["Huh? I tried to sprinkle a handful of powder, and it lit up! In the face of everyone's surprised eyes, the watchman could only scratch his head and laugh. 】

["What powder? Gargamel asked. 】

["It's the pollen of the goblins......" said the watchman. 】

["How so? We've tried to use goblin dust as fuel for a long time, but we've never succeeded......" Gargamel still maintained a surprised expression, his gaze shifted from the watchman to the lantern in his hand, "What kind of artifact is this lamp of yours?" ”】

["Well, it's definitely an artifact for myself, after all, it's a lamp that has accompanied my body from childhood to adulthood, and it has helped me find a lot of treasures before, but in fact, it's just a rare-level prop, and it's still far from an artifact."] The watchman laughed. 】

["Only rarity? Gargamel was incredulous, and even more dazed: "The expedition team even found the legendary lamps before, but they didn't work......]

["I don't know about that...... By the way, have you found it? The light from this lamp is a bit strange, why does it only shine below? ”】

[When you heard this, you immediately raised your head, carefully observed the lantern, and found that as the watchman said, the fluorescence in the lantern only illuminated a range of less than one meter in other directions around, except for the downward direction along the rope ladder, illuminating a distance of more than ten meters. 】

[Linglong and Gargamel looked up and took a closer look, and quickly confirmed this pattern, and they were also puzzled. 】

["It's strange, it's obviously a lantern, how can it be like a flashlight, and it can only shine in one direction...... And the direction can't be adjusted yet? The watchman fiddled with the jack-o'-lantern in amazement, turning the lantern upside down in all directions, but no matter how he adjusted the position of the lantern, the light source always shone in the same direction, like Sinan's pointer. 】

Mu You's heart moved when he saw this, and he suddenly remembered what Olmedo had said before.

The goblins could not enter the Dark Cave, but the Goblin King resolutely chose to enter here on the grounds that only the goblins of the royal family could sense the location of the root system of the mother tree.

The problem at the moment is probably not the jack-o-lantern, but the pollen, because the watchman just sprinkled the lucky dust he brought.

This dust is the dust produced by the fairy fairy, and according to Tina, the fairy fairy should also be a royal goblin.

In this way, perhaps only the dust of the royal goblins can be lit up here.

And this light seems to show the characteristics of 'guidance', so could it be that the direction it guides is the path to the root of the mother tree?

Thinking of this, Mu You explained his guess to the three of them in the game.

[Gargamel suddenly realized after listening to Ling's explanation: "So that's the case, it's very possible, then let's follow the direction of the light first!] Oh, and besides, there is no wind element in the cave for some reason, so wind magic such as flying and slow falling cannot be used here, so be sure to walk along the mountain wall, once you fall it will be bad. ”】

【…… You follow the light and continue your journey downward, and soon you reach the end of the rope ladder and come to a naturally formed cliff platform, where the downward light suddenly changes direction and points to one side of the narrow path. 】

[You who saw the change in light confirmed your previous suspicions.] 】

["Sure enough, I'm showing the way, great, maybe I can really find the root of the mother tree this time!"] Gargamel spoke excitedly. 】

Confirming that pollen can really guide the way, Mu You was still thinking about whether to use a pocket watch and a jack-o-lantern backtracking method to save dust, after all, there is not much dust in the fairy.

However, after asking the watchman, I learned that the dust is not burning, but simply emitting fluorescence in the lamp, which does not produce a lucky effect, but also makes the luminescence time greatly extended.

Mu You asked the remaining fairy pollen in the hands of the three of them, and even the unused pollen on Fuya's side, and handed them over to the watchman, and asked him to count the lighting time, and found that the remaining ones could be illuminated for more than a day and a half!

Since it can be used for so long, Mu You simply doesn't want to engage in such a complicated operation as backtracking, after all, they are in a hurry now, and what they need more is efficiency, and when there is light, they can act a lot faster.

[You soon reached a hundred meters below the surface, and the originally narrow space around you suddenly opened up, and the staggered rocks and strange peaks were hidden in the darkness around you, and you felt as if you were in an endless mountain. 】

["How can flowers bloom in such a lightless environment? The watchman looked incredulously at a small white flower blooming on the cliff on the side of the road. 】

[This flower looks holy and pure, there is an indescribable beauty under the fluorescence, and there is an unripe fruit on the stem and leaf below the flower, and people subconsciously want to reach out and touch it. 】

["Don't touch! Gargamel hurriedly stopped. 】

["This is an 'anti-flower', an extremely dangerous thing! All living beings who directly touch the open anti-growth flower will fall into an illusion and cannot extricate themselves, and at the same time, all the life force will be slowly sucked up by the anti-growth flower. ”】

