The swamp under the moonlight was dark, and the already illegible path was even more unclear.

A white shadow moved forward at the edge of the swamp, followed by a small figure.

"Big Fox...... Ollie! Are we going in the direction of Vergo? How do you get around? ”

"Whew~ If you don't want to fall, it's best to follow me." Ollie looked with some concern in the direction of the depths of the swamp, where a group of figures was fading into the depths of the swamp ahead. "Wow~ boy, we need to hurry. Whew~"

"Wait...... Wait for me big fox ....... Pease ran behind Ollie, barely following him.

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Walking past the glowing plants, Wille brought the torch slightly closer to the ground, and he found that there were no fish-man footprints on the dirt road, but many strange marks, one by one, rubbing against the ground.

"Plank?" Veel, who had been walking forward in the darkness for a long time, suddenly stopped his steps, and there was a thud under his feet and the sound of stepping on wood.

The firelight reached forward, and Wille found him walking onto a bridge, "Why is this underground space so large?" "The earth and stone walls on both sides of the sandwich road envelop the front and rear sides, creating a dark tunnel, and the wooden bridge is the only passage connecting the two gaps.

"...... on both sides" It was as if a crack had been opened in the middle of the earth, and when Wille looked up, the top of the earth on top of it began to disappear from the wooden bridge, and the top of the crack was far away, "So high?" I rub ...... This is the cellar? Or underground? ”

Wiel walked up the bridge, "Then I was talking to Boris just now...... That place should not be far from the ground. Vere looked to both sides, and it was like the deepest part of a crack in the earth.

"Did I just go downhill?" Will looked down the passage behind him, and it felt like he was on the outermost level of the cube in a different dimension. There are walls on both sides, and only the place where you are is an exit.

It's just that this place can see the bottom, but not the top.

"There was the sound of running water...... "Will took a stone from his backpack, walked to the bridge, and threw the stone down," ...... ......"There's water below," Weir squatted down and felt it gently with his hands, "There's some wind, and there's river water below." ”

He looked in the direction of the crevice wind, but it was dark.

Weel's walk on the bridge had just come back from afar, and it felt like there were many people walking on the same bridge.

There were railings on both sides of the bridge, and Weir was holding a torch and trying to leave the railing, but he inadvertently noticed that a wooden railing seemed to have been broken by something.

"Did something fall from it?" Wiel leaned closer, and at the edge of the broken wooden railing, raised the torch above his head, "Huh? It seems that something has really fallen......" In the faint light of the fire, Vere noticed that above the darkness that was far from ending, two small black dots were constantly falling downward. "Hmm...... Something seems to be falling...... I'm Cao! Something is falling! ”

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Seeing the crowd of fish moving farther and farther away, while he and Pease were still hovering behind the large army, they were even farther and farther away from the fish-man because they had to take care of Pease's speed.

"Whoa~ Pease, so we can't get to Vere in advance...... We've got to keep up with them. ”

"Yes...... But...... Big Fox ...... You, you're not, don't you say they're dangerous? Pease followed Ollie with sweat on his head, sleepy and tired. We're close, close, close, in case...... If they find out, it's not good. ……”

"Whew~ I can't care so much now...... Oh~! Let's go that way. "The two were at the back of a small slope.

Ollie changed direction, and instead of trying to climb the hill, he made his way through the swamp below, trying to catch up with the fish-man group as much as he could.

"Oh~ Ollie needs to be more vigilant." Just as Ollie was on all fours, about to run over the cover of the hill.

A cold light pierced from behind the dark ramp.

A cloud of mud flew from Ollie's feet, barely avoiding the sharp edge of the spike, but it was still on his back, leaving a trail of blood.

Pease, who was following Ollie, was startled by the situation in front of him, and his already tired body was frightened, "Ah! With a thud, Pease fell to the ground, his hands on the mud.

But Ollie and Pease didn't have time to pay attention to the mud.

