Chapter 269 Laser Gun
At the other end of the corridor, which was filled with the smell of decay and shriveled muscles and tendons could be seen everywhere, rustling sounds came from the darkness.
Immediately afterwards, a group of strange creatures that were difficult to see on the surface came out of the darkness.
They are probably similar in size to dogs, and look like they have a brain that has sprouted limbs and are crawling on the ground.
There are several things like snail tentacles on the scarlet brain tissue that are swaying back and forth with the steps. Thick mucus will drip out every few steps, accompanied by a disgusting stench.
As they approached, one of them turned to where everyone was hiding, and the tentacles on its brain folds swayed back and forth, as if it had discovered something.
This scene is so mind-numbing that the dwarf Derger has raised his battle ax and is ready to strike at it at any time.
However, Aldai stretched out her hand to stop the dwarf's behavior and sealed it again.
I don't know what she did, but the monster just tentatively swept its tentacles left and right, then followed the large army and disappeared at the other end of the passage in the blink of an eye.
It wasn't until the stench went away that everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and Aldai also lifted the effect of the invisible sphere.
"What is that? I have never seen such a blasphemous creature."
"They are brain-eating monsters, pets and slaves of illithids. They should be trying to maintain the existence of the shell ship. Otherwise, dozens or hundreds of years later, the shell ship would have fallen apart."
There was one sentence that Aldee did not elaborate on.
When the Brain Eaters are not under the control of the Illithid, they are basically like wild beasts and have little organization. However, a group of Brain Eaters that just walked past formed an obvious queue.
This shows that at least one illithid on the ship is still alive.
Ao Dai didn't say this because she wanted to deceive others, it was simply unnecessary.
For her, the illithid was not a difficult enemy to deal with, and the highest level was probably around level 40. And judging from the state of the shell ship, there certainly won't be many illithid alive.
Rather than telling them to make the three of them fearful, it would be better not to tell them and wait until they encounter another wave of explosive killings.
Although it is indeed reasonable, when I go back, I will probably be praised by the adventurers...
Shake off the Brain Eater and continue moving forward.
After advancing about forty or fifty meters this time, a huge circular obstacle appeared in the corridor.
It looks a bit like a biological heart valve, a kind of wrinkled muscle tissue, but unlike the organic hulls we saw before, the muscle tissue here still retains activity and is even trembling slightly, telling you that it is alive. of.
"This is the sphincter gate on the shell ship, don't be afraid."
"Um...sphincter? Is that the sphincter I'm thinking of?"
"The butthole is a sphincter, but the butthole is not the only kind of sphincter."
When the words came out, Aldai said them without hesitation.
"Any creature with psychic abilities will open it automatically when it comes near, but we can use other methods, just go up and scratch it."
After all, this thing is alive and even has ticklish flesh.
And the important and arduous task of opening the door...
Everyone looked at Nemea, who pointed at his face, and seeing everyone nodding, they struggled mentally, and finally walked helplessly towards the large sphincter blocking the corridor.
A rogue's job is to open locks, disarm traps, and conduct reconnaissance. This is why adventurers like to bring rogues with low frontal combat capabilities.
Nemea scratched the itchy flesh of the sphincter door with a grimace as if touching a land mine. The dark red muscle tissue twitched for a while, and then shrank up, revealing the round door opening. Although it was a good thing that the door was open, everyone who walked through the door suddenly felt like they had been shitted out. Especially when Neemia looked at her newly bought gloves, she felt that she was no longer pure, but already dirty... ..
As always, Aldai did not think too much emotionally. After passing through the door, she immediately noticed a cold light blue light reflected in the corridor not far ahead.
It looked like a magical light, and there must be something running in front of it.
After experiencing psychological torture, the other three people also urgently needed to find something to comfort their injured hearts, preferably yellow-orange gold coins.
The location where the magic light was reflected was a doorway in the corridor. Nemea, who was walking at the front, lay beside the door and looked inside. Then he waved to the people behind him, indicating that he found no danger.
Behind the doorway is a fairly spacious room, with something like crystal sticking out from the chitin ceiling of this strangely shaped room. Some crystals were lit, while others were flickering or darkened like burned-out lightbulbs.
In places the carapace plates had been pried away from the walls, revealing hollows filled with a tangle of black tubes. Scattered on the floor were some rare-looking tools that looked more like surgical tools than repair tools.
"No sign of the trap."
As everyone stood at the door, Nemea said:
"But I'm not sure the traps on this ship are the same as the ones I'm familiar with."
Visual inspection revealed no trace of gold coins or magic items, but visual inspection is unreliable.
Aldai took a step forward, raised her staff and made a sweeping motion towards the room. Almost at the same time, some items in the room lit up with a soft white magical aura.
This is detection magic, which can detect the approximate location of magic items or magic traps.
"You can go in and have a look. There should be no danger."
I heard that the masters and rogues in the team said that there was no problem, so why not quickly search for it?
A few people walked into the room quickly, especially the items that had just glowed, attracting everyone's attention.
But the ones that glow are basically tools that have fallen on the ground, and they don’t have much value.
For example, a cable clamp that can insulate, a screwdriver that can rotate automatically, or a hammer that looks very heavy but is actually very light.
After rummaging around on the ground, I didn't find anything valuable.
But that doesn't mean there aren't high-value loot here.
Aldai ignored the tools on the ground. She looked like she was walking in a circle around the room with her staff, but she was actually using magic to detect the structure of the room.
Not long after, she stopped, stood next to the wall on one side, and tapped a piece of chitin armor plate stuck in the muscles and blood vessels with her staff, and tapped it with her staff.
The latter pops open like a storage box in a car, revealing a space about the size of an arm.
"What is this? Some kind of magical weapon?"
Others also noticed Aldai's movements and gathered around her.
"Emm... It should be a laser gun, the weapon used by the illithids."
Aldai took out a pistol-like weapon with many coil devices from the dark side and looked it up and down.
"Well, that's right, it's a laser gun. There's also a psychic magazine in it, so it's quite valuable for research."
After saying that, Aldai opened the magic bag and stuffed the laser gun and several rectangular blue magazines into it, making the others look at it with envy.
Normally, the spoils obtained in adventure activities are shared equally among all members of the team, but this time it was Aldai who paid for the guards. Apart from the agreed reward, all the gains belonged to Aldai.
Naturally, others are just greedy.
(End of chapter)