The ground was covered with moss, and it was very slippery, and a few people could only walk slowly forward by holding on to the stone walls on both sides.

After walking less than two steps, Shangguan Kangning, who was walking in the front, suddenly turned around and said, "Someone has been here before. ”

Chen Ziyang poked his head out and looked in front of Shangguan Kangning, and he saw that in this path, there were several places on the ground where the surface of the soil layer had been rolled up, and even the moss on it was thrown aside, revealing the stones below.

There is more than one such trace on the ground, Chen Ziyang scanned it at a glance and found three or four, these traces are separated from each other by more than a meter, and they look like footprints, which are probably left by someone walking here before.

Judging by the distance between these footprints, the man walked forward here with a very large stride, as if he was running.

Then he looked at both sides of the stone wall, and on some protruding rocks, he could see some traces of friction, some of the longer plants had been broken, and the moss on the stone wall had also been wiped off a lot, it seemed that this person was very flustered when he was running, and he didn't care about the collision at all.

The place where the moss was turned over was still relatively wet, and the soil that had come down was not completely dried, so it was estimated that it would not take too long to open it, and this person should have run over not long ago, and it was likely that he was one of the poachers.

"It could be poachers, be careful when you walk forward." Chen Ziyang reminded him, Shangguan Kangning nodded, and then led the team to continue walking.

The narrowest part of the passage could only allow one person to pass through, and the wide part could barely allow two people to walk side by side, so six people lined up in a straight line, one by one, walking forward.

"Squeak ......" Just as a few people approached the first turn, the squeak sounded again, attracting the attention of several people.

Although the sound was not loud, several people could hear it, and the place where the cry came from was not far in front of here, and it was likely that they would be able to see it after turning this corner.

Since it was not known which animal was making this call, several people were all on their guard. Shangguan Kangning, who was walking in the front, slowly stretched out his head and looked to the other side of the corner. After looking at it for a while, he waved to a few people behind him, and it was clear that the front was safe.

When the others had turned the corner, they saw that the passage on the other side of the corner was still sandwiched between two mountains, but it was wider.

The ground was covered with gravel, and there was very little moss growing on the rubble. Chen Ziyang looked up, revealing a line of blue sky in a very high place, it turned out that the upper part of the two mountains was not completely closed, except for many protruding rocks squeezed together, most of the mountains were separated, resulting in this kind of landscape of a line of sky.

The "squeaky ......" sound again, this time a few people heard it really, this kind of cry was made under the feet of several people, so they hurriedly lowered their heads and looked nearby, and after a while, Yang Lei saw something that made a scream.

"Er Yang, isn't that the red panda that was caught by poachers before!"

Looking in the direction of Yang Lei's finger, Chen Ziyang saw a red panda stuck in a crack in a stone, its tail and head were all exposed outside the stone, but its body was stuck to death.

The red panda now looks very embarrassed, covered in dirt and dirt. Seeing that someone had come here, the little thing squeaked again, and I don't know if it was because it was scared, or because it wanted these people to help it.

"This little thing, I guess I was frightened when I ran away, and when I saw the crack in the stone, I drilled into it, but I didn't expect to squeeze myself here. Luckily, we found out, otherwise this little thing would probably have died here. ”

Speaking of this, Chen Ziyang felt a little ridiculous, he was scared enough by this kind of scream last night, and he didn't dare to go in here to investigate.

"Chief Chen, do you have any sympathy? Such a cute little thing, why didn't you save it sooner? You have to take us with you after a sleep, do you like to sleep so much, on such a cold day, you let this little thing squeeze here all night, fortunately it didn't die, otherwise I wouldn't have spared you. Xu Xiaoyuan said angrily.

"This ...... I ......" Chen Ziyang has a feeling that he can't argue, this is really a show of talent and soldiers, and he can't explain it clearly. Although he knows that this matter is not up to him, but don't reason with women, women are always right! So he had to keep his mouth shut.

Seeing Chen Ziyang's stunned expression, Yang Lei and Umbrella Shishuai, who were prying the stones on both sides with a sapper shovel, covered their mouths and laughed secretly.

After a while, the red panda was pulled out of the crack in the stone by Xu Xiaoyuan and held it in his hand.

Counting the time, this red panda has been stuck in the crack of the stone for a day and a night, and it may be even longer. Now this little thing is dying, listless, and even the cry is weak.

Probably because of the fierce struggle of being stuck in the cracks of the stones, the red panda has multiple scratches on its body, and the deepest one has exposed the flesh under the fur, and the hair on the body has also been rubbed off a lot. And one of the red panda's legs has been injured, and it is estimated that there should be no way to run anymore.

The motherhood of the Dao Gu was overflowing again, feeding this little thing with the water in her backpack, and at this time, Chen Ziyang saw that a hiking boot seemed to be exposed in the shadows in front of him.

At this time, he found that many of these gravels on the ground were stained with mud, and the color of the places stained with soil was darker, which should have been in contact with the ground before, and it seemed that these stones should have been turned up by the person before when he was running.

The person in front should be one of the poachers, from the point of view of this hiking boot, this person is lying on the ground, it is estimated that it is difficult for him to escape from the poisonous mouth of the black carp, he should be dead.

When approaching this person, Umbrella Shishuai felt that he had tripped over something under his feet, and when he looked down, he realized that what he had kicked just now was a curved bone, the length of this bone was not very long, it should be the rib of some animal.

With the reminder of this bone, several other people discovered that there were still many animal bones scattered in this passage.

Chen Ziyang looked up at the first line of sky, he estimated that these animals had fallen from there and died here.

