Chapter 117: The Past
Yuan Di and the others searched for their way back to the hall along the passage of the underground ruins.
With the existence of Snyk's humanoid tank, and the protection of a group of corpses, all kinds of monsters that appeared along the way were easily killed by a few people.
[Guodian] looked at Yuan Di with envy, especially whenever Yuan Di's corpse killed an incoming monster, the frequency of the soul fire in his eyes would speed up, and the long sword in his hand subconsciously made a few marks on the ground.
[Guodian] I really wanted to ask Yuan Di if he could leave a few monsters for himself with rubbing experience, but he thought about how he was just embarrassed before, so he had to hold back.
Although the passages of the underground ruins extend in all directions, and there is no map in the hands of several people, it is inevitable that they will go the wrong way, but as long as they go to the place where the magic power is getting weaker and weaker, it is okay.
After all, the magic ban can only happen in the depths of the underground ruins, and the hall above has no restrictions on magic power at all, otherwise, Sneik would not have faced the attack of the two legions in the hall above with such brilliant results.
When a few people walked into the hall, they found that Thompson had completely won the battle.
The defeated gnomes are surrounded in the middle by the "Thompsons". One arm was tied behind his back, and one of them stomped the dwarf under his feet.
The appearance of Yuan Di and the others broke the silence in the hall, and both the dwarfs who were tied to the ground and the victorious Thompsons turned their heads to look at them.
"I didn't expect you to climb up so quickly, it seems that the guy who just left has been dealt with by you."
The leader Thompson looked at Yuan Di and said nonchalantly.
"Would you like to hear a story about us?" Another Thompson walked over.
"Don't be in a hurry to refuse, I'm sure you'll be curious." Thompson, who couldn't tell what number it was, kicked the dwarf on the ground hard and brought it to several people.
"I believe you can see that here and outside are not the same world, and we and you are not creatures of the same world. No, I should say that I don't belong to the same world as you now, after all, I used to be a gold digger who broke into here. ”
Thompson, who was the leader, spread out his hands, signaling that he had no malicious intent, and then sat on the bone seat formed before Yuan Di and the others fell, stretched out one foot and trampled the dwarf under his feet, leaned back lightly, looked at the top of his head with his glasses, and said:
"First of all, let me introduce myself, I used to be a member of the human race, a gold digger who broke in without permission, unlike those kobolds outside, I just broke into here for the countless treasures that appeared here.
And then I apologize for what happened to you. We have no ill intentions, we simply don't want you to interfere with our plans for revenge. And thank you for being there, because it was your presence that brought me out of the warehouse and in front of you to make a small advertisement for the game "Plants vs. Zombies". ”
Yuan Di stretched out his hand and motioned for him to pause first, and then he took out a large number of snacks from his backpack, including popcorn, cola, beer, melon seeds, and peanuts, and then distributed them to [Guodian], Donna and others around him, and even prepared a large roast chicken for Sneike, peeled off the outer package and handed it to Sneike.
"Alright, Mr. Thompson, you can get on with your story."
Then he took out a few small benches from his schoolbag and distributed them to the others one by one. It's a pity that according to the physique of Snaike. There was no suitable bench for him to sit on, so he could only sit on the ground aggrievedly.
"You probably see the rooms below, and I don't know what you think about it, but you probably don't know what it's for."
"Experiments, biochemical experiments."
Yuan Di answered Thompson's question as he chewed the food in his mouth.
"Well, how do you know?" Thompson, who sat in the skeletal seat, was a little confused.
"It seems that you were not a high-level person in your lifetime."
Yuan Di handed Donna a bag of tomato-flavored potato chips to his side, and took out half a bag of shredded squid from his backpack, of course, they were all pirated knockoffs.
But it's not bad, anyway, the weird shelves in my store haven't changed up any good things, only these snacks appear every day, and Yuan Di can't finish them, so he collects them all and keeps them until now.
Seeing Thompson on the other side, he was a little puzzled, Yuan Di pouted his fingers, and then said: "Isn't it just an experiment, as if no one has ever seen it, the big guys have seen a lot of these things." ”
Donna on the side nodded, and then Yuan Di's words said:
"Indeed, although I haven't encountered this kind of thing, there are indeed a lot of biochemical experiments in the clan, some of which were studied by Grandpa and Hall's predecessors together, and even Grandpa also provided the alien corpses in the original battle to Hall's seniors in exchange for the support of a large number of Yellow Sand Legions."
Lola, who was eating happily, nodded in agreement, but her small mouth stuffed with snacks couldn't say a word.
Hearing what Donna said, Yuan Di was stunned for a moment, he really didn't know that the uncle who sold fritters next door had done this kind of thing.
In fact, Yuan Di didn't know these things, he just thought of himself from those somewhat disgusting experiments in the ruins.
You must know that when Yuan Di led his group of corpses around the underground ruins, the most he saw were organs and corpses soaked in various containers, and even some humanoids actually had some plant tissues growing on their bodies.
It's not hard to guess what this ruin does.
But he really didn't expect that the honest man next door who sells fritters every day would actually do this kind of thing.
Just when Yuan Di was stunned, a voice came from Monica's position behind him:
"What's this? Isn't it just an experiment? When Her Royal Highness the Princess didn't promulgate the "Treaty of Harmonious Coexistence", our underground world was much more cruel than this, how long did it take to calm down and forget? Young people nowadays, it's too much to stand up. ”
Even if Monica ate a strong spicy strip, it didn't damage her elegance at all, and her beautiful face actually blushed when she saw Yuan Di's gaze shift.
"What, you're blushing?"
Yuan Di asked without thinking when he saw Monica's performance.
"Can you still see her blushing?"
