Chapter 55 The Lost City (Part 2)
At first, Feiyu thought that the task of finding Joel was just to follow the team and search each room carefully. As a result, this work took much more time than Feiyu expected, so after a while they were left behind by the team.
They were divided into two groups, and the same group as Feiyu was Kaili. Kaili was a taciturn man with a serious expression. To be honest, he was a little uncomfortable with him in a group. Orson and "Mr.", they did not enter the room to search, but stood in the corridor outside the room. If there was a sudden situation, they would immediately go into the room to support.
"Sir" is a very strange person. He will not talk to anyone, nor will he take off his thick cloak. His hands are wearing gloves and wrapping himself tightly. Others discuss in private whether he is a guy with some strange cleanliness, but no one knows this, because "Sir" will not talk to anyone.
At first, Feiyu felt that as long as he walked along the corridor, he could slowly follow the team. As a result, they spent countless hours - Feiyu changed a torch in the middle of the journey - and then they came to a fork, which was a "t"-shaped intersection. At the end of the left was a staircase extending downwards, and on the right was upwards. At this time, Feiyu finally realized how dangerous this task was. Although he had this premonition at first, he still couldn't help but feel nervous when standing in front of this intersection.
"Let's go right." After observing the mercenaries' footprints, Orson announced this. Feiyu also felt like "It's true."
The team walked to the intersection on the left and headed towards the depths of the dungeon. If Joel was on the other side, he would meet directly, right? But what if Joel was on the left? It is precisely because of this possibility that their search team must choose the right path, that is, to walk up the upward stairs, which is also the reason why Feiyu felt nervous. After all, the team had nearly seventy people, and they only had twelve people, and the number was so different, but they might face the same number.
So where did that guy Joel go? Feiyu turned around and looked at the intersection that was gradually moving away, and his teammates walking in front also stepped on the upward stairs. "What's wrong?" Kairi, who was next to him, asked with a frown, "Are you uneasy?"
Kairi's sudden conversation surprised Feiyu, and he immediately shook his head: "It's not that I'm uneasy... No, maybe it's indeed uneasy."
"Why, are you already incoherent?" Feiyu saw that the serious and taciturn Kaili actually pulled the corners of his mouth, but it was not a sarcastic smile.
"What about you?" Feiyu asked immediately.
"Me? I don't feel it." Kairi shrugged, and the smile on his face changed back to his usual seriousness. He raised his eyes and looked at his teammates who were heading up the stairs in front.
"Really?" Feiyu asked suspiciously, but he immediately remembered something, "Speaking of it... When did you join the Iron Chain Knights?"
"Me?" He raised his eyebrows, then looked at Feiyu in surprise. Obviously he didn't expect that he would ask such a question at this time. He looked ahead and spent a breath to judge "Is it a time to chat at this moment?" He looked at Feiyu again, "I joined half a year ago in real time."
"Half a year? Has it been so long?" But Feiyu still felt a little doubtful when he looked at him, "But your level is not high. Did you die in the middle and change the number?"
"No, I have been in charge of the late stages since I joined the Iron Chain Knights a year and a half ago," Kairi rubbed his nose and then slowly exhaled a white breath. "I am mainly responsible for logistics management, and I am a craftsman," he paused as he said, "But the current guild warehouse does not require management, after all, there is nothing left." As he said that, he showed a short helpless smile again.
They followed the stairs to the top, and Feiyu found that the structure of the upper layer was almost the same as that of the lower layer, but when they used fire to dispel the darkness at the edge of the stairs, the team in front immediately stopped. "What's wrong?" Orson, who was walking in the middle, asked with a frown.
"Captain..." The people in front stood on both sides one after another. Orson raised his head and saw the upper stairs and the darkness above, wisps of white air floated down. He looked serious and looked at the "Mr." beside him.
"Draw out the weapon and prepare for battle." His command made Feiyu and Kaili, who were walking at the back, feel a little confused, but they still took out the weapon. Feiyu pulled out the iron sword at his waist. Kaili's weapon was an iron hammer, and he also carried thick cotton armor gloves, making his hands look like the pliers of a lobster puppet.
The team walked forward again, but this time the speed slowed down a lot, and Feiyu became nervous. He held the sword in his hand tightly. To be honest, he was not good at using swords. However, if he used a bow and arrow in such a narrow space, it was very likely that he would injure his teammates, and the space for weapons was not that large. If there was an emergency, it would be better to hold an iron sword.
"Joel?" Feiyu heard Orson's cry as he walked up the stairs, "Joel? Are you there?"
