This is a small cave 120 meters underground.
An opening at each end of the cave leads to a different area of the underworld.
The stone walls on both sides reflected a faint cold light under the reflection of the fluorescent moss, and water droplets continued to drip from the top of the cave, making a monotonous crackling sound on the cold ground.
Although there are constant noises, the dominance in this dark and deep underground world is still silence and dead silence!
If you want to survive in this dark world, keeping quiet and avoiding leakage of body temperature is the only way to survive. But this point is obviously broken today!
A horned sheep that only appeared on the surface was fixed by an iron chain to the rock in the center of the cave. The dark and cold environment made it tremble with fear, and the huge wound on its hind leg was still bleeding slowly. .
The thick and pungent bloody smell has filled the passage.
Meh...
The trembling cry of the horn sheep spread far and far in this dead world.
The horned sheep screamed irritably, and kept bumping against the stone pillar that tied itself to death with the horns on the top of its skull, until it sensed the movement behind it, and then looked back in horror.
In the darkness, a terrifying figure crawling on the ground is slowly approaching it!
This is a basilisk.
The huge body with a head and tail length of 5 meters makes the basilisk an undisputed giant in this area, and the huge guillotine-like fangs make it difficult for the creatures they bite to survive. Coupled with the petrochemical ray with a range of only 3 meters, the petrified lizard has become a well-deserved 'underground scavenger' in the underground world!
Seeing a pair of shining khaki eyes approaching in the darkness, the horned sheep was so terrified that it couldn't hold back, it jumped and kicked desperately. But this will not help at all, but will make the bloody smell on it spread more quickly and more widely.
Just as the petrified lizard approached the rock where the horned sheep was, it was immediately blocked by the strange talisman array that emerged from the ground. Biting a few bites hard, and pounced on the talisman array several times, but the petrified lizard was in the middle of Mo Naihe, and suddenly it half straightened its body, raised its nose and gently sniffed the slowly flowing air in the cave.
With the unique sensitivity of underground creatures, it sniffed out a familiar and terrifying smell from the thick bloody smell.
Without hesitation, the petrified lizard turned around and crawled into the darkness far away, before disappearing quickly.
And not long after the petrified lizard disappeared, a howling wind suddenly blew in the cave, and then a vigorous black figure jumped out from the passage, and coiled between the hanging stalactites at the top of the cave.
In the end, the black figure landed on a protruding platform of the rock wall, standing on a high place silently overlooking everything in the cave below.
Shocked by the weird atmosphere, the horned sheep was already so frightened that it collapsed to the ground, and there was an unpleasant smell of urine from under its body.
Although the cave was dark and dark, the huge black shadow was able to bring every corner of this space into view with the help of low-light vision.
The cold floor, the dark stone wall, the gurgling underground river... everything is under its control.
The black shadow was quietly standing in the darkness, and the slightly yellow eyes in the dark green were full of strong doubts and anxiety.
But as a young manticore, it is obviously not mature enough.
All the aura emanating from the Horned Sheep was taken into its nostrils without leaving a trace, and its blood vessels were stimulated by the unique fresh and fleshy aura of the surface creature. Small holes had been etched into the rocky platform.
The scene in front of me looks like an ugly trap, but what about the enemies who set up the trap
The little manticore resisted the urge to dive down for a quick meal, and looked around for possible enemies with his eyes wide open. But even though it scanned every corner of the cave, it didn't find any breath or trace of outsiders.
Finally, the little manticore could no longer hold back his natural hunger for flesh and blood, so he swooped down with a howl, and threw himself on the horned sheep viciously.
A moment later, there was a strange sound of the young manticore frantically biting and devouring the flesh and blood of the horned sheep in the cave.
As a ferocious underground creature, the little manticore never cared about table manners. The scene of frantic eating was unbearable to watch. The whole rock was dripping with blood, like a small slaughterhouse.
And just when the little manticore fell into a frenzy of eating, the water in a shallow pool in the corner of the cave was rippling, and three black shadows in human form slowly emerged.
"Pour... pour... pour..."
Through the thick darkness, Gargamel couldn't help muttering in a low voice.
As he murmured, the little manticore that was feasting suddenly swayed, and just before it could take off with its wide bat wings, Nuo Da's body fell down strangely.
"Hurry up..." Greem ordered in a low voice, "There is a little manticore nearby, we don't have that much time!"
"Understood!" Gege Wu Jiejie laughed sinisterly: "It doesn't take much time to extract a little bit of the toxin from its scorpion tail, I promise it won't notice anything afterwards!"
