132. Coward
The four men walked among the moonlit woods, and they did not hold torches, but were illuminated by the simple blue water on the head of Jasmine, who led the way.
Their march was actually quite quiet, and even the horseshoe-covered Syatt did not make a lot of noise when he wasn't running, let alone Miss Anna, who was dressed in her traditional Nari attire.
Although she did not wear complicated high heels, it was very difficult to walk such a mountain path even in the flats of an ordinary lady.
She had been walking slowly, unable to keep up with the men in front of her, but she was so strong that she didn't say a word, just trying to keep up with everyone.
Fisher noticed her embarrassment, and strange to say, his "Fisher intuition" always felt that Anna was very dangerous at first sight, but when they got along with her, they only felt that she was an ordinary lady and had no means of resistance.
Aside from her extraordinary beauty, there was nothing else remarkable about Anna.
Speaking of which, her appearance is completely like a person from the Western Continent, and she herself once said that she is a human from the Southern Continent, and Fisher has seen a human from the Southern Continent, which is roughly the kind of person who wears a grass skirt and draws complex patterns with natural dyes on her face, and there should be a certain gap between her appearance and that of the people of the Western Continent...
Pressing the question in her heart, Fisher didn't warm up and reached out to her, anyway, she could probably keep up.
"Is this underground river really that far away, Jasmine?"
Siat looked at the blue water flowing above Jasmine's head, and it kept pointing to the Nari Lake in the distance, and there was no sign of shifting, which also showed that there was indeed a passage in the Nari Lake that could be returned to the sea.
They had been walking for more than half an hour, but they still found nothing.
"Hmm... I don't know, but I should find out if I walk a little further. ”
Jasmine poked the blue water on her forehead, and she pointed unwaveringly at Lake Nari next to it, Fisher glanced at the endless dense forest in front of her, shook her head and said,
"No, it's too slow, we have to speed it up..."
Anna pursed her lips after hearing this, and said apologetically to the three of them,
"Sorry for my question."
"Otherwise, let me carry her on my back, so that I can go faster..."
Fisher glanced at Syatt, who spoke, in surprise, and more specifically, at the not-so-wide body of the horse behind her.
"You?"
As mentioned earlier, the body of a centaur breed is actually inferior to that of a real horse, and when Fisher studied Syat, he felt that the part behind her was actually not very wide, and it seemed to be a little reluctant to carry people.
"Well, if this lady wasn't very heavy, I could still give it a try."
Syaat can't help it, this Anna walks too slowly, she has to take a break after walking a few steps, although she doesn't feel good about this lady, but she has no other problems getting along with her for a while, and it is not too much of a problem to take her for a distance.
"I... Give it a try. ”
Anna was not reckless, and slowly walked to Syat's side, Fisher helped her to climb up to Syat's body, the horse behind her body did not have a saddle and other items, so she sat a little reluctantly, for a while Anna was a little scared and hugged Syat's waist, but this intimate act instantly made Syat's little face red, and almost didn't run out directly.
"I'm sorry... Am I holding it too tightly? ”
"Also... OK. ”
Fisher looked at the two ladies hugging each other with dead fish eyes, and always felt that there was a sense of harmony in this picture, but maybe it was just his appreciation of ladies as a gentleman...
"In that case, let's go full speed ahead and try to get there sooner."
"No problem, hold it tight."
"Hmm..."
Siat raised the horse's hooves in front of him, Jasmine and Fisher were both physically healthy, and of course they could run with all their might.
Seeing the centaur Shia take a deep breath, he rushed forward.
It was the first time Fisher had seen the centaur run at full speed, and it was so fast that she could walk on the ground even on the uneven mountain roads, and it was hard to imagine how beautiful it must have been for her to run on the grassland.
Jasmine and Fisher glanced at each other, and ran quickly to keep up, after all, Siat had a person on her back, Fisher and Jasmine quickly followed her pace, and they could see Anna holding Siat with her eyes closed, which was a little too fast for her.
"Da Da Da!"
"Wait, the direction has changed!"
It didn't take long for Jasmine beside Fisher to suddenly open her mouth, and she saw that above her forehead, the blue water was turning in a circle, and she stopped and looked in the direction the water ring was pointing.
Shyat and Anna also stopped, but before Shyat could turn back, Anna was already covering her mouth and almost fell off.
"You... Are you okay? ”
"Gross!"
Anna stepped out of Syaat's body and walked towards the trees beside her, half-bent over, almost vomiting out her stomach acid.
She was on a roller coaster ride on a centaur like a roller coaster, and it was fast, which was like a strong emetic for Anna, who had no experience at all.
