Several people took out steel shovels and started digging on the ground.
Then they immediately discovered something unusual about the land.
This is indeed not an ordinary land.
Ordinary land can be dug very quickly with the advanced tools in their hands.
But the land here...
Digging is just like digging the land on Earth, it has to be done one shovel at a time.
The last time this happened, it seemed...
While digging down into the prison in the underworld
The soil here is very hard, making their digging extremely difficult.
"We won't dig up anything weird, will we?" Zeng Tao asked as she pushed the shoveled dirt aside. "It's dangerous underneath the ground, right? Aren't those mutant vines and the like coming out from underneath the ground?"
The explorers did not spread the news about the underground world. Although survivors all over the world knew that there was a list of underground world exploration activities, their understanding of the word "underground world" was still limited to the underground mazes and dungeons they had experienced before.
Therefore, Zeng Tao's understanding of underground dangers was limited to the vines that emerged from the dangerous areas.
"There's definitely more danger underground than that, Little Peach." Lou Feier pushed the shovel into the ground with all her might, and pressed down hard, but the soil didn't come out. "Why is this thing so hard?"
Jin Yue also couldn't dig with her hands, so she just raised her leg and stomped hard, and finally dug out a piece of hard soil.
Xu Xin didn't feel any resistance. After all, he was holding a purple-grade steel shovel, but the others were holding blue-grade steel shovels, so it was naturally much more difficult than him.
"You are too weak!" Zeng Tao looked at them proudly, "I just dig randomly!"
"You two should go check the surrounding situation." Xu Xin saw that Lou Fei'er and Jin Yue were useless here, so he said, "See if there is a similar situation as here."
"I see."
"Oh, okay."
The two men put away their shovels and began to explore the surroundings.
"嘤!" Coco also ran over following Lou Feier.
"Is that an advanced tool in your hand?" Zeng Tao glanced at the different-style tools in Xu Xin's hand and said, "Your strength should not be greater than those two, right?"
“… I still need to be more powerful.”
He has to take alchemical potions every day.
Although he is definitely not as good as Zeng Tao and Ma Hongwei who has the power type mutation, he has no problem comparing with Lou Feier and the others.
Of course, his leg strength is definitely not as good as Jin Yue's.
"So is that a high-end tool in your hand?"
"Yes, what's wrong?"
"Give it to me. Your efficiency is so low. I'll do the digging." Zeng Tao stretched out her hand to Xu Xin, "You take a rest."
… ok.
He handed the purple-grade steel shovel to Zeng Tao.
Then he found that Zeng Tao was right.
She alone, with the purple-grade steel shovel, dug faster than the previous four people.
The solid ground was easily dug up by her hands like tofu, with dirt and stone chips flying everywhere.
Soon, the depth of the pit under Zeng Tao's feet reached her waist.
… Do we have to dig so deep
"It's easier to dig below." Zeng Tao threw a shovel of soil out of the pit. "The soil below is very soft, and..."
"Xu Xin, something's going on here, come over here!"
At this time, Lou Feier's voice came from about forty or fifty meters away.
Any situation
"You keep digging, I'll go over and take a look." Xu Xin said immediately, and then asked, "What did you just say?"
"Hmm..." Zeng Tao murmured in confusion, then shook her head, "It must be my illusion."
“… Explain clearly, don’t have any illusions.” Xu Xin frowned.
"Oh, it's just... I just felt like digging deeper, as if something was attracting me." Zeng Tao raised her head and explained, "But now that feeling is gone."
… Something is attracting
Xu Xin's eyes shrank slightly.
He doesn't feel that way.
The difference between Zeng Tao and me is that she has mutated. Something that can attract mutant creatures is not a good thing.
"Xu Xin? Come here quickly!" Lou Feier was still calling Xu Xin over there.
“Bing!” Even Coco’s voice could be heard, “Bing!”
“… I’m going to go over there for a moment. You’re not allowed to dig any more until I come back.”
