Chapter 327: Distress
The group appeared halfway up the mountain, with a dusty road underfoot, winding and spiraling downward. And at the bottom of the hollow mountain, there is a silent, ancient, and majestic ruins of an ancient city!
"Looks like we've got the right place." Everyone's eyes flashed with admiration. As for the dwarf Lori, she was so excited that she couldn't even speak.
The staircase was carved out of the hill and was covered with dust, apparently untouched for a long time. From time to time, you can see stone pillars tens of meters high, which seem to support the plates of the top floor, similar to the beams and pillars of later generations. The stone pillar was also surrounded by thick vines that were firmly gripping the pillar like tentacles, and even spread to the vast area at the top, and from a distance, it was green. Even though the city has died of old age, they have survived tenaciously.
There are naturally no handrails on both sides of the stone road, and the road surface is only half a foot wide, so you should be especially careful when walking on it, and in some low-lying places, there will even be a "crunch" sound under your feet, as if it will collapse and collapse due to disrepair in the next moment. Walking on it, there is also a cold wind blowing from below from time to time, and it feels very cold.
The group carefully walked down the hanging ladder opened up on the mountain wall, and after walking for hundreds of meters, they finally reached the bottom of the mountain. Immediately afterwards, I found that the place where I settled was actually a swamp, presumably it had not been inhabited for a long time, and as for the crazy growth of plants and weeds, after the vicissitudes of life, the original appearance was no longer visible, and only a vast swamp remained.
There are a lot of huge black shadows growing in the swamp, and if you look closely, they are similar to kelp and other plants in the seawater, with wide leaves and staggered textures. The roots are creeping and meandering close to the ground, and even from the sludge below, you can faintly see thick, white, fat aerial roots winding and anchoring. In some places where this plant grows relatively densely, their leaves grow interactively, as wide as banana leaves, and the light here is relatively dim, and watching these large swaths of strange plants meandering in the shadows is like a monster crawling on the ground, giving people a lot of eerie and mysterious feelings.
It was quiet all around, except for the sound of ticking water or the rustle of spring silkworms gnawing on mulberry leaves. At this time, everyone found that when they arrived here, the light became brighter. Clusters of green fluorescent mushrooms grow sporadically in many places. The mushroom is the size of a human head, with thick and tender leaves, a plant between 20 centimeters, and a patchwork of round spots on the canopy, and the spots exude a faint blue glow...... God knows how these plants can glow.
Then there are the overhead caves, the walls of which are dotted with holes the size of basins, through which sunlight can shine obliquely. Moistened by the sun and rain, the walls of the cave were covered with plants that grew close to the ground, and the flat leaves of these plants were emerald green, and some of them had small white flowers.
Qin Fen took a deep breath and said, "Pay attention to your surroundings and your feet, we have to pass through here." ”
Everyone's hearts were dark, and they cheered up and were on alert. Knowing that you are approaching your destination. But as the saying goes, "those who travel a hundred miles are half ninety", the closer to the end of the place, the more dangerous it is! If a few people dare to be half-hearted and uninhibited at this time, they will inevitably die so much that they will not even be left with a trace of bones.
After officially stepping into this land, everyone found that the ground here was quite muddy, and under the knee-high weeds was an invisible turbid torrent, full of calves. Moreover, all kinds of air roots are intertwined, coiled, and almost impassable. Under the water, there are invisible swimming fish and other creatures moving, and they touch their legs from time to time.
Just now, Qin Fen also fished out a small snake more than one meter long from the water. The little snake has a dark yellow body and a complex pattern on its back, which is obviously not a good stubble. Fortunately, everyone has preparations for poisonous insects and locusts such as realgar, but it can save a lot of trouble.
However, just as they had traveled nearly a kilometer towards the front, Qin Fen suddenly felt waves of water under his feet, as if something was churning in the darkness. He thought he was a little dazzled, but suddenly an indescribable and piercing crisis suddenly hit from the right.
At the moment when the sense of crisis first arises, the muddy water on the right immediately splashes in all directions, and the smell of sludge is disgusting. I couldn't see it clearly in the panic, but I could feel a fishy wind blowing in my face, accompanied by the rapid "rustling" sound of the strong grass being crossed, adding a bit of horror!
Between the elbows and armpits, the werewolf scientist standing on the right side only had time to barely turn half of his body and raise his arms to block forward. He only felt a strong wind blowing in his face, and before he could see the appearance of the sneak attacker, there was a sudden strength on his arm, and he suddenly lost his consciousness and ability to move, and the werewolf scientist, who was nearly one hundred and ninety centimeters tall and weighed 80 kilograms, was knocked out like a small pebble.
