Chapter 54: The Underground Labyrinth
[The stories that happen in other worlds are often very bloody, don't believe it, life is like this, everywhere you go is actually a hanging! ] - 19th of the 147th year of the Bright Age]
I knew that the hostess in front of me must be difficult, but I was a little overwhelmed by her actions, but my eyes were really attracted to her graceful figure.
"Y-get dressed!" I felt a heat on my face, a hot current from my nostrils, and I resisted the desire to go up and hang my clothes back on her.
"Plop!"
Before I could put on her clothes, I saw her knees bent, kneeling at my feet and begging, "Please, please, please, help me, help me!" ”
I tried to lift her up, but she grabbed her legs and continued to plead.
Rebecca looked at it and rushed to pull the woman away:
"Get up! Do you want to be shameless? My family wants so many women, do you still need a married woman? We all want to, we want to get—"
"Rebecca, don't talk nonsense! Big sister, I'm sorry! My friend does not know the importance of what she says, and I ask you not to be like her; I haven't known your name for so long, and besides, do you know where your two children are now? ”
Interrupted by me, Rebecca seemed to realize that what she was saying was a bit explicit, and her face flushed and she didn't continue.
"Just call me Misha, they were just taken away two days ago, and they may still be in the temple in town! There's nothing to hide from you until now - I used to be an adventurer, and I originally planned to sneak into the temple to save people after eating tonight, but my strength is too low, and the chance of success is less than one layer, but if there is the help of the master, we will definitely be able to succeed! ”
"Misha, what are you going to do when you save the child? The Temple of Light won't let your mother and daughter go, I don't think you'll be able to escape! I said solemnly to Misha.
"This, this, I didn't think about it, as long as I can save my daughters, I am willing to pay any price, ask the master to help me!"
"Zofia, are you familiar with the temple here?" I turned to Zofia and asked.
"What do you mean, sir?"
"Of course it's to save people! That's what I asked. I said with a blank look at Zofia.
"Oh, oh, I'll go now, big cat come with me!" Zofia led the big cat out the door.
"This?" Misha looked at me incomprehensibly.
"Oh, don't worry, they're fine, and you'll be able to see your daughter soon; But hurry up and pack up your salutes and get ready to run for your life! ”
"Okay, thank you, sir! Thank you, sir! ”
After dinner was ready, we started eating.
Then there was a knock on the door, and Misha opened it again.
"My lord, people have been rescued!" Zofia said as she stood in the doorway.
He was followed by four people, two of whom were Misha's daughters, and two other fourteen or fifteen-year-old girls - one of them was a dark elf, and the other I felt a strong breath of nature, and I guessed it was a druid like Imira.
"Mom!"
"Kathy, Merry—my boy, it's so good, it's so good!"
Misha hugged the two girls who lunged at her, and the mother and daughter hugged each other tightly.
"Didn't the big cat come back? Has it been found? "I'm only concerned about tails right now, and I don't want to be approached by the annoying Temple of Light.
If it is discovered, it must be transferred immediately, without a moment's delay.
"Your Excellency, rest assured, it has not been discovered. There were only a few clergy in this temple, and there were no guards from the Temple of Light; The big cat finds something and hides the traces in the chaos at the point of creation. ”
Zofia said as she looked at me mysteriously.
After speaking, he looked at the four girls he brought back and said, "My lord, we may need to hide the four of them first." ”
"Misha, do you have a hiding place here?"
"Yes, yes, we have a cellar."
After hiding the four of them in the cellar, they also added illusions to it, and we began to eat normally.
"Open the door, open the door!"
"Squeak-" Misha went to open the door.
"So slow! What are you doing? ”
"What's the matter, my lord?" Misha asked the visitor.
"Surprise inspection, someone set fire to the temple, where did you guys come from? - Come with us! The officer and soldier who carried out the execution pointed to a few of us and said.
"Sir, this is my husband's friend, you can't do this." Misha was powerless to stop and was pushed to the ground by several officers and soldiers.
In order not to let Misha get hurt again, I quickly stopped:
"Misha, it's okay! Let's go on a trip with a few officials. ”
A few of us were taken to the camp at the entrance of the gate of Duna Town, the camp was not large, and it was already crowded with many adventurers and passers-by.
In the crowded camp, we were interrogated one by one and did not come out of the camp until noon the next day.
By the time we got back to Misha's dilapidated hut, they were clearly gone, and only the big cat turned into the little black cat was still sleeping on its stomach on the wooden table in the house.
