Chapter 174

"I thought something might happen..." Yu Tu's voice rang out in the darkness, "Does it look familiar? Does it look like a spider's nest reappearing?"

Gu Hongying replied weakly: "This is just an unexpected accident..."

"My luck has never been so bad." Eric also joined the conversation, "Gu Hongying, are you too unreasonable?"

Gu Hongying: "I protest! Don't blame me for everything! Can't it be that the four of us are just unlucky?"

Hao Zhizhi sneered: "Just right, infinitely negative?"

This one sentence silenced the other three people.

Gu Hongying was the first to change the subject: "Why don't we get out first and then decide who has worse luck?"

Hao Zhizhi: "Don't even think about asking Tutu and I to change back to our original forms to untie the rope. The rope will change with our body shapes."

When Hao Zhizhi woke up and found herself bound, her first reaction was to transform herself into a furry monster, and the rope entangled her body into a rope ball.

Yu Tu also tried to turn into a sapling, but the result was that he was tied up into an hourglass from the roots to the branches.

"The ropes used to tie people up in the West are definitely not as sophisticated as those used in the East," Eric said. "The ropes have limited ability to change. Zhizhi, you should simulate monsters of different sizes a few more times. There will be a lag period in between."

Although the spiritual power is sealed, the transformation between the human form and the original form is not controlled by the spiritual power, but by consciousness. Hao Zhizhi can naturally exploit such a bug.

Half an hour later, Hao Zhizhi successfully escaped from the rope, and one minute later, the other three people were also rescued.

Gu Hongying clasped his hands together and bowed in the darkness: "Thank you, Sister Zhi. I hope we can escape safely this time."

After imitating other animals' prototypes non-stop, Hao Zhizhi was so tired that she sneered, "Gu Hongying, please shut up. I'm scared even if you open your mouth to make a statement now."

Gu Hongying: "...Before I went to college, I had good luck."

"You said so too." Eric sneered in disdain, "Before I went to college."

Gu Hongying was silent for a moment, then made a joke to lighten the atmosphere: "Do you think we are in a dungeon now? Once everyone is together, we can fight the BOSS. Maybe we can even surpass our level———Wuwuwu!"

In the darkness behind him, Yu Tu groped over and covered Gu Hongying's mouth with his hands: "Don't say anything, please."

The protagonists of most comics either have the skill of a crow's mouth or their words come true. Other comics are just for fun in the second dimension, but Gu Hongying's is three-dimensional and will really happen! It's really deadly!

Hao Zhizhi was the first to praise: "Well done, Tu Tu! He was told not to say a word on the way!"

Eric: "Among the four of us, you are definitely the unlucky one. You are extremely unlucky!"

Gu Hongying: “Mmmmm!”

He! Protest!

After the four-member team used force to deprive Gu Hongying of the right to speak, they began to discuss how to leave. The place where they were imprisoned was so dark that they could not see their hands in front of them. Even if they removed the ropes that bound them, they still could not use their spiritual power, but their reaction ability and physical fitness after training were still there.

Yu Tu's perception was the least obstructed among the four people, so he was responsible for exploring the way: "There is a secret door on each side of us, we have to choose a direction first."

Yu Tu: "Although the probability is 12, I give up."

To be honest, he wasn't very confident about his luck.

"The left is respected in the East, and the right is respected in the West," Eric said. "In theory, if we want to get closer to the core here, we should go to the right, and if we want to get away from the core, we should go to the left."

Even though he was "banned", Gu Hongying still couldn't help but speak: "Don't fall into the trap of common sense and choose the left!"

Hao Zhizhi: "Then I'll vote for the right side."

Eric agreed: "Since Gu Hongying said to choose the left, let's go directly to the right!"

Gu Hongying: “……?”

Gu Hongying: "You are discriminating!"

In the darkness, Hao Zhizhi patted Gu Hongying on the shoulder and said through gritted teeth: "I think you should have some self-awareness."

Gu Hongying: "I'm really not that serious!!"

The other three were silent for a few seconds, then responded with some "hmm" and "ah" in a very sincere way.

After determining the direction they were going, they gathered at the secret door on the right. Hao Zhizhi fumbled around in the dark and said, "It's blocked by a magic circle. It can't be opened."

Magic is forbidden indoors and sealed outdoors. Not to mention being quite vigilant.

In the darkness, several people simultaneously turned their eyes to their feet—under their feet was compacted soil.

Eric, Yu Tu, and Gu Hongying took turns patting Hao Zhizhi on the shoulder.

