Parallel Armies——The Sound of the Turning Tide Chapter Six Old and Strong
The next day, the purchase has been completed, and you still have one and a half days before departure.
Carlin also looked for materials to make engineering explosives and planned to do it himself, but even the materials were pipe products.
Sophia went to Lingyang Trading Company to ask if there were potions or other stores that could provide protective items. And if there were any sealed baits? But there were none. Without Warcraft, there was no need for protective potions, equipment, or baits.
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Then, the escorts and old adventurers who have put on new bear leather armor and weapons will set off with you.
The veteran adventurer has a wealth of knowledge about survival in harsh environments. He will help you avoid all dangers in underground rivers, and use space equipment to carry out supplies while conducting carpet-like searches.
The last group of people successfully found the entrance to the ruins, and because the mechanisms of the ruins were quite crude, they could not hide from Karin's sensitive hearing, which did not take him lightly.
Except for a bedroom, an empty cell, and a messy laboratory, the ruins are filled with roads extending in all directions. Except for some dead ends, there is a straight road to the north, south, and west, and you can see it after traveling all day.
A road that never ends.
In the bedroom, Sophia found the notes of the unknown crazy beast tamer. This note told the content of "it"'s crazy experiments as an abnormal human being with the blood of ferocious beasts. "It's" test subjects
There are humans, dwarves, orcs, half-orcs, demi-humans of all races, wood elves, half-elves, dwarves, mermaids, etc.
There was also the birth of mixed-race children who were forcibly interbred by "it". None of them could withstand the blood of the beast, and they all went crazy and died.
After that, "it" allowed some experimental subjects to obtain the blood of ferocious beasts in the form of injections, but still no one could withstand the blood of ferocious beasts in its body. The imperfect injection report was given to it by "it"
own family.
This crazy beast tamer failed to leave his own blood and died alone. Before his death, "it" turned into a vicious beast and killed all the experimental subjects and the monsters suppressed by the beast's pressure. The passage to the south is connected
The test site has been completely destroyed by "it" and is also the cemetery of "it". The north is unclear, but there is no doubt that the passage to the west is the place where the legend says it connects to the adamantine mine.
There is so much content in the notes, and the rest are some incomprehensible calculation formulas.
"What does this note say?" Zate asked in a low voice with some curiosity.
"This... I don't recommend you to know too much," Sophia's face was not very good, and she had new guesses about the strange feeling in her body again.
"Yeah, I know" Zate responded softly.
"According to this notebook, this animal trainer is too crazy. His death is a good thing for others, but the family he comes from, I worry that that family will be very dangerous." Sophia handed the notebook to him.
The old adventurer handed it to Karin after reading it.
"There is too little information. To be on the safe side, let's go west and have a look." Sophia discussed it with the old adventurer, but the latter wanted to go north. "Following you young people is an interesting thing, but it's unknown.
The adventure is more exciting." He planned to head toward the northern passage alone.
"Well... let's go to the north with you. After all, without your help, we wouldn't be able to get here so easily." Sofia looked at her companions beside her, and then continued with a gesture: "Maybe we can go there.
By the way, what other gains can there be? You also said that this is an unknown adventure, right?"
"It's better not to separate places like this as much as possible." Karin handed the note to Sophia and asked her to put it away.
"You should have your own things to do. You have to pass through the regular army's defense line at all costs from a legendary place. You can pass by spending time to get a regular identity, but you still chose another plan." The old adventurer took a sip of wine.
He also smacked his lips. I don’t know if the old adventurer heard it when the big-mouthed man in the outer passage was chatting with other people.
"Having said that, there are actually other factors to consider. Besides, leaving behind the people who helped me and leaving alone makes me feel uncomfortable." Sophia walked to the passage and informed these strong men.
But how can the soldiers react? As long as it is not an order to die, they will support the elder sister head unconditionally.
"Then I will help you all when the time comes. At least this is the help I can do." Zate has never been of any use.
"From my personal experience, lying is always not very safe." Karin was the only one left in the room. He muttered to himself and walked into the passage to follow the group of people heading north.
Before setting off, the old adventurer smiled and said: "This reminds me that a long time ago, when I was young, there was a Zen saying from the Far East country circulated among adventurers and mercenaries. 'He who is not arrogant knows more.
He who is not timid will gain.'"
"This sentence is very interesting. It would be nice to go to that country and see it if I have the opportunity in the future." Sophia said casually, but who knew that she would actually arrive a long, long time later?
"Educated, let's go?" Karin didn't want to stay in the dark underground for too long.
The old adventurer shrugged. "This is your freedom."
As they headed north, the wind in the passage gradually increased to an unbearable level, and the chill became more obvious. The temperature difference formed the wind, and the wind took away more of the body heat of the group.
After marching like this for two days, the floors, walls, and ceilings of the passage were no longer rough excavation marks, but instead turned into naturally formed caves. As the caves went further, the space became larger and larger.
