Although the beasts that charged first were all knocked down, how could the already ferocious pack of beasts be intimidated by what had just happened?
Immediately after the first batch of beasts was knocked down, the second batch pounced and launched another attack on the sacrificial team. The sacrificial team, which quickly grasped the situation, had also entered a state of combat at this point, each grabbing the machetes they carried and engaging in a fierce battle with the frenzied pack of beasts.
Under the moonlight, the beasts with darker and brighter fur kept launching fierce attacks. But the members of the sacrificial team were not ordinary people either. They seemed to be battle-hardened, not only skillfully dodging the beasts' attacks but also inflicting fatal injuries on the huge beasts with powerful and heavy strikes.
The two sides fought fiercely under the pale moonlight, and soon the bitter and pungent fog was mixed with a strong smell of blood. When Yun Ge smelled it, he immediately felt a strong urge to vomit.
Therefore, after making sure that both sides' attention was fully focused on the battle, Yun Ge decided to jump down from the tree he was hiding in and leave the area as soon as possible.
This was not only because the unbearable smell was becoming increasingly strong, but also because Yun Ge felt that the battle between the nine people and the pack of beasts not far away was gradually getting out of control. As for why he felt it was getting out of control, Yun Ge couldn't say the exact reason. He just subconsciously thought that it was not advisable to stay here for long!
So Yun Ge hurriedly jumped down from the tree, planning to take advantage of the chaos to shake off the pack of beasts and the sacrificial team and continue on his way. But as soon as he jumped down, he just happened to come face to face with several beasts that were rushing over to join the hunt. Because Yun Ge's jump was too sudden, it also startled the beasts.
The beasts soon realized that the living creature in front of them was not a member of their own kind, and then they all growled and approached Yun Ge, who was sitting on the ground.
Seeing this, Yun Ge felt a sense of foreboding in his heart. He quickly retreated backward while sitting and at the same time raised his sickle with one hand, ready to fight to the death with the beasts in front of him, which had bared their teeth and were drooling with foul-smelling saliva.
What Yun Ge didn't expect was that after sniffing his smell several times, the beasts hesitated and stopped their approach. Then, they looked back and forth between the sacrificial team members in the distance and Yun Ge, seemingly falling into a dilemma of which side to attack first.
After hesitating for a while, the beasts finally roared and rushed past Yun Ge, pouncing on a sacrificial team member who had his back to them. At this moment, other beasts that had quietly approached from the dark also chose to ignore Yun Ge, without exception, selecting the nine sacrificial team members who were fighting desperately as their targets.
Seeing that the beasts rushing out from the dark forest around him did not attack him, Yun Ge finally let out a long breath and put down his arm holding the sickle. Because the situation just now was too dangerous,
Yun Ge's whole body was now soaked with cold sweat, and his body was shaking violently because the intense fear in his heart had not yet dissipated. Fortunately, Yun Ge had extremely strong mental resilience, which enabled him to quickly steady his nerves amidst the lingering fear.
Yun Ge stood up unsteadily, confirmed again that the nine people and the beasts fighting not far away did not notice him, and the beasts rushing out from the dark forest around him also ignored him and ran towards the battlefield, he immediately gritted his teeth, dragged his still weak legs, quickly crossed the battlefield not far away, and did his best to continue running towards the distance along the ribbons tied to the trees.
Finally, Yun Ge ran into a relatively open space in the forest along the ribbons tied to the tree trunks all the way. In the center of the open space, there was a wooden sacrificial platform.
The platform was wrapped with colorful ribbons and covered with a thick layer of flower petals. Among these petals, there were also various foods made of candy shards. These foods were obviously prepared as offerings for this sacrifice, and in the middle of these foods, that is, in the center of the platform, there stood a thick wooden stake abruptly.
Yun Ge immediately realized that this wooden stake should be the sacrificial platform for tying up live human sacrifices!
But where was Lily? Why was Lily gone?
Yun Ge was in a state of confusion and instinctively leaped onto the platform, calling Lily's name while searching for her traces among the thick petals piled on the large stake.
