Loud rumbling noises were still being heard from the ground, as if a group of evil beasts from the abyss were running wildly between the rocks and mud. Lily lay down beside the hole and looked down cautiously. Her eyes shimmered, but In the deep darkness, she could only see a group of vague shadows moving fast: "It doesn't seem to be catching up... That thing doesn't seem to be able to turn."
With the sound of fluttering, Vivian's bats condensed into human form again. She threw a small bat towards the entrance of the cave to observe closely. Both Lily and Lily saw the following situation clearly: the huge "tentacles" were still extending forward, and the rough brown-black skin was flashing past the bottom of the shaft, even Lily's werewolf super vision could not see the details clearly. However, this tentacle doesn't seem to be able to sense the situation above the shaft, it just chases forward blindly, or maybe just like Lily said, this thing won't turn.
After a while, the tentacle finally stopped moving. It seemed that it had reached the end of the tunnel. After hesitating for a while, it began to shrink back slowly, leaving only a slightly expanded, smooth and complete rock along the way. tunnel.
The two of them breathed a sigh of relief, and Lily sat on the ground and patted her chest with her hands: "It seems to have retreated, it scared me to death..."
Then she rubbed her eyes again, and looked at Vivienne with a slight complaint: "The brightness of your lightning strike is too high, and the dog's eyes almost blinded."
Vivian didn't know whether the second half of Lily's sentence was an exaggeration or an ordinary statement...
"What the hell is that?" Lily sat on the ground for a while, then quickly got up, and looked at Vivienne curiously while patting the dust off her body, "Have you seen such a thing before?" ?”
Vivian shook her head: "I haven't seen it before. At first glance, it looks a bit like an underground creature, maybe the tentacles of a giant creature, but its skin doesn't look like an animal... It's a bit like a plant, wrinkled. Yes. It's a pity that it was too messy to see clearly. But I got some samples-"
As she spoke, she raised her hand to show a large piece of black matter. It turned out that when she jumped up just now, she separated some bats and tore some tissue samples from the surface of the tentacles. Lily immediately leaned forward with great interest. Her eyes gleamed in the light of two silver moons, and the details of the black tissue were clearly discernible in the moonlight: it had a wrinkled surface. It is covered with uniform cracks like dry bark, and the edges are hard, but overall it has a certain degree of flexibility. Vivienne turned it over, and the two saw that the back of the tissue sample had strange lines, which were quite plant-like.
"It really looks like a plant, and it smells like it," Lily sniffed. "Well, it's definitely not meaty. What did you think of the bat?"
Vivian turned her head and looked at the Twisted Woodland not far away, thoughtfully: "... It is said that the Twisted Woodland has a larger body underground, which is a group of roots that spread to the center of the Blood Lake and the depths of the Dragon's Back Mountain Range... Based on the location here and the shape of that tentacle just now...could it be several of the Twisted Woodland?!"
Lily suddenly felt hairy all over: "It's nothing, right! Tree roots still run after people?"
Vivienne put away the black matter, turned around and walked towards the Twisted Forest: "It's just a guess, but the possibility is very high. There is no shortage of strange things in this world. This forest has given me a strange feeling from the beginning , I don't believe it's just a plant..."
Lily followed Vivienne in three or two steps: "What are you going to do? You don't plan to dig a hole in the forest to verify it, do you? What if you dig out that kind of tentacles again?"
Vivian shook her head: "Of course I won't take the risk. I just want to see if those trees are the same substance as the 'black skin' in my hand."
She was silent for a while when she said this, and said to Lily while thinking: "Also, don't you find it strange? We assume that the tentacles are the roots of the twisted woodland. But according to local legends, these underground roots are in extremely deep places. People even think it's just a fairy tale-they have lived in this place for hundreds of thousands of years and have not been attacked by that kind of tentacles. The only sighting report is that a group of dwarves were digging too deep in the mountain before encountering suspected data. Root stuff, and there's not much solid evidence in that report...”
