Chapter 309: Underground Cave
That night, the seemingly calm Charles, I don't know how many undercurrents are surging in the night.
Qin Fen stood in front of the window, looking at the surging night outside, silent like a sculpture.
"What are you thinking?" Behind him, a soft and charming voice sounded.
Miss Silver walked up to him and hugged him from behind.
Qin Fen thought for a while and raised his hand holding the cigarette: "Actually, I don't smoke." ”
"Does that mean, you're relaxing, relieving stress?"
"Hmm." Qin Fen nodded: "When people are nervous, cigarettes are undoubtedly a good choice to release pressure." ”
Miss Silver snorted, "What about me? ”
Qin Fen smiled: "If you don't scream so loudly, then I'll be happy." But it's too bad for you to be heard. ”
Miss Yinzi's face was slightly red, and she took a sip: "Stingy ghost." ”
After saying that, he also giggled.
"Hahahaha"
……
This night, many people did not sleep well.
At the moment of dawn, Qin Fen got up first, and then carefully thought about all his arrangements and plans several times. After washing up, I brewed a few more cups of strong coffee and ate some energy cookies by the way.
There was still half an hour left before the agreed meeting time last night, but all the adventurers had already gotten up. The treasure of the dwarven king has such a great charm. After all, every adventurer is a man who wants to be the king of adventure~~
Actually, this is also very understandable.
In fact, there are not many tasks in the 'novice village' of Shire, and most of the tasks have been completed by dozens of adventurers, and the rest are trivial tasks such as gathering and farming that can be obtained repeatedly.
So most people didn't dare. Who are we? Is it a hacker who shuttles through time and space, not a tenant of your family, shearing sheep and milking goats? It's a waste of your life and time!
So in the end, three-quarters of them chose to join the treasure hunt team. After all, hunting for treasure in Middle-earth, it feels exciting to think about it~~
At seven o'clock in the morning, the thirty-two adventurers who had already decided to embark on the journey of the Dwarf King gathered east of the Shire, and the remaining seven adventurers also looked hesitant and hesitant.
Murphy lowered the hat on his head, turned and walked gentlemanly towards the Misty Mountains in the distance:
"It's time, let's go."
The large army drove mightily and moved deep into the Misty Mountains.
In the misty mountains of early spring, the air is still quite cold, the vegetation on the surface is still a withered yellow and desolate, and the sound of the dead branches on the ground is clicking, bringing countless dew drops rolling down.
The Dwarven King's treasure is not easy to find, as the treasure is vaguely drawn and requires a lot of effort to identify. Fortunately, there is no shortage of masters among the adventurers, and the ability to explore and track is superb.
Everyone was on guard and dependent on each other, all the way into the Misty Mountains, and after half a day's rapid march, they had already walked nearly fifty kilometers.
On the way, they were also confronted by three small orc scavengers, and before they could run away, these poor little ones were killed on the spot by the fierce adventurers......
Half a day later, everyone finally found the end of the map in their hands. This is a waterfall in the middle of the mountain, which slides down the cliff face to form a clear stream.
The scale of the waterfall is very small, and the difference between the top and bottom is only seven or eight meters, forming a white curtain of water.
The stream flows happily, splashing thousands of broken jade, like big beads and small beads falling on the jade plate.
Murphy, the captain of the Sky Wolf Team, took out the map and said in a deep voice:
"That's it for the map tips. The access to the underground should be just behind the curtain of water. When you get inside, you may encounter monsters, or you may encounter mechanisms, so everyone will rely on their abilities. ”
Most of the people stood on the rocks beside the stream, listening to the rustling of branches in the wind. watched the Sky Wolves and other strongmen pass through the water curtain and disappear.
The number of the journey team has also reached as many as five at the moment, and the strength is quite good, but Qin Fen is relatively low-key, and he has not had any too arrogant performance or achievements all along, but mixed in the crowd and entered silently.
But just as he entered the waterfall, his pupils narrowed slightly due to the sudden change of darkness, and a terrible sound of breaking the air shot towards him!
Shout!!
A sharp metal arrow shot out from behind a boulder, pointing at Qin Fen's eyes! This arrow was fast and accurate, and Qin Fen had even felt the cold and oppression coming from the arrow, so that the hairs on his body stood up one by one.
He took a step back, the black blade of the dragon's tooth unsheathed, a flash of black knife light, and sparks of metal colliding exploded.
With a sword, the arrow flew diagonally. The arrow brushed into the crack in the stone, and the tail of the arrow was still trembling slightly.
