"Did I hear me wrong? I think I hear a dog barking. ”

The little bird lowered his voice, puzzled, and obviously couldn't figure out how there could be a dog barking underground.

Yan Bing also nodded in his helmet: "Yes, I heard it too." Sir, could it be a rabid dog? ”

Tianyang hummed: "It's possible, let's go." Let's see, mad dogs are not underground creatures, since they can get in, then follow their traces, and we can find a way out! ”

This news made the bird very excited, although the adversity itself is a depressing world, but the underground is even more depressing. The girl had been groping in these crypt passages for hours, and had long wanted the ground to breathe.

As soon as she heard the traces left by the mad dog, she was able to take a few of herself out, and the girl was immediately full of energy.

Tianyang reminds them: "Mad dogs are different from prowlers, they respond to light and sound. Let's turn off the tactical lighting accessories, there are fog crystals everywhere in the ground, enough to see the way. ”

Bird and Flame Soldier had no objection, and the latter simply turned off the lighting accessories on the rifle. The light dimmed suddenly, but after a few moments, they were adjusting to their surroundings.

The fog crystals that sporadically emerged from all over the passage, emitting a deep purple glow, providing a faint glow.

Tianyang activates the infrared vision mode of the tactical eye, and the vision becomes clearer, and everything is ready. He gestured and was responsible for clearing the way.

Yan Bing walked in the middle, and whenever something was wrong, he covered Tianyang.

After the little bird was broken, she didn't have a gun on her, but the thin sword could release the frost sword qi, which was much more powerful than a rifle.

The trio walked close to the side of the passage, groping their way through these crooked, disorderly underground spaces.

After walking for a while, he heard a few more dog barks, the sound was clear, Tianyang easily identified the direction, and led the team into a cave.

"It's .."

After walking a few steps, Tianyang stopped, as if he had discovered something.

The little bird came over curiously, and looked at Tianyang's line of sight, and it turned out that above the passage of the crypt, a rhizome resembling a plant had emerged.

The thing crossed the passage and plunged into the wall on the other side. The rhizome was very thick, and it was not difficult to see that it was twenty or thirty centimeters in diameter in the deep purple light of a cluster of fog crystals nearby.

The skin is rough, the lines are complex, and there is an oval-shaped cocoon-like thing. It emits a faint red glow, and there appears to be liquid flowing through it, causing a slight wrinkle on its surface.

The three of them looked at each other, and they didn't know what it was. Suddenly, another dog barking sounded in front of me.

"Let's go, let's leave this alone."

It didn't take long for them to spot a mad dog. It was like a monster that had sewn a dog and a man together, and it was in trouble.

More than a dozen plant roots wrapped around it, and not only did those things tightly strangle the mad dog's body, but several of them even pierced into the monster's body.

But there is no indication that these roots, like the Necro Tree, will feed on flesh. Perhaps, it was just to get caught in the body of a rabid dog just to catch it better?

Why do you say this, because, Tianyang and the three of them can see clearly, those roots are trying to pull the mad dog up, even if this thing is struggling desperately.

Tianyang raised his head, and in his tactical eyes, a thick plant rhizome was attached to the top of the cave.

When the roots dragged the mad dog near the rhizome, a section of the rhizome suddenly cracked, and the wisps of fibrous roots became entangled with each other, and were torn apart and broken one by one.

The rhizome split a hole nearly two meters long, and black mud-like slime flowed from it as it snaked down the walls of the cave. It's like ink spilled on a gray canvas, filling the picture inch by inch.

The air was filled with the smell of decay, which was disgusting.

The helmeted Yan soldier didn't notice anything, and the noses of Tianyang and Xiaobird were offended.

Just as their eyebrows were about to be twisted into a Sichuan shape, the mad dog let out a few wails and pulled it into the crack of the rhizome.

The crack closed, and the surface of the rhizome continued to bulge, like a mad dog struggling desperately inside.

Unfortunately, its struggle didn't last even 1 minute before it was over.

There was no sound in the passage, and it was as quiet as a cemetery. If it weren't for the fact that the three of Tianyang witnessed this scene just now, they might not have believed that a mad dog was actually "eaten" by this rhizome!

"What is this? I've never seen anything like it. The bird lowered her voice and said.

Tianyang's voice was solemn: "No matter what it is, it will catch its prey, even the children of darkness. Looks like we're going to have to be careful, it's better not to get too close to it. ”

This suggestion was very much in favor of both Bird and Flame Soldier.

Carefully keeping his distance from the strange plant, Tianyang checked the ground nearby, and sure enough, he found traces of a mad dog. These marks are all over the ground, and if you follow them backwards, you should be able to find an exit.

Tianyang was about to beckon the two of them to leave, but suddenly saw a red light in front of him. The red light came from the rhizome of the plant on the cave wall, and the oval cocoons of all sizes lit up on its surface.

