"Rand, where are you now?" Qin Lun thought for a while, then asked his companions behind.
Rand quickly explained his location. Qin Lun recalled it, and found that the dwarven exploration team led by Gilliam was probably less than an hour away from himself.
After Qin Lun set off at the camp before, Gilliam actually assembled the team immediately. Because of the need to prepare supplies, the departure was delayed for almost half an hour.
Calculated in this way, their traveling speed in this short half-day was actually faster than that of the dwarf exploration team. Counting the time of the battle with the Direclaw not long ago, they still pulled them away for nearly half an hour.
It's not surprising when you think about it, the speed of the dwarves' journey is not fast, and they have to carry the exploration materials, so it is naturally not as easy as the few of them.
"Then wait for them. The distance is too wide. If you encounter an irresistible danger, it will be more troublesome." Qin Lun discussed with the rest of the people and decided to wait for the large army here.
Now that they have lost the blood trail, and cleaned up two Dinoclaw beasts along the way, they have made a lot of achievements, and they should be able to explain it in front of Gilliam.
Although they decided to wait for the exploration team, they were unwilling to do nothing. Qin Lun and Hill each released a gargoyle and continued to search ahead. If they can find something, they don't have to wait.
After releasing the gargoyle, Qin Lun and the others retreated a certain distance and rested near a pile of rocks. The thieves have set up several small traps around them. The environment in the mossy area ahead is a bit weird, so they need to be more cautious.
"It seems that you are well prepared!" Weiss looked at the gargoyle flying into the darkness, showing a little surprise.
Alchemy creatures like gargoyles have night vision, which is a good way to explore in the dark.
"It's just a coincidence!" Qin Lun smiled. When they first entered the world of Toril, they never expected to enter the Underdark. However, seeing Weiss's expression of disbelief, he didn't explain too much.
After they rested for a while, Hill suddenly opened his eyes, frowned and said, "My gargoyle seems to have found something!"
Qin Lun and others have entered the Underdark Region quite far, and the surrounding environment is like a network of dark passages extending in all directions. The two gargoyles were not exploring in the same direction, so Qin Lun could not sense Hill's gargoyle.
Hill fed back the image seen by the gargoyle to the team channel, and the others immediately saw a strange picture.
The gargoyle is currently in a vast plain, and it cannot see the edge of the plain with its vision. This subterranean plain is covered with a plant that looks like a large mushroom.
This kind of thing has a mushroom-like cap, but the ratio of the strains underneath is relatively long, and it looks like weird trees. The forest made up of this kind of big mushrooms can't see the edge in the gargoyle's field of vision, and it is initially estimated to be at least tens of square kilometers.
There is a kind of pink smoke around them, which makes people unable to observe the situation inside the forest, which looks mysterious and weird.
"Mushroom Grove!" After seeing this mirror image, Qin Lun and the others looked at each other a few times, with a strange expression on their faces.
Unexpectedly, after they gave up moving forward, the gargoyle released casually gave another surprise.
"Want to take a look?" The thief was eager to try.
When he was exploring in the camp two days ago, he already knew that the previous batches of dwarf exploration teams had just explored here, and hadn't really broken through the mushroom forest area. Since the trapped dwarves were not seen along the way, these guys should be in the fungus.
Of course, this is not to say that the first exploration by Qin Lun and others has caught up with the progress of the dwarves in the past few months. They are able to come here now, it is simply the result of following the bloodstains. The dwarves are purposefully moving towards Mithral Hall, which are two completely different things.
"Captain Weiss, what do you mean?" Qin Lun did not make a decision immediately this time, and asked the only high-ranking apostle in the team friendly.
Weiss looked at Qin Lun and smiled. He knew that this was because the other party wanted to improve the relationship between the two sides, so that it could rise to the level of becoming a true teammate.
However, he did not refuse the offer. Judging from the temptations of the past few days, the three of Qin Lun were not strong enough on the apostle side and needed their assistance in order to achieve a higher degree of task completion.
And they also need Qin Lun's plot identity, so that they can deeply explore the plot of the mission. What's more, Qin Lun's three people's strength is also very good in his opinion, and they are qualified to share the mission income with them equally.
Most importantly, Weiss himself has a secret idea. The world of Toril is a big world, and there are countless hidden epic plots in it. They have already betrayed the Zhentarim Society at this time, and entering this world in the future is tantamount to starting again.
But if he can get in touch with Qin Lun, he can join the current plot camp. If they have the opportunity to enter Toril again in the future, they will be able to participate in the plot lines of the Silver Moon Alliance, the Shield Dwarves, and even the future Bright Moon Royal Court. This is obviously a matter of making money without losing money, so why not do it.
