Chapter 86 Start treasure hunting
Xu Xin's heart was beating violently and she was breathing heavily.
Gradually, the headache eased a lot. After realizing that he had escaped, he couldn't help but laugh. He pulled Coco, who had jumped down and was looking at him worriedly, over and jerked him hard.
"Hey!" Keke protested for a while but it was ineffective. Xu Xin could only brush the hair all over his body into a mess.
"This mechanism is too insidious!" Xu Xin is still scared to this day. The whole passage is filled with swarms of black bats that are rushing towards him. This scene can give people several nightmares at night.
And the most terrifying thing about this group of bats is the virus they carry. Just a few scratches on his body may be fatal. This is what he is most afraid of.
Fortunately, these blood-striped bats cannot pass through this door.
Xu Xin looked at everything inside the door.
The scene in front of me at this time fits the definition of "dungeon".
At this time, he was in a stone room the size of a living room. There were still burning torches inserted into the uneven stone walls, which must have just burned together with the candlesticks.
There was a musty and rotten smell in the air. On the wall directly in front was a corridor. Straight ahead, as far as the eye could see, there were decayed wooden doors every few meters on both sides of the corridor.
The corridor is very long, and I don't know how many doors there are.
It seems that the treasure should be behind these doors.
The door behind him no longer made such frequent collision sounds. Probably the group of bats also knew that they could not open the door, so they gradually left.
"I don't know if there is any other way out. I don't want to take this road again." Xu Xin shook his head and stood up.
Not in a hurry to explore yet, he still wanted to break down the bat carcass to see what good things he could find.
Holding the boning knife in hand, Xu Xin gave the three blood-patterned bats a Ling Chi blow.
[Obtain mutated bat skin (green)*3, mutated bat meat (green)*2.5kg]
There is not even a single blue-grade material, which is worse than a mouse!
The mutant rat has 20 points, while the mutant bat only has 10 points.
The blood patterns on these bats are very light, and only the inner sides of the wings are brighter. From this point of view, this bat is one level lower than the mice and toads encountered before, among mutant creatures.
[Mutated bat meat (green): A special delicacy, it can be eaten, but be careful of contracting viruses and must be cooked! 】
Oh boy, bat meat!
Xu Xin didn't dare to eat this thing. Although it might not be much different from other beast meat when cooked, it would be terrible if there were any high-temperature-resistant viruses.
Based on the principle that it might be useful, Xu Xin collected these materials.
Xu Xin decided to share and discuss the situation here with everyone at [Explorers].
But when he moved his watch, his mechanical watch did not pop up the familiar small projection, but there was no response at all. Only the hands on it slowly rotated to show the current time.
"...This watch is useless in the dungeon?" Xu Xin wanted to curse. What does this mean, not in the signal area?
In the end, he still had to explore it on his own.
No way, take action.
Xu Xin began to look at the stone room he was in now. Except for the burning torches on the wall, everything here looked old and dilapidated.
Next to the entrance of the corridor ahead was a stone table. Xu Xin stepped forward and found some crooked words carved on the table.
This... is a Chinese character!
Xu Xin used his leather sleeves to sweep away the stains on the table, and the engraved words appeared completely in front of his eyes.
The writing was ugly, as if it were drawn with a brush by a child who was new to calligraphy. Xu Xin looked carefully and relied on his own association to find two relatively coherent sentences among the many handwritings.
"Evil... demons, are they... all demons?" Xu Xin murmured to himself, "Kill... me, I really want to... die? And this sentence, you... don't... have to... …so good to die?”
These weird and crooked carvings reveal a deep hatred between the lines.
"Did someone carve these handwritings when life was worse than death?" Xu Xin swallowed, feeling a little panicked, "What on earth did this person who carved the words go through here?"
He turned to look at the dark passage with no end in sight. Although there were torches shining in the stone room he was in now, there were no torches in this passage, and it was pitch black. If Xu Xin didn't have night vision now, he wouldn't be able to see what was inside.
The tree house can make torches, but the torches can only shine a few meters away at most. Combined with the writing on the table, it makes this passage look extremely eerie.
"Keke, have you seen those doors?" Xu Xin asked, pointing to the rotten wooden doors in the passage.
Coco was currently scratching the carved marks on the stone table with her claws. When she heard Xu Xin's words, she raised her head and looked inside the passage: "What?"
"Can you feel the danger inside the door?"
Coco jumped down from the table, came to the entrance of the passage, stretched out his head and looked inside, then shook his head: "Hey."
Xu Xin breathed a sigh of relief. He still believed in this little guy's premonition. He helped him a lot on the way in. But even so, it cannot be taken lightly.
Xu Xin held Coco on his shoulders, held the stone sword, and stepped into the passage.
The nearest rotten wooden door was just a few meters away. Xu Xin came to the door and stretched out her hand to gently push the wooden door.
…There was no push, and the door seemed to be locked.
"Hey!" Coco suddenly screamed. Xu Xin could tell that this was not a dangerous cry, but...
"Is there a treasure?" Xu Xin's eyes lit up.
Instead of opening the door in a hurry, he walked forward for a while, looked at several doors, and found that they were all locked.
There was no other choice but to break open the door violently, hoping that the sound would not attract something strange.
Returning to the first door, there was no lock on the door that could be broken. Xu Xin could only raise her foot and kicked the rotten wooden door.
With a "clang" sound, the door was kicked open by him. An unpleasant musty smell came out of the door, and two broken pieces of rotten wood fell to the ground.
The door is bolted shut with a wooden bolt from the inside.
Xu Xin looked inside the door and her eyelids twitched.
In this first room, there was only a table, a chair, and a stone humanoid statue sitting on the chair.
"What do you mean, why is there a stone statue sitting on a chair?" Xu Xin looked at the stone statue with some vigilance.
Under his identification ability, the stone statue exuded green light, indicating that it was a green item. This stone statue has a male oriental face, which is very vividly carved. It looks like he is writing, but there is no pen in his hand.
It feels like... as if a real person was turned into stone without any reaction while writing.
He shouldn't come back to life like the previous altar stone sculpture!
Xu Xin noticed that although there was no pen in the right hand of the stone statue holding a pen, the left hand was holding something like three pieces of paper. And those two pieces of paper also exuded green light.
He stepped forward and gently took out the three pieces of paper from the stone statue's hand.
[Mutated beast contract (green): You can contract a low-level mutant beast to make it obey your words. 】
It's a contract that can contract mutant beasts!
Is this the treasure of this dungeon?
Although the mutant beasts are not necessarily stronger than ordinary beasts, just like the rats, toads and bats he encountered here, they are probably worse than the Wolf King as a mount in terms of strength, but they have special abilities that ordinary beasts do not have.
Xu Xin didn't notice the special abilities of the mutant rat, but he was obviously aware of the mutant toads and bats.
The toad's tongue can intercept flying objects. Even a crossbow close to the purple level can be intercepted very easily. The cries of mutant bats were mixed with ultrasonic waves, and the cries of a group of bats made Xu Xin, who was still in a state of mental buff, feel as if his head was about to explode.
Not to mention the two in the altar, they even had very obvious physical changes.
These mutated beasts may not be very powerful, but they will play unexpected roles in some aspects.
But...
Xu Xin looked at the humanoid stone statue.
How come the situation in front of me looks like this stone statue has written out the contract? (End of chapter)