The monster grew angrier and angrier.

To be teased by a weak being was a strange shame for it, and it said that it would catch up with him and chop him into several pieces.

Outside the cave entrance, Li Mu dodged and retreated to the big guy's side, shouting to the crowd hiding in the distance, "All be careful, the big guy is coming!"

As soon as the words fell, there was a hissing sound, and a vicious-looking beast came out from inside the hole.

It found Li Mu at a glance, and realized that he was accompanied by a large, ugly man, with more people standing in the distance.

It sensed danger, a sensation that disturbed it, and erected its front, waving a pair of large oaks to terrorize its enemies.

Li Mu froze, carefully sizing up his opponent, cursing in his heart, "His grandmother, I thought it was some kind of monster, but it turned out to be a large Peppermint."

The big guy perked up and let out a wail, charging towards the Peeps with his arms wide open.

Li Mu was so angry that he cursed, "Big dummy, come back here!"

The large man simply ignored him; he wouldn't listen to anyone in this world except for Tsukini and his sister.

What's more, this crook knocked him out twice, and we're not only ugly, we're also quite vindictive.

Peppermint was furious, a tiny human who dared to take the initiative to challenge it, and said that he would strangle this ugly fellow to vent his hatred.

It rushed forward to meet the big man, and its two large oaks slashed down at him without mercy.

The big guy didn't dodge and stretched out his arms, catching the pair of big ao's with one hand amidst the crowd's gasps of surprise.

Immediately afterward, both feet kicked in and pushed the Peeps backward in knots.

This pipsqueak has a mind of its own, and it's getting nervous.

The power of its opponent terrified it, and it subconsciously arched its body, intending to use its gastropods to gut the large man.

This was really a good idea, the abdomen of the Fury Corpse Puppet was the most tender part of its entire body and its only lifeline.

And the belly foot of this pikey shrimp is as tough as a knife, sharp and incomparable, once it is hollowed out, the big man will inevitably be split in two by it.

In a moment of urgency, a figure dropped down from the air and landed right on Pipi's neck.

All the crowd heard was a click, and then, they saw the big, vicious guy, limp on the ground.

Little Brother Li made a move, one foot crushed the bone armor on its neck, and even the tendons and veins were also stepped on and broken, although that monster was not dead, it was unable to move any more.

The crowd came over and looked at the big guy and tsked.

Someone laughed, "Such a big shrimp nun, enough for a full meal for all of us."

The third aunt corrected, "It's not a shrimp nun, I'm not sure exactly what it is, but it's certainly not a shrimp nun."

The General looked around it for a while, and instructed his men, "Leave two of you behind to remove all the bone armor from its body, this is a good thing, not only is it light in weight, but it is also invulnerable to swords and spears, keep it to make a body of soft armor for all the heads of the families."

Someone agreed, and then wondered, "Master, the brothers don't have anything in their hands, so this can't be done!"

Li Mu ripped a few gastropods off of the Peeps and gave one to each of the Violet Star sisters, leaving one for himself.

Pointing to the remaining gastropod, he said to the martial artist, "This is sharper than a knife, use it!"

"Well, Master Li, you'll see!"

Several martial artists picked up the belly and feet and immediately began to split the bodies.

Li Mu said to the others, "There should be no danger inside, so without delay, let's go in now!"

The crowd responded in unison, holding their torches and getting into the hole one after the other.

The terrain gradually descended over a long distance, and after about twenty minutes of walking, someone ahead shouted, "Gentlemen of the house, there is a fork in the road!"

All of the pawnbrokers stepped forward, and a fork in the road did appear before them.

There were three of them in total, and there was no difference from their appearance, just like three giant beasts opening their black maws, waiting for their prey to come to them automatically.

Turning to the Third Aunt, the Handler asked, "What insight do you have, Third Sister?"

The Third Aunt looked for a moment and pointed to the passageway on the right, "Go this way!"

"Third sister, do you have any basis for this?"

"Look at the ground, there are footprints of that beast in the passage on the right, it just crawled out of there, it must be safe there."

"Third sister, can you be sure?" Shao Danzhou asked with some uneasiness.

He was scared just now, good guy, so big pippin, the whole body's scale armor is indigo, the pair of big ao cold light flashing, look at it is daunting.

Don't search for the treasure without result, in turn, put the life into, he has already lost a mouthful of small white teeth, don't want to lose this old life again.

The Third Aunt glanced at him and explained, "That beast crawled out of this passageway, which means that its lair is inside, imagine who would build a home in a dangerous place, so it should be safe there."

Lian Widow, who had been silent, said, "Third Aunt, just because the passage is safe doesn't mean that it will lead to the treasure hiding place, maybe it's only suitable for settling down and not for hiding treasure."

Without waiting for the Third Aunt's reply, Cross Mountain Wind said with certainty, "Xiao Lian is wrong, if that's its lair, it must be connected to the hidden treasure."

"Oh, why is Uncle Jo so sure?"

