The rat lizard was poisonous, and the smell from the burned corpse was extremely poisonous. After everyone smelled a strange smell, they quickly backed away for more than ten meters, preparing to wait for the poisonous gas to dissipate before approaching.
"Great, after guarding for so long, we finally killed this hateful guy..."
Cheers spread.
Xue Liqing, who shoveled into the bushes, got up from the ground covered in mud. Looking at the cheerful people, a happy smile appeared on his face...
"Xue Liqing, are you okay?" Wu Xinhua, who was also covered in mud, came to Xue Liqing and asked with concern.
"The spiritual energy is not consumed much, but the physical energy is consumed a bit, but it doesn't matter. You can recover after a short rest." Xue Liqing said as he and Wu Xinhua walked towards the crowd in the distance.
After a while, Xue Liqing, who had shown outstanding performance in the battle just now, took Wu Xinhua and others to check the half-charred body of the rat lizard that had been burned by the fire.
"Everyone, be careful of the poisonous gas emitted from this rat lizard. If you feel uncomfortable, move back immediately."
After Xue Liqing gave instructions, he covered his mouth and nose with one hand and held a lighting device with the other, examining the body of the rat lizard.
Everyone followed suit and gathered around the rat lizard's body to examine it.
"Is this creature really weird?"
"Although it is not a strange beast, its speed and strength are slightly stronger than those of ordinary second-level peak practitioners."
"No, it is much stronger than the second-level peak practitioners. Didn't you see that Xue Liqing was knocked away by it just now? If we fight alone, except for Xue Liqing, I am afraid that none of us can be its opponent."
Amid the discussion, Xue Liqing asked researcher Wang Ziqian what he thought, "Wang Ziqian, what do you think?"
Wang Ziqian looked at the rat lizard and muttered, "I didn't know this. Based on my superficial research and understanding of the spiritual world, it is completely normal for such a strange and powerful creature to appear.
When this creature was in danger just now, it could have broken out from the weak point of our encirclement, but it chose to burrow into the hole. I guess there might be something fishy in that hole."
"Since you say so, why don't we go into the cave and have a look." Wu Xinhua suggested.
"Isn't this good? It's pitch black down there. If you encounter danger, it will be difficult for those who go down to escape." Someone objected.
"This strange creature seems to be guarding this cave. There must be some valuable treasure down there! If it is true, it would be a great achievement!" Someone supported the exploration of the cave.
Everyone expressed their opinions, but no one could convince the other. In the end, everyone looked at Xue Liqing, waiting for him to make the final decision.
"The rain stopped..." Xue Liqing looked up at the sky and found that the rain clouds had been carried away by the wind at some point.
"Stop being so pretentious, everyone is waiting for you to make a decision!" Deputy Wu Xinhua said.
Xue Liqing pondered for a moment, and then said, "Although our mine has stopped production now, it is a certainty that we will reopen the mine in the future when the rescuers arrive.
This cave is not far from our mine site, and the appearance of this weird creature poses a certain danger to the safety of the mine site..."
When everyone heard what Xue Liqing said, they immediately understood the meaning of his words.
Just to eliminate potential safety hazards, the cave must be explored.
Xue Liqing, who is now the person in charge of mine safety, said that even if someone has objections to going underground, they can only cooperate fully.
After the final word was made, everyone was nervous and excited. The crisis is directly proportional to the benefits. The greater the crisis, the greater the gain.
Of course, the opposite is also true, so they may face greater dangers in the future.
More than half an hour later, Xue Liqing regained his strength, and a group of people, armed with lighting equipment and weapons, lined up neatly and prepared to go down to the underground cave.
There are five people in the hidden danger investigation team. The one with the lowest cultivation level is Wang Ziqian, a researcher at the early stage of the second stage. The one with the highest cultivation level is Xue Liqing, who is at the early stage of the third stage. The other three are all at the high stage of the second stage.
Wu Xinhua, who had the second-level peak strength, did not go down to the cave. Xue Liqing arranged for him to be at the entrance of the cave to take care of him.
Is the entrance to the underground cave responsible for the reception?
Are you kidding me? If the people who entered the underground cave were in danger, the people on the ground would not have time to respond.
