After arriving at the place, Xiaya finally confirmed one thing: if there is no one to lead the way, I am afraid that even if he spends his whole life in this forest, he will never even think of finding this place!
On the morning of the fourth day, the four people in the jungle finally arrived at the final destination of the trip: it is not a magic kiss taro - there is a huge tree trunk in front of it, it looks like the legendary ancient elf tree Same.
When Xia Ya saw this big tree for the first time, he only let out such a sigh, Tu Turtle widened his eyes and swallowed: "Damn it... This tree is bigger than the house I live in!"
With such a thick trunk, I am afraid that dozens of people can hug it. Standing under this tree and looking up, you can't see the sky at all. The area of the dense branches is very large! "I feel like standing under this tree, it's as if we've all turned into dwarfs." - This is another sigh of Char.
But Dodolo changed his normal behavior. After the magician saw this huge ancient tree for the first time, his eyes shone with light. With a low voice, he stumbled to the side of the tree trunk, raised his claws and stroked back and forth. , After a while, Dodoro muttered: "Poor lord, I really don't have any knowledge. What kind of ancient elf tree is this? It's simply a tree spirit of the giant clan!" After saying this, the magician seemed to still Not having fun, he lowered his voice and muttered: "Ignorance is really a sin."
As soon as he finished speaking, he stretched out his back foot and kicked Dodoro's ass heavily, kicking him aside. When the magician turned around, he saw Xia's half-smiling face, Xia's look Looking at his servant, he sneered: "Next time you speak ill of me, remember not to say it, just recite it in your heart—my ears are very smart."
Saying that, he looked back at A Cai. A Cai's face was a little nervous at the moment. The young Zaku looked around, Xia Ya walked over and patted him hard: "What are you looking at? What about your people? Why haven't you? arrive?"
A Cai shook his head, and he whispered: "The location of the holy snake's lair is a secret, and not many people know this secret. Only the great chief and the great priest in the tribe are qualified to know. They were all brought here by the great sacrificial priest... The warriors who slaughtered the snake this time were all the most loyal and loyal to the Great Chief, but for the sake of safety, the Great Chief only told me the location of this place alone. Others have to follow the signs I left in the woods to get here."
"In other words, we have to wait a while?"
"At most half a day." A Cai looked confident: "They are all real elite warriors in the tribe. If I guess correctly, the leader must be my uncle's good friend... Galin."
The quirky name made Char grin a bit—these Zaku native names are funny.
Looking at the bizarrely large tree in front of him, Xi Ya was a little curious: "The entrance to the cave is on this tree? How do we get in? There are no holes in this tree."
"The Great Chief said that the tree hole will not appear until at night, at midnight. It is impossible to enter during the day."
Xia nodded, but he heard Dora's voice in his mind: "Hmph, it's just a mystery, Damandras's materialization illusion. But it's enough to deal with you ants."
Xia Ya snorted, patted his head lightly, stepped aside, and whispered, "You'd better be honest, I said, either you provide some substantial help, or you shut up. We're about to do a dangerous job, don't keep mumbling and disturbing your mind."
"I'm mourning for myself." Dora mocked unceremoniously in her mind: "You ignorant and arrogant guy, go to assassinate Damandras? Ha! You didn't realize that a real pure How powerful is the bloodline Damandras! It is definitely not something you can challenge at your current level! You will die here... and my soul will not be able to return to the Holy Sepulchre."
In fact, along the way, Dora has said this kind of similar words countless times, but every time Xia Ya just snorts, ignoring the female dragon in her mind at all. Anyway, the legs are on his body, and this female dragon can't help himself wherever he wants to go. Besides, the turtle was originally the kind of donkey with the temperament of "pulling, not walking, and running backwards". If he knew that the danger of things was too high under normal conditions, maybe with his temperament, he would have anointed the soles of his feet with oil and ran away. gone.
But the situation is different now, he owes the Zaku a favor! To be precise, he owes a favor to a Zaku named "Azuo"! A Zuo and a group of his subordinates all died heroically in order to cover Xia Ya on the road. With Xia Ya's temperament, even if there is really a sea of swords and flames in front of him, they will close their eyes and bite the bullet, scolding one sentence. "Fuck it," and then hit it hard.
Among the four, Su Ling is obviously the most idle, and Xiaya has made up his mind that before entering the cave, he will leave a person behind and take this little girl out of here and go back to the tribe. Is this person chosen... Of course it's A Cai.
