0136 "Fire Escape" for Rats

The flames in the main hall of the rat cage had been simmering for a whole day, and the overflowing heat and terrible smell made the mercenaries simply withdraw to Fort Doom and rest for a shift.

After the mercenaries opened the secret door again, and the wind magician poured wind into it for a long time to disperse the smoke and heat, even the most experienced old mercenaries leaned against the wall and vomited after taking a look at the purgatory-like scene in the rat cage hall.

It was no longer enough to describe the scene they saw, in a corner of the rat cage hall, there were huge charred rat corpses piled up on top of each other, and in the center of the hall, the metal giant cage was no longer visible.

A huge mountain of charred corpses was almost piled up to the dome of the main hall, which was more than twenty meters high, and the burned dark demon rat bones were constantly rolling down, and they would turn into brittle and hard fine powder at the slightest touch.

With such a large number of rat corpses, it is obviously impossible that only the corpses of about two thousand dark demon rats remain, and there are conservative estimates that there are tens of thousands.

Especially the corpse mountain, the rat queen who was scorched by the flames, frantically summoned its offspring, hoping that they could protect themselves, but they didn't know that its behavior happened to send its offspring to hell with its own hands.

The earth magicians used earthen walls to close off a large number of forks and dead ends in the Bailong labyrinth, leaving only a straight passage to prevent people from entering by mistake, and then the mercenaries brought a large number of hired workers and began to clean up the charred rat corpses in the rat cage hall one by one.

Captain Kenmet looked at the hired workers with pity, and transported away the rat corpses that were so brittle that they would be shattered at the slightest touch, the corpses of tens of thousands of silver-level demonic beasts!

If the corpse can be preserved, even if a decomposed material can only be sold for a hundred gold tarans, it will be enough to make millions of profits, but now. But it was all burned to char by Jialan's fire.

The resentful eyes of the head of Kenmet made Jialan a little embarrassed, but fortunately, it was not completely without gain, the flames could not destroy the silver-level earth-based magic crystals in the body of the dark demon rat, so tens of thousands of silver-level earth-based magic crystals were enough to comfort the resentful mood of the head of Kenmet.

Besides, in that situation at that time, it was a blessing to be able to save his life and survive, even if there was an accident, but the final result was perfect, and tens of thousands of dark demon rats were eliminated without blood.

The biggest contributor to this. Aside from Jialan's fire, I'm afraid it was thanks to the stupid dark mocha gopher queen, who summoned almost all the descendants of the ruins in order to save his life.

Now, it is estimated that in the ruins of this temple of the Worship of the Dragons. Not a single mouse could be found, except for the ones that had been killed by the mercenaries beforehand. The rest is all here.

Jialan walked in the main hall of the rat cage where there was still residual warmth. Thoughtfully analyzing the power of this fire, why is it so big:

The floor of this hall is full of a thick layer of dry bones, rotten furs, mountains of dried rat droppings, and all kinds of strange garbage accumulated over thousands of years......

Whether it's parched firewood-like bones or decaying fur, it's almost always natural fuel. In addition to the various prey carcasses that have not been eaten by the dark mocha gophers, the corpse oil that flows out after decomposing has already soaked the thick layer of rat feces on the ground.

Once these materials are ignited, it is estimated that it will not be easy to extinguish them. In this very complete structure of the Worship Dragon Temple, the air circulation brought by the perfect ventilation system makes the entire Rat Cage Hall a natural crematorium.

This hall can't be cleaned up in ten days and half a month, and even if it is cleared, I'm afraid it will be difficult to use it for other purposes.

The smell was terrifying, even after the high temperature of the fire, the residual smell still had a high lethal power, and the hired workers had to rely on the water magicians to perform blister spells on them before they dared to enter.

Jialan casually took out the battle dagger that Old Jimmy had given him, and gently tapped the blackened squirrel cage pillars, making a crisp metal crashing sound.

Glancing at the mercenaries who were busy, Jialan suddenly swung her knife and slashed heavily on the metal pillar, but only hung off a layer of dirt on the metal pillar, revealing the dark blue material of the metal pillar.

Stretched out his finger and touched the dark blue metal, and the chill of the tentacles that came made Jialan a little thoughtful, and after thinking for a while, Jialan's eyes suddenly lit up, and she looked at the dense cage array in the squirrel cage hall that was still smoky and scorching, exuding a scorching temperature, and suddenly laughed.

The value of the magic crystal condensed by a demonic beast is almost equivalent to 50% of the total value of its own flesh and blood materials, and an accidental fire burned tens of thousands of dark demon rats, that is, 50% of the value of the dark Mocha gophers, but after cleaning up the fire, the magic crystals that can be collected are at least worth more than one million or more Jintaran.

Although from the perspective of the distribution principle of loot in the mercenary world, most of these dark mocha gophers were killed by Jialan, and the loot naturally belonged to Jialan.

