Mountains and rivers are waiting for you to return

Chapter 266: Seven Tentacle Vines
Da Xian listened to Lei Xirui's explanation, but still glanced at his men.

Da Xian's subordinates understood what he meant and immediately jumped down to check whether the amount of explosives was consistent with what Lei Xirui said.

After Daxian's men confirmed that everything was correct, everyone continued to move forward.

Each cave has several passages leading to other places. They went down to the third cave, where there were more plants and nothing unusual. They soon entered the fourth cave.

At this point, we are already a long distance away from the entrance to the meteorite land.

This is a very large area, and the uniform light water gathers together, almost forming a small uniform light water waterfall in the distance.

The sound of gurgling water echoed in the nest.

Vines similar to the Twenty-One Domain vine network began to appear on the stone wall, connecting in groups to facilitate their movement on the wall.

In the distance, there were several giant flowers trembling in a rhythmic pattern, just like the plants they encountered in the secret realm of Lu State.

Lei Xirui reminded everyone not to get close to the giant flower.

Pei Nai and the others nodded in understanding; after all, this creature was an "old acquaintance".

Everyone began to grab the vines and climb down.

As they were walking, a one-eyed flying insect leaped from the sky and landed nimbly in front of Pei Nai.

The big golden eye was on top of the insect's head, occupying almost half of its body.

Pei Nai had seen this creature in Lei Xirui's book before. She recalled: "This one-eyed insect is called an eye-soul insect?"

She looked back at Gu Jinheng behind her, because she only remembered the name but not the characteristics of the insect.

Gu Jinheng glanced at the bug and said, "Well, it won't hurt people on its own initiative, but if you accidentally touch it, you might get a rash on your body."

After listening to their conversation, Han Ruize in front of Pei Nai stopped in mid-air.

He held the vine with one hand, turned around, and fanned away the eye-soul bugs on Pei Nai's path.

Han Ruize quickly observed whether the area around Pei Nai was safe before continuing to move forward.

Gu Jinheng watched Han Ruize's actions from behind, his eyes darkened and his brows furrowed slightly, showing his obvious displeasure.

After all, Pei Nai could feel that Gu Jinheng's pressure had left him. He was about to paralyze the insect and get rid of it for Pei Nai, but Han Ruize, who was closer, got there first.

Pei Nai didn't dare to speak, he kept his head down and followed the team.

She complained in her heart: It's obviously something she can handle by herself, it's not like she doesn't have hands, they are really exaggerating.

Moreover, she could feel that since the end of the battle between her and Yue Cang, the intentions of Gu Jinheng, Han Ruize, and Da Xian to divide the territory and protect her at all times became more and more obvious.

I also tried to avoid letting her do many small things myself, for fear that she would get into danger.

It seemed like the confrontation between her and Yue Cang was inevitable, which had made them feel guilty and sad for a long time. Now that they had finally gotten over this hurdle, they would no longer let her have any chance to get hurt.

Fortunately, Lei Xirui, the team leader, had already reached the next passage and diverted everyone's attention.

"We are about to enter the fifth cave. Let's confirm with everyone that there are no bleeding wounds on the body," Lei Xirui asked, turning around.

No one responded, which meant it had been confirmed.

Lei Xirui then added: "There is a giant alien plant in the fifth cave that can move. The smell of blood will arouse its aggressiveness. Everyone remember to defend yourself and don't be swept away by it."

After saying this, she turned around and jumped into the new passage.

Everyone entered the passage one by one, with Han Ruize walking in front of Pei Nai.

When they reached the exit at the end, Han Ruize just turned to the right with the help of the vines and disappeared from Pei Nai's sight, and then a vine as thick as an arm flew across the air.

The vine was dark brown in color, but its surface was smooth, with many uneven holes. The vine could bend and move freely, and was as sticky and slippery as the tentacles of an octopus.

Pei Nai felt a little nauseous when he saw this.

"Be careful of your head." Han Ruize reminded her outside.

Pei Nai stuck her head out and saw the tentacle vines clinging above the entrance. She carefully climbed up the wall and followed Han Ruize and the others.

When he stood out completely, Pei Nai could see the whole picture of the strange tree in the fifth cave.

In the huge cave, the thick tree trunk occupied nearly 30% of the space.

Its trunk is similar to normal trees in the outside world, with a rough and uneven texture on the surface, and even branches and dark green leaves on top.

The difference lies in the lower half of the tree, where countless tentacles and vines have grown out from where the roots originally were.

These tentacle vines are either still and attached to the stone walls, or moving and changing positions.

Wherever the vines pass, they leave a wet mark of water.

The evenly-lit water flows through the gaps between the branches, dimly illuminating the space.

The whole environment is damp and dark.

When the giant monster and the strange and bizarre tentacle vines pressed in front of them at the same time, the human body seemed extremely small in comparison.

It makes people instinctively feel panic and fear.

But it is indeed as Lei Xirui said, as long as there is no smell of blood, the tentacle tree will be in a stable state and will not actively attack.

“Even after going through the Twenty-One Realms and the Secret Realm of Lu Country, this kind of thing still makes people feel terrified.” Pei Nai sighed.

Han Ruize continued, "After all, they are alien creatures that do not belong to our world. Many of them are far beyond human cognition."

Everyone tried their best to avoid the moving tentacle vines, and climbed up the stone wall for a distance by grabbing ordinary vines, and then they reached the narrow cliff road that the Lei family had built earlier.

They went up from the entrance on the opposite side, left the fifth cave with the strange tentacle vines, walked through a long passage, and arrived at the sixth cave.

There are no exotic plants here, but there are many pits and protruding slopes on the cliff.

The holes and ramps vary in size and are densely distributed on the stone walls of the cave, which looks a bit creepy at first glance.

There are poisonous people in almost every pit and slope within the field of vision.

The poison men were tied with chains, and the other ends of the chains were connected to metal rings chiseled into the stone wall, so they were trapped on the slope where they were.

A group of drug addicts were imprisoned in the large pits and slopes, while only one or two drug addicts were locked up in the small pits.

Half of the poisonous men were dead, but many were still alive. After seeing them, they pulled the chains and growled, struggling to leap forward, until they were pulled back by the chains and fell to the ground due to the reverse force.

"The place where Lei Laiong studies poisoning people?" Pei Nai asked, looking at the scene in front of him.

Lei Xirui nodded, "This is one place, and there is another one outside the meteorite land. I will take you there after we leave here."

"What did they do before they became poisonous people? Were they ordinary people?" Pei Nai asked this because she saw many women, elderly people, and even children inside.

Lei Xirui also looked unhappy, as if she was ashamed of this. "At first, Lei Laiweng only wanted death row prisoners, but most of them were men. Yue Cang said that the poison developed in this way was not perfect. The poison was very important, and he required that there should be no omissions, so he asked the army to transport many ordinary people from the defeated Western countries."

Pei Nai and the others were tired of using the words beast and beast.

At this time, Pei Nai could only sigh and look at Gu Jinheng: "Let them rest in peace."

Gu Jinheng did not refuse. He looked at the poisonous people in the distance, and the pressure of divine energy was instantly released and spread far away.

(End of this chapter)