I found a few sergeants who had studied the formation a bit and took a look. They all shook their heads and said there was no trace of the formation.
Shen Hao, who did not believe in evil, blew his energy towards the ancient boulder again, but there was still no reaction at all.
"Am I too sensitive?"
An hour later, the surrounding sky had darkened, and all the people who had dispersed were retracted. Apart from finding more and rarer poisons, they made no other new discoveries, nor did they discover the so-called source of plague. This result did not satisfy Shen Hao.
"Sir, there is a cliff about two miles north of here. I went to look at it. It seems that the bottom of the cliff is no longer as gloomy as here, and the terrain is as abrupt as before."
So coming here is actually the end of the range of this special place?
"Set up camp on the spot and strengthen vigilance."
"yes!"
Because the terrain around the boulder is now flat and there are few trees and it is relatively open. In addition, the ground is dry and not as dark as mud as before. The distribution of poison also avoided this open area, enough to keep the more than seventy people in Shen Hao's hands.
It's too late to go back anyway, so spending the night here should be easier to deal with than outside.
Hearing that camp was about to be set up, the few remaining ordinary sergeants quickly found mud and began to smear it on themselves, an inch thick, leaving only their eyes and nose exposed. This way they would not be afraid of poisonous insects, and with the addition of torches they could survive the night. It's just that after three consecutive days of mental stress, these ordinary sergeants are already very tired.
The rest of the monks need to be much calmer. They can rely on the Qi shield to resist the approach of the poisonous insects. However, those with lower cultivation levels have already lost some of their Qi. After thinking about it, they might as well save some Qi and don’t use it, and learn from this. Ordinary sergeants smear themselves with mud.
Make rice by burying the pot. Night is beginning to fall in the mountains, and you need to fill your stomach before those poisonous insects appear.
But things completely subverted everyone's expectations in the next moment.
"Is this... an earthquake?"
At about the same time, Shen Hao had just served his meal when he felt a slight vibration coming from the ground. The vibration continued and gradually became obvious, as if a horse was running up from the ground quickly.
Before Shen Hao could think about it, there was a sound like cracking rocks, and it turned out that it was the ground in the middle of the five huge rocks. At this time, a hole was slowly opening, like a mouth.
"Everyone stays away from this place and moves closer to support each other!"
Everyone was on full alert because it was so weird. How many people walked around on it during the day without noticing any clues, and then at night a hole suddenly opened? !
In addition, as the hole in the middle slowly expanded, an uneasy feeling suddenly began to haunt everyone.
"Buzz buzz..."
The subtle sound went from far to near, from bottom to top... and soon turned into bursts of roaring, and finally "spurted" out of the middle hole with a horrifying look in his eyes!
"Watch out! The bugs are coming!"
Shen Hao never thought that one day he would see the scene of a swarm of insects like a fountain, and the creepy discomfort made his whole body tense up, knowing that danger was coming.
"Come closer to me! Those with higher cultivation levels will help those with lower cultivation levels! Come on, get closer to me!" Shen Hao flicked one hand and threw out a Dharma disk. It was exactly the two Dharma dishes that had been stolen from the Wen family. One of the tools: the Five Elements type defensive disk.
Although it is only a five-element magic weapon, it is still of mid-grade quality. After activation, the coverage area reaches a radius of five feet, and the amount of energy consumed is completely within the tolerance of Shen Hao, who is at the second level of the God Gathering Realm.
"Those who have no cultivation level come in first!"
Among the advanced magic formations that have no cultivation base, the remaining positions will be given to those with lower cultivation bases, while those with higher cultivation bases will resist for a while.
The poisonous insects that spewed out looked like a gradually expanding colorful tornado under the light of the torch. There were countless types of colorful insects inside, but strangely they did not fight each other. After making a circle in mid-air, they all rushed towards the waiting crowd below.
"Crackling..."
It was like the sound of pebbles falling on the table, resounding densely on the shield of the defensive formation. The impact was not too strong, but the wisps of venom dripping from the shield were shocking.
This situation lasted until dawn the next day. And in the early hours of the morning, the bugs that had dispersed gathered back together and poured madly into the black hole in the middle of the boulder. When daybreak, the black hole closed up and there was nothing strange about it anymore.
Shen Hao put away the Dharma plate and realized that he was sweating. Even though his meridians were different from ordinary people, running a medium-grade magic weapon all night long still made him very strenuous and almost drained him dry. If it weren't for last night being too dangerous, Shen Hao wouldn't have shown the Dharma Disk, which was originally one of his trump cards.
"What's in that cave entrance?" Shen Hao frowned deeply. Now he finally understood why this seemingly unremarkable place was marked as a red dot on the map.
"Snapped!"
Shen Hao turned his head and saw a sergeant next to him slapped his neck, killing a small insect. It was an ordinary insect, the size of a bean, and it looked like an ordinary insect in the forest.
Shen Hao withdrew his gaze, and carefully walked to the middle of the five boulders again. The black hole under his feet was clearly the location of last night, but now there was no shaking at all when he stepped on it, and there was no difference when he stamped his feet, and there was no fluctuation in mana. Who would have thought that there is something hidden in these faces if they hadn’t seen it?
"Sir, why don't we dig this place up?"
"..." Shen Hao glanced at the person who said this, wondering if the other person was mentally abnormal. Dig? Who will deal with those bugs if they escape again?
After thinking for a while, Shen Hao simply broke camp and retreated!
Let's get out of here and get to a safe place first and then think about the long term. Moreover, this place is weird and it is definitely not something he can make the decision on his own. In addition, the source of the plague has not been settled yet.
Compared to how slow and cautious we were when we got up, the way back always seemed faster.
Two days later, Shen Hao and his party walked out of that strange place with several wounded people. Almost everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the forest full of life again instead of gloomy.
And there are many people already waiting here.
"Sir, you're finally out!" Wang Yiming wanted to go in and search several times, but in the end he waited patiently for two days. If Shen Hao and the others didn't come out today, he would really go into the mountain to look for someone.
"Well, take the wounded for treatment. Let's go back to Wanhekou first."
The group of people rushed back non-stop, but when they first arrived at the station at Wanhekou, something happened again: a sergeant died without any warning. Moreover, the corpse was covered with horrific black spots. It was obvious that this person died from the Black Spot Plague.
