As several wails rang out, the corpse-weeping bird fell from the sky. You could faintly see bright red blood escaping from the corpse of the corpse-weeping bird, leaving a blood-red trail in the air.
The next second, a huge creature suddenly appeared in front of everyone. It looked like a whale, but it was floating in mid-air in the Abyss Abyss and was incompatible with the surrounding environment.
This monster seemed to be attracted by the breath of blood, opened its bloody mouth, and swallowed several corpse-weeping birds that fell from the sky.
"The bloody rope? Why is there another one here?" After seeing the whale monster in the sky, Rico suddenly felt an ominous feeling in her heart.
The Bloody Mouth Rope is an abyss creature named for its unique way of hunting.
Its tongue is like a rope, able to quickly tie up prey and then bring it into its mouth, hence its name.
According to the information from the Cave Explorer Guild, the Bloody Mouth Rope usually inhabits the Great Break on the third floor of the Abyss Abyss, which is the area where the Bloody Mouth Rope is most active.
Although the bloody rope will occasionally appear on the first floor, it should not appear as frequently as it does now.
Seeing the flock of corpse-weeping birds fighting with the Blood Mouth Rope in the sky, Lin Yi took Li Ke and Reg out of the rock ark.
The scenery of the Abyss Abyss is indeed breathtaking. Even with Lin Yi's critical eyes, it is a rare beauty.
But along with the beautiful scenery comes a lot of danger. Just now, Lin Yi just took Li Ke and Reg to the front of the rock ark and was attacked by the corpse-weeping bird. This is enough to show how dangerous this place is.
To the left of the three people, a spectacular waterfall poured down from the cliff, like a silver ribbon, serving as a mark to guide everyone's path.
After advancing for about an hour and a half, Lin Yi estimated that the three of them were not far from the Forest of Temptation on the second floor of the Abyss Abyss.
At this moment, Reg's stomach suddenly growled.
"Are you hungry?" a voice sounded.
"A bit." Reg touched his belly. As a special robot, Reg naturally has the function of digesting food.
However, ordinary food cannot meet his energy needs, especially after using a high-consuming skill like [Cardinal Light], food supplements have almost no effect on him.
"Would you like to take a rest first?" Li Ke also seemed a little out of breath. After all, Li Ke is just a 12-year-old child. She can be said to be very special if she can follow Lin Yi for such a long distance in one go. I have perseverance.
"Where are we now?" Lin Yi glanced at Li Ke.
"Wait a minute, let me take a look." Rico quickly came to the edge of the cliff and began to carefully observe the surrounding scenery.
Soon, Rico locked on a very strange-looking stone.
This stone looks like a monkey. This is the 1,100-meter mark on the first floor of the Abyss Abyss - the Monkey Stone.
Li Ke turned around and said to Lin Yi and Reg: "It's not far, it's only 250 meters away from the entrance to the second floor."
"That's it, let's take a rest first."
Lin Yi said, taking out the villa capsule that he had given away in Samsara Paradise from his pocket.
After pressing the capsule lightly, Lin Yi threw the small capsule into the open space in front of him.
The next second, a huge villa suddenly appeared in front of Rico and Reg.
"Is this...a relic?" Reg's eyes widened, and he was shocked when he saw the sudden appearance of the villa.
"That's right, but this relic of mine should be the only one. You all can come in."
Since the villa has built-in warning and optical camouflage functions, Lin Yi has no worries about being attacked by creatures from the Abyss Abyss.
This villa was originally designed to be used in the wild, so the seller naturally took full consideration of various influencing factors in the wild.
After entering the villa, Reg and Rico were surprised to find that the rooms here were much better than those in the orphanage.
The two of them were already prepared for the arduous survival in the wild, but they did not expect that life after entering the Abyss Abyss would be even more comfortable than in the small town of Os.
"This is your bedroom." Lin Yi introduced and pointed to the room. "At the end of the corridor is the bathroom. If you take a bath, there are towels and toiletries next to it. After you use it, just throw it into the iron bucket next to it. Someone will take care of it in time.”
When Rico heard that she could still take a bath, her eyes lit up instantly, and she immediately dragged Reg and ran to the bathroom excitedly.
After a while, Rico and Reg's exclamations came from the bathroom.
Lin Yi came to the kitchen and started processing the ingredients. There was also a cooking robot here, but Lin Yi always felt that the food made by such a thing had no soul, so he decided to get started himself.
Since there are only Lin Yi, Li Ke and Leige this time, Lin Yi doesn't plan to cook too much. Four dishes and one soup are enough.
Half an hour later, Rico and Reg walked out of the bathroom in pajamas.
Lin Yi had already thrown the dirty clothes on the two of them into the washing machine, and they would be drying in half an hour.
After leaving the bathroom, the two of them immediately smelled the strong aroma of food.
Reg's stomach rumbled even more unsatisfactorily.
Li Ke was not much better. After a long journey, Li Ke could also be said to be hungry, as if there was a small hand scratching in her stomach.
The two of them followed the scent to the kitchen and saw that Lin Yi had neatly placed the cooked meals on the table.
