At noon the next day, I arrived at the West Gate of Renzhili on time. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"It was so punctual. When I arrived, Yonglin jumped down from the archway of the West Gate, "Everything is much easier with you, you should have found the location of the cave, right?"

"That's true. "I knew the location of the cave before I came here," but the Red Fire Barbarians are very aggressive, and I hope you're ready for a fierce battle. ”

"I don't think those dwarfs are a threat. Like Youxiang, Yonglin also looks down on the strength of these demonic beasts of the Red Fire Barbarian, and no matter how much the lower-level demonic beasts jump, they are only lower-level demonic beasts after all, "I don't understand why you want to call it a vicious battle. ”

"Let's talk as we go. It seems that Yonglin doesn't know much about the habits of the Red Fire Barbarians, "But there is one thing I can tell you in advance, tigers are much stronger than wolves, but even the strongest tigers can only defeat when they meet wolves." ”

Gensokyo's westernmost part, hilly terrain.

"This is it. I looked at the dark entrance of the cave in front of me, and the rancid smell coming from the cave made me frown slightly, "This is for you, take it as a light source." I took out a beam stabbing sword and handed it to Yonglin, while I myself pulled out my beam pistol and fluctuating saber in a cross pose commonly used by special forces, "Let's go, let's go in." ”

The cave is small and dark, and even with a light source and an analysis system, Yonglin and I still stumble.

"This cave is really ...... There are short enough ones. "My height is only one meter seven, Yonglin is a little shorter than me, but walking in this cave with our height still needs to bend down slightly, which makes Yonglin feel very unaccustomed, "If the Mori Jinlin of Xianglin Hall comes, then you can't come in on your stomach......"

"The strongest individual of the Red Fire Barbarians is only one meter five, and their cave is of course only one meter six in height. "As Yonglin said before, the Red Fire Barbarians are all shorts," and their eyes ignore the darkness, so they don't need any lighting equipment. ”

"But don't you think it's strange?" Yonglin stopped, inserting the beam stabbing sword into the cave wall, "We haven't even seen a single Red Fire Barbarian along the way, although it's a good thing that we don't have to fight in such a narrow cave, but it's too weird. ”

"There's more to the weird stuff than that. I also stopped, took out a bottle of water from the subspace super warehouse and handed it to Yonglin, "Yesterday when Yakumo Zi said that the Red Fire Barbarians here do not come into contact with the outside world, I already felt weird enough, which probably means that the so-called Red Fire Barbarians here are different from all the Red Fire Barbarians we have encountered before, according to my character, in this case, I should have come here fully armed, but it's a pity...... When I put on the Exile, my body was two meters tall and I couldn't even enter the cave. ”

"You added the juice of Biling leaves to this water, right, it's for refreshing your mind. Yonglin tossed the empty bottle aside, "But in fact, it would be better if you put some clear glass fruit on top of this." ”

"That's not what we're going to talk about now, let's move on, this cave should be very long. I pulled out my weapon and posed again, and walked in front to open the way, Yonglin pulled out a beam stabbing sword from the mountain wall and followed me, "Huh, the road is forking in front, what should I do?"

"It's easy to go your separate ways, but ...... I don't know how to judge the right path. "There will always be a road that will lead to the core of the Red Fire Barbarian settlement, that's for sure, but how to determine which path is the problem, there are only two of us, even if we split up now, it's useless, this cave can divide two roads now, can't we stay in front of this and divide two more?" ”

"I'm starting to wonder if I've fallen for your trick this time. "Of course I know that I came of my own free will, and I know that even if I don't come to Yonglin, there is a way to find the right way, but there is no doubt that I am better at this kind of wayfinding than Yonglin," have you read the American poet Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken"?

"I've read it, so what?" Yonglin knew the poem and the meaning of the poem, but it didn't seem to have anything to do with the current situation, "Although we are also choosing the road, our current situation is not related to the poem." ”

"It doesn't matter, I'm just distracting. My nose twitched a few times, "The rancid smell is too strong, I can't tell which path is real with my nose, but ......" I leaned over and leaned on the ground, carefully observing everything on the ground, "The sharp footprints are those of the Red Fire Barbarians, but strangely there are footprints on both paths." ”

"The Red Fire Barbarians in the main settlement will be stronger, so their footprints should be bigger and deeper than the average Red Fire Barbarian. Yonglin reminded that the Red Fire Barbarian is a kind of social demonic beast with a strict hierarchy, and the stronger the individual, the higher the status, and the closer to the core of the settlement, the closer to the core of the settlement.

"That's right. "I had identified most of the footprints on the ground by this time," the road on the left has a large number of large footprints, and on the right there are only medium-sized footprints. ”

"That's right, let's go. Yonglin was about to enter the hole on the left as she spoke, but I stopped her.

"Let me go ahead, if I am suddenly attacked, my body can be used to buy time. "My body ignores pain and has no vital point, as long as I protect my head, it is a perfect human flesh shield, not to mention that in this kind of dark cave, I have the night vision provided by the analysis system is far more flexible and explore than Yonglin, who relies on light source to see.

"Well, you're pretty careful. Yonglin knew that what I said was the truth, and he had no intention of doing anything, "You can send it to death with peace of mind, I can cure it anyway." ”

"If you can cure it, why should I put on a false eye. "Yonglin's medical skills are also exhausted, such as Pache Li's lungs and my eyes, etc., "Wait...... Do you smell it?"

"The smell of blood is very heavy!" Yonglin carefully distinguished for a while, "It's not human blood, it should be demonic blood, but it can emit such a strong smell, this amount of blood is absolutely indispensable." ”

"There may be big trouble, but at least you don't have to figure out the fork in the road. "Thanks to the smell of blood, the next three or four forks in the road were no longer in suspense, and soon we broke through the low cavern and came to a large hall that was much higher, at least than in the cave," arrived...... It's no wonder that they didn't encounter any Red Fire Barbarians along the way, they all gathered here. ”