Chapter 174: The Cave

I found a few sergeants who had a little research on formations to take a look, and shook their heads, saying that there were no traces of formations.

Shen Hao, who didn't believe in evil, swung his true energy towards the giant stone again, but still didn't respond in the slightest.

"Am I being too sensitive?"

An hour later, the surrounding sky had already darkened, and all the people who had scattered had been collected back. They found nothing new except for more and rarer kinds of poisons, nor did they discover the so-called source of plague. This result did not satisfy Shen Hao.

"My lord, continue to the north for about two miles and there is a cliff. I went to see it. It seems that the place under the cliff is no longer as gloomy as it is here, and the terrain is broken as abruptly as before."

So coming here is actually the end of the scope of this special place?

"Set camp on the spot and strengthen vigilance."

"yes!"

Because the terrain around the boulder is flat now, and the trees are rarely open, and the ground is not as dry as before, as dark as mud. The distribution of the poison also avoided this open area, enough to keep the seventy or so people in Shen Hao's hands.

Anyway, it's too late to go back, so spending the night here should be easier to deal with than going outside.

Hearing that camp was about to be set up, the few ordinary soldiers left hurriedly found mud and began to smear it on their bodies, one inch thick, with only eyes and nose exposed, so that they would not be afraid of poisonous insects, and with torches they could survive the night at least. It's just that after three consecutive days of mental stress, these ordinary sergeants are already very tired.

The rest of the monks need to be much calmer. They can rely on their true energy shields to resist the approach of poisonous insects. However, those with lower cultivation bases have already lost too much true energy. Ordinary sergeants smear themselves in mud.

Bury pots for cooking. The night began to fall in the mountains, and we had to fill our stomachs before the poisonous insects appeared.

But things completely overturned everyone's expectations in the next instant.

"Is this an earthquake?"

At about the right time, Shen Hao felt a slight vibration from the ground as soon as he served the meal. The vibration continued and gradually became more obvious, as if a horse ran up from the ground quickly.

Without waiting for Shen Hao to think about it, there was a crackling sound like a stone cracking. Looking at the reputation, it turned out that the ground in the middle of the five boulders was slowly opening a hole, like a mouth.

"Everyone stay away from this place, stay close to each other and support each other!"

Everyone is fully alert, because it is too weird. How many people walked up and down during the day without finding any clues, but a hole suddenly opened at night? !

In addition, as the hole in the middle slowly expanded, a sense of uneasiness suddenly began to haunt everyone.

"buzzing"

The subtle sound went from far to near and from bottom to top. Soon it became a burst of roar, and finally "squirted" out of the middle hole suddenly in the eyes of horror!

"Be careful! Bugs are coming!"

Shen Hao never thought that one day he would see a picture of swarms of insects like a fountain, and that kind of creepy discomfort also made his whole body tense up knowing that danger was coming.

"Closer to me! Those with high cultivation level will help those with low cultivation level! Hurry up, come close to me!" Shen Hao swung one hand, and he threw out a Dharma disk, which was exactly the two Dharma pieces that the Wen family had withheld earlier. One of the tools: the five elements to build a defense system.

Although it is only a magic weapon of the five elements, it is of middle-grade quality anyway. After activation, the covered area reaches a radius of five feet, and the consumption of true energy is completely within the range of Shen Hao, who is at the second level of the God-gathering state.

"The uncultivated ones come first!"

Among the advanced magic circles without cultivation bases, those with low cultivation bases will be given the remaining positions, and those with higher cultivation bases will resist for a while.

Under the light of the torch, the spewing poisonous insects looked like a gradually expanding colorful tornado. There were many kinds of colorful and colorful things inside, but strangely, they didn't kill each other. After circling in mid-air, Qi Qi rushed towards the crowd waiting below.

"Crackling."

It was like the sound of pebbles falling on the table, densely resounding on the shield of the defensive array, the impact was not strong, but the wisps of venom dripping slowly from the shield were shocking.

This situation continued until dawn the next day. And in the early hours of the morning, the bugs that had been scattered gathered again and frantically poured into the black hole in the middle of the boulder. At dawn, the black hole closed and there was nothing strange about it.

Shen Hao put away the Dharma tray only to realize that he was sweating profusely. Even though his meridians are different from ordinary people, running a medium-grade magic weapon at high speed all night still made him very strenuous and almost drained. If it hadn't been too dangerous last night, Shen Hao wouldn't have shown his tricks, which would have been his trump card.

"What's in that hole?" Shen Hao frowned deeply, and now he finally understood why this seemingly innocuous place was marked as a red dot by that map.

"Snapped!"

Shen Hao turned his head and saw a sergeant beside him slapped himself on the neck, killing a small insect, which was ordinary, the size of a bean, and looked like an ordinary insect in the forest.

Shen Hao withdrew his gaze, and carefully walked to the middle of the five boulders again. His feet were clearly where the black hole was last night, but now he stepped on it without shaking at all, and there was no abnormality in stomping his feet, and there was no mana fluctuation at all. If he hadn't seen it, who would have thought that there are still things hidden in these surfaces?

"My lord, do you want to dig this place?"

"." Shen Hao glanced at the person who said this, wondering if the other person was out of his mind. Dig up? If those bugs come out again, who will deal with them?

After thinking for a while, Shen Hao simply pulled out the camp and withdrew!

Get out of here and go to a safe place before making a long-term plan. And this place is weird, definitely not something he can decide on his own. In addition, the source of the plague has not yet been settled.

Compared with being slow and cautious when compared, the way back always seems to be faster.

Two days later, Shen Hao and his party came out of that strange place with a few wounded. Almost everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the forest full of vitality instead of yin.

And many people are already waiting here.

"My lord, you finally came out!" Wang Yiming wanted to go in and look for it several times, but in the end he waited patiently for two days. If Shen Hao and the others didn't come out today, he would really go into the mountains to look for someone.

"Well, take the wounded for treatment. Let's go back to Wanhekou first."

A group of people rushed back non-stop, but when they first arrived at the Wanhekou station, another accident happened: a sergeant died, and there was no sign before. Moreover, the corpse was covered with terrifying black spots. Obviously, this person died of the black spot plague.