Chapter 2 Caves
There was no sound all around, except for the footsteps of five teenagers walking on the ground. The sound of the pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info will be heard far away in this empty space, and then blocked back by the cave wall, reverberating back and forth in the air.
Soon Zhou Xiusheng and the others followed the footprints to a fork, and two roads appeared in front of them, one left and one right separated by rock pillars. The teenagers crouched down to check the footprints on the ground, the footprints were supposed to be pointing forward on their toes, but they were messed up here, and it was obvious that the people of Group 67 had paused here.
Li Yi analyzed the footprints on the ground and said: "They entered the hole on the right, but the strange thing is that one person's footprints went in to the left, did they go separately here?" ”
Zhang Shaofan shook his head and said, "Impossible, if one of them breaks away from the group, their situation will become dangerous, the five-person group is the best offensive and defensive formation that the Federation Legion has repeatedly verified." ”
Mo Jie said: "Look at the footprints, their group did go their separate ways, I don't know what happened to this. Now you say, left or right? ”
The monkey probe took a few steps to the right, then stepped back and said, "We must go to the left, if we go to the right and follow them, they will already be drained of the moon mushrooms along the road." ”
Li Yi's opinion was different: "We came out this time to do a trial task, since the academy let us two groups of people complete it together, it shows that there is any threat here, for the sake of safety, we still go to the right to meet the people of group 67 It is safer." ”
The monkey sneered, "The people of Group 67 are not as rational as you, they clearly said that they would meet in front of the cave, but they entered the cave one step ahead of us, do you think they will leave moon mushrooms for us along the way?" ”
Under the light of the torches, Mo Jie's face was cloudy, and he finally gritted his teeth and said, "Wealth and danger are sought, let's go left." It was the people of the 67 group who did not follow the agreement first, and we are not to blame if something went wrong. ”
After the teenagers made a decision, they walked to the cave on the left together, and after walking in for a while, Zhou Xiusheng felt that the terrain of the passage began to rise, and they seemed to be climbing a hillside that was not steep at the moment. He glanced at the ground and saw that the road under his feet had turned into gravel, the road was no longer muddy, and the footprints on the ground had disappeared.
There were thigh-thick holes in the walls of the caves on both sides, as if they had been dug out by something, and the monkey put his torches into them to inspect them, and found that the walls of the caves were very smooth, and the holes were so dark that they did not know where they led.
"Everyone be careful, these holes don't look like they were dug by people, and human bodies can't get into them." Li Yi reminded.
All five drew their daggers strapped to their legs, and stared at the caves with wary eyes, lest something burst out of the way. While carefully moving forward step by step.
Suddenly, something came from the depths of the cave, a "gurgling" sound, as if something was rubbing against the rocks. Li Yi sat on the ground in fright, Zhou Xiusheng's legs were also weak, and he almost sat down, Mo Jie was a year older after all, and he had more knowledge, although he was also so frightened that his legs trembled, but he didn't fall.
The monkey's face was ugly when he heard the sound, and he stuck the torch in his hand into the gravel to extinguish it, and Mo Jie also extinguished the torch in his hand when he saw that he had learned something, and the hole was suddenly pitch black, and he couldn't see his five fingers.
After the crowd fell silent, the sound was especially distinct, like the sound of something digging and crawling against the walls of the cave. Fortunately, the sound faded away and slowly faded into the distance.
Zhou Xiusheng felt that his heart was beating hard, and the hand holding the dagger was covered with sweat, and this fear of the unknown was infinitely magnified in this dark environment.
The monkey lit the torch again, and cursed in his mouth, "Damn, the people of Group 67 are not afraid, they come in before us, we can't be cowardly, looking at the size of the caves on both sides, it seems to have been dug out by something that is not large, it can't be too powerful." ”
When the people walking behind heard this, they thought that it was reasonable, even if they bumped into that thing, the five of them walked together, each with a dagger in their hands, and they could attack and retreat or run, and they didn't need to be afraid.
After walking some more distance, they didn't see anything unusual, except for rocks and rocks, and they gradually grew bolder, and quickened their pace. The terrain began to slope downwards again, and Zhou Xiusheng felt very uncomfortable walking in the middle, just as he was thinking wildly, he suddenly bumped into Zhang Shaofan who was walking in front with a "bang". It turned out that Zhang Shaofan, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped, and Zhou Xiusheng saw through the gap between Zhang Shaofan and the monkey's bodies that on the ground of the cave in front of them, two black things were crawling, crawling not fast, with their backs to them.
The monkey was taken aback, and subconsciously put down the torch in his hand, and stretched out the arm holding the dagger in front of him, the tip of the knife pointed at the two unknown objects.
