As time goes by, the light emitted by the luminous plants growing in the underground space becomes weaker and weaker.
It was dark all around, although it was not so dark that you could not see your fingers, but as far as the eye could see, the distance that could be clearly seen was shortened by more than half.
Ji Xiaoxiao and the other three were anxiously waiting for Wang Chao's return, because it was their first time entering this underground space. They saw that the surrounding plants had darkened, and they wondered whether it would eventually become pitch black as time went by.
If it became pitch dark, it would be very detrimental to Wang Chao who went on a tracking mission, and they were very worried about this.
"It feels like the sky is about to get completely dark." Cheng Ling looked at the increasingly dim luminous plants around him and said.
Sun Bin looked around, sighed, frowned, and replied, "Yes! If it gets completely dark, there will be some trouble."
"You don't have to worry too much. With Wang Chao's strength, nothing will happen..." Although Ji Xiaoxiao, like his two companions, was very worried about Wang Chao's safety, as the captain, he should not say discouraging words at this time.
"Hey..." Cheng Ling sighed and said no more, while Sun Bin looked at the direction Wang Chao left with a serious face.
Ji Xiaoxiao took out the telescope from her backpack and looked into the distance.
Suddenly, a figure appeared in Ji Xiaoxiao's sight.
"Huh?"
"Wang Chao is back." Ji Xiaoxiao said to his companions.
"Ah?" Sun Bin and Cheng Ling, who were a little depressed, suddenly made a sound of surprise when they heard this. Then they also took out the telescopes from their backpacks and looked in the direction where Ji Xiaoxiao was looking.
"It's really that guy!" Sun Bin said happily.
"It looks like he's not injured, that's great." Cheng Ling looked at Wang Chao, who was running towards his position, and carefully looked at his clothes. When he saw that they were intact, he said with a smile.
"Huh..." Ji Xiaoxiao breathed out gently, and the tense nerves in his heart immediately relaxed, and he felt that his whole body became very relaxed.
A moment ago, because Wang Chao had gone on a tracking mission and had not come back, he was under great pressure.
Now that I see the other party returning safe and sound, the pressure on my shoulders immediately dissipates.
Wang Chao, who was running all the way, soon saw Ji Xiaoxiao and the other two people who were looking at him. He had a smile on his face and the speed of his feet increased.
After a while, he came to his companions.
"call……"
Running all the way back, Wang Chao was out of breath due to a lot of physical exertion.
"You! You're finally back. You haven't been back for so long. We thought something happened to you!" Cheng Ling said with a smile as he looked at Wang Chao who had returned safely.
"Are you kidding? I'm not you, how could something happen?" Wang Chao responded with a smile.
"..." Cheng Ling was immediately unhappy when he heard Wang Chao say this about him, and then counterattacked, "Humph, isn't it just that you are stronger than me? What's there to be proud of? I will surpass you in the future."
"Really? Then you have to work harder. Judging from the current situation, if you can break through to the third level this year, you will have to burn a lot of incense." Wang Chao said with a smile, he likes to tease.
Cheng Ling.
"Okay, you two, stop arguing. Wang Chao, tell me quickly what the outcome was of tracking those goblins." Ji Xiaoxiao stopped the two quarreling people and asked.
"I have used a spiritual weapon to record the places where the goblins live. The whole tracking process went very smoothly without any errors..." Wang Chao replied.
"Now that you have recorded the places where the goblins live, let's start returning now!" Ji Xiaoxiao said.
"Yes." Wang Chao nodded, and then the group of four people began to return along the original route.
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The sky in the underground space is getting darker and darker. If we were outside, the sun in the sky was just about to set, but here it seemed like there was jet lag.
Fortunately, the surrounding luminous plants finally stopped pressing the button after it darkened to a certain level, maintaining a certain brightness so that the underground space would not become pitch black.
Ji Xiaoxiao and his group of four walked forward, occasionally taking out their positioning tools to point out the direction.