"Huh? Why?" Zeng Tao was a little confused.
"I'll tell you when I get back."
Xu Xin ran towards Lou Feier. Keke asked him to come over, which meant there was indeed a big discovery.
As soon as he walked over, he saw Lou Feier squatting beside a tree, looking at something.
“Ying!” Seeing Xu Xin coming over, Keke immediately ran over, climbed onto his shoulders, and then pointed her little paws at the tree below, “Ying ying ying!”
"Come quickly, come quickly, this seems to be the message Qin Fu left for us!" Lou Feier also stood up immediately.
The message Qin Fu left behind
Xu Xin was immediately startled and took two steps forward.
On the ground, on the soil next to the tree roots, a few distorted words were left.
The words look very abstract, as if they were left by a child who was just learning to write.
But this is indeed Chinese characters.
Go away, don't come near here
Just these few words.
this…
"… How can you tell that this is a message left by Qin Fu?" Xu Xin was speechless. "Is Qin Fu's handwriting so ugly?"
"Look here again!" Lou Feier grabbed Xu Xin's arm and walked a few meters to the other side, then pointed to the roots of another tree and said, "There are some here too."
Xu Xin squatted down and looked at the words written under the tree house.
Same, same few words.
Go away, don't come near here
The font is also distorted and strange, as if...
People who have never learned Chinese would draw the same characters as they do today.
“And there are some over here too!”
Lou Feier took Xu Xin to several trees, and underneath them were similar handwritings.
It can be said that this is the case under most of the trees in this area.
"Although these words are a little ugly, they are all Chinese characters." Lou Feier expressed her thoughts, "The Chinese characters must have been written by us survivors, right? Moreover, these words are all written under the tree. Have you forgotten Qin Fu's ability? Isn't his ability related to plants?"
"this… "
Xu Xin pondered for a moment.
What Lou Feier said does make some sense.
What he was sure of was that Qin Fu definitely did not leave these writings for them before he disappeared.
Because at that time, he was always talking to himself.
He suddenly disappeared while on a call, and his location was not shown on the map, which means he couldn't have had time to do such a thing.
But, if it is really as Lou Feier said, he...
Let trees do this kind of thing
Or something else
Is this kind of thing possible
Xu Xin frowned.
To be honest, he was more inclined to believe that this thing was written by something else in order to get them out of here.
But now that Coco has discovered the abnormality here, he must at least find out what is going on over there.
"Hmm?" Coco, who was lying on Xu Xin's shoulder and feeling listless due to the heat, suddenly raised her little head and looked in the direction where Zeng Tao was digging the hole.
At this time, Zeng Tao's voice also came over.
"Xu Xin, come here quickly and take a look. What's underneath is... ah!"
"Zeng Tao! Ah!" There was also Jin Yue's voice.
!
What's wrong?!
"What's wrong with you?"
"What happened?"
But no one responded.
Xu Xin and Lou Feier looked at each other and immediately ran back.
Soon, the two arrived at the location where they were digging the hole.
but…
Zeng Tao and Jin Yue, who had just made a sound, had completely disappeared at this time.
All that remained was a deeper pit that had been dug.
"What's going on? Where are the two of them?"
Lou Feier lay on the edge of the pit and looked down.
The pit was not dug very deep, only about one and a half meters deep.
Below is the excavated and somewhat messy soil.
“… I told her not to dig anymore!” Xu Xin gritted his teeth.
Logically speaking, he has signed a contract with Zeng Tao. Under normal circumstances, she would not do anything against her will, so he just went to find Lou Feier with peace of mind.
but…
Unexpectedly, Zeng Tao didn't listen to him and wait obediently!
Something happened as expected!
He knew there was nothing good down there!
On the map, the green spots of Zeng Tao and Jin Yue have disappeared.
It's basically the same as Qin Fu before.
Suddenly he disappeared, right where he was.
