Chapter 266: Encounter
Walking around in a cramped cave was a bit of a pain for Adès' height, which made him keep an eye out for any protruding rocks above his head, as he could hit the rock wall at the top of the cave if he straightened up. ∮ ∮ ∮ ∮ said, www.
This cave was the place where the magicians discovered the kobold for the second time, and it was here that they discovered the City Tree, and on the third day after meeting the pterodactyl, Adès and his family followed the map to this cave.
It is true that there are still signs of kobold activity here, as Nancy said, but after analyzing the traces of entering and exiting the cave, Ades and Evis found that if the kobold tribe really existed in this cave, the number of kobolds would not be very large, because there would not be more than ten people who regularly entered and exited the cave.
Since there are not many people, there is no need for the Ades to be so nervous, and after discussion, they decided to enter the cave together to WWW.UUXS.CC see if the kobold tribe in the Kobold tribe still has the tree species to preserve the city tree.
However, soon after entering, Adès regretted it a little, he knew that kobolds were small creatures, but he did not expect the cave they had dug would be so narrow.
The first half of the cave is fine, about three or four miles of road is a natural cave, very wide, but it should be the first place where the kobold tribe lived, and it is also the place where the magicians surrounded them for the second time, and after a big sweep, the kobold abandoned the wide cave here and turned to the shelter built underground.
"Adès, don't be distracted, be careful of the rocks above your head! Are you still thinking about the big crater just now?" said Winnie as she followed Adès behind her, and when she saw a slightly low spot, she shouted to the man in front of her to be careful.
"That's where the City Tree used to grow, you magicians are so stingy. Even if the trunk is cut down, not even a single root will be left!"
"It's the atavistic city tree. At the root of the tree there must be a crystalline life condensed like the tree of life, and magicians know this. How could it not be dug up. "Luckily, this place is not only cramped, but also very hot and humid, and she didn't go far before she began to sweat profusely, half tired, half because of the environment.
"It's so narrow here, and the kobolds have warriors, how do they move in such a narrow place?" Mia said grumblingly behind Yunnie.
Ades activated the copper button on his belt, and the enchanted "endure the environment" still worked. The feeling of heat and humidity disappeared at once, and the mood was quickly cheerful.
Hearing Mia's whispered complaint behind him, he replied, "I don't know, but I guess this was not a place to walk around a lot, and it was a path that led to the refuge secretly by the kobolds, which is why it was so narrow." ”
Yunni nodded straight and said to Mia in the back: "It should be like this, kobold people have such a fetish, and the cave in front is natural." So it's wide, and it's where they've been hewn, so it's impossible to build it grandly, even if there are so many of them. There aren't that many tools. ”
After speaking, she was about to turn around and look at the road ahead, when suddenly she seemed to find something out of the corner of her eye, and she hurriedly called out to Ades, who was leading the way, and said, "Ade." You wait, wait. With that, she stopped and crouched on the ground. Look at a place in the corner of the cave.
Seeing her shouting so quickly, Adès thought something was wrong. Quickly looked back and found that she was crouching and checking something.
"What did you find?" Mia in the back saw Yunni squatting down more directly, and came up to ask her.
Yun Ni pointed to the corner of the wall and said to everyone: "This is a mushroom, a luminous mushroom, this kind of thing can only be found in dark areas, which means that there must be a passage leading there, if it is a tunnel dug by kobolds, there will be no such species, neither mycelium nor spores will appear for no reason." ”
Adès turned around and crouched down at the corner where Winnie was pointing, where there was a tiny mushroom growing alone.
"It's not glowing...... Ades looked at it seriously, he had dark vision, but he didn't see that the mushroom was glowing.
"There is light, you are dark vision, you can't distinguish such a faint light, my sister should be able to see the difference. ”
Only Evis and Adès were holding the torch in the team, and under the influence of the light of the magic torch, it was not surprising that Adès could not see the faint light emitted by the mushroom.
Evis glanced at the mushrooms on the ground from between the gaps between several people, nodded and said, "It's a little bright, do you want to put out the torch and see it clearly?"
Ades shook his head and said: "No need, just get through, if the underground can really connect to the dark region, we are not afraid, it's a big deal to travel to the dark region." ”
Yunni stood up and pushed Ades, motioning for him to continue walking, while saying to everyone: "It's not a particularly dangerous thing to really get through, you can see the situation outside the cave entrance, the nearby ecology has not been damaged, and there should be no creatures in the dark area coming out." ”
Ades said as he walked: "The book says that the upper dark region lives Drow, the Eye Demon, the Gray Dwarf, the Mind Flayer, the underground dwarf and the rat people, each of which will plunder the resources on the surface, and the ecology outside the cave does not have any thought destruction, so it proves that even if it is connected to the dark region, there is no race in the dark region to discover this passage for the time being, maybe we can still meet the underground races, and then ...... with them."
As he was talking, Ades suddenly stopped, although Winnie listened to him, she actually paid attention to the situation in her heart at all times, and when she saw Ades stop, she immediately held her staff in front of her chest and entered the battle at any time.
Mia and Evis, who were in the back, hurriedly stepped back to make room for Ades to move.
Ades, who was standing in the tunnel, was a little puzzled, why was this place suddenly a little wider?
He pressed his face against the stone wall to look ahead, yes, a noticeable recess, and then it was not far from the past that it was back to normal.
Yunnie knew what he had found when she noticed his movements, and she didn't make a sound, but slowly crouched down. Guarding the front.
Adès looked carefully at the recessed place, and probed his mind to examine it.
"There's something wrong here. Rocks are not the same. Adès pointed to the recessed spot and said to Winnie in the back.
"Didn't you find an enemy?" asked Winnie with a nervous expression.
Ades said helplessly: "If you find the enemy." I'm going to have tactical gestures, don't you see?"
