Chapter 17: The Scorpion's Lair!
The underworld is hard to tell between day and night, and there is no sky at all, and there is only the faint light of vegetation around it.
Zhao Futu can only judge when it is according to the time of his arrival, if he is coming in the day, then it should be night now, if he is coming in the night, then it should be day now. The chances of Nightmare Space dropping the Contractor directly into the night are not very high, so it should be night in the surface world by now.
As if to test Zhao Futu's guess, some creatures with obvious nightlife surnames began to increase.
The Maiden Paladin returned to the Pillar of the Evil Eye with her army, while Zhao Futu scouted the nearby area alone. The scope of this underground ruin is very large, and there are too many underground passages in it, and it is easy to alarm other creatures if you advance with an army. Therefore, it is not as easy as Zhao Futu to move alone, and if he encounters any powerful creatures, he can easily retreat with his strength.
Zhao Futu still has more than 3,000 gold coins in his hand, as well as some gems obtained from attacking the wild lair.
The class recruitment in the Pillar of the Evil Eye would not resume until a week later, and the gold in his hand seemed to be useless for the time being.
That didn't stop him from continuing to look for loot, though!
Because even if there is no way to use them, these gold coins can be exchanged for survival points, and Zhao Futu feels that these law gold coins have a great effect, and there will definitely be many places where they will be used in the future. Because once the dungeon forces and the cemetery forces entered, the contractors began to engage in large-scale encounters, and at that time, if he wanted to attack the wild lair so easily, he had to weigh his own strength.
Don't be a bad one to cheapen others, and work hard to make wedding dresses for others.
"What is this?"
Zhao Futu walked to a stone pillar, reached out and touched a little thing on the ground, put it under his nose and sniffed it, and said secretly: "It seems to be the feces of a lion and scorpion?" ”
There is a relatively common pattern in the animal kingdom.
That is, they will leave things with their own breath within their territory, the most common of which is feces and urine, just like the feces and urine of Tyrannosaurus rex can drive away other weak dinosaurs, and the lion scorpions will also leave their own breath within their territory. This is partly to deter the enemy from protecting the lair, and partly to assert one's sovereignty over the territory.
But.
The life habits of the lion scorpion are somewhat similar to that of the lion.
In other words, they basically live in groups, with a strong male surnamed Lion Scorpion, and then several female Lion Scorpions to form a lion scorpion group. Because of the elder's blood-red wings, the scorpions also like to build nests on cliffs, but they are definitely much stronger than the harpies or something. As a sixth-order creature in the dungeon, the danger in the lion scorpion's lair can be said to be second only to the dragon's lair.
This is also the reason why Zhao Futu was so careful along the way!
However, since the danger is second only to the dragon's lair, the wealth in the lion scorpion's lair is also very staggering.
Their surname is somewhat similar to that of the dragons, and in addition to collecting shiny things, they often loot and guard treasures with magical energy.
As the creature in the dungeon after the red dragon and the black dragon, the probability of the treasures in the lion scorpion's lair is very high!
……………… Perhaps because of entering the territory of the lion scorpion, Zhao Futu found that the traces of creatures around him began to decrease.
As he gradually deepened, Zhao Futu found that similar lion scorpion feces were left in many places, and he could also feel the solemn aura around him at this time, the kind of oppressive aura that was quiet and did not even have the sound of small insects. This is the power of powerful creatures in the magical plane, just as no other creature dares to approach the dragon's lair.
Suddenly!
A 'whirring' wind sounded above Zhao Futu's head, and he almost didn't hesitate to plunge into a hidden gap next to him.
Then, a lion scorpion with blood-red hair flew over his head, it circled around Zhao Futu's previous position twice, and even landed and sniffed on the ground with its nose, but then it flew up again and headed towards the nest, as if it didn't find anything, maybe it thought that Zhao Futu was just a passing creature.
"Looks like the scorpion's lair is nearby! The scorpion just now doesn't seem to be the one I first came to! Zhao Futu waited until the lion scorpion flew away, and then he walked out cautiously.
This lion scorpion was a little smaller, not the one that Zhao Futu had first found near the caveman's lair.
However, these two lion scorpions should belong to the same nest, because once they form a lion scorpion group, their number is at least three or five. However, based on the traces and number of surrounding biological activities, Zhao Futu estimated that the total number of lion scorpions would not exceed ten, because there were no large-scale biological groups nearby, and these lion scorpions were not domesticated by heroes.
