Chapter 19: Whose Last Wish?
The time is an hour laterββββ
From the beginning of the ease to the current desperate run, for some reason, the speed of the insect swarm is getting faster and faster, and the slow appearance at the beginning is no different from the abyss, in order not to be thrown off the shadow can not be touched, Tang Ruiyi can only spread his wings and bury his head in the hard run, and he doesn't even have time to think.
He felt that today he had simply gone out and forgotten to look at the yellow calendar, running away! Chasing! He had been running and never stopped, and it seemed that all the steps of his life had been run today!
"Damn! what should I do!" he freaked to see the tail of the swarm getting farther and farther away, about to disappear from the edge of vision.
Don't...... Do you really want to do this?
He gritted his teeth, and there was a fierce struggle in his mind, except for his closest parents, in fact, few people knew that he had suffered from a very serious deep-sea phobia since he was a child, although the symptoms were alleviated a lot after some psychological counseling, but the fear increased with age.
Looking at the surface of the river, which resembles a black abyss, a mood called fear appears.
Is it to live up to everyone's hopes and slip away in disgrace? Or do you gamble on all the glory and fight?
Does this need to be asked?
There is a protruding stone ridge on the cliff wall near the water, Tang Ruiyi slowly climbed onto the stone ridge and took a deep breath, calming down his emotions, there are wolves in front and tigers in the back, the curse in his body is still about to move, no matter what, he has to fight!
He finally made up his mind that adventure was essential, and he took off his shoes and socks and jumped into the water with a thud.
The river water has been in the dark underground for a long time, cold and chilling, Tang Ruiyi just swam for a while, and his whole body shivered, and a strong sense of suffocation and panic lingered in his heart, and he choked on several mouthfuls of water for a while.
At the critical moment, the little Galu in his chest seemed to tremble, yes! The life of the little Galu was also pinned on him, how could he be buried in this black water for no reason?
So Tang Ruiyi gritted his teeth and continued to move forward along the current, carefully avoiding the sharp and sharp reefs on both sides of the river, drilling through the whirlpools of hidden murderous machines, and swimming in the direction of the insect swarm.
He knew the mystery of the water while swimming, it turned out that the underwater undercurrent was surging, and the thrust of the current forced you to move forward, so it was twice the result with half the effort.
The direction of the swarm is pitch black, and I can't see anything clearly, haven't you caught up after so long?
Just when Tang Ruiyi was puzzled, he suddenly felt some itching on the back of his hand, and when he looked down, he saw that it was actually a palm-sized caterpillar!
If you look closely, there's a shadow there? It's a corpse carpet of countless corpses! Countless insects crunch and trample on the corpses of their own kind!
He looked at the strange insect on the surface of the corpse blanket, its body was long, its torso was full of legs, and it moved so fast that it almost gave people goosebumps all over its body, and its scalp was numb.
When he looked at it from a distance just now, Tang Ruiyi still felt that their spirit of overcoming their nature without fear of death was very admirable, but now that he looked closer, he even had the heart to die.
Finally, after ten minutes, when the water finally disappeared and the ground became dry again, he suddenly felt indescribably relaxed after wringing out the moisture in his clothes, and his spirit seemed to have been sublimated, he admired himself a little, and he really did what he didn't dare to imagine before!
Tang Ruiyi still remembers a long time ago an old professor who was rich and rich said to him earnestly: This fear is like a blister on this hand, the more you are afraid to ignore it, the more it will become inflamed and swollen and painful, but once you poke it, you will find that it is not as terrible as you think, now think about it, this is the most reasonable thing in life!
The intense exercise made him thirsty, but he had no supplies and had to hurry forward to lift the curse.
Continuing along the footprints, the cracks are getting bigger and bigger, gradually forming a vibrant underground cave, where long-eared bats hunt insects, excrete feces to nourish fluorescent green mushrooms, and insects eat green mushrooms to thrive, forming a stable biological chain between the three, which makes him sigh at the magic of nature.
"It's ...... It's under the vein!"
He picked up the ore left on the ground and looked at it.
"Unrefined mica stone", light blue material ore, two pieces in total.
"Magical Stone", light blue energy ore, one piece.
"Iron ore", white ordinary material, five pieces.
