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Three dull vibrations came from the water flow, causing Neil's dizzy brain to recover slightly due to the impact, swinging his limbs, and began to slowly swim to the surface of the water along the floating of the clear water.

"Pfft-ha...ha...."

With the splash of water, the fresh air was introduced into the lungs again, making Neil involuntarily refreshed, and subconsciously opened his mouth wide, breathing in the dry air greedily.

With his legs constantly swinging to maintain buoyancy, Neil wiped his wet face with his hands, wiped off all the water droplets that blurred his vision, and looked up at the surroundings.

"Is this...a big hole in the ground?"

Looking at the thick rock wall above his head, he murmured in surprise.

On the rock wall that can almost fit the entire tower, countless sharp stone pillars stand on it, like an upside-down stone forest.

Neil couldn't help looking at the place where they came. On the smooth towering rock wall, the cracks and gaps appeared extremely abrupt, and the gaps that could still pass through were also collapsed stones and wall bricks. It was completely filled up, and only a little bit of faint light loomed in the gaps between the stones.

He couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw that the place had been blocked due to the collapse.

Fortunately, in this case, at least there is no need to worry that the monsters behind will catch up again...

And just after a short while, other people have also floated out of the water.

Except for Connor, his appearance of flopping around in the water is really hard to describe as swimming or floating.

"Help me! I can't gurg-doo-swim-gul-gul-ahh!"

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"Pfft--cough-cough-"

While patting the back of Connor who was lying on the ground, Neil couldn't help rolling his eyes and complaining.

"Assassins are always soluble in water. It's better for you to do it the other way around. It's really embarrassing for assassins."

"I've said it all... I'm not an assassin cough cough... I'm a thief—"

Seeing Connor retching and insisting on speaking, the corners of Neil's mouth twitched and he sighed.

"Okay, okay, you are a thief, okay, hurry up and finish vomiting honestly."

After that, he turned his head and looked at Grace and Lucini who had returned after patrolling around.

"How? Did you find anything?"

"Unfortunately, it seems that there is no way to start a fire at all, so I can only wait for the clothes to dry naturally."

Lucini took off the armor, wrung out some water from the already soaked plain clothes with her hands, and said helplessly.

"Even if you have flint and steel, it's useless without fuel."

"After all, it is an underground cave, so there must be no dry wood..."

Although this had been expected for a long time, Neil still sighed in disappointment when Lucy Ni said it himself.

Maybe there may be some plant roots at the bottom of the pool, but the completely soaked wood can't be used at all.

"Captain, where are you?"

Seeing that Connor's face got better, Neil also sat on the ground, took off his shirt and wrung out the water with his hands, and asked Grace.

"The good news is that artificial traces have been found in some places, indicating that this cavity is also part of the dungeon, and we still have a chance to go back to it."

His words made the three of them breathe a sigh of relief. If there is no way out, they can only climb up one by one and clean up the gaps made before.

However, since Grace said that there was good news, there would naturally be bad news, so they were not overly happy. After calming down a little, they then looked at him.

"The bad news is that since I've never explored this place before, we're completely lost."

"How to go forward, where there are traps, whether there will be an ambush, and how to go back, we don't know at all now."

At this time, Grace also took off the hood that had been on his head, revealing the slightly messy hair underneath and the pair of gloomy eyes, and said to several people.

"But the only good thing is that we found a water source by accident. At least for a week or two, we still can't die."

He took out a few soaked and crumpled papers from his pocket, put them on the ground, and waited for them to dry.

"So for the past few days, let's use this place as a base for the time being, and explore bit by bit. After the body is almost dry, we start to set off, leaving marks along the way, and drawing a map at the same time, with the goal of finding the way we came. "

"understood."

After Neil and the others nodded, they sat on the ground to rest while wringing out the moisture in their clothes.

With sufficient fresh water source, they no longer stingy, and gulped it up, recovering the water consumed by running for their lives just now.

Of course, Connor, who had already filled his stomach with water, hesitantly glanced at the water bottle in his hand, but still put it down, and put it away after refilling it.

After Neil basically wrung out his clothes, he stood up again and walked around.

Although Grace and Lucini had already explored and confirmed that there was no problem, he still felt that after confirming it with his own eyes, it would be much easier to memorize the route and confirm the location.

"However... this hole is really big, it can almost accommodate a small block..."

He murmured, and also saw the entrances to the passages that Grace had mentioned.

On the smooth hole, it seems that the door frame is specially made of accumulated soil and bricks and stones and inlaid at the edge. Although there are traces of incomplete falling, some styles similar to the dungeon buildings can still be seen, and it is also No wonder Grace would say that it is connected to the dungeon.

"Ok?"

Neil frowned, and couldn't help but walked in, carefully looking at the traces that had been corroded by damp and breeze.

He squatted down, threw some gravel away, and then wiped the wet soil deposited on it with his hands.

Neil's movements were very light, he was afraid that he would wipe off the looming traces with his own strength.

With his movements, the traces below became slightly clearer, causing Neil to frown.

He had seen this mark on the map of ancient weapons.

"Hey, Neil, it's time for us to go!"

Just when he was about to continue to see if there was anything else, Connor's voice sounded from behind, forcing him to stop what he was doing.

