Supriya said that the gold mine was dug hundreds of meters deep.
After walking more than ten meters into the cave entrance, we finally saw the bottomless, pitch-black pit at the corner.
Steel cables twisted from fine gold were scattered all over the floor, and the boxes used to carry the miners were also gone.
"Watch your steps!" Supriya stretched out her hand to stop us.
Gululu--
The stones rolled out from under our feet and fell into the deep pit, where they echoed for a long time without touching the bottom.
There was a flash of fire and a burst of silence.
"...We can't jump." After a while, Dallion broke the silence.
"I heard that when the mine was built, there were parallel tunnels." Frowning, Supriya held up the torch and looked around, "Come this way."
Deeper in the mine against the rock wall, there is a wooden frame nailed up with solid wood. Perhaps because it is heavy and damp, it miraculously was not destroyed by the ooze monsters and flames.
Behind the wooden frame is a deep and curved corridor. Pale spider webs hang on the low roof like tattered cotton wool, gently swaying with the cold wind that comes from nowhere.
"This must be it." Supriya tugged hard on the rotten shelf, and the loose soil and dust falling from it made us all cough. "Stand back." Before she finished speaking, she said fiercely With a strong force, the shelf that was fastened by long nails was completely torn off by her. After changing her hands, she threw it to the ground with a clang, "Let's go."
"Wait a minute," Dallion stopped him, "How long has it been since anyone went in here? We have to..."
"If you're scared, just follow me, little..." As she said that, Supriya suddenly paused, but the moment she turned around, I still heard her snort contemptuously.
oh! I hate her attitude.
"Dallion," I said feebly as I lay on Dallion's back, "Be prepared with healing magic at any time. Someone might need it soon."
Those words made Dallion pat the back of my hand and let out a muffled laugh, which also made Supriya in front stumble.
At that moment, she turned her face and opened her mouth in anger or fear. I thought she was going to roar something at me, but at that time, I was surprised to find that she was shorter than before.
"Uh-huh!" Only then did the exclamation escape her lips.
With a bang, she completely disappeared!
"Ah!!" Her exclamations, which were getting farther and farther away, were the only echoes in the entire corridor.
what happened? !
"Supriya!" Dalyan immediately rushed forward a few steps and tried to pull her, but then, he seemed to have missed the step, and his whole body leaned back. If he hadn't turned sideways immediately, I think I would have She will be pressed to the point of vomiting blood.
"oh!"
"ah!"
We fell hard to the ground, and Dallion immediately turned around and hugged me into his arms!
We seemed to have rolled into a very sloping curve, and Dallion and I slammed into the opposite wall, "Ouch!" Before his twisted face recovered, he was bounced and continued to roll down!
This time it was my back that hit the wall. Even through Dallion's arm, I was still knocked to pieces.
"oh!"
"Wow!"
All the way down.
*
In the dark corridor, we seemed to roll countless times and hit countless walls before slamming into something hard and stopping.
At that moment, I just felt like my whole body was falling apart, and my eyes were full of flying stars.
"...Hmm..." Darian, who was pinned down by me, struggled weakly. Through the dim light, I saw that his expression was painful, and his slightly opened eyes were lifeless. It was obvious that he had been thrown Senseless.
I took a deep breath and rolled off him. Suddenly, the rocks with ghost images in front of me spun so fast that I almost vomited.
Wait, why is it so bright here? !
Resisting the feeling of nausea, I raised my head with great effort, and saw that right in front of us was a cave that seemed to have collapsed. There was a barrier emitting dim light inside, which was constantly twisting and shaking. Like the texture of water waves.
Why is there a barrier here? ! And the smell here is really...
Just when I wanted to take a closer look inside, there were other sounds not far away.
"Oh..." It was Supriya. She held her bleeding shoulders and sat up from the rubble on the ground with a look of pain on her face.
She looked very embarrassed, her hair was messy, her face was covered with scratches, the corners of her mouth were swollen, and she also lost one of her boots.
When she looked at the barrier, she was stunned for a moment, and then a smile broke out on her face. But soon, her smile solidified, her eyes widened, and she was filled with undisguised horror, "Oh my god. Now! What is that?!"
*
Supriya's reaction surprised me, and I immediately looked at the barrier. When I saw what was inside clearly, I couldn't help but take a breath.
In the center of the barrier, several people were lying there, seemingly in a coma.
Next to them, there was a kneeling... dead man. His head was lowered, and his bangs covered most of his face. His exposed chin was covered in blood. In addition, he was missing an arm.
His abdominal cavity was torn open, and pieces of meat and organs mixed with blood and water flowed all over the floor. There were even intestines hanging on his long sword that was deeply inserted into the ground.
His ribs were completely exposed, and there was a dark fist-sized thing nestled in his stomach, gnawing at his bones!
The smell of blood was so strong that I felt like I was swallowing blood with every breath I took.
"Oh my god...Uncle Oberon..." Supriya murmured, and I saw her chest rise and fall faster and faster, and then she jumped up from the ground and rushed towards the barrier like a mammoth. He walked over and said, "Drink!"
boom--
Only a dull sound was heard, and Supriya seemed to have hit a mountain. I watched with my own eyes as the muscles on her shoulders were flattened bit by bit, and then the huge impact rebounded hard, knocking her back several steps before she sat down on the ground. There was crystal liquid flowing from her eyes. It rolled out, leaving two deep marks on her dirty cheeks.
