After killing the system, he was bound to Zai's father again.

After walking a distance, the weeds on the ground disappeared, leaving only thick tree roots tangled and spread on the ground.

They walked carefully on the uneven tree roots.

But the more careful you are, the more likely something will go wrong.

A soldier tripped over a raised root.

"what--"

He screamed and rushed forward.

Fortunately, Zhao Lie was in front of him and supported him in time.

Zhao Lie said to him: "Be careful and watch the road."

The soldier was still frightened: "I was clearly watching the road, but the tree roots seemed to have suddenly grown taller, and that's why I tripped."

Zhao Lie patted his shoulder and said, "It must be because the light was dim that you couldn't see clearly. Be careful."

Soldier: "Okay."

He also thought that he tripped because he didn't see clearly.

But then, the soldier tripped again and again, and although other people happened to catch him, he was indeed tripped.

At this moment, the soldier no longer believed that he did not look clearly under his feet, because after the first and second times, he raised his feet as high as possible, but still tripped.

He said to Yunyue: "Girl, I seem to be being targeted by someone!"

Yun Yue was calm after hearing this: "I am indeed being targeted."

She had noticed it the second time the soldier stumbled.

It’s just that the thing that tripped him was extremely cunning and never revealed its true identity.

So Yun Yue just watched calmly. As the soldier tripped more and more times, Yun Yue finally saw clearly what was causing the trouble.

Zhao Lie quickly stood in front of the soldier, "Girl, where is that thing? I'll kill it."

Yunyue: "It's not easy to kill it."

Di Qing and Di Hong stood on both sides of Yunyue and Hua Wuting, looking around.

"Girl, where is it?" Di Qing asked again.

"It's right there!" Yun Yue looked towards the thick tree behind them.

The tree is so thick that even five people cannot hug it together.

Following Yunyue's gaze, everyone was surprised and uncertain.

“This…this big tree?”

Everyone moved silently, moving away from the big tree.

Yunyue: "No, it's not the big tree, it's that thing on the big tree."

Yun Yinqian: "What is it?"

Yunyue took the long knife from Yun Yinqian's hand and cut the bark hard.

The bark was cut open, and the white-green trunk that is usually seen after peeling the tree was not revealed, but was instead pitch black.

As the bark cut by the knife peeled off, the originally black trunk began to move.

Looking closely, I found that they were densely packed with black bugs.

As the black bugs on the surface crawled, everything underneath was revealed, and it was still densely packed with bugs.

Yun Yinqian: "It looks like the entire tree trunk is full of bugs?"

Yunyue: "Not just the trunk, but the entire tree, including the branches and roots."

Liang Wuguang: "Root system... that's the part we are standing on right now?"

Yunyue: "Yes."

"Huh~"

Everyone couldn't help but get goosebumps when they thought about the dense black bugs under their feet.

They couldn't stand as soon as they thought of these insects breaking through the bark and crawling all over their bodies.

Everyone couldn't help but stand on tiptoe, and even wished their feet were off the ground.

Looking at the group of people who were supporting each other to maintain stability, Yun Yue held her forehead and said, "Don't worry, they won't run out of the tree bark. If they could run out, they would have run out long ago."

Yun Yinqian put his foot down: "That's right."

Di Qing stared at the bugs and was very curious: "Girl, why can't they escape from the bark?"

The piece of bark that Miss Yun peeled off from the tree trunk fell off, but the black bug under the bark still stayed in the trunk.

"It is rumored that there is a kind of insect in the forest called the black insect. This insect is extremely poisonous, but it depends on the giant root of the Thunder Breaking Tree to survive. It lives in the giant root of the Thunder Breaking Tree and absorbs nutrients." Hua Wuting explained in a faint tone.

Yunyue added: "Once the black worm successfully lives in a giant thunder-breaking tree, it will not leave the tree, otherwise it will die immediately."

