Volume 1 Tower of Flesh Chapter 24 Monster Kingdom

The purpose of Li Ben's follow-up is to get a general understanding of the size and strength of the lizardman race, so as to determine his next mode of action, whether to hide cautiously or explore boldly, of course, it is best to avoid conflict as much as possible.

As far as the current observation was concerned, there were nearly a hundred lizardmen in the tribe here, with fifty percent of them being adults and two percent of the elderly, and Li instinctively sensed that the two strongest of them were at level four.

If this was the average of all the lizardfolk tribes in the mountains, then he would be a little bolder, and even if he couldn't deal with their siege, he wouldn't have a problem escaping.

Give it a try.

Using the crow's mask's stealth ability, Lee Ben came to the entrance of the lizardman tribe and tried to walk inside.

Some of the vigilant lizardmen seemed to sense something, but after looking up, they fell back to rest, most of them noticing the anomaly.

The hunter was actually nervous right now, and he wanted to know how far this mask could go.

He crept up on a sleeping guy and pinched off a leaf and threw it on his nose. The lizardman let out a heavy breath, but didn't react.

He picked up another fruit from the lizardmen's collection and smashed it gently. The lizardman woke up at once, put up his upper body on guard, looked around with his big head, then looked at the fruit smashed on the side, sniffed closely, opened his mouth to eat, looked around again, found nothing, and fell asleep again.

Seeing this, Li Ben suddenly wanted to play a prank, he secretly picked up the bow and arrow of the lizardman, and when he came into contact with a foreign object, he realized that he could manipulate it to make it equally invisible or not.

He retreated into the distance with his bow and arrow, and fired an arrow at the lizardmen's campfire, sending a large spark and crackling sound.

The sleeping lizardman woke up in an instant, looking around for the enemy, and he saw a fellow enemy practicing archery in a dirt hut not far away, and then looked at the arrows in the campfire, and naturally thought of something.

He stood up and charged at the archer viciously, scuffling with him, and the lizardmen tribe was bustling with all of a sudden.

Li Ben felt a trace of joy in his heart when he saw this scene.

It's a bad taste... But now is not the time to play with these.

Suppressed by his curiosity about the novelty, he noticed that the bows and arrows made by the lizardmen were surprisingly good, and now that he was lacking in long-range attacks, he simply took them and used them first.

He sneaked back and took a quiver containing twelve arrows.

After leaving their tribe, Lee Ben went into darkness again.

Gusts of wind suddenly began to run through the mountains and forests, swaying the trees, making the branches and leaves rattle in the collision, and some killing traps were hidden inside.

The deeper he went, the more the hunter noticed the more things that were about to move in the dark.

A pair of scarlet eyes stared at him.

Li Ben felt the aura of terror surrounding him, and he grasped the hilt of the sword of the victim behind him.

It's level four in the chaotic perception, and it stands to reason that you shouldn't have so much pressure on yourself... It's those eyes, you can't look at them.

So he closed his eyes and only observed with his heart, and the pressure was indeed reduced a lot.

Still can't be taken lightly, there are too many unknowable things about the creatures of Chaos. Li Ben kept reminding himself.

He walked around the owner of the eyes and into an area of extreme humidity.

As the night passed, the light of dawn pierced the night sky.

The hunter didn't find what he was looking for, which he expected, and if things were too simple, it would be suspicious.

"Click...", Li Ben seemed to have stepped on something.

He crouched down to inspect it, and found that it was the shell of a dragon fly that had shed off without any chaotic energy left on it.

The dragon fly is a very aggressive predatory insect that lives in large numbers and flies with two pairs of transparent wings at extremely high speeds. A single individual can grow to the level of a Level 3 Chaos creature.

It wouldn't be good if you were besieged by them. Lee had planned to evacuate the place as soon as possible.

It was just a momentary delay, and the last thing he wanted to see happened.

Several dragonfly squads of about a meter in length found Li Ben, with two large compound eyes and a crocodile-like mouth on their heads, and other parts that closely resembled dragonflies.

Lee Ben immediately used the stealth function, but this did not make the dragonflies easily lose their target, as he could not eliminate the movement when he moved through the grass.

You have to hurry away, they will keep calling out to their companions, and if they are surrounded, they will be finished.

A tense chase begins.

The crow's mask's stealth function helped him dodge many of their attacks, but he didn't run as fast as he could, and swarms of dragonflies were scattered all over the woods, and every move he made would attract their attempted attacks.

At a moment of crisis, Li Ben had to hide in a cave that he had discovered by chance, and under the chase of dragon flies, he went deep inside, a cliff appeared in front of his eyes, he walked to the side and looked down, the rock wall was smooth, and there was a bottomless turbulent river below, which was more than ten meters away from the place where he was standing.

Looking back, dragonflies swarmed.

Li Ben had no other choice, jumped into the river, and went deep into the underground world in the direction of the river's flow.