After Feiyu and Kaili saw what they had seen before, they also understood how this inexplicable tension came about: the uppermost staircase was covered with white frost, but most of the frost on it had been stepped into dirty ice, and strands of white air conditioning floated down from above. "No wonder the temperature suddenly became so much lower." Kaili exhaled, and then he walked in front of Feiyu and stepped on the ladder. The dirty broken ice cracked again under his feet. He continued to step onto the second part. The sound of the white frost and the ice shattered made Feiyu shudder.
Feiyu followed Kaili to the top of the stairs. He immediately raised his head. Not only on the ground next to the stairs, but almost the entire layer was covered with a layer of white frost. On the floor, on the wall, and on the ceiling above his head, the tunnel was like a white glacier tunnel, but they all knew that the white frost was gray-blue stones under it.
No wonder Orson asked us to prepare. Feiyu thought so while bringing the torch in his hand to the white frost on the wall next to him. The flames were probably hissing, and the white frost on the surface of the wall also began to melt. However, the melted thing was not water, but mucus. Those monsters? Feiyu looked up and looked around. The people in front of him had the same reaction as him. They were also searching for traces of monsters, but in the entire tunnel, there were only dirty footprints except the white frost, and there were no traces of monsters at all.
"I have a bit of an ominous premonition." Kaili said what everyone felt. His expression was more serious than usual, and his steps became slower. I don't know if it was because of the fear of the ambushing monster or the fear of falling on the slide. "Flying fish, I looked to the left and the right." Kaili said to him.
"Is it necessary to be so nervous?" Feiyu asked with a relaxed smile. Even he felt the smile on his face was far-fetched. After exhaling the false smile in his words, he seemed to be frozen into ice residue by the cold around him and fell to the ground.
It was so cold that Feiyu couldn't help but tremble. He wanted to take out the wine bag from his backpack and drink a sip of wine to warm up his body. As a result, Kaili, who took his joke seriously, said coldly with a more serious expression: "Don't relax, don't think that if someone explores the way ahead, we will be safe. No one knows whether there is anything hidden under this white frost. Have you seen the door?"
Door? Feiyu immediately understood what Kaili meant. As expected, the door disappeared. The white frost covered on both sides was very flat, just like there were flat walls behind them. However, there should be doors on the walls. After all, the structure of this layer is the same as the next layer, but these doors were also covered by frost. When Feiyu thought of this, he immediately became nervous. If the monsters were squeezing into those rooms... Feiyu didn't dare to continue thinking about it. He felt that goose bumps had already emerged when he reached out.
Feiyu remembered another thing at this moment. He whispered to Carey beside him, "If Joel was on this floor, he would find footprints immediately?"
"So Orson did not turn around but continued to investigate?" Carey nodded, "So that's it."
So that's it? In other words, the person in front of me did see footprints, right? It means that Joel was indeed here. Feiyu immediately became uneasy, "If Joel was here, wouldn't it mean that others were going in the wrong direction?"
"Not necessarily." Carey next to him replied in a deep voice, "In short, let's find him first and talk about something else. Instead of worrying about having Drake's team under him, we have only twelve of people."
While the two were talking, the person in front had already started knocking off Baishuang on the wall and looking for the door behind. Kaili and Feiyu did not get close to each other, but just looked at it from a distance. "Isn't this too risky?" Feiyu asked Kaili next to him in a low voice.
"Who knows." Although Kaili answered, Feiyu must have had some ideas after seeing his serious expression. If something really happens, follow this guy.
"Finished!" shouted the person in front of him, and then several others immediately surrounded him, including Orson and "Mr.".
"Are they looking for something?" Carey asked this time.
"Looking for something?" Feiyu obviously felt something strange, and he looked at the other teammates. Several people turned to look at them and showed a confused expression. Obviously they didn't know what they were doing. "Aren't I looking for Joel? Is it the idea of that 'sir'?" Feiyu asked with a frown.
Kairi, who was beside him, immediately turned his head and asked in a low voice: "Who is that 'sir'?"
"Break the door open!" Orson's command came from the front. The others hesitated and then took action. The warhammer hit the door panel and made a loud noise.
Feiyu suppressed his anxiety and nervousness and looked at Kaili beside him: "Don't you know who 'sir' is? He is an old friend of the president's past during the 'death battle'. Haven't you joined the guild for more than half a year? You don't even know this?"
As a result, Kaili showed a confused expression, which made Feiyu stunned. "Old friend? Although I have only been joining the Iron Chain Knights for half a year, in fact, I followed President Barovubfu when I was fighting to the death. Finally, I was in the 'Narun Town Battle', and rebuilt a number and wandered around for half a year before I found the president again. I joined the Iron Chain Knights, but I have never heard of the president having such a 'old friend'."
