Chapter 198 Survivor(1/2)
"So what's wrong?"
"I seemed to smell something else."
"Another taste?"
Bai Lang said with some difficulty: "A very strange smell, which feels like a secretion of some kind of organism, but it is mixed with a large amount of chlorophyll. It's really strange."
"Maybe it is a half-plant and half-animal intermediate creature," said Polesephone. "This type of creature is relatively common in the underground world."
"But there is also the smell of dead bodies!" Bai Lang said.
"The smell of a dead body?" I asked in confusion.
Bai Lang took two more steps forward, sniffed again and said, "It's indeed the smell of a dead body, and it has entered a semi-rotten state. It's a bit like the stitching monster, but it's not exactly the same."
"Now our goal is in this direction. No matter what it is, we can only move forward, so it seems that there is no need to worry about that, right?" asked Kris Dyna.
I also reacted when I heard Klis Dena's words and said, "Klis Dena is right. Now our target is ahead. Even if there is a legion waiting in front of us, we must go there, so don't worry too much. Let's go over and talk about it first. The three of us should not be so easy to attack, right?"
Polesepone nodded and said, "That's right, you should still have some confidence in our own strength."
Since everyone said that, Bailang no longer had to worry about the scent issue, but began to take us forward. Because we had successfully confirmed the scent of the target, Bailang's tracking speed was very fast. At the beginning, he searched for the scent, but soon after, he turned to running with all his might. Krissel and Porsephone, I were also following behind, but as Bailang speeded up, we couldn't keep up with it. Finally, I simply summoned Ye Ying out and rode on it. Porsephone and Crissel and Porsephone each had their own mounts, and the speed was not slow either.
After we walked through the complicated underground pipeline for a while, we suddenly entered a very huge underground cave. The structure of this cave is very strange, and it looks like the inside of a honeycomb. Except for the wall we entered, the remaining walls that we can see, the ground and the top of the cave above our heads are all holes of large and small, which look like enlarged sponge tissue.
"What kind of terrain is this?" Kris Dena couldn't help asking, looking at the strange hole.
I just took a few random glances and said directly: "It should be a lava tube."
"Aren't the lava pipes all quite smooth? What's going on with this sponge-like structure?"
"The sudden cooling." I picked out a dark green stone as big as an olive from the rocks on the ground. Half of the stone had a little transparency, and the other half was black. I handed the stone to Kris Dena, and I explained: "There are so many malachites, and here is a lava river. But it should be because of some reason that the lava suddenly condensed and then became what it is now. A small amount of gas is mixed in the high-heat lava. When it is cold, the rocks condense quickly, and the gases expand into bubbles, and finally the gas is lost, leaving holes, and then such an environment is formed. However, such a large area is instantly cooled, which should not be a simple natural phenomenon."
"Where can't there be high-level ice monsters here?" Kris Dena asked.
"It shouldn't be." I explained: "There are few ice monsters living underground, and they should look for cooler places to live. It is impossible to live in such a place after freezing the lava."
"That's right." After sighing, Kris Dena asked Bai Lang again: "Bai Lang, have you confirmed the target position?"
"The target should be right here. I smelled a very strong smell here 3, but the other party's position is not yet certain, so I need to look for it carefully."
"Then hurry up." I said and released the dart, and then said, "Check all the nearby caves to confirm if there is any danger hidden in the dark."
The dart nodded at me, and then disappeared in the blink of an eye. Then we saw a ray of light flashing by at the entrances of the surrounding holes from time to time. In fact, it was a dart searching for various channels. It was just because it was too fast, so we could only see the white streaming light flashing there on one side.
Because the dart speed was too fast, it seemed to us that the holes around us were glowing one after another, and then flashed all the way. Finally, when the light flashed far away, it gradually disappeared. While we were searching for the dart and the white waves, we were gradually moving forward. But before we could walk out fifty meters, we suddenly saw a white light flashing in front, and then the dart hit my shoulder, jumping and pointing at the front and shouting: "There is such a disgusting monster in front!"
"Ah? Monster?" I grabbed the dart and asked, "What kind of monster are you encountering? What is the exact size?"
"A very strange monster felt like a pile of rotten vegetable leaves piled up together, with many people's hands and feet on it, which smelled so bad, and there was a strange spot of light spinning around the monster. I just looked at it and ran back. The thing didn't notice me yet. But if we push forward, we will be able to hit it soon."
"How far is that thing from us now?"
