Thinking back to the time when I passed through the cave passage, there was no shortage of fish eggs on both sides of the rock wall. If you roughly estimate it, I'm afraid there are several thousand. With so many quantities, even Zero couldn't help frowning. For him, who had already stepped into the eleventh order, no matter how many such creatures were, they were cannon fodder. But not so for the others, these little mermaids are too numerous and vicious by nature, like the hunter before who ate them as soon as they were caught.

Coupled with the fact that the mermaids in the water are extremely fast, the situation is still unfavorable for them overall. It's just that there are such dangerous fish eggs on both sides of the channel, why didn't the black owl warn them before?

The sound of the water intensified, and Zero did not continue to delve into it. He used his lights to signal the others to retreat in the water. And the fate break he put before was enough to arouse the vigilance of Jin and them. Zero threw a punch into the depths of the cavern, and the fist immediately pulled out a cone-shaped column of water and blasted it into the incoming fish. The constantly rotating column of water wrenched the fish for a while, and Zero took the opportunity to tread the water and swim far away.

Occasionally, several punches were thrown, each with the power of a heavily loaded bullet. Every time a ball of water like a cannonball is blasted, it explodes so that the fish can't bite and chase after it. And by this time, Kim had swam out of the exit. Everyone couldn't help but take a big breath as they surfaced, and Jin swept around with the lamppost in his hand, which was still a lake, but it was far less than the lake at the entrance.

At least, as far as the pillar of light could reach, King had seen the land. He immediately pointed in which direction: "Go ashore first." ”

"Hell, there's something behind it. Alice looked behind her, and the mermaid's corpse had already floated. Looking at these kitten-sized monsters with the face of a baby, her face was filled with disgust.

After a rush of swimming, the group went ashore one after another. Zero came up after them, and immediately pointed to the lake on the shore and said, "Alice, is there a way to freeze here?"

Alice nodded, crouched down on the shore, and pressed her palms against the surface of the lake to release the freezing gas. By this time, the merfolk had chased out of the burrow, and countless bubbles bubbled up on one side of the lake like boiling water. Jin and the others turned on the lights, only to see strange faces on the surface of the lake. Those brazen baby faces, with four eyes and sharp teeth, are indescribably weird.

Attracted by the light, the little mermaids immediately swam in the direction of the shore. Their speed was surprisingly fast on the surface of the water, almost faster than a galloping horse, and they actually pulled up waves on the surface of the lake. A few merfolk would even jump out of the lake, waving their teeth and claws in the direction of the crowd, and suddenly the black light flashed a few times, and it turned into fragments and fell down in the air.

Yeliu moved his finger and said, "These things are disgusting. ”

It's rare for a natural girl to show her likes and dislikes, but it's a pity that everyone is looking at the lake now, and even Haiwei, who is nervous, clenched her fists nervously. Alice continued to release freezing gas, and a large area of the lake on the shore had frozen, and then the frost was still spreading outward, and the lake water was frozen into ice. The strikers of the fish swam too fast, and many of them hit the ice that Alice had artificially created, either knocking them out or bouncing off the ice.

But once out of the water, these merfolk kept opening their mouths and panting like ordinary fish, struggling desperately. Lucky enough to slide back into the water, but unlucky enough to lose his breath on the ice. Merfolk who can slide into the water quickly find that their luck runs out. The frost was still spreading, and they were quickly frozen directly into the ice as they fell into the water.

After more than ten minutes of continuous release, Alice stood up, a hint of fatigue on her face. However, at least a third of the lake has been turned into ice. The ice on the shore of the lake is the thickest, with an exaggerated thickness of three meters, and it is not easy for a mermaid to get up from such a place even if he bites with his teeth.

Moreover, they were not able to get ashore, which was not the same as the corpses they had seen in front of the cracks. As such, these merfolk are currently only juveniles, and have not yet evolved organs that can survive on land. Blocked by the ice rocks, schools of fish swim nearby, but they can't find a way to get closer. It didn't take long for them to kill each other in the water, which shows how fierce these things are.

Looking at the surface of the lake, which seemed to be boiling, Zero shook his head and motioned for everyone to rest on the shore first. He took out the sketch given by the black owl and put it on the ground. Through the lights, you can see that the route pointed out by the black owl can continue to swim forward after entering the area. On the other side of the lake, there is a place called the Devil's Throat, which is a natural cave.

After passing through the Devil's Throat, you will see the wall of the abyss indicated on the map. It was another huge crack in the ground, more than a dozen kilometers long, but only about 100 meters wide. As for the depth, since it can be called the abyss, it will not be able to climb up if it naturally falls. On both sides of the Abyssal Wall, the ShadowClan placed rope bridges to get back and forth, and through the Abyss Wall, they almost touched the edge of the Titan Hall.

It's a pity that now the whole lake is full of little mermaids, and this route of the black owl must continue, as long as it is not so easy.

"What should I do?" Jin also looked at the topographical map, and then compared the current situation. As long as you are not blind, you know that the original route is already difficult to follow.

