Explore Changbai Mountain

Chapter 337

"Ah..." A scream came from the direction deep in the tree hole. Although the cry was not too loud and sounded far away, in this quiet tree hole, Chen Ziyang and Yang Lei both I still heard the cry clearly.

"Er Yang, can you hear who is shouting?" Yang Lei asked while holding a tree root with one hand and covering his buttocks with the other.

"I didn't hear clearly, but it seems that something happened up front. How are you doing? Can you hold on?"

"It's okay, it doesn't hurt too much now, the thorn is not too long, and I didn't hurt any fatal parts, let's hurry up and move forward."

Although Chen Ziyang was a little worried about Yang Lei, he had checked Yang Lei's injuries. The spike was not too thick, and Yang Lei's injuries were just scratches. At most, he would bleed a little more. There was definitely no danger to his life. of.

"Then I've wronged you, we've delayed for too long, let's go now." Seeing that there was nothing worth wasting time around, Chen Ziyang pulled Yang Lei along, and continued with full of doubts walk forward.

Although the two hoped to quickly catch up with Instructor Liu, the environment of the tree hole did not allow them to do so.Even if the two of them put all their attention on the spikes of the surrounding roots, the speed of the two of them is still not much faster.

Especially now that Yang Lei is still injured, in order to avoid tearing the wound, he dare not do too strenuous exercise, and with the lessons learned from the team doctor, the two of them don't want to fall on these grounds because of a momentary carelessness. The spike becomes a colander.So the two of them can only increase their speed as much as they can, and seek speed while being steady.

After walking through the tree hole for a while, Chen Ziyang stopped, wanting to wait for Yang Lei, who was left behind due to his limited mobility, to catch up.As he moved forward, he kept silently counting the steps he took in his heart.So far, the two of them have walked a certain distance, but they still haven't seen instructor Liu and Xiao Ren.Chen Ziyang felt that something was wrong.

Although the previous shout sounded far away, in this twisted tree hole, the sound will be greatly weakened when it is transmitted, so that means that the two people should not be far away from the place where the sound came from. It's too far away, but why haven't I seen anyone after walking for so long.

Turning around, Chen Ziyang stared at Yang Lei who was staggering from behind. At this moment, he saw a black shadow flash past the edge of Yang Lei's flashlight, and disappeared into the darkness. .

This discovery made Chen Ziyang immediately raise his vigilance.Could it be that something like the black lizard shadow appeared again?But because there are branches and spikes protruding everywhere in this dark tree hole, whenever the flashlight moves, many black shadows will appear under the flashlight and move with the flashlight.He also couldn't figure out whether it was his eyes that were dazzled, or there was really something moving fast.

Although not very sure, Chen Ziyang still became careful.That black lizard shadow-like thing can suck the flesh and blood of seal spiders. I don't know if that strange creature is also interested in humans.

This kind of creature is very flat, not too big, and it moves very fast. If this kind of creature really crawls on him, Chen Ziyang feels that he has no good way to deal with it. I just don't know what method Liu instructor used to subdue this creature, and let this creature stay in his arm obediently.

At this time, Yang Lei, who followed up, ran a few steps in a hurry, came to Chen Ziyang and said, "Er Yang, look." After saying this, Yang Lei handed his hand to Chen Ziyang. , holding two plant spikes in his hands.

Seeing Yang Lei's excited expression and his actions, Chen Ziyang was taken aback, not understanding what Yang Lei meant.This kind of spikes are everywhere here, too many to count, why did Yang Lei let himself look at these two ordinary spikes?
Looking at these two spikes, Chen Ziyang, who was about to open his mouth to ask Yang Lei what he meant, suddenly understood.

"Where did you get this thing?" He asked in surprise.

Since the five people entered that strange passage, the roots of these plants and the spikes on the roots have been accompanied by everyone.

But from the beginning to the end, the roots of this plant and the spikes growing on the roots gave everyone the impression that they were very strong, just like stones.

Even when he was in the passage before, Yang Lei used his engineering shovel to slap a sharp thorn fiercely, trying to get it off, but he tried a lot but failed, which shows that the roots of these plants firm.

But now Yang Lei was holding two large spikes of plants in his hands, and they were not broken pieces, but two complete ones, which surprised Chen Ziyang very much.

"My legs and feet are not very good. Just now I accidentally tripped over a sharp thorn. I thought it was over for me this time. I would definitely trip over the sharp thorn and fall to the ground. It was a bloody hole, but what I didn't expect was that this spike was broken by my kick.

I was stunned at the time, you know how strong this kind of thorn grows, I thought why my strength suddenly became so strong, and I was able to break this kind of sharp thorn with one kick.But then I realized that it wasn't that my strength had grown, but that these spikes had become brittle.

So I kicked another spike, although the first kick didn't break it, but I felt that the spike moved obviously, so I kicked the second spike again. up. "

After listening to Yang Lei's words, Chen Ziyang quickly took the spike from his hand and looked at it carefully.The color of the spikes of these two plants is different from what I have seen before. It looks whiter and the gloss is much worse, just like dead branches.

The fracture below the two plant spikes was very uneven. Chen Ziyang touched the fracture, and he found that the fracture of the spikes was not as hard as he thought.

After dropping the two spikes, Chen Ziyang looked around, found a relatively isolated spike, and kicked it vigorously.

Although he didn't break the spike with his kick, Chen Ziyang saw that the spike was obviously crooked after he kicked it, so he mustered up his strength and kicked it for a second time. foot. There was a sound of "pop", and the spikes broke off in response.

