The camp was already set up when Steven and the others dragged the argali back.
Chito skinned and cleaned the argali by the stream. He handed the skin to Steven, but Steven didn't take it: "I have no use for this sheepskin, so I'll give it to you!"
Chito thanked Steven and said that this sheepskin could be sold at the vendors in the village for a lot of money.
After putting away the sheepskin, Chito quickly cleaned the mutton, and then hung the mutton on the wooden frame of the campfire to barbecue. The members of the mercenary group who had been running around for a day could finally enjoy a delicious dinner in peace.
Early the next morning, the team continued to set off after packing up. Today, Shilay followed Chito to lead the way and conduct reconnaissance. After a whole day of trekking, they had approached the place before dark, and the team camped on the spot.
The team set off on the morning of the third day. According to Chito's prediction, they would arrive near their destination around noon. Today, Steven followed Chito and led the way.
After setting off, Steven felt that Chito and his hound Peppa were obviously a little nervous, and they did not chat like they had the previous few days along the way.
Following the silent Chito and the hound Peppa Pig, Steven also let go of his senses and alerted to the movements around him. The team had been traveling along the canyon in the past few days, and they were basically going up. It was almost noon
The team came to a pass between two mountains.
Standing at the pass and looking forward, the terrain turned downwards, and the mouth of the canyon in front of the pass was where they were about to enter.
Chito turned back and waited for the team behind to approach. Edith led the others to the two of them. Chito said to Edith: "I will take you until here! The canyon in front is where you enter the Blue Swamp.
One of the canyons is also the direction where the hunters disappeared before. If you continue to move forward, you should always pay attention to the abnormalities and movements around you!"
Edith nodded and said: "Okay, we will pay close attention! You go back to the camp of the chef and the driver and wait for us to come back!"
After saying goodbye to the team, Chito returned along the same route with his dog Peggy. The members of the mercenary group rested at the pass while taking out dried meat, coarse wheat bread and yesterday's leftover barbecue for lunch.
After resting for a while after the meal, the team continued to set off. Steven led the way and everyone carefully entered the canyon.
The members of the mercenary group followed the stream flowing from the top of the mountain toward the depths of the canyon. Steven walked more than 30 meters in front of the team. He let go of his senses and alerted to possible abnormalities. This canyon was different from the one they walked in the past few days.
The canyons we passed were all similar, with dense trees on both sides of the mountain walls.
There are also many animals in this area. Before camping in the afternoon, Steven and Hilley hunted another antelope. Their hunting operations before camping every day in the past few days have been fruitful, and the team's dinner meals were very good.
The terrain at the campsite at night was not very flat, so everyone had to make do with it for the night and continue walking along the canyon the next day.
Two days later, they had crossed several valleys, but found nothing of value. They were now walking in a valley leading to the swamp. As the terrain lowered, the mountains on the road gradually became gentler in the past two days.
Small ponds and grassy slopes like swamps began to appear in the valley. It seemed that this was already a cross between mountains and swamps.
After having a brief lunch and resting for a while, Steven led the team to continue setting off. The valley in front of them had reached the end of the walkway. In front of them was a hillside. The valley separated and extended to the left and right sides. The terrain further decreased and the valley became
It is much more open, and the hillsides and valleys are covered with forests at varying heights.
Steven stopped and waited for Edith to come forward. After the two compared the map and direction, Steven walked towards the valley on the right, and Edith returned to the team.
After walking for more than one kilometer, there was a turn in the valley ahead. Steven turned to the left along the river at the bottom of the valley. As soon as he turned around from two big trees, he saw a strange thing in front of the hillside dozens of meters away.
thing!
It was a huge long strip, the whole thing was slightly lighter gray, and it was inserted diagonally into the hillside. The exposed part was spiral-shaped, and the top of it was filled with sedimentary soil and grass.
It looks like some kind of long conch! It is inserted diagonally into the soil on the hillside, and about half of its length is exposed.
Steven was a little shocked! This conch-shaped shell was too big! The length of it exposed from the soil layer of the hillside may be more than 10 meters, and the diameter of the thinnest part of the top is more than two meters. In addition, the top of it is broken, revealing a
A hole almost two meters in diameter.
Seeing this unusually huge shell, Steven stopped. He stood about 30 meters away from the shell, right next to two big trees at the turning point of the valley.
Steven gestured behind him, and the team behind him stopped to guard the surroundings. Edith quietly came to the corner, and she immediately discovered the unusually huge shell in front of her.
Steven asked softly: "Edith, have you ever seen such a huge conch shell?!"
Edith shook her head: "I have never seen such a big shell! Fortunately, it seems to be just an empty shell. It should have died long ago, leaving only this shell, but we still have to be careful...
..”
Before Edith finished speaking, Steven felt like he was being targeted by something malicious! This malice was so strong that he had never felt it before!
He immediately put his finger in front of his lips, interrupting Edith's words, and Edith shut her mouth alertly.
Steven abandoned the distracting thoughts in his mind and entered a state of quasi-silence. At this time, the rune representing perception flashed in his soul body's mind, and then he activated the soul perception skill!
He concentrated the direction of his soul's perception to the direction where he was maliciously locked, and that position was in the conch shell inserted in the soil of the hillside!
A light group representing the soul was magnified in perception. Its location was at the deepest part of the giant snail shell. It was a long strip, very huge!
And it started to move towards the opening of the giant snail!
Steven immediately whispered to Edith: "Something is coming out of the shell! It has discovered us! You quickly retreat to the team! I will cut off the queen!"
Edith immediately retreated, gesturing to the people behind her to retreat. Upon seeing this, the others immediately turned around and retreated.
At this time, in front of Steven, the inside of the giant snail shell made a splashing sound! There seemed to be something crawling in the giant snail shell!
As the sound extended to the hole at the tip of the giant snail, two long brown tentacles with a large oblate brown-black head stretched out from the hole at the top of the snail shell!
It was a shiny, flat, huge head shell with a diameter of more than 1 meter!
Two thick, long and curved claw limbs protruded from its front end. Behind the claw limbs was a mouthpart with fine and sharp teeth. Several short brown tentacles growing in opposite directions swung back and forth on both sides of the mouthpart, followed by two
The limbs and feet appear from the ventral side behind the head!
Then one by one, shell-like bodies with limbs emerged from the hole of the giant snail!