Everyone held their breath, not even daring to take a breath, and tried to keep their breathing as slow as possible, for fear of attracting the big cock's attention.
Time passed slowly, about ten breaths later.
The red rooster head looked left and right, but seemed to find nothing to eat. Finally, it began to slowly retreat back, disappearing into the darkness.
call...
Everyone present couldn't help but secretly breathed a sigh of relief. The rooster's head was really too big... For such a big rooster, not to mention what special abilities it had, even if it was pecked with such power, it would have an invincible posture.
Lin Xin was also secretly relieved. He had just come down from the cave and encountered such a huge creature. To say it was surrounded by dangers would be an understatement.
Seeing that big cock about to shrink back into the abyss.
laugh.
Suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, Lin Xin saw a small, round object flying towards the abyss. He didn't know who threw it.
"That's...a flare!!!" He suddenly recognized it and his face turned pale.
The rooster was probably provoked by the signal bomb just now. Who is throwing the signal bomb at this time? His intention is sinister, it is to kill everyone present!
Not only him, but Senior Brother Xiao Lingling and others also turned pale. They all recognized that it was a signal bomb.
Without any time to think about it, Lin Xin quickly picked up a stone and threw it at the flare.
The stone was hit squarely in the air and flew far away, no one knows how far it flew.
Bang!
Only then did a ball of white light shine in the darkness in the distance, which was luckily more than twenty meters away from where everyone was.
Phew... amid a huge surge of air, the rooster appeared again, its head moving in the direction of the white light explosion.
"Let's go!" Lin Xin shouted in a low voice and rushed towards the bottom of the stone wall first. Xiao Lingling, Senior Brother Guang and others also woke up from a dream and hurried to follow. However, the centaur was still trembling with fear and stood motionless on the spot.
Dare to move.
Several people ran wildly, winding down the stone wall, and ran no less than several thousand meters before slowly stopping and looking back.
In the darkness, one could vaguely see a huge black shadow slowly sinking down into the abyss. It was obviously the big rooster.
"Keep running, no matter how far you go, it's not safe here!" Lin Xin made a quick decision and continued to turn around and head down the passage on the stone wall.
Xiao Lingling and others also saw the black shadow and quickly continued to run.
After running down, I didn't encounter a black-haired horseman until I reached an oval stone platform.
Black chains as thick as a person's waist are tied around the platform, and eight black chains hang the entire stone platform in mid-air. The edge of the stone platform is next to the stone wall passage that snakes from above.
Lin Xin looked forward and saw that the only end of the passage road was this platform, and there were no other roads in sight.
The ground of the platform was flat and smooth, pitch black, and there were stalagmites of different heights scattered around the edges, like a circle of incomplete saw teeth. Looking from a distance, it looked a bit ferocious.
Lin Xin listened attentively. In the darkness, apart from the footsteps and breathing of himself and others, and the crackling sound of burning torches, there was no sound of wind.
"Lin...Senior Brother Lin. What should we do now?" At this time, Xiao Lingling and others were a little convinced by Lin Xin. Just now he was the first to notice the approach of the big rooster. And it was he who later used stones in a hurry.
Shoot the flare far away. If it weren't for him, if the big rooster went wild, everyone present would probably not be able to survive.
"This is the only way, we can only go forward." Lin Xin walked forward without looking back.
He vaguely noticed a row of footprints in front of him. Although it was very dim and unclear under the firelight, he could barely identify it.
He followed the footsteps and walked forward slowly, and the others followed closely behind him, following suit, looking left and right, for fear of encountering any monsters again.
"The sect will not let us complete impossible tasks." Lin Xin whispered, "So, that monster cock is definitely not something we can resist. Since it is impossible for us to resist, there must be something in it.
There is a certain pattern that can keep us safe from the threat of that monster..."
He said as he walked, and Xiao Lingling, who was suddenly a little flustered, also had some reaction.
"Brother Lin, what you mean is... that big rooster, as long as certain conditions are met, will not attack us, but those centaurs..."
She is also a smart person. When she thought about it, she suddenly came to her senses.
"Yes, those centaurs shouldn't be so fierce. If they are so powerful at the beginning, they will be even more fierce later on, so they must have some weaknesses for us to exploit." Lin Xin nodded.
Xiao Lingling also immediately thought of the horseman's performance just now.
"Perhaps, we can recover quickly under the deterrence of the big rooster, but those centaurs cannot, so this time difference can be made good use of. From this point of view, it should be much easier to kill those blood beast centaurs."
When the others heard her analysis, they immediately felt that it made sense.
Naturally, Lin Xin had already thought of it, so he kept moving forward without saying much.
Walking up the black platform, there was no movement at all. Until he was about to cross the platform smoothly, Lin Xin felt a little relaxed. His feet stepped on the ground of another cave passage on the opposite side, and he slowly breathed a sigh of relief.
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This platform is located between two stone walls, forming a link-like function that connects both sides of the entire cave abyss. It happens to be stuck in the narrowest terrain of the abyss.
It is equivalent to a stone bridge.
After crossing the platform, Lin Xin and others had arrived at the stone wall opposite the abyss. There was a dark cave on the stone wall. They stood at the entrance of the cave and looked at the huge dark square inside.