To Yun Ge's disappointment, he did not find Lily in the thick petals on the sacrificial platform, but found several ropes that had been roughly torn apart under the stake. It was evident that Lily had been snatched away by some beast with strange strength!
So, Yun Ge hurriedly jumped down from the platform and began to look for traces of the beast snatching Lily in the jungle under the platform. But to Yun Ge's surprise, except for the footprints he left around the sacrificial platform, he did not find any traces left by anyone or any beast. This led Yun Ge to have an even stranger thought, that is, Lily was not snatched away by a beast, but just disappeared into thin air!
Anxious, Yun Ge jumped onto the platform again and looked up at the night sky covered with thick fog. Because he thought that since Lily was not snatched away by some beast from the ground, it must be some flying beast that took her away from mid-air.
If that was the case, then the top of any tree in the forest could be the hiding place of the flying beast. How could he find out where Lily was? Thinking of this, Yun Ge couldn't help but fall into despair and helplessness.
At this moment, there was a sudden rustling sound from the forest not far from the platform. Then, several beasts crawled out from the fog-shrouded forest. When Yun Ge saw these beasts, his heart was instantly filled with a chill.
He quickly put away his feelings of despair and helplessness, drew his sickle again, and stared closely at these beasts. Then he found that they were the same beasts that had just happened to meet him when he jumped down from the tree.
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The beasts growled and slowly approached, but they seemed to be full of fear of Yun Ge, so they did not dare to launch an attack rashly. The two sides confronted each other for a while, and then Yun Ge heard a rustling sound coming from the distant forest. Yun Ge immediately realized that it was the sound of more beasts rushing towards him.
The beasts in front of him, which still did not dare to attack him, began to slowly move their feet and prepare to form a surrounding formation around him as soon as the rustling sound appeared. It seemed that they were preparing to attack Yun Ge together after more beasts came to support!
Yun Ge did not know why these beasts were so afraid of him, but he also knew that this was not the time to think about these things. What he needed to do now was to take advantage of the opportunity that the beasts in front of him did not dare to attack him rashly and escape immediately! Only by evading these beasts first could he have a chance to continue looking for Lily's whereabouts!
So, Yun Ge suddenly swung his sickle forward and let out a roar. As expected, the beasts in front of him were frightened by Yun Ge's sudden move and retreated in a panic. Seeing this, Yun Ge did not dare to hesitate. He decisively turned around and ran towards the depths of the forest while the beasts were retreating.
Yun Ge ran all the way, trying to evade the several beasts that were in hot pursuit, and as a result, he ran into an area with even heavier fog unconsciously. By this time, the distance that could be seen in front of Yun Ge was only one meter.
But even so, Yun Ge did not dare to slow down his running speed, for fear that if he was not careful, he would be knocked down by the ferocious beasts behind him.
The good news was that the vision of the beasts was severely disturbed, and after Yun Ge turned a few corners in the forest, he shook off the entanglement of the beasts. But the bad news was that Yun Ge also completely lost his way as a result.
However, the good news was that the beasts' vision was severely disrupted, to the point where Yun Ge managed to shake off their pursuit after a few turns in the forest. But the bad news was that Yun Ge had also completely lost his way.
Yet, Yun Ge still did not dare to be negligent. Because the beasts' sense of smell was beyond that of ordinary people, so even if they temporarily lost their target, they might track down Yun Ge based on his scent.
Yun Ge, who did not dare to slow down, was still running forward at a fast speed. As a result, while he was dodging and hiding around the trees in the forest, he suddenly felt a void under his feet, and then he lost control and fell into a deep pit.
This pit was very deep, but fortunately, the pit was not vertical, but a pit like a slope. So after falling into the deep pit, Yun Ge quickly adjusted his posture and then slid all the way to the bottom of the pit along the somewhat slippery pit passage.
The soil of the pit was unexpectedly soft and smooth, but suddenly falling into such a deep pit and rolling down all the way made Yun Ge feel that the framework of his body was on the verge of falling apart during the rolling. Yun Ge, who was battered and dizzy, did not know how long he had rolled before falling to the bottom of the pit.
