Chapter 6: The Cave Guide (I)

Higg wanted to calm down, but he couldn't calm down. Everything today is so sudden, too weird. Andrew's anomaly, werewolf's irritability, mudslide madness, just happened in a matter of hours. In the afternoon after the rain, he was still haggling with people in the market, and he was drinking with Andrew at night, and it was not long ago that werewolves, who had never had contact with him, launched a surprise attack on the town and himself.

First of all, it seems that Andrew has something to hide from himself, that's for sure.

Secondly, the werewolf's attack on the town and itself was by no means an accidental werewolf madness on a full moon night, but premeditated. Because if it were an accident, it would not be possible for so many werewolves not to pursue others, but only themselves, and not to pursue the pursuit of idle werewolves, but to conduct organized and large-scale military operations.

Hehe, I have never felt that my life is so valuable, and I should cherish it.

After thinking about it, Higg returned to reality, in the completely isolated dark pit, how to find the entrance from this exit is the key, without tools, if you want to dig this exit out, you can't do it, and there is still this danger hidden in the tunnel, there is no way to know, the unknown danger is the most terrifying.

Tunnel 4 is an abandoned gold mine that ended its mining mission hundreds of years ago, and it is unknown how many absenteeism are wandering in the tunnel. The reason why the mouth of this pit was not filled is said to have been garrisoned and used as a military warehouse during the Hundred Years' War.

Having simply treated the wound, Higg needed a break to regain his physical strength and magic. With no magic and no torches, Higg could only find a relatively flat place in the dark and sit down to rest. He didn't dare to take off his armor and boots, because there were too many dangers today.

Leaning against the pit wall, Higg gradually fell asleep, he was too tired.

When I woke up, I don't know what time it was, and there was no difference between the same pitch black and before going to bed. Higg healed himself with a little bit of regained magic, which was Pastor Andrew's signature trick at the mosque, and he used this trick to trick many people into believing in his gods.

Moving forward in the dark is not the way to go, Higg begins to miss the baggage he threw away, there are things he must have for survival in the wild, now there is no light, no water and food, no eyes, where the way out is unknown, whether the danger is unknown or not, this is the current situation that Higg needs to face now.

There are more ways than difficulties, but for now, you need to recover your mana quickly. Higg began to meditate, slowly recovering his mana, he needed mana to cast a fire bead magic for lighting, this magic does not cost much mana, but each spell can only last for more than ten minutes, I don't know how long it will take to find the exit.

Recovering mana through meditation is very slow.

After about three hours, Higg felt some magic regain, and began to cast small orbs of fire in his left hand and dagger in his right hand to find his way. The tunnel of the No. 4 pit passes through the garrison, and the stacking of the material warehouse is still relatively spacious, but the garrison and the stacking of materials only occupy a small part of the long tunnel, and the further it extends, the longer the traces of human beings have been.

It took more than an hour to walk more than 1,000 meters, except for the gradual reduction of human traces, there is no other change in the tunnel, after several tunnel intersections, Higg is going up, Hig judged, the general pit is excavated from top to bottom, but it is difficult to judge whether there is any other exit down, if there is no other exit, the more dangerous the tunnel is, so it is wisest to go out from the entrance, and as long as you insist on going uphill, you will definitely find the first opening of the tunnel.

After traveling more than a thousand meters, he came to a tunnel intersection again, through the faint light, Higg found that this intersection was very special, it was a pit hall, there were at least five pit intersections in this hall, and what made Higg depressed was that all the pits were downhill, not uphill. Higg is very confused, here, any experience of survival in the wild can not be learned, except for the passage when you come, there are four other passages to choose from, if you are lucky, you can go out, and if you are unlucky, you will go straight to the abyss.

Suddenly, there was a squeaking sound overhead, and Higg increased the light of the fire beads and looked at the ceiling, and he couldn't help but feel creepy. I saw that the ceiling and high walls were covered with black bats, and they were restless under the influence of Higg. Fortunately, it was an ordinary bat, and Higg had no malicious intent, no longer alarming the bat, and continued to look for clues to get out.

There was no way, he had to get out of this place quickly, Higg chose to start the first way to try out from the left side of the passage he entered, and every time he walked into the passage, the bats in the hall behind him suddenly stirred and squeaked. What alarmed the bat colony? Higg thought about it, and always felt that it was dangerous, that something that could affect the bat swarm in the pit must be dangerous, and curiosity killed people, so it was better to be nosy and move on.

Suddenly, Higg noticed something approaching behind him, and Higg turned around and shone it with a bead of fire, and saw seven or eight things hunched over, with short legs and short arms, and holding a fork in their right hand.

