"Great! It's finally over!" Li Wenxi raised the crossbow, cheered, then hugged Coco on his shoulder and rubbed him hard twice.
"Hmm?"
Xu Xin also breathed a sigh of relief.
At his feet, there were some stone statues that he had chopped in half but were not dead. They were struggling and twisting. He swung his halberd and stabbed it into the chest, turning these twisting stone statues into dust.
"This is not over yet. There are even more powerful stone statues inside." Xu Xin looked at the circle of stone statues of intermediate mutant creatures and the two pterosaurs that were still crawling on the ground in the giant pit.
If these guys were alive, it would not be so easy to deal with them.
"Hehe, it's over temporarily. Um... I've been stringing the crossbow, my arm is so sore!" Li Wenxi rubbed his arm, walked to Xu Xin's side, stood at the edge of the pit, and looked inside. "All these stone statues have turned into powder, and they were blown away by the impact of the explosion..."
Lou Feier also came over. She had put the dagger into her waist. Her face was still flushed and she was still in a state of excitement: "Killing is really fun..."
Ji Chaoyang and Qi Xuefei also came over.
Qi Xuefei's arms were trembling slightly. One hand hung weakly in front of her body, while the other hand was gently rubbing her arm.
Obviously, the continuous high-intensity shooting put a lot of strain on her arms. Her strength had not been strengthened many times, and now that she had relaxed, she felt a little exhausted.
Li Wenxi was better. Although he said his arms were sore, apart from rubbing his arms twice, he did not have any other reaction.
After all, before coming to this world, she had a very good physical condition and often went to the gym. After coming to this world, she took people to mine every day. In terms of strength and endurance, she was much better than Qi Xuefei, who stayed in the tree house all day long.
Ji Chaoyang looked at the stone statues in the huge pit and asked in confusion: "With such a mess around, they don't have any reaction? Do we have to step into them before they will move?"
Silver King and Mimi were still standing by the giant pit.
They looked at the circle of stone statues of intermediate mutant creatures and the two stone statues of pterosaurs. Their bodies were tense and they never let their guard down.
Indeed, although they would not attack before, they would still turn around and look over here, but this time...
"Huh?" Xu Xin's eyes shrank slightly. "Did that pterosaur stone statue move?"
There was no change in the other stone statues, only the pterosaur statue in the middle had some changes again.
In the center of the huge pit, there are two stone statues of pterosaurs. The closer one has its back to them, while the other one is facing them.
The pterosaur statue that was facing them had its huge head raised up, and its head was slightly tilted towards them, and its eyes seemed to be looking directly at them!
"It moved? Huh?" Li Wenxi looked at the pterosaur statue in the center, his eyes trembling slightly, "Is it... is it looking at us?"
Ji Chaoyang also frowned: "It did move. Could it be that this pterosaur statue has been observing our fight? Or is there someone watching us from behind?"
Lou Feier took a look at the pterosaur statue, and immediately, the blush on her face disappeared instantly, her face turned pale, and she even took a step back.
"That pterosaur stone statue... is so strong!" Lou Feier swallowed slightly and subconsciously moved closer to Xu Xin. "I didn't feel this way when I looked at it just now, but now it feels very strong to me. I am no match for it at all!"
oh?
Xu Xin became alert.
I didn’t feel it just now, but now I do.
That means that the pterosaur stone statue has come alive, so there is a sense of danger now?
"Coco, is that pterosaur stone statue dangerous?" Xu Xin asked Coco, who was feeling comfortable in Li Wenxi's arms.
"Hmm?" Keke tilted her head slightly to look at the pterosaur stone statue, sized it up, tilted her head, and then shook her head, "Hmm."
"Coco means that there is no danger?" Qi Xuefei reached out and touched Coco's little head and asked.
"Bing!"
"Well... I just said it was powerful, not dangerous." Lou Feier defended herself.
She glanced at the pterosaur statue again, a frightened expression on her face. "Only the pterosaur statue looking at us can give me this feeling, the other one doesn't. This feeling seems to be... the instinctive submission and fear of the mutant creatures to the higher-level creatures? There is definitely something wrong with that pterosaur statue!"
Ji Chaoyang spoke up: "Perhaps, there really is someone monitoring us through that pterosaur stone statue. To be honest, ever since the formation was activated, I have always had a feeling that I am being monitored near this giant pit. Of course, it could just be my illusion."
"I mean..." Li Wenxi grabbed Xu Xin's arm, "It sounds scary... What should we do now? Continue to attack the stone statues of the intermediate mutant creatures?"
To be honest, Xu Xin doesn't know what to do now.
