Chapter 10: The Locusts Walk Away

I didn't take it seriously at first, and I said that we are all like this grandson, and you still have the heart to joke. www.biquge.info But as soon as I turned my head, I saw a hole in the wall facing the two of us.

"How so?" I froze in place for a moment, not daring to move.

"This place is full of agencies, we must be on the wrong track." Cassia coughed, glanced at the hole above his head and continued, "The exit is still up there, we have to go up." ”

I said what are you kidding, those gold-devouring ants must still be on it, isn't that looking for death when you go up?

Cassia said, "What then?" You can't just sit here and die.

I looked around and said no, not necessarily. The place is plastered everywhere, and apparently the owner of the tomb does not want to let this place be infested by the gold-eating ants, and we are safe to stay here for the time being. And when the two of us fell from it just now, there was such a big movement, and the mechanism here was not activated, indicating that the dark plate that triggered the mechanism didn't seem to be around us. As long as we can find the hidden plate of the control mechanism, escaping should not be a problem.

Thinking of this, I asked if I knew if I knew where this kind of dark board would be hidden?

Cassia is the way, you can know from the perspective of the craftsman, in order to make these mechanisms easy to trigger, the trigger of the dark plate will definitely be located on the road surface that we must pass, so as to ensure that the mechanism works.

I said it made sense, so I let Cassia blow up two more fire folds to ensure that we could clearly see the details on the ground. Taking advantage of the firelight, Cassia and I began to search for the location of the dark board little by little. That's when I really saw the density of the emitters on the wall. Those emitters are densely packed like beehives, with almost no dead ends, and each emitter is the size of a little finger, so to speak, it can be said that it takes a fart to shoot, and two people are shot into a sieve. On top of the stone wall, I saw several snake-headed gilders with nozzles in their mouths, and I didn't have to think about it to know that they must be filled with poisonous spray.

As far as I can remember, the dungeon plan mentions of similar mechanisms are only found in the corridor leading to the Backrooms. And I still remember that the original plan was marked with four inconspicuous words -- "Flying Locusts and Stones".

If we had indeed made our way around the corridor and into the hallway near the Backrooms, then "Flying Locusts and Stones" would have been what we were seeing. "Flying locust" is relatively easy to understand, and it should refer to the crossbow arrows in the embrato. But what does this "stone-walking" mean? Could it be that if we are not careful, the mechanism is triggered, and this place will collapse in an instant?

However, the most tricky thing at the moment is that we don't know how many such dark boards there are?

I reminded Cassia to pay attention to his feet, but as soon as the words fell, Cassia shouted from behind: "Oh no! ”

As soon as I heard this, I broke out in a cold sweat, and before I could ask what was going on, I heard a series of crossbow machine charging sounds on the rock walls on both sides, and at the same time, the poisonous sprinklers above my head protruded from the snake's mouth. I turned my head to see Cassia looking at me with a look of horror.

"It's over!"

The thought crossed my mind. Suddenly, clusters of locust-like arrows "swished" against my face and nailed to the other rock wall, and I didn't even have time to feel scared before I had a premonition that I was going to die.

"What are you doing? Don't go yet! ”

Cassia covered his head with his baggage and dragged me forward as hard as I could. But before I had taken two steps, my ears tightened when I heard a short, shrill whistling, followed by the sound of arrows piercing into the flesh. Cassia screamed violently, clutched his arms and fell.

I was caught off guard for a moment, stumbled a little, and fell to the ground with Cassia. I almost cried, I had never felt so hopeless. Countless clusters of arrows flew over my head, and I lay on the ground, not daring to move, praying in my heart to hurry over. But the mechanism in the corridor was completely unguardable, as soon as I fell, the floor under my feet suddenly began to tilt sharply to the side, Cassia and I were almost instantly vacated, and the whole person fell down violently because of the loss of support from the ground.

I didn't even shout "help", the person had disappeared from the corridor. The feeling of falling down made me realize that I was still alive, and just as I was thinking about whether it was a file knife or a quicksand manhole underneath, there was a loud "pop" and I had fallen to the bottom.

This almost knocked me out, especially Cassia this kid was still pressing on my back, which almost cost me my life. Fortunately, there was a layer of water underneath, and I didn't hit the ground directly, but after the cushioning of the water layer, I fell from it, but I didn't suffer much damage, except for the pain of my face and neck being slapped by the water.

I can't help but congratulate myself on my luck. After a few steps in the dark, there was a sudden splash on the surface of the water, and Cassia fluttered and floated up from the water, and then began to cough violently.

