The heat exchange device in the mine duct makes the air inside hot and wet, and from time to time there will be a gust of wind blowing, just like the breath of a hungry giant beast.
The red emergency lighting equipment dyed the passages deep red, outlining rolling clouds of steam, and the condensation of water droplets in the pipes above the head and the piping system shine.
Bahram also smelled the bitter smell of metal corrosion and the fresh splash of blood.
"I thought the heat exchanger had stopped working, but now it seems obviously not."
Sabrin said, pulling his bird Buyi off his belt and testing it.
The screen flashed for a moment, and then it was filled with a series of data. He tried several different detection modes, then shook his head in disgust and put away the instrument.
“No display, or at least no meaningful results, there are a lot of distractions nearby.”
“Where is it.”
Li Lin echoed.
"I only know where this instrument is. I don't think it works. I think we need a technical sergeant in the future."
"Keep alert and beware of possible ambush."
Bahram briefly interjected, unwilling to let this series of speculation continue, and during the process, Talos kept silent.
After a while, the team lined up into a rough pentagonal formation, with 2 soldiers in each direction, and Talos stood in the heart of the team.
This is a solid formation suitable for dealing with close-range attacks from any direction.
After confirming that all the soldiers were in place, Talos waved his hand to signal the team to advance, while Bahram and Sabrin walked at the front of the team.
According to the map obtained in the Meditators array, the team walked through the winding corridor surrounding the bottom of the thermal tower and headed straight for the key areas.
Along the way, visibility was very limited, and even Astart was hindered, the fog and dim red light created illusory trajectories and blurred visions, blurring more than two meters of vision.
Bahram suspected they had gone far.
As they further penetrated the mine, the terrible heat waves and corruption became stronger and stronger, and the air became more and more hostile to these outsiders, and became more and more concentrated on them.
Bahram could feel the weight pressing on himself, like a suffocating cloud, poking a way out on his armor.
Despite the harsh heat in the environment, a layer of black frost condensed on the hilt of his sword.
There are four elevators that can be accessed from the mine, but to Bahram, they are more like deadly traps.
If the enemy uses explosive weapons, then in such a small space, anything can be destroyed.
Talos obviously thought so, so the team gave up on the elevator and began to walk down from one of the four long stairs.
Stairs do not automatically convert like most buildings, instead they descend in a long arc-shaped spiral.
There is a dirty atmosphere in the air, and with every step, the stronger the atmosphere becomes.
Bahram focused on placing one foot in front of the other, recalling the labyrinthic steps that meandered through the monastery fortress.
He recalled the past while walking: he joined the battle group and fell into darkness for a long time due to transformation.
Memory is vague and only half appears, just like a scene in a dream.
Suddenly, Bahram felt a faint touch swelling on the back of his head, and finally he had to push these thoughts away.
What is even more worrying is that cracks begin to appear in the exterior walls of the stairwell, and the deeper the cracks go underground.
Something was like a black tree root, forcing through the soil layer, spreading to the inner surface of the curved wall, sprinkling black, unpleasant mud onto the stairs.
The red light shone on the bodies of insects waving among the roots of the tree, and as Astart passed by, each ghostly spider as big as a hand crawled out of their nests, waving their long legs to show a challenge.
When they reached the lowest level, the stairs turned into a pothole tunnel, filled with chirping lives.
Strange, deformed insects, swollen and dirty, creeping in a dense network of rotting root matter.
There was even a long, segmented millipede, almost as long as Bahram's forearm, spreading like a spring from the bend of the root ball, jumping onto his shoulder, and stabbing frantically at the armored steel plate with a needle-like sting.
Astart swept away the dirty thing with his hands and pressed it under his boots.
Nevertheless, the players continued to move forward through the ever-slim tunnel until Bahram began to think that they would be forced to open the way with a chainsaw sword.
Finally, Talos ordered the team to stop.
The air was suffocating, filled with the smell of heat and rotten, and the red emergency lights were already out.
Vaguely, Bahram could feel a blurred green light passing through Talos's shoulder.
"We have reached the bottom of this mine."
Talos arrived calmly, then looked at the rustling swarm of insects above his head.
"What about next, sir?"
“Go forward.”
Sabrin nodded and walked into the darkness without hesitation. Bahram followed behind, and the rest of the team were preparing with their weapons tightly grasping.
Heavy feet stepped on the thick sand and gravel, and cable-like vines stretched across the floor on the other side of the stairwell. Fallen air whizzed past the helmets of the people, and the noise of insects surrounding the warriors expanded into crazy life.
They walked more than a hundred meters along a corridor with very low ceilings, passing many intersecting corridors along the way.
In the aisle, the plants stuck to it were not diminished at all, and Bahram realized that the light green light came from a swollen larvae that clung to the twisted roots.
The uneasy movement echoed around them, as if it was getting bigger and bigger as time passed.
For a while, Bahram heard the clicking sound of the claws behind a string of tubes, half hidden in a vine net that spread along one of the walls, but he could not see the creature making the sound.
“How far is it?”
A soldier suddenly spoke, his voice with a little nervousness, and the constant screams and rustling made the recruits in the team nervous.
They have not really touched the demons.
"More than fifty—"
As soon as Sabrin opened his mouth, the air suddenly filled with horrible screams, something with armor erupting from the plants around them.
A sectioned monster emerged from a thick network of pipes above his head and attacked Astart downwards.
It is as agile as a tree venomous snake, with hundreds of chitin-wrapped legs and half a dozen compound eyes embedded in its broad head.
In an instant, it entangled Sabrin's body, lifted the huge warrior off the ground, and bit the back of his helmet with his bent jaw.
As the squad was surrounded from all directions, pistols and chainsaw swords roared in the narrow space, Sabrin twisted under the monster's claws and slashed the monster's body with his fighting knife.
Chapter completed!