"The pillar of fire just now is really weird. Catherine stared blankly at the passage after the Pillar of Flame disappeared, and then she noticed some small differences in the underground cavern, such as the black color of the burning on the round walls, such as some crystallized parts of the crypt, such as the absence of any animals and plants growing near the crypt, these small details all proved that there was a high temperature here from time to time.

"How did these pillars of fire appear?" Vivien retrieved the knowledge in her head, but couldn't find the reason: "It's definitely not a volcanic eruption, it's not burning, it's not an explosion, what is the principle?"

"Nobody knows. Ike spread his hands: "A friend used to jokingly call it the breath of the King of Hell, and I think it's quite vivid." But that's just a joke, and these are not accidental, there are quite a few such spitting points in these layers, and the spitting time is quite accurate, and the error will not exceed one minute. ”

"Tsk. Vivien shook her head, not commenting further, just staring at the place where the pillar of flame had been spewed with a puzzled expression. Lina patted her on the head and nudged her to follow the group.

The entire eighth floor, although very hot, has an unusually large vegetation cover, almost most of which is covered by thick grass, with the occasional few dwarf trees growing on the grass. The brilliance of the hedron seems to have replaced the role of sunlight to a certain extent, and the leaves of these grasses and dwarf trees are actually green like the outside world, and there is always the illusion that they have returned to the surface world when they walk here. But there was a sense of disobedience in everyone's hearts, and they really couldn't figure out what the source of water intake was for these abundant plants in such a hot area. After all, although the ground is a thick layer of soil at a depth of thirty or forty meters, there is a hard rock underneath the soil layer, and there is not much groundwater.

"Don't look at the heat here, but remember the passage when you came down? It looked like the ground of the river. Actually, you came at the right time, if you come here in June or July, I'm afraid you won't be able to come in at all, because it's the flood season at that time. Ike explained: "Every year in June, July and August, due to the abundant amount of rain from the outside, there will be a three-month flood period here, and the water level of the underground river on each layer will skyrocket, and each layer will be washed and moistened by a large amount of river water, and these plants depend on the large amount of precipitation for these three months. Of course, the other nine months except for these three months are not completely dry, and occasionally the river level rises and washes the underworld, but only rarely. Therefore, these three months plus the two months before and after are called the rainy season, and the other eight months are called the dry season. If you can see it after October, the grass and trees will be yellow and look like they're dead, but the next year during the rainy season, they'll come back together. ”

"I have to admit that the natural world is really amazing. Catherine shook her head and exclaimed, "If you hadn't seen it yourself, you would never have thought of a world with only two seasons a year." ”

In the world of the eighth layer, a large number of small herbivores live in the thick meadows, these strange-looking and strange-looking animals live in the vast underground grasslands like their above-ground relatives. Rabbits without long ears, waist-high ponies, and deer with long tails have one thing in common: they have short fur, as if to minimize the accumulation of heat in their bodies in order to combat the heat.

Similarly, there are a large number of carnivorous demonic beasts on the grassland, these carnivorous demonic beasts of different sizes are quite fierce, even small demonic beasts, their strength and speed are much stronger than the various insects in the upper layers. Maybe it's because there's plenty of food in the underground grasslands, or maybe it's because these monsters are much smarter than bugs, they rarely attack the people of the party, and when members of the party pass by, these carnivorous monsters will only watch them from afar with wary and curious eyes, and will not treat these unseen creatures as food unless they are extremely hungry.

However, there are exceptions to everything, there will be some monsters that are too stupid to catch their prey, and they are so hungry that they can't bother to be wary of these creatures they have never seen, and greedily follow the walking adventure group, keeping a short distance to watch for opportunities, and once they find a loophole, they may attack everyone at any time.

However, after a few minutes, the trailing beasts suddenly let out a neat whimper, lowered their heads and fled into the long grass, never to return. Catherine smiled gratefully at Pannis, giving her a thumbs up. In fact, the reason why those demonic beasts fled is very simple, Pannis strengthened himself with the inherent spiritual realm, releasing the coercion of demigods, maybe for humans, this coercion is not obvious, and people who are dull may not be able to perceive it at all, but for these demonic beasts, it is different, even if the sluggish demonic beasts are very sensitive to this powerful coercion, in the eyes of these demonic beasts, Pannis became more terrifying than the most powerful predators in an instant, so that they instinctively stayed away from the team.

