After walking out of the caves, the five hunting groups gathered together.
In front of them, there was a very wide cave, and they couldn't see the top. And in front of them, it was like a dense fog.
They thought that some bats would be forced to hide here by the smoke, but they didn't expect that there would be no bats in this wider area.
Maybe they ran to other caves, but it shouldn't be that there were no bats here. Why? What was so special about this place? They couldn't figure it out.
"How's it going on your side?" Mai asked the other hunting group leaders.
"Not bad. Not many bats are left in the caves, and they are not hard to deal with."
"Same with our side."
"It seems that most of them are out."
This was a good sign.
"Something is coming!" Cha suddenly said.
There were more than five bat caves outside, and there were other caves that also led to this place.
"Should we put out the torches?"
"No, it's useless to put out the fire. Wait, there are only two coming. "
Cheng made a gesture to the others.
The sound of flapping wings was very clear in the quiet cave.
Soon, everyone heard the sound of bats flying out from another cave.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Although they couldn't see the faces of the two bats clearly, they could tell where they were by their hearing.
Mai and the others threw the long spears at the two bats as soon as they came out.
Puff! The two bats only uttered a few short syllables, and then fell to the ground.
He asked the others to throw the smoke grass into the other caves, and then Cheng stepped forward to check on the bats and the prey they caught.
The two bats had been pierced like hedgehogs, and the cow they caught was also affected, with a few spears on its body. But the cow was still alive, just unconscious. Just like the other prey, the bats only made them unconscious, but didn't kill them directly.
"Look at the direction they are flying, that way."
Everyone looked at the direction Cheng was pointing at, but they couldn't see clearly even with the help of the torches. It was like a dense fog.
"Ah-Cheng, will they …" Cha looked at the foggy area in front of him and said.
The prey caught by the bats was sent there, so were the three missing people in the hunting group sent there? Also, they came here to find out the reason for the bats' abnormal behavior. If they could figure it out, they could solve the problem from the root. Otherwise, they would have to risk being chased by the bats every time they needed to dig for the fire crystals.
The reason for the bat's abnormal behavior was probably because of that.
The five team leaders had once analyzed the situation and felt that the bats were probably preparing food for a leader. This phenomenon was common among many animals. This possibility was extremely high. If that was the case, they would do everything they could to kill that leader.
Was the leader inside?
If he killed their leader, would the bats disperse?
"Let's go and take a look. Be careful! "Cheng warned everyone.
As soon as they entered the area shrouded in fog, the torches in their hands became much smaller.
The visibility was very low, and there was an extremely unpleasant smell in the surroundings, as if there was a heavy fog.
Miasma? Shao Xuan was puzzled.
The smell that assailed their nostrils made them feel dizzy. It was not the stench of the bat cave, but a smell that made them dizzy. Fortunately, the smell of the rattan grass eased this feeling.
Putting a piece of the herb into their mouths, the bitter taste of the herb made everyone feel refreshed.
The sound of wings flapping could be heard again. This time, there were more of them. After all, the effects of the smoke grass were limited. There were more than ten bats flying in from other caves, all of them with prey in their hands. Mai and the others had planned to kill them by throwing their spears, but unexpectedly, the bats did not attack the hunting team. They did not even look at them. Instead, they grabbed their prey and flew into the area shrouded in fog.
Somewhere in the fog came the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground. Not long after, those bats flew out of the fog and flew back into the cave.
"Their leader must be in there." Cheng said in a low voice.
The deeper they went, the smaller the flames of the torches became, as if they could not burn any longer. Due to the influence of the "thick fog", even Mai could only see within ten meters with a torch, not to mention the others.
"This place …"
Before Cha could finish his words, he kicked something under his feet.
His nerves tightened all of a sudden, and he was ready to fight. But soon, he found that the object under his feet did not have any breath of life.
"Dead?" Cha kicked the object under his feet.
What Cha kicked was the dead body of a bat. And, this bat had been dead for a long time.
Not only under Cha's feet, but also in the surrounding area shrouded in fog, there were bat skeletons everywhere. That was to say, there were bat corpses everywhere. In some places, there were even several layers of them. It was a little scary.
As they went further, the bat corpses piled up thicker and thicker, like a small hill.
Dead bats.
All of them were dead bats.
And many of them died in a miserable way. Their bodies were incomplete, and they were cruelly torn off before they died.
No wonder those bats in the cave did not come here. This place was simply a bat graveyard!
"Every one of them is huge … They have been dead for a long time." Cheng said after looking at the few bats on the ground.
"Look at the traces left on their bodies. It seems that they killed each other."
"Why would they kill each other?"
"I remember that in some groups of beasts, to choose a leader, they have to fight each other." Mai said.
