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The river water quickly extended to the bottom of the reef, and the waves surged, hitting the reef one after another.

The school of fish swims under the reef. The body of the light brown fish is slightly larger than the palm of an adult, and there are black spots on its back. When viewed against the sun, there is a faint reflection of metallic texture.

Qingqiu huddled in Ming Xia's neck to watch the excitement, and couldn't help muttering, "This fish doesn't look big, but it's fleshy and quite fat."

Lin Su sat behind Ming Xia, heard Qing Qiu's words and hurriedly said: "This fish can't be eaten!"

"Protected again?" Qingqiu suddenly felt disappointed, "If you eat it, you will be sentenced? How many years?"

Lin Su couldn't help laughing, "It's not a matter of protection, but that the fish is poisonous. It is recorded in the "Bei Shan Jing" that if there are many fish in Dunshui, eating them will kill people."

Qingqiu's eyes widened, "Poisonous?!"

Lin Su nodded, "Very poisonous."

With lingering fear in his heart, Qingqiu squeezed against Mingxia's neck.

Ming Xia also felt scared, and stretched out his hand to touch its back and said, "Fortunately, you asked one more question, if you are greedy and just go down to catch fish to eat, it will be a disaster."

Qing Qiu was about to defend himself, but his body suddenly tilted to the side, almost falling off Ming Xia's shoulder.

At the same time, the entire valley shook.

Several people on the reef were shaken to one side, and Ming Xia was almost thrown into the river. Before he could sit still, the rock wall above their heads exploded suddenly, as if a directional blast was being carried out, and gravel splashed in all directions.

Along with the smoke and gravel, there are countless messy tree roots.These tree roots seem to have been stimulated by something, and they stretched desperately in mid-air, lashing against the rock violently.Some tree roots even reached above their heads, and almost rolled onto them.

The pine forest on the other side of the river also became restless, its branches and leaves stretched out, shaking back and forth restlessly, as if responding to the roots on the rocks.

This instant change, as if a strong earthquake had occurred in the valley, and the residents in these valleys had already sensed it one step ahead.

Under the frenzied whipping of the tree roots, the mountain continued to crumble and collapse, making deafening roars, and the flying gravel and dust made people unable to lift their heads.

They are now also aware of the unfavorable position. The west bank of the Dunshui River is too close to the mountain peak, especially the No. [-] peak is all steep rocks. In this case, their situation will appear very dangerous.The east bank, which was originally dangerous because of the overgrown pine trees, has become much safer with the comparison.

Nanjiang separated the people, each took the necessary equipment and weapons, and began to move to the east bank.

The originally dry riverbed was submerged by the raging water, and Bai Ying, who was in charge of exploring the way, and another team member staggered forward in the river water that almost reached their thighs.The originally flat terrain also showed some unpredictable characteristics because of the sudden flood, and occasionally some unknown creatures appeared to hinder their progress.

When it was about to reach the original location in the center of the river, Nanjiang could no longer wait peacefully.He and the people standing beside him could clearly hear the sound of the mountain cracking from above their heads.And the tree roots that were constantly twisting and whipping the rock seemed to sense some kind of danger, and struggled frantically, as if desperately trying to break free from the rock,

The fragile rocks could not withstand this level of attack. A rock that was nearly half the size of a basketball court broke away from the mountain and fell straight in their direction.

Ming Xia's breathing and heartbeat stopped for an instant, and only the huge rock kept approaching in her pupils.He unconsciously waved Qingqiu away from his side.

Qingqiu can fly.He thought blankly, it could fly away.

Someone beside him rushed over and hugged him to his chest.

Ming Xia closed his eyes, suddenly he didn't want to think about anything.No fear, not even nervousness.His heart was at peace.

Ming Xia leaned against Nan Jiang's chest. After an unknown amount of time, maybe a few minutes, maybe a few seconds, he realized that nothing happened.

He raised his head in surprise, and saw that Nan Jiang was also looking up.He followed Nanjiang's line of sight and saw that huge rock was hanging about six or seven meters above their heads.

