"What? They've entered the Underdark!" Gilliam's head grew dizzy when he received the report from the guards. It's one thing for him not to like the elf prince, but it's another thing for Qin Lun to have an accident here.
What's more, no matter what the purpose is, the elf prince's ostensible purpose is to rescue the trapped dwarf exploration team. Anyway, Gilliam can't watch him risk his life alone and enter the Underdark.
Gilliam is one of the few shield dwarves with quick thinking, which is the main reason why the dwarf king asked him to lead this outpost camp and act as an envoy during the Silver Moon Festival.
In fact, after he arrived at the camp, he had already considered that Qin Lun might act without authorization, so he had already instructed the dwarf guards guarding the Underdark region not to let anyone other than the dwarves enter.
It's just that the timing Qin Lun chose was too good. Some dwarf guards left their posts to treat the wounded, and the remaining guards were short of manpower, unable to stop Qin Lun and his followers. What's more, they didn't even want to stop the elf prince in their hearts, because they entered the Underdark Region only to rescue the compatriots of the exploration team.
"Let the next batch of exploration team gather, it seems that we have to set off early!" After reading this, the old dwarf didn't think much about it, and immediately made a decision.
"Filar, he entered the Underdark Region alone?" Iristen and Mustacia who came over were shocked when they heard the news, especially Iristine was full of resentment, Qin Lun left her again.
In fact, in order to enter the Underdark Region before Gilliam got the news, Qin Lun didn't have time to inform other people, so he left directly with a few apostles.
However, not all the apostles went with Qin Lun. The female apostles from Rand and Weiss' team, MT, and the black-robed mage stayed in the camp. Qin Lun was only surrounded by Hill, Weiss, and the thief nicknamed "Monkey".
Qin Lun's arrangement is to strengthen the connection, so that Gilliam and others who chase after him can find them. The second is to balance the power of the apostles around him. After all, they and the Weiss team are still in the running-in stage. If all five members of the Weiss team follow, there will be no other plot characters around them. If they make small moves, it will be very difficult to stop them.
"Don't worry, Lord Gilliam has assembled a group of exploration team members behind, and we will be able to rush there soon." Lorraine said confidently.
"I don't know what kind of brains that guy is playing!" Idriya muttered to herself, looking at the remaining apostles.
The believers of Laoweita have been in contact with Qin Lun for a long time, and they instinctively felt that Qin Lun's behavior this time was a bit weird. Having experienced the Tower of Durag incident, she didn't quite believe that Qin Lun would take such a big risk himself in order to save a few dwarf exploration team members.
"I've wanted to enter the Underdark for a long time, but I didn't expect it to finally come true!" Mastacia said with emotion. As a harpist, although she has a lofty mission to balance the continent, exciting adventures and travels are also her passion. favorite.
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"Your resilience is impressive!" Weiss whispered meaningfully.
"Captain Weiss, thank you." Qin Lun responded with a smile, and the yin-yang fish pattern in his left eye flickered from time to time as he scouted the surrounding environment.
Underdark, the dark world of Toril, a paradise for underground creatures to survive and multiply!
After crossing the northern entrance of the camp, a deep and dark tunnel appeared in front of everyone.
The tunnel is rough and slippery, the direction of travel is almost irregular, and the width is also very different. The wide place can accommodate four riders in parallel, while the narrow place can only allow one person to pass sideways.
The stone walls on both sides are covered with an unknown purple fern. The jagged leaves make everyone dare not walk against the wall easily. No one knows whether these plants are poisonous. Although most of the apostles have antidotes, they are not willing to waste them easily in these places.
Qin Lun's elven vision allowed him to see the environment at a glance, and the other three didn't seem to care much about the darkness underground. Hill's illithid lineage itself is a biological specialty of the Underdark. However, the shepherd didn't want to expose his lineage to outsiders at this time, and was holding a dwarven Tyre night lamp in his hand.
The Tyr night light is equipment that dwarves often use in mining areas. The spar it uses has been transformed by magic runes. The light is in a special spectral region, and it can also emit a smell that humans cannot smell, which can cover up body odor. Some subterranean creatures dislike the light and smell.
Of course, it doesn't mean that you can avoid all underground creatures with this Tyre night light. After all, most underground creatures rely on their extremely sensitive hearing to detect the environment.
"Leader, if there is a chance, shall we..." Monkey asked softly in the private chat channel while scouting ahead.
"No need, according to my estimation, the chances of using the underground bio-pit are not great!" Weiss pondered for a moment before rejecting his companion's suggestion, "These two guys are very shrewd and not easy to deal with. Our main purpose It is still to make up for the previous loss, since the success rate of revenge is too low, it is not worth continuing."
