Chapter 8: Stealing people

"This thing is poisonous." Bai Lang said uneasy.

Xin Yin took the fragment in confusion and looked at it again. "This thing is really poisonous? I have been holding it for a long time, but there is no problem!"

"What is your profession?" Bai Lang asked.

"Assassin, what's wrong?"

"Of course you have no problem, because you are not a mage profession. This fragment belongs to the fragment of an object with extremely strong energy. The energy contained in it is quite terrible. If a mage profession carries this kind of thing, its own magic power will gradually penetrate and interfere with the mage's magic power, and the mage will eventually be assimilated by this thing."

I frowned and said, "You mean this thing is not only poisonous, but also eats people?"

"It's not necessarily eating people, but eating everything. Its magic is its toxins, which first penetrate, then assimilate, and finally erode."

"Can you use this thing to deal with mages in physics combat?"

"Probably not, because the assimilation of this thing takes time, and that little time in the battle cannot work. By the way, its assimilation effect is only more obvious to the mage and not completely unworkable to the warriors, so you...?"

Xinyin was shocked and threw the thing out quickly.

I looked at the jade on the ground. I knew too little about this kind of thing, so it was really not a good idea to run around rashly. Thinking about it, I would just let all the demon pets out first, and then let them help me see this thing together. I hope anyone knows the source of this thing.

Three cobblers are better than Zhuge Liang, and it is easier to do things in many people. Yeyue and Xiaolongnu unanimously agreed that these are the two pieces of jade that the Jade Emperor asked me to find, because their energy forms are exactly the same, and such special energy marks are not easy to make mistakes, not to mention that so many demon pets have confirmed this result.

Xin Yin asked us anxiously: "Do you have a way to find the position of the subject through this thing? My mission depends entirely on it."

"My mission can only depend on it, so don't worry. I will find a way. Ling, I know you are an energy expert. Is there a way to make the corresponding search instrument?"

"Not used."

Ling pulled out a very unique staff from the Fenglong space, but before she could even get the staff, Xiao Chun snatched them over.

"Hey, why are you doing with my scepter of divine power?"

"It's used to be a detector!" Ling looked at me, meaning that he asked me to ask for this staff.

Xiaochun looked at me with some embarrassment, then looked at the staff in his hand, and gritted his teeth. He closed his eyes and stretched out the staff over. "Take it!"

"Don't worry, it's not broken." Ling said very well, but he didn't take the promise he had just made seriously. As soon as he took the staff, he took out the dagger he carried with him and started prying the gems on the staff. Xiao Chun saw Ling's actions and wanted to snatch the staff back, but after looking at me, he stopped. In the end, he could only chew his mouth and get angry.

Ling carefully pried off the gem on the top of the staff, and handed out the end without the gem. "Who will install that thing? I am a profession in the mage. You can't touch that thing."

"I'll do it." Xinyin volunteered to go up and pick up the thing and put it on the top of the staff. Unexpectedly, the thing sucked up like a magnet that touched the iron rod as soon as it touched the staff.

Ling took back the staff and looked at it, then nodded. "That's all." As she said that, she flicked her finger, and the jade on the top of the staff immediately lit up. "Rose vine, check the brightness of the light. I will rotate it in place for a while, tell us which direction is the brightest." Ling then held the staff and began to slowly turn it in place, without using the rose vine at all. Even we could see a relatively obvious change in light. It was just that we could not determine where the brightest point was, but the direction was probably not a problem.

Although Rose Vine is a demonized plant, it is also a plant after all. It has an extreme sense of light, at least it has a good sense of light. As soon as Ling turned around, he pointed out the brightest direction with his tentacles.

Ling pointed to that direction and said, "That's where the rest of the part is."

Lucky asked in disbelief: "Is it accurate for your detection like this?"

"It should be very accurate." The person who spoke was Xiaolongnu. "Xiaochun's divine scepter is specially used to identify power attributes, so he is sensitive to energy of the same attribute. Now, the source of Light Holy Stone used for benchmarking is used to be this jade. The energy naturally searched is the energy of jade of the same attribute. So there should be no mistakes."

"Then let's chase in this direction?" Xinyin suggested.