Then a dark shadow flashed from behind the rock like a ghost, and vanished.
When Miss Yinzi came in, she happened to see Qin Fen pull out the arrow. Suddenly, the willow eyebrows rose upside down, and he said angrily:
"Who's sneaking up on you? Catch him and skin him! ”
"The treasure hasn't even seen a shadow yet, and these guys are starting to fight among themselves, hehe." Qin Fen's tone was a little disdainful: "Relying on the sneak attack of the black hand in the dark, it is good to be able to succeed, and there is no loss if you don't get it." These guys are getting worse and worse. ”
“…… It seems that you can't be too low-key, otherwise everyone will want to bully you. ”
Qin Fen stretched out his hand and handed the arrow to the werewolf scientist:
"Can you track down the owner of this arrow?"
The werewolf scientist sniffed and said:
"No problem, the arrow left a smell, it just takes time to tell."
Qin Fen nodded and said, "Okay, let's move on." ”
After leaning into the waterfall curtain, there is a damp and lonely passage inside. There are faint traces of excavation on the walls, apparently carved out of the original foundation.
The water vapor in the passage was overwhelming, and the air was a little humid and stuffy. The walls are covered with moss that turns green to black. The ground was also muddy and slippery, and to Qin Fen's surprise, the more he walked in, the larger the space he found, and under the belly of the mountain, there was a faint sound of water flowing.
On the walls and inside the caves, there are faint fireflies fluttering, bringing a faint fluorescence. Ai Jia'er seemed a little scared, and squeezed Qin Fen's hand hard, Qin Fen smiled, and reached out to put the hat on her clothes on her.
At the end of the cave, a wide underground river channel appeared in front of everyone's eyes. At this moment, in front of the underground river, the adventurers who had entered earlier had already begun to cross the river silently.
The mountain walls are bare on all sides, and there is almost no place to climb. There are also stone stalactites hanging upside down overhead, and the underground river looks lifeless, and the black water flows quietly, washing into the unknown distance.
Looking inside, the river is winding and winding, and there is no end in sight, but from the damp wind that blows in from time to time, you can tell that it is not a dead end.
The boats are all hovercraft, the kind that paddles. As an adventurer, you always have to deal with a variety of environments, such as tents, hovercraft, etc., which are all must-haves. Maybe you won't need it for the rest of your life after you prepare it, but it can only come in handy, and maybe it can save your life.
At the bend of the underground river, there are a few small boats, but these boats are wooden, and they have long since decayed and aged under the erosion of time and the river. When you touch it with your hand, it shatters to the ground.
One of the boats fell apart like this, and the others were no longer interested.
Qin Fen naturally also prepared to have a hovercraft. He pushed the boat into the river, stepped on it first, and sat down in the bow, and then the others came up in turn. It's a little squeezed, but I don't have to wade across the river. Who knows how many parasites and germs are in this water......
"Row in." Qin Fen handed a piece of oars to Xie Fangfang: "No matter what you see or encounter, don't panic." ”
Xie Fangfang puffed out her mouth, did this really call my maid?
Well, people are under the eaves and have to bow their heads.
……
This underground karst cave is obviously a standard karst landform. The winding path leads to the secluded place, magnificent and magnificent, and it is very beautiful.
The underground river meanders and turns, and this cave also extends in all directions, and I don't know how many entrances and exits there are, it is like a labyrinth.
The hovercraft is not very strenuous to move slowly on this underground river - the underground river has a current, and the undercurrent is surging, so it takes the boat to move in a fixed direction, and as for the oars, it is actually mainly used to push the boat away when the boat is occasionally washed away by the current and wants to hit other rocks.
After walking forward for about a quarter of an hour, Qin Fen felt that the water was getting faster and faster, and it was obvious that the difference in ground height was becoming more and more obvious all the way down.
In the cave, although there are occasional faint fluorescent flickering on the stone stalactites overhead, the light is too faint, and in general, the surroundings are pitch black, and you can't see your fingers.
Fortunately, the adventurer has the ability, or torches, or miner's lamps, to illuminate the river section by section, and for a while it is like sailing on the galaxy, which is very beautiful.
When everyone came to a cave with an open environment, there was a sudden scream and angry shouting from the front.
"Be careful! There are monsters here. ”
"Damn, these things are tough, get out of here as soon as possible!"
Xie Fangfang was a little nervous, and was about to say something, when she saw Qin Fen pointing to the front and said in a low voice: "Look! ”