"These monsters are indeed much smarter than the bugs in the upper layers. "Those bugs tend to act on instinct, eat and sleep when they are hungry, and don't care if they can defeat their prey. But these monsters are different, they can already distinguish between strength and weakness, and they are really creatures that are very close to the surface. But why are they in the depths of the ground instead of the bugs here?"

Again, no one knows. Ike said, "I don't know how many years ago I started like this, and I don't know how many tens of thousands of years it will continue like this, and as for the reason, who cares except those scholars." ”

"Wait. Catherine stopped the group with a sudden wave of her hand, and quickly ran to a bare rock and said, "You guys come here, it seems that there is an artificial object, it looks like it is many years old, could it be related to the target we are looking for?"

The rest of the men tightened their faces and circled the rock. Above the rock, as Catherine had said, there were a number of metal objects, with obvious traces of artificiality, including items such as knives, metal cans, locks, metal chains, and metal drills that had been rusted from the eyes. But after reading it, Pannis shook his head and said: "These should be the traces left by the explorers a long time ago, just like if thousands of years later, another group of people came to explore here and found the traces of our camping on the seventh floor, I am afraid it will also be this reaction." However, they seem to have left in a hurry, and many things have not been taken away. ”

"It shouldn't be a matter of rushing anymore. "It looked like they had been attacked very suddenly, and the intensity of the attack made it difficult for them to fight, so they fled in a hurry," Ike said. Of course, there is a greater possibility that they will die directly in the vicinity, and the team will be wiped out, so there will be no chance to pack up their things. ”

"It's not a good story at all, but it's absolutely true. Catherine sighed, not only expressing regret for the victims, but also sighing for these relics that were not goblins: "Since it has nothing to do with goblins, then I have to continue to look for them, by the way, these things, do you need to help them bury them, after all, they may be relics." ”

"Not at all, you don't need to do that in this underworld. Ike shook his head and said, "All the relics of the dead or those who escaped, those who find them can use them, and when they don't need them, they will be left in place and left untouched, waiting for the next time others pass by, maybe when, these relics can save the lives of a certain group of people." ”

"These rules seem to be close to many of the rules of sailing at sea. Catherine nodded: "Maybe all kinds of high-risk field professions have similar rules, after all, this is for others, and thinking in another direction is also for yourself." ”

After confirming that these things had nothing to do with the goblins, everyone was disappointed to continue exploring within fifty kilometers of the Earthmarks. To truly explore an area, you need to divide the area into several parts or dozens of parts that are slightly less than half of the area of this scale, and then carefully screen each part, so that no details can be missed. Especially in the winding environment of the Earthmark Underworld, it is very likely that a very inconspicuous cave is the only way to the target.

This is a very tedious and complicated job that requires a lot of patience to carry out smoothly, but in addition to this, everyone has also discovered another characteristic of the eighth layer of Warcraft. It seems that the Warcraft know that these people in the adventure group are not easy to deal with, and many hungry Warcraft have replaced the tailgating team waiting for the opportunity to forcibly hunt for lurking hunting, they lurk in the long grass, lurking behind the trees, lurking in the corners of the tunnel, lurking behind the stone pillars that support the most cave, as long as the girls are slightly distracted and expose the gap, there will be a few Warcraft from the inexplicable place, and even Pannis can't be reminded in advance, because there are so many lurkers around that there are so many that they can't be reminded at all.

However, the absolute strength of the girls, with each other, is invincible even on the eighth layer, it only took a short time, to find an effective confrontation between the sneak attack and the sneak attack, in the end, as a knight, Catherine mainly defensive, almost does not participate in the search, any sudden sneak attack of the monster will be attacked head-on by the female knight, and several other girls, with Pannis together to search for every possible area, so after the division of labor, the speed is much faster.

Time passed quickly, three hours had passed in the blink of an eye, but the six-member team had nothing to gain, only sweat soaked all over their bodies and thirsty throats. Catherine sighed tiredly: "Let's rest for a while and recuperate, and go to the slope in the woods in front of us, the trees can still resist the scorching heat around them." (To be continued.) )