Chapter 363: Hidden Weapon
A group of more than twenty men and horses hurried through the dense sea, and their hurried appearance highlighted their eagerness to get there, but they never noticed that there was a tail behind them, and this tail was only one man and one woman.
The two of them are very good at tracking them, almost watertightly, except for the sound of mosquitoes.
As for why they were not found to be following behind, it has to be mentioned from the origin of this group of people that the adventurers themselves do not pay much attention to the direction of action, and do not care whether they are followed by fellow travelers.
It's more like a group of people leading the way, this is also the unspoken rule of the adventure group, no matter which adventure group takes the next adventure mission, there may be an adventure group that can't take on this kind of adventure mission to follow closely, maybe it can't grab the staple food with the powerful adventure group, at least be able to drink a bowl of soup.
However, there is also a great risk in this, after all, without the corresponding ability, it is indeed necessary to pay a heavy price if you want to gnaw the difficult bones, and indirectly, you will become a group of pathfinders who are not afraid of life and death, commonly known as cannon fodder!
This didn't become apparent until a month or so, because there was originally only one group of adventurers who traveled through the night, but now there are dozens of adventure groups, and each one has more or less one or two tails behind them.
Visually, there are thousands of these people, all of whom have reached the fifth order or above, and most of them are stepping on the sixth-order threshold, and a very few are standing on the seventh-order threshold.
And when so many adventurers get together, they have to quarrel, let alone have a heated discussion, and they are all in a state of excitement.
The topic is also about the cave where they were born, and they are exchanging valuable information with each other, but unfortunately, no matter how valuable it is, it seems that it is obtained from the adventurer's guild.
It has to be mentioned here that the adventure group needs to pay a certain fee to obtain information, otherwise it is difficult to obtain any information from the adventurer's guild, and each adventure mission has a different price, the higher the price, the greater the danger factor, and the more extremely expensive treasures are unearthed.
Over the years, a considerable part of the treasures left in the world in the Warrior Continent have come from adventurers, and no matter what kind of treasure they are, they will become private property, and they will disappear after the holder sits down.
The adventurer is to dig out these sleeping treasures, let the treasures see the light of day, those that suit them come down, and sell those that are not suitable for themselves, so that the cycle continues, so that the treasures will never lose their original glory, so as to create the adventurer, a special profession dedicated to digging the predecessors to sit in the cave.
For those who were unable to purchase expensive equipment from the right path, this path was simply the most convenient path reserved for poor cultivators.
It's not like a mercenary group, which runs around all year round, but is far from being able to buy a satisfactory piece of equipment that can be taken out, so many people are willing to take risks, but also to get involved in this vicious circle of nine deaths and life, just to get expensive equipment and enrich their combat effectiveness.
It also made Li Chen secretly sigh that adventurers have a great responsibility, and they can taste the hardships of adventurers, no one wants to take risks, and no one wants to bend their waists for half a bucket of rice, but the world is so unfair, only a small number of people have no worries about food and clothing, and the vast majority of people have to rely on their hands to earn their own things.
At this moment, they had reached an endless stretch of mountains, and it seemed that there was nothing peculiar about the mountains, but this adventure group of a thousand people stopped, staring greedily at the mountains one by one, but there was a solemn color.
Just because at the entrance of this group of mountains, there are corpses that have long since decomposed, and there are crooked arrow feathers stuck in the ground, there are actually thousands, densely packed into patches, and there is no reflection under the sun, as if they have been rusted, and it can no longer be highlighted that it is made of steel, in fact, everyone present understands that it is not rust, but smeared with a layer of black venom.
"Those corpses look like they were all poisoned to death, judging from the degree of decay, they have been dead for a long time, why are they still coming to the cave now?" Li Chen looked at the corpses lying on the ground from a distance, and could vaguely see the purple-black, non-decomposed parts, and his brows were also furrowed.
"They should be the first adventurers to discover this cave, but unfortunately, they have already touched the secret weapons that protect the cave before they can explore it, so that they all die here, and the survivors resell the situation here to the adventurer's guild to earn some meager compensation!" Zhu Feiyan explained.
Just when Li Chen understood the reason, some of the thousands of adventurers couldn't resist the greed, and when one of the adventure groups started to act, they immediately ignited the heat of all the adventure groups, like a swarm of bees rushing towards the location of the corpse at an extremely fast speed, so that the sound of breaking wind continued to come out.
