Chapter 34: The Empress's True Face
Lin Moyang and Green didn't spend much time convincing Skaha, who was much easier to talk than he thought, which greatly surprised them.
It was not so difficult for the hive to invade, and even on the side of the hive, Lin Moyang and Green found a hollow, which should be the passage used by Ivor and the others when they invaded before.
"How is it? do you want to go in?" Green glanced inside the entrance of the passage, the smoke was billowing in the dark passage, and it might be a problem to even breathe, Ivor said that there was a reason why there was no open flame to burn inside, and in this smoky passage, normal people had problems breathing, and only that group of Celtic warriors who competed with fantasy and even mythology could maintain their combat effectiveness in this environment.
"It's hard to say, it's a question of whether we can even out our breath when we go in, right?" Lin Moyang glanced at the depths of the dark passage, and there was still a thick layer of poisonous bee corpses walking on the ground, covering the original dark red insect hive, which really made people's scalps tingle.
"This is not a problem, as long as there is a strengthened state, the lack of oxygen in this situation is not unacceptable, but I am just a little worried, can you withstand it? Or will I go in alone?" Green glanced at the situation in the passage, Lin Moyang now has no way to strengthen his physical fitness, in this hypoxic environment, he can't move at all.
"Strengthening the state?" Lin Moyang thought for a while, if it was qi, then he really couldn't help it, Fenglong once said that the strengthening effect of qi only amplifies people's physical fitness, not makes it possible for people to do what they can't do, that is, in this oxygen-deficient place, he may support it for a long time, but in the end he will still suffocate. However, what existed in his body now was not qi, but the power of the fourth imperial weapon, and he didn't know if the enhancement of this imperial weapon was the same as qi.
The difficulty lies in the fact that no matter whether this reinforcement is the same as the qi or not, he can initially move in the hive, and if this reinforcement is the same as the physical reinforcement of the qi, then by the time he appears to be suffocated by lack of oxygen, it is estimated that it will be too late to escape.
"I don't know if I'll be able to stay in there for long. Lin Moyang told the truth, there is no benefit to being reckless at this time, but it will bring trouble to his friends, so he would rather speak out his concerns, but it may make people feel timid, but Lin Moyang also believes that Green is not the kind of person who will speculate about others like this.
"Okay, then I'll go in, Sueyang, you're out there ready to pick me up, by the way, the gun is borrowed for me, and to be honest, I'm not very proficient in fire magic, so I still need something to supplement my firepower." Green stretched out his hand to Lin and asked him for his pistol.
"Okay, here you go, do you need the bullets?" Lin Moyang took off his pistol and handed it to Green, and as if he remembered something, he put his hand in his trouser pocket, took out a large handful of bullets with red bullets and stuffed them into Green's hand.
Green watched Lin Moyang pull out the bullet like this, and his eyes were a little straight. Knights usually don't use technological weapons, but Green is not so rigid, he is trained in technological thermal weapons, and he also knows a thing or two about these alchemy bullets, and he naturally knows the preciousness of this king's beard bullet, which is a masterpiece of magic technology, produced by precious pilgrims. Now Lin Moyang seemed to have no idea the preciousness of these bullets, and casually took out a large handful of them from his trouser pocket like bubble gum, as if he really didn't cherish them that much.
"It's too much, it's ...... Moyang, do you know the value of this bullet?" Green was a little shocked by Lin Moyang's enthusiasm, and he couldn't help but remind Lin Moyang of the preciousness of this bullet.
"I remember Lily told me that it doesn't seem to be expensive, Miss Natasha asked her to bring me a suitcase of bullets, how many rounds are there?" Lin Moyang said with some puzzlement, he didn't have any concept of the value of bullets, even if Liliel told him the price, he didn't know whether the price was high or low, but Liliel had complained before, as if Natasha was too picky, so the price of this bullet shouldn't be so expensive?
"Yes, it's not expensive alone, but that's because pilgrims have always sold this kind of stuff for only 10 percent of the profit, and they sell it very cheaply, but in very small quantities, and the last time the pilgrims sold this kind of bullet for $200 a round, they sold 120 rounds, so it's very expensive on the black market. And the matching firearms are also very expensive, not all firearms can fire this special alchemy bullet. Green wanted Lin Moyang to realize how valuable these weapons in his hands were, but Lin Moyang didn't seem to feel it at all, and the second person just smiled: "Then you save some use, if I stay in the future, if I am poor, I will exchange it for money, but you are a knight, how do you know the price of the black market?"
......Of course, Green didn't know that Lin Moyang had no concept of the value of the wizarding world, and the pilgrim and old Alexander's huge sums of money destroyed his basic concept of money, and now in Lin Moyang's mind, money is a number, and his current deposit in Sailfish Bank is more than the reserve funds of some small companies, but it is precisely because of this that Lin Moyang now feels more and more that money has no sense of reality.