Grunt grunt –

There was a sound of water flowing through the rhizome, as if there were hollow pipes inside the thing. Now, there is water flowing through it, like those ubiquitous sewers in the lower part of the fortress!

"Yikes!" For some reason, the bird lost its voice and exclaimed.

Tianyang looked at her, and the girl was pointing to a cocoon bubble on the rhizome, with a frightened expression: "I seem to see someone inside." ”

"Anyone?" Tianyang looked up and stared at a cocoon bubble above.

But even if he used his eyesight, it was difficult to see what was in the cocoon, only a string of bubbles.

Just as he was about to retract his gaze, he was caught off guard, and a man's face was stuck to the cocoon bubble!

I don't know if this face has been bitten by something, and only bones are left in the small half of the face on the left, and when you look through the eye sockets, you can even vaguely see a gray thing.

That's supposed to be his brain...

The mangled face of terror appeared suddenly, and disappeared suddenly. Just a second or two of sound, it seemed to be driven by the flow of water, through the hollow passage of the rhizome, floating to an unknown distance.

The sound of running water continued for nearly a minute before it stopped, and Tianyang looked down the rhizome. It attaches to the walls of the cave and extends diagonally deep into the earth.

The red glow from the cocoons on the rhizome began to dim, and after a few moments, it had returned to its original almost imperceptible luminosity.

But the scene just now has been deeply imprinted in the minds of the three of them. For some reason, the flow of water in that strange plant reminded the three of them of Tianyang with the same word: eating.

Tianyang thought for a while and said, "I'm going to go down and have a look." ”

He pointed in the direction of the plant's rhizome: "This thing doesn't look like it was formed naturally, and we haven't found any creatures under the ground all the way." ”

"But this thing can hunt, so how can it grow where there is no prey? So I think, there's probably something weird down there. Otherwise, such a plant would not grow for no reason. ”

Little Bird agreed, "Maybe the Black People have something else down there, and if we find out, it will be a great achievement." ”

Now that they had agreed, the three of them turned around and followed the path of the plants above the cave, all the way into the ground.

On the way, there was another sound of water flowing in the rhizome of the plant, and this phenomenon happened three times in total.

Every time there is a sound of running water, the cocoons on the rhizome will inevitably light up red, like red light bulbs.

What made Tianyang a little relieved was that the thing didn't seem to be interested in humans, and the three of them had been following it for so long and had not been attacked.

After two hours of this, when Tianyang wondered if this rhizome was going to the depths of the earth's center of the Adverse Realm, the end appeared without warning.

When I turned a corner, the front suddenly opened up, and it turned out to be another wide belly space. In the huge space in front of him, a figure appeared in Tianyang's eyes without warning.

The boy hurriedly stopped, and made a vigilant gesture to the two people behind him.

But if you look closely, you can see that it is not a human figure, but some kind of plant.

It is made up of countless entangled rhizomes that are twisted together and is very tall, seven or eight meters long. The strange thing is that I don't know whether it is intentional or unintentional, it is shaped into the image of a human being.

That's why when Tianyang suddenly saw it, he thought he saw a figure.

From the direction of the teenager, it looks like a woman, and the countless roots that hang down from top to bottom form the woman's "hair".

In the shape of a shoulder, the rhizome is coiled like a ball, and from a distance, it looks like a child's head is lying on a woman's shoulder.

The thick rhizome that stretched all the way to this point, it sank into the body of the tall "woman", which reminded Tianyang of such a thing as the "umbilical cord".

The boy held his breath and observed for a moment to make sure that nothing was going on before gesticulating.

The three of them walked lightly and came to the "sculpture" of a woman made of plants. When I looked closer, I realized that this turned out to be a "pregnant woman".

It has a round belly and is erect high.

Two "arms" made of rhizomes entangled together are very vividly holding the belly.

The legs of the "woman" are spread out, as if she is about to give birth at any moment. This huge sculpture, and this strange image, plus being underground. No matter how you look at it, it feels weird and eerie.

Tianyang glanced back at the other two, and the faces of Xiao Bird and Yan Bing were a little ugly.

Why do these plants deliberately create such an image, is it a simple coincidence that the pregnant woman is about to give birth, or does it have another meaning?

Tianyang coughed dryly, and the two Yan soldiers came back to their senses: "We should go, this strange thing will be handed over to the command to study, we have done our duty, there is no need to stay here anymore." ”

"Besides, we're not botanists, so we can't study anything if we stay."

The bird clenched his arms and looked around, "I think so too, it's too weird here, there's only such a scary thing." I'd rather run into the black people than it..."

At the end of the voice, from the darkness ahead, a few dog barks faintly came.

The little bird was stunned: "No, did you really bump into the black people?" My crow's beak is too good! ”

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