Fisher looked at Anna who was vomiting with some sympathy, and he had thought that it would be cool for humans to fight on the backs of centaurs, but now it seemed that it would be better to ride a real horse, which would not only be safe, but also more stylish.
He ignored Anna, and stood with Jasmine on the edge of a cliff in the jungle by the roadside, and looked in this direction, and saw a river like a jade belt through the dense forest and towards the ocean in the distance, hidden by the mountains in the distance.
This is no longer the area of St. Nari, and the river is quite far from Nari Lake, but since Jasmine's hair ring is turned here, it means that there is an underground river under this location that connects Nari Lake to the river in the distance, but the question is, how can we find a specific entrance?
"Let's search the neighborhood and see if we can find the entrance to the underground undercurrent..."
"No..."
Anna walked back with a white face, apparently almost vomiting, only to see her look at the surrounding dense forest, and then her nose moved slightly, and said to Fisher,
"I could vaguely smell the water and the rocks, and you can't be wrong with the unique smell of the cave right around here."
It's not that she said, Fisher almost forgot that Anna's nose is very smart, and she can even smell herself through the smell of the perfume that Elisabeth gave her.
Fisher asked her to lead the way, and Anna followed the smell, and in the distance on the mountain peaks Fisher could faintly see the royal watchtower, and they enclosed the entire extent of Lake Nari to no one near it.
But it was night, and they were so far away that no amount of probing magic could detect them.
"It should be right here..."
Anna's voice ended their search, and they followed her for some distance, and soon Fisher saw a huge stone block, and she pointed to a gap between the two large stones, and said to Fisher.
The gap between the stones was very narrow, probably enough for a person to pass through, and under the moonlight, the space inside was pitch black, and if it wasn't for Anna's prompting, Fisher would never have found this hidden location.
When she reached the top of the underground undercurrent, the hair ring on Jasmine's head basically didn't move, pointing in the direction of the underground, so Fisher couldn't be sure if it was a real undercurrent.
"Let's go check it out.."
Fisher had no choice but to squeeze into the crack in the stone first.
But what is a headache is that Renee gave him the cane he didn't know where to throw it, so he couldn't use lighting magic to check the situation nearby, but Jasmine, who was following him, had the ability to see at night, walking a few steps in the narrow and wet ground, and Jasmine behind him suddenly grabbed Fisher,
"Fisher, there's a slope ahead."
Following the glowing ring of water on Jasmine's head, Fisher looked down, only to find that the space in front of him had become much larger, and a huge slope made of gravel led straight to a place underground, and occasionally there was a chilling cold wind, which made Fisher realize that the space below was likely to be very large.
"There's a very large cavern down there..."
Fisher and Jasmine looked back to make sure Anna and Shyat were following, and in the darkness, Fisher could only faintly see the shadows of the two of them, and after making sure that they were following, Fisher continued to move forward.
"Whoa.."
The further down, the more obvious the sound of the water flowed, and the more spacious the surrounding space became, as if air was blowing in all directions, reflecting that this could be an extremely complex underground network, but in the dark, Fisher could only follow the location of the sound of the water, and from time to time to make sure that the person behind him was lost.
"Hold your hands, lest you go..."
Fisher turned back and prepared to say this, and the group of four of them, in order, Fisher, Jasmine, Anna, and Shyat, Fisher followed the dark blue light of the water and looked behind him, counting the heads.
Jasmine...
Anna..
Sheat:
And... Well?
Counting, Fisher suddenly found that there was a figure behind Syatt, that is, in the darkness, there was an extra person behind him?
Fisher's heart beat faster for a second, and he suddenly stopped, staring in the direction of Syat, but he could only see her figure and the shadow behind her, and he couldn't see who was behind her.
"Don't move yet..."
Fisher's voice suddenly sounded, and when Jasmine also noticed that something was wrong and looked back, her gaze was better than Fisher, and when she saw the figure behind Shyat, her little face froze, and she subconsciously pointed at Syatt and shouted,
"Hey... Sheat! You're followed by a woman! ”
"Female... Woman? Woo-ah-ah! There are ghosts!
”
Fisher didn't even have time to stop it, and the Syath behind him was so frightened that his face turned pale, and he subconsciously raised his horse's hooves and kicked back at the figure behind him, and Fisher didn't know if he kicked it, but now they were on a huge slope, and the center of gravity of the entire team began to tilt under that kick.
"Catch me!"
Fisher screamed badly, and tried his best to hold the three of them from falling, but the stones under his feet didn't know when they had been filled with wet moisture and became extremely slippery, and he couldn't do it even if he wanted to support them, so he could only watch his body fall uncontrollably towards the dark space below.
"Ahhh
"Hell!
”
"Hmm!"