Such an attack was so sudden and swift that the werewolf scientist flew seven or eight meters like a cloud of fog before it hit the ground with a bang, splashing a large canopy of foul-smelling sewage sludge. And it was so bad that the head hit the ground first, so that the head was covered with foul-smelling mud. If it weren't for the obstruction of the plant's aerial roots, it would have been possible for the head to break the blood flow. Rao was like this, and the werewolf scientist also took a long time to breathe, and sat there coughing violently.
When he came back to his senses, his first reaction was to look at his right arm, which was initially numb, but now there was a sharp pain. By the faint glow, he noticed that two deep pits of flesh and blood appeared on his right arm, which looked as if they had been dug into them by two sharp blades and stirred vigorously. Shocked in his heart, he couldn't care about the churning stomach, and yelled directly:
"Be careful, the enemy is very strong!"
What answered him was Qin Fen's calm "um" voice. With a rustling sound, a patch of grass collapsed, and a huge crater appeared there, from which a huge worm emerged. The insect has a dark black body, somewhat similar to a cockroach, with eight symmetrical long legs, and the carapace joints above and below the body are protruding, full and bulging, and look full of destructive power.
This guy has several pairs of compound eyes on the top of his head like a fly, and when he burrows out of the ground, he is even chewing on the rotting corpse of a large black fish in his complex mouthparts, and there is an indescribable ferocity in the pulp.
The target of this insect was obviously Qin Fen and a few people, a pair of huge compound eyes swept around, and quickly swallowed the rotten fish in his mouth, the juice splashed everywhere, and he opened his mouth to let out a piercing scream, like the sound of thousands of locusts flapping their wings together! It looked bulky and crazy, but its eight long legs moved extremely fast, and it rushed straight at a few people with a thud.
Qin Fen raised his eyebrows, and without hesitation, he injected an adrenaline hormone agent to increase his movement speed by a bit. Then he pulled out his shotgun "Death Roar", and raised his hand to shoot away. But the steel balls that were fired hit the carapace of this big guy actually made a metal impact sound, and the steel balls flew in all directions, clanging and clanging! Obviously, this big cockroach's physical defense is extremely high, and with the rule reduction, it can even be immune to damage from ordinary bullets.
"Shadow Bondage!"
Miss Silver raised her hand and pointed at it, and a dark light shot out from between her fingers, freezing the giant worm. But the giant worm apparently had so high negative resistance that it paused for less than a second.
But that's enough. Qin Fen, who was still retreating backwards, suddenly stopped and rushed forward, ghostly approached the giant insect's side, raised his hand and patted it, and a pack of black gold explosives with super glue attached to it was attached to its abdomen!
"Retreat!" Qin Fen drank.
The bug was obviously unable to remove the explosive bag that was stuck in the corner, but it did sense the imminent danger of approaching, and spun around in place with great impatience, but unfortunately it was useless.
After five seconds...... Rumble!
A brilliant firework rose up, and a violent wind and waves shook the entire swamp, and the entire ground trembled. Because Qin Fen was chased by insects, he couldn't dodge a little, so that he was blown up by the aftermath of the explosion, and the whole person flew seven or eight meters away, and he coughed up a mouthful of blood in mid-air. His exposed left hand was almost completely carbonized, and the cracked hole revealed bright red flesh that made people look creepy.
"It seems that in the future, this kind of 'desperate Saburo' style trick will have to be used less." Qin Fen struggled to sit up from the mud pit, a wry smile on the corner of his mouth.
Rao is physical fitness is several times stronger than ordinary people, and after this explosion, he was not lightly injured, and at least two ribs were broken, which can be described as miserable. However, the giant insect that was exploded under the abdomen by the black gold explosives bag ended up even more miserable...... The scorching air flow mixed with the muddy water set off a raging wave, directly blasting the disgusting bug into the sky. Under the concentrated release and explosion of energy, a huge wound was directly torn open on its fat abdomen, and black internal organs and yellow-green body fluids gushed out wildly.
This disgusting insect completed the difficult seven, eight, twenty degrees of Thomas gymnastics in the air, and suddenly screamed after landing, but it was blown up fiercely, its body was almost broken into two from the middle, and there were strange twists at the joints of the two hind legs, and then as its center of gravity moved back, the long leg immediately broke in reverse with a "click", and sprayed yellow-green liquid from the section.
Such a good opportunity to beat the water dogs is naturally not let go of others, raising bows, arrows, and guns is a strafing shot. Eventually, the bug was shot in the swamp.