Go down the last step.

Fang couldn't help but look back, where the heavy giant gate stood silently in the darkness, silently, and the swaying light of the torch held high only shone a corner of it.

On the maroon stone gate, the patterns are mottled, and the words are vaguely visible, simple and silent, as if the time of an era is visibly flowing on it for a long time with the naked eye.

Words have no sound, but only stories from the past.

Only then did Fang turn around.

Sophie looked at him, spread her hands at the window, and said to him half-jokingly, "Welcome to the eighth floor, Underworld"

And a magnificent world is slowly unfolding behind her.

Fang couldn't help but look up at her when he looked at her.

It's a huge underground world

The solid limestone forms the sky, and the towering stone pillars and caves form a ring of enclosed spaces, but it is not silent and dark, only monotonous. The pale sapphire glow that emerges from the distant overhead gives the cavern plenty of light, with layers of vivid and graded blue hues from far to near.

It's like a mist.

And under this mist, there are layers of fiery red mushrooms, some of which are tall, like towering ancient trees. This red mushroom forest is like a splash of color on top of an overturned color palette, flowing into the main color of light blue.

Fang saw it from afar

On the roof of the cave in the distance, several huge underground bats were circling and flying around, and the screams they emitted were even heard all the way here.

But he retracted his gaze, looked a little speechlessly at the little silver princess of Vislan in front of him, and asked, "Why are you still here?" ”

Sophie tilted her head: "Well, is there a problem?" ”

"I mean, you're going to keep watching it like this?"

She nodded.

"Video communication is expensive."

"I can stand it."

Okay, the little rich woman, even if he asked in vain, Fang rolled his eyes, but this was not what he really meant: "Then you don't need to be with me, I'm not from your Silver Vislan, isn't Miss Qian over there?" ”

"Because I'm going to oversee you," Sophie was a little amused, "These are my subordinates, I entrusted them to you, and I have to be responsible for them, is there a problem?" ”

Of course, there is a problem, he also has a personal ** is it good, such as the dragon soul, such as a crystal, although she has seen the Hailin crown, but there are still some secrets that may not be known, not to mention a big beauty staring at you so motionless, who will be comfortable?

Fang replied very honestly, "But I will be uncomfortable." ”

Sophie also kindly suggested, "At the bottom left of your Summoner screen, there's an option to cut off communication, do you see that?" Actually, you don't have to worry about what I think. ”

Don't be surprised, Fang looked at this woman, using his secret as a threat, on the surface it looks decent, but in fact her belly is very dark.

"And what do you promise me?"

"Huh, what did I promise?" The girl really began to pretend to be innocent.

Fang had no choice but to keep his mouth shut.

Just look at it, she doesn't care about any girl, what does he care about as a big man? Fang was even a little dark-minded, thinking that when he went to the toilet, he didn't know whether Her Royal Highness the silver princess of Vislan would follow or not

The others had already gathered in front, just waiting for the two of them to follow, Fang walked over, and Sophie was looking at the place through the window, and suddenly asked, "By the way, do you know anything about this ruin below the eighth floor?" ”

Fang shook his head, he had read the information before, and there was very little mention of the underground world after the seventh layer, and one of the paragraphs mentioned this underground world called the Andert Cave, but there was not much description, just that this place was a huge underground cave group.

Obviously, there are very few people who can reach this level in the trial.

But in addition to the silver princess of Vislan in front of her, she broke the record and passed through the seventh layer when she participated in the trial for the first time.

"Then I'll tell you about this place"

Sophie spoke: "The beginning of the eighth layer of the Land of Trials is not the same as the previous seven layers, after passing through that giant gate, we are not so much reaching the eighth layer, but leaving the first seven layers of the dragon's lair. ”

"What do you mean?" Fang Leng paused for a moment, not understanding what difference this was.

"Because the first seven floors are a closed trial space created by Torragotos, but underneath this, there is a real underground world," Sophie said as she looked into the distance through the window, her eyelashes were long and thick, and she blinked slightly: "There are no fixed 'rules' here, and there is no need to kill the lord to lead to the next layer, and those natural entrances to the next layer are hidden in the depths of this vast underground world." ”

"Our purpose is to find them."

