Chapter 13: Crisis is looming
"You mean the underground hall where we found the burrowworm's excavation at our feet, and you don't seem to be worried at all by looking at your face?" Li Xin raised his head and glanced at Tony, who was smiling as always, and carefully wiped the scale armor stains on the back of his hand with a cloth, since his hands were completely covered by the curved scales, he could no longer feel the touch from the back of his hand, leaving only a mechanical numbness.
"According to the team that entered the underground worm hole, they encountered a small amount of crypt worm in the underground hall, and one of them even died because of it." Tony fiddles with the whip in his hand, and the ability weapon's tough root material is difficult to cut through the knife.
"A small amount, don't try to convince me with this ridiculous argument, do you think the number of cryptworms is only a small number?" Li Xin pursed his lips disdainfully, maybe other people who don't know the black businessman will really believe it. The latter spread his hands helplessly, indicating that these words were not the conclusions he had reached.
Li Xin threw the dirty piece of cloth on the table, stood up and started the ability equipment that the black merchant had gotten for him, and calmly reminded: "The mutant creatures living in the group usually have a leader-level storage zài, just like the head wolf of a wolf pack, the team you sent to investigate should only encounter a small number of sentinels. By the way, where did you get these weapons? ”
"Previously, more than 1,000 capable people were killed on a long journey, and these ability weapons were recovered from the corpses of those people by sending people to recover them." Tony explained and continued the previous topic: "Actually, I don't think there are too many crypt worms, don't forget that they are also carnivorous insects, if there are really as many as you say, the people in the village will be gnawed to the point that there are no bones left."
"That makes sense, but we'll know these things when we go into the wormhole." Li Xin didn't continue to argue, picked out two strangely shaped daggers, fiddled with them in his hands for a while before inserting them into the leather belt, and didn't forget to remind Tony: "In such a narrow place as the cave, you can't use a long whip at all, and I build yì You still have a short sword or something." With that, he handed Tony the dagger across the table. First of all, I estimate that we will need to spend a lot of time to sweep in batches. ”
"You want to go down to the underground wormholes?" Yayun walked out of the room, looked at the two people sitting on the table and sorted out the equipment, and couldn't help frowning, "I'm not optimistic, and I don't want you to go, as for Tony, you can continue to look for your cannon fodder to go down to the cave to search." ”
"Don't worry, this is just a reconnaissance, and you can't rush to completely solve the crypt worms." Li Xin comforted. He also understands that this operation carries a certain amount of risk, but it is not without any benefits, people will always become lazy in comfort, and the right amount of stimulation can keep them vigilant, not to mention, those who are capable need to improve their combat experience through killing. Although Li Xin's current strength is among the top in Qiaonan Village, it is difficult to say about other places.
The supremacy of the strong and the survival of the fittest are always the laws of this world. Having more power means that you and your companions' lives are safer.
"Since that's the case, I'll go too" Yayun knew that she couldn't change Li Xin's decision, so she changed her attention.
"It won't be long before I'll be back soon." Li Xin gently hugged Yayun and comforted: "You should believe me, there is no need to make life and death look like you are parting every time." Next time I'll take you to the Howling Forest Hunt, don't let go of your chances to improve yourself at any time, and think of a more suitable way to fight when you have time. ”
Li Xin put on the new dark spot cloak that Tony had made for himself and walked out of the room. The two crossed the street to the steep slope on the outskirts of the village. There were already a lot of people in the cavern, and a makeshift base had been erected, and they were sheltered from the direct sunlight under a barrier supported by a thick blanket.
"Are you really going to take a few more people down?" Alice walked up with two young men.
"No, we're just going to explore that hall, the space inside is limited, and multiple people will prevent me from fighting." Tony also noticed the disappointed expressions of the two young men behind Alice, and did not forget to reassure: "When we figure out the situation and make sure that there are no large casualties, the characters who clean up those crypt worms will be handed over to you to deal with." ”
The two of them walked backwards into the underground cavern, and the air inside was very dry, and there was a foul smell everywhere. Li Xin's cave has traces of crypt worms climbing on the walls of the cave, and if he is replaced by other people, he looks nervous when he enters the cave, how can he have time to penetrate the surrounding situation?
The entrance to the cave was getting narrower and narrower, and only two people could barely pass through the guò side by side, barely in the darkness around them with the help of the light emitted by the fluorescent plants in the bottle. Li Xin saw that the traces left by crawling on the walls were getting more and more cluttered, and the air had become much more humid, and there were caves with different laughter on all sides, Li Xin probed the fluorescent bottle into the cave, but there was still no shadow of the crypt worm.
According to the information obtained by the previous reconnaissance team of the Root Rim, they walked straight through the path, and the cave hall was in front of them, but the two encountered a problem, the road was cut off, and in front of them was a large sunken pit, and the underground cavern tunnels led in all directions, which had no effect on the cave worms. According to Hanny, there is another passage below, which also leads to the underground hall, and the former Hanny's team is the one below. In fact, all the passages are interconnected, forming a huge labyrinth.
"What now, are we going to follow the path that Hanny's team has taken?" Tony found on the wall what Hanny called an arrow marker, which indicated jumping here.
"No, we're not going down." Li Xin said affirmatively.
"Do you mean a detour?" Tony frowned and asked, he didn't actually agree with this idea, and if they trespassed into the other passages, they might be at risk of getting lost.
"Keep going."
"Go ahead?" Tony repeated incredulously, "But there's ...... ahead"
"Isn't it just a crypt, is it possible that you want to jump over it like this?" Tony frowned, the space here is very limited, and the end of jumping up is to hit a wall, not to mention that the distance between this thing is a full three meters wide.
Li Xin took out a dagger, and in the ruthless mud wall, he actually plugged and pulled it out, and actually crossed the distance of three meters and stepped safely on the other side of the passage.
"Oh my God, I don't have the guts and guts to do that." Tony, who was stunned, came back to his senses and shook his head helplessly. His strength couldn't support the weight of his body, let alone move on the mud wall with a dagger to Li Xin.
"Throw your whip here, you go down and I'll pull you up." Li Xin said his own solution, and he didn't expect Tony to be able to get through guò in his own way.
"Why do you want to go around in such a big circle?" When Tony was pulled up by Li Xin with a whip, he muttered, "It's clear that we can only reach the hall if we follow their way forward, so it's really asking for trouble." ”
Li Xin stood up, returned the long whip to Tony, pointed to the faint light in front of him, and said, "Don't complain, we have arrived, the hall is in front, and we may encounter other troubles if we take a detour." ”
Sure enough, as Li Xin said, they had found the hall, and at the straight end of this passage was the spacious underground hall. However, it is not a hall or a restaurant, the air is filled with a strong smell of rotting corpses, some plants with faint green fluorescence grow on the mud walls, there are a pile of bones showing signs of melting on the ground, and some clothes and boots that have not been thoroughly digested, and some fungus-like green fluorescent plants have grown on the corpses, and the faint green light almost fills the entire hall, not only failed to dispel the surrounding darkness, but gave people a feeling of anchoring and terrifying.
"These bodies are missing people from the village?" Tony's brow furrowed, looking at the bones of these scales, at least hundreds of people had found the poisonous hand of the cryptworm and were dragged here to be eaten separately.
"Most of the people who were eaten were probably villagers from Qianqiaonan Village." Li Xin knows very well that once a large number of people are missing in the village, they will soon be noticed, and the only possibility is that the residents of the original village will be found.
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a grinding sound from the cave, as if countless crypt worms were surging towards this side from all directions. The faces of the two of them suddenly turned their backs to look around the hall in all directions, wary of the sudden crypt worms.
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