Chapter Seventy-Four: Endless Desire
The entrance to the Pit of the Underworld.
In the small stone castle, the gray dwarves stationed here were drunk, and one by one they were lying on the ground snoring.
The only two lizardman warriors who were in charge of the lookout stood on the stone castle, listlessly looking at the gray and misty mine road ahead, and from time to time looked enviously at the four wolf warriors guarding outside the stone castle.
Being sent by the family to garrison here is really an unfortunate thing that did not accumulate virtue in the previous life.
Not to mention the unpredictable dangers in the Pit of the Underworld, these damned grey dwarves, a bunch of bastards who drink all day and swing their hammers when they're drunk. It's ...... to partner with them Bad luck.
The four wolf warriors sent by Shi Meng to pick up Wu Tie here squatted in the corner of the wall, and the weapons were placed in the most convenient position.
They squinted at the gray and misty mines, munching unhurriedly on their jerky.
"That kid, won't die inside, right?" a wolf warrior muttered vaguely: "Anyway, the sixth master said, wait for ten days, if that kid doesn't come out, he won't be able to come out." ”
"When the elders first went in, it only took a few days, ten days?" the other wolf warrior shook his head, he grabbed a handful of jerky and threw it to the nezumi scout who was crouching aside.
"Rat, do you have the courage to go in and investigate, and see if the boy is alive?"
The nezumi scout took the jerky and grinned at the four wolf warriors, revealing two shiny front teeth. He sat on the ground very simply, and put on a posture of 'Lao Tzu would rather die than move'.
The four wolf warriors scoffed at the same time.
In the laughter, there is actually a hint of emptiness.
More than a day ago, there was a loud roar in the mine, and a wave of heat erupted.
This anomaly, I don't know what happened inside the pit.
It's just that whether it's the nezumi scouts, the four wolf warriors, or even the gray dwarves and lizardmen who are responsible for guarding here, they won't venture in. If you die inside, how bad is it?
Anyway, they've just sent the nezumi scout assigned by Stone Castle back to Big Rock City to report the news.
These nerve-wracking and dangerous things should be handled by the big men of the family.
With their mouths open, the four bored fellows who had eaten enough jerky were about to have some fun with the nezumi scout, when their ears suddenly twitched, and at the same time they grabbed the weapons around them and stood up with a skelet.
The nezumi scouts were a little quicker than they did, and when the four wolf warriors stood up, he had already fled to the corner of the stone castle with his dried meat, and disappeared into the dark corner.
Outside the tunnel leading to the Pit of the Underworld, more than a dozen huge limestone lizards with a length of ten meters spit out their long tongues and rushed all the way. On the back of each limestone lizard sat a sturdy old man in a robe, with a powerful figure.
Behind these limestone lizards are more than two hundred fanged hunting spiders.
On the backs of these black, large, wind-swept hunting spiders sat two warriors in armor.
On the back of each hunting spider is a spear-wielding armor in full metal armor, and an archer wearing leather soft armor and holding a longbow.
The heavily armored warriors are responsible for controlling the direction in which the hunting spiders run, while the archers are armed with longbows and look around vigilantly.
The aura of each warrior is quite powerful, their faces are fierce, their eyes are shining, and they are all the top elite choices.
When the group reached the entrance of the mine, a dozen old men jumped off the back of the limestone lizard, and stood there silently. Then nearly five hundred elite warriors drove the hunting spiders to rush over, and scolded the hunting spiders to form a neat formation, lined up behind these old men.
The group stood motionless and did not make a sound, except for the occasional graystone lizard shaking its head and spitting out long letters and hissing gasps.
The four wolf warriors cautiously walked out of the mine with their weapons in hand.
Seeing these people standing outside the mine, the four wolf warriors shuddered, walked to an old man standing at the front, knelt on one knee, and saluted the old man respectfully: "Elder." ”
The old man is quite burly, with a height of about two meters and four or five, his skeleton is extremely thick, and the visible bones and joints on his body are high and bulging, and his body exudes a wild and domineering arrogant atmosphere.
It's just clear that he's not young.