Ming Xia took a deep breath, "What... what's going on?!"

Qingqiu also circled around from not far away and flew back again. It was full of grievances and wanted to accuse Ming Xia, but seeing the scene in front of it, it was also dumbfounded, and stared blankly with its mouth open.

The boulder hung precariously in mid-air as if it had a rope attached to it, and then it began to move upward, slowly reversing the path it had come from.In the end, under the stunned gaze of several people down the mountain, it seemed as if a video was played backwards, and it returned to its original position.

And the mass of crazy tree roots on the cliff was also controlled by this powerful force, struggling helplessly, and finally retracted bit by bit into the rock wall.

The valley is silent, and the river murmurs by.

As if nothing had happened.

Several people looked at each other, and after a while, Nanjiang was the first to react, "The technical team is repairing the seal!"

Ming Xia heaved a sigh of relief, turned his head and rubbed against Qingqiu, "Is the root of the tree beautiful pine? Is it sealed?"

Qingqiu acquiesced in his approach, but his expression was still a little unhappy, "You pushed me just now."

Ming Xia touched it apologetically, but said, "Do I have it? Did you remember it wrong?"

Qingqiu's two round eyes immediately stared, "Do you still want to admit it?!"

There was a smile in Ming Xia's eyes, and just as he was about to explain, he saw a look of fear suddenly flashed in Qingqiu's slightly raised round bean eyes.

Ming Xia's heart skipped a beat.

In an instant, a huge change occurred, the sky was full of gravel, the rocks that had just closed collapsed again, and the tangled and twisted roots of the beauty pine exploded in mid-air again, twisting and waving like the tentacles of a giant squid, whipping it Anything you can touch.

But this time, it seemed to be even more unscrupulous, with flexible roots extending down the direction of the rock, rushing all the way towards the direction they were avoiding.

Qingqiu was the first to react, and rushed towards this terrifying group of tentacles.

The menacing tentacles stopped suddenly.

Ming Xia seized this momentary pause, raised his crossbow and shot an arrow.

The long arrow that pierced through the air cut off the root of the tree in front of it, and the turquoise juice exploded in mid-air. The broken root was like a live snake, twisting back and forth on the rocky beach.

The roots of the whole tree seemed to feel the injury, shrank slightly, and stopped the advancing offensive.

Ming Xia aimed at a place farther away, the depths where the roots of the trees were tangled together.In fact, he would rather like Li Youran bombing the clone of the water scorpion, blasting a fire bomb into it.But helplessly, they were too close to it, and unfortunately, they were just below it.

The moment the long arrow was shot, Ming Xia felt a shadow covering his head, he raised his head in amazement, and the huge shadow of the rock was reflected in his pupils.

The rock that had nearly fallen on them... fell again.

Ming Xia grabs the person closest to him and runs out quickly.

Probably because the same thing has happened once, Ming Xia feels that she has calmed down a lot, and she even has time to say a few comforting words to herself: It is better to run as far as you can, than to wait to die.

He heard the sound of Qingqiu flapping his wings.It followed closely beside him, neither panic nor complained, as if it only cared about one question, whether it would be separated from them.

The whistling sound of the boulder descended from the sky with a mighty force.But in just a few breaths, they were completely shrouded in the shadow of the boulder.

Between the lightning and the flint, a strange fluctuation came.In the next second, everything around stopped still again.

Ming Xia raised his head to look at the motionless rocks hanging above their heads, and then at the frozen river water at his feet, which kept surging. He felt that even the breeze in his ears seemed to have stopped.

It wasn't until this moment that Ming Xia noticed that he was pulling Nan Jiang's wrist, but he didn't stop. Instead, he continued to run towards the center of the river, making sure that they were out of the range of being hit by rocks before panting. The gruff stopped.

Behind them, the image of the falling rock began to play backwards again.

Because of the distance, the replay picture can be seen more clearly.

