System: Infinite Evolution into Qilin Bloodline

"What's wrong? Isn't it normal to hear noises in a cave?"

Da Kui seemed completely unfazed.

However, he was terrified the next second.

A huge black shadow appeared in the river and was moving rapidly toward them.

The black shadow covered the entire surface of the water.

It is over ten meters long, like an ancient behemoth.

"My God, what is that in the water? Could it be a man-eating monster?"

Pan Zi was also startled by what was in the water.

Uncle Wu frowned, drew his pistol from his waist, and aimed at the reflection in the water.

"We're already on the outskirts of Qimeng Mountain, so it's not surprising that something strange could happen here. Everyone, please be careful."

"No matter what happens, don't get separated from everyone."

"Wow!"

Zhang Qilin suddenly plunged his hand into the water, and just as everyone was puzzled, he pulled his hand out of the water again.

Between two long, slender fingers, a black beetle the size of a palm was held.

"Is that a water beetle?"

"So the dark shadows were formed by a group of water beetles. I just don't know how there could be so many water beetles in the cave."

Uncle Wu slapped Wu Tianzhen on the back of the head: "Have you ever seen such a big water beetle? This is a corpse beetle that grows by eating dead human flesh!"

"What, corpse beetles that eat human flesh?"

"Then they probably won't eat living people, right?"

Da Kui asked uncertainly.

Before he finished speaking, several carrion beetles jumped out of the water and landed on the boat, crawling towards the nearest person.

"Be careful, don't get bitten!"

Uncle Wu shouted a warning while simultaneously trying to stop the corpse beetles that kept jumping out of the water.

Zhang Hao looked at the corpse beetles with a puzzled expression.

The boatman grew up eating human flesh, and his body emitted a strong stench of decay.

With him on the ship, the people on board should theoretically be safe from attack.

The current situation is really hard to explain.

Could it be that something in the water was driving the corpse beetles so frantically that they jumped onto the boat?

Just as he was thinking, a carrion beetle had already crawled up his foot to his calf.

The corpse beetle bit into its body.

"Uncle, watch out!"

Wu Tianzhen saw the corpse beetle on Zhang Hao's calf and shouted a warning, while taking out an entrenching tool and slapping it at the beetle.

"boom!"

When the entrenching tool made contact with Zhang Hao's calf, it made a metallic clanging sound.

Wu Tianzhen didn't hold back; with this blow, the corpse beetle was instantly crushed.

He dropped his entrenching tool and hurriedly cleared away the carrion beetle's fragments to check Zhang Hao's injuries.

"Uncle, the situation was urgent just now, did I hurt you?"

Zhang Hao shook his head: "It's nothing."

Wu Tianzhen carefully examined the wound and breathed a sigh of relief when she found none.

Fortunately, I wasn't bitten by the corpse beetle.

I never expected the carcass of the corpse beetle to be so hard; it even made a metallic sound when I hit it with an entrenching tool.

Zhang Hao was secretly overjoyed.

After fusing with diamond, his body became as hard as diamond, and the corpse beetles couldn't even bite through his skin.

Furthermore, the metallic clanging sound didn't come from the corpse beetle's shell, but from his body.

"What are you doing?"

Zhang Hao suddenly let out a roar, startling everyone.

"What's wrong with Xiao Hao?"

"What's wrong with my uncle?"

"The boatman and the old man are getting ready to escape!"

Zhang Hao knew that the boatman and the old man driving the oxcart had led them into the cave with the intention of murdering and robbing them.

The boatmen grew up eating human flesh and had a corpse aura on them, so they were immune to corpse beetles.

They lure passersby here in this way, let the corpse beetles attack them, and then come out after the people die to steal the money they are carrying.

But with so many of them, each with their own skills, how could they possibly be afraid of a boatman and an old man?

Therefore, he did not raise any objections at the beginning.

However, he remained cautious and kept a close eye on their every move after boarding the ship.

Just as everyone's attention was focused on the corpse beetle, the two of them prepared to jump off the ship when no one was looking.

As long as the boatmen are not on the boat, those on the boat will be attacked by carrion beetles.

Uncle Wu was a shrewd man; as soon as Wu Hao spoke, he immediately understood what was going on.

He glanced at Zhang Hao and sincerely praised him, "Xiao Hao did a good job. It's your first time coming out with us, and you've already shown this kind of composure under pressure."

Zhang Hao smiled but didn't say anything more.

Seeing this, Uncle Wu didn't say anything more. He turned around and gave instructions to Pan Zi and Da Kui.

"You two keep an eye on them. Our safety to leave the river cave depends on him."

Yes, Third Master.

Pan Zi and Da Kui responded in unison.

The boatman and the old man were shocked to find out what the people on the boat had done, and their faces turned ashen.

The boatmen, in particular, were already pale-faced, and now they looked even more like the dead.

"Oh, it hurts me to death!"

Da Kui suddenly clutched his forehead and howled in pain.

He was already taller than the others, and the cave wasn't very spacious, so he accidentally bumped into the cave ceiling.

Uncle Wu looked up at the cave ceiling, then glanced into the water and frowned.

“The river is rising, and it’s rising very fast. If it continues at this rate, it will be flooded before we even get out of the river cave.”

"How could this be?"

Everyone was puzzled.

"The heavy rain must be coming from upstream."

"Splash, whoosh..."

As soon as Uncle Wu finished speaking, the sound of rushing water came from behind him.

Zhang Hao looked back and saw a stream of water filling the entire cave rushing rapidly toward them.

"Hurry up and set sail! We must leave before the river floods the cave, or we'll all drown inside."

"Boss, our boat is old and dilapidated; this is already the fastest we can go!"

The boatman responded tremblingly, his face filled with fear and helplessness.

The small boat hadn't gone far when it was swallowed by the current behind it, and the boat and its occupants were violently tossed about in the water.

He didn't know how much time had passed, but when Zhang Hao surfaced again, he found himself in a cave with air inside.

Soon after, the others also emerged from the water.

Panzi tapped the searchlight a few times, and the light flickered twice before turning on.

"Luckily, the waterproofing works well, otherwise we would be in the dark right now."

As Panzi spoke, he climbed out of the water.

Zhang Hao and the others followed.

Once ashore, the group searched for a way out.

It was a closed cave, and the group searched around several times but couldn't find a way out.

"Could it be underwater?"

Pan Zi asked uncertainly.

"We must have been swept in by the current. If we had gone out underwater, we probably would have drowned before we even left the cave."

Uncle Wu frowned.

"What should we do? There's limited air in this cave. If we keep waiting, we'll suffocate."

Da Kui became anxious when he heard that there was no way out.

"Old man, do you know where you are?"

Panzi nudged the boatman who had just come out of the water and asked him.

"I...I don't know either. I've never been here before."

Just as everyone was searching for a way out, Zhang Qilin suddenly stopped on one side of the cave.

He then stretched out two long, slender fingers and launched a fierce attack at the cave wall.

The hard stone wall was as easy to penetrate as tofu under his two fingers.

"Hey buddy, what are you doing?"