This time his experience was even stronger. He was only a few dozen meters away, but in the blink of an eye, he was gone!
"What's wrong?" At this time, Li Wenxi, who had been silent, spoke up, "What happened over there?"
Although she didn't speak, she was listening to the situation here. Although she didn't understand what they were saying, she didn't interrupt them. She only knew that if there was any situation, she would fire the heavy crossbow to support.
“… Zeng Tao and the others are missing.”
"Ah? This..."
Xu Xin also squatted down and looked into the depths of the pit.
There was nothing but soil in the pit.
Coco also jumped off his shoulders and looked down.
As a result, his claws failed to hold the edge of the pit firmly and he was about to fall headfirst.
"Oh, oh, oh!" Coco immediately screamed in fear.
Then Xu Xin pulled him up by the tail.
“Don’t run around!”
“嘤…” The little guy hid directly behind Xu Xin.
…
Not quite right.
The pit is only about 1.5 meters deep. For Coco, this height...
Not even as high as his shoulders
It jumps up and down on my shoulders all day long, how could it be afraid of such a small height
"Coco, can you feel it's dangerous down there?"
"Bing!"
Xu Xin looked down carefully.
The dense jungle was too dark at night. Although he could see at night, he could not perceive the colors clearly. He looked for a long time before he found...
This soil... is red!
Moreover, it can no longer be considered light red, the color is quite light!
"This is... contaminated soil!"
Lou Feier was about to jump in, but Xu Xin stopped her.
"The problem should be the soil underneath." Xu Xin narrowed his eyes and looked down.
They really found something.
Could this soil eat people
"What should I do? I... I'll go down and take a look! Find them both!"
Lou Feier was a little panicked.
Two people disappeared right under their noses. They were two of the people with whom she had the best relationship since she came into this world. This made it impossible for her to remain indifferent.
"No." Xu Xin shook his head slowly.
Lou Feier turned her head and looked at him: "Do you want to give up on them both?"
She glared at Xu Xin.
Compared to when she was captured by Xu Xin, she has really changed a lot.
"This..." Li Wenxi didn't know what to say.
She also wanted to find those two people, but she didn't want Xu Xin and the others to put themselves in danger.
However, since she was not involved in this matter, she had no say in it, so she could only remain silent.
"Do you want to listen to what you are saying?" Xu Xin shook his head. "Would I do such a thing? What if something goes wrong when we go down?"
"Then... if we don't want to go down, are we just going to go back like this? Then you go back, I'll go down by myself!"
Lou Feier wanted to jump down immediately.
"No jumping."
"I..." Lou Feier stood at the edge of the pit, clenched her fists, took a step forward, and then stepped back.
Then she pursed her lips and looked at Xu Xin.
It seems that the binding force of his contract is still there.
What happened to Zeng Tao just now
What has affected you
But Lou Fei'er was not affected.
Could it be…
"There is something down there, and my map ability tells me that Zeng Tao Jinyue and Qin Fu are now very far away from us, otherwise I would not be unable to sense them." Xu Xin said.
"... So what should we do?" Lou Feier looked at him and said.
"It's my turn to take action, right?" Li Wenxi suddenly spoke on the other end of the voice line.
"That's right. I will use the explosive crossbow to fire at the dug pit. You can use the control panel to observe the exact location of the explosion. If the explosive crossbow has no effect, you can fire a delayed explosive heavy crossbow at this location! Ah, not a big killer, just an ordinary one."
The control panel of his tree house had long been updated to purple level, and the observable range had been expanded to one kilometer in radius. It was a pity that the jungle had now recovered, and the control panel could basically only see the lush treetops connected together, and could not see what was in the jungle.
But it would be nice to have him as a guide.
Let Li Wenxi use an ordinary explosive heavy crossbow to blow a big hole in the ground.
He wanted to see what was underneath.
"Okay! I got it! I'm ready!"
