Traversed to the Ark of Tomorrow, but was a traveler

The three of them stopped outside the forest, cleared away the floating slate, and then walked cautiously towards the dense forest.

"It's a good thing I didn't wear sandals when I came out, otherwise I will suffer~" Xia Lan sighed, looked at the two deep-sea hunters wearing cute sandals on their feet, and shook her head regretfully.

When he thought that those two pairs of beautiful feet would be stained with dead branches, fallen leaves and sharp sand and stones, he couldn't help feeling distressed.

Noticing Xia Lan's regretful mood, Skadi turned her head and comforted her, "Don't worry, Xia Lan, this way won't damage our skin, just wash it off when we go back later."

"Alas..." Seeing that the two of them were about to walk in, Xia Lan sighed for a long time, and said righteously, "No, I must protect them!"

After all, he gave them a bunch of protection buffs that were not very useful in theory.

After finishing all this, Xia Lan finally clapped her hands in relief, and waved her hands, "Let's go."

"After wasting so much time, will that person have gone away by the time we arrive?" Laurentina whispered.

"If you're far away, let's take a stroll around. If the other party wants to do geological exploration, they will definitely not leave so easily." Xia Lan speculated.

The three of them stepped on the woodland covered with moss, rotting branches and leaves, low shrubs, and fine gravel. The shimmering light on the soles of their feet isolated the soles from the ground. Dirty sandals.

"It's a good thing that the woods aren't too dense, otherwise we'd have to squeeze through." Skadi said as she walked, holding the hand of Xia Lan who was walking beside her.

Although Xia Lan felt good about herself, compared to the two supermen who seemed to be walking on flat ground, it seemed that it was indeed a little hard work.

Squeezing his wife's soft, boneless jade hand, Xia Lan noticed that she had taken over part of the mental effort required to maintain the spell, Xia Lan couldn't help being a little more moved, and finally had the time to scan the surrounding environment.

Laurentina, who was walking in front, couldn't help curling her lips when she saw the two of them like this - her woman and her man are so tired and crooked, how can anyone tolerate it!
Xia Lan sensed her emotions very keenly, and guessed her thoughts based on her extreme familiarity with her. She couldn't help but feel a little funny and said, "Why don't you two carry me away?"

"Huh?" Titi, who was listening to the movement around her, cast a puzzled look at him who said something strange.

"That's not a good idea~" Laurentina said in a cadence and full of excessive emotion, showing Xia Lan a look as if she was looking at a scumbag.

"Just kidding..." he said slightly embarrassed.

After his interruption, Laurentina's mood became inexplicably loose, and she refocused on climbing the mountain.

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Twenty or ten minutes later, they found a series of footprints. After a preliminary comparison, they found that there should be eight or nine people.

"It's more than expected, why didn't I see it before?" Laurentina asked herself suspiciously.

"I don't know, let's follow the trend." Xia Lan shrugged. Although he already had some ideas, he still didn't say them out - if he gave the answer in advance, Shasha, who is the initiator of the expedition, might not be so satisfied.

Judging from the spreading direction of the footprints, they should be taking the uphill route on the other side, which is on the opposite side of the town, so it is inaccessible and suitable as a starting point for stealing mines.

[The front is not an open area for tourism, no entry is allowed, and offenders will be fined! 】——Not far from them stood a notice board and a short barbed wire fence that looked like it could easily be jumped over by a branch.

"Let's go, just follow these footprints." Xia Lan looked at Skadi and said from the bottom of her heart.

They nodded in agreement, came over and hung them on his shoulders, and let him fly them over the fence.

It landed lightly on the soft weeds, and the three of them saw an obviously abnormal ground exposed among the grass at a glance-judging from the messy and fallen grass blades, this grass had been dug up not long ago, and the diggers Didn't bother to fix it.

"It's a little strange, why are the directions of these footprints different from the direction of the person we saw earlier?" Scaltillo asked puzzledly.

"It's indeed a little strange, but following these footprints should be fine." Shark didn't think too much, and put all his mind on what might happen.

"Then what if the other party pretends that they don't know anything, just treat us as ordinary people, and let us leave here?" Skadi whispered.

"Then the plot won't be triggered." Xia Lan spread her hands.

"Absolutely not!" Shasha suddenly became dissatisfied, as if it was an absolutely unacceptable possibility.

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At the same time, several Kiesta natural disaster inspectors who were installing detection equipment at the entrance of a tunnel entering the interior of the volcano felt a bit of a chill at the same time.

"It's the tourist season again this year. I don't know if there will be tourists who like to explore everywhere *Victorian swearing* will come to the mountain this year." Monitor A said angrily.

