Chapter 1067 Mysterious Traces

Under the guardianship of the "Mage's Loyal Dog", Joan, Hyrule, Audrey, Holden and Bellin spent their first night in the "Blood Tundra" safely.

Waking up the next morning, the young explorers put away their tents, washed and ate, packed their bags, and continued on their way.

The dense blood moss spread under their feet, as if extending to the end of the underground world. Under the illumination of the miner's lamp, the blood moss glowed with a hazy phosphorescence. Above the sea of ​​blood.

Every time the soles of the boots stepped on the fluffy bloody moss, there would be a muffled sound of "poof", followed by a cloud of spores that slowly spread in the air.

In order to avoid inhaling the spores that irritate the respiratory tract, everyone put on "gas masks" and had no intention of talking, just wanting to pass through this beautiful and terrifying wilderness as soon as possible.

However, less than an hour after walking out, the abnormal scene ahead forced the five young explorers to stop.

Joan and the others have not found the footprints left by the predecessors, let alone the ready-made road.

Judging from the real-time map generated by the "navigation compass", they are likely to be the first human pioneers to set foot on this strange land.

However, not far away, a straight path suddenly appeared in the field in front of him, about six or seven feet wide, extending forward to the end of the darkness, and he did not know where it led.

Joan stopped and leaned over to examine the road that appeared out of nowhere.

After a little observation, it was found that the road surface was smooth and flat, with the sand layer exposed, and the blood moss that had grown on it had been eradicated cleanly, as if it had been carefully cleaned.

"Who did this?" The dwarf mage's surprised voice echoed over the dark field.

"This is exactly my problem." Audrey frowned slightly, "It seems that there is not only blood moss on the blood tundra, we have to be more careful."

"Look this way!" Holden turned to greet his companions, with excitement in his voice.

Joan ran over quickly, and at the beginning of this weird path, Holden found a burrow under a clump of tall mushrooms.

The bloody moss around the cave was also cleaned up, and the edge of the cave was very smooth, as if creatures often crawled in and out.

Qiao An inspected it visually. The diameter of the hole is seven feet wide, and the inner diameter of the depth is relatively narrow, but it is not less than five feet wide, which is exactly equivalent to the width of the road extending from the hole.

"In this way, the burrow may be a lair of some kind of large creature, such as a monitor lizard or a python."

Joan hid at the entrance of the cave and slowly speculated.

"The huge reptiles living in the burrows are likely to feed on blood moss. Wherever they crawled, they gnawed away the blood moss under their feet. path of."

"It's possible, but there's an inappropriate detail."

Holding a bundle of ropes with weights in his hand, Holden frowned and protested.

"Just now I used a sling to probe the hole. First of all, I can confirm that there is no living thing in the hole. Secondly, the hole is not deep, only less than 20 feet."

"It can be seen from this that the creature living in the cave is unlikely to exceed 20 feet in length and about 5 feet in width. It is indeed a giant worm, but the blood moss it can hold in its stomach is limited after all. "

Standing up, Holden turned and pointed to the path leading out of the hole.

"This worm path is really too long. If you collect all the blood moss that grew on the road, the weight is amazing. I don't think a giant worm can swallow so much blood moss without leaving it on the road. No trace of excretion."

Joan nodded thoughtfully.

The doubts pointed out by Holden are indeed worth pondering.

To explain this, the most likely answer is that there are far more giant worms living on the blood tundra than the one in the cave.

Many giant worms hide underground in the tundra, connecting each other's nests through underground tunnels, and sharing several exits.

The "worm road" you discovered is likely to be a "public road" built by many giant insects.

Of course, this is just an unfounded conjecture. In fact, there are other hypotheses that can also explain the abnormal signs on the blood tundra.

Joan turned to look at the entrance of the cave, feeling a strong urge to go in and find out.

Before he could make up his mind, Belling rolled up his sleeves, slapped "Feather Fall" on his chest, and was about to jump into the hole.

"Wait!" Joan grabbed the little dwarf, "There may be danger down there."

"But there may be treasures!" Belling's eyes sparkled with excitement.

Qiao An shook his head speechlessly, thinking, it's really not easy for this guy who keeps dying to grow up to such a big size!

"Don't worry, I'll send a spy to go down and take a look. If there is any danger, you can take precautions in advance."

Joan chanted a mantra, turned the little finger of his left hand into a "blood mosquito", and ordered this little spy to fly into the cave to investigate.

"Wow! Brother Joan, what kind of spell did you cast just now? It's so interesting! Can you lend me a copy?"

Belling stared at the blood mosquito with curiosity.

"Yes, yes, but if the blood mosquito dies, the caster himself will also suffer backlash. He can no longer cast this spell within the same day, and the lost little finger will not recover until the next day."

"Mr. Belling, you can't be so impulsive in the future. If there is danger in the cave, it will be too late to regret."

"Hehe~ I know, I know! I'll just pay more attention in the future." The little dwarf scratched his head with a smile.

Qiao An secretly sighed, trying to persuade him, but he didn't know how much this daring dwarf mage listened to.

At this time, the blood mosquito had already descended to the bottom of the cave. Qiao An switched his perspective to the blood mosquito, turned a pair of compound eyes with "dark vision", and looked around.

The bottom of the cave is very spacious, the walls and the surface of the cave are smooth, and there are no horizontal tunnels around.

The scene in front of him proved that Joan's guess about the social community of giant worms was probably wrong.

Judging from the situation at the bottom of the cave, this kind of creature is more likely to be used to living alone, or several couples form a family and share the cave, rather than true social insects like ant colonies, which dig a maze of tunnels in the ground and separate each nest. connect them.

Sometimes it is more valuable to falsify a conjecture than to prove it.

So if you make a mistake, you are wrong, and Joan doesn't feel lost, and continues to observe the situation in the cave.

There is no strong odor in the cave, and no feces-like substances were found. It seems that the cave owner is quite clean, at least he knows not to defecate anywhere where he sleeps.

In the deepest part of the cave, Joan was pleasantly surprised to find a large pile of blood moss, which was fixed together by some kind of glue-like substance, and the adhesion was compressed very tightly, forming a huge basin-shaped nest!