Chapter 64: Return to the Surface
On the stone wall of the cave, there are no fluorescent mosses that glow, there is no zĂ i light source, and at a glance, there is only endless darkness, and nothing can be seen. For this reason, Aaron deliberately scraped down a lot of fluorescent moss from the rock walls on both sides of the underground river and put them in several empty bottles to use as a light source for lighting.
Aaron held a noclucenite in his hand, and several glowing bottles hung on his body, and walked step by step into the dark stone cave and walked into the depths.
Noctilucent stone and a few luminous bottles are enough to illuminate the surrounding area of nearly ten meters, only to see the ground under your feet, about 45 degrees angle, inclined upwards to spread out, the cave into the eye, all are uneven stone walls, other than that, there is nothing.
After walking for half an hour, the space inside the cave was basically the same size as it had been at the beginning, not getting more spacious or narrower, but the slope of the terrain changed from time to time, but in general, it has always been extended upward, which is a good sign.
"Hmm, which way are you going?" After walking for a while, Aaron came across a fork, and the road ahead became two, and after a brief inspection, the terrain of both roads extended upward.
He was faced with a choice, should he go to the left or to the right?
"That's this way!" After hesitating for a while, Aaron didn't know which way to go, so he simply closed his eyes and chose one at random, and the final result was to choose the left side.
However, after less than an hour of moving on, Aaron encountered a fork again, and this time in front of him, three roads appeared, the situation was similar to before, and the three roads seemed to be walkable, and the conclusion given by the chip was that the three roads were similar.
Unable to subjectively distinguish between good and bad, Aaron had to be confused again, this time choosing the middle path, and then moving on.
"What a hole, why are there so many forks!" The next encounter with the fork of the fork, it happens from time to time, Aaron is very speechless, it feels like an underground labyrinth, once before, around the circle, I found that I actually returned to the place I passed before.
Faced with a labyrinthine route, Aaron had no choice but to go casually, and then rely on the chip to record the route to avoid making the same mistake, after all, it is very likely that this place is connected to the surface, he doesn't want to miss it, it doesn't matter if he spends a little more time, as long as he can return to the surface.
After walking in the cave for most of the day, Aaron felt that his current position should not be too deep from the surface of the earth, as long as the terrain in the cave has been upward, he will soon be able to see the light of day again.
Somewhere in the pitch-black hole, where nothing could be seen, suddenly two small bright spots appeared in the black, looking like a pair of eyes of some kind of creature, amber in color.
The owner of these eyes, as if he had discovered something, moved silently, and quickly walked towards a certain position.
At this time, Aaron was still walking in the labyrinthine cave, and he didn't notice that any creature was rapidly approaching his location, and was still moving forward vigorously.
About ten minutes passed, and Aaron suddenly stopped because he heard a voice behind him. Inside the cave, some small sounds could be heard very clearly, and they traveled far away, and Aaron estimated that the place where the sound came from was some distance away from him.
Aaron had long suspected that there was a creature in it, but now it seems that it is. Either way, the voice made him nervous.
Faced with this situation, Aaron's first reaction was to take out a third-generation mutant thorn vine seed, and then start casting a spell to create a forged body of a blue salamander to face possible threats.
The sound came intermittently, and Aaron did not stop, but accelerated his speed, but the location of the voice behind him was getting closer and closer to him.
"Something must be following me! I guess it's some kind of creature that lives here. Aaron thought as he walked forward. "This is the territory of that creature, it should be able to catch up soon, I hope we can escape this time!"
Because of the constraints of the environment, Aaron's speed is limited, and the creature that is gradually approaching is estimated to have lived here, this place is its home field, and Aaron is not confident that he can be faster than the other party.
So in the future, there will definitely be contact between the two sides, and Aaron only hopes that it will not be some terrible monster, otherwise it is likely to be planted in this hellish place.
Finally, after two minutes.
Aaron saw the creature for himself, and what appeared before him was a strange four-legged creature, about the size of a child of twelve or thirteen, and a little like a cat. But there was not a single beard at the mouth, and there was no fluff on the body, but instead there was a layer of rough skin, and there were no claws on the four legs, and the whole body was black, except for a pair of amber eyes, which were particularly conspicuous.
