Chapter 18: Rescue Operations
Because the distance was relatively long, and Ning Wushuang and the five of them could not ride horses, in order to rush to the destination as soon as possible to rescue Miss Rena and them, Ning Wushuang and the five of them returned to the Chamber of Commerce to find Uncle Beaumore for help.
When Beaumore learned that the situation was urgent, he hurriedly put down the work at hand and quickly took Ning Wushuang and the five people to the Pumir Forest in a carriage.
"Uncle, let's stop here, the ruins are not far ahead, and I'm afraid it's dangerous to go any further." Ning Wushuang was afraid that Bomore would be attacked if he got too close to the ruins, so he asked Beaumore to leave first when he was still some distance away from the ruins.
Beaumore knew Ning Wushuang's kindness, took off the lantern used at night on the carriage, handed it to Ning Wu's hands, and said, "Little brother, take this, I don't know if there is a light under the ruins, pay attention to safety." ”
Ning Wushuang nodded and said gratefully, "Thank you, uncle, thank you." ”
Beaumore also nodded, and then drove the carriage away with a "driving~" sound.
According to the red dot on the simple map at the back of the bounty order, the five of them quickly found the entrance to the cave to enter the ruins.
"Go in?" Yu Feng asked.
Ning Wushuang hurriedly stopped: "Wait! ”
The five men stopped, and hid behind bunkers not far away, observing the situation near the entrance to the cave.
However, the five observed for a while and still did not find any anomalous phenomena.
Zou Haoyun said a little anxiously: "Don't wait, right? Miss Rena: Their lives are in danger at any moment. ”
Ning Wushuang cautiously said to Zou Haoyun: "Although the cave is still a little far away, why don't you try to use 'exploration' to see if you can explore the situation in the cave?" ”
Zou Haoyun frowned and said, "I used it just now." ”
Seeing Zou Haoyun's frowning appearance, Qian Zilai said suspiciously: "Then what do you tell us?" ”
Zou Haoyun also looked at the cave with puzzlement: "There seems to be some prohibition in that cave, and the situation in the cave cannot be detected at all." ”
"That's the only way to go in... Let's go, be careful. Ning Wushuang immediately stopped hesitating and cautiously headed towards the cave with the four of them.
Before coming to the entrance of the cave, I still didn't feel anything unusual when I looked into the hole, and there was only a stone staircase that stretched straight underground.
Ning Wushuang asked Zou Haoyun to light up the horse lantern, and then entered the cave with the horse lantern in one hand and a short sword in the other, and walked deeper into the stairs, followed closely by the four of them.
However, to everyone's surprise, the stairs were not long, and the five of them soon came to the end. At the end, it's just a temple-like room, and it's not very large. There were several humanoid stone statues around the room, and Sophia told the crowd that it might be a statue of the leader of a Terran tribe before the founding of the kingdom of Lute.
Ning Wushuang frowned, and said to himself, "If it's just such a small room, why would the cave set up a ban to prevent people from outside from exploring the situation inside?" ”
"Outside?" Yu Feng seemed to think of something, and hurriedly said to Zou Haoyun: "If you use it again, maybe it can be used inside?" ”
Zou Haoyun hurriedly used the detection skill again.
"I'm X!"
The four of them were taken aback by Zou Haoyun, and Ning Wushuang hurriedly asked, "How is it?" ”
Zou Haoyun was stunned and said, "Bottom, there are a lot of monsters underneath. ”
Ning Wushuang continued to ask, "Can you tell what kind of monster it is?" ”
Zou Haoyun frowned and said, "I haven't seen it before, it's a bit like a human form, but..."
Ning Wushuang was puzzled: "But? ”
Zou continued: "It's a bit like a skeleton monster in the game. ”
Sophia hurriedly said: "That's right, that's the skeleton soldiers of the demon race, and the skeleton soldiers are the most common type of the demon race." ”
Zou Haoyun continued: "There seem to be a few dogs, but the shape is a bit strange. ”
Sophia said, "Two-headed demon dog! It is a demon species that is slightly higher than the skeleton soldier. ”
Then Zou Haoyun shouted excitedly: "Miss Rena?!" I felt the magic of a few orcs, not necessarily Miss Rena, but most likely, they seemed to be locked together. ”
Everyone was slightly relieved to learn that Miss Rena and the others were likely to be alive.
