"Do you still need to think about this?" Catherine patted Lina on the head, and Lina fled to Vivien's side in an instant as if she had been unshackled, and got into trouble with the gloating Vivian, you poke me in the face, and I poke you in the face. Catherine rolled her eyes angrily, shook her head helplessly, and then cheered up and said, "Since Mr. Ike brought us here, there must be a way for us to cross the river, and we don't need to think of our own way to cross the river." ”

"Use your brain. Pannis, in fact, is also pulling away from the topic: "Isn't it sometimes more rewarding to come up with a solution on your own?"

"It's just two ways. Catherine knew well the purpose of Pannis's good intentions, but she glared at Pannis, and replied, "Either cut down trees and build bridges, and then pass quickly on the bridge, or climb to the top of the cave and come down after passing over them." Well, considering that there may be giant scorpions in the water, maybe you can attack the people on the tree bridge, so it's safer to climb over from the top of the cave. I'll see, I'll see, well, yes, you see there are these trees on both sides, and they're almost all close to the top of the cave, and you can reach the top of the cave by climbing up the tree, and then, well, there's no stalagmites hanging down on the top of the cave, but if there's Freya's machine, you can still climb through it. By the way, we can let Freya climb over with a rope, and then tie the ropes to the trees on both sides, so that we can build a high-altitude pontoon bridge, and we can pass safely. No, no, no, you don't need a high-altitude pontoon, just a one-way zipline that is slightly lower on the opposite side, so that others don't even have to climb. ”

"That's amazing. Ike gave a thumbs up and exclaimed, "It's hard to believe you're entering this place for the first time, yes, passing through it." Although we could not climb over the top with machinery like this Miss Freya, the top was not smooth, and there were many protrusions and depressions that could be used to climb over with our bare hands to tie ropes. Of course, if we come by ourselves or only one or two people, we don't need to tie a rope and just crawl over. ”

"Big sister, Pannis, Mr. Ike. Vivien suddenly shouted, "Come and see." ”

When I turned around, I found the three girls gathered next to the frozen scorpion, whose body had been thawed and slumped on the ground. Vivien was crouching beside the corpse, using her staff to pick up various parts of the scorpion, one of the scorpion's claws had been removed and thrown aside, and one claw alone was almost half the size of a person.

"You see, this scorpion is very strange. Vivien said, "It's white, but it's not transparent, and it's impossible to see it in the water." But didn't we really find it lurking in the water just now, don't you think it's weird?"

"Well, could it be because of the reflection?" Catherine thought back, and did not notice the lurking scorpion just now, and turned to Pannisy and asked, "What about you, did you find it just now?"

"Of course not. Pannis shook his head and said, "If I had noticed that I had warned you a long time ago, I am sure that there was nothing special in the water just now." ”

"It's not going to be reflective. Vivien turned on the shoulder lamp, and the light shone on the corpse of the scorpion, and there was no sign of inaccessibility: "You see, I just tried it, and it didn't work with the light like this. Later, I wondered if it was because it was in the water, so I cut off one of its pincers and let Freya's puppet help put it in the water, but the result was the same as now, as long as the light was on, it could definitely be seen. ”

"It's really weird. Catherine folded her arms in front of her chest, picked the tail of the scorpion with the tip of her horns, and subconsciously cut off the barb on the tail and put it in the backpack, the scorpion's stinger is also a more valuable material: "It can't be that this kind of scorpion can be invisible, if it is really so, it will be terrible." ”

"Also, don't you think it's strange?" Vivien said, pointing to the scorpion, "Have any of you ever seen a scorpion living in water?" Anyway, I've never seen a record of an aquatic scorpion in the Mage Guild's database, maybe it's because I don't know much about it, but have any of you heard of it?"

"Huh?" Lina also reacted, and said in surprise: "You don't say that I didn't pay attention, this is a scorpion, no matter how big it is, it is also a scorpion, how can it live in the water?"

"Along the way, have we seen fewer creatures that subvert common sense?" Pannis didn't express much surprise, and said lightly: "Huge dragonflies and mosquitoes, aggressive horses, beetles that can fly on a pair of wings despite thousands of kilograms, soft-bodied creatures between stones and creatures, and one more scorpion living in the water is not something unacceptable." Perhaps, in ancient times before the First Age, scorpions lived in water?"

