In schools, students were often divided into the "ordinary class" and the "elite class." In this joint exploration operation, the explorers were also divided into the ordinary group and the elite group.
The elite group consisted of Sid, Hoppes, Ruby, and Du Du.
Each of the four of them had considerable abilities. Even Hoppes, who was the weakest, wouldn't lose to those ordinary experienced adventurers when he took things seriously. Hoppes' martial arts skills were passable, and he also knew a couple of natural magic spells. The result of one plus one was more than two. All in all, although he looked like a rookie, if he really wanted to fight with his life on the line, unless it was Ruby, who had been fighting for more than a decade, the ordinary so-called "adventurers" would not be able to defeat him.
Of course, unless it was a life-and-death situation, Hoppes would not be able to bring out that kind of ability. People would only be able to unleash their true strength when they were forced into a corner. For example, when Sui Xiong was an illustrator, he had heard a story: There was a senior illustrator in the industry who usually drew about one painting a week. Once, he was extremely short of money and decided to stop all entertainment and social activities. He drew 16 to 17 hours a day, and in the end, he only used two weeks to complete a job that would normally take two months to complete. The quality was not low either.
Although the Ministry of Mines of the Republic of Northwest had arranged for such an elite team, they did not want them to really encounter danger. The reason for this arrangement was just to be prepared. In case they encountered any difficult situations, they would have a group of people available.
In fact, their preparations were quite adequate and perfect. Not only would they carry out special training for these explorers, but they had also sent out elite adventurers to enter the planned joint exploration area in advance to search and eliminate possible dangers.
More importantly, Sui Xiong had also taken action.
He sent out a doppelganger to float above the mountainous area and examine it carefully.
In his eyes, the lush forest and heavy mountain rocks did not seem to exist. There were only spots of light of various sizes shining brightly. Each spot of light was a living creature, and it was a relatively powerful one, at least equivalent to a wild wolf, the kind that could pose a threat to the lives of the explorers.
These spots of light were actually the manifestation of the life energy of those living creatures. In other words, the stronger the life energy of a living creature, the brighter its spot of light would be. Therefore, most of the light spots were ignored by Sui Xiong. Only a few particularly bright spots caught his attention.
"Strange, this place isn't that remote. Why are there such powerful creatures here?" He muttered to himself as he flew toward the brightest spot of light.
This speck of light was hidden underground. An ordinary person might have to find a cave and then take a few turns before they could reach it. But Sui Xiong didn't have to go through so much trouble. He directly transformed into an incorporeal form, ignored the mud and rocks, and went straight through them. He took a straight path and soon arrived in front of it.
It was a huge fish that lived in an underground lake under a mountain. It had dull scales that were as thick as armor. It had no pectoral fins or pelvic fins. Instead, it had four short legs that were obviously thick and powerful. Upon closer inspection, one could even see that the knuckles at the ends of its limbs were actually tentacles that were quite agile.
This guy's head was so huge that it almost occupied half of its body. The rest of the body was occupied by its tail. Although its entire body was about the size of seven or eight houses put together, the part that could be called the torso was actually not very big.
Of course, it would definitely not be a problem for it to swallow a living person.
Sui Xiong looked at this guy with some doubts. With such a huge body, it was obviously impossible for it to travel to various places through the narrow underground rivers around it. What did it eat to accumulate such a huge amount of life energy?
He hid in front of the giant fish and carefully observed it. Then he found that this strange fish, which was so huge that it shouldn't have appeared in freshwater, was very slow, as if it was hibernating.
Could it be … that it survived by hibernation?
Sui Xiong shook his head and denied this speculation.
Even if it was hibernating, it needed to wake up occasionally and eat.
However, it couldn't find a lot of food here.
After a while, he really couldn't see any pattern, so he tried to read the heart of this strange fish.
Unfortunately, this guy's heart was empty. It was really like a famous saying on the Internet on Earth, and it could hardly remember anything.
Sui Xiong only read a wonderful instinct in its memory.
Summon from another world.
This strange fish actually had the ability to summon from another world. The reason why it could grow so big was because of this ability.
In other words, it used summoning spells to summon creatures from another world to itself, and then killed and ate them to maintain its own life and obtain resources for growth.
To be able to grow so big, it didn't know how many "summoned beasts" it had eaten.
After discovering this, Sui Xiong couldn't help but be a little curious. He used a little divine power to wake this guy up from its sleep.
The reaction of the giant fish was not fast, and it took about half a day to really fully wake up. After it woke up, it first moved its body, swam back and forth in the underground lake that was not wide enough for it, and then stretched its limbs. Tentacles whipped in the water and in the air like a storm, making a sharp sound. Sui Xiong clearly heard continuous sonic booms, which meant that the tip of its tentacles had even surpassed the speed of sound.
Not only that, the dim scales on its body also began to shine, emitting colorful light. This was all the power of magic, which meant that it could cast many spells, and the power must be not low.
Seeing this, Sui Xiong had already put a "dangerous" label on this guy in his heart.
Although it was nothing to him, the strength of this guy was enough to cause a disaster on the ground. If it ran to attack a port, the general port might not be able to withstand its attack.
After moving for a while, the giant fish quietly sank to the bottom of the water, motionless, as if it was resting. After another half a day, when it was almost night outside, it surfaced again, and the gills on both sides of its head turned over, making a strange sound.
That was it chanting a spell.
Its incantation was not long, but it was full of chaos, gloom, and maliciousness that almost drove people crazy.
This was the language from the abyss. If ordinary people did not have spiritual protection, just listening to this language would cause a certain degree of harm to them, and may even cause them to go crazy or die.
With the gloomy incantation, the giant fish used its tentacles to paint wonderful patterns in the air. Even Sui Xiong could not fully understand the meaning of these patterns. He could only judge that they symbolized hell, but which hell did they symbolize? What other meaning did they have? He was not clear.
But Sui Xiong could already determine that this guy was summoning demons from the abyss.
"How strange!" He thought. "What does this guy want to do? Does it want the demons to find food for it? This is not very reliable … "
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