"Torches don't have to be extinguished, they're armor-piercings, they don't have eyes." Li Yi, who was walking behind Zhou Xiusheng, had sharp eyes and called out the name of the thing on the ground, "They are not very aggressive, they live by eating ants and insects, but their leather armor is very thick, and their swords are difficult to hurt." ”
"They didn't attack us, we don't care about them, let's fix them in place, and wait for the two armor-piercing beasts to pass before we move forward." Mo Jie said in the back position. The teenagers breathed a sigh of relief and sat down. It had only been about half an hour since they entered the cave, and the tense nerves had made them mentally exhausted at the moment.
"Damn, if I have this beast armor of an armor-piercing beast on my body, Lao Tzu will not be afraid of anything in this cave, and the moon mushroom will be captured." The monkey looked at the armor-piercing beast and said.
Zhang Shaofan smiled and said, "Monkey, then how will you marry a daughter-in-law in the future, you look like an armor-piercing beast, and that woman is still willing to marry you." ”
"Shao Fan, you don't know this, there are really people who have the ability to awaken, and their bodies can be attached to the armor of armor-piercing beasts, and they can come and go like the wind in the ground, which is amazing." Li Yi said.
Mo Jie nodded and said, "Our Federation has a famous legion, the Armor-Piercing Legion, which is stationed in the Burning Fortress all year round to fight against the Imperial Army. One year, they dug a hole in the ground leading to the Imperial Bauhinia Fortress, and nearly broke the enemy's city, making a miraculous achievement. It's a pity that they were unlucky, and they happened to meet the Marquis of Wuxi of the Lionheart Empire to do business in the Bauhinia Fortress, he was a good ear, and the sound of the armor-piercing legion digging in the ground was heard by Wuxi, and the imperial army realized that the city was destroyed and people were killed. ”
The teenagers said that the luck of the Imperial Army was really good, otherwise history would have been rewritten. Li Yi sighed: "There is no strongest ability, only the most reasonable ability." ”
The monkey nodded and said, "I don't know what kind of abilities we will get after awakening?" ”
Mo Jie said: "To think about this question is to ask for trouble, because we, the students of the Awakening School, do not use the domineering ideas of the Federation Legion when we exercise our brains, so the ability to awaken is random. For example, my second uncle was known as the genius of the family when he was young, and when he was 15 years old, his body's nerves and brain domain development were cultivated to the limit and could be awakened. ”
Unexpectedly, after he awakened, he didn't seem to have gained any ability, everyone thought that his awakening failed, but the eight places in his body, such as the value talisman, Teng Snake, Taiyin, Liuhe, White Tiger, Xuanwu, Nine Lands and Nine Heavens, had begun to gather essence, which showed that he had successfully awakened. Later, it was discovered that the ability he had gained only strengthened the sensitivity of his tongue taste buds, and he had no combat power, and in the end he had to become a chef. ”
Li Yi sighed and said: "Awakening ability is a second reincarnation for everyone, and everyone wants to get a powerful ability."
Zhou Xiusheng thought for a while and asked a question: "Why doesn't the Federation promote the idea of the Legion's hegemony, so that everyone can get the powerful ability they want." ”
Mo Jie returned and said, "Ah Xiu, you don't know, everyone has their own personality and natural attributes, so only the ability to awaken freely can be cultivated to the limit. The Confederation Legion's vision is too domineering, and they only awaken the abilities they need. For example, archers, after their contemplation and training, no matter what kind of personality they had before, their ability after awakening must be related to archery, but he will never be able to cultivate this ability to the extreme. ”
After Mo Jie finished speaking, he looked up at the depths of the cave: "Let's not talk about this first, if you want to awaken, let's talk about it when we pass the current level!" ”
The five teenagers rested for a while, picked up the torches and continued to walk deeply, they quickened their pace, and in a short time they came to an open area, and under the light of the torches, a white thing grew on the ground in front of them, which rose and fell like fluff in the wind.
"Moon mushrooms, it's moon mushrooms, a lot of moon mushrooms." Li Yi shouted. Everyone was overjoyed, and after the collection of this piece of moon mushrooms, it was more than enough for each person to allocate one catty.
Mo Jie instructed: "Everyone light the torches, each find a direction to collect, and we will evacuate here immediately after the collection." ”
Zhou Xiusheng lit the torch, walked to the leftmost position, bent down to collect it, the moon mushroom is extremely thin and light, and it takes a lot of effort to collect a catty. Fortunately, the moon mushrooms here have not been collected for many years, and they grow so dense that you can pick a handful with one handful.
After a while, there was a large patch of white on the ground, and a large amount of moon mushrooms were put into the backpacks of the teenagers. Zhou Xiusheng estimated that the moon mushrooms he picked were not enough for a catty, so he walked a few steps and moved to the side of a few small holes pierced by armor-piercing beasts, bent down and continued to pick. Suddenly, he heard the sound of "rustling" from the small hole, so he raised his torch and shone it, only to see a dense number of black ants crawling out of the small hole, each ant was half the size of a person's palm, and he could even see the fluff on the ant's antennae.