Xue Liqing's arrangement was nothing more than preparing for the worst. If all the people who went down were wiped out, Wu Xinhua, his deputy, would take over his position, lead the people back to the mine immediately, and then lead other people in the mine to quickly
Evacuate this place.
One person at the beginning of the third level, three at the upper level of the second level, and one at the beginning of the second level. On Blue Star, the combat power of such a team can be used to hunt exotic beasts in the wild, as long as they do not go deep into some dangerous areas.
It is said that there is no disadvantage.
Weapons include short guns, kerosene tree resin, barbed wire, and insect repellent spray.
When everything was ready, Xue Liqing waved his hand and said, "Let's go."
"If there is danger below the cave, don't stop fighting..." Wu Xinhua said to the team members who were preparing to set off.
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Five beams of bright light suddenly appeared in the pitch-black cave where I couldn't even see my fingers.
After getting off the cave, Xue Liqing and the others took lighting equipment and walked slowly while looking around.
The further they walked in, the more surprised everyone became. They thought the space inside the cave was very small, but after walking for a while, the road became wider and wider.
If they hadn't known that this place was underneath a cave, they would have suspected that they were looking in the wrong place.
"This underground space was not excavated recently. It seems to have been excavated for several years." Researcher Wang Ziqian held a lighting device in his left hand and a special spiritual weapon in his right hand, scanning the surrounding walls.
"How many years?" Xue Liqing frowned, feeling that things might not be as simple as he imagined.
The team continued to explore, and after a while, they walked out of the passage and came to a huge space the size of several basketball courts.
"Click."
Someone stepped on something.
"Bones, so many bones." The investigator who stepped on something shouted to his companions.
The light gathered, and everyone saw that around the companion who had stepped on something, there were many white bones scattered around, including heads, broken arms, and broken legs.
Wang Ziqian looked at the white bones on the ground, frowned and said, "These bones must have been caused by the prey that the rat lizard usually caught and brought home to eat."
"There are too many bones! How many years will it take for that rat lizard to accumulate so many bones?" one team member said.
Everyone's expressions froze when they heard this, and they realized one thing at the same time...
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Gray giant eggs with a length of 1.8 meters are embedded in the wall, one next to the other. At a glance, there are at least a thousand of them.
If someone with trypophobia sees this scene, they will definitely be frightened.
"This... this is the nursery of rat lizards!" The people who came to the end of the cave suddenly lost their focus when they looked at the dense gray dome in front of them.
At the same time, a picture appeared in everyone's mind. One day, the mine site resumed production. After a hard day's work, everyone ate and drank enough and returned to the dormitory to rest after dark.
At this moment, cracks appeared in the gray giant egg inside the cave, and thousands of rat lizards broke out of their shells.
"Roar……"
Because of hunger, they roared one after another, and then they crawled out of the burrow in groups and went outside to find prey to eat.
In this way, the mining site not far from the underground cave became the target of this group of creatures, and they began to attack the humans in the mining site crazily.
"Hiss..." The screen broke, Xue Liqing and others shuddered, and the cold sweat from their backs soaked their clothes.
"God bless us, luckily we discovered this place in advance, otherwise the consequences would have been disastrous." A team member wiped the sweat on his forehead with his hand and said thankfully.
"Let's leave quickly. We must inform the station immediately about what's going on here and ask them to send people to deal with these domes immediately." Wang Ziqian said with a trembling voice.
"Wang Ziqian, we currently have no way to contact the resident." Xue Liqing, who was still calm, said.
"..." Everyone fell silent for a moment.
"How about we deal with these giant eggs ourselves! Before they hatch, we smash them all." The investigator who stepped on the bones suggested before.
"I agree, things will change later. If we wait for the station to know what is going on here and then send people to deal with these domes, we don't know how long it will take!
If the dome here hatches before the people at the station arrive, then our mine site will be in danger." Two other second-level high-level investigators agreed.
"Well, you are right. We don't have time to wait for the station to send people to deal with these domes. We will go back and ask people to deal with them now..." As soon as Xue Liqing finished speaking, he heard researcher Wang Ziqian on the side.