Before it got dark, Xi Ya took the time to rest. He even found a stone, sharpened both the dagger and the knife, and carefully checked other equipment, especially the "Howling Bow", this Lantis The bow gifted by people will become his own big killer. As for the fire fork that is always with you, it has long been solemnly inserted into the waist by Xia Ya.
Ju Xiao bow is behind him, and there is a quiver, which contains ten iron-ridged armor-piercing arrows, produced by the arsenal of the Byzantine Palace. The handle, gold handle, made of stainless steel, is sharp enough. The short knife in the left hand was brought from the Zaku tribe, and there was also a water bag, and a leather bag was tied around the waist, which contained some odds and ends. With a dragon scale hidden in his underwear, this is all the equipment for the turtle to deal with this adventure.
It is also thanks to the natural power of the turtle. If you change someone else, such a suit will already weigh dozens of kilograms, let alone an adventure, you will be tired after walking for a while.
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The group of "elites" in the tribe that A Cai mentioned came sooner than expected.
Before it was dark, there was a rustling sound in the jungle, and then a group of Zaku native warriors jumped out.
These Zaku natives didn't have torches, and suddenly emerged in the dark night, with colorful paint on their faces, looking like ghosts. There were no more or less people in the group, exactly twenty, Xiaya looked at it from the outside, and expressed satisfaction with the quality of this group of "allied troops".
Each of these Zaku natives is sturdy and vigorous, most of them are burly and majestic, and the guy in the lead, the breath of his body, makes Xia immediately think of the dead A Zuo.
This leading Zaku native is almost as tall as Xiaya, healthy and broad, but with a narrow waist. He wears a leather armor and has strong muscles on his arms. Like most Zaku men, his nose is a little slumped and his eyes are slender. , with a long weapon on his back, the outline of which looks like a double-edged battle axe. This weapon was immediately envied by Xia Ya: because of his background, the turtle has always preferred heavy weapons like the axe.
And this guy is obviously the one named "Galin" that A Cai said. What makes Xi Ya a little funny is that this guy named Galin also wears a helmet on his head. It is the kind of helmet with two curved horns on both sides like a cow's head, and an iron piece in the middle stretches out from Xi Ya's forehead. , just covering his nose.
The weapons in the hands of these Zakus are not the same. The eight warriors with axe are all the thickest in stature. Judging from their majestic muscles, they are all good melee combat players with good physical strength. In addition, there are ten spear throwers. These Zaku spear throwers each carry at least three short spears on their backs and a long one in their hands. These people are indeed elites, because Xiaya confirmed at a glance that the spears in their hands are not the bone spears used by ordinary Zaku warriors, but all are similar to the iron spears used in the Byzantine army. , all iron good stuff.
What surprised Char the most was that the twentieth among the Zaku warriors was actually a woman!
This Zaku woman was the second tallest of all Zaku warriors, only slightly shorter than Galin. She wears colorful clothes, and the leather robe on her body is very short, revealing a pair of slender and strong legs, full of wild flavor, and the two sides of the battle skirt are shaped like green leaves, with a headband on her head , A few feathers of different colors were inserted, and her face was invisible. A grimace mask covered her face, and only a pair of eyes kept flickering behind the grimace.
What surprised Xia most was that this woman actually held a long staff in her hand! The top is a crescent-shaped crystal, polished very smooth, with some silver padding underneath. Even if Char is ignorant, he can recognize it immediately - this woman is probably a character similar to a magician, and the wand's The handle is made of hard black wood, and the bottom end is sharpened to resemble the tip of a spear—Char will not think that this is just for looks. Obviously, this staff can also be used as a staff when necessary. Melee weapon use. And this female Zaku native, judging from her shapely figure and steady pace, is not as weak as a human magician.
As soon as he saw these Zaku native warriors coming, A Cai immediately jumped up to meet him. After he said a few words in the Zaku native language, the Zaku natives on the opposite side stopped. After chatting with A Cai in a low voice, he immediately looked at Su Ling, who was somewhat dodging, with bright eyes, and then drank a few words sternly.
Su Ling was obviously a little scared, and almost hid behind Xia Ya, only sticking out half of his head, and answered a few words carefully.
The Zaku Tu language Xia they said couldn't understand, but from the tone and expression of the two, it seemed that Ga Lin was scolding Su Ling severely, and Su Ling seemed to be very afraid of this guy, and there was no such arrogance on the road anymore. looks like.
