Song of Time – Dusk Awakening Verse

Dark Swamp (Part 2)

After decisively solving the smiling face leopard's lair, a group of four people continued to set off and drove along the predetermined route to the safe base.

Since most of the monsters are at rest during the day, except for occasional encounters with a few daredevils who don't have long eyes at first, it's pretty smooth. However, as the dim sun gradually slanted to the west, more and more monsters appeared in the surrounding area. The Tamiris had to slow down and minimize the collision of sharp claws, so as not to attract unnecessary trouble. .

The chariot walked and stopped, and sometimes had to use the cover of sand and gravel to hide the figure, and finally managed to avoid all unexpected accidents, but when the adventure team was about to reach the safe base, it fell into a dilemma. Embarrassing situation.

At dusk, Rhea was hiding behind a half-person high weathered limestone, raising a low-light telescope to monitor the movement ahead. This is a flat sand and gravel ground. Under the dimming light, only a large black stone brick wall that occasionally appears in the thick fog rolling farther away can only be seen vaguely-it is outside the original Acadina Fortress The sentry stronghold is also the refuge where they could have stayed tonight.

She squatted and hid in the shadows, holding the telescope tightly, her expression very solemn. Suddenly a few low, horn-like howls came from the direction of the guard post. She immediately adjusted her perspective and followed the sound. In the enlarged field of view, a monster shaped like a giant gecko appeared, and the light was revealed. The huge triangular head that came out was afraid that it would not be less than four or five meters long, and there were many hideous black spikes on it, and it was furious.

The rock climbing beast... She bit her lower lip and stared at the behemoth roaring in vain to dissipate the black mist around her body, but was buried in the smoke again in the next moment, and a strange feeling floated in her heart.

According to common sense, this kind of monster with crazy obsession with sunlight will only choose to nest in high-altitude mountain areas in order to get the most abundant light in the already dim swamp. But here is a plain area, and even larger hillsides are rare. Why do they appear here and where did they migrate from?

She stared at the place where the monsters were infested with thick fog, and waited for a moment in silence, until the horn-like cries gradually subsided, and then she closed the binoculars and covered her cloak, turned and sprinted towards the rear with small steps. .

She slid across the rocks like a ghost like a ghost along the low mound, barely making any footsteps, quickly circumventing the limestone body, and drilling through a natural rock gap, and finally saw the Tamiris Pan by the recessed ground. The figure with metallic luster.

"How? How?" Gloria, who had been waiting anxiously by the car door, threw the sniper rifle in her hand into the car, and hurriedly ran forward to grab her and asked repeatedly.

The female archer shook her head silently, glanced around unrelentingly, and grabbed her hand a few steps into the car door. The inside of the car was all black, only two pairs of shiny eyes were looking at her. She closed the door of the car and closed the thick curtain, then took out the small fluorescent lamp from the cloak and placed it on the ground. The inside of the car finally lit up. .

"Why don't you leave... These guys are too shameless!" The girl angrily kicked the sniper rifle at her feet, and sat down on the ground with her hands on her chest. Which idiot brought the rock climbing beast here? If I let this young lady know, he must look good!"

"Small down..." Rhea gently covered her mouth, sat down next to her, and gave Eamon an inquiring look, wanting to know if he has any information related to this matter.

The Great Swordsman was sitting cross-legged, and was rubbing his precious sword with a thick oily skin. He and the female archer looked at each other, shook his head slowly, and focused on the daily maintenance work in his hands.

Rhea knows that he has been around the swamp all the year round, and is far more familiar with this place than anyone else. If even he doesn't know anything... it might be an unfortunate accident. She thought of the one she had encountered in the smiling leopard lair. Unnamed monsters, secretly guessing whether this group of rock climbing beasts were also driven out of their original habitat by stronger monsters, and could only stay here temporarily.

"What can I do now, I'm all hungry... Or let's eat first, and try to find a way after eating!" The girl rubbed her belly bitterly. The big belly is the biggest. If she can't serve her elderly people, Then really nothing can be done!

"You can't make a fire, you can only eat dry food, do you want it?" Rhea glanced at her reproachfully, and took a piece of military dry food that was as hard as a stone from her leather bag and handed it over.

