Chapter 414: Foot Worms and Vines

In art class, the teacher once said.

The mystery of the "Mona Lisa's Smile" is that no matter from which angle you look at it, you will feel that the person in the painting is looking at you.

Later, Wu Xian discovered that this was not mysterious at all; the photos of big sisters in cosmetics advertisements on the street had the same effect.

But the old lady's portrait was different.

No matter from which angle Wu Xian looked, the eyes in the photo would follow him, rolling around; this portrait was alive, and the old lady was peeking at everyone through the photo.

Wu Xian felt his teeth ache slightly.

If he had thrown the corpse further away at the time, there wouldn't have been this trouble.

Now this old lady had treated the charred corpse as a Yin house; throwing Huang Huang Debiao's corpse away would be equivalent to a forced demolition...

"Grandma, come out and talk?"

"Auntie?"

"Sister?"

Wu Xian changed several titles, but the old lady had no intention of communicating with him.

He had many things to do and couldn't consume them all on the old lady, so he could only give up communicating with her for the time being.

The red-lipped female malevolent entity didn't make any small moves last night, and the old lady just wanted a home; currently, the summoned malevolent entities had no intention of hurting people, so letting the old lady stay in the cave might not be a bad thing.

He endured the disgust, ate the spider meat, and let others watch the old lady, holding the arm torch to enter the cave for exploration again.

In the dark cave.

Wu Xian stepped with light steps.

Compared to the previous few times, Wu Xian's mood was much more relaxed, even with a travel mentality; many bizarre monsters gave him the joy of seeing toys.

The change in mentality came from the change in strength.

The equipment Wu Xian carried could be considered an upgrade.

He carried six torches, all made by himself; although his craftsmanship was not as exquisite as Huang Huang Debiao's couple, Wu Xian had higher-quality fire oil, so the brightness and burning time of the torches were better than before.

Besides the torches, the "Fox Fire Lamp Technique" also gave Wu Xian confidence; even if he lost the torches, he wouldn't fall into darkness because of it.

More importantly, Fatty.

After being strengthened by Suan Ni Yu Hu, Fatty's strength and intelligence improved slightly; now it was no longer as stupid as before and could follow some of Wu Xian's simple instructions, without needing to rely on luck to cooperate like before.

The direction Wu Xian was advancing was the small cave where Xiong Gang was.

Xiong Gang didn't want to come over yesterday because he was worried about the exclusion of others, but this problem had been solved by Wu Xian, so there was no need to let Xiong Gang stay outside.

The strong Xiong Gang was a very valuable combat force; with him, Wu Xian's exploration would be much easier.

He brought six arm torches, three of which were prepared for Xiong Gang.

The path in the cave was different from yesterday, but Xiong Gang had said that the location of the small cave would not change, so as long as Wu Xian followed the direction, he should be able to find Xiong Gang.

Patter, patter...

Just after walking a distance, Wu Xian heard footsteps.

Along with the footsteps was heavy breathing; this combination of sounds made Wu Xian's heart palpitate subconsciously, and cold sweat broke out on his back.

When he first came to this Fudi, he had been chased and killed by the thing that made this sound, forming a small psychological shadow.

Wu Xian stood in place.

Waiting for the monster to find him.

As long as he killed this thing, he could dispel this psychological shadow.

The sound became more and more impatient, the breathing became tight, and Wu Xian's pressure became greater and greater, but he waited for a long time without seeing anything attacking; Wu Xian's expression gradually became weird.

He stood in place, carefully distinguished the sound, and then held the torch high, looking upward.

Only to find that above the cave, there were several human feet! These feet had no ankles, only soles and toes, and some small claws drilled out from the soles, manipulating the soles to pat the rock wall, imitating the sound of footsteps.

Where the ankles should have been, there was an insect's mouth, and every time the soles patted the rock wall, the mouth emitted a sound similar to breathing.

Wu Xian's mouth twitched.

Recalling the entire process of his panicked escape at the time, he hadn't been attacked by any monsters, nor had he seen any monsters, only seeing a shadow that flashed past when he looked back at the end.

That shadow might just have been the action of the feet retracting.

What scared him at that time was actually not the monster, but the unknown in the darkness.

Wu Xian held up the torch, burning the feet above the cave with flames; these feet fell down one by one, some looking like a rough man's, some white and red.

Fatty ate one in one bite, crunching it, with green juice seeping out of its mouth.

"These feet will be called foot worms; they should be part of the ecology of this underground cave."

Wu Xian looked at Fatty with disgust, sincerely hoping that these foot worms didn't have athlete's foot.

After solving the foot worms.

Wu Xian encountered a pile of weird plants on the road.

These plants looked like ordinary vines, crawling on the necessary path forward, on the ground, on the rock walls, and many vines hung down from above the cave; the bones in the vines indicated that these plants were not simple, and there might even be neurotoxins that could kill people.

Wu Xian thought about it and poked the torch into the vines.

Whoosh! The flames exploded!

The vines twisted in the flames, and in less than five minutes, all the vines were burned clean.

Actually, under normal circumstances, these vines were very troublesome; living plants were not so easy to ignite, and this patch of vines could be considered a high-level danger in the cave.

But in the cave environment, Wu Xian set fire to a large amount of combustible materials, with the blessing of the "Fire Huo De Xingjun," and just by lighting a fire, he burned all the plants.

This could only be considered bad luck for these plants.

Wu Xian obtained a Fire Huo De Xingjun statue and two sticks of Sui Incense.

He thought about it and let Fatty carry everything, preparing to worship the god together when he returned to the cave, which would save time and allow for better combination of abilities.

Then he crossed the crack, jumped down the low slope, and finally arrived at the small cave where Xiong Gang was. 【414

But to Wu Xian's surprise.

Xiong Gang was not in the small cave.

Compared to yesterday, there were quite a few changes here; the candles had burned halfway down, and the ashes left by the campfire on the ground were still warm to the touch, clearly indicating that Xiong had left not long ago.

Furthermore, there were bloodstains and signs of a struggle here, with the tracks disappearing into the entrance of a cave.

"There's no reason for Xiong Gang to light a campfire alone; he must have encountered other survivors."

"The two of them were attacked by a monster, and after a struggle, the monster dragged the other person away. Xiong Gang fled... no, looking at these tracks, it seems like Xiong Gang chased after them in this direction."

"Should I follow the tracks to take a look... this could be a trap."

Just as Wu Xian was hesitating, he suddenly heard the sound of a man's screams coming from the distance.

"Ahhh!"

The direction of the screams was consistent with the tracks, but it was not Xiong Gang's voice.

Wu Xian patted the tiger head.

"Let's go, let's take a look."

(End of Chapter)