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"Well, who is this?" asked Pannis, who closed the cellar cover, and Lina took a few steps back against the wall of the house, and when they looked back, they saw an old man following Ladia into the backyard.

"My lord, this is the village chief. Ladia replied in a loud voice, "From the priest, I met at the door." ”

The old man ran a few times before he grabbed Pannis's arm and asked urgently, "Sir, have you found anyone? What is the situation here?" The priest only told me that there are monsters here, please save them. ”

"Don't worry. Lina secretly released a tranquilizer to ease the anxiety of the old village chief: "The person has not been found yet, but the monster's lair should be here, and we will go down to find it in a while, don't worry." ”

"Monster lair?" the village chief was startled, and looked nervously left and right: "The monster is still here, won't it hide somewhere else?"

"Not really. Lina explains: "It's the nature of animals to hide in their nests. Moreover, this monster can attack humans, so that humans can be dragged away without a chance to resist at all, and it is obviously not small. That size has nowhere else to hide in the village except for his lair, so there's a good chance it's here. You leave first, there may not be any danger here, don't worry, we'll take care of it. ”

"Then I'll leave it all to you. The village chief walked a few steps, then suddenly stopped and said, "I'll just wait at the door, and I'll know immediately if there is any problem, and maybe I can help somewhat." ”

"Don't. Lina looked at the village chief's trembling footsteps with a smile: "We don't know when we will finish, you better go back to the temple and wait with the priest." By the way, please tell Pastor Milak that don't worry if we drag on for a long time, we'll be fine. However, until we come back, no matter who it is, we must never go down unless a Legendary-level adventurer comes here. ”

Ignoring the village chief, Pannis said to Lydia, "Have you figured it out? I guessed what is down there, very nasty animal, are you sure you want to go down with us?"

"Yes, sir. Ladia replied firmly, looking up.

"Guess what?" asked Lina, taking five ropes from Lydia's hand, handing three to Pannis, wrapping the other two around her waist.

"Hunter of the Ground. Pannis took out a small tool from the small package he was carrying, first wrapped it around his left forearm a few times to fix it, and then took the crystal lamp that Lydia brought, and buckled it on his left forearm, and the crystal lamp was firmly fixed on his left forearm, even if Pannis waved his arm a few times, there was no sign of loosening.

"I'm afraid it's this kind of thing. Lina sighed, putting aside the last bit of luck, and said while showing Lydia how to make a simple rope climber, "What a headache, how long has it been since I left the ground, and I'm going back again, it's annoying." ”

"Your Excellency. Lydia hesitated, but finally mustered up the courage to ask, "Earthwalker...... What is it?"

"A kind of lizard. Pannis finally checked his gear: "Generally small, they hunt bugs and small creatures in crevices and caves underground. Their tongues can be ejected and retracted very quickly, with hollow barbs at the bottom of the tongue, which inject paralyzing toxins to quickly paralyze the prey after hitting it, while the tongue retracts to drag the prey back to the mouth. Also, their front paws are very powerful, and your leather shield ...... Hey, you've changed the steel shield, yes, the steel shield can block their claws, and the leather shield and the wooden shield can't. Finally, note that their skin is tough and their defense is very strong, making it difficult to break through with normal attacks. These beasts are generally small, and I've only heard twice about the appearance of large Earthwalker hunters. Okay, I'll go down first, you wait for my news. ”

Lydia was about to say something, but Lina stopped her very harshly: "He is an explorer, so he must go down first." If you want to fight with us, you must obey orders from now on, and if you can't obey orders, you can give me back now. ”

"Yes, sir. ”

Ignoring the above episode, Pannis used a short stick to pick open the cellar lid from a distance, and burrowed into the cellar mouth as nimbly as a fish, and soon heard his shout: "Come down." ”

The cellar of Lane's house was very large, six or seven square meters, more than one person high, and when Ladia came down, Pannis had already lit the oil lamp in the cellar, and by the light, he could see that in the corner of the cellar, there was an irregular cave that was almost circular and more than a meter in diameter. The cave extends diagonally downwards with a steep slope.

"This is it. Pannis squatted at the entrance of the circular hole and said: "The paw prints here, some go in and some come out, well, and there is more than one, look at the marks, one big and two small, ha, there are actually three." Such a large Earth Hunter, in their own territory, at least to be divided into the strength of the Silver Intermediate Rank, I am not surprised that they have the strength of the Silver High Rank or even the Gold Rank. Prepare yourself. ”

Pannis pulled out a thick steel nail and threw it to Lina, who snorted angrily and drove the steel nail into the cellar floor with her cherished mace. Pannis snickered, tied the rope to the steel spikes, lit the Crystal Lamp, and slid head down and feet up, climbing the rope with his feet, and sliding into the hole little by little.

After climbing a few meters, Pannis noticed that the soil had become very hard, and after climbing a few more meters, he suddenly found that there was nothing in front of him, and the oblique downward passage was replaced by a vertically downward, more spacious shaft.

