Red Dust Inn Chapter 15 Dark Cave (II)
Zhao Zheng was worried that the gold sore medicine would enter the water and not be used, so he wrung out the soaked cloth bag and tied it around his neck. He walked some distance further, and the water level gradually increased, and it was already submerging his belly, and it was better to swim directly than to walk. He twisted the cloth bag to the back of his neck to prevent it from being submerged, then took a big step forward, stretched his hands forward, and his body lay on the water, his hands parted to the left and right, and his hind feet kicked forward.
After changing to swimming, Zhao Zheng's resistance was suddenly greatly reduced, and his body was much easier. He swam forward in the dark, unable to discern his direction, and sometimes he would hit a rock wall, and whenever he did, he would have to change direction. After tossing and turning like this a few times, he gradually became dizzy, and he could no longer tell whether he was moving forward or backward.
Zhao Zheng's whole body was soaked in water, the coolness soaked his whole body, his hands and feet were already a little numb, and his body temperature was getting lower and lower. He complained bitterly in his heart, and he wanted to leave this ghost place, anyway, this time he only consumed 2 points, and even if he turned back halfway, he didn't lose much. It's a pity that the system doesn't have this intimate function, and once you enter the dungeon, you can only leave when you run out of time.
Zhao Zheng sank into the system, because he was in the copy, many functions had been locked, only the time in the lower right corner of the panel was still passing as usual, he glanced up, more than three hours had passed, and if he held on for more than an hour, he could reach the time limit and get out of the copy.
Turning off the system interface, Zhao Zheng gritted his teeth and continued to swim forward. After swimming forward for more than ten minutes, he suddenly felt a pain in his arm, as if he had been cut by a stone. He bared his teeth in pain and froze where he was, his feet sinking downwards and stomping on the stony floor.
Zhao Zheng stood upright from the water, and only then did he realize that the water level had been lowered to his thighs. It seems that it is not long before you can leave this waterway. His mood improved slightly, and he reached into his left arm in the dark, and the place where he reached out was warm, and there was a lot of blood.
Zhao Zheng was frustrated again and again when he entered the cave, extinguished the torch again, advanced in the dark, and now he was injured again, and his previous excitement for the adventure had been reduced by half, and he already understood that this was not an easy thing.
This is just a copy of the Decay, and it will not be a life-threatening danger, if it is a higher-level breakthrough type dungeon, it must be much more dangerous than this, I am afraid that even jackals, tigers and leopards, fierce birds and beasts can also be encountered.
"It's nothing, but the real pain is yet to come. Let's hold on a little longer. Zhao Zheng straightened his mentality, secretly encouraged himself, and then focused on the wound. He felt it carefully, and judging from the pain and blood flow, the wound was ten centimeters long and three millimeters deep, and it was not a big problem.
Zhao Zheng grabbed the torn sleeve, tore it hard, tore it into strips of cloth, then wrung out the strips of cloth and wiped the blood from the wound. He completely ripped off the sleeve of his left arm, exposing the skin on his arm to the dry air, then untied the cloth bag tied around his neck, took out the gold sore medicine, bit off the cap of the bottle with his mouth, and applied the sticky substance with the strong smell of Chinese medicine to the wound. He didn't expect to be injured the first time he entered this dungeon, and he used the supplies distributed by the system. It seems that his luck is really not good.
The bandage has been completely soaked and has no use value, and Zhao Zheng's wound is not deep, and there is no need to bandage it, after he finished applying the gold sore medicine, he continued to hurry.
The water in front of him gradually became shallower, and the terrain turned upward, and Zhao Zheng walked all the way out of this waterway, and his feet finally stepped on the dry land again. Now, he can't tell whether this is a new place or a way back, so he can only continue to go down when the blind cat meets the dead mouse.
Just when Zhao was walking halfway, things were complicated again, his feet suddenly fell into the air, he lost his foothold, his body center of gravity slanted, and he almost fell down. Fortunately, he walked very slowly, and he had been exploring the way with small broken steps, so he retracted the strength on his foot in time and froze firmly in place with one foot.
Zhao Zheng gasped, secretly saying that it was dangerous, if he had walked faster just now, he would have to go down. He slowly retracted his feet in mid-air, took two steps back, and then lowered his body, fell to the ground, and crawled forward. He crawled and touched his hands in front of him, and soon touched the edge of the collapse. He slowly explored the collapse with both hands, and the width of this place was more than two meters, and he couldn't reach the end with his hands alone, and the depth was so deep that he couldn't touch it even if he put his arm down completely.
Zhao Zheng became interested in this big pit, picked up a stone from his side, and threw it into the big pit, the stone instantly fell to the ground and made a sound, so it seems that the depth of this place is limited. He was still a little uneasy, so he picked up a few more stones and threw them in all directions in the pit, and each stone immediately made a crashing sound, proving that the depth was the same in different directions, and there was no particularly deep place.
