The audience was silent.
Everyone held their breath intently, not even daring to let out a breath, and tried to keep their breathing as slow as possible. For fear of attracting the attention of the big cock.
Time passed slowly, about ten breaths later.
The red rooster head looked left and right, but there seemed to be nothing to eat. Finally, he began to retreat slowly again, disappearing into the darkness.
call...
Everyone present couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. The head of this rooster is really too big... With such a big rooster, let alone its special ability, even the strength alone is unmatched when it is pecked off.
Lin Xin also heaved a sigh of relief. Not long after he came down from the cave, he encountered such a huge monster, and it was easy to say that it was in danger.
Seeing that the big cock was about to retract into the abyss.
laugh.
Suddenly, out of the corner of Lin Xin's eye, he caught sight of a round, small thing flying towards the abyss. I don't know who threw it.
"That's... a signal flare!!!" He suddenly recognized it, and his face turned pale.
The rooster was probably provoked by the signal flare just now, who is throwing the signal flare at this time, with sinister intentions to kill everyone present!
Not only him, senior brother Xiao Lingling Guang and others also turned pale. Everyone recognized that it was a signal flare.
Before he had time to think about it, Lin Xin picked up a stone and threw it at the signal flare.
The stone was smashed in mid-air, and it was thrown far away. I don't know how far it flew.
Boom!
Only then did a ball of white light shine in the darkness in the distance, fortunately more than 20 meters away from where everyone was.
Huh... In a huge surge of air, the rooster really appeared again, and the head of the rooster moved towards the direction of the white light explosion.
"Let's go!" Lin Xin shouted, and rushed down the stone wall first, Xiao Lingling, Senior Brother Guang and others also woke up from a dream, and quickly followed. But the horse man was still trembling with fright, standing on the spot and not daring to move.
A few people ran wildly, winding down the stone wall, running no less than a few thousand meters, and then slowly stopped and looked back.
In the darkness, only a huge black shadow can be vaguely seen slowly sinking down the abyss, which is obviously the big rooster.
"Keep running, if you go further, it's not safe here!" Lin Xin made a decisive decision, and continued to turn around and head down the passage on the stone wall.
Xiao Lingling and the others also saw the black shadow, and hurriedly continued to follow.
After running all the way down, they didn't meet a black-haired horse man in the middle, until they reached an oval stone platform.
Around the platform are black chains that are as thick as a person's waist. Eight black chains hang the entire stone platform in the air. One edge of the stone platform is next to the stone wall passage that winds from above.
Lin Xin looked forward, and the only end of the passageway was this platform, and there was no other road in sight.
The ground of the platform is smooth and pitch black, and there are stalagmites of different heights scattered around the edges, like a circle of incomplete sawtooth.
Lin Xin listened attentively. In the darkness, apart from the sound of his footsteps and breathing, and the crackling of torches, there was no sound of wind.
"Lin...Senior brother Lin. What should we do now?" At this moment, Xiao Lingling and the others were a little convinced by Lin Xin. He was the first to notice the approach of the big rooster just now. It was he who was quick and wise and used stones to knock the signal flare away. If it weren't for him, it is estimated that once they encounter a big cock and go crazy, the few people present will have no way to survive.
"This is the only way, we can only go forward." Lin Xin walked forward without looking back.
He vaguely noticed a row of footprints in front of him. Although they were dim under the firelight, they could barely be identified.
He followed the footprints and walked forward slowly, and the others followed closely behind him, following each step, looking left and right, for fear of encountering any monsters again.
"Zongmen won't let us complete impossible tasks." Lin Xin whispered, "So, that monster rooster is definitely not something we can resist. Since we can't resist, there must be something in it." A certain law can keep us safe from the threat of that monster... "
He said while walking, and Xiao Lingling, who was a little flustered, also came to her senses.
"Brother Lin, what do you mean... that big cock, as long as it meets certain conditions, it will not attack us, but those horse people..."
She is also a smart person. Thinking about it this way, she suddenly had some aftertaste.
"That's right, those centaurs shouldn't be so fierce. They are so powerful at the beginning, and they are even more fierce later, so they must have some weaknesses that we can take advantage of." Lin Xin nodded.
Xiao Lingling also immediately thought of the horseman's performance just now.
"Perhaps, we were able to recover quickly under the threat of the big rooster, but those centaurs could not, so we can make good use of this time difference. From this point of view, killing those blood beast centaurs should be much simpler."
When the rest of the people heard her analysis, they immediately felt that it made sense.
Lin Xin naturally thought of it a long time ago, so he kept moving forward without saying much.
Walking up the black platform, there was no movement at all. It was not until he was about to cross the platform smoothly that Lin Xin felt a little relaxed. He stepped on the ground of another karst cave passage on the opposite side, and he breathed a sigh of relief. .
This platform is located between two stone walls, forming a link-like effect, communicating the two sides of the entire karst cave abyss, just stuck in the narrowest terrain of the abyss.
Equivalent to a stone bridge.
Passing through the platform, Lin Xin and the others had arrived at the stone wall opposite the abyss. There was a dark cave on the stone wall. They stood at the entrance of the cave, looking at a huge dark square inside.