"About ten kilometers."
"Is it still that far?" Polesphone asked in surprise.
Kris Dena Biper Sephone wants to know some of my situation, so he explained: "The president's magic pet is an aurora arc, which can be moved at the speed of light. More than ten kilometers are just a blink of an eye for him, so you may think it's quite far, but it's not very far for him."
Polesephone nodded to show that he understood, but was quite surprised. The disadvantage of the Olympus tribe is that its speed is slow. In the past, because there were few flying existences, we almost always played guerrilla warfare when we attacked the Olympus tribe, and they defeated them one by one. In contrast, the Olympus tribe could only passively defend and be beaten everywhere. The reason was that the speed was too slow and could not keep up with our pace.
After getting the information about the discovery of the dart, I sent the dart out to let him go over the position of the monster and continue to explore forward, while we moved towards the other side. Darts are very good at crossing the enemy's defense line, because no one can keep up with his speed, so even if the other party discovers him, they cannot intercept him at all. After the dart crosses the position of the monster, the monster began to move in the direction of the dart movement. It is estimated that the dart was discovered, but at the speed of that thing, if you want to catch up with the dart, it is basically a delusion.
"I think it's best for you to walk the next section of the road by yourself." Bai Lang suddenly said after searching forward for a while.
I asked him with some confusion: "Why do you say that?"
Bai Lang said helplessly: "The thing I discovered before the dart may be the target I smelled at the beginning. The smell of this thing is so smelly. I feel that its smell has completely covered my olfactory senses. Now I am almost unable to smell anything except that smell. Now we are so far away from that thing, and once we get close to the monster, I suspect I will faint."
Kris Dena nodded and said, "I can smell a more obvious stench now."
Polesephone also said, "This taste is quite heavy. I noticed it before, but now it has become more serious."
I thought about it for a while but agreed that Bai Lang disappeared for a while and let him come back after we solved the monster. Bai Lang immediately got permission and got back to the training space. The air outside was simply tormenting for a creature with a keen sense of smell.
After Bailang left, we continued to move forward not too far, and we began to find that the odor in the surrounding air was rising sharply. Now I had to put the mask down and let the armor filter the air, otherwise this smell would definitely smoke me to death. Neither Polesephone nor Krissida did have such things as face armor, but Polesephone would use a magic called air barrier, which could have the effect of a gas mask. Although it had no defense, it was definitely a top-notch in isolating the odor.
After using the protective measures, we continued to move forward for a short distance and happened to encounter a small turn, and after turning the turn, we almost immediately saw the monster.
Just as the dart described, the monster in front of me was like a garbage pile formed by a pile of rotten vegetable leaves. The gray-green and huge yellow leaves were stacked down from the top of the thing layer by layer, and then formed a huge triangular structure on the ground. Between those huge leaves, I could see the remains of many creatures exposed outside. The owners of these residual limbs were very messy, and humanoid creatures were also non-humanoid. It felt like they could be seen on the creatures that could be found in the underground world. Of course, none of these creatures were alive.
"What kind of monster is this?" Kris Dena couldn't help asking after seeing this thing. He had encountered so many monsters before, but no matter what, those monsters could always find some shadows in reality. Whether it is animals or plants, there are always some morphological basis. But the thing in front of him has nothing to do with creatures, at least in Kris Dena's attempt, there was no such creature in reality.
In fact, this thing is not really not available in reality. It’s just that Klis Dena doesn’t know it. At least I know that there is a kind of sea anemone that looks a bit like this thing. However, although the tentacles on the sea anemone are also like the shape of a vegetable leaf, the leaves are pink, and this thing really looks like the color of the vegetable leaf being rotten, green with yellow, and a bit burnt.
We stared at this monster for a long time. Except for the rotten vegetable leaves and the living limbs exposed between the leaves, we seemed to have no structures like eyes and legs on this thing. Although this thing has been moving since we appeared, in my opinion, this thing may have completely relied on squirming to move. However, it has to be said that this thing is quite fast when it moves, and it is almost the same as a normal person's trotting speed. Of course, considering the diameter of this thing is more than ten meters and the height of seven or eight meters, this speed is actually not fast. After all, if an ordinary monster grows to this size, it will definitely be much faster than this guy.
"What should we do now? Just kill that thing?" asked Polesephone.
I thought for a while and said to Kris Dena: "You can get an elemental creature to test it first."
