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"Ming Xia, wake up!"

Ming Xia heard Qingqiu's voice calling him, the voice was quite anxious.But somehow, he just couldn't open his eyes.

Qingqiu seemed to be in a hurry, and grabbed his ankle with his claws.

Ming Xia woke up in pain.He stretched out his hand to touch his ankle, but fortunately the skin was not broken, but there were a few red marks where the animal's paws had scratched, and it was hot and painful.

Qingqiu heaved a sigh of relief, "You are awake."

Ming Xia raised his head and found that they were trapped in a small cave-like place, only big enough for Qingqiu to barely turn around.The dragon tongue bow he placed on Qingqiu's back glowed warmly in the dark, illuminating this square inch of land.

Ming Xia patted on the bow arm to show his thanks.He didn't expect his weapon to have such welfare properties.

The longbow vibrated slightly, as if responding to his movement.

"You fell asleep, I'm so anxious." Qingqiu complained with lingering fear, "I want to rush out, but I'm afraid you won't cooperate with me when you fall asleep. What if I rush halfway and throw you off? what to do?"

The memories came back bit by bit, and Ming Xia suddenly realized that they were still trapped in the workstation on the top of Peak No. [-].So, what traps them around here is actually...

Ming Xia's eyes widened.He finally discovered that the narrow space opened up around them was actually Qingqiu's energy barrier.He had felt that gentle energy fluctuation countless times around Qingqiu.

And outside the energy barrier, there were the kind of slender tentacles he had seen in the stairwell of the workstation.They are densely entangled, squeezing and extending each other, as if desperately testing the possible weakness of the outer layer of the energy membrane.

Ming Xia felt the hairs all over his body stand on end, "Are they poisonous?!"

Qingqiu also had lingering fears, "It doesn't seem to be poisonous, but something that will make people lose their minds."

When they walked down the stairs, they thought the stairwell was empty, but in fact, every corner of the workstation was filled with such things.They are like dust attached to every corner of the wall, floor and space.Once a living creature appears, they will be awakened immediately.

Even through Qingqiu's energy barrier, Ming Xia still sensed a strange fluctuation.

This feeling is similar to the previous encounter with the "Yin Soldier", it is a kind of scalp-numbing fluctuation formed by the gathering of countless small individuals.They retain the fluctuations of each individual, but influence each other, invisibly playing an effect similar to an increase.After a long time, Ming Xia even felt dizzy.

"What is this?" Ming Xia couldn't think of any monster that looked like this.If these are claws, where is its body hidden?Or is it just hair?

This one seems to be more disgusting.

"Maybe it's a plant." Qingqiu shrugged his nose, "When I woke up just now, I smelled a green grass."

"This smell also has an effect on you..." Ming Xia felt that this was especially scary.

"Cough, I just slept for a while..." Qingqiu was a little embarrassed, "Although the energy barrier can resist attacks, it is not a sealed device after all, and the smell will still come in... My energy barrier needs to be improved. ...well, needs improvement.”

"Of course it would be better if it can be improved." Ming Xia patted it on the head, "But this is also very remarkable. If it weren't for your enchantment, we would have been dragged away to make fertilizer. I heard that plants kill people like this. "

"Hold me tight." Qingqiu flicked his tail, his eyes hinted at anger, "Since it is a plant, even if it becomes a spirit, there is no one who is not afraid of fire. How dare you plot against the young master... look at me!"

Ming Xia carried her bow and arrow on her back, leaned over and hugged Qingqiu's neck tightly.

One of Qingqiu's front paws unconsciously planed twice in the void, and then lowered his body.The outside of the energy membrane is densely packed with such miraculous plants, which are too thick, and their energy fluctuations also interfere with Qingqiu's judgment. Find a direction and fire a shot.

Ming Xia felt a scorching breath coming from the front.The gentle energy waves surrounding them suddenly became agitated, like a water bottle containing warm water being shaken violently, and all sleeping factors instantly came to life.

Ming Xia smelled a burnt smell like burning leaves.

Fallen leaves that have not dried out contain water, and when burned, they will smoke.

There was a small park near the place where Ming Xia lived when he was a child, and the cleaners in the park would often dispose of the fallen leaves that had piled up in this way.In the early morning of autumn, when Ming Xia went for a morning jog in the park, he would often smell this smell.

Ming Xia now somewhat believes that this ghost thing is really a plant.

He looked up, and saw a half-person-high hollow appeared in the middle of the thick black in front of them, but the outside of the hollow was still black, without the slightest light.So it seems that the difference between the entrance of the cave and other places is not too big, and it is impossible to tell whether the outside of the entrance of the cave is a real exit.

Qingqiu used energy to condense a small ball of light like what Qingtan did before.

