Chapter 2454 Monsters in the Lake

In the fifth area of ​​"Underground World", large and small karst caves are nested with each other, forming a complex labyrinth.

Most places in the "karst cave area" are shrouded in darkness. Only a few caves grow luminous moss or open-pit fluorite mines, forming a weak natural light source, illuminating the wet and smooth cave walls and the stalactites hanging upside down from the dome.

A thumb-sized glass bead flew in the air, passing through the dark and rugged tunnel, carefully avoiding the stalagmites blocking the way, and exploring the depths of the cave.

The magic-enhanced glass bead, like an eye with night vision ability, shared the field of vision with its mage master, and flew to the largest cave in the north of the fifth district before stopping, and then emitted magical brilliance, like a lamp. The candlestick hanging in mid-air illuminates the vast and dangerous waters opposite the cave.

The grotto was so high that it couldn't reach the top, and the depressions on the ground were filled with an oily liquid that glowed green. The water surface was bubbling and bubbling, emitting a strong and pungent sour smell.

On the south side of the cave, footsteps came from the tunnel where the glass magic eye came. The young mage and the bloated old swamp man came one after another. Disgusting liquid, that is, the famous iconic natural landscape in the fifth district-acid lake.

Joan picked up a stone and threw it towards the lake full of natural acid.

With a plop, the rocks splashed into the waves, and then they were corroded to the point of hissing, and they were completely disintegrated before they sank to the bottom of the water.

"It is really rare for a naturally occurring acid to maintain such a concentration in a humid cave area. Unfortunately, the transportation is inconvenient, and the alchemy raw materials with abundant reserves cannot be used."

The young mage looked at the acid lake with emotion.

Elder Gu nodded with deep sympathy: "The Underdark is a magical place. The basic life-sustaining resources such as sunlight, water, and food are very poor, but there are all kinds of precious minerals that are rarely seen in the surface world. Just average the resources of the surface and underground worlds."

This unrealistic idea, the old boggard man just said casually, compared with the pungent acid in the pool, he and Joan were more interested in the ecology of the lakeside.

"Brother Joan, come and have a look, there seems to be traces of large coleopteran insects crawling here, is it left by the death knell beetle?"

Joan walked quickly to the side of the old druid, took out the tape measure, measured the vague traces left on the surface, and then fell into thought.

"We tentatively believe that this six-legged creature is a supernatural coleopteran insect. Judging from the span between the legs, its torso is about one and a half feet wide, and its head and tail are about five feet long. It is indeed a big insect, but unfortunately it is not big enough."

"You mean, the Deathstroke beetle is bigger than the guy who left his footprints here?"

Elder Gumoduo is not a native of the Underdark. As a druid, he knows more about the natural ecology of the surface world, especially the ecology of the swamp area, and is not so familiar with the insects in the underground world.

"I have never seen a living death knell beetle, but according to the records in the literature, an adult death knell beetle is usually nine feet long from head to tail. This one is really too small. I think it is probably not a death knell beetle."

After hearing Joan's explanation, the old boggard man showed disappointment, and said to himself depressedly: "That stinky boy, Belling, is really unreliable. I shouldn't have believed his nonsense back then!"

Joan didn't think the dwarf mage intended to fool Elder Gua. Maybe Bellin just misread it. Anyway, it's better to ask him.

Thinking of this, Joan reached out for the communication stone, intending to contact Bellin, but the sudden abnormal movement in the lake made him alert, and he quickly pulled Elder Gua, and hurriedly withdrew to the entrance of the cave to avoid being cut off.

At this time, the old swamp man also noticed the waves in the acid lake. It seemed that a huge water monster was making waves. He hurriedly showed a "Wand of Fire Wall" inlaid with rubies, stared at the lake with swollen eyes, and was ready to fight.

"It seems that a monster is about to emerge from the lake..." Joan whispered.

"This is super corrosive acid! What kind of monster can survive in the acid lake?" The old boggard became more and more curious.

Under the nervous gaze of the two, a group of brown figures slowly floated up. The snake-like head first protruded from the water, followed by a flexible long neck and a pair of flat and webbed flipper-like forelimbs, just like a big turtle.

When the monster's hind body also surfaced, but without the tortoise shell covering, the naked body was smooth and soft, covered with mucus, and had the characteristics of molluscs. It looked more like a mixture of turtles and slugs, and it was no less than fifteen feet from head to tail. long!

"Wow! A big turtle without a shell!" Elder Gumoduo looked at the strange creature that was slowly crawling towards the shore with its forelimbs assisting its legs, and wondered, "Joan! Has this guy's shell been dissolved by acid? Already?"

"You think too much, people don't have long shells, and they are naturally immune to strong acid corrosion."

Joan noticed that on the ground where the monster crawled, all the originally hard rocks were corroded into mud. Even the sharp stalagmites touched the soft body of the monster, and were also eroded by the mucus secreted from its surface, as if it had melted. ice cream.

"It seems that this monster is not only not afraid of corrosion, but also secretes a strong corrosive acid."

Qiao An quickly recalled the subterranean creatures that lived in acidic environments recorded in the literature, and then compared the strange shape of the monster, which looked like a turtle but not a turtle, and soon thought of a strange thing called "Ectopic Beast".

In order to verify his guess, Joan activated "Advanced Internal Vision" to check the details of this giant soft-bodied beast.

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Scouting target: super-large aberrations (earth subspecies)

Life Level: 15

Attributes: Strength 27, Dexterity 13, Constitution 21, Intelligence 12, Wisdom 14, Charisma 12

Qualities: darkvision, tremorsense, immunity to acid, burrow, soft stone (as soft stone), stone shape (as stone shape), corrosive slime, other (unspecified)

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"Sure enough, it's a escaping beast."

Joan breathed a sigh of relief, and quickly switched the "Suppressing Flame Ball" attached to the "Crystal Amulet" to the anti-acid mode, and said to the fully alert elder Gua beside him: "Don't do anything, I'll go fight with the Dungeon Beast!" Say hello, maybe you can get useful news from it."

"Little mage, are you sure you want to deal with that monster? Aren't you afraid that it will swallow you up?" the old boggard man asked worriedly.

"Except for a very small number of drug-addicted aliens, most of the escaping beasts have a gentle temperament and hate violence. Moreover, their staple food is minerals, and they are not interested in human flesh."

"You wait first!" "Elder Gu stopped Joan and prevented him from venturing close to the Dungeon Beast. Everything is just in case, my little friend! How can you be sure that the guy opposite is not a drug-addicted, special beast among the Dungeon Beasts?" Violent aliens?"