Krissidna nodded and snapped her fingers directly, and then saw the surrounding walls squirming, and then a stone man stood up from the ground. This stone man was different from the stone man summoned by most mages. In fact, the real stone man, that is, the summoned stone man used by ordinary mages, can only be said to have a general structure of a human. You can see the limbs, torso and head, but the body proportions are messy, and the limbs and heads do not have an accurate human appearance. Therefore, the stone man only has a human form but does not have a human appearance.
However, the stone man summoned by Kris Dena seems to be an exception. The stone man who just stood up from the ground is more than five meters tall, and this guy is dressed neatly with a full set of armor, and even features almost impossible to find on the face and fingers, which are almost impossible to find on normal stone man. And it can be counted vividly. If the stone man stands there and does not move, others will definitely think that this is a human sculpture.
After the stone man stood up from the ground, he turned around and punched the hole wall on the side. As a result, he punched half of his arm into the wall. Then he pulled out the mace of stone from the wall as it closed its arm. Although the mace itself has nothing special, it is just a softball stick with thick front and back play, it can be imagined by the size that if this thing is wielded and hit on a person, it will be absolutely terrifying.
In fact, when the stone man was about to get up from the ground, the monster in front had already noticed the changes here. The three of us were so big that they could be said to be an ant-like thing compared to the monster, so it is understandable that the other party could not find it. However, the stone man in front of him was five meters tall, only a little shorter than him. Although due to body shape and size, it was not as big as it was, no matter what, it was at least of the same magnitude. Because of this, the stone man was discovered when he stood up.
The monster in front of him turned his body completely while taking out the mace and doing something very disgusting. The guy suddenly spread the "rotten leaves" on his body a little bit, and then many tentacles that looked like snakes stretched out from it. As these tentacles stretched out, we found that the remaining limbs of the animals sandwiched between the leaves were not hung on the leaves, but were held by these tentacles like snakes.
The tips of these yellow-green tentacles all have a three-petal organ that can be cracked like the mouth. After this organ grows, you can see the dense tiny spikes inside, just like teeth. Moreover, at this stage, there seem to be more than a dozen smaller tentacles in the middle of the mouth, which can be stretched out like a tongue outside the mouth. The tips of these small tentacles that seem to be tongue also have big tentacles. I guess we have seen those limbs before, which are the process of the large tentacles biting the prey, and the small tentacles constantly biting the prey and swallowing it. The reason why we can see the prey is because we have not finished eating it yet.
Perhaps because it requires full concentration during battle, in order to avoid the impact of combat power, this rotten leaf monster has stretched out all tentacles, and those tentacles have let go of the corpses that were caught and opened and closed the stone man one by one, and made a rustling sound, just like a warning threat from an animal.
"What a strange creature." Porsephone sighed.
I urged Kris Dena: "Let your stone man go up and try the combat power of this thing. If it is not very dangerous, we can rush over directly."
Kris Dena nodded and looked at the monster over there, but didn't see what she did. The stone man suddenly raised his mace and rushed towards the monster over there. Although we didn't find organs such as eyes on the monster opposite, this thing should have vision, because it suddenly moved while the stone man was moving. Although its movement speed was very slow, the tentacles were very fast, and the length of these tentacles was quite amazing. The two changes were more than twenty meters apart, and the tentacles were all wrapped around the stone man's body.
Under the command of Klis Dena, the stone man suddenly waved the mace in his hand horizontally. Several tentacles that were flying over were immediately pulled away by a stick, hitting the wall and then slumped down softly, but more tentacles used this space to climb up the stone man's body.
Probably I have never seen an elemental creature like the Stone Man before. After the monster's tentacles touched the Stone Man, they actually wanted to bite the Stone Man, but of course they were completely useless. It's not that they can't bite. On the contrary, the biting force of the tentacles is quite good. Each bite can bite a large piece of stone from the Stone Man. But the problem is that the mage Kris Dena is still standing next to him. This stone man is not a natural wild elemental creature. He has a master, and there are stones everywhere nearby.
This is simply his home court. Before Kris Dena's magic was exhausted, he was an immortal body. The bitten gaps began to heal immediately as soon as they appeared, and they could recover as before in the blink of an eye, as if they had never been bitten. If you look closely at the feet of the stone man, you can see that the stones on the ground were just like sticky sugar and flowed into the soles of the stone man's feet little by little from the ground, and then passed up through the legs of the stone man, and finally replenished to the missing parts on the body.