At the same time, he observed that the reflections around him had been greatly reduced, and that the marble, gneiss, limestone, and sand had been replaced by something dull and dull.
In a narrow part of the tunnel, he leaned against the rock wall, and found that the places where he had touched the "wall" had become extremely dark.
He looked around more closely, and it turned out that there was coal all around!
In this place of unknown depth, there is such a huge reserve of coal, and the coal bed is divided by sand or fine shale, and the top is heavily pressed against it.
The thought that he might be one of the first people in the world to arrive here makes him feel excited, and the sense of adventure in exploring the unknown and mysteries is fulfilling.
I seeββββ
There are many different kinds of plants in the Swamp, such as sheep's tooth plants, stone pines, and seal trees, which are rare plants in the outside world, but they can be found everywhere in the Swamp.
Coal originated from this flourishing plant. At this time, the earth's crust is also elastic, and it forms many grooves and depressions due to the flow of internal liquids.
The submerged plants gradually form huge patches. Precipitation occurs slowly, and a large number of plants under the water first turn into peat, and then completely into minerals due to fermentation.
These special coal deposits are hardly mined by anyone - there is too much labor required to reach such a remote source, and it is simply whimsical with the technological level of the natives of the other world.
So if nothing else, these coal beds will always be like this until the world is destroyed or "snapped" to recover.
However, none of this was a problem for him, and when the dwarven artillery was upgraded to the highest level of "automatic drills", he would be fully capable of mining this batch of coal!
............
Unconsciously following the footsteps of the insect swarm on the coal seam, the surroundings are getting darker and darker, and there is no end in sight, and the deep and tortuous black hole is like a gate to hell.
However, just ten minutes later, an unexpected scene appeared, there were traces of artificial excavation in front, and there was a dilapidated small shrine on the cascading stone steps, which formed a strong contrast with the dark and primitive environment around it!
Just then the swarm came to a sparse halt, and then he saw the Last Wish Stone, a flawless orange stone that was being held tightly in the mouth of the centipede, emitting a dazzling light.
The light became more and more dazzling, so that people could not open their eyes, and gradually formed a flat caudal fin-like carapace.
It was a carapace that he had never seen before, with countless intricate patterns, not only did it give people a sense of repetitive boredom, but it gave you the illusion that you couldn't stop, Tang Ruiyi was suddenly shocked, this kind of beauty had risen out of the ordinary category to the point of approaching illusion.
At this moment he has been prompted by the system.
[Campaign Updated: The Wraith God's Last Wish: Obtain its Celestial Bull Shell and return it to it.] γ
Is that the beautiful carapace of the god of resentment? The greed of human beings is really terrible! Even such beautiful things are willing to be harmed, just for a pitiful little money.
All the insects stared at the carapace in a daze, and oh my God, the big centipede actually smiled humanly, waving its flagella in a dance.
Together, they carried the shells of the bulls to the shrine, and then began to bend down in worship in an eerily strange way.
At first, Tang Ruiyi was still a little drumming in his heart, but after a few temptations, he found that no one paid attention to him at all, and the attention of the insects was focused on the shell of the heavenly cow in the shrine.
Since this is the case, he simply let go of his courage, and his hand directly reached out to the insect swarm and pushed it away to both sides, and suddenly the insect swarm was like a sesame paste that had been stirred overnight, extremely sticky.
The insect that was pushed away first shook his head angrily, and looked at Tang Ruiyi in confusion, as if he regarded him as that kind of weird spider man, but he was not surprised at all, and turned his head to continue worshipping.
Sweat...... Faith is really not something that ordinary people can understand.
He picked up a stone and put it on the eaves of the shrine with a whoosh, and the shrine shook and the shell of the bull fell out like this. Tang Ruiyi immediately manipulated the Force to cover its surface, then dragged it over little by little, and when it reached a certain range, he immediately stuffed it into the zippered pocket on the inside of his clothes, and turned around and ran without the slightest hesitation.
It turned out that his actions were extremely correct, and without the carapace of the Celestial Bull, the big centipede was stunned for a moment at first, and looked at his feet in confusion.
Tang Ruiyi took advantage of this opportunity and didn't dare to delay at all, and quickly waved his hands and feet to run away frantically!
