The Cave of Sorrow is arguably one of the largest caves in the Arad - land and underground area.

It is not deep, as most of its caves are extended horizontally. And this peculiar structure has created an even more unique ecosystem.

At the bottom of the food chain are some sulfide bacteria that depend on geothermal heat and minerals to survive, and some of them even produce light, which also allows some bryophytes to survive... Except for the blind amphibians and fish in a few underground rivers, and some bats and rats that are common in other places, the animals are almost all insects.

Insects in the cave of sorrow... Enormous, toxic, and extremely dangerous are their common characteristics. Some of the more well-known ones are the fire bees, large ants, and moths that can spread poisonous powder over a large area as mid-level predators, and the apex predators here, the killing Gu, the kind of sound that has been echoing in the cave, similar to the screams of human death, are derived from them, and the name of the Screaming Cave is derived from them.

Of course, there are also some that rely on animal carcasses... Mushrooms and the like, there are also some animals that feed on these.

Well, that's it for the animal world.

It has been more than ten hours since Xue Qiong and the four of them entered the Sorrowful Cave.

Fortunately, the reincarnators have such a good thing as storage space, the game that was roasted before they came in, the dry food stolen from the purple mist and the Imperial people, plus the dry food and pure water they brought with them, put it in the storage space where the food will not spoil, and can ensure at least five days of survival in this environment. In addition, after they entered the Cave of Sorrow, they also picked a few people to kill a few Imperial troops and the Purple Mist Regiment's squad, and also plundered some water from them, which allowed them to at least not worry about supplies.

It is worth mentioning that fortunately, the aborigines of this world all know a thing called "space backpack", so the three of them can not worry about the existence of Minette, even if they use the storage space in front of her, it will not cause any trouble.

This time, the distance to come in is much farther than the last time. But since their purpose is not to explore but to find people, they don't go in a straight line, and now where they are, if they want to go out, they can only walk for four or five hours at most.

"Where are the Four Sword Saints?" Xue Qiong pressed a dagger to the throat of an imperial soldier, and he didn't know how many times he asked this question. The previous few times I didn't seem to have had good luck, and none of the captured captives knew the whereabouts of those important people.

There is no power supply system in this world, so it is not convenient to use the magic energy converter to charge the illusion scroll. In this case, the energy supply of the three illusion scrolls could only rely on the soul energy collected by Xiao Yun with the soul trap necklace, so if it could be saved, Xue Qiong did not choose to use the charm scroll to pry information from the captive's mouth.

"Humph! Don't underestimate people! He glanced at several of his companions who had fallen to the ground, as well as two women and a man who were searching for things on the corpses of their companions, spat on the ground, and then straightened his neck and said, "If you want to kill, you can chop it up!" There are no soft eggs in the men of the Dross Empire! And when I die, Lord Barn will stick your head on a stake and prove my loyalty to the whole army!" ”

"Stupid, I'm not going to kill you. Xue Qiong pointed at Xiao Yun and whispered in the captive's ear: "That beautiful lady over there, in addition to being my woman, is also an expert in torture, and she will punish you later... Trust me, it's going to be hell. And what if you don't say it yet... We'll break your legs, then take all your weapons, clothes, food, and lighting from you, and leave you alone here to die. ”

"Imagine the darkness, the hunger, the cold, the loneliness, the pain of just being tortured, and the unknown time when you will be killed by the monsters here... That kind of fear..."Xue Qiong's voice became deeper and lower, and these words drifted into the ears of this tough guy one by one, beginning to destroy his mind little by little.

Xue Qiong felt that the person was starting to tremble.

"Probably, an hour ago...", the tough guy a minute ago said tremblingly, "I saw Lord Barn and the four of them... There's also a dark elf... Woman, at the previous fork, went to the cave on the right..."

Xue Qiong let the dagger leave his neck with satisfaction, and then said, "Okay, Xiaoyun, you can let him say it again." ”

Then Xue Qiong went to clean up the battlefield with Minette's bald head, and there was a continuous howl behind him. Of course, he wouldn't believe what the captives said at once, so he still let Xiao Yun torture him to the point of a trance, and then let him say it again.

While waiting for Xiao Yun's work, the other three suddenly realized that although there was no day or night in the cave, it should be lunch time, so they used other people's pain to eat and ate a dry meal. Although Xue Qiong is the only one who can really eat more with relish, bald head is an indifferent attitude, and Minette only believed that this was a "necessary cultivation" after Xue Qiong was tempted for a while.

