Beauty and the Bodyguard

"This..." Lin Yi suddenly felt a little confused. If he couldn't do it, he could only pick a direction and look around.

At this moment, there was a burst of muffled thunder in the mid-air, and then dark clouds gathered and strong winds came. In the blink of an eye, countless rain pillars had been slapped down. Each one was as thick as a thumb, and it hit the face with pain. The heavy rain was coming at a moment's notice!

He was unfamiliar with the surrounding environment, and the heavy rain had suppressed visibility and perception to the lowest level. If he continued to act outside at this time, it would be like seeking death.

Even with Lin Yi's strength in the early stages of foundation building, he could only choose to find a place to take shelter at this time. After all, it was a thunderstorm. It came and went quickly, so it shouldn't waste too much time.

Lin Yi quickly jumped down from the top of the tree. He originally planned to find a dense canopy to take shelter from the rain, but by chance while walking, he accidentally caught a glimpse of a tree hole in the wide trunk.

After observing for a while and confirming that there was no powerful spirit beast aura, Lin Yi immediately stepped in. Compared with the violent storm outside, a dry and comfortable tree hole is obviously an irresistible temptation at this time, and Lin Yi is no exception.

Unexpectedly, the space inside the tree hole is quite large and empty. It is visually estimated to be about 20 square meters. There are no obvious signs of chiseling. It looks like it is a naturally formed tree hole.

After scanning around and seeing a pile of things in the corner, Lin Yi's eyes suddenly narrowed and his heart tightened.

That pile of things turned out to be a pile of bones! There are about four or five bodies in total. These are not the bones of some beasts, but the bones of real humans!

For a moment, it was terrifying.

It is not surprising that traces of humans appear in this tree hole. After all, this is the outskirts of the back mountain, and many practitioners come and go every year. However, the presence of human skeletons here, and there are as many as four or five piled together, is shocking. Got it!

Could it be that some practitioners killed each other and then piled the bodies here? Lin Yi couldn't help but feel doubtful.

Doubly wary of everything outside, Lin Yi scanned the bones carefully and found that each bone had huge sharp tooth marks on it. At this moment, the answer was ready to come out. These people did not die at the hands of humans, but became the food of a powerful spiritual beast!

This conclusion instantly scared Lin Yi into a cold sweat.

The reason why these people appeared here was probably to take shelter from the rain like him now, or simply to find a place to rest. But in the end, they all became the food of a powerful spiritual beast. What does this mean?

This means that Lin Yi has now followed in the footsteps of these people, and is very likely to have been targeted by the powerful spiritual beast hiding in the dark!

From beginning to end, this tree hole is not a safe haven, but a living trap, a trap that has caused many practitioners to die without a place to die!

The weak eat the strong! These four words flashed through Lin Yi's mind instantly. In the world outside the back mountain, there are various rules and regulations. People can live in peace with each other, and even between people and spiritual beasts. But here, all those rules None of them work at all.

There are only two identities here, either you are the predator or you are the prey.

Although he still didn't know what the spiritual beast looked like, Lin Yi knew that he had now become the opponent's prey, a prey that had fallen into the opponent's trap.

Without knowing the details of the opponent at all, if he continued to stay here, the final result would probably be to wait for death, so Lin Yi immediately made a choice, Thirty-Six Stratagems, was the best way to go! Even if you are really being targeted and cannot escape unscathed, you can at least choose to change the battlefield. There is no need to fight on the opponent's home court!

However, just when he was about to leave the tree hole, a long-lost voice suddenly sounded in his mind: "Chiji! Chiji!"

The Thunder Pig actually woke up at this time! Lin Yi paused, and the voice made him overjoyed. It would be much more reliable to find the Heart-Eating Exquisite Grass in the future!

However, the current situation is not good. It is not the time to release the Thunder Pig. It is better to wait until the crisis is out of the way.

However, before Lin Yi left the tree hole, the Thunder Pig screamed more urgently in his mind, as if there was something urgent!

Lin Yi's heart moved. To make the Thunder Pig so anxious, could there be some kind of treasure hidden in the tree hole?

After hesitating for a moment, Lin Yi finally decided to release the Sky Thunder Pig first to see what good things he could find here. After all, if he could wake up the Sky Thunder Pig from the coma, this treasure should not be anything ordinary. Taste.

And if he leaves now, even if Lin Yi wants to come back later, he may not be able to find this tree hole. It would be a pity if he misses the treasure so close at hand.

"Chiji! Chiji!" After Tianleizhu came out of the jade pendant space, he glanced at Lin Yi and then rushed to the pile of bones.

"You mean there are treasures in here?" Lin Yi was slightly startled.

Out of instinctive disgust, normal people would not want to take a second look at this pile of skeletons. Even a powerful early-stage foundation-building master like him would not want to turn over these bones at all. Stacking bones, never thought there would be something underneath.

"Chiji!" Thunder Pig nodded repeatedly.

Lin Yi didn't hesitate when he saw this, and immediately stepped forward to carefully observe the pile of bones. As expected, there was a black bag hidden under the bones. The size is not big, about the same size as a shoe box.

When he opened the bag and took a look, there was actually a bag of blood-red gravel-like objects inside. There was an indescribable and strange aura. Lin Yi had never seen anything like this before. He immediately turned around and asked Tian Lei Zhu, "What is this?"

Sky Thunder Pig shook his head, dipped a little dark tree dust on the corner with his hoof, and wrote on the ground: "I don't know what it is, but I was attracted by the smell of this bag and woke up. It should be a kind of stuff." A very rare treasure."

"Oh? It's really interesting to say that..." At this moment, Lin Yi was in a critical situation, so he simply stopped thinking about it and immediately put the bag of things into the space of the jade pendant.

If nothing unexpected happened, this bag of things should be the trophies of the pile of corpses on the ground. Perhaps it was a treasure that they had spent countless efforts and hard work on, but unexpectedly they died in this tree hole trap on the way back. .

Thinking of this, Lin Yi couldn't help but feel alarmed. If he continued to linger here, he might follow in the footsteps of these people.

However, just as he was about to leave, the jade pendant suddenly started to sound warnings repeatedly. The Thunder Pig chirped in panic and hid behind him. Lin Yi turned around and saw a suffocating figure at the entrance of the tree hole.