Chapter 52: A hole in a hole
The burrow is not deep, and the space is large enough not to look stuffy, but the days of waiting for the hunting season are really boring for the "Groundhog". Their prey is cunning, vigilant and dangerous enough, and there are not many opportunities to hunt during the year, spending most of the time in caves, poker and gambling have become their daily pastimes, and the opportunity to go out once a week to "hunt game" is particularly precious. Fortunately, the prey is precious enough to be exchanged for a lot of wealth and boasting capital, so life is not so difficult.
The value of elf slaves is far more than their beauty, although selling to lustful nobles is the best way to sell, but a few dealers also have a deeper understanding of some people's special needs for elves, some alchemists need elves' natural elemental blood, a certain family will look at the elven blood is more likely to give birth to the characteristics of magicians, and so on, boring nobles always have a lot of wild ideas.
It is this demand that creates the courage and adventure of the slave catchers, and the patience and silence of the "earth pluck".
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Kaka walked generously through the tunnel, and at the end was a downward cave, his nose under the bone helmet sniffed the air, the smell of rotten oranges peculiar to human-faced spiders was still in the air, but there were no eight-legged reptiles, and there was a big bear lying at the bottom of the cave, as if suddenly awakened, and roared at the intruder.
Kaka looked around, but found nothing suspicious, and the huge human-faced spider had disappeared like this? Kaka snorted and swung his bone stick and hit it.
The bear whimpered, fear took over his body and mind, and immediately rolled back to the bottom of the cave, pitiful, the arm that did not dare to touch the ground seemed to have been almost broken. Kaka was still looking for the human-faced spider in place, not noticing that the bear kept rubbing his big ass against a rolling stone at the bottom of the cave, as if to wake it up and help him.
The Rolling Stone shrank into the dirt behind the bear's buttocks, revealing a dark hole, from which a fiery red flew out and landed with a sound, a torch that burned its eyes.
Immediately after that, several figures leaped over the bear, and the bright weapons were already beckoning into the hole, but they all hit the air. There were no enemies standing there, only a dumb little beast in the distance of their target. Where is the enemy?
The "groundhogs" were wary of looking around, not only with their eyes, but also with their noses and ears, hoping to find the enemy's traces from behind some shadow or stone.
"Be careful!" called the little man, quickly picking up the torch and exposing the cave floor to a large expanse of light, "Look closer! I smell rotten oranges!"
After being reminded, the other people have reacted and understand the danger of the enemy, and they should not come out!
"Go back!" shouted a man!
The people here tried to retreat, but Kaka did it first, thinking that these people would know the whereabouts of the human-faced spider. And the best way to negotiate is to fight - the way to survive in Kadore.
Outside the cave, Ouyang had already sensed that the situation had changed, the roar of the bear and the sound of weapons colliding were not made by human-faced spiders. In a hurry, Ouyang directly summoned the spiral armor shield, split the bush tunnel with a big slash, and crashed into it. Tearing away the branches and leaves in front of him, Ouyang saw the situation in the cave, three people were lying on the ground with hideous faces, two obviously broke their legs, and the third lost an extra arm. And Kaka, who was being pinched by a small man's tail and lifted upside down in his hand, the little thing's body was soft, and he didn't know whether he was alive or dead. Robin the Spider doesn't know where it is.
Ouyang didn't have time to think about why there were humans hiding in such a hole, anger took control of his mind in an instant, and the spiral armor shield in his hand was raised and thrown at the little man, trying to cut him off.
At this moment, a slight vibration under his feet woke up Ouyang's "spider sense", Ouyang jumped up in a hurry, inertia made him fall, so he had to press the swinging arm under him, after doing this action, his heart moved, and he conjured a four-meter shield to press under him.
The monster sprang out from the ground, slammed its claws against the shield, and pushed the fat man up with the force of the rush.
Ouyang didn't care what was underneath, he punched the shield, and the power shook back. Jumping out of the hole, Ouyang saw a human-faced spider lying under the shield, with its furry legs spread and twitching, I don't know if it was stunned or crushed to death.
This girl's sneak attack can be said to have exploded Ouyang's anger, popping out the spider silk and pulling back the shield, grabbing the edge and slapping again, with a snap, the juice splashed like trampling a pile of rotten oranges, and the musty smell of rotten oranges rushed straight to his head.
Ouyang withdrew his shield and observed it for a while, making sure that this evil and poisonous thing was dead, and he was a little puzzled as to why this thing came out of the ground.
It turns out that the spider monster was named after "human face", not only because of the white lines on its back, but also because of the upper body of its Newgeon form, which has a half-human, half-beast form like the legendary centaur. It's just that it's far less handsome than a centaur, just an abstract style like mud. This part is brought by a special bloodline, which also gives the human-faced spider the ability to "dive into the soil", and stay in the dirt without a trace for a period of time as if it were diving into the water, which varies from individual to individual, but this time is enough for the human-faced spider to ambush the pursuing enemy.
After a pause, Ouyang glared at the humans again and drank, "Who are you?"
