Chapter 246: Dark Region

"Sister, are we here at the wrong time?"

Although he was a noble, Kasha had never seen such a bold scene before? For a moment, he even stuttered.

Joanna was about to leave, but Mitris hurriedly explained: "Don't go! You came at the right time! They became like this after watching the videotape. I suspect that the drow has mastered the ability to exert psychological suggestion in the image!"

Using things without magical effects to influence ordinary people is something that both the School of Enchantment and senior psychics can master.

After hearing Mitris' explanation, Joanna and Kasha looked at each other and then cast a spell immediately.

"Divine Guidance!"

The brilliant golden light bloomed in Joanna's hand. She stepped forward quickly and pointed her finger at a young sheriff who was being whipped.

The light quickly covered the other's body surface. After a brief confusion, his eyes became clear again.

"Oh! Chief! Chief! Stop it! Stop it!"

However, Mitris continued to whip him, and finally stopped only after she confirmed that there was no obvious desire in his voice.

Seeing that the divine guidance was effective, Joanna became more confident and began to treat the other sheriffs.

The divine guidance can add random amplification to the recipients of the spell before and after, allowing them to increase their resistance to certain special situations or improve their success rate in doing certain things.

Because the effect is relatively random, not all sheriffs can wake up with the help of a divine guidance. Those who are unlucky have to be released by Joanna more than a dozen times before they wake up.

Looking at the mess on the ground, the sheriffs recalled what they had just done, and for a moment they wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl into.

At this moment, Joanna was extremely glad that they found Mitris as the acting chief of the Sheriff's Bureau to help with the investigation.

If it weren't for her, what happened today might have spread quickly the next day.

"Thank you for your help. If possible, we would like to hire you as the real director of the Public Security Bureau. If you agree, I will go to Senior Carl to persuade you."

Joanna sincerely invited Mitris, keeping a forced and decent smile, but her voice was a little tired.

"Huh? No, no, no, it's enough to help you do this kind of trouble once. I don't want to go through it a second time. By the way, why are you here? I was just trying to find a way to notify you."

Joanna touched her hair and briefly talked about the audition, then shifted the topic back to Zhuoer's case.

"I once heard from Sister Hope that Senior Carl investigated the drow and found that they used a strange ritual to convert the vitality of the opposite sex into their own spiritual energy nutrients. Senior Carl even saved some of these young adventurers.

When the incident happened in Storm Bay, all these drow withdrew from Storm Bay.

In order to prevent these drow from using male adventurers in the town to cultivate spiritual energy again, Senior Carl deliberately adopted a more stringent household registration management system.

This should have been able to effectively prevent the appearance of drow in the town, but I didn't expect them to sneak in again."

If it was just a simple transaction, Carl might have specially designated a place for the drow, which would be good for everyone.

But they clearly wanted to take both money and lives, so Carl naturally couldn't let them do whatever they wanted.

"Tsk! That guy Carl actually studied those drow things? Um~, wait, I remember Ying is also a drow, maybe she also helped?"

Not knowing that Ying had already put herself in this situation, Mitris quickly analyzed, and soon, she came to the conclusion that "the drow must be arrested."

So, a pornography-clearing operation that made all adventurers miserable began.

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"I told you! We are not those fallen ones, it's just that our men are not drow!"

In the tunnel that claims to be able to reach the surface, Scorpion looked at his fellows who were captured not long ago with a crazy look on his face, and explained angrily.

These four drow from the Spirit Tribe are relatively rare conservatives in the Underdark. They showed a considerable degree of non-cooperation with Scorpion, Ying, and Carl.

"Okay, Scorpion, stop talking nonsense to them. Our current goal is to return to the surface as soon as possible. At worst, we can release them after returning to Storm Bay."

On the side, Carl and the others set up a barbecue grill and had an open-air barbecue.

Cooking for a team of dozens of people is still very tiring, so Carl simply let everyone grill it themselves.

As the blower blew, the grease that was grilled by charcoal sizzled and exuded an intoxicating meat aroma.

In fact, Carl originally wanted to imitate the original use of rune stones to grill meat in the dungeon, but the skewers grilled by charcoal have a different flavor from ordinary heat sources.

Since there is this condition, Carl will naturally not treat himself badly.

As the meat aroma drifted, the few drow who had been in a stalemate with Scorpion for a long time couldn't help swallowing a mouthful of saliva.