After saying that, he took advantage of the darkness and quietly touched the sleeping little manticore.
...
There were still 2 hours before dawn, and the adult manticores scattered in the nearby forest also returned to the entrance of the cave one after another.
It can be seen that their bellies are bulging, and they have already eaten a full meal.
And their thick hind legs were still grabbing the bloody prey one after another. After resting on the stone pillar for a while, they roared and re-drilled into the cave. And it wasn't until they completely disappeared in the underground passage that those nocturnal bats dared to flap their wings and return to their nests.
The three of Greem watched the whole process from the sidelines, and returned to the camp contentedly after the sky brightened again.
The first time they explored the underground lair, they didn't kill any creatures at all, and they didn't take away the little manticore caught in the trap, but just secretly extracted some flesh and toxins from its body. After the effect of the anesthesia wore off, the little manticore woke up groggy from its deep sleep. All the abnormalities around it had been completely erased by Greem and the others.
After all, the little manticore's spiritual intelligence was not so perfect, and under the urging of the medicine, he also forgot all about the previous things, so he could only return to the lair suspiciously.
With Gargamel, the pharmacist, and the toxin extracted from the body of the little manticore, it is still possible to concoct some anti-paralysis potions in a targeted manner. Although it is impossible to completely resist the paralysis attack of an adult manticore, it is still much better than resisting with the body.
For several days in a row, Greem and Gargamel came out at night, spending almost every night in the winding underground passage.
Observed the behavior and living habits of these manticores at close range, and even sneaked into the manticore's lair to find out the topography there, which laid a solid foundation for the later cleaning tasks.
After Greem's careful planning and deliberation, he finally decided on a complete extermination plan, and set the execution time for the seventh day after they arrived in the Sickwood Forest.
According to Greem's observations, this day should also be the day when the adult and young manticores of the manticore family come out for large-scale hunting, which is suitable for the launch and execution of the extermination plan.
And the executors of the plan are all members of the adventure team!
Under the lure of Greem's 300 magic crystal reward, Luo Wei and the others finally gave in.
...
Another beautiful night with a bright moon and few stars.
As soon as it got dark, a large number of bats living in the cave came out again, gathered into clouds in the night sky around the diseased forest, circled a few times, and scattered into the nearby forest.
And the nine manticores also appeared again, but after a little division of labor, they went their separate ways!
When they were all gone, Greem and his group of eight people showed their figures nearby, and then went straight to the depths of the cave.
Letting Sabrina lead the rest of the people on the way, Greem and Gargamel rushed into the underground passage first, heading straight for the manticore's lair.
Time is very precious, and we must race against time to pre-arrange the traps before the manticores realize that something is wrong in the nest, otherwise their group will be easily blocked by the manticores returning to the nest.
And to lure the manticore group into disaster, they must first control the two young manticores staying in the lair. That's why Greem and Gargamel took the first step, using witchcraft to continuously accelerate and quickly advance towards the manticore's lair.
Different from the sneaking around last time, this time they rushed into the underground passage with beating drums and gongs.
While walking down the passage, Greem kept throwing witchcraft fireballs, blasting the small underground creatures hidden in the dark into fragments all over the sky.
The huge fireball roared and spread rapidly in the underground passage, and they didn't need to search for it at all. The two little manticores who were resting in the dark rushed out after chasing the explosion.
The little manticores only have quasi-witch-level strength. Although their combat power is not worth mentioning in Greem's eyes, it still takes a certain amount of effort to capture them completely.
When Greem rushed into a small cave in the first place, there were four or five underground passages leading to different regions, which could be regarded as a small hub of this underground labyrinth.
Greem had just charged here, with a bad wind above his head, two huge black shadows like hills rushed down from the top of the cave, their white fangs opened wide, viciously biting Greem's head and shoulders.
As for the ambush of the two little manticores, Greem has already known clearly through the latest 'multi-dimensional scene construction'. Therefore, Greem's stature was only slightly paused, and he had successfully used the flame jump to jump to another area. And at his original position, a huge lava fireball left there in advance burst just right!
If Greem wanted to kill two young manticores, he only needed a solid lava fireball to make them immortal and peel off their skin. But now, in order to catch the living, the fireball can only be detonated in advance.
So, in a world-shattering flame burst and shock wave, the two little manticores were so dizzy and bruised that they could only rush out of the fire field screaming miserably.
And what greeted them was the big iron fist of the growler that was as big as a casserole...
There were two muffled bangs, and the two young manticores were knocked out gorgeously!