"After washing, hurry up and sit down to eat."
Hearing Lin Yi's words, Li Ke and Reg couldn't wait to pull out their chairs, sit down and start eating.
The three of them were leisurely enjoying this rare moment of tranquility at the entrance to the second floor of the Abyss Abyss, but the town of Os was already exploding.
As daylight fell, the corpses of the cave explorers near the orphanage naturally attracted the attention of passers-by, and the cave explorers' guild soon learned the information about Rico's disappearance.
The moment they learned that Rico disappeared, the Cave Explorer Guild immediately dispatched a search and rescue team headed by Yue Flute, with the goal of bringing Rico back to the abyss.
As a relative of Bai Di, Rico may have secrets that the Cave Explorer Guild doesn't know about.
Unfortunately, there was no news about this search and rescue team just after they entered the Abyss Abyss.
Three hours later, a cave explorer from Chidi discovered traces of this team in a spider lair 300 meters above the first level of the abyss.
Upon receiving this news, the top brass of the Cave Explorers Guild immediately exploded.
You must know that Yue Flute was already the backbone of the Cave Explorer Guild, but he died inexplicably on the first floor of the Abyss Abyss.
It was obvious that someone did not want them to track down Rico.
Now the entire top brass of the Cave Explorers Guild is divided into two factions.
One group insisted that Rico must be captured and tortured to learn what secrets there were in Rico.
The other group advocated giving up. After all, the fact that the other party was able to quietly destroy the team sent by the Cave Digger Guild this time was enough to prove that Rico also had a big shot protecting him.
The cavers' guild is not very strong right now, so we can't send them all out just because Rico is alone.
The two sides were banging the table in the conference room and yelling at each other, while Alyssa in the hall secretly prayed that Rico would never be brought back.
She knew very well what kind of fate Rico would face once she was captured.
After the three of them had eaten, drank and rested, Lin Yi came to the door of the villa and gently pressed the button.
The next second, the huge villa was instantly packed into a small capsule under the influence of space compression technology.
Immediately, Lin Yi placed a spatial coordinate at the place where the three of them had lived.
[A space coordinate has been placed, current progress (1/5). 】
"What a convenient relic."
Li Ke couldn't help but touch the dry clothes on her body.
If the smooth skin on her body hadn't told Li that she wasn't dreaming, she would have almost thought that everything was just a figment of her imagination.
"Li Ke, does this thing belong to you?" An envelope appeared in Reg's hand.
This envelope was taken out of Reg's pocket by the smart washing machine when he was doing laundry just now.
"Let me see? It doesn't seem to be mine." Rico stepped forward and looked at the envelope carefully.
Rico and Reg opened the envelope curiously and found a thick stack of paper inside.
"Is this? Mom's letter."
Rico looked at the content on the paper and found that it was all information transmitted by [Annihilation Qing]. When Uncle Hubble took it out, Rico took a quick look at it, so she remembered part of it.
So now when she saw the contents of the letter, she immediately recognized its origin.
The contents on the paper are all information about the sixth floor of the Abyss Abyss [City of No Return]. It describes in detail some of the abyssal creatures Lysa encountered and the dangerous situations she faced.
However, this letter must have been copied by someone else. Rico noticed that the paper in the envelope she got back before was very worn, but the paper in this letter was brand new.
"Let me think about it, before I left the orphanage, I met the captain. Could it be that the captain stuffed me?" Reg tried hard to recall his experience when he left.
When Reg went out to look for Rico, he happened to meet Kirou who was patrolling at night.
Reg's excuse was to go to the bathroom, and he thought he was hiding it from Kirou, but he didn't expect that the other party was not deceived by Reg at all.
"Captain actually supports us?"
Rico pushed up her glasses on the bridge of her nose and looked at the letter in her hand.
At this time, Rico noticed a piece of red paper sandwiched between a pile of white letter paper. It looked like handmade paper, so it was very conspicuous.
Rico picked up the paper and found that it was written by Kirou.
When Rico's eyes touched the words on the paper, the smile on her face disappeared instantly.
Immediately afterwards, large drops of cold sweat fell from Rico's head.
Seeing this scene, Reg and Lin Yi curiously approached Li Ke and looked at the paper in Li Ke's hand.
"At dawn, I will catch you. If I catch you, you will be hung at the door of the orphanage for three days and three nights."
Lin Yi couldn't help but burst into laughter after seeing Kirou's note. Before leaving, he didn't forget to give Rico a showdown. It seemed that Kirou was also a scheming guy.
"No way! You have to run quickly! Otherwise the captain will catch up soon." Rico quickly estimated the time in her mind, and was surprised to realize that it had already been bright for a short while.
You must know that Kiroo is Moon Flute, and the level of the abyss is almost as familiar to Yue Flute as his own back garden.
Riko didn't want to be caught by Kiroo. If he was caught by the other party, everything would really be over.
"Let's go. Anyway, it's not far from the entrance to the second floor." Lin Yi said, preparing to take Li Ke away.
At this moment, a rope suddenly appeared in front of Li Ke and Lin Yi.
When Lin Yi saw this scene, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment. Could that guy Kirou really catch up with him?
