Half-elf Ranger

Thorne led the group cautiously through the fungal bushes of the ruins. The pale blue fluorescent flora shrouded everyone, making their figures pale and illusory, as if they had just climbed out of the tomb.

"Wait a minute!" Just as he was about to approach the semi-collapsed ruins, Thorne suddenly shouted to stop everyone's footsteps.

Andrina leaned in front of her, took Thorne's hand, and looked at him with a hint of doubt in her pale golden eyes.

Several people behind him also cast inquiring glances, but no one acted rashly.

"I suspect that there are unknown dangers hidden in this ruin." Thorne looked at the messy footprints on the ground and said his inner thoughts.

"What's the danger?" Malvasia raised her head slightly, with doubts in her tone.

"It's not clear at the moment." Thorne shook his head and continued, "Because we were walking all the way in this direction, I found scattered footprints of ratmen, dire rats, and kobolds passing through here, but they didn't. Almost none returned."

"Brother Thorne, I think you should be overthinking it, my animal companion has explored the surrounding terrain before, and the road we're taking to the ruined building is not a dead end, so the footprints you found may be It left from another direction." Master Qingchen pondered for a while, looked at Thorne with a gentle smile, and expressed his opinion.

"Let's go, don't stay here for a long time, aren't the two Dreadclaw monsters that suddenly came out just now, not impressed enough with you?" Malvasa patted the wolf's head and said indifferently:

"Even if it's dangerous, it's at least safer than being in an empty fungus bush, which, to be honest, looks too infiltrative with a pale blue light."

"That's right." The paladin Peo, who was lying on the back of the dragon blood lizard, nodded slightly with difficulty: "This hazy blue and white halo reflects you all like undead creatures, as long as I look up and see you Pale face, always trying to throw a "Dispel Undead" to purify you all. "

"That's alright, in short, everyone pays attention to safety." Thorne clenched Anderina's hand, looked into her eyes and smiled, and said to everyone.

After a small episode, under the leadership of Thorne, everyone finally came to this relatively intact ruined building, but the scene in front of them made them stunned in place.

The cobblestone floor of this courtyard has been broken with years and is covered with filth, and the walls are also covered with fluorescent and flickering fungi.

However, in the center of the courtyard, a lifelike gray-white stone statue was found, and some of the broken stone statues seemed to have their limbs bitten by sharp teeth.

"Who is so bored to carve a statue of a rat man, a vicious rat and a kobold, and the facial expressions of these statues I always think they look panicked." Orc Sword Saint Kutaig looked at the courtyard The sculpture inside, with a hint of confusion in the scarlet pupils.

"Everyone stand back, there are petrified lizards hidden here!" As soon as Kutaig's voice fell, Thorne seemed to have guessed something, and immediately pulled Andrina away from the ruins.

Petrified lizards are medium-sized reptile magical beasts with eight sturdy thighs. Their body surfaces are covered with scaly scales that can change with the environment, and there are multiple rows of bone spurs on their backs. The exhaled gas contains deadly toxins and is hard. Its minions are capable of smashing rocks.

But that's not the most important thing, the most deadly and powerful weapon of this magical beast is its eyes that emit a bluish white light and are as creepy as two flashlights.

As long as any creature dares to look into the eyes and fails the Fortitude save, it will turn into a lifelike gray-white stone statue in the ruins.

"I didn't expect you to know a lot." Malvasia, who was hanging at the end of the team, glanced at Thorne unexpectedly and nodded secretly.

The other three heard Thorne's reminder, as if they understood something, and immediately opened a certain distance from the ruins.

"You guys stay where you are for now and don't move around at will. I'll go in and investigate and get rid of the hidden petrified lizards by the way." Thorne pondered and instructed the crowd.

"Why don't we change places, there are other ruins nearby." Andrina pulled Thorne and did not let go, but comforted softly.

"It's okay, I can handle it." Thorne patted the back of her hand and said confidently.

"Little brother Thorne, do you need help?" At this time, Master Qingchen took a step forward, first glanced at the ruins, and then asked worriedly.

"No, I'm fine by myself." Thorne looked at Master Qingchen and replied, and after speaking, he turned on the "Sneak" skill, and walked towards the ruins with the help of the shadow.

"Little girl, don't worry, your little lover has taken a fancy to the petrified lizard's eyes. This kind of thing is hard to buy on the surface." Malvasa stroked the wolf's hair, noting that Andrina was worried With a faint smile on his face, he said.

With the help of the shadow, Thorne quietly came to the gray-white stone statue. After carefully checking the messy footprints on the ground, he walked towards the interior of the ruins along the direction of the footprints.