His muscles were still bulging, but his skin was covered in brown age spots, and in many parts of his face, the skin had drooped.
In particular, his hair is a withered pale yellow, revealing the smell of decay that can only be found by withered weeds.
His eyes were also cloudy, the whites of his eyes were slightly yellow, revealing a hint of black, and countless fine blood colors were covered on them, lifeless without any luster at all.
"What are you doing here?" the old man asked the four wolf warriors as he looked down at them.
The four wolf clan warriors lowered their heads, not daring to hide anything in the slightest, and told Shi Meng about letting them take over Wu Tie here. They even told the old man that Wu Tie was not very old, but he was a Yuan mage, and he had already mastered the power of wind and fire.
"Teenage Yuan Mage?" the old man's cloudy eyes moved slightly: "It's really enviable...... It's not his talent, it's his age. ”
"In his teens, Master Yuan, in the future, he can break through to the extremely high realm of the Chonglou realm...... Even, he was able to get a glimpse of the realm above the heavy building realm. ”
"It's really enviable to be young. ”
"Young flesh, full of vitality, youthful breath...... These things...... When we once had, we didn't feel cherished, and until we were about to lose it, we didn't know the preciousness of life. ”
The old man muttered to himself: "However, to be able to be favored by the sixth child, he is a talent...... Since it is a talent, and it is not the talent of the Shi family, it must be used boldly. ”
The four wolf warriors looked up at the old man in ignorance.
Why isn't it 'the Shi family's own talents, but even more boldly used'?
In this world, shouldn't each family be based on their own talents, and rare resources should be used on their own families?
"You know what. The old man looked at the four wolf warriors and snorted coldly.
A wolf warrior was a little smarter, he grinned and smiled at the old man, "Is the elder here for the mutation in the pit just now?"
Sticking out his long tongue and licking his nose, the wolf warrior grinned: "It was so scary just now, with a 'boom', the whole mine was shaking, and a lot of stones fell down...... Hey, and then there was a stream of hot air that roasted our hairs. ”
The old man's eyes moved slightly, he looked at the wolf warrior, and was about to ask him more news, he turned back sharply, and saw that a team of about 100 people had reached a hundred meters away.
These people have no mounts and rely entirely on their own feet to get there.
But they jumped up and down one by one, pulling out afterimages behind them, and there was a faint black mist surrounding their bodies.
These people ran silently, and even their figures were hazy, as if they had blended into the dim surroundings. With the old man's cultivation, it was only within a hundred meters that they found out about their approach.
The old man's two dry eyebrows, which had almost fallen off, trembled, and muttered in a low voice, "First Order, you came so quickly." ”
A team of more than 100 people wearing black tight-fitting soft armor and black metal masks, and several people wearing black cloaks stopped a hundred meters away. Only a man in a cloak walked slowly to this side, and walked up to the old man step by step.
Lifting the hood of the cloak with both hands, an old man with white hair, who looked a little older than the elder of the Shi family, grinned and said softly: "We, not far from your Big Stone City...... After receiving the news, he naturally rushed to full speed. ”
"Plus, I'm now the Commander of the Mist Blade. The old man coughed a few times, and smiled at the elder of the Shi family: "So, the first palm order is called ...... It's going to be changed. ”
"Well, Commander, you're coming quickly, that's good. Elder Shi pointed to the mine and said in a deep voice, "What's going on in this demon mine, I think you know it." There's movement here...... Maybe it was the birth of a heavy treasure. ”
The chief commander laughed brightly, revealing two rows of gums that had almost disappeared.
A hint of saliva flowed from the corner of his mouth...... He's so old that his body can't control small details like 'drooling' very well.
"Maybe it's some kind of demon that has come out...... It doesn't matter, though. The chief commander rubbed his hands happily: "The deputy sect leader is very interested in these things, whether it is a treasure or a demon, in short, give the contents to the deputy sect master, we will definitely get a reward......
The body of the chief commander trembled slightly, and he looked at the elder of the Shi family and muttered in a low voice: "If you don't lose your life vitality anymore, maybe you can still have decades to suffer...... I can't do it, I'm going to have to cry in three years at most......"
