Darkness, still darkness, endless darkness followed, and the viscous dead silence gradually expanded silently in the darkness, like a ghostly embrace, making it difficult to breathe......

Seven figures ran quickly in a trance-like light, crossing familiar ancient trees and crossing familiar ditches.

Everyone's face is portrayed with a complex expression of tiredness and impetuousness. The passage of time may not be so obvious in this dark world, but the growing fear in everyone's hearts is extremely awe-inspiring to eat away at the will of all people.

They desperately want to reach the end of the forest, desperate to find an exit to life, but ......

Where is the end?

Where will there be an exit?

The endless darkness seems to have long since eliminated all life and hope......

Some...... Just the boundless silence and despair......

"We've been running in the forest for two or three hours since we broke away from the Legion of Bones, haven't we?" Eisen's voice came muffled from the front, and the two heroic eyebrows furrowed tightly in the throbbing firelight, "We should have run some distance at our speed, why do you still feel like you're hovering in place?"

"Indeed, this forest is too weird, without the guidance of the stars, we have no way of knowing the direction we are walking, maybe we are just constantly circling in this forest?" Arya muttered, raising her somewhat dazed eyes, and looked at Eisen cautiously, the wry smile on the corner of her mouth seemed to be used to hide the constant exhaustion and uneasiness in her heart, "Captain, maybe we should stop and re-plan......"

"The vice-captain is right, it's not an option to run aimlessly like this, so it's better to stop for a while and rest for a while......," Jenora said thoughtfully, "maybe....... The forest itself holds clues, perhaps we've overlooked some crucial detail......"

"Well, then we'll take a break here!Look around for any suspicious clues!" Eisen leaped lightly and stopped in front of a huge plant root system jutting out of the ground, the arched plant root system was as thick as an adult python, and it looked rough and sturdy, just high enough from the ground to be used as a stool to sit on. Eisen glanced at the people who landed beside him and motioned for everyone to rest here.

"There are only these strange trees and bones here, could it be that the clues are hidden in the trees or the bones underground?" Beges seemed to land casually next to the trunk of a somewhat sloping tree, and leaned up comfortably, crossed his hands in front of his chest, and closed his eyes slightly, although he said dejected words, there was no sense of urgency on his face, and even the matter that he had almost made a hole in his body just now seemed to be left behind.

"Up in the trees, under the ground?" Wren frowned slightly, as if a light flashed in his mind, but the blurred light was fleeting.

"What's wrong?" Arya, noticing the expression on Wren beside her, turned her head and asked, "Did you find something?"

"I ......" Wren lowered his eyes, the unclear clues in his mind were like a mess entangled, and finally he exhaled helplessly, "Not yet!"

"Actually, what Veggis said is not unreasonable, maybe there will be clues on the bones......" Jenora suddenly looked up and said, "Solving the mystery of their ability to act may be the key to finding the exit?"

"Perhaps, it's just ......" Arya's face was still embarrassed, and there was a faint bitterness in her eyes, "Are we going to run back for another two or three hours......?"

"No, maybe we don't have to go back!" Wren's pupils trembled slightly as he looked ahead, and his beating heart tightened suddenly.

At the same time, in the quiet forest, there was another sound of grinding bones.

The purgatory-like scene once again appeared in the depths of everyone's frightened pupils.

A mottled skeleton struggled to break through the ground again.

"It looks like there's this twisted monster buried under the entire forest. Jenora's heart couldn't help but feel a little sad.

"What a coincidence!" said Veggess, grinning, grabbing a skeleton with his bare hands that was still half embedded in the soil, and slammed it up, and then slammed it down against the thick trunk beside him, and the wrist of the other knife flipped, and the cold light flashed, and the inward edge of the long-handled scythe caught the neck bone of the skeleton impartially, so that it could not move against the trunk.

"Are these things ......" Angela half-crouched on the ground, looking closely at the bones pinned to the trunk by Veges, her face full of disbelief.

"Is it a vine?"

Everyone immediately came to the body, the skeleton that was still struggling with the nail on the trunk, and between the mottled bones were intertwined with thin gray veins, which looked like some kind of shrunken plant vine, and the vines emerged from the depths of the earth, and clung around the bones like creepers, spreading upwards until they covered its entire body.

Previously, because these gray vines were too small and close to the color of the skeleton itself, it was indeed difficult to detect them in the dim light.

"Could it be that these vines are the root system of these strange trees?" Wren seemed to realize something, and jerked away from the trunk, while vigilantly looking at the strange trees that towered into the sky around him, "The Legion of Bones is controlled by these strange trees, no wonder their bodies can gradually reassemble even if they are broken up......"

"These strange trees may be feeding on rotting corpses for nutrients, and then using the decaying bones to hunt for new food......," Arya felt a tingling scalp at the thought.

"So you strange trees want to eat us?!" Veges's eyes suddenly flashed with a small and sharp cold light like the tip of a knife, and a sneer appeared in his angry face, "Then I'll cut you first!"

With that, Beges pulled out the scythe embedded in the trunk of the tree, and slashed it, the light of the knife burst out with a fierce cold light, and in a flash, the dust rolled up in the sky, and the nailed skeleton was freed by the sword that followed it and the thick trunk behind him.

After the sword mangs cut off the bones and tree trunks in unison, the castration did not stop, and the ever-expanding sword mangs were like a black curtain that was constantly unfolding in the light of the weak fire, with ripple-like soul power fluctuations to cut off all the strange trees that touched the sword.

For a moment in the forest, the clatter of falling trees echoed in the eerie darkness.

"Beges, don't mess around......." Arya's snort was interrupted by Wren's voice of surprise before she could finish her drink.

"If you can't find life on the ground, then maybe it's in the sky!" Wren looked up at the chaotic and turbid sky, unable to hide the surprise and excitement on his face, even though Veggis split a large area of strange trees in front of him, but the light or stars that should belong to the sky still did not emerge from the gaps in the pitch-black canopy. We should climb to the top of the tree to see, if we get lost in the ordinary forest and can't tell the direction, then climbing to the top of the tree is the quickest way to find our bearing, maybe we can also try?"

"However, this is no ordinary forest ......" Arya looked at Wren blankly, unable to understand why Wren was so excited in vain.

"No, Wren means to say......" Eisen's gaze also rested quietly on the chaotic sky, "the clue to get out of here may be hidden at the top of these canopies. ”