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It was already noon when the three of them were ready to set off, and dense water droplets condensed in the air, making it cool on the skin.

"It seems to be raining." Lu Ming raised his head and stared at the sky, and the blue-black clouds swirled and approached from all around, gathering into a large dark net above his head, completely isolating the wisps of sunlight.

"Well, but the scenery of the Yuandong Cave is more beautiful in rainy days. Let's try to arrive before dark." Li Hong shook the backpack on his shoulders and held a silver trekking pole in his right hand.

Lu Ming adjusted the wrist strap of the trekking pole to a suitable length, and assumed a posture of climbing a cliff, "I knew it was going to the Yuandong, but I didn't know that I thought we were going to climb Mount Everest."

Li Hong petted a smile and explained: "Ape Cave is also called Xuanming Cave. Dozens of people fall off the cliff on the way every year. We'd better be careful."

Lu Ming frowned in embarrassment, most of the excitement just now disappeared.

"Let's go." Han Xi pointed to the front and signaled Li Hong to lead the way.

Li Hong nodded awkwardly, and walked forward consciously.

The three of them passed the big stage and found that the stage that was still empty last night had already been set up.In the middle of the stage hung a huge map of the red sun jumping over the sea, and in front of it was a table with a figure of eight, covered with table curtains, with red satin as the base, embroidered with patterns of jade and wealth.On the upper left of the table is a silver square stick and a piece of gavel, in the middle is a wooden rectangular inkstone, and on the right is a yellow wrapped square printing box.Behind the table is a big seat, which is the same color and embroidered with the table hangings.

"Is this going to sing 'Bao Gong Judgments'?" Lu Ming walked to the front of the stage and stretched his neck to look inside.

Suddenly, a dark-skinned burly man came out from behind the curtain next to the stage, staring at Lu Ming who was below the stage and yelling loudly: "Hey, stay away from here!"

Li Hong walked quickly to Lu Ming, looked up and saw that it was his friend, and couldn't help being a little surprised: "Wang Qiang, didn't you go to City A? Why are you here?"

The man on the stage squatted down and looked at Li Hong contemptuously: "Why are you back? Could it be that you can't hang out anymore?"

Li Hong didn't speak, just punched him with a fist, and the man on the stage immediately fell to the ground in pain.Li Hong walked onto the stage unhurriedly, and stepped on the man's arched back at the right time, and the man groaned in pain.

"You're fucking hard, dare to talk to me like that!" Li Hong's feet were slowly grinding on his back, and the man finally passed out from the pain.

Seeing that Li Hong was about to move, Lu Ming was afraid of causing death, so he hurried forward to stop Li Hong, "Calm down!"

Li Hong spat hard at the man on the ground, stroked the hair scattered in front of his face due to excitement, and got off the stage with Lu Ming.

"Leave as soon as you're done." Han Xi raised his eyebrows and looked at the two of them.During the commotion just now, Brother Mei in the ring sent him a message of 'Jing, Ape Cave'. Although he didn't know the meaning of the first half of the sentence, the 'Ape Cave' in the second half of the sentence should be their destination this time.

The three embarked on the journey again, Li Hong was overwhelmed by the strange weather, felt an inexplicable uneasiness in his heart, and unconsciously quickened his pace.

Go around the stage and go along the fork road on the left. There are large cornfields planted on both sides of the road. The stalks have grown to the shoulders of adults. The trumpet-shaped leaves are wrapped with tender white seeds. The beard hangs softly like hair.The three of them had no time to appreciate the scenery next to them, and continued to go deeper with their heads depressed.The road began to become narrower and narrower, and eventually even the body of a child could not pass through.

"What should I do?" Lu Ming looked at the succulent corn in front of him, not daring to move forward rashly.

"Blow this and go." Li Hong took out three bark whistle-like things from his backpack and handed them to Han Xi and Lu Ming.The cortex of the whistle is very hard, and there are many raised dots on the surface of the blowing port, and the nozzle is wrapped in layers of black silk, with only a little gap exposed.

Li Hong demonstrated that when the drum mouth blew, a 'squeak' sound came out from the whistle body.The ground in front of it suddenly shook violently, like a sweeping wave, quickly advancing towards this side.

"What's that?" Lu Ming shouted loudly.Cracks began to appear on the ground, and many white soft worms similar to ants drilled out of the cracks. They were flat and long comb-shaped, with a large head, three pairs of thoracic feet, short and fat abdomen, and one on each side. Round black valves.

"That's an ant locust larvae, which can help us clear the way." Sure enough, the insects that climbed to the ground began to gnaw at the roots of the corn frantically, and the plants that collapsed on the ground were instantly decomposed by the densely packed insects behind them.

"Although they are herbivorous insects, their skin secretes poisonous acid, so be careful not to touch them." Li Hong reminded the two behind him.

"The whistle will keep them from approaching for the time being. We have to hurry up and walk to the opposite mountain." Lu Ming looked in the direction of Li Hong's finger, and in the dense purple bushes on the opposite side, he could faintly see dark gray rocks in the depths The mountain peak is about tens of meters high, surrounded by mist.