Just for a moment, I found that the dark thing had chewed off a whole bone of the unlucky guy. It could be seen with the naked eye that it had grown in a circle, and then, it suddenly spit out something, that shiny thing. The thing hit the barrier in front of us like a boomerang, and then fell into the gravel on the ground.
It was an emblem belonging to the Lordaeron Patrol.
If I'm not mistaken, this Uncle Oberon is the colleague who replaced Selin in Marcus' mouth.
I suddenly felt a strange sense of joy. Fortunately, Selin left here. Fortunately, it was not him lying there!
That thought made me feel ashamed, but I couldn't help it.
"Messiah..." Unexpectedly, a pair of warm hands passed under my armpits and helped me up from the ground.
"...Dallion?" I grabbed his arm hard and forced myself to sit down on my knees. "That...what is that?" I pointed at the thing in Oberon's abdomen that was biting the bones. , the voice was trembling slightly.
Dallion squinted his eyes and stared at the thing, then shook his head, "I don't know, but it looks like... like a little ooze monster."
Ooze?
I looked at the thing carefully. It was indeed like other ooze monsters. It had a big skirt. On the skirt was a surprisingly small head, but...but such a small ooze monster, I A little ooze monster that can be crushed to death with one kick, but it's eating people?
"We have to save the others." Supriya stood up unsteadily, "Look at the others, they are still breathing, they probably just fainted, we can't watch them being killed by that little... little monster Eat it.”
Boom, boom, boom, the little ooze monster grew again. Oberon's ribs had been almost eaten by it, and it turned around to bite his spine.
Boom, boom, boom, that sound seemed so weird and terrifying in the dead silence.
"We must find a way to get in and kill it before it grows up." After a moment of silence, Dallion spoke hastily.
He walked to the barrier, hesitated for a moment, then stretched out his leather-gloved palm to touch the dim light shield, and then patted it hard.
Pong--
The light mask made a crisp sound.
He drew out the long sword from his waist, took a deep breath, and then struck fiercely.
Ping--
The harsh collision almost ripped open my eardrums, and Dallion took several steps back at the harsh sound.
The light shield only flickered slightly, but still stood there quietly.
After a pause, he put away his sword and squatted down to wipe away the stones on the ground. "Find the rune stone of the barrier!" he shouted to Supriya.
They walked back and forth along the light barrier twice, carefully looking at every inch of the ground.
At this time, the strange ooze monster had chewed off Oberon's spine, breaking his body into two pieces. I saw the hem of the ooze monster shrinking, and it jumped onto Oberon's head accurately. I don't know how it did it. In an instant, Oberon's scalp split open, and the blood-stained skull leaked out. His face was also covered in scars.
Boom, boom, boom--
A big hole was chewed out of his cheek, and a black-and-white eye rolled helplessly from its socket, sticking to the stones and dust and rolling all the way to the edge of the barrier.
Dallion was stunned for a moment, and knelt down beside the eyeball across the barrier. He was looking at something carefully, and suddenly, he turned around with an ugly expression, "The runes of the barrier are inside! I saw it!"
Supriya immediately stumbled over and knelt beside him. She slapped the barrier vigorously, and tried her best with every punch of her huge fist, but it was useless. "What should I do?! How can I destroy it?" It?! Can’t it be broken open?!”
"We can't do it... unless a mage uses flash to get in. Damn it, the communication circle is broken, and we can't get help!"
"...Can we just watch them die here?" Supriya beat the barrier hard, her voice trembling.
No one likes to watch death come, at least not here.
I closed my eyes slightly, and suddenly, the world filled with shadow energy appeared in front of my eyes. It was no different from what I thought. The wind blew smoothly into the barrier, and the wind was purple. Black, without a trace of blood-red borders.
"I'm going to Briar overnight..." Dallion stood up.
"By the time you come back, they will all be dead..."
"Why don't you ask me?" I interrupted their conversation, "Maybe I can go there?"
That sentence made them all turn around.
"You can't..." Dallion took a step towards me.
"I can now, look." I moved with all my strength and knelt on Shadow Wind.
call--
For a moment, I heard the wind whistling in my ears. When I opened my eyes again, I was already at the other end of the barrier.
"Messiah!" Dallion exclaimed, his back stiffened for a moment, and then he immediately turned around and looked at me.
"Holy Light..." Supriya looked in disbelief. From this side, their voices sounded a little muffled, as if they were coming from underwater.
"I'll get rid of this rune." I looked around and picked up a stone that fit my hand.
But at that moment, I suddenly saw Supriya's eyes widening in shock. Suddenly, she put her hands on the barrier, "Oh my god! Be careful!"
Be careful?
Tell me, what did she mean by those damn words and that damn look on her face?
"Messiah!" In an instant, Dallion also roared, beating the barrier in shock, "Come out quickly! Hurry!"
I vaguely realized something, and looked back sharply, only to see the ooze monster that was already as big as a basin slowly squirming out of Oberon's abdomen. The two scarlet lights on its head were facing me. .
Gululu--
There was a sound of water coming out from under its skirt.
For a moment, my heart jumped into my throat!
