Chapter 16: Encounters
This is a space, it is very dim, I don't know where it is, narrow and long, like an anthill, extending in all directions, branching out, there are many secret rooms, in this space, the only thing that can be lit is the miner's lamp that seems to be placed at any time after more than ten meters.
But in the dim light of the wall was all the more terrifying, and the walls of it reflected long rows of figures, a chain trapped their feet, and they carried it forward with the swing of a whip.
"Hurry up, a bunch of shit!" wielding the long whip was a big Terran man with a fleshy face and scars, and his bulging muscles seemed to be of use at this moment, whipping the staggering figures hard.
Among them, there are all kinds of faces, with cat faces, horns on their heads, and hairy all over their bodies, just a rough estimate, at least a dozen races, and at this time, most of their expressions have long been numb, only a few of them have not seen too many scars on their bodies, and they want to protest verbally, but in exchange for more violent beatings.
The big man obviously enjoyed their hateful, frightened, but helpless expressions. "You're in my hands, it's okay, if it's him, hmph, I don't know what will happen. β
Thinking so in his heart, the big man raised his head and glanced out of the corner of his eye into a secret room not far away.
At this point, in the secret room.
A man with a gloomy face was lying on a wooden chair, the scimitar in his hand constantly flipping and leaping at his fingertips. "My dear doctor, it's been three days since the time set by the boss, and you're still not getting any results?"
In front of the man was a man with pale temples and a half-moon hairline, and he was tinkering with one of the mechanical parts in his hand, which looked very precise. In front of him was a square instrument that took up half a room.
The sweat on the head of the man known as the Doctor ran down the wrinkles on his cheeks, "Fang Yun, please tell the boss, I still need some time, after all, you also know that the exclusive technology of the Talai family has not been able to crack even those big countries and big families, not to mention that I am a small scholar." β
The man known as Fang Yun stopped the movement of his fingertips, grabbed the handle of the knife with his right hand, put it in front of his face, and showed the previous sneer, stretched out the tip of his tongue, and licked the tip of the knife, "So the boss didn't let you crack its technique, just let you cultivate it to the extent that it is enough to use." β
Suddenly, with a flick of his fingertips, a crack appeared on a wooden table beside the doctor, and the crack was so smooth that there was not a single wrinkle in the wood. "Aren't you going to be able to do this little thing, then the boss should reconsider your worth. β
The parts in the doctor's hand almost fell to the ground, but fortunately, he reacted in time, stabilized his body, took a deep breath, and said as calmly as possible: "Okay, please tell the boss, I will definitely solve the problem as soon as possible, please give me another three days, just three days, it will be solved!"
Fang Yun stood up, patted the dust that had fallen on the top due to the vibration caused by the use of some magic sources just now, and put away the smile on his face, "That's the best, but doctor, you really need to speed up a bit, I don't know, the boss is as patient as me." β
As soon as the words fell, the whole person disappeared into the secret room, but it was like a gust of wind blowing the chaise longue in place.
The Doctor still stood still, unmoved for a long time.
After a while, he put down the part in his hand, slowly walked to the side of the chaise longue, and touched it lightly, and the chaise longue immediately collapsed, turning into sawdust all over the floor, leaving only the four chair legs.
Seeing this sawdust, the doctor wiped the cold sweat from his sideburns, he knew that if he couldn't complete the task, his fate would not be much better than this chair, after all, he knew very well what kind of person Fang Yun was.
"it, why should Lao Tzu suffer this living crime!" the doctor picked up a chair leg and threw it at the wall, and after hearing the clatter of land, he collapsed on the ground.
He is a scholar, magic guide industrial manufacturing, once because of the explosion of the magic guide product manufactured, many people were killed and injured, and the post-investigation was a quality problem of the product, and there was no fine, and he was directly sentenced to death by the official of Biyan City.
Who knew that he didn't die, he was brought to this place, and he thought that he could mix better than others with his talents, but now it seems that this is really a terrible thing.
"Hehe, the whole family is dead, who is the fine?" the doctor sat and laughed blankly, looking at the instrument, the Magic Actinic Mass Spectrometer.
"He's gone, right?" "Then can we come out?" "What do you think?"
At this moment, a voice suddenly sounded from behind him, and the doctor immediately jumped up from the ground, grabbed the magic pistol on the table, and pointed behind him, "Who is it?!"
He was so nervous that he couldn't see the two people who were talking, only a bare wall, and his own figure trembling in the light.
"Don't be so nervous, Doctor, we just wanted to talk to you. The first male voice sounded, and then two shadows staggered onto the wall in the Doctor's constricted pupils......
