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The Weeping Cave is a sprawling natural cave located within the Nala Mountains in central Neville, more than three hundred kilometers from the south bank of the Bayergas River. The wide Bayergas River brings abundant groundwater sources to both banks. Over a long period of time, the Nala Mountains have been infiltrated by the dark river for a long time, eventually forming a spider's web-like complex weeping cave. For some unknown reason, when the wind blows through the entrance of the cave, there will be a faint sound in the cave, which sounds like the desperate cries of humans, so the locals named it the Weeping Cave. Since the Quaternary period, people have been rumored to be inhabited by evil devils in caves, and the cries of these creatures are caused by these creatures torturing people who stray, and this legend has led to the fact that few people dare to enter the caves, and occasionally brave adventurers go in to explore, and they never return.

It was not until more than 600 years ago, 30xx years of the continental calendar, that the number of people who went in to explore and came out alive gradually increased, and this legend was broken. People know that there are no evil devils tormenting humans in the cave, and the reason why adventurers fell into it before was basically because they got lost and demonized creatures.

In the world of Yara, sometimes a power called demonic energy pours out of the ground, and if the creature is exposed to this energy for many years or in high concentrations, it will be polluted, so that it will become crazy, extremely aggressive, and its ability will also increase dramatically, and some will also change its physical form. For this kind of demonic energy, the sealing circle developed by people can seal the source of demonic energy, but there is nothing that can be done about the scope of the source that is too large, or belongs to the slow overflow type demonic energy without a source. Fortunately, the demonic energy is extremely afraid of the sun, and the demonic energy is purified within a few hours under the sun's irradiation, and the polluted demonized creatures will completely collapse if they are exposed to the sun for more than ten hours**. If this were not the case, I am afraid that the entire Yala continent would be full of demonic creatures, not the same as it is now, only caves, underground, and some places where there is no sunlight all year round.

"It's back again. Vivien, who was outside the perennial spirit, changed her usual state and became mentally concentrated after Catherine shouted "mission begins" before entering the cave. After entering the cave at this time, he looked at the two oil lamps hanging on both sides of the cave and said, "I used to listen to some seniors tell stories about adventures in the academy. In their stories, cave exploration is like now, with oil lamps hanging on both sides of the cave, or adventurers carrying torches through various long tunnels to hunt monsters or find treasure. ”

"Actually, the stories are just abandoned mines. Pannis pursed his lips and said with a little disdain, "There are corridors, there are flat grounds, there are stairs or vertical stairs up and down, and there is heaven compared to a real cave." ”

"Will we be able to see the real cave in a moment?" Although Vivien had barely spoken to Pannis, and had not even looked at Pannis, she was extremely close to Pannis, and as several people advanced through the passage, she naturally reached out and grabbed the corner of Pannis's clothes.

Pannis glanced at Vivian in surprise, frowned and waved her hand to open Vivian's hand: "Of course, it will be soon." ”

Vivien looked up at Pannis, aggrieved, but did not protest, just pointed to the road ahead and said, "The front is darkening, it seems that the safe zone is coming to an end." ”

"Yes, there are no oil lamps in front of you. Pannis is still very patient with the explanation of the adventure content: "The area with lights belongs to the safe zone, and there are almost no monsters, and even if there are, because the area near the entrance of the cave has the lowest degree of demonization, it belongs to the weakest monsters. The local chapter of the Adventurer's Guild has set up twenty oil lamps here, and usually hires a retired low-level professional or a strong ordinary person to change the oil for the oil lamp every five days. Hmph, as you know, in a lot of low-level adventure areas, guilds have similar settings, and they just like to do this kind of boring thing. ”

"It's not boring. Catherine, who followed behind, defended: "There are low-level areas with this kind of setting, and the guild is also to protect newcomers and reduce their losses." After all, when you just start in the industry, there must always be an adaptation process. ”

"It's better to have a babysitter per person. Pannis said mockingly, but his eyes were complicated: "Don't let them struggle to survive in the face of death, don't let them go through the test of death, even if they become stronger, they are actually just a shiny waste." ”

Catherine shook her head, didn't argue any more, and silently took a torch from her backpack and held it in her hand. Before leaving, several people had discussed that before entering the lower level of the cave, they should temporarily use torches to light it, so as not to appear too different among the low-level adventurers in the upper level.

"Once the guild wanted to replace these oil lamps with hedron lanterns. Before passing the last lamp, Pannis pointed to the oil lamp and said, "Unfortunately, the idea was finally dispelled." ”

"Why?" Vivien was intrigued by the hedron product: "It's good to use a spar lantern, the light is stable, and it won't be blown out by the wind." ”

"The cost is too high. The minimum amount of hedron for lighting is 1,000 terres, and the cheapest is 20 gold coins. Although it can be lit for three days without leaving it on, it is much more expensive than lamp oil, and the people in the guild will not be so stupid. As he spoke, the four men had already lit torches and walked into the darkness.

