The boss of a foreign organization called the police, claiming that he was defrauded by me

This kind of thing should be left to the guards.

Now, when I come back, there is not even a single person to be found. It must be that I was too lenient with them on a normal day, which is why they act so mindlessly.

Yang Xia didn't think so. He felt that this matter was a bit strange, so he said to everyone: "Look at the surrounding environment here, isn't it a little too beautiful?"

It is no exaggeration to say that this place is a paradise on earth.

"Indeed, these minerals look like colorful diamonds, but in this place, I don't think that's a good thing."

Luo Xun expressed his thoughts.

As soon as he got ashore, he realized that something was wrong.

It's so beautiful that it's outrageous.

Meng Yin was a bit rough, and didn't observe as carefully as they did. She asked in confusion, "Those guys wouldn't just run off to enjoy the scenery because the things here are pretty, and ignore us, right?"

Yang Xia smiled faintly and said, "They probably don't have the courage yet."

Luo Xun also felt that what he said made sense. Now that the person was missing, he might have encountered some danger.

"Let's go inside and see if we can find them."

Yang Xia led the two of them towards the brightly lit area.

But after walking for a short distance, it was as if we were back to square one.

Meng Yin was full of doubts: "Did we take the wrong road?"

Luo Xun nodded thoughtfully: "Looking at this situation, I think we went the wrong way."

Yang Xia also stopped where he was and didn't take another step forward.

It’s not so much that they took the wrong path, but rather that they didn’t choose the right direction from the beginning.

There are only two roads here, one with bright light and one with dark light.

Most people would choose the road with brighter light so that they can feel more at ease. Few people would choose the road with darker light.

But if they take the brightly lit path, they will only return to where they started, so they can only take the dimly lit path.

Yang Xia gritted his teeth and led them forward.

But as he walked, he felt as if there was a suction force on his feet, pulling his shoes little by little, making it impossible for him to move forward.

And the suction was getting stronger and stronger. Yang Xia turned on the flashlight and used the light to see what was under his feet. It seemed to be a ball of black mucus.

The slime was all over their shoes, but it was colorless and odorless, so they didn't notice it at first.

It was not until later when I could no longer walk that I realized there was this stuff on my feet.

Luo Xun felt extremely disgusted and couldn't help but cover his mouth and said in a muffled voice: "What the hell is this? It's too disgusting."

Meng Yin couldn't bear to look at it: "It's really disgusting, and the stickiness is very strong. I think I have enough strength, but it feels very strenuous to walk on it."

Every step I took felt like the soles of my shoes were about to get stuck to me. It was such a difficult feeling.

Even walking in ice water wouldn't be as difficult as it is now.

Yang Xia looked ahead, gritted his teeth and said, "Just bear with it for now, maybe there is a way out ahead."

They had no choice but to keep moving forward.

After all, the other road is blocked, so this is the only way left, and they have no right to be picky.

When they reached the middle, Yang Xia was already sweating profusely. The three of them were breathing heavily, feeling that their strength was almost exhausted.

Luo Xun's back was soaked with sweat, and he felt like he could wring out water if he took off his clothes. He couldn't help but complain: "Damn, this place is really not a place for people to stay. I don't know where this thing came from, and why is it so sticky?"

When he asked this, Yang Xia immediately felt alarmed.

He suddenly looked up and saw that the rock wall was clean. Not only was there no black slime dripping, there was not even a drop of clean water.

So we can rule out one possibility: this stuff didn't drip from above.

Yang Xia looked at the thing under his feet again, and there seemed to be traces of scars.

He couldn't help swallowing, feeling as if he had provoked something that shouldn't have been provoked.

Meng Yin felt that it was difficult to breathe: "My lord, the road ahead is getting narrower and narrower. Is there really a way out?"

He was not doubting, he really felt that breathing was too difficult.

I felt short of oxygen at the beginning and thought I would find a more spacious place at the end, but the further I went in, the harder it became to breathe.

Yang Xia didn't say anything, but just kept walking forward.

