Chapter 16: Under the Mountain Stream's Lair
Everyone gathered around Avi, some patting him on the head, others wringing Avi's hair.
"Are you talking nonsense because your brain is in the water?" Bowen is dead," Marcus pointed to the severed green-stemmed plant, lying on the ground along with Bowen's body cut open by Fidel, both dead, "Look, the corpse is still there, how can it talk to you?"
Patrick said, "You said Bowen said it to you, so when did you say that?"
Avi looked up, glanced at the champion fighter and said, "Just now, when the blood was splashed on my face. ”
Everyone still didn't believe it, but Big Nose Fan didn't ask anything, he knew that Avi had been a little nervous, who knew if Avi had hallucinated because of excessive fright.
"It's in the mouth of this ravine, Bowen said," Avi stood up, pointing to the bottom of the current, where there was nothing but the corpse of a young body that had been shot by Ayana but had not responded at all, "and we had to go through the net." ”
Feder asked the others to stop asking, and he asked Leonard, the captain of the Big Nose Fanya team, to guard Avi here, and the other four followed him in the direction Avi pointed.
It was late at night, and the forest, where the nightingales or owls should have been heard, was eerily quiet, except for the sound of the water flowing in the mountain stream.
Ayana walked over to the creek that continued to stretch and checked the water. She found that the hatchlings she had seen swimming in the water were all gone, and the turbid crimson liquid that had come down from above had been diluted, and there was no trace of them in the water of the stream. She kicked the pale red corpse with her foot as she passed by the corpse of the juvenile, and when she realized that the corpse of the juvenile had been dead for a long time, she drew the arrow away, and followed Feld and them into the small hole behind the water.
The entrance to the small cave was obscured by the water outside, and the average person would not have noticed it, but when Fidel and the others entered it, they could smell a strong smell of blood. The light inside the cave was very poor, and the people brought in the torches they had brought along the way to illuminate the inside. The cave's passage is lined with rocks on both sides, and it looks like the cave was formed naturally.
The further you went inside, the stronger the smell of blood became, and something resembling minced meat and bones could be seen discarded in the cavern's passages.
Fed was always at the forefront, placing the enchanted sword on his chest while keeping an eye on his feet. Although all the mature green-stemmed plants outside have been killed, no one can guarantee that there are still some hiding inside this cave, waiting for them to enter and suddenly sneak attack.
It's just that what they feared didn't happen, and when they went into the innermost part of the cave, no attacking plants appeared.
The innermost part of the cave is relatively spacious, and everything can be clearly seen under the light of the torches. There was a motionless mature green-stemmed plant lying in a corner, its lower body still cowering in the dirt. From Feld's point of view, the head of the green-stemmed plant, the blood-red spike, was exposed beyond the green epidermis, and the tip that should have been very sharp now looked like a leaf, thin and soft.
Matthews was the most daring, he picked up the golden axe and slashed it in the direction of the green-stemmed plant. At the moment when the axe was chopped, the green-stemmed plant moved slightly to the left to reveal its body to the surface, as if trying to dodge the attack. It's just that it was like a dying old man, and there was no way to dodge such a swift attack, and it was slashed by Marcus.
The blood-red core was cut open by the axe, and a lot of turbid crimson liquid flowed out of it, and the mature greenstem plant that was hit stopped moving, and died completely.
"This thing must be hurt, or it would have jumped up and attacked us. Marcus noticed that the green-stemmed plant had some scars on its skin, but they didn't look like they were from a few of their weapons.
In addition to the green-stemmed plant, which was eliminated at once, there were several large dark yellow urns in the deepest part of the cave, and those large urns had no lids and did not seem to fit anything in.
At this moment, some strange sounds came from one of the large dark yellow urns, and everyone vigilantly picked up their weapons and leaned in the direction of the large urn.
Ayana carried a torch and lit up the contents of the urn. There were several light red larvae gathered around and hiding at the bottom of the urn, and the larvae seemed to be frightened kittens, all curled up together. I don't know if it was because they sensed danger or something else, but the light red hatchlings were trembling. The crowd watched the hatchlings carefully, but they did nothing but curl up tighter and tighter. Even so, they weren't sure that the young green-stemmed plants wouldn't hurt people.
"It's disgusting, let's burn these things quickly!" Patrick had heard from Feder that these things weren't the carnivorous flowers of the Kingdom of Salins, so they didn't use fire in battle, but the hatchlings they saw now were hiding in urns, and it might not be appropriate to kill them with sharp weapons.