"Could that be the case?" Vivien muttered uncertainly, "It's possible, after all, the creatures here are probably still in ancient times, and I always feel that after this adventure, a lot of my common sense knowledge will have to be rewritten." ”

"It's not necessarily a bad thing, it's useless to know more about the past, but it's not harmful. Pannis, still frowning, stared at the scorpion's corpse with interest: "What I care about is not seeing it. ”

"Why are you going?" Catherine was stunned when she saw Pannis walking towards the water's edge, and asked in surprise, "Are you ......?"

"I'm going to do a trial. Pannis said, "Don't worry, I'm sure I won't be at ease if I don't try it." ”

Pannis walked to the bank of the river, crouched down like Lina, and stretched out his hand to dangle in the river. Indeed, as Lina said, the temperature of the river water is very high, and your hands will feel a little hot when you put it in it, and I don't know how the scorpion lives in the river water at this temperature. After washing his hands in the river for a while, Pannis's face suddenly changed, and he stood up suddenly: "There are indeed things hidden in the water, and there are quite a few, at least a dozen of them, but from here, you really can't see anything." Well, no, it's not that you can't see it, but if you look closely, you can still see a little outline. Yes, that's it, you see, the water is moving, but they don't move, so the outline is more obvious, and if it's stagnant water that doesn't flow, it looks a bit strained. ”

"So, they're going to be invisible?" The girls leaned behind Pannis, and opened a safe distance from the shore, "That's the problem, if they can be invisible, it will be difficult for us to guard against their sneak attacks except for you." ”

"Wait a minute before jumping to conclusions. With a wave of his hand, Pannis crouched down at the water's edge again, put half of his arm into the water, and closed his eyes to feel the change in the current. After waiting quietly for five minutes, his eyes suddenly opened suddenly, and his body remained in a crouching position but quickly retreated. In front of him, the surface of the water was broken with another thud, and an equally huge pincer appeared out of thin air, and finally landed on the shore after Pannis's body, and a scorpion even greater than the one before came out of the water.

"I see it clearly. Catherine cried out, "They can only be invisible in the water." As soon as their bodies are exposed to the surface, they lose their invisibility. You can see that its tail was completely invisible when it was still dragging in the water just now, but now it is showing little by little. ”

"Yes, I saw that. As soon as Pannis's hand caught up with the giant scorpion, the giant scorpion actually lost its balance and fell directly to the ground. Before the giant scorpion could attack with its tail, Pannis had already smashed a heavy punch on the carapace behind the scorpion, this punch Pannis seemed to have used the power of a demigod, even if the sword slashed the carapace without leaving a single scar, a large number of cracks actually appeared under the punch, and white juice gushed out from the cracks. The sheer force caused half of the giant scorpion's body to dive into the ground, and the two pincers slapped on the ground in pain, making a dull crashing sound.

"Well, this force can hurt it. Pannis, who had already flashed to the side, rubbed his chin and nodded, and suddenly a sword stabbed out, piercing through the mouth of the giant scorpion, and the one-handed sword went straight to the hilt, stirring in its body, causing the giant scorpion to roll all over the ground in severe pain again, and a large amount of white blood spurted out of its mouth.

"Understood. Pannis clapped his hands, left the dying giant scorpion, and said to everyone: "You can rest assured for the time being, maybe it's because of the gray stripes on their backs, they can deflect light in the water, so that other creatures can't spot them through vision, this is probably their innate hunting ability, but this ability will fail when it reaches the ground, of course, all this is only when they are still alive, and the ability will be lost after death." So don't worry about it yet, as long as we don't get too close to the water's edge after that. ”

"Then this ......" Catherine picked her chin at the struggling giant scorpion, "Is it okay to leave it like this?"

"It's dying quickly, leave it alone. Pannis said, "Ike, you can climb up and build the slide, and I'll take care of these two scorpions, I think their carapace can make a very good light armor, and I can try it later to see if it's feasible." ”

"You mean we're going to camp here today?" Ike asked, "yes, but here or on the other side?"

"Let's go here, after all, we've explored it here. "We're lucky not to spend too much time on the third floor, and it's a good sign that we need to camp for the night when we get here, so let's have something fresh tonight to celebrate." ”

"Scorpion meat?" Catherine glanced at the giant scorpion, which was no longer struggling, and saw the snow-white flesh peeking out of the cracked carapace on its back, "Are you sure they are edible?"

"I'll check it out later, it should be fine. Pannis said: "They scared everyone, how can they not pay a little price, hehehehehe." (To be continued.) )