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Volume II Exploration of Ruins: Chapter 96 Chapter 95 Teleportation Circle

"So, where are we going?"

Looking at the four roads in front of her, Lucini tilted her head and asked others.

"How about this one? Anyway, we can't explore one by one, right?"

Neil shrugged, pointed to the channel where he had found a trace just now, and said casually.

"Anyone else have an opinion?"

Grace glanced back at the others, and after seeing that they shook their heads, he nodded and walked in.

"Be vigilant, mark them at any time, and report any abnormalities in time."

Before he had gone far, there was a fork in the road ahead again, which made Grace frowned. While drawing a mark on the wall, he reminded the rest of the people.

At the same time, Connor also drew their direction on the paper, recording their positions at any time.

And Neil quietly glanced at his map again, and confirmed that the cross-like mark just now was almost exactly the same as the pattern drawn on the map.

At this time, he was rather thankful that he had the habit of putting the map in his bag at any time, otherwise the map would have become wrinkled and shattered when touched.

But even if the same mark was found, Neil still couldn't see what they had in common, especially the shape of the thing drawn on the map was completely different from that big hole.

He was very sure that the place indicated on the map was definitely not the big hole, but something else.

Could it be that it is some kind of concrete sculpture, or something that can be touched in the facility...?

"Do you feel that the ground here is sloped?"

With a dignified expression on her face, Lucini squatted down and touched the ground lightly with her hands.

"And it's not going up, it's continuing to slope down."

"Not only did we not go up, but are we still going down?"

Connor asked while carefully observing both sides of the wall, judging whether there was a trap.

"Then what should we do? Go back directly and find an upward path?"

"No need for now, if all the passages are downward, then we are just wasting time."

Grace shook her head, rejecting Connor's suggestion.

"Before you clearly discover the existence of dead-end traps, or the exploration route is too far away and needs to be digested, don't change the established route at will, otherwise more and more branches will make the situation chaotic."

As he spoke, he took the lead and continued to move forward, while the three behind him also followed after glancing at each other.

As they continued to go deeper, the surrounding magical lamps that were exactly the same as those in the dungeon also emitted bright light, illuminating the road ahead of them.

"I can feel the flowing wind, maybe there is another open space in front..."

Neil stretched out his hand, feeling the breath passing through his fingertips, and said slowly.

Since there is still wind and air, it means that at least there will be a place for ventilation within a certain distance.

"Don't be careless, it is probably the lair of other monsters."

Grace took out his double-edged axe, slowed down with the vigilant people, and walked towards the space that seemed to have expanded a lot.

After passing through the narrow passage, they came to a rectangular stone cave.

"Is this... the teleportation circle?"

Looking at the circular magic circle in the center, Lucini couldn't help saying in surprise.

Neil glanced at the surrounding stone walls, and there seemed to be some openings at the top, and the breeze they felt before seemed to be blowing from there.

But the opening is very small, even if you look closely, you can only faintly see another passage that is almost exactly the same as before.

In addition, there are no extra passages in this cave.

"It's a dead end..."

Although if they chisel hard, they should be able to open a gap from that vent that can allow them to pass through theoretically, but since they are not threatened with their lives like just now, they still dare not randomly destroy the walls inside the ruins, God knows Will it just collapse like that and bury them all alive?

"In that case, let's go back the same way and change direction from the last fork."

While talking, Neil, like everyone else, marked the cave on his map as a dead end with a magic circle.

Others also accepted his opinion. After all, the ruins are quite dangerous. Unless it is absolutely necessary, it is better not to explore things like this kind of teleportation circle.

However, just as they were about to leave from the original entrance, the pitch-black magic circle suddenly burst into white light, causing expressions of astonishment to appear on their faces.

"Why did it activate!?"

"We shouldn't have done anything just now!?"

Even though he made a running movement in an instant, the speed of the magic circle seemed to be much faster than them.

Except for Connor who was the closest to the door, stepped back and withdrew out of the range of the magic circle, everyone else was enveloped by the suddenly diffused light, and disappeared in Connor's astonished gaze. In mid-air.

"Hey... are you kidding me..."

After the activation was completed, the magic circle returned to its original silent state, not even a ray of light emerged.

Connor knocked hard on the magic circle on the ground, but no matter how he moved, he couldn't make the magic circle activate again, as if it was a one-off.

Almost operating everything that could be manipulated, Connor, who was sweating profusely, had no choice but to the fact that he was the only one left.

"Damn it, how is it possible, what happened to trigger that magic circle......"

Connor scratched his head depressingly, and after sighing deeply, he began to slowly return from the original road to the last fork they passed through.

Long before entering the ruins, they were all mentally prepared to be scattered for various reasons.

Therefore, although he was somewhat uneasy, Connor quickly calmed down and decided to continue with the team's initial exploration goal.

At least we have to explore part of the route today....

If other people were just teleported to other places, they would definitely rush back to the big void first. As they continue to explore, as long as there is no danger, they will meet sooner or later.

He drank a sip of water to moisten his throat, and regained his energy. He began to slowly move forward along another unknown road while drawing the map in his hand.

Captain... you guys must be fine...

Connor thought silently in his heart.