boom!

The seal indeed did not have any problems due to the peeling off of the fragment, but the earth-shaking movement in the next moment directly caused Miss Knight and Miss Sander to fall to the ground.

As if this worm had suddenly come alive, the violent shaking feeling inside the "cave" was stronger than any earthquake Xia De had ever experienced. And the surrounding stone walls were also gradually squirming in this shaking, and then bright golden rune strings lit up densely on the stone walls; the witch's seal was about to be reactivated.

"Run!"

Xia De shouted, but suddenly a flash of inspiration struck, and he reached out and placed the "Worm" holy grail on the position where the "compass fragment" had just been on the golden ring. The holy grail was almost immediately sucked onto the ring, and although the shaking of the ground still had not disappeared, Xia De clearly felt that the speed of the seal restarting had slowed down.

At this time, Miss Mester had already reached out and pulled up Miss Knight, while Granny Xinnuode pulled up Miss Sander, and the group of five rushed outward quickly.

Running outward in a shaking cave was definitely not an easy thing, especially because of the influence of high gravity; once one fell, it was very difficult to climb up on one's own.

Because they still needed the help of the ritual, the five people basically did not open up too much distance. And although Xia De was the last one to set off, it was only a matter of a few steps before he and Granny Xinnuode were vaguely about to overtake Miss Knight.

Miss Sander rushed to the first place, Miss Mester was behind her, and further behind were the three. The light of the ritual symbols held by the group was gradually dimming along with the more violent shaking of the cave, and at this time Xia De could almost be certain that this worm's corpse must be moving in the sand sea.

"No, this speed is not enough! At this rate, no one can get out!"

Granny Xinnuode suddenly shouted, and then reached out and pointed at the people around her. While the old elf's complexion rapidly weakened and even turned black, even Xia De felt as if there was a gust of wind supporting him to move forward, and his speed suddenly became faster.

"You guys run quickly!"

Granny Xinnuode stuffed her cane into Xia De's hand, then fell to the ground, and even her breathing could almost not be felt in this brief moment.

This ritual could also be borne by four people; she wanted to sacrifice herself to preserve the four young people. Miss Knight hurriedly wanted to pull her, but Xia De acted faster:

"Granny, now is not the time to talk about such things."

He carried Granny Xinnuode on his back and continued to run forward, but perhaps because of the influence of the venue, the old elf, who was not heavy, felt to Xia De as if he were carrying a mountain. This phenomenon also appeared in the "Bone Illusion" last time.

Miss Mester looked back, then continued forward, and Miss Sander at the very front did not stop when she saw Xia De had already carried Granny Xinnuode on his back.

The group continued forward; although gravity was gradually returning to normal, the increasingly violently shaking tunnel no longer allowed them to act quickly. Because Xia De was at the back carrying Granny Xinnuode, he could see that the girls in front were all swaying as if they were dancing.

Also because of this, Miss Knight, who was wearing knight armor, accidentally fell directly to the ground.

She had no intention of trying to climb up at all:

"Take these out!"

The package on her body was thrown directly forward. This time Miss Sander did stop, but she only caught the package.

She was at the very front and had no chance to come back to pull Miss Knight up, so it was Xia De who wanted to pull Miss Knight up, but was pushed away by the female knight who was still swaying left and right even though she had fallen:

"Don't worry about me."

That petrified knight sword was also thrown to Miss Sander, and the latter and Miss Mester continued to run forward. And after Xia De pushed Miss Knight's hand away, the Chain of Sin firmly tied Granny Xinnuode behind his back, and after freeing his hands, he directly picked up Miss Knight:

"It's not time to give up yet."

Saying this, he threw the satchel Granny Xinnuode had just thrown to him and the compass he had just picked up forward:

"Miss Sander, take them and leave first!"

The mermaid girl subconsciously caught these things again; now almost all the valuables on the group were on her. Seeing Xia De struggling to follow at the end of the team, she subconsciously wanted to turn around and run back in the violent shaking, but was scolded by Xia De:

"What are you doing? Run forward! Don't stop!"

The blue-haired mermaid girl had no choice but to continue forward, and finally, the light of white moonlight appeared in front. When she finally arrived at the stone tablet at the entrance, because of the more violent shaking, she hugged the stone tablet at the cave entrance and did not dare to go out, only looking out:

"This worm really moved! It's still moving."

She turned around and shouted loudly toward the back, but the figures of the other four could not be seen behind.

Just as she was anxiously wondering what to do, she suddenly heard a harsh friction sound coming from the direction of the top of her head, and at the same time, the stone tablet she was hugging was actually shrinking downward.

Looking up, the stone door that had risen when Xia De opened the seal was slowly descending. The seal was about to be fully reactivated, which also caused this worm that had inexplicably moved its position to slowly stop.

But she could not care about the situation outside at this time, but desperately shouted inward:

"You guys come out quickly~ the door is about to close!"

Xia De, who felt as if he were carrying a mountain and hugging a mountain, of course knew that the door was about to close, but accelerating was not something he could succeed in just because he wanted to.

"You go out first!"

He also shouted loudly toward the front. The "Power of the Red Dragon" had long been activated, and at this time the influence of the abnormal gravity near the door was close to disappearing. He could vaguely see the light in front, but whether he could make it in time, he himself could not say clearly.

Granny Xinnuode and Miss Knight of course hoped that Xia De could go out on his own, and at this time, even Miss Mester in front turned back and supported Xia De to move forward together.

Xia De did not know what this lady wanted to do, and the power support she provided was completely at the level of a normal witch, so it only allowed the four people to accelerate slightly.

Miss Sander at this time finally saw the group. She shouted desperately in front of the slowly descending stone door, wanting them to be faster. She herself also walked a few steps inward, but immediately did not dare to walk inward again because of cowardice.

So she reached out again, trying to stop the descending stone door, but as soon as her hands touched the stone, she felt a pain like being burned by a raging fire:

"Ah~"

Hurriedly withdrawing her hands, when she looked again, her ten fingers were already full of scald blisters.

At this time, the door had already descended by one-third, and she could only kneel on one knee to continue looking inward. She could see the companions who were rushing over quickly had advanced a distance, but according to the mermaid girl's estimation, even if they arrived at the door at the last moment, they would not be able to pass through the door that would probably only have a gap left by then.

Looking up at the slowly falling stone door with extreme anxiety, the mermaid girl endured the slight fear in her heart, spat out bubbles to attach a layer of sea-blue light to her hands, and reached upward again, trying to use her own power to block the falling stone. ===== CHAPTER 2349 =====