"Don't..." Gloria couldn't bite this rough food that was pressed into small bricks. She flattened her mouth and didn't complain any more. She sighed and shrank her body into a ball.

"Sister Riya, I actually think it's safe here too. As long as we hide in the car and don't get out, and then cover the baffle, we should not be spotted by the monster, right?" Yuno held back for a long time and finally couldn't help it. Raised his doubts.

"You don't understand the horror of the dark swamp." The female archer pressed her throat and stared at him with deep eyes. "Every night, when the true face of this place is revealed, the army of nocturnal monsters will wake up at the same time. , Sweeping the entire swamp back and forth, and once one of them finds you... you must never spend the night in an open area. This is a precious lesson learned with the blood of countless mercenaries."

The little doctor was speechless by her unusually solemn answer. He lowered his head and thought for a moment. Suddenly, he seemed to have a flash of inspiration and asked in a low voice: "You can't be in an open area. Does that mean, as long as there is a closed space? Is it all right?"

"This is only the most basic premise." Riya faintly guessed what he wanted to say, and raised her eyebrows in surprise.

"I...I know that there is a secret road near here. It should be not far away. Or, let's go and have a look first?" The little doctor hesitated at first, but at the end he seemed to be relieved. Become alive.

"Secret Road?" The attention of the companions was instantly attracted by these two words, and even Eamon stopped wiping the giant sword and turned his head around.

"Where?" Rhea didn't ask much about the reason, and immediately spread out the map, raised the fluorescent light to shine on it, and reached out to point out where they were at the moment.

"Let me think about..." The little doctor frowned, staring at the map, trying to recall all the details about the hidden place: the broken canyon, the distant guard tower, and the underground waterway that did not know where it was flowing... …He quickly took his attention, stretched out his hand to poke **** the map, and saw that the position was about a finger-wide distance northeast of this place.

"Are you sure it's safe there?" Rhea stared at that point with an arrow-like gaze, and hurriedly asked without raising his head, quickly searching for relevant information in his mind.

Regarding the disaster, Yuno still had a hurdle in his heart that he couldn't pass. Seeing that they didn't ask any more, he couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, and said confidently: "It is safe there, and the secret road is hidden deep in the crack of the rock. There should be no monsters in the canyon that would have noticed. Besides, the entrance collapsed after we came out, so it would never be easily exposed."

"We?" Gloria, who inquired about it, quickly grasped the point.

"If everyone thinks it is feasible, let's go and take a look first..." The little doctor did not want to disclose the information of that companion, and deliberately avoided answering. The girl was about to ask questions, but was forced by Rhea, who was eager to find a safe zone. bridge.

"Hurry up! The sun is about to set, and you must get there before the last bit of sunlight disappears." She patted the driver's head with a stern face, and her eyes kept scanning the dim light ahead, which was so dark that almost no light was visible. Mist, based on experience, judged whether there was a monster eager to move.

The girl also knew that this was not the time to chat and complain, and immediately drove the chariot at full speed. The six steel claws galloped northeast as if it were full of clockwork, regardless of whether it would attract the attention of the monsters, because the remaining time is not enough. Let them think about these too much.

The rapid noise of smoke and dust really attracted the attention of a lot of monsters. On the road, small and medium-sized monsters kept appearing fast and chasing after the car. There were even a few pus-like turbid energy projectiles flying in. It hit the alloy plate on the surface of the tank, and made a slight sizzle.

The situation seems to be getting more tense, but Gloria was prepared for a long time, and she did not hurriedly push the energy lever to further increase the transmission. The rear of the chariot suddenly sprayed out a wave of air, and instantly doubled the speed. The monster that chased him further and further away, quickly out of the range of the pus bomb, and was temporarily safe.

After driving for about ten minutes, the crack in the rock that Yuno said suddenly appeared in front of the tank. Gloria didn't react for a while and almost couldn't hold the tank. The six steel claws worked hard, and finally grabbed it dangerously. On the edge of the crack.

Rhea opened the skylight as soon as he saw the huge gorge, and before the tank stopped steadily, he threw two sonic bombs attached to the glowstone, and the white light dispelled the black mist. , Fell rapidly along the crack, and finally made two crisp explosions when it landed.

