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A beam of light appeared abruptly at the edge of the dark cavern. There were no footsteps, no falling rocks, not even the grinding of clothes, but the hazy light moved slowly in the darkness.

Alone, Pannis, navigating through the narrow cave passages, miraculously made no sound. He moved cautiously, not very fast, and any suspicious sounds and smells would make him stop and take a closer look.

Near the end of the passage, the originally unfast speed has almost dropped to the point of slowness, and with each step, the five senses will be used to the extreme, collecting all the information around them.

"Whew. "Pannis finally stepped out of the passage and came to a cave covered in bones.

It is a medium-sized cave, the cave is not very high, and with the help of the light on the helmet, the stalactites hanging from the ceiling of the cave can be clearly seen. The cave is not a regular circle, with a large space on the right side and a small space on the left. On the left side of the narrow cave there are six openings, leading to other directions, while the space on the right side of the cave is covered with white bones, and white bones of various sizes and shapes are piled up together, piled up at a gentle angle to form a mountain of bones nearly three meters high.

Pannis looked around the cave of white bones without any living creatures, took out a palm-sized crystal from his backpack, activated the fighting qi on his fingertips, and tapped it lightly twice, the faint tapping sound was clearly audible in the quiet cave. After tapping, the crystal was retracted into his backpack, and Pannis leaned down, on all fours, keeping his face extremely close to the ground, crawling around, carefully collecting the smell of the air.

After a while, the sound of Suosuo sounded in the passage behind him, but Pannis didn't pay attention at all, still maintaining a crawling posture, not even looking back.

When Catherine walked in, she saw Pannis lying on the ground. But she was not surprised at all, and led the other three ladies into the cave, walked quickly to Pannis, crouched down as close to Pannias as possible, and asked in a low voice, "The wolves left?"

Pannis didn't answer, still sniffing around carefully, until he could be sure, he raised his head, and also lowered his voice: "I left two or three days ago, according to the usual custom, it takes at least ten days for wolves to go out hunting, and now it is safe." However, after the abnormal commotion of the cavemen, it is better to be careful, and let's pass as soon as possible. ”

"Okay, so leave now?"

"There's no hurry. Pannis stopped Catherine and his eyes swept over the cave: "Check it carefully first." This place is close to the River of Fire, which is already a possible location for the Institute, so you must be careful. By the way, all the smell masking potions have been wiped off?"

"Don't worry, everyone has wiped it carefully. Catherine nodded.

"That's good, but I still need to step it up. Pannis took out a bottle of potion, applied it evenly and carefully on his clothes and skin, took out another packet of medicinal powder, sprinkled it on his body, and walked towards the pile of bones: "I'll go explore, you wait here, don't come close." ”

Under the watchful eyes of the four ladies, Pannis approached the pile of bones, moving step by step along the edge, his eyes fixed on the ground by the light of his helmet, for fear of missing a single detail. Once he noticed anything abnormal, he would lean down and stick to the ground, smell it with his nose, listen with his ears, and even stick out his tongue once or twice to lick it, without any regard for the dirt of the ground.

"Not underground. After activating the fighting qi to tap the ground one last time, and then listening carefully with his ears, Pannis raised his head and shouted softly: "The wall has been searched when I came before, and there is nothing abnormal, I will go up and look at the top of my head." ”

"Be careful. Catherine reassured.

"Rest assured, you won't end up trapped here because of the loss of explorers. Pannis replied stiffly without replying, and walked to the edge of the cave wall, and the whole person lay on the wall, using his hands and feet together, swimming on the surface of the rock wall like a spider, and it didn't take long for his back to fall and face up to the roof of the cave.

Even in this position, Pannis showed no signs of falling, maintaining his flexibility, exploring the roof of the cave point by point, not letting go of every rock, every stalactite. But in the end, he still jumped down regretfully, shook his head and walked back to the four ladies: "Let's go, I should be able to rule out here, at least my ability has not found the entrance here." ”

Catherine had no regrets, and could still keep smiling: "It's normal, if I can find the entrance so easily, I will be surprised and disappointed." Let's go, move on to the next place. ”

"This way. Pannis was the first to walk to the larger of the six caves: "There's the River of Fire ahead, and there's a place where you can rest for a while." ”

"How are you, Rachel?" Catherine asked with concern, "Lina just helped you treat the fracture, but there will always be four or five days when you can't exert yourself, is there a problem?"