Although the monsters there seemed to have not very high intelligence, they still had combat instincts. After biting a few bites, they found that there was no way to cause damage. Instead, their tentacles were knocked down by the opponent. The monster suddenly changed its tactics. While pulling the distance closer, it quickly wrapped the stone man's body with tentacles, and soon wrapped the stone man's body like a mummy. However, the stone man's physical energy seemed to seriously exceed the scope of ordinary creatures, so even if he wrapped so many tentacles, the rotten leaf monster could only limit the stone man's range and speed, and he could not completely stop the stone man, and it seemed that he could not do anything to this stone man.
If it is a normal creature, this rotten leaf monster can gradually shrink its tentacles like the strangling skill of a python, or rely on the powerful force of the tentacle to simply tie the opponent into several sections, or suffocate the opponent. However, the stone man does not need to breathe, and his body is extremely hard. The tentacle entanglement skill is too low to its lethality.
Seeing two monsters tangled up and fighting a scoundrel, I turned around and asked Kris Dena: "How is this thing fighting power?"
Krissidna shrugged and said, "You saw it too, it's just a summoning stone element, and it turned out like this. If I summon two more, this monster will definitely be done. According to my estimate, if this thing is to kill this thing, it will be a level 1,500 monster. As long as there are not many, there will be no threat."
I nodded and said, "Since that's the case, you don't have to play with it anymore. Hurry up and kill it, and we will continue the mission."
Kris Dena nodded and snapped her fingers again, and then she saw a large amount of flames suddenly burst out from the body of the stone man entangled in front of her. At the same time, the rotten leaf monster also made a sharp hissing sound, and the stone man suddenly tore open the fire tentacles on his body and waved the mace in his hand and knocked it on the monster's head with a stick.
Amid the sound of a very real blow, a large piece of the monster was knocked down, but the tentacles on its body did not retreat, and they still tried their best to wrap around the stone man and the stick in his hand. Unfortunately, the stone man has obviously evolved into a lava monster. The magma and flames in this body, and the monster with obvious plant characteristics, could not get close to it. Any tentacles on its body that touched the stone man would catch fire within three seconds, and then burned to black and fell to the ground.
Although the rotten leaf monster resisted desperately, it had no choice but to meet the nemesis. After a few seconds, the lava monster knocked into a pile of real rotten leaves. After completely dying, a large amount of emerald green liquid flowed out of the monster's body, and the liquid would still shine. I originally planned to open the mask to see what the liquid was, but I forgot the smell on the thing. As soon as I opened the mask, I almost didn't get angry. The smell around was so scary. Not only did it smell, but it also had a sour smell. You can smell this smell for three days and you will definitely not have to eat. It is definitely a blessing for those who want to lose weight. Of course, it is unclear whether it will become anorexia because it is too strong.
"I x, this thing is simply a biological nemesis. This taste... is comparable to a biological weapon!" I said as I fell down again as I tried to endure the feeling of vomiting.
Kris Dena and Porsephone both smiled and looked at me with a joke. Kris Dena also said, "You all know that this thing tastes so good and dares to open the mask. Isn't this seeking death? Speaking of which, although this monster is not my Stoneman opponent, I think it's actually quite powerful if this thing encounters ordinary monsters."
I nodded and said, "The so-called thing is to subdue something. This thing can make most creatures around him by the smell of the body. However, it will be a tragedy when I encounter an elemental creature that has no sense of smell and is not afraid of physical damage." As I was speaking, I suddenly found that Polesephone actually walked to the corpse of the rotten vegetable leaf monster over there and used a stalagmites growing from the ground to fiddle with the guy's body. So I asked her in surprise: "Polesephone, what are you doing?"
"I just seemed to see something moving underneath."
"Is something moving?" I snapped my fingers directly, and Brigitte and Everett appeared beside me. Then I pointed there and said to them, "Do you a favor and lift that piece."
Brigitte and Iphrit are both constructed creatures and have no sense of smell, so they don’t have to worry about the other party’s biological weapon-level odor. After receiving the order, they flew over and grabbed the monster’s rotten leaves and lifted them up. We did see a pair of feet wearing metal armor moving below.
"I actually have some living things." I don't need to say this time, Everett and Brigitte worked together to grab the feet and pulled the creature under him out.