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"Is this the entrance to the Eya Grand Canyon? It's really majestic!" Jiang Heng stood in front of the entrance of the Eya Grand Canyon, looking down and looking up, the two towering peaks at the entrance, like two giant swords, plunged into the earth from the sky, which was daunting.
The continuous mountain peaks, which stretched out from behind the greatsword, converged, staggered, stretched, and expanded, like branches of trees, like coral, and although you can't look down directly from above, you can basically imagine what the 'Eye of the Continent' is like.
"It's intricate, it's very easy to get lost, and for some reason, we can always feel an irresistible aura, and it seems to be this kind of aura that most of the monsters don't dare to stop in. We think this is a warning from the rangers that there should be something in it that the forest is afraid of. Pubulin stood next to Jiang Heng and said to him.
"Irresistible aura?" Jiang Heng was a little puzzled, he immediately closed his eyes, released some magic source, and felt this aura with his own hands.
"Huh!?"
"How is it, do you feel it?" Pu Bulin asked after seeing Jiang Heng pause for a moment and exclaimed.
"This feeling," Jiang Heng smacked his lips, "I don't feel any rejection." β
"What's going on? Does it have a different effect on the Terrans?" Pubrin asked as he touched the beard on his chin.
Not only not exclusive, even, somewhat cordial.
"Forget it, let's not dwell on this issue for now, let's investigate first!" Jiang Heng quickly withdrew his hand and shook his head, "It's still your clansmen who are more important." β
"Yes! That's right!" Pu Bulin quickly reacted, his clansmen were still uncertain, "Your Excellency Jiang Heng, please hurry up!"
Jiang Heng nodded, "Please take me to the place where I first discovered the Mithril Tablet." β
So Pu Bulin hurriedly took Jiang Heng to a rock crevice and pointed to two large rocks, "It's in its crevice." β
Jiang Heng walked to the front, the Mithril Piece had been taken away, but this place had other value.
He took out a small bottle full of green dust, unscrewed the lid and sprinkled it on the ground, and the green dust scattered on the ground around the rocks, covering the ground evenly.
"What is this?" Seeing this, Pu Bulin stepped forward curiously and stood on the same line as Jiang Heng to avoid stepping on the dust.
"Tracking powder, some sheriff's trick is just that. Jiang Xing said casually.
At this time, the dust on the ground suddenly lit up, but with the depth of the soil, the brightness was different, and the dust with different brightness printed rows of patterns on the ground.
"This is, footprints?!" Pubrin looked at the pattern, surprised.
"The ground that has been stepped on, the depth of its soil, and the humidity density are all slightly different, to put it bluntly, it just magnifies the differences between them," Jiang Heng said while looking at Publin with some unexpected eyes, "It's just that according to you, the footprints here are all a long time ago, so they are suddenly not very obvious, and they are intertwined and messy, but you can tell at a glance that they are footprints, and your eyes are good!"
"It's just a little old man's experience, but," Pu Bling, pointing to the footprints on the ground, "these marks should have come out of us Green Forest people, and our unique green branch shoes can get out of this kind of mark." β
Jiang Heng carefully observed these footprints, "Indeed, as you said, these footprints belong to you Green Forest people, so these should have been walked out by you before, and you didn't see similar human footprints, so they should,"
Jiang Heng raised his head and looked at the towering peak, "That Mithril piece should have fallen from above." β
He stood up, "Let's go, go up there and have a look." β
Pubulin also stood up, "Be careful!" Jiang Heng suddenly dragged Pubulin and jumped away from the spot.
A dark shadow standing in the middle of the dense forest, with his back against a big tree, said softly, "Earth fire." β
The ground where Jiang Heng and the others were standing just now suddenly cracked, and fierce flames erupted from it, like a herd of horses that had broken free from their shackles, surging around.
Jiang Heng grabbed Pubulin and jumped two more steps in a row, and then escaped from the range of the flames.
Pu Bulin seemed to be a little unable to stand Jiang Heng's big move, and after Jiang Heng let go of him, he lay on the ground and coughed, "This, this is?"
Jiang Heng pulled out his long sword and pistol with an indifferent face, and pointed the gun at a shadow in the dense forest, "Obviously, we have been attacked. β
"Who is it, come out for me!" Before Jiang Heng could finish speaking, a bullet carrying the power of two runes, bursting and wind, shot out from the muzzle of his gun.
The figure on the other side sneered, and threw out a throwing knife in his hand, directly bounced off the incoming bullet. "Shoot while calling me out, Your Excellency the Sheriff is a good plan!" With the words, the figure slowly walked out, it was a scar-faced woman who looked about thirty years old, her appearance was unclear but it should be terrifying, she was dressed in a haphazard manner, with various animal skins, like a robber.