The soldier who was tripped several times wondered: "It already has food, why does it deliberately trip me so many times?"

Yunyue: "These insects survive by absorbing the giant root of the Thunder Breaking Tree. What does this giant root of the Thunder Breaking Tree feed on?"

"Of course it's soil. Could it be..."

The word "people" was not spoken aloud, but everyone present understood it.

The black worm manipulated the roots to trip them up and then turned them into nutrients for the tree to absorb.

Yun Yinqian took a breath and said, "What a vicious bug."

While they were talking, the tree roots on the ground began to move again.

Maybe because they had failed so many times before, these bugs were getting a little anxious.

This time they were completely uncovered, their roots pulled out from the ground and began to grab people in a binding posture.

"Be careful, don't get dragged away!"

Once dragged away, they will be immediately pulled underground and strangled and eaten by the roots of the big tree.

After all, there were thousands of small black bugs controlling the roots, so the flexibility of the roots was not very high, and Yun Yinqian and the others were able to hide quite easily.

While hiding, Yun Yinqian remembered what Yun Yue said that these insects could not leave the big tree.

So he smiled sinisterly, took off the insect repellent sachet from his waist and threw it towards the peeled tree trunk.

The sachet was thrown into the tree trunk, and the black tentacles disappeared in an instant.

Some black insects were so frightened by the smoke that they fell out and immediately turned into black powder.

Seeing this, Zhao Lie and others immediately followed his example and threw the sachets around their waists into the tree trunk.

These sachets are indeed the nemesis of the black insects. The black insects on the trunk are rushing towards the treetops and roots.

It is obvious that the treetops and roots are becoming more and more swollen.

Seeing this, Yun Yue shouted, "Retreat! Quickly!"

Upon hearing this, everyone reflexively followed Yunyue in retreating.

As soon as I ran out of the range of the tree's roots, the tree exploded with a "bang".

The treetops and roots burst due to carrying too many black insects.

These black insects fell to the ground and turned into powder, or turned into powder in mid-air before they hit the ground.

A ball of black powder gathered in the air at the back. As the rain dripped down, the black powder condensed from the water to form a small sticky ball that fell to the ground and mixed into the soil.

In an instant the soil changed color, turning black and purple.

This shows how poisonous the black worm is.

Given the toxicity, they probably wouldn't be able to resist it even if they were wearing mermaid skin clothes.

It is not advisable to stay here for long. Now that these black insects have been dealt with, they will continue to move forward.

Not long after Yunyue and the others left, another sound of footsteps on rotten leaves was heard.

Lu Yixian walked over slowly, looking at the black and purple land, he sighed: "Even if it is poisonous, it is still restricted by the laws of nature. It must rely on the giant root Lei Duan tree to survive, and cannot leave it at all."

After saying that, he chased in the direction Yunyue and the others left.

There are too many vegetation in the forest, so most animals hide in these vegetation.

After walking a short distance, bushes began to grow on the ground. These bushes had obvious thorns and could easily get caught on your clothes.

In order to facilitate walking, Zhao Lie led a few soldiers with swords in hand to clear the way and cut down the thorny bushes.

As he was chopping, something as thin as a hair suddenly jumped out from the bushes. It was quite long, about the length of an adult man's forearm.

The thing shot towards the back of Ma Qiao's hand, then instantly penetrated the mermaid's skin clothes and penetrated the skin of the entire body.

An obvious bulge appeared on the back of Maqiao's hand. The bulge was blood red. Maqiao's whole hand was in so much pain that he even wanted to roll on the ground.

"It hurts! It hurts so much!" he cried out in pain.

Yunyue took out a few silver needles and stuck them into his arms, preventing the hair-like thing from moving inside Maqiao's body.

Then he took a silver needle to block Ma Qiao's pain.

Ma Qiao leaned on Zhao Lie, gasping for breath.

"Sister, what is this thing? It can actually wear through mermaid skin clothes!"