Hao Zhizhi: “…”

She must have done something sinful in her previous life that she became friends with these people in this life.

Three hours later, in a pitch-black room, the compacted earth ground trembled slightly and cracked. A scaly claw poked out from the center of the crack, and then the owner of the claw crawled out from the ground - it was a pangolin.

The pangolin fell weakly to its side, and after a few breaths it turned into a furry creature.

Dirt kept flying out of the hole next to it, and it gradually became like a deep well. First, a tea sapling covered in mud crawled out of the well, and then two dusty people crawled out.

"We've been digging for so long, and we're still not out?" Eric couldn't believe it. "How big is this place?"

Gu Hongying sighed: "The time I spent crawling underground reminded me of the experience six months ago when I was digging a tunnel, but unfortunately I dug into a mezzanine."

Eric: "Don't talk!"

Yu Tu Miao felt puzzled. He was adjusting the direction of digging the tunnel based on his strong sense of plants. Whether he was digging to the left or to the right, he was almost digging in a straight line. He should be able to dig out the tunnel at least.

Yu Tu Miao took a few steps forward and felt his roots stepping on something soft.

Yu Tu: “……?”

He stepped on it again subconsciously, and the feeling he got from the root was... a person!

"What the hell!" Gu Hongying suddenly screamed. Something flew over his head and grabbed his hair, causing him to feel a strong sense of falling. "What is that!"

He reached out his hand in panic and felt a familiar leaf on top of his head: "Tu Tu?"

The feeling of falling became stronger and stronger, and Gu Hongying screamed: "It's strangling my neck, Tu Tu!"

Stepping on someone in the dark was so unexpected and frightening that Yu Tu Miao was so frightened that she performed a spinning jump, just jumping over Gu Hongying's head. As she fell, she grabbed his hair with leaves and pulled his collar with roots.

Eric: “…”

He identified the location by sound, groped over in the dark, and pulled Yu Tu, who had nowhere to support himself, off Gu Hongying's head.

Yu Tu fell to the ground and turned into a human form. His shoes kept rubbing against the ground, and his heart was pounding: "Human, I stepped on a rotten person..."

Gu Hongying took a breath and muttered, "How can you tell a good person from a bad one just by stepping on them?"

Hao Zhizhi, who had transformed into a pangolin digging a tunnel, said unhappily: "Is it possible that the rotten person that Tutu is talking about is not a rotten person in the secular sense, but a real rotten person - damn!"

Darkness magnifies people's fear. When they thought about living in the same room with a rotting human body, their hair began to stand on end involuntarily.

"I, I, I, I don't think I smell any bad smell either..." Gu Hongying had just been strangled to death, "Could it be that my feeling is wrong?"

The creepy touch seemed to still be there through the shoes. Yu Tu said weakly, "He is really a rotten man, rotten to pieces."

Eric: “…”

Hao Zhizhi: “…”

Gu Hongying: “…”

"How about we go back to the tunnel first?" Eric really didn't want to be in the same room with a highly decomposed corpse. "Try to dig to the side?"

Hao Zhizhi raised her furry paws and said, "Let me make it clear that I really can't dig any more."

Yu Tu pondered for a few seconds and said, "How about I try digging the soil with my roots?"

The four men retreated back into the tunnel.

Then, in the darkness, except for Yu Tu, the other three people squatted far away - if they didn't squat far away, the soil raised by the roots of the tea trees would directly give them a facial SPA.

After digging out a new direction with great difficulty, the soil layer above his head finally became thinner, and a dim light came through. Yu Tu was delighted, and he lifted up the root and kicked it hard in a very difficult way. The ground above his head loosened, and many pieces of soil fell down with a clang.

He rolled Hao Zhizhi up in a leaf and crawled out first, followed closely by Eric and Gu Hongying.

In the dim light, there is a whole garden.

The ceiling above the garden is very high, with clusters of slender branches with flowers hanging down, crowded together and almost reaching the ground. The grass on the ground is lush and almost knee-high. The whole garden is in the shape of a gentle slope, with a two-meter-high desert rose growing in the middle.

This scene should be extremely beautiful, provided that the light is not as dim as hell, the branches are not pure black, the grass has shark-like teeth, and the flowers are redder than blood.

The four-member team was genuinely shocked. I don’t know who said first: “What a hell of a place it is to have come to after so much hardship!”

The movement of them digging the hole startled the grass with shark teeth. The grass near them swayed and gathered together, and was quickly stepped on by Eric and Gu Hongying.

While the two of them were dealing with the grass, Yu Tu had already turned back into human form. He placed Hao Zhizhi on the top of his head and then looked carefully at the desert rose planted in the ultimate center of the garden.

