Chapter 24: The Sewers

A gray mouse raised its bloodshot nose, sniffed wildly with its nostrils closed, its limbs and short legs slashed, its body began to tremble uneasily, and its pointed mouth squeaked, until finally the rat, which had obtained the right to mate through sharp teeth, was completely lying on the spot, not even daring to move. [Ran^Text^Library] []

Next to this mouse, there were dozens of rats of the same size, all of which stayed in place like this mouse, without making a sound, like dead corpses.

A glimmer of light suddenly appeared in the dim space, the pale yellow light swayed in the air, and the figures under the light and immediately behind also swayed, and the sound of wading water was amplified in this foul-smelling space, and the indigenous creatures in this space heard that the sound was already thunderous, even if this sound was usually enough to make them scatter and flee, but now they did not dare to move.

"How far do we need to go?" a slightly hoarse voice sounded, and under the faint light of the fire in the empty space was Kahler's pale face.

After evading the search, the group quickly found the city's underground drainage system, it had just rained in Philo City a few days ago, so the sewage here is not particularly dirty, but it is only that, at least among the five people in the group, the most uncomfortable is the second prince Kahler, in this claustrophobic environment, whether it is inhalation or exhalation, it is a mouth full of stench, when did he suffer this kind of torture, so he kept asking along the way.

And the target of the inquiry is naturally only one person, Lin.

In fact, Calle was very surprised by Lin's sense of direction, as if the map of this sewer had been completely memorized by Lin, where to turn a corner, where to go straight, Lin did not hesitate at all, raised his feet and left, since entering this sewer, Calle and the three servants have lost their sense of time, it seems that they have been walking in this sewer for a long time, but sometimes there is a feeling that is very short, and all four of them have a feeling of insanity.

But the leader Lin was still as usual, very quiet and calm, just kept moving forward and never stopped.

I don't know how long it took, but Lin finally came to a stop in front of a wall when the torch was about to go out.

Looking at Lin, who was constantly groping on the wall, Kahler asked suspiciously, "What's wrong?"

Lin turned his head and lit the second torch and said with a straight face: "We're in trouble now, this should be the exit, but there is a wall in front of us, so this shouldn't happen." ”

"How do you know this is an exit?" Calle thought it would be better to ask this question clearly before doing other discussions, Lin obviously didn't expect Caleb to ask this question, and then Firelight looked at the three servants with the same expression, Lin said with a surprised face: "Don't you know that the water flows down?"

"Uh......" The four people who heard the answer were stunned at first, and then their faces were full of shame.

Lin is right, this is not a problem at all, most of the city's drainage system is built according to the terrain, in order to keep the drainage smooth, it is generally designed to have a certain slope so that the discharged water can flow out on its own, and in the absence of direction, as long as you follow the flow of water, you can find the exit, and asking this obvious stupid question is the reason why the four of them feel ashamed.

But Lin didn't say a few more words as usual, but banged on the stone with a straight face, and kept babbling in his mouth, and he didn't know what he was talking about......

"What can't be what you just said?" Caleb had just finished asking when he saw Lin make a silent gesture, and then listened intently, as if he had heard something, but when Caleb listened carefully, he found that he had heard nothing.

"You see, the water starts to disappear when you get here, but don't you think it's strange how the dirty stuff on the water gets out?"

Caller was reminded by Lin and realized that this was indeed the case, when he first came, there was no floating debris in front of this wall, but now the floating debris has begun to slowly accumulate, and if enough time is enough, these floating debris will continue to accumulate until the entire sewer outlet is completely blocked.

But this should be unlikely, there are so many floating objects that appear in the process of their own travel, they will pile up to the height of one person in a short time, but when I first came, there was only a light wall here, so where did the floating objects go before?

Lin once again took a listening gesture, and Calle calmed down this time, unlike the previous one, this time Caleb heard something: the sound of water.

It shouldn't be strange to hear the sound of water in this kind of sewer, but Calle's face changed drastically, and when he looked at Lin, he was already frightened, "It's a sewer scavenger! ”

Sewer scavengers are a strange creature in the Fury continent, this creature is an amphibious creature similar to a combination of crocodiles and lizards, this is a scavenger with strong survival ability, eating a very large amount, almost anything can be eaten into the mouth when hungry, so many cities will put scavengers into the drainage system after the construction of the city, and the daily garbage is enough for these creatures to survive, and with them, the sewers almost do not need to be cleaned manually, saving time and money, killing two birds with one stone.