The three of them didn't delay anymore, they whistled and headed towards the opposite side.Most of the surrounding cornfields had been devoured, and Lu Ming was surprised to find that the bodies of these larvae were several times larger than before, with two thick black tentacles protruding from the head, the abdomen sunken to the valve position, and the depression bulged There were dozens of light brown balls, and the chest and feet became thick and long, which looked very scary.

"They're starting to degenerate, let's go quickly!" Li Hong frowned, he didn't expect them to change so quickly, and the problem might become serious if it took some time.

Walking only a few meters away from the opposite bank, Li Hong suddenly found a huge blue-black insect jumping out from the purple bushes.The bug's head is triangular and protruding, with dark red sickle fangs on both sides of the cheeks, filamentous antennae under the middle eye, a square chest, a pair of transparent wings close to the back, and the length is about one-half of the entire body length , a huge egg sac hangs under the chest, and the eggs are regularly arranged together.

Resisting the urge to vomit, Li Hong turned around and quickly ran towards the river. Lu Ming and Han Xi saw that the situation was not good, so they couldn't bear to think too much and ran after Li Hong.

The green and black insects moved quickly through the forest with three solid chest legs. Seeing that the two sharp fangs were about to touch Lu Ming's arm, Han Xi pulled Lu Ming to his side, touched the ring, and shouted angrily. Shouted: "Han Meimei, if you fucking sleep again, your brother will be torn to pieces!"

"You can't even take care of this kind of little guy, you're fucking useless!" Mei Ge jumped out of the ring, roaring and jumped onto the back of the big caterpillar.The little brother Mei couldn't stand the crazy twisting of the big caterpillar, and fell directly from his back to the feet of the big caterpillar. Lu Ming exclaimed in shock.But the expected tragedy did not happen. Mego's pompom-like body grew to the size of a cow in a ball of bright light, his hair was dyed red flames, with black stripes, a pair of silver eagle wings on his back, and his face The head is like a tiger, with a pair of light golden dragon horns on the forehead, and two white fangs, which make it even more ferocious.

The big caterpillar was obviously frightened by the monster in front of him, turned his head and fled backwards.With a long cry, Mei Ge easily jumped in front of the big caterpillar, opened his mouth, and bit the big caterpillar's head into his mouth. The big caterpillar struggled a few times in pain before dying.Mei Ge slowly tore the caterpillar into several parts, and swallowed them piece by piece.

"Is this your brother's real body?" Lu Ming took out his mobile phone and took several pictures of Mei Ge in a row, and he almost took a group photo.

"It's his adult animal form, but it won't last long. Qiongqi's nominative personality and my brother's soul are mutually exclusive." Sure enough, the majestic monster just shrunk back to its original form.

Mego got into the ring with a tired face, it seems that this transformation has done a lot of damage to his body.

Li Hong on the other side ran to the river with great difficulty. He didn't see Lu Ming and Han Xi when he turned his head. He was very anxious. When he was about to go back to look for it, he saw the two of them walking leisurely.

"Are you all right?" Li Hong looked at the bodies of the two of them carefully, but found no injuries.

Lu Ming looked at Li Hong with a complicated expression, and said quietly: "It's not easy for you to grow so big."

Li Hong was taken aback for a moment, not understanding the meaning of Lu Ming's words, then he seemed to think of something, and laughed loudly: "This is the only way to go to the ape cave. Although it looks scary, as long as you are careful, your life will not be in danger I just don’t know why the ant locusts have changed so much this time, even I was taken aback.”

"What was that big caterpillar just now?" Han Xi asked.

"That's the locust queen, which is responsible for breeding." Li Hong frowned suspiciously, "The leaves of the purple forest will corrode the waxy layer of the ant locust, so it stands to reason that they would never come near here. Why would the locust queen..."

"Mutation." Han Xi interjected.

"Yes." Li Hong nodded in agreement, "I heard from my father that the ant locust mutates every 20 years."

"According to the current situation, this is not a good sign." Lu Ming on the side spoke.

Li Hong didn't speak, Han Xi picked up the trekking pole on the ground, and suggested: "Anyway, let's get out of here first."

Entering the purple jungle is like being in another world.The grass is covered with lavender needle-like leaves, the surface is covered with slightly hard white short hairs, and the handle is not smooth. The stems of the leaves are closely connected to the same vine, and the vine runs along the ground under the action of gravity. Growth, so these leaves just cover the surface of the soil in layers.

Lu Ming picked up a vine with a trekking pole, picked a small piece of light green soil and ground it finely, "It doesn't seem to be soil, it's sand."

Li Hong landed on Lu Ming's palm, picked up a little bit of finely divided soil, and explained: "This is neon sand, which can glow at night after absorbing enough light energy."

"Isn't this fluorescent powder?" Lu Ming pouted.

Li Hong sprinkled the soil powder on the needle-shaped leaves. The leaves began to expand outwards and become ovals, and then curled inwards from all sides until they turned into a small purple ball.

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Li Hong pushed aside the top of the ball, took out a small black bead, and continued to explain, "Grinding the bead into powder can be used to repel insects."

Lu Ming smiled slyly after hearing this, and Li Hong was taken aback for a moment, then quickly realized, and said helplessly to Han Xi: "Let's go to rest first, and the waiting time may be longer."