Chapter 353: Make Roads Across Mountains and Build Bridges Across Valleys
After resting, Tang En's team continued to move forward against the howling wind.
The Power of Sisa mercenary group also followed this path, which was obviously beyond Tang En's expectations.
There were many forked roads, but they happened to find this one. If it was purely luck, then this luck seemed to be a little too good.
Danny, who was exploring the way forward, came back with bad news: "There is an underground rift ahead, which is dozens of meters wide. There is only a narrow stone bridge that can pass through, but the stone bridge is damaged."
Tang En frowned: "The stone bridge was destroyed?"
Soon they came to the underground rift valley. As Danny said, it was a rift valley dozens of meters wide with no end in sight on both sides. The only thing leading to the opposite side was the stone bridge in the middle - but this stone bridge The bridge is now broken down the middle.
Fiona guessed: "Could it be that people from Sissa's power deliberately destroyed the stone bridge to prevent others from following?"
"impossible!"
Locke said something, and then explained: "Miss Fiona, don't forget, this is the underground world. Even if the caves extend in all directions, no one can be sure whether there is a passage to leave in front. Destroying one's own escape route is to push oneself towards Forced by the end of the road, Sisa won’t be so stupid.”
"Locke is right, but it is also possible."
Facing Locke's puzzled eyes, Tang En added: "Although the cost of hiring a magician is extremely high for an ordinary mercenary group, with Sisa's power and connections, hiring a magician shouldn't be a big deal. question."
Locke suddenly said: "I forgot about this!"
He smiled and touched his head and said: "Magicians were too far away for us at that time, so we subconsciously ignored this possibility."
"In other words, in order to prevent others from following into the other side, Sisa's power deliberately destroyed the stone bridge after they passed. When they returned, they used the power of magic to repair the stone bridge... Tsk, tsk, directly and fundamentally prevent other people from entering. Any possibility of tailgating?”
Elsa raised her hand and said: "But just now Kundal said that there are several groups of teams passing by here. It may be other teams that did it, but he only knows people from the power of Sisa."
"Yes, it is possible... What the hell is that in your hand!?"
"Spider meat, Uncle Locke said it's delicious."
Tang En suddenly felt hairy all over his body: "Throw it away quickly!"
"oh……"
Elsa frowned and threw the snow-white spider meat into the rift, and then the piece of meat was blown to the top by the hurricane blowing up from below.
Tang En wiped his cold sweat, walked to the edge of the rift valley and looked down, then turned back and said, "Get ready."
After saying that, he lightly stomped his feet, and the thick earth elements deposited around him were mobilized by him. The section of the stone bridge in front suddenly twisted and extended forward, and the surging earth, sand and gravel changed under the influence of magic. The structure was restored and the broken bridges were reconnected.
The violent airflow in the cave previously came from this rift. For safety reasons, he erected a row of fences on both sides of the bridge to protect everyone from being blown down by the wind.
Then, Tang En snapped his fingers, and the churning soil solidified directly and turned into solid stone.
The broken bridge was connected again.
"No matter how many times I watch it, I still feel that the power of magic is so amazing."
Locke praised: "Sometimes I really envy magicians, but it's a pity that I don't have the talent to become a magician."
"Don't envy magicians," Tang En smiled and said casually, "Warriors and mages only have different starting points, but the end point is the same. If you can enter the supreme level, then the boundary between warriors and mages will disappear."
"Supreme level..."
Locke, Uncle Depp, and Vanilla look forward to it. For most people, that is a far-off and unattainable realm. Let alone the supreme level. Those who can break through the limits of mortals and enter the gold level can have How many? One in a hundred!
How many people can awaken the realm and enter the Grandmaster level?
Looking at the entire Purandar, there are not many extraordinary-level people who are stronger than the grandmaster level, let alone the supreme-level powerhouses who are above the extraordinary... That is the super-powerful person second only to the legend!
Locke couldn't help but smiled bitterly and shook his head and said: "Don't talk about the supreme level. When I reach middle age, I can enter the gold level. I will be satisfied when I reach the limit of mortals. Above the gold level, it is the world of geniuses. Only Only the darlings of the gods are lucky enough to glimpse its secrets.”
"Who knows what will happen in the future."
Tang En smiled, didn't say much, and took the lead on the stone bridge: "Let's go, shut your mouth, be careful of the wind blowing your tongue. We have to speed up, it has been several hours since we entered the underground world, dinner Try to get to the Red Grotto beforehand.”