At this point, the dragon fly finally gave up, but for him, he still had to face a new problem - how to return to the surface world.

The river was flowing faster and faster, forming a turbulent vortex at several rock pillars, and Li Ben climbed the stone and observed that there was a water fault in front of him, that is, a waterfall.

The underground space here is unbelievably larger.

He had no choice but to rely on his strong body and recovery ability to make his way down the river. However, the waterfall was not particularly high, and there was a deep pool below, so he didn't take much damage from the impact.

After surfacing, Li Ben climbed out of the pool and finally stood on solid ground.

There is no light source in the underworld, and the only point diffused from above the waterfall is simply not enough to illuminate anything.

However, after exploring for a while, he noticed a bright light shining through a crack in a rock. So he immediately took out a dagger and widened the gap, and through the hole he was amazed to see a huge underground city, with many huge fires burning, from which the light came.

He was now located behind a rock formation somewhere in the hollow dome of the dungeon, and in order to enter the dungeon, he had to find another way.

Are there any other intelligent beings here?

As he pondered this, a pair of patrol guards with spears passed by his feet.

"Cavemen... They don't need a fire, and they don't have the ability to build such a large and orderly city, and there must be someone else who rules here, but in the case of this battle, it's better not to have anything to do with them. ”

Cavemen are creatures that live in dark crypts, and due to the lack of light in the underworld, they have no eyes or hair at all, and their skin texture is similar to that of animals like catfish loaches.

They are not very strong, they are not very intelligent, and the only advantage is that their teeth are very sharp and their bite is very strong, because they need to chew ore frequently to obtain nutrients.

Adult individuals are classified as second-tier chaos creatures.

The troglodyte patrols below were well-armed and well-armoured, and they certainly didn't have the skills to do that alone. The large fire below also indicates that there are creatures that have sight and need light to observe.

This place should not be stayed for long.

Li Ben began to wander around the underground world looking for an exit, using the old method, looking for a place with air circulation.

In his wandering luck, he somehow came to the dungeon he had seen earlier.

"I can't help it..."

Li Ben could only make himself invisible, slipping past two caveman guards and entering the underground city through the huge city gate, hoping to find a way out of it.

He also had some trouble entering the city, as cavemen had no vision, so they were surprisingly keen on other senses.

The slightly violent turbulence of the airflow when Li Ben passed by actually made them notice that they were stopped by the spear, but because they had pure water to cover their breath, the caveman still withdrew his weapon after going around in confusion to no avail. That's what makes people enter the city without danger.

"This is really amazing!" Li Ben, who saw the specific scene in the city, couldn't help but sigh.

The chaos erosion here is at 25%, but the houses in those cities are well laid out, and every road and alley is clearly carefully planned.

The houses are made of burnt bricks and wood, and the inhabitants are all beast-headed monsters, and you can find a counterpart for almost every animal you know or don't know.

This reminded Li Ben of the monster town he passed by when he first came to this world, which was its deluxe city version.

What kind of guy can bring together so many different kinds of chaotic creatures and make them live in order like humans?

The water of the river flowing from above is diverted into the city for the inhabitants to live. Around the river, there are many small buildings, and judging by the way monsters come in and go, staggering, it is a tavern or something.

"Monsters' writings...", Lee Ben saw some signs painted with crooked symbols.

Walking through the city, he meets a minotaur striking iron in a blacksmith's shop, a hog-headed monster selling barbecue meat from unknown creatures, and an ape weaving linen and leather by the roadside... There's also an arena-like building filled with spectators, and a rock troll is fighting a fire elemental in the ring, cheering and cheering.

"Even magical creatures..."

Li Ben was so shocked by this unusually unimaginable world that he forgot for a moment the purpose of his visit, and just wanted to see how many things he had never seen before.

The creatures of chaos are also in search of order.

There are at least tens of thousands of monsters living in this dungeon, and the lively atmosphere of life is something that Li Ben, who has come to this world, has never felt, and there is no such place in human society.

He suddenly felt an urge to tell him that this was the place he was supposed to live.

Soon, however, human reason told him that this was an extremely dangerous place for him. Once the monster discovers it, I'm afraid it will be completely buried here.

He felt a sudden bout of vertigo, which cut him off from the mask.

Blessings are incomparable, disasters are not one-way, and the house leak coincides with overnight rain... This is the only thought of Lee Ben now.

He didn't expect that his stealth ability was sometimes limited for a long time, and his mental power was not exhausted at this time, but he simply couldn't connect with the mask.

I didn't think of this stubble at all, why would I be so stupid! Li Ben blamed himself in annoyance.

He felt a dense gaze on himself.

He looked around, and all the monsters stopped what they were doing, and looked at themselves that suddenly appeared in the street, and the strange silence descended on this place, and the atmosphere was very awkward.

