Jasmine was completely unaware of what Richard was thinking. She pointed towards the well and said, "Go in. If you sink to the bottom of this well, there will be ruins."
After saying that, he jumped into the well, his whole body covered with a layer of sky-blue energy, isolating contact with the water, and quickly sank.
The others followed and jumped into the well, with Richard at the end.
"Plop!"
As his whole body was wrapped in golden energy and entered the well, Richard felt that the gravity around him suddenly more than doubled, greatly exceeding the buoyancy, as if there were invisible arms dragging him down.
In this way, he dived for about thirty meters, and the surrounding pressure increased to three standard atmospheres. His feet softened slightly, passing through a layer of water film, entering the air, and then touching the solid ground.
Looking around, Richard saw that he was in a hall. There was a skylight at the top of the hall, leading directly to the well outside. It was obvious that he had entered from here just now - the four walls of the hall were carved with magic patterns, which stabilized the air and kept the air in it. The interior, thus preventing the inflow of well water, is somewhat cleverly designed.
Jasmine and her group arrived at the hall first. Since it was not their first time entering, they were no longer curious. Without taking a few glances, they turned around and walked towards the side of the hall.
With a "squeak" sound, a stone door was pushed open, revealing a deep corridor. A group of people filed in, and Richard followed.
The general direction of the entire corridor is diagonally downward, which is somewhat similar to the corridor that first explored ancient ruins. After walking for most of a day, Richard estimated that they had reached a position nearly a thousand meters below the ground, and finally entered a giant underground space.
Here, the surrounding air is noticeably warmer.
Generally speaking, according to experience on earth, based on the surface, for every kilometer of elevation, the temperature drops by 6°C, and for every kilometer of descent, the temperature rises by 3°C. Now it has dropped one thousand meters, and in Richard's perception, the temperature has risen by at least 10 degrees Celsius.
Is it a geothermal anomaly area? The crust here may be relatively thin... Richard blinked and thought.
Jasmine and the others did not pay attention to this, their eyes fell on the pools of blood on the ground around them.
The strange thing is that there are only blood stains and no bodies.
Witch Su walked up to Jasmine lamely and whispered: "They should have eaten all the corpses."
"Yes." Jasmine responded in agreement with a solemn expression, "Next, be careful to avoid being ambushed."
"yes."
Richard glanced at the conversation between Jasmine and Su, but did not ask out loud, because he believed that Jasmine would definitely tell him the relevant information if necessary. If you don’t tell me, you either don’t need it or it’s not time.
…
The group of people marched deeper into the ruins.
Because Jasmine and her group had visited the ruins before and carried out a relatively careful cleanup operation, which resulted in all the guardian creatures and other dangers in the ruins being eliminated, the group moved very quickly.
In this way, after traveling for more than an hour, Jasmine and her group had completed the journey that had taken several hours.
During the process, Richard noticed that from time to time there would be large blood stains on the ground, which should be left by the creatures killed by Jasmine and her group - the traces of spell damage all around can also prove this.
However, without exception, there were no corpses left, not even corpse fragments. It seemed that they had been cleaned by extremely dedicated cleaners - the situation encountered at the beginning of the ruins was not a single incident.
This made him feel a little curious about the existence of cleaning up all this, but he had the patience not to ask, waiting for Jasmine to take the initiative to inform him.
Next, the group of people traveled several miles in the huge underground space and set foot on a gray-white ground. Jasmine, who took the lead, took the initiative to slow down and led everyone to slow down.
Marching slowly and vigilantly to a raised plateau, Jasmine waved everyone to stop, pointed forward, and spoke to Richard.
"Last time we set foot on the high ground and encountered enemies that we couldn't deal with. This time I invite you to deal with them. You have to be prepared." Jasmine took the initiative.
"What is your so-called enemy?" Richard asked.
"It's a swarm of ants."
"Ant?" After hearing this, Richard was slightly stunned. He was a little surprised by the answer. He thought about it and asked in detail, "What kind of ant?"
"A very scary ant." Jasmine said, her face darkening, obviously bringing back bad memories, "They are relatively large, about the size of half a finger, they are very fast, their body strength is not low, and their teeth are They are relatively sharp and can spray acid - but this is not the reason for their terror - no matter how powerful they are alone, they cannot resist the power of spells. It's just that there are too many of them, almost endless, and they have considerable wisdom and know how to interact with each other. Cooperate among them.
Do you know what it felt like last time when we fought with them? It was like fighting an army. Moreover, there is no possibility of morale collapse in this army. All soldiers will fight to the end and will use all means to try to hurt us.
If they weren't so small, we probably wouldn't have been able to hold on for ten minutes. Even so, we spent a long time with the opponent and found that the opponent's number not only did not decrease at all, but also became more. Our people were injured and exhausted one after another, so we had to retreat. "
"The more we fight, the more ants we fight?" After hearing this, Richard rolled his eyes in his eyes, and a thought flashed out: Could it be... a super-reborn species among strange species
A superborn species living in this ruins
A superborn species serves as the guardian creature of the ruins
This is a little surprising.
Jasmine looked over and asked, "How about it? Do you have the confidence to help us solve it?"
"Let's see and then talk." Richard replied.
"That's fine." Jasmine nodded, took a deep breath, told her men to prepare for battle, stepped forward, followed the steep slope, and reached the gray-white high ground that suddenly rose more than ten meters.
A few seconds after setting foot on the high ground, there was a dense "rustling" sound in the darkness ahead. Richard waved his hand and shot out a few energy balls for lighting. They were suspended in the air. He saw a large area a hundred meters away, covered with what Jasmine said. Full of ants.
These ants were red and black in appearance, like charcoal with sparks in the ashes. They swooped over without saying anything.
Richard noticed that the ants swarming over looked like a swarm and mindless, but they were not chaotic and orderly. A large number of ants are roughly divided into twenty-four clusters. The ants in each cluster travel along a unified route without crossing or interfering with each other.
This was obviously extremely efficient, and the ant's speed was just as Jasmine said - very fast, and in just a few breaths, it reached a place dozens of meters in front of the group of people.
Jasmine shouted: "Attack!"
"boom!"
Jasmine's men quickly took action.
Richard did not hesitate and launched the attack, ready to see whether Ant was real or not.