Instead, he looked at a fish-man who turned out from behind the hillside, his strong body with fins on his back, his head without scales like a shark, his dull eyes stiff, and the fork in his hand shining with cold light.

Pease looked at the godless eyes, those empty eyes seemed to be able to sink people's souls into them, cold eyes without the slightest emotion, no murderous coldness, no tyrannical arrogance, only calm and empty, so empty that it was as if the soul of the fish-man had disappeared.

Pease's back was cold.

Ollie landed on all fours, baring his teeth, revealing a fierce face, but helplessly it looked like a fox, and even when he was angry, it was cute and mostly cute.

"Whew~! Come on! Ollie confronted the shark man, "Run!" Oh~! ”。

But Pease couldn't move, his hands were shaking, his legs were shaking, his heart was beating.

Moonlight, darkness, hollowness.

Steel forks, bloodstains, swamps.

And himself who fell into the dirt, Pease was frightened, his eyes dilated, and his face turned pale.

"Uh......h Oh! ~" Ollie dodged another attack from the fish-man's stiff body.

The steel fork was stuck in the ground, and not even a single piece of dirt was splashed, which showed the great force.

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As soon as Wiel slapped the railing, a rope was quickly tied to the intact railing on the side, and a ring in the middle, passed through both ends, and the rope was tied to the wooden railing.

Will's hand grasped the end of the rope and turned over to stand on the wooden railing, two black dots falling rapidly.

"Whew~!"

With a kick of his legs, Wer scurried sideways from the railing of the wooden bridge.

The torch in Wiel's hand fell downward, and the stone walls on either side were not as smooth as they looked, and the torch struck the tip of one stone, and then jumped to the other side, and the torch gradually fell, illuminating a large circular hollow, and then the torch fell into the water, and was extinguished with a pop.

The surroundings were plunged into darkness again.

Ga! ~

The rope tied to the railing of the wooden bridge tightened so hard that it cut a deep mark in the wood of the railing, and the place even tilted out because of the break on one side.

Then, the rope began to swing.

The railing rattled, and the place where it had broken snapped and snapped, and the place where the rope was tied tilted down.

"Ollie! Go up and bite the rope as hard as you can! "Wow~! Oh~~! ”

A white shadow was thrown up and landed on the side of the bridge, and Ao grabbed the side of the bridge with his claws, kicked his hind legs several times, and went up to the wooden bridge, and then bit it with his teeth, and hugged the wooden railing that was gradually breaking to the side with his two claws.

Ollie tried to kick back, but the increasing shaking caused Ollie to clasp his paws to the ground in time, and he couldn't stop sliding forward, his hind paws scratching the planks of shavings.

This force suddenly slammed, and sawdust flew out of Ollie's mouth, and the bitten wooden strip was pinned out of Ollie's mouth, and the two claws could not be pulled, and he shrugged forward, and his hind paws buckled into the plank on the bridge, otherwise he would have to be shot out by this force.

But the wooden railing to which the rope was attached snapped completely, and fell into the darkness below, breaking and shattering against a stone.

"Uh-......huh," Ollie was bleeding from his mouth, and looking into the darkness below, the tail of the rope, where Wille was dragging it, was flung up to where Ollie could see, and then fell down with the log.

There was no one behind the rope.

A dark shadow rose from under the wooden bridge on the other side, holding something in his hand, and a torch lit up.

"Ollie, are you alright? How did you fall from above? "Weel stood on the wooden bridge, with Pease in one hand and a torch in the other.

Where Wiel had flipped up, a spear was stuck diagonally under the bridge, trembling incessantly.

Wiel placed Pease on the ground.

"Ollie, what's wrong with you? …… Are you hurt?! "By the light of the fire, Wiel saw that both Ollie and Pease were wounded." What's going on? ”

"Whew~!" Ollie reluctantly looked up and pointed at Pease's chest with his forepaws.

“…… Ollie, why are you hurt so badly! …… Pease? Oh, my God! Wiel ripped off the clothes from Pease's chest.

Blood is like a pillar!