The tree roots twisted, struggled, and were pulled back to the rock wall bit by bit unwillingly. Even the tree root that fell on the rocky beach seemed to be pulled by a mysterious force and slowly moved towards the rock wall. Move above the rock.In the end, it shrank into the cracks of the rocks, and was filled in by the flying gravel. Finally, the huge rocks slowly approached the rock wall, closing back bit by bit, and finally became a tight fit.

All the people who witnessed all of this were a little devastated thinking about the same thing: Who made this little movie?Playing it forward and backward again...won't it happen again? !

Time passed by minute by minute.

The river made a splashing sound, and slowly began to flow.The breeze blows across the cheeks, bringing the fresh breath of the pine forest in the distance.

The seemingly ordinary scene is somewhat strange because of the faint fluctuations coming from afar.At this moment, everyone sensed a strange fluctuation.

Nan Jiang said softly, "It should be... done."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, but Ming Xia was at a loss, "What happened? Is it the seal of the beauty pine? What about the water beetle?"

Nan Jiang pointed to the top of the cliff, "That's the clone nourished by the roots of the Beauty Pine. It was pushed back, at least it shows that the Beauty Pine has been re-sealed. As for the water beetle..."

He paused at this point, and frowned slightly, "Its resistance may be more troublesome..."

Qingqiu flew up, flapped his wings and circled above their heads, and then slowly flew towards a place a little farther away.While flying, it whispered to Ming Xia, "Look, Beauty Pine has been struggling, I always think it's not so easy to catch."

"You guessed it?"

"I guessed it." Qingqiu said: "Am I also a demon? I can still understand the mood of a demon. Who would be willing to be locked up if there is a chance to escape from the cage? And one lock will last 800 years."

Ming Xia thought, isn't that a criminal?If you don't commit crimes, who is full enough to lock them up?

Qingqiu's voice suddenly became suspicious, "It's not right here...why is it so quiet again? There's still this smell..."

Ming Xia squinted his eyes and looked into the distance, Qingqiu's small figure was flying up and down, gradually approaching the bend of the river in the valley.

On one side is a steeper cliff, and on the other side is a slope that gradually rises, densely covered with pine trees.The Dunshui River gushes out from between the two.

Under Ming Xia's gaze, a group of black clouds floated up from the pine forest without warning, rushing towards them at an extremely fast speed.

It was a flock of panic-stricken birds. They seemed to be completely oblivious to the humans on the river beach. They hurried past their heads and flew away into the distance.

"Qingqiu is back!" Ming Xia called it anxiously, "It doesn't seem quite right."

The flock of birds is too dense, I don't know if their vibrations have caused any disturbance to Qingqiu, Qingqiu's voice has also started to be intermittent, and Ming Xia can't see it at all.

After the flock of birds, the herd of beasts rushed out of the forest, equally panicked, but they all ran towards the downstream of the river in unison.

Ming Xia felt quite dazzled.He had never seen so many animals at one time, rabbits, foxes, deer, leopards... What was especially eye-opening to him was that the leopard was running next to the deer.In the raging beast tide, he could even see two black bears!

Ming Xia suddenly had a premonition of imminent disaster, what happened in the realm of monsters?

Nanjiang cautiously began to organize his team members to retreat.The herd is rioting, the situation is unknown, and it is too dangerous to stay in the open place.And there's no place to hide around here.After ruling out the possibility of an earthquake, their best choice at present is to go back to the secret passage along Exit [-].

This time it was Nanjiang pulling Mingxia.Ming Xia turned her head frequently, calling Qing Qiu in her mind.At first, Qingqiu agreed twice, but then there was no sound.But Ming Xia could feel that the induction between them still existed.I just don't know why Qingqiu can't reply him.

In this case, it seems that there is a stronger energy interference near Qingqiu.

Ming Xia looked back again, under the sky, above the snow-capped ridge, there seemed to be something dark surging.

Like a dark tide, when it surges, it emits a faint blue light like a sea wave.