Chapter 81: Fortune and Misfortune (1)
Hu Bin's sudden announcement of his withdrawal surprised everyone, Howard firmly stood by Hu Bin's side, but Fanta hesitated, he was too curious about what treasures were buried here, he was not a believer in the god of nature, and even wondered if Lord Reed had found any danger and didn't want to say it.
Hu Bin did find danger, and the appearance of a high god's temple here was itself a sign of danger, but unfortunately the current number could not be understood.
Kane also had his concerns, and he cared very much about this mission, after all, there might be hundreds of thousands of gold in earnings. But Lord Reed's abandonment caught him off guard, it was a big lack of combat power, and although they could have retreated and reconvened their men, who could guarantee that there would be no extraneous complications during this period.
The other numberers are also reluctant to give up halfway, and when they get the sweetness, they become greedy, at best they are pursuing, at worst they are insatiable, and they also make it impossible for Kane to make the decision to give up.
In order to ensure combat effectiveness, Kane wooed Fanta, which is also Fanta's own choice, of course Hu Bin will not say anything, but he still vaguely hopes in his heart that he can support his decision like Howard, even if this decision is a little capricious. (Just like the readers who have been silently supporting me, hehe)
After parting ways, both teams had the persistence that they could not give up, and the final result was obvious.
Hu Bin left with Su Jia and Howard, leaving Fanta and the two freelancers alone as an apology, after all, Hu Bin's abandonment was out of helplessness, and even exposed his beliefs.
Next, Hu Bin, who no longer has to worry about unknown dangers, can finally let go of his hands and feet and recover his losses from the beasts in the forest.
The restrictions on the strength of the squad after the downsizing of personnel have been relaxed, and the three people who know each other seem to have regained the feeling of being born and dying together in their previous adventures. Hu Bin has a plan, he wants to fight with some powerful beasts to stimulate his potential to break through the bottleneck of the warrior level, he has had enough of this feeling of not being up or down, even if the challenge fails, the price is only seriously injured. With the pastor Lorraine here, Hu Bin has no worries.
Finding a tall tree, Hu Bin took off his armor and quickly climbed to the top of the treetop, looking at the surroundings.
In the distance, there is a stone mountain, which looks like a giant mushroom, and the mountain is covered with trees, but there are many cracks at the foot of the mountain, and there must be many wild beasts nesting there. Hu Bin, who had found the target, headed there, with a stronger heart.
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Kane didn't say anything about Lord Reed's departure, he didn't want to have a strong person around him, so he parted with the other party when he had the opportunity to do so. Now that Reid is gone, Kane doesn't know how to proceed with the adventure.
A group of men had to guard the large boulders and turn the island upside down, and a numbered man, patrolling around, found traces of human habitation near the entrance to the upper reaches of the lake, and the others who followed found some items here, but most of them were corroded household utensils.
As time passed, the numberers became more and more agitated, and some even thought that Lord Reed had discovered something and left them to dig for treasure on their own. However, Kane put a stop to their wild speculation, he believed that Lord Reed's departure was a temporary decision, otherwise with Lord Reed's strength, he could have walked through the jungle by himself, and there was no need to call the numbered people of Swadia to help.
It was getting late, and Kane decided to look for another day tomorrow, and if he still didn't find anything, then he would consider taking the big rock back to Svadia, no matter how you look at it, the stone is very suspicious, but even the space can't identify anything. After a hasty dinner with all sorts of thoughts, they set up camp on the island and slept on the ground.
Fanta actually regretted it at this time, he felt that it was just a waste of time to be with Swadia and his gang, and it was more valuable to go hunting in the woods with Reed, but since he didn't go with Reed at that time, it was impossible to follow him alone now. He found an open space and lay down, quietly looking at the night sky, and found that the weather was really good tonight, the moonlight sprinkled the whole land, and the starlight illuminated the whole sky. Turning his head sideways and looking at the Svadia numberers who were still busy with their respective work, Fanta didn't feel good in her heart, there were still people to set her up when they were working together, and now she clearly felt that she was estranged from the Svadians.