"Are you satisfied with this method?" Xu Xin glanced at Lou Feier and said.
"... Um, that... I'm sorry." Lou Feier lowered her head, then raised it and took out a crossbow from her backpack, "Let me do it!"
Xu Xin nodded and took a few steps back.
Lou Feier pointed the crossbow at the pit Zeng Tao had just dug and immediately pulled the trigger.
"boom!"
Flames burst out in the pit, and Lou Feier quickly retreated several meters at the moment of the explosion to avoid being accidentally injured by the explosion.
“Hmm…” Coco stuck her head out and looked towards the pit.
"Did you see it?" Xu Xin asked into the voice.
"Well, we can launch at any time." Li Wenxi's voice came.
"There seems to be... no reaction in there." Lou Feier glanced at the inside of the pit and turned around to say.
Xu Xin also walked over to look down.
Indeed, the explosion did turn the area below into black ash from the burnt explosives, but the explosive crossbow was not powerful enough and the hole suffered little damage.
"Then go for the big one. We'll stay away."
Xu Xin and Lou Feier were about twenty meters away from there.
"Okay Wenxi, it's OK, let's fire it."
"Okay! I fired!"
Li Wenxi chose the projectile method. After all, there were too many tree houses blocking the direct shot, and eight hundred meters was too far.
As the mechanical sound of the heavy crossbow "clicked" was sounded, an explosive heavy crossbow flew straight into the sky, drew a perfect parabola in the air, and shot down at the dug pit!
The heavy crossbow easily penetrated the treetops, hit the target, and inserted diagonally into the pit!
"boom!
!”
An extremely bright flame and a huge explosion sounded, causing a huge wave of air in the jungle!
The debris flew all over the jungle, and the nearest tree fell down!
This time, the hole definitely exploded!
Xu Xin and the other person immediately wanted to go over and take a look.
"Hmm!
”
As soon as she took a step, Coco screamed, her voice filled with fear and anxiety.
Then, it pushed Xu Xin's face in the opposite direction.
The meaning is very clear!
Let them run away!
Xu Xin immediately understood what Keke meant. Tong Kong shrank back, grabbed Lou Feier who was about to run over, and ran in the opposite direction: "Run! Something's happening!"
"Ah? What..." Lou Feier hadn't finished her words when suddenly, the ground began to shake!
Moreover, the tremors are getting bigger and bigger!
The two of them ran hundreds of meters in one breath.
At this time, the ground was shaking so violently that the two of them even had to hold on to a tree to stand firmly!
Xu Xin looked back and asked, "What happened?"
"Ah! Xu Xin, run, run!" Li Wenxi's voice came from the watch, "The ground... there's a creature coming out of the ground..."
Her words were drowned out by the huge sound that sounded like an explosion on the ground!
Immediately afterwards, a huge figure blocked out the bright moon and stars in the sky!
“——”
The sound that shook the mountains and forests made Xu Xin and Lou Feier cover their ears.
"What?" Lou Feier screamed loudly.
"嘤!" Coco buried her little head.
In that direction, a giant object several dozen meters high appeared!
The giant gray-white long body was covered with circles of red lines, and a bloody mouth covered with circles of sharp teeth was located at the top, opening as wide as possible towards the direction of the main tree house!
insect!
Giant bugs!
A giant bug with a terrifying bloody mouth!
There was actually a giant insect underneath!
“Ah! Xu Xin, there are… there are insects all around again…” Lou Feier’s hand tightly grasped Xu Xin’s arm.
Xu Xin could feel that she was starting to get scared again!
… Level suppression again
etc…
This sound…
All around, the sound of insects gradually rose, and then became louder and louder!
It was so loud that he couldn't even hear what Lou Feier was saying with a look of fear on her face, or Ke Ke's whimpering voice!
Countless insects appeared from nowhere and instantly filled the entire jungle!
What have they brought up
etc!
Damn, Zeng Tao Jinyue and the others couldn’t be...!