The cave is actually myself

Chapter 2 The Paper Man
A pair of sneaky eyes on the beetle's head kept turning, occasionally glancing at the firefly grass next to the puddle.

After a long time, there was no movement in the cave, and there seemed to be nothing near the firefly grass that could threaten its life. The beetle slowly crawled into the cave.

After crawling in less than three feet, he quickly turned around and rushed out of the cave again.

Lu Yuan was confused as he watched the beetle's series of operations.

Not long after crawling out, the gray beetle returned to the cave again, and this time the distance it crawled was about a foot longer than last time.

After crawling to a certain distance, it hid under a boulder in the darkness.

Repeat this process over and over again, slowly approaching the Firefly Grass.

Lu Yuan watched with cold eyes, watching the gray beetle battle with the air.

He clearly saw that as the gray knotty beetle slowly approached, the blood-devouring vine lurking in the darkness slowly woke up and gently stretched its slender vines.

The beetle crawled under the firefly grass, and the spiritual liquid on the top was easily accessible. It pushed hard and jumped into the spiritual liquid in the air.

Just when the beetle's tongue was about to touch the spiritual liquid, a green and black vine shot out from the thorns, wrapped around the beetle's body at high speed, and wrapped the beetle tightly.

Before the gray knotty beetle could react, the vines became more and more entangled, and became tighter and tighter, until the beetle's body became wrapped in circles.

In pain, the beetle screamed twice and weakly danced its limbs in the air.

It seemed to realize that it was in critical condition, the pimple on its back shrank rapidly, and with a bang, it spewed out a foul-smelling deep yellow venom.

The venom splashed onto the green and black vines, making a sizzling sound. White smoke erupted from the vines where they were stained with the venom, and they quickly rotted in the air.

Regardless of the injured part, the blood-devouring vine still tightly wrapped around the gray beetle, and even slender barbs protruded from the vine, piercing the beetle's soft belly into the body.

As the barbs penetrated deeper and deeper, the gray beetle struggled more and more weakly, and slowly turned into a body without flesh and blood.

After all the flesh and blood in the beetle's body was absorbed, the blood-devouring vine pulled out the barbs from the beetle's body, shook the vine, and lazily shrank back into the darkness.

This action has a strong sense of déjà vu...

Lu Yuan sighed in his heart and found that after absorbing the beetle's flesh and blood, there were several obvious blood streaks on the originally green and black vines of the Blood-devouring Vine.

Deep in the cave, two white light groups appeared silently.

The light ball was the size of a fist, and a faint spiritual light emerged from its surface.

Lu Yuan gently touched one of them with his thoughts. In an instant, the touched light group scattered, and the entire cave was filled with rich spiritual power.

Such a rich spiritual power caused the blue light of the Lingying grass to bloom. The spiritual liquid at the top condensed into beads, and one of them was absorbed, and the remaining spiritual liquid beads rolled to the ground.

Even the blood-devouring vine, which had eaten enough and drank enough, turned over with difficulty under the stimulation of spiritual power.

Another white light group gave Lu Yuan something related to a gray beetle.

Gray Beetle Venom Sac: Containing rich toxins, it is a good material for refining poisonous elixirs and magic weapons. It can also be used to raise spiritual beasts and spiritual plants that love poisons.

As for the spiritual liquid beads dripping on the ground, Lu Yuan also obtained relevant information. They contained pure spiritual power, which could assist monks or pet beasts in their cultivation and speed up their cultivation progress.

"Is it such a generous reward for just a little bug coming in?"

"In this case, it is not impossible for some small animals to come in... Of course, humans or humanoid creatures are not allowed to enter the cave!"

After Wanbi's body was broken, Lu Yuan was a little helpless at first, but when he saw the generous reward in front of him, his helplessness was immediately relieved.

No way, it was too much.

Then, he controlled the spiritual liquid beads with his thoughts and gently swept them into the corner of the cave.

Judging from the gray beetle's previous performance, the spiritual liquid condensed by these fireflies has a strong attraction to strange insects and beasts like them.

The effect is already good when it is not yet mature, and the fully mature spirit liquid beads must be more valuable.

It's a pity that Lu Yuan is now in a stone cave and cannot practice. There are no spiritual beasts in the cave, so he has to leave it aside for now.

For the next period of time, Lu Yuan continued his boring and monotonous life.

Most of the time, his thoughts were sleeping in the cave. After waking up, he controlled his spiritual energy to nourish the firefly grass. Occasionally, he mustered up the courage to take a quick walk outside the cave.

He followed the same method and used the spiritual liquid condensed by the Spirit Fire Grass to lure several strange insect beasts. At the same time, he silently watched as a spectator while the Blood Devouring Vine fought with various insect beasts.

It stands to reason that every time a new insect beast comes in, there will be a new reward in the cave.

Each reward basically contains a spiritual energy light group, which makes the density of spiritual energy in the cave become richer and denser. Under the spiritual energy washing, even the puddle in the stone cave becomes clear to the naked eye.

In addition to spiritual energy, there are also several other rewards, which are basically some useful parts of strange insects and beasts. Lu Yuan collected them in a corner for emergencies.

During this period, Lu Yuan also conducted a small experiment, using his thoughts to prevent the Blood-devouring Vine from sucking a strange insect into a mummy, but instead allowed it to move around in the cave.

The strange insect stayed in the cave for a long time before leaving. A few days later, it came back again. The second reward was much less, only a small aura of light the size of a fingernail.

This also verified a piece of information that Lu Yuan had learned before, similar to this kind of creatures without great strength and extraordinary talent, they can only get good rewards when entering the cave for the first time, and the rewards for entering later are just better than nothing .

"Sure enough, the first time I entered the cave was completely different from other times..."

"Also, why are the people here just small things? Here comes a big guy and let me see the limit of the reward."

The small rewards brought by these strange insect beasts have become increasingly difficult to satisfy Lu Yuan.

Not long after he came up with this idea, Lu Yuan felt an extremely violent and manic aura coming from outside the cave. In an instant, a spider the size of a millstone rushed into the cave and disappeared among a pile of strange rocks.

Lu Yuan quietly ran his thoughts and quietly observed the spider above it.

The spider's body was black and shiny, as if it could suck people's souls into it at any time. Its eight slender and sharp legs could easily cut the stone in front of it into pieces.

Blurred faces appeared on his back one after another. The faces were so painful that their features were deformed, and they were roaring silently.

Ghost-Faced Spider: A strange creature that likes to eat human souls.

The ghost-faced spider did not react to the approach of Lu Yuan's thoughts. It kept constricting its aura and hid motionless among the jagged rocks.

"Hee hee hee~"

An intrusive chuckle came from outside the cave.

A cold breath spread quickly from outside the cave.

Immediately afterwards, a red and green paper man staggered into the cave step by step.

(End of this chapter)