Full health is the kill threshold, no matter if you're a god or a demon!

Although the giant blast destroyed a lot of vines, the huge noise it generated caused these vines to "absorb" the sound and grow wildly, becoming even more lush than before they were destroyed!

Liu Nian frowned. This thing... can't we deal with it using weapons and skills that make sounds?

That's troublesome. What kind of skill is being used without any sound?

His unstoppable momentum, his deliberate punch, his Heavenly Punishment Leap, his Dragon Seal of Ten Thousand Boundaries... every single one of them was a thunderous roar...

Just then, the thick fog dissipated, and Liu Nian was astonished to find that the glowing fruits had actually detached from the vines and were slowly drifting towards them!

"Damn it!" Liu Nian immediately ordered someone to cast a wind spell to blow the wind towards the other side!

We can't let that thing come over, otherwise even he won't be able to withstand it and will inexplicably explode, and the other players will be even worse off!

I was hoping to see if there was anything good hidden inside these vines, but it seems that's not going to happen now.

Let's try to destroy it directly!

Liu Nian immediately ordered the mages in his group to step forward and prepare various spells to deal with the situation.

Experiments revealed that fire magic is very effective against this thing, and ice magic can also effectively stop its growth.

Let's just give it a hot and cold combination!

The mage party was divided into three teams.

One team of Ice Mages, one team of Fire Mages, and one team of Wind Mages.

First, the ice mage team freezes them, then the fire mage scorches them, and finally the wind mage blows fire, smoke, and poisonous gas towards the other side...

The efficiency is not slow.

Liu Nian didn't let everyone follow forward. Anyway, there weren't any monsters to kill for the time being, and burning vines didn't give experience points, so Liu Nian simply let the others go into the giant's belly.

He and Shi Ri were there to keep watch, just in case.

Various blazing flames exploded in front of the mage team, advancing along the passage. Wherever they passed, vines twisted violently, leaves curled, and stems crackled, producing a series of popping sounds.

The fruits were baked by the high temperature, cracked, and the gas they emitted was directly evaporated by the high temperature.

Then a strong wind blew by, and apart from the pipes being burned black, the whole thing looked as clean as a unclogged sewer.

The three groups of mages took turns casting spells and advancing. After traveling about two kilometers, a landslide occurred ahead.

The pipe was blocked, exposing the mountain and mudslide from one side of the landslide.

The vines seemed to have come from this direction, and a large number of skeletons were exposed on the ground.

Upon seeing the shape of the skeleton, Liu Nian realized it was clearly the skeleton of a caveman.

It's unclear whether the cave dwellers were caught and dragged in by these vines to become nourishment, or whether this place was originally a cave dweller's nest that was taken over by the vines.

Liu Nian showed Kal'tsit the pipe diagram. Kal'tsit glanced at the collapsed area and said, "If this isn't a good spot, we can try turning to the left and going this way, into this room, and then finding this ventilation shaft. If that doesn't work, we'll have to find a way to dig through this collapsed area, or blast through the pipes at this corner to get in..."

Kal'tsit offered several options, and Liu Nian thought for a moment before saying:

"Let's try going to the left first!"

The group continued forward, but Kal'tsit glanced back and her expression was not good.

"President, more have grown in the back!"

Liu Nian didn't turn around. He knew it would turn out this way. The roots of this thing were deep underground; unless the roots were dug out, it would never burn out.

"It's alright, we won't be coming back anyway, so let's just keep moving forward."

The group advanced a little further when Wang Mian suddenly said, "Liu Nian, come and see, there's something up ahead!"

Liu Nian took two steps forward and found that there was a fork in the road ahead. The two passages branched off diagonally, forming a Y-shape with the passage where they were currently standing.

One side was crowded with vines, just like the one they had passed through before, while the other side was a very regular square tunnel.

Its four walls are made of some kind of dark gray metal plate with a smooth, mirror-like surface, and the welds at the joints are so straight that they look as if they have been measured with a ruler.

The tunnel is about three meters high and two meters wide, and every metal plate is exactly the same size—this is a level of precision that cannot be achieved by hand, but by machinery and assembly line precision.

The strangest thing is the vines.

The vines crowded the passage on the left, densely filling every inch of space, like countless hungry snakes writhing.

But at the entrance to the square tunnel on the right, the vines stopped abruptly, not a single one crossing the line, not even a single one attempting to extend a tendril. The invisible dividing line was as clear as if cut by a knife, sharply separating the two worlds.

"Is there anything in that tunnel?" King Wu asked in a low voice.

Liu Nian looked at Shi Ri, but before Shi Ri could answer, everyone suddenly heard a faint sound coming from the depths of the tunnel, a very, very faint metallic clanging sound, dense and numerous, like countless tiny claws crawling on a metal plate.

The sound was getting closer.

Then, red dots of light appeared in the darkness, like tiny LED lights, shining densely in the darkness.

The points of light merged together, like a red river flowing from the depths of the tunnel.

Only when they entered the area illuminated by the stark white light did everyone realize what they were.

spider.

The spiders were pure black, each as big as a cat.

Their bodies have a matte metallic texture that doesn't reflect light, as if it absorbs it. Their eight legs are long and sharp, with barbs at the ends, and their heads are hemispherical armor plates with a pair of red optical lenses embedded in them—those dots of light are emitted by the lenses.

They surged out of the tunnel like a black tide, silently covering the tunnel entrance. But they did not cross the invisible dividing line; they simply stopped inside the line, and the red cameras all turned towards the crowd.

There was no attack, just observation.

Without Liu Nian's orders, the players did not rashly launch an attack.

Liu Nian simply told the players to stop.

The situation has now become a three-way standoff.

The vines, the player, and the spider are locked in a standoff.

"Liu Nian, what should we do?" Yun Xiangrong's voice was very low.

"Wu Zhan," Liu Nian pointed at the spider, "throw a grenade into the tunnel."

Wu Zhan was stunned for a moment, then understood what Liu Nian meant: he wanted to make noise.

He pulled out Dr. Boom's Generosity automatic resupply grenade canister, took out a grenade, and threw it over!

The grenade arced through the air and fell into the tunnel. Just before it hit the spider swarm, a spider suddenly opened its mouth and fired a short beam at the grenade.

"boom--!!!"

A deafening explosion erupted in the tunnel, and the shockwave, carrying debris, spread in all directions.

The next second, the vines went berserk!