National Rare Monster Illustrated Book

"Each contestant will be sent to a different area. This is the area where Qin Heng and Du Hao'an disappeared."

On the mountain, Lu Ge held the wreckage of two broken wooden signs, and closed his eyes to perceive the breath above.

"They should be in the... east."

Shen Qing said: "Are you all right?"

"I don't know, at least he's not dead yet."

Lu Ge said, "If I die, I won't be able to perceive it anymore."

Shen Qing nodded and rushed towards the direction Lu Ge pointed.

Lu Ge followed closely behind him, and said: "There are many wandering monsters in each area. Although they are not strong individually, if they gather together, they will be quite troublesome."

"..."

Shen Qing stopped suddenly.

Lu Ge followed suit: "What's wrong?"

Shen Qing said: "It's not right."

call--

The sound of the wind swept across the mountains, carrying a faint fishy smell.In the empty and uninhabited world, there were faint low roars of some kind of beast, one after another, shaking the earth slightly.

Lu Ge said: "No wonder they didn't encounter any monsters, they were all waiting for us here."

Shen Qing took a step forward, and black flames ignited from under his feet, flaring up wantonly like thorny thorns.

Lu Ge stepped back a little, and said with a smile, "I'll leave it to you, Master Black Snake."

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"..."

"Wake up, wake up!"

In a daze, Du Hao'an heard an urgent voice beside his ear.

"Are you okay, wake up!"

The man screamed and suddenly grabbed his shoulder and shook it desperately, so violently that he had to wake up even if he didn't want to.

"You...you let go..."

Du Haoan opened his eyes, only to feel a splitting headache.

"you're awake?"

The man stopped as expected, "How do you feel, are you okay?"

The place they were in seemed to be a closed space with no light or fire.It took Du Haoan a while to get used to the light here, and he could clearly see the face of the person in front of him.

——It was the person who was rescued by Qin Heng before and then disappeared for no reason.

Du Hao'an's expression changed, and just as he was about to grab the peach wood sword, he found that he had nothing on him except the talisman paper, and the man was also taken aback, and hurriedly said: "I was brought here just like you, what am I? Do not know at all!"

"..."

Du Haoan said, "Who are you?"

"Cheng Jing,"

The man said, "I'm also a monster catcher."

"Guangping Cheng?"

"No, my Cheng family is just a small family, and you don't even know it."

Cheng Jing shook his head and said, "This is the first time for me to participate in the exchange meeting of the Demon Association this year. I didn't expect to encounter this kind of situation... Was this also arranged by the Demon Neighborhood Committee?"

Du Hao'an was silent for a while, then said: "No, this is beyond the scope of competition."

He looked around and found that they were at the bottom of a cave, surrounded by stone walls, and couldn't find the exit for the time being.

There was no mahogany sword or compass, and the cinnabar pen used to draw the talismans was also lost. Du Haoan touched the Qiankun bag and found that the dry food and blank talisman paper were still there. He tidied up and stood up while supporting the stone wall.

Cheng Jing followed him and stood up, and when Du Haoan checked the surrounding stone walls, he didn't speak, and just stayed by the side until Du Haoan looked back at him: "How did you lose consciousness before?"

"I do not know either,"

Cheng Jing frowned, "I was attacked as soon as I came in."

Du Haoan: "Human? Not a monster?"

Cheng Jingdao: "It can't be a monster, I saw his face before being attacked, it's a..."

He described that person's appearance in a few words, and Du Haoan felt a bit like Qin Heng when he listened.

He stared at Cheng Jing for a few seconds and said: "

Since this is the case, be more careful, I'm going to find the exit, do you want to stay here, or go with me? "

Cheng Jing said: "Of course it's with you. It's safer to have more people, and we can take care of each other."

Du Haoan nodded, pulled out a lighting talisman and walked forward.Cheng Jing followed behind him, looking around from time to time.

