Original War

Chapter 469 Digging!

The salt cave is completely dark.

In the innermost area, where the fire crystals were digging, a dozen people were waving their weapons, trying to pry up the fire crystals on the ground next to them.

When the accident happened, the leader of the violent fox and the leader of the Sen tribe, because they fled in a hurry, did not come in a hurry to take away the fire crystals that had been dug up. The fire crystal baskets placed next to them were also kicked over. The crystals were scattered on the ground, frozen by the frost spreading from the pit.

At that time, there were indeed some people who followed the leader of the Liehu tribe to leave, but there were also some who could not escape. They missed the best time to escape and stayed in the cave. Some of them felt that staying in the cave was the safest. So he didn’t follow the leader to rush out of the hole.

Now, the leader is not there, and the people in the cave are dead and wounded. No one cares about them. I heard from those who ran out and came back that a huge beast appeared outside. Hide first.

Someone knew about the fire crystals, so they moved their minds and came here, wanting to pry out all the fire crystals on the ground. Fire crystal is still very attractive to totem warriors.

Four people were digging, a person next to him was holding a torch, and more than 20 people were guarding not far away to prevent others from coming to snatch it. Fortunately, the people who escaped into the cave, although some entered the lower salt cave, did not always rush to the innermost. They were worried that the innermost was not safe because there were a lot of frost and people who were frozen to death. If it is safe, then the two leaders would not run out.

Next to the fire crystal pit, the person holding the torch felt chilly even if they were close to the fire source.

The ground around him was full of white frost. They didn’t see what happened here, but they could guess from what they saw.

“Hurry up!” the person guarding not far away urged. They felt that it was too cold around them.

“It’s just digging a fire crystal, why is it so slow!” someone muttered.

“It’s easy to say, do you know how hard these ices are?!” The sword-wielding people panted, and they didn’t understand why the closer to the pothole, the harder the ice, and the ice here and the ice outside. It’s not the same, it’s really too hard, half of the bright flame crystals are already exposed, but it’s still hard to pry up. The copper weapons in their hands are not very good, they can only be regarded as ordinary, the kind that the merchants in Ancheng sold in large quantities, and it is even more difficult to use.

The sword slashed down, and the icy debris splashed on their faces, necks, and mouths.

A soldier shrank his neck, shook his tongue, and licked the icy debris that had just been splashed on his mouth.

“Salty,” the man said.

“Nonsense, of course the ones in the salt cave are salty.”

“His, it’s cold!”

Suddenly heard the movement, a soldier guarding not far away shivered: “What happened outside the cave?”

There was the restless sound of the crowd in the cave, which made them very uneasy.

I vaguely heard someone shouting: “It’s just outside, it’s just outside!”

“That giant beast has come in?!” The people guarding there panicked.

“No, it can’t get in, it certainly can’t.” I don’t know if it’s comforting myself or persuading others.

“But the person in front…”

Before they finished speaking, they heard a roar.

The people in the upper salt cave, at this moment, they seem to be facing a strong wind with frost, blowing people’s breathing to stop, their eyes can not be opened, as if they are in a blizzard outside the cave.

In the salt cave below, a soldier raised his hand to block the oncoming wind. The wind here was not as strong as above. After all, there were many people in the upper cave, and they blocked most of the strong wind.

“Hey, the man in front, what happened?!” a soldier shouted into the wind.

No one responded.

Kakaka——

They seem to hear such a sound in their ears.

Next to the fire crystal pit, the person holding the weapon to pry the fire crystal also stopped at this time, and the torch beside it had been extinguished under the gust of wind just now.

The heat source disappeared and the cold was biting.

The soldier holding the fire extinguishing handle quickly hid in a recessed place behind his memory, took out the prepared ignition tool with the wind behind his back, skillfully recognized the jelly smeared on one end of the ignition rod, and then took out the flint and rubbed it. .

call–

The flame ignited on the ignition rod. Just light it up, it was not hot enough, he wanted to light the torch. The wind is getting smaller and it should be able to burn the torch.

However, before he lighted the torch that had just been extinguished, the fire on the ignition rod was instantly extinguished.

“Ma’s!”

After cursing, the soldier felt the temperature getting lower and lower around him, breathing the air that was about to freeze his lungs, and whispered to the soldier who dug the fire crystal a few steps away: “Which one of you has a firing rod? Me? The last one has been used up.”

No one responded.

There was dead silence all around.

The soldier wanted to say something, but he found that his consciousness seemed to have begun to leave the body, and the surrounding cold could no longer be felt. He only felt that the body was heavy and stiff so that he could not move until he completely lost consciousness.

If there is light, you will find that this soldier has been covered with a layer of hoarfrost from the face to the feet.

