At the beginning, I traveled through the wilderness, and I controlled the beasts to survive.

Thanks to the soldier ants, it would have been difficult for them to locate it without seeing the huge mushroom that covered the sky and sun in the mountains.

"The lower left corner... shows that teachers and students who go south and east will have a hard time locating the specific terrain. In addition, the bugs should not move outside the map. Otherwise, why would they bring a map..."

Lu Xiuning murmured to himself, "Of course, this possibility is not impossible. Let's first speculate in the direction with the highest probability."

"In this case, the insect man's activity range may be closer to the northwest." Lu Xiuning's finger moved all the way to the west.

The fingertips moved out of the range of the mountains and pointed to the northwest of the suspected swamp where the academy was located, a terrain that resembled a grassland or a forest.

"There are no font signs here, but just because there are no font signs, it may be the least dangerous place."

"There is no guarantee, I can only say that it is indeed possible." Lu Xiuning retracted his finger, looked at the people around him, and made a decision.

"There's no point in continuing to go forward. It's too dangerous. Let's go back first and explain the situation we encountered to Dean Wu before we make a decision."

"Okay." The other three nodded.

Han Ning turned his head, looked at Xiaohong lying next to him, waved to him, regardless of whether he understood it or not, and said, "Xiaohong, we are leaving. Let's see you again when we have a chance."

After discovering such a cave full of fire elements, he believed that he would come here often in the future. This was not the last time they would see each other.

Several people quickly packed their bags, led by Xiao Hong, and said goodbye to the queen ant in the cave before returning to the direction they came from.

Passing through the passage where the giant earthworm was, Silver Ripple carried several people and soul beasts on its back, flying all the way up, and soon arrived at the place where they fought the mushroom heads before.

They first took off, observed the surrounding environment, made marks, picked up the discarded items, confirmed the location, walked all the way, marked all the way, and finally returned to the foot of the mountain after a few hours.

…

The night is as dark as ink.

It was already late at night when Han Ning and others returned to the academy.

They identified themselves to the students on guard duty and returned to their dormitories to take a short rest.

We set off early yesterday morning and returned early this morning. It was only less than a day, but it felt like we had gone through three or four days, which was exhausting.

Back in the dormitory, Han Ning played with Yinyi and Egg Pancake for a while, then fell asleep.

The next morning, in the small conference room in Building A.

"...That's about it." The four of them, Han Ning, sat on chairs and told Dean Wu and the other teachers in front of them about yesterday's exploration.

"Dean Wu, I want to change the direction of exploration and go north of the west gate of the college." Lu Xiuning took a sip of tea and revealed his plan.

"What an unexpected experience..." Dean Wu looked at the tree spirits or wood demons in front of him in surprise and said,

"The west is the direction Yue Ming and his friends are exploring. They have just left for a day, and there should be signs along the way. If you want to catch up with them, it won't take too long."

"Originally, I wanted you to rest for a day before setting off, but considering that time is really tight, I can only work hard for everyone."

Dean Wu sighed lightly. It was obvious that he was very worried about the teachers and students going out to explore.

"Dean Wu, don't talk about that. We originally thought that the north was the direction with the highest probability of encountering bugs, but it turned out that our guess was wrong. It became clear that they are likely to be in danger, and we have to get there as soon as possible."

Lu Xiuning said, already standing up.

…

After replenishing supplies at the school, Han Ning walked straight to the west gate with three others without stopping.

Before all the explorers set off, they agreed to mark signs that everyone knew along the way, so that if someone from one party did not come back for a long time, they could find the other party based on the marks and carry out rescue.

The directions from the west to the northwest were in areas without any written marks on the map. The four of them decided to meet with Teacher Liu Yueming and the others first, and then consider exploring in a certain direction.

It was also the first time for Han Ning to go to Ximen.

Like other directions, outside the west gate, there is still an endless swamp.

Han Ning looked around and saw a branch about 100 meters away, with a circle tied with scattered strips of cloth. He suggested:

"Flying directly at a low altitude? Teacher Liu and the others have already walked the road here, which means there won't be much danger."

"Well, let Yinyi tie the soul beasts of the three of us at the bottom. If we are suddenly attacked by the soul beasts, they will be able to fight back in time and not hurt us." Lu Xiuning added.

"Okay, Yinyi, let's get started."

Han Ning touched Yinyi's cheek and smiled at it.

"Ling~"

Yinyi skillfully threw out the vines, tied the four humans and the egg cake in a circle, and hung them slightly below the body.

The other three tree spirits or demon trees are located below them, making it easier to counterattack at any time when encountering situations.

Yin Yi can now shoot out more than a dozen vines that are full of toughness and can be freely controlled in length. With more than 20 points of strength and stamina, it is not a problem to drag several people and several soul beasts.

In order to prevent flying too high and being attacked by distant soul beasts, Yin Yi only flew 10 meters above the ground.

A pair of emerald green leaves behind him were fluttering in the wind, carrying several people as they flew deep into the swamp.

Continuous streams of mud and waterweed passed below.

Han Ning carefully observed the situation on the ground and directed Yinyi to follow the branches or stone marks placed every 100-200 meters along the road.

The speed of taking the empty road is beyond imagination.

Soon, nearly a hundred kilometers passed by in a flash.

Ahead, the vegetation gradually grew lush, and a strange grassland covered with blood-red grass blades gradually appeared.

It's more like a "woods" than a prairie.

Every blade of grass here is at least 3 meters high, like a small tree, stretching across in front of them.

Under the grass, several withered insect corpses came into Han Ning's sight.

"If necessary, go down and take a look."

Han Ning signaled Yinyi to land in front of one of the insect corpses.

This is a large mantis about 1 meter tall with a light red body.

At this time, its insect body was exploded by an unknown force, and its mutilated body was scattered on the ground.

"It's a bit like the explosion effect of the Silver Thorn."

Han Ning glanced at the ground.

A faint fishy smell poured into the tip of the nose.

Immediately, his eyes narrowed.

Among the grass, I saw a few bright yellow bullet casings and a faint trace of blood.

Scarlet blood dots were scattered on the soil and grass blades, exuding a faint fishy smell.

"Blood? The bright red blood, does it belong to Teacher Liu and the others?" Lin Tianhe leaned down and got into the grass. He stretched out his fingers to touch some blood stains, put it to his nose and smelled it.

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