The speed of the 100-meter race sprint crossed the coal seam area, and returned to the vicinity of the underground river, he had just put his hand on the rock wall, and his eyes accidentally glanced at the speckled ghost behind him.
He turned his head to look, only to see dust in the distance, a huge swarm of insects falling apart, and red eyes rushing towards him as if they had a common hatred.
He had goosebumps all over his body at this scene, and if he had been a little slower just now, the terrible swarm would have eaten away from even the slag.
Thousands of big moths like bombers caught up the most!
The system's reconnaissance has already yielded results: [Spotted moth, a mosquito that has been living underground, life 1, attack 0.1, no armor, no magic resistance, fast speed. γ
But soon he knew what it meant to be strong in numbers, and a swarm of black mist moths surrounded him, and countless sharp mouthparts were pinned to the breastplate.
Listen to the continuous jingling sound in your ears, splashing out of the staggering sparks.
Look at the dense holes on the outside of the trembling man's breastplate! His nose is almost crooked!
How he wished he had an Ice Scepter now!
It's a pity that there is no regret medicine in the world, he can only try to wield his sword qi to form a sword wall, this scene reminds him of the Yasuo wind wall in LOL, the same principle, the difference is only a game and a reality.
The fierce sword aura overflowed, and with the invasion of the fear aura of the trembling breastplate, the moths suddenly formed a chaotic formation, falling to the ground like dumplings, and this blow may have wiped out hundreds of spotted mosquitoes.
Either way, their numbers remained endless, as if they had never diminished, and to make matters worse, many arthropods had crawled onto his feet.
What should he do? For a while, he was cornered by these little bugs.
Aware of the danger, he quickly wrapped the Force around the outer layer of his skin to form a thin film of light, and this time the moths that won by numbers alone were out of the way, and the Force of the invisible matter could recover in the blink of an eye even if it was bitten into a thousand holes.
In order to be safe, he put on six layers of Force protection, and countless insects had to crawl around on him, looking like a wriggling black ball from a distance.
But this still treats the symptoms but not the root cause, and when the army of bugs arrives, he still can't escape the fate of being trapped to death.
What is there to restrain moths?
By the way, it's a flame! He immediately remembered the allusion of a moth to a fire.
But he searched all over his body and didn't find any combustibles, so he could only reluctantly ignite the three-tailed fox scarf on his neck and throw it far away.
After drawing away most of the moths, he immediately strode forward.
Suddenly, he felt a chill behind him, "hiss!", and hurriedly dodged, only to see a metallic centipede slamming into the place where Tang Ruiyi was standing just now, and the hard marble was torn apart!
He only felt that the cold sweat on his body was itching on his forehead, and when he turned his head, he saw that there was no way out, and if he walked again, there would be a cliff!
Seeing the metal centipede staring at his chest with a greedy expression, he raised the shell of the Heavenly Bull high with an idea, and that strange magic power emerged again, and suddenly the black and suppressed insect swarm was all frozen!
Time seemed to stop like this, and no one dared to act rashly.
The eyes of each insect revealed desire and greed, Tang Ruiyi cautiously stepped out of his left foot, and the insect swarm also moved a step with the brush,
In this way, he tried to slow down his steps as much as possible, moving little by little, and the swarm of insects swayed gently with his rhythm, fascinated, and even the small tentacles on his head hung down soothingly.
One person dances with ten thousand insects, this scene is obviously very weird, but it gives people a sense of sacredness and inviolability.
It reminded him of the magic flute in Hindu mythology that could drive bugs, and he was the one who did the piper.
He slowly moved towards the exit of the crack, and as he walked, the swarm of insects suddenly disappeared like a low tide, as if it had never been seen before.
It took almost half a minute for Tang Ruiyi to come back to his senses.
Then he suddenly found that on the rock wall on his right, a bright and blood-like flower was stubbornly blooming.
[Banxia Shimmer: Silver-level precious medicinal material, a mushroom that grows in a dark crypt, has the effect of repelling insects and avoiding pests, calming the nerves and nourishing the stomach. γ
At this moment, the prompt sound of the system sounded clearly in Tang Ruiyi's mind!