A scary scene

Liu Yang's words were a little awkward and made them curious as to why he said that.

"Liu Yang, why do you say that?" The trio didn't know what he was talking about.

"When you guys showed me the item last night, I didn't remember about it. But after thinking about it for a while, I remember something my dad told me before the challenge. According to him, when he came to the forest with my mother, he found something in the river. A glowing item in the afternoon, but that was a hidden creature. The creature would only attack whoever dared to touch its item" Liu Yang spoke in a serious tone.

His father explored the forest a few times in the past. The most dangerous thing he saw was the creature in the lake.

"I see… But Liu Yang, we need this item for the list. Without the item, we will be far behind the other competitors"

The rarer the item found, the higher the participant's rating.

Common items were just to fill, the real test was leveling up and finding the rare creatures stuff.

"Or we can wait a bit. I believe that a group of idiots will show up to get this item. You will see that I am not lying. According to my father, the lurking creature might be level 4 or 5" Liu Yang commented.

"I see… The mantis stalks the cicada, right?"

"Yea. I don't believe we are the only ones who might know about this item. The other villages should also know this information. They should show up in a while. Or they are already somewhere nearby waiting for the first group to try to get the item." The lake was not big and deep, but around it, there were many trees for people to hide.

"Well… What are we going to do now? We can't waste time standing around here."

"We just need to wait a few hours. Now it's just ten o'clock in the morning. By noon, I think the others should show up. Or in less time. That group of idiots from yesterday showed up, they wouldn't pass up one of those items easily." Liu Yang spoke confidently. He didn't believe that a rare item on the list could easily be left out.

"Speaking of the devil. Look who showed up" Lin Hai spoke as he looked across the lake.

A group of seven young people appeared. Each of them was wearing leather clothes with weapons strapped to their waists.

"What is that idiot doing together with the members of another village?" Zi Long recognized one of the youths in the group because he was a resident of the same village.

"By the way, he's acting, he must know those young people," Liu Yang thought that way because it was a little strange to act friendly in front of people he didn't know.

"Some of them must be related to Qin Li. I think that's the only answer because we've never left the village in the last sixteen years and the only way to communicate with other people is using the communication device." Sun Bai also had a similar thought.

"Leaving that aside, what are we going to do? Will we try to steal them? They're probably level 2 or 3. More than that is very unlikely unless they've defeated some Elite Devouring Mushroom."

"We can try to wait for the fight to end to steal them. The challenge allows us to do this because there are limited resources in the forest and not everyone will be able to find all the items. The only way to get the items is to steal from others."

"That's the best idea we have. If the creature is very strong, we can leave this idea for later. When our levels get higher, we can go back and try to defeat the creature"

"Ok. Let's do this."

The group watched the other group to see what they would do.

One of the youths entered the lake and walked towards the bright spot.

The lake was not deep and one could walk as if on the road. The water was knee-deep and it was difficult to walk or run.

Both groups watched the young man with serious eyes.

splash… splash… With

Each step is taken, the sound of something heavy falling into the water is heard.

The young man was very nervous because something didn't feel right to him.

The closer he got, the more the sense of danger filled his heart.

Unfortunately, there was nothing that could prove his feeling because there were no creatures in the place.

Upon arriving in front of the bright spot, the young man saw that nothing had happened and finally sighed in relief. He began to think that the sense of danger was just his nervousness.

Waving to his teammates, the young man signaled that he would try to get the item.

His hand slowly entered the water and went towards the bright spot.

"..." Sweat dripped from his forehead due to the strain of being watched by the group.

"I got it!!!!!"

When he touched the item, a gleeful scream came out of his mouth.

At that very moment, something amazing happened.

crack!!! crack!!!! crack!!!

Cracking sounds were heard and the ground around them began to break apart.

"WATCH OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" One of them yelled.

"My hand is stuck!!! I can't take it off!!! It looks like it's glued!!!" The young man screamed in desperation.

His hand was glued to the item.

crack!!! crack!!!

Suddenly, sharp spikes emerged from the rocks before slowly lifting upwards like a giant mouth.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The young man tried to take his hand away, but it was impossible. He couldn't do anything.

Not even his sword was sharp enough to cut the item.

Out of options, he took a desperate action in his moment of desperation.

SLASH!!!!

"ARGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!" His arm was cut off.

Red blood painted the water, but it was carried away by the current.

SPLASH!!!! SPLASH!!!!

The heavy and fast steps helped the young man to escape from the mouth covered by sharp teeth, but before that, his leg was cut when he missed the jump, and part of the leg was hit by one of the teeth.

bang!!!!

The giant mouth closed and the sounds of something being chewed echoed. In a few seconds, the mouth was opened again and it hid underground again.

The bright spot glowed again as if nothing had happened.

"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" This scene was quite frightening and shocked everyone in the place.