After pulling out this creature, we found that this creature was actually an elf, and a black elf. Judging from the equipment on it, this black elf is not an ordinary soldier, because the armor on his body looks very high-end. Moreover, this guy has not died yet, which is probably related to this beautiful armor. Although this full-coverage armor was pressed on the body by the monster for so long, it has not been stained with any mud on the surface. This is not a special ability that ordinary equipment should have. This ability to produce mud without staining will generally only appear on Holy Spirit level or artifact level equipment. Of course, low-level equipment is not absolutely none, it is just very rare. It is like no one will lay a Persian car with hundreds of thousands of yuan on an economical car worth tens of thousands of yuan, and there will be no craftsmen to install a self-cleaning array for the low-level armor.
Although we pulled it out, the guy kept twisting slightly on the ground, and it seemed that he had not completely returned to normal. I thought about it and asked Effreit and Brigitte to help carry the guy away from the area where the monster was. When we were a little farther away, it felt almost the same. I opened my mask and tried it, making sure that the smell was within the tolerable range, and then I asked Effreit and Brigitte to put the guy down.
I reached out to grab his helmet mask, and I tried to push it up, but it didn't respond at all. This design is indeed a characteristic that only Holy Spirit or artifact-level equipment has. I couldn't open the mask, so I tried to pull the helmet again, but it still happened. All parts of the armor were blocked and could not be twisted at all. There was no way, so I had to turn Eternity into a ball and gently tap the opponent's helmet like an egg, and then grabbed the opponent's helmet and pulled it up. This time there was no problem, and I pulled it down easily. But... As soon as the helmet was taken down, my gaze was immediately covered by a shining silver light.
"Female?"
Although the gender is not visible when wearing armor, because the high-level armor in the game itself is gender-based, it is hard to say that the low-level warriors are said to be a man or a woman at a glance, regardless of whether the other party blocks the head. However, the armor on the person in front of him is obviously a man-style armor, and after taking off the helmet, he found that the other party is a woman, which is strange.
Although armor is divided into men and women, this can be modified. Moreover, modifying the gender of the equipment is not as troublesome as adding attributes. There is no problem of failure, that is, it is just a little money. Therefore, generally speaking, there is no case where someone wears armor with a wrong gender. Even if you find that high-end equipment wants to wear it yourself, you can find a blacksmith to help you modify the gender. There is no need to wear armor of the opposite sex. You should know that according to the system settings, if the wearer and the original gender of the armor are not matched, the attributes of the armor cannot be fully utilized, and a large part of the attributes will not be realized. Therefore, there is no case where the gender is deliberately not changed in order to save money.
Although it is strange why this female black elf wore a set of men's armor, it is not the time to think about it now. After opening the helmet, I knocked on the other armor partitions on the other party in turn with Everett and Brigitte. Then, with the assistance of Iphrit and Brigitte, we quickly removed all the armor on her body.
After removing all the armor, we finally understood why the other party was not wearing the correct gender armor, thinking that the person in this place was obviously not a warrior.
The female elf is about 1.75 meters tall. It is not tall among elves, but it is already quite tall for humans. Her slender figure is completely in line with the characteristics of elves, but some female characteristics obviously exceed the average value of elves. You should know that more than half of the elves are on the airport on the chest, but the person in front of him is more exaggerated than some orc women. This figure...if it was not for being thinner, he would have almost caught up with the succubus.
In addition to this perfect figure, this person's skin is a typical black elf feature. The dark brown skin looks quite healthy. Although it is not very cold to this skin tone from Asian aesthetics, it is not ugly because this person's skin is very smooth. Moreover, because her face is so delicate, and her long silver-white hair is simply a work of art.
Although we removed the armor on this person's body, she still covered her body tightly because she was wearing a robe. I didn't know how she got into the armor wearing this kind of thing.
This robe is very complicated and obviously does not belong to combat clothing. This is why we finally understand why she wears men's armor. Looking at this robe, this person should obviously belong to a divine servant, that is, a sacrifice, or something. Anyway, he is a clergy who serves gods. Although the clergy also has knights wearing armor, this person's robe obviously belongs to the priest, which should be a magic system, or simply a pure divine servant who does not participate in the battle. This armor is definitely not hers, someone should have stuffed her in after discovering the danger, and it is basically certain that she was not wearing it herself, because if she is in this outfit, she will definitely not wear the armor she had just done without anyone helping.
"Persephone, help see what's wrong with her?"
Polesephone squatted down and put his palm on her forehead, then closed his eyes and sensed it for a while. After a few seconds, he spoke: "It's just over-scam, there should be no big problem."
To be continued...