After listening to my analysis, Song Laosan quickly pulled out several wads of cloth from his pocket: "These are the gunpowder I wrapped in cloth before, originally intended to deal with those Gu creatures. You stay out of the way, I'll give it a try!"

As I stepped aside, Song Laosan lit the cloth ball on fire and then threw it into the corner of the wall.

"Sizzle!"

The gunpowder inside the cloth met the open flame and instantly turned into a fireball, illuminating the cave with a bright light.

Amidst the acrid smoke, I ran over to check and discovered that a hole had been burned into the wall.

More importantly, a kind of oily liquid was flowing out of this hole. When you shine a flashlight inside, you can see that under the skin of this "stone", there are many small, grainy pieces, like grapefruit pulp.

Old Song poked the particles inside the hole with the tip of his knife: "The surface is soft; this thing really isn't stone!"

I looked at the mountain wall that was still crawling forward: "Whatever it is, at least we've found its weakness. This thing has a hard outer layer, but it's very vulnerable to fire."

Song Laosan tried to cut along the burn hole with a knife, but couldn't make a cut at all. After thinking for a moment, he said, "I have a limited amount of gunpowder. This amount is not enough to open a passage. Take off all your clothes and try to start a fire!"

"bring it on!"

Having no other options, I accepted Song Laosan's suggestion, and the two of us quickly stripped down to just our underwear.

Old Song took apart the cloth balls containing gunpowder one by one and sprinkled them all on the clothes we had taken off, then held the lighter close to them.

"call!"

After the gunpowder was ignited, flames shot up immediately.

In the firelight, the mountain wall in front looked like a snail being touched, shrinking back at a visible speed.

Seeing this change, I was also shocked.

At least to my knowledge, I have never heard of this kind of plant or animal. Could it be some kind of Gu (a type of poison) from the Miao period?

Under the heat of the flames, the cave in front of us quickly became clear. Shining our flashlights ahead, we could see a wide passage.

"Xiao Duan, let's go!"

When Song Laosan saw that the passage was open, he was the first to run over there.

I didn't understand this kind of thing, nor did I know how long this passage could last, so when I saw Song Laosan take a step, I quickly followed.

After we entered the cave, we ran as fast as we could straight ahead.

After running about twenty meters, the view ahead suddenly opened up.

This is a huge concave cave. In front of us is a canyon that is 20 meters wide. On the other side of the canyon are two tall stone statues that look like two ancient warriors, each holding a huge stone axe.

Below where the two stone axes intersect, there is a dark cave.

Shining a flashlight into the depths of the valley, about fifteen meters deep, the bottom was all rocks.

While I was observing the cave, Song Laosan also went to check it out from a distance, shining his flashlight on a rope that had been thrown to the other side: "Xiao Duan, look over here! Someone went into the cave before us."

"Follow them!"

I saw the rope that Song Laosan had found, put the flashlight in my mouth, and was the first to climb up.

When Song Laosan saw me set off, he followed behind.

By this time, I had taken off all my clothes. My arms and thighs were aching from being rubbed raw by the rope. When I was halfway up, Song Laosan's voice suddenly came from behind me: "Xiao Duan, there's something under us!"

I heard Song Laosan shouting, so I shone my flashlight down and found that the coral-like stones had also appeared on the ground in the canyon. They were spreading upwards rapidly like expanding foam, and many white, wrist-thick tips were sprouting on them like pimples.

Seeing the rapidly expanding ground, I realized why the Butterfly Man had fired the flare earlier; his intention was to force this thing back.

Right now, Song Laosan and I have no equipment left. Although we don't know what dangers it might be if the coral stones come up, I still used all my strength to start climbing forward.

Driven by my will to survive, I quickly climbed to three-quarters of the way up the rope, leaving me only four or five meters from the other side.

Shining my flashlight down, I saw that the canyon, which was originally ten meters deep, was now mostly filled with coral rocks. But at this speed, I should be able to get to the other side without any problem.

Just when I thought I had escaped, the white protrusions on the coral suddenly sprang out, like vines growing in the wind, instantly wrapping around my legs and starting to pull at me.

I was pulled by the vine and almost fell off the rope. I quickly bent my legs, grabbed the dagger tied with my shoelaces, and slashed at the vine.

"Pfft!"

The vine snapped with a snap, and a stream of clear, sticky liquid gushed out.

As I swung my knife, before I could even regain my balance, a second vine rushed up and entangled my body and the rope together.

Immediately afterwards, countless vines surged forth.

"Pfft!"

"Pfft!"

I kept swinging my dagger to defend myself, but my arm was quickly entangled as well.

These vines are incredibly strong; once I was entangled by them, I could even hear my bones cracking.

"ah!"

The pain made me scream, and the flashlight in my mouth fell into the abyss.

In the darkness, I was struggling to breathe, entangled by vines, and felt like my head was about to explode.

In that life-or-death moment, I screamed with all my might, "Help! You can't just watch me die here!!"

Now that I am no longer bound, my only hope lies with the butterfly man who entered the cave earlier.

As I was shouting, I suddenly felt my body turn icy cold, as if a cold mouth was sucking at every part of my body.

Immediately afterwards, my body went numb and I quickly lost consciousness.

"brush!"

Just as I was about to give up, a ray of light suddenly appeared in my sight, followed by countless fireflies dancing in the air.

Like a meteor shower, it flashed continuously in the void beneath me.

When I saw these lights, my first thought was that I was hallucinating due to lack of oxygen, but I quickly realized that it was not an illusion.

Because the feeling of being bound was gone, and a large patch of firelight appeared beneath me.

In a short while, a sea of ​​fire had broken out beneath me. The coral stones and the vines on them crackled and popped as they burned. The vines that had been wrapped around me retreated rapidly as if they had been electrocuted.

In a daze, I couldn't even see the butterfly man's figure clearly, but after experiencing so many dangers, I finally grasped a glimmer of hope and scrambled towards the other side at top speed: "Song Laosan! Run!"