At this time, Yun Ge was lying at the bottom of the pit, in so much pain that he could not move at all. Coupled with the fact that Yun Ge had been in a state of excitement and high tension all night, which caused a huge consumption of his energy, he lay down at the bottom of the pit and fainted as soon as he realized that he had finally escaped the pursuit of the beasts.
During his coma, Yun Ge had many strange dreams. He dreamed that he was running on a sunny prairie, running on a bustling street he had never seen before, and even running on hills covered with magma.
However, no matter in which lively and hot environment Yun Ge ran, he could not feel any warmth. The cold air hit his face, and the icy spikes were deeply branded into his marrow, making his body so cold that it was about to stiffen completely on the spot.
As another unimpeded cold current invaded Yun Ge's chest, he finally convulsed violently under the pressure of a strong sense of suffocation, and then opened his eyes wide.
At this time, Yun Ge found that he was lying in a pit covered with damp soil and a large amount of rhizome plants. Not far from the place where Yun Ge was curled up, there was also a thin stream like a thread.
Above the stream, there were densely hanging unknown creeping plants, which were covered with densely packed honeycomb-like fruits, making Yun Ge feel uncomfortable all over his body as soon as he saw them.
However, thanks to these honeycomb-like fruits that made Yun Ge's whole body stand up with goosebumps as soon as he saw them, there were actually some fireflies sporadically appearing here. It was also because of these fireflies that Yun Ge's vision quickly understood the general environment here after adapting to the light in the cave.
Yun Ge, who had finally recovered some strength, quickly checked his body. He was very lucky. Although he had sprained his right foot and had many bruises all over his body during the fall into the deep pit, these injuries were not fatal. As a result, after resting for a while longer, Yun Ge stood up again.
Yun Ge staggered to the place where he had fallen to check the place where he had fallen and tried to climb back to the ground along the original road. But soon Yun Ge found that the slope of the pit was steep, and the ground was as slippery as if it had been coated with oil, making it impossible for him to climb back to the ground in his injured state.
Therefore, Yun Ge had to temporarily give up the idea of climbing out of the deep pit along the original road and sat down again in a relatively dry place.
Yun Ge took out a piece of candy cracker bread that had been cut into small pieces for easy carrying from his backpack, spat out the blood residue left in his mouth, and then put the bread in his mouth and started chewing slowly. After eating several pieces of bread in a row,
Yun Ge finally had some strength and gradually got used to the soreness coming from his body from time to time. So, he got up again and walked to the side of the small stream that he wished he could block with a slap, and slowly washed his face with the cold stream water.
The underground stream water felt much colder than Yun Ge had imagined, but it was precisely because of this bone-chilling stream water that Yun Ge's spirit became much clearer after washing up. Yun Ge got up, looked up, and saw several fireflies flying around the honeycomb-like fruits above his head.
Yun Ge looked into the distance along the way, using the faint light reflected on the stream by the fireflies, and found that this small stream not only wound all the way into the darkness in the distance, but also the stream water was slowly moving towards the distance. This made Yun Ge immediately realize that if he followed the stream forward, he might also be able to find an exit to leave this cave.
Thinking of this, Yun Ge rested in place for a while, then picked up a relatively straight branch in the cave as a walking stick, and continued to walk deeper into the cave along the stream.
Because he was in a relatively closed environment, coupled with the fact that he had been unconscious for an unknown amount of time before, Yun Ge had no idea whether it was day or night.
He, who had lost his sense of time, had no idea how long he had been walking along this stream. He only knew that this cave was much deeper than he had imagined. Moreover, judging from the feeling of his feet while walking, the slippery cave path under his feet seemed to have become a slightly downward sloping slope, which made Yun Ge have to be more careful when passing by.
He was afraid that the slope of the cave path ahead would suddenly increase, causing him to lose his center of gravity and fall down all the way like when he came.
Although the slippery cave path ahead was still winding downward, this time there was no sudden appearance of a large slope that made people unable to stand firm. However, Yun Ge, who was in an unfamiliar environment, still did not dare to be careless.
Instead, he felt that after the slope under his feet increased, he hurriedly approached the wall of the cave path, so that he could grab the plants growing on the humid cave wall in time in case of an unexpected situation and falling, thus avoiding accidents.
