Chapter 2455 Dungeon Beast

Joan smiled helplessly, turned around, and comforted the overwrought old bogman.

"Stones eat stones like we eat bread, gems are like candies and spices in their recipes, and metals are like stimulants to swarms."

"The escaping beast that often eats metal will become addicted, become insane, and even actively attack explorers who carry metal products with them, but don't worry, I just cast a spell to check the escaping beast opposite. Get addicted."

"As long as you don't show off your shiny, clanking metalwork, the burrower won't lose its temper with us."

"Oh! So it is like this!"

Elder Gu quickly checked his belongings, quickly tore off the copper button and stuffed it into his pocket to hide it.

Joan also tidied up his robe, untied the dagger from his belt, stuffed it into the storage bag, carefully approached the Dungeon Beast, waved at it, and greeted it in "Tu language".

"Good morning, sir!"

"Well... hello, strange little friend." The Dungeon slowly lowered its head and looked towards Joan, "Please forgive me for my bad eyesight, I can't see your face clearly, since you know so well Polite, there is grass growing on your head, so it is not a bald gray dwarf or a kobold, so let me venture to guess, you are probably a subterranean gnome? A relative of Belling, right?"

"I'm not a dwarf, but a human from the surface world." Joan then added, "But I know Bellin, and the dwarf mage is my old friend."

"That's good, that's good. Although Belling is mischievous, at least he won't bully a good old man like me. You are a friend of that little dwarf, so you are not a bad boy after all."

The Dungeon muttered to itself and turned its head, looking behind Joan.

"Well... young man, what kind of monster is that big toad behind you? It looks so vicious!"

"I'm not a toad!" Elder Gu puffed up his cheeks angrily, "I'm a majestic swamp toad, who came from a noble family!"

"Hmm...my friend, I understand a little bit of the common language of mankind. According to the literal meaning, the swamp people... aren't they the toad people who live in the muddy pond?"

"Gah! You shellless old tortoise, a big slug, you're completely confused!" Elder Gu blew out his breath with anger.

"You called 'croak' just now, didn't you?" Dundi Beast asserted firmly, "I'll just say it's a toad man!"

Qiao An was afraid that the Dungeon Beast would start a fight with Elder Gua, so he hurriedly interrupted: "Mr., you live in the acid lake, so you must be familiar with this area. Have you seen the death knell beetle by the lake recently?"

"What beetle?" asked the Dungeon in confusion.

"A large nine-foot-long beetle, the whole body is pitch black, only the elytra on the back is dark red, and the most prominent feature is a horn-shaped organ growing on the forehead."

Joan followed the illustrations in the literature to describe.

"Hmm...so you meant 'horn bug'." Dundi Beast shook its head slowly, thinking, "Occasionally there are those kind of strange bugs wandering around the lake, but they are all small in size. Nymphs and adults are rare."

Joan was stunned. No wonder the beetle he and Elder Gua guessed from the footprints by the lake just now was relatively small. It turned out that it was an immature nymph.

"Trumpet bugs, they scurry around in groups and always make sharp calls, which make me have a headache, so I have to go deep into the soil or dive into the bottom of the lake, so that I can get a good night's sleep without the buzzing of the insects." The Dungeon Beast complained road.

Joan once read in a document that the supernatural vibrato from the trumpet-shaped organ on the head of the "death knell beetle" is like sonic magic, which can be used to kill prey or destroy buildings. In addition, the death knell beetle always moves in groups, It's no wonder that the Dungeon Beasts are afraid to avoid them.

"Old sir, my friend and I are tracking the death knell beetle, which is what you call the 'horn bug'. Where is the nearest beetle nest from here?"

"Hmm... little friends, you guys are really brave. I know where the trumpet bug's nest is, but I've never been close to it. That area is too dangerous."

The Dungeon Beast shook its body, as if shivering.

"Huh... Is the beetle's nest in the north or east? My stomach is empty, and my head is empty. I can't remember for a while."

Gumoduo heard the Dungeon talking to himself, and lowered his voice to remind Joan: "Little mage, can't you hear it? The old slug is hinting that we have to give it some benefits before it will guide us! "

In terms of human sophistication, Qiao An was indeed not as shrewd as Elder Gua, and he suddenly came to his senses after being reminded. He quickly took out a large piece of coarse crystal from the storage bag, and used the "Hand of a Mage" to pass the coarse crystal to the Dungeon Beast.

"Huh? How dare you..."

The Dungeon Beast was polite, but did not refuse the gift from Joan. It lowered its head and swallowed the 5-pound coarse crystal in one gulp, nodding in satisfaction, as if eating a large piece of chocolate candy.

"Well, kind children, I suddenly remembered, you go around the acid lake and continue to go north, until you reach the end, you will see two forks in the road, the road on the left leads to the trumpet bug's lair, Don't approach the tunnel on the right!"

The solemn warning from the Dungeon Beast aroused Qiao An's curiosity, so he asked him where the road on the right led.

"There are many dangerous mushrooms growing near the entrance of that road. They look like huge eyeballs with tentacles extending out. If you get too close, they will explode and spit out countless poisonous spores. It was itchy and painful when it was stuck on my body, and it was very uncomfortable.”

"I was once bombed by that kind of strange mushroom. Fortunately, I dived into the lake in time to wash off the spores stuck on my body. Otherwise, like those unlucky trumpet bugs, I would become the host of the spores, and new mushrooms would grow from the corpse. "

After listening to the narration of the Dungeon Beast, Joan immediately guessed that the "strange mushroom that explodes" it said was the "Eye of Air Spores", which he had met near the blood tundra many years ago.

"The tunnel blocked by the exploding mushrooms leads to a tyrant's lair, and at the end of the tyrant's lair, there is an 'umbilical' hidden. It is said that through the umbilicus, one can reach the 'Evil Eye Nest City' located in the deepest layer of the Underdark. 'Udinos, um... But so far, no one has dared to verify whether this rumor is true."

"What does 'tyrant' mean? An unpopular underground lord?" Gu Modo asked Joan.

The young mage glanced at the old bogman and explained in a low voice: "When the creatures in the Underdark speak of the word 'tyrant', they usually refer to 'beholders'. Do you want to drop by the 'giant-eyed tyrant'?" '?"