Chapter 45: Hidden Stronghold
Squatting down and groping for the corpse of the Hidden Serpent cultist who had just been slain by himself, Watson hoped to get more information about the Hidden Serpent Church from him, but found nothing to gain other than an inferior double snake Ouroboros ring that presumably identified their church. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Marina, can you feel the aura of darkness in them? I have dealt with the people in the garrison of Dongcheng before, and I have heard that the people of these churches can gain great power through sacrifices to certain evil beings, and I want to know something about this sacrifice. ”
After using his dark perception to no avail, Watson tried to get Marina, who was more sensitive to various energies, to try to get more information with her powerful perception.
"I'm sorry, but I don't feel any traces of some kind of foreign energy in this person, and according to some of the texts I've read about sacrificial rituals before, the higher the sacrifice, the greater the cost, and I don't think these low-ranking members of the church are eligible for this treatment...... What do you think?"
"Well, you have a point. Now let's go and see the man we saved. ”
Watson got up and turned to the professional who was being chased before, the other party seemed to have been injured in the chase just now, even if he could still get up from the ground, but his left foot kept tiptoeing and did not land, and the whole person leaned against a big tree.
"Thank you very much for your help, my name is Kent and I have joined the Mercenary Guild as a professional. ”
Kent thanked him as soon as he came up, and identified himself to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings.
"We belong to the Demon Hunting Guild, I wonder why they chased you just now, as far as I know, these members of the Hidden Snake Church should be hostile to government personnel, and mercenaries like you should not be on their hunt list. ”
"That's because our team stumbled upon one of their strongholds...... I didn't enter the Myral Wasteland alone, I had a small team before that, we hunted some beasts or rudimentary monsters to earn commissions, and then while chasing a porcupine, I stumbled upon the stronghold of the Hidden Serpent Church, and it was bad...... We were found and hunted down during the evacuation, and I was the only one left...... Those dog mongrels!"
Kent's eyes were a little red, it seemed that the people in the previous team had a good relationship with him, and now he was the only one left who died suddenly, which made him feel sad and extremely angry.
"Where's the place?"
Marlena glanced at Watson at this time, and the two looked at each other for a while, and Watson turned his head and asked.
"You want to go over, I think it's just the two of you...... I'm sorry, I don't have any doubts about the strength of the two of you, it's just that it's dangerous. ”
"You don't have to worry, we naturally have our way, you just need to tell us the location, more detailed. ”
"Detailed location...... I think I can take you there, I remember the location of the stronghold, but if I had to describe it in detail, after all, this is the Molar Heath, and there is no clear reference point. ”
After pursing his lips and thinking for a while, probably still unable to organize the language, Kent finally said as if he had made a big decision.
"How are you ......?"
"I've got to give a little bit of an account to my dead friends, and I can't help them avenge them myself, but I can still do it if I add some blockage to the Hidden Serpent Church. ”
"Thank you very much. ”
Holding Kent by the shoulder, Watson assures Marlena that there are no other Hidden Serpent cultists lurking around, and the three of them begin to move in the direction Kent instructs.
Since it is the hidden stronghold of the Hidden Snake Church, it is naturally not swaggering to build on the wasteland, according to Kent, they found the stronghold is also quite a coincidence, the location of the stronghold is underground, and there is only one entrance hidden between the stone forests on the surface, or in a large pile of randomly placed rocks, this kind of direction will not have anything valuable, so most professionals will deliberately avoid these places when entering the wasteland to hunt.
At that time, it was also the target of their pursuit, and they rushed into it in a panic, and Kent and his party didn't want to find nothing, so they followed, as a mercenary team, when they found these secret entrances, their first reaction was of course not to run away immediately, but to find a way to explore first, and as a result, they found the mark of the Hidden Snake Church just a few steps inside, and it was too late to run, of course, this kind of stronghold will have a special agency to prevent infiltration.
In fact, these people had already touched the sensing mechanism when they entered the mouth, and were discovered by the people inside, and a team of Hidden Snake Cultists immediately rushed out of it and began to chase them, and the mercenary team that originally wanted to make some resistance could only choose to disperse and flee after being surrounded by more than a dozen Hidden Snake Cultists.
Kent who was fleeing watched his teammates being chased and knocked unconscious one by one, and he could only rely on various means to escape, thinking that he could rely on the terrain to enter the bushes, but he was still caught up, if it weren't for the help of Watson and Marina, then he would have to be knocked unconscious by them and brought back.
