Chapter 61: Escape from the Dungeon
All the mercenaries held their breath tightly - everyone could clearly feel the ground tremble.
A glimmer of light suddenly appeared overhead, and a breath of fresh air rushed into everyone's hearts and lungs, and outside it was still the forest of yīn forest in the dark night - the day had passed.
Suddenly, a large pile of objects was thrown down from the hole, clearly sensing weapons or something, and then someone lay down at the mouth of the cave and said in a non-standard human language, "Is there anyone down there? Is it a mercenary?"
Everyone was stunned, only the high-level mages in the Jīng Spirit Clan could unlock the magical confinement, and these mages should know very well who was imprisoned here. In the darkness, almost everyone slowly shook their heads at their partners to silence them.
The person above seemed to be a little anxious, and he was already anxious in his voice: "Is it a human mercenary below, say something, I'll let you out"
Amy deliberately lowered her voice and said, "Ahem...... Cough...... It's Lao Tzu, why do you want to let us go again......"
The man at the top of the cave let out a low cry of joy, and three people jumped down from it at once. Amy, Yi Hailan, Wild Wisp, White and other warriors jumped up like cheetahs and crushed the comer to the ground. Then the fire folds lit up, and underneath were three subdued forest jīng spirits, one of whom was a mage in a green robe, and the other two were young jīng spirit archers.
Master Jīng was extremely surprised: "We are here to save you...... Creak...... How did you get out of your cell on your own?"
Among the many mercenaries, Ye Weicai has a lot of popularity, vaguely the leader of the mercenaries, slightly let go of the jīng spirit mage in his hand, and asked in surprise: "Didn't you lock us up, why did you come to save us?"
Master Jīng Spirit shook his head helplessly: "I am the patriarch of Shanhua Village, Qingming, in recent years, our current Jīng Spirit Queen's temper has become worse and worse, both for outsiders and for the Jīng Spirit Clan, she is extremely harsh. For example, this time, we already know that there are dark jīng spirits who use underground mercenaries to mess around, but we are not interested in ......"
According to the description of the Jīng Spirit Mage, the current Jīng Spirit Queen Ingrid VII Xìng Ge has always been more extreme, mainly because her father was severely injured and died in the battle of the Yin Feng invasion of the Demon Jīng Forest, and Her Majesty the Queen stubbornly believes that the Yin Feng has a close relationship with humans, and believes that all creatures that are not of the Demon Jīng clan appear in the Demon Jīng Forest in the hope of occupying the Demon Jīng Forest. Therefore, the queen not only restricted her subjects from entering human society, but also took unprecedented harsh measures against all humans or other races that appeared in the demon jīng forest for various reasons - all of them were imprisoned until death, and humans who injured the jīng spirit in the demon jīng forest were given heavy punishments up to beheading, depending on whether the circumstances were aggravated or not. The Jīng Ling clan itself is extremely kind, and most of the patriarchs are uneasy about the actions of the Jīng Spirit Queen, and some of the patriarchs even excuse their age not to participate in the election of the Jīng Ling elders in order to be alone.
This time, the dark jīng spirit hired underground mercenaries to plunder the jīng spirit children, Her Majesty Queen Ingrid was furious when she learned about it, and directly convened all the jīng spirit patriarchs to hold a general meeting, 10 jīng spirit elders brought 3000jīng spirit archers and warriors to attack several underground mercenaries The main guild and took away the task undertaking records, and then, 150,000 adult jīng spirits searched almost every village outside the demon jīng forest, and captured hundreds of mercenary groups in one fell swoop, and there were some regular mercenaries who had nothing to do with this matter at all。
Since yesterday, at least more than 100 mercenaries and more than 50 jīng spirits have been killed in the clashes, and the heavy casualties of jīng spirits have poured hot oil on the head of Her Majesty the Queen in a rage. Such a word has never been used in the history of jīng spirit.
In the face of this kind of order that violated the instructions of the Jīng Ling, a considerable number of Jīng Ling expressed dissent, and Queen Ingrid not only did not adopt it, but even detained some of the Jīng Ling patriarchs.
In order to avoid the expansion of the conflict with humans, some stable patriarchs secretly discussed and secretly released the human mercenaries who were imprisoned and awaiting execution.
The brows of all the mercenaries were tightly wrinkled together, and there was still a trace of luck in the hearts of quite a few people: maybe after a few days, Jīng Ling would release them, even if they didn't return to human society, it was better to live than to die. Now that hope has been shattered.
The three kind-hearted jīng spirits were all let go, and several mercenary heads apologized and thanked them one after another.
"Respected Patriarch Jīng, what should we do then?
"Alas......" Patriarch Jīng let out a long sigh, "There is no other way, you can escape." ”
"Respected patriarch, no human has ever been able to successfully get out of this great forest, do you think we can be so lucky? Can you give us more help, we believe that with the kind heart of the jīng spirit, we will not let the fallen human beings be helpless. The mage captain of Amy's first team asked.