Ning Wushuang lifted the lantern and looked at the stone statues around him and said, "The key is to find a way to get to the lower level now. ”
Yu Feng jokingly clenched his fist and said, "I'll smash a hole." ”
But at this moment, everyone obviously didn't have the intention of joking.
"Look at this!" Qian Zilai picked up a small item on the ground in the corner.
Zou Haoyun was puzzled: "What is this?" ”
When Sophia saw it, she glared and said, "This piece of fabric is the fabric on Miss Rebecca's pants." ”
Ning Wushuang hurriedly took the fabric from Qian Zilai's hand and looked at it, then nodded and said, "That's right, Miss Rebecca was bitten by some kind of creature on her calf, and this piece of fabric should have been torn off at that time, and there are blood stains on it." ”
Sophia also looked at the fabric and said, "The one who bit Miss Rebecca should be the two-headed demon dog." ”
"Be careful!"
Just as everyone was checking the clues, Yu Feng suddenly shouted to be careful, and then pulled Qian Zilai, who was facing away from the wall, to his side, and at the same time pushed Ning Wushuang and Sophia, who were also close to the wall, back with his other hand.
The first to react was Zou Haoyun. When Yu Feng reminded everyone, there was an entrance on the wall at some point, and a two-headed demon dog was opening its bloody mouth and pounced on Qian Zilai who was closest to the entrance.
"Fireball!"
When Yu Feng pulled everyone back, Zou Haoyun decisively launched a fireball technique against the attacking two-headed demon dog.
"Boom"
"Whew~"
The fireball technique hit the two-headed demon dog head-on, and the powerful explosion impact directly exploded the two-headed demon dog in the air with a wail.
The three people who were pulled back by Yu Feng gasped as they looked at the twitching two-headed demon dog on the ground. Half of the body of the two-headed demon dog that fell to the ground had been blown to a bloody blur, and the remaining head was constantly spitting out turbid blood, and it was lifeless after convulsing for a while.
The five of them looked again at the entrance that had just appeared on the wall, but at this time it had returned to its original appearance, and there was no entrance at all.
Ning Wushuang was puzzled: "What's the matter with this wall?" I'm going to go over and check it again.
"Wait, let me do it." Yu Feng grabbed Ning Wushuang and slowly approached the wall with his shield sword.
Coming to the wall, Yu Feng cautiously stretched out his hand to grope for the wall. But when Yu Feng saw that his hand was about to touch the wall, the wall suddenly appeared again, and Yu Feng was so frightened that he hurriedly withdrew his hand. When Yu Feng withdrew his hand, the exit disappeared again, and the wall reappeared. Yu Feng stretched out his hand to the wall again, and the exit reappeared in front of everyone.
"It turned out to be a trick, this wall should be a phantom." Yu Feng said to the four of them.
Ning Wushuang hurriedly picked up the lantern and walked over, and after making sure that there was no abnormal situation at the entrance for the time being, he led everyone cautiously to the depths.
After entering the entrance, there was a spiraling down staircase, in order to prevent another attack, Ning Wushuang asked Zou Haoyun to turn on the detection skill at any time.
Following the spiral staircase, the five of them smoothly reached the lowest floor of the ruins.
At the end of the stairs was a large iron door, and Ning Wushuang asked Zou Haoyun in a low voice, "Can you sense that there are demon soldiers behind the door?" ”
Zou Haoyun replied: "No, there are no demon soldiers within 30 meters of the vicinity, those demons seem to have gathered together, I don't know what they are doing." ”
Yu Feng was puzzled: "Meeting? ”
Qian Zilai nodded and said, "I can't rule out this possibility, if it's true, then it's a good time to save Miss Rena and them." ”
So, Ning Wushuang slowly pushed open the iron door, while Yu Feng held his sword tightly behind him, always ready to deal with emergencies.
