Chapter 152: Snake Eye Tunnel
It was already dawn, and the entrance to Gustavo's heritage was at the head of this serpentine mountain range, where Snake Eye was, and Chen Mian was now above the head of the snakehead.
But she inspected it and didn't find a hole like the one depicted in the animal skin map, it was because of this pit on the map that Chen Mian felt that this mountain range was like a snake, and the location of the pit was the eye-catching snake.
The lack of obvious craters in the air meant that Chen Mian was not too surprised, as the mission brief stated that Gustavo lived hundreds of years ago.
Although the exact year is not clear, as long as the unit of "100 years" is reached, some changes are certain.
A cement house on the Blue Star will be dilapidated if it is uninhabited for decades, and it will become a world of plants again, not to mention a place in the mountains and forests.
Chen Mian guessed that the potholes on the map should be covered by plants.
The mountain was a long way from where the Thorns were now, and they wouldn't be able to get there, at least for today, as long as Chen Mian could find the entrance to Gustavo's Legacy before Jarvis and the others arrived, without Blackie continuing to watch.
Chen Mian transmitted the sound to Xiao Hei, so that it quickly passed through in a virtual state, and he may be of great use in the future.
After the transmission, Chen Mian compared the map in his mind, estimated the approximate location of the pothole, and landed in the forest, where the staff appeared in front of her, and Chen Mian turned it into a violent form and held it in his hand.
Before each step, Chen Mian would use his staff to knock on the ground to avoid stepping directly into the hole.
The forest was noticeably more inaccessible than the woods it had passed before, with a thick layer of fallen leaves on the ground, the bottom of which had rotted into dirt, and the upper layers were more loosely stacked on top of each other, crunching when stepped on, like walking on cotton.
Chen Mian tapped on the ground in front of her, feeling that she had encountered an obstacle, and made sure that there was no hole hidden, she took a small step forward, but as soon as she stepped on it, she felt that something was wrong.
This time, the sound of the fallen leaves under his feet being trampled was a little louder, as if something was broken, and before he had time to move away, Chen Mian felt his body fall suddenly.
Chen Mian was only a little frightened when she first sinked, but she quickly calmed down, she is no longer the person who can only rely on physical strength to save herself when she encounters this kind of thing in the past, all kinds of skills are close to her, and her strength is her confidence.
She came up with several spells that could help her in an instant, and the Feather Fall Technique was released, and Chen Mian's falling speed slowed down, in fact, she had only fallen less than three meters at this time.
The cave juts diagonally into the ground at an inconspicuous angle, bottomless, and not spacious, and if it weren't for the protection of the mage's armor, Chen Mian might have been bruised by the cave wall.
After all, in addition to the mage armor, the passively triggered life necklace and purple moon robe on her body can only resist one attack, and they can't continue to protect her.
However, the damage of this friction has no effect on the mage's armor at all, and with the blessing of the Feather Fall Technique, it is even more so after the sliding speed is slowed down.
The staff in the form of violence was not very convenient in this hole, and it was always bumping and bumping, so Chen Mian turned it back into a staff card and put it away.
Looking up, Chen Mian found that there were still a lot of broken tree roots at the entrance of the cave, most of them were relatively thin, only one was slightly thicker, but it was impossible to bear the weight of her whole person.
No wonder she felt that tapping on the ground before, she felt that there was an obstacle, but now she understood that she must have just hit the thickest root, and she didn't know if it was good luck or bad luck.
This cave entrance may be the snake eye on the map, the cave wall is very regular, it doesn't look like it is naturally generated, Chen Mian has to go down to see what it is.
After falling for a while, the light at the entrance of the cave could not shine on the current position, and Chen Mian couldn't see how far the bottom of the cave was when he put on the insect-eye night vision goggles.
She took a small fist-sized stone from the attached space, lit a light spell on it, and threw it downward.
Although the area of the annex space is only 100 square meters, the height is a full 100 meters, except for the two floors of the residence, which are divided into storage spaces.
After discovering the wonderful use of a large amount of earth and stone to deal with the Iter monster before, she also stored some of the earth and stone used that time in the annex space.
The glowing stone rolled down, the light in the line of sight became smaller and smaller, and finally nothing could be seen, and after a while, Chen Mian, who was listening intently, faintly heard a "bang", the sound was very dull, and it must have landed.
The speed of falling is slow, Chen Mian relies on observing the time of the cave wall, the cave wall is still very regular near the surface, it looks like it is manually excavated, and the further down it is, the more it looks like it is naturally formed, because the trend is much more arbitrary, and there are often some curves.
In this case, one cannot help but suspect that someone discovered a natural cave underground, and then dug a tunnel to the surface again.
However, if that were the case, there should be other exits here, as no one would be able to find a passage so deep underground on the ground, and the people who dug through here would probably have come in from somewhere else.
The walls of the cave were getting wetter and wetter, Chen Mian frowned, according to the sound she heard before, she should be able to see the light of the light technique on the stone before, but it was still pitch black below.
A stone appeared again in his hand, and when the light was lit, the stone tumbled and fell, and soon, with a dull sound, the light disappeared again.
This time Chen Mian saw the situation below, the stone fell into the water, it was indeed almost to the end, she took out the water-repellent pearl and put it under her tongue for later use, and prepared to take out the witch's flying broom at any time if the space below was large enough.
Even if there are water-repellent pearls, water is not her main battlefield, and many spells are not very useful in water.
If the stone falls into the water, it can't even be seen through the light of the light technique, which means that the water is not shallow, and it is not a good choice to rush into the water when you have no idea about the underwater situation at all.
Chen Mian rolled out of the cave and entered a larger cave, she immediately took out the witch's flying broom, rolled over, and stopped the falling trend at a height of one meter on the water.
The cave was about the size of a small room of twenty square meters, and three-quarters of the space was occupied by this small pool under him, and only the corner in front of Chen Mian's left had a place where he could put his feet.
Chen Mian rode the witch's flying broom to inspect the cave wall, which was like a small naturally formed pool, with no traces of excavation on the cave wall, and no imaginary passage.
She even checked it with the detection door, and there was no secret room hidden by magic, so there was only this waterhole underneath her.
Unexpectedly, he would eventually go into the water, Chen Mian landed in the open space in the corner, sat in the center of the magic alarm and restored the mana consumed before.
The water-repellent pearl was still in her mouth, and she put herself in a stealth operation before walking towards the waterhole.
As if there was no shallow water in this pool, Chen Mian stepped down, and the whole person fell into the water.