With each step I approached the portal, my nervousness and manic heartbeat grew more and more intense.

To be honest, I was a little scared.

In the face of the unknown, in the face of death threats, say that there are ghosts if you are not afraid!

But this is something I have to deal with, because I can't be sure if the phoenix is on the twenty-first level.

If they weren't on the twenty-first floor, shouldn't I go down to the twenty-second floor?

If the 22nd floor is still not there, do I have to go down?

23rd Floor...... 24th Floor...... Until, no matter how hard I try, I can't move any further?

Thinking of this, my steps stopped, my body, stopped, my hands trembled slightly, I waved.

The voice of the big sword, as I wavered, came into my head: "Are you afraid? ”

"Yes, I'm scared," I said unabashedly.

"Afraid of what?" Taidao asked.

"I'm afraid of death, and I'm afraid that I won't be able to find the phoenix all the time," I said.

"You're worried about them?"

"Yes and no," I said, taking a deep breath, "Maybe it's because I've been with them for a long time, and I'm afraid of being lonely again, so I'm afraid of losing them." ”

"Since you're afraid of losing them, why don't you keep going?" Da Taidao 'cut' and said, "I think, you are even more afraid of death." ”

"I'm afraid of death......" I muttered several times, slowly lowering my head: "That's right, I'm afraid of death." ”

"Since you are afraid of death, there is no need to continue walking" Da Taidao's voice was as bewitching as the song of the Siren: "Take a step back, as long as you take a step back, there will be nothing that can threaten your life, you will be very safe, and you will be lonely forever." ”

"Lonely...... No, I don't want to be lonely anymore, don't! ”

In an instant, memories flashed through my mind, when I first came to this world, everyone around me died by my mysterious and terrifying destructive power, and I walked alone out of the village that had long been in ruins, and walked forward endlessly.

At that time, I longed to have someone by my side, even if it wasn't a person, just a dog, a cat, or even a bug, but no, nothing.

I have been walking lonely for a long time, I don't know how many days and nights have passed, I finally came to a town, I was thinking of finding a job to make a living, but I was rejected again and again because of my sloppy clothes and unknown identity.

Hungry and cold, I was desperate to find any place that could give me hope.

Finally, in a daze, I entered the dungeon.

Although I almost died in the dungeon at the time, it was because of this that my life changed.

first got acquainted with the café proprietress and Barbara and a group of café maids, then met Bai Yunying in an adventure, and then met Cagalli and them by chance, and then met Phoenix, and then the strange duo, Mi Lulu and Princess Aurora...... Wait a minute.

It is because of them that my life has become colorful, and it is because of them that my journey has finally become meaningful.

"Yes, you're right" I felt a clear picture in front of me, and my heart was also clear at the same time: "Although I am afraid of death, but loneliness is more terrible than death, I want to enter the twenty-first layer, if the twenty-first level is not, I will break through the twenty-second floor, I will keep moving forward, until I find the phoenix and them, I will not stop!" ”

The moment the burden of bondage is broken, any vacillation will cease to exist.

The moment I lifted my legs firmly and stepped into the twenty-first layer, I knew that what awaited me was an even more terrifying monster and a difficult road ahead, but I would no longer back down, because I wanted to find my family.

As far as the eye can see, there is a Gobi.

As far as the eye can see, there is yellow sand and debris, and a few stubborn weeds.

If it weren't for the fact that some elven adventurers were fighting monsters, perhaps, there wouldn't be much life here.

Look around carefully, especially the monsters that are fighting with the adventurers, they are all more than one person long, all of them are earthy yellow, relying on six adult thigh-thick arthropod-like steps to move to avoid attacks, and at the same time, waving a pair of huge pincers, forcing the elves who want to get close away, and the most frightening thing is that behind it, there is also a tail spine with a hook, the tip of the tail spine is black, and it is known at a glance that it is highly poisonous.

This is a scorpion with an earthy yellow body except for the tip of the tail spine.

"Let's call it a sand scorpion," I muttered to myself.

Watching the elven adventurers fight for a while, I learned a little bit about how monsters like sand scorpions fight, as well as some of their weaknesses.

Sand scorpions move fast, even comparable to ghost-faced spiders; Don't look at its pair of pincers chelates are very huge, but they are extremely flexible, but when the agility value reaches the level of elves, as long as you pay more attention, you can still avoid being pinched, however, judging by the strength of the sand scorpion's claws and the sound made when the pincers are clamped in the air, if you are not careful, you will probably break your bones and tendons.

Although in the eyes of the priest, it is only a matter of time before these injuries heal, but this is equivalent to the battlefield, every second is instantaneous, and the wounds can still be healed, but when they die, no one can save them.

But what I care about the most is its tail thorn.

On Earth, the scorpions encountered are all small, but the toxins are surprisingly strong, and some can even be fatal.

I don't know how much toxin has to do with the size of the insect itself, but in my opinion, the poison of the sand scorpion's tail stinger is definitely not something that ordinary people can bear.

I don't want to be stung by that thing anyway.

I thought that after observing for a while, I would start selectively farming monsters, but I didn't expect that a sand scorpion would quietly approach me and want to attack me, and the speed of the tail spur was quite fast, but fortunately I had already seen its movements in the afterglow, and was ready to dodge, so I survived.

The tail spike that came from the spur didn't hit me, and it stopped out of thin air, shook twice, and then retracted on my back.

The scorpion opened its monstrous mouth and let out a shrill growl, as if to express dissatisfaction with my evasion, or perhaps anger at my dim sum who refused to die honestly.

I stood still, took a stance, waved the straight knife twice, and dragged the big knife to the ground again, sneered, and said, "Why, you want to eat me so much?" ”

The sand scorpion didn't understand me, but what it did next showed it was - it was really desperate to eat me.

The pincers fluttered, the tail spurs stabbed, and the frenzied attacks enveloped me in an instant, trying to kill me in one fell swoop.

But I'm no slouch, moving and dodging, dodging deadly attacks, and at the same time, waving with my twin knives, constantly attacking the sand scorpion's carapace from various angles.

For a time, the sound of pincers clamping in the air, the sound of tail stabbing in the air, the sound of double knives dancing, and the sound of blade collision were endless.

(End of chapter)