"Senior~" Xiao Yun grabbed a piece of barbecue from Xue Qiong's hand, and said while gnawing: "He said another place, but it's different from the first time..."

"Wipe the blood first." Xue Qiong frowned, "I can't believe it anymore, it's possible to say that he doesn't know at all... Use the scroll, and you won't be able to save it at this time. ”

"Oh good." Xiao Yun took out the scroll of the Charm Spell and unfolded it towards the captive, then charged the scroll with her necklace while asking the question about the whereabouts of the Four Sword Saints and Luxie again.

"Straight... Go straight. The captive struggled to lift up a bloodied arm that had lost most of its skin, and pointed fingernails deeper into the cavern with his fingernails, "I was supposed to be with Lord Barn, but he said what happened next... I'm not strong... Enough, can't participate, so... Please, master, kill, kill me..."

"Well done!" Xue Qiong took the initiative to give Xiaoyun a rewarding KISS this time, and lovingly wiped the victim's blood on her face and the fat on the barbecue meat with a tissue, and then said: "You also eat something first, and then the final treatment of this person will be handed over to you." ”

As a result, when Xiaoyun finished eating, and the four of them began to march deeper into the cave together, the captive was really left where he was, stripped naked, broke his legs, and took everything away... He waited for death in the darkness like this, the wails mixed with the screams of killing Gu that kept coming, and it was difficult to distinguish them.

This is Xiao Yun's personal hobby, and unlike Xue Qiong, who likes large-scale chaos and cannibalism, what she prefers is to simply watch the superficial pain.

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In the dark, Xue Qiong closed her eyes for a while, and then opened them again.

"To the right." Xue Qiong pointed to a hole with her right hand, "The one on the left... There's a lot of energy response, more than five, and it's not intense, so it's not where we're going. ”

Xue Qiong was holding a scabbard in his left hand, and the other end was in the bald hand. In the dangerous Screaming Cave, they didn't dare to use the lighting for a long time, so the only bald head among the four who didn't have extraordinary night vision could only follow Xue Qiong in this form.

Navigating through complex caverns that look similar is a tedious task. It's rare to have clues, so they all unconsciously speed up their pace.

"Alert." Xue Qiong stretched out a hand and slid it down, signaling to slow down, "Where there is a bend in front, there are several energy clusters... Not strong, and it shouldn't be human. It's weird, if the Four Sword Saints pass by here, there shouldn't be any monsters here..."

It was useless to say more, Xue Qiong walked in the front, bald second, let the relatively fragile Minette and Xiaoyun follow, and then walked around the corner.

"WTF..."Xue Qiong looked at the scene in front of him, said a dirty word, and then let go of the scabbard in his hand.

They came to a very large cavern, and unlike other places, there was an underground river running through it at the bottom of the cave, and the walls and ground were lit up by sporadic fluorescence.

On the ground, the shattered corpses of dozens of huge insects were scattered all over the place, and it seemed that they had just died. And the energy clusters that Xue Qiong felt before were a few white and green screaming ants eating those corpses.

When these ants crawl, they are about the height of a human's knees. And their glowing, giant pincer-like mouthparts, as well as their hard carapaces, tell all enemies, "I'm not to be messed with."

"Well, the good news is, it looks like we're finally catching up." Xue Qiong looked at the insects that were bigger than a human and said to herself, "And the bad news is... They left us with some questions. ”

After Xue Qiong and the others entered this big cave, these big ants all turned their heads towards them, a few of them were still chewing the food in their mouths, but they took a threatening posture, and a few of them had even begun to crawl towards this side...

"Prepare for battle." Xue Qiong took out the AK that he hadn't used much and hid behind the bald head.

It's no longer up to him to block the sword, and the Super Wave Shield is equal to nothing when facing this kind of enemy with a certain number of enemies.

Without saying a word, the bald head activated the energy shield on the wailing barrier, and in an instant, the small shield was covered with a layer of energy several circles larger than its body, completely covering the half of the bald head's body.

Ants don't call, they don't have vocal organs. It's just that the "rustling" sound they make when they crawl towards this side is really a little more terrifying than the human war cry.

"Dadada!" Xue Qiong fired first, but only to see that the bullets grazed a lot of sparks on the shells of the ants, which had no effect other than making them more ferocious...

"Yes..."Xue Qiong put away the AK and said thoughtfully, "No wonder you can grow so big..."