"call out!"
With a sound, the ice pick sent out by Richard accurately pierced the spider's body and nailed the spider to the roof of the cave. Although the spider was aggressive, its overall strength was very weak, and it was not even the weakest demonized creature. Ordinary people can kill it, let alone Richard.
After successfully killing the spider, Richard turned to look at Waltz and saw that Waltz was still standing stiffly on the ground, motionless.
"Snapped!"
Richard patted the other party's shoulder and asked softly: "Mr. Waltz, are you okay?"
"Uh, it's okay."
"It's okay, then let's keep moving forward."
"good."
After the brief conversation ended, Richard stepped forward, followed by Waltz, but his head was lowered, his eyes were dull, and his movements were stiff, like a corpse that had lost its soul.
After walking for more than ten meters like this, Waltz suddenly seemed to wake up from his sleep. He shouted "Ah" and turned to look at the place where the spider green liquid fell. Seeing that the ground was severely corroded, he said in a panic: "I... I just said Almost killed?”
Richard couldn't help but glance at Waltz and said slowly: "Mr. Waltz, you are worrying too much. The spider just now is indeed different from ordinary spiders. It is aggressive and the liquid it sprays is relatively corrosive.
However, the amount of liquid it sprays out in a single time is too small. Even if it sprays on your face, it will not kill you. At most, it will disfigure you.
If it is sprayed on other places, clothes may be able to block it. If you have the courage to fight, you can kill the opponent just by picking up a stone, so... don't worry too much. "
"Is that so..." Waltz said, still a little uneasy. It was obvious that he had never had this kind of experience in his previous decades of life.
The muscles on his face were twisted, and his expression was constantly struggling. He was wandering between a coward and a warrior. He didn't know whether to turn around and run away, or choose to move forward bravely.
After several seconds of this, Waltz gritted his teeth and made a decision. After looking around, he noticed something and ran to the side. He grabbed a heavy cone-shaped stone and held it firmly in his hand, his eyes becoming sharper little by little.
"call-"
Waltz took a deep breath, looked at Richard and said: "Master Wizard, I was indeed a little scared just now, because I have never fought before. But... I am not afraid now, let us continue walking. Next, really If I encounter any demon, I must let him know how powerful he is."
Richard raised his eyebrows and praised Waltz: "I admire your courage, Mr. Waltz!"
"No, Lord Wizard, this is not courage." Waltz shook his head and corrected seriously, "This is hatred! It is the hatred between me and the devil. I want to avenge my nephew Hua Nuo!"
"Okay." Richard spread his hands, and instead of continuing to struggle with this issue with Waltz, he took a step forward and led him deeper into the mine.
Ten meters, twenty meters, thirty meters...
Fifty meters, one hundred meters, one hundred and fifty meters...
"Ta-ta-ta..."
The footsteps echoed, then disappeared, and Richard and Waltz stopped because they had reached the end of the mine.
On the ground here, there are more than a dozen highly decomposed corpses that have been eaten. It seems that they were killed by some kind of monster and dragged here for food storage, but I don't know why they were abandoned afterwards.
Other than that, there seemed to be nothing - no entrance to the abyss, no murderous demons, not even the acid-spitting spiders I encountered before.
Waltz looked around, obviously unable to accept this situation, and said: "That's all? Is this the end? Nothing?"
In fact, there is still something there, but Waltz can't see it or feel it.
Richard clearly sensed that at the end of the mine, high-intensity corrosive energy was floating in the air. The surrounding ores were constantly increasing the intensity of the corrosive energy. It was obvious that this was a radioactive mine.
His suspicion was confirmed.
This is where the pollution comes from, this is where the demonized beasts come from.
Because the radioactivity here causes some organisms to mutate, they attack people. However, because they were discovered by the Truth Society, they were all killed. Of course, if this place continues to exist, then over time, new demonized beasts will appear. The acid-spitting spider we just encountered is an example.
Then there is no need to explain what to do next.
The radioactive mines here, left as they are, can only become a source of occasional production of killing machines. And if this place is well developed and utilized, and everything goes well, it will become the driving force for his research progress and the source of powerful technology.
Is there any difference between the two
Of course there is.
The biggest difference is that if the latter wants to, the power and efficiency of killing will be tens of thousands of times that of the former.
The former simply creates killing, while the latter will rewrite the definition of killing, and can even rewrite the definitions of many words, such as what is powerful, what is invincible, and what is terrifying!
"call-"
Richard looked around, took a deep breath, tried to suppress his excitement, looked at Waltz and said: "Mr. Waltz, let's go out and get out of here first."
"Are you leaving now?" Waltz still couldn't accept everything at present. He finally mustered up the courage to prepare to fight the devil, but the reality told him that there was nothing and it was just a joke.
Richard said to Waltz: "If you don't leave, why stay here? Do you want to spend the night? Do you think the smell of rotting corpses next to it smells good?"
After listening to Richard's words, Waltz turned to look at the corpses piled next to him. His sense of smell had been somewhat weakened due to high tension before, but now that he was reminded by Richard, his sense of smell returned to normal. He immediately felt an extremely pungent stench pouring into his nose, making him unable to help but feel the urge to gag.
"I-"
Waltz made a sound of retching, his face changed, and he immediately stopped insisting and followed Richard out of the mine obediently.
…
A few minutes later.
Richard and Waltz left the mine and appeared in the open space of the mine outside.
Waltz looked at the entrance of the mine, his expression still a little complicated. After looking for a while, he suddenly thought of something. He turned to look at Richard and asked: "Master Wizard, you promised before that if I take you here, everything goes well." , you will help me get out of my current predicament, right?"
"Yes." Richard nodded, but you didn't deny it.
"So, do your words still count now?" Waltz asked, looking into Richard's eyes.
"Of course, I always keep my promises." Richard responded softly.
"Then how are you going to help me?" Waltz asked.
"It's very simple. I have to do one thing, and that is to buy your mine." Richard said.
"Buy it?" Waltz was surprised, then frowned, "What are you buying it for?"
Richard glanced at Waltz, looked around the mine and said softly: "Mr. Waltz, you have always felt guilty about the death of your nephew Hua Nuo, right, so you want to take revenge. Then I tell you, I will buy this mine as a What. What I want to do is to help you avenge your nephew Huanuo. I am ready to bring down this entire mountain... "
"Um?"
"It's all flattened!"