They were sneaking in the dark, and there was silence all around. The tunnel was narrow and deep, and could only accommodate one person walking in front of them, so they could only line up and walk one by one. When they encountered some low places or were blocked by rocks, they had to
Bow forward.
The underground tunnel was humid and stuffy, and there was a faint corpse smell of rotting flesh in the air.
Galt walked forward cautiously. In such a dark environment, he couldn't see clearly the ground under his feet. They might be mud, gravel, or fine sand. Although he didn't know what was under his feet.
What exactly did he step on? However, on the way here, he stepped on something hard, like the weathered bones of animals or the hard shell of a beetle. In short, the feeling of stepping on these things is not good.
Walter's heart palpitated several times, but when he saw no reaction from the team in front, he swallowed it back, said nothing, and walked forward with everyone.
"Elf, where are we?"
The long and boring journey underground made Galt a little irritable. He asked in a low voice the wood elf captain in front of him. Although the wanderer Aliria did not explicitly claim to be the captain, this team
She organized the assembly, and everyone still regarded her as the temporary captain in their hearts. What's more, among the few, she was indeed the most skilled.
"Sixth floor."
Aliria's short and concise answer.
"Level 6? Have we dived this deep?"
Galt asked in surprise, with a bit of joy in his words.
However, the mage's question was not answered again. Everyone remained silent and continued on their way. They didn't even bother to look back. Among them, it seemed that the newly joined mage was an idiot who didn't understand anything and couldn't see anything.
Feel curious.
Of course, this is not surprising. In Gelt's more than 20 years of life experience, he spent most of his time in Altdorf, the capital of the empire. His most adventurous experience was following the smuggling caravan through the dark and dense land of Reikland.
forest trail. Compared to several people in the team, he is indeed a novice.
"Where are the great lord and the others? Where are they now?"
The atmosphere in the team was a bit depressing, and unable to bear the dullness, Galt asked again.
"Mage, can you shut your mouth? Are you talking so loudly to scare those mice? How do we know where Rhode is? We are not roundworms in his belly."
The witch hunter turned around and half-cursed and accused.
"I just want to know more intelligence information. You know, only by understanding your enemies and allies can you make the next right choice."
Galt snapped back.
"What do you think we can know in such a dirty and narrow tunnel? Unless you have a spell that can pass through the wall, otherwise, what you don't know, we don't know either."
Celta responded loudly.
Galt remained silent, but judging from the barbarian's voice just now, it seems that this place is not as easy to be discovered as the witch hunter said. It should be said that it is relatively private and safe. Otherwise, the barbarian
They wouldn't speak so loudly. It was obvious that the wood elf captain had no objection. Therefore, Galt could speculate that they were taking a secret and safe path.
It's no wonder that the tunnel is so narrow, it's just a gap in the rocks, not really a road at all.
Just as he was thinking about it, Galt suddenly felt as if he had stepped on something indescribable, sticky and slippery, as if his entire foot was glued into it.
He used a spell to light up the wand and placed it on his calf. The sight before him made him scream and almost slip to the ground.
I saw that what those metal boots stepped on was not the corpse of a mouse or normal animal, but a highly decomposed monster corpse.
This small monster looks like a mutated giant rat. It has the torso and tail of a giant rat, but has front paws and hind limbs like a bobcat. What's even more terrifying is that where the rat's head should have been.
, but there is a beastman's head stuck to it! Countless abscesses cover the pale and rotten face, and at the junction of the head and neck, there is a circle of pustules, which are bigger than the pustules on the face.
Only half of the head was left, and it looked like it had been chewed off by some creature. It was probably a hungry rat.
Galt's silver armor-covered combat boots stepped on the pile of internal organs of the monster's corpse. This step crushed the already rotten internal organs and squeezed out the fleshy maggots and carrion beetles inside.
…
"This...this...what is this?"
Galt stood behind, breathing heavily, and carefully moved his right foot away. He looked at the sticky substance on his boots with disgust.
"Most of the Rat Man's experimental subjects are waste products. They are thrown out of the laboratory and thrown into the corner to rot."
Aliria turned her head and glanced at the sticky corpse on the ground, and said lightly.
"The rat people like to conduct these studies, live experiments, and biological modification experiments. They use humans, mice, animals, and various creatures for experiments to cultivate things they are interested in. Some disgusting monsters you have never seen before.
.This is one of them, Master."
"However, you'd better be mentally prepared. What we will encounter next will be a hundred times more disgusting and dangerous than this."
Aliria's words made Galt's heart sink. Looking at the extremely ugly and disgusting monster in front of him, and looking at the plain expression on the wood elf's face, Galt could already roughly guess what they would encounter next.
Condition.
But why is this so?
Galt felt regretful from the bottom of his heart. It seemed that he should not have come on this mission! For the sake of reputation and a little money, it was not worth throwing his life here. Altdorf was a bit evil, but with his own
After years of hard work and hard work, I have enough skills to go to the Gold Academy and try my best. Instead of coming here to carry out this bullshit assassination mission.
Damn it, I'm afraid I've been frightened to death by these disgusting monsters before I even saw the rat leader.
Galt couldn't help but cover his chest. The metal armor blocked his beating pulse, but Galt could clearly feel his heartbeat speeding up. Good guy, before the real battle started, he was frightened by this rotting corpse.
After a jump, I really didn’t know how to face the rest of the journey.
"We sneaked in from the sixth floor, avoiding the main force of the rat men, and also avoiding a large number of slave rat cannon fodder. Below the sixth floor of the hell pit, most of them are the testing grounds and burial places of those perverted experimenters.
They will throw different experimental subjects into the competition pool and let them kill each other to select the best experimental subjects, and then conduct further drug experiments and strengthening on these experimental subjects."
Aliria walked in front of the team and continued to explain calmly and naturally.
And Galt's heart was already turned upside down, and he felt nauseated. In the past, he had heard some rumors about the Ratmen in the Imperial Academy of Magic. They were still secrets hidden from civilians, but only here did he truly understand them.
Ratmen are a species that is simply more perverted and terrifying than all known species. It’s no wonder that they are the first ones Rhodes wants to eliminate...