"It's not that simple." I reminded: "This is the underground world of the Red Planet, not the surface world of our planet. The road here is actually some complex underground tunnels, and their direction is completely unruly. The road leading to the left may be at the right, and the path opening on the left hand may eventually turn back to the right, so this is not accurate."

"What should we do?" Xinyin asked anxiously.

"At this time, I only believe in one truth--the shortest straight distance between two points." As I said that, I walked to the Trail Blazer and patted his shell. "The road ahead depends on you, let's start working."

The Trail Blazer raised his head and slammed into the ground, accompanied by a loud bang. The Trail Blazer's entire head plunged into the hard rocky ground. Then there was only a rumbling sound, and the Trail Blazer's huge body began to advance underground. I put away most of the magic pets. Only the sickles and white waves suitable for tunnel combat, as well as the rose vines responsible for cleaning the gravel and the Ling who was responsible for guiding the way.

It is convenient to have a pioneer in the front. We don’t have to consider the direction of the authenticity at all. Just move forward all the way. Rocks do not play any role in it. Today’s pioneers are no longer the same. Everything with a hardness lower than steel can be easily passed through. Even when encountering hard iron ore, they can barely pass through it after slowing down, so in fact nothing can really stop it.

Every time we advance for a distance, we will stop and make a larger hole, and then Ling takes the staff and search the direction again. In fact, this decision is very important. It is not that the hole dug by the pioneers is not straight, but the target is constantly moving. We have always guessed that the jade in the heart is probably the fragments that fell from the two things that the Jade Emperor asked me to find. The previous situation has proved that the two things are probably carried by the Great Wheel Pluto. If the masters on the Red Planet rescue the Great Wheel Pluto, then these two jades will most likely move with them. After May's proof, it can be confirmed that the Yinxue was chasing the enemy, so the enemy could not stop at all, so they could only keep running, so naturally we detect that the target will not be fixed. With the help of that staff, we can always determine the direction of the target and correct our excavation direction. Leave detours.

When Ling stopped to correct the direction the nth time, Ling turned around several times, but the staff had no light changes at all. Ling judged that this position was probably above the enemy's head or under the feet, so he could not find the direction. After several attempts, we found the direction, and it turned out that the target was right below us.

Drilling holes downward is actually much more dangerous than drilling upward, because you don’t know what is below. If you suddenly dig into a hole, if the speed is too fast, you may fall directly into it. But if you dig upward, you naturally don’t have to worry about this problem. There is also a threat from the pressure difference underground. It is possible that you penetrate into a confined underground space, which may contain a lot of toxic gases, even ultra-high pressure gas layers or underground rivers. If you dig into such a place, the consequences are very serious. You can imagine the feeling of the drill bit when the oil well blows, and you will understand our current situation.

However, the goal is below us, and we have to go down even if we don’t go down. We have to bite the bullet and drill down. For safety reasons, I asked the Trail Blazers to hit the spiral passage downward, and rotated downward like a spring, so that if we hit the hole, at least we won’t suddenly fall or be blown out.

After we dropped by about 500 meters at a relatively safe rate, the pioneer suddenly stopped because he found that the temperature of the rock formation was rising. The pioneers were active underground all year round and knew very well about this situation. He judged that there must be a lava river nearby. Although the temperature inside the planet is the higher the center, the higher the temperature. However, in the crust part, this situation is not absolute. There is no magma in the crust itself, and the volcanoes and lava rivers actually come from the deeper mantle part. The melted magma is pressed into the cracks in the crust due to pressure, so the temperature of the cracks with lava will be relatively higher than in other places. Therefore, digging down to lava does not necessarily mean reaching the magma layer, but it may be just a lava river, and it will be fine as long as you go around. The temperature below the lava river is lower than above.

I asked the pioneers to try digging downwards first, and don't rush to turn, because some lava rivers are not all lava. You can imagine a very thick water pipe. The water flowing in them is lava. Some pipes are full of water. Such channels are underground lava channels, and there is another type of pipeline that only has a part of water. There may be air in the upper part of the pipeline, which is a semi-lava channel. Because considering that Yin Xue and the others may be in such a semi-lava channel, we cannot rashly decide to take a detour directly, so we can only let the pioneers dig first. The lava river will not suddenly appear, and the temperature will be so high before reaching the real lava, so we don't have to worry about diving into the lava. As long as we feel that the temperature cannot bear it, it will be fine.

