Falling into the Abyss

"Impossible!"

Meng Chao stood dumbfounded as he watched more than a dozen Ultra-High Voltage Transmission Towers come swaying toward them.

He clearly remembered that every Ultra-High Voltage Transmission Tower covered by the green tide, dragged up from the ground by vines, had been destroyed by remote bombardment.

Those steel-and-iron frames had all melted down and been kneaded back into shapeless masses, becoming inseparable heaps of scrap metal.

How could they still be completely intact?

And how could Ultra-High Voltage Transmission Towers over two hundred meters tall, controlled by vines and branches and moving like many-legged insects with such a terrifying spectacle, neither touch the landmines and Anti-Monster Grenades the exploration team had planted along the way nor be detected by them?

They had released a "Peregrine Falcon" above the jungle at regular intervals, after all, serving as aerial scouts and signal relay stations!

Countless questions churned across Meng Chao's cerebral cortex.

But the situation was urgent, leaving him no time to think. Seven or eight vines tipped with Polymorphous Stinkhorns, like demon claws stretched out by fiends, sprang from the grass again and shot toward him like lightning.

Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish!

Meng Chao reacted instinctively. Ghost Blade trailed its chain as it whirled around him, weaving an impenetrable translucent net of blades that sliced the vines and ghost claws into scattered fragments.

Yet the instant the severed vines hit the ground, the green tide covering them became active. It wriggled toward itself, then, like Bloodpetal Flowers, shot out countless green threads that entwined and reconnected the vines.

"What powerful cellular activity!"

Meng Chao snorted. As Spiritual Energy surged, Golden Tooth Blood Soul Blade released a blade-flame dozens of meters long and swept across the wildly writhing vines with the force of an army-sweeping charge.

Wherever the pale golden Spirit