Although petrified lizards are scary, the main reason is because of their petrified eyes. The most important thing to deal with them is not to look at them.

When this petrification ability is disabled, they are actually a large and slow lizard.

As Thorne traced the petrified lizards' movements, getting closer and closer to their lair, his keen hearing also picked up the sound of beating on the walls or the ground.

The slap was more like their stout tails, and it was full of rhythm, fast and slow, so Thorne didn't quite understand what the petrified lizards hidden in the ruins were doing.

Finally, as the clatter grew louder, Thorne tracked down the petrified lizard's lair.

Then he slowly took out the compound longbow and a sharp armor-piercing arrow behind him.

But the only thing that surprised him was that the cave hidden by the petrified lizards did not let him notice in the dark, except for a slightly excited hiss and a tail slap that made the entire half-collapsed ruin seem to vibrate. To the pale blue light of the petrified lizards like a flashlight.

"It turned out to be two petrified lizards, are they fighting?" Thorne, who had judged the number from his voice, couldn't help but have a hint of doubt in his eyes.

So he stood at the entrance of the cave and pondered for a while, seeing that there was never any light blue light in the cave, and soon understood that the two petrified lizards hidden inside should not have opened their eyes.

After all, if two petrified lizards live together, if they want to live in harmony, they must avoid eye contact with each other, otherwise they will be easily petrified by the other side, which is why most wild petrified lizards like to live alone.

Thorne, who wanted to understand this question, quietly looked into the dark cave.

Suddenly, in the depths of the cave, he found two petrified lizards with pale blue scales lying on top of each other on the ground, with their tails tightly entangled, and the two thick tails were full of rhythm with the sound of excited neighing. Feeling slapped the ground, the entire half-collapsed ruins trembled slightly.

At this point, Thorne finally understood why he could hear such a violent tail slap.

"It's so intense, aren't you afraid of shaking the house down?" Thorne murmured, noticing the slightly trembling ruins.

Then immediately put the arrow on the bowstring, looked at the petrified lizard with a very excited expression on it, and aimed the arrow directly at the big mouth of the petrified lizard.

"call out!"

An arrow jumping with a deep purple arc and light orange fire ripped through the air, and with a whistling sound, it all fell into the mouth of the petrified lizard, and the dark purple arc and light orange fire spread to the surrounding in an instant.

The petrified lizard's hard-working body suddenly twitched, and its movements came to an abrupt halt, laying softly on the back of another petrified lizard like a dead fish.

Sensing the blood dripping from the mouth of the petrified lizard above, the petrified lizard lying on the ground groaned and opened its eyes suddenly, two light blue rays of light instantly shone into the pitch-black space.

At this time, Thorne had already put away the composite longbow, took out the sharp long sword, and hid near the entrance of the cave waiting for the furious petrified lizard.

With a low growl, the enraged petrified lizard rushed out of the cave in the ruins.

——“Desert Wind Sect (Strike Skill): Flame Star!”

Just as the petrified lizard's light blue pupils like a flashlight were trying to find the prey that disturbed it, a fiery white light suddenly burst.

The petrified lizard's eyes seemed to be pierced by sharp blades in pain. It couldn't help closing its eyes, and at the same time opened its mouth and unconsciously spewed out a large cloud of poisonous gas.

Thorne naturally wouldn't let the petrified lizard close his eyes. He jumped violently onto the petrified lizard's back, and the Demon Slayer Sword pierced the thick scales of the petrified lizard.

However, the effect is not so obvious. Although it can pierce the scales of the petrified lizard, the blade is stuck by the spine.

Sensing the petrified lizard that has fallen into madness, Thorne understands that standing on his back cannot give the opponent the most fatal blow.

So he jumped down, leaned over to avoid a large cloud of poisonous mist spewed by the petrified lizard, and drilled out of its abdomen.

"Pfft!"

The sharp blade easily pierced through the most vulnerable flesh of the petrified lizard's neck, and the petrified lizard struggled in pain to escape.

But as it ran out of Thorne's attack range, its soft neck was slashed from top to bottom by the sharp blade, and its belly was directly ripped open, and the blood mixed with its internal organs was dragged on the ground.

Thorne looked at the petrified lizard struggling in pain, the long sword was sheathed, and he ignored it, but got into the cave, pulled out the short sword, took out two gem-like eyeballs and put them in the dimension bag.

Then he walked out again. At this time, the struggling petrified lizard was already lying on the ground and began to wailing silently, and the bright eyeballs also dimmed.

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