What should I do if the insect king hatches from the egg I picked up?

"woooooo"

It was obviously not the whining sound of leaves blown by the wind, but if you listened carefully, there seemed to be screams and cries.

"..."

"No, it's noisy. It's probably haunted."

Mirje curled up into a ball, squeezed between Jingxia and August, and shook his body like a quail.

"what--"

A piercing scream broke through the silence of the dense forest, bringing a hint of gloom to the dark jungle, and then the whimpering sounds came one after another in the depths, as if there was some kind of creature wailing in the deep forest.

The sharp sound made all five people tremble, and Lan Huali covered her ears in pain.

Jing Xia quickly put a layer of mental protection on Lan Huaili's ears, which could penetrate Lan Huaili's own protection. The screaming creature was obviously much stronger than him.

"Want to take a look?"

Herbert held the button of his mecha and asked his teammates.

"Go and have a look."

Jingxia checked the protective shields he had given to his teammates one by one, and after confirming that the protective balls given by Emperor Xiu were still on them, he nodded.

At least he had to see who was calling for help. If it was a student who was also murdered, then go rescue him; if it was just a bait for the creatures in the jungle to lure them there, then he would kill them as soon as possible.

The five people cautiously walked through the woods, alert to the surrounding situation, and approached the place where the whimpering sound was coming.

As they got closer, the view gradually widened, and the scene in front of them made all five people's eyes widen.

I saw a huge and dark tree standing on a flat ground. The leaves that seemed to be swaying in the wind were also dark, but the veins of the leaves were as red as blood vessels.

The dark tree roots snaked across the entire surface like snakes, and there was a bottomless tree hole in the center of the trunk. The thin scream came from the hole.

This is weird enough, but what's even weirder is that the scream coming from the cave entrance seems to be humming with a tune.

There are two strands of tree roots as thick as a human being protruding from both sides of the tree pole, tying a struggling man into a rice dumpling. There are several large and tied "zongzi" on the ground covered with tree roots.

Really "human flesh rice dumplings", using tree roots as rice dumpling leaves, human beings as filling, and tied in an angular shape, Jingxia feels that it is more standard than the rice dumplings made by his father during the Dragon Boat Festival.

Each rice dumpling reveals a human head with its mouth covered by tree roots, which is very scary.

August and others: This... are they disturbing this person's "interest"?

Jingxia was very surprised after seeing the tree clearly. Isn't this the screaming tree demon in the abyss?

How come you live here? Can you also make rice dumplings?

Jingxia, who had questions all over his head, met the eyes of the dryad who noticed something and turned the trunk of the tree to face their direction with a hole in the tree.

Jingxia: Oh, it’s over.

"what--"

The screaming tree demon threw the half-finished rice dumpling in his hand (?) to the ground. The tops of two thick tree roots were pressed against both sides of the large tree hole. There was another deafening scream, and the leaves on the top of the tree were still A rustling tremor.

August and others: What? ! Are you about to start attacking?

Following the scream, the tree roots on the ground began to shake, as if they were about to attack them in the next second.

August and the others were nervously preparing for defense, and even Jingxia began to be wary of an accident, but the screaming tree demon suddenly stopped moving.

Jingxia and the others: o.O?

The two thick tree roots punched the ground, and with a strong force, the big tree with a dark trunk pulled itself up.

Jingxia and the others:! ! !

Perhaps feeling the fear of Jingxia and the others, the tree demon shook his body and slowly extended two thin tree roots in their direction, shaking them slightly to show that he had no ill intentions, and finally even gave Jingxia a heart-warming gesture. !

August pushed up his glasses, which almost fell off in shock: "It's..." Is it showing off?

Miljie murmured: "It's fake...isn't he trying to trick us and tie us up?"

Herbert silently looked at the dark tree root glowing with red light that stretched out from the side. The root playfully shook the bag he was carrying on his back.

Lan Huaili looked at Jingxia, and that love was obviously shown to Jingxia.

Jing Xia touched her nose under Lan Huaili's probing gaze: Haha, he doesn't know either.

"It shouldn't hurt us though."

After hearing Jing Xia's words, the tree roots in front of him suddenly nodded excitedly, as if they were agreeing with Jing Xia's words.

The five people moved cautiously towards the trunk of the tree, with Jingxia walking in front. With every step they took, the roots of the tree in front moved outward, revealing to them the tight ground pressed by the roots.

In this way, they walked all the way to a distance of three or four meters from the tree trunk, and Jingxia stopped with his friends.

There are strong mental power fluctuations near the tree trunk of the Screaming Dryad. If the distance is too close, August and the others' mental power will be damaged.

August looked at the receding tree roots around him, wondering if they had just tried to show off their power.

The screaming tree demon used tree roots to create a circle for the five people to avoid the wind. He also rolled up a "big rice dumpling" and handed it to Jingxia's eyes, trying to stuff it in front of Jingxia.

Screaming Dryad: Take it, take it.

Jing Xia quickly waved her hand and refused: "No, no, you should keep this for yourself."

The entire tree trunk and the crown of the tree tilted sideways, as if thinking about something.

Suddenly, the tree roots surrounding them began to squirm, gradually covering the sky above them, like a semicircular hut made of tree roots.

August and the others were shocked: Are they going to make big rice dumplings out of them?

Jingxia felt a familiar breath approaching them.

After a while, a deep voice came from outside the tree root hut: "What are you hiding?"

"Ah - ah" No, no, I'm not hiding anything.

This was the answer that the screaming tree demon gave like a cover-up.

Jing Xia's eyes lit up and he replied: "Brother Mo Yi!"

A low voice: "Xiao Xia?"

Now, the screaming tree demon also knew that the patrolman in front of him knew the person he was hiding, so he slowly loosened the roots of the tree, revealing Jingxia and his party.

August and others thought that after the tree roots dispersed, they would see the man greeting Jingxia, but they did not expect that what appeared in front of them was a giant beast as dark as the middle of the night.

The scarlet animal eyes are even more sharp under the support of the black mane. The soft black hair shines faintly in the sun. The limbs are strong and the wolf claws are sharp. Behind him is a pair of sky-covering black wings spread out. Blocking most of the daylight.

The giant beast that Jing Xia called Mo Yi's brother glanced at August and the others with his wolf eyes. A chill appeared on the backs of the people being stared at, and they froze.

"Ahem, Brother Mo Yi, they are my teammates." Jing Xia introduced to Si Mo Yi.

After hearing this, Black Wolf nodded to them, put away all his pressure, and the screaming tree demon next to him shook his body.

The taciturn Si Moyi asked the underage cub, "Why are you here?"

"Ah, that's right, someone was chasing us, and then we met the tree demon passing by here."

"These?" Si Moyi glanced at the tightly tied rice dumplings on the ground.

Jingxia nodded honestly: "Yes"

These guys also had the aura of chasing their group. They were obviously a group of people, but they encountered a tree demon and were tied up by the tree demon as a food reserve.

How miserable. Still, deserve it.