Chapter 0399 Investigation and Planning

This is a small cave 120 meters underground.

There is an opening at each end of the cave leading to different areas of the underground world.

The stone walls on both sides reflect a faint cold light under the reflection of fluorescent moss, and water drops are constantly dripping from the top of the cave, hitting the cold ground with a monotonous popping sound.

Although the sound is constant, the dominance of this dark and deep underground world is still quiet and dead!

If you want to survive in this dark world, keeping quiet and avoiding the leakage of body temperature is the only way to survive. But this point was obviously broken today!

A horned sheep that has only appeared on the surface was fixed to the rock in the center of the cave by an iron chain. The dark and cold environment made it shiver with fear, and the huge wound on its hind leg was still bleeding slowly.

The strong and pungent smell of blood has filled the passage.

Baa...

The trembling cry of the horned sheep was heard far away in this dead world.

The horned sheep cried irritably, and kept hitting the stone pillar that tied it to death with its horns. It didn't look back in fear until it noticed the movement behind it.

In the darkness, a terrifying figure crawling on the ground was slowly approaching it!

This is a petrified lizard.

The huge body of 5 meters long from head to tail makes the petrified lizard the undisputed big guy in this area, and the guillotine-like fangs and huge mouths make it difficult for the creatures they bite to survive. Coupled with the petrification ray with a range of only 3 meters, the petrified lizard has become the well-deserved "underground scavenger" in the underground world!

Watching a pair of shining earth-yellow eyes approaching in the darkness, the horned sheep was terrified and could not control itself, and jumped and kicked desperately. But this did not help at all, but instead made the bloody smell on its body spread faster and more widely.

As soon as the petrified lizard approached the rock where the horned sheep was, it was immediately blocked by the strange array of symbols that emerged from the ground. After biting it several times and attacking it several times, it still couldn't do anything about the array of symbols. The petrified lizard was helpless, and suddenly it half-raised its body and sniffed the slowly flowing air in the cave.

With the unique sensitivity of underground creatures, it smelled a familiar and terrible smell from the thick bloody smell.

Without hesitation, the petrified lizard turned around and crawled into the darkness in the distance, and soon disappeared.

Not long after the petrified lizard disappeared, a whistling wind suddenly blew in the cave, and then a nimble black figure rushed out of the passage and coiled between the suspended stalactites at the top of the cave.

Finally, the black shadow landed on a protruding platform on the rock wall, standing high and silently looking down at everything in the cave below.

Shocked by the strange atmosphere, the horned sheep was frightened and collapsed on the ground, with an unpleasant smell of urine coming from under its body.

Although the cave was dark and lightless, the huge black shadow was able to take every corner of the space into its sight with the help of the dim light vision.

The cold floor, the dim stone walls, the gurgling underground river... everything was under its control.

The black shadow was quietly placed in the darkness, and the pupil light with a hint of earthy yellow in the dark green was full of strong doubts and uneasiness.

However, as an underage scorpion lion, it was obviously not mature enough.

All the breath emitted by the horned sheep was taken into its nostrils without a trace. The unique fresh blood and flesh smell of the bottom creature stimulated its blood vessels to swell, and the saliva in its mouth kept dripping, corroding small holes on the rock platform under it.

The scene in front of it looked like an ugly trap, but what about the enemy who set the trap?

The little scorpion lion resisted the urge to dive down and feast on the food, and looked around for possible enemies with wide eyes. But even though it scanned every corner of the cave, it did not find any breath or trace of any outsiders.

Finally, the little scorpion lion could no longer suppress its natural hunger for the flesh and blood of living things. It swooped down with a roar and pounced on the horned sheep viciously.

A moment later, the strange sound of the little scorpion lion biting and swallowing the flesh and blood of the horned sheep rang out in the cave.

As a ferocious underground creature, the little scorpion lion never cares about table manners. The scene of crazy eating is unbearable to watch. The whole rock is covered with blood, like a small slaughterhouse.

Just as the little scorpion lion fell into the frenzy of eating, the water in a shallow pool in the corner of the cave rippled, and three human-shaped black shadows slowly emerged.

"Down... down... down..."

Gargamel couldn't help but mutter in a low voice through the thick darkness.

As he murmured, the little scorpion lion that was feasting on the food suddenly shook. Just as its wide bat wings spread out and before it could fly, its huge body fell down strangely.

"Hurry up..." Grimm whispered, "There is another little scorpion lion nearby. We don't have that much time!"

"Understood!" Gargamel laughed sinisterly, "It won't take much time to extract some of the toxin from its scorpion tail. I guarantee it won't find out anything afterwards!"