However, Jialan generously handed over these magic crystals to the Golden Two-Headed Dragon Mercenary Group to deal with, both as the mercenaries' attendance expenses and as the cost of hiring the Golden Two-Headed Dragon Mercenary Group to clean up the underground ruins on their behalf.

In the mission sequence of the Mercenary Guild, a task with a mercenary cost of up to 10,000 gold taran is already considered a gold-level task, reaching 100,000 gold taran can be regarded as a platinum mission, and a million gold taran is a purple gold level task, which is enough to fight a city-state war.

Although the Golden Two-Headed Dragon Mercenary Group is the largest mercenary group in Koran City, the mercenary tasks they can receive on a daily basis are at most 10,000 golden missions around the Golden Talan.

More than one million missions above Quintalaan, not to mention in Kelan City, even in Gilago County, and even within the seven continents of the Panstar Continent, it is rare, not that mercenary group has the opportunity to receive.

And even if you receive a Zijin-level mission, the task process is absolutely miserable, just the number of personnel invested and the time taken by the task, as well as the consumption of supplies, and the pension of the dead and disabled members, you have to spend a lot of money, and there is a "light-hearted" one like now, and more than one million worth of loot is obtained.

Best of all, it's a private commission without a mercenary guild. He doesn't have to pay a 10% commission to the Mercenary Guild!

Therefore, even though there was some resentment against Jialan for burning the ordinary loot, Captain Kenmet still smiled from ear to ear.

"Cleanup" is not "repair", it doesn't cost much material, you know, this mission was originally under the signal of his uncle President Clark, to provide free support to Jialan, a collaborator.

But not only did they generously provide a large number of high-quality potions, but there were no casualties during the battle, which was already the most satisfactory result for Kenmet.

Feeling that he had won so much loot for nothing, Kenmet himself felt a little embarrassed. Therefore, he led his mercenaries to work extremely hard, and even the magicians who usually served as treasures under his command were brought in as construction workers to repair the area that had been opened up by this ruin for Jialan magicians.

The magicians, who have always been arrogant, are very obedient this time. Hearing Kenmet's request, he started work without saying a word. Even that high-level fire magician is hard-working. Help incinerate the mushroom jungle with fire-based spells.

Anyway, tens of thousands of earth-based silver magic crystals were harvested, and it was enough to provide disaster for a few earth-based magicians under them, so it would be good to clean up and strengthen the collapsed place of this ancient ruin.

As for the manpower used to repair the dungeon, Kenmet was even more willing to invest, and spent a lot of money in Kintalan, sending people to hire a large number of hired workers from Coran City and the surrounding towns. How much copper is the salary of these coolie hired men?

As soon as there are more people, the speed of cleaning will naturally be faster, and after the rat cage hall is roughly cleared out and can be entered, the golden thief Hugo will bring a group of elite thieves. Continue deeper into the ruins for reconnaissance.

In the process of cleaning up, the hired workers found that the rat queen was not burned to death under such a strong flame!

Judging from the traces, the rat queen dug a deep pit in the garbage heap under the metal giant cage with its slender claws that were almost degraded to drill into, and then summoned a large number of offspring to form a protective layer to block heat and bury itself, so that it was lucky to survive.

A wood mage sprinkled a large number of "corpse vine" seeds on the huge garbage heap, and then spawned large thick vines, manipulating them to quickly devour the terrible garbage heap.

For humans, the filthy environment in the rat cage hall may be difficult to approach, but for plants, this is undoubtedly the most fertile breeding ground, and the habit of binding corpse vines is used to wrap the prey with its own vines into a vine ball when hunting, wrapping it and enjoying it slowly.

Taking advantage of this habit of the corpse binding vine, a large number of twelve-ripe, seven-ripe, and five-ripe corpses in the rat cage hall, including those rat dung layers accumulated over the years, were collected by the vines of the corpse binding vine, and they were wrapped into large and small rattan balls without waste, and the hired workers only needed to roll these rattan balls out of the cane ball.

After cleaning up the garbage and feces in the metal giant cage, the water magicians summoned the water ball, rinsed the cage fiercely, and manipulated the wood magician who bound the corpse vine, and then used the vine to pull out the five mature rat queens from the cave it dug out.

To everyone's surprise, in the center of the metal giant cage, there is a circular shaft about two meters in diameter, black and swarthy does not know where to lead, the rat queen is estimated to be planning to dig this shaft to escape, but because the body is too fat and stuck, this is forced to helplessly, summon a large number of offspring to act as a thermal insulation layer.

It was also this shaft, after being stuck in the rats, that was not burned to death by the flames, nor did it suffocate from smoke and lack of oxygen.

The survival consciousness of the rat queen made Jialan feel a little surprised, these years, even the rat knows that he has left a "fire escape" for himself!? (To be continued......)

PS: Lao Sao: First of all, thank you for the tips from the book lovers No. 008 and other brothers, and ask for tickets. PS: I counted it, and suddenly found that I already owed 7 chapters and more, which made me embarrassed by the crippled party!?