The square is flat, surrounded by collapsed and broken stone statues. In the center, there is a vine sculpture with teeth and claws, which is more than ten meters high and extremely conspicuous.
Lin Xin glanced around and saw that the entire square was as big as a football field, but the ground was mostly gravel and stones, with broken stone statues here and there, almost blocking most of the sight.
"There should be passages leading to other places here. This time our trial is to hunt blood beasts and obtain blood beast skulls. Presumably the black-haired centaur just now is probably the blood beast. With our strength
, it would be best to attract the blood beasts one by one to surround and kill them." Lin Xin turned back to look at a few people, "Do you have any objections?"
"No, it all depends on Senior Brother Lin." Xiao Lingling was the first to express her position, which made Senior Brother Guang next to him look obviously ugly.
"If it hadn't been for Senior Brother Lin just now, we might not even have been able to save our lives. Who would Senior Brother Guang be showing off to?" Several other people were a little dissatisfied and murmured in a low voice.
Everyone heard this, and Senior Brother Guang's face turned even darker. He glanced at Xiao Lingling.
Xiao Lingling pretended not to hear anything.
"No objection, let's search this square first. Pay attention. Don't be alarmed if you find the centaurs. Turn back and meet at the vine in the middle. Then we will plan to take action together." Lin Xin whispered, he had no time to pay attention to this guy.
Be careful, it's more important to hunt the blood beast.
"clear."
Several people responded and walked towards the square below together.
Slowly walking down the slope to the square, Lin Xin and others each lit a torch and searched separately in several directions.
He doesn't dare to take it lightly even if he is alone. If the person just now is one, with his current strength at the fourth level of innate level, it will not be a big problem to solve, but if it is two, there may be some troubles and it cannot be solved quickly.
Unless you use your trump card, the Clear Talisman Sword, the Clear Rune Stone, but that thing is too noisy, and it's hard to predict what kind of troublesome monster it might cause.
Alone, Lin Xin walked to the right with a torch and groped his way forward. After bypassing some broken limbs of stone statues, he walked out for about a hundred meters and looked back. There was only a faint trace of fire in the distance. Apparently everyone else was there.
We separated and went far away.
The square was quiet, with only a faint whistling of the wind.
Walking to a broken stone statue, he reached out and gently touched the broken edge of the stone statue.
The cold, ice-like temperature spread from the fingers to the palms, and then spread towards the arms and body.
Lin Xin quickly retracted and shuddered slightly.
The fracture was extremely incomplete and rough, and it cut his hand slightly. He touched it lightly and then retracted it.
Looking carefully up and down, this stone statue is completely black. It is carved with a soldier holding a spear. It seems to be a stone statue guarding the square.
The fracture started from the waist upward. One part of his upper body fell to the ground on the side, and the other part of his lower body sank into the ground crookedly, not completely falling down.
"This stone statue..." Lin Xin frowned slightly, looking at the fracture of the stone statue thoughtfully.
"Brother Lin."
Just as he was thinking, Xiao Lingling's voice came from behind.
He turned around and saw Xiao Lingling quietly walking out from behind a stone statue without a torch. Her face was a little pale, and her originally charming face had a hint of pity.
"Brother Lin...I'm a little scared." Xiao Lingling came closer, less than half a meter away from Lin Xin. Although she was dressed in black, it was tight and highlighted the beautiful lines of her figure.
Wearing clothes makes people think more.
Lin Xin raised his eyebrows. "Junior sister Xiao, have you finished exploring your direction?"
"I...I don't dare to go alone..." Xiao Lingling lowered her head in embarrassment. "With my strength, if I encounter a monster like that just now... I'm afraid even escaping will be dangerous...
..”
Lin Xin was a little helpless, but he remembered that Xiao Lingling's strength was not in her cultivation, but in other aspects of investigation.
He thought for a moment and opened his mouth to speak.
"Brother Lin!" Suddenly Xiao Lingling let out a sweet cry and pounced towards him, crashing into his arms.
Lin Xin only felt the warm fragrance of nephrite in his arms, and his face was slightly startled.
"As long as you protect me...I...I'm willing to do anything!" Xiao Lingling begged in a low voice. Her voice was as charming as a kitten's neighing.
Bang!!
Lin Xin suddenly turned pale and kicked Xiao Lingling out hard.
Xiao Lingling was kicked out, rolled in mid-air, and landed firmly on the ground.
Lin Xin lowered his head and glanced at his chest, where a clear hole appeared on the surface of the clothes, and the skin inside had a faint thin white knife mark.
"You are not Xiao Lingling! Who are you!?" Lin Xin looked cold and stared at Xiao Lingling in front of him. If it was really Xiao Lingling, she would never be able to land firmly after receiving such a kick from herself.
"Brother Lin, why are you so cruel? I really wanted to sacrifice myself just now..." Xiao Lingling covered her mouth and smiled sweetly, but she looked at Lin Xin with a hint of fear.
"ah!"
Suddenly there was a scream in the distance, and a fire extinguished the fire.
Lin Xin was distracted for a moment, and when he looked at 'Xiao Lingling' again, he could only see the trace of her back that had disappeared into the darkness.