Volume 16 Chapter 108 Underground Labyrinth Network

Chapter 108: Underground Labyrinth

After negotiating the price, I started waiting at the entrance of the cave with the little guy. As for why we have to wait? Don’t we need to clear out the collapsed and blocked entrance to the cave?

My guardian steel claw temporarily acted as an excavator. Who told this guy to be good at big holes? After a while, the hole was cleared, and it could be seen that it was not just a small area outside that collapsed, but the condition inside was also very bad. However, compared to the hole, it was still passable inside. After retracting the steel claw, I started to push into the hole.

For me, who has dark vision, the dark cave is not a problem. What is more troublesome is the gravel on the ground and the narrow cave wall. I have to drill around in such things before I can continue. Go deep. It took more than half an hour for us to advance only less than 300 meters. This damn place was really unbearable.

"How deep is this damn place?"

"I don't know either. I've never been here before, so it's the first time I've seen it here like you!" The little guy's explanation made me helpless, so I could only shut up and continue to explore forward.

Thanks to my magic dragon suit, it even comes with gloves. If I were to touch, crawl, and roll around in a place like this, a normal mage would be exhausted, and my clothes might even be torn by broken rock edges. In comparison, armor like the Demon Dragon Suit is much cheaper. At least I can smash everything in the way, and even if there is a bump, it will not cause much damage to the armor.

After continuing to advance for about thirty meters, the cave became a little wider. At least now there was no need to crawl. As long as you bent a little, you could walk normally. Because of the improvement of roads, our advancement speed has obviously increased a lot. It took us another half hour to run through the nearly two-kilometer-long tunnel in one go, and suddenly a relatively wide area appeared in front of us.

"Wow! So beautiful!" Although the little guy is a phantom, his aesthetics are similar to those of humans.

What is in front of me is a cave space that is almost as big as a small airport, but it is not all rocky. The road under our feet became many branches as we looked forward, extending forward regularly and irregularly like the veins of leaves. There was clear water between the roads, but I don’t know why the water was glowing. The emerald green light illuminates the entire cave like a dream, which is very beautiful.

"Why is there still water here?"

"Probably an underground river." The little guy guessed: "Isn't there a lake outside our forest? Maybe the two places are connected."

I nodded, then looked at the more than thirty holes opposite us and asked, "What should we do now? Do you have a way to confirm that getting one is the right way?"

The little guy immediately shook his head like a rattle. "I am a phantom, not a seeker bee. Finding paths is not my strong suit."

"Really, you have to rely on yourself at the critical moment!" I stretched out my hand, and a small black hole opened in front of me. A large number of ghost beetles swarmed out and dispersed towards various holes. I turned around and said to the little guy: " Now wait for the news here! We will know the general structure of this place in a while."

The pathfinding method of the ghost bug is very simple. Because they are in contact with me, we can roughly determine each other's position through perception. In this way, after these little guys leave, my stationary center becomes the basic coordinates, and then based on their route, I can I quickly built a three-dimensional model of the cave in my brain. If any bug encountered a dead end, it would be the end of the road. Then after all the bugs had explored their routes, I would have a map of the entire cave. Because the number of bugs is astonishing, no matter how many side roads there are, I can still separate them. This is equivalent to me walking through every side road.

After waiting in place for a while, several groups of ghost bugs discovered the dead end, and then three groups actually reunited after being separated, and the other groups continued to explore downwards. After a while, most of the bugs encountered dead ends, and the remaining seven bugs that did not encounter dead ends actually went around the same road. I followed the memory left in my brain into the shortest route and we soon arrived at the huge meeting point. This place is a larger cave than the previous one, but it is not as beautiful as the previous one. This huge hole is circular in shape, with a pool in the center occupying nearly one-third of the area. The dark green pool water is illuminated very strangely by a fluorescent plant growing on the top of the cave. There are many forked roads around the perimeter of the pool, some of which are the roads we took when we came, and others Some don't know where they lead. I still followed the old method of dispatching the bugs to find a way out, while I waited here with the little guy, but something happened to me as soon as the bugs couldn't get far.

I was talking with the little guy about how to deal with the strongest phantom after seeing it for a while, when suddenly I heard a loud bang next to me, and more than a dozen water jets exploded in the pool. Since there is only such a big place here, neither the little guy nor I ran away, and we were all watered thoroughly. But luckily, the little guy can atomize it, and then reduce the water to all the water. Because I was wearing The armor itself is also impermeable, so it doesn't matter.