After that, he took advantage of the darkness and quietly touched the sleeping little scorpion lion.

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There were still two hours before dawn, and the adult scorpion lions scattered in the nearby mountains and forests also returned to the entrance of the cave one after another.

It can be seen that their bellies were bulging and they had eaten a full meal.

Their sturdy hind legs still held bloody prey, and they rested on the stone pillars for a while before roaring back into the cave. Only when they completely disappeared in the underground passage did the nocturnal bats dare to flap their wings and return to the nest.

Grimm and the other two watched the whole process from the side, and when the sky became bright again, they returned to the camp with satisfaction.

The first time they explored the underground nest, they did not kill any creatures at all, nor did they kidnap the little scorpion lion that fell into the trap, but only secretly extracted some flesh and toxins from its body. When the anesthetic wore off, the little scorpion lion woke up drowsily from his deep sleep, and all the abnormalities around him had been completely erased by Grimm and others.

After all, the little scorpion lion's intelligence was not so perfect. Under the urging of the drug, it also forgot most of the previous things, and could only return to the nest with suspicion.

With Gargamel, the pharmacist, and the toxins extracted from the young manticores, it is still possible to prepare some anti-paralysis potions in a targeted manner. Although it is impossible to completely resist the paralysis attack of an adult manticore, it is much better than resisting it with the body.

For several days, Grimm and Gargamel hid during the day and went out at night, spending almost every night in the winding underground passage.

They observed the morphology, behavior and living habits of these manticores at close range, and even sneaked into the manticores' nests to understand the terrain there, laying a solid foundation for the later cleaning tasks.

After Grimm's careful planning and careful consideration, he finally determined a perfect extermination plan, and set the execution time of the plan on the 7th day after they arrived at the sick forest.

According to Grimm's observations and inferences, this day should also be the day when the adult and young manticores of the manticore family came out in full force for large-scale hunting, which is suitable for the development and implementation of the extermination plan.

And the executors of the plan are all members of the adventure team!

Under the temptation of Grimm's 300 magic crystals reward, Lowe and others finally gave in.

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It was another beautiful night with a bright moon and few stars.

As soon as it got dark, the vast number of bats living in the cave came out again, gathered into clouds in the night sky around the sick wood forest, circled and flew around for a few times, and then dispersed into the nearby mountains and forests.

And the nine-headed scorpion lion also appeared again, but they went their separate ways after a brief division of labor!

When they all went far away, Grimm's group of eight people showed up nearby, and then went straight to the depths of the cave.

Let Sabrina lead the rest of the people to hurry up, Grimm and Gargamel rushed into the underground passage first and went straight to the scorpion lion's nest.

Time is very precious, and we must race against time to set up traps before the scorpion lions notice that something is wrong with the nest, otherwise they will easily be blocked in the nest by the scorpion lions returning to the nest.

In order to lure the scorpion lions into the doom, they must first control the two little scorpion lions left in the nest. So Grimm and Gargamel took the lead, using witchcraft to continuously accelerate and quickly advance to the scorpion lion's nest.

Unlike the last time they sneaked in, this time they rushed into the underground passage with drums and gongs.

While moving down the passage, Grimm kept throwing witchcraft fireballs, blowing up the small underground creatures hidden in the dark into pieces.

The huge fireball roared and spread rapidly in the underground passage. They didn't need to look for it at all. The two little scorpion lions hiding in the dark rushed out by themselves following the explosion sound.

The little scorpion lions only have the strength of quasi-witch level. Although their combat power is not worth mentioning in Grimm's eyes, it still takes some effort to capture them intact.

When Grimm rushed into a small cave, there were four or five underground passages leading to different areas, which was also a small hub of this underground maze.

Grimm had just rushed in here, and there was a bad wind above his head. Two huge black shadows as big as a hill rushed down from the top of the cave, with white fangs and huge mouths wide open, biting Grimm's head and shoulders viciously.

Grimm had already known the ambush of the two little scorpion lions clearly through the latest "multi-dimensional scene construction". Therefore, Grimm's figure was only slightly paused, and he had successfully jumped to another area using the flame jump. At his original position, a huge lava fireball that had been left there in advance exploded just in time!

If Grimm wanted to kill the two little scorpion lions, he only needed a real lava fireball to make them not die but lose a layer of skin. But now in order to catch them alive, he had to detonate the fireball in advance.

So, in a shocking explosion of flames and shock waves, the two little scorpion lions were blown dizzy and wounded, and could only rush out of the fire screaming.

And what greeted them was the Roarer's huge iron fist as big as a casserole...

With two muffled thuds, the two little scorpion lions were knocked out gorgeously! chapter;