Chapter 358 Something Is Approaching

There were still loud rumbling sounds coming from the ground, as if a group of evil beasts from the abyss were running wildly between the rocks and the soil. Lily lay beside the cave entrance and carefully lowered her head and glanced down. Her eyes flickered, but In the deep darkness, she could only see a vague shadow moving quickly: "It doesn't seem to be catching up... That thing doesn't seem to be able to turn."

With a fluttering sound, Vivian's group of bats re-consolidated into human form. She threw a small bat at the entrance of the cave to get a closer look. The small bat burst out with a burst of lightning below. At that moment, Vivian Both Lili and Lili saw the following situation clearly: the huge "tentacles" were still extending forward, and the rough brown-black skin was flashing rapidly at the bottom of the shaft. Even with Lili's super werewolf vision, she couldn't see the details clearly. However, this tentacle seemed unable to sense the situation above the shaft, and just blindly chased forward. Or maybe, as Lily said, this thing couldn't turn.

After a while, the tentacle finally stopped moving forward. It seemed to have reached the end of the tunnel. After a moment of hesitation, it began to slowly shrink back, leaving only a slightly enlarged and smoother and complete rock path along the way. tunnel.

The two of them breathed a sigh of relief. Lily sat down on the ground and patted her chest with her hands: "It seems that she has retreated. I'm scared to death..."

Then she rubbed her eyes again and looked at Vivian with a slight complaint: "The brightness of your lightning strike was too high, and the dog's eyes were almost blinded."

Vivian had no idea whether the second half of Lily's sentence was an exaggeration or an ordinary statement...

"What the hell is that?" Lily sat on the ground for a while and then quickly got up. She dusted herself off and looked at Vivian curiously, "You are well-informed, have you ever seen such a thing? ?”

Vivian shook her head: "I haven't seen it before. At first glance, it looks a bit like an underground creature, maybe the tentacles of a giant creature, but its skin doesn't look like an animal... it looks a bit like a plant, wrinkled Damn it. It’s a pity that the situation was too chaotic and I couldn’t see clearly. But I got some samples——”

As she spoke, she raised her hand to show a large piece of black material. It turned out that when she jumped up, she separated part of the bat and tore some tissue samples from the surface of the tentacles. Lily immediately moved closer with interest. Her eyes sparkled under the light of two silver moons. The details of the black tissue were clearly distinguishable in the moonlight: it had a wrinkled surface and was covered with cracks that looked like dry bark. The same uniform cracks, hard edges, but overall flexibility. Vivian turned it over, and the two of them saw that the back of the tissue sample had strange lines, which were quite characteristic of plants.

"It really looks like a plant, and it smells like it," Lily sniffed, "Well, it definitely doesn't smell like meat. What did you think of, bat?"

Vivian turned her head and looked at the Twisted Woodland not far away, thoughtfully: "...It is said that the Twisted Woodland has a larger main body underground, which is a group of root systems that spread to the center of the Blood Lake and the depths of the Dragon's Back Mountains. ...According to the location here and the shape of the tentacle just now...could it be several of the Twisted Woodland?!"

Lily suddenly felt hairy all over her body: "It's nothing, right! Can tree roots run and chase people?"

Vivian put the black matter away and turned towards the twisted forest: "It's just a guess, but the possibility is very high. There is no shortage of strange and weird things in this world. This forest has given me a strange feeling from the beginning. , I don’t believe it’s just a simple plant…”

Lily followed Vivian in two steps: "What are you going to do? You're not going to dig a hole in the forest to verify it, are you? What if those tentacles are dug out again?"

Vivian shook her head: "Of course I won't take this risk. I just want to see if those trees are the same material as the 'black skin' on my hand."

She was silent for a moment while thinking about it and said to Lily: "In addition, don't you think it's strange? We assume that the tentacles are the roots of the twisted forest, but according to local legend, these underground roots are in very deep places. People even think that it is just a fairy tale - they have lived here for hundreds of thousands of years and have not been attacked by such tentacles. The only sighting report was when a group of dwarves dug too deep into the mountains and encountered a suspected There are several things, and there is no definite evidence in that report..."