"Master, they're gone!" As he spoke, he jumped off the wooden table and walked towards me
"Did you let them out?" I asked, puzzled.
After all, the illusion was only to cover up the entrance to the cellar, but it was not so easy to open.
"No, the master, it was the woman who opened it herself, that woman doesn't seem to be simple, she can also do illusions!" The big cat jumped off the table and said.
I laughed self-deprecatingly and said, "It seems that we are still too simple, forget it - let's keep going!" ”
"Hee-hee-I think it's true that adults are fascinated by Misha's woman, otherwise it is impossible not to see her charm, after all, that woman's figure and appearance are very beautiful!" Rebecca teased as she covered her mouth.
I gave me a blank look and said, "You're smart!" Alright, it's time for us to go! ”
Rebecca and the big cat are right, Misha is really not simple, I don't know what purpose she wants to do this, she did use charm at the time, but it was not her deliberate use, it was more instinct, I also suspected that the other party might have ulterior motives, but then I still self-denial.
Because Misha didn't know anything about our arrival in advance, and there was no trace of the charm spell, so at that time I investigated with the True Eye and found that Misha had succubus blood, but it was very thin, and it should be a descendant of a hybrid of human and demonic races, and I don't know the descendants of generations of reproduction.
For Misha's departure, for some reason, I had a feeling of sudden loss in my heart, and I shook my head and thought: Forget it, it's okay to leave, there is a lot of burden!
Shortly after leaving Dana, we entered a mountain trail and we felt a trail behind us — no, it should be a pinch of tails following.
"The host, we were being followed!" Lily whispered in my ear.
"You know, it's not just a tail, they follow if they like!" I deliberately raised my voice and said.
Don't think that these people are either officers and soldiers of Dana Town, or greedy among adventurers, no matter which one they are, as long as they are not stupid, they should consciously avoid it when I shout like this.
Of course, there are also different brain circuits, or this is my wishful thinking, the other party may not care if you find out at all, anyway, they want to you.
"Stop, or we'll let off the arrows/attack!"
Several voices said the same or something like that.
"Run!" I screamed.
We hadn't taken two steps when a voice appeared on the far slope of the trail ahead of us and shouted at us, "Master—Master—come here, come here—"
"My lord, it's Misha!" Rebecca was a little surprised.
"Let's go!" I didn't hesitate to run up the hill.
As soon as we climbed the high slope, Misha slashed at a rope beside her, and many stones tumbled down the hillside, and then we heard a scream from the bottom of the hill.
"Master, let's go quickly, the rolling stones won't stop for long!" Misha said calmly.
I smiled and looked at her and nodded, motioning for her to lead the way.
"Humph! Shameless, you know how to seduce my family!" Rebecca looked at Misha with an unkind look and squeezed between me and Misha.
Misha led us quickly through a narrow 100-meter-long mountain path to a boulder by a small stream.
I saw her put her hand into the water and pull hard, and a passage opened under the boulder.
"Master, I hid my four children here, please follow me!" Walking into the passage, Misha lights a torch and closes the passage from the inside.
The passage is not long, about fifty meters or so, and we see a small but not oppressive underground cave at a corner.
There was a dark passage behind the cavern, and I don't know where it led, and four girls still in black cloaks were sitting curled up by the fire.
"Mom, where are we going?" Misha's eldest daughter, Kathy, asked reluctantly.
"Casey, from now on, we will follow this master, and we will go wherever he goes." Misha said with a serious face.
"But we don't want to leave Dana." Her youngest daughter, Merry, protested.
Misha suddenly said with a straight face: "If you don't leave, do you still want to be captured by the people of the temple?" ”
"But don't we follow this man to be a slave to him? Rather than be like this, we would rather be saints to the temple and still be favored by the Temple of Light. ”
Casey had begun to look at me with resentment.
"How do you know that you want to be a saint in the temple? Have you seen when it was necessary to arrest people to choose a saint? When did you ever see that the Holy Maiden of the Temple of Light would be a dark elf? Misha asked Casey and Messi angrily, pointing to the dark elf.
I couldn't stand it anymore, I really didn't know how this child was bewitched by the temple, but I had a way to shut her up, but I still chose the simplest and rude way, and nodded at Zofia.
"Fool, show this angel clearly!" Zofia revealed her true body as an Angel of Light as she spoke.
A dazzling and scorching glow illuminates the entire cavern.
"Alright, let's go!" I patted Zofia and said, she was normal again.
Misha and her two daughters were stunned.
