Chapter 31: The Deep Cave

With a "whoosh", the brazier was lit, illuminating the dark deep cavern.

Algan walked cautiously in front with his two-handed sword, followed by Monica and Linda, holding torches on the left and right, lighting the braziers along the way, the orange flames were bright and warm, adding a sense of security to the deep cave.

Although Linda and Algan couldn't help but glance back at each other, as if they were afraid that something would suddenly grow in Babu's arms, they never objected to Babu and Anna's position, and they didn't have to go ahead and let them wander behind.

After settling the corpses of the newly dead townspeople and settling the townspeople who were injured but not dead by the monster's sneak attack, the four of them cautiously walked into the deep cave.

The upper floors of the underground vault have been completely transformed into a man-made environment over the years, and are all made of masonry and filled with man-made facilities and furniture.

But the deep caves are different, in contrast, the deep caves are almost natural, the ground is slightly leveled, except for a lit brazier filled with oil every other distance, there are almost no artificial facilities, walking in the cave, the dampness and coldness of the dark space come to the face.

Tick, tick.

The cave was so quiet that even the faint sound of dripping water could be heard quite clearly. As the light of the fire lit up, the shadows in the corners of the cave became more obvious in contrast, the shadows continued to distort and deform with the beating of the flames, and behind the shadows that did not see the light of day all year round, it always seemed that there was some strange existence hidden, and every time I walked by the shadows, it would make people feel a creepy sense of fear.

The deeper you go, the fewer traces of artificiality, even the illuminated brazier is sparse, dead silence and coldness once again prevail, and in the darkness, from time to time there are groups of small green points of light, the sound of crawling is small but difficult to ignore, and the sound of scratching rocks is like scratching in the hearts of people.

As we go deeper, the road becomes more difficult, with natural tunnels in the depths that are as dense as spider webs, and some tunnels are narrow enough to accommodate only one person, and you have to crawl to get through.

The voices behind him faded away, and at first the noisy conversations of the talkative townsfolk in the surface shelter came into my ears, but soon they were no longer audible, and the sound of dripping, crawling, and scratching echoed in my ears, which was the sound of footsteps that I tried to suppress, light as a breeze, but heavy as thunder.

The increasingly quiet environment made everyone subconsciously lighten their steps, and the torches on the left and right also shook to both sides from time to time, trying to illuminate the surrounding tunnels and rock walls as clearly as possible.

A black shadow flashed beside him, startling all three of them, and Babu, who was holding Anne, went around to the front and made a stop gesture. Linda and Algan were still very unaccustomed to it, and although they did not move, their bodies leaned back, trying to distance themselves from Anna.

Babu didn't care about the instinctive reaction of the two, and took out a pack of lighting fluorite balls from Monica's handbag, and didn't see him tiptoe and sneak carefully, but his feet didn't make a sound at all as if he had stepped on cotton, so he silently walked to the corner in front of him, held the fluorite ball out of the corner to illuminate it, and held the mirror with his other hand, and leaned against the rock wall in the corner to look out.

The hearts of the three people behind them involuntarily lifted, and they subconsciously held their breath and looked at the snooping Babu.

Babu slowly withdrew the illuminated fluorite ball and made a strange backhand gesture. Linda and Algan looked at Monica for some reason, only to find that she had lightly taken out the whip and dagger, and nodded at the inquiring glances of the two. The two quickly understood Monica's gesture, and each clenched his weapons, ready for battle.

With his back against the wall, and he couldn't see any other movement from him, he saw him nod rhythmically with his eyes closed, as if he was dozing, and nodded his head a dozen times, and suddenly he opened his eyes, his fingers trembled, and a copper coin flew out of his palm quietly, swirling in the air, and finally landed on the ground in the middle of the corner, and landed on the ground without even bounceing again, just spinning in place, and making a series of crashing sounds in the same place.

Like the bell of the opening of the stage.

As soon as the first impact was made, from the darkness behind the corner, two shadows suddenly broke through the darkness and broke into the light, hehehe hit the rocky ground around the copper coin, the hard texture and huge impact force made the solid rock all stone chips.

It was two tongues, and it was actually two barbed tongues that could make the stone chips fly, and the tongue was only the first step, followed by the tongue, there were two familiar red shadows, the red shadows slammed into the place where the copper coin landed, and the four cold claws tore the ground continuously, making a creepy cracking sound, leaving shocking scratches on the hard ground.

The damage from the attack is quite terrifying, but the most terrifying thing is that they barely make a sound during the whole process, until their tongues and claws start to hit the ground, and they can't start to hear the sound, if they let it sneak up on people, the results are unimaginable.

It's a pity that it's the other way around now.

There was a soft "poof" sound, and the head of one of the monsters that was scratching the ground suddenly tilted, and then its body fell to the side, and the heavy body pressed against its companion, crushing the same kind of people around it.

