Chapter 55: The Four-Man Team Goes Missing
Lydia's four-person team, which was separated from Liu Ci due to the lakeside Bailu incident, did have a small accident now.
In fact, there is an old saying in Huaxia that "from thrift to luxury, from luxury to simplicity is difficult" is very relevant, after separating from Liu Ci, the four of them immediately tasted the hardships of begging for a life in the Morok Mountains.
They are too weak.
It's not that a small team can't enter the mountains, it's just that unorganized adventurers will stay in the outskirts of the Moroch Mountains very peacefully, but the four of Lydia go from the inside out, and every day they walk is certainly one step closer to escaping, losing Liu Ci's protection, and the dangerous mountain woodlands make their actions restricted.
Warcraft is only part of the story. The Morok Mountains are rich in variety, and sometimes a single inconspicuous vine can kill you.
Uncle Sam, as an external guide for the adventure team, followed his father into the mountains for the first time when he was a teenager, and when Sam Sr. died in the mountains at the age of twenty, Sam began to earn a living alone in the Moroch Mountains.
At first, it was Sam who was shy looking for a small adventure party to work with, and circled around the outskirts of the mountains.
After thirty years in this business, he has become a middle-aged uncle, and he is also well-known in the adventurous circle that travels to and from Gase Town. Don't look at Uncle Sam and Lydia's team mixed together, it's not that there is no large adventure team invited, he is too old to know how to save his life, and he is unwilling to go deep into the mountains with a large adventure team, so he chose Lydia's small team, but it has a good reputation.
Who knew that people were not as good as heaven, and it was precisely because of their weak strength that they were targeted by the Fire Eagle, and Lydia's team was almost wiped out in the Moroch Mountains.
Such a middle-aged, a little bit of a small old guide, has always thought that he knows a lot about the Moloch Mountains that he has dealt with for decades, and last winter he got lost more and more by mistake, and found Liu Ci who lived alone in the crystal mine, and some of Uncle Sam's cognition was reorganized.
It is true that the Morok Mountains are purgatory, but people who are strong enough can come and go freely in the mountains.
He regarded Liu Ci, who was protected by the silver wolf, as a mysterious swordsman, and if it weren't for Liu Ci's appearance that he was too young, Uncle Sam would even guess if she was a "sage" who overrode many forces in the Magic Continent.
The days of staying by Liu Ci's side were too safe, which made Lydia and the others dependent and inert, and also made Uncle Sam unconfident in himself.
When walking with Liu Ci, there is no need to worry about everything, because after the separation of the lakeside Bailu incident, the burden of guiding the way fell on Uncle Sam again, and the situation became difficult all of a sudden.
The four of them can be said to live and die together, and the three of Lydia trust Uncle Sam a lot, but he, the old guide, feels a lot of pressure.
Losing Liu Ci's protection, it was inevitable that he would be attacked by demonic beasts in the depths of the mountain range with the strength of four people.
High-level demonic beasts are not everywhere, in fact, for the four people who have no supplies, fifth-order demonic beasts represent danger.
A full adventure party doesn't need a lot of people, but it's indispensable to attack swordsmen, support archers to attract aggro, and mages to attack from a distance.
Except for the guides, everyone in the adventuring party needs to participate in battles, and never keep idlers.
Of the four Lydia, only she and Arnold could actually participate in the battle.
Two-star magicians don't play a big role, most of the time they need Lydia's distraction to protect, and as for Uncle Sam, he needs to be responsible for his own safety when it comes to battle.
So Lydia's life was very difficult.
On this day, because she ordered the camp to be set up very early, Liu Ci, who was following from afar, also stopped, and had the leisure to cook a feast of wild vegetables.
The Warcraft that was responsible for secretly observing the four-person team had just opened its mind, only knowing that the four-person team had stopped, and there was no other Warcraft threat, and it was impossible to describe things in detail with its intelligence.
In fact, Lydia was forced to give the order to set up camp.
Once you lack self-confidence, you are more likely to make mistakes, so Uncle Sam made a relatively low-level mistake.
In order to speed up the journey, Uncle Sam made a miscalculation: trying to pass through the reeds of the open col without having to climb over the peak, the time was naturally shortened.
The open area is not covered, and it is likely to become the target of the siege of the Warcraft, but there are dangers everywhere in the Moloch Mountains, and it is easy to break into the territory of the Warcraft when you climb over the peaks. Besides, Uncle Sam chose the time of noon, and the time when the beasts were most lazy and sleepy, Lydia thought it was worth the risk.
The four-man team set off cautiously.
Except for the wild ducks and birds that are surprised from time to time in the open area of reeds, it is true that there are no magical beasts as Uncle Sam judges.
