The tremors and the sudden gust of wind caused Mina and I to lose our balance, lean over, and fall into the wall. At that moment, I grabbed Mina's hand! The other hand went to grasp the rock wall, but the angle was too far off, and my hand was empty.

But the moment I turned around, I seemed to see the gloomy vertical eyes in the deep darkness......

It's the same thing before that!

The eyes above the Stone Gate Chamber!

But......

It doesn't smell, it wasn't then, and it doesn't smell now.

So what exactly is the thing that just smelled and where is it?

I was so concerned about the smell that I completely forgot about the danger of falling. It wasn't until the sharp pain of my body falling to the ground that I was awakened from my thoughts. But fortunately, the height of the wall is not enough to break my body apart, and I can already feel the secretion of mucus in my body......

"How are you?" I looked into the darkness around me.

Mina's hand was still in the palm of mine, and she was over there.

There was no response for a long time.

I thought I had fainted, so I reached over and touched it, but halfway through my hand, I was slapped in the face, "When I fell, couldn't you drag me to your body?" Mina spoke, full of resentment.

"I haven't died for six or seven hundred years, and I know that this height can't kill you."

"Then it hurts too!" Mina punched me in the chest, "And it's all said, it's a lie." ”

I smiled helplessly, grabbed Mina's fist, and was about to say something when a strange sound suddenly sounded in my ears.

"Uh......"

The voice sounded distant, low, like a wounded and weakened beast.

"Do you hear that?" I asked.

"Hmm......" Mina responded, snapping my fingers in one direction, "over there." ”

The flickering thing that caught Mina's and me's attention before the fall flashed through my mind.

That's an eye, too.

At the distance we were from the wall, emitting such light, the main body of the eyeball was at least five to six times the size of a normal human.

"It's watching us......" Mina said.

"Well, waiting for an opportunity to hunt." I didn't see those red eyes again, but I knew Mina was right.

"Predation? Why do you use these two words to describe it? Mina asked.

"I heard hunger in that low roar."

"Know the language of beasts?"

"It's always about intuition, isn't it too repetitive."

"Poof......" Mina smiled, "don't make a fuss at this time, maybe we're going to die here." ”

"Then you are really down-to-earth about life and death, and you can talk so easily." As I spoke, I began to move my limbs, and I found that the insect venom had repaired the damage to the body faster and faster, although the height was indeed not enough to disable the body too much, but it was still fatal to ordinary people. At this moment, I have probably regained my mobility.

I got up, my body prostrate, my eyes looking in the direction from which the low roar came, "This place doesn't look like a nest in any way, it's closed, and there's no way to climb up, it must have been trapped here for a long time." What can be killed and eaten here has long been killed and eaten. That roar sounds weak, but in fact, this weakness is more due to hunger. ”

"You mean, it killed a lot of people here? No, I should say...... "She always understood what I meant," and it wasn't just people. ”

"Do you smell it?"

"Huh?"

"The smell of death around ......"

Mina thought for a moment, "When you say that, this place looks like an enlarged version of Gu Ding. ”

"Gu Ding? What is that? I asked.

"You should have heard, the sorcerer refining Gu worms, putting several kinds of poisonous insects into a container, after a hundred days, the one that survives by devouring other poisonous flesh and blood is called a Gu. And that container is Gu Ding. It's not that all Gu worms have to rely on Gu Ding to refine, but this is also a normal model, and there is no distinction between high and low. ”

Mina's meaning in the second half of the sentence was that if this was really a huge Gu Ding, then it was indeed possible to refine a huge Gu worm.

But then again, Mina seems to know a lot about Gu worms.

"You've learned to cook, too?" I asked.

"Actually, I can mix well in any field, and I have that confidence." Mina walked up to me at this point, crouched down, and seemed to be digging something, and was relieved when she took it out, "Fortunately, it didn't break." ”

"What?"

"Something to prove your claim." Mina lowered the gizmo, which I couldn't read, to the ground, and there was a "click" sound like wood breaking. But the moment it broke, a bright light appeared, and the light gradually amplified, like a small torch.

The glowing thing was a palm-sized disc that looked like wood, but it was shining.

"What is this?" I asked.

"Du Youlan gave it, and it can be used now." As Mina finished speaking, the disc separated up and down, moving to the left and right, moving slowly along the inner wall of the high wall, illuminating the surrounding objects.

"So, it's a lighting thing."

"Anyone who is not blind can see it."

"I mean, why didn't you take it out earlier?"

"We just fell."

"It was dark before, too."

