Chapter 232: Hermitage
We rested for a while, didn't dare to sit down, let alone put down the equipment, they really didn't seem to be chasing, but we couldn't test with our lives, Brother Shen jogged forward again, this speed was just right, not too tired and not slow.
I haven't chased after me for so long, I should have thrown it off, our speed gradually slowed down, who knew that after walking a few rock crevices, water appeared, I looked at the water and felt very irritable, and here it is again, it really exists to torture us.
I don't have so much fear of water anymore, I just feel very annoyed and tired, and the strength that I finally recovered was consumed a lot in the way I just ran, and the water came again, and I shone it with a flashlight, the water was not deep, two or three meters, but we could only swim over.
Brother Shen jumped into the water, Nineteen patted me on the shoulder and followed first, my expression must have been frustrated, Eleven was still waiting for me, they always put me in the middle to protect.
I jumped off and we were back to where we were, and we kept swimming, and the water level gradually calmed down to a depth of four or five meters, and the maze began to come alive again, and the rocks around us kept moving, and the water surface shook.
I often see very small whirlpools on the surface of the water, these rocks must be empty under the rocks, the water will flow down, we have not reached the bottom of the floating island, this is a really desperate discovery, no one knows how many layers it has, and where the jade is.
It was another rock crevice, and I swam closely behind Brother Shen, but he stopped halfway through the swim, and I stopped, only to see that the water in front of me was very stable, and there was nothing.
Brother Shen suddenly turned his head and looked to the left, it was still dark over there, I turned on the flashlight, and this look almost scared my heart jumped out, only to see that there was a half-human-wide gap on our left, which was densely packed with dark red skulls!
They are not piled up there, but crawl on the rock wall, densely covered with half of the rock wall, like a giant snail, flashlight light, red and bright, like hell.
They were clinging to the rock wall, but as our light swept by, I watched as black furry legs stretched out between the skull and the rock wall, and they came alive and surged like waves, and I couldn't see them in their entirety, their bodies shrunk into their skulls, only their legs exposed, like a tide rushing towards us.
We were so far away, they didn't take a shortcut, they were lying here in the first place, we had only seen a part of it before, and there were probably other settlements here.
"Let's go!"
I saw Nineteen shouting at me, perhaps too many times, it was the only word that I could understand at first glance, and we didn't hesitate any longer, waving our hands and feet with all our strength, and swimming forward desperately.
I was scared, and I couldn't help but look back as I swam, and I saw them gushing out of the cracks in the rocks, endless like an army, some clinging to the rock walls, some jumping into the water, they were not afraid of water, they ran fast with their long legs, and from a distance they looked like a group of hermit crabs that used their skulls as shells.
It would be nice if it was hermit crabs, they moved faster in the water than on rocks, and I couldn't help but feel a sense of desperation, we were too slow, and if we kept swimming, it wouldn't be long before we caught up.
Swim, swim, swim, my mind was empty, I only knew how to swim forward mechanically, I was already very tired, but the speed was surprisingly fast, it turned out that I had so much potential, I didn't realize it before.
We swam through two rock crevices, and when we turned our heads, we saw them rushing in groups from the corners of the rocks, the nearest one was only four or five meters away from us, I was panicked, I didn't know how to swing my hands and feet, my body sank a little, Nineteen grabbed me, and the god brother in front of me also turned his head and stretched out his hand, and jerked me forward.
No matter what I did, it didn't help, I wanted to escape, but my body didn't listen to me at all, because I couldn't hear the sound, I always subconsciously looked back, knowing that it was useless, but I still couldn't help it.
The rock crevice in front of me was very narrow, and Brother Shen had a beautiful posture, and he drilled through it slightly, and I rushed forward, but I was stuck, I shouted, and moved my body desperately, only to feel that someone behind me kicked my backpack hard, kicking me out directly, and making me take a big mouthful of water.
The salty and fishy sea water poured into my mouth, I spit out two mouthfuls casually, and quickly chased after Brother Shen, but Brother Shen's body was stagnant, and he grabbed me suddenly, and by the dim searchlight, I saw that the rock wall in front of me was full of dark red skulls, and they were startled by us, and suddenly stretched out their legs, and I guessed that the sound of that moment must have been like countless insects crawling.
Fortunately, I couldn't hear it, but it was even more terrifying, my brain was blank, and I didn't know what to do for a while, eleven they squeezed out of the rock crevice, and when I turned around, I saw that the skull appeared around the corner, there was a blockade in front, and there were pursuers in the back, and we couldn't escape.
