Under the reflection of the starry sky, in the gap between the undulating wilderness, a temporary stone house stood here.
This is a huge boulder that has been hollowed out from the inside, revealing a huge space inside. There is a flat stone door stop at the door, and through the gap you can see the figures of people inside, with occasional sparks floating around.
There are three people in the stone house, a blazing fire, and a pot of delicious fish soup.
The two of them were lying on the ground, seemingly sleeping. The only awake person was a man covered by a rag cloak, who was cooking fish soup in front of the fire.
His exposed hands looked white and tender. But from time to time, small black bugs crawled over, and fine powder kept falling from his fingertips, attracting wriggling maggots into the soup.
Suddenly, a "squeak" came from behind him.
But the man in the cloak didn't look back, "Frod, are you awake? What, can you read any clues?"
His voice was hoarse and unpleasant, as if it had been burnt by fireworks.
"No, he is an ordinary apprentice. He doesn't even know as much as we do, but I found an interesting place. Maybe the Vikings can really find some clues during this trip." The man called 'Frod' said.
He yawned, casually grabbed a piece of soft golden curly short hair, and said sleepily.
"Oh? You mean, are there really any clues to leaving the lava area?" the cloaked man asked.
"I don't know." Froud sat up and came to the fire: "However, there is indeed an almost wizard-level Ink Touch King in the heart of the lava area. According to what the kid overheard, maybe the exit is really there.
There."
"Nearly wizard level? That may be as you guessed. There should be clues. However, Viking and the others are probably feeling uncomfortable now." The man in the cloak said with a cruel smile, obviously not really worried about his teammates.
"The bear man is probably out of luck, but Viking and Shan Yeluo should be fine. Although the fish monsters here are strong, their IQ is worrying."
"It doesn't matter that Bear Man is dead. Even if he has been injected with blood, he is huge and clumsy. He is a complete drag in the Purification Garden." When the man in the cloak said this, he hesitated: "However, it is difficult to explain his sister."
"At first you promised Michelle that you would take care of Xiong Man, but now you are worried about her feelings?"
"Worried? No." The cloaked man looked at Froud: "As long as we don't tell, Michelle won't know. You won't betray me, right?"
"Of course." Froud raised his eyebrows and agreed happily, but his heart was sneering.
"The fish soup is ready, why don't you try it?" The man in the cloak changed the subject and suddenly pointed at the fish soup in the pot.
Froude glanced at the fragrant fish soup and lowered his eyebrows. Although he had boiled the soup first, who knew whether Yi Xiu would do anything while reading the dream.
"No, I'm not hungry."
The cloaked man chuckled: "That's up to you." After that, he took out the fish soup from the pot and drank it all.
At that time, there was a sudden rustling sound outside the door. Froud raised his eyes and asked: "Who?"
"Me." With this low but thin voice, the flat stone at the door was pushed open, and Shan Yeluo walked in.
After he walked in, he sat down directly in front of the fire.
"It turns out to be Luo, how's it going? How's your exploration of the lava area going? Why don't you see Viking and Bear Man?" Froud asked.
"When we met a big one, they both fell. I used the concealment scroll to run back." Shan Yeluo said half truthfully.
"Big guy? You mean..."
"A lava fire eel is not only cunning, but its strength is much higher than that of a peak apprentice." Shan Yeluo recalled the previous battle and couldn't help but be afraid. If he didn't have a hidden leather scroll, he might actually be like Xiong Man.
Killed by a lava eel.
"Lava Fire Eel? Isn't it King Mochu?" The man in the cloak spoke.
"King Mochu? Yi Xiu, what the hell is this?" Shan Yeluo stared at Yi Xiu and Froud suspiciously: "You can't be hiding something from me, right?"
Froude waved his hand and pointed at the little man in silver uniform on the other side: "I didn't hide it from you, I just read that boy's dream."
"He told me in his dream that the most dangerous thing in this area is an almost wizard-level monster - the Ink Touch King. The Ink Touch King is in the lava area, so Yi Xiu and I were confused."
"Dream reading revealed that there are wizard-level monsters?" Shan Yeluo frowned. He believed in Froude's dream reading. Froude's nickname was "Dream Reading" and he had a good way of entering dreams and transforming them into dreams.
.Since he said the information he read out, it must be true.
"I didn't meet the Ink Touch King you mentioned. I only met a lava fire eel. And that lava fire eel's strength is infinitely close to the wizard level. Even if the three of us fight at the same time, we will definitely not be able to please him."
After listening to Shan Yeluo's words, Yi Xiu wondered: "Is he really that strong?"
"It's very strong. The bear man just touched it and was scorched. But even if Viking used the power of blood, he was swung by the lava fire eel and his hands were burned into powder, and he was unable to resist at all." Shan Yeluo said.
