Chapter 40: Seeking the Enemy
Due to Carl's physical condition, everyone rested until noon, after lunch, Carl barely recovered, Xu Luo gave Carl a few bags of warm salt water, so that he has been replenishing water, in the process of integrating into the metal plate Carl lost too much water, but they can already set off, they have to hurry up to find the sea monster, although the sea monster does not dare to dive into the deep sea, but it will definitely change to a coastal place to hide, it is not easy to find it. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Scott had a detailed map of the coastline, and according to the map, they had demarcated five locations, and the large army rushed to the middle one, while the eight rangers in the Wind Mercenary Regiment were scattered and went to the other four locations in pairs to reconnoitre. Ranger is another one-turn class for archers, and it is generally shortbow archers who choose to turn this class, which is characterized by flexibility and speed, and melee attacks are not weak.
Seeing the eight rangers flying on the branches of the giant tree, jumping quickly into the distance, the shortbow archers in the Karl mercenary group were all envious, they couldn't make this level of leap now, if this mission could be successfully completed, then they would be very hopeful that they would be able to transfer successfully.
"Let's go, we're going to hurry. "Although the large army can't fly the wall like this, they can also run in small steps, all the horses of the Wind Mercenary Regiment were left outside the forest before, and the trail in the forest is not suitable for war horses to gallop, so now it is very embarrassing, and they can only jog on two legs.
Scott's choice of the middle spot is a seaside cliff with a huge cave at the bottom of the cliff, the opening is round, half underwater, half water, and the huge cavern feels like it can easily accommodate an A+ class monster as huge as a sea monster.
"How do you go down?" Xu Luo was a little dizzy, and his slight fear of heights made him still afraid to look directly at such a high drop, but there were cliffs all around, and Xu Luo also knew that it was difficult for them to go down.
"Let's go down with ropes, Xu Luo, you and the wounded and a few axe warriors from your team stay here. "Xu Luo, Xi Luoli such a person who has no combat effectiveness will naturally not go down, the wounded also stay on it, and then there are a few axe warriors, the axe warriors themselves are not high, and the defense is not high, and it is very likely that the sea monster is dragging its feet, so it can only stay on it temporarily, only when the axe warrior turns is it a powerful profession, and now it is indeed very embarrassing.
The first to go down is a ranger and a Juggernaut of the Wind Mercenary Regiment, both of which are flexible professions that can ensure their own safety, and the Juggernaut is well equipped and can be used as a half-flesh shield to protect the Ranger, this combination is the standard configuration used by the Wind Mercenary Regiment to explore unknown caves.
After about half an hour, the two mercenaries who went down came up along the rope, according to their discovery, there are obvious friction marks on the cave wall, the traces are very new, and there are a few fine bone fragments, and then they don't dare to enter, for fear of any horses' feet, but if nothing else, this is the place where the sea monster hides, hearing this news, everyone is very excited, the first point is found, the sooner they fight, the greater their hope of victory.
"Let's go, everybody go down. Scott and Carl took the lead in pulling the rope to rappel, Jingluo and Xu Luo said hello and also slid down, and after about half an hour, all the combatants went down, leaving only Xu Luo and more than a dozen of them non-combatants and wounded soldiers.
Xu Luo stood boldly on the cliff on the side of the cave entrance, and saw that everyone had all entered the dark cave, and in the distance, the remnant sun was like blood, shining in the cave, smearing this ancient cave with a layer of magnificent orange red.
Maybe others will think it is very magnificent, but Xu Luo saw a little different, first of all, the edge of the whole cave is too smooth, if it is said that it is in contact with the sea water, it will become smooth by the impact of the tide, but above the cave, the place where the sea water cannot touch is also very smooth, which is very unreasonable, as if this cave was artificially excavated.
This can't help but remind Xu Luo of the legend that Carl told him about this abyssal sea before, in fact, he has always been very strange, such as the deep sea under his feet, the degree that he can't see the bottom at a glance, in terms of the depth of the sea, it is enough to accommodate a lot of deep-sea monsters, which is rare in the coastal area, and in the world he was in before, this kind of place is a very suitable deep-water port, or submarine base.
Secondly, since the sea is deep enough, why don't there be deep-sea demonic beasts here? Is it just that they don't want to come to the coastal area? Xu Luo didn't understand very well, he didn't study geography after all, he studied archaeology and programming, so he decided to find the answer in his own way.
According to his thinking, in order to ensure the safety and feasibility of the overall building, if the cave is really a man-made facility, then its exit must be set away from the coast, of course, considering the technology of the ancient people, well, this kind of facility can only be built by the ancients, so it should not be too far away.
Xu Luo spread out the map, according to the contour line near the coast here to find three steep slopes, suitable for building an entrance, Xu Luo and the people who stayed on the edge of the cliff said something to follow the map to find these three places, maybe finding the entrance did not have much effect, but Xu Luo vaguely felt that there would be some clues about the mysterious disappearance of ancient people here, after all, modern humans have studied ancient people for so many years, and they have never found large-scale ancient human remains, as if they were destroyed by something. This anomaly had always bothered Xu Luo, and now, he finally saw a glimmer of hope, the ancients and his reasoning about this world presented a particularly magical paradox, he couldn't understand why the ancients were wiped out by the dragons, just because they were disobedient?
The night was already dark, and it was still very dangerous for Xu Luo to walk alone in the woods, but he couldn't care about this danger at the moment, but he was full of a strange excitement, as if after the program was written, he entered the error checking stage, and the mood of both anticipation and apprehension was so wonderful that he was deeply intoxicated.
He found that the starry sky tonight was exceptionally bright, compared with last night, it seemed that the forest here was much more sparse, so the moonlight could shine on the earth, and he found the first steep slope very smoothly by the moonlight, and sure enough, as he expected, there were obvious man-made traces of the steep slope, Xu Luo took out the shovel he was carrying, and smashed it into the mound, and the sound of gold and iron intersecting shook his hands numb.
"It's so shallow?" Xu Luo shook his numb hands, peeled off the soil layer, revealing the light red metal inside, and when his fingers touched it, a layer of rusty metal was wiped off, Xu Luo's brows wrinkled inadvertently, he stood up, looked at the steep soil layer by the moonlight, and gasped.