About an hour later, they arrived at the entrance of the cave where they came out from.
But at this time, something unexpected happened.
"Eh?!!!"
"The entrance to the cave we came out of is right here! Why is it missing?" Cheng Ling exclaimed, while the other three people looked around with serious faces.
Originally, this place was supposed to be a stone wall with a large diameter hole, but now there is no hole! At a glance, there is an endless plain.
"Could it be that we haven't arrived yet?" Sun Bin asked.
"Yes, Ji Xiaoxiao, did you go to the wrong place?" Wang Chao said.
With a solemn expression, Ji Xiaoxiao took out the positioning tool from his pocket and fiddled with it a few times. According to the information displayed by the tool, the coordinates here were correct and it was the place where they came out earlier.
"I was not mistaken, the spiritual weapon showed that this is where we first came out."
"..." Wang Chao and the other two fell silent immediately after hearing Ji Xiaoxiao's confident statement.
"call……"
A strong wind blew up on the vast and boundless plain, causing the sand and stones on the ground to roll and make a burst of noise. In such an open place, unfamiliar vegetation was everywhere at first sight, making Wang Chao and the four of them feel that the surroundings were a bit eerily quiet.
"Why is the entrance to the cave we came out of at the beginning missing?" Cheng Ling was the first to break the silence and murmured in confusion.
Unfortunately, no one could answer her question.
"The entrance to the cave has disappeared for some reason, so what should we do now?" Sun Bin said.
"Ji Xiaoxiao, give me the positioning tool and I'll try it." Wang Chao said to Ji Xiaoxiao, with the mentality of trying it on his own to see if the positioning tool would give other answers.
Ji Xiaoxiao handed the positioning tool in his hand to Wang Chao. The three of them watched Wang Chao start playing with the positioning tool. After a while, Wang Chao let out a long sigh.
"Hey, no! The result is the same as Ji Xiaoxiao, the position displayed by the positioning tool is here..."
Ji Xiaoxiao thought for a few minutes and felt that it was getting late. She said, "I don't know what happened now. The cave we came out of has disappeared. In this case, we can only let nature take its course."
Wang Chao and the other three nodded. When encountering such a strange thing, there is nothing we can do no matter how anxious we are. We can only do this and wait to see if there are any clues to find the cave back.
Just when Ji Xiaoxiao and his group of four were preparing to find a place to settle down, a black line suddenly appeared on the horizon in the distance.
"What is that?" Cheng Ling was the first to notice the abnormality, pointing to the black line appearing on the horizon in the distance, and shouted to his companions.
Ji Xiaoxiao and the other three looked in the direction pointed by Cheng Ling's raised hand, and immediately noticed something unusual. Everyone took out their binoculars to check.
"ox?"
In the sight of the four people, they saw that the black lines in the distance were originally made up of heads, bodies and two horns. They were the size of an eight-person van and were covered with black scales, resembling buffaloes in the paddy fields on the Blue Star.
Strange looking beast.
The reason why we were sure that they were alien beasts, rather than judging by perception, was because the eyes of these creatures glowed with a light golden aura.
"So many strange beasts!" Sun Bin exclaimed. The buffalo beasts covered with black scales appeared in the distance. He glanced from left to right. There were hundreds of them in a row.
Then there were countless people in the second and third rows, so thick that they could not be seen to the end.
"The number of this group of strange beasts is really astonishing. I never expected that there would be such a large group of strange beasts living underground so close to our station in the spirit world." Wang Chao said with a very solemn tone.
"They are coming towards us, let's get out of here quickly." Ji Xiaoxiao saw the buffalo beast covered in black scales speeding towards their location, and felt that the top priority now was to avoid this group of alien beasts quickly.
beast.
"Where to hide?" Cheng Ling asked.
"There, there is a small hill there. Although it is not particularly high, it is a suitable place to hide around." Wang Chao raised his finger and pointed to a small hill dozens of meters high in the distance, and said to his companions.