"Cavemen!" Higg almost exclaimed, this is a specialty of the abandoned tunnel. It is said that it is a cave man, but it is actually a frog with intelligence, living in the depths of the cave, and its eyes have completely degenerated, so it is also called blind, but it has the same sound wave detection ability as bats, and feeds on reptiles, bats, and insects in the tunnel.

I didn't expect that just jumped out of the tiger's den and entered the wolf's den, it was really unfavorable, and I became a captive in a blink of an eye. Higg put away his dagger, showing that he had no ill intentions. It's irrational to fight with such a blind man in the tunnel, at least not until you find a way out, this low-IQ creature has a very poor combat effectiveness, but it has an extremely strong reproductive ability, and the ghost only knows how many cave people will be recruited after doing it with them, this kind of thing is extremely fast in the cave.

The cavemen pointed at Sig with their forks and screamed, and then the two cavemen stepped forward and took away Sig's dagger and the short knife, but they were not interested in the bow of the tree elf, nor did they take off their armor and boots, and it seemed that it was still difficult to read without eyes.

Higg didn't resist, these cave people should have no leader, just a few patrolling sentinels who heard the noise in the bat hall and rushed over. Escorting Higg back to the Bat Hall, the strange thing is that the bat, although agitated, did not fly away.

One of the cavemen pointed to the right-hand side of the mouth of the pit where Higg had come, and motioned for Higg to go inside. Instead of entering the pit as instructed, Higg pointed to the wound on his body, indicating that he needed healing. The cavemen were not reluctant either, because in front of them were a swarm of delicious bats, three of the cavemen surrounded Higg, and the others went to catch the bats.

Higg began to sit down and meditate, trying to regain some magic as much as he could. From the time he entered the hall to the present, Higg had received several pieces of information, and gradually found the passage to the outside world.

The first piece of information is that the caveman's lair is in the pit that the caveman signaled Higg to enter just now, ruling out the possibility that this passage is an exit.

The second piece of information, the bat colony appears here, it should not be far from the outside world, because the bats are going out to hunt, and they will not be too far from the exit, far from the exit, which means that they are far away from the nest of the cave people, and their nest will only be built in the deepest tunnels.

The third piece of information: it should be daytime outside, otherwise the bats will not fly away when they are caught by the cavemen.

The fourth message is crucial, and thanks to bats, Higg finally no longer has an aversion to bats, because this lovely creature will be his guide, so that he will no longer have to worry about which passage to go out, and when night falls, when the bats go out to hunt, they will fly out of the pit in the shortest distance.

It finally became clear to Higg that what was needed now was to delay, to wait until the night came.

I just don't know what time of day it is outside, but Higg can calculate that it should be afternoon. It was dark night when he first entered the cave, and he began to fall asleep after treating the wound, which happened to be the time when he usually fell asleep, so when he woke up, it should also be the time when he usually got up. Then I woke up and healed for about two hours, and it took about three hours to meditate, and it was already afternoon. It took more than three hours to crawl and roll in the tunnel, and it was late in the summer, but it is estimated that it will be dark after more than three hours, and now it depends on how to drag it out for more than three hours.

Higg is tormenting, so are the bats, and they're all waiting for the night to come. In order to conserve his mana, Higg reduced the brightness of the orb of fire, keeping only his side vigilant and avoiding the disgusting scene of the caveman hunting bats. After more than half an hour, several cave people who had eaten returned satisfied, and changed to the three guards of Higg to eat.

It's not good to go on like this, and when they're all done eating, it's at least two hours before it gets dark, what should we do? In the depths of this cave, the cave people have no natural predators, although they are not good at digging pits, but they are good at occupying abandoned tunnels and multiplying in large numbers, and the amount of food is the key to controlling the number of their people.

It's a pity that I don't have the money to buy magic scrolls, otherwise I can buy a few magic scrolls that specialize in summoning elemental people, at least you can confuse these blind people, or a few earth-shaking scrolls, or you can collapse the lair passage of the cave people, and you can lock them up for at least a few hours for the time being, and when these frogs who are not good at digging holes are opened, they will already run away, haha! Higg began to get obsessed, although these magic skills Higg is recorded in Andrew's collection of "Adventures in the Ages" book, but never seen it, let alone to learn and use it, not to mention that Andrew himself will not, even if he will, he may not be able to learn with his own natural ability, learning magic requires talent, too advanced magic skills Higg although yearning, but still self-aware. Since yesterday, I have learned that I have not been farmers for at least three generations, and I have received gifts from my parents, so I am quite confident in my future.