Chapter 115 Continue to Follow
After instructing the researchers to speed up the research progress, I ran back to Essinger to arrange the allocation of funds. As a result, I heard the notification from Rose Vine just halfway through the arrangements. Venus is really awesome. He came online within four hours of being offline. I asked Rose Vine to follow Venus all the way, and I quickly explained the rest of the things, and then reached the place where Venus went offline through the teleportation array. According to the telepathic contact signal of the rose vine, I chased for hundreds of miles before finally catching up with Venus. As soon as she came online, she ran a thousand miles and stopped all the way to a place I didn't know the name of. What surprised me was that her men were already waiting for her here. Apparently they made an appointment before going offline.
The place we are now is probably in central France. The most significant geological feature nearby is a small hill that does not look very big. However, there is a cave on this mountain, and the entrance of this cave was carved into a shape by someone. The beast's open mouth looked quite terrifying.
After seeing Venus and the others entering the cave, I quickly followed them. As soon as I entered the cave, I felt a wave of heat coming over me, and there was a smell of sulfur in the air. Needless to say, this place must be connected to a magma pipe, otherwise it wouldn't be so hot.
Venus and the others did not stay in the passage but went all the way down, so I had no choice but to run down with them. As the depth increased, the cave began to get hotter and hotter, but the temperature was still within the tolerable range. After walking in the winding passage for a long time, Venus and the others arrived near a magma river. In front of us is a lava river more than a hundred meters wide, and on the other side of the river is a large cliff with no place to stay. But I soon noticed that there were many dark things like animal hearts growing on the cliff. Each of these things is as big as a human head, shaped like a human heart, but similar in texture to plant leaves.
Venus's men stopped in front of a river of lava and began to prepare their tools. Now I can roughly guess that they are going to collect that strange object, but I don't know what it is used for. I really want to pick up a few of those things and come back to study them, but there is only such a road in this place, and there is no way for me to pass by without being discovered, so I can only watch here for the time being.
Those people moved very quickly, and quickly made a long crane with their hands and feet. Several people placed something like a support frame on the edge of the lava river, and then they attached the boom with a telescopic arm to the support frame. A player in the crowd summoned a magic pet. It looked like something like a goblin. It had green skin and an ugly shape. I really don't know how anyone could accept such a magic pet.
The goblin was quickly placed on the shelf at the front of the boom, and then a man stood on the platform at the rear of the boom and began to shake the handle on it. Along with his movements, the crane arm began to gradually extend, and soon the goblin crossed the edge of the river and officially entered the top of the lava river. Although we are also near the lava river, directly above the lava river and on the river bank where we are standing are completely different things. As soon as you cross the river bank, the temperature will jump up immediately, and the temperature will get higher as you go toward the center of the river. However, the goblin seemed to have been cast with a variety of fire and heat resistance spells. Anyway, I didn't see any discomfort on him.
As the crane arm was extended, several more people stood on the platform here. These people obviously act as counterweights here. Without them, the crane arm over there would definitely fall into the lava. No matter how much magic is cast on that goblin, unless he has advanced armor like my dragon suit, he will definitely not get even a bubble if he falls into the lava.
Just like in the Phantom Forest before, these people were obviously no strangers to this place. Not only did they have such professional tools, but they were also quite skilled in their operating techniques. Soon they gave the goblin a Sent to the edge of the cliff on the other side of the river. Perhaps because of being soaked in lava for a long time, the temperature of the cliff on the opposite side is obviously much higher than here. Some parts of the rocks on the cliff are even red. The magic on the goblin had probably reached its limit. The goblin began to twist uneasily on the shelf. The temperature was too high. Even under such protection, he was still so hot that he could no longer withstand it.
"Hold on, don't move!" The owner of the goblin couldn't help shouting loudly. A lava river of more than 100 meters wide means that the crane arm also extends more than 100 meters long. Such a large moment is very terrifying. Although the supports seem to be made of metal, such a large span still makes them bend very hard, and the high temperature generated by the magma flowing below also makes the metal much softer than normal. In this case The slightest struggle of the goblin in this state will cause the crane arm to shake violently.
"Hurry up, the spell on the goblin is about to disappear." Venus couldn't help but urge.