"Damn, what is this?" Although we were startled by the water, we quickly noticed the monster in the pool. This is a monster that I have never seen before. It is about the size of a large villa. Its entire body is oblate like a crab's body, but it has no jointed limbs but dozens of thick tentacles growing underneath it. The whole body of this thing is dark green, and the surface is pitted and looks extremely disgusting. Moreover, the whole body has a dense circle of small mouths and a huge big mouth. All of these mouths have teeth, and all of them are extremely sharp. .

As soon as the disgusting monster came out, it rolled towards us with its tentacles crazily. The little guy reacted quickly enough and turned into a mist. The monster's tentacles swept back and forth on him several times, unable to catch him, and eventually they all rolled towards me.

"Half moon."

The two half-moons quickly detached themselves from the Ring of Discipline and then guarded me on my left and right respectively. I originally thought that those tentacles would be cut into sections by the flying half-moons, but I didn't expect that those tentacles actually turned around in mid-air and swung towards me. The top of the cave jumped up. Apparently this guy noticed Ban Yue and knew he would be hurt by this thing, so he changed his strategy. However, this guy doesn't seem to have any eyes-like organs, so he probably relies on vibrations or the like to find targets. The guy just noticed my half moon and changed his strategy. Moreover, this guy was very cunning. Instead of attacking me, he directly used his tentacles to swipe at the roof of the cave. As a result, the rocks on the roof of the cave came crashing down like rain. . Although Ban Yue is extremely sharp, it is absolutely impossible to fly again if it is directly hit by a large rock. As a result, Ban Yue who was protecting me was hit under the rock.

After I found that the obstacle disappeared, the monster immediately rolled its tentacles over again. I lowered my head to dodge one of the tentacles, jumped up on the spot, rolled 360 degrees in the air, and landed again to dodge the other three tentacles. The monster hit the air and immediately called more tentacles to roll over, but this time he was not so lucky.

"tank."

With a bang, the tank's huge body hit the hole, and the monster's tentacles quickly wrapped around the tank's body, but the tank's whole body was covered in hard armor, and molluscs like this monster had no way to deal with him. Tank is not like me who hates these disgusting things. He directly stuffed the tentacles near his mouth into his mouth with his forelimbs that assist in eating and started eating. The monster didn't expect to encounter such a fierce one, and it started to devour his body directly. He was so frightened that he hurriedly hid back. Unfortunately, the tentacle was tightly pulled by the tank and could not be pulled back. And before this time All the ghost beetles I expelled also crawled back. We saw a black sea of ​​insects rushing towards the monster, and the monster completely disappeared in front of our eyes amid the sound of rustling.

"Your magic pets are so scary!" The little guy floated back and said to me: "If you often let them go out like this to scare people, we can imitate this kind of thing to scare people in the future."

"Although these little guys are strong, that's the strength of the group. Individually, they are actually very weak, so you'd better not become one of them. Otherwise, it would be a pity to be trampled to death."

"Am I just talking? By the way, have you found the way?"

"Yes, but we have to go another way first."

"Why?"

"That's why." Pointing to a large piece of shiny black crystal, he answered the little guy's question ten minutes ago.

My original intention was just to let the ghost bugs help me explore the path, but I didn't expect that they actually found a natural black crystal mine for me. Although the scope of this mine is small, the quality is surprisingly high. Essinger's giant defensive magic array now requires large pieces of high-quality black crystal as an energy conversion device. I didn't expect that I found it here.

"Are these things useful to you?" The little guy is a special creature. Although these black crystals are like a delicious meal to the undead creatures, they are almost like garbage to them.

I briefly explained the purpose of this thing to the little guy, then unfolded the Earth Gate directly in the mining area, and asked the Qilin Warrior to help me dig out all these black crystals and put them into the Earth Gate, while I and the little guy We returned to the main road and headed towards the residence of the phantom demon. Speaking of this guy, it's true. We have walked at least seven or eight kilometers from entering the cave to here, but we haven't reached the bottom yet. I don't know what this guy thought, but he dug such a deep hole.

The next few hours the little guy and I spent in this constant exploration and advancement. We ran a total of nearly 30 kilometers before finally finding the clue to the phantom. What we see now is an ordinary passage. The difference is that the image of this passage will flicker twice from time to time. It is obvious that this is an unstable illusion, and this means that the phantom lives inside. The little guy and I looked at each other and then stepped in together.