Finally, Galin walked in front of Xia Ya, and the two looked at each other. Galin looked at it very seriously, and finally nodded, as if he was satisfied with Xia Ya, the "allied force", but when he saw Dodo Luo At the time, his face was obviously a little ugly, and he said something to A Cai next to him.
"Galin thinks that your companion is too weak." A Cai said embarrassedly.
"He's a magician." Xiaya stared at Galin's eyes and said rudely.
After A Cai translated this sentence, Galin's face looked much better, and he looked at Dodo Luo solemnly, then nodded to Dodo Luo and saluted.
It seems that respect for magicians has become a habit all over the continent.
"If this guy knew that Dodoro was a junior magician, he would have turned his face long ago." Xia Ya murmured inwardly.
Galin finally stretched out his hands to Xiaya—both hands, before Xiaya didn’t understand what he meant, he was already hugged by this Zaku warrior, a very powerful hug, Galin whispered a few words, beside him A Cai immediately said: "He said his name is Galin, thank you very much for your help to our Zaku people. Also... He is my uncle's good friend."
After a pause, A Cai added in a low voice: "Galin is the strongest warrior in the tribe, even more powerful than my uncle. He is the leader of our 'Zaku Blood Drinker'! And my uncle is just a 'hyena' The leader of the knights. The coyote knights are our warriors against the enemies outside, and the blood drinkers are the most powerful warriors in the tribe."
Char nodded, he didn't care about the distinction between blood drinkers and coyote knights in these Zaku tribes, he immediately thought of a very crucial question: "Do any of them speak Byzantine? We're going to go in for an adventure together, and the language barrier is a big problem."
"I know a little."
It was the only woman among these Zaku warriors who answered Char's question. She walked to Char's side, raised her staff, and pointed to her nose: "I'm done. Witch doctor."
Her voice was hoarse, and her words were strange and difficult.
Xia opened her mouth, and before she could speak, the Zaku woman also opened her arms and hugged Xia hard—it was embarrassing that this warm hug made Xia immediately feel it. With her hot body sticking to her body, this Zaku woman's body is obviously hotter than expected, bumpy, and full of elasticity.
Turtle's face turned red at the time, but after the woman let go of Xi Ya, she took a step back, and the eyes hidden behind the grimace looked at Xi Ya: "Thank you."
"Well, she is the best witch doctor in the tribe. We all think that her witchcraft is not much worse than the great sacrifice. She is also recognized as the most qualified candidate to inherit the next great sacrifice." A dish next to her is introducing When he was talking, his face was obviously red. When this young Zaku boy spoke, he couldn't help but glanced at the witch doctor secretly from time to time. Xia Ya saw it in his eyes and snickered in his heart, but he still asked a very crucial question.
"Uh... esteemed witch doctor..."
"It's over." The other party pointed to his nose and repeated.
"Okay, it's over." Xia Ya coughed: "That... I have to know how good your Byzantine is and whether it's enough for us to communicate."
"Listen, no problem." He expressed his ability in jerky Byzantine: "Speak, be short, yes."
Xia Ya nodded, this is enough, anyway, everyone is there to fight and kill snakes, not to chat. When it is critical to cooperate in battle, it is enough for the other party to understand.
"Very good, then... Because we are going to fight side by side, we need to prepare first." Xia Ya glanced at A Cai: "Help me translate."
Then he continued: "This operation is very dangerous, your holy snake is said to be very powerful, but it seems to be dormant, so the best case is for us to walk to its side while it is asleep, and then directly He hacked it to death. But I'm afraid this kind of good thing won't happen so easily, so we have to prepare for a hard fight."
Every time he said a word, A Cai, who was next to him, translated loudly in Zaku Tu, and when he heard this, he said coldly: "Death, we are ready!"
Charya glanced at the witch doctor, then at Galin and the others, all Zakus had a look of no hesitation in their eyes—such eyes, for a long time, Charya was only in the Rodriguez cavalry regiment seen in the eyes of the most elite cavalry.
"Very good, then the second point, we need to confirm a leader." Xia Ya took a deep breath: "So many people, when fighting, who do you listen to!"
"Listen to you, Warchief's orders." Dao replied instead of all Zaku warriors.
Char was finally relieved—if the fight broke out and everyone fought in a scuffle, I'm afraid there would be big trouble. Effective cooperation is king.
Next, everyone started the final preparations. The witch doctor who called out immediately showed her worth. She took out a big bag, and then distributed some potions to each Zaku warrior for everyone to smear on it. on the blade and tip of the weapon.