"You mean …"
"Their leader is really here?!"
Everyone suddenly became nervous. If these bats were all alive, with such a large number and body size, the five small leaders would not dare to bring people here directly. And with so many bats, what kind of ferocious beast would emerge as the winner?
Even so, no one had any intention of retreating.
In fact, when they were discussing with Mai and the others, Shao Xuan had proposed to go back to the tribe to find reinforcements. After all, the hunting had just begun, and they were all in the first stronghold. It would be faster for them to find reinforcements than the advance group. Moreover, if they went back to the tribe, they could find more reinforcements, which would be safer.
However, Shao Xuan's proposal was rejected by the others. First, it was because of the competition between the two hunting groups. The five small leaders did not want the other hunting group to participate, and did not even want them to know the news. Second, the more people participated, the less each person would get. No one wanted that.
Shao Xuan's idea was that where there is life, there is hope. But the others thought that for the fire crystals, they would rather die.
That was what the tribesmen thought. At first, Mai had scolded Shao Xuan, "What is more important than your life?", but then everyone became extremely crazy.
Shao Xuan underestimated this kind of craziness. So when the five small leaders were discussing the plan, he knew that these people were really going to risk their lives.
As they continued to move forward, they could still hear the bats carrying prey in the air. None of the bats cared about the people in the Mist. They were minding their own business.
Bang!
Another sound of prey falling to the ground.
The place where the prey fell was very close to the people in the hunting group.
"Wait!!" Cheng whispered.
"Breathing." Mai and the others also noticed it.
There were a lot of breathing sounds around.
Except for the warriors in the hunting group and the bats in the air, there were many other living creatures breathing. But every breath was very weak.
Like climbing a mountain, they stepped on the thick dead bodies of the bats and continued to move forward.
The fire of the torches was very weak. It had shrunk to one-fifth of its original size. Their vision was severely limited. Now they could only rely on their hearing to understand what was happening around them.
Some junior totem warriors couldn't hold on any longer. They were almost at their limit. They were barely able to keep themselves from fainting. The effect of the vines and herbs was almost negligible. They couldn't resist the poisonous miasma in the fog.
"Those who can't bear it, stop. Those who can, keep going." Mai said.
The other four squads did the same.
Shao Xuan held the small fire crystal in his hand. The energy from the fire crystal helped him stay awake. He could bear it longer than the other junior totem warriors.
"It's the giant-antler deer!" Someone found a living creature on the ground.
"And the mountain antelope!"
"And the wild boar!"
Living creatures began to appear around them one after another. But these animals were in a deep coma. In this Mist, they couldn't wake up. Even if they woke up, they would faint again after taking a breath.
Everyone in the hunting group was happy. The three missing people should be here, and they should be alive.
On the hill-like dead bodies of the bats, there were all kinds of animals. It was very difficult to find people in such a big place.
"Xuan, can you see?" Mai remembered that Shao Xuan had better night vision than ordinary people, so he asked.
"I can't see far. I'll try. "Shao Xuan said.
Shao Xuan used his special ability to see the objects around. But he also felt that there was a layer of fog. He couldn't see clearly. He could only see things within fifty meters. Even so, Shao Xuan was much better than the others.
Because all he saw were skeletons, he could only tell what kind of animals they were from the skeletons.
The others were alert to the surroundings. Shao Xuan was looking for the three human skeletons in the field of vision full of skeletons.
Most of the junior totem warriors had stopped, and couldn't follow them. Shao Xuan was the only young warrior who had followed them here.
However, everyone thought that it was because Shao Xuan had learned from the Shaman. That was why he could persist until now.
The energy of the Fire Crystal in his hand was constantly being absorbed into his hand, so that the totem in his mind, which had been weakening, could continue to persist. But it was just barely.
Shao Xuan thought that the energy of the Fire Crystal was probably running out, so the energy he absorbed now was not as much as before.
The rhythmic sound of airflow was still there. But Shao Xuan couldn't find the source of the sound, and the others couldn't hear it.
He glanced over a pile of skeletons, and finally fixed his eyes on a place that looked like a human.
"Found it!" Shao Xuan whispered.
Cheng led the others to the place where Shao Xuan pointed. They really saw the people on the ground. The three people were not far away, and they were still breathing.
Although they found the three people, Shao Xuan still felt uneasy. He always felt that there was something around.
He lowered his head to look at the fire crystal in his hand. With just one glance, Shao Xuan felt his scalp go numb. His hair stood on end, and a chill seeped into every bone in his body.
In Shao Xuan's hand, the red energy released by the burning Fire Crystal didn't all enter Shao Xuan's body as usual. Some of it floated behind Shao Xuan.
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