Mercenaries and Adventurers

Keel lay down through the snow and came under the petrified tree trunk, finding the place where he had gone up before. Here, the rope hangs straight down from above, and Keel tugged on the rope, worrying in his heart whether the thing would be able to hold him up firmly after being exposed to the wind and sun for several months.

After thinking about it for a while, Keir shook his head. He felt that the risk of climbing up with a rope was too high. If it broke halfway, wouldn't he die here unjustly.

It is estimated that he will be laughed to death by the werewolf Worf who followed.

He rolled his eyes, he didn't dare to use the rope, maybe he could set a trap for the werewolf.

Grabbing the rope, Keel swung it vigorously, shaking it back and forth, and even swinging back and forth outside the petrified tree stump hit the outer wall of the stump, pretending that he had climbed up from here.

Then he climbed up from the gap outside the petrified tree stump with his bare hands.

These crooked cracks that can accommodate a thigh are very easy to climb. Even if it snows in winter, climbing from here will not have any major impact.

Humming and climbing up from here carefully, Keel then sat on the top of the petrified rock wall to take a rest.

The power enhanced by the Saturnalia ceremony at the Harvest Festival disappeared with his death. At this point, it seems that the influence on him is still there, and it is not small.

He gesticulated the movement of clenching his fist and gesticulating his muscles, and found that he was still not as good as before he died. Sighing, Keel crawled on top of the petrified stump, looking for a crack in the rock wall to climb down.

The lift not far away did have a downward rope, but for that reason, Keel didn't think that thing was safe, and he was afraid of falling on it, so he just found a way to climb down honestly.

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Just as Kiel was climbing down, outside the valley where the ruins were located, the uninvited guest finally arrived.

The werewolf Worf followed the clear traces that Kiel had walked step by step, and slowly climbed to the high place on the side of the valley. It held a long-frozen wild boar's front leg in its hand, and looked surprised at the hidden things among the ordinary hills.

"What is this, what is this?" Surprised but surprised, it confirmed again and again that Kiel was indeed in a mess from here.

"Kiel, it seems that you came here specially. Is there anything here that can make you come back? Resurrected like that for no reason, is your hidden secret here?"

It looked at the huge petrified tree stumps cautiously, and after thinking twice, it still slid and jumped from the height of the hill, and slid down along the route that Kiel had walked.

Broken legs healed quickly that night after binge eating last night.

So even though it was delayed for most of the night, it quickly caught up this morning.

Originally, it thought that it would chase Kiel in the wilderness where there was nothing, but it didn't expect that Kiel fled all the way after his resurrection, and came to such a mysterious place.

It has been here for ten years, and no one has ever heard of these huge stumps.

Looking at the appearance of these things, one knows that they existed a long, long time ago, but after such a long time, there is still something left here that will make the fleeing Kiel all the way here.

Perhaps, Kiel didn't run away, but lured it here on purpose?

The werewolf Worf was a little uneasy, and even more uneasy when he came to the petrified tree stump and had a close contact with these things that existed in ancient times.

Its intuition told itself that even if these once huge trees petrified and collapsed to such an extent, the surroundings still felt a little strange.

This is an intuition that only a werewolf can feel.

Obviously everything is normal except for these huge petrified tree stumps, but it still feels something is wrong.

It suppressed the uneasiness brought by this intuition, and followed Kiel's footsteps all the way to an abandoned camp. This camp was right in the center of the entire valley, and looking at the footprints and some scattered new debris, it knew that Keel must have been repairing here for a while.

Looking around, it found that Kiel's footprints had come to the roots of a tree on one side, and as expected, it found a burrow here.

"I know you're in there, come out Kiel. I'll give you a one-on-one fight."

It crouched on the side behind the cave entrance, and then shouted towards the inside of the cave.

But there is no response inside.

Neither does the taunt.

It quietly approached the cave entrance from behind, and then approached the cave entrance with its ears, listening carefully to the movement inside.

It called out again, but there was no movement inside.

This time it confirmed that there was indeed no one inside.

