Chapter 0398 Sick Forest

With a clear master-servant relationship, Gargamel was no longer as lazy as before.

With his special ability as a pharmacist, small monsters smelled the herbal bag hanging on his staff and immediately hid as far away as possible. This also allowed the expedition team to avoid many unnecessary battles!

However, Gargamel's medicine obviously only works on monsters, and has no effect on ordinary jungle beasts. And this is the moment to reflect the value of this group of mercenaries.

Ordinary beasts can be dealt with by Lovey and Neil, a half-baked hunter. If they encounter a large-scale beast attack, Sabrina, the mechanical girl, will be fully unleashed. In her hands, no matter how terrifying the beast is, it is just some scattered pieces of rotten meat that can be slaughtered and killed at will.

If it were not for avoiding disturbing the overly powerful monsters, Sabrina could even slaughter an entire wolf pack of more than 200 people by herself without any injury.

Sabrina, who is protected by the power of witchcraft, is already a terrifying existence that is almost like a god in the eyes of adventurers, but in front of the two wizards, she often dares not breathe and obeys their orders meekly. Even the thin and dry Gargamel, who seems to be blown down by the wind, drives the mechanical girl in such a domineering and unscrupulous way.

With the full cooperation of the wizard Gargamel, the team's speed of travel is naturally countless times faster. It took only 3 days for them to arrive near the destination of this trip under the leadership of Lowe and others.

When they first arrived here, they did not act rashly. The team set up camp near a hidden canyon.

The sword and shield warrior Lowe took the two wizards Grimm and Gargamel to climb a small earth slope, and through the gaps between the dense trees, they peeked at this mysterious area half a mile away.

Sick Forest!

This is also a name given by the locals to this black forest area covering an area of ​​50 miles.

The only reason for this title is that the trees here seem to have a strange disease, and all the leaves are withered and yellow, looking sick.

Seriously speaking, the sick forest is actually a small dirt hill, with the highest point no more than 200 meters. The top of the hill is flat and gentle, without too steep peaks. The whole mountain is covered with skinny old trees, with half yellow and half green leaves, which looks quite strange.

The old trees on the dirt hill are not very tall, and large pieces of metal rocks are exposed from time to time under the thin soil layer, reflecting dots of light under the sunlight. The roots of the old trees are difficult to extend between the soil and rocks, and many places have already been exposed outside the soil.

The soil on the dirt hill is gray-brown with a hint of burnt yellow, as if an infinite heat is slowly coming out of the ground, turning this place into a small oven. The ancient trees on the earthen hill are like half-burnt cheese. If it weren't for the intermittent heat that gave them a chance to survive, the entire earthen hill would have become a barren land!

Grimm and Gargamel looked at each other and nodded silently.

From the shape revealed in the area of ​​the sick wood forest, it can be seen that there is indeed a heat source underground. If you want to find out the cause of the heat source, you can only risk your life to explore.

"There, there and there are two holes, all very narrow and short, only enough for an adult to bend over and pass through. And in that direction... there is a slightly larger hole, but there are terrible bats everywhere, and it is difficult for outsiders to enter without alarming them..." Lovi is worthy of being an adventurer who has been making a living here for many years. Even in dangerous areas like the sick wood forest, he is very familiar with it.

But it is obvious that his understanding is limited to the superficial layer of the sick wood forest. As for the world under the earthen hill, it is not a field he can touch at all!

Fortunately, Grimm had obtained some information from the forest monster, otherwise he would have to bite the bullet and take the risk. Even with Grimm's confidence, if he ran into the group of scorpion lions blindly, he would be covered in dust. If he didn't pay a price, even with his strength, he would be skinned alive!

At this point, the adventurer team has actually completed the commission issued by Grimm. As for exploring the underground world in depth, this is not a task that ordinary adventurers can complete. Even if Grimm offers more magic crystal rewards, Lowe will not be stupid enough to lead his teammates into the nest of a group of monsters.

Although magic crystals are good, they still need to be alive to spend them!

For this, Grimm did not force them, but only asked them to maintain this temporary camp on the ground. The real members of the expedition team are still Grimm, Gargamel and Sabrina.

In the evening, when the sky darkened again, the people gathered in the camp suddenly heard a strange sound.

A large number of nocturnal bats swarmed out of a huge cave at the foot of the Sick Forest Mountain. The number was so huge that it even covered the nearby sky. They fluttered and circled in the sky. When they gathered in sufficient numbers, they suddenly rushed towards the distant mountains and forests like a dark cloud.