If the scorpion population is too large, it will inevitably lead to the migration or extinction of nearby creature nests and monster groups, and the consumption of food hunting alone is enough to destroy the nearby ecosystem.
Sometimes, balance is a delicate thing.
It's as if a contractor killed so many minotaurs before he died, that a tribe of cave people who were not too big dared to hunt down lone minotaurs for food.
That's when that delicate balance begins to be broken!
"Go in, if there aren't a lot of them, find a way to kill them! If there are too many of them, then I'm afraid we will have to think long-term! Zhao Futu thought for a moment, and then followed towards the place where the lion scorpion flew away.
Fifteen minutes later.
Zhao Fu slaughtered a lion scorpion.
Unlike the harpy's lair, the scorpion's lair is like an eerie cavern, with a large number of creature bones scattered outside the cave, one of which has fallen to the ground. However, what surprised him was that the lion scorpion's lair was not on the cliff, but a rather large cave dug in a relatively high position, and the cave was surrounded by all kinds of bones, including cave people, harpies, evil eyes, minotaurs, and many creatures that Zhao Futu himself did not know.
"Whew!"
"Luckily, I prepared this thing before!" Zhao Futu took out an infrared thermal detector from his private space and then put it on his eyes.
Originally, he wanted to buy a 'Life Detection' spell scroll, but it was a little more expensive, although the effect was much better than that of the infrared thermal detector. After bringing the infrared thermal catapult, Zhao Futu immediately cleared the number of creatures in the lion scorpion's lair, there were a total of four lion scorpions, three were smaller, and the largest one should be the male surname.
There are a lot of things in the lair that emit a faint light, perhaps because of the magical energy, Zhao Futu found that many things in this plot plane emit strange energy fluctuations, and they are easily captured by infrared heat.
This may be the reason why the cavemen were able to discover the treasure!
The habits of the lion scorpion are much like that of dragons, they pile up their collections into a hill, and they themselves sleep on it.
"Huh? What is that? ”
Zhao Futu got a little closer, and suddenly found that there was a much clearer thing in the cave, which was round from the outside, and looked at Zhao Futu and felt that thing was a bit like a shield!
"Treasures?"
"What kind of treasure is it?"
Zhao Futu showed a hint of surprise on his face, and couldn't help muttering: "It looks like it's really a treasure!" ”
……………… Right now.
A strong wind suddenly sounded, and the fifth lion scorpion appeared in front of Zhao Futu's eyes with the corpse of a dead creature in its mouth.
It threw the carcass at the door of the nest and let out a few low growls inside, followed by the other scorpions. It seems that Zhao Futu's judgment is wrong, the lion scorpion in front of him is the leader of the nest, its size alone is one size larger than the others, and the hair on its body is even more blood-red, it is a very thick scarlet, and there is a barb on the tough and powerful scorpion tail!
"Poisonous lion scorpion?"
Zhao Futu instantly activated the 'Three Flowers Gathering Peak' and launched a reconnaissance technique towards the poisonous lion scorpion full of coercion.
"Poisonous Lion Scorpion (Sixth-Order Creature):
Height 55 cm, body length 60 cm, weight 270 kg.
Basic Caste:
Strength 75 Agility 60 Intelligence 9 Stamina 65 Spirit 9 Perception 40 Will2Charisma Skills:
Scorpion Tail Acupuncture [Locking Technique]: Insufficient perception, unable to check.
Dive Attack [Locking Technique]: Insufficient perception and cannot be checked.
Beast surname intuition [locking technique]: Insufficient perception and can't be checked.
[Unknown Ability]: ...... [Unknown Ability]: ......"
……………… As if sensing Zhao Futu's reconnaissance technique, the poisonous lion scorpion suddenly looked at Zhao Futu's location.
But just as Zhao Futu was about to rush away, the poisonous lion scorpion shook its head again, took its gaze back, and then picked up the corpse of the creature on the ground and walked into the lair. At this time, Zhao Futu discovered that the creature it had just transferred back was actually the legendary Medusa, but the snake tail on the lower body seemed to have been bitten off, and it was not until he got closer that he found out.
"There's a Medusa lair nearby?" Zhao Futu wondered.
(To be continued)