Jiang Heng's face was serious, "It doesn't matter what kind of method is used by the people who sneak attack us. In the next second, the long sword in his hand glowed with a blue sheen.
"Oh, wind-type swordsman, let me see your strength, Your Excellency. The scar-faced woman felt a short thorn from her waist, bowed her waist slightly, kicked the ground with her hind feet, and the ground cracked vertically like ripples caused by water droplets dripping into the water, and she herself quickly rushed towards Jiang Heng.
"What a fast speed!" The opposite side was menacing, Jiang Heng hurriedly grabbed it and threw Pubulin into the distance, as soon as this action was completed, the other party had already arrived in front of him, so Jiang Heng had to quickly raise his sword to resist.
"Your Excellency the naΓ―ve sheriff, you are still in the mood to care about others in this situation, do you really think that your sword can stop me?" The corner of the woman's mouth was smiling, as if she was laughing at Jiang Heng's stupidity.
The two sides were in close contact, Jiang Heng only felt a huge force coming from his hand, and the sword in his hand seemed to fall off, "What a lot of power!"
Seeing Jiang Heng blocking her own blow, the scar-faced woman was a little surprised, Jiang Xing, quickly took advantage of this opportunity and kicked his left foot to his abdomen, the scar-faced woman noticed Jiang Heng's movements, and took the lead in pulling away the distance with her two toes.
Jiang Heng didn't expect this kick to kick her, it was just to force her back.
"You can actually block an attack like mine, you are really not a simple white feather-level swordsman. The scar-faced woman stared at the white feather badge on Jiang Heng's chest and said.
Feeling a slight pain in the tiger's mouth, Jiang Heng's face was grim, "Who are you, why did you attack us?"
"You want me a reason, and it is my freedom to do with the prey that has intruded on my hunting grounds, and I will report to you this month, Your Excellency the Sheriff. "Scarface women always have a contemptuous smile. "But what about you, are you prey or not? Let me try!"
The scar-faced woman raised her right hand and aimed it at Jiang Heng, and the red demon source gathered in her hand, entwined, and turned into several fire snakes composed of pure fire attribute demon sources, "Dance of Fire Snakes." β
With the movement of the scar-faced woman's right hand, several fire snakes rushed straight towards Jiang Heng, the speed was extremely fast, and they rotated flexibly, as if they were really dancing.
Jiang Heng hurriedly injected a large amount of demon source into the long sword in his hand, and the cyan wind attribute demon source instantly spread from the sword body and turned into chain blades.
A chain of blue skies.
Jiang Heng waved the long sword in his hand, and countless chain blades spun and tumbled rapidly with his movements, cutting off the attacking fire snakes one after another.
"Yes, Your Excellency. The scar-faced woman smiled and looked at Jiang Heng's non-stop fireworks, "Then let me add some more ingredients to you." He raised his right hand again, and at this time she was holding a flying knife in her hand, and the huge fire attribute demon source was injected into the flying knife along with the lines in her hand, turning into a giant python.
As soon as the flying knife moved, the python also rushed towards Jiang Heng.
"Oh no, this blow may not be stopped. Jiang Heng thought secretly.
Just when the giant python had already stretched out its huge fangs towards Jiang Heng, the "vines were entangled"
The thick vines of the tree burst out of the ground and tightly wrapped around the python.
"The giant tree vines that have been blessed by the rangers are not so easy to burn. Publin also stood up at this time, exuding a green demonic aura.
"You old man is quite capable, and it's your fault that it's so difficult to arrest people now. The scar-faced woman shook her head regretfully.
"What! you've captured my people! Give them back to me. Listening to the scar-faced woman's words, Pubulin felt his brain swell, and the flames of anger seemed to burst from his chest.
"I'll pay it back if I win, but," she looked at Jiang Heng and the two, "Do you think two White Feather Levels can defeat me?"
"Then let you have a good look at the power of the Green Forest people!" Pu Bulin's beard was about to be angry, but as soon as he took a step forward, Jiang Heng stretched out his hand to stop him.
"Don't go, she's a Qingyu-level assassin, you're not an opponent. Jiang Heng's face at this time was unprecedentedly serious, well, more serious than the previous two times.
"Your Excellency Sheriff has good eyesight, you are much better than the old man next to you. The scar-faced woman threw a short thorn in her left hand, and the demon source in her right hand was continuously absorbing the fire attribute demon source in the forest.
"So, what can you do in the face of me like this?"