These little guys who hid during the day and came out at night finally moved out!

Not long after the nocturnal bats moved out, the cave that had just been silent suddenly heard a huge sound of breaking wind.

With strange roars, terrifying scorpion lions as big as rhinos and with ferocious and terrifying bodies flew out of the cave. They circled in the sky half-gliding and landed on a towering stone pillar near the cave entrance.

The body and head are as strong and majestic as a lion, with brown hair all over the body, a pair of leathery dark red bat wings on the back, and a terrifying scorpion tail with arthropods behind the tail. The scorpion tail poison needle is raised high, and the end of the limbs flashes with a strange blue luster, which is not an ordinary toxin.

Compared with the huge body of the scorpion lion, the bat wings on its back are too thin and thin. Such a size obviously cannot lift them to fly high in the sky, nor can it fly quickly, but the scorpion lion does not care at all.

After all, the scorpion lion is a rare monster that lives in the underground world all year round. The area there is narrow and the terrain is rugged. If the wings are too large, it is difficult to unfold. So it only needs to use the bat wings to glide at a semi-low altitude, so that it can swoop down on the prey from a high altitude.

One, two, three, four... nine...

Grimm and the other two hid in a crack between stones, using powder to eliminate the smell on their bodies, and observed the movements of the group of scorpion lions at close range.

There were nine scorpion lions in total, some big and some small, but all of them were adult and young scorpion lions that were qualified to be hunters. This also indicated that there were still two underage scorpion lions left in the scorpion lion nest under the cave.

After a moment of "quarrel" and "disturbance", the nine scorpion lions were divided into three groups, roaring and rushing in different directions. Although they are underground creatures, the food in the underground world is too scarce, so they also need to come to the surface for a large-scale hunt every certain period of time to satisfy the new scorpion lions in the tribe's desire for a large amount of blood food!

"Let's go! Let's go meet the two little scorpion lions!" When the figures of the scorpion lion group completely disappeared in the dark night, Grimm waved his hand and took the two people to the entrance of the huge cave.

And this departure can only be seen that Sabrina, who is a coolie, actually carries a huge cloth bag on her back, which is squirming inside, as if it is some kind of living thing.

When entering the cave for the first time, the strong and suffocating pungent stench hits the face.

Thousands of bats live and breed here, making the air in the cave filthy, and the floor and stone pillars are covered with a thick layer of bat feces, leaving no place for people to step.

Grimm stood at the entrance of the cave, his eyes slowly swept through the dark space inside, and soon locked onto an area.

The damp and cold air blew out from there, and there must be a hidden passage leading to the lower level behind the jagged stalagmites.

In Grimm's elemental vision, infrared detection, low-light vision and long-distance touch alternately acted, and with the help of the wizard's spiritual perception, the darkness in the cave was rapidly retreating and peeling off. Sharp stalagmites like wolf teeth, stone pillars leading directly to the top of the cave, hidden cracks hidden between the rocks... All of these slowly emerged in his mind with Grimm as the center.

Multi-dimensional scene construction!

This is also the visual perception ability that has been strengthened step by step as Grimm's strength gradually becomes stronger.

In the past, Grimm could only see objects within his straight line of sight, but could not see things hidden behind walls or stone pillars. But now, with the improvement of his ability and the increasing strength of his spiritual perception, his vision can even bypass obstacles and see what he wants to see.

Of course, the premise is that there is no energy interference or the wall is not too thick!

And the birth of this ability also means that there will be no blind spots in his future battles. No matter from which direction or angle the enemy attacks him, he can react in the first time, attack, defend, or dodge, and each time he can make a more in line with his own interests from a more global perspective.

"Come closer, I'll take you in!"

Grimm whispered, waited for Gargamel and Sabrina to come closer, reached out and grabbed their arms, then paused slightly, and disappeared in a burst of fire.

The next second, in a dark corner of the cave that bats dared not approach, the fire shot up into the sky, and Grimm and the other two emerged.

Gargamel didn't care. With his strong mental strength, he withstood the dizziness of the sudden change of space. As a quasi-witch apprentice, Sabrina was obviously experiencing the strange witchcraft of "fire teleportation" for the first time. In an instant, she felt her throat dry, the scene in front of her was confused, she staggered two steps, and held the stone pillar to breathe for a while before she recovered.

"Let's go, there are two babies waiting for us inside!"

Grimm chuckled and took the lead in drilling into the dark underground passage.

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