It's just that even if it is necessary to manually clean up the blocked sewers with the presence of scavengers, few people are willing to go down, scavengers are very ferocious social creatures, attack power and survivability are proportional, their size is huge, and their strength is equivalent to that of a second-level samurai, an ordinary person will definitely die if he goes down, even if there are warrior-level people coming down, he can't stand the siege of the scavenger, so this is the real reason why he doesn't want anyone to come down.

There are scavengers' sewers, which are forbidden places for other creatures.

However, Calle also felt strange, if there were scavengers here, then they should have attacked a long time ago, but even if they heard the sound of water, those scavengers were far away, did not make a sound, and did not attack, in this case, no matter how you look at it, it is the scavengers who have an absolute advantage.

After Kahler glanced at Lin, he understood that his worries were completely superfluous, this guy in front of him was a monster, no wonder the scavenger didn't dare to come, as long as Lin was there, there were very few creatures that could attack him, except for people.

"It seems that we are blocking the scavengers from eating, but the wall is also blocking our way, so we have to find another way. Kahler also knocked on the wall, feeling the thickness of the wall and said helplessly.

Judging from the sound, this wall is not ordinarily thick, at least five people have no way to do it, I am afraid it will not work if you want to escape from the sewer, thinking of this Calle can't help but sigh, since he knew that he was being hunted down, he has experienced more things than he imagined, and every time he escapes death, there is the shadow of Lin who is about the same age as himself in front of him, it can be said that if it were not for the appearance of Lin, he would have died many times.

Lin can always come up with alternative solutions through alternative methods, this person has a strategy in his head that you can never guess, but now, in front of this wall, Lin needs strength, not strategy, and this is not the height that Lin and himself can reach, looking at Lin's face, he also knew that he did not expect this kind of result, and now Lin should be helpless, right?

"Lin, are we going back to the surface?" Caller asked cautiously, looking at Lin's annoyed face and giving him a sense of foreboding.

"I can't go back, I didn't make a mark on the way back, now, let's think about how to break this wall. After saying that, Lin began to grope on the wall by the light of the fire, after listening to Lin's words, Kahler couldn't help but feel angry, Lin acted strangely, but he always liked to leave a way back for himself, but why did he not leave a mark in this case, did he have any other intentions?

"This kind of wall should be able to open, if there is a heavy rain, the water surges, it is impossible to block it, look at these traces, the water will no longer rise when it reaches here, that is to say, this waterline is the critical point of the opening of this wall, we might as well imagine how to make this waterline rise to this position. Lin looked closely and came to a conclusion.

The wall was indeed as Lin said, the highest part of the waterline was about waist-high, but how could I raise the waterline? Can I block it with my body? Not to mention five people, even ten more people can't do it.

"Are you a multi-magician?, do you know ice magic?" asked Lin without looking back, continuing to look at the wall in front of him.

"You...... How do you know?" Calle was a little surprised, he was indeed a full-range magician, water, fire, earth, wind and other magic were his usual uses, and he hadn't dabbled in the other departments, and the ice magic Lin said was exactly a kind of magic he could master.

Lin turned his head to look at Caleb and said a little strangely: "Your information is very complete in the Orc Empire, and the werewolf captain directly gave me all of it, as well as your observations and evaluations." ”

"Huh?" Calle didn't expect Lin to give this kind of answer, he had also asked the werewolf captain before, what was the evaluation of himself by the Orc Empire, wasn't there only a short sentence, no matter how he listened, he didn't hear the information that he was a multi-line magician, how did Lin know?

"Found it!" Lin ignored the puzzled Calle, after using the wooden stick he grabbed to detect the underwater situation, Lin let Calle freeze a few fixed points, not using fixed magic, but using magic to freeze the sewage, this consumption is not large, but Lin pointed to a bit more points, with Caleb's magic storage can't help but pale for a while.

"Are you sure this really works?" Caller gasped, the excessive consumption of mana power made him have to support the servant ten beside him, Lin did not let him freeze all the water, and he couldn't do it with his own ability, but just freezing those few seemingly inconspicuous points can really achieve the effect that Lin said?

"Won't you know if you try it?" Lin's tone returned to banter again, and as soon as his voice fell, everyone noticed that the waterline seemed to have really risen a little.

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