The Death List Novel - Chapter 398
Chapter 398 Dark Cave
“Haha, did you fall just now because you tripped over this small crack?” A few elven rangers beside Milleras teased the unlucky guy kindly.
“No, it’s not the crack that tripped him, it’s the thing that came out of the crack!” ‘”Actually, I was right behind him just now. Although it was only a short moment, I could vaguely see that something like a tree branch tripped him. By the time I regained consciousness, it had already disappeared!” Longer pointed at an imperceptible mark in the middle of the crack and said seriously.
Everyone looked at each other and finally stopped smiling.
“It could be snakes, insects, lizards and other small animals!” Milleras frowned slightly.
At this moment, there was only a trace of afterglow left in the setting sun on the horizon. The light was dim, and the stone crack on the ground, which was only two fingers wide, was pitch black. It seemed to be a bit deep, and it was impossible to see what was happening inside.
“Perhaps!” Long Er’s expression was hesitant, but he still dutifully lay down on the ground, put his ears close to the cracks in the stone, and listened to the movements underground. He was in charge of investigating and eliminating traps in the team, and this action was not deliberately pretentious.
Seeing his serious appearance, Qin Lun immediately smiled. He lowered his head to avoid the crowd’s gaze, and a small black and red target appeared in his left pupils. [Gannettes’ Left Eye] possessed a powerful clairvoyant ability, allowing him to examine the situation inside the crack.
Although he was helping Longer investigate, it was only because the thieves were doing their duty. In fact, he held the same attitude as Milleras. No matter what happened just now, it was already over. It was not worth wasting time here.
However, in the next moment, Qin Lun and Long Er’s expressions changed at the same time, and the thief bounced up from the ground like an electric shock.
“Spread out, don’t stay here!” Tyrant shouted at the crowd around him. At the same time, he stopped and was about to jump up.
“Kakaka!” However, his movements were still a step too late. The ground around the seven or eight of them suddenly let out a crisp cracking sound. Just now, the half-foot-long stone crack that was only two fingers wide suddenly split open, as if a giant beast had opened its mouth, and a spider web-like crack suddenly appeared on the rock floor at its core.
Before Qin Lun could jump up, the ground collapsed. By the time Kelly and the others rushed over, the seven or eight elves, including Qin Lun and Milleras, had already disappeared, leaving behind only a deep pit that was about ten feet in radius.
“Philip!” Stark anxiously turned around and shouted.
“Understood!” Philip’s face darkened as he raised the staff in his hand and whispered, “Chakra!”
A soft ball of light lit up the tip of the staff, illuminating the crater on the ground. Everyone stood at the edge of the room and looked at it. Their expressions couldn’t help but change slightly. This large pit clearly did not belong to the natural pit. The four walls of the pit were muddy and flat, and the entire pit looked like a drum-shaped tunnel about ten meters in diameter.
Most importantly, this dark cave was not straight down. It was winding and winding inside, and there was no way to know where it would lead to. Philip’s spell of light could only reach a depth of more than ten meters, and he could not see what was going on inside.
“Dammit, dammit! It’s already here, yet there’s still an accident!” Philip stomped his feet in anger.
“Perhaps we should be more glad that something happened not to the east of the snowstorm!” Robin spread out his hands and sighed helplessly.
“The two Elf Princes have fallen. What should we do?” Nicole wrinkled her pretty face and said with a bitter smile.
“What else can I do? Let’s go down and take a look. I still like exploring karst caves!” Kelly smiled as she hugged her shoulders and said excitedly. Only this heartless and heartless violent woman did not care about the current situation.
Stark stretched out his finger and touched the mud wall of the pit. Looking at the sticky liquid on his fingertips, he couldn’t help but frown. He put his finger under his nose and sniffed, and his expression immediately became unsightly.
“Everyone, be careful when you go down. This pit may not be dug by intelligent creatures! This smell is very fishy. There may be a giant snake’s nest underneath.”
“Snake? So thick!” Nicole’s eyes widened in shock as she looked at the drum-shaped pit that had a diameter of more than ten meters.
“It’s not necessarily a snake. The Ancient Era’s Sandworms and some mountain magic sunflowers will also create this kind of pit!” Robin said with a gloomy expression, “This is troublesome. These things have a very strong sense of territory. Once disturbed, they will follow the intruders until they die, and it will be very difficult to kill them!”
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“FerrarHis Highness the Prince” Many shouts echoed in the huge and winding pit, causing Qin Lun to feel dizzy and swollen.
“Pentagram Crystal Mirror!” However, his consciousness was still very clear. A faint light flashed in the black hole, and the elemental explosion caused Qin Lun to adjust his body posture.
