"I……"

Lanaya smiled. She had been bullied enough and it was time to calm down. "I am the one who lied to you. I made it myself. Come here and teach you."

…

After seven days and seven nights of long journey, Grint and Lanaya... still haven't seen half of the Crystal Cave. After these seven days, except that it was hotter during the day, it was better. At night, various unknown creatures occasionally came to look for trouble.

But everything was settled by the two of them.

"The ring shows that we have arrived at the center of the Hagoral Desert. Will uncle lie to us?" Grint asked.

Lanaya said: "It won't be under the sand again this time."

When Grint heard this, he glanced at Lanaya, silently made way for her, and bowed to signal: "Please."

Lanaya immediately understood what Grint meant, rolled her eyes at Grint, and disappeared: "No."

"..."

"Ah! There are scorpions!" Grint used the ball of flame left by Lanaya to see clearly what was at his feet.

"Solve it yourself." Lanaya replied angrily. Really, if you bring out the embarrassing things that happened during the first mission, you really think that I, Lanaya, were specially used to be teased by you. Besides, where in the desert is this?

Here comes the scorpion.

Grint stabilized her trembling feet, quickly jumped to the side to keep distance from her opponent, and raised her only offensive weapon, the Flower Dart (because when Grint used it for the first time, she saw the flowers flying out like darts.

I named it Huabang), with his eyes closed and not thinking about anything, he just shot at the scorpions indiscriminately.

"...Should he be dead?" With this mentality, Grint opened his eyes.

When I opened my eyes, my legs became weak and I staggered back several steps.

The scorpion that only reached a person's ankle just now was already as big as half a calf. In panic, Grint fired several darts at the big scorpion. Not only was the scorpion not injured, it seemed to be enjoying it. As the darts continued,

After being stabbed, the size of the scorpion increased again.

"Psychic attacks are ineffective...?"

After the big scorpion finished enjoying it, it moved its eight hard and flexible legs, holding up its "weapon" tail and approaching Grint step by step.

Grint was really panicking now, "Don't come here! Don't sting me! Lanaya, help!!!"

Lanaya was still fuming when she realized that something was wrong, and quickly arrived in front of Grint.

bump--

The refractive shell unfolded as quickly as possible, protecting the two of them in the middle. Lanaya stared at the big scorpion eagerly, holding all the remaining weapons in her hands without reservation.

I heard you are not afraid of psychic powers?

Are you afraid of the real knife?

Grint saw the figure blocking his eyes, and felt an indescribable sense of security in his heart.

The big scorpion seemed to realize that something was not good, so he stopped moving forward, turned around and ran away.

Grint was already breaking out in a cold sweat, and was about to fall to the ground when Lanaya pulled him up.

"Follow it!"

Grint was not as strong as Lanaya, so she dragged her all the way away. Grint shouted: "Are you crazy? Are you going to give it to eat?"

Lanaya said: "This is not an ordinary scorpion. It can ignore psychic attacks. Maybe it has something to do with the crystal cave!"

Grint suddenly realized when he heard the explanation. Scorpion ignored the psychic attack, and the psychic crystal was in the crystal cave...

Could it be that……?!

With the strong light emitted by the refractive shell, they could easily track the scorpion escaping right under their noses.

I saw that the scorpion was using its eight legs at the same time. It really didn't slow them down much, and it wasn't afraid of its feet slipping on the sand. The scorpion slipped all the way and suddenly disappeared in front of them.

The two of them immediately rushed to the place where the scorpion disappeared. Lanaya stretched out her hand and inserted her hand into the void.

"Space crack?" Lanaya had never seen it before, but had only heard other people say this term. Now there was only one way to go, Lanaya was heartbroken, "Follow it."

The surrounding area suddenly became cold, and the scene changed instantly.

The crystal cave is really grand, spacious and ventilated, with its own lighting. The crystals embedded in the walls make you want to knock them off at first glance. However, there shouldn't be a bunch of large and small black and purple scorpions on the ground.

Now the one I was chasing couldn't be found, and instead I chased it to someone else's house.

What should I do? Maybe its seven uncles and eight aunts are here to avenge it.

After several minutes of confrontation between Lanaya and the scorpions, they found that the scorpions seemed a little afraid of Lanaya, while Grint was eager to sting her, but they didn't dare because Lanaya was beside them.

superior.

