Xia suddenly found that Ada didn't change at all—this guy always had a way to make him speechless, and his pretty face could always inspire his efforts, but he didn't have much to do with this guy.
When the ant colony dissipated, everyone came to the river bank, but for the sake of safety, no one dared to stay away from the river.
The crowd lit a fire—after learning that this terrifying gold-eating ant feared all light, a fire was the safest option.
Around the warm fire, everyone dried their clothes, and the warm flame and fire brought everyone a sense of safety.
Galin and the witch doctor had a heated debate. It could be seen that Galin was very emotional. The Zaku warrior leader had a loud voice, and his tone was a bit dissatisfied and angry, but he was still so cold. look. Xia couldn't understand the Zaku language of the two, and naturally didn't know what the two were arguing about, but from the look in Ada's eyes when Galin was shouting, it was confirmed that the dispute between the Zaku people had something to do with Ada. !
Obviously, the Zakus have some opinions on Ada's presence here.
Although Xia knew that Ada was a VIP in the Zaku tribe, and Ada seemed to have a deep personal relationship with the Great Chief: The little girl in Suling said that Ada was her teacher and stayed in the Zaku tribe every year. a period of time. From this point of view, the relationship between Ada and the Zaku tribe is quite close.
But even if there is a close relationship, Ada's presence in this place - the forbidden place of the Zakus - still makes the Zakus deeply suspicious. This, Xiaya can see from the witch doctor's eyes. The witch doctor doesn't seem to be very enthusiastic about Ada. She even occasionally glances at Ada with a cold look in her eyes.
The quarrel between Galin and the witch doctor was fruitless, and then Charin interrupted their quarrel. At Charin's request, Galin recounted the experience of his group after they separated from everyone.
Galin’s account was still translated and narrated by Leo. According to Galin’s account, after entering the mysterious closed gate, he and his subordinates did not reach the place where Xi’a and the others had been stored. Specimen" place.
After entering the gate with the knob, Galin and the others entered a "warehouse".
The word warehouse was said by Galin. In his description, it was an underground cave full of various things, a huge closed room, and a lot of metal things were piled up in it. According to his description, Xiaya immediately came to the spirit!
Because through Galin's description and Char's own guesses, a large number of weapons were accumulated in that "warehouse"! ! Weapons of the Ancient Goblin Race! !
(Magic Cannon? Magic Fire? What else?)
In addition, Galin explained that there were a lot of strange stones piled up in that place, and he couldn't identify what those stones were. However, through his description, Dodoro raised a possibility.
"Those may be magic crystals." The magician frowned and thought hard: "It sounds like a lot of magic crystals - what it looks like after the magic power is exhausted."
The magician quickly took out something from his arms. It was a wind-based magic ring that had exhausted its magic power, and there was a small crystal on it. After reading it, Galin immediately confirmed: It is this kind of thing!
According to his description, in that "warehouse", crystals piled up after this magic power was exhausted!
After entering the warehouse, Galin and his people reacted similarly to Xia Ya and others. They couldn't get out of the same way from there, so they could only find other ways out. They found another door in that warehouse (that door was open.) and went all the way through that door, through a long underground passage.
In the end, the end of the tunnel collapsed, perhaps because of an earthquake or some other accident in the long run. In short, after the tunnel collapsed, they found a crack after the collapse, from the crack It fell from the inside, and it fell directly into this ghost place.
"I don't understand. The two groups of us walked through the same door, and the knob was also turned to the scale of 'Chiyue', but why did we take different routes?"
Xia Ya sighed in distress on purpose, but the sly turtle glanced at Ada intentionally or unintentionally.
Ada snorted, he gave Xia a cold look, the guy's tone was indifferent: "If you want to ask a question, you might as well say it directly. I won't tell you the reason why I am here - other than that. Besides, I don't mind sharing other news with you."
Xia Ya was instantly refreshed.
After all, he still had great confidence in this humanoid dragon: the power of this Ada, he fully experienced when he first met everyone.
Ada took a stick and lit it on the fire, then walked to the beach and started paddling on the ground.