"I'm trying my best." The person operating the crane couldn't help complaining: "The temperature of the lava river seems to be much higher than last time, and the crane is shaking very hard!"
"I don't want to know about your difficulties, I just want to see the lava fruit in my hands." Venus' almost unreasonable request forced the guy to shut up and continue working. Who knows that he is also a fan of Venus!
Although the shaking continued to intensify, the goblin finally got a fruit, and then the people here began to recover the crane arm, but at this moment everyone suddenly heard a bang, and a sudden explosion occurred in the lava river. A large piece of lava, and a black thing jumped up from the orange-red magma, hit the crane arm with a thud, and hung up. The sudden increase in weight caused the crane arm to sink sharply. Fortunately, the nearby people with quick eyes and hands quickly jumped up and suppressed the crane arm here. Otherwise, the fruits that were finally picked and the goblin would definitely fall into the lava. among.
"***, what is it?" Several players complained loudly while desperately holding the crane arm here and pressing it down.
After everyone calmed down, they all turned their attention to the thing hanging on the crane arm, and saw that it was something that looked like both a crocodile and a toad. The overall body of this guy looks like a giant toad, with very long hind limbs, and it is good at bouncing. However, this guy's head is not oblate like a toad, but like a crocodile's head, not only triangular, but also like a crocodile's head. And there are a lot of sharp teeth. The monster's skin is black and the surface is very rough, looking like a rock. Everyone knows nothing about this strange creature. In fact, no one here except me knows the monster hanging on the crane arm. Of course, I will not tell them what it is.
In fact, this kind of thing is not terrible. It's called the Lava Toad, and it's a special kind of monster with a low level. In terms of combat power alone, this guy can at best be on par with level 600 players, but in fact there is no possibility for level 600 players to defeat him, because these guys only live in lava. And the most common trick they use when fighting players is to bite you and drag you into the lava. Even my magic dragon suit can only last for a short time in the lava. How can the average player survive?
Although I know these things, Venus and the others don't know that these things are not powerful. However, because they did not know the properties of this thing, they correctly speculated on the harmfulness of this thing. However, the harmfulness was not that the monster they imagined was extremely powerful, but... this thing It is gregarious.
Boom, boom, boom... Magma pillars suddenly exploded in the lava one after another, followed by dozens of lava toads flying out of the magma and hanging on the crane arm. Originally, one toad had already caused most of the people on Venus to hang on to the crane arm to barely stabilize it. Now, dozens of them came up at once, and the crane arm could no longer bear the weight and bent down with a squeak. . The goblin at the front of the crane and the fruit in its hand fell into the magma amidst Venus's screams, leaving nothing behind except a sudden rise of flames.
Those lava toads had not finished bending the crane arm, they started rushing towards the river bank along the crane arm again. When Venus's men saw this situation, they all jumped down from the crane arm with a roar. There was no one holding him down, and the crane immediately fell into the lava due to its forward center of gravity. Unfortunately, the fastest toad had already jumped to the shore and bit a player's leg. The player slipped and was pulled into the magma by the lava toad. After a ball of flames exploded, nothing was left.
"Quickly retreat!" Venus's shout seemed to be a little late. A large number of lava toads jumped on the shore, and then a chaotic shout was heard, and many people were pulled down from the lava. The combat effectiveness of these is indeed not strong, but the trick of pulling people into the lava is very effective. As long as you can't bathe in the lava, don't even think about fighting them.
Seeing more and more lava toads jumping ashore, Venus's men began to run around in panic. Although there was only one road when we came here before, the banks of the lava river are the intersection of multiple channels. Now in this chaos, many people couldn't figure out which hole they came in from, so a large group of people almost divided into a dozen small teams and ran towards many different passages. The most outrageous thing is that the fewest people ran towards the correct passage where I was hiding. It seemed that most people were looking for the wrong way.
When I saw someone running over, I quickly leaned against the wall and activated the disguise technique of Amynis. In the panic, these people had no time to pay attention to the situation around them, and ran past me with a huff. I was about to take a breath when I suddenly discovered a very bad situation. I was actually surrounded.
"Damn it!" At this critical moment, I actually forgot that lava toads have no vision. These guys don't have eyes at all. Naturally, they don't rely on visible light to distinguish targets. Optical illusions such as natural camouflage are completely ineffective against them.