The sudden, violent shaking of the cave abruptly brought the tense atmosphere to an abrupt halt.

"Bang!"

I saw a large rock fall and shatter into pieces not far from me, and I shouted to Jiang Man and the others, "Watch out for the rocks overhead!"

"Snap!"

"Snap!"

As I dodged the falling rocks, cracks began to appear on the rocks at the top of the cave, and they were spreading at a visible speed.

Immediately afterwards, the flare falling from the height landed in the lake, plunging the hall into darkness once more.

Faced with this situation, I didn't have time to think. I took a signal flare out of my pocket, put it in the gun, and then aimed it at the sky.

At this moment, rocks were falling from the cave like hailstones; if anyone were hit, they would surely die.

"call out--"

"call out--"

As I raised my hand, flares were launched from the direction of Wei Shengnan and Ping'an Village, illuminating the cave once again.

The falling rocks continued, and the cracks in the cave ceiling widened.

As I ran, I kept looking up to avoid falling rocks and also observed the cave ceiling. I discovered that the cave ceiling wasn't cracking open, but rather that there were many gaps that had been plugged with stones. I don't know if it was the vibrations from the gunshots and grenades, or something else, that caused the loose stones filling the gaps to fall.

After learning the cause and trajectory of the falling rocks, I stopped running around and shouted to Jiang Man and Monkey, "The trajectory of the falling rocks above is fixed, so stick close to me!"

Hearing my call, the others followed me.

I dodged a few falling rocks while observing the distance between the gaps above my head. I found a safe zone not far from us and quickly ran over.

After stumbling and falling along the way, we finally reached an area that was not actually there. Upon seeing this, the others quickly gathered around.

After our group was safe, I looked at the others. The cave was filled with flying rocks, and the other groups were also scrambling to get out of the way.

Those who were able to enter the Miao Jiang Immortal Palace and reach this position were all experts in the field. The others quickly discovered the pattern of the falling rocks and began to take cover.

In the chaos, the monkey pointed to the hillside on the left: "Young Master Duan, look over there! Have Duan Jinyan's men all gone mad?"

I looked in the direction the monkey was pointing and saw that the three people who had just appeared behind us had not gone to the safe zone to take shelter. Instead, while the rest of our groups were restricted by falling rocks, they ran in the opposite direction from the people from Ping'an Village.

"boom!"

As a boulder fell, the figures of the three people were immediately shrouded in dust. After about three seconds, two of them burst out of the dust and continued running forward.

Jiang Man glanced at me as she watched those people move around so frantically. "Could it be because they know the location of the second door's lock?"

I watched their retreating figures and nodded. "That's the only reasonable explanation, but Duan Jinyan's group is much larger than that. Where did the rest of them go?"

The monkey thought for a moment: "Could these people be the advance team, and the others will follow after they confirm it's safe?"

"If that's the case, then the people behind should show themselves! There are so many groups gathered in this cave. Even if the people in front open the cave, it will be difficult for the people behind to escape the encirclement of so many people."

I watched the two figures running wildly through the falling rocks in the distance, my eyes filled with curiosity, but for safety reasons, I did not choose to give chase.

The fissures at the top of the cave were completely tortuous, and the falling rocks that filled them fell like dominoes overhead.

The whole process lasted about thirty seconds, and then the cave finally returned to calm.

At that moment, the two people who ran out from Duan Jinyan's side had reached another part of the cave. Seeing that the rockfall had stopped, I was the first to run over there: "We have to catch those two and find out what they're up to!"

While we were running, Wei Shengnan and her group, along with the people from Ping'an Village, were also running in that direction.

Although everyone in the cave had their own ulterior motives, it was obvious to anyone that Duan Jinyan's men had just rushed desperately towards the hillside, disregarding the falling rocks, because they must have obtained some clues.

At this moment, everyone feels the same way. We can work together without clues, but we absolutely cannot let any force get ahead of us.

So, the rest of us, in our three teams, formed an alliance without any communication and all set our sights on the two people on Duan Jinyan's side.

"Bang!"

Just as I was running forward, I suddenly heard a muffled thud from the side.

The thud wasn't the sound of a stone hitting the ground; it was rather dull.

When I heard the sound, I thought someone had fallen down next to me. But when I turned around, I was startled.

Right next to us, there's a centipede about the thickness of a forearm, rolling around on the ground. This centipede is entirely red with bright yellow stripes, clearly indicating that it's highly venomous.

In other words, the sound I just heard was produced when this centipede fell down.

So I looked up at the top of the cave and felt a chill run down my spine.

At this moment, the entire top of the cave had turned red, and countless giant centipedes were crawling out along the cracks in the cave ceiling. The yellow markings on their bodies rippled with their movements, like shimmering waves of blood.

"Crackling and popping!"

As more and more centipedes appeared at the top, many were pushed off, falling to the ground like dumplings being dropped into a pot, while even more centipedes crawled along the cave ceiling towards the surrounding walls.

"ah!!!!"

Just as I was terrified by these centipedes, a scream came from my right. I looked in the direction of the sound and saw that a man from Ping'an Village was being dangled by a centipede. The centipede nimbly crawled onto his head and burrowed into his face, abruptly stopping his scream.

Seeing the man in Ping'an Village being attacked by the centipede, I couldn't help but swallow hard.

From the moment I heard that scream to the moment the people of Ping'an Village were killed by the centipede, the whole process took less than three seconds.

The people of Ping'an Village were killed by the centipede without even putting up a fight.

What's even more terrifying is that when the centipede crawled into the man's bag, it was like a mudfish crawling into tofu, without any resistance. The human facial bones were like a fragile sheet of paper to it.