Chapter 32 Underground Tunnels (1)
All around is rough rock walls, rock vaults, and rocky floors.
The air is stagnant.
Both in front and behind, the tunnel stretched into darkness, as if it had cracked into the depths of the earth, and there was a faint purple light in it, as if a large swarm of fireflies had gathered in the pit.
Everyone took a deep breath.
Jax cleared the way, and after the blue feather broke, the team entered the corridor with a cat.
A cool air with an uneasy aura that belongs to the void came to the face, coupled with the eerie, airtight environment in the cave, which made people worry that there would be an ethereal attack at any time. Everyone's hearts rose to their throats, and the beating in the center of darkness and silence was clearly audible.
Jax ripped strips of cloth from his clothes and tied them to a stick, setting it on fire.
Instead of using the Eternal Flame, he chose to use the Normal Flame, which would be extinguished in an oxygen-deprived environment, giving everyone a warning.
With the dim light of the torches, everyone could barely see everything inside the cave:
People's impression of caves is usually that there are thousands of stone pillars and stalagmites of different shapes, like mushrooms after a rain, scattered and scattered, and condensed mineral water flows down the rough and uneven cave walls.
The void cave is completely different from the natural cave, and the surface of the cave wall has regular ring-like protrusions, which resemble the intestinal wall in the body cavity of a giant worm. Purple energy flowed through it, like the bloody lymph of this giant worm.
"It's, it seems to be alive?" The dark, confined environment darkened Jax's voice.
This is an underground cavern where no light shines in during the day, and is shrouded in darkness forever. At night, it is even more hellish and gloomy, and the wind blowing in the cave seems to be filled with a fishy smell.
The cave is sometimes wide and sometimes narrow, the wide place can accommodate dozens of people, and the narrow place has to bend over and crawl sideways if one person passes, and many times, everyone has to take off their armor to pass.
This is the most dangerous time, and without the protection of armor, it is very easy to be injured by the sneak attack of the Void creatures.
Void creatures have a shark-like sense of smell, and can smell blood from up to 100 meters away. As soon as someone bleeds, they will sniff the smell of blood and track them down.
Thankfully, nothing happened.
The team also encountered a small number of ethereals in the cave, but before they could get close to the group, Coughlin cut off their bodies.
Lan Bing saw the remains of the ethereal spirits and wanted to go up and peel off their carapaces and take them away, trying to replicate Kaisha's miracle, but she gave up.
The Void creatures behaved like insects, and she feared that if she did, the pheromones on the carapace would guide the swarm to the team.
Blue Feather's vision ability is like a 3D scan of a tunnel, revealing information about the surrounding tunnels.
From it, he analyzes the nearest and safest roads. Command the crowd to avoid the narrow passages, the passages where the ethereal spirits are entrenched.
With Lan Yu's help, everyone walked most of the distance without danger.
As the team advanced, a ray of light appeared in the darkness. At the end of the tunnel is a huge cavern with an open roof, or a huge crater.
The bottom was littered with deck debris, as well as the twisted keels of the magic battleship and the charred corpses of Shurima's crew.
Apparently, a massive Shurima float ship crashed and broke through the surface, and the explosion of the energy source blasted the crater underground. Let the floating earth fill the bottom of the pit.
After the seven men jumped out of the pit and pulled their legs out of the mud, they found that the chest of the charred crew member had cracked.
They saw a squirming purple light. Sure enough, it had been overrun by a large group of void creatures.
The Void creature was born from the other side of the crater, looking down on everyone.
They had been devouring corpses in the crater, and soon they had molted and evolved—their bodies had grown in size, evolved forelimbs like wings and blades, and their carapace glowed with metal.
The most terrifying thing is a deep pit next to the wreckage of the floating ship:
The syrup-like void energy ebbed and flowed in the pit, occasionally stirring into ugly shapes, from which the phantom of a monster emerged. It's not as big as the giant abyss at the flashpoint, but its existence is irrefutable.
Their arrival made the abyss smell the breath of life, and in the next second, the energy mud was pinched into ugly limbs, and the monster's body gradually matured, slowly blackening and hardening into a carapace-dark condensation armor.
Inside the empty dark condensation carapace, the mud was stirred into a heart, activating the empty shell, and the seven clusters of compound eyes were lit up one by one.
The abyss is the factory and production line of the Void creatures.
In an instant, hundreds of ethereal spirits crawled out of the abyss and shook off the foul-smelling energy liquid. Endless hunger drove them towards the seven.
The terrain is extremely unfavorable, and there is no shelter around, which means that the void can launch a 360-degree attack without dead ends, directly pinpointing the weak links of the team.
"Hurry up, you can't deal with them, I'll break off with Coughlin." The Master of Weapons raises the Eternal Flame Torch.
"But you ......"
Coglin shrugged his injured shoulder: "I'm much better, if the motherland blesses, we will catch up soon." ”
Jax threw a scroll to everyone: "It's used to retreat, but it's a pity that the magical energy here is too disordered." The effect is a directional teleportation within one kilometer. We have one more. ”
Before he could finish speaking, he and Golin rushed towards the Void Creature, and the monsters had to abandon their attempts to surround them and turn their heads against the two.
Coughlin knocks an evolution into the air. It slammed into the rock wall and rolled down, just six feet into the air, revealing a miserable white belly armor that was softer than the rest, and Jax immediately seized the opportunity to kill it.
More evolutionaries rushed towards them with ethereal spirits!
……
"Let's go." Blue Feather added a buff to the two of them and led the team to leave.
The remaining five mermaids burrowed into the tunnel on the other side.
In the claustrophobic cavern, the skin of the ethereal spirit can be seen shedding from time to time, and these skins are not dead, and they are still twitching from time to time.
Circles of shellac clinged to the walls, and purple fluorescent hearts glowed evil ghostly purple through the ribs.
The dim light, like a lighthouse in the fog, not only failed to guide the way, but also made people feel deeply uneasy.
The strange purple light had the same strange attraction, and the curious Chen Yang pressed against the wall to observe the light source.
His eyes tingled.
"Don't make a sound, I see in my vision that the tunnel not far away is full of ethereal spirits." Blue Feather reminded in a low voice.
Ethereals' visual composition is completely different from carbon-based life, and they don't need light to see. They are capable of perceiving changes or anomalies in color patches, and are likely capable of sensing infrared and bioelectric fields. The slightest movement can alarm them.
Liu Xiaoxiao muttered when he heard this, and began to pee at the turn—he was almost scared to pee just now, and he was forced to hold back.
The strong smell of urine rushed to the mouth of the tunnel not far away......
After doing this, he hurried to catch up with the group.
In the cave, polyester gum-like growth structures are often visible, and from time to time water droplets drip from above, making the cave hot and humid.
Through the filaments of the structure, ghostly purple light can sometimes be seen swaying in the void lair.
When confronted with such a structure, the crowd turned to avoid it.
There were thrills along the way, and Blue Feather's ability allowed everyone to avoid the places where the void creatures were entrenched.
However, an evolved ethereal smelled urine.