As a few people continued to go deeper, the direction of the tree hole became much gentler than before, and they could move by just crawling. This made everyone breathe a sigh of relief. If they kept walking like that, no one would be able to bear the long-term physical exertion.
What surprised Chen Tao and the others was that they were now in a very deep place. Although the smell here was very unpleasant, no one felt any symptoms of suffocation in breathing.
This shows that the tree hole is connected to the outside world.
In this way, a few people have a glimmer of hope in their hearts.
When passing through the Forest of the Dead, Chen Tao once thought about what those weird ghost willows buried under the sand would look like.
But he never thought that what was under the sand would be so horrifying. Such a huge forest of the dead is actually grown from the branches of the same devil willow tree. Even if it is the legendary tree that connects heaven and earth, it is nothing more than that.
"Commander Barro, is there any record of this big tree in Tatunaan's legend?" Chen Tao asked as he climbed.
Balohad shook his head, "I only know that the Forest of the Undead was transformed from the hair of Nakala, the god of the underworld. As for the part under the Forest of the Undead, I don't know."
After a pause, Balohard seemed to remember something, "My father once told me a story. It said that before Kara became the God of Hades, she was just an ordinary woman. Her husband had been with the army for many years. Rinakara is waiting by the river for her husband's return."
"Unfortunately, when his husband returned, their boat had an accident, and everyone on the boat was killed by the devil in the river. Nakara was unwilling to accept her husband's death, and exchanged his soul for darkness with the devil in the abyss The power killed the demon in the river and wanted to resurrect her husband. Unexpectedly, the demon was not completely dead. It destroyed Nakara's ritual and turned her husband into a monster."
"Could it be that this ghost willow tree is Nakara's husband?" Haozi frowned.
"Legends are legends after all, and things have been mythologized by later generations, but..." Chen Tao held the tree trunk tightly with his hands, "Do you feel that this story is somewhat similar to Qian Shu Hongde's story? ?”
"What do you mean?" Liang Shaokai asked.
Chen Tao looked at the bottomless abyss under him and said seriously: "I always feel that Qianshu Hongde will drive to Tatunaan, it is definitely not that simple. If it is true as he said, there are things in this world Some kind of mysterious entrance is connected to some unknown and strange forbidden place, so is it possible that there is more than one such entrance?"
"Whether it's the one on the island, the one below us, or even the unfathomable canyon in Heizigou, there is probably some connection between these places."
"My grandfather once told me that no matter what people do, there will always be a purpose. Things will not happen for no reason. Everything we have experienced and happened must not be accidental."
"You mean, these places are connected?" Haozi's eyes widened.
"I'm just guessing that when I was in Heizigou, I saw the altar in the Tatunaan Temple in a vision, and even these rat-headed statues. It's thousands of miles away from Heizigou, but there are so many of them. Something like that, do you think this could be a coincidence?”
"Perhaps Tatunaan and everything here are related to that mysterious and weird world and those so-called spirits. Even..." Chen Tao paused and said one of his own guess.
"Some of them also mastered the method of obtaining forbidden power! In the end, they became the gods of Tatunaan!"
Haozi stopped talking, Liang Shaokai's eyes flickered, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
Balohad lowered his head and clasped his hands tightly on the tree trunk.
Several people fell into a brief silence. Suddenly, Liang Shaokai screamed and his whole body suddenly fell. At the same time, a black shadow flashed aside from his body.
The space in the tree hole was narrow, and Liang Shaokai scratched at the inner wall with all his hands, but to no avail.
"Hurry and catch him!"
Fortunately, Barrohard at the bottom reacted in time and saw Liang Shaokai sliding down from above. He was holding on to the inner wall with his hands and feet and blocked Liang Shaokai with his shoulder.
The two of them fell for a long time before stopping. It was all thanks to Balohad's persistence, otherwise the two of them would have been directly smashed into the darkness below them.
"What's going on!" Chen Tao shouted from above.
"Ah, I just caught something!" Liang Shaokai gasped, the scene just now scared him so much.
"What?" Haozi asked.
"I don't know, I thought it was a solid wooden lump, but I didn't expect that thing to be alive!"
"What, alive?" Chen Tao's expression changed.
Before Chen Tao could finish speaking, a sound of hard objects rubbing together suddenly came from the dark and closed tree hole, followed immediately by a strange scream that made people numb all over.
Cluck cluck cluck...
In the silent tree hole, a sharp scream spread far away along the twisting roots.
"Holy crap, it's a zombie monkey!"
Chen Tao's hair was about to explode. He thought that all the zombie monkeys had hid in the deep hole below, but he didn't expect that there was another one here.
At this time, Tengzhi was evil. Chen Tao and the others were half-lying on the inner wall. They saw a black figure in front of them rushing towards a few people. When the flashlight illuminated it, a shriveled and ferocious face appeared in Chen Tao's sight. middle.
It's the undead zombie monkey.
Unable to use it in the tree hole, everyone was shocked to see that the zombie monkey had already rushed over.
When they escaped in a hurry, the guns of several people were thrown into the temple. There was no way to deal with such a strange and unreasonable thing.
Damn it, give it a try!
Chen Tao's lower back was pressed against the tree wall behind him, his feet tightened to prevent him from sliding down, and he held the engineer's shovel tightly in his hand.
boom!