The clock dial in his right eye flickered with silver light. Qin Lun flipped his hand and the Evil Dagger stabbed deeply into the soft wall of the cave. However, what surprised him was that the stone wall of the pit was not hard rock, but rather a kind of wet and muddy soil.
Although the Evil Dagger slowed his body down a little, it still couldn’t stop him.
“What are these?” Ignoring his injuries, Qin Lun’s empty left hand fiercely grabbed onto the wall of the cave, but it only sealed off a layer of sticky white liquid.
“Bang!” Just as Qin Lun was pondering, a body smashed into his body like a cannonball, causing his body, which had just stabilized a little, to be smashed down again.
“Sorry, Ferrari!” Elistine’s voice was weak and seemed to have suffered some injuries.
“It’s fine, hold on!” Qin Lun complained to himself. There was still hope for him to slowly stabilize his body and climb back up. Now that he was being suppressed by the druids, he was helpless. He didn’t know what would happen to Milleras, Longer, and the others.
Earlier, when he fell, Elistine was standing at the edge. He could escape if he wanted to. However, the elven druid chose to save him, but in the end, he was implicated and fell down together.
“Elistine, can you still transform?” Qin Lun asked quickly. With the elven druid’s magic, she shouldn’t be so weak.
“No, I wanted to transform into a giant eagle to pull you up, but my wings crashed into the wall of the cave, and my bones seemed to have broken!” Elistine’s gloomy voice came from the darkness.
“You’ve become an eagle in such a tortuous cave …” Qin Lun didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. He finally accepted his fate. His right hand was constantly piercing through the cave wall with the Evil Dagger, while his left hand was tightly hugging the elven druid. His tentacles were as soft as jade, and he didn’t know where he had grabbed Elistine.
Knowing that he couldn’t stop it, Qin Lun focused his attention on his surroundings. Although it was during the rapid descent, the Eye of the Clock’s perceptual line allowed him to roughly “see” the true appearance of the cave.
However, after seeing this, Qin Lun frowned again. This cylindrical pit was actually not a single tunnel. During the descent, he also observed many slightly thinner forks.
At this time, he came to a conclusion similar to Stark’s. This pit should not be formed naturally, but rather the nest of some giant mollusk.
Thinking of this, Qin Lun was not only glad that he had used the Evil Dagger to mark his path. Otherwise, with this pit densely packed and connected to the network of tunnels, even if the companions on the ground came down, they might not be able to find them.
As for Milleras, Loner, and the four Rangers who had fallen first, he could also “see” them.
The six of them had rescued themselves at the very beginning, and they had adjusted their descent posture. They were using a thumb-thick chain in Longer’s hand to connect together, not scattering very far away. The eight of them were connected from head to toe, and the distance between them was less than thirty meters in total.
Seeing this scene, Qin Lun sighed in his heart. In the previous mission world, he had already felt the importance of the guild, but he still hadn’t experienced it deeply enough. This adventure had finally allowed him to see the role of the guild.
This kind of large-scale storyline quest was obviously not something that a solo disciple could do. Even a Tier 1 Thief like Long Er, whose strength was far inferior to his, could still play a lot of roles. At the very least, in this dangerous situation, if he was the only one, not only would he be unable to turn the tide, but his own life would also be at stake.
The few of them stumbled and stumbled in the winding pit, and their speed of descent wasn’t very fast. After a while, Qin Lun’s heart suddenly stirred and he hugged Elistine even more tightly. In the vision of the Eye of the Clock, an incomparably large hole appeared beneath them. They seemed to have come to an end.
“Elistine, hold me tight!” Qin Lun cautiously instructed, sticking to the elven druid’s little face.
“En!” Elistine cried out in the darkness, and his originally weak tone seemed to be mixed with a hint of shyness.
However, Qin Lun did not notice the elven druid’s abnormal emotions. The dial in his right eye became even more dazzling with silver light, and the three hands began to spin crazily in his pupils.
“Drink!” Qin Lun suddenly kicked on the wall of the cave, put away the evil dagger in his right hand, and held Elistine in his arms. A strong wind element surrounded the two of them, greatly reducing their speed of descent.
This was the disguised use of the Gale Steps. Ever since Qin Lun had comprehended the Ancient Era’s Legacy of the Fairy Hunter, although the affinity of the wind elements had not increased again, it had become much stronger in terms of skill application.
“Bang!” Qin Lun bent his knees and removed the falling force. “Elistine, you can come down now!”
“En!” The elven druid twisted his body, but did not immediately jump out of Qin Lun’s arms. Instead, he shyly said, “You, let go of your hand first!”
“Ah, oh … I’m sorry!” Qin Lun was stunned. He lowered his head and saw that his left hand was not in the right place. The towering mountain in front of Elistine’s chest turned into a strange shape in his claws. No wonder he always felt that his palms were smooth and soft, as if he had grabbed an extremely elastic sponge ball.