They had worked so hard to build a temporary camp and had yet to have a good night's rest. It would be a lie to say that they were not annoyed that they wanted to leave now.
But since Lin Dong said he wanted to leave, they certainly did not want to stay.
Not to mention whether there would be monsters attacking.
If the Dark Temple and the Teutonic Knights left first, it would no longer be in the interest of the entire expedition team.
"Pack up, we have to leave as soon as possible!" Bloody Mary ordered her men to move, but her angry eyes were fixed on the back of the sharpshooter Duque for a long time. If it were not for this guy's stupidity, the Dark Temple would have stayed here to rest for two days according to the agreement, allowing the expedition team to recover before they set off.
"Alright!" Reynold was helpless, but since the Eye of God and the Plantagenet Dynasty did not insist, he did not want to stay alone.
"Stop messing around!" Arius, the standard-bearer of the Eden Army, snorted heavily.
The Dark Temple moved the fastest.
In less than half an hour, they had already packed up and assembled.
The Teutonic Knights and the Eastern European Grand Alliance were not slow either, especially Griffon, Donquixote, and the others, who had long carried huge baggage and followed behind Lin Dong. In order not to be left behind, Bloody Mary, Reynold, and the others quickly rushed over, but the ascetics had been staying at the back of the team, quietly guarding the slower mercenaries.
After walking for a few kilometers, the team came to a particularly strange set of forks.
The entrance to a cave was at the top of the rock wall.
Two in the middle.
Three at the bottom.
They formed a strange arrangement.
Philip took the lead and climbed into the entrance of the cave at the top, then commanded the Shadow Warriors of the Dark Temple to move forward quickly.
When Thomas, Reynold, and the others came to the front of the fork, with their keen hearing, they suddenly heard a sound that sounded like a tide. At first, they thought it was an illusion, but soon after, Bloody Mary was the first to change her expression. "Damn it, the ground is shaking, and something is approaching us from the west. There are a lot of them. It might be a herd of bison or similar creatures running!"
"Climb up, hurry up!" Reynold found that the people of the Dark Temple and the Teutonic Knights had entered the cave, and most of the people of the Eastern European Grand Alliance had also entered. The rest were mostly on his side. He immediately roared angrily, "Why are you still so slow? Hurry up and go up! "
Less than a minute had passed.
The sound of the tide became even clearer, and all the mercenaries could hear it clearly.
The sound of dense footsteps was rapidly approaching. This time, there was no need for any explanation or urging. All the mercenaries used their fastest speed to rush towards the rock wall.
The scene was chaotic.
Fortunately, the mercenaries managed to climb up the wall in time.
Even if they didn't have the time to enter the cave, the mercenaries were still hanging on the cliff not far from the cave. They were at least seventeen to eighteen meters above the ground. Even if there were bison charging at them, there shouldn't be any danger.
The sounds coming from the cave grew louder and louder. The mercenaries spontaneously helped each other at this critical moment.
Those who had already entered the cave quickly helped their companions come up.
As for the leaders like Reynold …
All of them stayed behind to keep watch, to prevent their subordinates from causing chaos and accidents due to fear.
Not long after the last mercenary entered the cave, three dark shadows rushed out of the three caves below like a flood.
They rushed forward like mad wild dogs, all the way to the temporary camp that Reynold had set up. There was an endless number of them. These underground creatures were no taller than 1.5 meters and looked like a hunchbacked dwarf. They had large heads and thick necks. Their dark green bodies were twisted like worms, and their forelimbs were thin with hooked claws. Their hind limbs were strong and strong, and they ran effortlessly.
"They have tails, they're not humans!" Bloody Mary observed carefully for a while. She discovered that the monster below only knew how to run forward without raising its head to look at the rock wall above it. Behind its crooked back was a particularly thick tail that was less than half a meter long.
"I don't know if they're intelligent creatures. It would be great if I could catch one and study it." The mad scientist Parsons licked his lips with glowing eyes.
"There are thousands of them. It's suicide down there. They'll drown us in an instant!" Monster Ness wasn't willing to take the risk.
"Let's find a suitable opportunity!" Bord was observant. "Their numbers are decreasing. It looks like they're a common group. The strongest ones run in front, and the weaker ones follow behind. What we're seeing now are the old and weak, or the young ones that haven't fully grown. Their target should be our temporary camp. Though I don't know what lured them here, I don't think Duque's gunshots can travel that far. Perhaps their patrolling sentries discovered us in the morning, and Mr. Wood noticed this, so he used the gunshots as an excuse to urge us to leave immediately! "
"Why didn't he tell us that there were monsters spying on us?" Andre from the Temple Knights asked.
"Mr. Wood might have been worried that we wouldn't believe him. He guessed that there were many of these creatures, but he couldn't convince us without evidence, so he used the gunshots as an excuse. What we value is his determination. The gunshots aren't important. "Thomas nodded.
"I'm guessing that even Mr. Wood didn't know there were so many of them. Otherwise, he would've told us his judgment." Arius smiled.
"Regardless, we're in danger this time!" Bloody Mary was still angry. "Congratulations on clearing Duque's name. Let's hope he doesn't get into more trouble! This time, with Mr. Wood around, we were very lucky to escape! But if he continues like this, even if Mr. Wood wants to save him, he won't be able to! "
"I will give you an explanation for this matter after we return to the surface!" Thomas nodded to the leaders to express his apology.
"Aren't you guys leaving?" Philip, who was leading the way, turned around.
"If those monsters discover our tracks, will they climb up and chase after us?" Leonard was most concerned about this question.