"That's it?" Fang felt a little unexpectedly simple, "Then we have a detailed map to the next layer?" ”

"Detailed? Map? Sophie burst out laughing when she heard this, and she seemed to see what Fang was thinking: "Do you think that this is much easier than above, not quite like the difficulty after the eighth floor?" ”

Fang glanced at her and nodded unabashedly, he originally thought that the difficulty below the seventh layer should be far greater than that above the seventh layer, but just exploring such a thing in the underground world didn't sound like the challenge before.

Of course, there are all kinds of imaginable and unimaginable dangers for the underworld's lurkers.

At the same time, of course, the monsters here will not suppress their strength just because the trialists are only level fifteen, but in the final analysis, the dark underground is not necessarily full of those dangerous monsters after all, and there are also docile underground creatures.

And even if it's an ordinary monster, it's not necessarily more dangerous than the boss projection like the Gujun Hunter before, right?

What's more, if they really encounter such as corpse demons, giant glue monsters, and even high-level monsters such as Minotaur, manticore, or light blind dragons that only live underground and cannot be tricky, they can also choose to avoid them, these monsters that inhabit the underground do not necessarily have to help the Sinsas snake people guard the door, but have to guard the entrance to the lower world.

This is much more lenient than the previous rules.

Sophie looked at his expression and couldn't help but nodded: "Indeed, the eighth layer is indeed nothing worth noting, after all, before it was really eroded by the dark power, Andet's underground world was actually a rather interesting place, but the terrain was a little intricate. ”

"But when you see the dark creatures in the ruins of the Black Holy City a few levels below, you probably won't think so, Mr. Eddard."

"Does that mean this level is just a special case?" Fang asked.

Sophie nodded, and shook her head again: "This layer is not simple, so don't count on the map anymore, let alone be detailed." The terrain here is countless times more complex than the labyrinth on the fourth floor, and it is incomparably more vast, no one will remember the way here, even if he has been here once or twice, we have to think of something special if we want to find the way to the next level as soon as possible. ”

"A little special?"

"Andert." Sophie replied, "They are the natives of this place, and no one knows the underworld here better than the nezumi except the nezumi. ”

She looked into the distance of the blue-gray underground cavern, her gaze through the fiery mushroom forest: "If I remember correctly, there is a village of Anderthals behind this mushroom forest, I have been there once before, and I still remember the famous glow-in-the-dark wine there A dwarf ran his bar there, his name was Sloven, he was a very interesting uncle, and I remember the story he told me." ”

"Business there is decent because adventurers often pass by on this level, and I don't know if he's been anywhere else in the past two years, but if he's still around, it's going to be easy. In fact, he also doubles as a broker between humans and nezumi, the nezumi are not afraid of outsiders, but are slightly greedy, in fact, they are quite easy to deal with, and we may be able to find a good guide through him. ”

"Wait, natives, and dwarves?" Fang was shocked, how could this be a little different from the underground ruin world he imagined.

The underground world he imagined should be the same gloomy and gloomy style as before, the dark underground dust sealed the time before an era, and the broken walls and ruins silently narrated the thick history, silent and empty.

Hide everything behind dust and cobwebs.

But when I got to the eighth floor, I felt that the picture had changed all of a sudden, and it was very different from the previous seven floors.

Sophie was obviously unimpressed, explaining, "Don't think too much, the Black Holy City of Sinsas is just a corner of this underground world, and Andett's underground world is a microcosm of the entire Fenris underground world. ”

She gestured: "When the Black Holy City sank underground, the upper part of the ruins and the lower half of the ruins were broken here, and the lower half sank under this cave complex, and between those fractures, there was still an entrance to the deeper ruins, but before this catastrophe, the Underworld of Andert had been there, and it was actually much older than this ruin. ”

Fang heard what she meant: "In other words, this is actually a transition zone between the upper and lower layers of ruins?" ”

Sophie nodded and said, "In fact, adventurers who have passed the first seven layers of challenges can just rest their tense nerves here, which can be regarded as a kind of relaxation and preparation for the next more difficult challenges." And with the natives, you can get some supplies if you're lucky, provided you can find them, and not all natives are friendly. ”

Fang couldn't help but think of the night lizardman.

But since Sophie said so, he relaxed and admired the scenery around him.

The team was entering the mushroom forest, and everyone's eyes were dazzled by the colorful scenery, and the fiery red mushroom forest was inhabited by countless strange creatures, glowing and non-luminous, curly pale plants, and some eyeless snakes.