"Whew...... It scared the hell out of me. Winnie stood up and said with a sigh of relief.
Mia and Evis, who were in the back, also heard their conversation, let down their guard, and walked up.
"Mud to stone! This is definitely mud to stone. Winnie came over and took a look, and said to Adès.
Mia looked at the terrain and said to everyone, "This was supposed to be a corner, but then I don't know why it was closed. ”
"Look at your feet, there are obvious footprints of activity. Yvice said to everyone.
Adès probed his mind twenty feet into it. But he didn't find any holes inside, he touched his chin and said, "I don't know what's inside, this corner is completely sealed." ”
"Make a mark and come back and see. Yunni took out the dagger made of monster teeth and said to everyone while making a mark in an inconspicuous place.
After making the mark, they continued to walk inside, passing through this sealed corner, and the rest of the road seemed to slowly become easier to walk. The tunnels also became wider.
In a relatively relaxed environment, Yunni also had time to observe the surrounding environment, and as she walked, she suddenly pointed to the stone wall on one side and said: "The stone wall on this side is natural, and the one near our side was excavated later." There must be a sizable place in here that can be inhabited by kobolds, otherwise they don't have so much manpower to do this. ”
Ades turned his head to look at the stone wall to the side. After observing for a while, he nodded in agreement with Yunni's statement, because the stone walls on both sides were old and new, although they couldn't see clearly. However, there is a clear inconsistency in the number of lichens growing on it.
And in some corners, there are more and more luminous mushrooms. Some even grow in clumps under the cracks of the rocks.
It wasn't a straight road in the tunnel, but it was winding, and at a corner, Adès stopped, his mind a hundred feet away, and he noticed something ahead.
At this time, the tunnel was able to accommodate three people in parallel, and although the cave became wider, it was much easier for people to walk, but the places that needed to be explored were also larger.
When Winnie saw Ades stop, she didn't dare to leave, and slowly leaned to the side of the wall, guarding the front.
After a while, Adès beckoned everyone to come forward, he extinguished the torch in his hand, and then said to the beauty of Savie: "There is a simple trap ahead, it should be arranged by kobolds, but the terrain here is a bit complicated, and I can't probe too far, for the sake of safety, everyone has extinguished everything that can shine." ”
Evis quickly extinguished the torch as well, and pulled her sister and said, "Let Mia go ahead of you, don't be willful, otherwise you will not only not be able to help Ades during the battle, but you will also hinder his actions." ”
"Well...... "Yunnie obediently agreed, this is not a joke at this time, you can play any way when you don't find the enemy, but when you enter the alert, she will immediately become very obedient.
Adès slowly groped his way forward, and in a place where he needed to climb over the rocks, he found a guard trap, a simple bow and crossbow design, which was not meant to shoot the person who stepped on it, and the arrow on it was tied to a bone whistle, and when he wanted to shoot it into the hole, he would let out a scream, telling the people inside that there was an enemy.
Adès carefully took the arrow down and looked at the bone whistle in his hand, which was made of unknown animal bones, a very simple whistle.
He beckoned, and Mia in the back saw his gesture and whispered to the sisters in the back, "Keep up with ......."
Walking and stopping, Ades found several traps in a row, and some damp places also showed human footprints, which made him more cautious.
Turning another corner, Adès was about to move forward, when suddenly he keenly heard footsteps ahead, and he hurriedly walked back, returning to the corner and hiding.
His thoughts could only travel in a straight line, and he couldn't get too far in the winding tunnels because of the rocks, and sometimes his thoughts weren't as good as his keen hearing.
He beckoned to Mia behind him and asked her to come up, but he took out a short spear from the space container, and when Mia came up, he said softly: "The enemy has been found in front, I will go up first, you guard here." "I'm going to get out of the corner.
Mia grabbed him and whispered, "Catch him alive, ask about the situation inside." ”
Ades turned back and nodded to her, then walked out hunched with a shield in one hand and a spear in the other.
After turning out, it was a short track, and the sound of footsteps came from outside the short track, it was another turning road, and Ades thought with some hatred, are these kobolds related to the rat people?
He slowly moved to the edge of the short track, and when he looked out, his brow furrowed.
Out of the short road is a long straight road, there is no rock in the middle, there is a kobold patrolling there, and there is a kobold inside the long road, two people cooperate with each other, patrol and guard.
Even if Ades jumped out and killed one, the one that went deep in the long path would definitely find him, and then a scream would reveal his tracks, and it would be nice if there was a wanderer, Ades thought a little depressed.
But this is not the time to complain, his mind has been closely monitoring the kobolds, the kobolds on guard here are very experienced, this long road they are not completely patrolled, only half of the way it turned back, the other just watched the movement of his companions, in case someone came out of the corner.
This kind of defensive patrol makes Ades completely useless, after all, if you kill one, the other will be far away, and it has been staring at the long road, and it will be discovered as soon as it walks out.
What should I do? Adès thought about it for a long time, but there was no way.
Mia had poked her head out from behind to look at him several times, wondering why he had been crouching there for so long without making a move.
He thought about throwing stones to ask for directions, but it was dangerous, if the two kobolds over there didn't come to check, but directly raised the alarm, then Ades and they would have gone so far to give up their efforts.
Ades continued to wait for a while, and when he saw that the kobold was meticulously patrolling, he had to go back and discuss with everyone to see if there was any solution.
As soon as everyone heard what he said, they immediately fell silent, such a simple defense actually stumped everyone, and after a while, Ades said to everyone: "If it really doesn't work, then I'll go out with Ivan and Iwon, I'll kill the front, and Ivan shoots the back, and solve two at a time." ”
Winnie shook her head and said, "What if there's a kobold around the corner of the long road?"
Everyone...... (To be continued......) R527