["The sucked life force will turn into the fruit of the anti-growth flower, and after sucking enough vitality, it will produce the anti-growth fruit, which is said to have the miraculous effect of rejuvenating people after eating this fruit."] ”】

["So good? "Exquisite surprise. 】

"It just sounds good. Gargamel shook his head solemnly: "This flower is also known as the cursed flower, because the process of rejuvenation cannot be stopped, and the person who eats the anti-birth fruit will continue to grow in reverse, and will soon degenerate back into a baby, and then degenerate back into a lump of flesh in the placenta, until it completely collapses into dust, and then it will end, this is the meaning of 'rebirth'." ”】

["Alas, it's a pity......" Linglong looked at the green fruit on the little flower with regret. 】

"What about this? What is this black mass? The watchman asked again. 】

[You follow his gaze, and you see a black mass growing above the rock wall in another place, and even the fluorescence emitted by the jack-o-lantern cannot illuminate it. 】

["This is a light-devouring flower, which is characterized by devouring light and forming a darkest field around it, so even in a bright place, you can't see the true face of this flower at all."] If its pollen is used as fuel, it will also swallow up the light around it when ignited, turning an otherwise bright place into darkness. ”】

["The light-devouring flower is the most common creature in the dark cave, and when it matures, the flower body will explode, scattering the pollen into the surrounding space, and continue to grow into more light-devouring flowers, and the fecundity is quite amazing, some people have speculated that tens of billions of light-devouring flowers are likely to grow in the dark cave, so there are many people who suspect that the reason why the dark cave is so dark is because of the excessive number of light-devouring flowers and the pollen flooding the environment here. Gargamel said. 】

"So terrifying? If this flower is accidentally scattered, won't it soon swallow up the outside world into darkness? The watchman asked. 】

["Don't worry about this, after the Light Devourer leaves the Dark Cave, it will die very quickly. It should be said that all the creatures in the Dark Cave, once taken out of the Dark Cave, will wither in a very short period of time until they are reduced to ashes and disappear. Gargamel said. 】

Mu You originally looked at the strange effect of this plant, and thought about picking some back, but he could only give up when he heard this.

The four of them then continued on their way, encountering all sorts of novel dark plants along the way, and Gargamel took the time to explain them one by one.

The efficacy of these plants, many Mu You knew that they must have medicinal value when they heard it, but they were not mentioned at all in Vivian's Encyclopedia of Potions Plants, so it can be seen that even she had never seen it, and Mu You could only sigh that there are no wonders in the world.

Of course, in addition to various dark plants, there are also many animate creatures in the dark caves.

["Shhh On the way, the little spider on Linglong's shoulder suddenly bared its teeth and hissed in one direction. 】

[You look back in the direction of the little spider's teeth, but you only see the extreme darkness. 】

["Be careful, it could be a 'Cave Beast'! Gargamel hurriedly reminded. 】

[As soon as Gargamel's words are finished, you hear a burst of air, a mass of black creatures rushing in, invading your light, even in the light of the jack-o'-lantern, it is still a blurry darkness, but you can hear its gasping and the stench emanating from its open spiky mouth. 】

[After the dark creature appeared, it rushed towards the nearest watchman.] 】

[You unleashed the 'Electric Arc Sword', and the thunder arc blade pierced through, directly cutting the black shadow into two sections in a terrible scream. 】

[You killed the 'Dark Cave Beast', experience +10......]

[You searched the place where the Cave Beast died, and found 'Dark Pollen'*1, 'Divine Powder'*1.] 】

[Dark Pollen: A cloud of powder wrapped in pitch black, which absorbs the light of a small area of space around it, and will quickly turn into ashes after leaving the Dark Cave.] 】

[Divine Powder: A ball of powder containing extremely weak divinity, if you can gather a hundred of these powders, you may be able to condense into a divine crystal. 】

"Huh?" Mu You was stunned.

Dark pollen is not surprising to him, this should be the pollen that explodes from the Devouring Flower, which is absorbed into the body by the creatures here for a long time, and will only explode after death, which is the same principle as killing monsters in the bitter forest to burst out bitter pollen.

Something to surprise is the second trophy, the powder of divinity!

In other words, there is a certain divinity in this space?

It's a pity that the divinity content here is too low, and he doesn't have that much time to kill a hundred of these things to get a crystal.

After a small episode, the four of them continued to hurry, and they could encounter the attack of a dark cave creature from time to time along the way, this thing is actually very weak, only about ten levels, and any black magic can be killed in seconds, that is, relying on the fact that it is automatic and comfortable in the dark, it seems to be very threatening. With the spider as their 'perceptron' and the means of lighting, this thing is nothing to fear.