"First of all, you have to understand that the place we are in is an underground cave, and this place was built by a powerful race in ancient times..." Having said this, Ada glanced at Xia: "You don't look surprised, Looks like you already know that?"
"...Yes, is it an ancient goblin?" Xiaya nodded.
"That's right." Ada retracted his eyes: "Now I can answer the first question in your mind. The outermost passage gates here all have some special devices. scale, you can teleport people to different places.”
"But... we all switched to 'Red Moon'..." Xia immediately described her experience.
Ada glanced at Xiaya and sighed: "Alas... I really can't understand the limited wisdom of your humans... "
However, he still answered Xia Ya's question.
"Your initial guess is correct. The scale of the 'Red Moon' is the record unit of the ancient goblins. According to the ancient goblin family's calendar, they call the third day of each month the 'Red Moon Day'. Moon, in the eyes of the ancient goblins, represents the number 'three'. The first time you turn the knob to 'Red Moon', it means that the door to 'Warehouse No. 3' is opened! That is to say, ga Lin and the others entered the 'Warehouse No. 3'. Do you understand?"
Shaya nodded.
"However, when you turned the knob to 'Red Moon' for the second time, you made a mistake! You didn't reset the number! So, when you turned the knob back to where it started and then turned to When the 'Red Moon' is marked, you have opened the door of 'Three Three'! Two three! Do you understand?"
Xia Ya was stunned: "Clear? How?"
"It's very simple. When you open a door, you don't need to touch the knob. After a while, it will automatically return to its original position, which is considered to be cleared."
Xia's eyes widened: "how do you know these things..."
"I just know." Ada rolled his eyes, and his answer was still the one that tickles his teeth.
Xia Ya resisted the urge to punch him, took a deep breath, and looked at the guy in front of him: "So, how much do you know about this place?"
Ada smiled, and he smiled unpredictably: "It's a lot more than you think."
The two were standing by the river beach. At this time, Ada looked back at the Zaku people by the fire behind him. Ada seemed to hesitate for a moment, and he lowered his voice: "Okay, Xia, although I met you here, you are not here. It's in my plan, but, I thought, you might be able to give me some help."
"Uh?"
"Hmph, you and those Zakus are here for their 'holy snake', isn't it?" Ada's smile was a bit mocking: "It's not hard to guess, the Zakus have a lot to do with them. I understand the attitude of that holy snake very well. It seems... The last time I met you, you were just a witcher, but this time, you have taken up the work of a mercenary? You accepted this Are you on a mission from the Zaku people to help them kill that big snake?"
There was basically nothing wrong with this guess, and Xiaya didn't mean to deny it. He looked at Ada: "What do you want to say?"
"We can cooperate." Ada's smile was bright, but his eyes made Xiaya's heart tremble: "If you walk around here by yourself, I can guarantee that you won't find it even if you stay here for a few months. That serpent—but I can help you find your way."
"What do you want?"
"Snake eggs." Ada smiled: "Ten snake eggs, my requirements are not high."
When things came to this, Xi Ya had two choices.
The first choice is to tie up this hateful guy, then torture him fiercely, pry open his mouth directly, and get everything you want to know!
but…
Imagine Ada's past experiences! This human-shaped dragon is definitely one of the people Xia Ya has met in his life, and his wisdom can rank among the top three! !
When I met him for the first time, he was buried alive by several magicians! The results of it? Several magicians who buried him alive were led into the mountains by him to slay dragons, but the entire army was wiped out.
Moreover, think about Dora who has hatred with him! Dora is so much stronger than him, but Ada has endured it for many years, lurking in the mountain where Dora is hiding, after surveying everything around him, and then deliberately releasing news about Dora, let a few magicians Go to die as cannon fodder...
In the end, Dora died. And this Ada is still alive and kicking!
Therefore, Xiaya directly dismissed the idea of turning against Ada.
Then the second option is easy...
"Okay, let's work together." Xia Ya's face was a little reluctant: "But let me explain one thing first, if you overcast me this time... Like last time, you lied to me to open the way and walk into the fire-breathing swamp... If you dare to do this again, I will crush your neck first."
