Recalling the time when he passed through the cave passage, there were many fish eggs on both sides of the rock wall. If it is roughly estimated, there are probably several thousand pieces. With such a large number, even Zero couldn't help frowning. For him who has stepped into the eleventh step, no matter how many such creatures are, they are still cannon fodder. But it wasn't like that for other people. There were too many of these little mermaids, and they were ferocious by nature. Like the hunter before, they were eaten up as soon as they were caught.
Coupled with the fact that the mermaids in the water are extremely fast, the situation is still unfavorable for them overall. It's just that there are such dangerous fish eggs on both sides of the passage, why didn't Hei Xiao remind them before
The sound of the water intensified, and Zero didn't have the time to study further. He used his lights to make a signal in the water for the others to retreat quickly. And the Destiny Break he played before was enough to alert Jin and the others. Zero punched out into the depths of the cave, and the front of the fist immediately pulled out a cone-shaped water column and blasted it towards the attacking fish. The constantly rotating water column caused the fish school to be in chaos, and Ling took the opportunity to tread water and swim far away.
Several punches were thrown out occasionally, and each punch carried the power of a reloaded warhead. Every time a ball of water like a shell is blasted out, the fish are unable to bite and chase. At this time, Jin and the others had already swam out of the exit. Everyone couldn't help taking a deep breath when they floated to the surface. Jin swept around with the lamppost in his hand. There was still a lake here, but the area was far smaller than the lake at the entrance.
At least, where the beam of light reaches, Jin has seen land. He immediately pointed in which direction: "Go ashore first."
"Damn it, what's behind it." Alice glanced back, and the corpse of the mermaid had already floated up. Looking at these kitten-sized monsters with baby faces, she was filled with disgust.
After a quick swim, the group went ashore one after another. Zero followed them up, and immediately pointed to the lake on the shore and said, "Alice, is there a way to freeze this place?"
Alice nodded, squatted down on the shore, and pressed the lake surface with her palms to release the freezing air. At this time, the mermaid group had already chased out of the cave, so countless bubbles appeared on one side of the lake like boiling water. Jin and the others turned on the lights, only to see strange faces appearing on the lake. Those ugly baby faces, with four eyes and sharp teeth, are indescribably weird.
Attracted by the light, these little mermaids immediately swam towards the shore. Their speed on the water surface was surprisingly fast, almost surpassing galloping horses, and they actually pulled up waves on the lake. A few mermaids would even jump out of the lake, baring their teeth and claws towards the crowd. Suddenly, black light flashed several times, and they turned into pieces in the air and fell down.
Ye Liu moved her fingers and said, "These things are disgusting."
It's rare for a naturally dull girl to express her likes and dislikes, but it's a pity that everyone is staring at the lake now, and even the nervous Haiwei clenched her fists nervously. Alice continued to release freezing air, and a large area of the lake on the shore was frozen, and then the frost continued to spread to the outside, and the lake water was frozen into solid ice. The forwards of the school of fish swam too fast, many of them collided with the ice made by Alice, and were either stunned or bounced onto the ice.
But once out of the water, these mermaids kept opening their mouths to breathe like ordinary fish, struggling desperately. The lucky ones slipped into the water again, and the unlucky ones lost their breath on the ice. Mermaids who slip into the water soon find their luck running out. The frost was still spreading, and quickly frozen them in the ice cubes that fell into the water.
After ten minutes of continuous release, Alice stood up with a trace of fatigue on her face. However, looking at the entire lake, at least one-third of the place has become solid ice. The ice layer on the shore of the lake is the thickest, with an exaggerated thickness of three meters. Even if the mermaid bites with its teeth, it is not easy to drill up from such a place.
What's more, they can't go ashore yet, which is different from the corpses of the same kind that Zero and the others saw in front of the crack in the ground. From this point of view, these mermaids are currently only juveniles, and have not yet evolved organs that can survive on land. Blocked by ice and rocks, schools of fish swim nearby, but cannot find a way to get close. It didn't take long for them to kill each other in the water, which shows how fierce these things are.
Looking at the surface of the lake that seemed to be boiling, Ling shook his head and signaled everyone to rest on the shore first. He took out the sketch given by Hei Xiao and put it on the ground. From the light, it can be seen that the route that Hei Xiao originally pointed out can continue to swim forward after entering this area. On the other side of the lake, there is a place called Devil's Throat, which is a natural cave.
After passing through the Devil's Throat, you will see the wall of the abyss indicated on the map. That is another huge ground fissure, more than ten kilometers long, but only about 100 meters wide. As for the depth, since it can be called an abyss, it is impossible to climb up after falling. On both sides of the abyss wall, the Shadow Clan people installed cable bridges to travel between them. After passing through the abyss wall, they almost touched the side of the Titan Hall.
It's a pity that now the entire lake is covered with little mermaids, Hei Xiao's route must continue, as long as it is not so easy.
"What should I do?" Jin also looked at the topographical map, and then compared the current situation. As long as you are not blind, you will know that the original route is already difficult to follow.
Zero looked around and said, "Take a rest first, and then look for other passages. There are many underground caves in this area, and there may be other passages leading to the wall of the abyss."