But a few steps away, the person who originally digs the fire crystal, kept the posture of holding the weapon, stood there stiffly, without any breath or breath of life, and there was no heartbeat of the more than twenty guards not far away.

The surrounding creaking sound continued, and the frost covered the upper and lower layers of the entire salt cave, and all life stopped.

On the other side, inside the salt cave at Yanjiao.

The three chiefs kept their faces stubborn, and they no longer knew what expressions to show.

They also heard the voice just now, and they could feel the murderous aura in it. Strangely, this murderous aura is not too strong.

This is an intuition.

“Perhaps, it didn’t put us in one’s eyes. He just wanted to get revenge on the people who disturbed it?” Shao Xuan said to the benefit. Although it has the purpose of comforting others, it is not nonsense.

Just like when he lost his way in the cave of the stone insect king insect, the surrounding stones are also changing. He is not too far away from the king insect, and he does not believe that the king insect did not notice his existence. Just ignore it, just like people walking on the road, will ignore the ant on the side of one foot.

“Or is it just that it is in a good mood today, so its murderous aura is not strong?” Zheng Luo tentatively asked. Just now Shao Xuan said that the king beast was in a good mood.

“No matter what, don’t provoke it actively.” Although the temper of this king beast is worse than that of the stone insect king, it is still better than the fierce beast in the forest. Ignore it, it’s a good thing for them.

There was a sudden vibration, then another, another…but every sound was gone.

Shao Xuan quickly came to the entrance of the cave and didn’t stay here for a while. The gap at the entrance of the cave was buried by snow again.

Pushing the snow away, Shao Xuan looked out.

He saw the snake-like figure in the wind and snow, jumping up and down, crawling on the ground for a while and then jumped up.

It’s really…lively.

When the sound was gone, the people in the cave couldn’t help taking a long breath.

“Is it gone?” Zheng Luo asked.

“I should leave here temporarily, but I don’t know when I will come back. After all, this place should be its lair.” Shao Xuan said, “I’ll go out and have a look.”

“I’ll go too.” Zhengluo turned to Duokang and said, “You take care of the people in the cave and don’t let them run out of the way.”

Seeing Zhengluo and Shao Xuan go out, the other two leaders also decided to go out and have a look. They also wanted to know what had become of the outside, while the king beast was not there now. This is a rare opportunity. If you can go back alive, you may be able to record this experience on the animal skin scroll, so that the tribes can know that in this mountain forest, there is such a magical place where the king beast lives. They are here. In a magical place, salt mines have been dug for hundreds of years.

By the way, I’m sure if I can leave here.

Listening carefully to the surroundings, Shao Xuan pushed away the rock and walked out quickly, and when the other three leaders also came out, he pushed the boulder at the entrance of the cave back again.

There was still a strong wind outside and heavy snow, much colder than inside the cave.

The land of strange rocks has been leveled and covered with a thick layer of snow again.

“Go to Liehu’s salt cave and have a look.” Zhengluo suggested.

“Um.”

The four of them walked over there carefully, following the trace of the giant beast crawling, until they reached the salt cave of the Liehu tribe.

There was a hard layer of frost where the giant beasts crawled, and the coolness jumped up from the soles of their feet. When they saw the situation in the salt cave of the violent fox, they felt that it was nothing to be frozen, it was better than these unlucky ghosts.

The mouth of Liehu’s salt cave was covered with a thick layer of white ice. The frost also shrank the entrance of the cave a lot. There was already a layer of ice nearly one meter high at the entrance that was flush with the ground below.

Jump up and walk into the cave.

Zhengluo took the glowing spar and saw the situation in the cave clearly.

Someone was frozen under the ice near the entrance of the cave. This should have been stepped on here while escaping.

Going further inside, they saw some broken pieces.

Yes, broken pieces.

The people who were frozen cracked one by one.

Sen Leng’s chill rushed up from the tail vertebrae along the spine, and the roots of the hair on the back of the neck stood up. Even the three leaders trembled suddenly in their hearts.

Shao Xuan raised his foot and continued to walk in. There were some people blocked there, all standing, in good condition, but they were all frozen and covered with a layer of white.

Passing through the gap between these people, four people came to the lower salt cave.

I thought the lower level would be better, but found out that it was not much better.

Although there is no other breath of life here, but when I see it, I can’t help but feel scared. Covered with a layer of hoar frost, you can see their expressions vaguely, and you can guess from their movements what they want to do before being frozen.

“Huo Jing?” Getting closer, Zheng Luo felt the existence of Huo Jing.

Upon hearing “Fire Crystal,” the other two leaders immediately put aside their fear.

Found the frozen fire crystal on the ground, the three leaders came with enthusiasm.

The King Beast is not there, there are no other living people in the cave, and there are fire crystals on the ground. What should I do?

dig! !