Starting Off Survival With A Small Treehouse-Chapter 819 - 500: Ruins? City?

"It certainly looks like it," Zeng Tao glanced around again, then lay down on the ground and shouted, "But... how can we get back? This place is too big..."

After being swallowed by the ground, they soon fainted from suffocation, buried deep in the soil.

Back then, the earth was like a man-eating swamp, no amount of strength was useful.

When they woke up, they were already in this underground space.

This underground space was vast, over twenty meters high, roughly the height of six or seven floors, and the ceiling and walls in all directions were wrapped entirely in giant stone slabs.

It was obviously a man-made space excavated and built underground.

And the things in the entire space were somewhat shocking.

Here seemed like a...

Miniature city.

The layout of these buildings seemed to depict in front of their eyes the city of an ancient civilization.

The low stone buildings appeared to be the houses of ancient residents. Each one looked incredibly exquisite, showing how painstakingly its creators worked.

Even though these structures showed slight wear from the flow of time and were covered in thick dust, they still couldn’t resist visual astonishment.

The most striking building was at the very center of the space.

It was a stone palace.

Indeed, not a stone castle, but a palace, as if sculpted out of stone, a magnificent palace.

The highest point of the palace was only three stories, but it reached the top of the space, indicating that each floor was at least six or seven meters high.

Against the backdrop of the surrounding low buildings, the central palace looked incredibly grand, especially with its height reaching the ceiling, creating a very striking visual effect.

"What do you think this place is?" Zeng Tao sat up, looking at the palace in the middle, "An underground city? But these buildings clearly haven’t been used for a long time, they’re all dusty..."

The two were proceeding towards the palace, having been further away from it earlier.

On the way, they entered many low stone houses, but unfortunately, the interiors of these stone houses were all empty.

Nothing but thick dust on the ground.

Even the walls were bare stone slabs, with no trace of decoration.

To put it plainly, they were like unfinished, undecorated shell apartments.

It seemed like these houses had never been used by anyone right from when they were created.

"I don’t know," Jin Yue shook her head, "Maybe, it’s like the underground city we encountered before?"

"... That’s too different," Zeng Tao stood up, "I’d say, maybe this is the underground world Xu Xin and the others went to... Are we on an expedition to explore the underground world too?"

"Not sure, but perhaps the palace in the middle will give us the answer," Jin Yue said, looking at the palace.

"Then let’s not rest, Qin Fu might also be here, we... huh?" Zeng Tao was about to say let’s go, when suddenly her eyes widened slightly, then she frowned, "Hey, did you... hear something?"

"I did. Over there," Jin Yue pointed diagonally upwards, her expression becoming slightly tense, "Also, the ground is shaking slightly..."

It’s more than just a slight tremor.

After Jin Yue finished speaking, the tremor on the ground grew stronger.

"Something’s coming!" Zeng Tao looked towards where they had just awakened, the place they had moved away from, "Just above where we were... ah!"

"Crack!"

"Boom!!!"

At the moment Zeng Tao pointed, the ceiling above exploded suddenly!

Stone pieces flew!

Following that, a gigantic insect with a gray-white body and rings of blood patterns burst through the stone slab from above!

"This this...!" Zeng Tao’s eyes widened, her mouth agape.

"...Mutated giant insect!" Jin Yue was also shocked.

But before they could react, without the slightest pause, the giant insect opened its gaping maw and charged towards the ground!

"Crack!"

"Boom!!!"

Instantly, a cloud of dust rolled!

In the thick dust, the giant insect followed the path it had bitten out and burrowed further.

Then it disappeared within seconds.

"...What just happened?" Zeng Tao was dumbfounded, "Huh? Hey? Hmm?"

"This..." Jin Yue couldn’t make sense of it, "I’ll go back to check..."

She hadn’t finished speaking when suddenly, the sound of insect cries came from the hole above!

Louder and louder!

Then, countless flying insects swarmed out from it, along with innumerable crawling insects falling directly to the ground!

Countless black dots frantically streamed out from the hole above, quickly occupying a corner of the entire underground space!

"...What the hell is going on!!"