Hey, King!

2021-06-17

Chapter 19 Chapter 19 Blocking
Dagon stepped on the slippery moss and tilted slightly. Fortunately, the other hand was clenching the head axe, and its tail was biting hard on the ground, helping him to regain his balance immediately.

"It's a really tough road." After Dagon stood firm, he lifted the straps of his backpack and looked back. The friends of the Hunting Trial squad are about thirty or forty meters away in the back, which is a distance that is invisible to each other in the winding passage. However, the people behind lit lanterns, and the flickering lights were tools for communicating with each other.

Dagon also has a lantern in his hand, currently hanging from the head of the headhunter's hammer. It has to be said that the first hunting axe is really a good weapon, but it is not a good tool for hunting or pathfinding. It is much heavier and more dangerous than a crutch. Dagon needs to be handled with care to avoid getting scratched by the blade of the axe, or getting caught on the side rivets. Even if it just fell over, if it hit the feet, all the bones would be broken.

"It's getting harder and harder to walk, is this the right way?" Dagon leaned against the wall for some air, and continued on his way. "The section of the road that I said earlier is about to end, and everyone has to turn back to the main road that is often used, but I don't see any signs at all. The moss is getting more and more, the road is getting more and more slippery, and the walls are seeping. Groundwater, it's obviously more primordial here."

The more natural, primordial a place is, the more likely it is to change when the ground moves, which often means unpredictable and fraught with danger. Fortunately, the road was slippery and difficult, but it was very quiet. There were no beasts, no monsters, and no small animals. The biggest creatures Dagon had ever seen were several reptiles the size of fingernails.

Moss and lichens are the masters here, and they grow so lush that they seem to be turning into a jungle. Above the head, on both sides of the passage, were tapestries with long hair. There are tiny spores floating in the air, like a large house that hasn't been cleaned for several decades, with only dust flying around.

The Jiangu people are not afraid of these spores, on the one hand their thick beards prevent them from getting too much into the mouth and nose. On the other hand, Jiangu's body is tenacious, and has a strong resistance to toxins or diseases. At present, such spore concentrations do not need to be taken seriously.

The top and sides are occupied by mosses, and there are several creeks at the bottom of the passage. Said to be a small stream, in fact, it can't flow over the feet. The groundwater seeping from the stone wall and overhead merged into several streams that murmured along the channel. Dagon walked barefoot on the rocks, often dribbling across the water, and found that the rocks under his feet were not as smooth as he expected.

There were two long whistles behind him, which was to stop Dagon and wait for everyone to catch up to meet. He picked up the whistle from his chest, replied with a short whistle, then picked a stone without water and stood still, waiting for the person behind to come up. Under the rays of light from the lantern, Dagon saw a shiny white thing floating down the stream, so he bent down curiously and picked it up.

It's a bone, very much like the part in the middle of a fish bone without the head and tail. There was no meat on the bones, no traces of gnawing, just some irregular depressions for unknown reasons. The bones were so crisp that they fell apart when they were picked up from the water.

Dagon looked at it, and threw it away, and it quickly walked along the stream, scattered and disappeared in the shadow of moss.

After a while, everyone came to meet. "This road is really difficult," Doma's words expressed the common voice of everyone.

"Where's the leader of Balder?" Dagon looked behind the group and didn't see the silhouette riding the bear lizard.

"He went around, let's meet you first, and wait here. He also told me not to put down the backpack and leave at any time." Doma rubbed her face and turned towards the stream. Li blew his nose and rubbed his legs. "Dagon, do you want something to eat?"

"Wait until we set up camp. Find a way to heat the food, you can..."

"You can get a little more heat-- I've heard this many times." Doma sighed and said, "Can you be a little less strict?"

"Then eat some, I have hash browns here, put them on your body, don't need to explain Open the backpack." Dagon took a hash brown from his pocket to Doma, and said, "This is what my mother prepared for you, and it seems to be different from the one prepared for me."

"Different I can't see the difference." Doma actually wanted to eat frosted snake meat, and the meat must be much better than the scones made of potato flour. However, the Frost Snake Meat was kept in the backpack and had to be undone to get it, and Dagon would definitely not agree.

The standard way to eat hash browns is to hold the hash browns in the palm of your hand to keep them from falling out, and suck the palm of your hand in one last breath. Just as Doma was sucking, the leader of Balder caught up on a bear lizard. Everyone noticed his brows tightly knit, which is obviously not a good sign.

"Can't stop, hurry up, I feel something is wrong." Balder said: "Dagon, you go to the end of the line, I will go to the front to scout. I will do it on the wall when I encounter a fork in the road. Mark, if you can't find it, use the whistle to contact me, and I will hear it."

After that, the bear lizard stepped on the moss and climbed to the top of the cave, and the leader of Balder passed over the heads of the crowd backwards. , catching up to the front. Dagon picked up the first hunting axe and said to the crowd: "Okay, pull yourself together and prepare for a really strong march. Stonebeard, didn't you say you have a keen sense of hearing? You hold the lantern in the front, I'll go to the back, everyone Listen to the whistle. Go!"