"Shhh......h Your guess might be a bit of a problem. ”

Everywhere the light passed around, there were indeed white bones, shells, and the remains of various unknown creatures, but they looked quite complete, if they were killed and devoured by another beast, then they would not be such bones.

So this may not be a Gu Ding.

But it wasn't the bones that I cared about now, and I asked Mina, "How far can this light move?" ”

"It's okay to take a spin."

"That is, it will eventually turn in the direction that the sound came from."

Mina nodded, "yes, I'm curious about what it's all the time gasping for breath." ”

As the light moved forward, the brightness gradually increased, and we could see more than just the edges, and even the brightness could slightly affect where Mina and I were at the moment.

The light source rested at the end of the crater, but strangely, we didn't see any creatures in that location, only a puddle of mud that looked like mud.

But that thing......

It's moving!

Its body went up and down, it was a living thing.

"It seems to be it." Mina took a step forward.

"Wait......"

"How?" Mina stopped.

But at the moment she stopped, her toes seemed to touch something, and I heard a grinding sound, like kicking some dry and brittle branch.

The golden heart beats suddenly!

I'll pull Mina back to where she was before! And the next moment, a black hook like a curly chain burst out of the mud! Just right where Mina stabbed before!

Looking at the tentacles, Mina froze for a few seconds and looked back at me, "Thank you." ”

"I'm right."

"Huh?"

"It did kill all the other creatures here."

Mina's gaze swept around, and the position of the far edge of the high wall could be seen clearly at this moment because of the magnification of the light. In fact, when the light source moved, I realized that the further inward it was, the more chaotic the shape of the remains became. The entire skeleton is bounded by an invisible arc and the edge of the high wall, forming a large crescent shape.

Other words......

"It has an attack range, and if you exceed it, you can't reach it." Mina looked at me.

"Well, we've been out of range before. Its roar, in addition to being hungry, is also pretending to be weak, and it is tempting us. ”

Mina's gaze looked around again, "So these things, because of fear, stayed away, and ended up trapped here." ”

And at this moment, the monster no longer hid its body, and stood up from the mud, looking very strange, and its lower body was extremely fat, and it looked fleshy. And the upper body, like a worm, especially the head, is the head of an orthoptera insect.

Mina was within a safe range and approached the corpses, "There are so many corpses, I know ten or eight kinds, it seems that the other party is really powerful." ”

"How?"

"Because the dead are terrible bugs."

"Hmm......" I nodded.

"There's no way we're going to kill it."

"I know."

"So, I'm probably going to be trapped here. Blame the bad luck. Mina sighed and suddenly turned her gaze to me, "Hey, what do you think about your absent-mindedness?" And, what posture are you in? ”

I got down again, still in the same position, in the same position, "I'm wondering why it has a range." ”

"Huh?"

"You say, everything here looks like it's refining Gu. But I remember Zuo Yuan told me that some Gu Kings will gradually become stronger in the body of the Witch Master, and in the end, even if they are separated from the Witch Master, they can live well. ”

Mina walked up to me, lay down as well, nodded, and looked in the direction I was looking, "That kid was right. ”

"That's an interesting name."

"Don't talk about this now, keep talking about yours." Mina poked me.

"In other words, the usual Gu worms shouldn't be too far away from the Witch Gu Master, right?"

"That's right. Unless it's planted in someone's body. ”

I know.

But it's obviously not a body in front of you.

So where is that body? If I'm not mistaken, there must be a person hidden in the dungeon of this dark covenant. The so-called sorcerer more than a hundred years ago may not have died. Of course, this speculation has little to do with the situation at hand.

I can only say that if this guess is correct, this big thing is really a Gu worm, and looking at the head, it is a straightptera insect like the demon locust, I seem to be able to explain why the demon locust died en masse shortly after leaving the Covenant of Darkness.

"Nana, remember we came up, right? I think this thing should be a worm queen, and it is linked under its butt, and the eight achievements are the egg locus of the demon locust before. Maybe it's stuck, or maybe it's something else, in short, its ovulatory organ can't leave that position. But if it's not there, we might be able to crawl from there to the previous lob. ”

"So you can get out of here?"

"...... right"

"Poof, stop making a fuss." Mina smiled, "How are you going to drill it?" Don't tell me, you're going to adapt to it and evolve. The premise of evolution is that you don't get killed in seconds......"

"Actually, you don't know me very well." I abruptly interrupted Mina.

"Huh?"

"I mean, my worm poison."

"Yours? It's an interesting name. ”

"It's not time to talk about that." I stood up, walked to the edge of the range, and held out my hand a little bit, "I'm not like the things around me. Evolution, not adaptation. ”