"The Immortal Sect's Immortal Secret Technique, I must obtain the Immortal Sect's Immortal Secret Technique!" the Chief Commander grinned, and two pieces of saliva flowed down from the corners of his mouth, falling on the placket of his clothes, soaking a small piece of clothing.
The elder of the Shi family looked at the entrance of the mine with a thick look of fear.
After a long while, he said in a low voice, "That's what I thought too...... It's just that I've seen the horrors inside...... That's why I asked you to explore the damn mine. ”
"If it's good......," Elder Shi pointed to the general commander.
"You and I share. It's a matter of course. The chief commander smiled brighter and brighter, and more saliva kept flowing out of his mouth: "I am not a person who eats alone...... It's just that why don't you see those brothers of yours?"
The elder of the Shi family didn't say anything, but just strode towards the entrance of the mine.
The chief commander nodded slowly: "It turns out that you are a person who eats alone. Hehe. ”
The four wolf warriors who were kneeling on one knee looked at their elders blankly, and then looked at the commander.
After a long time, their simple brains figured out what was going on, and they stood up suddenly, looked at the Shi family elder in horror and exclaimed, "Elder, you...... You ......"
The Chief Commander giggled.
Behind the four wolf warriors, a black shadow flashed respectively.
In a flash of cold light, the four wolf warriors suddenly froze, blood spurted from their mouths, their bodies shook a few times, and they fell heavily to the ground.
The commander waved his hand, and nearly half of the subordinates who followed him here had a blurred body, slowly blending into patches of black smoke and hiding near the entrance of the cave.
With more than fifty subordinates, with a hint of eagerness, he quickly broke into the mine.
Among the more than 500 soldiers who came here with the elder of the Shi family, nearly 200 soldiers were also left to guard outside the mine, and the other soldiers lined up in a neat line and strode into the mine.
Among the Shi family warriors who remained outside the mine, several warrior leaders let out a sharp whistle.
More than a dozen limestone lizards were suddenly lined up outside the mine, blocking the entrance to the mine.
More than 200 fanged hunting spiders climbed the rock wall and hid in the shadows high above the rock wall. There are also some fanged hunting spiders hiding in the mushroom bushes and fern forests not far away, curling up their long wrists and feet, and only their eyes glow faintly in the shadows.
Cave **, the fog knife killer brought by the general commander is advancing rapidly.
The drunken gray dwarves in the stone castle were wiped out before they could react, and the two lizardman archers were also easily killed by these killers before they could grab their weapons.
The elder of the Shi family and the chief commander walked side by side towards the depths of the gray mist mine road step by step.
The viscous gray mist wound around them like countless spider webs.
A wind blew in front of them, and the cold and biting wind made the two of them frown subconsciously.
But in the waves of cold winds, there are waves of heat waves.
The cold wind and heat wave almost coexisted, and the Shi family elder and the chief commander suddenly laughed happily.
"I can feel a very powerful force ahead. The chief commander smiled happily: "It's just that these gray fog and yin wind are too annoying." ”
The elder of the Shi family took a deep breath, he flipped his palm, and a little light rose from his palm, the lamp exploded, and a bronze lamp with a simple and strange shape appeared in his hand out of thin air.
"Djinn lamp. The elder of the Shi family glanced at the chief commander with pride: "Our Shi family is good at opening up ore veins and digging tunnels...... It is inevitable to hit the ground with miasma and poisonous gas that have accumulated for countless years. ”
"This giant spirit lamp is the bloodline treasure of the giant clan. The elder of the Shi family smiled proudly: "I am the best at dispersing all kinds of cold and poisonous gases. ”
The lights suddenly turned on, and a cloud of heat spread out in all directions, and the fog in the mine exploded, and the yin wind was blown away.
The chief commander's eyes flickered, and he took a deep look at the giant spirit lamp: "What a baby...... In fact, if nothing is found this time, it is also excellent to dedicate this treasure to the deputy sect leader. ”
The elder of the Shi family was silent.
The group walked step by step, step by step, to the demon mine.