Chapter 56: It just plays with wood

"Chief Luo, please restrain your grief. The top priority is to see if anyone is still alive. This area outside only looks like five or six hundred people. There might be survivors inside, and that Wood Puppet Strange might not have left yet!"

Xia Hong only stood for a while, and seeing some people in Luo Ge Camp had lost their reason and were rummaging through the minced corpses on the ground for their relatives, he hurriedly stepped forward and woke Luo Ming up.

It wasn't that he didn't give Luo Ming time to digest everything in front of him.

It was mainly because there were more important things now.

While speaking to Luo Ming, he pointed his hand solemnly toward the large wooden house at the very back.

When he came in just now, he had already noticed the five large wooden houses in the camp. Four had already collapsed, clearly beaten down by brute force from the outside, leaving only the one at the very back, which was still intact.

Hearing his words, Luo Ming also woke up instantly, gave Xia Hong a grateful look, immediately put away the sadness on his face, and shouted to the crowd who were still rummaging on the ground: "Get up, don't look for them first, go into the main house and see, there might be survivors there."

Luo Ge Camp had a total population of over 1,300. Although the minced corpses and broken limbs outside were terrifying, they were far from reaching this number.

The others reacted at this time, and some who hadn't found their relatives immediately showed hope and followed Luo Ming and Xia Hong, quickly approaching the main house.

The wooden house was very wide, with a side length of over fifty meters, and it could probably accommodate hundreds of people inside.

Xia Hong looked at the wooden house, turned his head to look around at the fifty-plus people behind him who had all gathered around, and his brows furrowed.

"Chief Luo, the situation inside is unknown, and that Wood Puppet Strange is extremely cunning. I think it's better not to go in with so many people. These three, you, me, the five of us will go in to check the situation first, and then notify others, how about it?"

While speaking, Xia Hong pointed to the three people following Luo Ming.

Luo Ming reacted immediately. That Wood Puppet Strange was good at disguising as others, so he nodded and said: "Shang Ping, Li Baihe, Xu Kang, you come with me, others wait outside first."

The three people Xia Hong pointed to were about the same age as Luo Ming, and they were exactly the three Earth-Digging Realm powerhouses Luo Ming brought out this trip.

The five approached the wooden house together. Although the main door of the wooden house was not closed, it was currently night, and everyone's vision was not very clear. They could only see through the weak campfire inside that the aisle was empty.

Luo Ming turned his head and signaled to Shang Ping and the three. The three didn't say a word and rushed to the front, stepping into the wooden house with one foot.

Entering the wooden house, Xia Hong immediately knew the internal structure.

The center of the wooden house was the main hall centered on the campfire, and the two sides were separated into small rooms with wooden boards.

The five had already arrived in the middle of the main hall. Seeing the weak campfire, they were all full of confusion. Shang Ping, who was walking at the very front, turned his head and spoke to Luo Ming:

"There are signs of fighting, but there is no smell of blood, and... no people?"

Coal stones were scattered around the campfire, and several chairs in the main hall were broken. There were very obvious signs of fighting on the ground, but how could there be no one, and not even a sound?

Could it be in the rooms on the side?

Realizing that this was the only possibility, Luo Ming's brows furrowed slightly.

It wasn't that he turned a blind eye to the small rooms on both sides of the wooden house. When he first entered the wooden house, he didn't suspect those small rooms.

Firstly, the tragic situation outside just now proved that the Wood Puppet Strange's killing method was extremely cruel. If there were really people in the small rooms, it would be impossible to be so quiet.

Secondly, the five of them were all Earth-Digging Realm powerhouses. At such a close distance, let alone five or six hundred people, even a mosquito, they could detect it.

Finally, these rooms were mostly open, and only a few were closed. Those rooms with open doors were very normal, with no corpses or smell of blood, so out of inertia, they naturally didn't suspect those closed rooms.

"Open it and see!"

After all, time is life, so Luo Ming didn't dare to hesitate too much, quickly pointed to the first room, and still let Shang Ping open it to see.

Shang Ping nodded and walked toward the first room with a tightly closed door.

"Don't go over, run!"

Just as he reached out to open the door, Xia Hong, who was beside Luo Ming, suddenly changed his expression and shouted loudly, stopping him.

Unlike Luo Ming and the four, from the moment he entered the wooden house, Xia Hong's attention had been on the small rooms on both sides.

Those small rooms indeed had open and closed doors. The rooms with open doors were very normal, and those that were closed indeed had no movement, but this was exactly the biggest abnormality.

There was no movement outside Luo Ge Camp, and there were two high mountains on top. Five or six hundred people couldn't all grow wings and fly away.

Xia Hong had just noticed that there were ten rooms separated on both sides, twenty in total, each about four or five meters wide, which could accommodate thirty or forty people at most. Only five rooms had open doors, and the other fifteen were all closed.

Fifteen rooms, thirty or forty people in each, just happened to correspond to five or six hundred people, and this was enough for Xia Hong to issue a warning.

When he shouted "run", he had already taken the lead and galloped toward the door. Although Luo Ming didn't react to the reason, Xia Hong's previous performance was enough for him to trust unconditionally.

"Shang Ping, retreat!"

He didn't hesitate either, shouted at Shang Ping, and followed Xia Hong with the other two Earth-Digging Realm powerhouses, retreating together.

Shang Ping, who was planning to search the room, also reacted extremely quickly, retreating rapidly and following Luo Ming.

It's just a pity that he was too close to the room.

Kuang...

The door he was about to open was suddenly hit by a huge force from inside and turned into fragments. A horizontal sword flew out from the wood chips, and the sharp blade cut through the air, slashing straight at Shang Ping, who was falling at the back.

Although Shang Ping was running toward the door, how could he not perceive it being so close? But he was facing away from the blade, and even if he wanted to turn around to resist, it was too late.

The sound of the blade coming from behind made a flash of despair cross Shang Ping's eyes.

Xiu... Qiang...

"Run!"

It was Li Baihe.

Li Baihe, who was following Luo Ming, pulled out a recurve bow from his back, aimed at the big knife, and shot an arrow. His archery was excellent, and he actually hit the blade light slashing at Shang Ping accurately.

Xia Hong was only two or three meters away from the wooden door at this time. Seeing Shang Ping saved, he breathed a sigh of relief. Looking up again, seeing Xia Chuan and the others outside were preparing to rush in, he shouted loudly: "Don't come in, all go out!"

Up to now, he didn't know what the situation inside the wooden house was. The more people who came in, the more troublesome it would be. What's more, they were only a few meters away from the door and were about to run out.

However, as if deliberately joking, Xia Hong's thoughts became a joke as the door of the wooden house merged with a loud bang.

When they came in just now, the main door of the wooden house had clearly disappeared.

But at this moment, the wooden house seemed to have come alive.

The door frames on both sides merged directly in front of Xia Hong.

"Wood Puppet Strange, it just plays with wood. This is troublesome!"

Suddenly remembering the name of the strange creature, Xia Hong's heart shook.

"This wooden house is made of Jin Lin trees, I can chop it open!"

Hearing Luo Ming's words from behind, Xia Hong felt relieved and hurriedly made room.

Luo Ming held a big knife and slashed at the closed door with one knife.

Kacha...

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