Parallel Armies——The Sound of Turning Tide Chapter 49 Underground Cave
Sofia held her breath as much as possible, remained motionless, and watched the soldiers quietly in the shadows.
Just when the soldiers were about to search her! Due to the emergency and unable to see the situation below, Carlin had no choice but to grab Sophia's slender waist and jump down to the sewer without a manhole cover in the shadows.
In order to prevent Sofia from screaming, Carlin temporarily covered Sofia's mouth. Carlin barely judged the landing point from the sound of water flow and allowed the two of them to land safely.
After a while, the two heard the soldiers running and talking hurriedly above their heads. When the soldiers finally put their torches into the well, Carlin had already pulled Sophia and hid in the nearest corner.
Although Carlin and Sofia were more than half a meter apart at this time, their hearts were beating non-stop for various reasons.
Carlin and Sofia finally breathed a sigh of relief after the soldiers thought they had made a mistake and returned to the original route... It was so dark that they couldn't see anything, and something seemed to be covered at the wellhead.
Carlin lit a match to provide a little light, and pointed to Sofia. "Should we go up or take the sewer?" He could only hear the sounds of bugs and rats now.
Sophia recalled that the route on the ground relatively coincided with the distribution of the sewers, and she could find a place to go up near the target location. But although she could get through that area, she just didn't know how to go. It was complicated.
When that person told Dinefel about Brandon's information, he was definitely not talking about activities on the ground. He could guess that it involved the sewer.
There are probably many dead ends and secret doors in this place, and the various areas of the sewer cannot be connected. Including the black market where Sophia went, they were all developed artificially. If there is no topographic map and no light source to check the mechanism, it can be said that
It is difficult to move even an inch.
Sophia first took a light spell and then released the awakening spirit, summoning the water element here, asking about the distribution of the sewers here, and whether anyone with a light element had passed by within their range of activities.
With the vague sense of the water element, the two of them are currently on the top level of the sewer. It seems that there are three levels of sewers, with more dark sauces going down. No one with light sauce has passed through.
Sofia then asked the water element if he knew the distribution of the first floor, the route to the target location, and how to get to the second floor.
But the elemental energy can't give a specific route. It's almost stagnant water here, and I don't know the specific situation in other areas. But it seems that there is a mechanism in the largest sewage pool. If it is opened, the water will drain downwards. This is how other water elements go.
After asking again, the two of them learned that the passage was about the size of one person.
After that, Sophia gave up her focus to dismiss the water element and cast the spell again, replacing it with the wind element, and then asked for the route to the same destination again.
The wind elements were very close to Sophia and circled around her. However, there were very few wind elements below, and no wind elements had reached the lower level.
Then this group of wind elements didn't notice the people with light elements passing by. Sophia briefly told Carlin about the situation and prepared to go up.
"Actually, it shouldn't be far from here." Carlin comforted him after seeing that Sophia had been busy for a long time before getting a piece of information that she didn't know was useful.
"Well, you should listen to the noise first before going up." Sophia ordered in a low voice.
"Okay." Carlin liberated his senses and listened to all directions. He approached the wellhead lightly and climbed up laboriously. When he reached the top, he used his legs to push his back against the wall. He then used one hand to gently lift up the stone slab covering it and observed the outside.
Condition.
"It's time to go." Carlin confirmed that no one was there and looked down.
"Well, if you meet Brandon, let's talk to him about this." Sophia nodded.
Karin lightly jumped out of the manhole, held the manhole cover and waited for Sophia, while listening to the movements around him.
After Sofia confirmed that there was no danger, she climbed up. Although there was no ladder and the unevenness of the stone was not particularly obvious, Sofia was not like an ordinary mage who was not good at exercise.
After that, Karin and Sofia moved to the next safe alley, which was now a quarter of an hour later than planned. She took stock of her current location and the route she was going to take before moving on.
There seemed to be riots in other places. The two took this opportunity to quickly rush to the target area and found a rainwater well and entered the sewer system.
Sophia did not rush to illuminate, but waited for Carlin to explore first. The latter's rabbit ears moved slightly to determine whether there was something moving down there, but except for the two people, there was no living thing in this range.
Then Carlin threw another stone and tried to distinguish how many roads were nearby through the echo. There were four branch roads extending from the sewer here, and he could not find the bottom. They happened to be in four directions, which felt like it was not a coincidence.
"It feels more like an underground street..." Karin said to Sophia in a very low voice.
"Hmm..." Sophia chose to release awakening spirituality, summon the wind element, and ask if there are people with light elements here and the routes they can move to judge the passage route here.
The wind elements here don't know what the light element is. They have never seen it, but there are many dark elements here. It sounds close to an environment rich in dark elements. But Sophia feels that she can still release the light barrier.
Sofia continued to ask about the elements, and then asked about the water element again, whether the concentration of the elements here had changed. The concentration of the dark elements did increase slightly. This did not refer to a specific location, but the entire nearby sewer system.
