Li Qing scratched his head, afraid that these things would fall into his hair, which would be even more disgusting.
After scratching a few times, some things appeared under my fingernails—small pebbles, stones, and some dirt. It was itchy.
Considering all the changes she had gone through, and the fact that she hadn't washed her hair in a while, it was normal for her scalp to be dirty, so Li Qing didn't pay much attention to it.
Without realizing it, he quickened his pace.
Then, with a mischievous grin, he asked, "Can you understand their thoughts?"
Xiong Ga: "My abilities aren't that powerful yet, and besides, these little guys probably can't even speak, so how could I possibly understand their thoughts?"
Li Qing grinned.
He tried hard to stop thinking about the disgusting whiteflies on his head.
Not only Li Qing, but Xiong Ga was also frightened, which made the two of them travel twice as fast as usual. Xiong Ga even kept urging the person in front of him, who was too big and could not move as nimbly as a human in the cave, to speed up: "Faster, faster, get out of this hellhole!"
Every now and then, Li Qing would occasionally look up at the whiteflies, but even after walking for a long time and the light getting brighter, the number of whiteflies had not decreased and remained densely packed. This made it seem as if the stone wall above had become moldy, all covered in white mold.
"How many whiteflies are there? Did I wander into a whitefly nest? But these insects don't usually call this kind of dark place home. And if it's just whiteflies, what are the other insects afraid of? These little guys are their kind. Whiteflies are the real weaklings. They're disgusting, but they're not that bad. The insect swarm can even eat a horse. Why would they be afraid of these little guys?"
Li Qing was unsure, but he immediately noticed that the number of whiteflies was increasing. Not only did the number on his head show no signs of decreasing, but more whiteflies were also appearing on the ground and on both sides of the walls. At first, there were only two or three of them, but as the two went deeper, their numbers increased. On some walls, the number of whiteflies was so large that they could be pieced together into the shape of a "pancake".
With so many whiteflies, disgust is now the least of my worries. The most important question now is: where did these hundreds of millions of whiteflies come from?
"Have you noticed anything unusual about the mane?" Li Qing asked anxiously. "This is very strange. How could there be so many whiteflies..."
Xiong Ga immediately understood Li Qing's meaning. After exchanging a few words with Xiong Ga, he turned back to Li Qing with a wry smile: "No, it seems we'll just have to keep walking and see."
"Yeah……"
Li Qing glanced back at the path he had come from.
"There's no going back."
"Regardless of whether the conditions ahead are favorable, we can only keep going."
In this state, continuing on the road was pure torture. Fortunately, this torture did not last long. The road ahead suddenly changed. Small stones and some scattered debris such as branches appeared on the ground.
Upon seeing this, the two exchanged a glance, both secretly delighted.
These things must have fallen from the ground, which means they are getting closer and closer to the ground!
"I think I can already smell the fresh air outside," Xiong Ga took a deep, greedy breath. "Ugh...it stinks!"
"Nonsense!" Li Qing said irritably, "We're still in the cave, of course it stinks!"
At this moment, Xiong Ga acted like a child, cheerfully saying, "What's the rush? We're about to leave. This experience has been quite thrilling. Neither Zong Mao nor I have ever encountered anything like this during our training. Once we're out, we'll tell the tribe about it."
Li Qing: "There's not much to say, we were just being chased by the swarm of insects."
"Haha, what's wrong? You think it's embarrassing?"
Xiong Ga laughed and said, "Oh, right, there's one more question."
"What?"
"What reward do you want after we return to the tribe?" Xiong Ga's tone sounded purely curious, without any extraneous emotions. He said indignantly, "That Ye Wu guy, he likes to keep things from me just because he's so capable. He's really annoying!"
Li Qing hesitated for a moment, but then he realized that Xiong Ga would find out about this no matter what, so he told Xiong Ga his request.
As expected, yet also unexpected, Xiong Ga laughed heartily after hearing Li Qing's request: "So that's how it is. I guessed it. By the way, how did you know our tribe has such a precious herb?"
"Selling out teammates" is not a good habit, so Li Qing had no choice but to make up a reason: "I heard that the outside world has made the Qingye tribe seem like a miracle, with all sorts of good things, including the kind of herb that can heal life-saving injuries."
Xiong Ga, unsuspecting, humbly replied, "We do have quite a few rare plants here, but there are many things we ourselves don't fully understand. Take this croton, for example. If you hadn't told me, I really wouldn't have known it had this effect. Wait... are we out?!"
real!
Li Qing's eyes lit up. The world before him suddenly became clear. Ahead lay a bright patch of sunlight and a bumpy, uneven ground. They had finally passed through the long tunnel and emerged!
There are no whiteflies here, none of those awful, mood-ruining things!
The big guy with the mane was also feeling suffocated inside. It let out a cry and happily ran out.
"Mane, wait for us, hey!"
Xiong Ga's voice was filled with barely suppressed excitement as he ran toward the exit.
But they had just reached the "exit".
Li Qing was dumbfounded.
Xiong Ga was dumbfounded.
Even the mane was dumbfounded.
They were all dumbfounded.
This "exit" is probably just the exit from the long road we just came from...
"It's already tough enough to get here by walking down a straight road, but why are there more than a dozen forks in the road ahead? What's going on? Even the tunnels built by the Qingye tribe don't have this many forks. Are there traps in here... or are there even more disgusting insects than whiteflies?"
Li Qing looked ahead and saw several roads in front, to the left, and to the right. They were arranged irregularly and looked winding and twisting. It seemed that there would be more forks after one road. When the two of them came in, they seemed to have been lucky and found a straight road without any forks. Seeing these forks made them completely dumbfounded.
Above them was a clear blue sky, from which the light came, but the problem was that they were now about seven or eight meters above the ground, and the walls were tall, hard, and flat, with absolutely no place to grab onto.
An even bigger problem has been placed before the two of them.
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