Chapter 108: Underground Maze Network

After the price was negotiated, I started to wait with the little guy at the entrance of the cave. As for why we have to wait? Don’t we need to clear out the collapsed and blocked entrance of the cave?

My guardian steel claws temporarily acted as an excavator. Who said this guy is good at big holes? The hole was cleared in a short while. It can be seen that it was not only a small area outside, but the situation inside was also very bad, but compared to the hole, it was barely overwhelming inside. After retracting the steel claws, I began to push into the hole.

For me who has dark vision, the dark cave does not cause any trouble. The more troublesome thing is the gravel on the ground and the narrow cave walls. I had to drill through this kind of thing to continue deeper. After more than half an hour, we only pushed for less than 300 meters. This damn place is really unbearable.

"How deep is this ghost place?"

"I don't know either. I've never come in here before, so it's the first time I've seen it like you!" The little guy's explanation made me helpless, so I could only shut up and continue to grop forward.

Thanks to my magic dragon suit and even gloves, I struggled in such places. If I had an ordinary mage profession, I would have to be exhausted, and I might even be scratched by broken rocks. In comparison, armor like the magic dragon suit would have a lot of advantages. At least I could smash all the things blocking the way, and even if there was a bump, it would not cause much damage to the armor.

After continuing to push forward for about 30 meters, the cave became more spacious. At least there is no need to crawl now. You can walk normally by bent a little. Because of the improvement of the road, our propulsion speed has increased significantly. After another half an hour, we ran through the nearly two-kilometer-long tunnel in one breath, and suddenly a relatively wide area appeared in front of us.

"Wow! So beautiful!" Although the little guy is a magical demon, his aesthetic view is similar to that of humans.

In front of us is a cave space that is almost as big as a small airport, but it is not all rocks. The road under our feet has turned forward and its eyes have become many forks, just like the veins of leaves, extending forward irregularly. There is clear flowing water between the roads, but I don’t know why these waters emit emerald green light, illuminating the entire cave like a dream and a illusion, and it is very beautiful.

"Why is there still water here?"

"It's probably an underground river." The little guy guessed: "Isn't there a lake outside our forest? Maybe these two places are connected."

I nodded, then looked at the holes across from us with more than thirty, and asked, "What should I do now? Do you have a way to make sure that getting a line is the right way?"

The little guy immediately shook his head like a rattle. "I am a illusion demon and not a bee in the search for paths. Finding a way is not my strength."

"Really, I have to rely on myself at critical moments!" As soon as I reached out, a small black hole unfolded in front of me, a large number of ghost beetles swarmed out to disperse towards the caves. I turned around and said to the little guy: "Now wait for news here! We will know the general structure here in a while."

The way to explore the ghost bugs is very simple. Because they keep in touch with me, we can roughly determine the other party's position through our perception ability. After these little guys leave, my unmoving center becomes the basic coordinates. Then, according to the route they are traveling, I can quickly build a three-dimensional model of the cave in my brain. If a bug encounters a dead end, it will be the end of the road. Then when all the bugs detect the route, I will have a map of the entire cave. Because the number of bugs is amazing, even if there are many forks, I can still divide it. This is equivalent to walking each fork.

After waiting in place for a while, several ghost bugs discovered the dead end. Then three groups actually gathered together after they separated, and the other units continued to explore downwards. After a while, most of the bugs encountered dead ends, and the remaining seven bugs that did not encounter dead ends actually went around the same road. I followed the memories left in my brain and entered the shortest route, and then we soon arrived at the huge convergence point. This place is a cave with a larger space than the previous one, but

This place is not as beautiful as the hole in front. This huge hole is round and there is a pool in the center that accounts for nearly one-third of the area. The dark green water is very strangely illuminated by a fluorescent plant growing on the top of the cave. There are many forks distributed in the outer circle of the pool, some of which are the roads we came, and some do not know where they lead. I still sent the insects out to find the way as usual, and I waited here with the little guy, but something happened to me just before the insects walked far away.

I was talking to the little guy about how to deal with the strongest magic demon when I saw it, but suddenly I heard a loud bang next to me, and more than a dozen water columns suddenly exploded in the pool. Since there was only such a big place here, neither of my little guy nor me ran away and all of them were poured thoroughly. Fortunately, the little guy could atomize and then restore the water and all fell down. Because I was wearing armor and was not water-permeable, I didn't do much.