After walking for a while, the mucus under my feet became heavier and heavier, and I could hardly walk upright normally.

Yang Xia turned around and said to the two people behind him, "I suspect there is a large beast here. The slime under our feet might be from it. We may have entered its cave. Be quiet when we leave later."

This was just his suspicion and there was no solid evidence.

But it is better to be safe than sorry. If I don't tell them in advance, with Mengyin's noisy personality, I might get into unnecessary trouble.

Yang Xia was more worried about the Imperial Guards and the Imperial Bodyguards.

"Hi~"

"Didn't the king tell us not to make any noise?" Meng Yin couldn't help but ask when he heard the voice coming from behind.

Luo Xun shook his head innocently: "I didn't make any sound!"

Mengyin's heart skipped a beat and an ominous premonition came to his mind.

Yang Xia was the first to come to his senses. He looked up suddenly and saw a dark shadow blocking his retreat route.

That thing had a pair of huge eyes, like two red lanterns, staring straight at them, giving people goose bumps.

It kept spitting out the core from its mouth, and the mucus on its body dripped down "pat", gathering on the ground to form a small black stream.

Yang Xia yelled at the top of his lungs: "Run!"

Several people ran forward desperately. It was already difficult to walk in this place, and running was even more difficult.

But when people are at the critical moment of life and death, the desire to survive will always burst out, and several people ran so fast with their pants held up.

The big snake behind was chasing closely, but the space here was narrow and its speed was no match for the humans in front.

Yang Xia finally saw the light of hope ahead, and jumped out with the people behind him.

They landed on a huge "cloth". Upon closer inspection, it was more like a shed snake skin than a cloth.

It turns out that there was so much mucus on the ground because the snake took advantage of the narrowness of the cave entrance to shed its skin here.

However, this snake has been dormant in this place for many years and has completely mutated, causing the mucus it sheds to be dark black and extremely sticky.

The moment the snake's head popped out, Meng Yin tightly gripped the knife in his hand and chopped it without hesitation.

He had great internal strength, and with this one strike of the sword, he chopped off half of the snake's head.

I thought the snake was doomed, but it unexpectedly hovered in the air and fell from the top of the cave in an extremely weird and twisted posture. It hung half of its head, still with its bloody mouth wide open, trying to swallow the humans in front of it.

Luo Xun would not give it this chance. He swung the sword in his hand and chopped off the remaining half of the snake's head.

The snake head struggled a few times on the ground, its eyes wide open, and its twisting body raised up clouds of dust.

It kept squirming, obviously unwilling to die like this.

In order to protect Yang Xia's safety, Luo Xun chopped the snake several times in succession and finally got rid of it completely.

After the danger was resolved, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Meng Yin's face was gloomy, and his eyes were fixed on the snake's belly: "Could it be possible that all our brothers were eaten by it?"

Yang Xia sensed that he was immersed in sorrow, and hurriedly comforted him, "It's impossible. The snake's stomach can't hold so many people."

The snake's stomach is flat, and you can tell at a glance that it hasn't eaten yet.

What's more, a third-rank sword-bearing guard will not be bullied at will and will definitely find a way to save himself.

Meng Yin was relieved: "We don't know where they went, and they didn't even inform us. It's really worrying."

"It seems there is no signal in this cave."

Luo Xun said on the side.

Maybe because of the special structure here, there is no signal at all in the cave.

There is probably no way to contact those missing people.

Yang Xia looked around. The place was large, but the things placed around it were creepy.

He saw huge snake eggs one after another, about two meters high. He looked back at the snake, which was only about ten meters long.

So that snake was not an adult snake at all, it was just a baby snake.

The broken eggshell next to it indicates that this snake was the first to break out of the shell and just shed its skin directly.

This growth rate is simply amazing. Normally, snakes shed their skin once a year, but this snake shed its skin as soon as it came out of the eggshell.

There are at least hundreds of snake eggs here. If they all hatched, the snake would probably just spit out enough saliva to drown the three of them.

Luo Xun cursed out loud: "Fuck, are you kidding me? Why are there so many snake eggs suddenly appearing?"

