Chapter 39: The Underground Inland Sea
The night after the wheat was planted, the half-elf had just fallen asleep in the pit when the heavy footsteps of the minotaur woke him up again. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Captain," Oripas grumbled unhappily, "it's rude to disturb someone's sleep, do you know?" ”
"Then you just go ahead and lie down." The chief greeted, "I have opened the tunnel leading to the underground water source, and those who want to drink water will follow me." ”
"Wait, wait......" In the blink of an eye, there was only one shaman left in the dark tunnel, "Dead bull head, play this hand with me again, you know that you are afraid of ghosts who bully me!" ”
Time passed little by little, and finally, Olipas couldn't stand the loneliness in the darkness and chased after him quickly, "Brothers, wait for me!" ”
However, he never managed to catch up with everyone's group, and after seven or eight turns, he suddenly came to his senses, "Wait, why do I have to go down, don't you just go to the ground for one night?" ”
But at this time, the half-elf turned back again, and could not find the right way to the ground, and turned around in the dark corridor for a long time, until he bumped into a certain body, and then felt a little relieved, "Which brother is this, I'll spend the night with you tonight, okay?" ”
Slowly stretched out his hand to caress him, but the touch was a cold skeleton, and Olipas suddenly remembered the army of undead laborers under the command of the Minotaur, and his breathing stopped for a moment. The skeleton slowly turned around, and the two green pupils in its eyes suddenly lit up, causing the half-elf to scream in fright, and Mithril smashed it desperately with his left hand, until the entire skeleton was completely dismantled, and then he stopped panting.
"Tell you to scare me, tell you to scare me!" The shaman vented viciously, and suddenly noticed the arm he had just used, "This thing seems to be a really good thing, it doesn't hurt at all to smash it so hard......"
"Smack!" A hand slapped on the half-elf's shoulder, so frightened that his heart almost jumped to his throat, "What dares to touch me?" Mithril pushed back hard with her left arm, adding a light spell.
"Ah, it's Xiaoyou." The Governor breathed a sigh of relief, "Please, don't be scared if you're okay?" ”
"I heard you've dug up the water, haven't you?" Xiao Youyou asked with a smile.
"Oh, you're so well informed." The half-elf froze, "Why, you are also thirsty and want to go down and drink water?" ”
"Yes, the Governor is so clever that he can't hide anything from you." Xiao You looked admiring, "Then, please take us civilians to find water to drink, sir." ”
"Well, it's my duty to take care of the people," Oripas remembered who he was, but quickly hung his head again, "I don't know the way, captain, they've been walking for a long time." ”
"It's okay, Amadero can lead the way," Xiao Yu pointed to the green-haired girl, "Lord Governor, you just need to take care of us civilians along the way." ”
"That's fine," the Governor immediately straightened his chest, "with the wisdom of Lord Ben, you won't be in any danger." ”
"Brother," seeing the half-elf following Amadeiro majestically leading the way in front, Xiaoxing pulled his brother's sleeve, "Why did you pull him into the team?" ”
"Be cannon fodder," Xiao Yu replied lightly, "If there is any danger, let him test it first, and we should be a little more prepared." ”
"Isn't there a brigade of minotaurs in front of you to test it?" The two of them also came up and asked, "We just need to follow behind secretly, why expose this half-elf." ”
"Second sister, that minotaur has already taken a fork in the road," Fu'er explained on the side, "and they can also find a branch source on that road, but the location of the artifact is in another place. ”
Amadero's flowing golden light is a good illumination tool, and although the range of the divergence is not large, it is enough for the half-elf to see under his feet. Unconsciously, after walking through dozens of forks in the road, Oripas suddenly found that he was no longer walking on a dirt road, but instead with a hard stampede.
"It's really a natural stone cave down here," the milky white corridor has a good reflective effect, reflecting the golden shimmer emitted by Amadeiro more clearly, and the half-elf touched the stone wall, and felt a little wet on his fingers, "The water is not far away, it's fast, it's fast, this governor will be able to quench your thirst soon." ”
These seemingly naturally formed stone tunnels were more complex than the underground palace tunnels dug by the Minotaurs, and although Oripas felt the moisture on the walls getting wetter and wetter, he stumbled and turned many turns without seeing any water source. Just when he was a little discouraged, his feet slipped uncontrollably, and he quickly fell into a sloping pit that suddenly appeared, and by the time he touched the ground again and stopped, he was already dizzy.
Getting up, the half-elf found that Amadeiro was missing from his side, and in a fit of nervousness, he immediately used his Mithril arm to illuminate again.
"Ahh Auripas wiped his eyes with his fingers in surprise, almost in disbelief what he was seeing. At this time, it was no longer a narrow stone wall, and a wide open space appeared in front of me, and there was no end in sight. A high stone dome hung above, and countless sharp stalagmites hung down, faintly flashing with a milky white glow.
"Your Excellency, we have arrived." Xiao Yu patted his shoulder again, startling the half-elf again.
