Tokyo underground city

Chapter 10 Second Floor

After arriving on the second floor, Lin Huai'en clearly felt that the passage in the underground city was much wider, extending from the previous width of more than four meters to about six meters. Although some vine holes with a diameter of less than 1 meter would appear from time to time, they still appeared. It is already much more spacious than the first floor.

And from the map, the same is true.

"The area of ​​the second floor is four times that of the first floor. [Cicada-eating ants] will appear from this floor on. Brother Lin, please be careful."

The fat knight walking at the end of the team reminded Lin Huaien.

"Okay." Lin Huaien made a gesture to indicate that he heard.

Considering the width of the passage on the second floor, Lin Huaien and the others shortened the length of their team before entering the second floor. Not long after walking out along the passage on the second floor, they encountered the first foodie since entering the dungeon. Cicada ants.

Unlike the giant ants with black helmets and shiny armor that Lin Huai'en imagined, the cicada-eating ants that actually appeared in front of him had an extremely ugly face.

The ants in his impression were all smooth and round in appearance, but the cicada-eating ant in front of him had a ferocious appearance, with bristles all over its body, and half of its body stood up like a human, about 70 or 80 centimeters tall.

The large palate protruding from the lips was dripping with viscous light green liquid, faintly revealing a strong sour taste.

"It's 'super formic acid'. Brother Lin, be careful. If bitten by them, it will become numb and itchy!"

What surprised Lin Huai'en was that the person who reminded him this time was not the Fat Knight, but Yuan Xiaole who was standing behind him. As he spoke, he shivered subconsciously, as if he thought of something bad.

Lin Huaien then remembered that he had dropped a level on the third level.

In other words, being besieged to death by those sharp jaws that are not very deadly.

Thinking of this, Lin Huai'en also cheered up. Before the cicada-eating ant noticed him, he quickly rushed over and slashed its joints with a sword.

The green juice that exploded instantly startled him, and he hurriedly hid, but a bit of green juice stuck to the back of his hand.

"The joints of these ants are very fragile! After being cut off, they will emit super formic acid..."

Seeing Lin Huai'en's actions, the fat knight instantly smiled bitterly: "Ah... is it too late..."

"It's okay, I brought baking soda powder." Mu Yaya, who had been silent until now, suddenly took out a bag of white powder and a roll of bandages from her backpack.

She ran to Lin Huaien, wiped off the super formic acid on the back of his hand with a white cloth, and then spread it with alkaline baking soda powder to cover it. Although she was very nervous, she could tell that she was already a semi-experienced hand.

"This should be enough. It may still be a little itchy, but it will be fine after a while." After tying the bandage, Mu Yaya reacted, rubbed her bangs shyly, and distanced herself from Lin Huai'en again.

Lin Huai'en thanked her and then looked at the Fat Knight helplessly:

"Are the monsters on the second level already so troublesome?"

Although he knew that cicada-eating ants would spray formic acid after death, he still did not expect that the speed would be so fast and the distance would be so far.

"Cicada-eating ants are very afraid of slashes, but are highly resistant to punctures and blunt objects."

Noticing Lin Huaien's gaze, the fat knight smiled bitterly and showed him the warhammer in his hand: "It is an arthropod. Its body is covered with a thick exoskeleton. There is no vascular septum in the body. All internal organs are soaked in body fluids. Within, with low blood pressure and large blood volume, it is difficult for ordinary punctures and blunt force attacks to have a sufficient impact on them."

"In other words, even if I smash half of its body, it can still attack me."

"Then why do you still use the war hammer?" Lin Huai'en asked subconsciously.

"Because if you hit the cicada-eating ant in the head with a warhammer, you still have a chance of killing it with a single blow. But if you use a sword, you have to move your body to find a suitable angle—it's not as effective as a warhammer when facing a head-on attack."

The Fat Knight said with some emotion: "This is the first time I've seen someone kill them with swords and weapons. It's so simple - it's just that the range of the formic acid spray is a bit far."

"One or two is fine, but when there are more, it does become a bit troublesome."

Lin Huaien nodded and looked at the back of his hand. It was already itching, but it was not unbearable.

If Mu Yaya hadn't helped him deal with it just now, he would have been itching unbearably by now.

At this moment, the fat knight also took the initiative and said:

"Brother Lin, there are not many cicada-eating ants on the second floor. Let me join in. If there is only one cicada-eating ant, you will deal with it. If there are more than one, we will deal with it together. This will help Yaya and Yuan Zi raises his level."

"Okay, how far do you have to go before you can upgrade?"

Lin Huaien looked at his attribute panel——

After being promoted to level three, his upgrade speed dropped a lot. One cicada-eating ant could only increase his experience bar by about one-twentieth.

"Ya Ya needs five or six monsters to upgrade, and Yuan Zi needs almost thirty more." The fat knight replied.