There is a small path between the stone walls that can barely accommodate one person. At first, it was extremely narrow. Two people squeezed in with difficulty, and the lighting talisman accidentally fell to the ground. In the darkness, they saw a ray of light not far ahead—it was a small path export.

Du Hao'an thought that the exit was the ground, but he didn't expect that there was still a cave, but it was bigger than the cave just now, and there was a lake in the cave.

There are dots of fluorescent light floating on the surface of the lake, which illuminate the dark cave, and the lake light is also rippling on the surrounding stone walls.

Cheng Jing said: "Where is this?"

Du Hao'an didn't answer, he bent down to pick up a stone on the ground and threw it into the lake, and the lake suddenly became choppy.

There are waves everywhere, but there is no movement in the lake, it seems to be safe.

On the opposite side of the lake is a cave, the cave is deep and dark, and it does not know where it leads.

The two lingered by the lake for a while, and Cheng Jing kept looking at Du Hao'an, wanting to ask for his opinion.

Du Haoan said: "Let's go."

He walked around the lake and walked towards the entrance of the cave. He wanted to find out his lighting talisman, but found that the lighting talisman had been used up.

Without a cinnabar pen, he couldn't make a talisman, so Du Hao'an had no choice but to give up and entered the cave with Cheng Jing.

They couldn't see their fingers in the cave, and the two groped forward slowly. After walking for about ten minutes, Du Hao'an came to a fork in the road.

He stopped.

Cheng Jing said: "What's wrong?"

"……listen,"

Du Haoan said, "There is a voice."

There was a sound from the other side of the fork, broken and complicated, like the friction of many thin feet against the ground.

"not……"

Du Hao'an suddenly realized something, and threw out a piece of talisman paper.

The fireball exploded in the hole, and the air was immediately filled with a burnt smell, accompanied by the crackling sound of burning hard shells.

Something burned, illuminating the scene inside the cave.With just one glance, Du Haoan's scalp exploded.

Inside the cave, on the stone walls, there were all kinds of bugs crawling all over. They squirmed one after another like a tide, flocking towards the two of them!

Cheng Jing: "What is this?!"

Du Haoan: "Run!"

He ran in the direction he came from without hesitation, and the worms followed them. Countless slender feet stepped on the ground, and the shells of the worms collided, making goose bumps come out of everyone who heard it.

The two were chased all the way until there was light in the dark cave - the exit was ahead.

Just as he was about to run out, Cheng Jing suddenly staggered and grabbed Du Haoan's sleeve.

In the next second, Du Haoan turned around and grabbed Cheng Jing's wrist, and when Cheng Jing raised his head to say something gratefully...he was pushed into the pile of insects.

The bugs quickly surged up, covering the man's body.His expression was astonished, obviously he hadn't reacted yet.

Du Haoan stood at the entrance of the cave, staring at him coldly.

Cheng Jing: "..."

In just a few seconds, he was eaten up by the bugs without a sound, leaving only a thin layer of human skin.

The human skin fell to the ground lightly, and the bugs receded like a tide.Deep in the cave, a figure staggered out.

"Fortunately, you understood my hint."

The young woman held on to the wall and stood up with difficulty, and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Zhu Yuan?"

Du Haoan said, "What happened?"

Zhu Yuan: "Stop talking nonsense, come and help me."

Du Haoan: "..."

He walked over to support Zhu Yuan, and found that she had many wounds on her body, more like falls.

"How did it hurt?"

Zhu Yuan sneered and pointed at the pile of human skin on the ground: "I was pushed down by that bastard puppet."

——"Cheng Jing" is not a real person, but a human puppet, this is what Du Haoan noticed after waking up.

The Zhu family is good at Gu art and can control Gu insects.When the bugs appeared, he received the signal from Zhu Yuan from the sound of bug feet, and when "Cheng Jing" wanted to frame him, he pushed him back into the bug swarm.

Du Haoan said: "Do you know what this place is?"

"If I knew, would I still be here?"

