Chapter 100: The Snake's Belly
"Lina, how long have we been down here, haven't we been here?" Chieftain's small voice sounded beside Naki, and Naki glanced back at the increasingly weak Chieftain, and her heart was full of sorrow at this time, and in front of them, there were nine paths.
Things go back to a Mick ago, that is, when Sirom stepped into the island of the Beastmaster, the chief and Naki stepped into the endless sand, at that time the chieftain began to deteriorate his mental state, and his walking became slow again, in order not to let him fall asleep, Naki kept telling him about Naki's previous things, which had become vague again, became clear again after leaving the devil's hotbed, including her family, her childhood friends, and her name.
But a monster came out of the sand, it was a fish covered in yellow armor, and the armor sometimes stood up suddenly, and became as sharp as the blade, and it would spit out sand from its mouth, and in the presence of the two of them, the huge strange fish jumped up in the sand a few times, and drove a long flat fish out of the sand, and was bitten in half by it, and the armor fish did not eat the long fish, nor did it return to the sand, but turned and jumped towards them.
The two of them were so frightened that they ran all the way, and then the chieftain sank to the ground, Naki thought that the chieftain could not walk, and when she looked back, she found that the chieftain had fallen into the sand, and she wanted to pull him out, but there seemed to be something pulling the chieftain underneath, and he even let out a moan of pain, but the chieftain still firmly let go of Naki's hand, and the whole person sank, Naki did not shed tears, she looked up at the armor fish, and then jumped into the sand that was still sinking.
When she woke up, she found that the chieftain was still with her, they had not been eaten, they were not stuck in the sand, they were all lying on the ground, Naki was sure they had fallen into the ground, because it was dark and nothing could be seen, but she didn't know how long the distance was, and why there was no sand around them.
Chieftain's moaning pulled her back from her thoughts, by this time she was used to the darkness, but Chieftain could not see anything, there was only darkness in front of him, Naki could only carry him forward, fortunately there seemed to be only one road here, and in that one Mick, Naki had not found a single fork in the road, nor had anything terrible appear, until they came here and saw the nine roads and the abyss between each one.
"Probably just one Mick. Naki said and looked at the nine roads, she didn't know which way to go, she was afraid that she would take the wrong way and encounter something bad.
"Mick, I thought it had been a long time, it seems that it was not yet night, I have been wanting to ask you just now, we are underground, right?" asked the chieftain, but a smile appeared on his lips.
"Yes, just now there was only one road ahead of us, but now there are nine roads, have you seen the map, do you know how to get there?" asked Naki, but suddenly saw something flash in the darkness.
"That's right, it's the same as the map, it's really underground, this is the body of the hydra written on the map, the road that doesn't fork is the body of the hydra, and these nine roads are its nine heads, the map doesn't carefully draw which road can be walked, which road can't be walked, but those who know the story of the hydra know, which road in the middle is probably the right one, Lina, do you see if this road is wider than the others?" said the chief excitedly, he didn't expect to see the Tree of Immortality so soon.
Naki didn't answer him, she just raised her head, her eyes stared at it, cold sweat was running down her head, Chieftain felt Naki's body suddenly become cold, and was busy asking her what was wrong, but Naki didn't answer him, still looking at it, although Chieftain couldn't see it, but gradually, he could feel a huge silhouette on it, he raised his head and looked at it.
"Creatures, you can find here, even the Giant Shark King can't find a place, ordinary creatures have found it, tell me, what are you looking for here?" A voice sounded from above, and in front of the eyes of the two of them, there was a large group of tall and huge black shadows, those black shadows looked down at them, and their huge hands slowly pressed down.
At the same time, Heavy Wing and the old man were walking aimlessly in the sand, they had a map, but they didn't know where to go to find the Tree of Immortality, Heavy Wing was already irritable, he felt a pain and weakness in his body, every step he took, he wanted to stop and rest, but he didn't dare to stop, he was afraid that if he stopped, he would never get up again, not to mention that he didn't want the old man next to him to laugh, he had walked with him for so long, and Chongyi finally knew how strong this old man's ability to spread other people's scandals was.
"I said, the family is full of food and support, how can there be a pirate here to marry a wife, in the end is not to go back to the tavern, the biggest problem is that no one wants to raise the child, this is a big trouble, in this den of thieves, this kind of small baby with fine skin and tender flesh will soon be sold to a far away city-state, but this is a good thing for that child, and ah, the poisonous fangs of the northwest corner bay, his teeth are the most poisonous, usually say how much he loves his teeth, but unfortunately they are all broken at his own door, hahaha......" The old man was still chattering, and Heavy Wing tried to cover his ears, but he was weak.