At this moment, there was a pause: "Moreover, it is different from other fish monsters. Its cunning is comparable to humans. It is almost impossible to rely on the roundabout and ambush methods in the past."
"I didn't expect Bear Man to... It's a pity that I failed Michelle's trust." Yi Xiu pretended to be sad, "Even the Vikings died. It seems that this lava fire eel is indeed extraordinary."
"If even this lava fire eel is so smart, then wouldn't King Ink Touch be even more powerful? This is an almost wizard-level monster!" Froud pondered.
"It seems that we are indeed going to investigate King Mo Touch. Maybe the lava fire eel is just an exception." Yi Xiu said, "It would be great if Viking is here. His bloodline has very strong adaptability.
If given a little more time, we can leave it to him to investigate the role of King Mo Touch."
"It's a pity that Viking is dead." Shan Yeluo said calmly.
"It's okay for Viking to die. Anyway, with his hot-blooded personality, it's normal for him to die." Flood said this.
"We can only go to King Mo Touch and have a look. It is impossible for Sky Mechanical City to send missions that will definitely lead to death to those core apprentices. There must be a chance." At this point, Froud glared at the still sleeping person.
Apprentice from the Machinery City: "It's a pity that this guy is just an ordinary apprentice, and he only overheard the sentence 'fight for a way out of the most dangerous place'."
"But it's right to think about it. If Sky Mechanical City wants a blood sacrifice to advance the Purification Garden, it will definitely require a large number of apprentices to die. How to make them die in large numbers and setting up the passage in the most dangerous place is definitely the best choice."
"In that case, let's go to the lava area to meet the Ink Touch King!"
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Outside the stone house, Angel fell into thought.
——"Find a way out in the most dangerous place."
This sentence was said by the apprentice from the Mechanical City. It should be the "secret word" for purifying the garden this time. In fact, it was similar to what Angel had thought before, but he was still a little confused about it.
In what threshold range does the 'limit' and 'measurement' of this passcode lie?
It is impossible to have no restrictions, and it is impossible to have no restrictions. The most important thing is that since Sky Mechanical City dares to send its core disciples into the Purification Garden, the "maximum risk value" must be within the "tolerance limit" of the core disciples.
Is the King Mo Chu they call this measure?
Listening to their description of the power of King Mo Chu, it should be far beyond the limit. Unless you don't face King Mo Chu directly and use other methods to bypass it and enter the passage.
But in this case... it is purely a test of IQ and stealth ability. Does this really belong to the phrase "fight for a way out in the most dangerous place"?
Angel had some doubts, and his inner instinct was still to speak out.
However, he did not dare to put his words to death.
After all, Dodolo once predicted a scene: he and Qili were at the bottom of the sea.
But there was no sea around, so how did he reach the bottom of the sea? Or was it that the picture that might have been predicted was not a purification garden?
Angel thought for a while, but still had doubts in his mind that he couldn't explain.
Angel turned around and walked towards the lava area. He still planned to take a look at the Ink Touch King. With the boundless silence, he should be able to avoid detection. If the Ink Touch King really exceeded the limit, he planned to fly directly to the sky.
have a look.
Angel left when he disappeared within the scope of the stone house.
The cloaked man named Yi Xiu suddenly frowned secretly. The scout insect he placed outside as a sentry was trampled to death... He immediately shifted his vision to another scout insect, but all he saw was that it kept shrinking.
A small, pie-shaped insect that has never been seen in any other creature.
In this world of fish monsters, almost all land creatures have become their food. This wasteland is slowly becoming desolate because all the land creatures have been eaten up.
In this wilderness, with no land creatures, why were the scouts trampled to death?
Moreover, even if it is a terrestrial creature, there is no trace at all, right?
"Yi Xiu, what's wrong with you?" Shan Yeluo saw that Yi Xiu had been in a daze and patted him on the shoulder: "Come to your senses."
Yi Xiu: "What?"
"Get ready, let's go to the lava area now."
"No need to prepare, just go over there." Yi Xiu pushed open the door and walked out of the stone house first. He stood in front of the trampled scout, turned his head and looked inside the house, as if he was waiting for someone to come out.
But where no one saw it, a small insect that looked like an ant slipped from Yi Xiu's sleeve, and it immediately devoured the trampled scout insect after it landed on the ground.
Then it crawled back to Ixiu's fingertips.
Yi Xiu sniffed the smell of the ants and suddenly frowned:
This ant-like bug is called a smell-eating ant. It can amplify and release all pheromones. The reason why he was able to find the other four teammates so quickly was because of the smell-eating ants.
"This feeling is definitely human pheromones. Could it be that someone was outside just now?"