Struggle in the Steam Age

Chapter 220: Enter the cave

Summoned the paper men and explored roughly. Lawrence and the others jumped out of the cave. Then Lawrence summoned the kobold, the blood awakened the kobold, and the four monster ghosts of the goblin and the bear goblin explored the way ahead.

After descending seven or eight meters vertically from the cave, what appeared in front of Lawrence and them was a dark cave. The cave is black and long, and it is also crooked. He tried to look into the depths of the cave, but saw nothing but the moss-grown walls.

Maybe due to the water source in the cave, the whole cave is relatively humid. Lawrence and the others could clearly feel the smell of moisture and something in the air. Fortunately, the cave should have air holes leading to the outside world, so the whole smell and the freshness of the air are still tolerable.

"This place smells like a sewer." Syfiel, who was walking at the front of the team, muttered vigilantly, holding the sword in her hand. Lawrence released a [Dark Vision]. "And it's still a very bad one, at least when I went with Fatina to the sewer where their rat people live, I never smelled such a disgusting smell."

"Mouse people prefer dark places, yes, but they don't like dirty." Lawrence shook his head and said with a smile, "because they know that once dirty in that kind of confined space, it is easy to cause a large-scale epidemic. , This is the painful experience they exchanged with a lot of lives."

When I first entered the cave, the cave could only be used by one person to walk. Fortunately, when everyone walked along the cave, they found that the cave became more and more spacious, but after more than 100 meters, the cave became a place that can be passed by a carriage The huge hole.

And as the team moved, some fluorescent mushrooms with a little blue light appeared on the stone walls on both sides of the cave, and a large cloud of yellow-green spore smoke moss would be ejected when they touched it slightly. But in particular, there is not a single thing like snakes and insects that are common in this damp environment.

"Everyone, stop." Just when Lawrence and the others walked into a tunnel, Okita Sakura suddenly said after the team broke off. "I seem to hear the sound of wild quilt activities ahead."

"It seems to be." After stopping and consciously listening, Lawrence really heard the rat-like squeaking sound in front of him, as well as the sound of some flapping wings. The most important thing is that the sticky rotting smell that lingered on the tip of the nose before seemed much richer than before.

"Let me go and see." Lawrence said and summoned a stinging hummingbird phantom that was flying up and silent, and then directed it to cross the front of the team and a bunch of monster phantoms into the dark cave. Flew in.

The phantom of the palm-sized stinging hummingbird quickly flew through a winding cave of more than 30 years, and then rounded a big bend. In an instant, the screams of Ye Yan and the sound of flapping wings became louder.

After manipulating the stinger hummingbird phantom to fly out of the narrow hole, the scene in front of Lawrence immediately opened up. Because what appeared in front of him was a huge hole in the mountain with the size of four or five basketball courts and two stories high.

The walls of this cave are covered with fluorescent mushrooms that flash with light blue light like shells. The blue light they emit makes everything in this cave covered with a layer of blue light. With the light that was not very bright, Lawrence found that there were dense wild quilts hanging on the top of the cave. The sounds and smells he heard just now should all be coming from here.

"What's that on the other side?" After commanding the stinger hummingbird phantom to circle the entire space, Lawrence found that there was a small stone platform in the air opposite the hole where he had just come out, and there were a lot of broken pieces under the platform. The wood and what seems to be the rattan used to bind and fix the wood.

But just as he commanded the phantom to quickly lift up and prepare to go to the platform to take a look, a wild quilt that was flying around in the cave suddenly flew from the side, and then swallowed the phantom.

"Hmm—" The destruction of the phantom made Lawrence feel a slight tingling sensation in his soul, but this feeling came and went quickly, and it didn't hurt Lawrence.

After the first monster ghost is destroyed. Lawrence successively summoned several monster phantoms and controlled them to enter the cave to continue the experiment. After several monster phantoms were destroyed in a row, Lawrence probably figured out some habits of the wild quilts in this huge cave.

Naturally, no one else noticed Lawrence's sudden change, only Syfiel felt that the situation was wrong. She asked Lawrence with her eyes closed. "What's wrong, are you okay?"

"It's okay, it's just that the phantom flying that I just summoned was too high and was destroyed by the wild quilt." Lawrence patted Syfier's hand to comfort her, and then said to the big guys that came up. "There is a huge hole in front. It is estimated that there are tens of thousands of wild quills. As long as anything leaves the ground at a certain height, they will rush down from the top of the cave and attack these things."

"But at the height of the cave, I saw a platform, and under the platform I found an escalator that was suspected to have been built with wooden sticks in the past. If I'm not mistaken, what we are looking for should be on that platform. Or behind the platform."

"Tens of thousands of wild quilts?" Zhu Yan and Okita Ying showed embarrassed expressions, because wild quilts are extraordinary creatures anyway, and once they gather in a group, it will be very troublesome for the extraordinary. Especially this kind of creature likes to pounce on people's faces, which is equivalent to being good at attacking human weakness, which is more difficult to deal with.

"Does any of you know what this kind of thing is afraid of?" Lawrence asked Zhu Yan and Okita Sakura that the knowledge he had obtained before allowed him to accurately distinguish what is what. But there is no way to deal with these things.

"In fact, fire or smoke is enough," Okita Sakura said, "but the problem is that I am worried that flames and smoke in such a small place will stimulate their madness and make them attack every creature they encounter."

"And it's a bit strange." Zhu Yan interjected. "In the past, when I was learning about transcendental knowledge, I heard an experienced old ranger say that wild quilts will attack everything that invades their territory. How can it be possible that only those who fly up will attack?"

"Maybe this is man-made." Lawrence said, "After all, there are so many traces of people in this place. Maybe some kind of extraordinary force controls those wild quills."

But even knowing that some traps were set up in front, Lawrence and the others decided to move on. After all, they are now only a few steps away from their goals, and it would be a shame to give up. Not to mention getting rid of traps, destroying monsters is a necessary process of adventure.

Soon ~lightnovelpub.net~Lawrence and they formed a battle formation and walked forward. Everyone is mentally tense, holding their weapons tightly in their hands and ready to release some power.

"It looks a little scary!" Said Safir. After entering this space, everyone subconsciously raised their heads and glanced at the densely packed wild quilts hanging upside down on the top of the cave. These wild quilts gathered their wings together and looked like It's like sunflower seeds densely packed together in sunflower seeds.

But just like what Lawrence had just tested, they came to the bottom of the platform smoothly, especially in the process, the wild quills only flew around in the upper part of the cave, and none of them rushed down to attack them. . It looked like an invisible barrier separated the upper and lower parts of the cave.

[Mage Armor] Lawrence released such a magic to everyone present, then aimed at the stone wall and released a magic missile.

Magic missiles composed of transparent force fields hit the stone wall with a banging sound. Amidst the splashing of the rubble, a row of fist-sized grooves stretched up the stone wall all the way up to the edge of the platform.

After finishing the preparations, Lawrence and the others finally sorted out their equipment, and then began the next step.