Chapter 21: Collective

Lulunaka didn't take too long to pick the sagebrush, but after a while, she and Marina were back in the group. As the two of them went to pick the deadly weeds, Eko stood beside them and waited, Axe and Chris walking together, unaware of what they were talking about.

When Lulunaka returned, she was holding a handful of twisted and twisted miscanthus in a circle, wrapped in strips of cloth, which seemed to be no different from ordinary miscanthus grass. "Thank you for being willing to wait for me. Lulunaka said.

"Just keep that thing away from us. Shortaxe said.

"It's lost its vitality. Lulunaka said, "As long as they don't come to life without touching the liquid." ”

"Why do you want to pick such a dangerous thing?" asked Ekor.

Lulunaka looked at Eko, "It can be used to help my poor uncle, too...... It's not necessary, but at least it's useful, and it saves a lot of money. ”

Lulunaka is really a poor child, and she is even willing to take risks in order to save some money. Marina sighed slightly, but if Lulunaka wasn't such a character, she probably wouldn't have gone to the sewers alone.

Lulunaka wrapped the miscanthus tightly in strips of cloth and put it in her arms after making sure there was nothing exposed, which made Marina a little worried about whether she was taking too much risk.

As the team continued to walk, the only sound of their footsteps and the sound of water dripping on the ground was the sound of the large passageway. There was nothing but pebbles and weeds on the ground, and in the dark, damp places there were some disgusting fungi except for the sagebrush. The mushrooms looked as if they had rotted, with cracks all over the surface and an unknown liquid coming out of them, all of which were of any color, depending on the color of the mushroom. In addition to the immovable plants, there are also some small things that can move around. Rats, snakes, bugs...... Although it is not overwhelming, the movement brought by these small things can always be heard at the feet of everyone. If it's a mouse, it's fine, but if there's a snake lying at its feet, it's not reassuring.

Along the way, Chris trampled several nimble little snakes to death, so that those who followed him did not need to worry about whether something would bounce under their feet and bite him. But this kind of thing can't be wiped out by stepping on it, at least not by the Glastard, who just kicked a rat away and the rat squeaked and disappeared into the distance. "There are more and more rats and reptiles in this place. "The last active before the onset of winter." ”

"Hibernation?" Marina asked.

"If it's a snake, it does hibernate, and the rats down there won't show up just because they're getting cold. "And in the winter, it's a different story, and then even if you give me more money, I won't go deeper into the sewers." ”

"Why?"

Shortaxe was about to answer, but then a cacophony came from ahead. The voices were chaotic, there were the sounds of iron colliding, there were voices, and there were shouting and swearing...... Sounds like a battle is taking place.

Chris stopped in front of him, turned back to the person behind him, and shouted, "Stop first, I'll go see the situation." With that, Chris walked forward and disappeared from everyone's eyes.

"What's going on up ahead?" Marina asked.

Glastard, touching his chin, replied, "Sounds like someone is working." ”

"Work?"

"You know, there's a lot of weird stuff in this sewer, especially when you go deeper. "It's safe to get close to the ground, but as you can see, when you get away from the ground, the environment gets worse and the danger increases." It's not just plants that are at risk. ”

After a while, Chris returned to the front of the team and said to the group, "You can go over, it's over there." It is a person to be able to talk to. ”

Chris's words were still so short, so concise that one wondered if he was missing something or missing something crucial. But Shortaxe didn't have too many doubts about his companion, after all, it was his long-standing work partner, "Then let's go, it seems that we are lucky, at least there is less danger in this vicinity." ”

Marina and the others followed Chris and walked a little further, coming to the place where Chris said was "over". There is a hole here, and the hole is so large that even a horse-drawn carriage can pass through it. It was opened on the edge of the passage, giving the straight, non-branching passage an additional way to the rest of the world.

It was noticeably more lively than the quiet road they had walked before, and a number of people had gathered together, scattered in circles, some making loud noises, others whispering, and some looking at the newcomers, and then moving away, as if they were not interested. Everyone wrapped themselves tightly and put on protective equipment on the outside, including leather armor, iron armor, and a mixture of human skin armor and iron armor, which looked very strange.

If it's just a group of people standing here, it's nothing special, but if this was a battlefield, it's very different. The living can still stand, but the dead people or creatures can only lie on the ground.

Not only was there a lot of noise, there was the smell of gunsmoke, and in some places there were flames, presumably bombs and Molotov cocktails filled with oil, and perhaps traces of magic. The injured person is either squatting and sitting, tending to the wound on his own, and the seriously injured can only wait for someone else to help.

There weren't many human corpses, and they were all dragged away and placed in a relatively clean place, and I don't know what to do with these poor people next. Lying on the ground were more small, emaciated corpses. The corpses had no clothing on them, only tattered pieces of cloth covering their bodies, and had blue skin.

These are not children, and there will not be so many children in the ground and slaughtered like this. When looking at the faces of these corpses, no one would think of such creatures as children. Small eyes in a line, no nostrils, a large mouth with a mouthful of fangs, and two teeth that are particularly long and stick out of the mouth, looking extremely hideous and terrifying.

As they walked towards the men and in the direction of the entrance of the cave, there were several corpses of these little things at their feet. Chris and Glastard seemed to be used to it, and even if they stepped on the corpses, they didn't react, and Eko and Marina's words carefully dodged the strange smelling corpses. It's not the smell of corpses, it's the smell of these little things themselves, like the smell of rancid milk.

"Don't get too close to the hole over there. The axe reminded the person in front of him, "Even underground, there is a chassis division." ”

As she got closer, Marina saw the entrance to the cave clearly. The hole certainly didn't exist at first, it was what the passage looked like after it had been chiseled, and if you looked inside, you could see that it was a dug passage, covered with dirt and gravel, and dirt falling from it.

The team could not get any closer to the hole, and someone had already stepped forward and came to them. This is a man who also wraps himself tightly, wearing a black mask and revealing only a pair of eyes.

"Don't go near the hole, but you can go through the other paths on your own. The man said, nodding his head to the other end of the passage, "We don't charge tolls, so let's go - we don't have much interest in small fish and shrimp, you can die anywhere, but don't die near us, it will make our competitors slander us as robbers." ”

The man's words sounded dismissive of these people, but there was no malice in his words, as if they were business, but they also carried his personal feelings in them. To put it simply, this man means the same thing: you can do whatever you like, and don't come near here to disturb them.

The man's words caused Eko to feel some unpleasant emotions. He wasn't a grumpy person, but the man's words did have a contempt for them, and the tone was so obvious that it was impossible to take it seriously.

But just as he was about to have a seizure, Marina pressed his shoulder. He looked back and saw Marina shaking her head with a smile on her face, which made him feel a lot less angry.

"We'll go right over. Hatchet leaned over to the man with a smile on his face and shoved a few silver coins into the man's hand, "Thank you for making this area safer." ”

Marina and Eko were surprised by the appearance of the Shortaxe, who was not a generous person, but took out a coin and stuffed it into someone else's hand.

The man didn't react to the dastard's actions, and shoved the coin into his arms, "Your safety is worth it...... I advise you not to go too deep, the little fangs around here are active again, this hole was originally sealed, and now it has to be sealed again. The man walked over to the entrance of the cave, as if he was no longer going to deal with Marina and other passers-by. But finally he turned back to the dagger and shouted, "Some of the little fangs have run away, I think you can handle it." If this could be killed by Little Fangs, we wouldn't have dragged your corpse up. ”