The flowers and leaves of the desert rose trembled, as if trying to express something, but in Yu Tu's sight it became—

【^%*$&￥#&\！ 】

Yu Tu asked: "What did you say?"

【^%*$&￥#&\！ 】

To Yu Tu, its body language was just a string of gibberish.

Hao Zhizhi suggested in a low voice above Yu Tu's head: "How about you change back to your original form first?"

"I feel like it's useless to change back to my original form." Yu Tu said worriedly, "There's a language barrier between us, and my tribe hasn't taught me the foreign language of plants yet."

Hao Zhizhi: “…”

After Eric and Gu Hongying finished dealing with the shark-tooth grass, they decided to go to the desert rose first - after all, that desert rose was the only normal-looking plant in the garden, and they suspected that the desert rose was Robert.

It wasn't difficult to get there, but as they got closer, the desert rose shook more happily, as if it was going crazy.

When they got closer, Yu Tu changed back to his original form, and the other three people silently watched a one-meter-tall tea seedling and a two-meter-tall desert rose shaking their leaves and gesticulating with difficulty, as if they had returned to the most primitive state of communication.

After gesturing for a while, Yu Tu came back to normal: "He asked us to pull him out of the soil."

Although this place has a suppression effect on spiritual power, it can still be used. They picked up some of the shark grass that they had processed before, woven it together, and hardened it with spiritual power to make four shovels. The four of them surrounded the desert rose and dug it, and finally succeeded in digging its roots out of the soil. With a glimmer of light, the desert rose turned into a boy with red hair and green eyes.

It turned out to be Robert himself.

"You are such good people! You came to save me despite all the difficulties!" Robert's eyes were filled with tears. He grabbed Yu Tu's hand and shook it vigorously. "I knew there must have been a misunderstanding with the Godfather a few months ago!"

"When we get out of here, you will be my best friends!" As Robert shed tears, a mini desert rose blossomed on his head. "You guys are so nice!"

The other three people first looked at Yu Tu collectively with strange eyes: Tu Tu, what on earth did you compete with him?

Yu Tu responded with a puzzled look: I don’t know either!

The four people looked at each other, and the same thought came to their minds at the same time—

This desert rose looks really deceptive, but it’s not, it’s very simple!

"Let's not talk about this for now." Yu Tu freed his hand, "Do you know where to get out? This is not a place to stay for long!"

Robert shook his head in confusion: "No need to find a way out."

Four people: ???

Robert: "When they planted me, I regained some consciousness and heard them say that you can only enter but not leave."

Eric frowned: "Then why are you so calm?!"

"You get used to it after being kidnapped so many times, although the circumstances this time are a bit harsh." Robert comforted him, "I guess next, either my parents will come and redeem me, or my godfather will kill them all in one fell swoop."

Eric, Gu Hongying, Hao Zhizhi, Yu Tu: "..."

There are many grooves but no openings.

"But being buried in the soil is really uncomfortable. In addition to the strange patterned stones, my roots are always passively absorbing something that makes me sick." Robert whispered, "It feels worse than my godfather's cooking."

The four of them immediately thought of the rotten guy in the cave.

Seeing that the emotions of this naive desert rose were written all over her face, the four people chose to conceal the truth out of kindness.

Just...don't tell him.

As for the "strange stones with patterns" that Robert mentioned, they continued digging deeper into the pit and dug out some stone tablets engraved with ancient characters.

These stone tablets with ancient characters were not easy to translate. Yu Tu took a quick look and concluded, "It doesn't look like a kidnapping this time."

Robert came up with great interest: "Are you trying something new?"

Yu Tu: "One bad news, one worse news. Which one do you want to hear first?"

Robert: “Bad!”

"The bad news is that this is the center of these arrangements. You are the main sacrifice deliberately arranged, and we are the counterparts." Yu Tu said, "The worse news is that once the center is destroyed, it will immediately initiate a self-counterattack."

The naive Robert was still confused: "What self-reaction?"

Yu Tu pointed to the top of his head.

At the top of the garden, clusters of slender branches with flowers had stood up like snakes at some point, densely blocking out the dim light, and every flower was in full bloom.

The moment they looked up, the air was filled with a strange red mist. The mist spread, and even though the five people immediately covered their entire bodies with spiritual power, they were still knocked down by the mist.

The branches moved over and planted Robert, who had turned back to his original form, back into the pit. Then they dug four holes in the ground and buried the four people in them respectively. Then they filled them with soil and inserted patterned stone tablets.