Chapter 132 The second floor of the underground passage
The underground passage was pitch black. On the mountain walls on both sides of the entrance, there were torches inserted into the rock crevices. These were the help left by other professionals who passed through the underground passage for future generations.
Anne tried to light the torches with rockets, but she soon discovered that her efforts were in vain. The torches were so damp that they could no longer burn.
Xue Hua had no choice but to summon a swarm of insects and let the insect mother Tunam lead some springtails and cockroaches to clear the way ahead, while Zaratusa followed them to prevent any monsters from attacking.
Speaking of cave combat, this is not the first time for Xue Hua and the insect swarm.
But the underground passages are completely different from the previous tombs and crypts.
First of all, the underground passage is a tunnel through the mountain, and above it is a huge mountain among the huge barrier mountains.
And no matter how sharp the penetrating vision of the Overlord Insect is, it cannot help them find their way across an entire mountain. As for the Zerg base in the mountain, it is not within the huge mountain above the underground passage.
Therefore, the perspective of King Insect God that Xue Hua has been accustomed to loses its effect here.
Furthermore, the underground passage is relatively low, so it would be very lucky to be able to accommodate the insect mother through it.
As for the alien dragon, don't even think about it.
This eliminated the Swarm's air force.
Therefore, Xue Hua has been trying his best to avoid insect swarms from moving in such places, because this is completely a self-defeating act of martial arts.
But there is no way now. If you want to go to the black wasteland, you must go through the underground passage.
He also wanted the swarm to penetrate a passage directly into the dark forest from the mountain base.
Finally, after the King Insect's exploration, he discovered that unless he was willing to stay in the stone wilderness and wait for a month, it would be unrealistic to open this tunnel even with the ability of the insect swarm in a short period of time.
There is no other reason, it's just the wrong location.
It was actually just an accident that Xue Hua chose that mountain as the actual base of the Zerg, and he did not carefully consider the location of the mountain peak.
So much so that his current idea of using the base as a tunnel transfer station has been greatly hindered. The current location of the insect swarm base is very close to the Stone Wilderness.
Between the locations marked on other maps and this peak, there are continuous mountains and deep valleys blocking the way.
There are some places where even the insect swarms cannot dig through.
After learning about this situation, Xue Hua felt very sad and had no choice but to go through the underground passage honestly.
It was unrealistic to wait for a month. After discovering that there was a big bomb that could explode at any time in his back garden, he was unwilling to delay for even a second for fear that something strange would happen after a long night of dreams.
Of course, he actually has another option, which is to return to Rogge's camp and ask Akala to help him open the teleportation point directly to the dark forest.
But he finally decided to go through the underground passage.
The reason is because Xue Hua feels that the underground passage should not be very long, it is just a tunnel through the mountain. How long can it be?
Another reason he didn't want to say was that he no longer had enough gems to pay for the three people's teleportation fees...
He didn't want to have to temporarily borrow teleportation fees from Akara, especially if he was embarrassed in front of the two girls.
You might as well give him a sharp blow...
However, when he was really stabbed in the underground passage.
He regretted it instantly.
"It really hurts! This feeling reminds me of the past..." Xue Hua grinned and opened the right hem of his cloth armor. There was a long and narrow wound on his right rib.
Bleeding out.
Just now, a small group of five sharp-edged demons suddenly emerged from a dark rock crevice and quickly rushed to Xue Hua's side while Zaratusa was alerting other directions.
Then, the sharp-edged demon who rushed at the front aimed at Xue Hua, who had no time to react, and stabbed him with a knife. Fortunately, sisters Annie and Funia stayed close to him. At the last moment, Annie saved him
He fell to the ground, and his sister Funia shot an ice arrow and exploded the sneak-attacking Blade Demon into ice flakes.
The dangerous knife wound only caused this long and narrow wound on his body, but a whole strip of flesh was scraped off Anne's right arm.
"Annie, are you okay?" Xue Hua held Annie in his arms, looking at the bloody wound on her arm with distress, and quickly waved to Zaratusa, signaling it to come over and help.
"I'm fine, Master. My sister and I didn't know how many times we suffered this kind of injury during training. It's just a minor injury. What about you? Are you okay?" Anne's face was a little pale, but her expression was very calm.
, sister Funia was holding a bottle of mild therapeutic medicine, pouring the liquid on gauze, and preparing to apply it to her sister's wound.
The expression on her face was also very calm, as if she was used to it.
This made Xue Hua couldn't help but sigh, after all, she was a girl born in a war-torn world. What if in her previous life, girls of their age were still enjoying a leisurely and happy time on campus.
However, he is not willing to use something like "mild healing potion" to wrong his sister. Such wounds will leave scars if not done properly~
"Use this!" He nodded towards Zaratusa who was waiting at the side, then the insect mother walked up to the two of them, opened the spray chamber above her head, and sprayed out a cloud of bright yellow mist.
Xue Hua quickly exposed the wound on Annie's right arm to the mist, lifted up his clothes and received treatment with the insect mother's milk.
Just because of the Insect Mother's skill, Xue Hua basically never picks up healing potions.
The feeding liquid quickly took effect, and the wounds on the two men quickly stopped bleeding, regenerated muscle, and healed.
This kind of feeding liquid can even regenerate the broken limbs of Zerg units. Treating such minor injuries is a piece of cake.
It didn't take long for the wounds on the two of them to disappear completely. Except for some residual blood stains, no other traces were left.
"Okay!" Xue Hua chuckled, looking at the surprised expressions of the two women, feeling a little satisfied in his heart.
But soon, the smile on his face became solemn.
Because they lost the vigilance of the King Insect, they encountered such surprise attacks not only ten but eight times along the way.
Although most of them were blocked by Zaratusa's guard insect swarm, there were also a few that were hidden deeply and were able to rush to Xue Hua's side.
The thrilling incident just now made him break out in a cold sweat. At the same time, it also reminded him that the underground passage was not as short as he thought, and the risks inside were much greater than he thought.
Even Isa's commander skills can no longer play the role of the last layer of protection. In this dark environment, Isa can help him block a surprise attack, but she can't help him block it again during the cooldown period.
Next time.
Just now, it was because Isa had already helped him withstand a sudden volley of skeleton archers, causing the commander's skills to fall into a cool-down period, so she could no longer help him withstand the assault of the Blade Demons.
Fortunately, the one who came was the Blade Demon. If a group of crippled monsters had come over, Annie's act of knocking him down might have resulted in her being fatally injured.
If that situation really happened, Xue Hua would probably go crazy.
In order to avoid such a terrible thing that he couldn't even imagine happening, Xue Hua began to seriously consider whether to use the return scroll to return to Rogge's camp, and then ask Akala for help.
But just when he was about to make up his mind, news suddenly came from the pioneer insect swarm in Tunam not far away.
——They found a cave entrance.
"Is it the exit?" Xue Hua and his two sisters hurried over under the protection of the guard insect swarm, and soon saw the entrance of the cave that Tunam mentioned.
"I don't know yet, Master. The springtail I sent to investigate suddenly lost contact with me, but judging from the biological fluctuations in the main hive's mind, it is still alive, but just trapped." Tunam replied.
"Trapped again? What happened these days? Why are there things like this that can block communication everywhere?" Xue Hua cursed a little irritably.
I just found a ruined castle next to my base, which can also block the communication of the insect swarm, and there is also a BOSS-level monster clone inside.
Could it be that there is some unknown weirdness hidden under this underground passage?
etc!
Xue Hua was suddenly stunned. He remembered that in the game, the underground passage seemed to have a second level.
Could it be that this cave is not the exit to the dark forest, but the entrance to the second level?