After a moment of silence, the old jīng spirit said with some embarrassment: "I can tell you some secrets of the jīng spirit forest, but I ask you to swear that after you leave here, you will never reveal them to anyone. ”
At the moment of life and death, hundreds of mercenaries did not hesitate to say the oath they could think of the most severe punishment.
"In the demon jīng forest, you must pay attention to the four kinds of plants, where there are reeds, you must not go, there must be a large swamp; where there are camphor trees, there are ancient trees nearby, there are ancient trees nearby, the source of the magic of their demon jīng forest, human contact will be sealed there by time; where there are rubber trees is the coordinate point of the path, from one rubber tree you can often see the next rubber tree, one by one, you will leave the forest; near the place where there is sisal, there are often villages of jīng spirits. After a pause, Master Jīng said again: "After you leave, don't go together, go in all directions, so that you have a better chance of escaping, and then, if you encounter a village, and now there are no prime-aged jīng spirits in the village, you can capture some of my kind and let them take you away, so that if you encounter the jīng spirit army, you can definitely leave the forest with the hostages in your hands." But, remember, my fellow citizens must not be harmed. As jīng spirits, it is the kind heart that allows us to release you, and we hope that humanity can repay us with the same kind heart. ”
All the human mercenaries were moved by the greatness of the jīng spirit mage, and more than one mercenary walked up to the jīng spirit and bowed deeply: "Jīng spirit friend, I swear as a knight that I will never harm any jīng spirit again in my life. ”
The mercenaries each took their own weapons and left the dungeon, and according to their respective mercenary organizations, they sprinkled water into the demon jīng forest.
Amy motioned for her teammates to wait a while, approached the old mage and asked softly, "Dear Patriarch, I have a Jīng spirit friend who has returned to the Demon Jīng Forest, I very much hope to find him, what can I do?"
"Humans, you cannot understand Jīng Spirit's view of the world. The jīng spirit has a life of thousands of years, and after death, it will return to the upper jīng spirit realm to become its own natal jīng spirit. In the life of the jīng spirit, he must look down on everything, and many things that human beings stubbornly pursue are passing in the eyes of the jīng spirit. I don't know what you're looking for jīng spirits for, but you're basically going to get no results. The old man of Jīng Ling had vicissitudes in his eyes: "Moreover, there are hundreds of thousands of jīng spirits living in the jīng spirit forest, except for the jīng spirit in one village, most of the other jīng spirits do not know each other. ”
"What if I knew the name of that village?" said Amy.
"Can you find the jīng spirit to help you spread the word? There are hundreds of villages in the jīng spirit forest, and not everyone can find other villages. There's no one to help you find someone, what can you do in this magical realm on your own? Forget it, young man...... When your friends think of you again, perhaps your grandchildren are in their twilight years. ”
Amy wanted to say something, but several of her companions were a little anxious, and finally they had to walk towards the depths of the forest together.
Night Sè began to fade from the eastern sky, the crisp birds had begun to chirp, and the mercenaries who left Ye Sè's protection showed more and more fear of the forest.
Amy's mercenary group chose to go south - this is also the choice of most mercenaries, the old man jīng spirit has just said that there is a large group of jīng spirit warriors at the edge of the forest, just the ability of a few mercenaries, in the demon jīng forest against jīng spirits needless to say, they can't run if they want to. Rather than this, it is better to go deep into the jīng spirit forest first, and it is better to find the small jīng spirit village and capture one or two hostages and finally get out of trouble.
It was already dawn, and the thieves who were scouting the way at the front suddenly let out a continuous quail call, and the mercenaries knew that Jīng Ling's eyesight and hearing were extraordinary, and he crept to hide behind the trees.
After a long while, there was a slight rustling of footsteps in the forest, and from a distance came two jīng spirit boys, one large and one small, the older boy was no more than 13 years old, and the younger boy was no older than 6 years old. The clothes of the earthy yellow sè can be seen at a glance are cut out of handmade linen, and it is striking that the two boys both carry a short bow of dark green sè on their shoulders, and the quiver is full of short arrows, and the big boy also has a small roe deer dripping with blood on his shoulder, and the roe deer has no injuries all over his body, but blood dripping from his eyes - this must be the archer who pierced the roe deer's head with an arrow, and shè from one eye directly into the other.
The mercenaries all took a breath of cool air, no wonder they all said that jīng spirit was a natural archer, and such a young child could be so jīng accurate, which is too rare in human society.
Che Falang shook his head slightly, then nodded at Amy, and raised his chin to signal Amy to step forward. As a captain, she is quite familiar with the mercenary specialties in her team, Amy is not only good at martial arts, but also shows a keen eye in the forest that other mercenaries can't match. After the others go up, maybe there will be dead and wounded, and if there is blood on their hands, they will really lose their room for bargaining.
Holding her breath, Amy crouched down slightly, and pounced on the two little boys the moment they walked by.
To be on the safe side, Amy pounced on the young jīng spirit, the little boy had just found that someone had jumped from the big tree next to him, and he had already been thrown to the ground by Amy, the strength of the jīng spirit was almost the same as that of a human, but the child's strength was much smaller.