"Damn, what's this?" Although we were shocked by the water, we quickly noticed the monster in the pool. This was a monster I had never seen before. It was about the size of a large villa. The whole body was flat and like a crab. However, there were no arthropods under it, but dozens of thick tentacles grew. The whole thing was dark green, with a bumpy surface and looked extremely disgusting. The whole body was covered with small mouths and a huge big mouth. All of them had teeth, and they were extremely sharp.

As soon as the disgusting monster came out, it frantically rolled towards us with its tentacles. The little guy reacted quickly enough and turned into a cloud of fog. The monster's tentacles swept back and forth on him several times and couldn't catch him at all, and finally they all rolled towards me.

"Half month."

Two and a half moon quickly escaped from the ring of precepts and protected me from the left and right sides. I thought those tentacles would be cut into sections by the flying half moon, but I didn't expect those tentacles to turn around in the air and jump up towards the top of the cave. Obviously, this guy noticed Half Moon and knew that he would be injured by this thing, so he changed his strategy. However, this guy seemed to have no organ similar to his eyes, and probably used his vibration to discover the target. Just now, the guy changed his strategy when he discovered my half moon, and this guy was very cunning. He did not attack me but used his tentacles to slam the top of the cave, and the rock on the top of the cave was drizzling like rain. Although Half Moon was extremely sharp, it was absolutely impossible to fly up by a large piece of rock. As a result, the half moon that protected me was hit under the stone.

After discovering that the blocking object disappeared, the monster immediately rolled the tentacles over again. I lowered my head and dodged one of the tentacles, then jumped on the spot and rolled 360 degrees in the air, and then landed and flashed the other three tentacles again. The monster immediately called more tentacles to roll over with one blow, but this time he was not so lucky.

"tank."

With a loud bang, the tank's huge body smashed into the hole. The monster's tentacles quickly wrapped around the tank's body, but the tank was covered with hard armor. Mollusks like this monster had no choice. The tank was not like me who hated these disgusting things. He directly stuffed the tentacles in his mouth into his mouth with the forelimbs that assisted in eating and started eating. The monster didn't expect to encounter such a cruel person and began to swallow his body directly. He was so scared that he hurriedly hid back. Unfortunately, the tentacle was pulled tightly by the tank and could not pull it back. At this time, all the ghost beetles I had discharged from before crawled back. A sea of ​​black insects pounced on the monster, and the monster completely disappeared in front of us in a rustling sound.

"Your magic pet is so terrible!" The little guy floated back and said to me: "If you often let them go out like this, we can imitate this kind of thing in the future to scare people."

"Although these little guys are very strong, they are group strength. In terms of individuals, they are actually very weak, so it's better not to become theirs. Otherwise, it would be a pity to be trampled to death."

"I'm just talking! By the way, have you found the way?"

"Yes, but we have to go another way first."

"Why?"

"That's why." More than ten minutes later, pointing at a large area of ​​shiny black crystals, answering the little guy's question more than ten minutes ago.

My original intention was just to let the ghost insects explore the way, but they actually found a natural black crystal mine for me. Although the range of this mine is very small, its quality is surprisingly high. Aisinger's defense uses giant magic arrays to now require large pieces of high-quality black crystals as energy conversion devices, but he didn't expect that I could find it here.

"Is these things useful to you?" The little guy is a special creature. Although these black crystals are like delicious food to undead creatures, they are almost like garbage to them.

I briefly explained the purpose of this thing to the little guy, then opened the Earth Gate directly in the mining area, and asked the Kirin Warrior to dig out all these black crystals into the Earth Gate. I returned to the right road with the little guy to move towards the residence of the magic demon. Speaking of which, this guy is really true. From entering the hole, we walked at least seven or eight kilometers deep, but we were not at the end. I don’t know what this guy thought, and he actually dug a big hole so deep.

In the next few hours, the little guy and I spent this constant exploration and progress. We ran nearly thirty kilometers in total before we finally found the clue of the magic demon. Now in front of us is an ordinary passage, the difference is that the picture of this passage will flash twice from time to time. It is obvious that this is an unstable illusion, and this means that the magic demon lives in it. The little guy and I looked at each other, and then stepped in together.
Chapter completed!