The place you come down from the entrance is Barrod's ranch, where he keeps gargoyles. The Red Grotto is certainly not too far from there, in fact it is only half a day's journey.
It's just that this is the first time Tang En and the others have been underground, and the sudden change in the environment here has made the road conditions very complicated, so their progress is relatively slow.
After crossing the stone bridge without any danger, there is another dream-like cave.
"Gods for heaven's sake...is this really underground!?"
Everyone, including Tang En, was stunned by the scene in front of them. They held their breath, as if they were worried that their breathing would break the wonderful scenery.
The top of this cave is covered with light crystals, and soft light pours into the cave like a waterfall. Green vines are wrapped around the huge light crystal prisms. The vines hang down from the top of the cave, and there are white flowers blooming on the vines. Facing the light crystal, it flutters gently.
Under the vines, from one side of the cave down, are layers of stalactites. However, under the processing of wonderful nature, these stalactites have turned into layers of pools, which contain pools of clear water. The water also has some colorful light crystals distributed in the water, dyeing these pools in various colors, like clouds of various colors in the sky, but appearing in underground caves, so it looks very dreamy.
There are some strange underground plants growing beside the pool. The faintly shining moss seems to be the food of those insects. Some beetles can be seen crawling over it from time to time. The ferns next to it seem to have never been seen in the surface world.
Of course, the most eye-catching thing is the huge mushroom forest.
The average height of those huge purple umbrella-shaped mushrooms is more than two meters, which is taller than the height of vanilla. The umbrella handle alone is as thick as a person's hug. There are still some marks of hacking on the umbrella handle, and some of them fall from the umbrella skirt from time to time. Although fluorescent mushroom spores look wonderful, Tang En feels that this is not a good thing - no matter what game it is, anything related to mushroom spores is either poisoning or parasitism, which is never a good thing anyway.
There are also some lush shrubs growing next to the mushrooms. The roots of the shrubs sink along the stalactites into the nearby pool to absorb water. There are some small watery red fruits growing on them.
"It should be edible."
Locke made a brief judgment and then said: "Some of the fruits still have bite marks on them, but there are no corpses nearby, so they should be non-toxic."
As soon as Elsa heard this, she happily went up to pick the fruits.
The Alberton couple raised her in Ellington, which completely eliminated her from the aristocracy. One of Elsa's favorite things to do was to go into the woods to find wild fruits to eat.
By the way, she "played a wrestling game" with some monsters - because she was too strong, only these monsters could "play" with her. This is really a sad story.
"do not go."
Tang En held Elsa down.
"Why?"
"We have no shortage of food, so there's no need to take risks."
Tang En said: "Being cautious is the most important thing now. If you are poisoned, there will be no priests or priests to exorcise the poison for you."
Of course, this is because Nora is not here. If Nora is here, it doesn't matter if she can try poison at will. Her powerful life force is not afraid of any poison at all.
"All right."
Elsa obeyed Tang En's arrangement.
"Let's go, although this place is beautiful, we should get through here as quickly as possible."
Tang En issued the order to set off again.
Fiona was stunned for a moment: "Lord, why don't we take a rest here? We have walked a long way. There is no hurricane here, there is light and water, it is a very good rest area."
Tang En shook his head, pointed around and said, "It looks like a very good place, but why are there no signs of resting and camping here?"
"ah?"
"Many adventurer teams have been here before us, why didn't they rest here? There is obviously a problem here."
Tang En had just noticed this sensitively. It is reasonable to say that this is a very good resting spot, but... there are no traces of camping, no campfire embers, no food remains, and no traces of humans - except for the footprints on the ground. .
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etc! ?
footprint! ?
Tang En's heart suddenly skipped a beat and he looked at the ground again. There were dense footprints on the soft, moist shallow soil. However, besides those human footprints, there were also some footprints that were obviously not human.
He turned to look at the guards. They had obviously not recovered from the battle with the Shadow Lurkers.
Tang En decisively gave the order: "Speed up the pace and get out of here."
The team set off again, advancing slowly through the huge mushroom forest.
The huge mushrooms on both sides gave them the absurd illusion that they had become smaller.
At this time, Danny, who had been walking in front of the team, suddenly stopped and raised his palms.
The team suddenly and silently stopped.
Danny turned around, his face a little pale, and before he could speak, everyone had already heard the sound coming from the front.
The next moment, a group of weird creatures emerged from the path of the mushroom forest.