"Thank you, Sueyang. Green took the bullets and hid them in his jacket pocket, these bullets were his reliance on dealing with the assassins, and Lin Moyang's attitude was naturally understood by him as Lin Moyang's concern for his personal safety, so he gave him a lot of bullets to avoid any accidents. These bullets naturally became heavy in Green's heart, and this is undoubtedly the most sincere friendship between the two knights in the knight's story.
"What's so thankful for this, I still have a lot of them there, a hundred rounds, even if you use it, come to me if it's not enough, the bullets are full!" Lin Moyang was still a little reluctant to escape from the battle now, so he could only make a generous guarantee to Green's bullets.
Green nodded, thanked Lin Moyang for his kindness, he held the revolver in his hand, didn't say too much, muttered a few words, added a few enhanced magic for himself, and went headlong into the passage.
As soon as he entered the passage, Green felt a burning breath rush to his nostrils, the plant smoke used to kill poisonous bees, which had the fragrance of plants and trees, but mixed with the heated flesh of the hive, forming an indescribable fishy smell.
With the shriveled and scorched corpses under his feet, Green could hardly imagine that in such a hostile environment, Ivor's warriors, including herself, could still maintain sufficient combat strength. No, Green shook his head, if this environment did not have an impact on combat effectiveness, Ivor could not have been injured by the assassins, these monsters are fatal to ordinary people, but their skills can even be dealt with by hunters in modern times, the combat skills of these warriors are several times higher than these hunters, even if they cannot be harmed because of the characteristics of division, but there should be no problem with self-preservation, but the problem now is that Ivor is seriously injured, if it is not because Ivor combat power has decreased in the environment, then it is because these assassins have become stronger。
Green is holding in his right hand a replica of the Persuader that Skaha has made for him, the real Persuader has not yet been reforged, and if the real Persuader is in his hand, then the situation is much better now. As soon as this thought came out, Green immediately smiled self-deprecatingly, saying that knights do not die with bare hands, and if it is said that they can only rely on weapons to fight, then this knight can only say that experience is far from enough.
Thinking so, Green went deeper and deeper into the hive. The hive is very quiet, this part of the journey has been completely covered with smoke, so there is no presence of poisonous bees, surrounded by poisonous bees here, there is only one end, that is, after being broken into flesh and blood, it becomes a part of this huge hive. But Green didn't understand, the passage he was walking now was very similar to the path of the worker bees in the hive, but it was too huge, although the size of this poisonous bee was a full circle larger than the killer bees Green had seen, but this passage was enough for five people to walk side by side, and the ceiling was 3 to 4 meters high, which was obviously not a path for the poisonous bees, nor was it extended by Adonis.
Green approached the hive around him, and carefully looked at the outer wall of the hive with the light of the imitation persuader, this sword is still the light function specially added by Skaha, and it is also because Skaha does not understand what Green means by the divine light on the persuader, there was no holy light in that era, so she added the function of emitting sunlight to this imitation persuader, in the understanding of the Celts, the light of the god of light Ruger should be the holy light.
Only then did Green see the structure of the inner wall of the hive, on the inner wall of the hive are dense small holes, and some holes are still hung with the corpses of poisonous bees sticking out of half of their bodies, so they can understand how these poisonous bees move in the hive, the inside of this hive is a small channel for their actions, and the existence of these large channels makes the concentration of smoke gather, so it causes this special insect-free zone.
Green strengthened his hearing, and sure enough, he heard the sound of bugs' legs sweeping over the hive from all directions, and I don't know how many bugs were still hiding in this hive. 139
Green sighed, at least in the big passage, he doesn't have to worry about the siege of poisonous bees, and this kind of passage must be the activity space of the Hive Empress, the Hive Empress's body size is similar to that of a normal girl, so it is naturally impossible to get into these small holes, then this huge passage must be prepared for the Hive Empress, that is to say, as long as you explore this passage, you will be able to find this Hive Empress.
Thinking of this, Green tightened his grip on his weapon and began to explore deeper into the passage.
There were more and more insect corpses under his feet, and the smoke from the tip of Green's nose was getting lighter and lighter, this place should be close to the center of the insect nest, and Green himself didn't know where it was, but judging from the distance he had walked, it should be about the same.
The sound in my ears is getting louder and louder, and there are more and more poisonous bees here, and the smoke here is not high, but there are more insect corpses under my feet.
