Chapter 134: The Beauty of Darkness
"Leo?"
Lizanka lay beside the entrance to the cave and looked out into the dark passage.
Leo, Leo, Li...
Huge echoes came from the empty cavern.
Lizanka hesitated, but jumped down.
The faint moonlight illuminated some of the shapes inside the cave, and large stone pillars fell from the ceiling.
As Lizanka went deeper, the light of the moon could not extend into this dark space.
Instead of lighting the torch she had with her, Lizanka took a pearl of the night from her waist and shook it at the cave.
This kind of cave sunk in the ground, often different in nature and ordinary space, if the cave may be generated, open flames, high-energy objects are taboo, every year there are a few teams to explore the underground cave, light the torch, unfortunately exploded, the whole group of several people died.
The faint glow of the Night Pearl lit up the scene before Lizanka's eyes, and she held her breath.
Dozens of cone-shaped stone pillars fell from the top of the cave to the ground, and a wisp of water vapor dripped along the stone pillar to the ground, as if the cream had been pulled in mid-air to fix the shape, and the surface of the stone pillar reflected a little star-shaped light under the illumination of the night pearl.
Lizanka walked over to a stone pillar, dipped her finger in the liquid on the stone pillar, put it in her mouth and licked it.
"Salty, is it stalactites? Rizanka looked at the falling pillars with some surprise.
It often takes hundreds of thousands of years for stalactites to form, and stalactites that can fall to the ground may have a history of tens of thousands of years.
In addition to the beauty and wonder of these stalactites, the more important significance is that they can understand the geographical changes of this area over the past 10,000 years, which is extremely valuable geological data for some archaeologists.
But Lizanka is not a lover of monuments, she is a lord whose only interest is profit.
"Leo?" she shouted again.
This time, there was finally an echo in the stalactite cave.
"Who? is it Rizanka?"
Leo's voice came from the depths of the stalactite cave.
Lizanka relieved herself a little, but then complained loudly, "Do you know how long you've been in this hellish place? I'm sorry to tell you that you're only going to have to eat supper today!"
She searched for Leo's voice, but seemed to hear something else.
"Is anyone else with you? Nana?"
"Yes, don't take this fork in the road, go two more times and turn right. ”
Lizanka looked at the structure of the cave in confusion, how she thought that Leo was going in the wrong direction.
"Don't look at it, the rock formations here are a bit peculiar, and the sound doesn't travel according to your intuition. ”
Suspiciously, Lizanka followed Leo's guidance and walked deeper into the cave.
The light of the Night Pearl outlines the shapes of Leo and Nana.
"You can really take a girl to such a complicated place and not get a light. Rizanka paused as she tried to pull a few illuminators out of her fanny pack.
"No, how did you find my way? Have you cracked the law of sound propagation here?" Rizanka remembered the extremely intelligent Isenus in the team.
"No, I'm not some guy with his head buried in a book, I just sense what's going on around me. ”
Perception?
Lizanka subconsciously combined this ability with Leo's ability to show the ground space.
Unlike Leo's immature combat experience, Lizanka, who had experienced many high-intensity battles at a young age, immediately realized the horror of these two abilities, this is completely a top-level assassin with no blind spots, and with the unusual sword in Leo's hand, he may not be able to find his opponent under the legend.
No, maybe there are opponents.
Rizanka remembered the rest of the team.
She couldn't help but think about the appropriateness of her way into the team.
Fortunately, the duke's essential expression management allowed her to succeed without revealing her true thoughts.
She walked up to Leo's side, and by the glimmer of light, she saw what seemed to be a puddle of water stains around Leo.
"What about Nana? Does she have that ability too?"
Lizanka asked quietly.
"Of course, there is, but she did it using equipment-type abilities..."Leo pointed to Nana's bracelet on her hand and the chain on her foot.
"Then you can't do without the light source. Reluctantly, Lizanka put the Night Pearl on the ground.
Leo leaned down and covered the light source with his palm, and suddenly, the cave became pitch black again.
"The light spoils the atmosphere a bit. ”
"If you feel that you have ruined the atmosphere of fear, then I welcome your decision with both hands and feet. ”
Leo glanced at Rizanka and said, "You're also a bit of a spoiler. ”
With a sigh, Leo's palm moved away from the Night Pearl, and the moon-white light once again outlined the figures of the three of them.
"There are some things that you just joined the team and may not be very clear yet. Leo sat down next to Nana and put his arm around her shoulder.