The big boy next to him was stunned for a moment, and his movements were extremely agile and took off his bow and arrows and buckled the strings, Amy had already subdued the little boy who was struggling with all his strength at this time: "Put down the bow and arrows, or I will kill him." "In terms of acting skills alone, Amy is in the top ten in the battle of the gods. Seeing that the big boy was still a little hesitant, Amy pulled out a giant sword in her left hand and inadvertently cut off an arm-thick tree trunk: "Put down the bow and arrow, otherwise you will never see this little guy again." ”
The older boy's immature face showed a fortitude that did not match his age, and seeing his younger brother fall into the threat of the enemy, he threw his bow and arrows on the ground with great reluctance, and the warriors who came up from behind took the boy's hand from both sides.
Amy also gave a little strength in her hands, and half-squatted and said sincerely to the two boys: "I'm really sorry just now, I was forced to do it." We strayed into the demon jīng forest, and now we just want to get out, but I'm afraid that you won't help, so we can only make this decision. Seeing that the big boy was unconvinced and angry, Amy smiled apologetically and said to him: "You guys are very powerful, I'm afraid that if there is a conflict, I will hurt you, so I can only coerce it first." Don't get too angry. ”
The shadow man also came over to help explain, the mercenaries all knew that whether they could get out of the forest depended on these two children, preferably their resources, if they relied purely on threats, once they confronted the jīng spirits, it was inevitable that there would be problems.
"What do you want us to do?" the boy began, perhaps not communicating much with humans, and his tone was jerky.
"Little brother, we're lost, take us out of the forest. These are some of our little thanks. The magician took some gold coins out of his bosom.
The young man Jīng Ling glanced at these yellow and clear metals with disdain: "I don't want it, in the jīng spirit world, these things are more garbage than garbage." ”
"It seems that most of the jīng spirits I know are extremely out-of-the-box. Amy was carefully currying favor with the boy, not only to escape from the demon jīng forest, but also to have other more important purposes: "Then little brother, can you take us out? ”
The youngest boy felt some sympathy for the humans, and the uncle had been evidently very careful when he had hugged him tightly, and he pulled at his brother's clothes with his own hand every time the skin was scratched.
"Well, you must not embarrass me and my brother, and let us come back when we get to the place. The boy thought for a moment before agreeing.
"Little brother, what's your name, look at your skills. Amy chatted with the young man without saying a word, hoping to completely remove the hostility in the young man's heart.
"My name is Hong Bo, I am average, and my sister is even more powerful. The boy also replied casually.
The spirit monkey had just walked back from the front, and Che Falang discussed with him, and immediately arranged for the boy to accompany the spirit monkey and White to open the way in front. The purpose of strengthening White is fairly simple. Amy threw the little boy on her shoulder and let the little boy sit on his shoulder—and it could be seen that the little boy was quite satisfied with this unique treatment, and laughed and assimilated by Amy.
The spirit monkey is the second soul figure in the entire small team, and the thieves are extremely careful, and when he walks side by side with the jīng spirit boy (jīng spirit is not tall, and it seems that he is still far from adulthood), he does not mention the inside story of the demon jīng forest that he already knows, he wants to verify whether what the jīng spirit patriarch said is true, and also wants to see if the jīng spirit boy really has the sincerity to lead the mercenary team out of the forest.
With the rays of sunlight shining through the broad leaves, the mercenaries moved very fast, and everyone noticed that the tree species in the forest were constantly changing, and the more they went, the clearer the sky became, and after three hours of walking without sunlight, the forest was already full of sunlight.
The air gradually became tense, and in just half an hour, two groups of jīng spirit warriors had been spotted, if it weren't for the spirit monkey's eyesight approaching jīng spirit, maybe the small mercenary team had been surrounded by jīng spirits.
The mercenaries moved from behind one tree to another almost clinging, for fear that their figures would fall into the eyes of the jīng spirit - according to the jīng spirit patriarch, this should be the edge of the demon jīng forest, and the gradual scarcity of trees also shows this, so the number of jīng spirit warriors on the tour will suddenly increase. It may only take half an hour to get out of the predicament, and this is also the most difficult half hour, and quite a few mercenaries have sweat on their faces.
After walking forward for more than an hour, the eyes suddenly opened up, and a big lake like a dream appeared in front of everyone's eyes, under the bright sunshine, the clear water of the blue sè was surrounded by the thick green sè forest and turquoise sè grass, like a huge sapphire, rippling slightly.
The white clouds in the sky are very low, and the treetops are blown by the wind, leaving a soft and clear shadow in the clear blue water, and the colorful flowers are reflected in the lake along with the flowing clouds. On the south side of the lake is a small hillside covered with large meadows and flower beds, from which the green grass and flowers slowly move into the sky. Anyone who sees such a scene for the first time will be shocked.
There are many legendary animals jumping around the lake, and the mercenaries who raised their heads were a few white unicorns with golden horns on their heads, and more beasts were alarmed by the actions of humans, and flocks of colorful birds rose from the woodland.
Also alarmed was a small group of jīng spirit archers by the lake.
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