"Don't ask me the formula for these highly poisonous compounds, I don't know. But everyone in the tribe knows that she is the most powerful witch doctor in our tribe, and the poison she prepared is the most poisonous!"
When Xia heard A Cai's words, she immediately took a step back.
After taking a look at Xia Ya, there was some disdain in the woman's eyes: "Don't break your skin, you'll be fine."
Xia Ya was a little upset by the other party's eyes, and couldn't help but look at the magician Dodo Luo on his side, but Xia Ya was disappointed, this waste of Dodo Luo is simply a person who came to make soy sauce, not only did he not give Xia Ya earned her face, but instead took the medicine she was given and looked around, but she didn't see the slightest bit of fame.
Finally, when the night was deep, the moon above my head became brighter and brighter. I had inserted a branch on the ground before, and now I looked at the shadow of the branch and stood up: "The time is coming."
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When the moon finally rose to the highest point, a touch of moonlight sprinkled on the woods, and under the white light of the moon, the huge ancient tree in front of him seemed to suddenly burst into a chaotic fog, and then in the fog It seems that a few light spots burst out, suddenly like lightning in the clouds, illuminating the fog...
The trunk suddenly began to change, twisting little by little, just like snow under the sun, the trunk part actually began to melt, and then a black spot appeared on the trunk, the black spot gradually spread, and finally became The outline of a cave was large enough for three or four people to walk in side by side. Xia's eyes widened, and he couldn't see what was in the cave.
"It's time." He immediately walked to the entrance of the cave, and the Zaku natives also stood up and gathered around him and behind him.
"Acai!" Xia Ya looked back at the young Zaku: "Take this Suling chick back! If she doesn't obey, knock her out!"
Xia Ya looked at Su Ling, this little girl looked downcast. She had a conversation with Galin and Lilao before, but from the result of the conversation, she was severely scolded and didn't dare to do it again. .
"Remember, if you don't obey, knock her out." After Xia's instructions, she looked at the cave in front of her, it was dark and without a trace of brilliance.
He was about to step in when he suddenly stopped, and a strange smile appeared on the corner of the mouth of this damn turtle... When he saw this smile, Dotara, who was still standing beside him, immediately felt a chill in his heart, and instinctively Feeling something wrong, he subconsciously turned to look aside to dodge.
But it was too late.
Xia grabbed the magician's clothes and threw Dodo Luo into the cave first, as if he had thrown a chicken.
"what!!"
The mage's scream came from the cave, and the sound fell all the way down. After a while, there was a "thump" from the bottom of the cave, and there was a faint sound of water splashes.
"Ah! Cough, cough, cough!" There came Dodoro's violent coughing and cursing.
Xia Ya smiled: "It seems to be a falling hole... Well, the sound is not too deep, and there is water."
Just when Xia Ya turned his head and smiled, the few Zaku warriors standing beside him maintained a unified movement: they took a step back at the same time.
"Okay, the road has been explored, let's go on our own."
After finishing speaking, Xia Ya squeezed his nose with one hand, and then strode into the hole in one step...
At the entrance of the cave, after Xia jumped down, the other Zaku warriors jumped in one by one without hesitation. The last one who jumped in was Ga Lin, who glared at A Cai and warned in Zaku Tu: "Remember , you take Su Ling away immediately! If she is disobedient, tie it up!"
After speaking, Galin strode in.
After A Cai watched everyone jump into the cave, Su Ling was beside him, he immediately sighed at Su Ling: "You heard, stop making fun of it, this is not a joke!"
Su Ling stared at the entrance of the cave with wide eyes. She bit her lip hard, and just as she was about to speak, A Cai immediately waved her hand: "Don't try to convince me! It's impossible! I have to take you away!"
Su Ling let A Cai grab her arm, and a strange smile suddenly flashed on this little girl's pretty face.
"Acai, you seem to... forgot one thing."
"Huh? What?"
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thump! !
Because he was well prepared and knew that there was a pool below, Xia closed her mouth and pinched her nose when she fell into the water, and did not choke on the water.
After falling into the water, he immediately sank, heard the gurgling sound of water beside his ears, and then kicked his legs hard, ready to swim to the side and rise his head.
But the problem is, he doesn't know how big the pool is!
In fact, Xiaya swam to the side with all his strength, and suddenly his head hit the stone. With a bang, a thought flashed through his mind: Damn! This pool is very small! !
