Chapter 248: Trap

The Forest of Menos Grande was vast and almost boundless.

Because of a storm, Ichigo and others fell here, and because they were not careful, they caused a lot of commotion as soon as they came to the Menos Grande forest, and they had to flee in a hurry, trying to escape from there.

However, the more they went forward, the more luxuriant the white trees became. At the same time, in their perception, there were more and more reiatsu signatures in their vicinity. There was no doubt that these were all hollows' reiatsu signatures.

Moreover, the strength of these reiatsu were not comparable to ordinary hollow.

"What exactly is this place?"

Ichigo uttered such a question while fleeing with his friends.

Uryuu, Sado, and Renji were also pondering this question.

Only Rukia, after some contemplation, came to an answer, "Perhaps, I probably know where this is."

"What?"

The rest of the people looked at Rukia after hearing this.

Rukia looked dignified, and slowly said the answer, "The Forest of Menos Grande."

"Forest of Menos Grande?"

Ichigo and the other two humans looked at Rukia curiously, and Renji looked thoughtfully. He was somewhat familiar with this name.

Sensing everyone's gaze, Rukia explained, "Before I came to Hueco Mundo, I deliberately looked up some relevant knowledge, so I got to know a little bit more.

The Forest of Menos Grande, as the name suggests, is where Menos Grande lives.

The forest itself is located underground in Hueco Mundo, among its residents, the lowest level is Gillian, no one knows how many Menos Grande exists in this place…"

"What?"

Hearing this, Ichigo and others were shocked.

The lowest was Gillian, and the entire forest was full of Menos Grande, which makes people shudder just to think about it.

"We have to find a way to get out of here."

After Rukia explained the Forest of Menos Grande, she spoke again.

The rest of the people also agreed.

Then they continued to move forward, trying to find the exit. Although the Menos Grande Forest was located underground, since they could come in, they could definitely go out.

They didn't notice that when they were looking for the exit, a few arrancars were quietly watching them on the big white tree beside them.

When Ichigo and his group first came to Hueco Mundo, they were already discovered by Las Noches. Although Aizen prohibited Espada from taking the initiative to attack, it did not affect the entire Hueco Mundo. Everyone knew that Ichigo and others came to Hueco Mundo.

Espada was unable to attack, but Aizen did not say that the hollows under Espada could not attack.

Although most arrancars were afraid of Aizen and dare not act rashly, there were always some bold ones.

Previously, Ichigo and others had been attacked by some hollow attacks on the periphery of Hueco Mundo, including some weak arrancars. Now, they were once again targeted by arrancars when they were in the Menos Grande Forest.

As Ichigo and others continued to move forward, finally, someone discovered something was wrong.

Undoubtedly, it was Rukia who noticed something was wrong.

"Ichigo, wait!"

Ichigo paused, looking at Rukia's serious expression.

Immediately, he, Uryuu and others discovered something unusual.

'It's too quiet!'

If a forest was quiet, it was actually quite normal, but this was the Forest of Menos Grande.

From the moment they stepped into the Forest of Menos Grande, they have heard the roars from time to time.

There was no doubt that they were all Menos Grande who were fighting, so the question was, when did these sounds suddenly disappear?

It was not long ago.

In their haste to leave the Forest of Menos Grande, they overlooked these details.

"Finally found out?"

A gloomy voice suddenly sounded from the side.

"Who?!"

Ichigo immediately made a decision, he waved the Zangetsu in his hand, and released a "Getsuga Tensho", the blue reiatsu attack hit the white tree, breaking it, and a figure retreated suddenly.

Ichigo and others noticed the figure, realizing it was an arrancar, and were about to pursue it.

However, the next moment, among the quiet environment around, suddenly there were countless signatures of messy reiatsu broke out, but there was no doubt that the weakest of them was a Gillian, and more over Ichigo and others were still exhausted.

They saw several fake arrancars.

The reason why they were called fake arrancars was that although their masks were broken, their bodies were still in the shape of animals.

Of course, what caught their attention the most were the two humanoid arrancars at the front.

The arrancar who avoided Ichigo's attack earlier also came to the side of the two humanoid arrancars.

"We are surrounded, it's a trap."

"It seems that you have been eyeing us from the very beginning."

Rukia looked at the arrancar, apparently the leader of the three humanoids, with a serious voice, and then changed her tone again, "However, as long as all of you are defeated, there should be nothing to stop us from leaving."

"That's right, we noticed you from the moment you appeared, but we didn't receive orders from above to engage you, but it's not necessary now, because this is a dead end for you guys."

The arrancar, who took the lead, seemed to be fully confident with the odds in hand, echoing Rukia's words.

"The order from above? It seems that some people are very concerned about our arrival… it may be more difficult in the future, but now is not the time to talk about these, let us see how you bunch can stop us."

Uryuu keenly captured the key information in arrancar's words.

"It was discovered by you, but it doesn't matter even if I tell you."

"Originally, a certain superior above forbid us to take the initiative to attack you, but our master is very interested in you guys, so he ordered us to take you away."

"He wants use you guys to do some experiments."

The arrancar explained immediately as if to prove that he was sure of their victory.

'In Hueco Mundo, is there anyone like that lunatic Kurotsuchi Mayuri?'

Hearing the arrancar's words, Uryuu couldn't help but think of the shinigami named Kurotsuchi Mayuri he met in Soul Society back then.

But Uryuu didn't have time to think too deeply about it.

It was already a fact that they were trapped in a siege, and the thing that needed to be considered now was how to break out.

The battle broke out in an instant.

In another part of the Menos Grande Forest, Mazuru was chatting with Sojiro.

Suddenly, Sojiro felt the movement not far away, and his eyes couldn't help but focus at that direction.

"It seems that the Menos Grande Forest is a bit lively today."

In his perception, the reiatsu over there was extremely mixed, there were ones belonging to hollow, ones that belong to shinigami, and another one. It appeared to be quite a mess.

"It should be Kurosaki Ichigo and the others. It seems that they entered the Forest of Menos Grande by mistake."

Mazuru couldn't help but sigh, he didn't expect such a coincidence.

"Kurosaki Ichigo?"

Sojiro was unfamiliar with this name, and immediately looked at Mazuru suspiciously.

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