Chapter 2: Where the Giants Sleep
The cave was very damp and smelled fishy, and there were occasional broken animal limbs and bones on the ground, some of which had dried up and some of which were still very sticky. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info Kaxiu sniffed his bloodstained fingers, the smell of blood came to his nose, he nodded, and the captain motioned for everyone to follow. Since Ed had his leg crushed, Captain Aldington decided that Fat William and Jonathan would stay behind to take care of Ed, and the nine members of the advance team entered the huge cavern.
After entering, the Rangers found that the cave was getting wider and wider as they went down, and miraculously, the cave was not dark, and the firefly-like insects were lying on the rock wall of the cave, bringing light to the cave. At first there was only one road, and further down, an intersection appeared, and in order to prevent danger, the captain decided that everyone would act together.
"Oh my God, giants really dig holes, where did they get these bugs?" Grant's eyes widened in surprise, the walls were damp, the fireflies were full of bugs, and the dark underground caverns were covered with blue-green spots.
Anderson chewed on tobacco leaves, looked up at the specks, and shuddered, "I just want to know where this road leads? Where do the giants sleep, kill them early, get out early." Those bugs are numb. β
"If I tell Ed, sophisticated Anderson, Anderson, who often laughs at Eddard, sees thousands of fireflies and is scared, see how Ed laughs at you. Grant grabbed a handful of bugs, which crawled around his arm, "Look, they don't bite." β
"Damn! put down those disgusting things!" Anderson jumped to his feet and scolded, "Fuck you Grant, you dare to throw that thing on me!"
Grant laughed, and Anderson cursed loudly.
Captain Aldington whispered, "It's all quiet, there's a voice!"
Cassius wasn't in the mood for a joke, he had been worrying about his body, and when he fought the Three Giants outside the cave, his chest was tight and short of breath, and the Rangers thought he had been knocked unconscious by the giants. He hid this. I can't use fire magic in this environment, fire consumes air, earth magic may work, but just in case, I only use iron magic.
Everyone tiptoed towards the place where the sound came, turned the corner, and saw a huge underground river, and the sound of the water was monstrous.
"Oh my God, this underground river looks wider than the Sutan River. Bjorn smacked his lips, and he walked over first, plunging his sword into the river, "It's still deep." β
"Run!" Aldington shouted, and as soon as he finished speaking, the water splashed and a large snake appeared in the water, which bit Bjorn's foot and dragged him into the water. BjΓΆrn fluttered his hands before he shouted for help, and his whole body sank into the water.
The Rangers rushed over, and Cassius turned his sword into a spear and stabbed it into the water, but the spear didn't pierce anything. Soon there were no ripples in the water.
"I'll go down and find him!" Grant took a step, and Anderson hugged his waist from behind.
Aldington grabbed Grant's arm and said, "Don't go down!
Grant blushed sharply and clenched his sword's hand, his bones gurgling.
Another brother died. Cassiu's heart tightened.
"Malone is right, this time the advance team entered the place where the giants were sleeping, it was too dangerous. "We've been gone for almost half a month, and we haven't found Thorne, half of our brother is dead. β
Grantra grabbed Elif by the collar and scolded, "You can leave now, no one will stop you." β
"Our brothers, who have died half of them, are finally here, and this opportunity will not come again. Aldington drew his sword, "Look, I'm sure we're in the right place. β
A naked giant crouched by the river, soaking water with his hands, wet and with his hair stuck to his back.
"Naked, hey, I hope to be a giantess. Anderson spat out the tobacco leaves, took out his crossbow, and aimed at the other man, "at least a feast for the eyes." β
"I think you're crazy about women. Grant whispered, pulling out his crossbow, looking at the other Rangers, and saying, "Shoot!"
Two arrows went into the giant's back, and he screamed, turned his head, and saw the Rangers. He roared and rushed up with his bare hands.
"Fight him!" Aldington rushed forward first, and the giant bent down and swung a punch that sent Aldington a tumble and dodged the attack. Grant then arrives, and the giant slams his fist down, and he jumps open the pit that his fist has smashed into and goes around the giant's back.
"Ankles, knees!" Aldington commanded the Rangers to disperse, and Cassius merged his shield and sword into a giant shield, blocking a kick from the giant for Anderson, and the giant shield made a dull sound.
"Luckily, the magician is here. Anderson shot his newly tied crossbow right in the giant's abdomen, "Damn, can't tell if he's male or female, and the giant has no gender?"
The giant clutched his abdomen and fell to his knees, and the rangers cooperated tacitly, some slashing elbows, some slashing feet, and the giant wailed, and Aldington plunged his sword into his eye, blood spraying the captain's body.
Cassius turned his weapon back into a shield and sword and said, "Why is he naked?"
"Like humans, they have to take a bath. Anderson ran behind the giant's corpse, "Strange, I can't see the gender, the giants appear in groups after groups, how do they reproduce?"
