CHAPTER XXI
I hung on the rope and listened to the movement of the mummy with my ears sideways, and found that there was no response. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
I jumped off the rope. A fire suddenly lit up at the end of the corridor ahead, and Melva's head spoke: "God, you're all right!"
I said, "What, you want something to happen to me?"
Melva immediately looked pitiful, and her big watery eyes looked at me innocently: "Why, I don't know how much to worry about you, but I can't get along with this trolls here." ”
I said, "Okay, this time it's a life, you can quickly find your way to the fifth floor." ”
Melva nodded and said, "I've found it, it's not far from here." As she spoke, she pointed to the deeper hallway ahead, where the faint sound of breathing could be heard from time to time in the darkness.
I said, "What's there?"
Melva said: "The door that leads to the fifth floor...... And a monster who doesn't know what. ”
With that, the torch suddenly went out.
I said, "What's the matter, why did your torch go out all of a sudden?"
Melva didn't answer, and suddenly from the darkness came a short exclamation, and I quickly took out a fire knife and flint, and hit a fire velvet.
In the faint light of the fire, I saw Melva with a feathered arrow stuck in his right shoulder.
Her face was pale, and her big eyes stared at me with great resentment: "Quickly put out the fire, in this darkness, someone is ambushing us!"
I blew out the fire: "I know, I almost hit him in the hall." How's your injury?"
Melva gasped and said, "It's okay, just shot in the shoulder." It's the first time I've been hit in so many years since I debuted. ”
I said, "Take out the arrow, in case the arrow is poisonous." ”
Melva said, "I ...... I don't have the strength to do it. ”
I said, "Then I'll get it for you." As he spoke, he reached over and grabbed her shoulder, groping for the arrow.
A "pop" sounded in the dark, dead corridor.
I covered my face: "Why are you hitting me!"
Melva's breathing became even more rapid: "Where are you going!"
I said, "I'll touch where you hit the arrow, it's so dark I can't see clearly." ”
Melva was so angry that he said, "You!"
I said, "What am I, don't you say you don't have the strength, why was that slap so hard just now?"
Melva stopped talking, panting for air.
I said, "All right, I'll pay attention, and get your arrows out quickly." "Then I carefully touched the tail of the arrow, and then I felt the cluster of arrows along the tail. This arrow was supposed to be a stray arrow that bounced off the wall, and it didn't go deep into the flesh, only two-thirds of the way into the cluster of arrows. The barbs on the cluster of arrows did not penetrate deep into the flesh, and it was not difficult to get out.
I pulled it out and sprinkled some medicine on it.
"Better?" I asked.
Melva whispered, "Much better." ”
I said, "Of course, my medicine is definitely a must in Calradia, my master left it to me back then, he said that it is an ancient oriental healing elixir, called Yunnan Baiyao or something." ”
Melva nodded, "You can let me go." ”
I said, "Can you stand firm by letting go?"
Melva said yes. I let go of my hand.
Melva said, "Let go of your hand." ”
I wondered, "Which hand? Left hand right hand?"
Melva suddenly said shyly: "It's the ...... on my chest."
I said righteously, "What kind of joke do you think I am? How could a righteous gentleman like me do such a thing that takes advantage of others?"
Melva said coquettishly: "Still quibbling, you are still a righteous gentleman? You were not honest when you took the arrow just now, but now it has become even worse! Oh, you still touch it!"
I said, "I really don't think so." As I spoke, I took out the fire knife and flint and struck it.
In the faint light, a pale, withered hand rested on Melva's towering chest.
I don't know how many corpses, like sausages, hung upside down from the ceiling, stretching from the front of the eye to the depths of the corridor that could not be seen, like dense vines in the forest. Their clothes were in tatters, some of them rotting into dry bones, dotting the corridor like a road to an endless hell.
Melva's screams were heard far through the dark corridors.
An unknown being seemed to be awakened in the darkness, and a rumbling murmur came from the depths of the hallway.
I was horrified to see that at the end of the endless hellish passage, in the bottomless darkness, two evil dark red flames danced, and the flames shone straight straight on me like searchlights.
