Mountains and rivers are waiting for you to return

Chapter 197 Distortion
The alien plant climbed on the stone wall and stayed there for a while. Before any new movement came, it made a sharp sound similar to "crackling", making everyone feel uncomfortable.

After a while, the alien plant crawled to another passage and disappeared from their sight.

The trunk of that thing seemed to have tentacles, flexible and strange.

Ju Liancheng pointed to a fork in the road near the left front, indicating that Pei Nai could take a detour from there.

Pei Nai walked over slowly, gently probed the ground with his palm to confirm that it was safe here, and waved to everyone to follow.

Under Ju Liancheng's instructions, the group zigzag through eight stone paths and successfully reached the exit of the second block.

After continuing to go down, everyone entered the third block.

What seemed to be before my eyes were the roots of plants, brown or black in color, intertwined and with strong branches, and a lot of soil was exposed between the stone walls.

Pei Nai used his palm wind to measure it. Normally, the stone walls are hard, so the soft ground must be the mud here.

Pei Nai and Han Ruize had just turned the first fork in the road when they saw a person's back. Pei Nai stopped hurriedly.

The man's clothes were tattered and his body was covered in dirt. He was standing a few steps away with his back to them, leaning against a tree.

Hearing their footsteps, the thing drooped its shoulders and neck, hunched its back, and looked back twistedly.

Its face still looked human, but its eyes had turned bright yellow, with only a small red dot left in the pupils. Its eyeballs had swelled in size and bulged outward, like two round balls embedded in its eye sockets, as if they would fall out at any time.

Such an ugly and scary face made Pei Nai feel a little nauseous.

"Isn't this also a kind of monster that is a deformation of a human?" Pei Nai said as he looked at it.

Han Ruize nodded, "Well, it should be not long before the mutation occurs."

Pei Nai frowned, pulled out his spear, and comforted the monster, saying, "Good brother, don't blame me for being violent. I am helping you to be free, otherwise your body will become more and more deformed."

Ju Liancheng, Luo Yuanying and the others at the back didn't know what had happened, but they saw Ju Liancheng stick his head out to take a look and then retreat back.

He sighed, "I shouldn't have looked."

After all, Ju Liancheng will never forget that scene after seeing it.

Luo Yuanying asked him curiously, "What is it?"

"It's a humanoid monster with big yellow eyes. Leave it to them. Wait until they kill it and then you'll see." Ju Liancheng was shocked by the appearance.

When the yellow-eyed monster saw Pei Nai draw her gun, it became furious, showed its bloody mouth, and jumped towards her.

Pei Nai swung his spear and slashed down diagonally, knocking the yellow-eyed monster back.

The black blood on the monster's chest spurted out instantly, but it did not fall down. It shook twice and pounced again.

Pei Nai slashed twice in a row, cutting the monster's throat, but it was still able to attack.

"The distortion has strengthened its body," Pei Nai realized.

Han Ruize took off the Hunxi Whip. Pei Nai heard the sound of the whip and dodged sideways when the monster rushed forward.

The long whip hooked the monster's neck. Han Ruize kicked its abdomen with his knee, turned around and pulled the whip hard. The monster's body could not move, and it could only struggle twice. The neck was almost strangled by the Hunxi whip.

Han Ruize stopped only when he saw that it had completely stopped moving.

He didn't cut off its head completely because he didn't want the scene to be too bloody.

"The whip method for close combat is also very cool." Pei Na exclaimed.

Han Ruize shook off the turbid black blood on the whip, raised his head and glanced at her: "The time I spent is enough for other enemies to stab me twice."

Pei Nai remembered what he said, that he would miss her when he was injured in close combat. She didn't know what to say, so she could only smile at him and blink.

"It's so ugly." Han Ruize said.

Pei Nai knew he was talking about his fake smile, but asked unconvincedly: "Who are you talking about?" "It." Han Ruize pointed at the yellow-eyed monster on the ground.

Pei Nai took advantage of Han Ruize's inattention and put the tip of his gun under the monster's body. He pressed down on the gun and the monster's body moved.

"Ah!" Pei Nai shouted at him at the same time to scare him.

Han Ruize didn't respond, just raised his eyebrows and looked at her speechlessly.

Instead, Ju Liancheng, who had just walked out from behind, was frightened because he thought the monster had been dealt with.

Pei Nai saw Ju Liancheng's body tremble and burst into laughter.

Her laughter indeed eased the depression and tension that everyone had felt since entering the secret realm.

Han Ruize let her laugh for a while before reminding her, "Okay, when we attract all the monsters here, you will be responsible for killing most of them."

Ju Liancheng glared at her in silence.

Pei Nai held back his smile, still smiling: "Which way?"

Ju Liancheng pointed to the left front, and Pei Nai turned around and continued to lead the way.

Han Ruize looked at Ju Liancheng sympathetically, patted him on the shoulder, and followed Pei Nai.

Luo Yuanying also laughed in silence, put his hand on Ju Liancheng's back, walked around him and followed.

The next three blocks are all layered downwards.

On the way, they encountered five yellow-eyed monsters and eight deformed monsters commonly seen in the Twenty-One Domains. They were all killed by Pei Nai, Han Ruize, Huyan Weizhao or the soldiers.

After leaving the sixth block, they officially left the first circle. Starting from the seventh block, the next long distance belonged to the second circle.

Generally speaking, once you leave a certain circle, the corresponding risk avoidance rules will become invalid on the subsequent journey.

However, this time is a little special, because according to the map of the secret realm, the risk avoidance rules of the second circle are: do not step on soft ground, and avoid any moving plants!
This is the rule of the first circle, with the rule of "avoid any moving plants" superimposed on it.

Sure enough, as soon as we entered the seventh block, we felt like we were deep in the jungle.

The trees and vegetation are lush and green.

The plants grew so densely that they blocked the road. Pei Nai sighed and was about to move forward when he was stopped by Han Ruize.

"I'll lead the way, and you follow me." Han Ruize walked in front of her.

Pei Nai looked up at him and said, "Then don't walk too fast. I have to test the softness and hardness of each road beside you."

"Yeah." Han Ruize responded.

Pei Nai turned back and told everyone, "Everyone slow down and pay attention to the surroundings. If you see plants moving, report it immediately!"

"As ordered!"

"Okay!" Everyone began to act cautiously.

On the one hand, they had to pay attention to the trembling plants to prevent being attacked or other unpredictable things from happening. On the other hand, they had to squeeze through the gaps formed by the trees from time to time and avoid all the uniform light water on the way to avoid being burned and mutated.

After passing four forks in the road safely, I saw two ordinary trees blocking the road, with a gap in the middle just big enough for people to pass through.

Han Ruize had already passed successfully, and Pei Nai stepped over.

As they passed each other, Pei Nai seemed to catch a glimpse of something shaking on the left, and the thin leaves trembled slightly, perhaps because of the wind.

But Pei Nai's heart was beating fast, and she turned back quickly.

Ju Liancheng followed behind her and approached the plant. The vines of the plant suddenly rose up and cut over like a sharp blade.

(End of this chapter)