Ji Chaoyang immediately took out a loaded crossbow from his backpack and fired it into the mouth of a flying piranha.
Xu Xin directly took out his halberd and stabbed at the other big blood-red fish that was flying towards him!
The Silver King next to Xu Xin suddenly jumped up and pounced directly at the third fish from the side!
"boom!"
Ji Chaoyang's explosive crossbow accurately hit the piranha's mouth, and the whole piranha was instantly blown into pieces!
"Card!"
Xu Xin's halberd also directly pierced the entire piranha. He swept it horizontally again, and the halberd broke out of the piranha's belly, with some of the fish's internal organs still picked up on the tip of the halberd!
The Silver King also pounced on a piranha and knocked it to the ground. His huge wolf fangs pierced deeply into the piranha's body. He swung his wolf head and ripped open the piranha's stomach!
Kill 2 giant mutant piranhas and get 160 points.
At this time, the river was already boiling, but no piranhas jumped out again.
This group of fish was just like the piranhas that Xu Xin saw in the lake next to the tree house. They began to gather together and frantically devour the injured piranha that was initially pushed into the water by the two men!
The river water was churning and gradually turning red, with blood splashing onto the shore and onto the bodies and faces of the two men. However, they did not care. Instead, they nervously watched the situation underwater while keeping their bodies tense, ready to attack at any time.
However, no more piranhas jumped out of the river. Instead, the river gradually calmed down and finally returned to peace.
The red color in the river gradually dissipated with the slow flow of the water, until it became clear again, and no piranhas came out again.
"Have they swam away?" Ji Chaoyang asked in a deep voice, still pointing the crossbow at the river.
In order to prevent the cave entrance from closing, his spear was broken and half of it was stuck into the cave wall. His sword was too short, so he now only had a crossbow to deal with the school of fish.
Fortunately, he made many green-level crossbows as backup. The power of the explosive crossbow did not require much from the crossbow itself. He equipped all the crossbows with an explosive crossbow, so he had the equivalent of having a repeating crossbow that could fire continuously.
"Not yet." Xu Xin did not dare to let down his guard. Because although the river had returned to calm, the red dots on the map were still scattered in the river in front of them, as if they were lurking. Once they approached the river to check, they would jump out of the river and attack.
"Hmm." Coco also lay on Xu Xin's shoulder and hummed softly, indicating that there was something in the river and not to get close.
The Silver King had already begun to feast on the piranha he had killed. He had been running all day and was very hungry.
Although the scales of this piranha are red, its meat is indeed tender and white. It looks very delicious, which makes Xu Xin's throat roll. He didn't eat much of the medicinal meal at noon. It was too unpalatable. Now he is a little hungry.
The two waited there for about two minutes, and the river water began to move and ripples appeared.
"These piranhas are starting to swim back!" Xu Xin breathed a sigh of relief as he watched the red dots on the map start to move back.
There are too many fish. If they all jump out to bite them, they may not be able to deal with them.
"That's good." Ji Chaoyang's expression relaxed after hearing that.
The two waited for another ten seconds.
"They're already far away. I want to see where they're going." Xu Xin focused his attention on the map.
"Okay, you look at the map, and I'll deal with these two big piranhas." Ji Chaoyang took out a boning knife and started working on the two piranhas they had killed.
Xu Xin observed the migrating path of this group of piranhas.
They were still in this circle of hills, and were close to the "giant head". Xu Xin had previously suspected that they were underground rather than in the mountain, but now it was confirmed.
The map will only show enemy units near the ground. If they are deep below the ground, they will not be able to see the red dots of the piranhas.
In other words, this should be the inside of the hills on the ground, and the entire cave wall is actually those hills.
They had already circled back from inside the circle of hills.
And those piranhas were swimming towards the giant's head!
Under Xu Xin's gaze, the red dot had swam to the vicinity of the giant's head.
But to his surprise, they did not actually swim over there, but suddenly turned when they got close to there.
In the map, the red dots that originally formed a straight line in the river channel turned collectively at a position before the mine and began to move towards the interior of the hilly resource area.
“…?” Xu Xin looked at the moving red dots and narrowed his eyes.