It threw the front leg of the wild boar it had been holding into the crypt to test it out to prevent the existence of deadly organs.

After repeatedly confirming its safety, it awkwardly crawled in through the narrow entrance.

Slight rays of light scatter in from the hole, and its beast eyes clearly see the whole picture inside.

It's just an ordinary underground safe house, with some sundries, but if you touch it with your hand, you can find that no one has touched it for a while.

A place for people to rest on the inner side of the crypt was dug. It sniffed and smelled Kiel clearly.

Needless to say, Kiel must have taken something from where it was supposed to be hidden here. What could it be? After thinking about it, it felt that it was probably Keel's idea to deal with it.

But the freshly dug place is small, what was hidden in it to help Kiel defeat it?

The cunning werewolf quickly thought of the huge petrified tree stumps nearby.

Definitely something to do with these things.

When it saw the petrified tree stump before, it thought of the big moving tree that it met with Kiel two days ago.

To be honest, when that thing moved, it really shocked it too. Fortunately, that thing was only attacking Kiel who set the fire, so it was scared at the time, but it was still quite at ease.

It wasn't until later that the big moving tree grabbed it and threw it out that it realized that both it and Keel had to stay away from these unreasonable things.

Could Kiel's backhand against it have something to do with these petrified stumps?

The werewolves who emerged from their tiny burrows couldn't tell for sure.

But Keir, who has been chased all the way to this point, must not be underestimated if he wants to rely on a comeback. Especially when associated with these ancient things.

Continuing to follow Kiel's footprints, the werewolf soon discovered that Kiel had come to one of the petrified tree stumps.

"Have you turned it in? Hey, it's quite bizarre. Who would have thought that an ordinary hunter would have something to do with these ancient gadgets behind his back."

It shook its head, obviously seeing the artificial elevator on the top of the tree stump. The thing hammered a rope down, and the rope was clean, obviously someone had used it recently.

And it also noticed that the snowfall on the outer wall of the tree stump next to the rope also had collision marks.

Apparently Keel has been up here.

"What's in it? I'm getting more and more curious."

The wolf laughed lightly, and the werewolf Wolf then put away the sharp claws on his palm, and slightly withdrew his palm from the werewolf transformation, and then tightened the rope hanging from it. climb up.

But after climbing halfway, Worf the werewolf felt something was wrong.

Because the upper end of the tight rope in his hand seemed to be making some slight disintegration and breaking sounds.

"Oops!"

As soon as it yelled, the rope at the top snapped with a bang, and it fell backwards from mid-air.

Boom! Gululu.

Accumulated snow saved most of its life, and the remaining half of its life was earned by rolling instinctively after landing.

The werewolf Worf lay on the ground, clutching his chest and abdomen tightly with his hands, and nervously sucked in big breaths with his wolf mouth. After a while, he slowly stood up and recovered.

"Am I too heavy? Unlucky, I should have thought of it!" It rolled its eyes: "Besides, this might be a trap."

After getting up, it slowly circled around the huge petrified tree stump, and easily found the real route for Kiel to go up.

boom!

It punched the outer wall of the tree stump, but it didn't let go of its anger, and its own fist hurt unbearably.

"This broken thing looks pretty broken, but I didn't expect it to be so strong."

After complaining, Worf the werewolf still climbed up along the route Kiel really went up.

With a werewolf body whose strength far surpassed that of a normal person, coupled with the sharp claws on its palms and soles, it easily climbed up the cracks in the outer wall.

After going up, it had to be amazed by the incredible nature. It didn't expect that the petrified tree stump, which seemed huge, thick and solid, was actually hollow inside. There are at least 20 meters from the inside to the bottom. This height is also very dangerous for it.

But when it looked carefully inside the tree stump, its eyes froze, and on the white layer of snow at the bottom, he saw that Kiel was crawling towards a suspended cave.

"Joe Keel! Hahahaha, I found you!"

It yelled down.

Kiel was almost taken aback when he heard the loud shout, but he still stabilized his feet, used both hands together, and jumped upwards vigorously, holding the edge of the cave at the entrance of the ruins with his palms.

