Kunlan walked back and said, "I found a way, so do you want to continue discussing the first kiss, or come and take a look?"
Ji Yu had already carried her longbow and walked forward. After a few steps, she exclaimed, "This doesn't seem to be a man-made cave."
Hearing this, Cangdu raised his rifle and used the lighting accessory on the rifle to look around. This cave corridor was very different from the one they came from. The road surface of this cave passage in front of them was rugged and uneven, and the width varied greatly.
The widest area allows two people to walk side by side, but the narrowest area requires one to turn sideways to pass through.
There are water stains on the top of the cave, which seems to indicate that there is some underground water flowing through it, so the environment in the entire cave is relatively humid.
"This is a naturally formed cave, so if we're lucky, maybe we can reach underground directly." Kun Lan led the way in front. He seemed to be accustomed to this kind of environment. He was very comfortable when walking in the cave. He kept walking the whole time, so much so that the three people behind him almost lost him.
Cangdu whispered, "Could this little blue-haired creature have grown up underground?"
Tianyang also felt that Kunlan seemed to have a natural intuition about this kind of cave system, so it might not be surprising that he really grew up underground.
After a moment, Kunlan stopped. There was no road ahead of them, but under the blue-haired boy's feet, there was a winding tunnel that led to nowhere.
Tianyang threw a fluorescent stick down, and after the fluorescent stick collided with the stones in the tunnel, it finally stopped.
The cold light illuminated a tunnel that was more than ten meters deep, extending diagonally downwards, and twisting and turning like a goat intestine in the middle.
Kun Lan volunteered, "I'll go down first, and you guys can follow me. Be careful, don't climb too fast. Sometimes, when you miss a step, you will fall into a natural pit."
"If our luck gets worse, it might be a bottomless pit. Go deep underground and be awed."
After a few instructions, the blue-haired boy began to enter the tunnel. His movements were orderly and agile. Like a monkey, he arrived at the location of the fluorescent stick in the blink of an eye.
The next paragraph seemed to have a turning point. Kun Lan lowered his head and leaned forward, then disappeared into the tunnel.
Others climbed down one after another.
After Ji Yu and Cang Du went down the cave one after another, Tian Yang was responsible for covering their retreat. They traveled in this winding and undulating tunnel for nearly four or five hours.
At best, they could walk hunched over; at worst, they crawled like worms in narrow spaces.
After walking and stopping and resting for about ten times, when Kun Lan kicked away a stone that blocked the way in front of him, a cold wind suddenly blew in.
There was wind and it was cold, which meant they had come underground. And this place should be quite empty.
Kun Lan threw a fluorescent stick at the edge of the cave, and it quickly fell to the ground. It was not difficult to see in the cold light that they were less than three meters from the ground.
The blue-haired boy jumped down, but as soon as he landed, a red light suddenly appeared in front of his eyes.
He quickly lay down on the ground, and when he looked up, he saw a plant root not far away, crossing the open space.
On the oil barrel-thick rhizome, there were cocoons of all sizes. At this moment, all the cocoons on the rhizome lit up, emitting a crimson light, which dyed the entire space with a layer of blood for no reason.
In the cocoon bubble emitting blood-red glow, Kun Lan suddenly saw a large mass of liquid flowing through. In that mass of liquid,
There is half a human arm.
The arm was even wearing armor and gloves, and judging from the style, it seemed that it belonged to a soldier in the regular army.
Tianyang in the cave also saw the same scene: "These things again."
Ji Yu came to his side, and her falling hair gently brushed Tian Yang's face, making the boy feel a little itchy.
"Are these the strange plants you saw underground before?"
Tianyang nodded: "That's them."
"Look ahead." Cangdu pointed his hand into the darkness.
In the darkness that seemed like an eternal night, light began to shine. Pieces of red light rose one after another and formed the outline of a towering tree!
It was simply an ancient giant tree. Even from a long distance, one could still see its tall and straight figure.
Tianyang suddenly thought, could it be that those rhizomes are the roots of this tree
The roots alone are so thick and penetrate so deeply that they are probably spread all over the underground system.
So, it doesn't seem strange that such a tree is as tall as a building.
Kun Lan called softly from below: "Would you like to come with me to take a look, or stay here?"
Since they had come to the underground and found a ridiculously large tree, naturally no one wanted to stay. Tian Yang and the other two jumped to the ground one after another, and everyone followed the root on the ground and walked forward.
Not long after walking, I found that there were more and more similar roots. They seemed to be extending from all directions and finally all gathered together.
The place where these roots gather is the giant tree!