The little girl of the dark elves and the little girl of the druid, on the contrary, came up to me with a hot gaze in their eyes, and said respectfully, "Please take us in!" ”
"Follow me if I want, but I won't guarantee your safety!"
The pitch-black passage began to extend downward after seventy or eighty meters, and after about three or four kilometers of winding, another hole appeared in front of me.
According to my field of vision, I judged that there was a cliff in front of me, because I could only see the distant scenery outside the cave, but I could not see the road, and the road had a fault about ten meters outside the entrance of the cave.
Misha's mother and daughter really followed behind, but they didn't dare to say anything along the way.
Until I asked Misha, "Misha, what is this place?" ”
Misha hurriedly trotted forward and said: "Master, there is an underground labyrinth in front, I don't know the specifics, this is what I accidentally discovered when I was an adventurer, but I never dared to enter the second floor of the labyrinth." ”
"Underground labyrinths? Didn't you bring your husband with you? "I'm confused.
"Nope! I'm the only one here who knows, actually, I've never been married, and I've never had children, and Casey and Merry are the children that Dean and I picked up; I'm sorry kid, I'm not your real mother - but, I still love you! ”
Misha looked apologetically at Casey and Merry, but the two children were miraculously calm, as if they had known it for a long time.
"Dad told us before he died, we are her own daughter, and you are our nanny." Casey said calmly.
"Our mother is Eliza, a nun from the temple in the small town of Dana, and we have known it for a long time." Merry also said with a smug face.
I couldn't help but laugh out loud: "Poof—that's bloody!" ”
"Let's go, other people's family affairs have nothing to do with us!" I covered my mouth and walked down the underground maze.
"Sir, please wait for me!" Shortly after we left, Misha followed with a bloody face.
I looked at Misha in disbelief and asked, "You killed them?" ”
"They saw your appearance, so I cut out their tongues and eyes—I didn't think Dean would betray me, deceive me, and I've saved him a few times—I didn't expect that even they'd betray me—woo-"
I muttered in some surprise in my heart: "Women can't be provoked!" ”
I don't want to gossip about the rest, after all, this is a personal privacy plus family matter, and it has nothing to do with me.
We easily passed through the first layer of the maze and reached the second level.
There was no one else here, so after entering the second layer, I released the thirteen large scorpions again.
It is better to say that it is an underground labyrinth than an underground cave, the big scorpion is like a fish in water in the underground labyrinth full of rocks, there is no obstacle to progress, all the monsters encountered along the way enter their stomachs, we sit on the back of the big scorpion before we have time to see what the monster is gone.
It was only when we came to the bottom that we had a chance to see what the monster in front of us was.
I stood up at once, because the monster in front of me reminded me of an impossible possibility, the monster - the manticore.
It's a disgusting, difficult, and strange beast, with the tail of a scorpion, the wings of a dragon, the face of an orangutan, and the body of a lion.
The monster in front of me is almost identical to the manticore-like lion in my imagination.
But I still asked with some uncertainty, "What kind of monster is this?" ”
"My lord, this is a terrible magical beast that only exists in the age of the gods - the manticore, the poison of its tail is extremely terrifying, it is said that it can corrode the strongest armor, even the god body cannot resist its corrosion, and it also has a paralyzing effect, its eyes can shoot a dark light, so that the enemy who looks at it is plunged into darkness."
Zofia's face became solemn, and she flew to the front of the group to be on guard.
"Master, this manticore lion asked Lily to come, and its poison has no effect on Lily." Lily offered to ask.
"Don't worry, you'd better keep an eye on your surroundings, there's not just a manticore, and there's more than this kind of monster—and the one-eyed monster on the cliff." I saw through the eyes of truth that we were already surrounded by people.
Seeing that everyone was on guard, I explained again: "If my guess is correct, the cyclops will also emit lethal rays, just in case everyone takes out a glossy object and gathers the reflected rays in the direction of the manticore;
Lily, the biggest manticore is handed over to you, Zofia releases a flash ball to temporarily blind the one-eyed monster, Alice and the ronin help Lily deal with the other manticores and buy her time; Rebecca and Gogi, you two open a defensive barrier to protect the scorpions; Ling, Jinpeng, you cooperate with Zofia to attack the one-eyed monster on the roof of the cave and the wall, everyone prepares - Zofia will release flashbangs. ”
The battle began at the sound of my order, and Zofia quickly fired flashbangs.