Zhu Yuan raised her eyebrows, "You must have been attacked out of nowhere like me."

Du Haoan nodded: "There is also Qin Heng, he is also missing."

"The Qin family... Tsk."

Zhu Yuan turned her face away and said, "It's impossible to find him now, let's think about how to contact the outside world first."

She tapped the depths of the hole and pulled out a lighting talisman.

"My Gu worm seems to have found an exit. I'm injured now, and I can't leave alone. If you are willing to cooperate with me, I will show you the way."

Du Hao'an murmured, "Yes."

He knelt down and wanted to carry Zhu Yuan on his back, but Zhu Yuan took a step back and said, "I don't want someone to carry me. Just support me. I'll go by myself."

——So 2 minutes later, Zhu Yuan held the lighting talisman, and Du Haoan supported her, and the two walked slowly into the cave again.

As she was walking, a small Gu insect crawled over, Zhu Yuan bent down and pinched it, listened intently for a while, and frowned.

"There are people ahead, go back."

They took a few steps back, and sure enough, they saw the stone wall in front of them vibrate for no reason, and the gravel rolled down. After a few seconds, there was a loud noise.

There was smoke and dust in the cave, and a hole was kicked out of the stone wall. Someone slowly walked out from the other side and patted the corner of his clothes casually.

Du Haoan: "You are... Lu Ge?"

"Ok?"

Lu Ge turned his head to look at him, and smiled slightly, "Master Du, Miss Zhu—by the way, where is Master Qin?"

Du Hao'an said: "I can't find him. I was with him before, and he even saved a puppet. Then we were attacked and separated after we woke up."

"It seems that someone is playing tricks,"

Lu Ge said, "Mr. Ji and I came in through the teleportation array, but I was accidentally teleported to this cave, and I didn't see him."

Du Haoan was stunned for a moment, while Zhu Yuan said, "It's you monsters again, what do you want to do?"

Lu Ge smiled and said nothing, ignoring her.

Zhu Yuan: "..."

She took a step forward and wanted to say something, but was pulled back by Du Hao'an.

"Do you know the way out?"

"Sorry, I don't know."

Lu Ge said, "But I can escort you out - on the premise of finding Mr. Ji."

Zhu Yuan: "Who wants a demon—"

"Okay, let's go find it together."

Du Hao'an said, "There must be something wrong here, I guess someone wants to lure us here on purpose, we must figure it out."

Lu Ge said: "That's exactly what I mean."

They reached a consensus, and Zhu Yuan stayed aside in a muffled voice, not speaking.

The three of them walked to the depths of the cave again. The cave was very deep, and they couldn't finish walking until the lighting talisman in Zhu Yuan's hand was burned out.

Zhu Yuan took out another lighting talisman, looked around, and slowly frowned.

"We seem to have been here before,"

She said, "Or have we been standing still?"

"It's really standing still."

Lu Ge stroked the stone wall beside him, and said, "There is a very unique force here, or in other words, the entire cave is one, and it wants to trap us."

Du Hao'an said: "Is there any way?"

"There are ways, but I don't understand this, and I don't know what the consequences will be."

Lu Ge said, "The easiest way is to forcibly destroy the stone wall from the outside, which can affect this force in a short period of time... Unfortunately, I didn't notice it just now."

boom!

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a dull crash above the heads of the three of them.

boom! boom! boom!

Powerful impacts hit the top of the cave one after another, snake-like cracks spread over the stone wall, and stones fell like drizzle.

Du Hao'an immediately moved Zhu Yuan aside, and Lu Ge walked over unhurriedly. Just as his front feet left the area, the gravel collapsed like thunder, and the top of the cave collapsed.

A man's body fell down like a torn rag, the young man jumped down stepping on the gunpowder smoke, and stepped on the man's head.

After seeing the faces of those two people clearly, Du Hao'an's pupils shrank.

That was Shen Qing, and Lu Ge at his feet.