"What's this —"
Before Sally could finish her words, the mining cart suddenly changed its tilting angle. After a bumpy ride, it began to move down a long slope, and its speed was getting faster and faster. Sally seemed to feel something. She looked up at Roddy, who was holding a torch, and begged, "Don't tell me … we're going to slide down like this?"
"Slide down?"
Roddy shook his head and inserted the torch into a groove on the mining cart. He smiled and said, "We're going down."
As soon as his voice trailed off, the mining cart suddenly entered a very steep section of the road after another bumpy ride.
"Ahhhhhh …"
Sally had never experienced 'weightlessness' before. She couldn't help but scream out, but because the speed became faster and faster, her voice was quickly drowned out by the wind that blew past.
The mining cart sped along the long and narrow tunnel like an orange lightning bolt. In Roddy's memory, this mine did not have such a steep track at the beginning. It was all because of the Chimera Beast. The Chimera Beast was good at drilling and climbing in caves, and even caused several mine collapses. The steep track was caused by the Chimera Beast digging under the ground all year round. Fortunately, Roddy remembered that there had never been an accident in this tunnel, and the players were happy to see the mining cart sliding like a roller coaster.
Sally felt that she was about to cry. She was usually calculative and calm, but when she suddenly encountered such a violent movement that was close to free fall, she inevitably stiffened because of nervousness. Her hands even lost feeling because she used too much force. When the mining cart quickly turned the first corner, she lost her balance and fell into the mining cart. In order to stabilize herself, she instinctively stretched out her hands and desperately hugged Roddy's waist.
It felt like a drowning person who had found a life-saving straw. Sally desperately held on to him. Her eyes were tightly closed. She could hear the wind whistling past her ears, but the tip of her nose could smell the familiar scent of Roddy. Taking a deep breath, she suddenly felt her tense nerves gradually relax. Sally tried to open her eyes. Although she was squinting because of the wind, she still looked up and saw Roddy's profile in the light of the torch.
If possible, Rody would rather ride a motorcycle or sit in a car with Sally in this position. Unfortunately, Rody was riding a wooden mining cart that had been there for many years. He could not afford to be distracted in the slightest by the possibility of an accident happening at any time. So, he could only hold the edge of the mining cart with one hand and put the other hand on the brake lever, ready to brake at any time.
According to his experience, it would take about an hour to see the end of the track. Although it was noisy and bumpy, it was the only way to return to Houllier. However, the vigilant Roddy's face suddenly changed after the cart had been sliding for nearly half an hour!
"Damn it! What I'm afraid of is coming!"
At the end of his vision, a shadow suddenly appeared on the track, which made Roddy pull the brake lever hard. Sally, who was holding Roddy's waist, suddenly rolled back into the cart due to inertia. She then covered her ears in pain because of the screeching sound of the brakes.
Roddy gritted his teeth and pulled the brake lever for nearly 50 meters before it finally came to a stop.
Roddy gasped for breath. He stared at the pile of solid wood and stones less than three meters in front of him. He was very glad that he did not let his guard down. If he had not seen the pile of obstacles in the distance with the help of the torch, he was afraid that the two of them would have ended up like the scene of a car accident.
The air was filled with a strange burnt smell caused by the friction of metal, and there was a brief tinnitus in his ears. He turned his head to look at Sally and opened his mouth to speak, only to find that he could not hear what she said at all.
Roddy immediately made a "shush" gesture. Seeing Roddy's nervous look, Sally, who had been scared all the way, obediently shut her mouth. In fact, she also had tinnitus, and she could only vaguely hear what she said. Sally, who was worried about her hearing loss, soon found that the situation gradually improved in less than a minute. She looked up weakly and found that Roddy had jumped off the mining cart and was standing in front of it. He was in a daze.
"Damn it."
Sally heard his undisguised curse and thought that he was angry about the stones and wood blocking the way. She turned over and jumped down, whispering, "Shall we … start moving now?"
"Shush."
But the answer she got was still Roddy's nervous order to be quiet. Sally looked around in confusion. Under the light of the torch, the environment here did not look as bad as she had imagined. Because the slope was not steep, the surroundings were open, and it looked like someone had dug a large open space. There were no obstacles, and it looked empty.
The open space was about four or five hundred square meters, and there was a looming cave at the end.
In Sally's eyes, there was nothing unusual here.
But in Roddy's eyes, he was simply unlucky!
