Chapter 3351 The Trial of the Great Fool (One Hundred and Fifty Four)
Through the teleportation device, Elaine and his party came to the stairwell between the fifth and sixth floors of Atlantis underground.
The iron cavalry placed here shows no trace of being touched by anyone.
However, when Elaine was about to put away the teleportation device, she found that it was surprisingly hot to the touch. It was estimated that the lifespan of this teleportation device was about to reach its limit. Perhaps it was because of the influence of the previous forcible use of this thing to transport iron cavalry. Elaine decided to put this
The transmission device is left here. If you want to set up a transmission device next time, it is just a matter of taking out another spare one and setting it up.
"What challenges await us on the next level, Your Highness?" Edmund asked.
"Hmm... No, I don't know." The white lion boy replied.
"you do not know?"
"I don't know. I, I have never gone so deep into a place." Elaine scratched her head: "I, I have only been to the fifth floor underground."
Anyway, he was defeated by those powerful steam crabs every time. He could not defeat the Steam Crab King alone. It took three people working together to kill the Steam Crab King before. If there was only Elaine,
The consequences are really unimaginable.
"I wonder what is on the next floor..." Edmund also touched his chin and thought: "The road ahead is full of unknowns and it is too dangerous. As expected, I still retain the stalker transformation and move forward cautiously.
Bar."
"Just, that's it." Elaine jumped onto the cavalry and rode on the same cavalry with Edmund. Queeg rode on the same cavalry with Bailey.
"Hehehe." The little fox took out the chocolate bar and ate it by himself without feeling nervous at all.
"Eating sweets in broad daylight?" Elaine regretted not riding on the same cavalry with Bailey. From the look of Queeg, it seemed that he would stop Bailey from eating snacks.
"Only eat a little bit. That's all the chocolate that Brother Daniel gave me. I will cherish what I eat." Bailey replied, breaking off two finger-sized chocolate bricks from the chocolate bricks and stuffing them into his mouth:
"Brother, do you want to eat?"
"No, don't." The white lion boy replied. After eating sweets, there is always a sticky feeling in the mouth, and it will turn into that sour feeling over time, which is really uncomfortable. If you don't have the chance to drink
Rinsing his mouth with water, he would rather not eat. What's more, he can't taste the sweetness in the sweets, so eating them is like eating them in vain.
The two iron cavalry moved forward at a slight speed and soon left the stairwell and reached the sixth floor of the Atlantis underground maze.
Then in a sultry environment, everyone was surprised to see...a city.
Wait, city?
Really a city?
But at first glance, it does look like a city. Countless buildings similar to the ruins on the surface stretch out from the floor and ceiling, and there are windows in the buildings. Lights are constantly shining through the windows, illuminating this underground maze.
bright.
The "air corals" spreading on the fifth underground floor are also found here. However, they are more stable than the floating air corals on the fifth floor. They are no longer "air", but more like stone pillars. These luminous coral pillars rise from the ground
When they emerge, the parts close to the ground appear to be very solid; then they continue to extend toward the ceiling, and when they are about to reach the ceiling, they turn into jelly-like pillars that occasionally sway.
Elaine suspected that these coral pillars would traverse the ceiling, penetrate the ground, and extend all the way to the maze above (the fifth underground floor). After reaching that maze, they would become the fluttering "air corals" on the fifth underground floor.
.
It seems that the stuffy feeling on the sixth underground floor comes from these coral pillars. But they have good heat conduction capabilities. As long as you don't hit them head-on, you won't be burned. Their heat conduction capabilities make Atlantis deeper.
The heat is quickly conducted away from the sixth underground floor to the fifth underground floor, and may even be transmitted upwards. In short, although the sixth underground floor is stuffy, it is not unbearably hot.
Elaine had previously applied frozen rosin to Bailey's small dagger amulet. The coolness brought by the rosin should be able to resist the heat here to some extent. Elaine herself also held a Luna steel scimitar that had been smeared with frozen rosin.
With this in hand, you won't feel so uncomfortable.
But this underground city is really suspicious. Why is there suddenly a city in a place like this? Who lives in the city? Could this be an empty city that has long been occupied by monsters?
The complex structure of the buildings makes the entire city full of dangers, and enemies may attack from any corner. The city itself is a huge trap, and you really can't be careless for a moment.
The two iron cavalry gradually approached the city.
"Huh...?" Then Elaine groaned, because there was a group of people on the edge of the city waiting for them to arrive. And the group of "people" looked very strange and a little familiar.
That's a group of stalkers.
These weird fish-like creatures with arms and legs, I don’t know if they should be considered monsters or demi-humans. In short, they are very strange. Edmund can also use the blood of a stalker to transform into a stalker.
So Elaine and the others were familiar with these strange creatures in advance, and were not particularly surprised when they saw this kind of creature again.
But they are really weird... When Edmund transformed into a stalker, Elaine didn't feel that weird because she knew Edmund was a friendly force. But now, the stalkers in front of them didn't know whether they were enemies or enemies.
Friends lined up one by one to wait for Elaine and his party, and the strange feeling hit Elaine's heart more and more.
"Guest?" One of the leading stalkers actually spoke. What he said was just words, very brief, and his words were as low-pitched as monsters imitating human speech.
"Hello." Seeing that the other party had no intention of attacking, Elaine also tried to communicate with the other party: "We want to pass through here, is it okay?"
"Guest." The stalker continued: "Welcome, guest."
"Your friend?" Edmund looked at Queeg slightly jokingly, because Queeg also spoke in this style.
"Your friend." Queeg replied, because Edmund could transform into a stalker.
Why do the jokes between them seem to be a bit heated and drugged?