"In this case, we shouldn't need much time." Lin Huai'en estimated: "I'm still seventeen or eighteen. When I reach level 4 and Yuan Zi and Yaya reach level 5, we will go to the third floor. .”

"……OK."

Lin Huai'en noticed that Fat Knight, Yuan Xiaole and Yaya smiled bitterly.

He didn't understand what the wry smile meant at first, but as the team continued to move forward, he finally felt the meaning in the expressions of the Fat Knight and others——

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About half an hour later, two explorers dressed as soldiers stopped in front of Lin Huaien and the others:

"The front is the exclusive territory of the Pulsatilla Guild. I can't let you go without a letter of introduction."

One of the soldiers said expressionlessly.

"Have we come to the end again...Brother Lin, let's go somewhere else."

The fat knight did not argue with the other party, nodded, turned and left.

"These people are...'Enterprise Power'?" Lin Huai'en glanced at the two explorers behind him and frowned.

They are not arrogant, but they have the numbness that Lin Huaien is familiar with.

The two of them are probably around 30 years old, but they can only 'guard the door' here. They must be quite unwilling.

After hearing Lin Huaien's question, the fat knight nodded:

"Yes, the competition on the second level is very fierce, and the space is too divided, so the leader of the enterprise team divided the second level into fifteen pieces, eleven of which are not allowed for us individual figures. 'Exclusive territory' to enter."

"Where are the other four pieces?" Lin Huai'en frowned, clearly feeling something was wrong.

"The other four areas are nominally 'free territories' that we are allowed to enter, but at the same time, other companies are not prohibited from entering. Therefore, in order to maintain the performance of each company, competition in these four areas is also very fierce."

The fat knight replied with a wry smile.

"Once they discover a new monster, they will swarm it and tear it into pieces. Ordinary individuals cannot defeat them, so they can only try their luck on various paths."

"Try your luck..." Lin Huaien thought about it. They walked from the first floor to the second floor for almost two hours, but they only encountered three monsters. If they continued at this speed, they might not encounter them in a day. Ten.

No wonder Yuan Xiaole and the others had that expression before.

Behind Lin Huaien, Yuan Xiaole suddenly became angry: "If it were before, we could reach level 5 in one week! It took us two months!"

"It's not that easy to get to level 5 now. Because of the company's momentum, being able to get to level 5 in two weeks is considered fast."

The fat knight leaned against the vine wall and took a breath. He carried the hammer and shield all the way. He was obviously more tired than the other two: "We have been walking for almost two and a half hours. Let's take a rest."

"What time is it now? Do you want to have a meal?"

Looking at the fat knight's appearance, Lin Huai'en couldn't help but suggest.

"It's not safe to eat in a place like this. Let's take a five-minute break and wait until we get to the explorer camp."

The fat knight shook his head and explained to Lin Huaien: "The hatching speed of the shallow dungeon is very fast. Many adventurers were attacked without even reacting..."

Lin Huaien looked at the fat knight talking with a relaxed expression, and suddenly felt something sticky dripping on his head.

He raised his head subconsciously, and his pupils shrank into a small hole——

"Be careful!" Without enough time to warn, Lin Huai'en pushed the fat knight out.

The next second, a dark brown behemoth fell from the sky and hit him hard where he was.

"It's hatching!" Lin Huai'en heard Yuan Xiaole's cry, and then felt violent vibrations, harsh neighing, and Yuan Xiaole's scream.

Lin Huaien felt that his mind went blank, and he subconsciously pulled out the dagger, but his reaction was not as fast as the fat knight's.

Almost as soon as Yuan Xiaole's scream was heard, the Fat Knight jumped up and roared out -

"Yuan Zi!"

Following the Fat Knight's movements, Lin Huai'en saw an unusually large "dark monster".

The dark brown shell, which is more than three meters high, is as deep as bronze.

And the ferocious crimson light flashed deep in the carapace, making Lin Huai'en feel the anger and pain from its neighing.

"It's the violent cicada monkey! I'm here to stop it, Yaya, use the staff quickly!"

The fat knight held up his shield and rushed towards the bronze cicada monkey. The giant cicada monkey, which was almost twice the size of the other cicada monkeys and had ominous blood stains on its dug feet, also lowered its head and hit the fat knight.

The Fat Knight was not stupid enough to compete with a giant monster that was twice his size and eight times heavier. The moment the Violent Cicada Monkey crashed into him, he threw away his shield and threw himself aside, avoiding the Violent Cicada Monkey. monkey attack.

"Ya-Ya!" Not confident enough to dodge the Cicada Monkey's second attack, the Fat Knight roared, calling for the weak girl who Lin Huai'en thought was just a mascot.

"Acid injection!"

Lin Huai'en heard a slightly trembling and firm cry, and then a crack opened in the head of the violent cicada monkey, and billowing green slurry spurted out.