"Lian, how did that beast get here, do you think?"

Lian Ru Xi came to a realization and said hurriedly, "Uncle Zhao, you mean that someone has kept it in captivity here."

"That's right, if someone hadn't intentionally placed it here, not to mention this passageway it couldn't get in, let alone that grid barrier, what kind of creature would be able to get through it unharmed."

Everyone heard and understood, and Shao Danzhou said excitedly, "Brother Zhao, could it be a Gatekeeper Beast?"

"It must be the guardian beast, guys, what's here that's worth guarding?"

Treasure, it must be treasure, everyone got excited and clamored to hurry up and go treasure hunting.

The Handler willed his hand, and the brigade burrowed into the passageway on the far right and cautiously made their way inside.

Shao Danzhou muttered as he walked, "There won't be any more monsters in here, nephew Li, what do you think?"

Li Mu smiled and responded, "There are definitely no more that can move, as the saying goes, one mountain cannot tolerate two tigers, even if there were any monsters, they would have been eaten by it long ago."

The master of the handle agreed: "the nephew of the world is right, lying beside the couch, will not allow others to snore, like that kind of hegemony, will never allow another powerful existence, Danzhou do not have to worry, there will be no more monsters."

The crowd all put their hearts down and couldn't help but speed up their steps, intending to find the treasure hiding place as soon as possible.

Walking, walking, suddenly, another person ahead shouted, "Holy shit, how come it's a three-way intersection again?"

Li Mu and the others rushed over and realized that another three-way intersection had indeed appeared ahead.

The ground was covered with stones of various sizes, forming little pools of water, and nothing else, let alone tracks.

"Three people from each family, divide into three groups and go forward to explore the path!" Cross Mountain Wind immediately commanded.

"Slow!" Li Mu stopped him.

"Uncle Zhao, we must leave this sea before sunset tomorrow, otherwise, it will sink to the bottom of the sea together with this island, this method won't work, it's too delayed."

Lin Wan added, "And it's a waste of manpower, it's certain that there are two passages leading to the Deadlands, if we do this, we will lose two groups of pathfinders for nothing, adding up to twenty people, this method of taking people to fill in the roads is never a good idea."

The General nodded his head and said, "Mrs. Li is right, we have already lost more than a dozen people, if we continue to deplete our manpower, I'm afraid that even if we find the treasure, we won't have the labor to carry the treasure, this solution won't work, let's all think of another good plan!"

"I'll do it!" Sister Hong suddenly said, "I have a way to find the right route."

With that, he pulled out a bamboo tube from his pocket and poured a small red beetle into his hand.

"Auntie, lend me your weapon."

Weapons? Reimu froze, everyone hadn't brought anything in, all of them were barehanded, where did he get any weapons?

Sister Hong laughed, "It's clutched in your hand."

Li Mu glanced down, he was clutching a gastropod in his hand, dare people to ask for this.

He hurriedly handed over the gastropod, and Sister Red took it in her hand, and without much explanation, placed the red beetle on the gastropod.

The beetle crawls around on the gastropod and, finally, stands still.

Red Sister-in-law puckered her lips and hissed, and when the beetles heard the command, they immediately lifted their wings and flew towards the middle passage.

"Follow it!" Sister Hong chirped and took the lead in chasing after it.

The crowd didn't wait for the General's command and immediately followed her.

"Red Plume Armor, Mrs. Li, it didn't occur to me that Xiao Su would have such a good thing, it's unattainable!" Master Put said enviously.

Lin Wan smiled and didn't respond.

Li Mu asked curiously, "Master General, is this kind of small beetle rare?"

"Very rare, shi nephew, Nanyang descending art of ancient both, and then by martial arts to cover the sharpness, until the modern era, hot weapons rampant, so that the status of martial arts rivers and rivers, the ancient descending art and renewed the second spring."

"Really, isn't that good, the Descending Sect people promote the art of descending, it's kind of like reviving the tradition."

"Alas! That's true, but well, it also brought about the demise of the art of descending."

"Where does this come from, isn't it a renewed second life?"

"The main reason is still ours, each family went on a rampage to capture descending insects during that period, not hesitating to zephyr and fish, as a result, the descending insects are becoming less and less, and many varieties are heading towards extinction, like the Red Plume Beetle and other excellent descending insects, I'm afraid that I can't touch them anymore."

So that's how it is, Li Mu laughed, "Master General, you old man don't need to blame yourself, in fact, let me see which, over-capture is only one of the factors, but not the deciding factor."

"Oh, then tell me, nephew, what you think is the deciding factor."

"I think it's still the high degree of development of modern industry and agriculture, and the serious infringement of human beings on the natural environment, many creatures have lost their habitats, and naturally they can't survive and reproduce, which is the root cause of the demise of a large number of descending insects."

The family lords echoed, all agreeing that Li Mu's statement was closer to the truth.

Overcapture is only one reason, but not the root cause.

It is man's wanton destruction of the natural environment that is the root cause of the demise of animal populations.