"Don't worry, I will keep you alive." Ada looked at the Zakus, and he seemed to smile: "I still need you to protect me. Although the Zakus haven't done anything to me now, but I I can guarantee that once we get out of here, they will take me back to the tribe as soon as possible. After all, I trespassed in their forbidden area. At that time, I need you to protect my safety."
Xia Ya's eyes rolled: "Deal!"
There were smiles on the faces of the two guys, but in the smiles, each of them seemed to have ghosts.
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After resting for about two hours, Xiaya announced that everyone would continue to leave.
"We have a new guide." Char pointed to Ada: "He can take us to find the holy snake."
Ada stood beside Xia with a calm face, regardless of the doubtful eyes cast by the Zaku people, he said coldly in Zaku language: "I don't want to waste time explaining the doubts in your heart, I can only guarantee One point: I can help you find that big snake, and I know where it's hiding. So, any other questions, we'll discuss it after we're out."
Galin didn't speak. He glanced at the witch doctor, then stared at Ada for a while before nodding: "Okay, that's it."
"The first step, everyone cleans up the things on their bodies! Throw away all the iron! Throw them all away!" Xia mainly said to Galin and others.
There is no objection to this, because I have already told Galin and others that in this place, carrying iron weapons on their bodies will cause the attack of those gold-eating ants.
Anyway, in the woods, the Zaku people will not be short of weapons, and soon everyone cut out a bunch of tree spears, and even Galin found a few stone chips with similar shapes by the river beach and tied them with ropes. On the stick, there were several stone axes.
After all the iron objects were thrown into the river, everyone waited for a while.
Finally, when three hours arrived, a piece of red light flashed across the top of the cave, and then a piece of red light quickly gathered into the huge crystal ball, and suddenly the crystal ball burst into a strong light, as if raging. Like a burning fireball, it will illuminate the entire cave!
"Okay! It's dawn now! Let's start, the direction is... through that hillside." Xia pointed to the front, and everyone's expressions changed suddenly.
"Don't worry, it's 'daytime' here, the habit of gold-devouring ants will not be dispatched under bright conditions in the daytime, unless there are metal objects to lure them, as long as we throw away all the iron objects on our bodies, even if we walk Down the hill, those things won't come out. Of course... unless you get into the ant hole yourself, ha!"
Xia Ya laughed a few times pretending to be heroic.
He just saved the lives of a group of Zaku people in Galin "last night", so everyone has a good impression of this guy. Under the encouragement of Xi Ya, these Zaku people gathered up their courage and shouted loudly. a few times.
Walking in the bushes is not difficult, but when approaching the hillside, everyone was still a little nervous, and even the most daring Xia Ya couldn't help but look a little abnormal. At this time, it was Ada who was at the forefront of everyone - this guy seemed to be quite sure.
When we bypassed the hillside, everyone saw a scene that made people's scalp tingle!
This tens of meters high hillside is simply a giant ant nest. Xiaya even suspected that the whole mountain was devoured by ants!
On the surface of the hillside, on the ground, you can see large piles of graves, each one or two meters high. This kind of mound is about every ten steps. The surface is densely covered with this kind of thing.
With Xia Ya's reminder, everyone deliberately walked around the mounds and did not dare to touch these things. Even everyone subconsciously eased their steps.
When they finally got around that hillside, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, even Xiaya himself.
Passing through the jungle, I came to the other end of the cave. The mountain walls here are smooth, like a crystal with a soft light, and there seems to be a faint light like water waves flowing.
Just below this mountain wall, there is a passage!
Unfortunately, this passage has been blocked. Countless rubble collapsed, blocking the passage without any gaps.
"Where is the road?" Xia Ya looked at Ada beside him.
"Underwater." Ada looked confident: "Although the passage here is blocked, don't forget the river in this cave! Haven't you thought about it? This water is living water, because if it is In the case of stagnant water, after 10,000 years, plus the fire element lighting that triggers the underground magma every three hours, the water would have been baked clean! The only reason why this water can remain dry for 10,000 years is: The water is alive. There is an undercurrent under the water."
