"What are you guys talking about here?"
At this time, Li Wenxi came back.
Behind her followed her Pangolin Concubine and the two little guys.
Well, now you can’t call me little guy anymore.
After all, these two little ones are now as big as an Alaskan or an adult large dog.
"Wow, what are you going to do!" Zeng Tao said in surprise.
"... You are covered in dirt, go upstairs and take a shower." Xu Xin couldn't help laughing as he looked at Li Wenxi.
She was now covered in dust, and even her face was covered with small black handprints.
"Oh, they're going to dig coal. What can I do?" Li Wenxi was a little embarrassed. "I'll go up!"
As she spoke, she directly controlled the roots of the tree house and entered the tree house.
"...Huh?" Zeng Tao uttered a soft "eh?" She pointed at Xu Xin's tree house with her little hand and looked at him, "This is, your tree house, right? How come Wen Xi can... ? Ah, you gave her permission!"
Zeng Tao was a little surprised.
"Why, you want authority too?"
"No, I just want to go in and see what such a big tree house looks like... What do you want to do to me?" Zeng Tao suddenly reacted and immediately stepped back cautiously, "You... You... Don't think I will let you succeed so easily!"
Xu Xin glanced at her body, then turned his head away: "Heh."
"What do you mean!" She jumped up angrily.
"Okay, I'll go upstairs and prepare. You go back and get your things. We'll set off in ten minutes." Xu Xin reached out and grabbed the roots of the tree house.
"You...you... humph! Okay..." Zeng Tao gave him a hateful look and turned back.
Back in the tree house, the sound of water splashing and soft humming could be heard in the bathroom.
Xu Xin brought the three beasts and Coco, and then said to the bathroom: "Wen Xi, I'm going to go out for a while and take a look at the special area before."
"Special area?" The humming stopped and Li Wenxi's voice came out, "Wait wait wait!"
She quickly ran out of the bathroom wrapped in a towel.
The dust on the body has been washed away, and the exposed fair skin has turned slightly red due to the hot water.
Seeing her seductive appearance, Xu Xin's eyes trembled slightly.
Then he took a deep breath.
… No, no, not now.
Now there's something else going on.
"Why are you going there now? Has Shi Wanyun's problem been resolved?" Li Wenxi didn't care about her appearance at all. She didn't even wrap herself tightly in the bath towel, and her hair was wet.
"Yeah." Xu Xin glanced at it and looked away, nodding, "Things over there are a little complicated, I'll explain them to you when I come back. Winter is about to end, and the reward for our free movement is also about to end. I have to go and take a look before winter ends, otherwise I may not have a chance later."
"Then I'll go with you..."
"Forget it." Xu Xin shook his head. "It's very likely to be dangerous over there. You should just focus on your own things. You are busy now, too, right?"
"That's right. Well, go ahead and be careful." Li Wenxi wrapped herself in a bath towel. "By the way, I dug up a lot of blue-grade coal! It also triggered a hundredfold explosion rate. There shouldn't be any problem smelting the purple-grade meteorite iron ore!"
"Really? That's great!" Xu Xin was also happy.
As long as he can smelt a piece, with his ability, he can unlock the production blueprint using this metal as raw material.
Then we will know what this metal can do!
When I came out of the tree house, Zeng Tao was already waiting downstairs.
"Let's go quickly, it will be dark if we go any later!" Zeng Tao was already getting impatient.
"Hmm!" Coco also cried out in agreement.
It huddled on Xu Xin's shoulder, blinking and looking around.
"Well, wait a minute."
After touching Coco's little head, Xu Xin saw a map in his mind.
"Where did Qin Fu go..." he frowned slightly.
To be honest, it would be most appropriate to bring him along on this exploration mission.
But this guy's whereabouts are still unknown until now.
"Qin Fu?" Zeng Tao immediately shook her head. "Forget it, don't look for him. I just wanted to contact him and ask if he wanted to go together, but he couldn't even get through this time."
Can’t get through
Xu Xin also tried it.
As a result, the connection was indeed impossible.
His eyes narrowed slightly.
Could it be that Qin Fu is also...
Was he involved in some triggering activity
On the map, there is still a green dot in the hilly resource area in the northwest.
The location of the green dot is even in the lake in the hilly resource area.
But because his map ability did not have a z-axis, he could not really determine Qin Fu's current location.
Is he really in the lake or underground
Forget it, let him be.
It’s just a pity that his detection ability couldn’t be used this time.
Xu Xin climbed onto the wolf and looked at her: "You... come with me."
The special area is at least dozens of kilometers away from here, and it will take a lot of time to walk there.
"Are you saying that you want me to ride it with you?" Zeng Tao pointed at the Silver King under Xu Xin and asked with a strange look on her face.
"What else?"
"Ah!" The Silver King also responded with a cry.
"It... probably can't carry me." Zeng Tao said with some distress.
"Oh?"
"Hmm?"
"Can't carry you? Oh..."
Xu Xin thought of what had happened in the main tree house before Lou Feier had transplanted it, and he immediately understood.
This little girl looks like a tiny thing, but with her abilities, she is really heavy!
His legs were almost broken at that time.