"Okay, let's go to the hill." Ji Xiaoxiao looked at the location of the hill.
Although there was some distance from where they were, with their speed, they could reach the hill before the group of buffalo beasts covered with black scales arrived.
Afterwards, a group of four people ran non-stop towards the place where the hill was.
The buffalo beasts covered with black scales are generally not very strong, and only have the strength from the first stage to the first stage high stage.
But there are so many of them that you can’t even see them at a glance. I roughly estimated that the number should be no less than four to five thousand.
A herd of alien beasts of this size is truly rare, and if it appeared on the ground, it would pose a great threat to human strongholds.
If humans want to eliminate such a large group of alien beasts, they must send a large number of manpower to carry out all-out eradication.
"Tap tap tap..."
Ji Xiaoxiao and the other four people ran all the way, and soon they arrived at the foot of the hill, and then ran to the top of the hill.
The slope of the hill was not very steep, so their climb was very easy and they reached the top of the mountain quickly.
"call……"
After adjusting their breath, the four people used telescopes to look into the distance.
"Roar……"
Groups of strange buffalo beasts covered in black scales made one after another screams.
They passed through the location where Ji Xiaoxiao and his group of four had been before, then ran forward quickly, turned a corner 1 kilometer ahead, and then headed towards a place with lush grass in the distance.
Ji Xiaoxiao and a group of four people quietly watched the buffalo beasts covered with black scales on the top of the mountain. They watched them arrive at a place with lush grass and leaves, and then stopped.
"These strange beasts have stopped and are preparing to be repaired there," Cheng Ling said.
"I thought they would run all the way until they disappeared, but I didn't expect them all to stop not far from us," Sun Bin said.
"Now we have to stay here for a while." Wang Chao said, looking at the strange beasts that were munching on grass leaves.
"Everyone, sit down and have something to eat first to replenish your strength! If something unexpected happens again later, we can easily deal with it," Ji Xiaoxiao said.
Wang Chao and the other three nodded, and then everyone sat on the ground, looking at the vast herd of strange beasts in the distance while taking out dry food from their backpacks and eating in small bites.
On a normal day, even if we are tired of eating portable dry food, everyone will eat big and fast when eating.
However, the current situation is that I really can't bring myself to eat. Well, the hole I came out of has disappeared, and I can't go home. Anyone would feel a little depressed.
"Roar……"
Thousands of buffalo beasts covered with black scales, eating delicious grass and leaves, formed a sharp contrast with the four humans who couldn't bring up their appetite to eat on the hill in the distance.
As time went by, these exotic buffalo beasts covered with black scales also filled their stomachs.
After eating and drinking, the group of alien beasts did not just lie down to rest. Instead, they took steps, left the eating place, and ran towards the end of the horizon.
So many strange beasts ran together, and the noise caused by their stampeding on the ground gave people an overwhelming momentum.
It seemed that any enemy standing in front of these strange beasts could not withstand their charge.
After eating, he ran faster and within a moment, these strange buffalo beasts covered in black scales disappeared over the horizon.
"Those strange beasts have left." Cheng Ling put down the telescope and said to the three companions around him.
"Yes, we have left. Should we find a place to settle down next?" Sun Bin said.
"Calculate the time, before it's time to go to sleep, we should walk around again to see if we can find any clues about the disappearance of the cave entrance." Wang Chao suggested.
The three of them looked at captain Ji Xiaoxiao to see what she was thinking now.
Ji Xiaoxiao thought for a while, and she felt that it was safer to wait until the glowing plants became bright again before taking action as the surroundings were dark now.
"We are not familiar with the situation here. For safety reasons, let's find a place to settle down for the time being! We will take action after the environment here becomes brighter."
Ji Xiaoxiao's proposal is indeed a safer approach in this unfamiliar environment.
Wang Chao and the other three thought for a while and nodded one after another. Then they all came down from the hill and tidied the ground behind a huge rock at the foot of the mountain as a place for them to sleep tonight.
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This chapter has been completed!