At the same time, my father's greatsword suddenly trembled in my hand, not a tremor of fear, but more like a tremor of excitement filled with endless battle intent. From it, an endless burst of light burst out, illuminating the entire dark and gloomy passage as if it were leading to heaven.
In this endless light, I finally saw the figure on the other side of the passage, and to be exact, I didn't see all of it. All I saw was a huge head, hideous fangs, protruding jaws, and a hideous face full of scales. Between the fangs there was also the arm of a half-trolls struggling in vain.
Endless evil fire danced in the crimson eyes!
Shock!
The eyes stared gloomily at me, more at the sword in my hand, and then it let out a low moan like a cry and slowly left my sight.
The light on his father's greatsword dimmed suddenly.
I felt depleted, and at that moment, the shock and coercion were overwhelming, and I was like a flat boat on the angry sea, drifting with the current.
But this sword, like a reef in the wind and rain, does not move.
At that moment, he seemed to be the father of all things, the only king of heaven and earth, fiercely shaking the power of the other party.
I gasped, "Melva, do you see what that is?"
Melva was covered in cold sweat: "That's ...... No, it can't be ......."
I said, "What do you know?"
Melva said: "Although it is a myth and legend, how similar is the scene just now......
I said, "What the hell is it, don't sell it." ”
Melva trembled: "O...... Alduin ......"
I said, "What is Alduin? is it scarier than Godzilla?"
But Melva refused to say a word.
Melva simply said, "Isn't this the burial ground of the revelation of the fire, why is Alduin here? For Alduin, it's a narrow prison!"
I said, "What are you talking about?
Melva said, "No...... It's nothing. ”
Actually, I heard it clearly. I said, "Well, since that Oindu is gone, let's go on, haven't you found your way up?"
A quarter of an hour later, Melva and I went from what appeared to be a garbage passage to the fifth floor.
I said, "This is the passage you found?"
Melva was still disgusted, and didn't have time to pay attention to me.
I rubbed a huge lump of what appeared to be excrement off the wall. He lifted the hem of his robe and wiped his face: "You said what and peed on our heads just now? It stinks enough, isn't it that Ao What Du? "Actually, I'm self-yy, if it's really that Ao What Du is in front of me, without my father's giant sword, I doubt that I can be directly shocked to death by the momentum.
Melva listened to me and shuddered.
The fifth and fourth floors are different, they are very neat and tidy, almost excessive, not to mention that there is no clutter on the ground, not even a trace of dust, as if hundreds of people are cleaning here every day.
I said, "It's strange that there's not even ash on the ground." ”
Melva said, "How is it possible without ash?"
I said, "Not really, unfortunately you touch it." As he spoke, he wiped it on the ground, and it was clean. There are some lines on the floor, but it's very smooth.
Melva also looked puzzled: "My lord, you let your sword shine again, my fire knife flint was scared off just now." ”
I said, "What do you think my sword is? fluorescent tube or flashlight? It only glows when it meets an enemy." Besides, my fire knife and flint were scared off just now. ”
Melva had no choice but to keep her mouth shut, and after a while she suddenly said, "It would be nice to meet the enemy at this time, so that we can see clearly." ”
I have to say that this stinky girl's mouth is really a crow. As soon as she landed on the ground, her father's giant sword suddenly emitted a faint light. In the bright light, I was actually covered with cobwebs in the corridor, layered to form a milky white. The nearest spider web was less than two meters away, and in the center of the spider sat a spider the size of a basin, with a fat body, eight legs as thick as a human wrist, and eight eyes the size of a human eye on its head, staring at me.
Melva screamed again, and I couldn't help but curse: "Crow's mouth, dead girl, your mouth stinks worse than roaring, I don't know what kind of monster it was last time I screamed, and this time I called such a big spider, damn it, I don't know if it's poisonous!"
As I spoke, the spider suddenly jumped at me. Yes, jumped straight from his net and jumped at me like a flea.
I swung my greatsword and hit it back into the net like a baseball. I said, "Melva, do you think we have crossed over, how can there be so many strange things? Aren't the enemies we encounter all human, but a few trolls have already broken through the sky." ”
Melva didn't speak, she now lost her crossbow and her scimitar, so to speak, completely barehanded.
I knocked the spiders back into the web, but more spiders popped out of the web, and for a moment I felt like I was not facing a group of spiders, but a group of heavily armed Nords, raining down axes in their hands.