Speaking, Ada pointed to the river in front of him: "The water here has two ports, one inlet and one outlet, here is the water inlet, but be careful, as far as I know, there is a magic circle under the water inlet. Yes, every three hours, a magic will be triggered to pour water from an underground undercurrent outside to keep the water in the cave. When the water is pouring back, the underwater pressure is very strong. So we have to be accurate Time, when the water is calm, you can sneak out of this underground undercurrent. Um... I calculated that it will take about a quarter of an hour to dive out of this undercurrent to another exit. "
Xia was annoyed: "A quarter of an hour? Hell! What do you think we are? Fish? Do you think we might dive underwater for a quarter of an hour without breathing?!"
Ada smiled, he looked at Xia Ya, and waited quietly for Xia Ya to get angry, the guy seemed to have a good temper: "Do you think I will do boring things? Why don't you think about it, since I can get it so accurate diving time, then I must have tried it myself.”
"Huh?" Xia's eyes suddenly lit up!
He knew that this Ada, although he didn't know how strong he was before he became a humanoid, at least, the current Ada was a humanoid, and it was an ordinary human body with little strength.
Since he can dive for more than a quarter of an hour, then...
Ada took out something from his arms. It was a round bead. It looked like a pearl, but the color was a little cloudy and not very conspicuous. But when Duo Duo Luo saw this thing, he immediately exclaimed: "Bihuizhu! Oh my god! Is this a waterboiler?!"
"Look, Xiaya. Your servants are more knowledgeable than you." Ada still struck Xiaya calmly. Xia glanced at Dodo Luo angrily, and the magician immediately shrank his neck: "That... When I was studying in the magic academy, the dean of the magic academy once gave us a lecture, and he showed us this. A treasure! This thing is a high-level water magic item!! It’s so strange, Mr. Darwin, the one in your hand is the same size as the one I saw back then!”
Ada smiled: "Dear Mr. Dodoro, you read it right, this is the one you have seen."
Duo Duo Luo's mouth opened wide, he swallowed: "How is it possible? Lord Dean regards this thing as a treasure, why is it here with you?"
"I said he gave it to me, believe it or not?" Ada didn't seem to intend to pay any attention to Xia, but stood by the water, stretched out his hand and made a "please" gesture, he smiled kindly: "Who Come down and follow me first?"
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The thing that avoids water beads doesn't look very conspicuous, but when Xiaya saw it work with his own eyes, he was really shocked.
When the group followed Ada and jumped into the water, they felt any "water" at all!
Once this water-repelling bead touched water, the water wave was immediately expelled by an invisible force, and around Ada as the center, a waterless space with a diameter of about five or six meters appeared underwater! There seemed to be an invisible wall around, blocking all the water out. When Xia Ya stood beside Ada and was underwater, he took a deep breath and stared at the surroundings curiously for a long time.
"Wonderful?" Ada rolled her eyelids.
"… Um."
"do you like it?"
"… Uh."
"Do you want to?" Ada sighed.
"… what?"
Ada smiled and looked at Xiaya: "I'll give it to you when we go out, anyway, I won't need this thing in the future."
Xiaya immediately looked at this guy vigilantly: "What are you thinking of?!"
Ada sighed, as if a little dissatisfied: "Xia Ya, we are old friends after all, think about it carefully, did I hurt you when we cooperated before?"
"Of course you have."
Ada snorted: "Oh? I hurt you? What did I hurt you? You got keel, dragon scale, and dragon blood! You got so many benefits, isn't it the result of my instructions?"
Xia was speechless.
In the waterless space of five or six meters, there are nearly twenty people in a group, but it can barely accommodate them. Everyone was tightly surrounded by Ada, slowly advancing underwater.
Sure enough, as Ada said, there is indeed an undercurrent channel under the water surface. The undercurrent channel below is very wide, and the surrounding cave walls have become very smooth due to the perennial water flow. After lighting her staff, it was enough to light the way forward.
The terrain under the waterway is very tortuous, twisting and turning all the way, and everyone walked under the water for a full quarter of an hour (Ada calculated the time extremely accurately!). When the time is up, the waterway ahead suddenly opens up!
