Chapter Twenty-Seven: Wonders of the Underground
To Xu Mo's surprise, despite carrying two people on its back, the scale lizard still walked on the ground on the cliff, crawling fast and steadily. It's just at a ninety degree angle to the cliff, looking at those rugged mountains and rocks rushing to the face, like a fierce beast that opens its bloody mouth and chooses people to devour, and there is a strange howl of cold wind in the ears, which not only makes people have a creepy feeling.
If you fall from this height and crash into those mountains and reefs that run through the air, even a third-order MT is estimated to be dead, let alone Xu Mo, a half-crippled assassin.
"Shhhh From time to time, there was a sharp copper whistle in front of him, and it was a member of the Cross family commanding the lizards in unison. Since the training time of these lizards is not long, the rhythm change of the whistle is not complicated, and the lizards can only be commanded to perform some simple operations.
With the help of the scaly lizard and the horned eagle, the third group of people, including Xu Mo, quickly reached the bottom of the rift canyon. What appeared in front of Xu Mo's eyes was a steep slope clearing with an angle of about thirty, of course, this was quite gentle compared to the steep mountain wall above.
There were no too abrupt rocks in the clearing, and the escort members who had come down in front were resting here for a while. From here, the surface fissure no longer tends to go vertically downward, and the stone wall on one side begins to extend below the other side of the mountain wall, forming a cavernous tunnel that stretches underground.
In fact, it is not accurate to say that it is a tunnel or a cave, because the fissure is several kilometers wide and the area is too wide. The upper and lower stone walls form a mezzanine that extends into the ground, and the earth's crust replaces the sky and covers the heads of the people.
Serna untied the rope that bound Xu Mo and helped him off the lizard's back.
"Whew!" Susan landed in the clearing with the horned eagle and jumped off the eagle's back with great dexterity.
"What's wrong, Susan!" Xu Mo looked at the half-elf beauty who frowned, his heart moved, and he asked softly.
"It's a bit strange that our horned eagles seem to be a little grumpy, as if they smell some predator." Susan said with some concern.
"Predators?" Xu Mo turned his head to look at the majestic horned eagle, and couldn't help but shake his head, "There shouldn't be too many natural enemies of these birds of prey, right?" ”
"Well, the air riders who can fight the horned eagle beasts in the air, apart from the intelligent dragon, are probably only a few creatures such as giant vampire bats or bipedal wyverns." Susan looked up proudly, revealing her snow-white pink neck, "However, it seems that these creatures don't live in such crevices in the underground rocks. ”
"Could it be that other teams are also like us, using air horses to fly down the cliffs?" Shepis gathered around with the others.
"It's possible!" Susan was relieved.
The half-elf beauty let go of her thoughts, but Xu Mo frowned instead, turned her head and asked Curt, "Knight Curt, those scouts from various countries who were put back to the surface by the dark elves should have different climbing locations brought back to their own countries, right?" ”
"Well, they are originally hostile soldiers, of course they don't get together, and the places where they climb up the cliffs from the ground are different." Curt carefully recalled it, and then replied in the affirmative.
"Sheppis, leave two members of the Perception Regiment behind, and let Susan send a few members of the Cross family to ride the Horned Eagle to scout other climbing sites throughout the Rift Canyon!" Xu Mo quickly said in the team channel.
"Now?" Xapis was startled and immediately asked, "What did you find?" ”
"I didn't find anything, just a very bad guess!" Xu Mo frowned and said.
"Searching the whole crack?" Hearing Shepis command, Susan's eyes widened in surprise, "But...... This will take at least half a day. From here to the location of the Longjing vein, we only need about half a day. ”
"Is this necessary, Lord Shepis?" Curt interjected on the sidelines, "At the Dragon Crystal Vein, we can follow the agreement and have the Dark Elves send someone to escort us to the dungeon." None of us need to worry about enemy attacks until we leave the dungeon! ”
"This ......" Xue Pis looked at Xu Mo with some wavering.
"The large army can go on the road first, and only a few people will be left here to reconnoiter in the Horned Eagle. If there are no anomalies, let them come later! Xu Mo smiled beside him and said, "It's always good to be careful!" ”
"That'...... All right! Susan pursed her lips helplessly, waved to the two members of the Cross family, and whispered a few words.