Lily has two personalities. But the brain is not slow at all: "Are you saying that these tentacles or roots have only recently moved to the shallow layer?"
Vivienne nodded with a serious expression: "The Twisted Woodland has grown here for ten thousand years. The tentacles just now—whether they are roots or not—should also be quite ancient creatures, but the residents of the Beinz area never I have never encountered it, which means that it has been living deep underground, but the tunnel below the outpost is only a dozen meters deep from the surface... I suspect that this kind of tentacles are preparing to come to the surface."
Lily broke out in a cold sweat, with goosebumps all over her body: "Hiss—I kind of want to go home! This sounds so creepy!"
"You haven't seen anything scarier than this. In the age of mythology, there were monsters that challenged the three views. You couldn't be scared to death in that era?"
"Who said that! You can't underestimate the courage of a werewolf! I just feel a little sick."
"Let go of your tail when you say this, you'd be ashamed to walk with your tail between your legs..."
The two drifted away noisyly. Not long after they left, there was a sudden rush of horseshoes from another direction.
A group of fully armed church knights and church mages rode to the ruins of the outpost. They are sentry units that patrol the perimeter at night. These soldiers got off their horses outside the camp and cautiously walked into the ruins of the outpost. Someone was talking to others: "That's the movement from this direction just now..."
"It sounds like it came from underground... Those stone monsters have learned how to make holes, right?"
"Goddess has pity, I don't know if monsters will punch holes, someone must have punched holes in your brain!"
At this time, a sentry suddenly shouted in front: "There is a tunnel here!"
The warriors gathered hastily, and they discovered the shaft that Lily had left behind.
The captain of this small sentinel troop pondered for a while by the shaft, and called out the two soldiers: "Jefferson, Homan, come down with me."
In the sky, two rounds of cold silver moons still hung high, and the bloody red spot on the main moon looked down on the earth like a bloodshot and indifferent eye, looking down on the tiny creatures crawling stupidly on the earth, until a dark cloud floated in, The bloody eye was covered.
As the moonlight dimmed, Hao Ren looked up at the sky: "Dark clouds are coming up, there may be rain."
Nangong Wuyue was very happy immediately: "It's raining, it's raining~~"
"Hush—" Hao Ren suddenly pressed Nangong Wuyue's mouth, "There is a cave ahead."
Between the stone walls not far ahead, a hole cleverly hidden by the surrounding rocks appeared in front of the two of them. If it wasn't for his greatly enhanced powers of observation, Hao Ren would have almost overlooked the irregularities in those rocks just now. Nangong Wuyue immediately raised her vigilance, slid on the ground silently, and approached the cave entrance together with Hao Ren.
A cold and slightly fishy strange wind blew intermittently from the cave, and Nangong Wuyue subconsciously opened the water mist barrier to block the strange wind: "There is an evil breath inside."
Hao Ren glanced at the sea monster unexpectedly: "How do you know it's an evil breath?"
"It's more emotional to say that!" Nangong Wuyue put her hands on her hips, and then stuck out her tongue, "Well, it's genetic. Although I'm a sea monster, my dad has at least inherited some sixth sense for me. I think this Nothing good in there."
Hao Ren shrugged his shoulders and took the lead in walking ahead: "Hurry up, the progress bar is about to run out."
The cave was deeper than expected. When Hao Ren entered, what he saw was a long cave extending to nowhere. The cave walls on both sides were neat and smooth, with obvious traces of artificial excavation.
Apparently, he had finally come across a big secret.
The cave was twisted and crooked, and there were many turns, but fortunately there were no troublesome forks or dark passages. Hao Ren and Nangong Wuyue walked in it for an unknown amount of time, when they suddenly noticed a light in front of them.
It was just a torch stuck in the rock wall, but the light was enough to prove that someone was inside. (to be continued~^~)