The situation in that cave can be said to be very bad. I don’t know whether these NPCs were detained or specialized laboratories. In short, there are now lying around here. There are now 300 people lying around here. And these people have three common characteristics: one is naked, the two is bruises and wounds all over the body, and the third is dying... From the wound, the injuries of these people are not fatal. The wounds are large, but they are all scratches or scratches. There are no obvious wounds, but they are just large areas of bruises. As for dying, it is not caused by the wound, but by physical overdrawing. As for the reason for physical overdrawing... Just look at the air that is still cloudy and foggy.

The people in the room looked in a bad situation and could hang up at any time, but I didn't care about this time. What I really care about was the residual powder of the burning substance in the center. This thing was in the center of the room, which was a huge bowl-like thing, and the powder reported by the Kirin Warrior was located at the bottom of the bowl.

The things in the bowl look strange, unlike ordinary ash. This thing seems to condense into a structure that looks like amber, but not all of them are like this. It feels like the burning residue has become two different substances, one is a crystal clear residue, and the other is a very strange off-white powder. It is said that these powders are strange because although these powders look gray, they are constantly smoking, but there is no open flame.

Generally speaking, charcoal can be burned continuously without causing open flames in certain special combustion states, but it is a whole piece of charcoal, not the powder in front of you. When some charcoal is burning, it is because the flame is burning inside the charcoal and it is very weak. It is not that it is really impossible to see the fire, but it is just blocked. However, this situation is different now. Those powders do not block the volume of the flames. If they are burning, they will definitely be seen.

Because I had no idea whether this thing was burning, I could only use eternity to pick the ashes. As soon as I touched the ashes, I found that the crystals had broken and turned into small pieces. Then at a speed visible to my naked eyes, a large ball of flame suddenly burst out from the shattered crystals. The flames burned for only a few seconds and gradually went out. The rest was a bowl of off-white powder, and the crystals could no longer be seen.

Obviously, there was something wrong with our previous judgment. The off-white powders are indeed ashes, but the crystals are not, they are fuel.

Although I have discovered this situation now, I can no longer collect those things. The crystals were completely burned out when I touched them. Now all that is left is ash powder. Although they are still smoking, I think I must not be able to study anything about this thing.

Put all the powders into a box and seal them, then throw them into the Phoenix Dragon Space. Then I summoned Xiaolongnu and helped capture some gas from the room and poured them into a clean bottle. Finally, I confirmed that there was nothing missing here and then I planned to leave the room. However, when I was about to take back Xiaolongnu and turn away, Xiaolongnu on the other side suddenly walked to the big guy who had previously filled the ashes and listened.

I looked back at Xiaolongnu in confusion, but Xiaolongnu bent down and held the sides of the bowl with both hands and pushed forward with force. As Xiaolongnu's power was applied, the huge stone bowl began to slowly slide to one side, and then a huge hole was exposed.

In fact, I said this thing is a bowl just because it looks the same as the bowl we eat, not that this thing is really only as big as a bowl. To be honest, even if it is used as a single bathtub, it is quite huge. Therefore, when Xiaolongnu moved away from this thing, it was not surprising that the big hole exposed below.

Before, because of the cover of this bowl, I and I didn’t expect there would be a big hole on the ground. However, since the hole has been discovered, we naturally have to go down to take a look. However, for safety reasons, I still threw a group of ghost insects down to explore the way as usual.

Originally, I planned to go down alone to see the situation, but in the information returned by the ghost bug, I found that this idea was a bit unrealistic, because the space below the cave entrance was unexpectedly large, and it was well-connected, so it was obvious that one or two people could not search it.

Although the environment below is very large and requires many people to complete the exploration, how to go on is a problem. There is no problem with Kris Dena and I. The key is how Pandora and Radamantis will come down. The entrance of this cave is located in the center of this huge room full of special gases, and the gases here also have a strong effect on the gods. Even if you hold your breath, you can take effect. Therefore, you need to make some preparations to pass here.