The pungent smell spread instantly, and it was several times stronger than the super formic acid Lin Huaien had smelled before.

What followed was a harsh neighing.

The dark red light that kept flashing inside the violent cicada monkey suddenly brightened——

Then it exploded.

Pieces of meat exuding a putrid smell, wrapped in dark white or dark green body fluids, splashed out, and the liquid viscera, which was more than ten times the volume of an adult, covered the more than ten meters of tree and vine tunnel.

And as the body fluids burst out, there were four or five black things——

Cicada-eating ants!

Lin Huai'en never expected to see them in the body of the violent cicada monkey.

But it was obvious that these black cicada-eating ants did not realize the current situation.

After being thrown out by the giant cicada monkey, they stood up unsteadily, but they still looked a little confused as they looked around.

"The Fat Knight is still lying on the ground. I don't know how Yuan Xiaole is doing. Yaya..."

Lin Huaien quickly glanced aside. Although the girl was pale, she was still standing, and she had pointed the staff in her hand at the cicada-eating ant closest to her.

"It should be no problem to leave it to her!" Lin Huaien made an instant decision: "Fat Knight, go and stop the two furthest ones, and I will take care of the rest!"

Not caring about the formic acid, Lin Huai'en flew towards the cicada-eating ant closest to him, and before his opponent fully stretched its appendages, he inserted the dagger into its back.

The cicada-eating ant had just been exposed to the air, and its carapace had not yet hardened. He just stabbed and twisted it and pierced it through.

Throwing away the giant ant, which was obviously dead, Lin Huaien pounced on another cicada-eating ant in the center of the field, which was obviously larger and darker than the other ants.

The carapace of this nearly 1.6-meter-tall ant has hardened, and it has stood up, staring at Lin Huai'en with its compound eyes.

Lin Huai'en had a head-on conflict with a cicada-eating ant for the first time. It was still such an individual that was obviously different from other ants. His palms were a little tight, but the pleasure of killing a cicada-eating ant still remained in his heart, plus the above When dealing with the giant cicada monkey, he felt a slight sense of humiliation that it was useless, so he chose to attack it from the front!

Aiming at the head of the large cicada-eating ant, he slashed out with his sword. He still remembered the Fat Knight's statement that the brains of cicada-eating ants were their vital points, and the sharp dungeon dagger had never let him down!

However, this time, the sword blade that was slashing straight at the cicada-eating ant was blocked by a pair of giant fangs - two black sickles stuck tightly on the sword body. Even though the sword blade was extremely sharp, the sword body could not Get rid of the pincer-like fangs!

"Damn it...go to hell!"

Lin Huai'en subconsciously continued to increase his strength, but he didn't want to fly up into the air and fall to the ground.

"... By the way, ants are very powerful and can lift objects a hundred times their own weight... But as the size increases, the strength of the limbs should not increase proportionally..."

For a moment, many thoughts flashed through Lin Huai'en's mind, and finally they condensed into one sentence -

Am I going to die?

At that moment, he looked at the fangs that were constantly approaching him, and he was extremely close to death.

But the next second, the pair of fangs suddenly exploded, and the thick-smelling acid covered his whole body. He closed his eyes subconsciously, and then groped his way out of the pile of acid.

Then, someone ran over and helped him wipe off the acid on his face, then covered it with soda ash and healing potions.

"Great, Brother Lin, you're okay."

The one who helped him dry his eyes was the fat knight. He looked excited and his dark facial skin turned red. But it looked like no harm was done.

Lin Huai'en took a breath and calmed down his excitement: "Fortunately, the mucus from the cicada monkey's self-destruction first covered my body with a layer, so not much acid stuck to it."

After appeasing the fat knight, Lin Huaien looked at the others.

Not far away from him, Yuan Xiaole was leaning against the wall with a pale face, his left shoulder had been pierced, and he was holding a short blade in his right hand. There was a corpse of a cicada-eating ant lying at his feet.

Mu Yaya, on the other hand, was holding on to the wall and kept retching—not that she was disgusted by the corpses at the scene, but simply because of the physiological reaction caused by the depletion of magic power.

[Dizziness, fatigue, a strong sense of imbalance that feels like the brain stem has been ripped out...]

Just listening to the black card magician's description, Lin Huai'en could feel the terrifying feeling, and Mu Yaya used the staff to save him even though he knew this.

"It's good to survive."

The Fat Knight seemed to express Lin Huaien's thoughts.

"Brother Lin, are your eyes okay? Although the treatment potion can be used as eye drops, the recovery speed is not as fast as other places."

"I closed my eyes." Lin Huaien nodded. From just now, he felt a severe burning sensation everywhere on his body that was not covered by mucus and protective gear.

Without soda ash and healing agents, it might peel off like coke.

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