Chapter 17: The Grim Reaper Returns
"I think since the warriors of ancient times were able to pass the test without the help of so many explorers, then we would have easily reached the end. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info "The White Hat and the Countess stood together and made a rare joke.
Magellan looked at the explorers who were setting up campfires and cooking lunches around the hall, and didn't know whether to agree or say something.
That's right, it's lunchtime. Although I have experienced a lot of things, it feels like a long time, but in fact, it has only been one morning.
"Let's take a break here. ”
Hearing the countess say this, Magellan was a little depressed, he had finally raised his spirit to prepare for difficulties, but now he was about to rest.
Despite this, Magellan took out the spice bottle and prepared to eat.
That's right, he just wanted to exchange the spices for food, and he succeeded.
Even the Earl's guards brought down the kind of food that was easy to preserve, even the countess did not have fresh vegetables and meat to eat, and Magellan's seasoning was almost the same as that of a savior.
The adventurers' lunch ended quickly, and they couldn't stop because they were burned by the fire called "Desire".
In comparison, the countess and her party seemed much more relaxed, and Magellan even went to the white hat to find the power warriors and learned a few words of the indigenous common language, such as "hello" and "goodbye".
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After lunch, they set off.
Along the way, there are traces left by explorers, who have revealed superior insight and far more destructive power than the former.
After passing through two halls, the three traps had been cracked by the explorers in front, who had caught up with the explorers' vanguard at a huge suspended platform.
It's an architectural spectacle enough to shock anyone, with four stone pillars supporting a circular platform in the bottomless abyss underground, each topped by a bonfire that illuminates the platform as if it were day.
I don't know where to stretch under these four stone pillars, and there are already explorers who can't find a way out on the platform and hang down the rope to see what is under the pillars. Others stayed on the platform, feeling the huge circular pattern on the ground in search of the mechanism.
However, the fact that the Countess and her party were able to catch up with the vanguard here means that the explorers have not found the right path until now.
"That's not good...... "Magellan circled around the platform, also confused, "there are so many explorers, no matter where the mechanism is, even if it's lucky, it should have been found a long time ago." ”
After going around the corner, he and the white hat came together again, and Magellan leaned in front of the power warrior and asked him, "Didn't you say that the front was the end? Why is there no road here?"
"They are not warriors. ”
Magellan instantly understood, whether it was the three warriors who had passed the trial, or the three golden statues of the keys, they had just come here. I don't know how the mechanism was triggered, but it was undoubtedly triggered when everyone didn't notice.
"What's next?"
"Through the underworld. ”
"What?!" Magellan was frightened.
Whether it was the soldier's determined expression when he spoke, or the content of this sentence, it made Magellan have a bad premonition.
And this premonition came true faster than expected.
There was a cacophony of noise from the surrounding crowd, mixed with exclamations and screams and hissing of cool air, and soon all eyes were on the cliff on one side of the platform. There was a hole hidden by darkness, from which the Grim Reaper was emerging.
For the first time, the python showed its full picture.
It was a gigantic terrifying monster, every movement graceful as a dance, and the smooth scales reflected the cold light like pig iron.
Like a magic train, the giant beast slowly approached with its massive body.
"Run!" Magellan whispered to the crowd and ran.
Almost at the same time, the countess and her bodyguards began to retreat.
And at this time, the explorers finally reacted.
There was a very strange scene on the platform, some people crowded on the way out, trampling on each other, and people were constantly being squeezed out of the edge of the platform, letting out a scream with a long tail, and falling into the abyss. And behind these people, there are some people who are elated, take out all kinds of strange weapons, and prepare to fight for themselves a big trophy.
The few who remained calm quickly gave up trying to leave, including Magellan, the Countess and her bodyguard, the White Hat.
And the native warriors, spear in hand, stood closest to the python, and at the front, the warrior of power, was even empty-handed - his spear was now stuck in the beast.
"Is there any plan?" said Magellan, as he walked up to the countess and asked her in a low voice.
And the answer was, "No." ”
Looking at the countess's calm face, Magellan began to wonder if he was dazzled.
"So what do we do?"
"I don't know. ”
Magellan looked at the countess, and then turned to look at the python that raised its head and prepared to attack, as if he was in an absurd burlesque, and he couldn't help but want to laugh.
And then he really laughed. Magellan smiled and took out the rope, tied one end around his waist, and knotted the other end to make a rope sleeve. He looked at the python and turned to throw the noose up a pillar.
There was also a bonfire on the top of the pillar, but fortunately this rope was given to him by the countess, and he was not afraid of fire.
"You all go to the back, be careful not to get hit. Magellan reminded the guards and rushed towards the python.
The python unleashed its first attack, an attack that did not match its size at all. Like a venomous snake that can kill its prey with just one bite, it catapults the front half of its body, bites an unlucky explorer in one bite, and then throws the body off the platform. In a sense, the python's attack is plausible - it can kill anyone here with just one bite.
Then Magellan rushed up with a long rope dragging behind his buttocks, like a tail, which looked funny.
I don't know if it's a coincidence or Magellan's action of inserting a toothpick into the roof of the jaw is remembered, and the second attack of the giant python is aimed at him.
Magellan dodged with a standard flying pounce.
The python let out a low roar, and no doubt its vocal cords differed from the snakes among its many differences, but not the use of a specific call to indicate threat.
Magellan got up and ran forward in a stupid gesture - he turned his back to the beast.
Then, the behemoth attacked.
Magellan ducked.
Then the second, third, fourth.
Magellan hid all of them.