"About two hundred meters, you go down first." She estimated the time for the bomb to fall, and reminded her companion in a low voice. She took out a few flash bombs from the cloak and jumped out of the chariot.

"Be careful!" The female driver yelled without looking back, skillfully controlling the giant scorpion chariot relying on the gripping force of the claws and double tongs, and quickly climbed down the rock wall. The target was the bottom of the crack. Those two faintly visible white glowstones.

Rhea stood alone on the edge of the rift, watching Ying Ying Chuo Chuo not know how many monsters were rolling towards her, but she was not afraid. The divine light in her sharp eyes flickered, and she estimated that the closest batch of monsters was about to enter the attack range, she immediately opened the insurance, and made her best to throw the few flash bombs in her hand forward.

The small sun-like light group burst after a few seconds, like a light barrier sweeping the black mist in the air, and the monsters that were chasing after it were blinded by the dazzling light. The roar of the call sign shook the sky. The herd of animals in front hesitated because they could not see, but those who followed closely behind could not hold their feet. After a chaotic rampage, many black lights representing death squeezed from the herd of animals. Escaped in the middle.

Rhea waved out a thin ice bridge long after throwing a flash bomb, quickly slid down the bridge, and returned to the chariot. After she stood still, she dissipated her supernatural power, picked up the two glowstones from the ground and hid them carefully, looked up and looked at the black fog above where there was no light at all, then jumped onto the skylight and got into the car like a fish. .

"Go away, the nearby monsters will be attracted by this ray of light. You must find the secret passage entrance as soon as possible!" She hurriedly gave instructions, and pulled the little doctor to the bridge, and patted the **** the shoulder again, "Go Light it."

Two blue rays of light were emitted from the crystal eyes of the giant scorpion chariot. Yuno's eyes rounded vigorously, and followed the light's sway, trying to identify anything that made him feel familiar. However, perhaps because the light in the dense black fog is not really bright, or perhaps because he was too nervous, the chariot went back and forth in this strange rocky canyon, and he still could not find the seemingly The secret road just a few steps away.

As the various roars from the sky became denser and clearer, his mind became more and more chaotic. The pressure was rising with fear, and his heart was about to jump out.

"Impossible, it should be right here, I remember right here..." He clasped his hands tightly in prayer, muttering to himself with trembling lips, and sweat dripped down his blue cheeks. But he couldn't even care about it.

"Don't worry, if you think about it again, there are any conspicuous signs or special terrain." Although Rhea was also very anxious, she calmly guided him to dig out the points in the memory.

"The terrain... By the way, there is an underground waterway in there. I don't know where it flows from. Will there be a spring near here?" Yuno almost forgot to mention this important information and patted his forehead vigorously. Han asked expectantly.

"As far as I know, there is no record of the discovery of water sources around here..." The female archer frowned and thought for a while but found nothing. She pushed open the skylight a little sullenly, and looked out. She felt the stench from the night breeze, and faintly heard the sound of smashing rocks on the canyon rock wall. She silently took off the folding bow and held it in her hand. The light flashed, and the ice arrow flew upwards and pierced. Entering the body of a giant ape-like monster climbing on a rock wall, the hapless guy suddenly fell down with a wailing sound.

"They are catching up again!" She shot a few arrows at the incoming beasts, and quickly lowered her head to exhort, "It really can't work, I can only go back to the periphery and find a cave to avoid!"

"What a joke, this lady hasn't eaten dinner yet, so don't hide in the dirty cave so embarrassed!" Gloria was hungry, and she was even more angry when she heard this. The maneuvering chariot swung a few giant tongs towards the side rock wall, smashing the weathered surface and crashing down, revealing a half-person-high hollow. The female archer immediately smelled the water rushing out of it. The cold taste makes me happy.

"It's here!" She immediately jumped out of the chariot and flashed into the cave, throwing the glowstone forward to explore the way. Under the slight brilliance, she could only see that it was a natural cave, and she didn't know why it happened. There is an exit here.

"Haha, I'm really the best! Get out of the way, this lady is going to continue working!" The girl who found the entrance of the hole was full of confidence, shouted several times, and worked hard to dig the hole with the giant tongs Drive, can't wait to get in with the chariot.