"Let's go and have a look! However, it's best not to go deep into the fungus forest. Let's explore on the periphery. Things that can trap an entire dwarf exploration team will also pose a great threat to us." Weiss thought. want to go back.
Qin Lun nodded in agreement, sent another group of gargoyles an idea to return, and led the group to move on. Because they have a clear target location, they can slightly bypass the mossy area ahead to avoid the hidden risks.
After about an hour, Qin Lun and the others finally came to the vast plain where the mushroom grove was.
Standing on the rock cliff closest to the plain, Qin Lun and others found that the mushrooms in this mushroom forest were much larger than what they had seen before. Not to mention the giant fungus in the center of the mushroom forest, even the outer ones are almost ten meters high, with a cap radius of about three meters.
"Rand, have you asked about the information about the Mushroom Grove?" Qin Lun asked in the team channel.
Before they set off, Rand asked the dwarves to secretly inquire about the mushroom grove. Because this is not a secret in the dwarf camp, the dwarves did not hide it.
Mushroom Grove is a special biome in the Underdark. Most Mushrooms are plants and look like large mushrooms. However, a large-scale mushroom forest will also produce a kind of intelligent creature similar to the forest dryad, called the mushroom man.
Fungi people are a bit like dryads, they are docile by nature and don't like to fight. They even allow many underground creatures to feed on plant mushrooms, as long as they don't destroy the mushroom forest in a large area, they basically ignore the foreign creatures.
However, in terms of combat ability, individual mushroom people cannot be compared with dryads. They don't have the defensive power of the tree demon, their strength is not as good as that of the tree demon, and their movements are even slower.
There are two main types of their combat skills, one is to spit bodily fluids. It was a highly corrosive acid with decent toxin damage. Another method is to stimulate the mushroom forest to emit a spore cloud, which is extremely sharp.
There are two types of spore clouds in the mushroom forest, one is non-toxic, and the other is highly hallucinogenic, which is equivalent to a nerve agent. Even if a high-level creature inhales this spore cloud, it will pass out in a short period of time, and eventually rot in the mushroom forest.
Finally, Rand reminded Qin Lun and others that the dwarves knew the habits of the mushroom people, and they did not disturb the mushroom people in the previous few explorations of the mushroom forest. The unknown attack this time might not have been caused by the mushroom man, otherwise, once the spore cloud was activated, the dwarf would not be able to escape at all.
"So it seems that the dwarves were attacked by other underground creatures in the mushroom forest?" Qin Lun rubbed the tip of his nose thoughtfully.
Fungigroves are like surface forests, since myconids allow other underground creatures to feed on the plant mushrooms, so there may be nests of other creatures nearby. If the dwarf exploration team is unlucky, it may be attacked by these underground creatures.
"Well, it's very possible, I just don't know what kind of underground creature they encountered!" Looking at the message from Rand, several people felt a little troubled.
The Underdark is poor in resources, especially food. Most underground creatures are omnivorous, so there are many kinds of creature nests around the mushroom forest. From high-level minotaurs and manticores to mid-level salamanders, and even low-level ratmen and cavemen, it is impossible to make a specific judgment.
"Let the gargoyle go in and scout first!" Qin Lun said helplessly, "It's not bad to encounter the lord creature, but if you can't beat it, you can disperse and escape. If you encounter a minotaur or a salamander that lives in groups, it will be a lot of fun. .”
"The size of the gargoyle is too big, and most of the underground creatures have night vision capabilities. If they startle the snake, it will bring unnecessary trouble to the follow-up exploration." Weiss reminded cautiously.
"Then... Captain Weiss, do you have any good suggestions?" Qin Lun asked with a smile. Since Weiss raised this question, he probably already has other solutions.
After getting along for a few days, Qin Lun also had a better understanding of this high-ranking apostle. Weiss was different from the several high-ranking apostles he had seen before. His personality was extremely stable, and he could even be called twilight.
Along the way, most of the suggestions he put forward were not for merit but for innocence. Perhaps this was also the original plan of the Zhentarim in Silvermoon City. However, his team was able to retreat unscathed and made up for part of the loss. the main reason.
Qin Lun doesn't like Weiss' personality very much, and it doesn't fit well with his personality. However, he admits that this kind of apostle is difficult to deal with. Regardless of the mission benefits, perhaps in the dangerous world of Toril, Weiss is more suitable than him to carry out adventurous missions.
"Like you, we are also entering the world of Toril for the second time. Because the landing place is in the north, we have also prepared some items for exploring the Underdark." Weiss smiled and took out two palm-sized alchemists from the storage space biology.
"This is a light-sounding bat. Not only does it have the bat's ultrasonic detection ability and make it form an image, but it can also fly at subsonic speed." Weiss threw two palm-sized bats upwards, and everyone's heads exploded. The air exploded, and the two little bats disappeared without a trace in an instant.