Chapter Seventy-Three: The River Civil War
Chen Zhuo and Marcus walked deeper with their entourage, and Chen Zhuo was surprised to find that the terrain here was a small downhill trend, and there were many rotten leaves on both sides of the stone walls, and it was a long groove. Marcus took the lead in launching an attack on the soft mud monster, Chen Zhuo followed closely to launch assistance, the soft mud monster itself is not strong, but I don't know why it exists in this evil cave, and there are so many of them here, it can really survive. The two slaughtered a small group of ooze monsters in one go, obtained 7 wailing essences, and had completed the task, Marcus looked around and said, "Okay, let's go back and figure out how to cross the river back." ”
Chen Zhuo nodded, just on the way back, he found that there was water flowing down in the grooves on both sides, Chen Zhuo was very surprised, and the two Marcus also felt a little wrong, just two steps back, Naxi appeared in everyone's field of vision, Naxi saw Marcus and Chen Zhuo, and quickly said: "Oh no, Marcus, Chen, it seems that the river is starting to rise!" ”
Marcus immediately rushed to the river when he heard this, Charles in the distance saw it and waved at Marcus, the current inland river has flowed to the bank of Chen Zhuo's side, the rattan raft has been pushed to the bank, the inland river flows out of the river channel on both sides, and goes straight down the river trough, Marcus looked at the river river: "Not good, it is very likely that we will also be flooded by the tide here for a while, everyone is ready to cross the river." ”
Chen Zhuo carefully considered the river and found that there was no bright light, and he didn't know where the man-eating turtle went, but everyone still had to cross the river. Marcus tried to let Naxi and himself stand on the rattan raft together, the rattan raft was very deep at once, Riston almost drowned in the water when he jumped up, Charles saw this and pulled the rope and pulled the raft, Marcus and Naxi did not dare to move, here Charles wasted a lot of power to pull the rattan raft against the current, Chen Zhuo watched the rattan raft leave little by little, and there was a faint bad premonition in his heart, as if he felt that the man-eating turtle was waiting for an opportunity below.
When Marcus and Naxi and Riston successfully went ashore, Chen Zhuo's hunch was even stronger, he thought about it, and put the flame imp on his head, and after the rattan raft floated back, Chen Zhuo and Bonnie tried to log in to the rattan raft one left and one right, and the draft was not as deep as Marcus, it seemed that Chen Zhuo and Bonnie were much lighter than Marcus Garnasi. Charles and Naxi pulled the rope, Marcus took out the bow and arrow directly from his backpack, to be honest, Marcus was more worried about seeing Chen Zhuo cross the river than crossing the river himself, because Chen Zhuo couldn't swim, and if Chen Zhuo fell into the water, he really didn't have the strength to fight with the man-eating turtle. Chen Zhuo stared vigilantly at the movement in the river, and began to slowly cast spells with both hands, cooling the nearby water elemental into an ice element, and at the same time ordering the flame imp to attack the monsters that appeared in the range behind him, it was no longer time to care about the secrecy of the flame imp.
Just when the rattan raft was about to float to the center, a noise appeared, and many bubbles appeared on the water surface, Marcus raised his bow and arrow to aim at the bubbles, and Chen Zhuo's heart couldn't help but tighten. Then, everyone heard a strange cry: "Whoa, whoa, whoa! ”
"Wow wow!"
"Uh......h Wow wow! ”
There are more and more sounds, and they are getting more and more mixed, Chen Zhuo felt as if he had heard this sound somewhere, and suddenly a fishman jumped out on the water surface at a distance from Chen Zhuo's raft, followed by a man-eating turtle, and then a large wave of fish-men, Chen Zhuo saw this and quickly stopped the attack of the flame imp, and Marcus did not attack here, it seemed that the fish-man group was clashing with the man-eating turtle.