The seven dwarves file past Dagon. Dagon saw that everyone was more or less tired. Anyway, he had already taken out the hash browns, so he opened it, gave everyone some points, and quickly filled a few bites. After everyone passed, he glanced back at the dark tunnel, and then stepped to keep up with the group.

They ascended the ramp, turned at a fork, and turned into a bare cave. For some unknown reason, the moss completely disappeared here, as if there was a clear dividing line. One side of the line is lush and green, and the other side of the line is a forbidden place for moss. The tunnel has become smoother here, and it can even be called smooth in many places. As Dagon walked along, he noticed that there were some pits in the ground from time to time, which made him suddenly think of fish bones.

Dagon felt uncomfortable. He looked back and saw that the tunnel behind him was very quiet, and the quietness was a bit infiltrating, making people feel like they were going nowhere. "Stonebeard, blow the whistle and ask to see if the leader of Balder is in front."

Ishibeard blew the whistle, and soon got a response from the front, and Dagon calmed down - but Thinking about it carefully, it doesn't seem so reassuring. What kind of feeling is this? Dagon said it's not quite clear, only know that it is very similar to the delusion of persecution, that is, the kind of weird idea that there must be something bad happening ahead, obviously there is no reason to support it, but it is very firm.

'Calm down, Dagon,' he reminded himself mentally. 'You've been trained to fight, and even if there is danger, you won't be afraid, and nothing has happened yet. '

This time, the front of the throne came from the front, and he was awkward and awkward. Stonebeard signaled everyone to stop, and then heard a dull loud noise coming from the front, the wind came with dust, and the leader of Balder rode a bear lizard and rushed out of the smoke.

"Turn around! Turn around immediately!" Balder looked very embarrassed, and he drove everyone in a hasty - even a little panicked - tone: "Dagon lead the way, you run fast! In the second Turn off the road and take another road, take the mouth water gorge, and cross the suspension bridge to be safe!"

"What happened?" Stonebeard asked, just in front of Balder.

"The slug mud—a big lump of brown glue blocking the passage, it's coming this way, swallowing everything in the way." Balder said to the crowd: "You guys go, go through the saliva. Gap can also return to the main road, and there is still a chance to complete the trial. If you stay here, it will only turn into the dung of the mud monster. I will block it here for a while and see if I can delay it. The key is to see how much you can run. Fast."

How fast can you run? The young dwarves turned around immediately and found that Dagon was already seven or eight meters away. "Follow me!" Dagon shouted in front. "I'll start a fire at the second fork and continue on. As long as I don't see my body, it's safe ahead!"

"Come on!" The youngster of the Jiangu clan grabbed the shoulder straps of the backpack and charged forward with the fastest speed, while Balder stayed behind.

Behind them, a huge mass of brown mud was rolling through the smoke, engulfing everything in its path. The mud ball has the face of a slug worm in the forward direction, and no matter how the mud rolls over the body, this face is always in the front, hence the name.

Ordinary slime creatures feed by wrapping biological packs into their bodies, but the slug slime monster's face is actually its tentacles, which can be suddenly extended, with the top mouth and the teeth inside. food is swallowed. Those teeth are hard objects that cannot be digested by it temporarily, often bones, gems and the like. Sometimes it eats Jiangu clansman and adds the weapons and armor it carries to its teeth.

"Hope this works." Balder dug out a bundle of straw spools wrapped with match ropes from his backpack. This short-tube device, rolled up in green oil paper, is the explosive device that Jiangu people use when they mine. Inside the match is a red metal powder, which can catalyze the wood element power in the straw when it is ignited, just like the seed pushes through the soil, these wood element power can break the rock. Used properly, it can cause a landslide, perhaps keeping the ooze in place, or at least slowing it down.

Bard hangs upside down from the ceiling of the cave on a bear lizard, tugging at the straps on the saddle. "Get down, bend over!" Balder commanded the bear lizard, allowing him to get close to the top of the cave. In a crevice in the rock, Balder stuffed the straw tube in, and the matchstick lead naturally hung down.

He opened the lid of the lantern, and the ready-made flame generated by kerosene inside successfully lit the match. Looking at the fire star jumping pu chi pu chi, Balder's eyes were suddenly blurred, and his whole spirit was a little trance.

The bear lizard below the seat wailed, his eyes were red, and his head swayed from side to side. Balder smiled strangely, reaching out and cutting off the lead of the straw tube.

"Okay, I've done my best, now it's up to their luck. If it wasn't for the Spiritual God attunement, how could I have encountered such a disaster? So, It's all Dagon's problem: he's in the wrong place at the wrong time. That suspension bridge will be where he'll be buried."

Put the bear lizard on both legs and control it down the wall , Balder quickly returned to the ground. As if affected by the change in the direction of gravity, Balder's eyes became clear. He shook his head, reached out and patted the bear lizard's cheek, and said anxiously: "Old Partner, run! The straw straw is about to explode!"

The bear lizard roared, spread its six legs and started running wildly .

(end of this chapter)