After everyone surfaced together, they immediately saw that the outside had already left the previous cave and came to another place!
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Skeleton!
This cave is full of skeletons! !
The air in this cave is cloudy and filled with an indescribable stench! When everyone surfaced, they couldn't help covering their noses! !
Before they got to the shore, a few Zakus couldn't help but vomit out on the water! Xia Ya's face was also pale, and her chest was annoyed. A wave of nausea surged up, and it took a lot of effort to suppress it.
"Damn it! What does this taste like!!"
"Can't you see?" Ada sneered, pointing to the bones in the cave: "That's all!"
After holding up her staff, she walked to the shore. With the light in her hand, when everyone saw the shape of the bones on the ground, they couldn't help but change their color!
Obviously, these skeletons are all human! Humans without a doubt! ! Because the shape of those bones, especially the shape of the skull, speaks volumes!
What surprises Xia most is that these skeletons may not look very old! There are a lot of bones that aren't even fully decomposed!
Also, all the skeletons look slender and small...
"It's a snake girl."
The one holding the staff suddenly whispered such a sentence.
Snake girl? !
Xia Ya was shocked!
He immediately remembered the tragic fate of those snake girls in the Zaku clan!
"Some of these snake girls are not selected during the selection process, and they will become food for holy snakes and other small snakes! And even those who become snake girls will be responsible for taking care of the hatched little snakes after the snake hatches. , the final day will also become food to be eaten..."
"Everyone be careful!" Xia Ya issued a warning in a deep voice!
Since there are so many skeletons here, I'm afraid...
There's no need for Xia's reminder!
With the light in their hands, everyone has seen the surrounding walls! The walls of this cave are covered with large and small holes! Just after everyone stepped onto the water, the sound of "hissing" came from these holes!
In the dim light, you can vaguely see that there are dozens of holes in the wall, large and small, and many of the holes have a triangular head protruding! Snake heads stick out from the entrance of the cave, some open their mouths, some spit out snake letters, and pairs of green eyes peep at the crowd in the cave!
Soon, many snakes swam out of the hole and slowly slid down the wall. There were at least twenty or thirty!
These snakes vary in size, but fortunately, they are not as big as the one Charya saw in the goblin tribe before.
The largest snakes here are only five or six meters long, and the smallest... Xia noticed that the smallest snakes don't look different in size from ordinary snakes, and some are only as thick as their own wrists.
When I saw so many snakes rushing out, I suddenly exclaimed.
Galin shouted a few times, and under his command, the Zakus quickly formed a circle, holding spears and watching the group of snakes vigilantly.
The spears are like forests, and these snakes seem to feel the hostility of these humans. They did not rush up immediately, but slowly approached one by one, and some stretched their heads to test it, but they did not wait for the Zaku people. The spear stabbed at it, and then shrank back.
The siege of the snake group was getting closer and closer, and Xiaya stood there holding a fire fork and shouted angrily: "Ada, what can you do?"
He looked back, only to find that Ada had run away at some point.
Looking up, he immediately saw a scene that made him angry!
The bastard Ada was not in the Zaku circle, he actually walked to the wall and sat down! He was sitting next to the group of snakes, this guy leaned leisurely against the wall and looked at Char. He sighed: "Fool, ask me what to do, aren't you here to kill these things? Don't you have your own plans?"
The group of snakes swam around Ada, but they didn't seem to have any intention of attacking Ada at all. Xiaya suddenly moved in his heart and remembered an important thing!
similar! !
These snakes are low-level Damandras! Because although Ada is in human form, he is the soul of a dragon after all! Therefore, because these low-level Damandras are not intelligent, they can only recognize them instinctively based on induction, and mistakenly regard Ada as the same kind!
Haven't you experienced a similar scene before? !
"Galin!!" Xia Ya shouted: "Don't do it yet! Everyone backs up! Get close to me! Everyone gets close to me!!"
He immediately shouted to Galin a few times, and Galin was already sweating. After listening, he immediately directed the Zaku warriors to gather towards Xia, and the formation became more and more flat.