After pushing open the iron door, the five people were surprised to find that the space on the bottom floor of the ruins was unexpectedly large. The space here is like a large hollow column, and the position of the five people at this time is in the suspended corridor in the middle of the column. The five of them walked to the edge of the corridor and looked at the bottom of the "cylindrical space", and found that a group of demon soldiers ranging in number from 100 to 150 were indeed standing in an orderly square array.
On the platform in front of the demon soldier array, a demon with a staff in his hand and a black cloak on his body was speaking, but the distance was too far for the five of them to hear what it was saying.
Judging from the hand of the demon holding the staff, this demon clan is obviously also a skeleton, but its status is obviously the highest among the demons present.
Ning Wushuang asked Sophia: "This is a demon cadre?" ”
Sophia replied, "It's probably a low-level cadre. ”
Ning Wushuang carefully observed the nearby structures again. This space was divided into three floors, and Ning Wushuang and the five of them were on the second floor at this time. Each floor is connected by two staircases, the first floor is full of cages like a prison, and the second and third floors are full of rooms. It seems that it is indeed the base point where the army is stationed, but I don't know if it was built by the original human tribe or rebuilt by the demon tribe later.
The walls in the corridor were hung with torches, and there was no problem with the lighting, so Ning Wushuang simply extinguished the lantern and put it into the storage ring.
"Look, over there!" Zou Haoyun on the side pulled Ning Wushuang and pointed in one direction to signal everyone to look.
"Miss Rena!"
Rena and her teammates Rui and Haus were being held in one of the cells on the first floor, along with three Terran children.
Rena was holding the three children at this time, not knowing what she was talking about, probably trying to soothe them. Rui and Hauss, on the other hand, were lying on the ground looking extremely weak, presumably badly injured.
"Gotta get them out."
"How can I save it?"
Ning Wushuang looked at the stairs on both sides and said, "Let's separate the two teams. ”
Pointing to the stairs on one side, he continued: "A team goes to the stairs over there to attract the attention of the demon soldiers and hold the staircase. The staircase can only pass three people at the same time, and it is not so easy for them to break through, and the advantage in numbers is not so obvious. ”
Then he pointed to the stairs on the other side and said, "The other team sneaked down from there to get them out." ”
Yu Feng was the first to speak: "I'll go attract attention." ”
Zou Haoyun also said: "Me too, my fireball technique is simple to guard the staircase, leave it to me." ”
"I'll go too. Although I..."Qian Zilai also wanted to face the enemy head-on, although he didn't have the strength of Yu Feng or the magic power of Zou Haoyun.
Zou Haoyun knew that Qian Zilai wanted to say something frustrating again, so he hurriedly interrupted: "Then it's the three of us, and Miss Rena will hand it over to Shuang'er and Sophia." ”
Ning Wushuang nodded to the three of them and said affirmatively, "Then I'll leave it to you, be careful." ”
Zou Haoyun and the three of them crawled to the designated staircase, and then looked at the staircase opposite.
Ning Wushuang and Sophia were also in place. Ning Wushuang also saw the three of them in place at this time, so he gave the three of them a thumbs up and signaled to start acting.
"Hey, hey! Uncle is on the stage, don't you want some applause?! ”
Zou Haoyun pompously crossed his waist and ridiculed the demons on the first floor.
The leader of the demon soldiers standing on the stage was obviously enraged, and raised his staff to give an order to the demon soldiers: "Catch them!" ”
The demon soldiers were led by four two-headed demon dogs and rushed towards Zou Haoyun and the three. Sure enough, the demon soldiers all chose the staircase where the three of them were to assault, and did not choose to go around, Ning Wushuang saw this and hurriedly took Sophia downstairs quietly.
The sudden movement was also noticed by Rena, who was in prison, and Rena hurriedly looked at the second floor where the demon soldiers were rushing. At this time, a two-headed demon dog rolled down the stairs with Zou Haoyun's fireball technique, and the skeleton soldiers behind him were also hindered from their movements.