Turning over, Fanta stopped thinking about what she didn't have, and cleared her mind and prepared to fall asleep, but the situation in front of her made him sleepless. The moonlight shone on the large rectangular stone, and the lines on the surface of the stone faintly shone brightly, as if echoing the moon in the sky. The meaningless lines began to stretch slowly in the moonlight, and finally combined into a complex and regular pattern.
Fanta was about to call out, but she stopped and hesitated to find Kane and tell him what he had found.
The crowd sat in a circle under the night sky, and in the center was the large stone, which had been erected by the numbered people according to the pattern on it, and the light emitted by the lines on it was already very clear, and it was a stone tablet, but no one present could decipher the patterns.
"How about trying to break the stele? There must be something in there. Someone suggested it, and it was subsequently rejected by everyone. In fact, everyone has this thought, but they don't dare to act rashly, at this time, Kane misses Lord Reed, to be precise, his retinue priest Lorraine, it's really good to have a legal retinue.
When they found a clue, they were still helpless, which made the originally confident numberers doubly devastated, and some even began to vent indiscriminately. There was nothing Kane could do to stop the numberers' actions, because he also had the mood to vent, giving people hope to enter the disappointment again, which was worse than the constant disappointment at the beginning. He couldn't help but wonder, what was Lord Reed doing at this time?
For Hu Bin, the night is a favorable home field for him, not to mention that the moon is bright tonight. However, compared to the beasts, the help of the night was no worse than that of Hu Bin. Relying on his racial talent, Hu Bin slowly approached the Mushroom Mountain, probing the distribution of beasts here. At the foot of the mountain, because the stones are difficult to weather, a large circle of open space has formed, but there are no trees, and there are scattered piles of rubble for Hu Bin to hide.
It took Hu Bin thirty minutes to sneak to the foot of the mountain, although it was only two hundred meters away from the woods, and he didn't want to be chased by a group of wild beasts like Fanta, he was here to train, not to be beaten.
It took half a night to scout the intelligence that made Hu Bin frown, the beasts in Mushroom Mountain seem to be extremely dense, you must know that the beasts also have their own territory, and it is usually impossible to coexist with other beasts.
Another point is that the wild beasts living in the natural caves at the foot of the mountain are generally very ordinary, as if they are guards guarding the mushroom mountain, and Hu Bin spends most of his time advancing along the foot of the mountain, and finds that no matter which direction you go up the mountain, you will encounter the beast's den. However, relying on the night, Hu Bin still found a gap and secretly stayed up the mountain, and then found that he had no way to go further. He had encountered monkeys before, but Hu Bin had never seen such a large group of monkeys.
The woods on the mountainside were densely packed with monkeys, so that Hu Bin had no way to continue to sneak in, he really couldn't understand why such a big monkey could stay motionless on the thin branches for half a night, so that he had to take advantage of the dark to withdraw from the mushroom mountain.
It's tricky, it's very tricky, but what Hu Bin, who hasn't slept all night, needs is to eat a full meal and then make up for sleep.
The numberers who remained on the island also stayed up all night, and the stone tablets they had hoped for returned to their daylight after the moonlight faded, and many of the numberers went to sleep disappointed, but Kane still sat there. As the nominal leader, he must find a clue for everyone to continue, otherwise the morale of the team will continue to decline, and he will never accept the result of returning in vain when the time comes.
Perhaps moved by Kane's persistence, the stele finally changed before the sun appeared, as if the moonlight absorbed by the stele overnight was released at this moment, and a dazzling light burst out from the stele, followed by Kane covering his eyes and wailing, and the people who were far away were also startled by the sudden bright light.
Fanta, who had slept first last night, was woken up by a loud voice, looked at the sky, and found that it was just dawn.
"What the hell, don't let people sleep, these Swadians are really energetic." Fanta rolled over, and another day began, but let's go on. (I said that I should be shot for setting off firecrackers early in the morning)