In order not to reveal her whereabouts, Rhea ran to the beasts she was chasing, and threw a flash bomb over the far canyon to temporarily obscure the monster's sight. Only a few small jumps went back into the hole. "Hurry up and seal the entrance!" She tentatively shot a few arrows toward the top rock wall of the cave that was six or seven meters high, but only hit two or three leaf-sized gravels. This solid rock formation accumulated over the years is obviously not It is as easy to destroy as the weathered stone outside.

Crushed boulders, of course, had to be done by the big man Emon. Gloria drove the chariot in for a short while because the road was too uneven and changed back to track mode. Dangling the car lights around, watching for strange movements.

The Great Swordsman stood at the entrance and glanced upwards silently, then suddenly pulled out the Horse Sword Sword and jumped up. The red light on the huge sword was faint, and the stalagmites that had been formed after many years were placed on the top like tofu. The pillars are all cut clean.

Large chunks of gravel fell like rain, blocking the entrance of the cave tightly. Rhea was still worried about sealing all the gaps with divine power ice crystals, and then clinging to the rock wall listening to the messy screaming outside the cave gradually It was a relief to go away. She turned around and followed Eamon, who had already left the sword without asking about the result, took out the glowstone lamp and raised it high, exploring this unexpected shelter.

The wet karst caves seem to have nothing special. The dripping water on the stalactites gathered on the ground into small pools of pits and pits, flashing trembling ripples under the illumination of the gloomy light, and the surroundings were silent as death except for the sound of water drops. But she didn't relax her vigilance over this, still holding the longbow in her left hand, and at Gloria's urging, carrying a light, slowly returned to the chariot.

"Okay, okay, let's have dinner first, what's the matter, wait until we have eaten!" The girl who was so hungry greeted her as she lit a bonfire that had already been piled up. Jin Guang immediately pushed away the darkness and brought the warmth back to this underground cave that had been abandoned for a long time.

When I heard Gloria yelling for dinner, Emmon certainly didn’t need to say much. He consciously moved to the trunk to prepare for today’s dinner. The girl also hopped around to help and talked to herself. I ordered a meal as I walked, regardless of whether there were any ingredients. The little doctor looked a little annoyed, and sat down by the fire with his head down, pursing his mouth, still blaming himself for not being able to find the entrance.

Rhea collected her longbow and placed the small glowstone lamp on the ground. She swept away the sternness and smiled and sat beside him with relief: "It has been so many years, even the fortress towers made of black stone have been It has worn a lot, let alone this weathered canyon?"

"I should think about it more clearly... Fortunately, Leah hit the ground and found the hole, otherwise I really don't know what to do..." Yuno smiled bitterly and sighed. The thrilling crisis situation just now left him with lingering fears. The sweat on the palm of the hand has not disappeared yet.

"Hey! What is crooked beating! This lady has accurately calculated it!" The girl with very pointed ears immediately became unhappy when she heard someone speak ill of herself behind her back. She turned her arms around her, staring at her. He retorted loudly, "Hmph, you don't understand it, but you have to consider the terrain, the climate, the temperature and humidity, and... hey? Do you want to eat fragrant fruit bacon and egg fried rice today? Great Now! Now, big man, give me more eggs! OK?"

She shook her fingers in the middle of the sentence, and was attracted by the food in Eamon's hands. She kept entangled with her face and asked for extra weight. She had already thrown that matter out of the cloud, the fire. The two beside them could only smile at each other helplessly.

This interruption made the little physician feel much better. He reached out and picked up a piece of wood to straighten the fire. The hot flame shook his face and his heart became hot.

"Don't have too much pressure, just do your best..." Rhea patted his shoulder again and softly encouraged. She lifted the lamp in her hand and walked towards the depths of the cave with her cloak. She had to take advantage of this moment. Walk around carefully to prevent any accidents.

Yuno stared at her tall and straight back, and suddenly felt very envious: Sister Rhea was always so calm, courageous and strong. There seemed to be no problems she couldn't solve, nothing she didn't dare to face... Maybe, this It's something called mature...

He watched the thin figure silently disappear into the distant corner, and a certain resolution flashed through the beating golden pupils.