Chapter 1: Encounters
"Why is this happening?" Adam wiped his vision obscured by blood, and he clutched the map he had drawn in his arms and ran as hard as he could.
The huge monster behind him was feasting, seemingly completely unconcerned about the skinny prey that had already run away, but as soon as he ran a certain distance, the monster would immediately follow him.
Like a cat catching a mouse, he is not in a hurry to eat its prey, but to play a trick, and although Adam is exhausted, he is motivated by his own beliefs to not stop running.
But when he saw the scene ahead, his hope was shattered, he was deliberately driven into a dead end by the monster, looking at the desperate look of his prey, the monster seemed to be very happy, did not continue to chase Adam, but stood at the intersection and looked at him playfully.
Adam clutched his album tightly, looked back at the monster and seemed to have made a decision, he lowered his head and slammed into the wall at the end of the dead end with all his strength.
He's not committing suicide, he's gambling on an extremely unlikely hope.
There is a very low probability that there will be a hidden room in the dungeon's dead end, which is known to all adventurers, and some people will even knock on every wall to find the hidden room as they pass by, because there must be some treasures inside that are beyond the existing level.
But at the same time, there can be extremely dangerous traps in the hidden room, as if it was a joke made by the creator of the dungeon, and finding the hidden room does not mean that the treasure can be easily obtained.
But Adam hoped that he could find a trap room, and perhaps there was a slight possibility that he could escape from the monster by relying on the trap.
Not to mention the possibility of the trap room, the first floor of the dungeon he is in has been explored countless times, and even the map of the first layer has been spread throughout the Beagle Islands two hundred years ago.
This can only be regarded as a scavenger's paradise, relying on some low-level treasures that occasionally appear for unknown reasons to get some rewards that can satisfy the stomach, but it is in this layer that monsters that only appear above the third layer appear.
This is the dungeon, full of opportunities but also full of dangers, and every adventurer is prepared to die at any time, including Adam, but now he is thinking: "Is the first day of being an adventurer going to die?" No, I can die, but I can't die here. I'm going to bet on even the slightest possibility! ”
The slight possibility of his head touching the wall and the imagined pain not hit, Adam rushed into a dark hidden room.
After a quick turn on his chest lamp and a brief glance around, Adam became even more desperate, for there was nothing but a dried corpse.
"Looks like it's a hidden treasure room that has been emptied." Adam sat down, flipped through the map he had been guarding, and took out a quill from his bosom.
He searched the map for his current location with great care, even if the monster had already arrived in front of the room.
After determining his location, Adam hurriedly annotated the information of this room with a quill pen, and wrote a few small words "Adam the Discoverer" very solemnly below.
After doing all this, he smiled as he watched the monster's big mouth come at him: "Then maybe someone will remember me." ”
Thinking of this, he closed his eyes, ready to meet death, feeling the map in his arms Adam opened his eyes again, and hurriedly ran backwards.
"I still don't want to die." Adam looked at the monster in front of him and thought, "But there's no other way for me to do it." ”
The monster should have had enough, and suddenly the speed increased by a few notches, and before Adam could react, he saw that the monster's sharp teeth had arrived in front of him.
It is said that people will feel that everything will slow down because of the instinct of the body before death, and this is how Yafang feels at this time, obviously the monster is close at hand, but his attack is not falling for a long time.
"How long are you going to be stunned?" A very hoarse voice said.
Adam realized that it wasn't the monster that didn't move, it was that it wanted to move but couldn't, and the dried corpse was stuck in its mouth.
No matter how hard the monster tried, it couldn't shake the dry corpse in the slightest, and Adam quickly got out of the gap when he saw this.
"Is this corpse still alive?" Adam was shocked, but anything could happen in this dungeon.
Some of the enraged monsters let go of their mouths, and a stream of hot energy gathered in its mouth, and a moment later it spewed towards the corpse.
The heat distorted the air, but Adam saw no change in the figure of the dried corpse.
"Fire-breathing dinosaurs? It's kind of interesting. The dry corpse spoke words that Adam did not understand.
Then Adam saw a picture that he would never forget for the rest of his life.
With a flick of one hand in the flames, a rain of blood erupted from the monster's body, gathering in the air and swallowing it into her mouth.
Her body slowly plumped up and returned to its normal appearance, she was the most beautiful woman Adam had ever seen, and no words could describe her beauty.
The woman came to Adam after solving the monster, reached out and took his map, looked at it for a while, and said to Adam, "I saved you, and this map will be used as a reward." ”
She was about to leave, but Adam stopped her, looking at the skinny boy in front of her, she didn't want to have too much to do with the other party.
"Not drinking your blood right now is already a reward for you getting me out of that damn chamber, what do you want?"
"Adam." The boy pointed at himself, then at her, and the woman knew the right direction to ask her name.
Ignoring the boy, she just wanted to get out of the damn place now, but the boy stopped her again.
She looked at the young man's clear eyes and said to him: "It's useless to tell you, we are not people of the same world, let's go, I don't want to kill you while I'm in a good mood." With that, it turned into a puff of black smoke and drifted away.
Then, when she appeared in front of the boy for the third time, she finally took off her disguise, blushed and pointed to the location of the mouth with a map.
Adam laughed happily not because the other party was a road idiot, but because she finally knew that it was not enough to leave the dungeon only with a map, and that a good cartographer was enough.
In this way, the two people, one big and one small, walked without saying a word, and Adam would have a big smile every time he looked back to make sure that the woman had not followed him.
Following Adam to finally see the exit, the woman became excited, and she lost count of how long she had been trapped in this place.
Walking out of the gate of the dungeon, the bright moonlight sprinkled on the still lively town, and the woman frowned when she saw the scene in front of her.
"You need to figure out where you are as soon as possible." The woman ignored Adam and flew away as a bat.
Watching the flying away woman Adam stood in place for a while, this time the woman was not returning to him, and Adam could only return to his own home.
There was only one wooden bed in the simple board room, and the floor was messy with all kinds of papers.
Adam rummaged for a moment, took out a blank piece of paper, and quickly drew on it.
After the painting, the woman's beautiful face was perfectly restored, and after putting the painting into his backpack, Adam fell asleep.