39. Breakthroughs and progress
The two people who are very, very powerful in the mouths of Jessica and little Amy, only to find themselves unknowingly involved in big trouble. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
After sending off the militiamen who had gone to call the police, Esther and Sonia chose a large tree in the woods, installed the alarm device, and climbed up to sleep. Both of them knew that the cave was full of danger and that they had to be mentally prepared to deal with it.
By the time the two of them woke up, it was already midnight. Esther took out the food, drink, and Sonia to eat. Two people who are full of wine and food. I'm going to get started right away. Esther retrieved two bottles of potions from his armband. This time, it was the biggest night vision potion on the road, which Esther had obtained from Master Ewing Gade when he was in Irontree. Each bottle of this potion allows the user to have dark vision for eight hours. The special version of Master Gad, which extends the validity period to twenty-four hours, can be said to be a gold medal product.
The two of them drank the potion, slowed their steps, and quietly came to the section of the river that Esther observed. At this time, the expiration date of the illusion-breaking potion had long since ended, and no matter how the two of them looked at it at the moment, they couldn't find the hole that Esther was talking about.
"What a magic spell!" Sonya's voice rang in Easter's head. "Sight, hearing, and smell can deceive. Can you still find the hole now?"
Esther looked helplessly at Sonya, who was extremely skilled in using the newly acquired abilities. He replied in his head, "Of course you can find it." But we are in the light, and the hole is in the dark. I think that there will be a sentry at night in such a frequent cave. Our problem now is that we can't see where the sentry is. The most feared thing is to bump into it head-on as soon as you enter. As he spoke, Esther seemed to have touched something in the void. He used his hands and feet together, and crawled into the air under Sonya's shocked gaze. "See? I can't see it, but the cave is still there. Esther fumbled for something in mid-air, searching for the edge of the boulder strip that made up the top of the cavern.
"How are you going to find out what's going on?"
"With my new abilities, of course. "After this period of training, Easter's Transfiguration Master level has been significantly improved, reaching level five, and he has obtained a new ability - local transformation.
Esther groped for the junction of the pillar and the stone at the top of the cave. Here, two boulders form a right angle. He lay prone on a boulder at the top of the cave, stretched out a hand, and brought his index finger to the right angle of the two boulders. His index finger slowly grew and tapered, quietly extending inward along the corner, and finally, an emerald green eye appeared at the tip of the finger.
This is the ability to deform locally. It can deform a small part of Easter's body, and it can also displace human organs. For example, transferring the heart to the stomach or allowing the eyes to run to the front of the fingers.
The fingers that penetrated the illusion to the cave ** did not attract anyone's attention. Even beneath it, there were two sentinels sitting on the ground across a four-meter waterway. Emerald green eyes took a closer look at the positions of the two sentinels. The two sentinels were so drowsy that they couldn't imagine a finger with eyes above them.
"How's it going?" Sonya's voice rang out in Easter's head again.
"See for yourself. Esther withdrew his finger and opened his eyes, which had been closed, recalling in his mind what he had seen in the hole. "One for each person. Be fast. ”
Sonia nodded, and climbed up in twos and threes, lying on East's side.
"One, two, three!" Esther counted down to Sonya. On the count of three, Esther swooped into the hole like a sharp arrow off the string. The sentry across from him stared dumbfoundedly at the enemy descending from the sky. Before the sentry could react, Esther had already adjusted his position in mid-air, mounted onto the sentry's shoulder, and clamped his legs hard before the sentry could make any sound. Esther could visibly feel the sentry's neck thinner and then immediately limp. He rolled over and fell to the ground, and looked up at Sonya, where the girl was rubbing her fists against the sentry's clothes. The sentry's face had been concave, and a large amount of unidentified white fluid with blood was pouring out of what was supposed to be his nose.
"It's a brutal way of playing. Esther sighed for the poor sentry, and immediately began to search the sentry on his side.
The sentinels were poor and white, and they were all dressed in the cloth bags most commonly worn by Coronian civilians. They all had weapons at hand, but they were just ordinary wooden swords. Esther examined the muscles and bones of the two sentries and felt that if the enemies were all at this level, then two hundred were nothing. But the premonition of danger lingered. This keeps Easter on the lookout for whatever is going on around him.
Esther looked around alertly for a moment, then made a safe gesture to Sonya. In his perception, there was no one nearby. Sonia finally stopped telepathy, she pointed around, and said to Easter, "Easter, what do you think this place is?" I feel like it's a sewer. ”
Indeed, East also felt that this was a sewer. This cave should not be said to be made of huge strips of stone as much as the exterior of the building. The cave is about eight meters wide, with stone walkways about two meters on each side and a four-meter-wide water surface in the middle. Aside from the sewers, Esther couldn't think of any other building in Coronia that would look like this.
"Sewers!" Esther muttered the three words. It's at least fifty kilometers away from the city of Colombo, and what kind of sewer would be built in such a deserted place. He suddenly remembered that he had a strange map he had gotten from the dead elves, and that map seemed to be a sewer map of the Colombo area.