"It has to be like this."
After a short rest, the team set off. The shore of the lake on which they stood was very wide. Due to the darkness under the ground, Zero and the others didn't notice it at first, until they turned on the searchlight and walked forward, only to find that the shore of the lake continued to extend, with occasional ups and downs, but the area was too large. If it weren't for being underground, I would have thought it was on some plain.
If you stay in the dark for too long, you will lose your sense of direction. The team seems to be moving in one direction, but after walking for a long time, it is hard to guarantee whether it will go astray. At this time, the sound of murlocs killing by the lake could no longer be heard, and Zero estimated that they should leave some distance away. It was dark all around, and it was dangerous to walk around like this, so Kim fired a flare.
Flares swayed into the sky, shining brightly over the team. With the light, Ling saw something from a distance.
"Look over there." Zero went with his fingers.
Everyone looked in the direction of his finger, and there were some unusual silhouettes of shadows just over two hundred meters away. It looks like some buildings, because their outlines are very regular, and they don't seem to be naturally formed things. In addition, under the light of the flares, some strange figures appeared, as well as the reflections of the pupils of some creatures.
This shows that the world under the ground is not dead and silent.
The light of the flares was weakening, and after determining the direction, Zero and the others rushed towards the place where the outline of the building appeared at full speed. Finally, before the flares disappeared completely, they reached their destination. Obviously, this is a man-made building complex. Around this area, there are stone cones extending obliquely. Each stone cone is pointed at the front and thick at the back, so densely packed together, it looks like a sea urchin.
The stone cones are also not formed naturally. It can be seen that they are shaped with some shells mixed with sand and stone. Some adult murloc corpses were also seen hanging on some sharp stone vertebrae. Looking at these things, Jin frowned and said, "These are fortifications?"
Zero nodded, obviously, these stone cones were fortifications, used to defend against the attacks of the adult murlocs. But who built the fortifications is a question. Suddenly, Hai Wei called out: "I found the entrance."
The entrance is on the left side of the fortifications, which is a bunker opened from under the fortifications. The outer wall of the dark fort has collapsed, the mud and rocks have fallen off, and there are several humanoid corpses inside. Only the skeleton remains of the corpse, which is no different from human beings in terms of appearance and structure. But when Zero flicked the bones with his fingers, he found that the bones sounded like they were empty inside. A leg bone scattered on the ground was cut off by something. It is not difficult to see from the cross-section of the broken bone that the inside of the bone has a structure similar to a honeycomb. This is a kind of lightweight skeleton. It can be imagined that these corpses were all creatures that were good at speed before they were alive.
"These are probably Shadow Clan people." Zero stood up: "There are no Shadow Clan people who left the ground."
The team continued to move forward, and there was a tunnel at the end of the dark fort. The tunnel was so narrow that only one person could pass through it. The bones of Shadow Clan people and adult murlocs were seen from time to time in the tunnel, and there were countless sword marks and sword marks on both sides. It can be imagined that a fierce offensive and defensive battle took place here at that time. It should be that the murlocs broke through this dark fort, trying to break into the inner area of the Shadow Clan through the tunnel.
Coming out of the tunnel is a place similar to an armory. When Zero climbed out, he saw many simple harpoons scattered on the ground, as well as many rough stone knives and the like. There are so many bones here that it can be described as piled up like a mountain. Among the bones, the murloc remains are the most numerous. There are a lot of them, but somehow they were blocked near the exit by the Shadow Clan people, so a hill of corpses piled up here.
Zero and the others almost crawled out of the murloc corpses and fell to the ground. Under the light, the ground nearby has been attacked by high heat, and the entire land has been petrified, like a piece of black glass. In other words, at that time, the Shadow Clan people used some kind of ability or weapon that could generate high temperature to cut off the incoming murloc army here.
But there are also many murloc corpses appearing far away from the corpse mountain. Similarly, the corpses of Shadow Clan people can already be seen at the exit of the warehouse. Although the attack at that time was effective, I am afraid that many murlocs managed to break out of the encirclement.
After coming out of the warehouse, the lights were turned off, and what everyone saw were some compact, low man-made buildings. The building is very rough and simple. But the material is strong, the passages between buildings are narrow and changeable, and its complexity is no less than that of human bases.
Jin scratched his head and said, "What place is this, the Shadow Clan's village?"
Zero looked around, and in almost any corner, he would see the corpses of murlocs or Shadow Clan people. He shook his head and said, "It's not like a village, don't you think, it's more like a forward base?"
"Advance base?"
"Didn't Hei Xiao say that there are many alien species underground that have been mutated by the influence of the God of Darkness. Those murlocs are probably one of them, and they are of a huge race. And this is the front line where the Shadow Clan fights against them." .”
In the dark, it used its powerful forelimbs to press a fat mutant mole to the ground. These underground moles are the size of puppies and are the end of the subterranean chain. But these guys are very cunning, and they usually hide deep in crypts that are hard to find. But this is not difficult for it, in decades of evolution, its group has evolved into one of the top hunters in the underground biological chain.