"Who knows, anyway, I've been driving away tourists for several years, so it doesn't matter." Monitor B looked quite familiar with it.

Monitor C, who was tinkering with the volcano exploration equipment, interjected: "Stop chatting, come and help me find out what's going on, the equipment brought by the experts is too new..."

The two people sitting on the bench heard the words, smiled at each other, and went back to help.

While they were busy figuring out how to activate the equipment, inside the volcano——

A Caprini girl in a flame-ablated dress and cloak is sticking her staff on a scorching stone wall, closing her eyes to feel the pulse of the land.

The reddish fluctuations floated and circled around her, continuously spreading and penetrating into the rock formation, bringing her information that even the scientific relics below could hardly capture.

As the fluctuations dissipated, she exhaled lightly and said, "Huh~ I've finished the detection here, let me record the data first, and you are responsible for debugging the equipment and arranging the monitoring nodes, right?"

"Okay, Dr. Adele." Monitors D and E, who carried a pile of remains behind her, agreed, opened the panel hanging on their waist, and activated the equipment on their backs.

Although the girl in front of them looked only nineteen or twenty years old, they didn't dare to neglect her because she had already graduated as a Ph. He has proved his expert-level research ability in many fields such as spells and natural disasters.

"Compared with the data you gave last year, this volcano seems to be a little bit more active, but it should not be so easy to erupt in the short term." Adele said while writing.

"Huh?" Her words made the two of them subconsciously stunned.

Adele was keenly aware of the other party's doubts, and couldn't help but wondered: "What's the matter, this result shouldn't be a big problem."

Monitors D and E looked at each other, and finally explained with some difficulty: "Miss Adele, last year's records clearly show that there is not much possibility of outbreaks, will the data you measured... If so, Could it be that the volcano unexpectedly revived?"

Adele frowned slightly when she heard the words, looked at the terminal data in her hand, and whispered: "That shouldn't be, the natural data I measured will not lie...unless..."

"Unless what?"

"—unless something alive is disturbing the volcano and promoting its eruption?"

"Ah?!" The two exclaimed in unison.

But as they gradually calmed down, the two recalled the incidents of stealing mines over the years, and asked, "Could it be caused by mining?"

"Is the scale large?" Adele asked, after recording the data in her hand, she was about to pick up the staff and continue walking in.

"It shouldn't be big... because we have banned mining these years, even if someone mines, it will only be mined in small batches, and it should be far from the previous scale." Monitor D explained.

"Then this shouldn't be the main influencing factor." Adele said, waving to the two of them: "Let's go further in, put on the isolation mask, and pay attention to report the concentration data of Originium in the air at any time. If there is a mutation, speak up immediately."

The three of them continued to walk inward along this once left mine tunnel...

Even through the gas mask, Adele could still smell the volcanic gas in this passage, and her guess became more accurate—this volcano is indeed being activated.

"But why? Judging from the data of previous years, it shouldn't be like this. There must be some special reason leading to this change. Maybe the secrets here can help my research..." Adele said slowly Thinking slowly, clear and bright eyes slowly scanned the surroundings.

Just as she was in a daze, a crisp sound of rock snapping came from the depths of the mine, which shocked the three of them.

She immediately looked at the monitor panel, started the radar scan, and caught a momentary abnormal source stone fluctuation, she couldn't help but look shocked——as expected, there were also special signs of source stone activity here!
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At the same time, on the other side of the volcano, deep in the mine, in a large mine.

"Zhi——!" "Boom——!" "Ding! Ding! Dang! Dang!" "Pu Chi—!"

The screams of Originium worms, the sound of weapons colliding with carapaces, the sound of flame spurts, and the sound of people cursing are intertwined to form a scene of war called "Siege of Invaders".

Volcanic-origin stone worms ranging in size from ten centimeters to thirty centimeters kept pouring out from all directions, using their lives to launch an endless charge towards them.

"(Victorian) Damn it, my God, where are there so many bugs here, it's really f*ck luck that it exploded, and the information before I came here didn't say there would be so many?!"

"(Wei) Don't complain about Old John, hurry up and find a way to break through, I'm running out of energy, and the enchantment is about to break!"

"(Wei) use fire, they are very sensitive to fire, and release flames far away!" Another person shouted: "Small the fuel bottle and throw it over!"

With the monstrous flames erupting not far from the team, the already berserk swarm of volcanic origin stone insects immediately seemed to go crazy, and rushed over layer by layer, swallowing the raging fire into their stomachs.

"Run!" Everyone yelled and unleashed their attacks towards the entrance of the cave, opening a path within the Originium worm swarm...

