The item information on the sign clearly showed that it had been put up by someone from Lost City. So why didn't this uncle know about it?
Had another team put it up? Or had it been one of the uncle's missing teammates?
Right, the sign itself was strange. It was already in the outer region of the primeval forest, which meant that whoever had put up the sign was about to leave the mountains.
That didn't fit the dungeon's premise.
The Spirit Realm's introduction clearly stated that the people in the city were trapped, and those who entered the mountains to explore had encountered a major crisis. Logically speaking, they shouldn't have been able to leave the mountains so quickly. Otherwise, this setting would be utterly pointless.
As Zhang Yuanqing pondered, he continued speaking. "You said earlier that a human face grew out of a tree. It belonged to your missing teammate, right? What happened after that?"
The middle-aged man answered, "We were all terrified. We'd never encountered anything like that before. In the end, the captain suggested chopping down the tree to see what was going on."
Wasn't that just courting death? Zhang Yuanqing grumbled inwardly. Sure enough, the middle-aged man said with a fearful expression:
"Then something happened. The moment the captain struck the tree with his axe, blood began flowing from the trunk, just like a person bleeding. That face suddenly opened its eyes and cried out in pain. The voice was so miserable and terrifying that I still can't forget it.
"The captain was terrified too and didn't dare chop again. Just when we were at a loss, the teammate inside the tree suddenly glared at us with venomous hatred and shouted, 'I'll eat you all! I'll eat you all!'
"Then the trees around us