Chapter 371: Root system
Lily screamed in front of him and let everyone rush to catch up. Hao Ren instantly thought of the kind of underground tentacles that the huskies and bats encountered when they searched for information last night. He sighed in his heart: Sure enough Yes, the caves in the underground of the blood lake are connected to the roots of the twisted woodland!
With this in mind, he ran full of shields and ran ahead, ready to deal with a fierce battle and cover other people's retreat: According to Vivian and Lily, those tentacles would actively attack foreign enemies!
But when he ran to Lily's side, he found that there were no enemies in front of him.
"This is..." The bearded man followed Hao Ren, and he used his strength as an ascetic monk. He saw the spectacular scene in front of him still shaking from the heart. "Is this the underground part of the legendary twisted woodland?" Are the caves connected to them?"
At the end of the cave, it is a huge cave. It is slightly smaller than the place where the pool was previously, but it is still vast. The most striking thing in the cave is the countless behemoths from the upper rock formations!
Those huge roots are also one meter in diameter, and they don't know the geometry. They come out from the rock formation above the cave, grow freely in the air, criss-cross and crooked to form a structure like a thorny net. This "big net" almost obscured the area of three-quarters of the top of the hole, so that the original rock formation could only be seen from the gap between the roots. The growth of a large number of roots is erratic, and a small part of it hangs to the ground, even deep into the earth of the cave, and a large number of roots are attached to the walls of the cave, gradually spreading and blending into those that look hard. In the rocks.
The upper part of the entire cave is these huge roots. Hao Ren looked up and saw an unspeakable majesty and grandeur from the black roots of the behemoths - and of course the psychological pressure from the face. Almost fearful.
"...this is the true body of the twisted woodland..." Hao Ren muttered to himself, despite all kinds of conjectures. Still did not expect to witness the underground part of this ancient plant will be so thrilling, "This should be only a small part... Perhaps the entire underground cave system is used to accommodate these roots!"
The beard was trembling a few times, and finally he could only put his hands on his chest and meditate: "The goddess pity..."
The young monk next to him is more open to thinking: "It doesn't matter, it's all made by the goddess. According to the sacred classics, all the goddess creations are brothers and sisters with us, and the twisted woodland is the oldest sacred creature. We believe in piety. It’s safe and sound here.”
Becky suddenly burst into tears: "Goddess... you made the big brother too ugly..."
So the four ascetic monks immediately glared at the mercenary girl who had no mouth at the mouth.
"It seems that they don't seem to move." Lily calmed down at this time. The experience of being hit by the tentacles last night made her feel scared. She calmed down and immediately stood up and pretended to be an expert. "Well, it seems that there are many different types of tentacles, and the tentacles that are buried in the deep layers will not move."
Vivian looked at her: "Don't wear a big tail wolf, the hair is still blowing, you should go down the hair first."
Lily's tail, this time can not be mentioned her "tail is big is good" theory. Instead, I ran to the cave and watched the roots at a close distance.
“Why is the root of the tree not moving?” Hao Ren is seriously thinking about this issue. He looks at Wei Wei’an. “Are you sure this is the kind of thing you met last night? Will you meet you last night?” Isn't it root at all?"
“It’s really these things,” Vivian is very determined. She took out the sample fragments she had taken from her arms. "You can compare them."
After the comparison, the results are undoubted. These giant roots are the tentacles of the three hundred rounds of bat and huskies last night, but these are obviously different in the cave. They are not moving.
"The life form of the twisted woodland has already surpassed the plants in the general sense," the pedestrian walked cautiously in the cave occupied by the roots. Vivienne analyzed thoughtfully while walking. "Probably its roots are still divided into many kinds, some for exploration, some for absorbing nutrients, some for fighting, I and the big dog yesterday. What I met in the evening should be the one responsible for exploring."
"Have you encountered these roots?" The bearded man noticed the meaning of Vivienne at this time.
Hao Ren then talked about the various kinds of information that he had explored last night. At present, they only told Ovra about these things, but the four beards are more "self-persons" than Ovra, so they are It’s more natural to talk about these.
"The heresy!?" The four ascetic monks reacted more when they heard the heresy. The older nuns even gnashed their teeth. "And they also smashed the goddess' doctrine, and even shaped a false god!"
"And the fool can see that it is a evil spirit," Hao Ren spread his hand. "Even if you leave the faith behind, you can't let the dangerous guys go down. The giant brains they summon are extremely dangerous. The entire religious ceremony is also I am mad, I will take it down."
Elson looked at Hao Ren and thought that he was a bit too big. An ordinary mercenary leader could even say so much in front of the four ascetic masters that he had to deal with heresy, but he was bearded. They didn't think so. They knew Hao Ren's identity, so they heard that they just nodded indifferently: "That is the best, I am very happy to see that you have this heart, but it is best to let 'we' solve this problem. It is a question of 'here'."
He deliberately strengthened the tone of the words "we" and "here". Obviously, even though he had been forced to take off the account of the dream plane like Becky, he still regarded this place as the first hometown.
"Of course, we have already reported this to Marshal Ovra. Soon the rector will know that the next step should be a large-scale search for heresy. It requires a lot of flesh and blood, and it will summon monsters, as long as they are arrested. When you are careful, it is not difficult to find out."
The bearded man nodded, and suddenly he was worried: "I just didn't think that the Knights of the Kingdom and the church would have corrupted people... The fall is shocking, I really don't know how long they have been secretly developing, the governor of Galton. I am afraid I have to take a lot of responsibility for this."
The bearded man was sentimental, but Hao Ren was not familiar with Gelton, so he did not reply, but continued to walk across the cave.
At the same time, he asked the data terminal in his mind: "Where are we going now?"
The data terminal immediately sent an image to Hao Ren’s mind: “Just left the blood lake, I have not entered the twisted forest area, and the roots that we encountered are only a small part of the twisted woodland. The high-power scan took a moment and found that there were more roots that could spread directly to the bottom of the lake."
Sure enough, the real huge part of the twisted woodland is underground, and its body has gone deep into the blood lake, so Hao Ren can also be sure that there will be such a "root cave" under the Longji Mountains!
If you have a chance in the future, you may be able to explore the Longji Mountains through this channel...
Hao Ren thought so, let the data terminal record the space coordinates of this cave.
The old werewolf Elson has always been highly vigilant after entering this giant cave. Whether as a former mercenary or as a current soldier, he has kept the most malicious speculation on any strange place: "Improve vigilance, It is said that a group of dwarf miners had dug the mine in the mountains too deeply, and accidentally dug up a root of the twisted woodland. The result was all crazy - according to the guess of the blood clan, these roots had a lot of functions, so be careful. Have the roots to release nerve poison or produce mental attack ability."
The female members of the team guarded against the tentacles - Hao Ren silently added such a sentence in his heart, but he was very skeptical that the team in the team had a tentacle stranger than a sly girl. Who is afraid of who... even The little mermaid who is now sleeping in the living space is not necessarily afraid of these roots, at least from the mentality: peas 100% will regard this place as a fairy tales filled with food aroma, similar to the candy house...
Hao Ren was thinking about moving forward as he thought about it. When he was about to leave the cave occupied by the huge roots, a strange feeling suddenly came and made him feel chilly.
That feeling is like an invisible peeping from all directions, there are countless pairs of eyes staring at themselves, fleeting, but very clear.
Hao Ren looked around and he remembered that he felt this way when he first walked in the twisted woodland.
Is this the root of these trees? ! Are they thinking? ! (To be continued, please search for astronomical literature, the novel is better updated faster!
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