"Nana's eyes can't actually see anything. ”
Rizanka was taken aback and looked into Nana's blue eyes.
The white light of the pearl, the inky blue glow reflected by the water stains, rolled back and forth in her eyes. She would never believe that her eyes, which reflected so many beautiful colors, could not see the mystery of the world.
After taking a closer look at Nana, Lizanka picked up the Night Pearl from the ground and put it back in her fanny pack.
In the darkness of the world, Lizanka seemed to understand a little bit as to why Leo said she had ruined the atmosphere.
The light of the moon had long been cut off, and here it was really impossible to reach out to five fingers, and under the darkness thicker than ink, Lizanka seemed to touch a corner of the blind world.
After a moment of absolute darkness, Lizanka didn't try to illuminate the place again, and she spoke, "I'm sorry to disturb you, but I have to say that we should go back. ”
In the darkness, Leo's voice passed through the replay of the cave and then reached her ears.
"Now that you've joined our team, understand that it's not a big deal to not follow your promise once in a while. ”
Compared to the fact that he and Nana spent a winter in Willmins, the act of not returning to camp for one night seemed like nothing.
But Lizanka has always controlled the family with iron will and rules, and has a strong insistence on punctuality and promises, which is why she has to find Leo and Nana.
After briefly understanding Leo's failed behavior, Lizanka reluctantly compromised, "Okay, if you don't comply, you won't comply, but I want to know why you've been here for so long." ”
Leo glanced in Rizanka's direction and said, "Yes, you don't have the ability to see through the senses, so you can't see what's going on under the waterhole." ”
"Waterhole?" Ryzanka remembered the reflection she had just seen. "Is it the one next to you?"
"That's right. Leo snapped his fingers. "That waterhole is connected to another enclosed cave, and in that cave is inhabited by an apex predator. ”
"Felines?" Rizanka guessed.
"A xenogeneous ocelot. ”
"So, you've been squatting here for so long that you don't know how to call Omoni?"
"He's a little ruinous in the atmosphere, and I have to say, his bald head is just too dazzling. Leo pursed his lips, if it weren't for the fact that Lizanka was also a girl, he would have blasted her out a long time ago.
"Hey, wait a minute, that guy seems to be awake. ”
Leo's eyes moved, and he leaned against the wall with Nana.
"Don't be in a daze, you seem to be blocking its way out, back away. ”
At Leo's urging, Lizanka stumbled to the wall.
"Don't make a sound, slow your breathing, and don't let it spot you. ”
After saying that, Leo and Nana's breath suddenly disappeared from this world.
Lizanka was shocked, remembering the scene when Leo first appeared in front of her, which surprised her even more than the simple movement of space, which was hidden in the cracks of space, and it was a manifestation of complete mastery of the application of space.
After a little numb sigh again, Lizanka honestly stopped breathing.
"Whoa. ”
Something seemed to come out of the water.
"Whew, huh. Whew, whew. ”
"Click, click. ”
In the dark, the sound of the ocelot's breathing, the sound of its paws hitting the ground, the sound of water droplets falling from its body, and even the sound of the ocelot's bones and joints rubbing together as it moved, all reached Lizzaka's ears.
She could even feel the heat from the tip of the ocelot's tail as it swept near her calves.
This creates a great sense of disparity with the darkness in front of me.
Is this the world of the blind?
Lizanka somewhat understood Leo's painstaking intentions.
What a gentle and kind man. It would be better if he weren't so foul-tongued and stupid.
In the world in which Lizanka lives, there is often deceit and flattery, and a man like Leo attracts her attention more than a duke or general.
As Rizanka was a little distracted, she felt something touch her arm.
This is what Leo meant by telling her to move forward.
She quietly followed.
Thanks to the legend's powerful comprehensive abilities, although Lizanka is not proficient in stealth, the ocelot still has no trace of her.
In the moonlight outside the cave, the ocelot let out a long groan at the moon, its lumpy muscles sliding under its satin-like skin.
Suddenly, it looked around in alarm.
A vague killing intent was aimed at it.
"Very sensitive, little one. Leo emerged from the space. "Hey, don't be nervous, we need a favor from you. ”
As Leo took a step forward, the ocelot made a vigilant crouching motion.
"Don't be nervous, don't be nervous, you just need to come with me and make a little footsteps... Oh!"
Leo picked up Nana and dodged the ocelot with a nice ballroom dance move.
"Well, I guess we'll have to talk about it differently. ”