It turns out that the pool is really small! After Xia Ya bumped his head, he opened his mouth subconsciously, and water poured into his mouth immediately. He endured the pain and tried his best to emerge from the water, and then he felt a pair of thin hands grabbing him.
When Xia climbed up to the case, she heard Dodoro complain, "Master, you are so despicable! You actually threw me first..."
However, Xiaya suddenly crawled to the side and spit out a big "wow".
This damn pool, I don't know what the water in it is, it stinks like a nightmare! After Xia took a sip in her mouth, she was so disgusted that she vomited out her dinner.
In the pool behind him, the Zaku people were still jumping down from the top, and Char threw up for a while, then shook his head, his whole body was soaked with stinky water, and the smell could not be escaped, and Char could only squeeze it. Cursing with his nose: "Okay, don't complain about Dodo, I'm just joking with you."
"Joke?" Dodoro called out.
"Of course." Xia patted him on the shoulder: "First, this cave is usually used by the Great Chief and the Great Priest to enter and exit, so there will be no danger down there! Second... I remind you again, next time say When I speak ill, just remember to recite it in your heart, haha!"
The place where everyone jumped down was about ten meters deep from the ground above, and naturally there was no light below, and Xiaya was surprised that his owl-like eyes, which he always boasted about, could not see anything here. ! Originally, he was born with night eyes and could see in dark places, but here, like everyone else, he stretched out his hands in blackness, and he didn't want to see anything clearly.
Listening to the movement, all the Zaku people climbed out of the stinky pool, and from the echo of the sound, the space below is obviously not small, because there are some faint echoes.
At this moment, with a "poof" sound, a group of rays of light lit up in the darkness.
Then she stood there, holding the staff in her hand, and the light on the crystal at the top of the staff seemed to be some kind of phosphorous burning, like fireworks (I really don’t know what this kind of thing is How can I continue to use it after falling into the water), but with this light, everyone finally sees this place clearly.
This is indeed an underground cave, but the space is obviously larger than what Char had expected! It is at least dozens of steps wide, and the surrounding walls are full of hard stones. Xiaya ran to the side and wiped it. The tentacles were cold and hard, and there was no mud at all! It was as if this place was a quarry, and such a place was dug out of the middle.
However, after seeing this clearly, everyone immediately faced a problem!
In this underground cave, except for the one jumping down from the top of the head, there are a total of six passage holes on the surrounding walls!
"...Which one do we go to?" Xia looked at that one.
She held up the staff that acted as a torch and looked at Xia coldly. She was soaked all over her body, and her loose robe was tightly attached to her body. Under such circumstances, her hot figure, There is no doubt that the curve is full, and those alluring arcs made Xia Ya immediately turn his head subconsciously.
"You are the leader, you call the shots." The witch doctor said coldly.
Xia Ya opened her mouth.
I'm the ruler
Heck!
Take a look at the six channels around - they're all identical, and you can't see any difference at all.
That warchief, he must know what's going on here... Damn, since he knows there are six passages here, he should have told me before we set off!
Xia Ya secretly slandered.
But this time, Xiaya has wrongly blamed the Great Chief. It's not that the Great Chief doesn't want to say it, but he doesn't know which way to go, because every time he comes here, he will get instructions from Damandras. Take one of these passages, and every time you take it is different! Anyway, in the end, you will see the holy snake inside.
"I call the shots... I call the shots..." Xia scratched his hair, and then he was stunned, grabbed his short knife and threw it to the top of his head...
After the knife fell to the ground with a clatter, Xiaya glanced at the direction the blade was pointing on the ground, and pointed at it: "Let's go here!"
All the Zaku natives had strange expressions on their faces. Xia Ya said loudly without waiting for others to speak, "Unless you have a better choice?"
Everyone stopped talking, that's it, but stared at Xia Ya for a while, then held up her glowing staff, and walked in first towards the passageway that Xia Ya pointed to. The other Zakus were silent and followed their witch doctor.
Xia Ya turned her head and glared at Dodolo: "What about you? Do you have any opinion?"
Duoduo immediately took a few steps aside like a conditioned reflex, shook his head vigorously, with a pious and awe-inspiring expression on his face: "Good choice! I believe your choice must be correct, wise and martial master!"
Xia Ya pouted: "Damn, don't be so disgusting, I know you must be scolding me in your stomach."
Dodo Luo grimaced and sighed: "Master wise and martial, you guessed right again..."