Chapter 573 The Devil’s Remains
In terms of the complexity of the situation, Yang Yiyi's side is no worse than Viola's side, it can even be said to be even worse.
It has long been no longer a simple matter of Jianghu. Although Yang Yiyi himself has no self-consciousness, if he connects one by one, he will easily find that the situation in the world has been stirred up.
But no matter what, Yang Yiyi was still at least seven or eight days away from Ning Xianer and the others. It was unknown whether she could catch up. They were basically all in a hurry.
Li Chengqi probably only glanced at her occasionally, or said hello to Yang Yiyi. The issue he was most concerned about now was indeed the underground adventure of the three Aldais.
Among the three Demon King's Rings currently owned by Li Chengqi, the acquisition process for two of them was not complicated and took less than a day. One of them even hung around Viola's neck, but she didn't know it. , the difficulty of obtaining it is so low that you can just reach out and grab it.
This gave Li Chengqi the illusion that it was not a waste of time to explore the ruins.
But in fact, this is a completely wrong idea. It is normal for adventurers to spend ten days and a half months exploring the ruins. Especially adventurers who hope to explore the entire ruins and take away the most valuable things will spend more. long time.
After asking Eilistraee, she said that if this is really a dwarf ruins from the Five Kings Mountains period, there would probably be about ten floors underground. This is still a very conservative estimate, because some very large dwarf ruins have nearly 10 floors underground. There are as many as a hundred layers...
These dwarfs are really good at digging!
What's more, this ruins seems to have been regarded by many people as a good place to hide things over a long period of time, such as the stolen sacred objects of drow.
These people will likely expand the ruins, making full exploration more time-consuming. Even if you are just aiming at the Demon King's Ring, you still need to run aimlessly when you don't know its exact location.
Aldai obviously knew this. She stuffed a large amount of supplies into her magic bag before she came.
Even if Li Chengqi hadn't given them food, the three of them would never have gone hungry. It just wouldn't be as delicious as what Li Chengqi gave them.
Early in the morning, the three people extinguished the campfire, neatly equipped themselves, and embarked on their journey again.
The fifth layer is the mining layer. At first glance, it looks like a huge underground cavity. In fact, if you look closer, you will see that there are still a lot of traces left on the ground when the dwarves were busy here.
Aldai confirmed the map. At least the three of them had a clear direction to go. The problem was, it was too long...
According to the directions on the map, the three of them need to walk for five hours along one side of the underground rift valley, walk to the other end, cross a bridge across the rift valley, and then continue along the rock wall in order to reach Entrance to the sixth floor.
In the era of the dwarves, such long routes were moved by means of transportation such as mine carts.
Although the creations of the dwarves were terrible and could still be used even now, the three Aldai looked at the mine cart they were riding in when they came down and decided not to commit suicide like this.
Walking slowly on legs is better for safety.
On the way, they didn't encounter any more drow or wild bear mercenaries. Aldai and the others rode a mine cart and instantly entered the fifth floor from the third floor, leaving the drow and wild bear mercenaries behind.
The only thing to worry about is actually the monsters.
There seems to be nothing underground except mushrooms. In fact, there are many monsters living there, such as Dreadclaws, Darksound Blind Monsters, Dark Veil Monsters, Thor Monsters, etc. You will even see tentacles soaking in the underground with big holes here. rock octopus.
What frightened the three of Aldai the most was actually the underground rift valley not far away.
We don't know how deep this rift is at all, but occasionally sharp winds blow up from below the valley. It's easy to scare people and think it's some kind of monster.
It is estimated that the 'Moradin's Roar' encountered before is connected to this rift valley.
Just like that, they continued to move forward cautiously. The three of them crossed the stone arch bridge that stretched over the rift valley. The strong wind blowing from below was like countless ghosts dancing around them. Even if they returned to the solid ground, under the phosphorescence of the giant lantern mushroom, It was hard to say whether there was a wriggling tentacle hidden in the shadow that could not be illuminated.
The whole journey was not a very comfortable experience. It could be said that it was tiring and tiring. The three of them set off early in the morning and made it to the afternoon. Fortunately, they finally saw something other than stones and mushrooms.
Walking along the rift valley to the end, you can see a doorway on the rock wall on one side that is large enough to accommodate two carriages traveling side by side.
Its originally huge door panel, which was carved with stocky dwarf patterns, had been knocked to the ground, and had been knocked down a long, long time ago.
"It's the mark of a heavy blow. The one who opened this door must be a mage."
This place was originally separated from the mine. According to the dwarves' habit of hiding the more important things deeper, it can be roughly seen that the mine and the areas above are places where dwarf civilians can move around at will.
And further down...
That would be interesting.
The three of them cheered up and rearranged their formation before lighting up the dancing light technique and walking into the huge doorway.
The light of the dancing light technique gradually dispersed the darkness, and the first thing that came into view was a huge dwarf statue.
The statue is wearing the dwarf's classic angular armor. It is in a half-kneeling position, with a warhammer hanging on its waist and a shield standing in front of it. It looks like it is erecting a shield to resist foreign enemies, and it also looks like it is facing the dwarf gods. pray.
The artistic content of the sculpture itself is just like this, but the size is ridiculous for a real chicken. It is almost fifteen meters tall by visual inspection.
It is also very strange to say that the average height of dwarves is about 1.3 to 1.5 meters, but they particularly like big things, whether it is statues, houses, weapons, or wine glasses, the bigger the better.
This may be because he likes to yell for whatever he lacks.
Aldai checked the statue and found that there had been traces of magic on it. It might have been that a dwarf priest had enchanted the statue a long time ago, but now all the magic has naturally disappeared.
After confirming that it would not suddenly come alive and attack, the three of them walked around the statue and continued walking forward.
At this time, a broken fountain slowly emerged from the darkness.
Dwarves are fond of fountains, especially when underground water is plentiful, and they use mechanical structures to create water supply systems comparable to water pipes.
Of course, it won't spray water now, maybe the water source has been diverted.
It's not surprising to find a fountain in the ruins of the dwarves, but what really caught the three people's attention were the two figures on both sides of the fountain...
It can't be counted as a corpse, now it can only be regarded as a wreckage.
If you look closer, you will find that they are two insect-like carapace things, but they are taller than humans. Visually, the body structure should be able to walk upright. There are also strange-looking black bucklers and almost completely corroded shields scattered around them. , only the hook-shaped spear tip remains.
"Insect people? Is there such a race? Or are they the remains left behind by some kind of monster?"
Only the shell remained in the wreckage, and all the flesh and blood tissue inside was destroyed by time.
Zola and Nemea had never seen this kind of creature, while Aldai came closer, gently poked the carapace with his staff and said: "No, they are not products of the mortal world, but come from the outside world. ”
Aldai frowned in a rare way: "This is a demon, to be precise, an ice demon, a cruel demon."
(End of chapter)