Stamping and pulling on his legs for a while, he quickly rolled over.

"Hoo, hoo, hoo."

Panting, Keel turned and shook his fist at the werewolf staring at him from the top of the stump, then gestured to the neck.

"Do you dare to follow me? I'm going to get a powerful weapon that can kill you now, ha ha ha ha. Wait to die."

After holding this breath for a long time, Kiel couldn't bear it anymore, and yelled loudly at the werewolf.

But the werewolf didn't hesitate, he made a gesture of swallowing his heart out, and an angry Kiel cursed at him.

At this moment, Worf the werewolf felt a little more at ease, 'Yes, that's it, don't scare yourself. The young man was eccentric, but he had nothing to fear. '

It tells itself so.

So the werewolf advanced on the top of the tree stump on his hands and feet, looking for the place where Keel had gone.

As for the rope next to the wooden lift, it doesn't even look at it.

That's a trap! It thinks so.

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Seeing the way the werewolf Worf was looking for, Kiel immediately felt urgent. He took out the flint and simple torch from his backpack, lit it, and strode towards the interior of the ruins.

He knew that there was no danger in the ruins, except for the large group of bats that made their home here before, there was nothing else.

Of course, the sealed ancient research room is not within the safe range.

The seal that cannot be broken from the outside is of course another matter.

Soon he came to the gate of the ruins, and got in through the gap specially reserved for bats. Kiel turned around and closed the stone gate.

Hope the werewolf will delay some time in front of the stone gate.

But when Kiel turned around after closing the stone door, he was startled by the huge oncoming object.

It was a huge humanoid object far exceeding the size of a normal person, off-white and very bloated.

Just pointing towards Kiel with a thick head without a face, and approaching him with slow, small steps.

"Ah! What the hell!" Keir fell to the ground of the passage in fright.

To be honest, Kiel is already very courageous. In this dark and lightless ruins, he can even fall asleep, which shows that he is not a timid warrior.

But it was because he knew too much about this ruin that had been around for a long time that Kiel was taken aback by this strange thing that he didn't understand.

This white and fat thing walked towards him in small steps with legs and feet that were extremely small compared to its body, and opened the short white arms on both sides of its body.

Not knowing what the other party was going to do, Kiel picked up the torch and waved it left and right, forcing the strange thing back in one fell swoop.

"squeak-"

The white, fat and strong thing made an inexplicable sound from the gray-brown crown that should be the head, and it sounded aggrieved.

This made Kiel confused about the situation for a while.

But the opponent is so huge, it is good to keep a distance.

Getting to his feet, Kiel swung the torch to force the thing back. With the light of the torch, he finally saw clearly what it was.

"A fat-headed mushroom?"

Keel turned sideways to push the fat-headed mushroom out of the way, and bypassed it from the side of the passage.

The opponent was obviously very afraid of fire, and his mobility seemed to be limited, so after Kiel bypassed it, he ignored it and continued walking towards the inside of the ruins.

But apparently things won't go so well.

Kiel soon discovered that there were many fat-headed mushrooms in the passage of the ruins.

They tend to gather at the place where the bat droppings fall, rubbing left and right on the bat droppings with their short feet, as if they are very satisfied in this way, and there is a protracted sound of satisfaction from the crown of their heads: "Oh—".

"Where did it come from?"

He didn't know, but he could ask Ms. Apolfina later, if possible. This ruin was the former research base of the other party, and they must know what these ancient elves researched.

"Hopefully it's not something too bad."

But Keir still didn't dare to get too close to these things.

When some chubby mushrooms found him, they would open their small arms and slowly overtake him. At this time, Kiel will wave the torch and force the opponent back. Amidst the regretful voices of the mushrooms, they walked towards the interior of the ruins.

In the passage, he also saw a few fat-headed mushrooms lying on the ground at the edge of the passage. Even when approached with a torch, they didn't move, as if they had been dead for a long time.