"Tsk, cracks in the soil, I guess there's such a thing. Pannis pouted to himself, "Otherwise, the animals on the ground will not dig holes for dozens of meters to the ground." Hell, let's go on. While muttering in his mouth, his body kept sliding downward, and soon the twenty-meter rope had reached the end. Pannis sighed, hung upside down to catch another rope, and continued his journey.

"Ground hunters, earth hunters, where the hell are you? The sliding Pannis hummed with a tune: "Come out and let me see you, I can smell you, lala." "But it was clear that the lizards weren't prepared to follow Pannis's orders, and there was no movement at all.

When the second rope was about to come to an end, Pannis, who was constantly adjusting the crystal energy lamp on his arm, finally saw the ground below, couldn't help but whistle, turned over and landed safely, and after making sure that there was no danger, he grabbed the rope and shook it with skill. The drooping rope formed a waveform under the shaking, and the waveform continued to reverse the trend, crossing a distance of nearly forty meters, until it reached the end of the steel nail fastened. Shake it three times in a row, pause for a while, and shake it three times in a row, until you feel someone tugging on it a few times in a row, and then Pannis stops sending the signal.

It wasn't long before there was a clanging sound overhead, and Ladia slid clumsily off the rope and landed heavily beside Pennis. If it weren't for Pannis's hand, I'm afraid he would have fallen directly.

"Are you alright? Pannis smiled bitterly and said, "Don't you practice this when your city guards train?"

"I'm sorry, sir. Lydia was startled by the echo of her answer, and quickly lowered her voice: "We haven't practiced. ”

"It's still troublesome when you get up. Pannis shrugged in the darkness: "It's not as easy to climb up as it is to come down. ”

"It's okay, you can pull her up with a rope when the time comes. Lina's voice came from overhead, but it wasn't Lina who came down first, but another rope that hung straight down to the ground and coiled around the ground several times before it came to a halt.

"Where did you nail this rope of yours?" asked Pannis, looking up, "Where is the end of the crack in the soil?"

"yes, that's it, just in case. The light above her head shook, Lina held the oil lamp in one hand and the rope in the other, slid lightly to the ground, looked around and asked, "How is the situation?"

"As you can see. Pannis looked ahead: "The cracks in the soil are followed by cracks in the rocks, and it seems that several hunters have crawled out of here." ”

"Rocks? That's not right, earth hunters can't dig rocks, right?" Lina was stunned: "If the rock cracks are supposed to be natural, it seems, well, they have been there for a long time, it's strange, then why are they attacking humans on the ground now? Since these two cracks have existed for a long time, they should have gone up a long time ago." ”

"Who knows. Pannis looked into the crack, "Go in and see, you'll never guess if you stand here." Hey, wait a minute, what do I smell? Hunter's smell. ”

"You've found the Ground Hunter?" Lina sniffed around as Pannis, but found nothing.

"Found it, they're hunting, the prey is. Pannis suddenly flashed to the side, and a white shadow struck him like lightning where he had been standing, and only then did he utter the last half of his words: "We." ”

Lydia, who had been holding the sword and shield in her hand, was highly nervous, and when she saw the white shadow, her brain didn't have time to react at all, and her body had faithfully slashed with a sword in accordance with the skills in training. A bowstring-like sound sounded, and Lydia took a few steps back, the sword in her hand almost bounced off, but the white shadow quickly withdrew unscathed.

"I forgot to say it. Pannis stood aside and said very leisurely: "Their tongues are tougher than their skin, and they are the most defensive positions on their bodies, so don't bother to cut their tongues, the eyes, the inside of the mouth, the midline of the abdomen and the anus are the weak points." ”

Lina listened to it: "This voice is ...... Did they run away? Do they also lay traps?"

"Of course. Pannis nodded: "Hunters who don't set traps are by no means good hunters, and their hunters' names are not called in vain, they are born to set traps to trap their prey." We now have two options, one is to chase them in, induce their siege, and then kill them all with the attack. The other is that we are anti-ambush, just wait here, and when they can't help but come out, we will also kill them all, which do you think is better?"

"You forgot? I said, you make the decision. Lina replied noncommittally.

"Well, let's ...... Let's take a break here. Pannis, after a moment's thought, said, "I'm sleepy." ”

"Hell, you were still screaming hungry just now, why are you sleepy again?" Lina scolded with a laugh and a smile.

"It can't be helped, sleepiness is more terrible than hunger. As he spoke, Pannis glanced at Lina by the light of the oil lamp, and glanced at Ladia.

Thinking of Lydia's strength level, Lina nodded suddenly: "Okay, okay, sleep, sleep, you can rest in peace." By the way, it's such a big place, how can you hide and fight the ambush?"

Pannis blinked mysteriously and took out a few silver discs from his pocket: "Girl, at any time, carrying a concealment circle and a defensive circle for camping with you is the basic quality of a top adventurer." ”

Lina had nothing to say at all and could only give a thumbs up.