If there was any dissatisfaction, except that the birds that roosted in the reeds produced a large amount of droppings, which made the face of George, a young magician who had not suffered much, bloodless, the three of Lydia were unaware of it.
Adventurers pan for gold in the Moroch Mountains, and there are few opportunities to ambush in the grasslands of the grassy lake like the Fire Eagles, and once in order to avoid the monsters, Lydia led the team to hide in the stinky mire for three whole days, stepping on guano was not stressful for her, Arnold, and Uncle Sam.
The reeds only sprout in April every year, and the yellow leaves of the first year of the reeds at this time are mostly withered and dry, and they have already been blown by the wind and fallen to the ground.
This year, the sparse and sparse young leaves have just been extracted, which is not enough to illuminate the visual obstacle, which is one of the reasons why Uncle Sam chose this path with confidence.
But he overlooked the fact that the reeds that no one in Sam had burned or harvested were not only the dead leaves of last year, but the accumulation of dead leaves that had fallen to the ground year after year, camouflaging a dangerous land as flat ground.
They thought they were walking around the water, but they didn't know where the ground under their feet could grow into lush reeds if it wasn't mud.
Wild duck birds are frightened, and there are many places in the reeds that need ownerless nests.
Some of the birds had already begun to lay eggs for breeding, and George picked up a bag of eggs along the way, and the boy felt that the stench of bird droppings seemed less unpleasant.
However, as he leaned over to retrieve a bird's nest in the reeds, he noticed that the ground on which he was stepping was sinking.
In a panic, the eggs he had collected before fell to the ground, and the ground under his feet instantly turned into a devil devouring all things, if it weren't for Arnold's quick grasp of George, the boy would have fallen into the swamp quagmire!
Lydia stopped in shock.
The four of them had almost finished walking through the reeds, and in front of them was the exit of the col.
Suddenly realizing that the once safe area had become a swamp, Lydia couldn't help but look at Uncle Sam.
"You can't go any further."
It took the efforts of Arnold and Lydia to pull George out of the quagmire. The young magician's robe was filthy, and the mud had covered his thighs in a matter of moments, reaching his waist.
George, who fell this time, Arnold and Lydia can pull him out, if Arnold and Lydia fall in, relying on Uncle Sam's guide, and George, who has a weak physique, only four people can be implicated.
Arnold says you can't move forward, and Lydia agrees.
But looking back at the road they came, there seemed to be no individual differences everywhere with withered yellow branches and leaves, and the new tender leaves with shadows, where was the direction they came?
The Lydia Four had to stop.
This action gave Liu Ci the illusion that they had set up camp early today.
While Liu Ci was picking the shepherd's cabbage one by one and the cooing birds were happily fishing, Lydia and the four of them were trapped in the reeds, enduring the stench of the accumulated bird droppings, and thinking about countermeasures.
Liu Ci and the monsters were in a happy mood and swept away the dishes on the wild vegetable banquet, and all the monsters were listening to Liu Ci's ancient Chinese masterpiece "Journey to the West" around the fire, and they were listening to it, and the monsters who were in charge of monitoring Lydia's four people hurriedly flew back, stumbling and reporting: "Those few human beings...... No, it's gone! ”
It's gone?
Whether it was encountering a demonic beast or a human, or accidentally being injured by the poison in the Moloch Mountains, Liu Ci could understand these things.
But the disappearance of four large living people surprised her too.
How could it be gone.
Ignoring the gloating expression of the cooing bird, Liu Ci let the fifth-order demonic beast robra bird, which was completely dark, the most suitable for nocturnal stealth, "recount" the details of the time.
The expression ability of the fifth-order demonic beast was extremely poor, and Liu Ci only grasped some key words.
The reeds swung and disappeared suddenly, with no trace of the beast.
She spent a lot of thought on Lydia and the others, and it was a pity to leave it alone like this.
And the description of the Roblaro bird also aroused Liu Ci's interest.
Regardless of the dissuasion of the cooing bird, under the effect of the "Hundred Miles of Divine Talisman", Liu Ci only took a short time to arrive at the scene.
In front of you, a bubbling muddy field, at first sight, is an unsheltered swamp, where is the bird habitat described by the Robraro bird?
At the end of the swamp is a deep and lightless hollow. With Liu Ciyuan's eyesight beyond ordinary people, he couldn't see how wide the swamp was and what the situation was at that end.
After meditating for a while, there was nothing abnormal about the magic element, just as the Robra Bird said, there was no trace of the magic beast.
So what's at the end of the swamp?
Liu Ci opened her eyes and looked at the end of the swamp, where there seemed to be something, devouring all the light sources, it was a dark night she had never seen before.