Chapter 473: Second Underground Floor

Wang Tao and his party arrived at the location Xiao Hei mentioned.

This is a place similar to a subway entrance. It is pitch dark below, and even Wang Tao cannot see clearly what is going on inside.

"What a deep tunnel, what a thick black mist..."

Wang Tao tried it, but he found that he couldn't control the black mist below from his position.

He didn't feel the dangerous aura that Xiao Hei mentioned.

So Wang Tao looked at Ling Ling, who called out to Wang Tao a few times, indicating that there was indeed danger below.

"It seems that my perception ability is not as good as that of animals..."

After Wang Tao thought for a moment, he said to the people behind him:

"I'll go down and take a look myself. You can explore on this level."

The area in the crack is very large. Wang Tao and the others have only explored a little bit, and there are still many places that have not been explored. But Wang Tao wanted to go down and see what was going on, so he prepared to separate from everyone.

"..."

The others looked at each other, a little uneasy. After all, the place below is unknown, and who knows what the situation will be... But if they follow Wang Tao, they might become a burden. After all, Wang Tao is already at the fifth level, and his strength far exceeds them...

"Okay, then you have to be careful! We won't hold you back..."

Ding Yuqin could only give this instruction.

"Don't worry, if there is any irresistible danger, I will naturally leave."

Wang Tao smiled and then said:

"Let Xiao Hei follow you, it can explore the way. Lightning follow me, and the corpses you hunt will be kept by Lightning..."

"good!"

Ding Yuqin nodded.

"And me?"

Jiang Shixue took the initiative to speak.

"You should also follow the main force, they need your night vision."

"good."

After Wang Tao explained a little, he immediately walked down with Ling Ling.

Anyway, he and Ding Yuqin have induction rings. Even if the radio fails to communicate, they can still communicate through the induction rings. If something happens to both parties, the other party can quickly provide support.

The reason why he brought lightning with him was naturally because lightning could make him stronger by devouring the lord's corpse. Along the way, lightning had swallowed many corpses, and there was a high probability that there were mutated plants underneath, so they couldn't waste them.

As Wang Tao gradually walked down, the black fog below became thicker and thicker, so thick that Wang Tao could no longer push it away as easily as before.

However, because Wang Tao has "dark attribute" and "night vision", even if he ignores the black fog, his eyes can still penetrate the black fog. Although the field of vision is not as far as on the first layer, it is enough.

After a while, Wang Tao finally arrived at the second underground floor.

He could vaguely feel some dangerous aura in it, and lightning made his hair explode.

Seeing this situation, Wang Tao felt that Lightning most likely smelled the breath of the fifth-level lord.

"Don't be afraid."

Wang Tao touched Ling Ling's head and used his mental power to communicate with Ling Ling for a while. Ling Ling said a few messages - "Fifth level, taste".

Sure enough, as Wang Tao guessed, Lightning discovered the fifth-level lord. It only has fourth-level lords now, and it is understandable to be afraid of fifth-level lords.

Wang Tao was not in a hurry to leave, but first tried to communicate with Ding Yuqin and the others by radio. As expected, the radio was unusable. Fortunately, the induction ring was within the distance. After learning that Ding Yuqin and the others were all fine through the induction ring, they began to walk deeper into the black mist.

The second underground layer is also made up of a large amount of rocks. Although they are not the kind of rocks in the stone forest, these rocks are much harder than ordinary rocks.

Other than that, it was just a bare area, and he didn't encounter any mutant plants or anything like that.

This left Wang Tao speechless. He thought that the second floor also had a large number of mutated plants like the first floor...

But soon, Lightning rubbed Wang Tao's hand with his head and told him that there was something in front of him.

Wang Tao walked over cautiously and slowly. After a moment, his eyes lit up. In his mental perception, he finally saw a mutated plant, and it was a fifth-level plant.

[HP: 300000/300000]

[Blue amount: 300000/300000]

[Level: Level 5·Lord]

[Awakening: Web of Thorns]

[Net of Thorns: Manipulate thorns to capture prey]

This is a very coquettish-looking giant flower. It grows quietly in a flat rock crevice, surrounded by a large number of dark green thorns like a spider web, guarding it in the middle.

