Chapter 49

"Damn the demon vine, Mino, what mission did you choose, it's so troublesome, we might as well hunt demons if we knew it would be like this. ”

A scythe cut off the demonic vine entangled in his ankle, Phil stomped on the demonic vine's frantically twitching stump, and complained to Mino in great frustration.

To this, Mino rolled his eyes and replied angrily.

"It's a decision we made together, okay, why do you find that I'm the only one to blame if you're in trouble, and I'm more troublesome than you, okay, you have time to say those useless things there, you might as well come and help cut this thing. ”

Due to the fact that Blue Moon was sacrificed by Mino, Mino, who can only use the Meteorite to fight the enemy, has no way to take these troublesome magic vines, and the wide sword body and blunt blade of the Meteorite are difficult to easily cut off the magic vines on his feet like the scythe used by Phil.

Looking at Mino, who was squatting on the ground and dismantling the magic vine on his ankle in annoyance, Phil laughed, and the anger that was originally entangled by the magic vine suddenly disappeared a lot, and with a slight swing of the scythe, the magic vine on Mino's ankle was cut into several pieces.

After deciding on the next plan of action yesterday, Mino and Phil immediately went to Clarell's side to take over the task of finding food.

Since the task of hunting the big bugs has already been taken by someone else, Mino, persuaded by Clarell, chose to go to the only plant growing place in the underground labyrinth: the vine area, and collect edible vines and dried vines for fuel.

Originally, in Mino's opinion, compared to hunting big bugs, this gathering task is probably much simpler than the trouble points, after all, hunting big bugs at least has to fight, but collecting vines or something is the same as picking up things, what trouble can there be.

But when they actually came to the vine area, they realized how wrong their idea was.

The vine area is located on the edge of a turbulent underground river, and due to the abundance of water and fertile soil, there are a large number of underground vines that do not need sunlight, and most of the young branches of these vines are usable.

Although the rift leading to the abyss was sealed by the Cult of the Supreme God, and no abyssal aura leaked out, the corpses and blood of the demons who had been slain by the Templars and Trialists over the years still caused some of the underground vines to be infected and demonized.

Although most of these vines' combat power is not even level 1 due to the low degree of demonization, because of the characteristics and number of vines, they still cause considerable trouble to Mino.

It is precisely because the degree of demonization is too low that these demonized vines are no different from the ordinary vines next to them in appearance.

So these vines were like traps, and countless times when Mino's inadvertent passage of time, suddenly wrapped around their ankles, pulling them out of one big horse after another.

Although the soil in this place is soft, Mino's fall will not hurt much, but even if they don't get hurt, no one wants to fall to the ground again and again.

It's a pity that this task has been accepted, and Mino and Phil don't want to go back with such a mud and then get nothing, so they can only grit their teeth and persevere.

Fortunately, after countless times, Mino's experience in falling is also out, every time they feel something strange on their ankles, they can immediately stop their steps and dispose of the vines in advance before falling, although there is still no alleviating effect on delaying time, but at least they don't have to fall.

The Templar Trial is only once a year, and the Templars who usually come here have enough supplies, so naturally they rarely come here to collect any vines to eat, so the resources in this place are also quite rich, even if there is the obstruction of the demonized vines, Mino, they have collected the vines in less than half a day.

Tying up the vines in their hands and tossing them into the storage ring on the ears of the little Steines, Minoan and the others slapped the mud off their hands, sorted out an open space, and began to eat lunch.

Considering the density of the Templar Trials, most of the food that Yelai prepared for Mino was actually cooked food, and although the cold food was not as delicious as the freshly baked one, it was much more delicious than the marching food or something.

And this is also one of the important reasons why Mino's refusal to stay in the temple obediently and recuperate from their injuries while guarding their homes, after all, Mino's reserve food is limited, which is enough for two people, and for the sake of long-term planning, it is impossible for them to eat these good things when they are with others.

One of them held a roast chicken and gnawed it for a long time, until it was only a bare bone, and then Minoan and Phil raised their heads and looked at each other with greasy mouths and laughed.

"You guy is really a hypocrite, when you were in the temple, you said that the marching food was not bad, at least it could fill your stomach, so why did you eat the chicken cleanly, but when you ate the marching food, you only ate a few bites and didn't eat it. ”

While wiping the grease stains from his mouth, Phil winked at Mino, laughing at him.