Back outside the cave, he talked about the situation below with Kris Dena and others. Pandora and the others immediately understood my intention. Without my explanation, Pandora and Radamantis immediately used a protective magic to create a closed environment around them that absolutely isolates the air circulation. This small air shield can act as an isolation function. As for the impact on the battle, I think it doesn't have to consider it at all. After all, this thing is enough to allow them to enter the cave below.

Pandora, who entered the room with the protective cover, did not feel any discomfort. After confirming that the protective cover was indeed useful, they followed me to the near the entrance of the hole.

It can be confirmed that this hole is not reserved for people to enter and exit, it should have other purposes. The reason for this is that there is no staircase or any passage for ordinary people to walk under the hole. The hole is located at the top of an underground cave, and the nearest wall around is five meters away, and there is no place to borrow force. Unless it can be hung upside down on the top of the cave like Spider-Man, this place is simply inaccessible to ordinary people. As for jumping directly, don't think about it. The bottom of the hole is at least more than 100 meters away from the ground, and the bottom is full of upward stalagmites, just like the teeth of a monster. The biggest possibility of jumping from here is not to be thrown into meat patties, but to be worn into meat skewers. Of course, if you know how to fly, it's a different matter.

In order to facilitate everyone's actions, I directly summoned the sickle to open the way for us. Thunder spiders are also spiders. Weaving webs is an instinct for them and it doesn't take much effort. With the help of the sickle, we made a huge interception net above the bottom of the hole below, and then everyone jumped down in batches.

There was a huge spider web intercepting us, and we easily landed on the huge web and then threw it high. Because it was a web that connects people rather than a web used to trap the target, there was no mucus attached to the spider silk used in the sickle this time, so that the spider silk would not have a sticky surname.

Following a spider silk that was completed in advance by the sickle, we quickly slid from the edge of the net to the ground. Although we felt that there were stalagmites standing up like thorns everywhere, when we really got to the ground, we would find that the gap between these stalagmites was still very large, at least it did not affect our passage.

Although the hole we just came down was not for people to walk through, there were obvious signs of human activity in the place below. Not only was there a very obvious road on the ground, but there was also flashing in a place not far ahead.

Since we can already see the flash, it means that there is something in the place in front not far from here. In this case, we unconsciously slowed down and tried to approach the turn in front as carefully as possible.

The turn is quite narrow, probably only two people can walk through the middle, but this is a good thing for us, because the narrower the opening, the more important the road is, and there will inevitably be fewer people coming and going on unimportant roads.

After carefully approaching the curve, Radamantis and I leaned forward first. Among the five people here, we are only male surnames, and the only melee personnel is Aphrodite. However, considering that the investigation is now being conducted, Aphrodite is obviously incompatible. Her armor that is so gorgeous that she can attend a costume exhibition and the blonde hair that can blind people's eyes are all too eye-catching. As long as she shows up there, I promise that someone will be discovered immediately.

Aphrodite knew that he was not suitable for this, and did not disturb us. He stayed behind and stared at us whether someone came behind. Radamantis and I quickly approached the corner there and quietly poked out half of our heads and observed the situation outside with one eye.

To our surprise, the previous caution was obviously in vain, because there was no one there. The reason for the flash was that there was a large field in front of the bend. Yes, it was the field. Rows of mushrooms grew in this obviously artificially sorted field. Each of these mushrooms was nearly one meter high, and their appearance was not much different from most mushrooms. The hemispherical top and a mushroom stalk were very standard mushroom shapes. Except for being slightly larger, it did not seem special. However, although the appearance of this mushroom was not strange, it was still very strange, because on the top of these mushrooms, the cap

The part is as densely embedded as the seeds on the strawberry. I recognized these crystals as the kind of burning substance I saw before. In other words, the burning substance in the cave before was probably produced by the mushrooms here. Moreover, if that is true, the function of the hole we came down before could be understood. It should be a cargo channel, and the person who burned those things could lift the citrine-like thing below from the hole. Of course, if this is the case, someone would definitely need help below, after all, these mushrooms did not grow directly under the hole.

