Chapter 207 Secret Passage
The little guy didn't forget to make a face at us after he satirized us. Then when he saw me raising my hand to throw something, he turned around in fright and went into the secret passage. I followed him to the wall and threw the table away, then kicked open the secret door, but after looking at it, I didn't go in. This passage was obviously not designed by an adult. It was not only narrow, but also very curved. An adult's body would have to be stuck in it!
"Dart." A white light flashed, and Dart was the first to jump out of the training space and drilled into the hole. He disappeared in an instant. After thinking about it, I still felt that it was not safe for Dart to go alone. "Hong Ling, you go and help." Hong Ling, who had shrunk to the size of a normal fox, immediately got into the hole. Although the hole was too small for adults, it had no impact on them.
"What should we do now?" Masamoto Matsumoto asked me.
I looked at the surrounding environment and said: "Let's search here first. I'm sure there is a secret passage hidden somewhere, or maybe the succubus is locked up somewhere nearby."
"Okay, let's look for it separately."
They said they were searching separately, but in fact, the room was only that big. With so many of us, it was naturally very fast to find it. In the end, we even had to knock on the roof. In addition to the passage under the table, we found two other rooms. It's a passage that adults can walk through, but I'm not sure exactly where it leads.
"Matsumoto Masaru, you go that way, I'll go this way." I picked a hole at random and said.
"Okay." Masamoto Matsumoto nodded and led the others into another passage, while I groped forward along the passage in front of me. The environment inside the passage is much worse than outside. Not only is it humid and hot, but there is also a very strange smell. I can't tell whether it is a fragrance or a sour smell, but it doesn't smell good anyway.
After groping along the passage for a while, the passage began to become more and more humid, and you could clearly see water droplets hanging on the walls at the back. Just when I started to hesitate to go down, I suddenly heard some strange sounds, as if there was a river ahead. I started to run forward faster, and the sound started to get louder and louder as I went forward. Soon the passage reached the end, and suddenly there was a huge underground river in front of me. The river in front of us is at least twenty meters wide. The rushing river water is extremely clear. From above, you can see the river bed several meters deep. There are also some luminous creatures crawling around on the river bed, and because of the large number of these creatures, the entire river is illuminated. However, a practical question before me now is - how should I go?
The river is divided into upstream and downstream. I walked here from a passage on the side, so I have to choose one of the two options of going upstream or downstream. Also, this river occupies the entire There are no river banks or anything like that on both sides of the passage. The river flows directly against the cave wall. If I go into the water, the danger is hard to say. At least I have to figure out those luminous creatures first. Is it a purely landscape creature or a dangerous species with certain fighting capabilities?
In order to figure out the safety of these things, I turned eternity into a long stick with a large colander at the front, and then fished out one of those luminous creatures from the water. After my research, I found that this thing does not have any attack power at all, but they are not purely landscape creatures, because my identification technique actually showed that this thing belongs to the material classification, which means that they are actually a kind of resource, but they are not available for the time being. Just know what it is used for. Although I know that this thing is a resource, I have no plans to collect it for the time being. I just fished a lot of water to raise it and planned to take it back to study. Anyway, I know the place now. If I really need it, I can come back later.
After collecting the specimens I jumped into the river and started swimming down the river to investigate the place thoroughly. The reason why I didn't choose to run upstream was because it was inconvenient to move against the current. Anyway, the probability of finding useful things was the same going up and down, so I might as well find a better direction.
It takes almost no effort on my part to move downstream along the river. The river will naturally carry me downstream at a fairly fast speed. But after drifting forward for less than a hundred meters, the river course changed. First, the roof of the cave gradually began to press downwards, and finally it completely extended to the water surface. As a result, I had to put down the visor of my helmet and start diving underwater. Anyway, the magic dragon suit is equipped with underwater breathing function, so I am not worried about any accidents. After continuing for a while, the river began to narrow, but strangely the water flow slowed down. According to my analysis, the rock walls on both sides of this water area are not completely sealed, but have strong permeability, and the river water has been spreading through the rocks on both sides and bottom into nearby rock formations, although no formation has occurred. It can be called a tributary of the river, but this scattered trickle divides the water flow after all. Therefore, although the main river channel in front is much narrower, the flow rate is slower because the water flow rate drops by a greater proportion.