Walking on animal bones and rocks, several people walked up to the poacher's corpse. The man's clothes and pants were all deflated.

This corpse feels very strange, not like a normal corpse, but like someone deliberately posed in a human shape with clothes and pants, but the hair in front of the collar of the clothes tells everyone that it should indeed be a corpse.

Umbrella Shi Shuai carefully turned the corpse with a sapper shovel, but as soon as the shovel touched his clothes, he felt that something was wrong, and the inside of the clothes seemed to be empty.

With a fierce force, Umbrella Shishuai turned the corpse's clothes over with a shovel. Everyone gasped, and there was no corpse under their clothes, but a skeleton.

"Oh my God, where is all the flesh on this man? Could it be that he has turned into blood? Jin Huang said in surprise.

"Impossible, a person who died after being poisoned by the Black Gu will turn into blood and water after three days, this person has only been dead for more than a day, it is impossible to become like this, he should have been eaten by something on his flesh and blood." Shangguan Kangning said with certainty.

"Eat? Brother Shangguan, are you funny, the poison of the black Gu worm is so poisonous, what would dare to eat such a corpse? Besides, even if they were eaten, those things should have been poisoned, but there are no beast carcasses in the vicinity? Umbrella Shishuai retorted.

"This ......" Shangguan Kangning shook his head, he didn't understand the reason either.

"Oh my God, look at these stone walls, how there are so many dense holes on them, I, a person with dense phobia, feel very uncomfortable when I see it, and goosebumps all over my body rise." Yang Lei kept groping on his arm with both hands, and said after a shudder.

At this time, several people discovered that the rock walls on both sides near the corpse were all covered with small black holes. The holes were dark and densely packed, like a giant colander.

The rock wall covered with black holes is so long and so high that you can't see the border at all, as if both walls are full of such holes.

"Not good! Hurry back! Shangguan Kangning roared, turned around sharply and ran backwards, his movements were too sudden, and the speed of running was too fast, and several other people were unsuspected, they were all hit by him, and after passing through five people, Shangguan Kangning ran forward without looking back.

was suddenly hit by Shangguan Kangning, and the red panda that was previously held in Xu Xiaoyuan's arms was suddenly knocked out and landed next to the poacher's corpse. This little guy was already dying, his leg was also injured, and with such a fall, he was stunned and didn't know what to do.

At this time, Xu Xiaoyuan's mind was a little unconscious, just thinking that this cute thing could not be abandoned here, so she wanted to take a few steps forward and pick up the red panda. But as soon as she took a step, she was stopped by Chen Ziyang.

"Don't stand stupid, run!" Although Chen Ziyang didn't know what was going on, he knew that the thing that could scare Shangguan Kangning like that must be very powerful, and staying here with five people was tantamount to waiting for death. So he hurriedly grabbed Xu Xiaoyuan's arm and ran back with her, and the other three people also left there after him.

Shangguan Kangning, who ran out of the crack in the mountain, swooped down on the grass, panting heavily, and the five people who ran out with him were also out of breath.

"I ...... I say...... Brother Shangguan, you're too sudden, what can scare you like you've seen a ghost. Tell you, I've seen ghosts too, and they're not as scary as you think. Even when he was out of breath, Yang Lei didn't forget to tease Shangguan Kangning a few words.

"You...... You know a! I've never seen a ghost, but I know that there's a lot more powerful than a ghost in the mountain. If you don't play, you can't play in this place, and if you play again, you'll lose your life. ”

"What the hell is in there?" Chen Ziyang felt a little curious, a Gu master like Shangguan Kangning was a very terrifying existence in the eyes of others, and he couldn't imagine that there was something that could scare him like this.

"Stone Gu worms are Gu worms that are kept in stones. The mouth of this insect is very powerful, no matter how hard the rock is, it can be bitten open by them, these things like to build a nest in the stone, and the black spots we see are the passages that these Gu insects bite out to their nests. ”

"Huh? And bugs that can bite rocks! Not only Yang Lei was surprised, but several other people were also shocked.

"Yes, stone Gu insects, homonyms are also called bone-eating insects, that is, they can even gnaw off the bones of animals, I estimate that the bones of those animals and the poacher were eaten by these Gu worms, so there are a lot of white bones left.

Because the mouths of these things are very powerful, they eat things very quickly, and these things live in groups, and a large number of bone-eating insects swarmed up, even an elephant will be gnawed into a pile of bones in ten minutes.

We were lucky to be fast, otherwise we wouldn't have even had a chance to escape by the time these things crawled out of the rock wall, and it would all have become lunch for these guys.

I guess the reason why these things didn't attack us just now was because the poacher had already fed them the day before, but luckily this kid ran into there by mistake and became our substitute for the dead, otherwise we would have gotten into it recklessly, and we would have been lying there. ”

"Oh my God! My red panda! Xu Xiaoyuan shouted heartbreakingly.

"Don't shout, the red panda has turned into a pile of bones, if you pick up the bones, you might be able to put together a skeleton specimen."

"It's hard to do now......" Chen Ziyang thought with a frown. Listening to Shangguan Kangning's meaning, it seemed that there was no way to continue this passage.

"Shangguan Kangning, do you have a way to get through that passage?"

"Huh? I've said that, you have to keep going! Crazy, you're crazy. Shangguan Kangning said as he shook his head.

"But...... How...... It's not for nothing, I need your blood, a lot of blood! ”

"Hey, you kid is sitting on the ground, I doubt that those bugs are as powerful as you say, are you deliberately scaring us, just to get more Ziyang's blood." Yang Lei said.

(End of chapter)