The fleeing team that continued to move forward cleaned up their inexplicable sadness, put the bags that had been packed on their backs, and under the leadership of Barak, they walked half a circle along the foot of a high mountain, walked into a simple mountain road, and slowly climbed halfway up the mountain.

Towards the mountainside, Barak led the group around a large rock, and on the other side of the stone they saw a large cave.

Before leading the group into the cave, Barak explained the situation of the cave, saying that the cave passed directly through the middle of the mountain, which could lead them to the other side of the mountain, and then lit the torches that had been prepared long ago and entered the cave.

The fire in the torch soon illuminated the cave, and the refraction of the light and the mineral crystals in the cave itself made the originally dark cave colorful, looking mysterious and beautiful, so that the uneasiness in everyone's hearts calmed down a little, and the steps were much lighter.

The webweavers also walked outside the cave and were about to enter the cave, but they suddenly stopped, and each of them went around the big rock that covered the entrance of the cave, and without any shelter, looked at the giant redwood forest in the distant mountains, and there was a trace of worry on their faces that remained indifferent and flat.

At this time, Leo, who was far behind the fleeing procession, also walked up, saw the strange appearance of the webweavers, and couldn't help but follow their line of sight towards the giant redwood forest, but did not see anything unusual, so he asked, "What's wrong?

The webweaver didn't answer, instead pointing to the spider tattoo on the back of Leo's hand.

Since yesterday, the spider tattoo on the back of Leo's hand has not disappeared or hidden, as if it were a real tattoo, and even ordinary people can see it. In addition, Leo is also able to activate the power in the tattoo by infusing psionic energy, allowing his vision to once again gain the ability to see anyone's soul and soul lines.

After receiving the hint, Leo didn't think much about it, and directly activated the spider tattoo on the back of his hand, so that the visual pattern of his eyes changed to a soul vision, and he saw another scene in the giant sequoia forest.

I don't know when it began, the giant redwood forest has been almost covered by a giant monster like mud, and this giant mud monster is constantly wriggling its body like black oil, spreading to other places that are not covered in the giant redwood forest.

At the same time, in the sky above the sludge monster, a large number of webweavers revealing their spider human forms were piled up, and one by one they flew down from the sky without fear, falling like raindrops on the body of the sludge monster below, and then frantically biting the body of the mud monster.

However, the fearless attacks of these web weavers obviously had no effect on the giant sludge monster, and it still squirmed and expanded around it as it could, even if the web weaver on its body was about to open its body and burrow into its body, it could not stop its expansion.

"This is ......" After Leo saw this giant sludge monster, his mind immediately came to mind the Black Forest monster or clan that he had seen covering the surface of the earth a few days ago, almost invisible, although the shape of the two was very different at the moment, but Leo immediately thought of it the moment he saw this sludge monster.

In the past, when Leo cleared the monsters and clans around the fleeing party, he encountered this kind of monster many times, and tried various methods to deal with it, but no matter what method was used, he was never able to completely destroy this monster. For example, using explosions, slashing and other methods will only blow up the monster's body, blow its body into countless small pieces, and make it split into countless individuals, but it will not kill it, and if it is burned with fire, it will only make it charred, so that it will fall into some kind of sleep or ban, and it will not be able to completely kill it.

Because this monster can't be killed, and this monster doesn't seem to have any aggressiveness, Leo didn't kill this monster even if he encountered it on the road.

However, Leo had no idea that this harmless-looking monster of the Black Forest would become so powerful once it grew up.

Although Leo couldn't feel any psionic energy fluctuations from the monster, he could clearly see the opponent's huge soul light cluster through the soul vision given by the webweaver.

In addition, after using the Psionic Vision, he was also able to see various relief-like forms constantly emerging from the surface of the giant mud monster through the effect of farsightedness, among these forms were the refugees who had gone back before, as well as the Black Forest monsters and clans that he had killed in the past few days.

Obviously, this sludge monster has swallowed the fleeers who are going back, and it is more likely to take the opportunity of Leo to hunt down and clear those Black Forest monsters and clans, and follow all the way behind, eating the souls and body remains of those Black Forest monsters and clans killed by Leo, and finally grow to the current state that anyone who will be shocked when they see it.

"What is this?" Leo couldn't help but ask the webweaver beside him, shocked.

And the webweaver did not hesitate to answer, saying, "Creeping...... Tapir ......"

Hearing this term, Leo immediately found the corresponding content in the information in his mind, and at the same time, he couldn't help but curse a few words in his heart to the compiler of this information.

The information about the creeping tapir comes from a collection of folk fairy tales compiled by the Persona Society, in which the creeping tapir was originally a human child, because he was too greedy from a young age, he stole the sacrifices offered to the gods, angered the gods, and finally turned into a monster who was forever hungry but never had enough to eat. There is also a picture drawn by the compiler at the back of this story, and the image of the creeping tapir on the way is more like a pig, which is completely different from the image of the real creeping tapir in front of him.

When he first saw the stories in this collection of fairy tales, Leo didn't care about the content at all, but just let the vice-brains memorize it routinely, after all, most of the stories like the fairy tales like the pillow are artificially made, but now it seems that those fairy tales are not necessarily fake.

"Do you need my help?" Although there have only been a handful of exchanges with the webweaver these days, they get along very well, and Leo also likes to get along with this kind of silent being, so when he sees that the webweaver seems to be in trouble, he takes the initiative to ask.

The webweavers beside Leo shook their heads slightly, their eyes fixed on the Giant Sequoia Forest, but soon the worried look on their faces quickly faded and returned to their original flat state.

