"It's not a heretic," Hao Ren roughly guessed what happened here based on the situation in the camp, "it should be a stone giant..."
"Stone Giant?" The bearded man was surprised, "What?"
At this time, Becky caught up from behind. She remembered that the temple orb had been missing for several months, and the four ascetic monks were still unclear about the situation in their hometown in the past few months, so she took the initiative to explain: "That happened after you disappeared. , about two months ago, when we crossed the Longji Mountains, we encountered a huge monster... "
Becky talked about the situation of the stone giant in a few words, and mentioned the chaos in the whole Holletta Kingdom after the disappearance of the orb. The bearded face, which was always dull, finally had another expression. He frowned and subconsciously put his hands on the cloth bag at his waist: "Monsters appeared in the Dragon's Back Mountain Range, and they wanted to break into the holy lake? Could it be related to the departure of the Holy Temple Orb from this world?"
Hao Ren casually threw a broken piece of wood on the ground and looked up at the bearded man: "At first we thought the same way, we thought that the Orb of the Temple might be some kind of suppressive thing, and after leaving the dream plane, it led to the Dragon's Back Mountain Range. The ancient monsters sealed inside have been revived, but now it seems that this guess is not very reliable... "
The data terminal quietly explained next to it: "That thing is just a database."
The group is very worried about the situation in Layton Town, which is the only way from the Dragon's Back Mountains to the Blood Lake. The outpost in front of them is destroyed, and Layton Town may not be immune to disaster. But according to the status of the outpost, the attack should have happened several days ago, and it doesn't make much sense to rush to Layton Town earlier or later, so Hao Ren decided to look for any clues here first, maybe use it in the future. get on.
As soon as Lily heard the words "find clues", her racial instincts burned and couldn't be suppressed. She lowered her head and ran around the entire camp. Hao Ren knew that Lily was reliable in this kind of thing, so he followed her blindly. shake. I saw Lily digging a hole and grabbing a wall, and turned the nearest few houses upside down in a short while. Finally, she lay on the ground and sniffed and listened for a long time before she finally locked a place. Immediately waving his paws and digging down vigorously, he could almost bury himself in it in a short while. Vivian looked at it from the side and couldn't bear it, so she couldn't help but say: "I let you find things, but didn't let you bury your bones..."
"Don't make trouble, I'm looking for clues," Lily's tail swayed on the edge of the pit, but the voice came from the bottom of the pit, "Didn't you find that although there are bloodstains in this camp, there are no corpses? According to the scene Terrible. I don't think there was an orderly evacuation of the camp - even the walls were smashed, it was a fiasco."
Hao Ren thought that Lily was just digging a hole, but he didn't expect that the girl could actually analyze something. He looked around and immediately felt that what Lily said made sense: "That's right... where did the corpse go... By the way, what are you talking about?" What are you digging?"
Lily didn't raise her head, and her voice became lower and lower: "It's not digging... I seemed to hear something moving down here just now..."
Huskies are very good at digging holes. Hao Ren watched the girl's body descending at a speed visible to the naked eye. There were only piles of broken stones being thrown out of the hole. By the time he realized it, he had been crushed Buried to the knees. He looked down at the gravel, with a strange expression on his face: "...this whole highland is made of stone..."
Vivienne was thinking about another thought that was not without malice: "What do you think if I blow up a gust of wind and bury her in it?"
Hao Ren: "You two can't have a peaceful day?!"
Hao Ren and Vivian were chatting away. All of a sudden, Lily heard a short exclamation from the bottom of the pit: "Ah!"
Immediately afterwards, the sound of falling gravel and heavy objects came from below. When I looked down again, Lily's figure had completely disappeared into a big black hole. Hao Ren looked nervously at the entrance of the cave: "Lily? What's going on down here?"
A burst of red light suddenly lit up in the depths of the dark cave, and Lily's voice came up immediately: "There is a very deep cave below here! It's a tunnel!"
Others gathered around when they heard the commotion. They first marveled at Lily's ability to make holes, and then the eyes of several people fell on Betsy at the same time. Nangong Wuyue pointed to the cave: "Is there a cellar under this camp?"