Zero looked around and said, "Rest for a while, and then look to see if there are any other passages." There are many caverns in this subterranean area, and there may be other passages to the wall of the abyss. ”

"That's all there is to it. ”

After a short rest, the team set off. The shore of the lake where they are located is very wide. Because of the darkness underneath, they didn't notice it at first, until they walked forward with their searchlights on, and they found that the shore of the lake was constantly extended, and the terrain was undulating, but the area was excessively large. If you weren't underground, you would have thought you were on some plain.

Staying in the dark for too long can lead to a sense of direction. The team seems to be moving in one direction, but after walking for a long time, it is difficult to guarantee that it will not go crooked. At this time, the sound of the fishmen tearing and killing by the lake could no longer be heard, and Zero estimated that he should be some distance away. It was pitch black all around, and it was dangerous to walk around like this, so Kim fired a flare.

Flares swayed into the air, shining in the sky above the team. Through the light, Zero saw something from afar.

"Look over there. "Zero go with your fingers.

Everyone looked in the direction of his finger, and just two hundred meters away, some unusual shadow outlines appeared. It looked like some buildings because they had very regular outlines, not like something that was naturally formed. In addition to this, under the light of the flares, some strange figures appeared, as well as the reflection of the pupils of certain creatures.

This shows that the world underneath is not dead.

The light of the flares was waning, and after they had determined their direction, they rushed at full speed towards the place where the outline of the building appeared. Finally, before the flares disappeared completely, they reached their destination. It is clear that this is a man-made complex. Around the perimeter of this area, there are stone cones that stick out diagonally. Each stone cone is pointed at the front and thick at the back, so densely stacked together, like a sea urchin.

The stone cone is also not naturally formed, and it can be seen that it is molded with sand and stone mixed with some shells. There were also some adult fish-man corpses hanging on some sharp stone vertebrae, looking at these things, Jin frowned and said, "These are fortifications?"

Zero nodded, it was clear that these stone cones were fortifications to defend against the attacks of the adult fishmen. But who built the fortifications, that's a question. Suddenly, Hawei shouted, "I've found the entrance." ”

The entrance is to the left of the fortifications, and there is a bunker that opens from under the fortifications. The outer walls of the bunker had collapsed, the mud and rocks had fallen off, and there were several humanoid corpses inside. The corpse is only a skeleton, which is indistinguishable from a human in terms of appearance and structure. But when Zero flicked the bones with his fingers, he found that the bones were empty inside. A leg bone scattered on the ground was cut off by something, and it is not difficult to see from the cross-section of the broken bone that the inside of the bone is a honeycomb-like structure. This is a lightweight bone, and it is conceivable that these corpses were all good at speed during their lifetimes.

"I'm afraid these are just ShadowClans. Zero stood up: "The ShadowClan people who didn't leave the underground. ”

The team continued to move on, and at the end of the bunker there was a tunnel, which was so narrow that only one person could pass through. From time to time, the bones of the ShadowClan and the adult Fishmen were seen in the tunnel, coupled with the countless sword marks on both sides, it was conceivable that there was a fierce offensive and defensive battle taking place here at that time. It was the fish-men who breached the bunker and attempted to penetrate the inner area of the ShadowClan through the tunnel.

Coming out of the tunnel was an armory-like place, and when Zero crawled out, he saw a lot of rudimentary harpoons scattered on the ground, and a lot of rough stone knives and the like. There are so many bones in this that they can be described as piles up. Among the bones, the most are the remains of the fish-men. There were many of them, but they didn't know how the ShadowClan were blocking near the exit, so they piled up a mountain of bones here.

Zero, when they almost crawled out of the bones of these fish-men and fell to the ground. Under the light, the ground in the vicinity had been subjected to high heat, and the entire land had crystallized like a black piece of glass. In other words, at that time, the ShadowClan people used some kind of ability or weapon that could generate high temperatures, and cut off the attacking fish-man army here.

However, there are also many corpses of fish-people that have appeared far away from the corpse mountain, and similarly, the corpses of ShadowClan can already be seen at the exit of the storehouse. Although the attack was effective at that time, I am afraid that there were also many fishmen who managed to fight their way out of the encirclement.

Coming out of the storeroom, the lights turned on, and everyone saw some compact, low-rise artificial buildings. The building is very rough and rudimentary. But the material is sturdy, and the passages between the buildings are narrow and varied, and their complexity is no less than that of a human base.

Jin scratched his head and said, "What kind of place is this, the village of the Shadow Clan?"

Zero looked around, and almost anywhere in any corner, he would see the corpses of fish-people or shadow-people. He shook his head and said, "It's not like a village, don't you think, it's more like an advance base?"

"Forward base?"

"Didn't the Black Owl say that there are many xenomorphs underneath the earth that have been mutated by the influence of the dark god. Those fish-people are probably one of them, and they are the kind with a large race. And this is the front line where ShadowClan fights them. ”

In the dark, it crushed a fat mutant mole to the ground with its powerful forelimbs. These subterranean moles are the size of puppies and are the end of the chain of underground organisms. But these creatures are very cunning and usually hide deep in crypts that are hard to find. However, this is not difficult to do, and in the course of a few decades of evolution, it has evolved into one of the top hunters in the underground biological chain.