Kaili's words made Feiyu stunned. He raised his eyes and looked forward. At this moment, they had already smashed the door open, but before he could react, there was a strange loud noise from the tunnel where he didn't know where it was. The sound freezes Feiyu in place like a low temperature. He did not move stiffly until Kaili next to him pulled him back.
"What's wrong!" Feiyu, who came to his senses, felt his ear pain that was almost frozen, but he could barely hear Kaili's roar in his ears, "These guys are not right! Something is coming! Let's retreat quickly!"
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"What's that sound?!"
Someone in the team shouted loudly, and then someone immediately roared hysterically: "What's wrong! Be careful!! Retreat! Retreat!!!"
Many people hadn't reacted yet, and suddenly a loud noise was made on the walls covered with white frost on both sides. After seeing it clearly, they realized that the wooden door hidden behind Baishuang was knocked open by something. Baishuang splashed everywhere, and snow dust rose in the air. The door was obviously knocked down by a huge force, or it was directly broken into pieces - more than one place, several doors hidden behind Baishuang were knocked open, and several people who didn't have time to react were knocked to the wall next to them by the door panels or fragments. For a moment, the team became chaotic, and roars one after another, and the white frost on the ceiling above their heads shook a lot because of their roar.
"Stay! Stay! Back! Retreat slowly!!" Anthony roared in the team's voice. His throat was so painful that it was already too much. He had already shouted hoarsely before, and it became painful because of the low temperature. However, these were just to hinder the mechanism of our strategy copy. Anthony told himself this, so calm down! Calm down!
Then the first victim appeared. Anthony roared and calmed the people around him. Suddenly he saw a long black thorn protruding from the black "cave" that appeared on the wall - a pure black spear-like needle, piercing the chest of a person who had not yet had time to dodge at a terrifying speed, and then picked him up. The bright red blood left a bright red mark on the snow-white wall opposite the "cave".
Anthony's mind was blank, but he still roared loudly: "Doway! Stay away from those doors!"
Even if the mercenaries did not need his instructions, they would quickly stay away from danger in order to save their lives. The four black cave-like doors suddenly appeared behind Baishuang, and a small no-man's land was formed in front of the four black caves. Only the corpse pierced by spikes was nailed to the wall. However, the black thorn was slowly pulled back, and the corpse fell down the wall, and then fell limply into Baishuang. Because the corpse began to hang high, almost everyone in the tunnel saw it at this moment.
"Prepare to meet the enemy!" When everyone became silent because of this strange scene, Vader's roar made people come back to their senses immediately. Anthony also looked at Vader beside him gratefully, then reached out to pull out the straight sword at his waist.
"The enemy is expected to be four horses! Group to deal with it nearby-"
Before Anthony could finish his instructions, he saw a strange palm stretching out from the door closest to him. It was a thin, dark red palm. It could barely be seen that it was originally a human palm, but now it is already-
The palm grabbed the door, and then a round head poked out from the darkness behind the door. No, Anthony widened his eyes. No, it was too high, and humans could not be that tall.
Almost close to the top of the door, the head slowly poked out, and the whole head was dark red, as if it was covered with a layer of skin. There was no organ on the face, but a skeleton. The dark red head seemed to become bright red under the firelight, and the face became terrifying because of the strange red. A hideous smile made the people around them feel as if their souls were frozen.
The body like a skeleton also poked out from behind the door. It was a tall skeleton, no, it was not a giant or something. Anthony dared to conclude that it was a human skeleton, but due to some strange reasons, it changed after death and became deformed and terrifying. The dark red muscles connected, shaking the skeleton. Then Anthony saw a black weapon in the other hand of the monster, which was the spike when he killed the mercenary before.
The monster turned its head and quickly glanced at the mercenaries who were stiff in place due to fear. The body moved again. Then its lower body also appeared in people's vision - the body of a slug-like soft creature, but the color was not the black stripes I saw before, but the disgusting bright red, like soft pieces of flesh. The irregularly raised flesh thorns on it and the broken bones of humans were like monsters accumulated from chopped corpses. It slowly squirmed its body, its huge, soft, sticky body slowly squeezed through the door frame, making a creepy sound. The white frost at the door shook off, and the part where the monster penetrated into the room told the people around it how big the thing was.
Anthony turned around in horror, and the same monster was poked out from another "cave" behind him, and it also held a black needle-like spike in its hand.
"Use fire-" Anthony's voice was lost because of fear, but he didn't care, because he didn't even know what he was saying. His mind was blank. He swallowed quickly and then raised his voice. No, the voice could not be raised anyway:
"Use fire!!! Put on the oil pot!!!"
Chapter completed!