Although the stone statues of those intermediate mutant creatures formed a small circle closer to the interior, their number was still considerable, with at least fifty or sixty in total. To be honest, he had never faced so many intermediate mutant creatures.
And it’s a stone statue!
However, the surveillance that Ji Chaoyang just mentioned...
Could it be that it really is a long seal?
Oh, right! Xiaohong! Where's Xiaohong?
He immediately turned around to look for it.
After he released Xiaohong, he never took him back, just to see if he could move with the other stone statues.
After the first round of ordinary beast statues were completely dealt with, he showed no signs of activity.
“…Where’s Xiaohong?” Xu Xin’s eyes gradually widened and he looked around.
The stone statue of the little boy that was originally placed behind them was gone!
Where did it go?!
"Eh?" Lou Feier immediately ran to where Xiao Hong was sitting, looked around, and was a little surprised. "He was originally here? When I fired the explosive crossbow with the crossbow, I was still looking at him!"
"The stone statue of the little boy came to life and then disappeared?" Ji Chaoyang was slightly stunned, looked at the huge pit, and frowned slightly.
Xu Xin looked around.
There is a snow-free area of about twenty meters around the giant pit because the giant pit cannot accumulate snow.
Snow could not accumulate in the giant pit, and at the same time, all the snow within twenty meters around it had melted away.
Three meters deep snow wrapped around the giant pit twenty meters away, forming a larger snow pit.
The bare jungle within a range of twenty meters was naturally freed from the thick layer of snow.
"嘤!" Coco suddenly jumped out of Li Wenxi's arms and ran into the jungle.
"Coco!" Li Wenxi tried to catch it, but failed.
Xu Xin followed without saying a word.
Coco must have discovered something.
Following Coco, he soon found Xiaohong, who was shivering and holding his legs, behind the trunk of a bare poplar tree.
He really survived!
The little boy buried his head between his legs. When he heard someone coming, he didn't dare to look up. He just hugged his head and huddled on the ground, shouting, "Don't come over! Don't hit me! I was wrong, help... help!"
"Xiaohong, it's me, look up." Xu Xin didn't approach him immediately for fear of scaring him, but spoke softly.
"Ah..." Xu Xin's voice sounded familiar to him. He raised his head slightly and looked at Xu Xin.
After seeing Xu Xin's face clearly, his frightened expression immediately disappeared. Then his eyes and mouth slowly widened, and he asked tentatively: "You... you are... the uncle who brought me, my parents and I out from underground? Uncle Xu Xin?"
"It's me, Xiaohong, so don't be afraid." Seeing that Xiaohong recognized him, Xu Xin walked to his side and squatted down.
"Uncle... I... wow!" He burst into tears.
Although the stone statue could not shed tears, his voice and expression made Xu Xin and the four people who had gathered behind him feel his grievance and the relief he felt at that moment.
Lou Feier, who had already met him once, also hurried over to comfort him.
After a few minutes, Xiaohong's mental state gradually returned to normal.
At this time, Xu Xin asked: "Xiao Hong, can you tell me about your experience after you came to the ground? Why are you in the belly of the treasure chest monster?"
Xiao Hong has stood up, his stone hands tightly grasping Xu Xin's arm. He has already regarded Xu Xin as his psychological support.
He looked at the people around him timidly: "I... I don't know anything either. Mom and Dad didn't tell me anything..."
"Just tell me what you know. I will help you find your parents." Xu Xin said softly.
Xiaohong nodded: "Well, I believe uncle, that... after we left your tree house..."
Suddenly, his voice stopped.
"Can't move again?" Lou Feier, who had experienced this situation once, immediately widened her eyes and said.
Xu Xin frowned slightly.
No, it’s not that I can’t move again.
Xiaohong is still active.
He just stopped talking to everyone and slowly turned his head to look at the stone pit.
In the stone pit, the pterosaur's head had completely straightened up, and it was looking at Xu Xin and his group without any concealment.
At this moment, Xiaohong beside him suddenly had a flash of red light in his eyes and started moving.
Without saying anything, he walked towards the huge pit step by step, then he accelerated faster and faster and started running!
"Xiaohong!" Xu Xin wanted to grab Xiaohong's shoulders to stop him.
But for some reason, the stone statue of the little boy was so powerful at this time that Xu Xin failed to stop his actions and was instead pulled back a few steps by him.
"I'll do it!"
Ji Chaoyang's strength was increased today, and his strength was much greater than Xu Xin's. He immediately grabbed Xiaohong's arm, but still could not stop Xiaohong's movements. He just slowed down his pace a little, and was pulled away again.
