Chapter 224: Wandering Underground (I)
The flame is a warm-hearted person, and it kindly uses itself to isolate the two sides of the fight, and then uses the oil as a guide and the life as the salary, and tells the people that the fight is not right.
"Look, these dead guys can only be made into roast meat by me. "And it's hard to swallow, because they're all charred and a pile of black coal, and anyone likes to eat it?" I don't think so. ”
"To be honest, I'm not a good chef because I can't control myself. The flame continued, "'I can't control myself' means 'I can't control the heat,' so, you know. Well, I wish I had a sense of humor, and I'm sure I'll be able to make this pun a little more funny, like ......"
"Brother, what are you thinking?" Weimar shook his hand in Barrett's eyes, "should we leave?"
Damn, it must have been the lack of oxygen that hallucinated me, the brute shook his head. While the 'bad cook' was still frantically revealing himself, he led the crowd back out of the corridor.
But the group of dreadclaw monsters still stood in place, through the raging flames, through the air distorted by the high temperature, with a pair of compound eyes that could not see emotion, silently watching the slowly disappearing Barrett people.
"I feel like those monsters hate us very much. Weimar said in an uncertain tone.
"Of course you hate, and you should say you hate!" replied William, "and if your sister or brother were burned, you would be full of resentment." Moreover, hatred is more likely to arise than we think, and when I was in the town before, when I saw you and Gegarth kissing, I was filled with resentment, and then I always wanted to get revenge on you. ”
"No wonder you always speak ill of me everywhere, you cautious one!" said Weimar angrily, "you kissed my sister, and I didn't say anything!"
"Your sister is not as big as Ge Jiasi's breasts. ”
"Hey, be careful when you speak!" the 'fake sir' angrily shoved William.
"Okay, okay, we're even. You see, resentment is so easy to generate. ”
"I think those monsters should simply hate smoke and fire, light and heat. Gary, the goblin, sprinkled a handful of thistles on the ground and made a few improvised traps, "Most underground creatures have this habit. ”
Is that really the case? Barrett always felt that there were other factors hidden in it.
"We interrupted their ritual. Blake, the archer, suddenly said in a low tone, "Interrupted some of their sacred rituals." And we, as ritual blasphemers, will be hunted down forever!"
"Dreadclaws are just beasts that don't even have a language, and they don't think there's such a complicated thing as 'performing some kind of ritual'. The goblins replied, "Unless they've been experimented with by mages as well." He smiled self-deprecatingly.
"You mean, those monsters will catch up when the flames are extinguished?" William asked, "Gary, sprinkle more of that smell powder, by the way, do dreadclaws track their prey by scent?"
"It's not. The goblin replied, "Direclaws, like bats, emit some sort of high-frequency sound waves, and they use reflected sound waves to accurately judge their surroundings. ”
"Sorry, I don't understand. William shrugged his shoulders, "Just try to stay away from them anyway." ”
"Where are we going now?" asked Weimar to Barrett.
The barbarian stopped, holding the stone with the 'Light Technique' attached to it in one hand and the map in the other, carefully searching for it.
"Let's go back to the 'Spawner' cave first. "Since the big mossy spider nest in front of us can't get to it, we'll have to go around the 'spawner' cave and try our luck at the other small spider nests, hoping that they still exist." ”
Walking out of this long road, which had just been named 'The Third War', they turned into another passage called 'Starry Sky'. At the top of this passage are many luminous mushroom larvae, which rely on their tails to emit a blue-blue glow, and the massive spectral light gathers together to make the entire top of the passage as beautiful as a dreamy night sky.
Of course, you'd better not get excited to climb up and take a closer look at this 'beauty', as once you see that the night sky above you is actually a bunch of crowded and wriggling fungus larvae, you won't be amazed anymore.
Barrett and the others named most of the terrain they passed through and marked them on a simple map, which was more effective in preventing getting lost. After all, the original labeling of that map was too simple, and in many places it was even wrong.
"The terrain of the Dark Regions is not static. "Old Colin, the dragon-blooded kobold of the Half-Blood City, once said to them, "Some caves or passages will inexplicably collapse and disappear, while others will continue to form faster or slower. Except for those underground passages that are naturally formed due to magma, groundwater, or other factors, most of the other passages are produced by purple insects crawling and passing by. If you hear a loud rumbling approaching in the distance, be sure to be extra careful. A purple insect may suddenly emerge from a rock and swallow you in one gulp. It's unlikely, but that doesn't mean it won't happen. ”
"Of course, even if you are unlucky enough to be swallowed by the purple worm, don't panic too much, you still have a slight chance of coming out of its belly. I mean coming out alive, not turning into dung. Seriously, I don't need to teach the latter method. Old Colin let out a hoarse smirk as he said this.
He laughed and scratched the scales on his neck, "A lizard man I know was unlucky enough to be swallowed by a purple worm in his stomach. At that time, he stayed in the stomach of the purple worm for a whole week, and finally crawled out alive, which has to be said to be a rather legendary experience. I think you should know him, his name is 'Connors', and he is now a rich man, and it is rumored that he found a treasure in the belly of the purple worm that finally made him so rich. But if you ask him to his face, he won't admit it......"
After passing through several passages such as 'Starry Sky', 'Headbanging', and 'Screaming Mushrooms', Barrett and his party finally arrived at the 'Spawner' cave.
This medium-sized cave contains a bottomless pool of underground water, with stalactite pinnacles at the top, and on top of the stalactite pinnacles above the pond lies a strange creature.
The creature is more than two meters long and resembles a giant green shrimp with a long tail. They cling to the pillar with their countless thin legs on their abdomen, their long ovipositor-like tails hanging straight down.
Every once in a while, the creature's ovipositor bulges, and then an oval-shaped white egg wrapped in mucus emerges from the ovipositor, and the oval-shaped white egg falls into the black pool water with a "poof" and then slowly sinks.
Neither Barrett nor Gary the Goblin knew what this strange creature was called, and William named them 'Xenoshrimp'. The 'xenoshrimp' doesn't seem to be in any danger, but is just concentrating on reproducing the population.
"Seriously, aren't we really going to collect a few of these egg-like white eggs?" suggested William, "maybe our quest publishers like to eat them too, they're all arthropod eggs, and they shouldn't taste much different, so we can get some extra rewards." ”
"It's best not to do that, because we don't know anything about these weird creatures hanging from the stone pillars. Weimar disagreed, "The reward for the mission is good enough, we just need to complete it safely, and we don't need to do the so-called 'extra rewards'." The things you call 'xenoshrimp' seem quiet right now, but if you're going to prey on their children, it's probably not like that. ”
"Isn't it the same to collect spider egg sacs?"
"That's why we need to kill their whole family!"
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