They had left in such a hurry that day that Tian Buyi and Zhang Xiaofan hadn't carefully checked whether the fire in the Black Forest had been completely extinguished. But both of them believed it hadn't been put out entirely. Now that they had returned, they saw a vast stretch of scorched land, and a foul stench kept creeping into their noses. Big Yellow was already sneezing nonstop, shaking his head as he walked, looking terribly uncomfortable.
They had no idea what had finally put out the great fire in the Black Forest.
Looking at the charred stumps, Luo Yunji covered his nose and glanced around, hoping to find the trail marker soon so they could leave.
Some of the surviving monsters in the Black Forest caught the scent of people and came leaping out one after another. Little Gray dealt with every one of them with a single swing of his mace.
That made things much easier for Tian Buyi and the others.
After walking for who knew how long, they seemed to have reached the depths of the Black Forest. The fire that day hadn't reached this area, and a dense mass of black trees appeared before them once more.
Luo Yunji had sharp eyes. He spotted vines writhing on their own around the roots of some of the black trees and realized that the trees deeper in the forest were strange.
He saw pitted holes in the ground nearby, which looked like tree pits. Just as Luo Yunji was about to call out a warning, Little Gray suddenly let out an astonished, furious series of squeaks.
The three of them looked over and saw that several branches had wrapped around the Wolf-Tooth Mace in Little Gray's hands. The branches were locked in a tug-of-war with him.
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