Although Lily has a temperamental personality, her brain is not slow at all: "Are you saying that these tentacles or tree roots have only recently moved to the shallow level?"

Vivian nodded seriously: "The Twisted Woodland has grown here for ten thousand years. The tentacles just now - whether they are tree roots or not - should be quite ancient creatures, but the ones in the Beinz area Residents have never encountered it, which means that the thing has been living deep underground, but the tunnel under the outpost is only ten meters deep from the surface... I suspect that this kind of tentacle is preparing to come to the surface."

Lily broke into a cold sweat and had goosebumps all over her body: "Hey - I kind of want to go home! This sounds so scary!"

"You haven't seen anything scarier than this. In the age of mythology, there were many monsters that challenged the three concepts. How dare you be scared to death in that era?"

"Who said that! You can't underestimate the courage of a werewolf! I just feel a little sick."

"Let go of your tail when you say this, and you have the nerve to be so confident when you walk with your tail between your legs..."

The two of them drifted away noisily, and not long after they left, the sound of rapid horse hooves suddenly came from the other direction.

A group of heavily armed church knights and church mages rode to the ruins of the outpost. They were sentry troops patrolling the surrounding area at night. These soldiers dismounted outside the camp and walked cautiously into the ruins of the outpost. Someone was talking to others: "The movement just came from this direction..."

"It sounds like it's coming from underground...haven't those stone monsters learned how to dig holes?"

"Goddess has mercy, I don't know if monsters can punch holes. Someone must have punched a hole in your brain!"

Suddenly a sentry shouted from the front: "There is a tunnel here!"

The warriors hurriedly gathered together and discovered the shaft Lily had left behind.

The captain of this small sentinel force thought for a while beside the shaft and named two soldiers: "Jefferson, Homan, you go down with me."

In the sky, two cold silver moons still hung high. The blood-colored red spots on the main moon looked down at the earth like a bloodshot and indifferent eye, looking down at the tiny creatures crawling on the earth, until a dark cloud floated over and covered the earth. The bloody eye was covered.

The moonlight dimmed, and Hao Ren looked up at the sky: "Dark clouds are coming up, it might rain."

Nangong Wuyue was immediately very happy: "It's raining, it's raining, it's raining~~"

"Shh-" Hao Ren suddenly pressed Nangong Wuyue's mouth, "There is a cave ahead."

Between the stone walls not far ahead, a cave entrance cleverly hidden by the surrounding rocks appeared in front of them. If his powers of observation hadn't been greatly enhanced, Hao Ren would have almost ignored the irregularities in the rocks. Nangong Wuyue immediately increased his vigilance and slid silently on the ground as he approached the cave entrance with Hao Ren.

A cold and slightly fishy strange wind blew intermittently from the cave. Nangong Wuyue subconsciously opened a water mist barrier to block these strange winds: "There is an evil atmosphere inside."

Hao Ren glanced at the Siren in surprise: "How do you know it's an evil aura?"

"It's more touching to say it this way!" Nangong Wuyu put his hands on his hips, and then stuck out his tongue, "Okay, it's hereditary. Although I am a siren, my dad at least gave me a sixth sense. I think this There’s nothing good going on in there.”

Hao Ren shrugged and walked ahead: "Hurry up, the progress bar can't hold it anymore."

The cave was deeper than expected. What Hao Ren saw after entering was a long cave that extended to an unknown location. The cave walls on both sides were neat and smooth, with obvious traces of artificial excavation.

Obviously, he finally encountered a big secret.

The cave was twisted and twisted, with many twists and turns, but fortunately there were no troublesome forks or secret passages. Hao Ren and Nangong Wuyue walked inside for who knows how long when they suddenly noticed a light appearing in front of them.

It was just a torch stuck on the rock wall, but the light was enough to prove that someone was inside.