Chapter Ninety-Four: Gophers
"Although you can't be a spirit master, it's good to be a trainer, come on." Xiao Du patted Xiaoliang's shoulder, and there was an element of encouragement and comfort in his tone.
Xiaoliang shook his head helplessly, sighed, and said, "Let's go, go to the front and have a look." β
Xiao Du twitched the corners of his mouth, raised his eyebrows, and followed with the fire dinosaur.
The two walked along the tunnel for a distance of more than two hundred meters, and at this time, not to mention Xiao Du and the fire dinosaur, even Xiaoliang could clearly hear those strange sarcastic sounds, which sounded like something was slightly slapping the ground.
As he continued to move forward, the sound got closer and closer, and when he came to a corner, Xiao Du knew the source of the sound.
Xiao Du poked his head out, and not far in front of him, there were dozens of small holes of different sizes on the earth wall and the ground around the clearing, and a small ray of light shone down from several small holes in the soil wall above, allowing people to see the situation on the open ground. At this time, dozens of mouse-like elves were constantly using their slender tails to beat the ground around the clearing, again and again, and it sounded really rhythmic. They were the size of a little dog, covered with thick brown hair, and looked a little thin, with a long pointed nose on their head, and their mouth just below the nose, and the hair on their heads was a little sparse, and they felt a little smooth from a distance, and their ears were erected back against their smooth heads.
"Xiao Du, what do you say they are doing?" Takara felt a little strange as he watched these rat elves slap the ground with their tails.
"I guess it's their habits."
"By the way, how are we going to get there?"
The two of them walked all the way down the tunnel, but they didn't find the second tunnel, and when they came here, they happened to be blocked by these mouse spirits.
"Look at what you're saying, if you fight, I don't think it's easy to get it, because after coming to this place, I found that the elves here are generally above the first order, if a few are okay, we can only run in the face of dozens of them, and it is impossible to fight head-on at all." Xiao Du looked around and found that there were several rat elves scattered in every corner of the open space in front of the tunnel, and there was no extra space for the two of them to pass through.
Xiaoliang saw that Xiao Du had no choice, so he had to wait quietly on the side.
"Irony~sarcasm~! Satirize~! β
For some reason, the rat elves slammed their tails on the ground louder and louder, as if welcoming something important.
The sound was endless, and as the tails of dozens of rat elves fell in unison, and when there was a sound, they stopped slapping the ground, lowered their heads, and slowly retreated to both sides.
"What is this?" Xiao Du looked towards the middle of the road let out by the rat elves, and due to the light, Xiao Du only vaguely saw a figure more than one meter tall slowly walking over.
As the figure approached step by step, until he stepped into the light, Xiao Du saw its appearance clearly. This is a person standing up, more than a meter tall big mouse, covered with earthy yellow hair, a little thick nose, two yellowed gnawing teeth leaking out of the mouth, eyes slightly raised, the body looks very fat, the claws are still flashing sharp luster, it seems that it has not polished its claws, at this time is patting its fat belly, squeaking and the dozens of rat elves next to him to say something.
Anyway, Xiao Du couldn't understand it, so after the big mouse squeaked for a long time, he suddenly let out a huge squeak, and led the dozens of rat elves around him towards the passage where he came.
This move made Xiao Du feel a little inexplicable, and said to Xiaoliang beside him: "Let's go, let's go and have a look." β
In order not to be detected, the two followed behind slowly, trying not to make a sound.
After leaving this open space, Xiao Du found that after arriving here, there was not only one tunnel, but many large and small tunnels extending in all directions. Xiao Du didn't need to think about these tunnels to know that they were dug by those rat elves, the smallest holes were more than thirty centimeters, and the big ones were even one person high. These holes may lead to the ground, or they may be the lair of those rat elves, but the main thing is that there are so many holes that they can't be calculated by probability.
Shaking his head helplessly, Xiao Du decided to follow the big mouse to the front first, maybe they just went out to eat, so the two of them could take the opportunity to return to the ground.
It's a pity that Xiao Du guessed wrong. The two of them drilled several holes in a row with the big mouse, but they were not the way out, but they were all the same as before, every time the big mouse went to a place, it would quickly gather the rat elves in that place, and at this time, the big rat was already followed by more than a hundred rat elves of different sizes. No matter how naΓ―ve Xiao Du is, he knows that they are definitely not going out to look for food, but that something big is going to happen underground.
Out of curiosity, Xiao Du proposed to continue to follow and have a look, Xiaoliang thought about it and agreed. Because at this time, it is the most dangerous thing to walk through this labyrinthine hole.
As it continued to move forward, the rat elves behind the big rat had grown to two hundred, and it finally stopped gathering rat elves everywhere, but continued to move forward in one direction.
Xiao Du also saw the situation clearly, they must be going to fight with something, whether it is to fight for the chassis or something else, it doesn't matter to Xiao Du and the two, seeing that those rat elves are following the big mouse, Xiao Du said to Xiaoliang beside him: "Good opportunity, that big mouse has taken away all the rat elves in this vicinity, let's hurry up and find a way to the ground nearby." β
Xiaoliang also knew that the opportunity to escape from the underground had arrived, and hurriedly agreed: "Okay." β
Seeing that Xiaoliang agreed, Xiao Du took the fire dinosaur and probed in the opposite direction to the big mouse, hoping to find a tunnel to leave here.
Xiao Du casually chose a big hole more than one meter high and drilled into it, only to find out at the end that this was a dead end, and then returned the same way, after repeatedly going wrong a few times, Xiao Du found a small thing in the fifth big hole he selected, this is a palm-sized rat elf, which looks exactly the same as the rat elves he saw before, it is estimated that they are their cubs, and the data from the reconnaissance shows that this is a kind of earth-attribute elf, called a gopher, characterized by thick hair, and the defense is increased a little, Because this cub is too small, Xiao Du is not easy to estimate, but at least he knows what it is called.
Xiao Du grabbed the little gopher that hadn't opened his eyes yet, took out a fairy clip and put it in, probably because not long after he was born, the little gopher was successfully subdued by Xiao Du without a trace of resistance, and obtained 2 points.
"It's another dead end here, let's go." Xiao Du put away the gopher's elf clip and walked back with the fire dinosaur.
Xiaoliang sighed and followed.
There are so many caves in the ground that it is naturally difficult to find a way out.
After the two of them got out of the cave, they walked a short distance before, and Xiao Du stopped when he walked through a half-human-high cave, because Xiao Du felt a slight breeze blowing out of the cave beside him, which meant that there was air flowing, and this cave might be connected to somewhere.
After knowing that it might be the way out, Xiao Du said to Xiaoliang: "It seems that we are lucky, there are so many caves, and when we go to the sixth, we find that there is a possible way out." β
When Xiaoliang heard that it was the way out, he showed a happy expression and said, "I actually made a discovery, so what are you waiting for, let's go quickly." β
Xiao Du smiled and nodded, walked in with the fire dinosaur, and walked towards the depths of the cave.