The previous fish-man was bitten by a man-eating turtle and fell into the water, and the fish-man in the back took a strange-shaped weapon in his hand and beat the man-eating turtle violently. Chen Zhuo didn't dare to relax, and stared intently at the location where the conflict occurred. The rattan raft slowly swam towards the shore, and a fish-man head drilled out of the water not far from Chen Zhuo, looking at Chen Zhuo on the rattan raft, the fish-man tilted his head: "Wow? ”
Chen Zhuo didn't understand the language of the fishmen, and he didn't dare to attack at will. In this way, the fishman stared at Chen Zhuo with big eyes, and Chen Zhuo also looked at the two front teeth that the fishman leaked out, and suddenly a cry in the distance: "Wow, wow, wow!" The fish-man immediately turned his head and waved the coral stick in his hand, turned around and swam over, and shouted as he swam, "Wow, wow! ”
So, Chen Zhuo went ashore in fright, looking at the melee in the distance, there were more man-eating turtles, several fish-people threw a man-eating turtle ashore, and then collectively transferred the battlefield, dozens of fish-people stood on the land and yelled at the water, the man-eating turtles surfaced and did not dare to go ashore, watching their compatriots being ravaged by a group of fish-people on the shore, but the fish-people also took a lot of effort to kill this man-eating turtle on land. Seeing that the water surface was getting higher and higher, and the water in the tank was getting more and more turbulent, I don't know which fishman took the lead and shouted "Wow!" "All the fish-people stretched out and ran to the land, and the man-eating turtles saw the crowd of fish running away and dived into the water.
A few people returned to the original shore, Charles looked at the running fish-man and said, "I really didn't expect that there would be a fish-man here, this is the first time I have seen a fish-man."
Marcus beckoned everyone to help take the rope off, and threw the rattan raft by the river: "We have to take the rope away, let's not need the rattan raft, just put it here." We've got the essence, everyone call it a day, let's try to get to the outpost of Sweetwater Oasis today, and return to Hearthstone tomorrow! ”
Everyone obeyed Marcus's arrangement and returned the way they came. Chen Zhuo said to Marcus, "Why do I feel that the fish people here are not corroded? ”
Marcus patted Chen Zhuo: "It is estimated that this is a mutual fight that happens every day, the fishman can't beat the man-eating turtle in the water, but when he goes ashore, the man-eating turtle has no way to deal with the fish-man, I don't know what creatures will come out for a while, let's complete the task and prepare to go out of the hole and return to the city." As for whether the fish-people have or not, it is really hard to say, everything in the Wailing Cave is supposed to have been corroded, maybe they were corroded in a different direction, and they did not become bloodthirsty like other animals and plants. The flaw of the fish-man itself is that its health is too low, and it is estimated that it only has 5 health points on average, right? But just now you saw that most of the fish-people were able to resist the attack of two man-eating turtles, so I guess their lives are worth the mutation, but there must be a price to pay, but I don't know what it is, this cave is really a strange cave. ”
Chen Zhuo's focus at this time was not on these fishmen, because Chen Zhuo remembered that there was a fishman here who was very powerful, but it didn't seem to be among this group of fishmen, although he forgot what the name of the fishman was, but it was covered in white light, and if he saw Chen Zhuo, he would definitely know it. Everyone walked down the inner mountain, and along the way, only a vine monster with no long eyes blocked the way and was beaten by Charles, and the rest could be said to be unimpeded.
Since Chen Zhuo came from the waterway, he was not familiar with the way back, and even Charles was not familiar with the rugged road when he came, so he had to lead the way. Not long after entering the trail, Bonnie suddenly shivered and said, "Master, the ghost is here." ”
As soon as these words came out, everyone became vigilant, and Charles took out his weapon shield and said, "Oh? Where is it? I still have an account with it! ”
Compared with Charles's fighting spirit, Chen Zhuo was worried at this time, not because he was afraid of the ghost's strength, but because he was afraid that Bonnie's identity would be revealed again.