It was so dark that I couldn't see anything. I couldn't find Cassia Where, so I shouted a few times, but the echo I heard was Cassia coughing. The water was actually only up to my waist, and I followed the sound step by step to find Cassia to lift him up from the water.

Cassia was already a little delirious, and I asked him what was hurt? But he replied that he was about to become a hedgehog. I'm speechless, I'm so unscrupulous, it's so improper, it's really terrible. I first examined his injuries, and I felt at least two clusters of arrows in his arms, and my heart ached, if it hadn't been for saving me, this guy wouldn't have been shot like this grandson.

The top priority now is to take out the cluster of arrows in Cassia Ming's body, fortunately the arrows are not poisoned, otherwise Cassia would have returned to the West long ago. But now we are surrounded by absolute darkness, and I can't do anything without fire.

The water here was so cold that Cassia's wound could not be soaked in water, so I helped him and let him lean against the stone wall so that the wound would not touch the water. I didn't have anything at hand to stop the bleeding, so I had no choice but to temporarily tighten his arm with my sleeve to slow down the blood loss.

But this is not a long-term solution. I remembered that Cassia should still have a fire fold in his arms, and hurriedly took it to serve as a light source for the time being. Fortunately in the midst of misfortune, there is even one of the few fire folds that can be blown.

Although the effect is much worse, it is better than nothing. By the faint light of the fire, I groped my way around me. Judging by the echo of the sound of the water, this should be a closed stone chamber, and the scale will not be very large. I looked around and saw that there didn't seem to be anything around but water. But combined with my previous experience, I feel that this place will not be as simple as it seems, there must be something hidden in my can't see.

I groped along the stone wall and couldn't find any exits. But on second thought, this is a trap, how can there be an exit. But the trap is so elusive that so far there has been no sign of death. Could it be that the owner of the tomb wants to drown us with a little water in it?

As I walked back and forth, the water rippled. By the light of the fire, I could see something floating on the water a few paces away from me, floating back and forth. I thought it was Cassia's baggage and hurried over. But when I got closer, I realized that something was wrong, the burden was definitely not that big, and looking at the shape, it seemed to be a person.

The light of the fire was so weak that the man's head was so dipped in water that I couldn't tell if it was a man or a woman, and I couldn't be sure if the man was dead or alive. The man was floating on his back in the water, his back almost full of arrows. I hesitated to push it, only to feel that the person had been swollen with blisters, and his whole body was cold, and he was obviously dead.

I took a few steps back in fright, since there would be dead bodies here, it must be dangerous. An ominous premonition rose in my heart, and I was just about to retreat, when Cassia said weakly behind me: "Watch your back." ”

As soon as I turned my head, I met a pair of small brown and yellow eyes. It was like a pair of poisonous snake eyes, extremely vicious. At that moment, I suddenly felt a chill all over my body, and I was so frightened that I stood in the water and didn't dare to move. I'm not cassia after all, and my first reaction at this time is not to touch the knife, but to habitually run away.

But this guy doesn't know what kind of monster it is, and reacts extremely quickly. Before I could pull my legs, the guy had already spotted my attempt, hissed, and swooped at me from the water. Suddenly there was a splash on the dark water, and I barely had time to react when the monster bit me in the face.

It was really fatal, I instinctively ran back, but the underwater ground was slippery, and I gnawed the ground with one mouth and planted myself in the water. The fire fold in his hand was completely extinguished almost instantly, and the surroundings fell into absolute darkness all of a sudden. It wasn't until I got out of the water again that I realized I had just escaped. I didn't dare to stay where I was, and I ran back with a roll.

Cassia waded through the water and wanted to come, but I hurriedly told him to stay still. We can't get used to this absolute darkness, and now we're at a complete disadvantage, and it's pitch black everywhere, and as soon as Cassia comes, he'll definitely be attacked by that monster. I tried to calm myself down, and there was a dead silence on the dark waters. Strangely, the yellow-eyed monster pounced and then disappeared into the water, never to show its head again.

I didn't dare to let my guard down, and beckoned Cassia to be careful, now our eyes are useless, and we can only distinguish the direction of the monster by hearing. It was scary, and I tried my best to restrain myself from breathing, but suddenly I heard a slight stroke a few steps behind me. At the same time, I felt the waterline on my waist begin to fluctuate slightly. My teeth tightened, and my heart was ready to flee for my life, but unexpectedly, the movement was getting farther and farther away, and it was actually in the direction of Cassia.

Could it be that he was attracted by the smell of blood on Cassia's body? I came back to my senses and hurriedly shouted at Cassia Ming, "Watch out for the water!" It's going in your direction! ”