He Xixu's expression was a bit complicated. He put down his spear and thought carefully: "When I first stepped on it, I found that I couldn't see the pattern under my feet, so I stepped aside. As soon as I could see the pattern clearly, the whole altar began to shake. The time between them was too close. , if you hadn’t asked me specifically, I wouldn’t have noticed this anomaly.”
"Yes, yes, I feel the same way!" Xiaoxiao agreed, "We just saw the patterns under our feet and were discussing what they meant. Didn't we discover those mutated lynxes? I subconsciously ignored this small change. Already..."
Lin Yan looked up at the top of the altar that was hidden in the darkness: "Dr. Shi, do you think that the eye pattern is actually some kind of mechanism?"
Zhang Xing's face was full of confusion: "But is this possible? There should be a lot of noise when the mechanism is activated, right? But you didn't notice the movement of the mechanism when you stepped on it."
"Then let's temporarily think that the eye pattern on the altar activated a certain mechanism and then released the mutated animals."
He Xixu was talking, but was interrupted by Shi Lingyao.
The vines swung past one after another, causing the charging Sibi to stagger. Before the Sibi could recover, the halberd whizzed and stabbed accurately into the Sibi's head.
"I may have dealt with two waves before you went up."
She waved her hand, and the vines immediately changed direction and rushed back into the chaotic battlefield.
The mutated animals were so big that all the surrounding houses suffered damage. They were smashed to pieces by the fighting, and the debris was everywhere. It was a mess.
Zhang Xing held his head to avoid a huge wild boar that was kicked away by Lin Yan, and cursed angrily: "Please show me the direction!"
Lin Yan grinned without apology: "Sorry!"
Zhang Xing swung his fist with great strength. With his huge strength and his extremely fast Sai Juechen ability, the punch was so fast that it was hard to see with the naked eye. There was only a muffled sound, and the fist hit the strange-looking head hard!
Sibui stopped for a moment, took two staggering steps, and then came to the end with a bang.
Immediately there were vines to dig out the Xuan Jing.
Lin Yan looked at the vivid vines, which were so humane. He couldn't help but be silent for a moment and looked at Shi Lingyao, who was standing not far away and looking at the whole scene with a serious face.
There is really no connection between the fairy-like Dr. Shi and the dog's sneaky vines that dig out mysterious crystals all over the place.
Shi Lingyao suddenly turned to look at him.
Lin Yan was startled and immediately rushed back into the battlefield with a guilty look on his face.
She raised her eyebrows and looked around.
Many of Lin Yan's fireballs were hovering in mid-air, completely illuminating the surrounding environment and making the surroundings clear.
The houses around the altar were destroyed to pieces, and a four-faced animal was thrown out by someone unknown, and hit the already devastated ground hard, making a loud muffled sound.
The ground was shaken.
Although it is more troublesome, it is still solved.
Huge four-faced corpses lay all over the ground, and the nose was already filled with the strong smell of blood.
The white tiger was so disgusted that it landed lightly on the roof a little further away like an elegant big cat, determined not to get its paws stained with the smelly black blood on the ground.
Shi Bao was sitting on Bai Hu's back, watching from a distance, and he was obedient and didn't make any noise or run around.
Shi Ling looked up at the altar standing in the darkness and said, "I want to go up there again."
Jing Hexuan was beside her: "I'm with you."
She turned to look at the others: "You guys just wait below. I will verify whether there is really an agency. It will be easier for you to deal with it below."
He Xixu sighed deeply: "What if the mechanism is triggered and the mutant animals come back bigger and stronger?"
She frowned slightly: "So? Then it won't be verified?"
He Xixu rubbed his face vigorously: "Check! I don't believe that this son of a bitch can release anything from this damn place!"
Lin Yan was speechless: "Can you stop being so clumsy? If you come up with something else, you can do it yourself!"
He Xixu sneered: "As if I didn't tell you that nothing would come out later! How dare you tell Dr. Shi not to step on that mechanism above!"
The two people immediately started arguing.
Shi Lingyao and Jing Hexuan were already walking down the stairs.
Two fist-sized fireballs dutifully floated in front of the two of them to illuminate them.
She had a gut feeling that even if she went up, there would be nothing to gain.
"I always feel that since we entered this mountain, we have been led by things in the dark."
Her tone was a little unhappy, and she had been thinking about what she had seen and heard in the past two days, carefully recalling all the details, trying to see what clues she had missed.
"There is a high probability that these mutated animals will not appear because of the altar."
Jing Hexuan also agreed with her conjecture.
Yesterday, they entered through the passage of the trap and did not go to the end. He deliberately made loud noises to attract the attack of the mutated animals.
There can be no one on the altar at that time.
Even if there is indeed any mechanism on the altar, it has little to do with these mutated animals that come and go after harvesting like leeks.
The top of the altar is still the same as seen yesterday, but the only difference is that there are some more footprints on the ground covered with fine dust, which should have been left when He Xixu and his party came up just now.
Just as Jing Hexuan was about to move forward, she suddenly pulled him back.
"look."
She stood at the edge, not moving forward, but squatted down and pointed to a place in front.
"The shallowest ones are the ones we left yesterday," she said, making a few circles with her fingertips, "and this one is He Xixu's footprints."
She was referring to the clearest footprint. You could see the footprints extending from the middle to the other side, which was consistent with He Xixu's statement.
She recalled what happened yesterday: "We all stood on the outside when we went to the altar yesterday. Only Xiaoxiao was in the middle of the oval. I remember this very clearly."
Jing Hexuan nodded: "Yes, I remember it too."
"Until we left, because we said the pattern resembled an eye, and Xiaoxiao said a metaphor like 'the eyeball is missing in the middle of the eye,' everyone avoided standing in the middle."
"Until we left due to an emergency, I'm pretty sure no one stepped in the middle of the 'eye'."
Her fingertips moved slightly and landed on Xiaoxiao's footprints.
"Then who left this?"
Except for He Xixu's footprints, which are the clearest, Xiaoxiao's footprints are smaller and lighter.
Just take a closer look and you will see that there is clearly a larger footprint on top of Xiaoxiao's footprints!
It's just that the two footprints are very faint, and they are partially covered by He Xixu's footprints, so at first glance, I didn't realize that they were two footprints.
The two of them looked at each other, and the hair on their backs stood up uncontrollably.
A mysterious person they didn't know also came up to the altar after they left?