Melva suddenly took out a small copper furnace from his waist pocket, threw something into it, and took out two crossbow arrows, and the arrows were fiercely brushed, and the sparks fell into the copper furnace. After a while, a pleasant aroma rose from the copper furnace. When I smelled it, I immediately became energetic, and when the spiders smelled it, they immediately squeaked and quickly retreated into the depths of the cobweb.
The spider came and went suddenly, and the light on the greatsword immediately dissipated.
I said, "Melva, what is this thing you ordered?"
Melva said: "I was bleeding profusely this time, and I used this." This is the treasure at the bottom of my box, the best talisman for tomb robbery or something, from the east. I bought it at the bazaar in Tiha a few years ago, and when I lit it, it was called exorcism incense, 1,000 dinars an ounce. ”
I said, "I haven't heard of exorcism, but I have some ten miles of incense here, would you like to try it?"
Melva took it and sniffed it suspiciously, frowning at the strange smell: "Forget it, don't use it now, I'm afraid there will be some conflict with my exorcism incense." ”
I nodded, "Yes." He swung his sword and slashed through the cobwebs in front of him and walked in.
After walking in the depths of the cobwebs for a few minutes, I came across a corner, and out of it was a hall, which was extremely empty and clean, without a trace of cobweb. In the center of the hall is an altar-like round platform, on which is placed a jewel that glows a faint red light, and from a distance, it looks as if a flame is burning on the platform.
I finally breathed a sigh of relief: "The revelation of the fire, I have finally seen it!"
Melva was obviously excited and was about to pounce.
I said, "Be careful, there might be some mechanism here." I remember where I was drinking, and a guy called Circle once told me that there are a lot of hidden treasures in Calradia, and that there are endless mechanisms in them, and this is the time when patience is tested. ”
Melva hesitated.
I said, "The circle also predicted that I would get these gems, and he said that the process would be thrilling, some rain of arrows, ogres, pirate armies, dark sacrifices, competitive tournaments, etc., in short, it would be very difficult. So I'm sure that this gem is either a fake or a decoy. ”
Melva didn't dare to move, and said, "What then?"
I said, "Let's test it first, so that you can see the danger here." With that, I picked up a white round object from the corner and rolled it down the ground towards the gem.
The white object rolled under the jewel altar, slammed into the altar, and then rolled to the side.
I waited for five minutes, but the expected poison gas, rain of arrows, ground thorns, flywheels, and saw blades were all gone.
Melva looked at me suspiciously again.
I swore and said, "It doesn't matter, this must be the most insidious, vicious, and despicable time-delay trap, and when we think there is no trap, we will launch it when we go up, and there will be no place to hide when the time comes." ”
Melva nodded in agreement.
I waited for another half an hour, but there was no response at all. Melva couldn't sit still, and she said, "Eighty percent of them are no traps, right?"
I had some embarrassment on my face and decided to take a desperate risk and give it a try. I cautiously walked along the line where the white object had rolled. Walking all the way to the gem, I carefully took it off and pinched it in the palm of my hand. The whole process was quiet as usual.
I said, "Well, there are no traps, you see how accurate I said, it's really clever, hahahaha......"
Melva glanced at me viciously, "I wish there was a big boss now, and I would be able to take a look at your obscene smug expression." ”
I suddenly felt that something was wrong, and then I heard Melva's words, and my heart suddenly cooled, and I yelled, "Melva, shut your crow's mouth!" but it was too late. The white object I threw in earlier suddenly had a crack in it. At the same time, above me, the slabs of the fifth floor suddenly opened to both sides, and a shadow the size of an entire room hung upside down from the ceiling. By the light of the precious stone, I could vaguely see that it had eight thick legs at least three or four meters long, covered with hard bristles, as if six or seven people were hugging a ball, and its body was slightly moving, and the eight eyes the size of a basin above its head suddenly opened and looked at me in unison.
I said, "Melva......" My voice trembled a little.
Melva said, "Mmmm...... I could hear that her voice was so completely distorted that she could not even find her own tune, and she shook herself into a pitiful little sapling in the face of a storm.