Green reached out and picked one up from the shriveled shell beneath his feet, the bee's hands and feet were shattered, along with its two tail spines. There was a battle here? It's not like ...... There were no other human corpses here, and if the poisonous bees were really able to attack humans in the hive, Ivor would not have survived, at this moment, Green suddenly realized something, and he raised the persuader again, relying on the light of the persuader, to observe the hive. There are still small holes infested with poisonous bees in the walls, but this time the walls are not smooth, and the passage of poisonous bees connected to the holes has become mutilated. This shouldn't happen to poisonous bees, which have the characteristics of bee nesting, and the bee's hive is a perfect work of art, and the wall will never appear in such a bumpy mutilation.
Green suddenly lowered his head again, and pointed the sword in his hand at the insect corpse under his feet, this time he saw clearly, all the insect corpses were broken hands and feet, and the tail thorn was broken.
"That's right......" Green understood, and he stopped looking at the wall, but strode forward and kept walking.
Until he heard the sound of wheezing, grunting and the rubbing of the corners of his clothes.
In front of them were five tall figures, just like the armored corpses they had seen outside, their bodies were black and purple, like tall dried corpses, they were wearing a cover-up garment like a tattered black cloth cloak, and they all held bright white blades in their hands. This was the Assassin, and Green breathed a sigh of relief, as he lifted the persuader up, and the sunlight shone into the hall, which was filled with the corpses of poisonous bees, as if many passages were flowing through it.
"Don't run, you don't dare dig any more tunnels, or the enclosed chambers will be filled with smoke, and your poisonous bees will only suffer more casualties. Green hid his pistol behind him, and in the glow of the light, he saw his target. It was something different from what was written, and for Green to see it as a monster, he would rather see it as a person, or a girl.
In the light, the maiden was unrestrained, her skin reflected a white glow, her long orange-red hair spread out behind her, and she was among the five tall guards, nobly like Madame Godeva in an oil painting.
Green was stunned, looking at the back, this was undoubtedly a young girl in her youth, with the help of enhanced eyesight, Green could even faintly see the fine fluff behind her white neck.
"Are you here to kill me too?" Grimm felt his breath stop for half a minute, Ivor hadn't said that the Hive Empress was actually a girl who could talk and seemed to be conscious.
The Hive Empress gradually turned around, her beautiful body showing youthful vitality, not at all like the distorted corpse-like appearance of the record, and she smiled sweetly at Grimm, who was almost about to turn her head away to avoid the possible offense of her gaze.
"My children, they dug a way for me to get to the central hive so that I could escape, you look at them, how they are so obligated to go forward one after another. The girl fell to her knees in grief, her smooth thighs drowning in the corpses of insects, and she lifted up a handful of bees' corpses with a sad face, as gently as if she were holding up her infant who had died young.
"This handsome gentleman, I would like to ask what I have done wrong, why do you all want to kill me, why do you all want to take my life?" the Hive Empress looked up at Grimm in a lonely and helpless manner, and asked an aggrieved and pitiful question that Grimm could not answer.
It was the norm that knights could not wield weapons against women and children, and Greene had to concentrate himself on forcing himself not to be manipulated by his own chivalry, to look away, even if his actions now seemed to him to be undoubtedly a bold and excessive blasphemy.
Green knew it was a trap, as the five Assassins were still watching, and the image of these Assassins was the same as in the Pokédex, and Green would now rather focus his attention on these dangerous killers than look at the face of the Hive Empress.
It's weird.,The Worm Hive Empress's ribs are cracked.,The body is rotten.,The head falls into the abdominal cavity.,It's a complete monster.,But the girl in front of me is not like the one in the picture book at all.,She's like a pure and immaculate statue.,Venus who came out of the shell.,Like an ordinary girl.,Helpless and sad.。
"Can you speak, are you conscious?" Green asked, trying to ask, both intellectually and instinctively asking him not to move, so he had to talk to the Empress first.
"Consciousness, sanity, why don't I, or do you see me as a monster?" the Hive Empress looked up, her eyes flashing with confusion and confusion.
"Oh no...... Of course not......" Green stammered when he spoke, the ancestor of the Bein family must not be rude to a girl, but the current appearance is more than rude, he is simply the kind of stinky rascal he can't stand it. At this time, Green suddenly felt that he should really call Lin Moyang, at least Moyang is such a person, there is no pedantic knightly code to bind him.
"But with a sword and a gun in your hand, are you just like the group of people who want to kill me?" The Hive Empress's gaze wandered over Green's body, and she quickly spotted the murder weapon in the hand of the man in front of her, and she took a few steps back in horror, her voice sharpening.
"Guns, do you know pistols?" Green suddenly realized that the Hive Empress had been speaking to him in English, not translated Celtic, but authentic English!
"Protect me! protect me! he's here to kill me!" But the Hive Empress was already frightened by Grimm, she stood up, trampled barefoot among the worm corpses, and ran backwards, Grimm tried to chase her, but felt five murderous auras shoot straight at him, and the assassins finally moved.