Yu Yueming looked in the direction where the smell was left and found that the trace extended to the depths of the woods.

He raised his front paws to point the direction: "There is also a smell of fruit here, and I'm going in that direction."

Lin Qiushuang nodded and shouted to the three people across the river: "Do you want to continue investigating? Or stay here?"

"Of course, follow!"

Qi Yuanze responded without hesitation. He was very powerful in action, and he directly assisted and jumped, and successfully landed more than ten centimeters from the river bank.

The other two waved their hands repeatedly, saying that they did not have the ability to jump over the river and refused to participate in the follow-up investigation.

Although you can also cross the river, the season in the dungeon is late autumn. If you get wet, you will definitely feel uncomfortable in the future. This is not their task, so you don’t have to force yourself to do it.

Lin Qiushuang reminded them a few words, walked to the front of the team to lead the team, and asked Yu Yueming to help her point her way beside her.

Lush plants and tangled branches hinder their passage. At this time, the mount knife I bought before finally came in handy. Lin Qiushuang, who could use the knife flexibly, opened the way ahead, and Qi Yuanze assisted the group, and the progress of the group was quite smooth.

After chasing the smell for a while, a new question emerged in Yu Yueming's heart - they are all so difficult now. If the smell of this fruit was really left by the missing person, then how did that person pass by?

Or, the smell of the fruit is real, but it is actually just picked up by animals like squirrels and was taken into the dense forest, so the smell is left?

He glanced at Lin Qiushuang, the veteran who was very reliable, and found that the other party did not show a hesitant and wavering expression, so he became more at ease and focused on leading the way.

They didn't go very far. In just a few minutes, the traces of the smell disappeared on a tree.

Yu Yueming circled the dead tree about three meters high, which looked very ordinary, and even the leaves fell, and no trace of the odor was found around.

"The smell disappeared from this tree," he told his companion, "I felt that the disgusting smell seemed to penetrate into this tree. It was not right, be careful."

At the same time, his previous guess was repeated in his mind: Could it be that a squirrel really hid the fruit in the tree hole, right?

"Has it penetrated into the trees?" Qi Yuanze rubbed his chin with his hands, and circled around the trees. He suddenly pulled out his hijab and cut it hard onto the bark!

Yu Yueming was stunned.

Although this is not the first time I have seen such a move, it is too reckless, right?!

Lin Qiushuang glanced at Qi Yuanze, her face calm, and she could not tell whether she agreed or opposed his actions.

"You don't seem to agree." Qi Yuanze smiled at him, "But can you see a flower when you continue to look at this tree? Since you think there is something strange among the trees, wouldn't it be enough to cut it open and take a look?"

This fallacy sounded inexplicably and was a bit convincing. Yu Yueming pressed down his ears in dissatisfaction.

"Besides, now there are seniors who have the best of their support. The opportunity is so rare, so you have to do whatever you want. This kind of opportunity to try and make mistakes is rare."

Qi Yuanze pulled out the shank embedded in the trunk. Unexpectedly, in the cracks left by the blade, there was a dark red, thick liquid slowly oozing out of the bark.

Yu Yueming's nose told him the answer first.

It's blood.

What seeps through the gaps in the tree trunk is not a liquid with similar appearance, but indeed fresh blood.

At this moment, his ears caught a subtle rustling sound.

He looked in the direction where the sound came, and saw the withered vines wrapped around the trunks squirming like snakes, rising like long whips—

Yu Yueming jumped up suddenly and bit the vine that was waving down with one mouthful!

This move was partly out of the idea of ​​rescuing his companions, but more because the murderous intent accumulated in his body finally reached a critical point.

Facing these vines that exuded a breath of disgust, he could not control his desire to attack. His fast swing of front paws pressed the vine tightly, bite them with his sharp teeth, and directly tore the vine into two pieces!

Lin Qiushuang also reacted quickly. She simply used a knife to cut the vines in front of her.

Qi Yuanze did not let down his companions' help. He blocked the attacking vines with a knife, retreated decisively, and escaped from the vines' attack range.

Yu Yueming seized the gap, rushed to the dead tree, and bit down hard at the knife edge on the trunk!

His fangs pressed down hard, and a warm current came from the pendant, giving him strength, allowing his fangs to penetrate deeply into the trunk. He bite suddenly, nailed his sharp teeth into the trunk, and then shook his head hard and teared off a large piece of bark!

It didn't feel like tearing wood, but rather like flesh and blood... Yu Yueming thought so much as he felt the touch from his fangs.

After succeeding with one blow, the fighting desire in his mind finally calmed down a little. He stopped fighting, seized the gaps and retreated to a safe distance with his companions.

The vines growing on the dead tree danced wildly, like a patient waving his arms in a violent pain. The three players slowly retreated and observed the situation carefully.

Suddenly, a strange, whispering sound like a dying man's moan, or a whispering sound in film and television works.

"It hurts so much...it hurts so much...ah..."

Yu Yueming turned his ears and clearly determined that the sound originated from the inside of the dead tree.

The wound on the trunk of the dead tree no longer drips blood, but cracks a gap again, and the white teeth exposed from the cracks, forming an ugly, twisted mouth.

At the same time, other parts on the trunk gradually twisted and wriggled, and eyes of different angles and sizes emerged on the trunk, turning around in disorder. Some of the barks twisted like flesh and blood, gradually forming the appearance of many organs such as ears, noses, fingers, toes, etc.

Qi Yuanze's face turned slightly pale and took a few steps back: "Don't you, no, the novice is so fierce?"

Yu Yueming originally thought that he would feel disgusted, but what was strange was that his mood was extremely calm. No, he couldn't say calm - to be precise, his body was about to move, longing to tear the alien in front of him.

Lin Qiushuang looks quite free and is in the mood to teach newbies: "It is a good thing to dare to investigate. But at least during this mission, I hope that if you take risks next time, at least you will tell me first."

Please don’t say “you”, there is only one person who is rash. Yu Yueming complained in his heart.

"So." Lin Qiushuang looked at the dead tree whose movements were gradually calming down and asked, "Are you the missing Ms. Wenle or Mr. Cui Chengjie?"

After her words fell, the eyes of many eyes on the dead tree looked at her in an instant.

"Yes, yes! I am, I am Choi Chengjie...you, who are you? Why, why do you know...my name?"

Lin Qiushuang still answered the other party's questions calmly.
Chapter completed!