Weiss' team joined Qin Lun's side, originally with a hidden purpose of revenge. However, after getting in touch with them in the past few days, Weiss found that Qin Lun and others were difficult to deal with, so he basically gave up this idea.
There is no doubt that Weiss can help the Zhentarim complete the assassination plan. But he asked himself that he might not be able to seize the fleeting opportunity just now, and hold the initiative to trigger the epic plot in his hands.
Although everyone has flashes of inspiration, the rigorous thinking that Qin Lun showed during this period made him fearful. Apart from Qin Lun himself, he only asked three of the remaining seven apostles to follow, and the others were strictly ordered to stay where they were.
For the first four people to enter the Underdark Region, Qin Lun had to go by himself, so that the dwarves had to let him join the exploration team. Hill is a priest, and Monkey is a thief. These two must also be taken with him. Weiss is the only high-level powerhouse among the eight, and he is needed to deal with possible high-level creatures.
However, what surprised Weiss was that among the people Qin Lun designated to stay were not only Rand, the black-robed mage and the female apostle, but also the shield guard from their team.
Of course, the shield guard is not helpless to the expedition, on the contrary, his role is even greater than that of Weiss. However, with the shield guards around, if Weiss and the others thought carefully when they were in danger, they could play soy sauce under the cover of the shield guards and watch the underground creatures hunt and kill Qin Lun and the others.
You must know that if they have joined the dwarven exploration team now, as long as the mission prompt appears, the role of Qin Lun's plot identity will not be so important. It's not impossible for Weiss and others to tear up their faces and kill Qin Lun before the plot characters arrive.
Taking Weiss away without a shield guard and leaving Rand behind will ensure that the remaining Weiss team members will not be able to lead the dwarf exploration team. More importantly, Qin Lun had already made all the arrangements in the blink of an eye, and his thoughts were meticulous and seamless, leaving no loopholes for Weiss' team to take advantage of.
While exploring the Underdark, Weiss was not sure if he would spend his time dealing with such a terrifying person. That being the case, why bother to frame the temporary companion in front of him at the risk of losing the rewards of the mission.
"Qin Lun, when do you plan to join the exploration team behind?" Hill asked cautiously. Just now, in the team channel, Rand had reported that the exploration team led by Gilliam was about to leave.
"There is no fork in the passage ahead, and there is no need for plot characters to intervene. Our attitude now is to rescue the trapped dwarf after all, and to find more clues, even if it is a corpse... we can give Gilliam and Lorraine an explanation later. .” Qin Lun said lightly.
"Corpse? Oh, I see, you didn't get specific information from that dead dwarf!" Hill thought for a while, then came to his senses, shook his head with a wry smile.
"Well, we just need an excuse to enter the Underdark! Whether the previous batch of dwarves were trapped or all died, it doesn't matter to us." Qin Lun shrugged indifferently.
"If that guy keeps on seeing Gilliam, the situation may be repeated, so I used a very irritating drug to let him burn the last vitality as soon as possible. I didn't expect him to even finish a sentence. Just hung up."
The underground tunnels were rugged and slippery, so Qin Lun and the others moved very slowly. The tunnels in some areas were extremely low. Although it could be seen that the dwarves had widened them, the dwarves were so short that Qin Lun and the others had to crawl through.
After trekking for more than ten kilometers in the tunnel, the underground cracks finally gradually widened and heightened. This is the beginning of entering the real dark area, which also means that underground creatures may appear along the way.
The vigilance of Qin Lun and the others has increased again, and now they can no longer see any soft soil above their heads, replaced by thick and cold rock formations, which they preliminarily estimate have penetrated several kilometers underground.
This is the difficulty of exploring the Underdark. This is not the surface, and the road is not flat, but three-dimensional. If Qin Lun and the others really moved forward by themselves, they would definitely lose their way, and they might not even be able to find their way back.
"Listen... the sound of the water, it's an underground river!" Hill suddenly listened, the illithid blood gave him excellent hearing.
Hill heard it right, the four of them walked for a while again, and a huge underground space appeared in front of them, and in front of them was an underground river that twisted like a silver belt. There has been a fork on the other side of the river, and it seems that they have to make a new choice.
The thieves who were investigating at the front sent a message, "Come here, I have blood here!"
The place where the thief was located was an underground stream that was only five or six meters wide. Next to a black rock, Qin Lun and the others saw a pool of dark red blood.
"The blood is not dry yet, it should be left by that dwarf just now." Hill put a little blood on his finger and put it in his mouth.
Qin Lun stretched his hand into the stream, and the icy cold water woke him up. The stream was very fast, and the upstream extended into a dark hole with no end in sight.
"Let's follow the blood trail! The deeper we go, Gilliam can no longer ask us to withdraw from the exploration mission." Qin Lun said calmly.