Probably intimidated by the fat man's slaughter of the human-faced spider, the humans immediately put on a posture of surrender and confessed, "We are hunters, and we venture into the forest. This brown bear was not easy to train, but he didn't expect to attract human-faced spiders. ”
Ouyang glared at the other party, indicating that he didn't believe these words. Kaka had fought with brown bears, it was obvious, and the human-faced spider had been lurking underground, it wouldn't have been it that ambushed Kaka, otherwise these humans wouldn't have dared to come out.
"Throw all your things over! weapons, torches, and retreat to the end of the cavern!"
"My lord, we ...... without weapons."
"Do as I say!" Ouyang raised the shield in his hand.
This enchanted equipment that can change in size is quite exciting for several people, and they are also wary of the violence of the shield bearer.
One by one, things were thrown in front of Ouyang, first weapons, then Kaka, and finally torches. As the torches tumbled in the air, the light flickered, and a thick smoke suddenly exploded the entire cave, and then a gust of wind blew from the passage at the bottom of the cave, forcing the smoke out of the cave and enveloping Ouyang.
Even though Ouyang used a second-order shield to protect his body and held his breath when the firelight flickered, he still fell to the ground with a fat body after the people in the cave fell.
A man came out of the inner hole, stepped on his companion who had fallen to the ground, and the blue dagger in his hand slammed into the fat man's neck!
An object fell from the roof of the cave and hung in front of the Assassin. In the light of the cave entrance, it was as if a huge monster was lying in front of him. He subconsciously leaned back his neck, and he didn't know what he had stepped on in the pile of items, and he almost fell. Before he could stabilize himself and dodge, a sticky mass had already bounced into his face.
The Assassin immediately wiped it off with his sleeve, and Robin, who was behind the slingshot, had already landed on his head, and another cobweb popped out to stick to his face. In the pitch black, it twisted its buttocks, turned over its messy hair, fell to its neck, opened its mouth to bite the back of its neck, and punctured the flesh.
The former infected spider has made the only infected spider out of a fat man, and the new ability obtained after the transformation of the Elemental Pill is "Devouring", and what remains unchanged is its venom.
Ouyang was drowsy after being bitten, and he also had a heroic dream, as for this assassin, although Robin was close, he couldn't know what was in his head.
By the time it felt its footing begin to shake, little Robin knew that his attack was working, so he crawled up to the man's face again, popping out cobwebs and spreading his face......
After Ouyang woke up, he still stayed in the cave, and there were many forest elves at the scene, and the flattened human-faced spider had already taken out the venom gland and sent it back to treat Mirien. After learning about the general situation from Lalandia's mouth, Ouyang comforted and encouraged the two little things. Thinking that he had experimented with Estesri, and that the spider's "infected" mutation had given him a certain amount of poison immunity, immune to most toxins such as coma and sleep, but he was hit here and almost died, so he asked what kind of poison the enemy used.
"The spores of Pyrast!" replied Lalandia.
"What's so special about this thing?" Ouyang added.
"This is a spore poison from a magical beast called Pyrast, a special magical beast from the abyssal realm, also known as the 'mushroom hermit crab', which is said to be a magical beast turned from mushrooms. Pyrast is not big, nor is he fierce. It is speculated that they survive in the Abyssal Realm by relying on 'sleeping spores'. This stuff usually accumulates in the sporangia that grow on their backs, which are the chestnut-like thorn balls you see. Once the shell breaks, a cloud of spores will quickly explode, and any creature that comes into contact with these spores will fall into sleep, even holding their breath is useless. Human slave hunters rely on this thing to catch elven slaves in the forest. ”
"Those people are slave hunters, why did they go deep into the forest? I thought...... Think what happened to you is just a special case. ”
"Cloris has been in this environment for many years. The slave hunter who went deep into the forest was a shadow hanging over his head, everywhere but nowhere else. No matter how hard we tried, we couldn't find where they were hiding. ”
"Where is the secret!"
The road I experienced today, led by the human-faced spider, scurried around, the bush passage, the cave where the bear lived, and then the labyrinthine tunnel hidden behind the cave.
"If it weren't for the human-faced spider, we wouldn't have been able to find this hiding place, except for that cunning monster, even the most keen-eyed cheetah, we wouldn't be able to find this place, it's just a groundhog!"
How to lead Cloris? Ouyang pondered this question along the way.
The plan that Ellene once mentioned, a hero, to gain the respect of the forest elves and gain a voice in the tribe, thus promoting the reunification of all elven tribes and gaining a voice on the continent of Lotharma.
He was greatly inspired by the human slave hunter's tunnel shelter, which with tall trees and some tunnels, would be a good base for him. There are many natives in the Baiyue Forest, and if these tribes are united, it will be enough to build a country, a country of forests, and I think Kadore will be very happy.
As for the problem of human slave traders, inspired by the human-faced spider, Ouyang thought of a solution, now he is a Beamon sacrifice blessed by the god of war, and can summon a demon pet, in addition to the cunning human-faced spider, a magical beast that has a friendly relationship with the forest elves, and a King Kong storm ape!
With Huo Jiasi, a genuine altar sacrifice guide, Ouyang felt that it was not impossible to obtain a high-level demonic beast as a demonic pet. With this as a high-end force deterrent, the forest indigenous tribes are taken under their command one by one, and then the power will naturally accumulate into the sea.