Translucent toads hang above the fluorescent mycelium, swinging around, while the roots of the mushroom forest, the cold moonlight in the cold pool of stagnant water, shuttle like lightning, often disappearing into the depths of the pool at the slightest movement.

The box was ahead of the square, and under the latter's orders, he was watching Parker closely, not letting the Paparals get into trouble because of their curiosity.

In fact, since Fang bought him with a legendary ring, the second-year boy has become a model of a well-behaved and obedient team member, or in the indignant words of the Paparals:

Fang someone's doglegs.

The cold, damp environment was a bit uncomfortable for Tenarek, and as a cold-blooded species, it preferred the warm, humid rainforests of Andasok, but as a warrior, none of that mattered.

But even with caution, the procession alarmed some of the original creatures in the mushroom forest, and a huge firefly with wings like flames descended from the sky, buzzing and attacking everyone.

Fortunately, these things are only five or six levels, and everyone just drives them away casually and scatters the birds and beasts, but the scene is a little scary, which makes everyone have a false alarm.

The knights of Silver Vislan seemed to be a little embarrassed by their overreaction, and watched the fireflies fly away, and I don't know who let out a low chuckle, and the chain reaction caused a burst of laughter.

Who can believe it, the team of the former first guild in the dignified China Division will be frightened by a group of fireflies of level five or six, which is indeed a bit unbearable.

The knights laughed and laughed, and a ranger suddenly spoke: "It was the same when I came here last time, and I think it's been a few years, and I really miss it a little bit if I haven't been here for a few years." We were much more busy back then than we are now, do you remember what Her Royal Highness looked like back then, haha! ”

"Haha!" The others also laughed: "It's a pity that Her Royal Highness the Princess can't come this year." ”

Speaking of this, everyone couldn't help but look at Fang, it was worth seeing that Fang was a little fried, what did they want to see, what did it matter to him? However, he couldn't help but glance at Sophie curiously, thinking that the other party would also be afraid of insects?

Sophie was a little embarrassed by him, and suddenly switched herself to the team channel, and the projection appeared in front of everyone, looking at the ranger and said, "Feng Xun, do you think that I can do whatever I want when I'm gone?" ”

The ranger's face turned white with fright, and he hurriedly ducked behind the people.

But instead of selling their princess's account, they looked at Sophie, and then at Fang behind her, as if they had just understood what had happened, and let out a meaningful "oh" sound.

Only Akane glanced at Fang with some concern.

"You bastards!" Sophie was half angry and suddenly disappeared.

But Fang glanced at the look of the mountain girl not far away, and knew that the other party probably ran over to coax his little girlfriend, and the relationship between the two girls, as a bystander, he could see it clearly.

It was a long time before Sophie reappeared in front of him and said, "We should be there." ”

"The nezumi village?" Fang asked.

Her Royal Highness the Silver Vislan Princess nodded.

Fang remembered the previous question, and couldn't help asking: "Speaking of which, you also came to this place a few years ago?" ”

"Pretty much." Sophie looked a little nostalgic: "Some people left, some people changed, but in general everyone stayed, the last time we were here was almost three years ago, it was the last test before we became the official callers, I remember it very well." ”

"Everyone was nervous during the trial, so it was extra easy to pass through the seventh layer, and it was very embarrassing to be attacked by those pesky bugs here. At that time, we all laughed like this, and as a result, the Andett Ratmen guard was brought in, but fortunately, Uncle Snowwin appeared in time and resolved the conflict between the two of us. ”

She said: "Outsiders think that the rat people are very cold and xenophobic, but in fact, this is not the case, we lived in that village for two days until the end of the trial, and experienced a lot of interesting things. I also made a friend, Dan Loni, and she made a great glow-in-the-dark wine for the dwarves, and I'd be sure to treat you to a drink when I got there. ”

"Would you like me to have a drink?" Fang was very skeptical: "How do you pay?" ”

"Of course you paid." Sophie replied as a matter of course.

Fang was speechless and choked.

The two of them suddenly stopped, it turned out that they had reached the edge of the mushroom forest in front of them, and their eyes passed through the glowing crystal plain, and they could see a dilapidated village located between the stone pillar communities in the distance, but it was a dilapidated building, but it was just the architectural style of the rat people.

Fang had heard of this rodent alliance that lived underground like the night lizardmen.

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