["Be careful, and further on, there is no unfamiliar area that the exploration team has not explored. Gargamel looked at the map in his hand that had reached the end of his hand and looked back to warn. 】

Without the guidance of the map, the road was a little more difficult to walk, and the speed of several people slowed down significantly.

"Huh?"

Mu You frowned suddenly, looked at the latest hints in the game, hurriedly traced back according to the table, and then reminded a few people to stop.

"Wait! You suddenly shouted, trying to stop a few people from stepping into danger, but you were still a step too late. 】

[The viscous oil splash material suddenly poured down from above, and the mountain wall covered by slime suddenly became extremely smooth. 】

[Your feet slipped violently, and you couldn't control your balance at all, and you all fell down into the abyss. 】

[Fortunately, you foresaw the danger in advance and grabbed a vine on the edge of the cliff in time to stop the downward trend. 】

[You throw out the telescopic chain claw, accurately grab the nearest watchman, and bring back the fallen watchman.] 】

[On the other side, the gluttonous demon spider also reacted quickly, spitting out a spider web to entangle a spiked rock while falling, and at the same time throwing out another spider web, wrapping Linglong below. 】

[But because of excessive obesity, the gluttonous demon spider exhausted its strength to feed, and it was difficult to pull Linglong back, and she was so red that she was suffocated. 】

[The little phoenix flew out of the watchman, flew to the bottom of Linglong, carried her from below and flapped her wings desperately, and the two pets worked together to finally bring Linglong back to the top of the cliff. 】

["Two cuties, thanks to you, saved! Linglong hugged the two pets and kissed and sucked. 】

["Words...... What about Gargamel? The watchman asked. 】

[The air was suddenly quiet for a second, and Linglong said embarrassedly: "It seems that it fell down with an 'ah' in front of me......]

["Can there be resurrection here?"] ”】

["I don't know...... However, this place is a bit like a different space, and even if it can be resurrected, I am afraid that it can only die in the same place and repeatedly......" Linglong guessed. 】

["Tragedy, if Gargamel dies, won't history be changed? The watchman's voice collapsed. 】

["Be careful, someone's coming! You suddenly reminded. 】

[The two of them immediately shut up, held their breath, and sure enough, they heard a sound of Suo Suo approaching you rapidly somewhere below. 】

[All three of you are in a hurry and ready to attack. 】

[A few seconds later, a dark shadow emerges from below, exposed to the light.] 】

[You look down and see that what appears on the edge of the cliff below is a white young man, with a layer of pitch-black biological fur on both hands and feet, climbing steadily on the smooth cliff with one arm, without the slightest tendency to fall, and holding the newly fallen Gargamel in the other hand. 】

["Huh? Number two! The watchman saw the person who came clearly, and immediately burst out in surprise. 】

[In the arms of the herb picker, his eyes were closed, and he was so frightened that he shrunk into a ball, and when he heard your voice, he dared to open his eyes. Seeing the face of the young man who was close at hand, and then looking at his own situation, a layer of blush couldn't help but appear on his face. 】

"Sure enough, it's you. The herb picker said expressionlessly, and then he used his arm to jump up from under the cliff, easily jumped back to the top of the cliff, and put down the girl in his arms. 】

["No. 2, you're here in time! By the way, why are you here? What is this that you have tied on your hands? It's a black mess, by the way, why didn't you slide down just now......" The watchman jumped in front of the herb picker with a smile, took his hand and asked non-stop, as if he had suddenly found his long-lost brother. 】

[The herb picker didn't say a word, and silently withdrew his hand. 】

["Great, now the Mu family army has gathered again! ] Linglong clapped her hands and laughed. 】

[The herb picker frowned and turned his head, glanced at Linglong, and asked suspiciously, "Who are you?" ”】

["The old lady is exquisite, bastard! Linglong broke the defense on the spot. 】

"What happened? The herb picker looks at you and asks. 】

["Anyway, let's synchronize the memories first."] "You say. 】

Next, Mu You controlled the characters and the herb pickers to synchronize their memories, and suddenly a strange picture poured into his mind.

After Mu You digested it for a while, he realized that after the herb picker left two days ago, he quickly found a mysterious underground cave that was sealed in another location, and out of curiosity, he went in to take a look, and found that it was actually connected to another exit of the dark cave.

In other words, the herb picker has actually been groping in the dark cave for two days.

Fortunately, the herb picker grew up in the misty mountain, and went up the mountain to collect medicine all the year round, and the skill of rock climbing has become the physical instinct of the herb picker.

As for the things on his hands and feet, it is a creature called the 'Cave Climber', which is also a rule that the herb picker has discovered in the past two days, as long as this creature is grabbed and tied to his hands and feet, he can be like a gecko, walking on the cliff here, even if it is the sticky and slippery area in front of him, there will be no hindrance to the movement.

(End of chapter)