At my request, the Trail Blazers drilled down and a distance. The temperature of the rocks around them increased in a different way, but it was still within an acceptable range. After about 200 meters, the Trail Blazers suddenly began to drill horizontally and gave us a passage. A circular hole appeared in the front of the main passage, and light was still coming in. Even if we had not left the passage dug by the Trail Blazers, we could already feel the thrilling heat coming from the front. The terrifying high temperature even turned some of the rocks around them into dark red. It can be said that the rocks here are already in an excessive state of magma and rock.

"What a terrible temperature, Zi Ri, I'm losing blood." Xin Yin shouted anxiously.

"Are you mistaken? Why are your defenses so low? The temperature starts to drop blood, and we haven't entered the magma channel yet!"

"I am an assassin, not a warrior, I can't stand this kind of temperature."

"You can hold on first." I opened the phoenix dragon space and dragged a box out of it. I opened the box casually, and then Xinyin was stunned. Even the high temperature around me had forgotten. This box, which was quite large, was filled with a box full of gems. It was so dazzling that I was dizzy. I didn't have time to care about my mood, and I flipped it up in the box in his surprised gaze. After a long time of hard work, I finally found a ruby ​​as big as a baby's fist from it. "Next." I threw the gem out casually.

Xinyin caught the gem in surprise, then asked in a trembling voice: "I gave it to me?"

I snapped and put it in the box, then stuffed it back into the Fenglong space before turning around to face Xinyin. "Note that it is borrowing, not giving away. It is public property, which belongs to our guild, not me personally. So I have the right to use it, but I don't have ownership."

"We will have so many gems?"

"I think you misunderstood the financial resources of our guild. Note that the box here is just the place I brought with me to prevent it, not all the gems of our guild. If our guild only has such gems, then I should go bankrupt."

"Then how many such gems are there in our guild? Ten boxes? One hundred boxes?"

"I don't know. Except for my box, they are all scattered. There are almost as many hills. I have only been to the gem warehouse once. After all, the consumption and collection speed are very fast. The quantity has been changing, and I don't know how many there are now. I think it should not be less than 300,000 boxes."

"Three...three hundred thousand...boxes?"

"I mean the stock of Aisinger, and our guild does not have only one warehouse."

Xin Yin put the gems on his body and said, "I always thought that our guild had only a higher steel production, but I didn't expect there were so many gems ore."

"You are wrong again. Our guild doesn't have many gem mines."

"Then these gems...?"

"In a more elegant way, we obtained it by using force when our master is unwilling to do so."

"I think I understand!"

"You understand best. By the way, the ruby ​​on you is worth three thousand crystal coins, so you'd better be careful. I think that thing is worth at least two months' salary."

"It's three months." Xin Yin carefully protected the gem and said, "Don't worry! Even if I fall into the magma, I won't let it fall."

"I mean you don't let it be broken. It's a fire crystal. It won't burn even if it falls into the magma!"

"I'll be careful."

"That's good. Come with me now. With that fire crystal protection, it won't be a problem if you don't soak in the magma for too long."

"What do you do?"

I turned around and pointed at myself: "Black crystal, fire drill, ice drill, poison drill, I have more equipment than you, you just need to worry about yourself."

"That's right." Xinyin said as he turned over and jumped out of the cave entrance. I took back the demon pets first, leaving only Ling behind, and then followed Xinyin to jump out.

The temperature outside is at least forty degrees higher than in the hole. If there is no magic protection, we should have been ripe now. Although Ling does not have gems, she has a loyal heart and can share various attributes with me, including fire resistance.

We did a test in the lava passage, and the direction pointed out was just ahead of us. Obviously we were looking for the right place. I summoned Feiniao and rode Ling up. Xin Yin also rode his spear and flew forward along the passage. Even if Yin Xue and the others were very fast, they shouldn't be able to catch up with the spear.

Because the distance is close, Ling no longer needs to hold the staff and try the direction everywhere. The distance now should be very close. The fragment on the staff turns like a light bulb, and it continues to emit a lilac light forward. It seems that there is a trace of non-existence and non-existence connection with the subject.

