Let's rewind the clock.

On the other side of the 79th floor of the Infinity Tower, Qiu Yue landed on the coast of another continent on an owl.

The girl got off the owl's back, her little brown leather shoes imprinting two tiny footprints on the white gravel.

She frowned slightly, only to realize that the shoe on her left foot had been worn during the previous fight with the ancient tree, and the sand and gravel had covered her stockings, which were not so uncomfortable as to pierce her skin.

"Remember what I just said," the owl raised its feathers and lowered its voice, "there are a lot of poisonous insects and beasts here, speak and move quietly, don't wake them up." ”

Qiu Yue looked ahead, and could see that this was once a vast forest, but the trees were all bald, and only dull branches remained.

The land is also barren, and there is not a single weed, let alone flowers. The brown bushes were limp and drooping their branches to the ground, apparently dead. There is also the moss, which is the same color as the miasma, and the fungus has mutated in order to adapt to such an environment.

Seeing this scene, Qiu Yue had some doubts about what the owl said: Is there really a poisonous insect and beast here? Where can they hide in a place like this?

She took a step forward and found that she seemed to have stepped on something, soft, and she jerked back her foot to find that it was a jellyfish washed up on the beach by the waves, half covered in gravel, apparently dead for a long time.

"Be mindful of your feet as you walk, there's something on the ground that you don't want to step on," the owl added with hindsight, "and maybe there are traps." ”

Qiu Yue rolled her eyes and walked straight forward.

"The road is on this side," said the owl behind Qiu Yue, its feathers pointing in the other direction, "north." ”

……

Qiu Yue and the owl walked into the jungle.

As the owl said, there are indeed many things on the ground that Qiu Yue can't step on or doesn't want to step on: like the broken branches of trees, there is a huge "click" sound when stepping on them, which will wake up the poisonous insects sleeping nearby; There are also the remains of insects, such as dragonflies or centipedes, with black bodies lying on the ground, and these Qiu Yue also try to avoid them.

But the last thing she wanted to step on was the occasional unidentified liquid, which came in all colors, like saliva or urine left behind by something. Most of them were still lukewarm, dripping into the cracks of the dry earth, emitting an unpleasant rancid stench.

The yellow miasma hovered above Qiu Yue and the owl's heads, and it seemed to be conscious, only moving in the air above three meters, and would not penetrate within three meters (also thanks to this, Qiu Yue and the owl would not be poisoned to death), nor would it just curl up in a little space.

Is there some barrier to it?

Qiu Yue thought so, she avoided the obstacles on the road, and pulled the owl's tail feathers and walked forward carefully.

The jungle was quiet, no insects, no birds, and quiet. She could clearly hear the pounding heartbeat coming from her own and the owl's chest.

"How long are we going to go?" The girl asked in a low voice.

"If I'm not mistaken," replied the owl in the same low voice, "about a kilometer away, you'll come to the wormhole that leads to Mirko Castle." ”

There's still a kilometer to go......

Qiu Yue muttered in her mouth, she felt a little bored. The surrounding scenery is more monotonous than she imagined, and far worse than the real-world tourist attractions. And it also exudes a depressing atmosphere, like the unchanged poplar trees in the Mobei region, with a sense of human apocalypse.

Is there anything fun or surprising?

She looked around, from the ground to the sky, and from the sky to the brown bushes around her, and suddenly she saw a tree.

A very conspicuous tree.

The tree itself is quite ordinary, with a gray-brown torso, and like other trees, only branches remain. But on its bark was a moss of astonishing size.

The moss is golden in color, and honey is the same color. Countless flagella poked their heads out, their tips splitting like blooming buds, and black and yellow bees sucking their juice on them, the only living creatures Qiu Yue had seen in this jungle.

Are there any skills or items hidden there?

Qiu Yue excitedly thought that some unexpected places in the Infinity Tower would hide skills or props, such as Wu Hao's short sword [Stinging Bee] found in the Fog Shadow Hero's house, and Qiu Yue's skill [Parrot Language], which was found in a bird's nest.

She jumped over the obstacle on the ground and walked straight to the dead tree, touching the moss on its torso.

"Don't touch that thing!" The owl shouted dissuasion, his face frightened.

Unfortunately, it was too late, the owl's voice had not yet arrived, and the girl's hand had already been placed on the moss.

The system in the upper left corner didn't have any hints, just watched the moss-golden flagella twitch for a while, retracted, and the bees on it fell to the ground, Qiu Yue found that they were not sucking sap at all, it should be the other way around. The moss's sap sticks to the bees, immobilizing them, and the moss's flagella inserts into the bodies of the poor bees, drawing the nutrients they need from the moss.

The dead trees are shaking.

It wasn't just dead trees with special mosses, dozens of dead trees around it vibrated at the same time. They grew stronger, and even the roots of the trees were lifted out of the soil.

The ground cracked, and a fat, large head poked out. It was covered in mud, its stone-gray skin was covered with brown warts, and its almost white belly was fluttering with numerous tentacles. It cracked its head open to reveal its mouth, and several sharp, sharp, curved fangs poked out of its throat and waved at the sky.

It's the nightmare of this jungle.

Qiu Yue was stunned, she finally understood the reason why the owl dissuaded her.

There weren't any skills or props here at all - these things that looked like dead trees weren't trees at all, but the legs of the spider in front of them. The golden moss on the tree is a trap used by spiders to trap enemies.

The mucus secreted by the moss stuck to Qiu Yue's hand, but Qiu Yue was not one of those little bees, and the traps of spiders against small insects naturally couldn't help her. The girl's strength had already been raised to 4, and she broke free with only a slight effort.

She looked up at the spider, which was over 3 meters tall, its head exposed to the yellow miasma, but it was completely fine. The miasma spiraled, and Qiu Yue could hear the clearly audible sound of the monster inhaling the air current, and then it let out a roar, and the spider's legs like dead wood moved quickly, rolling up large clouds of dust, and attacked Qiu Yue.