It has a very sensitive sense of smell and can smell the body odor of a mole within a kilometer. When it finds its nest, it will constantly step on the ground with its strong anti-joint hind limbs, making all kinds of noises. Moles are timid creatures that live in crypts and are highly alert. When they hear something unusual, they will poke their heads out of the crypt and look around, and this is when the hunter hunts.

That's how the mole came from under its claws, opening its mouth, which was a mouthpiece with two layers of sharp teeth inside and outside. And the crocodile-like jaw structure makes it have a bite force of nearly a ton. So in one bite, the mole is like a mouthful of fluffy bread. After eating the mole in three or two strokes, it became a little lazy and wanted to go back to the nest to sleep.

That's where it was born, damp and warm. But when it was about to go back, it seemed to smell something. Sniff hard, it smells of blood. The taste is unusually sweet, even a few points better than its favorite mole. It couldn't resist the attraction of the smell, and its two powerful hind limbs began to run, and even though the terrain here was complicated, it was able to cross any obstacle.

Just as it rushed out of a hallway, it suddenly felt a cold sensation in several parts of its body. It was as if the cold air from outside suddenly entered its scorching body, and then all its senses vanished. Several black threads flickered across its body a few times, and its body was instantly dismembered into several pieces. When the fragments of the corpse fell to the ground, blood and internal organs slipped out and flowed all over the ground.

Seeing that the beast was dismembered into pieces, he said with a headache, "Yeliu, can't you just stun it?" Or, let it leave a whole corpse." ”

Yeliu tilted her head to look at Zero, as if she couldn't understand that she was killing these guys anyway. What's the difference between leaving a whole corpse and dismembering?

Zero looked at the pile of debris on the ground, and it was already difficult to put the beast back together. When they left the storehouse and lowered the base, they found that it had been taken over by another creature. Leah mentally scanned the forward base and found a hall with bioenergetic reactions. Zero led the team to the hall, and since the ShadowClan were able to come to this place that was close to the underground exit to establish a forward base, it meant that there were other passages to the Titan Hall. It stands to reason that now that the wisdom has been carried out, the ShadowClan people should leave a record or something.

It's the instinct of intelligent life to pass on knowledge, and there's zero hope of finding the relevant records and discovering other passages to the Titan Hall. Just as he entered the base, he was attacked by strange beasts. And these attacks, before these things rushed to the front, they dismembered Yeliu into pieces, so that Zero couldn't understand what these things were.

You know, on the way to the Titan Hall, they don't know how many strange and dangerous creatures they have to encounter. It's always good to know more about the structure of some underground creatures, but Yeliu is ruthless, and there is basically no possibility of leaving a living mouth, which makes Zero a little distressed. He decided to come by himself next time, when there was a muffled noise, and he followed Haiwei over, and said with a smile: "Head, see what I find?"

With a flick of her hand, she threw over a beast about the size of Zero's wolf gale in Hakhara. The beast's head sank deep, apparently killing Hai Wei with blunt force. But at least, it retains its intact body.

Kim and Alice turned on the lights, and an underground creature like a monitor lizard appeared in everyone's eyes. It is said to be a monitor lizard, but it is just an appearance. But many major parts of the body have changed, like hind limbs that have evolved into anti-articular structures that allow them to run upright like velociraptors.

The head is long and large, and because it has lived underground for a long time, the eyes have deteriorated and can barely see. The beast's entire body is covered in a hard bony armor that replaces the scales, effectively controlling the leakage of body temperature and increasing its defense. And whether it is the forelimbs or the hind limbs, its claws are like sharp sabers, capable of tearing through many things.

This guy's tail is even more terrifying, wrapping the nail stomach of the tail, with sharp bone knives distributed in the outer layer, and the tail end is a cone-shaped sharp bone spur. If this thing is pierced into the body, it will leave a large gap in the mouth of the bowl, which will cause a huge trauma to the prey with a lot of bleeding.

Zero was examining its head when he unintentionally pressed a tendon into his jaw. Suddenly, the beast's mouth opened, and a long tongue ejected from it. The tip of the tongue struck the wall of a nearby building, leaving a gap, like a bullet hole. And from the mouth of the beast to the wall of the building, there is a difference of more than a meter, which shows how long this tongue is suddenly. There is a cross-shaped opening at the end of the tongue, and when I separate it with gravel from the ground nearby, I see that it is covered with flesh and teeth, and the tongue is hollow.

If this thing is allowed to hit the creature's body, it will cause massive impact damage while the tongue can remain in the creature's body to suck the flesh, causing even more damage. All in all, this is a hunter who only stands at the top of the biological chain, and is simply a perfect killing machine.

"It's a bit of a biological weapon. Kim said.

Zero nodded in agreement.

He stood up, looked in the direction of the hall and said, "There's a nest of these things waiting for us there, guys, get ready for battle." ”

"I like to clean up pests and stuff like that. Jin said with a smile, being underground, the ability of the earth element has received a lot of bonuses. If he fights in such an environment, he can even overpower Alice, who has always been stronger than him.

"These are big pests. Zero said as he looked at the carcass of the beast on the ground, which was about the size of a calf.