The brightness of the red dot became dimmer and dimmer. After moving a few hundred meters, it completely dimmed and disappeared.
Xu Xin seemed to be thinking about something.
These fish should have swum along the underground river in the hilly resource area. Because they swam underground, they were no longer visible on Xu Xin's map.
Judging from their direction, they should be swimming towards the lake in the hilly resource area.
It seems that the lake is not safe anymore!
However, this at least proves one thing, that by following this river, it should be possible to reach the inside of the skull!
Although they didn't know why they were teleported so far and had to go around half a circle to get there, as long as they could get there, it was fine. Over there, that should be the secret they were looking for, as well as the way out!
The Silver King had already eaten a piranha until only the bones were left, and was sitting on the ground resting with satisfaction.
"How is it? Are there any resources for this fish?" Xu Xin asked Ji Chaoyang.
This piranha is really big, much bigger than those he had seen before. You know, most piranhas are only the size of a palm, but this fish is nearly one meter long. It can be called a giant among piranhas!
"Not bad, blue-grade fish scale skin," Ji Chaoyang picked up a piece of fish skin covered with red scales, "can be used to make blue fish scale armor. I wonder what the effect of this fish scale armor set is."
"Two pieces of fish scales can't make a set of armor." Xu Xin shook his head. He should have killed two more.
"Maybe I can meet him again in the future." Ji Chaoyang raised the fish skin in his hand, "Do you want it?"
"Here you go. Is the fish skin the only blue grade?"
"That's right. After all, it's only worth 80 points and it's just a primary mutant creature. Only Pi will definitely get blue-level resources."
Indeed, although 80 points are very close to the score of intermediate mutant creatures, it still has not crossed the intermediate level.
"Oh! Oh! Oh!" Coco pushed Xu Xin's face on his shoulder and pointed with her little paws towards the deeper part of the cave, as if to tell him that there were good things in that direction and we should hurry over there.
"Okay, I get it." Xu Xin rubbed Coco's head, "Let's go and continue to move deeper."
At the same time, he told Ji Chaoyang what he had just seen on the map.
"Since there is a road, let's go."
This time, the two did not jump into the water again, but chose to walk on land.
We have already attracted a bunch of piranhas, who knows what else is in the water. The shore is now very wide and flat, so we don't need to go into the water anymore.
"Be careful. Since there are mutant creatures underwater, there may be some on the shore as well." Ji Chaoyang reminded.
"Coco will remind us, right?" Xu Xin scratched Coco's chin.
"Hmm~" Coco cried out in comfort, then raised her head to indicate that everything was correct.
"Ah!" Because the road surface was much smoother, the Silver King could move freely.
"… This place is so spacious and flat, just like a tunnel. Why don't we ride the Silver King forward?" Xu Xin proposed another way to save time.
"Okay, we have been on the road for nearly an hour, and we need to move faster." Ji Chaoyang nodded.
The two of them mounted on the Silver King's back, and Coco also got off Xu Xin's shoulders and snuggled into his arms.
"Hold on tight. Let's go, Silver King!"
"Awooo--" The Silver King subconsciously let out a wolf howl, which echoed throughout the cave. Then, it rushed forward.
…
Qi Xuefei, who had been sitting on a rock at the entrance of the salt mine, was still staring into the cave, hoping that the two people would suddenly appear.
Suddenly, she heard a faint wolf howl coming from the mine.
"Is this... the cry of the Silver King?!"
She stood up instantly and looked into the cave entrance.
There was nothing, which made her feel a little lost. However, since she had heard the sound, at least she had a clue.
She immediately sent a voice message to Li Wenxi.
"Hey, Sister Xuefei, are they back?" Li Wenxi asked impatiently before she could speak.
"Wen Xi, I heard the Silver King's cries from the mine, but I didn't see any of them."
"The Silver King's call? I'll be back right away!"
…
The Silver King was moving very fast, and the cave was getting wider and flatter as they walked along. In just a few minutes, they were almost reaching the location of the giant's head.
The river beside us is getting wider and wider, and now it is about seven or eight meters wide.