In this regard, Mino picked up a chicken bone, threw it at Phil without thinking about it, and said angrily: "Then you don't have the ability to eat, at least I ate it in the morning, unlike some people, I didn't taste a bite, and said that I would come to the vine area to eat tender vines, and leave the precious food for everyone, and I don't know the shame." ”

"Isn't this waiting to eat good things now, hehe, there is a delicious roast chicken to eat, who wants to eat those tasteless marching foods. Dodging Mino's chicken bone toss, Phil smiled, reached out and broke off a tender vine from the ground on the side, and excused himself as he shoved it into his mouth: "And I didn't say I wouldn't eat it, you see, I'm eating vines right now." ”

These vines that grow underground absorb a lot of water from the ground, and their young vines chew like eating fruit, which not only replenishes water, but also has a slight sweetness, which is also a good food in this underground labyrinth, and Phil obviously treats this vine as an after-dinner dessert.

While laughing as he shoved the vine into his mouth, seeing that Phil was about to bite down, Mino noticed a detail in a flash, and immediately stopped Phil's movements.

"Wait a minute!"

Under Phil's puzzled gaze, Mino took the vine from his hand that was about to enter, pointed to the gap on it and said solemnly.

"Look, the gap on this is not like a human bite?"

Phil looked at it and realized that the tiny gap in the vine didn't look like it was bitten by a big bug, and the demon didn't have any interest in the vine at all.

"And you look at the freshness of the gap on it, it is obvious that it has only been bitten in the last two days, and none of the people in the temple have come from the vine area, and no one has been here, so the one who bites this gap can only be one of the six people who are still wandering outside!"

Speaking of this, Mino, they couldn't take a break, and immediately began to look for possible companions everywhere, after all, the current situation is so grim, one more person, one more power to fight against demons.

About a kilometer from Mino and Phil in the vine area, an unkempt, embarrassed-looking man was digging hard at the ground with his sword, as if he was trying to dig a big hole, and next to him, a man who had been pierced in the chest by a long sword lay down.

"Jack, you bastard, why don't you protect your supplies, why do you want it to be ruined by those damn demons, why do you have to rob me of my supplies!"

After digging the big pit, the man threw aside the long sword full of dirt in his hand, panted and walked to the side of the corpse next to him to rest, I don't know if he suddenly thought of something, suddenly kicked the corpse next to him, and then scolded and complained loudly.

"If you hadn't forced me to steal my food and force me to kill you, and the two of us would have persevered together until we found this vine area, you wouldn't have to die, Jack, blame me, if only I had given you the food, if only we had discovered the vine area earlier, blame me." ”

The man scolded and kicked and cursed, and the tears flowed from his eyes, and finally he couldn't help himself, and lay on the corpse of the man named Jack and began to cry.

Not far away, in a vine bush, Mino and Phil looked at each other, and saw the horror in each other's eyes, and they didn't know what to say.

The two of them carefully searched the vicinity of the place where the bitten vine had been found, and after some difficult searching, they finally found the man who had killed his companion.

As soon as the two of them found him, they planned to greet him out loud, but they didn't expect one to pay attention to it, and they actually tripped over the demonized vine again, and they didn't have time to let the person find themselves for a while, but they heard this shocking and inexplicable news from this person's self-talk by mistake.

A Paladin apprentice who followed the path of the Holy Light and had already obtained the seed of the Holy Light, in order to survive in this underground labyrinth, actually killed his companions who wanted to rob him of his food.

Knowing such a thing, even if Mino, they had already removed the vines from their ankles, they didn't dare to go out to greet this person.

They really couldn't imagine what the man would do to the two of them who knew only about it after learning that his killing of his companion was exposed.

I'm afraid that when the time comes, Mino, they will not find a companion, but an enemy who shares the sky.

But the person who was finally found didn't even see it on his face, and he was about to give up, which was really unwilling.

Neither advance nor retreat, Phil ran out of ideas for a while, and set his eyes on Mino, expecting him to come up with an idea.

But Mino was stunned and didn't know what he was thinking, his eyes were dazed, and he didn't respond to Phil for a long time.

After a while, just as Phil had made up his mind to go out to try his luck and stop the man, Mino suddenly stopped Phil, shook his head at him with a gloomy expression, and pulled him away cautiously and secretly.