The flash we saw before was actually emitted by these mushrooms here. The citrines embedded on the surface of the mushrooms are all shining with a uniform frequency. When they are glowing, the brightness may be close to the car headlights, and when they are turned off, they retain the faint brightness like a night light.

Although these luminous citrines grow on different mushrooms, the strange thing is that their flashing frequency is completely consistent. There are at least tens of thousands of crystals distributed on hundreds of such mushrooms in this mushroom field, but there is no crystal in them that shines even in one second.

After confirming that there was no danger, Radamantis and I walked out first, and Pandora and the others followed us automatically when they saw us going out. The mushrooms outside naturally attracted the attention of Kris Dena and the others, but everyone just took a little observation and picked a few mushrooms as samples, and then temporarily lost interest in these things.

There are three other roads extending from this mushroom cultivation room, one of which is the road we came in, and it is completely unclear where the other two lead. After a little consideration, we planned to walk separately, Pandora, Radamantis, Kris Dena, and Aphrodite. This division is to ensure the balance of combat power output.

Although Aphrodite is a beautiful god, she is a good god, and she is a different person from the servant gods like Pandora and Radamantis, so Aphrodite's combat power is actually above Radamantis and Pandora.

After the team separated, Aphrodite and I chose the road on the far left. Anyway, the routes on both sides are unknown, so it is the same to choose which side.

Not long after the passage, we encountered another mushroom room. It was similar to the room just now, and there were still a large number of mushrooms planted. This mushroom room was larger this time. This mushroom room was only connected to two passages, and there was only one road except the one we came. After passing through the mushroom room, we continued to move forward. We found that this place was simply a mushroom cultivation base. In the next passage, we encountered at least six mushroom cultivation rooms in a row. These mushroom cultivation rooms were planted with huge mushrooms without exception, and we did not find any personnel in these rooms.

After checking many rooms in this way, we found that besides mushrooms and mushrooms, there is not much distance between the entire passage, which is a mushroom cultivation room. So far, there are at least hundreds of thousands of mushrooms we have seen. Such a terrible number means that these mushrooms must have special uses, because generally speaking, no one will plant something completely useless for no reason.

After further exploring for a while, just when we thought there was nothing else here except mushrooms, a little difference suddenly appeared in a small mushroom cultivation room in front of us. When we approached this mushroom cultivation room, we actually heard someone talking inside.

Because I heard the other party's voice in advance, Aphrodite and I immediately became hidden, and then began to approach the mushroom cultivation room carefully little by little. After carefully moving to the door of the mushroom cultivation room, we finally saw the situation inside.

The inside of this mushroom cultivation room is also full of yellow mushrooms like other mushroom cultivation rooms. However, the difference is that at one end of this mushroom cultivation room, two people are bent down and digging yellow crystals on one of the big mushrooms. Moreover, most of the crystals on the mushrooms in this room have been obviously dug away, leaving only holes with yellow liquid flowing.

It is obvious that these people are collecting crystals, but I am very surprised what these crystals are used for. If they only produce some special effects, the yield is too large. After all, that thing does not work for players, and if it is to deal with NPC, it is obviously a waste to plant so many mushrooms. Besides, the previous power was because it was in the underground world, so it could have such a good effect. If it was on the ground, the volatile gas was very strong. If it could not be concentrated, the concentration would naturally drop. With some appropriate protection, no matter how powerful this thing is, the effect it can play must be limited, and it can only be used suddenly once without the enemy knowing it. Once everyone knows the characteristics of this thing, it is not that easy to use this thing. After all, although the effect of this thing is very strong, it is also very easy to protect it. If it is in an open place, a gust of wind will be enough to handle these gases.