"Well, can we ...... Huh!" After a while, Chongyi couldn't bear it anymore, and wanted to ask the old man to change the topic, but he didn't expect to step on the air, and before he had time to scream, he fell down with the old man, and the worst thing was that the old man was sitting on him, and he was still laughing, so frightened that Chongyi hurriedly used his strength to eat milk, and used a poisonous flash.
"Oh, it's amazing, how do you know there's a hole here, I was scared to death just now, and I thought I was dead, but fortunately, the young man was strong and could resist ......" The old man said with a laugh, ignoring the heavy wings that were curled up on the ground and gritted their teeth in pain.
A few seconds later, Chongyi stood up again, during which the old man was still talking about his boring past, Chongyi didn't want to listen to the old man keep talking, so he stood up and walked forward as soon as he was well, but he didn't expect to step on the air again, but he was prepared this time, the whole person stopped at the edge, and breathed a sigh of relief, but this breath was not finished, and someone suddenly pushed him behind, and the person's laughter was still ringing in the back, so angry that Chongyi wanted to stab him to death with a sword, but unfortunately he was not free now.
As the heavy wing rolled down, the old man also slid down together, and finally still pressed on his body, almost crushing the heavy wing to the back, and after half a day, the old man slowly stood up, and the heavy wing could only threaten the old man weakly: "You wait!"
The old man's laughter stopped, the surroundings became quiet, there was no sound at all, Chongyi looked up slightly to look ahead, and the old man was standing motionless in front of him at this time, looking up and not knowing what he was looking at, Chongyi stood up against the wall, he wanted to see what the old man was seeing, but the poison in his body reduced his bodily functions, and his vision became blurred like his other senses, and at this moment, a clicking sound sounded in the old man's hand, and a cluster of fire lit up in front of the old man.
At this moment, Chongyi saw clearly, in front of the old man was a tall humanoid black shadow, which reminded Chongyi of the black shadows he saw on the Demon Spirit Island, which looked almost identical, but the location of the appearance was different, but one thing was for sure, whether it was the humanoid black shadow on the Demon Spirit Island or here, it would not take the initiative to harm the living beings, for example, the black shadow in front of them now was just looking at them silently.
"Are you here to take us in or to deal with us?" asked the old man, holding out the torch in his hand to the shadow, as if trying to see what was inside the shadow.
The black shadow seemed to understand his words, but did not answer them, just turned around slowly and walked forward slowly, the old man did not say anything anymore, and walked forward behind the black shadow.
"Boy, do you see?" As soon as Heavy Wing ran behind the old man, the old man asked, he kept turning his head to look at the walls on both sides, and Heavy Wing also looked over, but saw some murals carved on the walls, but Kede was very strange, they were just some lines, and he couldn't see anything.
"I see, but this one doesn't seem to have any rules......" Chongyi said after looking at it for a long time, but before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by the old man.
"If you can't read it, you can't say you can't understand it, young people should be humble, don't pretend, the words on these walls are all written in the language of sea beasts, it's normal that you can't read it, but you can't see it as a painting, right?" the old man said and glanced back at Chongyi, seriously as if with contempt.
"What nonsense are you talking about, of course I knew this was text, but I didn't expect it to be the language of sea beasts......" Chongyi was interrupted again by the old man before he finished speaking.
"Yes, it's the first time I've heard that the text is out of order in the mouth of an adventurer, well, you must be curious to know what is written on it, let me see again...... Ah, this describes the fact that Hydra Komal took the form of a human and traveled to the sea, because he had nine heads, so he turned into nine giants, and he called these giants Nome, a giant went to a place, you know where he went, a terrible place, six of them went to the most developed city-state of his time, and of the remaining three, one went to the island of the Devil's Spirit, but that place was too evil, so he soon returned here, and found that he had lost his soul on the island of the Devil's spirit. The old man reached out and touched the shadow, but his hand passed through the shadow's body.
"Where the second one went, even Komar himself doesn't know, and the last one, you can't think of it, let you guess. The old man laughed as he spoke.
"I can't even think of going to Demon Spirit Island, how can I know where they are going?" Chongyi thought to himself, but said on his lips, "I can't guess, can you guide me?"
"Murachi boy, great Murachi!" the old man said, raising his hands, but Heavy Wing gasped, this place was a hundred times more attractive than Demon Spirit Island.