Xiaohong ran towards the huge pit very quickly.
"What a fast speed!" Qi Xuefei frowned slightly.
Just now when Xu Xin and the others were comforting Xiao Hong, Ji Chaoyang briefly explained to her the origin of the stone statue of the little boy.
Was he being controlled by someone? Was he being forced to walk inside?
Xu Xin wanted to put it into his bracelet, but Xiao Hong was too fast and he couldn't catch up.
Mimi immediately rushed up at a very fast speed, pushing the stone statue of the little boy, trying to stop its actions, but it only slowed him down slightly.
Because she couldn't hurt Xiaohong, Mimi didn't dare to extend her claws.
"Oh, that's right, the treasure chest monster!" Xu Xin ran forward two steps and immediately remembered where it was discovered.
He immediately turned the bracelet and released the treasure chest monster.
"Swallow the stone statue of the little boy in front! Don't hurt him!" He ordered it the moment the treasure chest monster appeared.
Upon hearing this, the treasure chest monster immediately opened its lid, revealing its bloody mouth!
Then, dozens of blood-veined vines that were much thicker than the vines of the plant's heart suddenly emerged from its bloody mouth. There were so many of them that they looked like a large green flower in full bloom.
Dozens of vines stabbed forward rapidly!
It was the first time that Xu Xin saw vines coming out of the mouth of a treasure chest monster. These extremely thick vines were even thicker than any vines he had ever seen before, and they were much faster!
I underestimated this guy.
At the beginning, Mimi was there, but it didn't even have the ability to open the lid, so it was easily subdued.
If we really let it open its lid completely, the difficulty of subduing it would probably increase dozens of times!
This is the saying that there is always someone better.
Mimi has a strong inhibitory effect on it and can directly press its lid before it spits out its vines.
The vines immediately caught up with Xiaohong, and when he was about to run to the edge of the giant pit, dozens of vines wrapped around his body.
Xiaohong was not pulled back because he was too strong.
But the treasure chest monster does more than just pull people.
It directly used this force, plus the vine's own power, to pull itself up and fly towards Xiaohong rapidly with its bloody mouth!
When Xiaohong was about to jump into the huge pit, it flew over directly, and the entire box turned upside down on him, trapping his entire stone body in its bloody mouth!
Then, the vines in its mouth pushed the ground, lifted the box up from the ground, and turned it over.
Xiaohong disappeared, he had been swallowed by the treasure chest monster.
The treasure chest monster quickly retracted its vines, and its bloody mouth even closed twice with a "snapping" sound, as if someone who had just finished eating was smacking his lips.
This series of actions took place in just a few seconds.
"So... so strong!" Li Wenxi's eyes widened, "I... I thought this treasure chest monster was weak!"
She was able to watch the entire scene of the treasure chest monster being tamed, and only saw the treasure chest monster being beaten by Xu Xin, Lou Feier and a group of contracted beasts.
Xu Xin hurried over and breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that Xiao Hong was really swallowed by the treasure chest monster.
He didn't know why, but he always felt that he must not let Xiaohong enter the giant pit like this.
Even if the ones who just controlled him to enter were really Chang Yin and Xue Lan.
"Xu Xin, did you notice that the direction he was heading just now was not facing the giant pit." Ji Chaoyang also walked to his side and looked into the giant pit. "If he just wanted to enter the giant pit, he would definitely take the shortest distance and go straight into the pit, but he walked diagonally. If not, he might have jumped in before you could catch him."
Xu Xin nodded slightly.
He also discovered that Xiaohong did not run straight to the giant pit at the shortest distance.
Where does he want to go?
"There." Ji Chaoyang pointed to the iron gate that they had dug out on the ground of the giant pit. The iron gate had been blown black and there was some stone powder on it. "He wanted to go straight into that iron gate."
Xu Xin narrowed his eyes slightly.
That’s right, Xiaohong’s direction is this, the iron gate that is a bit far from their current location!
Is there something controlling him in this iron gate?
"Xu Xin..." Li Wenxi also came up and was about to say something when suddenly, a strange phenomenon appeared in the eastern sky!
A purple-black beam of light shot up into the sky, straight into the clouds!
The thick clouds ten thousand meters above the sky instantly formed a big hole around the light column, and the sky looked as spectacular as if a hole had been poked in it.
It was the first time for Xu Xin to watch a beam of light rising into the sky from a distance. The visual shock was even more intuitive when viewed up close because one could see the entire beam of light!
Wen Guixin and his team succeeded!
The second beam of light has been activated!