An underground space of more than a thousand square meters appeared outside the cave. The underground space was filled with trees that were emitting strange fluorescent lights.
The fluorescent lights that Zuo Zhicheng and the others saw at the entrance of the cave were emitted by these trees.
"It's psionic food!" Qing Yueqiu looked at the trees in front of her, pointed at the fruits on the trees and said, "So much... so much psionic food. There's so much here."
"I'm afraid it's not just psionic food." Zuo Zhicheng jumped out of the cave and landed steadily in the underground space. He put the three of them down. Although the surroundings were a little dim under the fluorescent lights, ordinary people could still see things.
Zuo Zhicheng pointed at the branches and said, "It seems that this is where they store their food." On the branches, there were countless corpses wrapped in vines. "No wonder your first two teams disappeared. They probably broke into someone else's base."
Zuo Zhicheng looked around again. At the edge of the underground space, there were more than 20 holes of various sizes on the rock walls around them. Countless vines grew out of these holes and covered the entire underground space like a spider web.
While Zuo Zhicheng was observing, Tang Xianghui screamed and ran toward a tree.
"It's Wei and the others!"
On a tree, Ah Wei, Liu Changding, and the others were wrapped in vines and hung on the tree. Tangyuan climbed up the tree with a machete, but Wei and the others did not respond. Tangyuan put them down one by one and found that Wei and the other person's stomach had been torn apart. They had been dead for a long time.
Liu Changding was unconscious, but his face was ruddy and his breathing was normal. He was not dead.
Tangyuan said fiercely, "These monsters!"
Zuo Zhicheng was not interested in lamenting. Dead people, dead teammates, dead friends, these things were normal for him. There might be the strongest person in this world, but there was absolutely no one who was invincible. Humans were fragile creatures, and the slightest mistake could lead to death. Moreover, Ah Wei and the others were still far from being truly powerful.
He wiped away the dust and branches on the ground and found bricks and some broken carvings.
Looking at the sad people who were still squatting beside Ah Wei, Zuo Zhicheng said, "Now is not the time to be sad. The underground tunnels here extend in all directions. I've only managed to shake them off temporarily. Those monsters will soon find this place. We need to think of something."
"Then what should we do?" Qing Yueqiu, who had always maintained a calm expression, couldn't help but show a panicked expression.
"Do you have a way to wake up Liu Changding? I see that there are traces of man-made structures here. Maybe he can find some clues. "
Qing Yueqiu nodded and took out a few small bottles of medicine, "I have the antidote here. Mr. Liu must have been pricked by the thorns on these vines and then fell into a coma."
Obviously, the corpses here were caught by the monsters and tied to the trees. Then, they starved to death or were killed along the way. They seemed to be storing food here.
"Then wake him up." Zuo Zhicheng said as he jumped onto a branch, "I'll go and see if there are any other exits nearby."
After saying all this, Zuo Zhicheng had already changed his mode. He adjusted his night vision to infrared vision. Under the infrared vision, he immediately noticed the difference.
All the people and animals that were wrapped up were dead. There was almost no heat coming from their bodies. However, there was a vague human figure that appeared underground.
"There's someone underground? No … "Zuo Zhicheng thought for a moment and understood," There's a mezzanine underground, or a secret room. "
However, this wasn't what attracted Zuo Zhicheng's attention the most. What caught his attention the most was a small flame. In Zuo Zhicheng's infrared vision, there was a purple flame burning fiercely. It was like the sun in the sky, illuminating the earth and giving off a feeling that it would never be extinguished.
After scanning all directions and finding no new discoveries, Zuo Zhicheng switched to night vision mode again and then jumped between tree trunks. His speed was fast and light, like an ape in the jungle, moving quickly in the jungle.
Soon, he knew what the red and purple fireball that appeared in his infrared vision was.
Standing on a branch, Zuo Zhicheng looked at the giant creature in front of him and gasped in surprise.
It was a giant black snake that was curled up like a small hill. The length of the black snake was unknown, but Zuo Zhicheng could clearly see that the diameter of the snake's body was about two to three meters.
There were even skull-sized black scales on the snake's body. Looking at these scales, Zuo Zhicheng suddenly remembered the shipwreck he encountered when he first came to the other world. At that time, he seemed to have seen similar scales, but they were several times bigger than this one.
"Is there any relationship between the two?" However, Zuo Zhicheng only thought for a moment and jumped over. Although the giant snake in front of him was lying there as if it was dead, the purple flame in his infrared vision told him that it was clearly not dead. Instead, it was concentrating all its body heat on the snake's head.
Zuo Zhicheng thought of the current season, "Hibernating?" He did not know whether such a huge snake needed to hibernate or not. He could only cautiously retreat bit by bit.
"Is it because it has been eating psionic food here? Is that why it has such a purple body? " Although Zuo Zhicheng's body was also purple, the snake had the same amount of muscles, but it was hundreds of times bigger than his. Whether it was in terms of strength or explosive power, Zuo Zhicheng was no match for it.
After retreating quickly, Zuo Zhicheng ran in the direction of Qing Yueqiu and the others. He suddenly understood a problem.
"Those monsters tied their prey here to prepare food for the snake when it wakes up from hibernation. It seems that psionic fruits are still unable to counteract this beast's instinct for meat. "
After hibernation, Zuo Zhicheng's snake would be in a very, very hungry state. Obviously, the meat in the forest was prepared for it.
"We have to leave this place quickly. It's too dangerous here. Once those monsters find us, or even awaken the snake, we will be able to escape. "
When Zuo Zhicheng rushed back to Qing Yueqiu and the others, Liu Changding had already woken up.
"I don't know." He touched his head and said with a face full of fear, "I just fainted suddenly. When I woke up, I was already here."
Qing Yueqiu frowned and said, "The thorns of the vines have an anesthetic effect. You must have been drugged. It seems that the people in the camp were also drugged and brought here. "
"We don't have time to think about this." Zuo Zhicheng told everyone about the snake and the surrounding caves.
"Snake? Monster?" Liu Changding patted his head and said, "I thought of something. The thing you saw might be the Hades Serpent King."
"Hades Serpent King? What is that? "Zuo Zhicheng asked.
"It's a kind of guardian beast worshipped by the Amalikans. It is said that they can travel between the two realms and control the netherworld. At that time, people often used living people as sacrifices to the Hades Serpent King. " Liu Changding said, "They would throw young boys and girls, or young girls, into the cave where the Hades Serpent King lived. The serpent would swallow them alive and fight for the Amalikans when needed.
And those strange people, they should be the corpses controlled by the Hades Serpent King. The Amalikans called them zombies. "
"It should be a primitive worship of powerful beasts by the ancient people. But this giant serpent does seem to have some connection with the zombies. The rumor of controlling the netherworld probably came from this. "
However, she didn't know how this guardian beast from thousands of years ago had survived until now. Zuo Zhicheng asked Liu Changding again, "I can feel that there should be another level below us. Can you find a way to find it?"
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