The reason why it is said to be coquettish is because the mutant plants Wang Tao has seen since going down to the cave until now are either black or dark green, including the mutant morning glory he killed before, which was also dark green. But this huge flower is blood red. It is incompatible with other mutated plants.

Unlike the mutated morning glory, this mutated red flower doesn't seem to have very strong perception. When Wang Tao and Lightning arrived outside the thorns, it still didn't sense Wang Tao's arrival. If it were Trumpet Flower, it would have attacked Wang Tao long ago.

"I guess this thing is similar to a spider. These thorns growing on the ground are like its web. As long as I step into the range of the thorns, I will definitely be discovered..."

Wang Tao had no intention of confronting it head-on. Since he already had a long-range attack ability, he must give full play to his advantages.

So Wang Tao asked the lightning to stay away, and then his eyes glowed red, and two high-temperature rays were shot out immediately.

Sizzling——

The speed of the ray was extremely fast. The mutant red flower seemed to feel something, but it could not dodge at all and was hit instantly.

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In just about one second, the mutant red flower lost nearly 100,000 damage!

"Its defense is much weaker than the morning glory!"

But before Wang Tao could be happy, he saw countless thorns suddenly flying up from the ground and immediately blocked the high temperature ray. Although they died as many as they came, they did block the attack.

Just when Wang Tao was thinking about whether to fight the mutant flower for awakening energy, a warning bell suddenly sounded in his heart.

Wang Tao immediately jumped to the side, and a large net woven by thorns fell from the sky and landed at the place where he was just now.

Zila La-

Although the thorn net missed, the hard stone ground made a sizzling corrosion sound.

"Damn!"

After Wang Tao dodged this attack, more large nets appeared above his head, as if to catch him completely.

Without time to get angry, Wang Tao dodged again, and while dodging the attack, he looked at the mutant red flower. If he could look at it for a few more seconds, the mutant plant would die. But the huge mutant red flower in the distance disappeared, and even Wang Tao's mental power could not detect where it went.

"Gone?"

Looking at the thorn nets falling from the sky, Wang Tao immediately shook his head. The mutant plant must not have left, otherwise it would not be attacking him.

Looking at the increasing number of thorn nets, Wang Tao was not going to hide.

Swish——

A raging flame suddenly ignited on his body, and these thorn nets melted instantly after falling on him.

But these thorn nets still fell on Wang Tao like moths to a flame, including the thorns on the ground that also attacked Wang Tao.

Wang Tao stood still and ignored these attacks directly. He mobilized his mental power and carefully explored the surrounding environment. He wanted to find out where the mutant red flower was.

"Hmm?"

Suddenly, Wang Tao looked up, and two red high-temperature rays shot out from the flames, and the location of the shooting was the ceiling of the second floor!

As the high-temperature rays flew, a bright red flower finally appeared in Wang Tao's field of vision.

Zi——

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The mutant red flower was shot again for about a second, and another 100,000 blood was gone.

It twisted its body quickly, and Wang Tao saw it swimming on the ceiling like a snake, with a long rhizome connecting it to the ceiling.

"It's almost the same as the morning glory..."

The mutant red flower moved quite fast, and there were many sharp stalactites on the ceiling, giving the mutant red flower a shelter to hide. Even if Wang Tao's [Scorching Eye] had a fast attack speed, it couldn't always catch up.

So Wang Tao decided not to attack the mutant flower, but directly attack the root growing on the ceiling!

You can run away from the monk, but you can also run away from the temple?

Zi——

The high-temperature ray instantly hit the root of the mutant flower.

A moment later, the thick rhizome was finally burned off by the ray.

"Damn! This thing is really hard to burn!"

The time the ray burned the rhizome, if it was shot at the mutant red flower, it would be enough to kill it several times!

While Wang Tao was complaining in his heart, he vaguely heard a shrill scream, and then saw a huge red flower falling from behind a huge stalactite on the ceiling.

Bang——

The mutant red flower fell to the ground, and its blood volume did not decrease, but the flower wilted. At the same time, a [weak] state appeared under its blood bar.

Wang Tao rushed directly to the mutant red flower, and the thorns on the road were instantly ignited in large areas.

"Keep running?"

