The knight in the abyss

Chapter 44 Clues

Karalin's right hand emitted a strong light, which was the flashing ring he used to deal with the Abyss Hound.

He stood at the back of the team, everyone except Lancelot turned their backs to him, and Lancelot was shielded by the huge body of the digger, so the strong light did not affect any of his teammates.

The four black eyes of the burrowing worm give it excellent dark vision, but the consequence is an unusual sensitivity to strong light.It tilted its head subconsciously and sprayed the acid in its mouth onto the wall. Suddenly, there was a creaking sound on the rock wall of the tunnel. The soil softened like heated chocolate and slowly flowed to the ground.

There were still some remnants that flew towards Kalarin, and were blocked by Barende, who had been on guard, with his shield.

Naturally, Lancelot would not be watching from the sidelines.The moment the enemy turned his head, he immediately grasped the fragile joint between the burrowing worm's thick carapace and the lower jaw, pierced the tip of his greatsword, and easily pierced it through the other end. .

"Beautiful!" Pluto shouted, and began to attack the second knee.

Under the stimulation of pain, the burrowing worm frantically waved its two long-knife-like forelimbs at Lancelot, and at the same time twisted its body desperately, trying to turn its head and spit acid at the human knight.

But Lancelot clutched the hilt tightly and didn't move. The 7-foot-long giant sword in his hand made the digger unable to reach him no matter how hard he tried.

But this level of damage was not enough for the burrowers to die.For this kind of creature, each ganglion in the limbs can play the role of the brain, and the one in the head is just a more fully functional one, and if it is destroyed, a new one can grow out.

"Pluto!" Lancelo is a little embarrassed now, the enemy will not die for a while, and he can't pull out his weapon, nor can he continue to stab in, he can only ask the dwarf for help.

"I'm busy!" Pluto's hammer swung frantically, and the thickest leg in the middle of the burrowing worm was quickly collapsed.

"Forget about those legs!" Lancelot yelled, "Hit my blade!"

The dwarf quickly understood what Lancelot meant, and he jumped up from the spot, smashing the warhammer with all his strength on the blade of the sword that stretched out on his side.

Under this blow, the great sword slammed forward again, and the blade cut through all the flesh and carapace that blocked its progress, leaving the body of the digger from about the chin.

A terrifying wound appeared on its jaw, and a large amount of acid mixed with blood flowed out of the wound.The body of the giant insect twitched, and the two forelimbs tried in vain to cover the wound, but the acid gushing out eroded them together.

Lancelot and Pluto had already retreated to a safe distance. After a while, the terrifying insect finally stopped struggling and died completely.

"I've never heard of such a big digger." Karalin looked at this huge corpse in awe. Even though it was dead, this body full of carapace and arthropods still made him feel extremely uncomfortable.

"This is a mutant. It may have eaten something that shouldn't be eaten in the abyss." Barende said while rubbing his shield on the ground.The corrosion effect of acid on steel is not so strong. After the acid was wiped off the ground, several passivation areas appeared on the originally bright shield surface, but it did not affect the performance of the shield.

"This should be considered as killing me." Pluto puffed out his chest happily, "Well, at least the fatal blow was done by me."

"It's really thanks to you." Lancelot nodded with a smile, then raised his sword.There is a section at the end of the blade that is clearly no longer sharp, thanks to the dwarven hammer. "Then what, can you hammer my sword a few more times? Aim at the blade this time."

"It's a piece of cake." Pluto took Lancelot's great sword and found a relatively flat stone. Under the supervision of Barende, he started the repair work.

After the restoration was completed, the group quickly moved on again.

The winding tunnels seemed to never end, and they encountered digging bugs several times, but with the first experience, everyone was already familiar with it.Occasionally there were wandering cowardices, but in most cases their first reaction was to escape, which did not cause any trouble to Lancelot and the others.

About two hours after leaving the miners' lounge, everyone finally arrived at the first target, the No.14 working face.

A face is the location where minerals or gems are mined, and moves as the extraction progresses.After the miners find the ore vein, they will not rush to mine, so only a few people at the front end of the tunnel can work, and the efficiency is too low.They will first dig a channel along the edge of the lode, and then attack the lode on one side of the channel, and this side of the excavated pit wall is the working face.

As the mining progresses, the working face will continue to extend and gradually form a larger space, which depends entirely on the shape and direction of the ore vein.Mineral veins are not necessarily continuous. Sometimes you think you have dug out, but if you dig a foot of soil, you can find a brand new vein.The dwarves believe that the places where the veins will form are more closely connected to the Elemental Plane of Earth, so for miners who lack a target, continuing to dig from an existing face is a good option.

The No.14 working face is such a place. It is about [-] feet above the ground, which is not too deep for professional miners like dwarves, but hundreds of years have passed since it was first excavated.Years of repeated excavations have turned this place into a square-like open space, like an organ connected to the intestines.

The group soon discovered the target of the trip, the two gray dwarves, unfortunately they were already dead.

Lancelot had seen these dwarf branches with gray beards and bald heads in the blacksmith's district before, but the two corpses in front of them were shattered and their original racial characteristics were almost unrecognizable.

Barende squatted down and carefully inspected the corpse of his fellow clan, his face was very ugly.

"Did the diggers do it?" Lancelot noticed that there was a huge pothole on the ground on one side, which was quite similar to the state of the diggers after they emerged from the ground.

"It doesn't look like it, the diggers are unlikely to leave a corpse." Barend shook his head, pointing to a large basin-like hole in the chest of a corpse. "They also can't create wounds of this magnitude."

"The corpse has not been corroded." Karalin stared at the pothole on the ground with a serious expression, "and this pothole is too big for the diggers, this hole is enough to stuff three diggers, The killer's waist should be very thick."

"There is still a pool of blood here." Lancelot also found a clue, "Someone once lay here, dying. How much blood do you dwarves bleed to die?"

"He died long before so much blood came out," said Pluto, frowning. "Where did the body go?"

No one took his words, and everyone thought of the only explanation.

"Then here comes the question." Lancelot pointed to the other two corpses. "Why are these two corpses here? Judging from the monster's waist size inferred by Karalin, a dwarf is not enough to fill its stomach."

"Uh," Pluto tried to explain, "maybe he ate the first one and found it wasn't to his liking?"

"These monsters that burrow underground are not picky eaters." Barende said gloomily, recalling some unpleasant memories in his long mining career.

"No, Bruto is right." Karalin said suddenly, his voice trembling.

"What did you think of?" Barende looked at the human unexpectedly, not believing that the guy in the robe could think of the murderer's true identity before him.

"Huge body, terrifying puncture wounds, I don't like to eat dwarves." Karalin said himself, as if he was afraid that some kind of terrible existence would be awakened. "In our world, this monster also has a dislike of food, elves."

Barende's terrified expression indicated that he had already thought of the answer.The old dwarf's lips trembled slightly, and he spat out a name.

"Shark beast."

　Change it first and then change it, ask for a recommendation ticket~

　　

(End of this chapter)