Chapter 806 "Egg"
"It seems that the worm really regards this place as its old nest." After the hanging basket fell, Agatha held the luminous magic stone and looked around, frowning, "Find Fran Yet?"
"Miss Fran is not here." Lightning had already inspected it. "The Blackstone Tower seems to be stuck in the middle of the cave, and there is a gap on each side. Could it be that she fell on the tower and rolled down from the side?"
The two ends of the rhombus-shaped stone tower fit right into the rock wall, like a bridge built in a deep pit, and no one knew how the other party did it. As for the tentacle devil hiding at the bottom of the tower, as well as the hundred-eyed devil, they had disappeared.
"This thing doesn't affect my ability to use it," Nightingale emerged from the mist.
"But you can't penetrate it like you can through a wall, can you?" Agatha squatted down and summoned a piece of solid ice to stab at the Blackstone Tower. The ice cone shattered in response, but the surface of the stone tower was unharmed. It is said that it was made of the God's Stone of Retaliation, although it no longer interferes with the magic power in a large area like the God Stone Prism, it can still isolate the magic power itself."
"It's not manufacturing, but growing," Elena corrected in a deep voice, "The demon of corruption can change the effect of the God Stone vein and promote it to grow into an obelisk, but only the one born under the red moon has the ability to make The ability of the red mist, and the others are just to keep the red mist from dissipating so quickly. This is still the top secret in the Federation era, but after the destruction of Taquila, Lady Eleanor told us all of this."
"Why didn't you say it earlier?" Nightingale said displeased.
"You didn't tell me that there will be a devil's spire here," Elena retorted, "There are so many things that can affect magic power, how could I guess it's something like this."
"We have to keep going down," Lightning flew between the two, interrupting their confrontation, "There is still a distance from the bottom of the cave, I just tried to fly down for a short distance, and I could hear the faint sound of running water There may be a dark river below here, if Miss Fulan really fell from both sides of the stone tower, she might still be able to survive."
"Really?" Elena's voice cheered up, "Could it be because of the dark river that Sylvie didn't find Fran's trace?
"Very likely," Agatha nodded, "Most of the sight of the magic eye is blocked by this stone tower, so she said she couldn't see the ground, and if Fran was washed away by the water, she wouldn't be able to find it either." The magic power is shining." She turned to Lightning and said, "You first fly up and tell Wendy about our situation, and ask her to ask Maggie to send some of the God's Punishment Witches down... and the soldiers of the First Army, let them go Set up a checkpoint here, and we will continue to explore down."
"Well, leave it to me." The little girl nodded.
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With the gondola going up and down, and the auxiliary transportation of the magic ark, they soon gathered enough people.
Lightning took advantage of this time to complete the inspection of the space below the Blackstone Tower. As she expected, the vertical pit wall did not last long before gradually turning to a slope, and the air became more and more humid. After descending thirty to forty meters, a wide underground river appeared in front of her eyes.
The snow water flowing along the wall of the cave converges into a torrent of water here, and pours down from the entrance of the cave, forming a waterfall. When approaching it, the little girl can feel the cold air rushing towards her face.
Due to sufficient water, the bottom of the deep pit is covered with various mosses and mushrooms. Some of the plants emit a cold blue light, illuminating the surrounding ground. Even without the glowing magic stone, the outline of the cave can be vaguely seen. ; plus those flying fireflies, the whole underground is like another world.
When the witch and the Taquila remnants took the ark and fell to the bottom of the cave, they were all attracted by the sight in front of them.
"It would be great if these glowing fruits could be planted in Neverwinter," Nightingale sighed. "In that way, everyone can see the streets and alleys clearly at night."
"Let's take some back and plant them when the time comes?" Lightning rubbed his hands excitedly. Discovering and cultivating novel species is also one of the things that explorers often do, such as sugar cane and corn, which are picked by fjord explorers from other small islands Come back, step by step to breed into what it is today. I don’t know if these huge mushrooms and the luminous "pu leaf fruit" will be as sweet as the bird's kiss mushroom?
"Let's finish the business first." Agatha counted the number of people, "Maggie, you stay here and help the First Army establish a checkpoint here. We will continue to move forward along the dark river. If Fran is not found after more than two kilometers, Let’s pitch camp for now.”
No one expressed any objection. Lightning, Nightingale, and Agatha all had the ability to escape and protect themselves. The ten God's Punishment Witches headed by Elena were all very skilled. It is the most elite combination in the united front.
After entering the dark river karst cave, the sound of the water flow became extremely loud, as if it was roaring close to the ear. Lightning had to get closer to hear what everyone was saying clearly.
"Can devouring worms swim in water?" Agatha asked.
"No one has tried this before," Elena shook her head, "but the worm's body is extremely large, I think even if she is pushed forward by the water, she shouldn't be too far away from the deep pit."
"Can you tell where this river comes from and which direction it goes?" Another God's Punishment Witch asked. The little girl remembered that her name seemed to be Zoe.
"If I remember correctly, it is facing the direction we entered the snow mountain," Nightingale answered her. "That is to say, it should come from the underground water vein in the western region, leading to the southern hilly area."
Lightning couldn't help being a little strange. It's not surprising that His Majesty's territory is rich in groundwater resources, but leading to the southern end? There is not a decent river over there, so where did all the water go?
Suddenly, she saw something trembling on the stone wall not far away.
"Wait, there seems to be movement ahead!"
Following her warning, everyone stopped immediately and drew their weapons.
"There is no magical reaction," Nightingale quickly confirmed, "but there is indeed something hidden there..." She paused, and seemed to take two steps closer, "It looks like a semicircular...egg? "
"What?" Agatha was slightly taken aback.
"Since it doesn't have magic power, it doesn't pose a threat to us," Elena waved to the God's Punishment Witch beside her, "Come with me."
There was no accident during the encirclement process. When Lightning looked at the trembling thing at close range, he couldn't help frowning.
I saw a group of gray skin sticking to the cave wall. At first glance, it looked no different from the surrounding rocks, but when she lifted the luminous magic stone close to the skin, she could see that it was covered with many pieces of paper. The pores, in conjunction with the ups and downs of the skin, seem to be breathing.
"Damn... what the hell is this," Elena spat, "it's really disgusting."
"If it's really an egg, how big is the mother body that gave birth to it?" Lightning gestured to the area of the lower skin, and found that it was about three meters long and wide, and the bulging part in the center could almost fit a full-grown cow.
"No, this shape..." Zoe suddenly took a breath, she pulled out her long sword, pierced into the skin fiercely, and then raised it
A sharp cry sounded immediately, a large amount of mucus sprayed out from the broken "egg", and then a black shadow slid out from the bulging part, and collapsed limply to the ground.
Lightning discovered that it was a madman.