Sophia drank a bottle of magic potion and then used Fate Alert to investigate, and upgraded the spell to target herself and Brandon. But she saw nothing, and the spell ended.
Sophia hesitated for a moment and lit a faint spark. She used the faint light to check the four passages, trying to find traces of someone passing through.
The two searched for a while and found some scratches in the corner of a dead end. There should be a mechanism here.
Carlin tried knocking on the wall to see where it was hollow. When he knocked on a brick, Carlin activated a secret door. This was a downward passage, and a strong smell of blood appeared in it.
.There were countless burned-to-death bats in the passage, but there was no burning smell, only the smell of blood. It should have been just burned...
Karin pointed downwards, raised his shield in front of him, and walked slowly inward.
Sofia nodded, prepared herself, and followed behind Carlin, alerting herself to possible agencies or attacks.
The two passed the stairs where the bat corpses were, and when they reached the next floor, they suddenly realized something. Sophia switched to the light spell and saw that there were many sinkholes on the second floor leading to the deep third floor.
The second floor is not a fixed wall, but is built on the basis of the cave. In addition, because the second floor is very huge, Karin's hearing cannot detect much.
Soon the two found some traces of fighting in the passage they just went down. The walls and floors were mainly made of long sword marks, and there were also some signs of cracks. There were no short scratches or holes caused by stabs.
There are no traces of elemental attribute attacks.
The traces of the battle couldn't be used to judge the direction of the unknown people, so Sophia once again released Awakening Spirituality. However, the spell failed halfway through, and a strange feeling interrupted the last step of constructing her spell model.
The water flow here is dispersed, and finally collectively goes down to the deeper third layer, which is under the sinkhole. The sinkhole is irregular, and the passage of the underground cave is also irregular. It can be said that this city gives people
It feels like it was deliberately built on top of a huge void.
The cave is purely natural, and some large fracture surfaces are connected by whole stone slabs. Carlin moved a certain distance, and there are very few areas that have been modified. There are seven smooth and easy-to-walk passages.
It can also be said that when you go to this cave, unless you have that kind of marking ability, it is almost impossible to find people.
It seems that the location chosen by Brandon is very suitable for hiding and escaping. Both of them can already guess how Brandong and the others are going to evacuate.
Sofia estimated the current time and compared it with the time that Dynefil had learned before. Carlin proposed to go around this place, after all, he had not encountered a "wall" so far.
It took the two of them a long time to reach the boundary of the cave. It can be estimated that the cave is only slightly smaller than the entire city.
Along the way, we also saw man-made holes or very large load-bearing stone pillars. "It's too big here. Should we go back up and wait?" Carlin asked.
"Well, I won't find anything here for a while." Sofia nodded and returned with Karin.
When he returned to the pile of bats in the secret passage, Karin kicked all the corpses into one piece and left a mithril bullet next to them.
Sofia also placed the rose rosary she had been wearing since Lamisa next to the mithril bullets, and drew a smiley face on the ground. Then she followed Carlin back the same way, while guarding the surroundings.
Carlin heard that no one seemed to be watching near the rain well, so he went up to confirm the situation.
After finding that there was no problem, he gave Sophia a hand, and the two of them sneaked back toward the hotel.
After passing through the gaps between the patrols several times without any danger, the two of them successfully returned to the hotel and entered the house through the window.
Carlin quickly closed the window and listened to see if anyone was coming around the hotel. Sofia whispered and briefly told Dinefel and Zate about what she saw.
"At least we know where they will leave from." Carlin withdrew his rabbit ears against the window to explore outside. There was nothing unusual outside.
"I'm lucky that I didn't encounter any trouble. Well, what should we do next?" Zate had some ideas before leaving, but he lost them so quickly.
"I don't know, but the traces of the struggle over there are obvious. They should have been pursued all the way." Carlin felt that Brandon should have the upper hand.
"We can't trace the past. We can only act according to the situation." Sophia still knows too few types of spells.
"Does he have the habit of killing his enemies completely?" Carlin asked.
"At least during the time when Brandon and I worked together, there was no such thing. Of course, that was because all we encountered were monsters." Sofia thought about it and found that she and Brandon had indeed experienced too little. Relying on Alexander's description
Of course, I don’t know Brandon very well yet.
"If the enemy just let go, there is no guarantee that there will be an ambush on that road. But let's not consider this for the moment, do you think the killer will come again?" Carlin was referring to the time when Sophia used Destiny Warning and was attacked.
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"I don't know, but just in case, I will ask the night watchers to guard our rooms later." Sophia sighed.
"I think it's better to be careful." Zate said worriedly.
"If nothing happens, prepare to rest and recuperate. Zate, please help me recover with hymns. I have just consumed too much energy. In addition, I have to keep some daily records." Sophia's habit of writing a diary has become a habit.
Instinct.
"Okay." Zate nodded and sang in a low voice.
"Well, let's rest first." Dinefel planned to go back to his room.
"It's better if we all stay in the same room tonight." Carlin suggested.