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"Tsk, it's still raining a little."

He shook his wet hair with his hands, and said helplessly, then took off his wet clothes and put them beside the fire to get wet.

Neil, on the other hand, was shoveling the soil with a weapon at the entrance of the cave with Grace, blocking all the water flowing in through the entrance of the cave.

Because the entrance of the hole is sloped, if there is nothing to block it, the water flow from the outside will seep in, and the whole ground will be full of stagnant water.

And looking at the heavy rain tonight, if it is not blocked, it is estimated that the entire cave will be flooded into a small pool.

"Your weapon is very useful."

Looking at Neil, who turned the funeral blade into a sickle shape and chopped it down again and again to dig the soil, Grace spoke slowly.

When the fire was lit just now, he was also the one who took out the flint from the slot of the sickle to light the firewood.

As if he didn't expect Grace to talk to him, Neil couldn't help being stunned for a moment, and the movements of his hands also stopped.

"Huh? Oh, indeed, it is indeed quite useful when surviving in the wild."

Neil smiled, and waved his sickle to dig out part of the hard soil again, and put it on the raised mound.

"Captain, your weapon is not bad, it looks pretty handsome, did you design it yourself?"

Grace glanced at the two hook-like sword blades in his hands. The dust on them made it look like an old antique that had just been dug out.

"No, someone else designed it, I'm just using it."

He shook his head and swung them like a pickaxe, slowly turning the loose mound into a solid one.

"Speaking of which, Captain, why are you going to the ruins?"

Seeing Grace looking into his eyes, Neil couldn't help but smile.

"Ah, it's just a little curiosity, if you don't want to say it, forget it."

After staring at Neil for a while, he shook his head slightly and resumed the work at hand.

"I just wanted to ask for an answer..."

"Answer? What answer..."

Clang———————

Before Neil could finish asking, he combined the two blades in his hand, making a crisp sound of metal clashing.

"The work here is done, you can go back."

Ah, this means I don't want to explain it at all...

Neil scratched his head helplessly, watching the back of Grace walking straight back into the cave, split the sickle into two parts, and then shook off the wet soil stuck to them.

"It seems that I can't ask anything..."

He re-hung the weapon on the storage on the back, then took it off completely, carried it to the other people, and then found an open space to put it down.

"You two came back just in time, and your broth has been cooked."

Connor pointed to the two iron cans placed on the edge of the flames, and said to the two people who took off their coats and laid them on the ground.

"If you don't come back again, I will eat them all."

Paggy sipped her portion of broth while staring straight at the portion of broth in front of Neil.

"Hey, why are you just staring at my bowl?"

Seeing that Paggy seemed to be really interested in making a move, Neil quickly picked up his share while complaining.

"Because I dare not take the captain's side."

Paggy said it as a matter of course, causing Neil to roll his eyes, and took a sip from the tin box depressed.

After drinking the hot boiling water, the damp discomfort all over his body was also slightly relieved.

It's called broth, but it's actually just dried meat thrown into water and boiled over high heat.

Although the taste is still very bland, at least the taste of cooked meat is much better than eating it dry.

Of course, if you want to make it more like a thick soup, you can also grind the dry food into slag to increase the concentration, or add some grass roots to keep the meal balanced.

For adventurers, this is their habitual recipe.

In any case, it was a great enjoyment to be able to stay by the warm fire in such a downpour.

Listening to the continuous roar of thunder coming from outside the cave, and feeling the moisture on his body being dried up by the heat of the flames, the expression on Neil's face could not help but become relaxed.

"For tonight's vigil, Neil and Connor will be in a group, Lucy Ni and Paggy will be in a group, and I will be in a group alone. Do you understand?"

After they had almost eaten, Grace arranged the vigil for tonight.

"Captain, is it okay for you to be alone? How about we help you for a while?"

Connor said in surprise, but Grace shook his head and rejected his offer.

"No, I'm fine by myself."

"OK then......"

Seeing that he seemed very determined, Connor also nodded helplessly, and the other three people who originally wanted to persuade him also looked at each other helplessly.

"Captain really does his own way..."

Paggy sighed, and lay down on the robe she threw down as a bed, and then slightly raised a corner to cover her body.

"Then let's go to bed first, and the two gentlemen will ask you to watch the eve."

After waving her hands with her back to a few people, she immediately fell asleep.

"Tsk tsk, just say that others do their own way."

Connor looked at Paggy who just lay down and fell asleep, and couldn't help shaking his head.

"Well...Since Paggy is already asleep, I'll go to bed first."

Putting the armor on her side, Lucini, who was only wearing a dark blue plain dress, also untied the ponytail behind her, looking more gentle.

She glanced awkwardly at Paggy who pretended not to hear, smiled apologetically at the two of them, then lay down and covered herself with the coat.