Not long after, the four-member team stopped and hid behind a huge rock. Looking forward from behind the rock, the strange giant tree was not far away.
From this distance, you can clearly see that the trunk of that thing is almost as thick as a small building.
The tree was over fifty meters tall, with twisted branches radiating outwards. Without leaves, the branches clung to the dome like arms, as if they were supporting the space of the underground hall.
A blood-red light flowed through the tree, sometimes dimming and sometimes brightening, as if the tree was breathing.
Tianyang activated the tactical eye and zoomed in on the picture, and he saw the tangled roots on the tree. In the gaps between the roots, long and short arms stretched out!
Those arms were not dead, but alive! They waved slowly, the fingers opening and closing, still trying to grasp something.
Near this evil and strange giant tree, the corpses of the black people were kneeling on the ground in groups of three or four. Whether they were mad dogs or wanderers, they all faced the tree and formed a worship circle.
No light from the will cage could be seen on these black people, but their bodies were imprisoned by some force and showed no signs of decay and decomposition.
When he looked to the left of the giant sun tree, his whole body suddenly shook.
Ji Yu noticed something was wrong with the boy and asked softly, "What did you find?"
Tianyang didn’t know how to answer. In the field of vision of his tactical eye, he saw a high-backed throne!
The throne was stuck to the giant tree, looking like an inseparable whole. On the throne made of tangled tree roots, a figure sat upright.
Black Prince!
Tianyang had a clear memory of the three black princes that the Raven Squad had discovered in the high wall before, but he had never seen the one sitting on the throne before.
This Black Prince, in appearance
It looked somewhat similar to the long-haired prince they had first met, with the same crown-shaped helmet, but this one was more ornate, with intricate patterns, and a purple gem was embedded in the crown.
Her hair was also long, but pale and shimmering. When the wind blew, it fluttered like a pale flame dancing in the air.
That face looked more mature. If the long-haired prince I met before was a young man of seventeen or eighteen, then this one looked more like a mature man of about thirty years old.
Moreover, it was wearing a set of lightweight armor with a simple shape, and it seemed to focus more on flexibility than defense.
Tianyang saw a pattern on the forearm armor placed on the armrest.
A diamond shape, with something like an eyeball in the middle, surrounded by twisted fine lines, just like what was seen on the black tree outside the rotting corpse building.
Next to the throne, there was a sword, with black and silver colors forming various patterns and designs from the scabbard to the hilt.
The sword has a slender body and a majestic shape, just like a king's sword!
Apparently Kunlan had also spotted the Black Prince. The blue-haired boy said in a low voice, “Hey, that must be the Black Prince, it looks like we’ve found a treasure this time!”
Tian Yang said quickly: "Don't mess around. We are definitely not able to deal with it. It's better to wait for the captain and the others to arrive."
When the three Black Princes fought each other that day, the abilities they displayed far exceeded those of Level 3 danger wizards.
Now, the Black Prince sitting under the giant tree may have evolved again. Maybe even a Level 4 Ascendant is no match for him.
Looking at the four of them, the one with the highest rank among them is Cangdu, and it doesn't look like they have a chance of winning anyway.
Kun Lan chuckled dryly: "Don't worry, I like fighting, but I'm not stupid. That thing looks very tough to deal with. Look at the armor and the sword."
"I've never seen such a black civilian before. My intuition tells me that it's dangerous! Extremely dangerous!"
At this moment, there was a sudden rustling sound in the crown of the giant tree supporting the dome.
Even the Black Prince, who had been sitting still, raised his head.
Tianyang and his companions also looked up and saw a branch hanging down from the sky above the giant tree.
At the end of the branch, two tender red leaves actually grew. In the middle of the pair of leaves, a fruit grew rapidly from small to large.
When the branch hung down not far in front of the Black Prince, the fruit was already the size of a fist.
The surface was extremely smooth and the shape looked like an apple, but the skin was almost transparent. With Tianyang's tactical eyes, he saw clusters of crystal threads under the skin.
The crystal threads expanded, glowed, and shrank slightly. During this process, the fruit actually exuded a strong energy aura.
"What is that?" Ji Yu exclaimed softly, "It can't be my illusion, why do I feel incredible energy in that fruit. The aura it releases is no different from that of a high-level strong man!"
Tianyang suddenly remembered something and turned his head to look back. The boy's eyes fell on those thick roots.
His pupils suddenly dilated slightly, and he took a breath of cold air: "That thing is simply the fruit of the devil!"
Several people couldn't help but look at him, wondering what Tianyang meant.
PS: Thanks to Skuluji, Xingluochen, Xiao Mi Li's Godfather and other big brothers for the reward! Thank you!