Chapter 183: Destruction
After Vincent and the others got rid of the dizziness caused by the teleportation jump, Wu Ming and his party followed the winding road all the way to the depths of the underground.
The tunnel itself is extremely cramped and cramped, and a person of normal size has to bow his head and move carefully to ensure that his head does not hit the uneven rock wall above his head, even the widest section of the entire corridor is only enough for two people to pass side by side, and there are some mosses growing on the rock wall that emit a cold light, providing a faint and dim light source for the entire passage.
Just being in such an environment will naturally give people a huge psychological pressure, and make people have the illusion that the surrounding rock walls are squeezing towards them at an unknown speed, little by little......
Except, of course, Elizabeth, the silly girl who followed closely behind the leader, Siegfer, who had been tasting and nibbling on everything she saw all the way, and now she was holding a glowing ball of moss in her hand and nibbling on it with relish.
Although this passage is cramped and narrow, the road under his feet is as smooth as if it has been repaired and transformed to a certain extent, and the ground not only does not appear the slightest unevenness from beginning to end, but even Wu Ming can see the neatly laid stone bricks under his feet through the night vision effect provided by the auxiliary device, and the stone steps built on the winding down section - this does not look like a naturally formed road.
"The road feels like it leads all the way to the underground...... Maury, who feels as if he has been walking in the passage for a long time, finally can't help but break the dead silence: "When the moss light is sufficient, you can still see a lot of steps and stone bricks...... Is this channel really natural? ”
"It's just a ......product of a certain degree of processing on the originally naturally formed rift channel," Haaland at the end of the team casually answered Mori's question, "Before the Wishing Network was established, we found out here, and at that time, this passage was modified to facilitate access, but after the Wishing Network was officially established, because it could be directly transmitted with the help of wishing means, so gradually no one took this channel......
The giant pioneer had regained control of his body in the previous restoration, and he was now bending down cautiously in an almost crawling position - this was because he was a bit large compared to the cramped and narrow corridor, and it was the only way to ensure that he could move through the corridor smoothly, but not long after he had finished explaining the origin of the passage, everyone heard another muffled noise, and then Haaland's loud scolding resounded through the corridor, "Oh shit! My head was pounding again, how the hell did I agree with them to make the passage so narrow! ”
Vincent, who was walking in front of the giant man, also knew about the existence of this passage for the first time, and couldn't help but seem a little emotional: "In the past, when I came, I was directly teleported to the underground fortress...... I never knew there was such a secret passage underground......"
Before Vincent could finish speaking, the giant man interrupted his exclamation by covering his forehead: "No...... This passage does not lead to the underground fortress. ”
“?”
"This passage is a deeper area of the earth...... "Haaland looked at Vincent, who turned his head in confusion, and pointed his finger at the uneven rock wall at the top of the tunnel, "and the underground fortress as the final line of defense should be a little higher." ”
As a member of the Pioneer Council, Haaland is not directly responsible for the establishment and subsequent management of the Wishing Network, but he does know some common sense knowledge about the council, such as the exact location of the underground fortress and where the corridor will eventually lead......
A hint of surprise flashed in Vincent's eyes, and he immediately understood what the other party was referring to by the so-called deep area—the material carrier of the wishing network in the real world.
Everything was calm again, and after the group walked down this road for a long time, when the light gradually came from the front of the narrow and cramped road, Qi Gefei, who was walking in the front, suddenly stopped.
"It shouldn't be far ahead, it should be the end......" Siegfe frowned uncomfortably, and the disgust aura coming from ahead finally rose to an unbearable peak: "I can feel a disgusting aura coming from the front......"
Elizabeth, who followed her, nibbled on the moss ball in her hand while also glancing at the light source at the end of the passage, and then she scratched her head in confusion: "But I still think it's a scent coming from the front...... It tastes good. ”
"Anyway, everyone get ready...... Wu Ming waved his hand slightly, and the tool man walking at the back of the team, Vincent, and Haaland also became vigilant, but in the case that each of them was handcuffed with a pair of restraints in their hands and could not use the wishing network, the only thing they could prepare for battle was to take out their anti-calamity weapons and open the purification barrier to prepare for white-knuckle combat.
Seeing that everyone was already in place, Wu Ming gestured to Qi Gefei.
"Phineas...... Sneak in. ”
"Understood."
