Valley City, in a tunnel underground

It's not the first time Leon has entered the city, nor is it the first time he's dive into the underground world that the nezumi have excavated. But the Knight Captain always felt that he was exploring a completely unfamiliar area. This is not to blame for the Blood Lion, leaving aside the Valleytown during the reign of the Saron family, it has been a long time since he and the advance team of the Knights of the Kingdom entered Canyon City after the outbreak of the Nezumi plague and were captured by the mutants. With the nezumen's digging capabilities, the underground system that Leon saw at that time was nothing compared to today. The same is true compared to the opponents they will face.

"I miss the days when there were only rats here. The Blood Lion wiped the stain from the blade with a handkerchief, not red blood or yellow fat, but a foul-smelling tan viscous liquid, consistent with what flowed from the head of the oversized beetle sitting beneath the knight. Leon habitually wanted to take the handkerchief into his arms after finally clearing the weapon, but he sniffed the smell on it, thought for a moment and threw it next to the corpse.

"We can't go very far if we go on like this. Bakham shook the smudge from the knife and sheathed it. After the knife broke, the stubborn elf never chose another weapon to replace.

The Knight Chief knew very well that he was right, that the beetle he had killed with the elves was only an easy opponent to deal with, and its heavy carapace was difficult to penetrate, but otherwise it was not aggressive. And in this criss-crossing underground network, God knows what tough guys are still hiding. But the more this happened, the greater the reward of the reconnaissance work, and after a short break, the Blood Lion chose to move on.

However, if Leon had known that the two who had killed the beetle had been remembered by the insect legion under Coula's command like Kalus, he would not have made such an easy decision. Of course, that's another story, but now the brave Knight of the Kingdom and his elven servants must make their way carefully through the narrow, dark tunnels of the nezumi. Thankfully, the nezumi, both mutants and proto-nezumi, seem to be masters of underground construction, and while the tunnels look rough and rudimentary, they show no signs of collapsing.

Until, the two of them turned the next corner of the tunnel. A large amount of rubble and clods of earth blocked the tunnel from top to bottom, leaving no gaps.

"This road doesn't work? Looks like we're going to have to go the other way. Bakham said with some unhappiness, in his opinion, there is nothing wrong with a few dead ends in such a dense underground network.

And his knights seem to have a different opinion. Leon leaned down and picked up a handful of soil with his gloved hands, and since his vision was greatly limited in this environment, the Blood Lion chose to compensate with his senses of smell and touch. "This place was deliberately collapsed. The falling clods are drier and more delicate than the surrounding ones, apparently designed to block enemy traps in case of danger. Shaking his hand to clean the sand from his hands, Leon came to a conclusion.

"But what's the use of that? Their opponents are the worms, and they dig through this tunnel without much effort. The elf said helplessly, admitting that this kind of mechanism could keep most of the intruders out, but in the face of the huge insects domesticated by the witches, Buckham could only sigh that the rats had encountered the most restrained opponents.

The Blood Lion walked up to Hu Cong, "That's not right, this tunnel hasn't been dug up, has it?" there were some herbs mixed in the sand, probably meant to keep the soil used in the trap dry, but now it seems that they may just happen to have an insect control effect. Look around, the bugs won't give up so easily, they should find another way. ”

Bakham nodded, the gift from the elves allowed him to faintly see the outlines of things in the dark, although it was only outlines, but it was much better than humans. Hu Cong searched for a while, and sure enough, he found a small hole that had been ignored not far away. Judging from the excavation marks at the entrance of the cave, this is definitely not the work of the nezumi.

"Found it, here. But, why is this hole so small?" The elf carefully stroked the edge of the hole with his hand, and bursts of cold air mixed with the smell of unknown sources emanated from the small hole. Buckham estimated that such a crypt could barely walk with him and Leon on his feet, but it was too small for a giant insect. So far, at least, elves have never seen such a "small" bug.

"It's not that the bigger the opponent, the harder it is to deal with. Body size and the amount of trouble you get are often not proportional. Leon said, tentatively dipping his scabbard into the small hole. At some point, his scabbard was adorned with a clasp engraved with the crow's emblem, and the crow's eyes were two fine rubies. It was a gift from the Raven to the knight, and when the scabbard approached some traps, the ruby on it would glow red to alert its owner. Leon is very skeptical about how this thing defines the concept of "trap".

But no matter how distrustful he was of the wizard's supplies, the red light didn't come on, and Leon knew that time was everything in a place like this, and he had to step up and get enough information before the other party could completely take over the nezumi underground passages before he left. So without much hesitation, the chief knight hung his sword back on his belt and bowed into the small hole.

Bakham pursed his lips, his instincts telling him to flee the underground as soon as possible, but his identification with Leon made him suppress this uneasiness and follow his knight.

The curved passage went straight down, and from time to time clods of dirt fell as the two of them advanced. This couldn't help but make Leon quicken his pace, this kind of tunnel usually doesn't last long, and he only hopes that the road ahead hasn't collapsed yet. The knight's worries proved to be unnecessary, and as his feet emptied, Leon's body was the first to leave the narrow tunnel, and then the whole person fell straight in front of Buckham's eyes. "Hell!" the elf cursed to himself, and jumped out of the crypt with the former.

"Click!" the blood lion didn't fall for long, he calculated that he had probably fallen two or three meters high, and then stepped on some... Above the carapace. "Prepare for battle. Leon jumped to the left and reminded Bakham who was following him. At the same time, his sword was already in his hand.

The elf had already unsheathed his weapon before he landed, and after touching the ground, he quickly found Leon's position, and he and the knight protected each other's dead corners back-to-back. And in the darkness around them, there was a lot of "clicking" sounds.

"Can you see what it is?" asked the Blood Lion, hoping to at least get a description of the enemy's appearance. This allows him to guess how the opponent is attacking.

"I'll try," Bakham tried to see through the darkness, but even with elven vision, it was not easy to see in the completely lightless underground. After about five seconds, he hesitated and said, "Like, it's some ants, big ants." ”

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