The two guys who were burying their crystals did not notice the appearance of Aphrodite and me. We listened to each other for a while and then confirmed that these were two NPCs instead of players, because what they were discussing was obviously not something that players would discuss.

After confirming that these two were just NPCs, Aphrodite and I no longer had any scruples. We ran over and knocked them out one by one, then carried them up and ran away. After retreating backwards for more than a dozen rooms, we put the two of us down and then sucked them with water. As soon as the two woke up, they were about to scream, but Aphrodite and I were not the kind of kind people, so these two unlucky guys were immediately intimidated by us. After one of them was kicked, they became much more honest.

There are actually many ways to deal with NPCs. I didn't even use Aphrodite's beauty trick to get these two NPCs and got all the information they knew.

According to the confessions of these two NPCs, this place is indeed a mushroom cultivation base, and the output of this place is basically collected by Russian players. These NPCs do not work here in the form of hired workers, but work in the form of slaves. According to their description, this place is actually a huge prison. The hole we came down before was the only way to get out here. Although there are many passages connecting the outside in other places, they are very small, or are not accessible for some reason, and the only thing that can really go through is that hole. Of course, now because the hole is sealed and so high from the ground, people here can't get out at all. It is precisely for this reason that the people here are actually kept in captivity.

According to their own description, their NPC work here is to take care of these mushrooms and then start collecting them when the crystals on the mushrooms grow big enough. This collection work is very frequent because the crystals on the mushrooms can actually grow back in just two days, so their work is actually very large.

The collected crystals will be piled up by them in one place, and then transported to the hole we had come down every other day. The Russian players above will use hanging baskets to pull the crystals up and then put down enough food for two days. In other words, they are actually using crystals for food. If they refuse to work, there will be no food. This place is located underground, without sunlight, and ordinary plants cannot grow at all, so they cannot obtain food by themselves. If the Russians above do not provide food, they will not be able to survive.

Because we used special magic to identify and confirm that these guys were telling the truth, we did not speak evilly to them after we knew that they and the Russians were not along the way. And after hearing that we were not among the Russians, we also turned around 180 degrees and asked us to rescue them.

Of course I agreed to such a thing, and then asked them to take us to their residence.

In fact, the cave we saw when we first discovered them was not far from our residence. From here, we were just a few dozen meters ahead of us. The only difference between this cave and ordinary caves is that there is an underground stream passing through. The stream is very small and comes out of the cracks of rocks. It is impossible for people to leave the waterway, but it is enough for people here to live a practical life. On the other side of the stream is a row of tents, with a bonfire burning in front of each tent, and the fuel surprised us because it was clearly the crystals we saw before.

"Are you burning this yellow crystal?" I asked in surprise, looking at the fuel in the fire.

The guy who led us obviously knew the purpose of this thing, so he explained specifically: "In fact, Sigma crystals themselves will not produce any hallucinogenic effects. They are really powerful. You can tell by smelling the smoke yourself."

Because this guy had been detected by Aphrodite's magic and did not lie, and the smoke had no effect on the player, I took the courage to come over and smell it. I didn't care, but the moment I smelled the thing, my eyes suddenly turned away and stared at the thing in surprise.

I never expected that the smoke produced after this vigilance burn was a comprehensive enhancement potion. Just now, I felt my power rising sharply the moment I inhaled this thing. After I opened the zodiac surname, I found that the rise was not only the zodiac surname, but also my health, magic power, magic attack power, casting success rate, endurance, resistance to the zodiac surname, and sensory sensitivity. It can be said that this is a zodiac surname enhancement potion, and its effect is immediate and can take effect within almost one second.

"How long can this thing last?" I turned around in surprise and asked the guy who led the way.

"About a minute, but this is the original smoke that has not been processed. If you have some processing and add some appropriate medicinal materials, the effect of this thing can be extended."

"Do you know a lot about these things?" Aphrodite asked.