Li Ben didn't dare to move, and neither did the monsters, until a patrolling troglodyte arrived and broke the deadlock.

The caveman didn't attack Li Ben directly, but instead said a lot of things he didn't understand, and then waved his hand to signal all the monsters around him to return to their normal lives.

By the way, the masked self should look like a crow monster in their eyes, and if it were in a place like this, it might not attract the monsters' repulsive attack. Thinking of this, Li Ben looked at his own shadow, which indeed showed the outline of a crow monster, indicating that the passive ability of the mask had not disappeared.

But the leading caveman kept uttering all sorts of jerky syllables at him, apparently trying to talk to him.

I'm not a monster, so it's impossible to understand what he means......

"Wow!" Li Ben shouted in imitation of the crow's voice.

The caveman froze with his mouth open.

"Wow!

The cavemen turned their heads together, as if discussing something.

Then the leading caveman walked up to Li Ben, pointed to the distance of the road, and beckoned him to follow him.

This kind of universal gesture is still understandable for humans, and so far, these monsters have not shown the desire to attack, indicating that they have not shown their feet for the time being, and they are safe, and it is the right choice to cooperate with them.

Following them, Lee Ben came to one of the giant fires in the dungeon.

Only then did he discover that the huge fire was burning in a cauldron about thirty meters in diameter, and many fire elements were flying freely in it. The cauldron is supported by a large stone building about 10 meters high, carved with countless intricate textures, and you can feel the hot energy flow in it.

The caveman took the lead in pushing open the door of the building and led Li Ben inside.

Although there is a raging fire overhead, the interior of the building is completely isolated from the outside world, and it is very shady.

In it, he saw a sphere of yellow light wrapped in green bark roots, beating regularly like an animal's heart.

The caveman plucked a green fruit from the root of the tree, handed it to Li Ben, took one himself, tilted his head and popped it, and drank the juice from it.

Then motioned for him to repeat it.

The fruit on the hand has a soft fleshy feeling, not like a good thing. I took a closer look at it from the hunter's perspective, but it turned out that there was no chaotic aura in my hand, it was like the most ordinary fruit.

Of course, Li Ben didn't want to eat such a thing from an unknown source. But now that I am in the tiger's den, if I don't do what they ask, I'm afraid there will be no good results.

Hawkers,Since there's nothing abnormal in the induction,It shouldn't be too much of a problem, right?

With trepidation, he dripped the fruit juice through the nostrils of the mask's beak and tasted it.

There was no taste and no change was felt.

He looked at the caveman and wondered what he was going to do next.

The caveman said to him, "This is the first time you have come to Treasure City, have you come to Treasure City, who introduced you?

Li Ben looked at him with a blank expression.

The voice is still the same voice, nothing has changed.

But after drinking that thing, I was able to understand what they meant... What are you going to do, do you use crows, and will you be aware of speaking human language?

"Hmm..."

"Your Excellencyte?" the caveman shouted again.

"Ah, that's... I'm here looking for something. "Li Ben uses Chinese directly, and it is too risky to use the lingua franca of this world.

"If you're looking for something, please go to the tavern, there is a lot of information there, or you can just post a quest. ”

"Oh, I see. "I don't really understand it at all. Li Ben complained about himself.

"One more thing, please don't use your abilities in the city at will, this is a very dangerous behavior, thinking that it is your first time, we will not pursue it, if you want to experience the thrill of fighting, you can go to the arena to sign up for the competition, and there will be rewards if you win. The caveman spoke patiently again.

"Now, please leave the temple with us, and feel free to ask the guards if you have any questions. ”

"Oooh. Li Ben could only answer this bluntly without knowing any details.

What, Monster Kingdom? I've really come to a terrible place...

After leaving the temple in their mouths, Lee Ben was thrown out on the street.

He looked back at the building behind him, remembered the mysterious ball of light and fruit, and his intuition told him that the city was built on the thing.

"It's said that it is a temple, but which god is it enshrined?"

There's a lot of unclear things.,I have to get to know it well.,Fortunately, I've gained the ability to communicate with monsters.,Although it's not clear if there are any side effects.,But for now, you can only take one step at a time.。

"It's kind of fun. Li Ben muttered to himself.

He touched the victim behind him and calmed down a little.

Walking on the street, both pedestrians and residents on the side of the road looked at him.

Is it that conspicuous... Speaking of which, the guards sounded very polite to me, and although I didn't understand the principle, I could probably guess that this was a kind of communication on the spiritual level, so there should be no deviation in the understanding of the meaning.

What's the reason for being polite? Is it because I look strong? Just ask someone who looks weak.

So Li Ben walked up to a thin little mouse man who looked at him twice, blocking his way.

"Hey, what do you think of me?"

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I don't dare anymore!" After saying that, he got under Li Ben's crotch and ran away.

It was a desperately unsuccessful attempt at dialogue.

He looked around, and no one dared to look at him again.