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Chapter 334: Mountain Belly
"This is it." The merman leader held the stone slab in his hand, and after repeatedly checking it, he finally confirmed the location of the cave.

Qin Ziwen and his group were located on the top of the middle section of this underwater mountain range, with a large hole with a diameter of five meters right below them.

"I haven't come to the wrong place. This is the location written on it." The merman leader held the stone slab, walked around the area, and finally confirmed the location of the large hole beneath his feet.

"Should we go down from here?" Qin Ziwen squatted down and put his hand into the cave. The large hole under his feet was as dark as the other caves around it. In this already dim seabed, it was pitch black inside.

After confirming the situation once again, the merman leader jumped down without hesitation.

Before Qin Ziwen could even stop him, the merman leader had already fallen into the pit.

After a long while, the voice of the merman leader came from deep within the cave, "Qin, it's safe down there."

Qin Ziwen rolled his eyes. Could someone just go down into this kind of terrain without checking it several times first? What if it's wider at the top and narrower at the bottom, and someone gets stuck inside?

Mogu glanced at Qin Ziwen, "Master, I'll go first."

Qin Ziwen nodded slowly. "Be careful."

Mogu was large and strong, but fortunately the cave was also quite wide. It tucked its arms in and slowly sank down.

With the two fishmen beside him diving into the water, Qin Ziwen was left alone in the gloomy seabed.

All that could be heard was the sound of the ocean currents rushing over the mountains.

From a cave behind, a slender black shadow slowly emerged. It seemed to have noticed Qin Ziwen not far away. After crouching around for a while, it slowly approached from behind.

Suddenly, they attacked from behind.

Qin Ziwen, who had his back to it, swayed as if he had eyes in the back of his head, and in the instant he dodged, he reached out his fingers to grab the other party.

Long, slender fingers gripped its body, the smooth, elastic skin brushing against their fingertips.

The ferocious eel twisted its head and opened its mouthful of fangs to bite Qin Ziwen's head.

"Bang!!!"

The water flowed away, and the eel was stunned, its head spinning from the punch that hit it right in the face.

"Pfft!"

While it was dazed, Qin Ziwen used his foot to hook the spear next to him and thrust it into the eel's head, impaling the more than four-meter-long tiger-striped eel on the spearhead.

Qin Ziwen sensed it coming out just now through the changes in the water flow. The caves in this underwater mountain range are rich in species. In addition to many strangely shaped fish, there are also many sea snakes and eels.

These caves are the perfect hiding places for them.

To prevent attracting more sea monsters, Qin Ziwen pulled out his spear and threw the corpse far away.

The eel was slowly tossed into the sea and sank to the bottom, the blood oozing from its wound slowly spreading outwards.

Meanwhile, in the distant sea, a huge black shadow was slowly swimming. Suddenly, it seemed to smell something and turned around.

After that little incident, no other sea monsters have come to bother us for the time being.

Qin Ziwen took out another Deep Sea Oxygen from his pocket and put it in his mouth.

Feeling the continuous flow of oxygen from his lungs, Qin Ziwen felt that the advantage of deep-sea oxygen over white jade coral was that deep-sea oxygen didn't require him to keep something in his mouth, so his mouth wasn't as sore, and he could still open his mouth to speak.

Although the sound of speaking in the sea becomes muffled and distorted, Mogu is not an ordinary person. Its five senses are highly sensitive, and its hearing is far superior to that of ordinary people.

Suddenly, a noise came from the cave at their feet, and a stream of water carrying a huge black shadow quickly submerged upwards.

Mogu poked his head out and said, "Master, you can go down. This path is safe and leads directly to the mountainside."

With Mogu showing the way, Qin Ziwen finally felt relieved.

Following Mogu into the cave, after diving less than a meter underwater, all the light around them was completely swallowed up, and they were plunged into complete darkness, unable to see their own hands in front of their faces.

Fortunately, he can still sense airflow.

As he and Mogu continued to descend, the surrounding seawater surged and swept past the walls, forming a blurry trail in his perception. Several minutes later, his feet sank.

A faint light appeared before their eyes, and the merman leader held a luminous pearl in his hands, illuminating the surrounding scenery.

After taking in his surroundings, Qin Ziwen's pupils contracted instinctively.

The environment here is spectacular.

Deep within the mountains, there is a huge cave that extends from front to back, leading to both sides, like a cave carved out of the mountain wall.

The inner walls of the cave are covered with many uneven patterns, which are quite regular.

The air was filled with a putrid, foul odor.

Qin Ziwen looked at the cave next to him, stretched out his finger and rubbed it against the fibrous stone wall. It was hard, but it didn't feel like pure stone.

These textures were not random, but arranged in a pattern he could not understand.

There are several holes at intervals on the surrounding rock walls, and it is unknown where they lead.

The merman leader took out another luminous pearl from his pocket, placed it on the ground, and then floated up, using a knife to carve marks on the surrounding walls.

“Let’s go over there,” the merman leader pointed behind him.

Qin Ziwen and the others followed behind.

He initially thought there were no creatures inside the mountain, but he soon realized he was wrong.

After walking for a while, the inner wall of the mountain ahead was covered with countless white insects.

These white worms, about the size of a watermelon, are pure white and cling to the abdominal wall.

Qin Ziwen offered his insight.
[Common·Scavengers:☆☆☆☆☆]

Good news, it's just an ordinary sea creature.

Bad news, there were too many of them. At a glance, the entire abdominal wall in front of him was covered by these things. Illuminated by the light of the luminous pearl, these insects began to wriggle uneasily. In an instant, it was as if the mountain wall had come to life, making Qin Ziwen's scalp tingle.

Moreover, these things are developed too well. Qin Ziwen used his Insight skill, and out of ten, seven or eight were five-star.

This indicates that the environment here is very suitable for their survival.

The merfolk leader said, "It is recorded on the stone tablet that they will not attack living creatures as long as they are not touched."

So the three of them floated on the water and swam slowly forward from the middle of the mountain.

As he passed by, Qin Ziwen heard a dense rustling sound.

As the saying goes, "many ants can kill an elephant," and these creatures are much larger than ants.

A carrion beetle was suddenly pushed aside by its companions and almost fell off the ceiling. Fortunately, its sharp mandibles held on tightly, and its abdomen was facing Qin Ziwen, its dense claws wriggling incessantly.

Qin Ziwen lowered his head and stepped aside.

This thing reminded him of horseshoe crabs.

These carrion beetles resemble horseshoe crabs that have become albino, lost their tails, and had their claws double in length.

After swimming for more than half an hour, the surrounding scenery gradually changed, and finally, it was no longer a dense mass of carrion worms.

Only then did they realize that the cave walls ahead were much wider than before, partly because of the carrion worms.

At this point, the width of the cave walls on both sides was almost twice the width of the path they had descended.

However, the surrounding environment seemed abnormal. The stone walls were embedded with a large number of sac-like clumps of rock, and the number of holes had become more dense, and the width of the holes had also become much smaller. Qin Ziwen's trypophobia was about to flare up.

Just then, a familiar head slowly emerged from a hollow ahead—it was the Silver Bobbit Worm that had been seen on the surface of the mountain range before.

However, this silver Bobbit worm was almost the width of a normal adult male.
(End of this chapter)