Chapter 1798 Tracking Down the Suspect (Ⅱ)

The 5th-level spell "Plague Swarm" can also be used to summon bats.

1,500 bats gathered into a gray whirlwind, completely covering Joan.

When Jia Lu and the guards in the warehouse noticed the invasion of bats, they all changed their expressions and instinctively drew out their sabers.

"Don't worry, these bats were summoned by me to assist in the investigation."

Joan softly comforted the stone-blind barbarian warriors who were too nervous.

Seeing that Jialu and the others calmed down, Joan withdrew his gaze and used the "Dividing Mystery Technique" to tear his consciousness in half. The main consciousness established a "mythical link" with the bat cluster, and the secondary consciousness focused on casting the second ring. "Object Locator".

"Tuv!"

Softly chanted a mantra symbolizing "finding", Joan applied the "item positioning technique" to the "brood will" of the bat cluster through the "myth link", and then skillfully dispersed the bats into 20 small groups, Seventy-five cluster teams flew out of the warehouse one after another, and searched from different directions, and the target of the search was the standard coarse-grained square bricks produced by the mine.

As Garu revealed just now, except for a few cities with relatively high levels of civilization in the underground world, the vast majority of ethnic groups still live a barbaric life, with almost zero industrial capacity.

Even the seemingly ordinary coarse-grained square bricks require a certain degree of metallurgical industry foundation to be extracted. If a large number of standard-sized coarse-grained square bricks appear in places where there is no industrial foundation at all, the origin is worth pondering.

After all, bats are mammals, and their intelligence level is much higher than that of insects. Only 15 bats can form a "brood will". Joan also allocated 5 more bats to each team to deal with accidental attrition during reconnaissance.

Qiao An remotely controlled 75 bat teams to search along different paths. With the help of the "object location technique", the detection radius of each team is about 1000 feet. , Joan will feel it.

Joan had used this detection strategy many times before, but none was more difficult than this moment.

The environment of the underground world is far more complicated than that of the surface world, which brings many unexpected obstacles to the investigation of bat swarms.

In addition, since the starting point of the investigation is located inside the mining area, and there are ten warehouses dedicated to storing coarse crystals in the mining area, and there are also a large number of coarse crystals being processed in the smelter, these factors will interfere with the investigation and cause frequent false alarms .

Qiao An patiently checked out the locations of false alarms one by one, until the 75 bat teams were far away from the mining area, and the false alarms did not appear frequently.

In the following time, Joan remained focused on casting spells and patiently expanded the search area.

Judging from the current clues, the thieves sneak into the mining area to steal once every two days on average. Such frequent crimes in a short period of time show that the thieves are either lurking near the mine, or someone in the gang is good at teleportation spells.

Joan can only hope for the first possibility now. After all, the teleportation spell spans too far, hundreds of miles at every turn, far beyond the search radius of bat swarms.

Concerned about gains and losses, Joan sat in the warehouse for two hours at a time. The bat team's search radius has expanded to more than 20 miles. Except for a few false alarms, what's more unfortunate is that they often encounter people lurking in cave tunnels during the search. monster attack.

Four teams ran into the spider web one after another, and echolocation failed to help these poor little bats get rid of the disaster. They were hunted and killed by large mutant spiders. The disconnection of consciousness can be described as "scattering like birds and beasts" in the literal sense.

After searching for so long, but found nothing except the bad news about the loss of troops, Joan gradually became anxious and decided to hold on for another hour. If he still couldn't find any clues, he would give up and reconsider his reconnaissance strategy.

At this moment, the "Brood Will" of the 49th team suddenly sent telepathy, and found a large number of industrial coarse crystals that met the search criteria in the depths of a valley about 20 miles away from the mining area!

Joan took a long breath, calmed down his excitement a little, and quickly switched his observation perspective to the "Brood Will" of Bat Squad No. 49.

After a moment of trance, Joan opened his eyes again and found himself above the dark valley.

He raised his hand to touch the prosthetic eye, turned on "dark vision", "see through invisibility", "fog vision" and "tremor perception", after a little thought, he added a 4-ring "perspective technique" to himself.

The penetration radius of "Perspective" is proportional to the level of the caster, including the bonus of "Mythical Mana", Joan is equivalent to a 15th-level spellcaster, with a maximum perspective distance of 150 feet.

With magically enhanced eyesight, Joan soon noticed a cave with obvious traces of artificial excavation under the cliff at the end of the valley.

Peeping inward through the rock wall, the whole cave is wider than imagined. In the center is a spacious hall. There are tables, chairs and stoves shaped by rocks. Many honeycomb-shaped stone chambers have been dug around the hall, which should be from the local aborigines. bedroom.

Joan remotely controlled a bat to fly into the cave, followed the guidance of the "object location technique" and flew into one of the stone chambers. Sure enough, he found two large bags made of animal skin piled up in the corner against the wall.

With the help of "perspective technique", Joan can clearly see that the pocket is full of massive coarse crystals, the size of which is exactly the same as that produced by the mine!

In the same stone room, there are two small humanoid creatures, talking in a low voice.

Joan listened intently and realized that they were speaking in Tu language, but the content of the conversation had nothing to do with theft, and they were discussing some kind of "survival competition".

Judging from the sighing tone of these two little monsters, they seem to be full of misgivings about this so-called "survival race" and regard it as an innocent disaster.

What does "survival race" mean?

Joan restrained his curiosity, and hung the remote-controlled bat upside down on the ceiling of the stone room, so that he could observe the appearance of the two little guys below and figure out what species they were.

However, at this moment, there was a sudden "Hey" sound from below, and then a stone flew into the sky, hitting the bat controlled by Joan's remote control, killing it on the spot!

hell!

Joan's body trembled, he instinctively covered his eyes with his hands, and cursed in a low voice.

"Dr. Vader, are you alright?" Garu hurried over and asked with concern on his face.

"I'm fine."

Joan rubbed his eyes and waved his hand to signal Garu not to worry, but his face was a bit ugly.

The bat that shared vision was accidentally attacked and killed, which would not cause any harm to Joan himself. However, this sudden change interrupted his concentration on casting spells, and the more than a thousand bat scouts created by the magic power all dissipated on their own.

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