"What's that!" , Zhang San said excitedly pointing ahead.

The gray and big thing like a fat cat was frightened and quickly ran away.

"It's like a big mouse," Mark said.

I looked at Lacey, but Lacey looked at the ground and frowned, and said cautiously, "Be careful, everyone"

What are rats afraid of? But I knew Lacey had been careful, and since he said so, there must have been something different.

We all tightened our grips on the long sticks in our hands, the sharp side facing outward, carefully preparing for the defense.

"Lacey, are you going to catch rats and roast them?" , Zhang San asked.

Lacey pointed to the ground, and we couldn't see anything when we looked at the ground.

Seeing that we were all dazed, Lacey had to explain, "Look here, this is a sign that carnivores often walk on, taller than mice, so the lower part of these plants has been worn off."

"How do you know it's carnivorous?" , I asked.

"There has been no human activity in this underground space for hundreds of years, but the big rats are so vigilant, which means that they have natural predators, look here"

Following Lacey's fingers, he saw some animal bones in the dense vegetation, and judging from the remaining skulls, most of them were large rats.

"If it is a natural death, there is usually a relatively complete skeleton, looking at the broken bones and the ground, there are traces of chewing and dragging, especially from the broken parts of those bones, it is determined that it is a carnivore with sharp teeth"

Through Lacey's explanation, we basically understood, and slowly walked forward, to the place where the big mouse had just stayed.

There are a few unknown fruit trees there, full of fruits, which look a bit like apples, but they are not big, so let's call them apples first. There were still a few half-eaten apples on the ground, and it seemed that the fat rat was a vegetarian.

The further you go, the more broken bones there are on the ground, most of these small broken bones look a long time ago, occasionally you can see a large pile of fresh broken bones, and even some have some minced flesh hanging on them, this is probably not one or two fierce beasts, this is probably a group.

The plants on both sides are getting stranger and stranger, and there is one plant that is particularly strange, and it catches your eye as soon as you walk by.

It looks as tall as an ordinary corn stalk, and the leaves are as large and wide as plantain leaves, and the most strange thing is that this plant has a huge leaf that looks like a flower is not a flower, and it looks like a fruit but not a fruit, like a huge mussel shell that can be opened and closed, and like a huge bean.

To be precise, it looks a bit like a bean-shaped flytrap. It's just that the leaves of the flyweed open and close are long eyelash-like hairs. The two sides of this plant open and close like sharp canine teeth, and the leaves on both sides are closed, and the canine teeth are intertwined like a large closed mouth.

"It looks a bit like a man-eating flower," Wan Camel said.

This time Lacey replied, "Hmm", usually Wan Camel talks Lacey is too lazy to pay attention.

"Is this really a flower?" , Mark said, "This flower is too big, like a 21-inch color TV"

"To make sure it's not dangerous," I used the sharp end of my stick to shake in front of the "big mouth" in order to show my courage in front of the girl.

Nothing happened.

Lacey took my long stick, and with one in each hand, he plunged it into the intertwined pod and pried it vigorously.

The pod was pried open a crack.

"Be careful", Lacey warned.

What's wrong with it?

The gap grew bigger and bigger, and through the sunlight from the fire dragon, we could clearly see that there was something wrapped inside the pod.

Alive!

It was something like a big cat and a big dog, curled up in a pod, hairless, with skin like a newborn mouse.

The thing was afraid of light, and the light shone through the cracks on its skin, freeing up puffs of white smoke. The big dog also hissed and jumped in the pods.

Occasionally, he turned his head to us outside the pod and bared his sharp canine teeth and hissed. It's not just scary to watch. With its pointed ears, wolf eyes, and fear of light, it looks like the hungry ghosts that Master Mao and the Twelve Patriotic Men are fighting.

This burst of screaming caused a chain reaction, and there were many such plants around, and the whole large flora began to shake, and every pod had this kind of thing restless, and some of the pods made a sound similar to a wolf's howl.

This scene makes people suddenly nervous,

"Squeak-", a scream.

Lacey killed the little monster with a spear, and all the pods were calm, no longer shaking, no longer screaming.

Lacey dragged the monster out, and pale green blood flowed down the spear, how could the blood be pale green? The blood bubbled in the sun, and suddenly turned into a puff of white smoke and disappeared, leaving only a dark black imprint on the spear, as if it had been burned with fire.

The skin of the little monster also smoked white in the sun, slowly turning black.

Then look at the monster, which has four canine-like paws, but each with four toes like a bird, three facing forward and one backward, making it easier to climb the plant.

Under the sun, the skin was quickly blackened, and Nuo's body shrank to the size of a kitten in the blink of an eye.

Lacey threw the thing to the ground, and suddenly all the pods around it started shaking again.

"Not good," Mark yelled.

He was staring at the fire dragon in front of him, and the dragon's head was no longer bright.

The lava is retreating!

If this magma is gone, there will be darkness around you.

The little monster in the pod began to howl again, and the howls came and went.

I immediately realized that they are afraid of light, and apparently when there is no light, it is their hunting time.

Needless to say, we're going to be prey like the big rats.

It's too late to run back to the top of the basin now.

"Go to the cave of the ancients", I propose.

"All march, follow me", Lacey ordered us all to run.

The light kept skimming over the shaking pods, and the light became dimmer and dimmer.

As the light dimmed, the two shells of the pod slowly opened a slit.

The gap is getting wider and wider, and you can already see the excited black shadow inside constantly jumping from side to side.

It's still a long way from the cave of the ancient people, and it looks like it's too late.

That's when Lacey made a bold decision.

He paused and made a stop gesture.

Did you encounter anything again? We looked even more nervous.

"Make torches", Lacey simply issued the order.

"With kerosene and gasoline"

After saying that, Lacey took out a large knife half a meter long from his backpack.

A long-lost mountain opener.

The spear in the right hand and the broadsword in the left hand are guarding us.

We're all getting ready.

"What are you going to do with the torches?" asked Wan Camel anxiously.

"Clothes, pants", Lacey simply ordered.

The surroundings began to darken, and the light disappeared in a flash.

The warmth is also gone.

Darkness is coming.

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