Since Rachel got up in the morning, he chose to act with the adventure group instead of staying in a place where he rested last night to recuperate, and after waiting for the four of them to return and pick her up, he fell into silence, keeping his head down and not knowing what he was thinking, and occasionally showing a stunned expression on his face, when he heard Catherine ask her, he woke up like a dream and replied: "No problem, although I can't exert force, but ordinary movement is still no problem." I'm a gunner, and even if I can't exert force in my legs, it won't affect my combat effectiveness, so don't worry. ”

"Where's your gun? I see you've lost your backpack, but is the weapon still there?" The girls of the adventure party who hadn't worked with the gunner didn't know much, but Pannis, who had been in contact with all kinds of adventurers, was familiar with the gunner, and turned to her at the entrance of the cave and asked, "There should only be a short gun left." ”

"Yes, two. Rachel pulled out a small hedron gun from a compartment on the right side of his leather armor, opened the circle hole on the right side of the handle, looked at it, and pushed it back: "I can fire the last thirty times." ”

"This is the one that fired the crystal energy bomb?" Pannis frowned, "Didn't you shoot a physical bullet?"

Rachel pulled out another equally small hedron gun from his boot, opened the peephole on the right side of the handle and checked it, then opened the magazine on the left side of the handle and counted: "Thirty-six shots, but there are only ten physical bullets." ”

"Where's the power?"

Rachel lowered his head and replied embarrassedly: "It's still deadly to bronze-level monsters, but it's not effective against silver-level monsters." ”

Pannis frowned and thought for a while, then took out a leather pouch from his backpack and handed it to Rachel: "You use this first, the silver-level spar spear, just your strength can be used." Although you can't break the defense against gold-tier enemies, you can be considered to have the ability to protect yourself here. This gun can be manually adjusted between crystal and solid bullets. ”

Rachel's eyes lit up, opened the leather bag, skillfully assembled the parts in the bag, and formed a half-meter-long crystal source rifle, and counted a number of special specifications of charging crystals, and sighed with a little regret: "It's a pity that there are only three, it seems that they have to be saved." ”

"It's fine. Vivien relieved her regret without care: "When you rest at night, I'll help you cut a few more." Although I don't dare to do hedron synthesis in this environment, there is no problem with simple cutting, and I also bring tools. ”

"Thank you so much. Rachel bowed to show his gratitude, and then activated the activation circle of the hedron gun with his Dou Qi: "That's good, it's just right for the Silver Rank Dou Qi." ”

"Let's go. Pannis led the way into the passage: "It's time to go to the River of Fire." ”

Catherine followed at the end of the line, looking at Pannis's back with a little curiosity: "Are you ready for such things as hedron guns?"

"I used it when I was a cameo gunner before, and I can fire it anyway as long as the fighting spirit level is met. Pannis was at the front of the line, leading the way as he explored, and replied casually.

"Archers, hedron gunners, explorers. Catherine smiled meaningfully, "Are you really only a Silver Rank professional as you appear?"

"Can you not see it, trust your eyes? Pannis replied nonchalantly.

No one spoke again, and in silence, the five men walked along the long passage for a full ten minutes, and Pannis pointed ahead and said, "Turn the corner ahead and you'll be to the River of Fire, and now you should be feeling the heat." ”

"yes. Lina still maintained her elegant temperament, and even maintained the demeanor of court etiquette when she was in a hurry: "Can you use ice attribute crystals now?"

"Don't. Pannis hurriedly stopped: "Don't use ice crystals near the River of Fire, and don't use ice magic, there will be big trouble." ”

Vivien secretly stuck out her tongue, took the ice crystal that she had already held in her hand back into her backpack, and wiped the sweat from her face.

"Shhh Pannis suddenly stopped, waved his hand heavily with a serious face, and sniffed carefully in the air: "It's so dangerous, you can speak, but don't say it quietly." ”

"The wolves are back?" Catherine lowered her voice.

"Well, I'm glad we left early. Pannis continued to move forward, puzzled, "It's strange to come down this time, whether it's cavemen or wolves, they all disrupt their habits. ”

"When I met the caveman, Nicole said that there were traces of spiritual magic, which should be artificial. Speaking of his teammate who has passed away, Rachel's voice is still bitter.

"There's no point in doing that. Pannis didn't like this confusion: "Anyway, everyone should be careful at all times." But we were lucky enough to leave before the wolves returned, and we hid our scent so that the wolves didn't notice it, and they showed no signs of moving this way. ”

“wooo。 Turning an N-shaped bend around the corner, Vivien saw the scene in front of her clearly, and couldn't help but exclaim: "No wonder you can't use the energy of the ice attribute." I've heard a lot, but it's the first time I've seen this creature. Fire elemental, so interesting. ”