That was because this place was the "transit station" to the lair of the Chimera Beast! In the past, the guild players who came to challenge the Chimera Beast stopped their mining carts here and got down to fight. In their memory, the huge Chimera Beast was in the cave at the end of the far end. As long as they walked in front of the cave for two minutes, they could enter its lair.
The reason why Roddy was so nervous at this time was because … the loud noise just now was likely to have woken it up!
Roddy could not hope that it was not here at this time, because he knew that it was better to think about how to get himself out of here as soon as possible than to believe in that probability.
The obstacles in front of him were scattered, and the whole road ahead was completely blocked. He could not even climb over it. Fortunately, there were no huge stones or other heavy objects that he could not move. So, Roddy immediately ran to the pile of stones in front of the mining cart and waved his hand to ask Sally to help move these things.
Roddy moved quickly, but did not dare to make too much noise. Sally was smart, and she also followed suit. The two began to move the stones in front of them in silence.
But a sudden muffled sound made Roddy's mood instantly fall to the bottom of the valley.
"Thud."
"Thud."
The sound of heavy footsteps echoed around, and the closed cave seemed to suddenly become even more silent because of the sound of footsteps.
"What the hell happened to me … Don't stop! Hurry up and dig! "
Roddy had no other choice but to speed up the digging. There was no place to hide in the open space behind him, and a small tunnel had been dug under the ruins in front of him …
If they dug it in time, the two should be able to get through!
He looked back at the cave at the end of the light from the torch. The footsteps of the Chimera were slowly approaching. Roddy understood. If he faced it directly, he was afraid that he would be directly killed before he could even fight back!
So he frantically moved the pile of stones in front of him, and it seemed that God did not give up on him. The two finally dug a hole that looked like they could go through …
"Hurry up! Hurry up! Don't look back! "
Rody grabbed Sally and shoved her into the tunnel without saying anything. Sally also understood that she could not hesitate at this time. Her slender body immediately crawled through the narrow passageway under the pile of rocks and reached the other end.
But when she turned around, she found that Roddy did not follow.
At this moment, Sally felt as if a basin of ice water was poured over her head. She suppressed her panic and turned around to look at the narrow hole, only to find that Roddy's shoulders were too wide for him to squeeze through!
"F * ck f * ck f * ck f * ck … I miscalculated — —"
Roddy thought that he could pass because he judged according to his previous reminder. But he forgot that he was much taller than before, and immediately felt that he had dug a hole for himself.
"Roar — —"
The Chimera's roar was filled with the terrifying aura of the top of the food chain. The heavy footsteps even caused countless stones to fall from the pile of stones above Sally.
Sally's eyes widened, she suddenly felt as if she was about to witness this man being torn to pieces by an unknown giant beast. An indescribable panic rose in her heart … But then, Sally suddenly thought of something. She suddenly touched her neck and took off the necklace, fiercely throwing it at Roddy — —
"Roddy — catch!"
Roddy immediately understood Sally's intention. He accurately caught it and casually put it on his head. In the instant that the Chimera's gaze swept over, he softly chanted the incantation to activate the stealth spell. "Ol 'kahla!"
Sally saw through the gap that Roddy had suddenly disappeared, and immediately understood that the incantation had taken effect. She took more than ten steps back, leaning against the cold wall and looking at the pile of stones that was emitting some light. She held her breath.
Because very quickly, a huge black shadow gradually blocked out all the light.
Roddy once again experienced the cold and suffocating feeling of approaching death. The Chimera that crawled out of the cave in front of him was the terrifying creature that countless parties had come to kill. It was four meters tall and more than ten meters long. It had a hard triangular head similar to a dragon, a pair of spiral goat horns, four limbs as thick as a giant lizard, and a tail that burned with frightening heat like a torch.
Magical beasts in this era were rare species, not to mention this' Wild Boss'. There were less than five Wild Bosses in the entire Everton territory, and this one before him was the lowest level one. Even so, it was still an existence that Roddy could not fight against at the moment.
This gigantic beast was like a "hybrid" of all kinds of creatures mixed together. It even looked a little funny, but no one would be able to laugh in the face of its anger. Roddy remembered that the first major guild to explore this place had sent a group of elite shield-bearers with a total level of at least 30. In the first three weeks, they almost depleted the guild's inventory due to the loss of equipment to repair the MT's resurrection.
This creature could breathe fire, and its damage was so high that it could even kill a player instantly!
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