Just as I was marveling at the attack power of the centipedes falling from the dome, the centipede not far from us recovered, rolled over on the ground, and quickly crawled towards us.

Get out of the way!

Manjing saw the centipede crawling towards him, drew his knife, and charged forward, slashing with all his might.

"when!"

To everyone's surprise, Manjing's powerful strike on the centipede produced a sound like striking a rock.

With one slash, the centipede's body sank, but not even a scratch was left.

"Bang!"

Seeing that my attempt to kill the centipede had failed, I kicked the centipede, sending it flying far away.

"here we go again!"

Lin Que, who was behind him, saw another centipede crawling over and also kicked it. But the centipede, like a cobra, raised its upper body and wrapped itself around his leg.

"careful!"

I had just witnessed the terror of these centipedes. When I saw Lin Que being entangled by one, I rushed over, grabbed the centipede's body, and pulled it off.

The moment I caught the centipede, it felt like I was holding a cold, hard steel pipe and throwing it away with all my might.

"Bang! Bang!"

In just a few seconds, another large number of centipedes fell from the height, and after waking up, rushed towards the nearest crowd.

"Bang! Bang!"

The people from Ping'an Village in the distance, entangled by centipedes, had begun firing their guns, while bursts of flames exploded around them to deal with the centipedes.

"Run!"

I saw more and more centipedes gather around us, then turn around and run back the way we came.

The centipedes that have appeared in the cave are truly terrifying. Their shells are as hard as steel. One or two would be easy to deal with, but there are thousands upon thousands of centipedes here.

If we stay any longer, there's no other option but to feed the centipedes.

The wisest choice right now is to retreat back into our previous passage, block the entrance to the shaft, and prevent these centipedes from crawling in.

It was only then that I realized that the shells Jiang Man saw in the passage were not snake molts, but rather the shells left behind by these centipedes when they molted. Although I didn't know why these centipedes were gathered on the top of the cave, there were no recently molted centipede shells in the passage we came from, which at least indicated that these insects no longer lived there.

As more and more centipedes appeared hanging on the ground, everyone else started running behind me, but I stopped again after running only a short distance.

Because I noticed that the two people on Duan Jinyan's side were also avoiding the centipedes, but they weren't running outwards; instead, they were running down the slope towards the lake below.

Judging from the current situation, if the people inside the cave cannot escape before the swarm of centipedes completely takes over the place, then they will face certain death.

These two people are behaving very strangely.

After the boulder fell from the top of the cave, they ran desperately towards the edge. Now, with the swarm of centipedes attacking, they risked running back inside.

"Boom!"

Just as I was pondering why the two of them were behaving so strangely, the ground beneath our feet began to shake again, and the lake water at the bottom started to rotate counterclockwise, forming a not-so-obvious whirlpool.

Immediately afterwards, several figures emerged from the water.

"Duan Jinyan!"

I saw several figures emerge from the water and instinctively called out Duan Jinyan's name.

At this moment, I have figured everything out.

The second gate of the Miao Jiang Fairy Palace is underwater.

The few people Duan Jinyan left up there were originally meant to draw attention. In fact, he had been lying in wait in this cave all along. The reason he hadn't shown himself was because he knew the exact location of the second door.

He had been waiting.

They might be waiting for the people of Ping'an Village to lower their guard, or they might be waiting for other groups to arrive.

In short, he was waiting for an opportunity, an opportunity to open the second door without anyone noticing.

Now it seems he has undoubtedly succeeded, because the other teams have not only been completely outmaneuvered by him, but are also all currently fleeing from the centipede's attack. Only his group, which has been hiding in the water, can calmly watch all of this unfold.

The three people who were running around outside earlier were there to attract attention and buy Duan Jinyan and the others time to unlock the lock underwater.

In other words, during this process, Duan Jinyan and the others may have surfaced several times to breathe, but our attention was drawn to their other teammates, and we didn't notice the people in the water at all.

I saw the two people with Duan Jinyan running down the slope, so I turned around and ran back: "The passage is in the water! Go back!"

"call out!"

As I shouted, Lin Que beside me raised his signal gun and fired a shot at the underground lake. Then, illuminated by the light, we ran wildly down the hillside.

On the opposite side, Wei Shengnan and her group, who were closest to the exit, were about to evacuate when they heard the commotion behind them. They turned around and quickly discovered the whirlpool in the underground lake, and began to run back as well.

"Bang bang bang!"

Seeing the chaos, the people from Ping'an Village began firing into the lake, and the people floating in the lake quickly sank to the bottom.

One of the villagers from Ping'an Village saw what we were doing and pointed this way: "Stop them!"

"call out!"

To stop them, I raised the flare gun and fired another shot in their direction, then sped up my run.

As we ran, the whirlpool in the underground lake grew larger and larger, and a large hole appeared in the center, with all the surrounding water flowing towards the center.

By this time, the entire dome of the cave had been covered with centipedes, and the color of the stone had been exposed in the middle, rippling outwards like waves, pushing the centipedes as they crawled down into the cave.

The centipedes around us, seeing us, seemed to see a delicious meal and scrambled over to us.

"We don't know how deep the pool is, everyone hold your breath!"

As I watched the centipedes gather in ever-growing numbers, I took a deep breath and then jumped directly into the underground lake.

"Thump!"

The moment I fell into the water, all the noise on the shore disappeared from my sight, and my vision was shrouded in darkness.

As my body continued to sink, I began to roll uncontrollably. To prevent myself from getting injured during the fall, I curled up and hugged my legs to avoid any possible collisions.

A chill swept over me, and my body felt like it had been thrown into a washing machine, spinning wildly. The flares on the lake's surface swayed like the moon's reflection in the water, growing ever more distant.