"Hey, don't you always show up next to me, okay?" Olipas said angrily, "Wait, you just said that we got to the water source, how do you know?" ”
"Don't you see a hole in the top of the rock?" The Governor followed Xiao You's finger and did see a hole, "I saw it, what does that mean?" ”
"This is the deep hole that Amadeiro pierced last time." The green-haired girl followed, and the little golden beast squeaked and ran forward, and the half-elf remembered his duty to lead the way, and had to follow quickly.
After four or five miles, the half-elf could no longer see the surrounding stone walls, and there was no boundless ground around him, and if it were not for the dome formed by the stone walls above his head, he would almost think that he was in the wilderness and not underground.
A splash of water hit his legs, causing the distracted Oripas to stop in a hurry. A pool of water was in front of him, and when the light was cast again, the bright light of the water reflected and stretched endlessly, making it impossible to see the opposite shore at all.
"This pond is so big." The two of them exclaimed.
"Maybe it's not supposed to be a pond," Xiaoxing said hesitantly.
"It could be a lake," Xiao Yu continued.
"Or, maybe it's an inland sea ......," Xiaoqing sighed.
"Well, the three of you must be the most accurate in judging the size of this body of water." Fu'er hugged Amadeiro up, "What's next?" ”
"Aren't you here to drink water, can't you just drink it, what are you asking?" After walking for a long time, the very thirsty half-elf didn't care about others, so he directly leaned down and poured water into his mouth, "Hey, why is this water a little salty?" ”
"Sometimes groundwater has a higher mineral content than surface sources." Xiao Yu stretched out his finger and dipped it a little, and licked it gently, "This taste...... It's seawater, that's right, it's seawater. ”
"Is the sea salty?" Oripas asked curiously.
"You don't even know such simple common sense?"
"I've never been to the beach, so how do I know what the sea tastes like."
“…… Listen, the countless rivers on land eventually flow into the ocean, and these currents pass through various soil and rock formations, carry some salt, and flow into the sea as well. The sea water is evaporating all the time under the sun, but the salt remains, so the concentration is getting higher and higher, and the sea water begins to become salty. ”
"Uh-huh, well, it's better to drink with a little saltiness." The half-elf continued to pour water into his mouth unconcernedly.
"Perhaps, but in a few hundred thousand years, the saltiness of the sea will probably be too thick to quench thirst."
"But how can there be a sea in the depths of the earth?" The two asked curiously.
"Perhaps, there is a hidden passage in the strata below that leads to the distant bottom of the sea." Fuer guessed that Amadeiro squeaked twice in agreement.
"Boom", the water surface suddenly parted, and several large nets emerged and quickly scattered to everyone. However, except for the half-elf who was drinking water, he was caught off guard and was trapped, and the remaining five net pockets flew halfway up, but they were reversed back at the same speed.
"Wow!" "Wow!" A series of frightened voices rang out, and several monsters entangled in nets jumped out of the water and struggled wildly. Soon after, they suddenly opened their mouths and shot a black light from each other, and as soon as they hit their companion's body, the net rope was immediately loosened.
"Hehe, the unbinding technique is pretty good," Xiaoxing laughed.
These monsters are all dressed in black robes, and their entire heads are completely black fish heads, and there is also a black fish tail under them, the only thing similar to humanoids is the hands that resemble fish fins.
"Kuroshio Devilfish?" Xiao Qing said lightly, "They can be regarded as the mages of the deep-sea fishmen, and they are also the most cunning, the most insidious, the most stoic, and the most patient......
The fishmen shouted strange words for a while, and then swam quickly with a swing of their tails, and an extra wooden staff in their hands was smashed as a big stick.
"Individual," Xiaoxing praised, "Sister, how do I feel that they are very brave and have the demeanor of a barbarian mage?" ”
"Maybe these are the freaks of the Kuroshio Mobfish?" The two of them said in deep thought.
These brave fish-man mages suddenly found that they were blocked by a wall of ice, and they held their staff and shouted again, and many black rays of light came from the head of the staff, which immediately shattered the ice wall, and then charged forward again with great momentum.
"Alas, I really don't hit the iron wall and don't look back." Xiao Qing sighed, and a fan-shaped white light emanated from his fingertips, penetrating into the fish-man's body, and immediately turned them into sluggish statues.
"Xiaoxing, the mental state of these fishmen seems to be very abnormal, you can find one to check and see if you can ask some clues."
"Okay," Xiaoxing walked over to a fish-man, flicked its skull, and chanted a hypnotic spell that controlled the recipient to reveal the secrets in his heart.
"I am the greatest Kuroshio, I am the greatest mage, I am the strong man who controls the past and the future......"
"Sister," Xiaoxing shouted back, "it seems that its brain has long been broken, and its subconscious voice is also babbling." ”
"You say you're the strongest?" Xiao Yu came over and touched its forehead to make sure it didn't have a fever, "Why do you say that?" ”
"I have the most powerful magic weapon that allows me to do everything, even become a god."
"What treasure?"
"I won't tell you!" The fish-man laughed silly, "I would never say anything about the fact that the magic treasure is hidden in the deepest part of the water. ”
"Well, you're really good at keeping secrets." Xiao Yu kicked it back underwater.
"Let's go out into the water and see." Xiaoqing made a decision.
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