There were also two two-headed demon dogs that were kicked and punched back to the first floor by Yu Feng, and at this time, they were behind the skeleton soldiers and planned to attack again.
One of the other two-headed demon dogs bit Qian Zilai's short sword tightly, and the other kept biting Qian Zilai. Just holding the sword tightly and not letting the two-headed demon dog snatch it was enough to make Qian Zilai feel difficult, and he had to avoid being bitten by the other head, which made Qian Zilai almost unable to hold on.
Fortunately, Yu Feng, who threw the two two-headed demon dogs back to the first floor, decisively swung his sword to help, and the two-headed demon dogs that were attacking Qian Zilai were cut off by a sword with a sword, and the foul blood sprayed Qian Zilai's body.
"Hahaha, I'm sorry."
"No, thank you for saving me."
"Don't desert, those skulls are coming."
Seeing that the two-headed demon dog was solved in an instant, the leader of the troops on the stage was so angry that he almost broke the staff in his hand, and seeing that the skeleton soldiers were solved by three people one by one, the demon leader said angrily: "A group of waste! After speaking, he walked towards the stairs, intending to go out in person.
"How are the three of them?!" Seeing that it was Zou Haoyun and the three of them, Rena was excited, and then became worried again: "How can the three of them solve this group of demons?" ”
Rena was about to shout at the three of them to leave, when two figures suddenly appeared at the door.
"Shhhh Don't be silent, Miss Rena, we're here to save you. ”
Seeing that it was Ning Wushuang and Sophia who came, Rena hurriedly said, "What are you doing?" Hurry up and leave, don't you want to die? ”
Ning Wushuang ignored Rena, who was in a hurry, raised his sword and pointed it at the lock of the gate, and split the lock, fortunately, Zou Haoyun's fight between the three was too loud, and no demon soldiers noticed this.
Then Ning Wushuang hurriedly dragged Sophia into the prison and closed the door. Ning Wushuang said to Rena, "It was Miss Rebecca who told us that you were in danger. ”
Rena excitedly shook Ning Wushuang's shoulder and said, "Rebecca? Is she okay? ”
Sophia hurriedly said: "Well, she is now recuperating in the Adventurer's Guild, and I have already treated her, so there is no major problem for the time being." After speaking, he hurriedly came to Rui and Hauss, who were lying on the ground, to check on their injuries.
"Poisoned?!" Sophia was surprised.
Rena was already teary-eyed at this time, and said to herself, "It's all my fault." If I had been cautious..."
Ning Wushuang hurriedly comforted: "It's okay, aren't we here to save you now?" Let's talk about what to talk about. ”
After Ning Wushuang finished speaking, he hurriedly took out two bottles of primary antidote from the storage ring and gave them to Sophia and said, "Hurry up and feed them to drink." Then he looked at the three children next to him.
Rena hurriedly explained: "These three children are from a nearby village and were captured as sacrifices. The lives of the three of us, including those of us, were also kept because they were to be sacrificed. ”
Ning Wushuang was puzzled: "Sacrifice? ”
Rena nodded and said, "Well, it looks like they're going to resurrect a certain demon cadre with a sacrifice. ”
Ning Wushuang frowned and said, "This is not good, let this group of demons happen to a big thing." Still, let's get out of the way first. ”
"Uh... Ahem, ahem. ”
Rui, who had drunk the antidote, woke up, and Hauss, who was slightly less in good health, was still unconscious.
Seeing Ning Wushuang and Sophia, Rui hurriedly thanked him: "Thank you, Rui remembers the kindness of the two." ”
Ning Wushuang interrupted: "Don't talk about this, can you move?" Hurry up and get out, the three of them don't know how long they can last. ”
Only then did Lu Yi find that the three people in the battle on the second floor opposite, even if their physique was as strong as Yu Feng, they were a little powerless at this time, and Qian Zilai and Zou Haoyun were even more unable to support it.
Rui quickly nodded and said, "Okay, let's go." ”
So Ning Wushuang and Rui helped Haus up, and Rena and Sophia protected the three children, preparing to secretly go back to the second floor to gather with the three people who were fighting hard to escape from the ruins.