"That's right, burn them!" agreed Marcus One-Eyed.
Fidel nodded, and Ayana threw the torch into the urn. The pale red juveniles didn't struggle much before they were enveloped in flames, and there was a "crackling" burning sound from inside the urn. Seeing this, everyone was relieved.
Patrick found a book in one of the caves, it was very worn, and the words on it were no longer fully legible, but after a few flips, Fed found some obvious signs of writing in the book.
"This book contains some information on how to raise green-stemmed plants," Field, illuminated by the torches in the hands of his subordinates, briefly flipped through the contents of the book, "from the selection of materials, feeding, living environment, and other aspects, and the methods of cultivating these plants that can attack people are described in detail." As he watched, Feder felt surprised, he didn't expect anyone to cultivate such a monster, and many of the things mentioned in the book were beyond the scope of his knowledge.
"Don't look here, let's get out of here and talk about it outside. Marcus had already inspected the cave again, and found that all that was left of the cave were a few urns and the book, except for the stumps and debris of some animals. Several dark yellow urns were empty, and beyond that, there was nothing else here.
After the group left the cave, they found that Avi had returned to his normal state. Avi's eyes were blank just now, as if he had been severely frightened and became temporarily unconscious, but now he is much better.
"There were some larvae of green-stemmed plants in that cave, but they couldn't hurt or attack people, and they were all burned by fire. Fylde said to the big-nosed fan.
"And we also found a book, this book proves that these plants that can attack people are cultivated by people," Marcus has been a mercenary for many years, and there is no wind and rain that he has never seen, so he did not show a very surprised expression at the artificial cultivation of monsters, "I guess it is like those guys in the Holy Spirit Mercenary Regiment, using some evil witchcraft." ”
The people present were relatively young, so when One-Eyed Marcus talked about the Holy Spirit Mercenary Regiment, the others were not very clear about what he was talking about, but Fed had promised Russell to kill the leader of the Holy Spirit Mercenary Regiment, Priest Pillar, so he asked Marcus to tell the details.
Marcus introduced that the Holy Spirit Mercenary Group is one of the nine mercenary groups of the Mercenary Guild, and it is also a very important one. This mercenary group is not so much a mercenary group as it is an evil magic group - except for the regiment leader, deputy regiment leader, and other squadron leaders, the mercenaries of the entire Holy Spirit mercenary group are not alive.
The mercenaries of the Holy Spirit Mercenary Regiment are all dead corpses, which are generally called "corpse soldiers" by people on the mainland, and corpse soldiers are divided into two types: living corpse soldiers and dead corpse soldiers. The corpses were all skull-headed soldiers who had lost their flesh and guts, and there were also some corpses that had just decomposed, but in general, all of them were completely dead, but they were controlled by the squadron leader of the Holy Spirit Mercenary Regiment.
The source of the dead soldiers is usually from the grave or the battlefield, and the Holy Spirit Mercenary Group will hire some mercenaries to help them collect the corpses of these dead people, even if they are so rotten that only bones remain, they can be exchanged for the reward of the Holy Spirit Mercenary Group. Therefore, there are many tomb robbers and gravediggers who collude with the Holy Spirit Mercenary Group, but if the bones of the corpse are damaged, the squadron leaders of the Holy Spirit Mercenary Group will not pay.
The corpse legions of these Holy Spirit mercenaries do not have a large number, firstly, they cannot be preserved for a long time, and after a while, they will lose control and return to dust, and secondly, these corpse soldiers will be burned out as soon as they touch the fire, and their combat effectiveness is not very good. Therefore, the Holy Spirit Mercenary Regiment generally does not use these dead corpses on the battlefield, they use these dead corpses more for research, seemingly to create stronger living corpse soldiers. Except for the Marcus brothers, little was known about these corpse soldiers, because the Holy Spirit Mercenaries had only formed a corpse legion and had not thrown them into the battlefield.
The Living Corpses, on the other hand, are the opposite of the Dead Soldiers, with their flesh and skin intact and look like sleeping humans, except for the fact that their skin is a little darker. However, in fact, the brains of these living corpse soldiers are dead, they cannot think, and they cannot perform the activities that ordinary people must do, such as eating and excreting, and the only evidence that can prove that they are alive is their beating hearts.
When Marcus One-Eyed said this, the big-nosed Fan interrupted him and asked, "This kind of thing is impossible, right?
"Of course it's impossible by common sense," Marcus gave Fan a meaningful look, "but what if magic was used?"