He pulled out the map and unfolded it in his hand, trying to figure out where he was now. Sonia was curious when she saw him suddenly take out a map-like object and look at it, and she jumped firmly to Esther's side.
"Is this a map? Is it a sewer map? How do you have this?"
"It's on the dwarf monster in the warehouse area. I'd like to see if I can find our place. The two of us are northwest of Colombo, and here we ......."
Easter's finger left the densely lined city of Colombo and headed northwest. Finally, his finger rested on the far northwest of the map, where an entrance and exit were clearly marked, right over the Pervas River.
Esther looked up in surprise and looked at Sonya. "If this map is true, and if it's correct, we've gotten into the heart of the monsters at the Green Cross this time. ”
"What are we going to do next?"
"Let's check the accuracy of this map again. ”
At midnight, the Count of Vantaa still hadn't slept. Today, great progress has been made in the clean-up of Colombo's surface sewers. There are more than three thousand soldiers of the city guards, hundreds of official alchemists of the Alchemy Guild, and a large number of apprentices and guards several times the number of them, thirty six-person squads sent by the Warrior Association, and even guides sent by the people behind the city gangs. The Count of Vantaa fully exploited the essence of crowd tactics and basically completed the search of surface sewers in just one day. Here, a total of 27 hand-excavated forks were found that were not on the blueprints. Twenty-five of them are short dead-end roads or secret passages with two different main roads. The Count of Vantaa commanded the men to block all these passages.
The other two paths lead to deep underground spaces, one of which connects to a large dry area and the other to an underground river. The City Guard had set up camp in that large area, and would begin exploring the surrounding area on a large scale early tomorrow morning. As for the appearance of the underground river, it did not exceed the Count of Vantaa's expectations, and he had already prepared a batch of small alchemy speedboats. As long as these speedboats are transported to the lower dark river tomorrow morning, they can explore that area along the river.
The most reassuring thing for the Count of Vantaa is that tomorrow's exploration will be led by two legendary powerhouses. Master Sal Montaro searches the underground area, and Captain Valentina searches the underground river. With two legends leading the team, he is confident that his men will not suffer major losses. The Count of Vantaa, who had not slept for nearly forty-eight hours, was in a good mood and planned to go to bed, and before going to bed, he did not forget to tell his guard captain Surqi, "No good news, don't wake me up." ”
Esther and Sonia had been advancing for an hour in the dark, damp environment. The two of them are now full of energy and walk very fast. Unlike short sprints, long walks require a better distribution of energy. It may be less than fifty kilometers in a straight line from Colombo, but the underpass is twisty and winding, and you don't know how many detours you have to take. Along the central groove of the waterway, Esther saw many traces of ships passing along the way. The water in this waterway is more like it comes from an underground river, cold and clear.
"It's almost there. It's right in front. Esther looked at the map, which indicated that there should be an intersection ahead. The path they are taking now is marked in orange on the map. In the margins of the map, there is also a note in orange and red to represent the sewers built during the Golden Age. In its golden age, Colombo used to be much larger than it is now. It is now a place of fields and forests, many of which were once an area of the city. Most of these areas were destroyed in the chaos of the Dark Ages. Only a small part of the current Colombo city has survived. Even after thousands of years, the western part of the city is far from expanding to the extent of the original ancient city due to the different development directions.
"This is it. "Esther and Sonia have come to a crossroads. The two of them compared the distance marked on the map with the distance they had walked, and found that the map was perfectly made, and even the scale was not bad at all.
Standing at a crossroads, Esther and Sonia had to choose which direction to take.
Directly in front of the intersection was still an old sewer made of huge stones, but it was clear that there was no water source, and the central draws were all dry. On the right side of the intersection is an underground river that somehow flows into the sewer, which is also the source of the river water in the center draw on the way they came. On the left side of the intersection is a dark cave into which most of the water from the underground river flows, with only a small part flowing down the sewer into the Pervas River.
"We walked along the river. East looked at the map. He found that the underground river was abundant, and the water flowing into the cave was deep enough for boats to continue deep. This also explains why the previous ships are not visible here. On the map, the direction of the upper reaches of the underground river at this intersection is marked with a red cross, most likely indicating that it is a dead end or a threat. There was no water in the sewers that had been walking, and the only way those boats could enter the cave. However, there were no stone platforms in the cave for walking. The entire lower part of the cave is submerged in icy water at a depth of about two meters.
There was no choice, so Esther had to ask for the big wooden box again. The two men squeezed into the box and floated down the current into the cave.
The cave is not high, and when you stand up in the box, you can reach out and touch the top of the cave. The roof of the cave is smooth and delicate. Easttechai must have been caused by groundwater erosion.
Esther took out his homemade wooden paddle and took turns rowing with Sonya, both of them strong in arms, and the wooden box advanced faster in the water than they had just walked on the road.
Esther knelt in front of him with her legs folded, and Sonia straddled his calves with her legs apart. The two were so close to each other that Sonya's unusually plump boobs hit his back again and again.
"When did this Nizi get bigger again? No? Why hasn't mine changed?" Esther suddenly thought of a question, he half-turned his head and asked, "Sonia, where did you put the ink ball?"