"Chip, scan this creature!" Aaron instructed the chip at the first sight of the creature.
"Name unknown, no matching data found in the database;Strength: 2.4/Agility: 3.6/Constitution: 23" Soon, the chip scanned and analyzed, giving feedback.
"This is so kidding me!" Seeing the results displayed by the chip, Aaron had a surprised expression, how much strength and agility are there, but his physique is perverted like this!
In Aaron's opinion, this attribute is unbalanced, the gap is too exaggerated, and the contrast between strength and physique, close to 1 to 10, no matter how you look at it, it is very strange.
Although he was very surprised by this result, Aaron was at least relieved, this strange creature was inferior to himself in terms of strength, almost agile, and did not look like some fierce monster.
At least so far, this strange creature has not shown any intention to attack, just a pair of amber eyes, which has been staring at Aaron, keeping the initial distance and not moving again.
Judging from the results given by the chip, this strange creature is not much of a threat to Aaron. Similarly, Aaron can't pose a threat to it, the physique of up to 23 points is not a joke, it is much higher than the original griffin beast, and it is estimated that the first-level spell will not be very effective on it.
In Aaron's eyes, this guy is a Xiaoqiang who can't be killed, and there is really nothing he can do with it at present.
In this way, a man and a beast, eye to eye, confronted each other, which lasted for several minutes, and neither side made any further movements.
"There's no way to go on like this!" Aaron felt that there was no point in seeing eye to eye like this, so he sat on top of the forge body, turned around to face the strange creature, and then accused the forge to move in the opposite direction, that is, to turn away from himself, trying to distance the two sides.
However, when the forge moved with Aaron, the strange creature moved with it, but kept a similar distance, and when the forge stopped, it also stopped.
"What the hell is it trying to do, why does it keep following me?" Aaron frowned, not understanding why it was following him. "But in this case, I should be safe, at least not afraid of being attacked. â
"Since it's going to follow, let it follow. "No matter what the purpose of that strange creature is, as long as it doesn't attack, Aaron won't make a move, and it's best if everyone stays in peace.
Knowing that the strange creature had no intention of attacking him, when the forge disappeared, Aaron didn't make one again, so he relied on the magic crystal to recover his mana while moving forward, but he was followed by a small tail, and he couldn't shake it off.
After advancing for almost half a day, not far ahead, there was a faint light, and a breeze blew, although not very obvious, but it was indeed windy.
All kinds of signs are on the surface, and there is an exit ahead, an exit to the surface of the earth! Aaron couldn't help but feel a little excited in his heart, and then quickened his pace and ran forward.
Aaron came to the exit, walked out of the cave, looked up at the sky, and took a big breath of fresh air: "Finally out of that damn underground and back to the surface!"
After the excitement, Aaron turned around, and suddenly frowned again: "Why is this guy still following!"
"Is there something in me that attracts it?" Aaron thought about it carefully, and felt that it must have a purpose after him, and nine times out of ten it was carrying what it wanted. And this strange creature seems to be too timid to come and rob it, so it follows behind.
Aaron didn't have much on him, most of them were potions, and other valuables were just a large piece of obsidian, as well as important tree spirit branches and thorn vine seeds, and the rest were inconsequential sundries.
Aaron wanted to test his hypothesis, so he started with the clutter, took it out as it was, and shook it in front of the strange creature to see how it reacted.
However, after several attempts, the strange creature did not show a longing reaction to all the debris he had taken out, and kept turning a blind eye.
So, Aaron took the large piece of obsidian out of the package, took it in his hand and shook it a few times. However, at this moment, the strange creature moved, a pair of amber eyes blinked, and then took a few steps closer to Aaron.
Seeing this, Aaron immediately put away the obsidian and said secretly in his heart: "It turned out to be obsidian, but what does it want this thing for?"
When the obsidian was put away, the strange creature suddenly stopped and did not continue to approach, and Aaron was relieved, he was most worried that it would come and snatch it.
"It seems that it is really timid. "From the beginning to the present, Aaron can almost be sure that this creature is very timid.
But if you really want to come and grab it, Aaron can't do anything about it, and it will definitely not be able to consume it.