For a moment, there was no sound in the entire dark cave except Fisher, and the three ladies screamed as if they had produced a chain effect, sliding towards the depths of the cave as they shouted.
In weightlessness, Fisher tried his best to catch the people he could, so that they would not slip elsewhere, so as to ensure that he would land first when he fell, so that they would not be harmed, but in the middle of the fall, Fisher only caught one lady, and he did not know who it was.
The screams continued, and Fisher and his party fell down the darkness for an unknown amount of time, and then Fisher suddenly felt a substantial contact behind him.
"Plop!"
The sound of falling water sounded at the same time, and Fisher and his party fell straight into the water somewhere, the water was basically not flowing, more like a quiet pool, and the sound of falling water sounded everywhere, symbolizing that all four people landed at the same time.
"Fisher!"
Jasmine's consciousness was still very conscious, and it sounded a little distance away.
At this time, Fisher was still holding a soft body in his hands, and the lady hugged him with trembling body, and Fisher struggled to identify it, only to realize that it was Anna who was holding him like an octopus in his arms.
"Where's Shyat?"
Now that Anna was still there, Fisher kept afloat and shouted at Jasmine.
"She... She's sinking! She can't swim! ”
With that, she flipped in the water and swam to the bottom of the water, trying to get Shyat back. Fisher, who was floating, faintly saw a waterfront in the distance, so he decided to carry Anna ashore first.
"Hmm..."
Feeling that Fisher began to exercise, Anna suddenly hugged Fisher even more frightened, for fear that she would be thrown off by his movement, and it could be seen that this guy was not very good at water.
Fortunately, the distance on the shore was not far, and Fisher swam not long before reaching the shore, and climbed up from the water with Anna in his arms.
"It's ashore, it's fine."
"Hmm..."
“.. So, you might as well let it go. ”
In the darkness, Anna, who was soaked all over, realized that she was still holding Fisher's soaked clothes, and the next second, she quickly let go of her hand and let Fisher stand up.
"I'm sorry."
Her face was a little unnatural, and even her cheeks were starting to heat up a little, but luckily it was too dark for everyone to see her expression.
"Jasmine!"
"I'm coming!"
Fisher just called Jasmine, and Jasmine appeared like a mermaid in the cold pool in front of him, and he was holding a centaur who had been scared unconscious, and Fisher took a hand to move Sheat up, and the four of them are all right now...
But who was the figure you saw behind the slope just now?
Fisher didn't think about it, because when Jasmine came ashore, the whole cave seemed to have touched some kind of switch and became alive, and a light of the same color as Jasmine's fluorescence began to spread along the ground, and a light source similar to a firefly gradually illuminated the entire cave.
"Lights up?"
Following the light, Fisher looked around, only to realize that it was a small cavern, and that a waterhole in front of him looked very dark, and he did not know the exact depth and geometry, let alone where it led.
The four of them stood on the shore, and when the light spread one by one, gradually spreading to the stone wall behind them, one after another, twisted and obscure pictures appeared, which looked like both pictures and words.
Extreme Soul Chaos
Anna sat still with her soaked body in her arms, but her eyes followed Fisher, who unconsciously stepped forward, and looked at the words on the stone wall in front of her...
Yes, Fisher concluded that it was a kind of writing, only not human, more like some kind of subhuman civilization...
"Hey, this is the text of our whale race!"
Next to him, Jasmine, who was squatting beside the delirious Shyat, gently patted Shyat's flat chest, and then a mouthful of water squirted out of Shyat's mouth, but as the sip of water went out, I don't know if there was still her soul, anyway, Fisher felt a little terrifying when he looked at Jasmine's slapping force.
"The text of the whale race?"
Wait, a race living in the deep trenches can leave their own words here?
Could it be the words left by Jasmine's aunt Mu Xi? Does this seem to make sense?
"What's written on it?"
Jasmine walked slowly to Fisher's side, reading word by word, but just reading the first few words, her expression suddenly became a little strange, and she looked at Fisher next to her with some inexplicability.
"What's wrong? Does this involve the secrets of your whale species? ”
"No.. No! That..."
Jasmine's face flushed slightly, then she covered her little face, and said with some embarrassment,
"The first sentence reads..."
"'Ahahaha, there's a coward who is scared, I won't say who it is'..."
Even if Jasmine spoke in a very whispered voice, both Fisher and Anna could still hear how bad the personality of the whale race that recorded the words was.
In other words, the shadow seen on that slope was left by this whale species? Could it be an illusion, a relic, or maybe magic, or maybe the blessing of that whale race?
There's no other purpose, just to scare you once?
Isn't that a neuropathy?
There was an awkward silence in the cave, except for the sound of Shyat's breathing, which bordered on lamentation.