Ling was holding a staff pointing the direction, and I suddenly pressed Ling on Feibi's back. "Catch it." Feibi turned sideways, then played a beautiful roll in the passage, and flew over the stone pillar that suddenly appeared in the middle of the passage. The pillar was very abruptly standing in the middle of the passage, and there seemed to be a corpse of a strange creature burning in the center of the passage. It was estimated that Yinxue used earth-based spell to create a stone pillar that penetrated an enemy's ground mount, and it was also possible that it was one of the enemies.

The temperature here is so high, and the body has not been completely burned, which means that the incident has not happened for a long time, otherwise we should have only seen the light and thrust the earth stone pillar. However, although we knew that the distance was very close, we still dared not speed up. The earth stone pillar almost killed me just now. If it weren't for the birds in front of us, we would definitely not be able to flash. Xinyin's spear did not have this kind of mobility. Even if we reminded him in front, it was still quite difficult to flash and almost hit the pillar.

When Xinyin was feeling guilty about the previous thrilling scene, a large piece of stone pillar suddenly appeared in front of us again. This time the stone pillars were dense and numerous. The bird leaned over to the side before drilling through it. Xinyin's spear followed us and drilled through it dangerously.

"Huh, I almost bumped into it." Xinyin chased him and said.

"At least we are there to guide you behind me. I have already rubbed the stone pillar just now, but fortunately the collision is not heavy."

"What? You wiped it?"

"Don't talk, be careful, come again!" The stone pillars on the road ahead have become more and more common, and from time to time, you can see some strange creatures wearing them. Later, we can even see the remains of several creatures on a pillar, one of which is not even dead.

"It seems that we are almost catching up with our target." Xinyin said.

Ling said to me: "I am worried about what to do after catching up."

Ling's words made Xinyin and I stunned for a moment. Xinyin's mission prompted me to protect him. But now it seems that his target will probably be mixed with Yin Xue and the others. Protecting a person in the battlefield of these bosses is not as simple as protecting a person in a pile of monsters. At least I can still block monsters, but I don't even have any scum left after these bosses' touch!

Before I could figure out what to do, there was a rumbling vibration sound coming from the front. It seemed that there was a strong energy hitting each other, and the sound echoed in the sealed passage. It made my ears numb.

"Here." Xinyin pointed at the front and shouted.

"See. Birds, speed up."

A large group of people in an open space that suddenly appeared in front of us were fighting with someone, but the battlefield was that one person showed his power, but the other was beaten miserably in a crowded place. He didn't even have the chance to fight back.

"Please dodge." The bird quickly rolled over, then rolled over in the opposite direction. It narrowly dodged the first batch of magic missiles, but after we dodged out these magic missiles, we saw a spider web flashing red light flying towards us. The bird and I plunged into the net and were instantly entangled into a ball. Fortunately, the bird was flying in jets, and its wings were limited, which would only affect its flexibility. It would not lose its momentum immediately, so we found an enemy and hit it head-on before landing.

The bird belongs to the evolutionary type of spear. Its real head is actually behind the body, and the triangular cone in front is a highly hardened bone spur evolved from the tailbone. At this speed, the bone spur with a puncture attribute is quite amazing. The bird hit the enemy head-on, then instantly inserted it into the opposite direction, and then used his body as the landing pad to hit the side wall. Although it hurts, there is still a meat pad buffer, which will not hurt me. However, Xinyin is relatively miserable. He was also caught by the magic net behind after dodging the first wave of magic missiles. Unfortunately, his spear did not have the skills of my bird, so he could only land hard. He almost threw him into a meat pie.

When they saw us falling, the enemy immediately surrounded us, but before they could start attacking, they heard a tear-breaking sound, and the nets wrapped around me instantly split into pieces, and fragments flew everywhere. However, I did not launch an attack immediately because I found that the enemy was not all native creatures of the Red Planet, and there were actually three players among them. And one of them was obviously an RB person.

"Go together. He is not your opponent." The player of the ninja profession pointed at me and shouted. The local creatures around him immediately rushed up. These monsters all have human-like appearances. However, they looked more like insects walking upright.

A monster that was long like a locust suddenly opened its mouth and spit out a mouthful of purple-red liquid at me. I quickly flashed and let it go to the side, and at the same time opened the phoenix dragon space under the bird to let him fall in. The liquid landed on the ground as soon as the phoenix dragon space was closed, and the blue smoke immediately burned on the ground, which was obviously very corrosive.
To be continued...