He directly brought a large piece to block the entrance. Unless it was a creature with intelligence, breaking it open by brute force would be impossible without paying a price!
However, the scene before them was far from reassuring.
Steel and stone were hard, but they couldn't withstand such abuse!
Besides this, the members of the small knife team also realized a more serious problem.
"There's a mother beast here. Once they form a scale and break out, we'll only be able to drive them away. They'll definitely come back later!"
A captain said in a deep voice. If this happened, it would mean their mission would be a complete failure, their seven days of effort wasted, and they might even lose their supplies!
The captain also made a decisive decision: "We can't let them break through the steel and stone. We have to go in and intercept them!"
"But Captain, wouldn't that mean a full-scale assault?"
"Then we'll launch the full-scale assault ahead of schedule! Prepare the supplies. This might be a tough battle!"
The captain said in a deep voice. Originally, their plan was to reduce their numbers gradually to the lowest point before launching the final assault. This way, not only would the risk be minimized, but the consumption would also be the lowest.
In addition to these two points, there was another most important point: they would have enough energy to guard against surprise attacks from the "black dots"!
But now they couldn't afford to think about that anymore. The arrow was on the string and had to be shot. They could only fight a swift battle!
However, before entering the second cave, the captain still asked, "By the way, where's Xiao Li?"
The big man shook his head. "He should have left before I came in, probably went to hunt exotic beasts again. But he should have heard me when I shouted earlier."
The captain's brows furrowed. It didn't take the big man much time to enter and discover the anomaly. He had originally wanted to ask if Li Chonglou had found anything unusual during his last entry, but now the person was nowhere to be seen.
Could it be that Xiao Li caused this?
A thought suddenly flashed through the captain's mind. However, he couldn't worry about it anymore. This mission had not only taken seven days but also considerable effort before that. They couldn't give up so easily!
The key point was that just one minute before they entered, everything around them was normal, with no signs of "black dots" appearing. This was the real reason they dared to take the risk.
Then, the few of them all rushed towards the small opening next to the steel and stone.
To open the steel and stone and let some of the exotic beasts out, they had to go in first and clear out the beasts near the steel and stone. Otherwise, if they all rushed out at once, no one could handle it.
Outside the cave.
Li Chonglou, who was lying in the grass, didn't see any unusual movements from the other side. Instead, he sensed someone quietly approaching him.
Although the other party had suppressed their movements to an extremely small degree, causing little difference from the rustling of grass or the blowing of the wind, Li Chonglou had already raised his vigilance to the highest level and noticed the other party immediately.
"Could it be that I've been discovered?"
Li Chonglou's heart skipped a beat, but he quickly dismissed the thought.
This was because the direction the approaching enemy chose was not the same as his own. This meant that this person was trying to find him!
After realizing this, Li Chonglou's eyes lit up. Wasn't this a perfect opportunity to get intelligence?
However, the other party's strength was still a question.
Last time, he had confidently followed two strangers without much pressure, but he had almost ended up dead. If it happened again this time, he might as well not bother with the martial world anymore.
"I need to find a way to test his strength."
Li Chonglou thought for a moment, glanced at the other side again, and finally decided to leave quietly. He wanted to go ahead and see if there were any exotic beasts. Even if there weren't, he had to find a good place to set up a trap to test the other party's strength.
"Where did that kid run off to? He wouldn't have gone to the rock beasts' territory, would he?"
The man chasing Li Chonglou, also known as Ah Wen in the previous conversation among the "black dots," cautiously scanned his surroundings with a gloomy look. He harbored strong killing intent towards Li Chonglou. Not only was it because if he couldn't find the person and disrupt the plan, he might face the captain's wrath,
but it was also because his boss had scolded him because of this!
In the team, he had always respected his boss the most, even more than his boss's boss, the captain. Therefore, he highly valued his boss's opinion of him.
This time, because of Li Chonglou, he was not only scolded but also given a death order. To Ah Wen, this was like his boss's distrust in him. Being distrusted by the person he respected the most was a negative emotion no less than having a father killer!
"He's just a mere level five trash! Am I afraid of not finding you?"
The more Ah Wen thought about it, the colder his eyes became. At this moment, he wished he could find Li Chonglou immediately and tear him apart, skin him, and dismember him!
However, he also had a worry in his heart: he was afraid that the person would run further ahead.
"In another kilometer, it's the rock beasts' territory. Those are level seven exotic beasts. That guy shouldn't be so stupid, right?"
Ah Wen wanted to tear him apart with his own hands, or at least bring back the corpse to report. If he really ran into the rock beasts' territory and died, it wouldn't be a good thing for him either.
However, he didn't know that Li Chonglou was indeed heading in that direction.
After moving forward another three hundred meters, Li Chonglou's field of vision suddenly widened.
"What is this?"
The scene before him changed drastically. The dense forest disappeared, replaced by a hilly mountainous area.
Under his feet was a steep slope, and the grass below was surprisingly short, seemingly no different from the outside. Trees had completely vanished, replaced by many rocks.
Li Chonglou was stunned for a moment, finding it hard to react to the stark contrast.
But soon he thought of an important problem: even though the terrain here offered such a wide field of vision, he still hadn't found a single exotic beast.
Moreover, this kind of terrain made it difficult to set up any traps. An overly open field of vision wasn't always a good thing.
"Forget it, I should go back. If I hurry, I should still make it."
Shaking his head, Li Chonglou was about to turn around when his eyes suddenly caught something amiss.
Wait, did something move just now?
His movements immediately stopped, and Li Chonglou stared intently ahead, observing every inch.
Suddenly, at the edge of his vision, a figure moved under the light, though not by much.
"Could it be an exotic beast?"
Li Chonglou's eyes suddenly lit up. He immediately concealed his presence completely and quickly moved towards the direction of the figure.
Time was a bit tight, so Li Chonglou could only use his internal energy.