If one or two of these spikes are so fragile occasionally, Chen Ziyang can understand, but Yang Lei kicked and broke two of them casually, and he chose one at random, and it was also broken by himself. It seems that in this area, the spikes growing on the roots of these plants are obviously much weaker.

Recalling the hollow tree root and the sawdust inside that he saw before, Chen Ziyang estimated that it is very likely that the roots of this piece of plant were all eaten by moths, which caused the roots to die long ago. Or it has lost its proper hardness.

Although the hardness of the spikes has weakened a lot, these spikes are still very strong, and it takes a lot of strength to break them, and they still pose a great threat to the two people.However, Chen Ziyang felt that this should be a good thing, which proved that the tree demon also had weaknesses, at least those moths who used to live here could restrain it.

"You still stick to it, do you want to take a break?" Putting down the spikes, Chen Ziyang began to care about Yang Lei. After all, for a person whose backyard flower has just been injured, walking such a long way should It's a bit overwhelming.

"It's okay, it's much better. This kind of exercise has strengthened a lot. Now I feel a little pain when I stop, and it's fine when I walk. It's okay, you don't need to worry about me, let's move on quickly. It might be too late.”

After nodding to Yang Lei, Chen Ziyang pulled him forward.There is no other way. After all, the two of them have been delayed for a long time. Although Yang Lei was injured, the injury is not too serious. At worst, let him suffer for a while, and let him recuperate when he goes back. .

After walking for a while, the two walked into a relatively large space following the sharp turn of the tree hole.After looking around with a flashlight, Chen Ziyang found that this place was very weird.

The surroundings of this space are still surrounded by tree roots, but the surrounding tree roots are all dilapidated, the roots have been damaged a lot, and there are traces of being eaten on all the sections.

The whole space feels like a tree hole has been dug out among the densely packed tree roots.Even the rocks in the gaps between the tree roots are exposed here.The ground of the space is covered with wood chips and black balls the size of black peanuts.

Chen Ziyang carefully observed the section of the tree root here, and he found that the traces of being eaten on the section of the root were exactly the same as the traces on the inner wall of the hollow trunk he saw before. There was a serious insect plague, and moths gnawed out such a space here.

Yang Lei grabbed a black ball on the ground, held it in his hand and looked at it carefully.After sniffing it close to his nose, Yang Lei crushed the black ball vigorously, and then he yelled: "Damn!" He hurriedly threw the crushed black ball aside, and at the same time quickly He shook his hand, and rubbed his fingers on his pants a few times.

"His grandma's, this black ball looks like some kind of feces, it makes me sick to death." Yang Lei said while shaking his hands.

stool!Chen Ziyang picked up one of these black balls, crushed it and looked at it carefully.As Yang Lei said, this should be the excrement of some kind of herbivore, because there is a very thick fiber structure in the excrement, which looks like a shriveled ball of sheep dung.

Looking at the feces the size of rat poop all over the floor, Chen Ziyang felt a chill down his spine.Judging from the size of these dung balls, the organisms that pull out these dung balls should be the size of mice, but there are countless dung balls all over the ground, plus they can eat such large dung balls from such hard tree roots. A space, which shows that the number of such creatures here has exceeded my imagination.

Fortunately, it can be judged from the dryness of the dung balls that these dung balls were pulled out a long time ago. It is very likely that these creatures have long ceased to live here, or have already died, Chen Zi Yang Cai relaxed slightly.

"What kind of creatures can live inside the dryad? Where did these creatures go?" Chen Ziyang thought in his heart.Thinking of the scene of countless rat-like things gnawing here and there, he felt a layer of goose bumps on his body.

Just when Chen Ziyang was praying in his heart that all these creatures were dead and he would not let him run into them, another scream came to the ears of the two of them.But this time the scream was much louder, and it sounded not far from where the two of them were.

This scream made the two people's hair stand on end. From the scream, Chen Ziyang could hear that the person who yelled was in great pain.But the shouting was soon over, and there was no other sound.

After the two looked at each other, they each picked up their weapons and continued to walk forward.The other end of this space is still the tree hole surrounded by plant roots, and the two of them plunged into it.

After walking dozens of steps, the two entered another space from the tree hole again.This space is similar to the previous space, but it seems to be slightly larger.

There are still many gnawed tree roots climbing around the space, and there is still a thick layer of sawdust and a large amount of excrement left by unknown creatures on the ground of the space.

As soon as he entered here, Chen Ziyang saw two strings of obvious footprints left on the ground made of sawdust and excrement.

The previous space was smaller, the wood chips and feces on the ground were not that thick, and most of the ground was still tree roots, so the two of them didn't notice any footprints left behind.

But the layer of sawdust and feces on the ground of this space is very thick, and has already covered up all the other tree roots, so these two series of footprints are clearly displayed in front of the two people.

Chen Ziyang knew that this should be left by Instructor Liu and Xiao Ren.As he ran forward, he observed carefully.

Chen Ziyang discovered that these two sets of footprints have a common feature, that is, the two people who left the footprints took very big steps. It seems that instructor Liu and Xiao Ren were very anxious when they passed by here before.

Finally seeing the traces left by instructor Liu and Xiao Ren, Chen Ziyang and Yang Lei quickly passed through this space and entered the tree hole.

In this way, after passing through four or five such spaces that were chewed out by unknown creatures, the two saw a person collapsed in another such space.

(End of this chapter)