Chapter 202: The Secret Passage
After much explanation by Jennifer, Ella and the others believed that these monsters were temporarily on the same side as them - including the previous lizard monsters. Jennifer came down to hear the guards say that the adventurers of the underground had evacuated from the entrance to the top floor, and that Melia was on her way.
Jennifer strongly advised them to evacuate from the underground waterways.
She had never been to the ground floor, but she stumbled upon a complete map of the underground during an errand run, and the original founders of the Musa Consortium had set aside another secret passage when they set up it, considering the possibility that the exit from the top floor would be sealed. One at the top and one at the bottom.
Dancing with monsters is undoubtedly a crazy act in the eyes of the world, and researchers have long been aware of the risks involved and have made adequate preparations in advance.
Jennifer and Jörmungård explained for a long time before they could barely convey their thoughts clearly. In fact, their communication was not perfect - Jörmungård could understand human language, but they did not understand the language of monsters, and no matter how much they tried to express their friendliness, Jennifer felt that they were not good.
"I think it's right here......"
Jennifer used her memories to bring Ella and the others to the end of a dead end.
She stretched out her hand and tapped it a few times, judging by the sound, it didn't look like a D-day behind the wall. On the other hand, Jennifer is absolutely confident in her memory, and she can memorize the trivial but detailed knowledge about monsters in textbooks with just one night of revision, which is also the trick to her high scores. And remembering a map couldn't be easier for her.
"The road marked on the map is behind this wall. ”
"Get out of the way, I'll try!" One of the adventurers, the only male in the group, felt that something had to be done at such a time, he picked up the sword he had scavenged from the guard's corpse, aimed it at the wall, and after three seconds of charging, the blade slashed through a silver ray, his eyes froze, and he erupted in a monstrous roar.
The blade snapped in response, and the severed tip made an arc in the air, stabbing straight into the lion monster's head.
"What if I say it's a misunderstanding...... Do you believe it?" the male adventurer raised his head with the broken sword and stared at the lion monster with a half-cut blade on his head.
He was greeted by the sound of howling wind, and the lion monster raised its forelimbs straight over his head and slammed against the blocked wall.
"Boom-"
The male adventurer was shocked and rolled out a few meters away, and under the slapping of the lion monster's accumulation, the ground at the bottom shook, and a small pit was shot out of the sealed wall, and the lion monster pulled out the forelimbs that had fallen into the hole. There was nothing behind the walls, and the secret passage described by Jennifer did not exist.
"We've been deceived!"
"Cunning human, she must be stalling for time to wait for Melia to come after us!"
"Stupid!"
The lion monster scolded: "If that were the case, she wouldn't have opened our cage in the first place." As he spoke, it turned its gaze to Jörmungandr, hoping that it would convey the monsters' concerns to the humans: "Little one, although we are happy to wait, Melia is on her way here, not only is she superior in strength, but she also has the potion to control us, we will run out of time." ”
"Calm down, calm down Jennifer!"
Seeing that there was nothing behind the wall, Jennifer herself panicked.
The escape plan was not only about saving the monsters, but also about her own life - the Musa Consortium must hate her by now, and if she met Melia, she would probably be more than lucky. She turned her gaze to Ella, who was scratching her ears and cheeks by the wall, as if she were pleading.
They have a common enemy, and once Melia comes to the door, Ella feels like she's going to be cold this time. An enemy of Melia's level would never be plotted twice by the Glitter Crystal.
"If you think about it, is there any information other than the map?"
"Something else? I want to think about ......"
Jennifer closed her eyes, and the pictures of the map that day flashed back in her mind one by one, as if she was holding the map in her hand now, the map was very detailed, and the information in each compartment was clear. And at the end of the cloister, such passages are clearly marked.
"Anything could have helped. Ella's voice came from very close.
Jennifer frowned, trying to "see" herself more closely.
What's missing?
What exactly are you missing?
The whole map is filled with a strong sense of disobedience, and the more she "looks" at it, the stronger this feeling becomes. At the time, she was just curious, and she didn't compare as carefully as she did now. The source of the dissonance comes from the description of the passages, which are exhaustively marked with a detailed description of each area, with the exception of a few words of description.
There appear to be signs of alteration before the description.
What exactly is being altered?
Jennifer reached out and reached out to the map "in front of her", and even the slightly frosted touch was the same as that day. She always felt that something was wrong, that there were obvious signs of alteration on the map, and her strong curiosity determined that she would definitely find out what had been altered at that time.
But Jennifer's proud memory did not contain such a fragment, and if she hadn't forced herself to remember the joy of the time, she wouldn't have even found the place on the map where someone had tampered with her.
"Jennifer, what are you doing?"
When her index finger gently brushed the part of the map that had been altered, the sound suddenly rang in her ears.
Mistress Sindora was standing in front of her, and she humbly handed the map in her hand.
"I found a strange map in the locker!"
"Oh, that's what you say. At this time, the backup of the map in the early days of the establishment of the organization is no longer applicable in many places. Cyndora smiled and took the map and tucked it into the inside pocket of her coat, "If you get lost, go find a new map from the guards." ”
With that, she touched her hand on Jennifer's forehead.
"Jennifer, what are you doing?"
After a while, a similar question sounded in her ears.
She slowly opened her eyes, the frosted touch between them had not faded, so she lowered her head curiously and met the large protruding eyes of the lizard monster.
"Is this human woman suddenly in heat?" Seeing Jennifer regain consciousness, the lizard monster turned its gaze to its own kind, asking for their opinions.
Jennifer retracted her hand like an electric shock, then she took a deep breath and said, "Theophalan!"
- "Theopharan, the description before the passage reads: 'This is the way to salvation, Theophalam, my people'. ”