Chapter 35: The Poison Cave
Behind the tall stone walls was another world, and after the thick iron doors were closed, the sunlight could be seen shining through the gaps in the leaves, and the light was scattered everywhere, dark and damp, but there was a burning sensation from underfoot.
There were no low shrubs under the trees, and even the grass on the ground was rarely seen, and the palm-sized dead leaves fell on the ground thick like a carpet.
The forest was quiet, not even a single bird call, not a single cicada chirping, except for the occasional drop of dead leaves, which were so quiet that they were oozing.
Qiao Yue walked cautiously towards the woods, every step she took had to be careful to try before she dared to put her feet on the ground, since this was the Ten Thousand Poison Cave of the Qimen faction, it must be extremely dangerous.
The more he walked inside, the more intense the burning sensation became, and the shiny yellow ants kept appearing in Qiao Yue's sight with a pair of sharp pliers on their backs.
The smallest of these ants was the size of Qiao Yue's little finger, and a big tree with a thick arm not far away was quickly chewed by this group of ants, and the swarms of ants continued to tear the big tree to pieces with pliers, and moved into the cave in an orderly manner, and in Qiao Yue's shocked eyes, the big tree quickly disappeared.
Qiao Yue stopped cautiously, there were a lot of dry bones on the ground in front of her, looking at the shape of these bones, it should be a large wild boar or a tiger, or something like that, it should be Guan Cangzi deliberately thrown in for feeding.
At this time, an injured bird fell from a tree, less than a foot away from Qiao Yue.
Qiao Yue was holding her skirt in one hand, and was about to pick up the little bird with fluffy gray feathers, but unexpectedly, the ant colony not far away that was carrying the fragments of the big tree suddenly swooped towards the little bird as if they were crazy.
Qiao Yue hurriedly retreated, and in less than three breaths, the injured bird had been torn apart by the ant colony that pounced on him, leaving only a few scattered feathers, and even the bones were chewed up and moved into the hole.
The ants that had not harvested were not reconciled, and the two long tentacles on the big pincers were still searching, as if they smelled Qiao Yue's breath, and the ants immediately chased after Qiao Yue excitedly.
Qiao Yue secretly screamed badly, and hurriedly retreated about ten steps, only to see that these ants seemed to be very scared and retreated back when they reached a certain position.
This discovery made Qiao Yue surprised and delighted, she knew that there was only one thing that would make this man-eating ant automatically retreat, that is, the secretion of the queen ant, they would be like a god when they smelled the secretion of the queen ant, as if the little soldier saw the emperor, this is the rule of the animal world.
Squatting down and carefully studying the dividing line that made the ants automatically retreat for a while, and then looked back at the road she had just walked, Qiao Yue knew that this must be the dividing line deliberately drawn by Guan Cangzi in order to restrict the range of activities of these ants, otherwise, no matter how high the stone wall is, it will not be able to stop the footsteps of these ants.
Since the route ahead was not passable, Qiao Yue carefully looked at the range of activities of the ants on the ground, and began to walk towards the west of this group of ants lightly, with no one left and right, Qiao Yue took out the black stone from her arms and checked it for a long time before she began to feel a little confident.
It turns out that this kind of man-eating ants generally do not take the initiative to attack people, and they will only go crazy when there are wounds on people's bodies, as long as they stay away from their nests and do not touch swarms of ants, they will not be terrible.
Wounds?
Qiao Yue touched the abscess on her forehead, it seemed that the ant chasing her just now must have smelled from here.
Bypass?
Qiao Yue walked about a hundred steps to the west and began to secretly curse Guan Cangzi for being vicious, it turned out that about a hundred steps to the west was planted with the kind of bushes and rattans overgrown with thorns, densely sealing the route ahead.
Whether it is a human or an animal, it is completely impossible to pass through here, without being cut by thorns, these thorns are highly poisonous, if the skin is cut, plus the man-eating ants that have gone crazy and pounced, there is still a chance to live.
Helplessly, the west side was blocked, so I returned along the same road, and began to carefully grope for the east side again.
The direction to the east was very strange, the ground had a small slope, and after walking about three hundred steps, the tall trees disappeared, and then the ground under his feet began to soften, and the pitch-black sticky soil appeared in front of Qiao Yue.
The further you go, the more sticky the mud becomes, as if you want to suck you directly underground.
Qiao Yue hurriedly stopped, this place should be a swamp or something, if you don't quit quickly, you will definitely be swallowed alive by this pool of mud.
With venomous ants on the front, thorns in the west, and black swamps in the east, is it really a no-brainer?
Qiao Yue helplessly stood beside this black pool, which didn't even grow a single grass, and thought.
Gurgling bubbles kept rising from the mud, and the black dirt was floating with a pitch-black liquid, which looked like it wasn't water.
After observing here for a long time, Qiao Yue found another feature, this mud pool is very strange, there is not a single grass growing around, and even the ants that climb to the edge of this waterhole are afraid to turn around and run.
In a few moments, a strong wind blew in the woods, and many of the dead leaves and branches were blown into the black mire.
The black mire was still bubbling regularly, but the dead branches and leaves that fell on the black liquid quickly sank, and within a few breaths, everything that fell on it disappeared.
There is no way, do you want to spare this black pool again?
Qiao Yue finally found a relatively tall big stone, standing on it and looking at it, this black water pool could not be bypassed at all, the area of the black water pool extended from her feet to the bottom of the cliff, relatively speaking, this is already the highest point of this flat land.
Qiao Yue had never seen this strange black water pool before, and there was no way, so she could only ask for help from the black stone.
Time passed little by little, and after checking it for a long time, a smile appeared on Qiao Yue's face.
It turns out that this is not a waterhole, and the wood with less buoyancy cannot float on it, and the burning sensation coming from the feet is because there are a lot of things fermenting underneath, and the gas produced on the black waterhole is something called natural gas, and the black liquid is called stone paint, and as long as it is next to it with an open flame, it will ignite a raging fire.
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Ha ha...
Qiao Yue suddenly laughed heartily, from the depression in front of Guan Cangzi's door just now, to the despair when she walked into the Ten Thousand Poison Cave, at this time, with this laughter, it disappeared in an instant.
A cold light flashed in her eyes, her face was extremely indifferent, and a ruthless voice came out of her mouth word by word: "Guan Cangzi, Ten Thousand Poison Caves, since you want my Qiao Yue's life, don't blame me Qiao Yue for being ruthless..."R1152