Li Qing didn't know if centipedes of this strength were rare in the prehistoric world or commonplace. He only knew that if they stayed here, they would be doomed sooner or later. He immediately shouted to Xiong Ga, "Now's the time! Let's find a hole and get out of here!"

Xiong Ga was still a little hesitant: "But we don't know if the road ahead is passable!"

Li Qing said, "We have to give it a try. If we stay here, we'll surely die. We are no match for them!"

"I know."

"Then hurry up and leave!"

Li Qing urged.

"Can……"

Xiong Ga was still a little hesitant.

"No time to think, let's go!" Li Qing shouted. "We have to take this gamble!"

Li Qing also had his concerns. Whether the path they were on was correct and whether it was even viable was secondary; what mattered more was whether there were centipedes in it.

If not, that would be fine.

Once it exists.

With such a confined terrain, they had nowhere to run.

If that really happens, it will be a dead end!

But they have to do it.

Waiting for opportunities to come to you, timid and hesitant, has never been Li Qing's style.

Xiong Ga took a deep breath. He saw determination in Li Qing's eyes. After a moment of silence, he whispered, "I understand. I was cowardly. Let's go. For the sake of the Qingye tribe, it's worth the risk!"

With that, he flipped over and sat on the mane. After Li Qing sat on the mane, he said, "Since you say so, let's just go anywhere. Come on, mane, let's go over there!"

Xiong Ga pointed to the entrance of the road they were facing.

At this moment, the battle among the centipedes became increasingly fierce. To Li Qing's surprise, this deep purple centipede, facing so many "small" centipedes, did not lose any ground and still maintained its full fighting power.

Li Qing noticed something interesting: this big guy seemed to be deliberately keeping the "battlefield" in the center, as far away from the earthen wall and the whiteflies as possible.

"Why is that? For centipedes of this size, bumping into them wouldn't cause any harm. Why are you deliberately avoiding the earthen wall... Is it to avoid hurting these whiteflies?"

"But how could that be? They don't even belong to the same species. It's more like whiteflies are their food. However, when we first saw this giant centipede, there were indeed many whiteflies on its abdomen. Could it be that this giant centipede treated the whiteflies as its children, which is why it let them stick to its abdomen? And the reason these whiteflies ran away was because they knew that other creatures were coming to cause trouble for this giant centipede? It's unbelievable, but it fits the current situation perfectly."

Just as he thought of this, Xiong Ga suddenly shouted a reminder: "Look down and lie on the bear's back!"

Li Qing instinctively lay down on the bear's back.

Then everything went black before his eyes!

They have entered the cave entrance and come to another path!

The terrain here was so low that Li Qing dared not look up, for fear that if he did, he would bump into the earthen wall above him.

"You scared me."

Li Qing breathed a sigh of relief.

Just then, Xiong Ga's excited voice rang out: "We're going uphill!"

"What?"

“Didn’t you notice? We’re going uphill!” Xiong Ga repeated. “Maybe this road leads to the surface. We guessed right!”

Uphill!?

At this moment, Li Qing also realized that they were indeed going uphill!

Their bodies began to tilt, and there was a faint light above them!

Did they really guess right and they just came out like that?!

But their joy lasted only two or three minutes before reality quickly dampened their spirits.

They did indeed walk uphill for a while, but the ground gradually became flatter as they climbed. To make matters worse, they soon discovered where the light source they had first spotted came from—not the glow of the sun outside, but a torch!

Li Qing stared at the scene ahead.

The ground was flat and very clean, and there were no whiteflies on their heads. Although it was a bit stuffy, at least there was no stench of centipedes in the air. There were two paths in front of them, one lit by torches and the other pitch black, where nothing could be seen and the unknown was filled with uncertainty.

Li Qing crossed his arms and said, "This place is similar to the tunnels I passed through when I came here with Mang Hu and the others. But I bet this isn't your doing."

Xiong Ga replied with a rather dejected tone, "If we really built it, we wouldn't have gotten lost."

Li Qing then chuckled self-deprecatingly. Even without much discussion about what to do next, they still tacitly headed towards the area with light.

They had no other choice.

At least they knew that people from other tribes might appear ahead.

This is better than another dark road where you never know what might happen.

The two of them rolled off the ground. Now that they had reached this point, they had to slow down and walk slowly.

Even knowing that there are living people inside, to put it bluntly, in this era, entering someone else's territory without permission, even by accident, can have very serious consequences.

If you encounter the Black Wind Tribe or other tribes with short tempers, they might start fighting right after a few words.

"I hope your reputation as chief of the Qingye tribe spreads far and wide, so that if you happen to run into people from other tribes, you can explain it to them," Li Qing said with a wry smile.

His reply was heavy: "Let's go and see what's ahead."

Because the roads here had been improved, the two walked very "easily," at least without worrying about bumping their heads from time to time, or encountering disgusting insects like whiteflies.

As they walked slowly, they nervously observed their surroundings, wary of potential traps or enemies.

Not long after they left, Li Qing saw some small, sparkling stones that looked like diamonds in the crevices of the earthen walls on both sides ahead.

"This is!"

Li Qing recognized this stone; it was the Qinuo Rock that Mang Hu had told him about!

Because such diamond-like stones were extremely rare in primitive times, Manghu only mentioned them briefly in his description, but when Li Qing saw them, he recognized them at a glance!

"Could it be that after all this winding and circuitous travel, we've already arrived in the territory of the Mishan tribe...? This is really bad." A bad feeling crept into Li Qing's mind.

"Kino Rock?"

Xiong Ga didn't know much about it and asked curiously.

He only knew the general outline of what happened to Manghu. Since such a thing had happened suddenly in the tribe, and Manghu had returned unharmed, Xiong Ga didn't ask too many questions.

"Anyway, it's a very peculiar rock. When the Mishan tribe captured Manghu and Yi, they ordered them to mine this kind of thing," Li Qing said to Xiong Ga, gently tapping a small piece of Qinuo rock to test its hardness. "It seems our luck really isn't that good."