The next second, Hubble, wearing the equipment of a cave explorer, slid down the rope and appeared in front of the three of them.
"You little guys, you ran so fast, I almost didn't catch up with you." Hubble raised his head and his eyes fell on Li Ke and Reg who were hiding behind Lin Yi.
"Uncle Hubble, are you here to catch us?" Rico asked timidly.
To be honest, she really didn't want to be an enemy of Uncle Hubble.
"Catch you? Of course not." Uncle Hubble explained to Lin Yi and Li Ke with a smile.
Last night, Nadeau and Xiqi went to Uncle Hubble to beg him, hoping that he could come over and help Li Ke and others get to the surveillance base smoothly.
Although Lin Yi is a black flute, according to Nado and Xiqi's understanding, Lin Yi has never entered the Abyss Abyss.
In this case, in order to ensure that everything was safe, the two of them took an extra step of insurance and asked Uncle Hubble to come over and see if anything happened to them.
"Do these two little guys don't trust me so much?" Lin Yi couldn't help but rolled his eyes when he heard Nado and Xiqi commenting on him.
"I can't help it. Who told you that this guy is a black flute who has never been in a cave?"
Hubble smiled as he took out a familiar object.
"This is to prevent"
"I have already vaccinated the two little guys. You can take them back."
"Okay, since you are here, nothing should happen. Someone from the search team has stopped it for you, so you don't have to worry, just leave quickly." Hubble heard this and put the vaccine away again.
Then Hubble walked up to Rico and Reg and hugged them gently.
Hubble understood that Rico's temperament would never be stopped by fetters. She had only one goal, and that was the bottom of Naraku.
This time of separation, maybe we will never see each other again in this life.
"Boy, Rico, I'll leave it to you."
"Don't worry."
After hearing Lin Yi's answer, Hubble let go of Li Ke and Reg, took out some supplies for his own use from his backpack and handed them to them.
These supplies can only be purchased by high-level cave diggers, and they can be of great help to Rico.
Five minutes later, Lin Yi led Li Ke towards the entrance to the second floor of the Abyss Abyss.
Hubble stood there, quietly watching the three people leaving, his eyes full of complicated emotions, and he really wanted to leave with the three people.
It's a pity that he already has a family in the small town of Os and has worries about him, so he is no longer suitable to venture into the Abyss Abyss.
Soon, Lin Yi, Lei Ge and Li Ke arrived at an area that was tightly covered by thick fog.
A large number of windmills covered by lush plants come into view. They are called "Wind Windmills". It is said that these windmills have existed here for more than four thousand years.
The structure of these windmills is unique. They generate electricity by absorbing the airflow from the lower layer of the Abyss Abyss. They are completely different from the current technological system of Oss Town, and they seem to come from two completely different eras.
Reg hugged Rico, grabbed a stone next to the windmill with his arm, and slowly landed downwards.
Lin Yi tied a rope next to the windmill and slid down the rope with his gloves on.
[Wind Windmill] is an important dividing point between the first and second levels of the abyss.
As long as you successfully pass the [Wind Controlling Windmill], it officially means that the cave explorer has entered the area on the second floor of the abyss - the [Forest of Desire].
After a few people landed, under the influence of the force field, the light in front of the three people immediately became brighter.
The first thing that catches the eye is a dense forest, with tall and twisted trees, their branches and leaves blocking the sky and the sun.
The forest floor is covered with thick moss. When your feet step on it, the soft feeling is like stepping on gentle clouds.
In the Forest of Desire, Lin Yi saw a large number of abyssal creatures fighting fiercely in the forest.
In the Abyss Abyss, the most basic rule is that the weak eat the strong.
Here, the strong survive and the weak are eliminated, and the cruel laws of nature are vividly demonstrated.
Lin Yi sensed that the concentration of the abyss in the air here suddenly increased to a higher level. The two sides happened to be separated by the [Wind Windmill] that Lin Yi passed by just now, and they were clearly separated.
If the concentration of the power of the abyss on the first floor is distributed between 0.1 and 1, then the concentration of the power of the abyss on the second floor starts from at least 10.
If we extrapolate from this situation, the concentration of the power of the abyss will double at each cross-border level.
Reg looked at the forest of desire in front of him, but he didn't feel anything in his heart.
He just felt like he kept going down, and then he came here.
Only Rico looked very excited. For Rico, being able to come to the Forest of Desire meant that Rico had successfully escaped the novice stage.
"Yeah! From here on, there will be no pursuers!"
Just as Rico was cheering, a very strange-looking abyss creature suddenly appeared in front of Rico.
This abyssal creature has four wings, and its feet are not bird claws, but rather like human palms.
There was a small animal in its mouth, and it looked like it had just returned from foraging for food in the forest.
"Of course there will be no pursuers when we get here. Starting from the second floor, moving forward and retreating will become difficult. Even if the search team comes here, it will become the target of search and rescue." Lin Yi looked at the forest of desire in the distance. The creatures that were fighting fiercely poured cold water on the happy Rico.
Coming here means that the real journey to the Abyss Abyss is about to begin. (End of chapter)