"No, kill the little snake here, the holy snake will wake up soon!" Da Zai Xia yelled anxiously in Xia's ear, the witch doctor raised her staff, and her other hand suddenly lifted the hem of her robe. Come, reveal a rounded and clean thigh suddenly! Under the dim light, the witch doctor's long legs are full of beauty, but she herself doesn't seem to care how seductive it is in the eyes of others, so she has a leather bag tied around the witch doctor's thigh. A circle of leather bags were covered with thin bamboo tubes that were only about the size of a finger.
She quickly took out a bamboo tube to bite off the top stopper, and a drop of green liquid poured out and fell on the top of her staff!
The witch's medical staff paused heavily on the ground, and with a bang, a green fire burst out immediately!
With a bang, the green rays of light scattered, and the surrounding snake groups seemed to be extremely fearful, and they retreated!
The witch doctor began to read something out loud. Her Zaku language was cadenced, as if she was chanting some kind of spell. Suddenly, the green light turned into a green circle of light, and instantly turned into countless green meteors. Shoot out!
A lot of green sparks splashed out and landed on the surrounding snakes. The snakes immediately twisted and rolled, opened their mouths and hissed and roared, as if in extreme pain, and immediately retreated far away. Other snakes quickly turned around and swam away.
The witch doctor's eyes began to show a bit of pain. She quickly took out another bamboo tube and bit it open. This time, a drop of bright red liquid poured out. She bit her finger fiercely, scarlet blood. Flowing out, mixed with that bright red liquid...
boom! !
The staff slammed on the ground again, and the light that erupted from the top turned into a strange light. The green light was smeared with red, like a mass of green blood! !
The strange two colors of light quickly spread out, and those twisted snakes were shrouded in them, many of them quietly bent down, some twisted a few times, and then they stopped moving.
The witch doctor's eyes became more and more painful, and her breathing became more rapid. Xiaya clearly saw that her neck was covered with sweat, and the sweat flowed from under her mask to her neck like water!
The light is getting bigger and bigger, and it spreads out, covering almost the entire cave!
Finally, the snakes around seemed to be quiet under the magical power of the witch doctor. These snakes did not die, but seemed to have entered a state of dormancy, or passed out of a coma, but they were all one by one. He was crawling on the ground, motionless.
"Quick! My medicine can only last for a quarter of an hour at most." After she finished speaking, she suddenly softened and sat on the ground. She took a deep breath and stared at Xiaya, her voice a little hoarse: "As for you I did what I could! Now, it's your turn!"
Xia Ya looked at the witch doctor, her eyes were a little scattered, Xia Ya whispered: "You..."
"Go kill the biggest snake!" He shook his head: "I'm sitting here! If you can't come back, I'll die here too."
Ada stood up. He glanced at the witch doctor strangely, and suddenly said in a low voice, "It's interesting... This kind of magic of the Zaku seems to be at the cost of vitality. Is it a kind of life magic?"
Dodoro's ears were sharp, and when he heard this, he couldn't help but glance at the witch doctor.
Ada then looked at Xia Ya: "Okay, you passed the first level easily, but it's up to you to help... The big snake you're looking for... Do you see those snake holes on the wall? Climb up and drill Go in and you can reach its lair."
Xia Ya glanced at the densely packed snake holes on the wall. He gritted his teeth, and his heart sank. He quickly ran to the wall, using both hands and feet. From the nearest hole, one headed into it.
Although this snake hole is not very spacious, one person can barely climb into it. The others below watched Xia Ya's movements, and under the leadership of Galin, they also climbed up.
"I can't move for the time being." Ada suddenly glanced at Ada: "Mr Darwin, if you are a friend of the Zaku people, please state your position at this time!"
She spoke in Zaku. Ada listened, looked at the witch doctor and smiled: "I can assure you, at least I am not an enemy of the Zaku."
With that said, Ada walked to Dodoro's side and patted the magician's ass: "Can't you climb up? Don't you have that magic carpet? Just fly up... Well, I don't like to climb either, please bring it with you. I'll go up together."