"Okay, Captain, you can go to bed too, and Neil and I will just watch over from now on."

Connor waved his hand towards Grace and said, and he nodded slightly, slowly leaning on the cave wall, lowering his head slightly, as if this was his way of resting.

"But I have to say, the sound of the heavy rain is really a sleep aid."

The sound of continuous raindrops made Connor can't help but yelled.

"And there is a warm fire next to me, which makes me feel even more sleepy."

Neil shrugged, seeing Connor's yawning appearance, he stretched himself subconsciously.

Sure enough, yawning is contagious...

Neil shook his head to refresh himself.

Although the heavy rain outside can avoid the attacks of many monsters to a certain extent, especially insect monsters like blood-sucking mosquitoes, there are still many exceptions.

So he and Connor still had to cheer up to prevent the car from overturning.

Of course, the current him is much lower than Connor's priority in encountering attacks.

However, the efficiency of this team was much better than his own. He didn't want to have to survive alone in the wilderness for several days to reach the ruins just because of a momentary carelessness.

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Volume 84 Exploration of the Ruins: Chapter 83 Chapter [-] The Screaming of the Mandrake

When the sky just started to get bright, several people got up from the ground one after another.

The last watchman, Grace, sat at the door of the cave, as if praying some kind of prayer, with his eyes closed.

Hearing the movement of the four people behind him, he also recovered from that state.

"After breakfast, pack up your things and set off. Today's journey will be more difficult than yesterday, so be prepared."

After hearing Grace's words, Neil nodded like the others, ate a little dry food, put the things he took out last night back into his luggage, carried his weapons on his back, and continued towards the ruins with them Forward.

"It seems that today's road will be difficult..."

Lucini glanced at the wet mud stuck to the leg armor with some disgust, and the disgusting feeling of stepping on the slippery and soft ground made her frown deeply.

Although as an adventurer who has been sleeping outdoors for a long time, this aspect is not unbearable, but the disgusting feeling still cannot fade away.

"On the bright side, at least it didn't continue to rain today."

Neil shrugged and said.

If there is still such a heavy rain today, they can only choose between going forward in the rain and spending another day in the cave.

In fact, it's not just the soil on the ground that is so wet and soft after a night of rain, it's quite slippery when you step on it.As the water vapor evaporated, the entire forest was filled with thick white fog, exuding the fresh smell of soil and green leaves.

If you are not driving in the wet soil where weeds are overgrown and walking is very difficult, walking here should be refreshing.

"There is already a lot of water vapor in the forest, and with the torrential rain last night, I am afraid that the fog may not be able to reduce much even at noon."

Neil said helplessly, using the Blade of Mercy to cut off the branches blocking the way ahead, and led the others forward.

Since Grace was the last vigilante, he was more mentally fatigued than the others, so the task of front and rear protection was handed over to Connor and Neil.

"Captain, are you sure you can judge the direction? Such a thick fog, if you lose your way, it will be a big problem."

Paggy, who was guarding both sides of Grace with Lucini, couldn't help but asked with some worry.

The dense fog has basically reached the point where it is impossible to see anything from five meters away, and it is no longer a difficult problem to confirm the direction in the already complicated jungle.

"No problem, I know what's going on, let's keep going."

But Grace just shook his head, and after saying this, he motioned for them to follow their own direction.

It has to be said that his attitude of understatement as if nothing happened really reassured them a lot.

"Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee'

Suddenly, the girl's scream came from far away in the woods, and they couldn't help covering their heads immediately, feeling a trance.

"It's a Mandrake, damn it, did some careless adventurer pull it out..."

Neil covered his forehead and said with gritted teeth.

"What about the impact?"

Grace also yelled, and it seemed that he was the least affected by the magical screams just now.

"Fortunately, it may be because of the relatively long distance, the influence of magic power is not so great."

Connor half-kneeled on the ground, panting heavily, and responded.

And Paggy, like him, covered her head with her hands on her knees.

Since she is a magician herself, she is naturally more affected by the scream of magic power.

"No problem...but...."

She gritted her teeth and said.

"Ah, we all know..."

As everyone prepared their weapons, the excited screams of wild monsters came from all around.

Under the magic scream of the mandrake, the monsters in the forest began to go berserk.

"Everyone protect Paggy!"

After Grace said something coldly, he took out his weapon and took Paggy's place.

"Keep calm, don't hold on, and make sure you recover."

Although the main targets of wild monsters are human males, if they accidentally injure Paggy or Lucini in a state of berserk chaos, it will cause serious problems.

"Ow————"

A grizzly bear rushed up from the woods, and waved its thick bear paw towards Neil, who became vigilant after hearing the movement.

Tsk, it turns out that the berserk monster doesn't recognize the breath of other monsters at all...