One minute later, the seven people in ragged clothes, gray faces, and covered in Originium worm mucus panted heavily, and lay down on the ground with the rest of their lives, relaxing their nearly broken muscles and bones and heartstrings.

Seeing that they were in such a mess, the two people who stayed in the camp immediately found medical equipment, checked, cleaned, and bandaged their wounds as quickly as possible, and at the same time tested their blood with a blood analyzer. The concentration of originium, to ensure that there is no infection or the infection has not deteriorated.

"Why are there so many Origin Stone worms here?!" Finally someone couldn't help but cursed again.

"Originstone worms are quite common in volcanoes. You probably just invaded their territory, and did you do something to irritate them?" said the medical staff in the team.

"What did they eat to grow so many?" asked another.

"As we all know, originite worms eat almost everything. If they are volcanic originite worms, they eat volcanic rocks. At the same time, they can adapt to the high-concentration sourcestone environment with a few mutations. Digging obsidian mines is like a tiger's mouth. Same." [Volcano Hunter] in the team said.

He frowned and thought about a red-black Originium worm that was still exuding faint heat on his teammate's sword, and immediately used magic to cut off a few spikes on its back, and used an instrument to test it.

As he imagined, the source stone content in the horny shell of this volcanic origin stone worm is not low, and its chemical composition is quite close to that of Kiesta's obsidian mine, and it is also mixed with a large amount of volcanic minerals...

This kind of origin stone worm should mainly feed on obsidian ore.

"It's a pity, their staple food is obsidian ore. How many astronomical amounts of obsidian ore do they have to eat to multiply to such a large population..." Another person in the team sighed distressedly.

After the leader finished bandaging, he got up and said, "This road is probably impassable. We have to find other mine tunnels. Let's look at the mine tunnels at a higher position first. The origin stone worms should live deeper."

When the others saw him say this, although they were still full of worries, they still didn't say anything - they spent a lot of money to get here, and they would rather choose to take risks for money than to return without success.

But when they were clearing up the camp, a man and two women approaching in the forest touched the cordon set up by the magicians in the team, startled them, and almost surrounded the edge of the cliff together.

In the sparse woods not far below, three tourists in common cool summer clothes were talking and laughing as they walked on the mountain path, and walked almost straight towards them.

"What should we do? It only takes two or three minutes for them to walk to our place, and we don't even have time to pack up." One person asked in a low voice.

While packing up his things, another person complained, "These three tourists seem to have somehow gone to the deep mountains and old forests to die. If they find out, it may cause a lot of trouble."

The team leader pondered for a few seconds, then clicked on two people and said: "You, and you, you don't have many traces of fighting on your body, you just say you are from the Zista City Council, and drive them away on the grounds of illegally entering the mountain, don't Let them discover our true purpose."

The two agreed, and then walked down the cliff, walked towards the three tourists openly, and asked from a distance while attracting the attention of the other party: "What are you doing here? Tourists who have nothing to do with it are forbidden to enter the mountain forest. Are you Didn’t you see the signs and barbed wire on the road?”

Xia Lan and the three who seemed to be chatting were taken aback for a moment, and then showed a look of frustration on their faces. Among them, Laurentina even hid behind Xia Lan in a hurry, with a full expression. Afraid of being caught.

Xia Lan couldn't help laughing in her heart, on the surface she held Titi's hand with one hand and protected the shark behind her with the other, and asked nervously, "You are the scientific examiners of the Municipal Council ?”

"That's right, we are volcano monitors. If you don't leave, we have the right to send you back to the city and hand them over to relevant departments for punishment." The person who didn't speak just now said in a deep voice.

"This..." Xia Lan's face became cloudy, and she looked full of annoyance, as if she hated her bad luck, but she happened to bump into someone from the city council, and all the fun in the mountains was ruined.

Laurentina's face was full of grievances, and Skadi's face was also full of regret—their emotions were half true, because they didn't expect that the other party would choose to pretend instead of using force at all.

"Xia Lan, think of a way..." Shasha whispered.

"It's okay, let's go, they can't run away." He said from the bottom of his heart, and at the same time, his face seemed to have finally considered, and he said apologetically, "Sorry, let's go down the mountain now, and I promise I won't do it again next time." .”

The two of them understood the truth of talking too much, so they just nodded and said: "Be careful on the road, next time I catch you, I won't be so polite."

They watched the three tourists turn and leave, and finally breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts. They didn't turn away until they saw each other walk into the woods, and returned to the camp.

But inexplicably, a certain chill had been brewing on their backs, making them feel uncomfortable.