This is a normal reaction that most people will have, and it is a physiological phenomenon that is difficult to overcome with willpower.

After hearing the persuasion of his companions, Scorpion no longer wasted his words and joined the ranks of barbecue.

After a short rest, Carl and his party set off again.

Of course, there were four more drow captives in the team this time.

As they moved forward, the size of the tunnel began to fluctuate.

It no longer expanded gradually like before, but began to rise and fall.

In contrast, the tunnel's upward inclination began to weaken, and it even gradually approached the flat ground.

"Can this tunnel really reach the surface? Why do I feel that the road is gradually becoming flatter?"

On a construct, Thorin felt the increasingly stable road conditions and muttered to himself.

Carl and others around him also felt this way, but they didn't want to think too badly for the time being.

At this moment, the road ahead suddenly widened, and Carl took the lead in manipulating the mecha to go out first to prevent any situation outside.

However, what appeared in front of him was not a spacious tunnel, but another larger cave.

Looking up at the dome of the cave, the lead-gray rain clouds actually gathered into a sea of ​​clouds above, and only stalagmites and protruding rocks could be seen in certain locations.

There were mushrooms on the ground that were different from those in the previous dungeon.

They emitted blue or purple fluorescence, which dotted the cave like a sea of ​​stars.

The environment was still dim, but most of Carl and his friends had dark vision, so this level of light was enough for them.

"Have we walked to another drow's cave?"

Looking at the scene in front of him, Carl was silent for a long time, and finally said this fact in a helpless tone.

The four tied drow smiled, and one of them introduced in a congratulatory tone:

"Welcome to the Underdark, I hope you can have fun here. Of course, you'd better control your lower body, otherwise you might be sucked into a mummy."

After listening to this half-advice and half-sarcasm, Carl waved his hand while operating the mecha, and asked his drow to provide some food to the four captives.

After they finished eating in a somewhat embarrassed and anxious manner, Carl asked with a smile:

"Aren't you afraid that I put aphrodisiac in the food? I'm going to turn you into..."

Before Carl finished speaking, the four drow had already shaken their bodies and retched, as if trying to spit out the food they had just eaten.

But the scorpion had sealed their mouths and didn't give them this opportunity at all.

Thinking that they would probably be toys of these people like other drow from now on, the four drow looked gloomy and even their resistance was much weaker.

"Huh~, now that we are here, Ying and I are more familiar with this place. This is also our hometown."

After dealing with the four drow who refused to listen to the explanation, Scorpion turned his head and looked at the Underdark with a complicated expression.

The entire Underdark is a huge ecosystem derived from this huge cave and the countless tunnels around it.

There are countless tunnels like the one that Carl and his friends just left in the Underdark.

Most people don't know where some tunnels are connected to, so they occasionally send people to explore.

Here, the drow exist in the form of families and warlords. The drow mistress rules the tribe and distributes materials and power to the members of the tribe.

In the past, everyone might have to prepare sacrifices for the spirit totem, but as the spirits gradually passed away, such activities gradually stopped.

"Since these four guys are going to explore this tunnel, their residence is probably not far from here, Shadow! Scorpion! Let's go and take a look."

After changing the mecha back to a truck, Carl gave the two people a task while changing his power armor to the Infiltrator model.

The heavy power armor made no sound when stepping on the ground. Although it was still a bit conspicuous, it was indeed better at hiding than ordinary professionals.

"Ah? You want to go too?"

Scorpion, who was about to leave, paused, and then looked at Carl with disgust.

Shadow didn't have any opinion on this, and even looked a little eager to try.

"You underestimated me! Don't worry! I will never hold you back!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he raised his hand and tapped the rune ring on the chest of the power armor.

The purple-black eclipse ability flashed, and the power armor, which was originally bright silver, immediately became gray and matte. Even people with dark vision could not immediately find his trace.

"Take me with you too! I can transform into a bat and scout in mid-air!"

Just then, Hope also wanted to go along. She had been training her transformation ability during this period of time and finally gained a clever transformation other than the black bear.

"In that case, I won't go. You three can explore well!"

Scorpion glanced at Carl and the other two, waved his hand, and sat back next to Bane.

Carl and the other two looked at each other, then nodded and left in the distance.

Hope transformed directly into a bat and flew into the air, while Shadow and Carl followed one after the other.