Could it be that this nest of scorpions can tell the level of a person?

"Hey... you... can you understand what people are saying... Let's get a crystal and leave... I won't disturb you anymore..." Grint nervously tried. She was afraid of bugs, and now she has entered a bug nest.

.

There was a rustling sound below, making people's teeth chatter and goosebumps arise.

"Strange." Lanaya's expression suddenly became serious, and then she walked straight towards the depths of the cave like a man possessed.

As soon as Lanaya walked away, the scorpions behind her started to stir again, and they all densely surrounded Grint.

Lanaya heard the movement behind her, and seemed to be aware of the fact that Scorpion did not dare to approach her, so she motioned for Grint to follow closely.

The scorpions retreated as expected, but they still kept a certain distance from the two of them.

The crystal cave is eerily quiet, and you can hear the echo clearly with every step you take, accompanied by the sound of countless insect legs tapping the ground.

At the end of the cave was an uneven stone wall. The stone wall didn't look like anything special. Lanaya stopped in front of the stone wall.

Grint couldn't help but glanced back.

Surrounded!...

Swallowed, turned around, forget it, just face the wall.

Lanaya's attention was always focused on an inconspicuous small crack in the stone wall. If Grint hadn't seen Lanaya staring at that crack, he would never have noticed this inconspicuous little detail.

"You...what are you doing?" Grint also discovered that with Lanaya as her personal bodyguard, she didn't seem to have to worry about whether she could go out. Her only question now was this.

"There is something inside." After Lanaya finished speaking, she covered the gap with her palm. She concentrated her mind and felt it with her whole body.

The strong resonance you felt when you first stepped into the crystal cave was unmistakable.

A ray of cool breeze blew through the gap on the palm of my hand, and then a palm-sized page of paper flew out from the gap, and was caught by Ranaya.

Sure enough, I guessed right.

Another leftover page of notes!

Last time it was on the bookshelf of the first test, this time it was in the Crystal Cave... What's the connection?

The most unexplainable thing is, why did the notes she kept recording until the fire in the Violet Archives appear in this world?

After thinking for a long time, she still had no clue. Seeing Lanaya leaving Grint alone, Grint had already picked up an armful of psychic crystals. Grint was a little embarrassed to continue picking up, because she saw that the scorpions were almost gone.

I cried.

Okay, let me leave some food for you. "Lanaya, can you leave?"

"Okay, let's go." Ranaya put away the remaining pages of her notes and prepared to go home.

Grint finally breathed a sigh of relief, but he still felt a tingling sensation when he looked at the hard-shelled arthropods in this area. Isn't this just a matter of trying to find a place without any effort at all?

"Where are you taking me?"

…

Huh?

"Who's talking?" Grint asked to himself. Aren't she and Lanaya the only two people here, but the voice just now was definitely not from Lanaya.

Lanaya was also shocked. A little scorpion she caught unexpectedly started talking.

"Why can you talk?" Lanaya asked the little scorpion in her hand. Seeing that it could talk, and it was quite pitiful that it was captured for no apparent reason, Lanaya softened her tone.

Lanaya caught this scorpion mainly because she wanted to take it back to the senior scholars of the Hidden Temple to study it and find out what was going on here.

"You have a special power. When I was caught by you, I was already tamed by you, so I can speak." The little scorpion lowered his head and clicked the two front pliers at each other, "Me neither.

You know what this power is called, but you are different from the people I have met before."

Lanaya smiled slightly and said, "Oh? What kind of person did you meet before?"

Little Scorpion replied: "Actually, we think you all look similar, it's just that they don't have your strength."

Grint was also attracted by this weird little scorpion. She tentatively touched the shiny and hard back shell of the little scorpion with her fingers, and the little scorpion raised its pincers to resist with some dissatisfaction.

"Looking closely, you're quite cute. What's your name?" Grint asked.

"I don't have a name. Our race is called Voodoo Scorpion. After any creature is stung by us, as long as it cannot withstand the poison on our tail needle, it will be assimilated into Voodoo Scorpion by us."

One sentence to clarify the facts, Lanaya now understands everything.

"Then why didn't you sting the first person who came here? Just let him go?"
To be continued...