The deeper you go, the thicker the water vapor around you becomes.

Everyone can feel that the exposed skin on the body becomes more moist, and a slight cold breath lingers with a gentle touch.

In the first few dozen steps, the surroundings are spacious and brightly lit.

After walking about a few hundred steps, the air gradually became less humid and the light became much dimmer.

"The passage leads to the ground at the end. There are several forked roads. Most of them lead to places with elves. If you step forward, you will be attacked. Everyone should follow closely and don't get lost."

Colonel Kaiba led the way at the front and shouted loudly to alert the people behind.

Mainly to remind Wutong, Emma and Bana, as well as the people on the doctor's side.

There are some deeply carved marks on the wall, guiding everyone along the way.

There is another thing that Colonel Kaiba did not say, which is more cruel.

In order to fully explore this place, three soldiers and seven elves were sacrificed during that time.

Two soldiers are missing, as well as several elves they brought with them.

There are no big surprises in the cave, except for some wild elves living in it, which are really fierce.

The elves living here are also mainly insect-type, that is, the Rock Temple Crab family, there is also a rare type of elves called Drip Spiders, and a type called Yo-Yo Ball with the same water-bug attribute that can evolve into a Rainwing Moth.

Elf.

Among them, the Rock Temple Dweller Crabs are the most troublesome. The rock properties they emit are often easily enhanced in this cave environment, and can easily cause collapse. This makes everyone follow Colonel Kaiba's reminder and surrender after encountering them.

A large amount of food is used as "tolls", or they simply run away without fighting back, not wanting to cause the cave passage to collapse and be buried alive.

The surroundings were getting darker and darker. Several soldiers stood at the front, middle and back of the team. They put on and turned on the strong light on the hats similar to miners' hats, illuminating the surrounding area brightly.

It is the strong light that has caused dissatisfaction among the wild elves living here. Some of them are irritable. After gradually adapting to the sudden bright light in the dark cave, they will brazenly attack these strange intruders.

"Quick, quick, quick!"

Colonel Kaiba hurried forward in front, constantly urging others to speed up.

His mission is not to clean up the wild elves here and establish a safe base or route.

As a highly trained soldier, Colonel Kaiba knows how to focus his energy on completing the mission rather than engaging in too many unnecessary battles.

They avoid battles like these if they can. If the other party insists on pursuing them, they just smash a bottle of insect repellent spray and use chemical weapons to prevent the upcoming conflict.

In this way, when some researchers who did not do much physical work felt that their legs were exploding, they finally reached their destination.

At this time, the entrance of the cave usually becomes spacious and bright again from being narrow just now.

After walking out of the cave, the world suddenly opened up in front of us.

They looked up and saw that most of the sky was covered by dense tree crowns, one after another.

Looking around from below, we can see tall and straight logs, each at least ten meters high. Judging from the bark, they seem to have gone through many vicissitudes of life.

Looking at the land below, there is a light brown land without much dense green grass.

The sun above our heads is always taken away by the huge tree crowns, leaving little for the protected grass seeds.

Looking at the stones that occasionally come into view, they are all covered with slippery moss.

This very primitive and ancient scene seemed to have a powerful force that made everyone silent, and no one spoke for a while.

Colonel Kaiba unknowingly lowered his voice and said: "Everyone, please be careful and don't run around. This place is very mysterious and weird. We call it the 'Non-Existent Jungle'. There are many weird and powerful elves hiding in the dark."

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Wutong's expression remained normal, but he was surprised in his heart.

Before he even stepped foot here, he noticed it when he was approaching the underground cave.

Originally, with his cautious character, he naturally "herded" a large-billed gull flying in the sky.

Wutong lets it fly in the sky, move in sync with itself underground, and monitor every move on the ground.

But now, he was clearly on the ground, but he couldn't receive the signal from the big-billed gull.

This is never normal!