The mutant red flower has no facial features, but Wang Tao can feel a trace of tyranny and panic from the flower.

Without further ado, a sharp long knife appeared in Wang Tao's hand and he chopped at the mutant red flower.

Red Flower wanted to fight back, but it was no match for Wang Tao in a weak state. After a few slashes, its health bar was directly cleared. The thorn nets that were still rushing towards Wang Tao fell to the ground instantly.

Huh——

Wang Tao quickly put away the Sparkling Fire.

He took a look at his awakening energy and felt a little distressed. Sparkling Fire is a big energy consumer, and the Burning Eye also consumes a lot of energy. The two together just consumed 500 awakening energies!

Although Wang Tao has an upper limit of 6,000 awakening energies, 500 may not seem like much, but the problem is that the awakening energy automatically recovers very slowly, and it can only recover 100 in 24 hours... If Wang Tao does not use the awakening crystal core or energy bead, it will take five days for Wang Tao to replenish the energy. So Wang Tao still feels very distressed.

Of course, after killing the fifth-level lord, you will get 200 awakening energies, which is a small supplement for Wang Tao. If the mutant red flower could produce an awakening crystal core and awakening energy bead, it would be perfect...

Wang Tao called Lightning over to help him be on guard.

Before checking the spoils, Wang Tao looked up at the ceiling.

Wang Tao didn't know how thick the second and first floors were. From what he saw when he just came down, the second floor was very high, more than ten meters, but the ceiling itself was also quite thick, probably more than ten meters.

And it is not only thick, but also has high defense - Wang Tao just used a lot of high-temperature rays on the ceiling, but let alone penetrate the ceiling, the high-temperature rays could not penetrate deeply, just left a little mark.

"This thing is too hard, much harder than the stones in the stone forest..."

Wang Tao frowned.

Even his high-temperature rays can only leave some marks, so you can imagine the attacks of others. It is estimated that there is no way to penetrate the ceiling by force, so you can only find the correct entrance...

After checking again that there are no other dangers around, Wang Tao began to check the spoils.

The mutant red flower exploded a total of four physical spoils.

They are a red crystal core, a seed, a fist-sized thing as red as an apple, and the big red flower.

[Obtained: Level 5 Crystal Core·Spiritual Defense*1]

[Obtained: Magic Seed*1]

[Obtained: Growth Fruit*1]

[Obtained: Blood Red Flower*1]

No wonder the damage he inflicted on this mutant red flower was much higher than that on the mutant morning glory. It turned out that it had the ability of mental defense, which increased mental defense but reduced other defenses.

As for the magical seed, Wang Tao was a little surprised.

He had obtained a magical seed before, and his [Plant Affinity] ability was brought by that seed. Although this hidden attribute has now been squeezed out by the dark attribute, Wang Tao still felt a little emotional when he saw it again.

[Magical Seed: Planted in the soil, a mid-level monster will grow. Planted in the body, a hidden ability will be obtained]

Seeing the properties of the magical seed, Wang Tao suddenly had the idea of ​​planting it.

According to his experience, levels one, two, and three are low-level, and levels four, five, and six are mid-level. This seed says that it can grow mid-level monsters, so whether it is level four or level five, it is not Wang Tao's opponent. If you can grow a level 6...

Although Wang Tao has not fought a level 6 enemy since he was promoted to level 5, he was able to kill a level 5 enemy when he was level 4. Now that he is level 5, it is reasonable for him to kill a level 6 enemy.

However, Wang Tao was not sure. He put away the magical seeds first and studied them carefully after he got out.

Then Wang Tao looked at the next trophy.

[Growth Fruit: After eating, there is a 50% chance that the creature will be strengthened and a 50% chance that it will be poisoned to death]

"..."

Looking at this tempting fruit, Wang Tao was speechless.

This thing is a bit abnormal, there is a 50% chance that it will be directly poisoned to death!

Let alone a 50% chance, even if there is a 10% chance, I guess no one would dare to bet. After all, this is not a simple poisoning, but a direct death.

As for this strength improvement...If it is to simply increase the blood volume, it is completely unnecessary, but if it can make people awaken, maybe someone is willing to take a gamble.

It's a pity that this is too vague, and no one dares to bet.