The female tomb robber kept firing arrows from her crossbow, trying to kill Gu Yuan to punish him for mocking her poor skills just now.
Gu Yuan was lithe and agile. Although he was still lingeringly scared about not dodging an arrow, luckily he hadn't been hit.
"Hey, miss! Why are you only targeting me?" Gu Yuan gasped as he ran. His boots were filled with snow, making his feet feel as heavy as lead.
"Because you mocked me! I'm going to kill you today!" The female tomb robber roared, threw away her backpack, and sped up to chase after Gu Yuan.
Officer Xiao slowed down his running pace and winked at Gu Yuan, signaling him to keep leading the female tomb robber on, while he and the others would trap her like a turtle in a jar.
When Liu Shicheng and the other two tomb robbers caught up with Xu Qingqing and the others, Liu Shicheng's face was twisted with rage. He squatted down and tried to turn over Lu Chuanbai, who was lying on the ground.
But Liu Shicheng didn't expect that Lu Chuanbai rolled on the ground with Xu Qingqing in his arms, dodging his hand.
"You were faking it!" Liu Shicheng cursed, watching the two of them rolling around in the snow.
Lu Chuanbai quickly rolled out of the range where the wooden cage would fall. Meanwhile, the ox guide, who had already run behind the banyan tree and was holding the pull - rope of the mechanism, pulled the trigger of the wooden cage.
A two - meter - high and two - meter - long square wooden cage quickly fell from the treetop.
The whistling sound of the wind above made Liu Shicheng and the other two tomb robbers look up. Liu Shicheng's body reacted faster than his mind. He rolled on the spot, barely dodging the wooden cage, his body covered in snow.
His two companions were not so lucky. They were trapped inside the wooden cage and couldn't get out.
"Damn it!"
Liu Shicheng spat out the melted snow in his mouth and struggled to get up from the ground.
He never expected that the situation, where he had been chasing Xu Qingqing and the others just now, would suddenly reverse.
Now he was alone, facing Xu Qingqing and the others.
Lu Chuanbai helped Xu Qingqing up and carefully patted the snow off her body. He asked worriedly, "Are you hurt?"
Xu Qingqing shook her head. Apart from some snow in her clothes, she was fine.
Liu Shicheng, trudging through the snow with red - rimmed eyes, stared at the two of them as if nothing had happened. He roared and rushed at Lu Chuanbai.
"You two lovers planned this trap here earlier, so you deliberately led me here! I'll kill you, kill you!"
The anger in Liu Shicheng's body reached its peak. He forcefully pushed Lu Chuanbai to the ground and grabbed his neck with both hands.
Lu Chuanbai was no pushover either. He grabbed Liu Shicheng's neck with his hands as well.
Neither of them would give in, and they rolled on the ground.
Xu Qingqing dug out her hiking stick from the snow and wanted to hit Liu Shicheng.
But Liu Shicheng and Lu Chuanbai were so entangled that Xu Qingqing was worried that she might accidentally hurt Lu Chuanbai, so she just ran behind the rolling two.
Gradually, more and more snow stuck to Lu Chuanbai and Liu Shicheng, forming a huge, long snowball.
"Liu Shicheng, you're already surrounded by our people. Stop resisting! Surrender obediently and try to get lenient treatment!"
Xu Qingqing reached out to pull Liu Shicheng's body, trying to pull him off Lu Chuanbai.
But Liu Shicheng's legs tightly clamped around Lu Chuanbai's waist. He held Lu Chuanbai down with one hand and grabbed Xu Qingqing's hair with the other.
"You're a man, but you pull a woman's hair. Aren't you ashamed?"
Xu Qingqing dodged and tucked her hair behind her ears, but Liu Shicheng still grabbed her collar.
Seeing that Xu Qingqing was involved in their fight, Lu Chuanbai struggled hard and pinned Liu Shicheng to the ground.
Lu Chuanbai intended to save Xu Qingqing, but unexpectedly, this action made Xu Qingqing fall down as Liu Shicheng, who was holding her collar, pulled her.
The three of them were entangled in a mess, their arms and legs knotted together as they rolled in the snow.
Just as Xu Qingqing desperately pulled out her hand and tried to escape, the next moment they fell into a cave.
Xu Qingqing's vision went black, and then she felt dizzy. A strong sense of weightlessness swept over her.
Lu Chuanbai tightly hugged Xu Qingqing, using his body as a cushion for her. He covered Xu Qingqing's head with his big hand.
The three of them fell to the bottom of the cave.
Liu Shicheng suffered the most. He became the cushion for the other two and was half - dead from the impact. He couldn't even get up from the ground.
Xu Qingqing and Lu Chuanbai ignored Liu Shicheng's condition and looked around to see where they had fallen.
The cave was bigger than Xu Qingqing had expected. There was a small path inside, and it was unclear where it led.
Xu Qingqing looked up at the cave entrance, which was about four or five meters high. In this desolate and harsh environment, there was no phone signal.
She couldn't call Wang Lide and the others for help.
Xu Qingqing tried to climb up the cave wall, but after only a few steps, she fell heavily. She said anxiously, "What should we do? We can't be trapped here forever."
When Wang Lide and the others found out that she and Lu Chuanbai were missing, they would surely be very worried.
"We have to find a way out."
Xu Qingqing frowned and tried to jump up, but it was no use.
"Maybe I should lift you up." Lu Chuanbai directly picked Xu Qingqing up and held her above his head.
Xu Qingqing was lifted high and stretched out her hand as hard as she could, but there was still a distance to the cave entrance.
"This method won't work. Cross it off."
Xu Qingqing slid down from Lu Chuanbai dejectedly. She turned to look at Liu Shicheng, who was groaning on the ground, and kicked him hard to vent her anger.
"I told you to surrender quickly, but you just wouldn't listen. Now we've all fallen into this cave!"
"Let me tell you, if the rescue team doesn't come and we run out of food, I'll cook you!"
Xu Qingqing threatened Liu Shicheng fiercely. She wanted to persuade him again, but seeing his painful expression, she believed it was real.
Xu Qingqing didn't have the habit of bullying the sick. She just glared at Liu Shicheng again and then looked into the dark corner.
There was a small door that could allow one person to pass through.
"Where does this path lead? Could it be the exit?"
Xu Qingqing took out her flashlight from her pocket and shone it into the small door. She found that there was still a way at the end of the path.
An idea popped into Xu Qingqing's mind, but she couldn't believe that by such a coincidence, they had accidentally entered Yang Tianfu.
Xu Qingqing wrapped the rope of the flashlight around her wrist one more time and finally decided to go in and take a look.
"Just do as I say. The mud won't even be afraid of the rain."
Xu Qingqing happily held the flashlight above her head. The snow - white light spot danced around in the cave.
"Maybe this is Yang Tianfu inside. Should we go in and take a look?"
Unexpectedly, the Yang Tianfu they had been searching for so hard had appeared in such a coincidental way.