Qi Gefei put the black iron greatsword behind his back, stood in place and took a deep breath and then stepped down with a heavy foot, the huge strange force directly stepped on the stone brick ground under her feet into fine pieces, and the entire corridor trembled violently under the sudden tremor of the huge force, and under the transmission and extension of the power, large cobweb-like cracks also cracked on the surrounding ground and rock walls, and she also turned into a black shadow under the reaction force, Directly relying on her unspeakably strong physical fitness and the mask she just bought, she smashed all the rock walls that stood in the way, wrapped in the storm and gravel and dust rolled up by the chaotic air current, and rushed out of the road with lightning speed!
There was a moment of flying sand and rocks in the road.
She, sneaked in.
Immediately after that, at the end of the corridor, the dragonmaiden's roar full of hatred and anger, and the blazing dragon's breath fire, signaled the success of the infiltration.
"Bastard! It's you!! Death! ”
Elizabeth, whose moss balls were blown away by the storm that rose from the ground, let out an exclamation, and after eating a mouthful of sand, she followed suit, screaming "Eh! Brother Fei, don't steal it! Strange words like that, rushed out of the road.
"Everyone, keep up!" Wu Ming waved his hand and pulled Mo Li up, then unfolded his shield, and rushed over!
The entire corridor was because Fei Ge's head iron had crashed into a relatively spacious one before, and Wu Ming and Elizabeth rushed out of the corridor without much effort and came to the cave hall at the end.
This is a hall artificially transformed from a natural cave, whether it is a flat floor tiled floor, or a deliberately developed and leveled rock wall, there are traces of artificial repair and transformation everywhere, the cave itself is large, but scattered everywhere exhaust gas devices, machines and pipes, and the thick rhizomes and vines that are entrenched and growing wildly everywhere make the whole cave a little crowded.
And in this cave hall, which obviously has traces of artificial repair, stands a ...... One...... I don't know if it's a person with plant characteristics, or a plant with human characteristics...... of strange creatures.
The strange creature looked like a 'tree' that had been cut off from all its branches, leaving only the trunk, and the trunk was a giant trunk of a plant as thick as an adult hugging each other, twisted and twisted together, and the branches of vines, thorns, and unknown plants grew out of the cracks of these roots, swaying and whipping the ground as if it were alive, and each time it struck the stone brick floor, it was like whipping on the surface of the water, with green ripples at the starting point. Dark green moss then emerges from the brick floor at a visible rate, stretching across the cave hall, and then the moss breaks down the brick floor and turns it into dirt, quickly growing unnamed gorgeous flowers and verdant lawns......
The stout rhizomes that spread throughout the cavern hall and the wild plants that crawled all over the rock walls were 'grown' from the center of that strange creature.
And the top of this 'tree' is not the crown in the conventional sense.
It's a third of the people.
A petite (as opposed to the overly swollen and bulky tree) short-haired girl, she was now sweating profusely, frowning and her eyes closed, focused on the war within her, but it was clear that the situation was not very rosy for her—her body from the chest and abdomen down had become a slowly wriggling plant rhizome, and the vegetative process was moving towards her shoulders little by little.
"Calamity Mother!"
"Mother Tree of Life?!"
When Vincent and Wu Ming saw the thing in the center of the hall at the same time, they let out an exclamation in unison.
The former was surprised at how the Calamity Mother had been made like this—a discerning person could tell at a glance that something was wrong with the Calamity Mother's body, and that it was most likely in some kind of trouble.
And the latter......
Wu Ming really didn't expect that there was also a tree of life involved in this world, and he didn't expect this thing to be released again!
At the same time, he also understands why Fei Ge feels a nasty smell - in another world, this thing has a blood feud with her, even if the revenge is avenged in the end, the level of difficulty in his heart is not so easy.
Just like now, just by seeing these plant rhizomes that had brought her countless nightmares, Siegphy almost fell into a state of uncontrollability, and opened her mouth to let out a long-refined dragon roar!
A pillar of blazing white plasma light erupted from the Dragonmaiden's mouth, and countless vines, rhizomes, flowers, and fertile soil in front of her were incinerated by the high-temperature plasma pillar, and then she twisted her head sharply, and used the gushing plasma beam as a giant lightsaber, sweeping sideways, leaving a crooked melt mark on the rock wall, and then cutting off the plant standing in the cave hall!