The entire bottom of the labyrinth appeared with flashbangs, bursts of sharp screams rang out, and the one-eyed ghost's dark blue beam began to shoot in all directions; Whether it was the one-eyed monster hanging on the wall of the maze or the manticored lion on the floor of the maze, they all suffered a lot of casualties.
Before the effects of the flashbang wore off, I used my silver crossbow to shoot an arrow at the largest cyclops on the top of the maze, and successfully hit its one-eyed with one arrow, which pierced its head and castrated, piercing the cyclops behind it, and then bouncing off and shooting a manticore, killing them with three birds with one stone.
These one-eyed monsters have tentacles in addition to a large eye, and they don't have time to take a closer look because they're fighting.
The largest octopus, the cyclops, was huge, more than three times the size of the manticore, and had the size of two elephants.
After being pierced by my arrow, it fell directly above and smashed into the manticore below, smashing its head into the manticore leader, causing it a lot of damage.
The giant cyclops didn't die immediately after hitting the manticore, and after hitting the manticore leader, it used a dozen of its thick octopus feet to sweep around, causing more damage to other manticores; It's a pity that it only struggled for a short time, otherwise the manticore's casualties would have been even more severe.
Lily also took the opportunity to fly to the side of the manticore leader, and the first thing she did was to cut off the back half of his body that was swept by the octopus cyclops.
The manticore's leader was slashed by Lily, making a baby-like cry, trying to stab the venomous scorpion tail at Lily, but was blocked by the octopus one-eyed monster's large tentacles.
At this time, the attacks of the others reached their targets.
After leaving Misha to Rebecca and Goki for protection, I began to roam the battlefield and mend my sword, holding a silver bow and crossbow to act as a sniper, and shooting them wherever there was a gap.
With the cooperation of the team in the past six months, the strength of the team has doubled and doubled, and the strength of the individual has an advantage, so although the enemy is outnumbered, the battle was quickly pulled into the end by us.
After that, the task of cleaning up the battlefield was handed over to the big scorpions, and the main force of the battle, Zofia, and they all sat down to rest, and Rebecca, and Goji and I took over the aftermath of the battle, and while counting the harvest, they also looked for an exit.
I first went over to the biggest octopus, the one-eyed monster, which looked like a monster. There is an oversized eyeball on the exaggerated round head, this big eye accounts for more than one-third of the round head, and the other parts also have dense small eyeballs, sixteen tentacles are covered with long brown hairs and barbs, and the back of the semi-circular tentacles is full of round suckers, each round sucker is full of fine sharp teeth, and there is a miserable white spike at the end of the tentacles, which is completely the type of mutated big octopus.
Curious about the octopus cyclops, I began to look at the manticore again; This monster is indeed very magical, it looks very unreasonable, it feels like a hybrid of a gorilla, a lion, a bat and a scorpion, a huge black orangutan head, two large white fangs turned out of the mouth, a body similar to a black lion is covered with black smooth long hair, dark red wings are like bat wings, and like dragon wings, and the tail hook of the black and gray scorpion tail has a touch of scarlet.
After looking at it, he lost his curiosity, and planned to put the corpses of the two monsters into the space ring.
Suddenly, a feeling of danger came to my heart, and I reflexively smashed the two monsters with one palm thunder technique.
"Damn, he's still playing with corpses!" I immediately cursed in my mouth, and also reminded the others: "Remember to mend the knife before cleaning - Wang Ba Lizi is so insidious, and he will also play with the corpse!" ”
Four small clusters of light were also sucked into my body at this time, and at this time I was sure that the two monsters were completely dead, and I didn't pay attention to them at all during the fierce battle.
"Hee-hee-master, the monsters are very cunning, especially the ones that live in the dark and dark camps, so you should be careful!" Lily said with a grin.
I awkwardly grabbed the octopus cyclops leader and the manticore, and was about to throw them into the spatial ring, when something strange happened again.
The bodies of the two big monsters were like the corpses that I had swallowed before, turning into streamers and merging into my body, and they didn't miss it, causing me to feel lonely in both hands.
I was horrified: Aoguang pit me again? Isn't it that the vampire's disease has been cured? How did this start again - it's not right, it's neither, it's not - it's supposed to be Loki. The good thing that the bastard of Huaros did was to make his body self-patching.
In order to test this idea, I reached out and grabbed the two manticores in the vicinity again, trying to see if they would absorb it, but there was no streamer and no devouring of the soul of the monster.
Soon I also felt a change in my body – my head began to swell, my eyes started to ache, my fingers went numb, and my skin itched.