On the mushroom's body, Keel also found some spirited little bats gnawing on the dead fat-headed mushroom.

This made Keel feel weird.

Mushrooms eat bat droppings, and some bats eat mushrooms.

Biomass recycling belongs to yes.

However, looking at the spirits of the bats that ate the dead mushrooms, it is obvious that these mushrooms are not poisonous, but whether humans can eat them is still a matter of opinion. After all, it is very common in nature that animals are fine to eat, but humans eat plants and animals that must die. On the contrary, humans are fine if they eat it, but there are many things that other animals must die from.

When he was in Kendall City, he heard from farmers that there is a weed in the field that livestock can eat. If humans eat it, they will have unbearable abdominal pain. I will have abdominal pain for more than half a month, it is difficult to defecate, I can't get out of bed, and I can't do anything.

So after carefully avoiding the dead fat-headed mushroom, Kiel came to the high platform of the relic hall.

There used to be some firewood he had stored here, but when he came to take a look, he realized that those firewood had long since disappeared. Only the hyphae of some mushrooms are still in place, swaying and rooting on the remains of the original fire, absorbing nutrients.

But in this way, there are not many things on Keel that can be used to illuminate. The torch in his hand will soon be extinguished. What should he use to light it?

Seeing that there was still a small piece of torch wrapped in cloth in his hand, Keir thought about it carefully, and then he thought of something, and took out a wooden box from the small backpack on his back.

When he opened the wooden box, the colorful rays of light emanating from the wooden box instantly illuminated his surroundings in colorful colors.

The spirited hyphae at the feet seemed to be scared, and they curled up one after another.

Kiel saw that these elven gemstones that had been in the sun for a long time were very useful for lighting, and immediately carried them carefully along the road.

Overhead, the thousands of bats pawing at the top of the hall seemed to be affected by the colorful light. They woke up from their hibernation one after another, chirping and making noise, and even defecated randomly, dropping dry and hard feces from the top of the hall. drop.

As Keir walked away, the mycelium that had been lying on the remains of the fire moved immediately, and ran towards the bat droppings that had just fallen at a 'very fast' slow speed.

That firm momentum, anyone who saw it had to be moved to tears.

Kiel carefully held the wooden box emitting colorful lights. The surrounding steps under his feet were covered with a thick layer of mycelium. I don’t know where these guys came from~www.readwn.com~ The entire relic hall Occupy full.

"Ms. Apolfina will be unhappy if she finds out?"

Fortunately, those hyphae seem to be very afraid of the elf gem in Keel's hand. Before he got close, he sensed that the mycelium curled up under the feet of the elven gemstone, allowing Kiel to step on it and move.

On the stairs around the edge of the hall, these mycelia are not the only ones. Some half-human-sized 'little fat-headed mushrooms' also occupy a lot of stair area, filling up the not-so-wide stairs.

But before Kiel got into trouble, as he approached, those little fat-headed mushrooms blocking the way crowded back one after another, you pushed me, I pushed you, looking for a place to escape regardless.

Most of them ran into the elf house where the water leaked before, and the rest had nowhere to run, so they could only fall down the side of the stairs with a chirp in their mouths.

The sound of them falling came from the bottom of the hall one after another, as well as the chirping sounds of those little fat-headed mushrooms that were not killed.

Keel wasn't sure if the mushrooms hurt, since they're made of lots and lots of hyphae. It just looks like an animal with hands and feet, but whether it is or not is another matter.

He walked all the way down the edge of the stairs, careful not to let himself slip on the stairs full of mycelium and water droplets. When he walked to the sealed stone gate, Kiel also checked that the seal was intact.

An invisible layer on the stone gate blocked the erosion of the mycelium on the ground, and he was relieved to see that the seal was intact.

Afterwards, Kiel continued down in small steps and reached the bottom of the hall.

After he came down and illuminated the surroundings with the light of the elf gem, Keel couldn't help taking a deep breath of the dirty air here.

At the bottom of the hall of the ancient elf ruins, there are fat-headed mushrooms as tall as a person!