After continuing along the river for about five hundred meters, the river has shrunk to only two or three meters wide and one or two meters high. It is more appropriate to call it a pipeline than a river. I don’t know if the environment is not suitable. There are fewer and fewer luminous creatures in the narrow water area at the back. In the end, no one can be seen at all. And because there are no luminous creatures, the river becomes pitch black. , except for me, most people really can’t investigate a place like this. After all, this is underwater, and it's still pitch black. Even if most people can move underwater for a long time, they can't see the road, and torches can't be used underwater, so most people can't explore in this environment. .
I fumbled here alone and after advancing for a certain distance, the river began to become even weirder. The previous river channel was probably washed very flat because of the fast current, but the rocks here are extremely weird. The rocks at the bottom of the river are all watermelon-sized gravels in various shapes, and they are piled up in a mess, as if they have been stirred by something. As for the top of the river, there are densely packed cone-shaped stalactites standing up like monster teeth. But I don’t know why stalactites can be formed under the water. Those things should not be in caves with air. Can it be formed in the middle?
After continuing to swim for a while, I suddenly heard some strange sounds, which seemed to be made by stones rolling in the water. But when I swam to the point where the sound came from, I only saw a piece of stone rolling from a relatively high position. Stones at the bottom of the pit. Obviously, this stone that was originally piled at a relatively high position rolled down for unknown reasons, and its rolling direction was actually rolling towards the upstream of the river. This obviously does not comply with the principles of mechanics, so the only explanation is - there is Something touched it.
As soon as I had a rough guess, I saw a black shadow suddenly jump out in front of me. I instantly flapped my wings to stir up the water flow, causing me to dodge backwards and pass the thing. The moment I passed by that thing, I finally saw what it looked like. It turned out to be a false alarm, because what just rushed past was actually just an abyss worm.
The abyssal worm is an amputated animal that looks a bit like a centipede, but its legs are not as dense as a centipede, and it is not poisonous. The body is pale and slightly transparent. I know this kind of thing because Abyss Worms are actually a very precious resource. The super healing medicine "Death Pill" produced by our guild is made of the body fluids of Abyss Worms as the main raw material. Yes, our guild has specially formed a team to catch abyssal worms for this purpose, otherwise we would not be able to keep up with the consumption. I just didn’t expect that there are abyssal worms in this place. This thing is a rare creature that is hard to see. If the consumption was not too large, it might be more expensive than magic crystal. But I wasn’t here to catch this abyssal bug today, so I didn’t turn around to chase it, but continued to swim forward.
The river ahead was getting narrower and narrower, and in some places it was even necessary to move some rocks blocking the way to cross. Finally, I came across a small hole that could only allow children to crawl through. "Damn, I'm actually stuck here!" I summoned Grandma to use her sonar positioning to help me scan the situation in front of me, but I learned that this small hole was just a bottleneck, and there should be a big lake after passing through.
Since there is a cave behind the cave, I naturally can't turn around and go back. I put Aina back into the training space to train. I widened the hole to the extent that I could pass through it, and then quickly got through. The situation on the other side was indeed the same as A Di Na said. After exiting the cave, the surrounding area suddenly became clear. There was clearly an underground lake in front of it, and the area was surprisingly large. I was just thinking about where this place was when I suddenly felt huge fluctuations in the water. The strong sound of water flow was clearly caused by something moving at high speed in the water.
Soon I saw a huge object rushing towards me at high speed in the water ahead. It was at least as big as a locomotive, and I didn't know how long it was.
"King Kong!" My spirit-controlling King Kong suddenly appeared in front of me, then grabbed me and put me on his back. Facing the big guy rushing over, I suddenly turned sideways and let the guy slide past me. But just as the thing slid over, he suddenly clamped the thing's head with one arm, and then I felt a huge pulling force. King Kong and I were actually carried by the thing and moved at high speed in the water. "Kill him!" After King Kong got my order, he immediately tightened his arms hard, and at the same time, he clenched his other hand into a fist and smashed the thing's head desperately. After the pain, the thing started swimming even more crazily. I could barely hold on to King Kong's back. "King Kong, use your ultimate move to win the battle quickly!"