And they didn't blindly open up a new road, choosing the footprints left by their predecessors to go on, as for why, you don't need to guess to know that the mechanism touched by the predecessors has lost its effect, why should they grope for a new way into the mountains?
The so-called taking the road that the predecessors have walked and taking the achievements that the predecessors have not been able to achieve, this is the clear criterion for adventurers.
"Let's follow them into the mountains too?" Li Chen saw that this group of people had already started to move, and he couldn't help but want to follow, but he was a layman, and he didn't know enough about it, so he naturally asked for the opinions of people who knew something, and asked.
"Don't you see that there won't be any danger in the area they are in now, but as soon as they touch the mechanism, there will be an overwhelming array of hidden weapons shooting out, although this possibility is very small, but it is not impossible, and don't you see that there are still ten waves of adventure groups that have not moved?" Zhu Feiyan shook his head.
At this time, Li Chen also found that there were indeed a few people around him who had not taken action, and they were all waiting and watching, as Zhu Feiyan said, waiting was the safest way.
"Aren't they afraid that all the treasures in the cave will be taken away?" Immediately, he thought of a place, the so-called first come, first served, last served.
No matter how much ability the latter has, before the former gets any treasure, he basically won't fight, so many people hope to take advantage of this to quickly pocket the treasure, never revealing some clues and attracting others to plunder.
"If you own a manor with a hidden weapon, will you store the treasures in the front yard or in the backyard?" Zhu Feiyan did not answer directly, but asked rhetorically.
"I understand, the precious treasures are in the depths!" Li Chen immediately opened his house, trying to understand why the ten waves of adventure groups with seventh-order cultivation were not taking action.
It's like the first part is the appetizer and the second is the main course, is the main course important? Or is the appetizer important?
I believe that many people will choose the main dish, only the main dish can really be on the table, not that the appetizer has no value, but people like to look far ahead, only think about the good, and naturally the interest in the second class is greatly reduced.
It is also equivalent to giving cannon fodder a bowl of soup to drink, as for how much they can drink, it depends on their respective opportunities.
Now, they strode through the nebula covered with venom-coated arrow feathers, and as soon as they crossed the area of the arrow feathers, they immediately became cautious, and they basically groped their way forward, and observed almost every step they took out, as if they were afraid of stepping on the mechanism.
This method of probing is very slow, like a snail climbing, suppressed, and the sound of heavy exhalation constantly comes from their faces, and their eyes are full of vigilance.
Time passed little by little, about ten minutes or so, and the distance they advanced was only 100 meters, which was a little too slow.
"No matter how powerful the secret weapon is, it is man-made, and I don't believe that we thousands of people let this little secret weapon choke to death? Which brave brother rushed in with Lao Tzu?" The torment simply made many people with greed in their hearts unbearable, as if they were forced into a cliff, and a decision as if they were not successful came from the mouth of a middle-aged man with a flushed face.
No one rushed to the entrance of the mountains, as if they were all considering whether this method was feasible or not, after all, no one wanted to gamble with their lives, which was a bit of a paving the way for those who came after them, they just wanted to drink the bowl of soup in peace.
"It's a fucking bunch of bastards, you don't want the treasures inside, so don't rush in with Lao Tzu!" The person who spoke before sounded again with a mocking voice, and then rushed towards the entrance of the mountains first, followed by about twenty people, no need to guess that they were all in a group.
With them leading the team to rush out, it immediately had a chain reaction, no matter what the hesitation was just now, or for other reasons, now, they were not allowed to wait another second, as if as long as they gave a little more time to the people who rushed out early, they couldn't even drink the bowl of soup.
Suddenly, the thousands of people seemed to be crazy, and rushed towards the entrance of the mountains frantically, no longer caring whether there would be a mechanism on the ground, but their hands holding weapons exposed green tendons, which showed that they were also very nervous.
The group that rushed out first suddenly slowed down, so that the leading position instantly allowed those behind to overtake the past, and the face of the person who spoke showed a sneer of successful trickery.
"Click!" Just as they were charging, someone touched a mechanism, and a mechanical sound was drowned out by the sound of breaking wind, and no one could hear it.
"Boom!" But time froze at this moment, and one by one sharp arrow feathers rose from the ground, as if they saw through the sky, and there was a shocking sound of high-speed wind breaking, and this batch of arrow feathers seemed to be overwhelming, and after they tossed the space and twisted down rapidly, like a huge net shooting towards the thousand centaurs, and the fluctuations circulating above were also to the point where even the sixth-order cultivators felt panicked.