"Stun...... Why don't they just kill you?, yes, I've seen the Hidden Serpent Cultists besiege and not kill them, but what are you worth to them?"
Holding Kent forward, Watson asked thoughtfully, listening to his description.
"Maybe it's for sacrifice. If you want to gain power by sacrificing to certain beings, you always have to pay for it, and if you don't want to pay it, you have to let others help pay for it, and human flesh and soul are the best sacrifices, and I think they don't kill these people to make it easier to have a little more leverage when they sacrifice. ”
Marlena, who had been silent next to her, suddenly said in a deep voice, her tone was quite cold and caused Kent to look at her, but Watson knew that it was just her pretending.
"When I arrived, I was in the stone forest in front of me, and the specific location was a large gravel pile in the stone forest in this direction, and I should be able to find that there was an entrance there, and I would not move forward if I was inconvenient, so as not to drag you down. ”
As he spoke, Kent had already led the two of them out of the bushes according to the route he had fled before, and the location of the stone forest was not far from the bushes, so after he had finished explaining, he also signaled to Watson to let him go.
"What do we do now, if they were discovered before, then the possibility of the two of us going in and being found will be very high, the number of enemies in the stronghold is uncertain, and it will be not good for us to be besieged at that time. ”
When Kent disappeared into the bushes again, he collapsed again with a cold look, walked to Watson's side and frowned.
"How far can you go with the shield you just used to mask your breath?"
"It's different, it's one thing to cover up the aura, it's another thing to be invisible, I can hide the aura on us, but I can't hide our figures, after all, it's noon, even the assassins can't do that. ”
Probably understanding the meaning of Watson's words, Marina scratched her head and pinched her petite chin and said that a tall woman doing this kind of action made Watson look awkward.
"Can you stop doing this? It doesn't seem to match your whole temperament. ”
"Hey, don't worry about these details, you see I didn't pretend to be very good, now you tell me how to solve the problem that is easy to find. ”
"Didn't you say that we can't hide our bodies? Then we should find a bigger target to attract their attention, and we must rely on that target to attract the people in the stronghold so that we can get in, otherwise we will have to be restrained if we go in and do something. ”
Watson bent down and took the dumpling from the ground into his arms and kneaded it, causing it to keep screaming softly.
"You mean mountain trolls?"
"Smart, don't forget why we came in the direction, Dumpling just gave me a message, the location of the troll is not far from here, can you sense it now and see if you can detect the life fluctuations of large creatures?"
“...... We're in luck, the trolls seem to be in the stone forest in front of us!"
After closing her eyes for a moment, Marlena opened her eyes and looked at Watson in surprise.
"Look, isn't that the best goal? a strong vitality represents a strong soul, if those Hidden Serpent Cultists saw such a mountain troll, would they use it as a sacrifice?"
"If these people are the kind of strength we just encountered...... I promise they won't, because if the number of professionals of this level is less than double digits, they will be eaten one by one by the mountain trolls as moving pieces of meat! This kind of monster can't be easily solved by numbers, and without the means to break through its defenses, then it's useless to go to many people, so it's just to feed people!"
"So what if we can make them have to collide with this mountain troll? If there is a mountain monster hanging around the door of their colony, I don't believe they can sit idly by! As you said, if you want to deal with this kind of large monster, one or two people will definitely not work, and then this stronghold will have to send a lot of people to deal with it, and this is our chance, take advantage of this gap to get what we can take, and then quickly withdraw, maybe then they will just take out the mountain troll, and we will still be able to complete our mission. ”
Telling Marlena about his impromptu plan, Watson began to approach the Stone Grove.
The area of the whole stone forest is quite vast, this terrain is a major feature of the Myral Wasteland, which can be seen almost everywhere, and most of the area is not small, which also gives the Myral Wasteland a rocky jungle nickname.
Walking into the periphery of the stone forest, according to Marina's exploration and Kent's description, Watson quickly determined the location of the troll and the location of the large pile of rubble, because it can't be exposed now, and only need to lead the troll there to force the people of the stronghold out, so there is no need to approach now, the role of dumplings is once again reflected, as a magical beast is still very common in this kind of wasteland, and it will not attract too much attention.
Transformed into a black leopard again, the dumpling jumped from stone to stone and kept getting closer to the mountain troll, and after a sound of gravel falling to the ground, a loud roar suddenly sounded.