"Everyone, I can't answer you because we will also encounter creatures that we call Underground Short-tailed Monsters on our way. I don't know if they crawled in or if they were born here." Philip waved his hand. "Let's go. I'm afraid it's not a good idea for us to stay here any longer. You guys have already moved away the valuable things in the temporary camp. It's just an empty shelf, so it's fine if they tear it down. We should leave as soon as possible before they find us! "
The leaders saw their subordinates leave.
They listened to Philip's advice and quickly retreated.
As for the hunchbacked monsters, they swarmed to the temporary camp a few kilometers away and smashed everything. The simple fence of the camp was smashed into pieces. Some abandoned tents, sleeping bags, and clothes became their spoils of war.
There were simply too many monsters, and they easily looted everything in the campsite.
They didn't even let go of a single nail.
Because they were fighting over the spoils of war, many monsters even fought each other until their heads were bleeding.
A monster that seemed to be the leader led more of its subordinates and rushed back to where the exploration team came from, intending to find the missing enemy. Some leaders led their subordinates and wandered around the camp, as if they didn't understand how the enemy disappeared. More monsters returned with their spoils of war, happily returning to the territory of their own kind.
Several black spots appeared in the sky.
It wasn't just one spider monster, but several spider monsters attacked at the same time. They attacked at lightning speed, instantly capturing the hunchbacked short-tailed monster. After injecting venom with their jaws, they tied up the monster and dragged it up to the dome.
The hunchbacked monsters panicked when they saw their natural enemy, and there was a commotion.
But they were forgetful, and they calmed down after the spider monsters disappeared. They continued to carry their spoils of war happily.
"Jiuligulu!"
Soon.
A king of the hunchbacked monsters that was several times larger than the strongest hunchbacked monsters appeared. This guy's head was full of scars from fighting. Its eyes were small and almost useless, and one of them was completely blind. But its sense of smell was far better than that of its kind. In less than a minute after it came out of the cave, it immediately smelled the traces of humans leaving, and roared angrily at its people.
The hunchbacked monsters seemed to be a little resistant to entering the three caves above.
The king of the hunchbacked monsters was angry.
It opened its bloody mouth, and with a crack, its sharp teeth bit off the head of a hunchbacked monster.
Normal hunchbacked monsters couldn't resist the king's anger. They climbed up in fear, and their movements were quite clumsy. And their intelligence wasn't enough to determine which cave to enter. They just instinctively crawled into the cave closest to them.
Even so, countless hunchbacked monsters entered the cave at the top.
They jostled and jostled each other.
They ran forward.
They chased after the human exploration team that was still unaware of the situation.
"Strange, there's a ghost wailing mushroom here!" Lin Dong found a giant umbrella-like mushroom on the way. On the surface of the mushroom, there were many patterns that looked like weeping faces. It looked very strange.
"Should I pick it?" Fox found that Lin Dong was particularly interested in this mushroom.
"I'll do it, I'm the best at this!" Griffon volunteered. If he was given a basket, he could easily cosplay as a little girl picking mushrooms.
"Mr. Griffin, you're not a little girl picking mushrooms, you're a big black bear picking mushrooms!" Jonathan joked with Griffon, while Don Quixote and his friends laughed.
"How could a big black bear be a handsome guy like me!" Griffon coldly snorted. Of course I can't compare to Kami, but I'm still very confident compared to you bunch of rough guys.
"I also don't think you're a big black bear. You're a hunter that's being abused by a big black bear!" As soon as Remiga opened his mouth, everyone laughed until they almost fell to the ground.
"This joke is not funny at all!" Griffon knew this joke.
The joke of a big black bear and a hunter usually sounds funny.
But when it comes to himself.
The feeling is completely different.
Lin Dong waved his hand, stopping Griffon from picking the ghost wailing mushroom: "This is a very good mushroom, one of the ingredients for the catalyst, but it's not ripe yet, keep it!"
As soon as he said this, Thomas and the others who were eavesdropping in the distance silently remembered it.
Some even secretly decided to steal this very valuable ghost wailing mushroom on the way back, and slowly cultivate and study it.
It must be known that Lin Dong was rarely interested in anything along the way. Now that he is interested in this mushroom, it proves that it's very useful. In addition, even if you use your toes to think, you can guess that this ghost wailing mushroom also exists in the Far East underground world. Otherwise, where did the catalyst for the gene medicine and strengthening medicine come from? If they can reverse engineer this mushroom and obtain the formula for the catalyst, then wouldn't the research of gene medicine no longer be a dream?
"The ghost wailing mushroom can't be picked before it's ripe?" Fox glanced at the people around him and asked softly.
"Yes." Lin Dong smiled: "However, it will emit a kind of sweet gas. If people smell it, they will easily have terrifying hallucinations, such as hearing the sound of crying or seeing the face of a ghost. Why else would it be called the ghost wailing mushroom?"
"I thought the ghost wailing mushroom was named because the pattern on its body looks like a crying human face!" Fox nodded in realization.
"It does look like a human face, but there are all kinds of mushrooms. What's important is its function. The juice of the mature ghost wailing mushroom has a bitter almond-like taste. Not only is it not poisonous, but it will also promote the human body's functions. The juice of the immature mushroom is just the opposite, it has a sweet taste. An ordinary person will be in danger if they consume more than one ounce! "Lin Dong explained as he walked.
After listening to Lin Dong's words, many mercenaries' eyes lit up.
Some of their eyes emitted a light that was as faint as a wolf's.
Enoko Kazama didn't reply, but her lips quietly formed a faint smile. Lin Dong and Fox turned to look at her at almost the same time. Enoko Kazama's face immediately turned serious and she nodded seriously. The smile on her lips seemed to have never appeared!
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