Meng Yin was also worried, especially when he saw the broken eggshells next to him: "If I'm not mistaken, the remaining eggshells will break one after another, and the snakes inside will crawl out."

Then the three of them would be in danger.

It took them a lot of effort to kill just one baby snake, let alone dealing with so many at once.

If the noise of the fight attracted the old mother over, the three of them would not be enough to fill her teeth.

It doesn’t matter what happens to the two of them, but nothing must happen to Yang Xia.

"I'll escort you away right now."

Mengyin drew his sword and became extremely alert, determined not to make even the slightest mistake.

"Let's go down this path on the right."

Yang Xia deliberately avoided the snake eggs and tried not to disturb them.

Just hoping to leave quietly. Just when a few people were about to leave, a rustling sound suddenly came from the cave entrance on the right.

Just when a few people were about to attack, the group of people who had disappeared before hurried over and knelt on the ground.

"I am late in protecting you, please punish me, Your Majesty."

The leader knelt on the ground, waiting for punishment.

Yang Xia raised his hand and motioned for everyone to stand up. Considering the current situation, he lowered his voice and asked, "Have you found another way out?"

The leader shook his head. It was really embarrassing to talk about this matter. Not to mention finding a way out, they almost couldn't find the way back.

Meng Yin was filled with anger, and now he finally found a place to vent. He couldn't help but question these people: "How did you protect the king? Instead of waiting here, where did you go?"

The leader is called Yuan Feng, and he is also considered a backbone member.

He lowered his head and said with a guilty look, "We were waiting here when we heard some noise. We happened to run into a big snake and wanted to get rid of it in advance to prevent it from hurting the king."

"What happened next?" Meng Yin asked relentlessly.

Yuan Feng lowered his head even lower: "Then the snake threw me off and I got lost in that place and couldn't find the way out. We heard some noise over here, so we rushed over with the mentality of giving it a try."

Each of them is a master, and in terms of fighting power, they are no worse than that giant snake.

But he was only thinking about rushing forward, without leaving any way for himself to retreat, and even forgot the way he came.

In other words, if they hadn't heard the noise over here, they would still be wandering around there and wouldn't be able to find their way back.

Yuan Feng knelt on the ground again with a plop, thinking that this was all his fault: "It was my fault that I failed in my duty and was played around by that beast. Please punish me, Your Majesty."

Yang Xia frowned, asked him to stand up, and said, "Now is not the time to pursue responsibility. Since that road is blocked, let's go another way. Move as gently as possible and don't disturb the snakes here."

He always had a bad feeling in his heart, always feeling that the snake eggs would hatch at any time.

After hearing his words, everyone subconsciously looked at the densely packed snake eggs.

They felt goosebumps all over their bodies. If all these snakes broke out of their shells, they would not be able to cope with them.

There were many more snakes than them, and each of them had to deal with one snake. Given the size of the snakes, they had no chance of winning.

We had to leave this damn place before these snakes hatched.

Yang Xia led them to another road. Without the black slime, they moved very fast and soon they cleared the road.

Compared to the previous places, this place looks much safer.

"My lord, what do you see over there?" Luo Xun suddenly pointed to the corner and felt his scalp tingling.

Yang Xia looked in the direction he pointed and saw a huge snake coiled in the corner.

The entire corner was filled with snake bodies, and the snake head was hidden deep in the corner.

The reason why Luo Xun was able to discover it was because his hearing was different from that of ordinary people. The snake's breathing sound was extremely weak, but he could hear it clearly.

It turned out that they had broken into a snake's lair, and the big snake coiled above their heads was the mother of those snake eggs.

The snake seemed unaware of them and was in a deep sleep.

Yang Xia made a gesture to keep quiet, and slowly retreated with the people behind him.

They came to the snake eggs again and planned to start from another route.

"Crack!"

A crisp sound made everyone's heart skip a beat.

Looking in the direction of the sound, they saw a snake breaking out of its shell, with black mucus dripping from its body and a pair of eyes staring straight at them. (End of this chapter)