I said, "Are you sure we're still in the world of the Riding Slash, not in the world of the Lord of the Rings, the Wizards, the Diablo, or the Elder Scrolls?"
I still can't forget the scene that happened at the altar of revelation of the fire, when the spider, so large that I could not have imagined before, focused its eight eyes on me, I felt that my whole being, all my blood, all my soul, seemed to disappear in an instant, and in front of it, I felt that I was not much different from a moth.
But the astonishment was a matter of moments, and the next moment, the father's greatsword in his hand lit up again, although it was not as bright as when he met Alduin, but it also lit up the whole room. At this time, I finally saw clearly that there was another person in the room, besides me and Melva.
A man wrapped in a yellow and white turban and wrapped in a yellow veil. A woman. At this moment, she, like Melva, looked up at the spider with a shocked face, motionless.
All I need is a swing of my greatsword at this moment, and this guy will be lying on the ground. But I suddenly lost the thought, and I had a gut feeling that she was not here to harm me, and I even forgot for a moment that a short knife from Salander had been on my neck.
I just glanced at her and looked up at the big spider overhead. At this moment, it is as if the sky is about to fall.
But in terms of coercion alone, this spider is nowhere near one ten-thousandth of what Alduin gave me. Alduin was just a look, and I felt that the heavens and the earth were shattered, and a cloud of chaos came up from under the earth, turning into a violent storm that destroyed everything in the world, the stars were destroyed, and the sun was extinguished.
In contrast, this spider just made me feel that I must be in pain when it falls and hits me.
In the next second, as soon as the big spider's butt was raised, a thick white object erupted from its abdomen, cooling in mid-air and turning into an extremely tough and viscous cobweb.
I rolled away, and the cobwebs shot on the ground, and the ground made a slight "squeak" sound. The slime on the cobwebs is also extremely corrosive.
I yelled: "Don't be in a daze, find a way to go, it's something we can't compete with!"
Melva reacted first, and she turned around and was about to run out. But maybe it was because of the summoning of the big spider, maybe because the effect of the exorcism incense had passed, and as soon as she rushed out, she was forced back by several small spiders the size of a basin.
The masked woman spoke at this time: "I can't get out, I can only rush forward!" As she spoke, she suddenly opened her bow and arrows, and at that moment, a layer of purple-red light covered her.
"Qi Strike! Bow Technique, Triple Bead!"
Three arrows with purple-red light attached to them burst out of the sky like three purple-red lightning bolts and shot at the large spider overhead. But the spider lifted one foot and gently pushed it away. The spider roars (it stands to reason that spiders can't roar...... Then let's imitate the way we know how to make sounds, vibrating the bristles...... , spewing a white cobweb at her, which she dodged by twisting around.
At this time, I found that the masked woman was very flexible, and if I slashed her three times, it is estimated that only one sword would touch the corner of her clothes at most.
The masked woman also turned around in the air and fired three arrows, two of which were blocked, leaving one on the spider's thick left first front leg.
I heard the spider angry, and its roar gave me goosebumps all over my body.
Melva suddenly woke up like a dream, and she rolled on the spot, dodging the small spider that leaped over her, and dodging the sword-like forelimbs of the big spider. She saw something as she rolled on the ground, and suddenly jumped up from the floor again in excitement.
She said, "Eagles, fishes, snakes!
She continued, "My lord, the masked one, help me buy time!" and as she spoke, she suddenly patted the stalactite-like pillar beside her.
The pillars turned slowly. It was then that I saw that the pillar was a triangular body, with a relief of an eagle on one side, a snake on one side, and a fish on the other. In a split second I recognized that it was some kind of mechanism that was opened. The Eight Achievements lead to the outside of this underground church.
I said, "Okay, but hurry up, there are more than 20 pillars here, can you handle it?"
Melva sweated profusely and said, "Theoretically, it can't be done, but pray that you, the heir of the Holy King Leon, can bring miracles!" he said, patting twice on the second stone platform, which slowly turned on both sides.
I gritted my teeth and gambled!
Since it's to buy time, the three fatal moves can't be used, and even if they do, they are not sure that they can kill the big spider in three moves. I roared, dodged the spider's web, turned and picked up my greatsword, and slashed through it in a whirlwind. (To be continued.) )