The last group of people arrived at the middle of a fissure in the ground. Looking down, they could see water flow, magma and bones. Looking up, they could see snow-covered peaks.
There is a huge dragon-shaped black shadow and a dozen bird-shaped black shadows biting each other in the clouds, and there are some human or animal remains at the bottom of the Great Rift Valley, and under the wreckage there are shiny reflective metals.
The old adventurer glanced at Sophia and climbed down without saying anything. It was very difficult because of the prosthetic limbs.
Karin put away unnecessary hand-held equipment and climbed down with the old adventurer.
Zate looked at the situation that required climbing and felt a little powerless.
There is a rope in the space equipment, which is a basic item in the adventurer suit. You can use it to climb down, but it requires extra time and energy. Sophia took out the rope and asked twenty strong men to arrange it so that Zate could use the rope to climb down.
"I'm really sorry for causing trouble to you." Zate followed the instructions honestly and tied the rope around his waist with a tight buckle.
While Zate was waiting and Sophia ordered the escort soldiers to tie the multiple ropes tightly together, the agile old adventurer and Karin were almost reaching the bottom of the rift valley.
While letting Zate down, Sophia looked at the scene among the clouds, and inexplicably thought of the bird monsters she had heard about at Luoyun Peak before. But she didn't know of any bird monsters in this country that could fight dragons when they were in groups.
Carlin and the old adventurer had descended three hundred feet from the natural cave they came down from, and were still about seventy feet away from the bottom of the rift valley. The skeletons were suddenly appeared by a green tree floating one meter above the ground.
Attracted by the ball of light.
Bones of different shapes from different skeletons began to be spliced together by unknown forces, forming four gray-white skeletal beasts.
Considering the condition of his prosthetic limbs, the old adventurer couldn't jump off casually, so he climbed down quickly, letting go and landing at a height of five meters. Then he held the handle of the crutch hanging on the adventurer's tactical buckle belt and pulled it down.
The sword was drawn out. The group of people had not noticed anything strange about the cane before.
Sophia observed the situation of the four skeletal monsters and the green light ball, trying to identify some relevant information. But she had no impression of this thing that was not known to be an energy body or even an illusion, and those skeletal beasts were simply not
Just a clean creature.
Sophia first released a light barrier to cover the old adventurer below, and then released the fireball technique she had just learned recently towards the monster close to the old adventurer. Although the name sounds ordinary, it is compared to the zero-level magic.
Flame Arrow, this third-level spell has great range and power.
The bursting flames produced quite effective results. Many charred bones fell down, but overall it seemed that these unclean creatures were still mobile.
[Ugh... I feel like it's not very effective against these monsters. Let's try that light ball next time. ]
Karin took out a short gun on the rock wall, pointed it at the light ball in the distance and used the special bullets he had loaded in advance. After hitting the target, an explosion comparable to the power of the fireball technique would be produced - this move was called by Sophia.
Explosive shooting.
But the shot passed through the light ball and had no effect. It only exploded a few rocks on the rock wall on the opposite side of the rift. Seeing this, Carlin frowned and let go. After falling to the ground, he rolled up and raised his shield.
Zate carefully climbed down the rope to support him. With the ball of light as the center of the circle, Zate, whose feet had not even touched the ground, noticed an invisible sound wave coming from him.
Before he could issue a warning, the sound wave had completely dissociated the ordinary bones at the bottom of the rift valley into powder. The wind in the rift valley blew away the bone powder, and the reflective metal could be seen clearly for its original appearance - it was a chest metal plate quilt.
The steel golem was pried open, and there was a translucent golden spherical crystal inside.
After the sound wave suppressed several people, the skeletal beasts sprayed out several bone spurs that resembled the leg bones of small animals and attacked Kalin and Sophia. Kalin dodged the blow while Sophia released the shield technique.
But it wasn't over yet. As the green light ball flashed, the two of them felt a pain in their chests.
"I have never seen such incorporeal monsters. I leave the spellcaster girl above to you. I will deal with these few." The old adventurer took a step and appeared in front of the skeletal beast at the center of the fireball explosion.
The high-speed slash turned this unclean creature into a pile of skeletons again.
"You can try to take out the crystal from the golem. I'll try to see if it's caused by that crystal first." Sophia aimed at the green light ball and released another fireball spell.
As the red spell band on Sophia's wrist disappeared, the generated flames burned the steel golem violently, but this was not enough to turn the steel into molten iron. Although the metal could become brittle if the temperature suddenly dropped, there was no need for it now.
When the tongue of fire licked the golden crystal, the green ball of light showed obvious signs of instability.
"It is indeed caused by this crystal!" Finally, Sofia released a light barrier to cover Karin.
Karin received the prompt, so he ran towards the golden core and tried to dig it out.
When Kalin held the almost spherical 256-hedron, the green light ball seemed to flicker unwillingly for a few times before disappearing. After Kalin straightened up, the remaining skeletal beast also shattered.
"Ah, is this the end?" The old adventurer inserted the cane and sword back.