Its sense of smell is very sensitive, and it can smell the body odor of moles within a kilometer. When it finds the nest of these things, it will continue to step on the ground with its strong anti-joint hind legs, thus making various noises. Moles are timid creatures that live in burrows and are very alert. When you hear the abnormal noise, you will poke your head out of the crypt to look around, and this is the time for the hunter to hunt.
That's how the mole got there, and it opened its mouth, a mouthpart with two layers of sharp teeth, inside and out. And the crocodile-like jaw structure makes it have nearly tons of bite force. So one bite down, the mole is like a soft bread. After eating the mole in two or three bites, it became a little lazy and wanted to go back to the nest to sleep.
There is where it was born, humid and warm. But when it was about to go back, it seemed to smell something. Sniff it hard, it smells like blood. This taste is very sweet, even better than its favorite food, the mole. It couldn't refuse the attraction of this taste, and started to run with two powerful hind limbs. Even though the terrain here was complicated, it was able to cross any obstacle.
Just as it rushed out of an alley, it suddenly felt a cold sensation in several parts of its body. It was as if cold outside air had suddenly entered its burning body, and all sense of it was gone. After several black silk threads connected and flashed on its body several times, its body was instantly dismembered into several sections. When the pieces of the body fell to the ground, the blood and internal organs slid out and flowed all over the floor.
Seeing the beast being dismembered into pieces, he said with zero headache: "Ye Liu, can't you just stun it? Or let it leave a whole body."
Yeliu tilted her head and looked at Ling, as if she couldn't understand that they were going to kill these guys anyway. What's the difference between leaving a whole body and dismembering it
Looking at the pile of fragments on the ground, it was already difficult to put this strange beast back together. When they left the warehouse and went deep into the base, they found that the base had been occupied by another creature. Leah conducted a mental scan on the advance base, and found a hall with bio-energy reactions inside. Zero led the team to the hall. Since the Shadow Clan people were able to come to this place close to the underground exit to establish a forward base, it meant that there were other passages to the Titan Hall. Logically speaking, since wisdom has been developed, the Shadow Clan people should leave records or something.
This is the instinct of intelligent life to inherit knowledge, and there is zero hope to find relevant records and find other passages leading to the Hall of Titans. Just as he entered the base, he was attacked by strange beasts. And these few attacks, before these things rushed to the front, they were dismembered by Yeliu, making it impossible for Ling to understand what these things were.
You must know how many strange and dangerous creatures they encountered on their way to the Titan Hall. It is always good to know more about the structure of underground creatures, but Yeliu's attack is so fierce that there is basically no possibility of keeping alive, which makes Ling a little distressed. He decided to come by himself next time, when there was a muffled sound, he followed Haiwei and said with a smile, "Head, what did I find?"
As soon as she flicked her hand, she threw over the beast that was about the size of Zero's wolf Gale that was placed in Hakhara. The head of this strange beast sank deeply, and it seemed that it was killed by Haiwei with blunt force. But at least, it retains an intact body.
Jin and Alice turned off the lights, and an underground creature like a monitor lizard appeared in everyone's eyes. It is said to be a monitor lizard, but it only looks like it. But many major parts of the body have changed, such as the hind limbs have evolved into an anti-joint structure, which allows them to run upright like a velociraptor.
The head is long and big, and the eyes have degenerated and are almost invisible due to the long-term living underground. The whole body of this strange beast is covered by a hard bone carapace, which replaces the original scales, which can effectively control the leakage of body temperature, and has a stronger defense. Regardless of the forelimbs or hind limbs, its claws are like a handful of sharp nails, capable of tearing apart many things.
This guy's tail is even more frightening. It wraps the carapace at the end, and there are sharp bone knives on the outer layer, while the end of the tail is a cone-shaped sharp bone spur. If this thing is pierced into the body, it will leave a gap as big as the mouth of a bowl, and it will cause a huge trauma of bleeding to the prey.
Zero accidentally pressed a tendon in the jaw while examining its head. Suddenly the mouth of the strange beast opened, and a long tongue ejected from it. The end of the tongue struck the wall of a nearby building, leaving a gap that looked like a bullet hole. And there is a difference of more than one meter from the mouth of the strange beast to the wall of the building, which shows how long the tongue is suddenly. There is a cross-shaped opening at the end of the tongue. When you separate it with the gravel from the nearby ground, you can see that it is full of fleshy teeth, and the tongue is hollow.
If this thing is allowed to hit into the living body, while causing huge impact damage, the tongue can still stay in the living body to suck flesh and blood, causing even greater damage. All in all, this is a hunter who only stands at the top of the biological chain, and it is simply a perfect killing machine.
"It smells like a biological weapon," Jin said.
Zero nodded in agreement.
He stood up, looked towards the direction of the hall and said, "There is still a nest of such things waiting for us, everyone, get ready to fight."
"Cleaning up pests is my favorite." Jin smiled. Being in the ground, the ability user of the earth element gets a lot of bonus. If he fights in such an environment, he can even overwhelm Alice, who has always been stronger than him.
"These are big pests." Zero said, looking at the corpse of a strange beast that was about the size of a calf on the ground.