The zombie monkey quickly pounced on it, and Chen Tao's shovel also slammed down hard in an instant.
Hearing a clang, Shovel Face slapped the zombie monkey's face and pushed it back.
But this shot did not cause any substantial damage. The zombie monkey screamed and bounced off the tree wall again, flying directly towards Chen Tao's face like a cannonball.
At this time, the diameter of the tree hole was less than one meter wide. Chen Tao had no choice but to fight the zombie monkey.
Chen Tao stuck his body tightly, waving the shovel like crazy, and smashed towards the zombie monkey again and again.
Haozi, Liang Shaokai and others below were willing to come up to help, but there was really no way to accommodate one more person in the tree hole. It would be more troublesome for two people to come up and squeeze together. In desperation, a few people could only use flashlights to shine at the eyes of the zombie monkey, but doing so was in vain.
Cack, cluck, cluck!
The zombie monkey screamed and scratched at Chen Tao with two sharp claws. Chen Tao couldn't dodge and was hit by the zombie monkey's claws on his face. In an instant, there was a blood mark, and a trace of blood seeped out from the wound. .
"My face, you bastard!" Chen Tao gritted his teeth and held on tightly to prevent the zombie monkey from moving forward. He was scratched with a bloody cut on his face. If it was deeper, his face and mouth would be scratched.
Blood beads dripped down Chen Tao's chin. Chen Tao had no time to pay attention to the wound. He could only hold on to the shovel to resist the attack of the zombie monkey.
squeak!
For some reason, the zombie monkey suddenly shouted, a look of fear appeared on its ferocious face, and it instantly withdrew its claws.
Chen Tao saw the opportunity and hit the zombie monkey's neck with a shovel. There was a crisp cracking sound. The zombie monkey's head was chopped off by Chen Tao, and it rolled to the side with a grunt. In the darkness below, only the headless body was still holding on to the engineer shovel in Chen Tao's hand.
"Get out of the way!" Chen Tao shouted down and threw the zombie monkey's body down with all his strength.
The headless body hit the inner wall a few times, its claws scratched at the tree wall, and fell into darkness.
There was a brief silence.
Suddenly, a strange noise came from the darkness below you, dense and fine, like countless nails rubbing against your ears, making your whole body tingle.
And the sound continues to grow.
"What is this sound?"
Everyone was stunned.
The sound came from the darkness beneath him. Chen Tao listened carefully, and his face suddenly turned pale.
"They're coming up! Let's go!" Chen Tao gasped, beckoning the three people below to continue going up.
Perhaps it was because of the previous zombie monkey that all the zombie monkeys in the black hole were alarmed.
"You're still crawling!" Liang Shaokai screamed strangely, "Oh, you don't want to die?"
"Do we have any choice?" Chen Tao didn't look back. He clasped his hands tightly on the tree wall and climbed up with all his strength.
I don’t know how many zombie monkeys are climbing up behind them. Once they are caught up, they will definitely die.
At this point, even if there is a mountain of swords and a sea of fire ahead, they still have to fight!
After crawling forward for a while, the slope of the tree hole began to soften, and there were gradually more forks.
Chen Tao and the others tried their best to dig into the thickest and widest tree holes. No one knew what they would encounter, and no one knew whether they would be blocked in these tree holes.
Every time, it’s a gamble!
Squeak, squeak, squeak!
A series of piercing screams came up from the darkness, and everyone broke out in a cold sweat.
They have tried their best, but the speed of the zombie monkey is unknown many times faster than them.
"Brother Chen Tao, go quickly!" Balohard at the bottom stopped, trying to stop the zombie monkeys that were about to rush up.
"It's useless, there are too many of them!" Although Chen Taoren was at the front, he also understood that no one could escape in a place like this.
Gritting his teeth, Chen Tao supported the tree wall and freed up one hand to explore his body for a long time.
"Oops! The bead is gone!"
Originally, Chen Tao wanted to use the power of the black orb to drive away the zombie monkeys, but he didn't know that the orb had already been used to save his life.
At this time, several zombie monkeys appeared behind them.
It’s over!
Cack, cluck, cluck!
Just a few strange screams were heard, and the two at the front had already rushed towards Balohad at the back.
"Leave me alone and leave!"
Balohad yelled, holding on to the tree wall with both hands, and kicked the zombie monkey that was charging hard with his feet.
"Commander Barlow!" Chen Tao wanted to help, but was unable to do anything. He was so anxious that he was sweating all over.
There was a burning pain on his face. The wound scratched by the zombie monkey was soaked with sweat, and the pain was disturbing.
From the time he was injured until now, he had no time to bandage the wound, and blood mixed with sweat beads were flowing on his face.
Chen Tao wiped the blood on his face, but a few drops of blood still dripped down.
At this time, the tree hole they were in was a bit steep, and Chen Tao's blood dripped down, all onto Balohard's head.
Squeak, squeak, squeak! ! !
Suddenly, the zombie monkeys underneath started to riot, letting out sharp and piercing screams, and the claws that were originally grabbing at Balohard were instantly withdrawn.
I thought that the zombie monkeys were going to rush up and tear them all into pieces, but in the surprised eyes of several people, the zombie monkeys at the front suddenly retreated, with a very frightened look on their withered faces, and screamed into the darkness below. Jump away.
"what happened!"