Xu Xin really didn't expect that the further upstream you go, the wider the river becomes. Why is that
"Xu Xin, is this sound the sound of water?" Ji Chaoyang listened carefully to the sound that was getting closer and closer, "It's like... the sound of a waterfall falling. We should be almost at the source of this river."
"It's just ahead!" Xu Xin pointed to the distance. It was no longer dark there, but had some light. "Light! There is light there! Could it be the exit? Silver King, speed up!"
"Ao!" The Silver King responded and immediately quickened his pace.
As the end of the cave gets closer, the scenery at the end becomes clearer and clearer.
"this… "
The Silver King arrived at the location and stopped.
The two people on the wolf's back forgot to roll off the wolf. Instead, they opened their eyes wide and looked at the scenery in front of them. They were temporarily speechless.
“Hmm…” Coco also opened her mouth wide, staring blankly at everything here.
They never imagined that at the end of this road, there would be such a "paradise" in the mountains!
The two of them rolled off the Silver King's back and stepped onto the emerald green grass.
That’s right, it’s the lush green grass. This area is completely different from the bleak outside, but instead is full of life!
At the source of the river, there was actually a lake! In the lake, countless fish and shrimps were swimming in it, and above the lake, a waterfall-like stream of water flowed out from the wall and fell into the lake, making the sound of water they had just heard.
Surrounding the lake is the green grass where Xu Xin and his friends are now standing.
Countless colorful flowers grow on the grass, emitting a faint fragrance. Two lush and green trees stand on the left and right. Everything in front of you reveals vitality.
It even feels more comfortable and lively than the jungle before winter.
Under the soft white light, everything seemed so unreal.
This place seems like a garden, so beautiful that it seems unreal.
Xu Xin took two steps forward, walked to the edge of the lake, and looked towards the source of the soft white light around him.
This is what shocked Xu Xin and Ji Chaoyang the most.
"That... what is that?" Xu Xin muttered as he looked at the thing emitting white light in front of him.
"Is that... a fragment of a bead?" Ji Chaoyang guessed in a low voice.
Water continuously gushed out from a crack in the wall at the end, forming a small waterfall. In the gap in the wall above the waterfall, there was something that was constantly emitting bright white light, illuminating everything around it.
The soft white light is not dazzling, but it can completely illuminate the surrounding area.
Moreover, Xu Xin could already feel that the temperature around him had reached a very comfortable temperature of over 20 degrees!
In the long cave just now, the temperature was as low as six or seven degrees, but only here was the temperature so comfortable.
Perhaps, it is because of this bright white light!
Xu Xin narrowed his eyes and observed the glowing object carefully. Just as Ji Chaoyang said, it seemed to be a very incomplete bead.
Because a small part was smooth and spherical, they could tell it was a fragment of a bead, but most of it was irregular and looked like a part that had fallen off a bead the size of a football.
"…Treehouse core?"
Xu Xin subconsciously thought of the tree house core. The tree house core also looked like a gem and emitted a white light.
But the core of the tree house he had seen was only the size of a fist, while this bead fragment was already larger than a fist. Judging from the curvature of the spherical edge, the complete size of this bead was at least as big as a football.
Xu Xin subconsciously checked the map. His current location was just behind the head.
Could it be that the stone wall in front of them, with the waterfall flowing out and the fragments of the gem placed on it, was the wall in the salt mine cave that had a crack in it before, and when Coco touched it, a purple-black vortex suddenly appeared and swallowed them up
Behind the wall is the salt mine cave
"Xu Xin, these two trees..." Ji Chaoyang had already focused his attention on the two lush trees. His voice was filled with some doubt and disbelief, "These two trees are banyan trees..."
“…Banyan tree?” Hearing the word banyan tree, Xu Xin was startled and immediately turned his head to look at the two lush green trees.
The tree roots were like a crouching dragon, the trunk was strong and powerful, and the aerial roots like beards hung down from the dense canopy, connecting to the earth. The canopies of the two trees were almost connected together, covering a large area.
He was attracted by the bright white light just now and didn't pay much attention to it. Now he looked again, it was really a banyan tree!
The same banyan tree as their tree house!
… Could this be a tree house? !
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