"... Can't you control your own abilities?" Xu Xin asked.
"No." Zeng Tao said honestly, "Only when I am seriously injured and rely on my ability to recover, my weight will return to normal, but that's because I have lost my ability. Normally, this is the only way."
As she said this, she stamped her foot.
"Bang!"
Suddenly, the ground shook.
The corners of Xu Xin's mouth twitched slightly.
This feeling is almost the same as a kick from a giant beast.
This little girl is simply a giant beast in human form.
However, the inability to control one's own abilities is somewhat similar to Wen Guixin.
It seems that this should be a small flaw in enhancing one's own abilities.
"However, after what happened last time, coupled with this mutation, I feel that my abilities have improved significantly." Zeng Tao waved her little fist, "Maybe I'll be able to control it in the future?"
"Then you should get into the bracelet."
If it wasn't an emergency, Xu Xin didn't want to put people into the bracelet like animal cargo.
However, there is nothing we can do now.
After putting Zeng Tao into his bracelet, he set off immediately.
A distance of twenty kilometers is just a piece of cake for the current Silver King.
It moved at high speed through the bare jungle and soon reached its destination.
"Hmm?" Coco, who had been nestling in Xu Xin's arms all the way, suddenly let out a somewhat puzzled cry.
"What's wrong, Coco, have you found anything?" Xu Xin asked while saying that Zeng Tao, Mimi and Afu had all been released.
"We're here so soon?" Zeng Tao looked back at the location of the teleportation needle beam and her eyes widened. "It's only been a few minutes, and we've come this far?"
"Oh oh!" Coco waved her little paws and explained to Xu Xin.
"... You mean, this place no longer has that special feeling it had before?" Xu Xin frowned slightly.
The place he is in now is a place he has never been to before.
This was the previous danger zone.
Once you set foot on it, enhanced vines would suddenly emerge from the ground and attack you.
After Mimi came out, she started pacing around.
Looking at its appearance, Xu Xin could also tell that there was no danger here at all.
and…
Whether it was Silver King or Mimi, the blood patterns on their bodies did not light up like before!
Has this place really lost its original uniqueness
Xu Xin frowned slightly.
Or is this place temporarily suppressed
"What's that special feeling?" Zeng Tao asked curiously, "What's so special about this place?"
Xu Xin turned and looked at her.
Yes, hasn’t Zeng Tao mutated now
"You... don't feel anything unusual?"
"Abnormal? What's abnormal?" Zeng Tao looked around, "Isn't this a very ordinary place?"
"I mean, do you feel anything unusual about yourself or your body?"
"My body..." Zeng Tao had a question mark on her forehead. "No, it's very normal. What do you want to say..."
“… Let’s go a little further inside.”
He did not ride on the Silver King's back, but walked towards the inside with Zeng Tao and several beasts.
At the same time, he introduced the situation here to Zeng Tao.
"Is there such a wonderful place?" Zeng Tao was also intrigued. He took out his purple-grade steel sword, walked forward quickly, and came in front of Xu Xin.
The sharp blade left a long mark on the ground with a "click" sound.
"嘤!" Coco also jumped out of Xu Xin's arms and walked in front.
Mimi had already rushed to the front and disappeared.
It had indeed not been outside for a long time, so it ran around everywhere as soon as it came out.
Ah Fu flew around Xu Xin, and occasionally flew into the air to observe.
The Silver King followed him obediently.
On the map, there are very few red spots nearby.
There are indeed no wild beasts at this stage.
There were quite a few mutant creatures here before, but after the incident where the wolves surrounded the survivors, the mutant creatures here disappeared.
The few of them walked about two kilometers, observing their surroundings carefully, but still found nothing.
There were no blood lines lighting up on the Silver King's body.
Coco also walked for a while by herself, and after not finding anything unusual, she climbed back onto Xu Xin's shoulder, yawning with her tail drooping and her tongue sticking out.
"You don't have any special feelings until now?" Xu Xin asked Zeng Tao, who was walking in front and looking around.
"No." Zeng Tao said somewhat disappointedly, "I thought something might happen, but in the end, this is just very ordinary..."
"It would be great if everything is fine." Xu Xin shook his head, "I'm afraid it's just temporary."
No, it's very likely only temporarily.
This was originally a dangerous area, but now, the dangerous area is suppressed by the activity rewards.
This is probably why this place has become so normal.
but…
Once the cold winter is over, there will probably be problems here again.
"Walk around for a bit, now that you're here." Xu Xin patted Coco's head on his shoulder as she began to doze off again, "Don't sleep anymore, you just woke up and you're feeling sleepy again."
"嘤!" Coco cried out in dissatisfaction, rubbed her eyes with her little paws, and perked up a little.
Several people continued to walk deeper.
After walking about two kilometers, Coco suddenly cried out, "Ying!"
Then it immediately jumped off Xu Xin's shoulder and ran diagonally in front of them.
Xu Xin's eyes lit up: "Follow Coco!"
"Ah? Oh oh!" Zeng Tao immediately chased after him with a knife in hand.
Xu Xin followed closely behind.
Soon, he saw a...
Cave.
A very large cave.
