CHAPTER 109: CHAPTER 72 NEW WORLD [FLOURISHING GROWTH] (6K)_3

The remaining two small tunnels were only half a meter high; people would have to crawl through them.

Zhang Feng immediately dismissed these two small ones, as well as the sideways one.

Because if you really ran into something in there, it would truly be a narrow escape.

Meanwhile, the strong man, along with Brother Liu and two others, were also inspecting those two-meter-high tunnels.

The small tunnels were out of the question.

They didn’t want to squeeze in either.

Clatter—

A few minutes passed, but after four main paths had stones thrown into them, there was no response.

Everyone regrouped, still clueless.

Because none of these tunnels had any wind, and they were eerily quiet.

Of course, having wind or not couldn’t fully determine if there was an exit.

"Which tunnel should we start with first?" the strong man asked everyone.

No one had any suggestions.

Zhang Feng casually pointed, "How about starting with the first one on the left?"

"The left one?"

"Is it that one?"

"Why choose this one?"

Everyone looked around, wondering a lot.

Then, as there were no better suggestions, they followed Zhang Feng’s casual pointing and started exploring the first tunnel.

Rustle—

Slowly entering from the entrance, everyone shuffled sideways in a line.

With the strong man leading the way in front and Brother Liu holding the light second.

Zhang Feng, having a knife and appearing sturdier than the others, went third.

Behind was Old Xing in the middle, the girl behind him, and the last few people.

Thud thud—

At the moment, the tunnel was accompanied only by their footsteps, slowly probing forward.

There were no rats or anything in the tunnel, but there were some small bones that looked like they could belong to rats.

On the ground, there were also some biological sheddings, but it was unclear which species they were from.

"What kind of animal is this, a snake?" someone picked it up, took a look, and handed it to the girl.

The girl had a lot of research on animals.

But as she looked under the light for a while, she shook her head, "I don’t know either; I’ve never seen it."

Her words made everyone feel something was amiss.

Zhang Feng also picked up a piece of shedding to inspect, but found nothing in decades of memory.

"Be careful."

That was all there was to say.

Fortunately, half an hour later, they reached the end, where there were no monsters, just a dead end.

But there were claw marks of some beast on many places on the walls.

"We’re at the end." Zhang Feng saw they reached the end, so he suggested going back.

No one said much.

In less than half an hour.

They were back on the original path.

Perhaps having had one tunnel experience, this time Old Xing was the first to speak, pointing to the second one on the left.

Keep going.

Zhang Feng remained in the third position.

But unlike the others who were cautiously scrutinizing back and forth,

Zhang Feng’s gaze remained focused on the wrists of his arms.

Another ten minutes or so passed.

The muscles at the wrists began to twitch slowly.

In just over an hour, Zhang Feng had unlocked two meridians of the Demon Subduing Fist.

But Zhang Feng didn’t choose to practice resonance; instead, he looked again at the two channels in his palms.

Continue to unlock, but still couldn’t resonate.

Because food was insufficient now, unable to replenish the constitution’s consumption.

Moreover, if they resonated, power would be depleted, like after a workout.

Zhang Feng didn’t want to encounter ’any burrow creatures’ when ’exhausted.’

But now that it’s unlocked, Zhang Feng could perform an ’overclocking’ strike.

Resonance would make overclocking permanent and stable.

’Now that the two wrist channels are open and I have a knife,

plus a constitution close to 15, even if a leopard jumped out of the cave, I could slash it with one stroke.’

Almost eighty years of martial arts experience gave Zhang Feng great confidence in himself.

Of course, Zhang Feng also considered that he might be slashed by a leopard.

Well, if he gets slashed, he gets slashed; at worst, he’ll just have to restart, couldn’t do much else.

’Five days’ time wasn’t enough to increase power, so it’ll have to do for now.’

Zhang Feng thought to himself, using the optimal method to enhance his current physical strength.

But just then, clatter—

There was a sudden sound of rubble ahead in the tunnel.

"Be careful..." The leading strong man instinctively bent down, holding his machete in front of his chest.

"Light it up." Now fourth in line, Brother Liu asked someone to shine the flashlight ahead.

As this person shone the light forward, about fifty meters ahead at the dim tunnel corner, there was a faint shadow.

"What is that?"

"Is it a wild beast?"

"By the shadow, it looks like a person?"

"A person? Could it be... a ghost?"

In such a dark, narrow environment, the appearance of this shadow gave everyone chills.

Two looked back at the way they came, while someone else looked up, fearing something creepy might suddenly appear.

"Should we head back?" Old Xing, in the middle, suggested everyone go back at this moment.

"Go back..." Several others echoed.

"Let’s take a look first." Brother Liu was rather calm.

But before they could respond,

"Squeak!"

The shadow suddenly darted out.

It was about one and a half meters long, but walked upright like a human.

Its size resembled a skinnier gorilla, yet its head looked like a rat’s.

Under the flashlight’s shine, its small black eyes emitted an eerie red glow.

"Ghost?!" Everyone was startled and instinctively wanted to run back.

"Squeak!" But this burrow creature ran quickly, its limbs moving like those of a tiger or leopard.

Zhang Feng saw that this creature crawled far faster than humans and knew there was no outrunning it.

"Fight, and there might still be a chance to live; turn your back on it, and you’re definitely dead."

Zhang Feng wielded his knife, squeezing past the strong man in front.

"Brother Zhang!" The strong man growled lightly, wanting to urge Zhang Feng to leave quickly, and looked at someone behind whose legs had already gone weak, "Get up!"