He yelled fiercely.
"Damn those rat lizards in the dome are coming out."
"What?"
When the investigators heard this, their expressions changed drastically, and they all looked at the gray dome embedded in the wall.
"Click...bang."
"Click...bang."
"Bang, bang, bang..."
First there was a crisp sound, then one sound, two sounds, three sounds, countless sounds...
Dense cracking sounds echoed in the dark and empty underground space.
"Escape..." After Xue Liqing saw the rat lizards nearly two meters long crawling out of the gray giant eggs, their bodies covered with egg liquid that had not yet dried, he decisively gave the order to retreat.
The rat lizards crawled out of the gray dome and adapted to the surrounding environment very quickly. Their stomachs growled with hunger and they smelled the sweet smell in the air.
That's the taste of food.
"Roar……"
The rat lizard that was the first to break out of its shell roared in the direction in which Xue Liqing and the others were escaping. Then it led its own kin to quickly climb down from the earthen wall, and chased Xue Liqing and the others with flying strides.
The scene that came to mind before happened so quickly. This was something that Xue Liqing and others who were escaping could never imagine...
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On the ground and around the cave, Wu Xinhua and other investigators were left behind, looking at the dark cave in a daze.
"The rope has moved." One of the investigators suddenly shouted.
"They're back?"
"Why so fast?"
"It hasn't been long since we went down!"
Under the gaze of everyone, Wang Ziqian was the first to crawl out of the cave, followed by the three investigators with second-level high-level strength.
"Where is Xue Liqing? Did you encounter any danger?" Seeing that no one came up from behind, Wu Xinhua asked the four people who came up with a solemn and pale face.
"Under the hole is a nursery for rat lizards. Thousands of rat lizards have broken out of their shells and are heading towards the ground..." Before Wang Ziqian could finish his words, the expressions of Wu Xinhua and others changed drastically.
"Nursery? Thousands of rat lizards?" Someone was stunned and muttered to himself.
"Although we retreated first, they were moving very fast. When they were about to catch up with us, Xue Liqing stopped..." Zhang Ziqian said.
"..." Everyone was silent. Xue Liqing chose to cut off the rear for the other four. The situation under the cave meant that he must be in danger.
The silence did not last long. As his deputy, Wu Xinhua naturally took over Xue Liqing's position and issued instructions to everyone.
"Zhang Ziqian, you go back to the mine site immediately and lead the people in the mine site to move to other places first." Wu Xinhua gave the order.
"What about you?" Zhang Ziqian asked.
"We'll stay and snipe those rat lizards to buy you time to retreat," Wu Xinhua said.
"I...I, okay, take care." Zhang Ziqian originally wanted to say that he would stay and let others report the news, but after seeing Wu Xinhua's serious face and unquestionable eyes, he swallowed back all the words he wanted to say.
inside.
After a little thought, you can understand why Wu Xinhua arranged this. Zhang Ziqian is a researcher. Although he has the strength of the first stage of the second stage, his combat power is the weakest among everyone present.
Moreover, in such a situation, there is no way to let scientific researchers personally go into battle. Their investigators cannot do such a thing.
"Later, we will do our best to stop those rat lizards and buy at least ten minutes for everyone in the mine to evacuate." Wu Xinhua glanced at Zhang Ziqian who was walking away, turned around and said to his companions.
"Yes." The investigators who were left behind to stop the rat lizard responded in unison, and no one had any objections.
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"Roar……"
Not long after Zhang Ziqian stepped forward, dense beast roars came from the dark cave.
"Wow, wow..."
The sound of falling clods of soil was getting closer and closer.
"Throw it away." Wu Xinhua estimated that the rat lizards had climbed halfway in the tunnel, so he immediately gave the order.
"Bang, bang, bang..."
The investigators threw the porcelain bottles containing kerosene resin into the cave, and the sound of shattering could be heard from inside the cave.
"Ignite." The second command followed closely.
"Peng." An investigator pointed his palm at the dark cave, and saw a flash of light in his hand, and a hot fireball the size of a fist suddenly appeared.
"Boom." The condensed fireball drew an arc in the air and fell into the dark cave.
A few seconds later...
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