Strange hole
As time passed, the sky gradually brightened. This time, Liu Xia did not encounter any members of the Hyena Gang on the road.
After a night of continuous travel, Liu Xia was very close to his destination. There were almost no corpses of hunted mutant beasts in this area, which meant that most of the contestants had not yet reached the inner circle and were still wandering around the outer and middle areas.
Liu Xia once again found a towering tree and climbed up it. He squatted down on a leafy trunk and prepared to eat something.
She still had plenty of energy, but she was still a little hungry.
She took out two cans of luncheon meat from her backpack and tore off the aluminum lids with just a slight tear. Although the taste was much worse than freshly cooked food, at least it was clean meat, which could satisfy her hunger and replenish her lost strength.
Liu Xia looked at the sharp-edged aluminum lid in his hand with a dazed expression, remembering that in the real world, he often bought canned luncheon meat as a side dish, and it was so difficult to pull off the aluminum lid every time.
Once, she accidentally cut her hand with the lid. When her mother saw it, she scolded her all over, but at the same time, with a look of heartache in her eyes, she used iodine and a Band-Aid to help her treat the wound. Now, it was as effortless as tearing a piece of paper.
Those scenes are still vivid in my mind, as if they happened yesterday.
The morning dew dripped from the leaves from time to time, staining Liu Xia's protective suit with several water marks. This protective suit has some waterproof effect. The water droplets slowly slid down the coating, leaving several water marks.
Liu Xia shook his head and got rid of the thought. His body in the real world was already dead, so what was the point in thinking about it?
However, judging from the fact that we were still able to obtain the gray crystals as system rewards when we killed those Hyena Gang members before, this shows that the system has not disappeared and rewards can still be obtained.
So if she kills other bigger trash in the future, will she return to the real world even if her body in the real world dies?
Liu Xia thought about this problem carefully and came to the conclusion that she might not be able to predict such unknown things now.
At this moment, a painful scream interrupted Liu Xia's thoughts. It was a man's voice, and he seemed to be attacked by something.
Moreover, the sound was not far from Liu Xia's location, it was right inside this wetland park.
Someone had actually arrived first, which was a little beyond Liu Xia's expectations. She had sacrificed her sleep at night and had to run day and night to get there. The only thing that delayed her time along the way was killing the hyena gang and the mutant beasts, which was almost negligible.
It was just dawn at this time. Liu Xia slid down from the tree and gently buried the empty luncheon meat can shell in the pile of leaves to avoid being discovered. Then he groped his way towards the source of the sound through the dense grass.
Since there are already contestants here, she can't go directly to find the level 6 mutant python, lest someone take advantage of her during the battle. She won't leave this opportunity for other contestants.
The wetland park was filled with thick water vapor, and with green plants everywhere, it looked like an ink painting. The further you walked in, the thicker the fog became, completely hiding Liu Xia's figure in the steaming mist.
Cries of pain came into the ears one after another, mixed with cruel laughter. It was obvious that someone was torturing the prey, and the torturer seemed to be enjoying it and was not in a hurry to kill the prey.
As Liu Xia gradually approached, he finally discovered that the sound came from a huge dark cave.
In Liu Xia's previous impression, such deep caves are rare in wetland parks. Even if there are any, they are just artificial rockery and fake rocks. Caves of this depth are mostly built behind temples in deep mountains and forests. They are really rare in urban wetland parks.
But she didn't care too much about these. What Liu Xia cared more about was what was happening in the cave at this moment?
A gust of wind brought a strong smell of blood out of the cave, and the wind also dispersed the dense fog a little, revealing a shocking bloodstain in front of Liu Xia.
Thick dark red blood flowed all the way down from the hole, as if someone had deliberately used the blood as paint to paint inside the cave, and dragged the victim down directly like a paintbrush.
Liu Xia looked at the bloodstain calmly and analyzed the man's thoughts. He was probably using the blood to attract something.
The screams that could be heard occasionally just now gradually weakened. Looking at the traces extending from the hole inward, it must have been accompanied by a large amount of blood loss. Obviously, the victim who was used as a paintbrush could no longer scream due to excessive blood loss.
Under the dense mist, the entire cave entrance was shrouded in white smoke, looking extremely eerie.
The sound of water gurgling came from the river not far from the cave entrance. Liu Xia took a deep breath and his heart began to beat rapidly. It seemed that this person had attracted something.
Liu Xia quickly jumped onto a big tree not far from the cave entrance, holding his breath and looking towards the source of the sound.
After a while, a long shadow was seen sliding out of the water piece by piece. A dark green snake body as thick as a person gradually appeared in Liu Xia's field of vision. Its long red tongue flickered as it swam towards the cave entrance. The thick snake body swayed and scraped across the ground, making a teeth-grinding friction sound, and it crushed a path through the surrounding half-person-high weeds.
This guy actually caught a level six mutant python. He must be a seasoned fisherman... No, he should be a seasoned hunter, Liu Xia silently changed his mind.
The snake body, which was almost two meters thick, stopped when it slid to the cave entrance. The huge snake head was covered with a thick layer of scales, and even had grown sharp horns as thick as two arms. The torso was covered with irregular scales, and green mucus oozed from the gaps between each scale.
The forked bright red snake tongue moved in and out of the blood for a while, as if it was sniffing the scent, and soon it slowly swam into the cave.
When the scales on the abdomen of this mutant python rubbed against the rock wall inside the cave, a sound similar to metal scraping was made. It was obvious that its abdomen was also protected by hard scales.
Long traces of water and blood mixed together, and the snake swam for a full minute before its entire body entered the huge cave.
After a while, until the sound of fighting was heard from inside, Liu Xia followed the mutant python's traces and quietly went in.
Deep in the cave is a huge man-made cave. Some traces of artificial landscaping can still be vaguely seen, but most of them have been dissolved by the erosion of time.
In the corner of the cave were the bodies of more than a dozen dead contestants, all with broken arms and legs, almost none of them intact, all piled up like a pile of meat, covered in blood.
Scarhead casually threw aside the third contestant who had his limbs chopped off and was dying. With him were four other members of the Hyena Gang wearing heavy exoskeletons. The five of them had either cruel smiles on their faces or expressionless expressions of indifference.
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