Becky shrugged: "How do I know, I'm just a mercenary, not a soldier here—but logically speaking, there shouldn't be cellars or tunnels down here, this is just a small station for sentry, and there are many people around here." It’s a beach with unstable strata, who can afford to dig tunnels under here.”
Then Becky stepped on the ground again: "Not to mention that the entire camp is built on a huge rock."
Hao Ren couldn't help but think of the last time he went into a tunnel. The experience of being chased and beaten by hundreds of tin cans when he entered the underground palace in England was still fresh in his memory. Tunnels didn't leave a good impression on him. Vivienne also smacked her lips: "Why do all the tricks have something to do with underground holes?"
At this time, Lily shouted again from below: "Hey! Are you going to get down? If no one comes down, I will jump up. Make room for the hole..."
Hao Ren shook his head: "Wait a minute! Let's go down now!"
A group of people filed in. Fortunately, none of the people present were ordinary people. Lily made fire lighting below again, and it is not difficult to jump into this deep hole. After jumping down, Hao Ren could see clearly what lighting Lily was using: she summoned her ice and fire claws, and now she is using the blazing flame claw blade as a torch. Don't tell me, this thing is really bright. Even Vivian couldn't help admiring: "The joy of fire is very useful..."
Lily gritted her teeth: "I'll be in a hurry with you if you mention this name again!"
The bearded man looked around, touched the smooth stone wall and muttered: "It was opened by magic."
Only then did Hao Ren pay attention to the surrounding environment. He found that the tunnel Lily had dug was really famous: the entire tunnel was not supported by any stone or wood, and the walls of the pit were one piece. It's like being drilled out of a whole boulder. If he was on Earth, he would suspect that this was a masterpiece of a small shield machine, but here, according to the bearded man, this seems to be the effect of magic
Becky is also considered a half mage, she touched the wall thoughtfully: "To be able to open a tunnel of this scale, at least a person of the magister level, and the tunnel itself is solidified for a long time, which requires more strength Well, a small outpost in the district can't use this kind of battle."
"There seems to be a bit of blood here." Vivienne frowned, she is very sensitive to blood, so that her "sense of smell" in this area is comparable to that of Lily, "It's strange, there are no corpses here... how come the blood smell of?"
This weird and dark tunnel stretched far away on both sides. Hao Ren closed his eyes and sensed it carefully. He noticed a breeze coming from a certain direction, so he pointed to that direction: "Look here first. See where it goes."
There was no objection from everyone, so Lily was happy holding a torch... Well, don't mention this name, let's just pretend that she is holding a torch and leading the way. A group of people walked down the tunnel led by huskies. Everyone's nerves were tense. At first, Hao Ren thought it was just a simple monster attack, but the underground road was shaped by magic and had " The fresh" bloody tunnel pointed the clues to humans. He felt that something was wrong with this situation, and he didn't know if it was caused by the sixth sense. He instinctively thought that this matter had something to do with the blood lake.
If it has something to do with the blood lake, it is very likely to be related to the "goddess". The legend of the world's death has always been a big shadow in Hao Ren's heart. He feels that this legend has a lot to do with the dream plane and the strange state of the surface world. , so as long as it is something that has nothing to do with it, it is difficult for him to put it aside.
However, after walking all the way in the tunnel, the people encountered nothing. They finally found that the trend of the tunnel was gradually upward, and the rock shell shell formed by magic stopped abruptly when it was about to touch the ground, and a layer of loose debris The stone is blocked at the exit of the tunnel, and you can feel a very fresh wind blowing in from the cracks in the stone. Lily dug up this layer of stones three times, five times, two times, and everyone drilled out to find that the sky was full of stars: this is back to the ground.
Hao Ren looked back and found that the outpost by the lake had disappeared somewhere. It seemed that he had run a long way underground.
"This is the end?" Lily muttered a little dejectedly, "I thought I could find some big conspiracy."
"What are you expecting?" Vivienne squinted at Lily, "Isn't it safe?"
Lily puffed her cheeks: "It's boring, even if a group of little monsters come out for me to fight at this time, it's fine, otherwise I don't feel like exploring at all."
As soon as Lili finished speaking, Hao Ren suddenly heard heavy footsteps coming from the twisted forest not far away!
Vivian slapped Lily on the head: "You crow mouth!" (to be continued~^~)