The guy who was asked suddenly felt a little discouraged when he heard this, "Actually, I used to be a pharmacist, but after I was caught here..." He did not finish the following words, but we all understood the meaning. The Russians wanted slaves rather than pharmacists, so this guy could only do some physical work here. Of course, collecting that kind of sigma crystal itself is not very hard, it just takes some time.

"Isn't this your gathering place? Why is there no one?" Because this guy's mood was obviously depressed, I changed the subject.

The guy also reacted and did not continue to complain, but explained: "We have sixteen people in total, but the area here is too large, and we all work in groups of two people. One person is responsible for picking and the other is responsible for back and forth transportation. Now everyone is scattered in various cultivation rooms to collect sigma crystals. If we hadn't met you, wouldn't we both be working too?"

"Then do you have a way to call them back?" I asked.

The guy shook his head and said, "There is nothing here. Naturally, he doesn't want communication methods to gather people, but if the pockets they carry with him are filled in a while, they will inevitably come back."

I nodded and asked, "If I save you, are you willing to work for me? Don't worry, it's not like a slave. You can continue to be a pharmacist. Your job is to study the rational use of this sigma crystal. I pay you a salary, and you can act freely. Of course, it's only during holidays, and you still have to work hard during working hours."

After hearing this, this guy nodded immediately and said, "As long as you can go out from this place without sunshine, you can continue to be a slave, even if you let me continue to be a slave, those damn guys actually let us Sigma live underground. How can they do such cruel things? We are a race that yearns for sunshine!"

"Sigma? Are you not human?"

"No, we are the Sigma tribe, a race with reading power, very similar to humans, but not humans. We have our own way of civilization. In addition, I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Hilses, and the next person is my younger brother Carl, but he is a very boring guy and usually doesn't talk to people."

I nodded and continued, "Hilses, do you know how the Sigma crystal you mentioned came from?"

Hillses nodded and said, "Sigma crystal is actually the product of the secretions of Sigma mushrooms condensed. Although we call it Sigma crystal, it actually has nothing to do with the crystal. This is a natural substance, just like amber. Do you know amber?" Hillses asked uncertainly when he said this.

I replied with a dark look on my face: "Don't worry, I didn't come from Mars, of course I know Amber."

"That's good," said Hilses. "You know, the demons who imprisoned us before were simply a group of guys with muscles in their heads. They didn't know anything. They actually used Sigma crystals to make psychedelics. This was a blasphemy to Sigma crystals!"

"No matter what they do with this thing, they will have no chance in the future, because this place no longer belongs to them. I will take all of you and take away those sigma mushrooms together, and no fragment will be left to them."

When Hilses heard this, he suddenly shook his head and said, "It's useless. This is not their only place of origin."

"What?"

"We were transported here recently, and we used to grow sigma mushrooms in another prison."

"Do you know where that place is?" I asked excitedly. If Hilses knew the exact information about that place, we might be able to follow the clues to find the real old nests of the Russians. The other party was always found in this way and evacuated immediately, which made us so passive that we always ran behind the butt. Although the Koreans and Russians lost several cities for this, they won time. What's worse is that they seemed to be planning something and were about to implement it soon. If we can't stop them before that, I have a feeling that something will happen.

Although I really hoped that Hilces would give me a positive answer, the Russians were too cautious. Hilces shook his head and said, "I only know that it is cold there, but I can't take you to find it, because it is also a hole. During the transfer process, they will knock us out first, and when we wake up, they will be in another place. In fact, we have been transported two planting bases before, but we don't know anything about the location there, only knowing that it is a very cold place because when we are pulled out of the hole, I feel the air outside is very cold."

After hearing such an answer, I could only give up the hope of finding the Russians' nest through them. Fortunately, there is still a lot of information in the cities on the ground that have not been cleaned up. Now some of my magic pets are searching for information on the ground. Of course, this process will take a lot of time. After all, this is a city with an area there.

During our chat with Hirsces, Pandora and Radamantis also came here, and a large group of Sigma people were followed by them. They were obviously captured and captured, and then after interrogation, they found that they were just slaves.

