"嘤!" Coco jumped into Xu Xin's arms and burrowed her furry head into his arms.
"Okay, okay, it's okay." Xu Xin touched Coco's head and also felt like he had survived a disaster.
Thinking back to what he had just experienced, Xu Xin was still in fear. If he had made only one mistake, he would have already left this world.
The small yellow flowers on the ground began to wither rapidly, and soon, this sea of flowers that was originally full of yellow flowers turned into a barren land. Not even weeds grew, and there was no grass at all.
Xu Xin sat on the ground, put Coco on his lap, and put the shirt around his face back on.
"Sure enough, am I still mentally affected?" While calming down, Xu Xin recalled everything that had just happened.
He had previously wrapped his shirt around his face, but it didn't seem to have any effect.
If his mind had not been affected, he would not have rashly entered this strange sea of flowers, even though the golden treasure chest he had been looking for was in the middle of the sea of flowers. But he only paused for a moment, without thinking much, and entered this dangerous area directly.
When he walked to the treasure chest, if he were a normal person, he would definitely put the golden treasure chest into his backpack and quickly move away from this strange sea of flowers and open it somewhere else, instead of taking out the key and trying to open it directly on the spot like he did just now.
The most obvious one was of course the fake treasure chest. He actually mistook a broken rock for a treasure chest! This must be an illusion caused by inhaling too much floral scent.
He glanced at Coco, who was still burying her head in his arms, and smiled. If it weren't for this little guy, he would have been stuck here today. He took out an orange from his backpack and stuffed it into Coco's arms.
"Ying!" Coco immediately happily hugged the orange and started eating it.
The little guy didn't seem to be affected by the scent of flowers, so Coco's two suspicious cries made him suspicious. The first time was when he mentioned the golden treasure chest, and the second time was when he took out the golden key.
The two doubtful shouts made Xu Xin realize that what he and Ke Ke saw were different. Ke Ke didn't seem to see the golden treasure chest. So when he looked at the treasure chest again, he began to observe it carefully.
Before coming here, Xu Xin had seen a copper treasure chest and a silver treasure chest placed side by side in his tree house. The patterns on the two treasure chests formed the body of a beast similar to a Qilin, so he inferred at the time that the pattern printed on the gold treasure chest should be the head of this beast.
But the patterns on the fake gold treasure chest are messy.
Although he couldn't be sure whether the pattern on the treasure chest was real or not, he would rather believe it than not, so he directly picked up the stone spear and pointed it at the fake treasure chest. Unexpectedly, the illusion was actually broken.
If he had not discovered the truth and had really used the key to open the fake treasure chest, perhaps the process of the stone cracking would have been hidden in the illusion of the treasure chest opening. Xu Xin would have no time to run and might not even be able to react before being swallowed by the Piranha Plant.
No matter what happened next, he tried his best and finally saved his life.
The danger of the carnivorous plant this time was much greater than the previous beast tide and vines, making Xu Xin deeply feel his own weakness. If it weren't for Coco's help and a series of coincidences, he would really be dragged step by step into the abyss of hell by this carnivorous plant that can influence people's minds without knowing it.
These strange creatures are so scary, much scarier than those wild beasts!
Fortunately, these things seemed unable to move for too long within a three-kilometer radius of the tree house. The previous vines only attacked him twice before dying. Although the carnivorous plant lasted a little longer this time, it still could not escape the fate of becoming a specimen.
After sitting and resting for a while, Xu Xin calmed down, stood up, picked up the stone spear that had just been thrown on the ground, and began to clean up the dry and crispy residue of the surrounding carnivorous plants.
This flower is so strange, it must be a monster guarding a golden treasure chest. Maybe the golden treasure chest is hidden in the body of the Piranha Plant just like the bronze treasure chest before.
As a result, Xu Xin poked all the remnants of the Piranha Plant but didn't find what he was looking for.
"Could it be that the treasure chest is not inside the monster this time?"
Sweeping the debris aside, the hole formed by the cracks in the rock appeared before his eyes.
It was pitch black inside the cave, but this was not a problem for Xu Xin, because he had eaten red berries and had the ability of night vision, so the darkest environment was as bright as day for him.
The entrance of the cave was wide enough for one person to pass through. The cave was not a golden treasure chest as he had imagined, but an underground cave with a height of only two meters. From Xu Xin's angle, he could not see what was deep in the cave.
The ground vertically downward from the hole opened by the carnivorous plant was turned over. It was obvious that the huge carnivorous plant had drilled out from deeper underground and might have just happened to pass by this underground cave.
"What is this place? Will the golden treasure chest be inside?" Xu Xin fell into deep thought.
"嘤!" Coco pulled Xu Xin's clothes in his arms, pointed at the cave with her paws, and then used her two paws to make a rectangle for him.
"You mean, the treasure chest is down there?"
"嘤!" Coco nodded and rubbed Xu Xin's arm with its big tail.
"How did you know?" Xu Xin was still very curious about the magic of Coco.
"Hmm?" Coco tilted her head.
Never mind. It can't be explained.
"But..." Xu Xin frowned.
The space below was too narrow, and the width of the cave was basically only enough for one person to pass through. If there was any danger, such as some vines, there would be no place to hide in such a small space, and there was basically no possibility of escape.
If the golden treasure chest was in this cave, Xu Xin was a little tempted to give up.
He has already obtained the silver treasure chest, so at least he will definitely not be eliminated at the end.
"嘤!" Seeing Xu Xin was a little hesitant, Ke immediately jumped out of his arms, grabbed his trouser leg and wanted to take him down.
Xu Xin's heart moved, and he asked, "Keke, is there no danger down there?"
Coco nodded her head.
After getting Coco's affirmative answer, Xu Xin's fear of the unknown in this cave was much lessened.
He took a look at the cave, thought for a while, and decided to go down to look for the golden treasure chest.
At least so far, Coco's perception of danger has been very accurate. Whether it was the copper treasure chest the first time or the Piranha Plant this time, Coco had similar warnings before the monsters came out, but he did not notice it before the Deinosuchus that would not hurt him.
At present, the accuracy rate of danger prediction is 100%.
So Xu Xin decided to believe it this time.
After all, after experiencing such a dangerous thing and escaping a near-death experience, even Xu Xin would feel unwilling to go back empty-handed.
But before that, Xu Xin had to enlarge the hole a little bit. If something happened, it would be too difficult to climb out of this small hole.
Pulling out his blue grade stone shovel from his backpack, Xu Xin started to work.
Within ten minutes, Xu Xin widened the straight up and down cave entrance into a slope that could be walked directly down.
"Perfect! This way, if anything happens inside, I can just run up." Xu Xin looked at his masterpiece with satisfaction and put the shovel back into his backpack.