Zhao Zheng had the heart to go down to find out, but he was worried that he would be scratched by a stone after jumping, so he had to grope along the edge of the pit to find a suitable path. He touched around and found that the circumference of the pit was about seven or eight meters, and most of the edges were sinking at right angles, and there was no place to stay, only one place, and there was a stone protrusion suitable for footing at the half-waist.
If you don't enter the tiger's den, you can't be a tiger. Zhao Zheng plucked up his courage, stepped on it with courage, then squatted down, grabbed the bulge edge with his hand, and leaned his foot down again. His feet dangled in mid-air, and he swept around twice, finding that there was no suitable place to stay. He grabbed the stone and hung it in the air, unable to go up or down, hesitated for a while, and then let go of his hand and fell from the air.
The actual height here was a little higher than Zhao Zheng imagined, and he fell hard, his feet hit the ground with a thud, his knees were numb, and he fell to the ground. He rubbed his aching knee, got up, and looked around to see that there were no serious injuries.
Zhao Zheng explored in the dark in this big pit and found that this was not a closed space, but another cave, and there was a road that extended forward. He walked along the road, and halfway there, his foot suddenly kicked on a hard object. At first, he thought that the hard object was a stone, but when he touched it, he found that it was not, the feel of this hard object was very smooth, the tentacles were cold, and it was actually metallic!
"Treasure Chest!" Zhao Zheng's heart jumped, and the blood flow rate rose suddenly. The scope of this dark cave is very large, and the chance of finding the treasure chest is very low, he never thought that he would be able to find the treasure chest the first time he entered, but the treasure chest was now in front of him, so how could he not be excited!
Zhao Zheng raised his eyebrows, rubbed his hands in the dark, and secretly prayed in his heart, looking forward to being able to open the light skill cheats from the treasure chest, and then put his hand back on the treasure chest and turned it upwards vigorously. But at the moment when he exerted his strength, a thunderous prompt sounded.
[Hint: The host has been in this quest for 5 hours and is about to be teleported back to the real world.]
Zhao Zheng was shocked, and hurriedly sped up the speed of his hand, but before he could open the lid of the treasure chest, his eyes were a flower, and when he opened his eyes again, his body had already come to the corridor of the inn, and as for the treasure chest, he had disappeared. He panicked, and hurriedly opened the system warehouse, looking for the shadow of the treasure chest inside, but there were no other items in the warehouse except for a flute and trivial silver.
Zhao Zheng was dumbfounded at this moment, and a sense of joy and sadness spread to his heart, and he even had the heart to scold the street.
It was an extremely lucky thing to find the treasure chest in the huge cave, but when he found the treasure chest, he reached the time limit of the dungeon and was forced to teleport out of it! This is simply a duck to the beak of flying, so how can he bear it?
The torch was extinguished, and Zhao Zheng could accept it. Scratched and injured, Zhao Zheng is acceptable. But the treasure chest in his hand didn't have time to open, which he couldn't accept. He was so angry that he had nowhere to vent for a while, so he held on to the wall next to him, and hit it with his head "dong dong" on it, and he used a lot of force, and his head soon became red and swollen.
It didn't matter if Zhao Zheng hit the wall, but the sound of hitting the wall came into the room. The two shopkeepers in the room were woken up, one of them got out of bed with his sleepy eyes, picked up the fire fold on the table, lit the oil lamp, raised the light and scolded and opened the door, and saw that Zhao Zheng hit the wall outside the door, and asked for a moment: "Zhao Zheng, you didn't sleep in the middle of the night but ran here to hit the wall, did you sleepwalk or were you leaned over by a ghost?" ”
Zhao Zheng's frustration was vented a lot, and as soon as he saw the lights on, he stopped his movements, turned his head to look at his roommate, and said sullenly: "It's nothing, I just had a small fall on the road of life." ”
"What nonsense are you talking about?" The shopkeeper was puzzled when he heard it.
"Alas, it's okay, it's okay, you go back to your room and sleep." Zhao Zheng waved his hand, pushed his roommate's chest, and entered the house with him.
The shopkeeper was extremely sleepy, and he didn't bother to ask, so he lay down and went to sleep again when he saw that Zhao Zheng was fine.
Zhao Zheng returned to his bed, and although he had spent five hours in the dungeon, the bed was still hot and not cold at all. In addition, the injuries he received in the dungeon have disappeared, and every time he enters and exits the dungeon, he will return to the physical state he was in before entering the dungeon.
Zhao Zheng had already entered the dungeon in the morning, counting the one just now, he had exhausted the five chances to get off the dungeon, and he never had a chance to enter the dungeon today, even if he was a little unwilling, he could only sleep with his head covered. He was lying on the bed, not wanting to be depressed just now, but his mind was disobedient, and he always remembered everything that had just happened, especially when his hands touched the treasure chest, the touch was particularly clear. He tossed and turned, cranky, and after a long time, he slowly fell asleep.