Xiao Ran and Xu Er went down the hanging ladder to the pit. They saw that the three walls of the pit and the ground below had been artificially repaired. They were very smooth and reinforced with stone slabs. However, because of the age, many grass roots came out of the gaps, making it appear that

These stone slabs are integrated with the earth, just like natural rock formations.

Hu Bayi raised his hand and looked inside the passage. He saw many tree root-like vines growing out from around the passage. They were all gray and white in color. Layers of obstruction prevented the flashlight from reaching the end of the tunnel.

Xiao Ran looked at the dark passage and the long gray-white cone-shaped objects sticking out from all sides, and suddenly thought of the protruding inner wall of the mandrill's mouth, and couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.

"Those things inside all grew up later. To be able to specially build such a passage, and the exit is still in this forest, it must be that the other end of the passage is not simple." Hu Bayi said.

The fat man bent over and looked at it carefully for a long time. His big belly made him breathe heavily. He asked breathlessly: "The other end is not simple. What could it be? The emperor's palace? Or the imperial mausoleum of some local emperor?"

"

Hu Bayi said with a look of disgust: "Your imagination is too developed. What kind of imperial tombs and palaces can there be in this deep mountain and old forest? There is also a mountain king. But it is not impossible to say that there is a big tomb on the other side.

, this passage may have been dug in advance by the tomb builders to escape, in order to prevent it from being used as a burial object. In short, we have to go and see for ourselves whether the other side of the passage is the Yin House or the Yang House."

After he said these words, he raised his head and looked at the other people, asking for their opinions with his eyes.

Xiao Ran returned the compass in his hand to Hu Bayi, pointed at the pointer on the compass and said: "Brother Hu, the direction of this passage happens to be to the west. Maybe you can avoid those annoying people if you go this way.

Mandrill, I think this is..."

"God's will! Fatty, I am the vanguard of God's will!"

Fatty looked proud, as if he had dug this tunnel. When Hu Bayi saw Xiao Ran and Fatty, they had no objections. Naturally, Xu Er took Xiao Ran as the master in everything, so there was nothing to say.

The height and width of this passage are more than one meter, and only one person can bend down to pass through it at the same time. Hu Bayi walked in the front as usual, followed by Xiao Ran and Xu Er, and Fatty followed.

Hu Bayi wielded the engineering shovel in front, cutting down the thick vines and tree roots that blocked the road. Xiao Ran followed behind and reprocessed the parts that Hu Bayi had not cut off.

Those gray-white long conical protrusions were not as hard as tree roots, but rather soft. When Xiao Ran passed by a relatively short protrusion, he actually bent it. But when he walked away,

The protrusion bounced back and returned to its original shape, like some kind of soft plastic foam.

He suddenly became curious, stopped and picked up a protruding object that Hu Bayi had chopped off, and took a closer look at it with a flashlight. In the cross-section of the thing, many thread-like objects could be seen, and even along these threads

The long gray roots were torn apart by the shape. This shape and touch reminded Xiao Ran of something.

mushroom.

"Brother Hu! Are these the same things that grow on mandrills?"

Hu Bayi stopped and shone his flashlight carefully, studying the mushroom-like protrusions. Xiao Ran turned his head again and asked Xu Er: "Xu Er, have you ever heard your grandfather say that he was

Are any of the mushrooms we got so long?”

Xu Er shook his head and said: "He just said that it looks the same as that of the mountain god. He has never heard of such a thing."

Hu Bayi looked at these things carefully and suddenly seemed to remember something. He looked past Xiao Ran and Xu Er and asked the fat man: "Fat man, do you remember that when we were picking hazelnuts in the forest, we saw a

Growing gray long mushrooms seems a bit similar to this thing."

The fat man thought for a while, patted his head and said, "I remember! At that time, we picked some and took them back, but the old branch secretary scolded me, saying that they were fungi growing on corpses, and if they touched the whole basket of hazelnuts, I couldn't eat them.

Yeah. What’s that thing called…”

They both thought about it for a while, then raised their heads and said in unison: "Corpse!"

After listening to the two people's stories, Xiao Ran and Xu Er quickly threw away the gray things in their hands.

Hu Bayi still held the long gray strip in his hand, and said to Xiao Ran and Xu Er: "It's okay, Brother Xiao, as long as you don't stuff a lot of corpse velvet into your mouth, you don't have to worry about poisoning. But the mushrooms grow on

, and these are not exactly the same as that kind of corpse antler. The corpse antler is very small, that is, the size of an ordinary shiitake mushroom. These things, if I guessed correctly, should be the roots of that kind of mushroom. They grow so big,

It can still grow on living creatures, so it must have mutated."

Mutated corpse velvet? Xiao Ran kicked away the long gray roots at his feet with a look of disgust on his face, and a few people said: "Let's be careful and fasten the hat tightly. What we know so far is that only Xu Er's grandfather feeds rats."

The cases of mushrooms growing are probably similar to the corpse mushrooms you mentioned. They only take effect after eating them. But you can’t go wrong by being careful..."

Hu Ba nodded and said: "Brother Xiao is right, this thing is too evil, be careful and sail the ship for ten thousand years."

Several people put on gas masks first, and Lu Hu Bayi behind them was also more careful, trying to cut off the mutant zombie roots protruding from the wall at once, while Xiao Ran was responsible for sweeping these broken roots aside.

They walked forward for more than a hundred meters, passing a few not-so-obvious turns along the way. When Xiao Ran looked back, he could no longer see the light at the entrance.

Suddenly, a sputtering sound came from the passage behind him. The fat man at the back turned his head and ran in the direction he came from. After a while, he hurried back and said to several people: "It collapsed! That one collapsed!"

The entrance collapsed!”

Waves of flying dust swept in from behind, and the sound of landslides kept ringing behind them. The four of them looked nervous, and they didn't bother to cut down the protruding soft roots of mutated corpses and the hard ones.

The pine roots were so strong that they could only dodge and run forward as hard as they could. Even if they really passed by those mutated zombies, it would be better than being buried alive by the cave-in tunnel behind them.

Hu Bayi shouted "pay attention to the left", "be careful of the top of your head" and other prompts from the front, while bending down as much as possible and running as fast as possible. But the mutant zombie roots around him seemed to be getting denser and denser, as if they had inadvertently intruded.

Mushroom nest is average.

Xiao Ran and others didn't care to think, they could only follow Hu Bayi and run forward, letting the soft mushrooms touch their bodies and scratch their faces. The only thing they could do was to try not to let their mouth and nose touch those roots.

Hu Bayi was running and suddenly stopped. Xiao Ran quickly braked and almost hit Hu Bayi's back. He saw Hu Bayi shining his flashlight around. At this time, they seemed to have already stopped.

When we reached the end of the tunnel, there was an empty space in front of us.

Before he could ask Hu Bayi about his situation, Xu Er and Fatty from behind had already rushed over and bumped into his back one after another.

He was momentarily unprepared and was knocked forward suddenly, knocking Hu Bayi out of the passageway in an almost dramatic way, and he also stumbled down from the passageway.
Chapter completed!