You must know that if the connection of mental power is regarded as a radio signal, then he can maintain contact with the big-billed gull at a range of several kilometers and at any point in all directions.

If the energy is anchored to only one person or an elf, it will go even further!

As long as the other party carries the corresponding token, it may be called a transmitter.

Then, he can even sense a distant anchoring existence half a region away!

Wutong picked up his energy and began to focus.

With this kind of ability to isolate induction, this must be a very special place.

But he wasn't too worried, at least Colonel Kaiba had explored this place before.

They didn't go any other way.

Since I came out just now, there has been a road in front of me, leading straight ahead.

There is not a single tree in front of this road, and the trees on both sides are neatly spaced, showing obvious traces of artificial planting.

"Emma, ​​this place is very weird and dangerous, you have to be careful." Wutong reminded the elites of Team Flare beside him.

"I know." Emma glanced at him, wondering if this person was talking nonsense. The colonel had already said it earlier. Was this a re-read?

However, she didn't know that Wutong rarely did this.

Once you do this, it means there is really something weird and dangerous on a very ordinary level here.

As they were walking, suddenly, someone was startled.

"ah!"

It was a female assistant from the research institute. She screamed, causing everyone to be nervous.

Following her gaze, everyone saw something disappearing in the dense forest on the right.

Colonel Kaiba looked ugly, stared at Morrison, and said in a cold voice: "Doctor, control your men, don't be surprised. We are risking our lives to protect you now, don't make it difficult for us."

Morrison nodded and swallowed, his face full of undisguised regret.

He had previously studied some relics brought back by Captain Kaiba and was very interested in this place.

I asked Colonel Kaiba several times, but he always said that he would only bring outsiders like the doctor back again with permission from his superiors.

Morrison tried several times, including asking people he knew in the company, but he couldn't get through to him.

This time, he can be said to have taken advantage of Team Flare.

However, at this time, Morrison felt a little regretful. The danger in front of him seemed to be beyond his expectation.

Strong scientific curiosity and fear of danger and death have never been in conflict.

As for the four assistants, they complained endlessly and felt extremely regretful.

If Dr. Morrison hadn't offered a generous extra reward to attract four people to participate in this ruins exploration, how could we be like now, as if we were entering a very dangerous desperate situation?

Everyone has their own ideas and positions, but no one can turn around and leave and escape from here.

Go forward, go forward again.

Time passed minute by minute.

At the seventh minute, everyone saw the ruins.

A mountain cliff.

high!

Very high!

At least it is so tall that even those tall ancient logs are not as tall as it.

At the same time, it is so steep that it is almost straight and does not look like it can be climbed.

"Colonel, have you ever been in the air?"

Wutong asked suddenly, inexplicably thinking of that overseas trip that happened a long time ago, but it wasn't actually that long ago.

Colonel Kaiba raised his right hand and motioned for everyone to stop in front of the cliff. When he heard the young scholar's question, his expression suddenly changed.

He was serious, serious, and gave a stern warning: "Don't fly into the sky! Never fly away from the tree crown!"

With that said, Colonel Kaiba asked two of his men to clear out the entrance to the cliff, which had been covered up by vines and branches.

"I'm sure we are not on the ground of Santina Island now. The last time we explored, two soldiers and their mounts tried to fly out of the canopy. Then all I heard was screams, and then there was no sound.

I don't know what kind of monster elf it takes to make two well-trained soldiers and elf screams stop suddenly in just a few seconds." Colonel Kaiba told the story in more detail than usual this time.

The story I encountered during my last exploration.

The effect was very good, and everyone gave up the idea of ​​flying into the sky.

The side effects were also obvious, and the look of fear on everyone's faces became even more intense.

Colonel Kaiba showed an unfunny smile, as if he was forcing himself to laugh, and said: "Don't be too afraid, as long as you walk along the main road just now, and here is the entrance to the ruins, don't touch anything after entering, and
To be continued...