Nineteen mouths shouted something, I couldn't see clearly on the side, we changed positions, back to back in a circle, they all took out the sword, I also carried two, the more I looked at it, the more I was congested, I knew that I could use it all the way, why didn't I take two long ones, it's too late to regret it now.
Dense skulls poured towards us, encircling us, overhead, on all four walls, in the water, everywhere, I didn't despair when I was surrounded by those tentacles, I knew it would be difficult for us to break through this time.
If I can survive this time, I must drink with Lao Huang for three days and three nights, I don't know how this idea came to me, and before I had time to think about it, I saw a skull on the rock wall suddenly jump up and fly straight towards me!
Its legs and feet were facing me, and I realized that it had ten legs, and it looked like a spider, and the creepy thing was that it was not a belly between its legs, but a mouthpiece full of fangs!
It's a monster at all! I was startled when I saw a cloud of mucus squirting out of its mouthparts, and my body reacted faster than my brain, and I could dodge it, and the mucus flew past my cheeks, with a spicy fishy smell, like a mouthful of thick phlegm shot into the water.
When I reacted, I saw Brother Shen raise his sword and stab, the tip of the sword passed through its mouthparts, and in an instant more disgusting mucus shot out, and as soon as the sword was retracted, it fell, and its legs were floating on the surface of the water with its legs facing the sky, whirling, still twitching slightly.
The smell was so bad that I almost didn't spit it out, I felt Nineteen move back to back with me, and the attack on his side began.
It was like a war beating the drum, and the skulls were smashed at us like stones, and they didn't seem to be able to make the skulls face us, but could only expose them underneath, and I was dazzled by it, and the armor played a big role at this time, sometimes it got into the monster's mouthparts, and sometimes it opened holes directly outside the skull, and a series of lights and shadows that were difficult to trace with the naked eye flashed, and a monster would fall everywhere it went.
Nail is much more comfortable with them than with tentacles, and there are no more of them than those tentacles, so I settle down a little bit, and watching Armor build an invisible barrier in front of me, I hardly have to do anything, just give the mending knives that are not completely dead.
It's just that the smell is too bad, we don't have a place to stay, we can only keep stepping on the water to float on the water, more and more monsters fall into the water, those slimy liquids also flow into the water, even the water becomes sticky, I can feel the wounds on my body become painful and itchy, these liquids are corrosive even if they are not toxic.
The number of monsters is even greater, it seems endless, if one group dies, another batch will be replaced, I turned my head and saw them pouring in in droves from the edge of the rock, the armor could not completely protect me, I tried to swing the sword, my strength was not great, I still had no legs and feet in the water, and the accuracy of the head was poor, and the blade fell on the skull most of the time, cutting out white marks, and there was no way to kill them.
Another monster that was missed by the armor flew over, I stared straight at it, trying to find a suitable angle to stab it, just when I was about to shoot, my right hand was suddenly grabbed by Brother Shen, his strength was very strong, I had no defense but to let him exert force, I saw him deflect the tip of my sword at a certain angle, and accurately stabbed into the monster's mouthparts.
He let go of his hand in an instant, and went on to deal with something else, the monster was still hanging on my sword and fluttering its legs, and I watched as a puddle of slime flowed out of its mouthparts, and flung it out with a flick.
This moment happened too quickly, A became more and more overwhelmed, I was in a hurry, although the hit rate was still ridiculously low as before, but I also stabbed a few times, I found that my body coordination was so poor that I couldn't care about my legs and feet when I concentrated on my hands, and I was unstable several times and almost sank.
Nineteen of them are at ease, but my side is getting harder and harder, and these monsters are also very smart, and they realize that I am weaker, and they are coming at me more and more, and I can't see any more and stab, so I can only keep slashing and slashing them out.
These things are not light at all, every time I hit my hand, my hands are numb, I am more and more scrambling, I have to maintain my body balance, and I can't even care about the pain on my body.
The water was full of monster corpses, the closest to me was only a dozen centimeters, and I didn't care about the smell and dirt, and kept waving my arms against them, choosing the latter between disgust and effort.
Another shadow flashed, knocking the one that was about to hit me out, a foul of stinking slime flew out of the hole in the skull, and the shadow came out from the other side, it was Eleven's A, and he asked A's to help me.
The situation was immediately reversed, and I only needed to kill a few fish that slipped through the net, and suddenly someone behind me pushed me, and I turned my head only to see that it was Brother Shen, who pointed to the darkness in front of him and said "go".
I saw that monsters were still pouring out of the crevices behind me, but the number in front of me was not increasing, and it looked like I could escape.