The gopher is a little smaller than Aunt Beth, but it is also a pet for humans, and it has a hole larger than its own, making it easier for it to walk.

Punching holes is its talent and hobby, but it doesn't have any planning, it seems to be very freewheeling, and there are several more holes like this in its territory, and Frandy and Lilia have only found one of them.

After resting for a while, Flandy and Lilia alone took a shining light and began to walk deeper into the cave. Flandy had explored the cave before, and he remembered the fork in the road not far from the entrance. So bend over and walk in front. Lilia followed him.

With the shining light, there is no choking black smoke from the burning grease of the torches, and the soft light is not dazzling, but it can illuminate the distance, and the scene in the cave is delicate.

Due to its proximity to the ground, the walls of the cave are covered with bare tree roots, which would have been lit with torches. These tree roots are like hideous giant snakes in the black smoke produced by the torches, and when the friends came to explore together, they were frightened back by these tree roots.

The fork in the cave was criss-crossed, and after two turns into the hole, she couldn't find the hole, and Lilia took out a bottle of viscous liquid with a faint fluorescent glow in her bag, and every time she passed the fork in the road, Lilia would use this viscous liquid to make a mark on the cave wall.

"Lilia, which direction are we going?" asked Frankie curiously, after a few forks in the road.

"Keep going down, at the bottom of the cliff in the northernmost part, and the only way to go is in the gopher hole. Lilia replied to Frandy as she marked the fork in the road.

"Alright then, we'll keep going when we see a fork in the road. Flandy wondered what Lilia was going to do on the other side of the cliff, he had looked down from the top of the cliff. Below is the sea, and by the sea is a huge rock, and there is nothing interesting at all.

The gopher holes are very irregular, but there is a good thing, that is, there are no dead ends. As long as you know the general direction, you will always go around. Because there are more holes.

The further down the road became, the wetter and cooler, and Flendy and Lilia turned when they saw the fork in the road. With a glowing mark as a guide, there are a lot of unjust roads that have been taken. During this time, I encountered several large pet spaces, which are estimated to be used as nests. But I never ran into the big mouse. It is estimated that the gophers have already discovered them. I just don't want to deal with these two little guys. Anyway, these two little guys didn't ask for help, so they didn't see it.

Turning, turning, I don't know how long it took, Flandi estimated that he had walked dozens of meters underground, during which Lilia also took out a kettle in her backpack, and the two of them drank a few sips of water.

Suddenly, while passing through a fork in the road, Flandy felt a breeze blow through the calm hole. I stood still and felt it carefully, and it was the hole on the right that blew it. Turning back to Lilia, he said, "There's wind here, Lilia, there may be a hole here." ”

Lilia also came over to feel it, and said happily: "It's really windy, Flandy, let's go this way!"

The two of them followed the windy passage and passed another fork in the road, feeling that the wind was getting stronger and stronger. The temperature is also less humid and cold. The sun was already shining in on the detour ahead.

After this detour, the light became more and more intense, and it was no longer necessary to provide illumination with a shining light. You can clearly see that the walls of the cave have gradually changed from black soil to rocky structures.

Lilia put away the two Shining Light Orbs and put them back in her backpack. Continue to walk forward, the front suddenly opened, and the hole in the ground that Flandi still needed to bend down slightly to walk just now suddenly became seven or eight meters high, and not far in front of him was the blue sky.

The walls of the cave were all rock, the floor was covered with a thick layer of dry shade grass, and some huge bird feathers were mixed in, and scattered around the sides were several huge eggshells that had been destroyed, large enough to fit Flandy in its entirety. There was a thick layer of dust on it, which had apparently been destroyed for a long time.

"Ah, this is the griffon's lair," Lilia whispered in surprise.

"Griffon, is that the same griffon that went berserk last year?"

Flandy remembers that one evening, at the beginning of autumn last year, a huge griffin with the body and talons of a lion, the head and wings of an eagle was on the north side of the island of Psal, where the gophers were located, and they were madly uprooting the trees, and countless boulders were flapped away by its huge wings. The loud cry was deafening even to the people in the castle.

The children of the castle who were running and playing outside were caught by their respective parents, and Flandy was no exception, when he was in the garden with the little fat Vito and watched Aang play with the strange flowers and plants, when he was caught directly home by Abba from the kitchen of the dining room. Later, it was the Archmage of Algernon who brought several of the island's archmages over to quell the incident.