"I think you should let Sam look into this. Grant shook off the blood from his sword and said, "I suggest we keep going inside." β
Along the way, everyone was silent, and the more you went inside, the heavier the humidity became. The air is mixed with a fishy smell and a rancid smell. There are also huge footprints on the ground, and some have puddles.
"How do I feel walking in a giant's pile of and urine. Anderson broke the silence and said, "It's disgusting." β
"It doesn't matter, you can't find a woman when you go out anyway, there are only men on the Wall, who cares about you, eh?" Aldington looked up and said, "Look at these surrounding walls, these dirt seems to be ...... Roots?"
Kahew touched it with his sword, the soil on the wall was a little soft, and there were things in the soil that looked like branches, and he said, "No, it's not the roots, these are like branches, but it's not like, I don't understand, we're under the tree?"
"Giant!" Elif screamed, and everyone drew their swords, only to find that the bones of a giant were exposed in the dirt, and there was not a single flesh on Bai Sensen's bones.
"There's still there!" called Grant. Everyone looked in the direction of his finger, the place where they were located was relatively high, and further on, there was a huge deep pit with a depth of more than 50 meters, and a tree root with a diameter of about 50 meters ran through the upper and lower soil layers, and there were many soil bags around the roots, but the soil bags did not cover the giant's corpse well, and it seemed that some of the corpses were intact, and some were scattered. The giant's skull and sternum were sprinkled on the pit. Some have intact sternums that bend to the ground like an arch, some have leg bones more than a meter long, and some have holes in their eye sockets that are large enough for an adult's arm to stick into.
"It's like a grave. Aldington concluded, "It's horribly eerie and quiet. That tree root ......"
"No, it's not like tree roots. Anderson narrowed his eyes, and he lifted his chin, "There's a leaf there, O Shiachi, and it's the size of a ship." β
A giant appeared at the entrance of the cave opposite the crowd, looking very old, staggering, and unclothed.
"Kill him, an old giant. Grant lowered his voice.
"Wait, he's a little weird. Aldington waved his hand, and the Rangers were holding their crossbows, almost holding their breath.
The old giant had almost fallen into the pit, and he crawled up to the root-like object, picked up a leg bone, howled, and plunged it into his abdomen. Blood gushed out, soaking through the root-like object, and he thrust his leg bone into his abdomen, pulling his internal organs out.
The smell of blood pervaded, and Cassius felt that it was hard to breathe, and his stomach was churning.
"Why did he kill himself?" Grant wondered, "but it doesn't seem like we need to do it." β
"Let's get out of here. Cassius suggested, and everyone chose to walk through the cave where the old giant had appeared.
Walking through the long passage, which leads in all directions, Anderson proposes to keep walking straight, always turning to the left when encountering a fork in the road, and marking the wall with his sword.
As they walked through the passage, they heard a ticking sound. A huge peach-like thing, but that thing was like a living thing, contracting like a beating heart. A hole was cracked at the bottom of it, and sticky white juice dripped to the ground.
"It's disgusting. What's that?" Elif stepped on the white juice and almost slipped, "not like a man-eating flower." β
As soon as Elif finished speaking, one of the rangers shot a crossbow and arrow, and the thing shook and contracted more frequently, and the crack beneath it grew larger and wider, and white juice flowed loudly.
"Take your sword and prepare for battle!" the captain ordered. Kasiu took a deep breath as he swung his magic sword, his left shield in front of him.
"Feet! it's feet!" Grant exclaimed, sharp-eyed, "there's a giant inside that thing!"
There was only a thud, the sound of something sliding down in front of the left, and then the dull sound of something falling to the ground, and Kasiu looked there to see a giant covered in white juice curled up on the ground, the peach-like object completely cracked.
The "peach" that had been shot in the crossbow shook and finally cracked, and a relatively short giant fell out of it, and the crossbow and arrow hit him in the waist, and blood gushed down.
"Kill!" ordered the captain, and before the giant could stand up, the seven rangers cut the giant with arrows all over his body.
"Captain, it looks like we've found the heart of the Giant's Sleeping Land. Kasiu's heart swelled with excitement and nervousness, more than half a month, 10 brothers died, and finally, as the captain expected, when the giant was sleeping, came to face the head.
"There must be giants in those peaches!" shouted Grant excitedly, "We'll shoot them while they're asleep! Don't skimp on bows and arrows, guys! Look inside, there should be more 'peaches'!"
At this time, the giant who was curled up and lying in front of him, now half-kneeling, saw Elif and stretched out his hand, Elif stabbed the sword into his right palm, the giant screamed, grabbed Elif with his left hand, and put his head in his mouth.
Cassius only heard the crunch of bones and blood spurting from the giant's mouth. The giant stood up, threw away Ellive's headless body, licked his lips, and roared loudly.
Cassius seemed to understand, and the giant was starving.
Tick, tick, tick in the distance.