After some explanation, we picked all the sigma mushrooms here with the help of these sigma people, and then destroyed the parts that could not be taken away. Then we went to the ground. Because there was still psychedelic gas in the room above, I had to prepare a set of sealing armor for each of these sigma people. In addition, Kris Dena's qi spell also helped a lot, otherwise I really didn't know how to get these people out.

The first thing these people did after they got outside was to cry desperately and then began to worship the sky. According to Hilsse's previous statement, their race is a race that believes in the sun and light. They first cultivated those sigma mushrooms because those things would shine and could produce light at night. As for those strange functions, that was completely by-product. Of course, this kind of thing is actually normal, because if you really let some people cultivate plants with the reinforced genus surname, it would be very difficult, and it is more likely to run into some magical plants when you are lucky.

While these guys vented their excitement of seeing Tianyue again, I was listening to the report of the demon pets. The search results were not as smooth as expected. Although many Russians were killed by us, they were just giant players. Ordinary players still evacuated a lot of people during this period and made sufficient damage to clues. However, in such a large city, they evacuated in a hurry, and no matter how they destroyed them, they would inevitably have something left.

After my devil pets' careful search, we finally got a lot of useful information.

"Damn, you can find this thing, it's really hard for you!" I said in surprise as I looked at a special structure gem that Bai Lang brought over.

This gem is visible to any player in the game, and he can recognize it at a glance, because this thing is so common. This thing is actually a piece of sensing crystal, which is usually installed on the teleportation array. When you want to use the teleportation array, you need to operate this thing and use it to operate other magic gems to achieve the function of starting the teleportation array.

As an item with such a high usage rate, there are naturally many people who know it, let alone it. However, although most people know this thing, few people know some hidden functions of this thing. This may also be the main reason why this thing is preserved.

As the control module of the transmission array, this induction crystal needs to be connected to various different blocks on the transmission array, including the recording crystal used to record the information of the other party's transmission array. When the transmission array is started, it needs to first communicate with the other party's transmission array, and then transmit and receive to complete the transmission. Therefore, each transmission array has a set of unique codes like a mobile phone, which will be used to identify different transmission arrays. However, unlike ordinary mobile phone numbers, the encoding of the transmission array is actually of practical significance. It includes some key information such as the physical position of the transmission array and the magic fluctuation frequency. These things can be said to be very important. As long as you have this information, you can transmit it to a designated transmission array.

Because those information are important, the Russians first destroyed the recording crystals on the transmission array when they evacuated, with the purpose of not letting us know where they were transmitting. However, although they destroyed the recording crystal, they did not know that the recording crystal was actually just equivalent to the hard drive in the computer, and this sensing crystal played a memory role. In other words, although most of the transmission data was destroyed together in the recording crystal, the sensing crystal actually retained the latest hundreds of records. These records were refreshed by scrolling, that is, every time a new information appeared, the oldest information would be squeezed out. However, no matter what, the last hundreds of information would be recorded in the sensing crystal.

When those Russian players evacuate, many people must have used the teleportation array to leave, and then left one or two people to use the scroll to leave after destroying the teleportation array. On the one hand, they interfere with the space to transmit information, and on the other hand, they are responsible for the tail. However, these people responsible for the tail are obviously not experts in the teleportation array. They do not know that the induction crystal can also record information, and they can actually record hundreds of information, so they did not waste time destroying the induction crystal, and we caught the tail.

"With this thing, can you know where the other party is going?" Aphrodite asked at the crystal in my hand. Although he is very strong in combat, Aphrodite is a god and does not know much about magic technology.

As a senior mage, Klis Dena explained: "This crystal will record how many people were teleported by the teleportation array to where they go, so we can know from this where the other party went when they escaped."

"What are you waiting for? Open it and take a look?" Aphrodite urged, "Aren't we in a hurry?"
To be continued...