"It's cunning, it's like it's playing with us."

In Datu's tone, there was a strong hatred for the dryad, and his small body was as tense as a full bow, and if he let go of his hand a little, he would never recover.

Sensing that he was too excited, he exhaled and calmed his mood.

"It wasn't until later that we found the roots hidden in our dwelling, and along those roots, we found the missing people."

Some large and some small, all of them became a dry skeleton, and they were buried quietly not far from their underground dwellings.

The youngest was just born, crowded in a pile of white bones, accompanied by loess, so desolate and cruel.

Datu knew that it was a deliberate show off and warning from the other party.

"Among the dead trees above, there are hidden roots of it, and if you touch it, you will wake it up."

"I can't tell if it's looking at your companions right now, and thinking about how to eat them."

That's why he said they couldn't get out of here.

From the beginning, they were chosen to be food in each other's captivity.

But the other party also understands the principle of resource regeneration, and does not directly eat them dry, but will come to eat once in a while.

They also tried to leave, thought about resisting.

But every time he acted, he was thwarted by the dryad, and then he would be punished by the dryad.

As they watched one tribesman after another die at the hands of the dryad, they finally softened their bones and stayed quietly in the sheepfold.

Lu Yun listened quietly, looking down at the embarrassed and painful expression on Da Tu's face.

"What did you eat afterwards?"

Looking at their situation, they have long been short of food.

"Eat these."

Datu pulled a few roots from the wall and stuffed them into his mouth to chew.

"When we don't have food, we live on these things."

The rich juice bursts in the mouth, bringing not the sweetness that makes the earth pleasant, but the unbearable fishy smell.

Later, they tried to live on a part of the Dryad's body as food, and turned themselves into the Dryad's food.

Because of this deformed food chain, their bodies are somehow related to the dryad, and there is a part of the dryad in their body, which will be found wherever they go.

One by one, the people left, but none of them died naturally.

After a hundred years of change, the original Houtu clan is left with these people now, and if it continues, in a few years, their Houtu clan will completely disappear in the ring of history.

What is more painful than disappearing is that if it weren't for meeting Lu Yun and other sect members, their deaths would not have been discovered.

Maybe after a few years, someone killed the dryad and was dug up along with the white bones in the ground.

But at that time, who knew who they were.

Da Tu, who laughed at himself, had resentment on his face, he clenched his fists, and stared at Lu Yun with red eyes.

"As long as you can save us, we are willing to do anything."

Even if death is still waiting after they go out, they want to see the outside world.

Just because the Houtu people live underground doesn't mean they don't like the sun outside.

After so many years of hiding in this dark and dead underground, the earth has long been tired of it.

When he took over the position of the patriarch of the Houtu clan from his father, he made a decision.

Either you die, or you leave here with your people.

Lu Yun is the opportunity he is waiting for.

"Why choose me?"

Not surprisingly, Datu had been secretly observing the people of the sect for a long time, and among those people, the cultivation was much higher than her now.

It stands to reason that the success rate of finding such a person is not higher.

"Because you came in last, I thought you were most afraid of death."

The more people are afraid of death, the less they will put themselves in danger, and the harder they will struggle to escape after falling into a trap.

Of course, after contacting Lu Yun and others, he knew that he had made a mistake in his judgment.

But now we can only make mistakes wrong.

Lu Yun was still thinking about it, and above his head, the sand was sprinkled and the road was collapsing.

"What's going on?" Datu was a little confused.

He could only take Lu Yun back, and before he could take a few steps, a large pile of dirt fell from the top of his head, and there were still some people standing on the soil.

"Yo, there's really a hole in the ground."

The cheerful voice is a little coquettish, and in the dust, the twins made a surprise appearance, and Miao Ruolong's female voice was very stable.

"Ah Yun, you're here too."

"Phew." Miao Ruoling, who was dressed as a man, walked over and grabbed Lu Yun's arm, and as soon as she looked down, she saw the soil on the side.

"Hey, where did you come from?"

In a word, it is easy to offend the entire Houtu clan.

Da Tu stared, but he looked at the people who came down one after another above and didn't dare to get angry.

"They're not as easy to fool as you think."

Lu Yun looked at Da Tu's puzzled eyes and said.

She can find clues under the ground, and even if the rest of the people ignore it at first, they will definitely find the problem later.

The dryad deliberately confused them from above to keep them from leaving easily, just to divert their attention to the underground.

To ask why.

It was probably the other party who also discovered that the decline of the Houtu clan was irreversible.

It won't be long before the food he's been keeping in captivity will be gone, and according to Datu, the dryad is very greedy.

In this way, it is natural to be anxious to refill his sheepfold.

And at this time, nearly two hundred monks happened to be sent to the door, which was simply a repeat of history.

However, compared to the original Houtu clan, these monks are obviously more difficult to deal with.

Therefore, the dryad first hid in the shadows, but led them to discover the Houtu tribe, so that they mistakenly thought that the Houtu tribe was playing ghosts, and it was best to fight so that they could reap the benefits of the fisherman.

Of course, even if it doesn't match, moving the battlefield from the surface to the underground where the dryad's roots are well developed will weaken the monk's combat effectiveness.

Datu also figured out the reason in an instant, and his face suddenly darkened.

He actually thought that even if he couldn't kill the dryad, he would have to disgust the other party, but he was disgusted by the other party first.

"I see."

It was the people of Linlang Pavilion who sighed after hearing what had happened.

The eyes of a few of them looking at Datu were very bright.

It's like, looking at some rare treasures, and I want to weigh the value, which makes the scalp of the earth numb.

"Let's go back first."

Lu Yun proposed.

The spiritual sense spread out, listening to the movement over there, Lu Yun glanced at the tree root.

It seems to be indifferent, but in fact, I already know what is going on here.

These people were deliberately led down by the other party, and it was not only the people of Linlang Pavilion who came down.

The Nine Sects are ostensibly peaceful, do not disturb each other, and do not interfere with each other's interests.

But once you encounter new interests, I am afraid that you will have to compete for the length of the competition.

It's like this competition, isn't it for the follow-up development of the Guman Mountain Range?

And the Houtu tribe is one of the unknown assets of the mountain range, and it is possible for someone to want to take the lead.