If its kind had intelligence, it would have been able to find that the monster had fallen crookedly because at the same time as they pounced and scratched the ground, three slender cones composed of rich black qi condensed on the side of one of their heads, and then stabbed into it fiercely.

Obviously it's just a black mist, but it has a substance-like effect, three thin vertebrae are directly inserted into the honeycomb-like structure of the monster's original ear, and then it explodes in the brain instantly, first a cloud of black gas erupts from all the openings of the monster's head, and then the entire head explodes silently, the remaining head hangs to one side, and the body is also tilted as if it was suddenly emptied.

The same kind that was pressed down there was a violent struggle, the claws cut the corpses of the same kind all over the scars, and finally pushed the companion aside with both hands and feet, and before the monster could turn over and stand up to regain its balance, there was half a black dagger on its head.

There was no one with it, and the dagger was brought with a long whip. The sound of its struggles and kicks was like the sound of the whip and the dagger breaking through the air, and when it finally overthrew its companion and regained its freedom, the dagger had been delivered, and the same honeycomb-like organ was chosen, and it poked it in while it was turning over, and finally did not forget to stir it up.

The half-standing body fell to the ground again, and the muscles of the two monsters trembled for a while, and soon there was no movement at all. When the three of them breathed a sigh of relief and looked back at Babu, Babu had already crouched around the corner, knocked on the two fluorite balls, and rolled them out against the uneven and down-sloping ground.

"Jingle clang", the fluorite ball jumps and rolls forward, the cold light source goes all the way forward, gradually deepens, and the raised rocks on the four walls are illuminated by the tumbling light source, projecting a strange-shaped shadow, with the movement of the light source, the shadow is also constantly twisting, making the dark tunnel like a group of demons dancing for a while.

"Huh?" The light source has rolled out fifty or sixty meters, and it is about to be out of sight, several people found it at the same time, I don't know if they saw something strange, but before they could take a closer look, it seemed that a black shadow caught up with the rolling ball of light from the side behind, and the next moment the two light sources disappeared at the same time, and the tunnel was dark again.

"Hiss", several people took a breath at the same time, looked at each other, and could see the surprise and confusion on each other's faces, no one could see what it was, as if there was some huge object, which destroyed the light source in an instant.

Babu took a deep breath and was about to push a little deeper into the tunnel when her hand was stopped by Monicala.

Monica pointed at Anna, shook her head at Babu, and then pointed at herself, seeing Babu's worried expression, she pursed her lips and smiled and punched him, making a 'dead child' mouth shape in her mouth, and then clenched her long whip and tentatively walked down the slightly inclined tunnel.

It's not the feeling of weak legs, but the feeling of a soft cushion between the soles of the shoes and the ground. Looking down, Monica found that a thin layer of black gas was hidden under her feet, so that every step she took would not directly contact the ground. As soon as she turned around, Linda was smiling at her, she tried to walk a few steps, and sure enough, there was no direct footsteps, she gave Linda a thumbs up with satisfaction, and then handed the torch to Babu, and walked down the tunnel with the whip and fluorite ball.

Step by step, carefully observing the four walls, only the sound of suppressed breathing and the monotonous sound of dripping water were left in the darkness, and between the shaking of light and shadow, Monica was approaching the location where the fluorite ball disappeared before.

The other three followed closely behind, not daring to make a sound, not daring to make much movement, each with a handful of sweat in their palms, and everyone stared at Monica's back and the wall, lest she suddenly disappear like those two fluorite balls.

The same goes for Babu, and he thinks more.

Monica is adventurous in front, and he is full of brains, thinking about only one question, what exactly destroyed the fluorite ball.

On closer inspection, there is nothing unusual about the rock wall other than the position where the view is blocked by the uneven and raised walls. Then we can only start with what happened just now, and Babu struggles to remember the scene that just happened, and the movements flash in his mind one by one like freeze-frame images.

Babu remembered very well that the shadow was chasing from behind, the wall behind the side, so he could be sure that it wasn't the sound, it wasn't the light, it wasn't even the air currents or the smell, otherwise the shadow should have met from the front of the side, not from the side behind.

What is that? What is that?

The memory that had long been lost suddenly opened a corner, and he seemed to see himself wearing strange glasses, facing an even stranger red light. The rays of light form a dense network of light, leaving no gaps for people to pass through.

"Stand back, it's the sense of light."

Unable to care about the occasion, Babu whispered to Monica.

Before the voice could be spoken, Babu already understood that he was still one step slower.

The uneven raised rocks on the rock wall that I had seen before seemed to be rocks at all, and a large piece of them suddenly moved, like a huge flesh worm three or four meters in diameter, and swallowed towards Monica.