Donna, who was eating tomato-flavored potato chips, felt a little uncomfortable and couldn't help but taunt a few words.
This sentence made the dark elves and Yuan Di a little embarrassed, Yuan Di didn't know how to answer this sentence, and Monica couldn't think of how to refute it, after all, her skin color and Donna's fair and gorgeous skin formed a very big contrast, you must know that ten thousand years ago, the dark elves were contemptuously called "black skin" by other races.
Monica, who thought about it for a long time and couldn't find a good rebuttal, had to reply weakly:
"Isn't black and red also red?"
Then he stopped talking, hid behind Yuan Di and ate the spicy strips he was holding in his right hand slightly, and his left hand secretly climbed onto Yuan Di's shoulder slightly, and gently rubbed Yuan Di's side with his fingers.
And Yuan Di couldn't help but think, according to what Monica just said, could it be that her real lifespan is greater than 10,000 years old?
Yuan Di's mind immediately raised the image of a gray-haired old woman, and he suddenly felt that the hand stroking around his body was extremely uncomfortable.
"What are you guys doing!"
Thompson, who was sitting on the bone seat, couldn't help but cry out angrily when he saw the difference between Yuan Di and the others below, and several other "Thompson No. 2", "Thompson No. 3", "Thompson No. 4" and "Thompson No. 5" around him also glared at Yuan Di and them.
Seeing that there was a faint possibility of eruption on the opposite side, Sneik stood up suddenly, this is not the depths of the experimental ruins of the forbidden magic power below, and the four-armed snake demon without the slightest restriction does not feel that this guy with a somewhat subtle strength on the opposite side is his opponent.
As for Monica, the dark elf who is also at the peak of the mortal stage, doesn't seem to have the slightest movement, and is still silently seducing Yuan Di, but the stone slab under her feet that was cracked by her slight force proves that it is not so simple.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, you go on, and we'll listen."
Yuan Di arched his hand to Thompson apologetically, and then sat on the small bench in a proper manner, and at the same time signaled Monica and Sneike around him to relax, don't provoke each other early, then there will be no play.
Seeing Yuan Di showing weakness slightly, Thompson, who was sitting on the bone seat, calmed down for some reason, sat back calmly, and continued to speak:
"That's right, I was only the lowliest kind of gold digger in my life, unlike those damned kobolds, no one forced me into the Jackal Valley, and if it weren't for the valuable treasures in the ruins, I wouldn't have come in and died."
Thompson's rotten face, sitting on the seat made of bones, was full of memories, and even the four remaining guys around him had this expression:
"Later, I accidentally broke into here, but I didn't expect this to be the beginning of our nightmare!"
At this point, Thompson's face was filled with fear.
"Unlike when you came in, there was no danger at all, and there were even plenty of shelves and some otherworldly items that had turned to dust. We thought it was a little bit of an important place, just like the market, but it hasn't been discovered yet.
A few of my companions and I met here had been able to get a lot of rewards for the simple things we picked up here, and if only I could have stopped at the time, after all, those rewards had made my life much better than before. ”
For the first time, a smile appeared on Thompson's face, but the smile on his withered face was chilling.
"Well, excuse me, please don't laugh yet, you smiling child is easy to fall asleep at night when you see it."
Yuan Di couldn't help but interrupt Thompson's memories and weakly reminded him.
It's weird that Thompson didn't react at all, so easily bypassed the topic, and really didn't laugh anymore.
"Sleep, I haven't slept in years."
Thompson, who sighed like this, continued to tell his story.
"Of course, these big forces of ours can't look down on us, and a few scattered people can't rob us, so there have always been a few of us excavators here.
Later, as we dug deeper, it gradually became wrong. ”
Thompson's face gradually became serious, and there was a faint fear in it.
"As we excavated, we explored more and more in this ruin, so from the very beginning of the group exploration to a group of one or two people.
At the beginning, there were people who were injured by all kinds of accidents, some weird plants would bite people, and some passages would collapse without warning, but it wasn't a big injury, and after a long time in the Jackal Valley, who hasn't been injured a few times.
But then it was different, people began to go missing, and no one paid too much attention to it at first, after all, exploring the ruins is dangerous, and our gains are getting bigger and bigger, and the disappearance of a few people is far from the rich harvest.
And there are already a few small forces eyeing here, which has caused us to be under more pressure, and everyone has accelerated the pace of exploration, and we must get enough harvest before more forces turn their attention here, how can we, the lowly gold diggers, rob these forces. ”
Thompson changed his posture and sat up straight to look at Yuan Di, who was listening to the story.
"Later, there were more and more such cases, and even the partner who was lying next to you the night before would wake up the next day and disappear strangely, and you had no choice but to stand there helplessly, praying in vain that bad luck would not come the next night."
"I have a question." Hearing this, Yuan Di raised one of his hands and asked as if he was answering a question in class, "Since the situation is so critical, why don't you leave?" Logically enough, isn't it? ”
Hearing Yuan Di's question, Thompson was stunned for a moment, and then shook his head.
"I can't get out, I can't get out at all."
Without waiting for Yuan Di to continue to ask Thompson, he said to himself:
"At that time, we went too deep into the ruins, and we were followed by those small forces, and after they decided to explore this place as well, they blocked our retreat, after all, no one is more familiar with this place than us, and with the presence of our people, they can reduce their losses.
After all, these forces are not much stronger than us, but we gold diggers are too loose and cannot unite at all, so we can't fight these forces head-to-head. ”
Thompson shook his head and motioned for Yuan Di not to interrupt him again.
"After that, some people took refuge in those forces, and all known retreats were occupied, and we were driven like pigs into the depths of the ruins.
And there, too, is the beginning of our nightmare! ”