The ball of light floated in front of them, illuminating their vision.They appear to be placed inside a round glass bulb.The bulb is covered with ugly and slender tentacles, they are twisted together, constantly probing, trying to break through the barrier in front of them.

And around the blasted hole, slender tentacles have begun to tentatively extend inward, as if eager to mend the hole again.

This kind of monster, who didn't know whether it was an animal or a plant, reacted really fast.

The hairs all over Ming Xia's body stood on end, she didn't dare to take a closer look, and only focused on the correct direction they were looking for.During the time they fell asleep, the direction in which they were floating in midair had shifted, and at this moment, they were facing the wall on the side of the stairs.

Qingqiu adjusted his direction and blasted a second hole in the tangled mess.

The burnt smell permeated in the limited space, a little choking.

The plants spread out their slender filamentous tentacles, frantically trying to fill the void as soon as possible.Across a layer of colorless and transparent energy barrier, Ming Xia had a terrifying illusion that they were about to poke their tentacles in.

The impetuous vibrating energy waves emitted by them and the slight rustling sound of the tentacles rubbing against each other deepened this feeling.

Ming Xia remembered that their location was not far from the top of the stairs, but the limited space was completely filled with these tentacle-like plants, and their repair speed was too fast, so their progress was not fast.

Ming Xia had seen the power of Qingqiu before, and those skeleton soldiers were burned to ashes almost instantly, but in another scene, they seemed to be soaked in viscous liquid, and the way forward also became tearing-healing- Re-tearing - the dreadful process of re-healing.

Qingqiu roared angrily.

The energy reserve of the Qingqiu lighter reached full capacity in an instant, and the raging flames, like a ignited spray gun, burst open the passage leading to the stairs.

Qingqiu led Ming Xia out of the burnt-smelling cave at the fastest speed in his life, and leaped into the air.

Countless slender tentacles sprayed out from the staircase, like a huge black chrysanthemum suddenly blooming on the top floor of the workstation.

After a while, the filamentous petals slowly retracted, retracting bit by bit into the stairs.

Smelling the fresh air in the wild, Ming Xia was about to burst into tears with excitement.

Qingqiu was also very excited, he carried Ming Xia back and forth in mid-air circles, and even made two very exciting dives.Like a naughty child, he yelled.

The two were excited for a while, and then returned to the top of the workstation.At this time, all the tentacles have retracted, and the platform has restored the appearance they saw when they first came, without any abnormality.

Ming Xia looked at the empty platform from a distance, feeling lingering in her heart.

Being trapped alive by a large group of plants, and the corpses are used as fertilizer for them... this kind of death sounds creepy.

"Have you seen this kind of thing before?" Ming Xia asked him, "Are they one big monster, or are they small monsters made up of countless individuals?"

"I haven't seen this kind of one, but it seems to be quite similar..." Qingqiu shook his ears, "When I first arrived in Huai'an Mansion, I heard that there was a monster in a place in the mountain. The monster grew in In a remote cave, it looks like a canopy of weeds from a distance, but once a living creature passes by, it will stretch out its tentacles and grab the living creature back.”

It sounds like it.Ming Xia thought to himself, but the workstation is not an outdoor environment, how can such a thing grow in a good place?If it was brought by the dead gray bird, was it on purpose?Or is it a coincidence?

Why would the bird choose a workstation as a target?

"Later, the mountain people gathered outside the cave and lit a fire. It took two days and two nights to burn the monsters in the cave to death. I heard that the fire was extinguished. When the mountain people went in to search, they found that there were no animals in the cave. skeletons, and many human skeletons."

Qingqiu was startled and said: "The rumors spread so wickedly at that time, it was said that the wild flowers and weeds became essences and would eat people. People in the city did not dare to plant flowers at home, and the weeds at the door were all planed clean. Baimei also pulled up the vegetable garden at home!"

Ming Xia, "..."

Bai Mei, are you serious? !Has no one exposed the fact that her acting skills are exaggerated? !

Qingqiu shook his head and said: "Then we ate the stewed pork bone soup with sesame seed cakes for half a month. And the roast chicken, roast duck, and stewed mutton from the street next door...it's really delicious."

Ming Xia, "..."

Well, it was because of his shallow knowledge, it turned out that he was playing tricks.

"Plants are afraid of fire," Ming Xia said, "Besides setting fire, there seems to be no other way to get rid of the roots."

But in the current situation, fire attack is not a good solution.The workstation has a special structure, and there may still be some equipment and materials inside. If it catches fire and causes an explosion, the loss will be too great.

Ming Xia also felt a little tricky.

"They should regard the workstation as their own nest." Qingqiu said: "Outside the workstation is the top of Peak No. [-]. It is dry, windy, and sunny. This is not an environment they like. They should not be in a short time. will come out."