Darkness is common to most caves, and it is one of the adventurers' greatest enemies in caverns. Although professionals are far more sensitive to light than ordinary people, and some races even have dim vision, these are only based on the premise that there is light but it is relatively weak. For a cave with no light at all, neither dim vision nor abnormal vision has any effect.

Catherine walked at the front of the line with torches, Lina and Vivien walked in the middle, and Pannis at the end of the line, explaining the distribution of monsters in the caves: "Keep moving forward, and you will encounter three holes in front of you." On the left is the territory of the demonized rats, in the middle are all demonized bats, on the right are demonized scorpions, and the upper group is basically these three kinds of monsters. But on the side of the demonized scorpion, there are also some demonized kobold tribes, which will set up some simple traps. If you are lucky enough to encounter a colony with kobold elders, you may also encounter a more powerful magic trap, which is very annoying. Luckily, the entrance to the lower level is the hole on the left, and it's not far away, so you don't have to worry too long with the rats. By the way, you should have seen the Demon Rat last time, how did you feel?"

"Fortunately, the three of us are not afraid of rats, but unfortunately we have a task on our bodies, and we don't have time to collect demonized rat tails, otherwise we can make some money by the way. ”

Catherine's casual reply made Pannis breathe a sigh of relief, pointed to the front and said, "Be careful, the first group is coming." We need to speed up, otherwise the rats will gather more and more, and a lot of effort will be wasted. ”

The Demon Rat is the most common kind of monster in the Weeping Cave, and under the pollution of the Demon Energy, the body is generally enlarged to the length of a human calf, and its sharp teeth can bite off the solid wood thick of the arm. And the boss-level demonic rat is more than the length of a domestic dog, and can easily gnaw on metal. In the distance, more than twenty demonized rats were spreading out in a row, sticking to the ground like a carpet and frantically charging towards the four people.

"There is no leader. Catherine muttered to herself, but did not move. It was Vivien, who took out a bottle of orange potion from her full pocket, wiped her fingers lightly on the mouth of the bottle, and quickly read something in her mouth, and threw the crystal bottle towards the rats.

The crystal bottle made a beautiful arc in the air, landing just in the middle of the advancing rat colony, shattering in the center of the rat colony. With the crisp cracking sound of the crystal, a flame exploded from the point where the bottle fell, and suddenly expanded in a circle, burning for more than ten seconds before extinguishing, leaving a burning mark on the ground. The impact of the flame explosion seemed to be very strong, and most of the rats became scattered in the explosion, only a few of the two or three strongest ones, who dragged their stumps and survived for a few seconds, died completely in the continuous burning of the flames.

Seeing Pannis staring at him in a daze, Vivien, who had just casually eliminated a group of demon rats, looked down at herself, but didn't notice anything unusual, and couldn't help asking, "What's wrong?

Pannis stared thoughtfully at Vivien's small pockets, and only then asked, "I'm wondering, what if you take the wrong potion?"

"Hahaha, it can't be. Vivien patted her clothes proudly and smiled, "It's impossible to get it wrong, because all pockets contain the same potion." Looking at Pannis's speechless expression, Vivien smiled even more proudly: "Lie to you, who made you dare to open my hand just now, now you know that you are afraid." ”

Pannis covered his forehead with a headache and sighed, not daring to continue the conversation, which pointed to the distance in front of him and reminded: "Be careful, another group is coming." ”

"No problem. Seeing that there was still a huge leader among the forty or fifty demon rats this time, Vivien took out another bottle of white potion and threw it out with the same motion. The potion also exploded in the center of the rat colony, but this time it was a cloud of icy power. The impact range of the ice is much larger than that of the flames, and the impact force is much weaker than the flame explosion, but it has a freezing effect, and more than half of the demon rats were frozen into ice by the cold air, shattering under the subsequent shock wave. Only the boss and a few demon rats with relatively high resistance were not completely frozen and escaped the fate of shattering, but they were still affected by the freezing effect, and their speed became less than a quarter of what they used to be.

Before the crystal bottle hit the ground, Catherine let out a soft cry and launched a fearless charge. The body wrapped in silver chain mail turned into a silver streamer, and black hair flew in the streamer. At the moment when the impact of the ice had just disappeared, Catherine had already appeared beside the leader of the demon rat, stabbing out like a one-handed sword spirit snake, piercing into the leader's huge mouth directly into the back of the head, and quickly withdrawing, one in and one out so fast that the leader didn't even have time to close his mouth. Stabbing the leader to death, Catherine took advantage of the momentum of drawing the sword to draw an arc with the sword in her hand, and a full moon slash was released, and the arc-shaped sword qi went with the sword, and the living demon rat was completely dead under the sword.

Cleanly eliminating the demon rat, Catherine's eyes turned to Vivien, the support charge started, and her body returned to Vivien in a blink of an eye, as if she hadn't left at all.