Elaine remembered that Edmund and Queeg had quarreled before...or almost quarreled. Edmund also blamed Queeg for Queeg's failure to cure Elaine's eyes, and Queeg thought that he had
Even though I tried my best, I was blamed innocently, so I wasn't very happy. In short, the relationship between the two of them seemed to be gradually getting worse.
"No, stop arguing." Elaine interrupted in time, regardless of whether the two people were really arguing: "Big, everyone, be careful when entering the city, don't irritate the residents here."
"Guest, welcome!" The stalkers who were guarding there stepped aside one by one, making way for a road leading to the interior of the city: "Big. Small. Furry. Beautiful. Guest."
Just listening to them talking gave Elaine a headache.
"Thank you." Elaine replied casually and let the cavalry drive slowly into the city.
"Edmund," he asked the blood lion behind him in a low voice: "You, you can become them. What kind of creature are stalkers? Are they smart? ... Are they dangerous?"
"Maybe they are smarter than expected. After all, they can use ice spells." Edmund replied.
"Demons and monsters can also use spells?"
"Then, Warcraft that can use magic are generally smarter than they appear. It's just that Warcraft don't have their own language and culture, so people think Warcraft are stupid."
Elaine pondered for a moment. At the same time, he secretly observed the stalkers walking around the city. These wonderful fish-like and human-like creatures had almost no clothes on, only a piece of cloth tied around the crotch. But this did not mean that
They are low-IQ creatures, maybe it's just because this place is too hot and they can't wear too many clothes (Elaine also wants to take off her top now).
Edmund did use very powerful ice spells when he transformed into a stalker. But is that really the average level of stalkers? Could it be that Edmund himself has a high IQ and became a stalker?
As a hunter, he exceeded the potential of this creature and used that powerful spell?
And he also noticed that some of the stalkers who seemed to be escorts were holding relatively primitive weapons. A spear made of black stone attached to an unknown metal pole. It seemed that this weapon was not smelted.
Made of metal, it is more like a homemade weapon made from local materials in the underground labyrinth of Atlantis and made from some mysterious materials in the labyrinth.
That seemingly primitive weapon is probably a powerful weapon made from special substances in the labyrinth. Judging from its appearance, it's really hard to tell whether it is weak or strong.
This kind of enigmatic half-fish man is really full of mysteries. It is impossible to draw conclusions just by observation...
Elaine covered her head.
"Guest, this way." One of the stalkers waved his hand and guided Elaine to a spacious-looking house in the city. Unlike other tall buildings in Daxia that were almost connected to the ceiling, this house rose from the ground.
Spacious, but only two stories high. Cozy light shines from inside.
"Can we stay here? Thank you." Elaine tried her best to hide her uneasiness and replied politely.
"Feel free to use it. It's an empty room anyway," the other party said, and handed something to Elaine.
The White Lion boy reluctantly took the thing and found that it was some shells.
"This, this is currency?" he asked in confusion. He had heard before that some countries seemed to use shells as currency.
The other party nodded: "Buy food. Guest."
"Yes, but I can't ask for your money in vain." Elaine took out some gold coins from her storage pocket: "I will give this to you too? Although this kind of currency cannot be used here..."
"Oh!" The other party looked at the glittering gold in fascination: "Very good. Glittery gold. Thank you!"
Then he took the few gold coins and left.
Gold coins may not be usable in their city, but gold should still have a certain value. Let's call it an equal exchange, Elaine thought.
But this group of stalkers actually use shells as currency... In other words, they have a certain currency trading system and can do mathematics. Their level of civilization is probably not low, at least not as low as it seems.
What about the houses? It doesn’t feel like something built by the stalkers themselves. Maybe the houses and high-rise buildings in this city have been there from the beginning, and are the legacy left by the ancient sea kings. Just like the city on the ground. These houses don’t seem to have anything at all.
It will not be damaged and is made of an unknown material. Maybe the stalkers just occupied it and used the house that was already here.
"Anyway, let's go in and take a look." Elaine said. It's probably more dangerous to stay in the open space than inside the house. Even if the stalkers suddenly attack, the inside of the house can at least take advantage of the location for defense. Outside the house, it will become
Besieged.
"Cavalry, are you going in?" Queeg asked.
"Of course." Elaine was afraid that the iron horse parked outside the house would be stolen or smashed.
Leopard shrugged, and he and Elaine drove the cavalry into the house. Fortunately, the two-story house was very wide, like a warehouse, big enough for them to park the cavalry, and even set up a tent to camp inside.
There was no furniture in the house, so it was quite empty. In one corner of the house, there were a few beds that seemed to be padded with animal skins. The stalkers said this was an empty house, and that was probably what "empty houses" meant.
The light inside the house is very strange. It is a luminous pillar extending from the floor of the hall. The pillar looks somewhat similar to those coral pillars, but it is much smaller. It emits not only light, but also heat, probably like a bonfire.
To some extent.
"They sent two guards to watch outside the house." Edmund looked out through the glassless window of the house and saw two stalkers holding spears: "What on earth do they want to do?"
Elaine was also quite puzzled. Originally, he expected that the sixth floor of the underground maze would be a battle area, where he would have to fight unknown creatures throughout the process. It turned out that the stalkers here were friendly... although he didn't know if they were really friendly or not.
Pretending to be friendly. It's weird anyway.
But since the other party has no intention of attacking Elaine and his party, they naturally have no need to fight back. They also want to avoid unnecessary bloodshed and violence, so let's observe the situation first.
Elaine, who was thinking like this, saw a stalker waving to them in the house from a distance, as if asking them to go over and discuss something.
"What should we do, Your Highness?" Edmund asked.
"You, you stay here, don't let down your guard." The white lion boy said: "I, I will go and contact them."
"But isn't this too dangerous?"
"Yes, if necessary, I will escape with all my strength and join you." Elaine walked out of the house.