Leo also saw a hint of the battle situation in the distance from the change in the expression of the weaver, although it seems that the weaver's attack on the tapir has no effect, but this is only on the surface, in fact, the weaver has found the tapir's weakness.

Creeping tapirs have devoured the bodies and souls of a large number of people, monsters, and clansmen, and its body has rapidly expanded like a balloon in a short period of time, but it is also as weak and fragile as a balloon because of this uncontrolled and aimless devouring.

Before, because the soul light displayed by the creeping tapir was too shocking, Leo was not able to observe it carefully for a while, but now after the shock, he found that although the soul light emitted by the creeping tapir was dazzling and huge, it was actually chaotic, and each soul light seemed to repel all the soul rays around it, which made its body always maintain an extremely fragile state of balance.

Obviously, the weaver also discovered the weakness of the creeping tapir, so despite the unknown power devouring the tapir's body, it continued to fall from the sky and burrow into the tapir's body, guiding the soul light of those humans, monsters, and clansmen to impact the fragile balance of the tapir's body.

After a few minutes, Leo saw that the creeping tapir's body suddenly stopped squirming around, and then shook rapidly like a cramp, and as the frequency of the shaking increased, its huge body suddenly expanded nearly doubled, and then melted as quickly as butter on a red-hot iron plate, and bursts of soul light waves spread out like ripples in a pool, and soon advanced in front of Leo.

At the same time as the soul light ** came over, the web weavers around Leo suddenly revealed their original spider humanoid state, and opened a big mouth that looked very hideous, and a huge web protruded from the mouth, putting the soul light wave web pushed over in it.

At the same time, Leo also felt the spider tattoo on the back of his hand faintly heat, and uncontrollably flew out of the spider tattoo a large web similar to that of the webweavers, capturing the soul light waves that the webweavers had missed in it.

The moment the light wave was captured by the soul net, Leo immediately felt a strange power that could not be described in words. However, before Leo could carefully feel the details of this power, this power disappeared in an instant. However, this disappearance is not really disappearance, it should be transformed into other powers by the power contained in the unknown high-level bloodline of the body, such as psionic energy and nightmare power, which have completely recovered their previous consumption at this time, and both the quality and quantity have been significantly improved.

There were only three soul light waves, which lasted for a short time, and ended in less than ten seconds, and after the light waves disappeared, Leo saw the threads hanging down from the world net, covering the entire giant sequoia forest, and then saw some soul light clusters rising with the silk threads and merging into the world net.

What surprised Leo was that in those soul light clusters, not only human souls, but also the souls of some monsters and clans were captured by silk threads, and it seemed that the collapse of the creeping tapir just now should have had some unpredictable effects on the surrounding space, breaking the barrier between the Black Forest fairyland and the real world, allowing the webweaver to take away the souls belonging to the Black Forest.

Seeing that the matter had basically calmed down, the weaver did not continue to stay where he was to observe the subsequent developments, turned around and returned to the entrance of the cave, walked quickly into the cave, and chased after the fleeing team that had already walked a long distance.

Leo was about to move on, but after taking two steps, he stopped again and looked down at the spider tattoo that was taking back the soul web.

Although the spider tattoo given to him by the webweaver did not do him any harm from the current point of view, but gave him some abilities, such as seeing souls, capturing souls, etc., but after all, this is the power given by others, and judging from the situation just now, this power is easily out of his control.

Leo didn't think the webweaver had any ill will towards him, nor did he think that the spider tattoo had been manipulated by the webweaver, but he had an almost instinctive unease and rejection of any force that was not under his full control. Therefore, while seeing the spider tattoo return to normal, he also secretly decided in his heart that if he could not completely grasp the power contained in the spider tattoo and integrate it into his own power system, he would strip the spider tattoo from his body and completely give up this power that was completely aimed at the soul.

After making the decision, Leo was also in a slightly relaxed mood, and while checking the changes in the psionic energy and nightmare power on his body, he quickly followed and walked into the cave.

As Barak explained at the entrance of the cave, although the cave was winding, it was not very long, and there was no fork in the road, and after walking for about half an hour, I came to the other side of the cave.

It's just that after arriving on the other side of the cave, everyone did not feel relaxed after seeing the light again, but because of the scene in front of them, they all showed a look of horror, and even the hunter who had been walking in the mountains all year round turned a little pale.

Standing on the edge of the abyss, you can't see the bottom at all, even if you throw a stone down, you can't hear any echo, and the only thing that can pass through the abyss is a mountain wall path formed from the edge of the abyss.

To be honest, this mountain wall path is not very narrow, the width of the road is enough for three people to walk side by side, but the location of the mountain road is too special, on one side is the high mountain cliff that cannot be seen from the top, and on the other hand, there is a bottomless abyss that cannot be seen when you look down, coupled with the strong mountain wind that constantly blows over the abyss, even if you walk against the mountain wall, knowing that there is no accident, it is absolutely impossible for you to fall into the abyss, and these ordinary people will also feel afraid and scared because of the surrounding environment.

Barak knew very well that the longer he let these ordinary people stand still, the greater the fear in his heart, and the more he dared not go up the mountain wall.

So, while instructing his hunters to tie the ropes that had been prepared long ago, to each of them, and said in a very relaxed tone that with rope protection, even if someone falls on the road, there will be no danger, and after walking this abyssal path, the road will be much easier to walk, and there will be no more dangerous mountain roads like now.

I don't know if Barak's reassurance really worked, or if the people who decided to move on knew that there was no turning back, and the unease in the group quickly stabilized, and everyone tied ropes around their waists, and then led Barak to this seemingly extremely dangerous abyssal path.