"Shepbys, leave two perceivers behind and let them pay attention to one thing in particular!" Xu Mo narrowed his eyes slightly, "With the help of the members of the Cross family, this kind of thing should be easy to find." As soon as I find something, report it through the team channel, and I want to know the exact amount of that stuff! ”
"Old Master K, are you worried about ......" Simon, who had been listening, was suddenly startled and asked a little thoughtfully.
"Well, I hope I'm wrong! Otherwise, we're in big trouble this time! Xu Mo sighed and interrupted Simon's words with a wry smile, "Shepis Pis, I found that this space war only asks you to pay for one space-time core, it's too cheap for you kid!" ”
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As the team descended into the rock formations underground, the light dimmed until it was pitch black. The knights in the team lit up the magic lanterns one after another and held them in their hands. The light of the magic crystal lamp could only shine for more than 20 meters, and it was dark further away.
The gaps between the rock formations that are wide and narrow are full of shadows, like ghosts. Although the earth's crustal rock formations are basically seven or eight meters high, surface humans, who are accustomed to blue skies and clear skies, are still extremely unsuitable for the environment of the underground world. Although I knew that the rock formation above my head would not collapse because it would last forever, I always felt depressed in my heart.
In this environment, everyone in the team fell silent, and even the most noisy guy didn't like to talk much.
More than a dozen lizards carried everyone's supplies and crawled at the front of the line. These cold-blooded reptiles have a more sensitive sense of smell than eyesight, and are well adapted to the cold and damp underworld. With them in front of you, you can avoid sudden danger. In this environment, they are more effective than sentient reincarnations.
After walking for a few hours, the sound of rushing water could be faintly heard in the distance.
"Listen, it's an underground river!" Susan shouted happily, "After the dark river ahead, we are not far from the dragon crystal vein!" ”
"It's almost there!" Xue Pis secretly breathed a sigh of relief, since Xu Mo made some inexplicable arrangements and refused to tell him, the skeleton leader has been worried all the way, and he didn't dare to relax a little.
Everyone involuntarily quickened their pace and headed towards the underground river. The hard limestone beneath your feet is slowly covered with a layer of soft black soil. In the orange light of the magic crystal lamp, some mosses and vines appeared on the rock walls and the ground.
However, unlike the greenery on the ground, these plants are purple-brown when lit. Some strange-shaped vine plants, under the illumination of the magic crystal lamp, curled up like mimosas, very strange.
"It's here, it's here, it's so beautiful!" Susan ran like a young girl who had just opened her mind, and ran to the glittering underground river ahead.
"What a beautiful spectacle!" Xu Mo sat up straight from the back of the lizard and looked at the underground river in front of him in admiration.
The dark river was not very wide, and the clear, icy water was full of strange fish that emitted phosphorescence. The monster fish is the size of a thumb, and the big one is only a foot long. As they swim leisurely, the scales of the fish glitter, illuminating the clear water of the stream with silver light, like the starry sky on a clear summer night.
"Ah, it's so icy!" A soft cry suddenly came from Xu Mo's left front.
Xu Mo turned his head to look and was surprised to find that Her Royal Highness the Seven Princes had come to the river at some point, and she had taken off her shoes and socks and stretched out her pair of jade feet into the clear stream.
"Your Excellency, please be careful, these silverfish in the stream are very ferocious carnivorous fish." Curt seemed to notice this, and reminded him a little nervously, "The other creatures in this underground river have been eaten, don't provoke them." ”
Leah turned her head to glare at the knight, and with a look of regret she retracted her feet back into her wide mage robes, holding her chin and watching with interest at these beautiful and ferocious underground monsters.
"After all, it's still a little girl!" Xu Mo smiled and no longer paid attention to Her Royal Highness the Seven Princes.
"Lord Curt, since there are these ferocious silverfish in the stream, how are we going to cross the river?" Shepis asked curiously.
"I'll look at the map drawn by the sentinels...... Oh, and if you walk up for more than 10 minutes from here, it looks like there's a shoal. There are some reefs in the river over there, and you can wade directly to the opposite bank. Curt studied the map for a moment, then replied again.
"Head, we're on a sloping platform, and we've found what Old K said!" Just as the team was resuming, the team channel heard the words of the two reincarnators left behind by the skeleton group.
"Did you find it?" Xu Mo's eyes flashed, and he quickly asked, "How many are there?" ”
"According to the statistics of the two animal trainers of the Cross family, there are about thirty piles, all of them of the same type!"
"More than thirty piles?" Xu Mo's face changed drastically, and he looked at Xue Pisi with a wry smile, "We're in big trouble!" ”