The will to survive that erupts at a critical juncture is a person's instinct, and the sense of responsibility that arises at the same time can be called morality. - Shen Qiuci

Shen Qiuci's body temperature continued to rise, and the clothes on her body were steaming white in the jungle, and from a distance, she looked like a white mist that kept moving. When she walked out of the jungle and down the river, her body had been dried,

"A good thing indeed." Thinking of Shen Qiuci, he smiled slightly, and the steps under his feet did not stop, but he would consciously move towards them when he smelled the delicious ingredients.

By the time she returned to the camp, she had already taken in some of the most common plant fungi and accessories that were easily overlooked. The others seemed to have washed up, and sat around the campfire refreshed, discussing tomorrow's itinerary.

"Come here, Naka, we've already fallen behind the rest of the team, and we must go straight through the valley tomorrow." Mera beckoned to her.

"In the valley, it is very likely to encounter the multicolored spotted python and the flaming tarantula, two tricky mid- and high-level beasts, and the venom from the giant mobile corrosive mushroom is also a big trouble, as well as the miasma swamp that must be passed."

"Captain, how to get through the swamp." Benny immediately asked Ivan a question on the side, and Qiu Ci frowned deeply when he heard the word "miasma".

"The swamp is almost full of circles, but the width is not long, and if you encounter ingredients that can be detoxified on the way, it is easy to do, but if we drag on until the evening we are still trapped on this side of the swamp, and the next night we encounter blood-colored bats, I am afraid that it will be nine deaths."

Benny listened excitedly and depressed,

"It's okay to say that the beast is fine, but I'm going to be heavy, I'm afraid I don't have such a big plate to support it."

"Maybe the people who pass through will leave some clues, why don't we discuss here first, rest early today, and leave early tomorrow morning, what do you say?" Seeing everyone's solemn expressions, Mella's eyes were full of light, although she was also worried.

"The boat is naturally straight to the bridge, and Naka was chased down the cliff by the angry Lulu pig and survived, what are we afraid of!"

"Mera is right, go to sleep, I'll keep vigil." After the words fell, Qiu Ci sat up beside the tent.

"Hey, what kind of handsome are you kid all of a sudden, the vigil is exclusive to the captain and my Uncle Benny, right, captain~"

Suddenly, a stone hit Benny's acupoint somewhere, and his strong body fell to the back of consciousness as he slumbered, and was caught by Ivan behind him.

"Captain, rest well."

Ivan didn't speak, and dragged Benny into the tent, and Mera gave Qiu Ci a thumbs up on the side, and then followed in.

On the third night, Ivan's team was safe all night.

At 6:10 a.m. on the fourth day, the fresh fragrance of mushroom soup drifted into the tent along the morning breeze, and several people in the tent poked their heads out, followed by a quick washing and cleaning up, and several people gathered around Qiu Ci to fill the soup.

"What kind of mushroom, why is it so delicious!"

"The pattern seems to be a little familiar."

Ivan stared at the dark purple mushroom petals on the ground on the side, looked at the soup in his hand, and finally didn't say anything and drank it.

In addition to the umami of mushrooms, a sticky and fragrant smoothness accompanied by a little salty spicy spicy juice in the refreshing and rich soup went straight down the throat and into the lungs, Ivan's whole body couldn't help but warm up, and all the cells in his body woke up.

"What is this, so comfortable, so delicious!"

"I feel empowered!"

"Naka, how did you do that?"

"The main ingredient is poisonous sore mushrooms."

Benny and Mera's faces changed and they stopped what they were doing, and Ivan drank calmly as he listened.

"When I was walking yesterday, I also found a sticky potato with white flowers, boiling it to half-ripe and mashing it into a puree not only makes the taste of the soup smooth, but also neutralizes the excessively aggressive umami of the poisonous sore mushroom and the spicy ginger fruit, and the soup also adds a little white rock powder, salty and light, not bad~"

"Na... Naka, poisonous sores mushroom poisonous ......"

"Ah, you say poison sacs?" Qiu Ci faintly pointed to the pile of dark purple mushroom petals on the side,

"I threw it."

Benny and Mera breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly picked up their bowls and continued to gulp.

It was exactly 6:30 a.m. when everyone finished eating and cleaning up, and Ivan's team headed for the valley.

It was still Shen Qiuci who walked at the forefront, and she led them straight towards the gathering place where the strange smell of decay and the smell of animals and plants was mixed with it.

The roots of the trees on the surface of the earth were too tangled along the way, and the sticky branches and vines that hung in them sometimes hindered their progress, but the others were not in any danger, and as for the moving creatures, they did not encounter any of them.

Quiet, really too quiet.

"Stop." The excessively strong smell of blood in front of him stimulated Shen Qiuci's nerves.

"What's going on up front?" Ivan asked her in a deep voice.

"There are dead people."

With that, the four of them slowly moved forward, and then they saw five adult corpses on the ground that had been torn apart. Mera couldn't hold back and threw it out, and the others frowned deeply.

"This is something bitten, and the flesh is full of barbed strain."

"The skull has been bitten through, and it's empty."

"The eyeballs are gone."

This road was the closest, and Qiu Ci had also smelled a faint smell of blood before, but she didn't expect these people to die so tragically.

"What the hell is it?" Qiu Ci just asked, and the ground under his feet suddenly loosened,

"Get out of the way!" She pulled Mera to the side,

"Follow me, quick!"

They had just advanced a dozen meters, and the ground behind them had been completely turned up, and the huge insects that crawled out of it were wrapped in a layer of black and shiny hard carapace, countless barbed feet and the steely silver antler-shaped palate that made people's scalps tingle.

"Oh my God, this thing is too big."

"Benny, don't look back, run!" Ivan said in a deep voice.

The giant insect behind it followed closely, breaking many branches along the way, and even the vines that entwined it were gently cut into pieces.

"Damn, look at the dirt in front of you." I saw that the soil in front of the four of them also began to loosen.

Qiu Ci frowned,

"This way!"

One turned left and ran straight forward, this direction was slightly off their destination, and an unpleasant poisonous gas became more and more dense as they advanced, and the two big insects behind them, one big and one small, were in hot pursuit, and when they were about to catch up, Qiu Ci pushed Mera onto Benny,

"Take her away, there's poison ahead, be careful." Then as soon as her "broken thought" came out, she suddenly blocked the huge jaw teeth that were about to bite Banni's back, and the hardness of the big insect's upper jaw was completely beyond Shen Qiuci's expectations, her palms shook, and the "broken thoughts" almost came out of her hands,

"Run."

"No way!"

"What!"

The trees in front of them were covered with white sticky silk, and there were birds fluttering on them.