Flandy touched the dust on the eggshell and said to Lilia, "The dust here is so thick that the griffin probably doesn't live here anymore." ”

Lilia pointed to the hole behind her and said, "You see, the big mouse has already hit the hole into the griffon's nest, and these griffon eggs must have been stolen by this big mouse." ”

"Tsk, it's a pity, I don't know what a griffin's egg tastes like. Frandie shook his head.

Lilia glanced at Franky strangely and said, "The griffon's egg is very precious, and the baby griffin that hatches from it has been trained since childhood, and when it grows up, it can ride it to fly in the sky." ”

"Haha, Lilia, you're right, it's better to ride it than to eat it, but now that it's been eaten by that hateful mouse, all that's left is these eggshells. It's disgusting."

"Let's keep going, or we'll be worried if it's too late. ”

The two came to the entrance of the cave. It was found that this was not the bottom of the cliff, and the pile of rocks from the entrance to the bottom was more than 20 meters high. The cliff at the entrance of the cave is smooth, and there is no borrowing point. Apparently there is no way to climb down.

"Lilia, it looks like we're going to keep drilling holes, we can't go down here. Franky said with some disappointment.

"It's okay, I brought rope. It's in your backpack. ”

The sparkle and the kettle were both taken out of Lilia's backpack, and Flandy really didn't know what was in his backpack.

Quickly put the backpack down, and then opened it to see, sure enough, there was a roll of rope inside, about the thickness of a finger, and it was no problem to bear the weight of two people. In addition to the rope, this backpack also has a water bottle in it. There are also two pieces of clothing with silver lins rolled together.

This kind of linfin Flandy knows, it is a very fast fish in the sea. In addition, there are two glasses made of glass, just like diving goggles, the edges of the glasses are leather, which are used for waterproofing at first glance, and there are a few gadgets, I don't know what they are used for.

"Lilia, are we going to the sea to play?" As soon as Flandi looked at these things, he knew that he was probably going to the sea, obviously a diving suit and diving goggles.

"We're going to go to the bottom of the sea, and that place has to go down the ocean floor to get there. ”

It was drilled into the ground and into the sea. Flandi sensed that the place Lilia was going to must not be easy, but for some reason she didn't ask for the help of Archmage Algernon, it seems that this mysterious little girl has a lot of secrets hidden in her.

Flandy found a protruding stone pillar in the cave, tied the rope firmly to it, and then threw the other end of the rope off the cliff, Lilia brought a long rope, which was only more than twenty meters from the bottom of the cliff, and it was a lot richer.

After thinking about it, Franky pulled the rope back again, measured about five meters at the tail end, and found a sharp rock to break the rope. Then he tied it around his waist and said, "Lilia, come over here." ”

Lilia was looking out of the hole in the griffon's lair to find her way, when she heard Frandy call and came up to her, "What's the matter?" ”

Flandy tied the other end of the rope around Lilia's waist and said, "I'm good at climbing ropes, I'm afraid you won't be able to hold the rope and slide down." Connect the two of us and we'll be safe. ”

"Thank you, Frandy. Lilia said gratefully. The little girl, who was only nine years old, was already very tired when she walked here, and when she looked down at the entrance of the cave just now, she also felt a palpitation. If it weren't for the importance of this matter, she didn't know if she would have backed down.

Frandi took off his shirt again, folded it a few times, and handed it to Lilia.

Seeing that she was puzzled, she explained: "It is very difficult to climb the rope, especially when you slide down, the temperature will be very high. You put this on the rope and it's going to be a lot better. ”

Although Lilia was very attentive and had already envisioned everything on the road, she clearly overestimated herself, as she had never climbed a rope.

"You gave me this, but what about you?" Lilia said worriedly.

"Haha, I'm a boy, and climbing ropes and trees is my forte. Franky smirked.

Carrying his backpack, Franky pulled the rope to the entrance of the cave and said, "I'll go down first, you're on it, if you can't hold on, call me." After saying that, he pulled the rope vigorously, and felt that the end was tied very strongly, so he slid down the rope little by little.

Lilia put Frandy's blouse on the rope, and sure enough, it wasn't a strangulation. I also learned Frandi's posture and slowly slid down the rope.

Because the two of them were tied together with ropes, Frandi didn't dare to slide too fast. It could only slide slowly, and sure enough, when it was still seven or eight meters above the ground, Lilia's hands had no strength. Frandy let her feet on her head for a moment before she slid safely to the bottom of the cliff.