The square is flat, and there are collapsed and broken stone statues all around. In the center of the ground stands a plant vine sculpture with teeth and claws, which is more than ten meters high, which is extremely conspicuous.
Lin Xin glanced left and right, the entire square was as big as a football field, but the ground was mostly gravel and stones, broken stone statues here and there, almost blocking most of the line of sight.
"There should be a passage leading to other places here. This time our trial is to hunt blood beasts and get the skulls of blood beasts. Presumably the black-haired horse man just now is likely to be the blood beasts. With our strength , it’s best to attract blood beasts to surround and kill them one by one.” Lin Xin looked back at the few people, “Do you have any objections?”
"No, it's all up to Senior Brother Lin to make the decision." Xiao Lingling was the first to express her opinion, which made Senior Brother Guang's face obviously a bit ugly.
"If it wasn't for Senior Brother Lin just now, we might not even be able to save our lives. Who is Brother Guang showing such a bad face?" The other people were a little dissatisfied and muttered in a low voice.
Everyone heard this, Senior Brother Guang's face became even more ugly, he glanced at Xiao Lingling.
Xiao Lingling pretended not to hear anything.
"No problem, then let's disperse and search this square first. Pay attention, if you find that the horsemen don't be alarmed, turn around and meet at the vine in the middle, and then we will plan to do it together." Lin Xin whispered, he didn't have time to pay attention to this guy Be careful, it's more important to hunt blood beasts.
"clear."
Several people responded, and walked towards the square below together.
Along the way, they slowly descended the slope to the square. Lin Xin and the others each lit a torch and searched separately in several directions.
He didn't dare to take it lightly when he was alone. If it was one side of the gangster just now, it would not be a big problem to solve it with his current strength of the fourth innate level. Unless the hole card is used, the transparent rune sword, the transparent runestone, but that thing is too noisy, and it is difficult to predict what kind of trouble monsters will be attracted.
Alone, Lin Xin took a torch and walked to the right, groping forward. After bypassing some broken limbs of stone statues, he walked about a hundred meters. Looking back, there was only a faint light of fire in the distance. Separated and walked away.
The square was very quiet, except for the faint whistling of the wind.
Walking to a broken stone statue, he reached out and gently touched the broken edge of the stone statue.
The cold, ice-like temperature spread from the fingers to the palm, and then spread towards the arms and body.
Lin Xin quickly retracted, shivering slightly.
The fracture was extremely incomplete and rough, with some cut hands, he retracted after touching it lightly.
Look carefully at the stone statue up and down, the whole body is black, and it is carved with a soldier holding a spear, which seems to be a stone sculpture guarding the square.
The fracture was from the waist up, the upper part of the body fell to the ground beside it, and the lower part of the body sank crookedly into the ground, and it hadn't completely fallen down yet.
"This stone statue..." Lin Xin frowned slightly, looking thoughtfully at the fracture of the stone statue.
"Brother Lin."
Just as he was thinking, Xiao Lingling's voice came from behind.
He turned around and saw that Xiao Lingling quietly walked out from behind a stone statue without lighting a torch, her face was a little pale, and there was a faint trace of tenderness on her originally charming face.
"Brother Lin...I'm a little scared." Xiao Lingling approached, only half a meter away from Lin Xin. Although she was dressed in black, she was tight-fitting and highlighted the beautiful lines of her figure, with a protruding front and back, which was more intriguing than not wearing any clothes.
Lin Xin raised his eyebrows. "Junior Sister Xiao, have you finished investigating your direction?"
"I... I dare not go alone..." Xiao Lingling bowed her head a little shyly. "With my strength, if I encounter a monster like that just now... I'm afraid it will be dangerous to even escape...."
Lin Xin was a little helpless, but remembered that Xiao Lingling's strength was not in cultivation, but in other investigative abilities.
He thought for a moment, and opened his mouth to speak.
"Brother Lin!" Suddenly Xiao Lingling called out coquettishly, and unexpectedly rushed over and slammed into his arms.
Lin Xin could only feel the warmth and fragrance of nephrite jade in his arms, and his face was slightly taken aback.
"As long as you protect me... I... I'm willing to do anything!" Xiao Lingling begged in a low voice. The voice is extremely charming, like the neighing of a kitten.
Boom! !
Lin Xin suddenly turned livid, and kicked Xiao Lingling out fiercely.
Xiao Lingling was kicked out, rolled in mid-air, and landed firmly.
Lin Xin lowered his head and looked at his chest, where a clear hole appeared on the surface of the clothes, and there was a faint pale slender knife mark on the skin inside.
"You're not Xiao Lingling! Who are you!?" Lin Xin's face was cold, and he stared at Xiao Lingling in front of him. If it was the real Xiao Lingling, she would never be able to land on the ground after being kicked by herself.
"Brother Lin, why are you so cruel? He really wanted to sacrifice his life just now..." Xiao Lingling covered her mouth and smiled coquettishly, but her eyes looked at Lin Xin with a hint of apprehension.
"ah!"
Suddenly there was a scream in the distance, and a torch extinguished the fire.
Lin Xin was distracted for a moment, and then looked at 'Xiao Lingling', only to see her back hidden in the darkness.