The mountain is not high, only less than ten meters high, just a head taller than the surrounding trees.
If it were during a period when trees were lush and dense, this hill would probably be buried directly in the tree canopy and would be difficult to find.
But the hole is huge.
The mountain is only ten meters in total, and the cave occupies eight meters!
It is nearly ten meters wide!
A huge cave!
The wall of this mountain seems to be the door frame of this cave.
"This is..." Zeng Tao stood at the entrance of the cave and looked inside, "A cave? No... is it a cave in the ground?"
Xu Xin also walked to the cave entrance.
In the cave, a gust of cold wind blew out, accompanied by...
A faint fragrance.
"This smell..." Xu Xin narrowed his eyes slightly.
"Isn't this the smell of red mist? It's just a little lighter." Zeng Tao sniffed.
He looked inside the cave.
Although the mountain is small, the cave is very deep and slopes downward.
Go straight underground.
The inside of the cave was very dark. Xu Xin ate a red berry and continued to look inside.
The cave doesn’t seem very deep at first glance, only about 40 to 50 meters deep, but…
With his current enhanced vision, he can clearly see everything in the cave.
The place that seems to be the end of the cave is not the end, but...
From there, the cave starts to go steeply downwards!
"Do you want to go in?" Zeng Tao raised the sword slightly, then put it down with a "bang", "I'm ready at any time!"
She looked a little excited.
"嘤!" Coco cried, crawled into Xu Xin's arms, and then pushed him with her little paws.
The meaning is very clear, there is danger inside, don't enter.
Is it dangerous…
To be honest, after experiencing the underground world, his vigilance towards the aboveground world has faded a lot.
He always felt that there wouldn't be anything too dangerous above the ground, especially around his tree house.
Of course, except for the giant anaconda in the center of the lake.
"Now that I'm here, I naturally have to go in and take a look." Xu Xin nodded.
“Yeah!”
"Bing!"
Zeng Tao and Ke Ke showed completely different attitudes.
"Mmmmm!" Coco's little paws pushed a few more times.
At this time, Mimi came out from the bare jungle behind them and walked to the front of the cave.
Xu Xin glanced at Mimi Yinwang and Afu and activated his mind-reading ability.
"What a strange hole." This is what Mimi was thinking.
"Master, do you want to go down and take a look?" This was the Silver King's inner voice.
"The cave is so big, it must be very comfortable to live in." This is what Ah Fu thought.
The three beasts were unaware of the danger in the cave.
Only Coco could detect it
"Coco, what kind of danger is inside?"
"嘤...?" Keke tilted her little head and shook it to show that she didn't know. But she still stretched out her little paws and pushed Xu Xin's chest, "嘤!"
Don't let him in.
"Is it dangerous in there?" Zeng Tao subconsciously took a step forward, a confused expression on her face, "Why do I feel that this cave... has an inexplicable attraction?"
But then she came to her senses, opened her eyes, took a step back, and said with some vigilance: "It can actually affect my senses! This can't be a trap!"
It seems that this little girl is not just energetic but also smart.
But... an inexplicable attraction
"… It should be okay for me to go in for a walk." Xu Xin asked while rubbing Keke's little head.
Now that I've come this far, I've finally found a strange cave, and there's a familiar smell emanating from it. I can't bear not to go in.
You have to know what's in this cave, right
"Boo! Boo, boo, boo!" Coco shook her little head violently.
Can't you just go in a little bit
This cave...
At this time Mimi walked to his side.
Oh, and Mimi.
"Mimi, go in and take a look. If it's dangerous, come out immediately."
Mimi's current speed is extremely fast. For it, a distance of 50 meters is basically...
Cross in an instant.
Upon hearing this, Mimi didn't even think about it, and directly "whoosh" went in, and instantly jumped into the depths of the cave.
When it came over, Ah Fu lay on it and was taken in directly.
"Wow, so fast!" Zeng Tao exclaimed immediately, "Faster than Lou Fei'er!"
Xu Xin once again activated his mind-reading ability.
"This cave is... so deep."
“I can’t see what’s inside.”
"But... I really want to go down and take a look."
"never mind."
This is Mimi’s inner voice.
"There seems to be some... sound?"
"Good Mohu, I can't hear you clearly."
This is Ah Fu’s voice.
sound
Afu is a bat and his hearing is extremely good. It is normal that he can hear sounds that Mimi cannot hear.
Xu Xin narrowed his eyes slightly, opened his watch immediately, and selected today's historical increase.
Hearing enhancement.
Immediately, his hearing increased exponentially, and he could hear every movement around him.
At the same time, I also heard a strange voice.
"This is… "
Xu Xin's face changed slightly.
“Hu…Hu…”
A steady voice came from the cave.
The sound sounds far away, yet it seems very close.
Isn't this... the sound of breathing!
There was actually a breathing sound coming from this cave!
There was only one breathing sound, and it was very steady, without any ripples.
It can be basically concluded that the creature making the breathing sound deep in the cave is currently in a deep sleep.
Moreover, judging from the breathing frequency...
The size of this creature...
I'm afraid it's quite huge!
Inside the cave is a...
A sleeping beast
Or something else