Half Elf Ranger

Chapter 271 Petrified Lizard
Thorn led a group of people cautiously through the fungus bushes in the ruins. The fluorescent fungus bushes glowing pale blue light shrouded everyone, making their figures pale and illusory, as if they had just climbed out of the grave.

"Wait a minute!" Just as he was about to approach the half-collapsed ruins, Thorn suddenly shouted to stop everyone.

Andelina leaned close to her, held Thorn's hand, and looked at him with some doubts in her pale golden eyes.

A few people behind him also cast inquiring gazes, 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 expressed his inner thoughts.

"What danger?" Malvisa raised her head slightly, with doubts in her tone.

"Not sure at the moment." Thorne shook his head, and continued: "Because we are walking in this direction all the way, I found scattered footprints of ratmen, dire rats and kobolds passing by here, but Few have returned."

"Brother Thorn, I think you should be worrying too much. My animal companion has explored the nearby terrain before. The road we are walking to the ruins is not a dead end, so the footprints you found may be They left from other directions." Master Qingchen pondered for a moment, looked at Thorne with a gentle smile, and expressed his opinion.

"Let's go, don't stay here for a long time. The two Dreadclaws that popped out just now, don't they have a deep impression on you?" Malvisa patted the wolf's head, and said calmly:
"Even if it's dangerous, it's at least safer than being in the open fungus, and to be honest, these pale blue-glowing fungi look too intrusive."

"That's right." Peo, the paladin who was lying on the dragon blood lizard's back, nodded with difficulty: "This hazy blue and white halo will reflect you all like undead creatures, as long as I look up and see you Pale face, always wanting to throw a "dispelling undead creature" to purify you all. "

"That's all right. In short, everyone pay attention to safety." Thorn squeezed Anderina's hand, looked into her eyes with a smile, and said to everyone.

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

The cobblestone floors of the compound are crumbling and filthy with age, and fluorescent fungus crawls across the walls.

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

"Who is so bored to carve statues of Ratmen, Dire Rats, and Kobolds, and the facial expressions of these statues always seem to me to be panic-stricken." Orc Sword Master Kutaig looked at the courtyard Inside the sculpture, there was a hint of confusion in the scarlet pupils.

"Everyone back off, there are petrified lizards hidden here!" As soon as Kutaige finished speaking, Thorn seemed to have guessed something, and immediately pulled Anderina away from the ruins.

The petrified lizard is a medium-sized reptile magical beast with eight thick thighs. Their body surface is covered with hideous scales that can change with the environment. There are many rows of bone spurs on their backs. The breath they exhale contains deadly toxins. The minions are capable of crushing rocks.

But that's not the main thing, the most deadly and powerful weapon of this magical beast is its creepy eyes that emit light blue white light like two flashlights.

As long as any creature dares to look into the eyes of these eyes, if it fails the fortitude saving throw, it will become as lifelike as the gray-white stone statue in the ruins.

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

When the other three heard Thorne's reminder, they seemed to understand something, and immediately distanced themselves from the ruins.

"You stay where you are for the time being and don't move around at will. I'll go in and investigate, and get rid of the hidden petrified lizards by the way." Thorn thought for a while, and ordered everyone.

"Why don't we change the place, there are other ruins nearby." Andrina did not let go of Thorn, but softly comforted her.

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

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

"No, I'm fine by myself." Thorn looked at Master Qingchen and replied, then activated the "stealth" 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 eyes of basilisks. It's hard to buy such things on the surface." Malvisa stroked the fur of the warg, and noticed that Andrina was worried. With a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, he said.

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

Although the petrified lizards are scary, the main reason is because of their petrified eyes. The most important thing to pay attention to when dealing with them is not to stare at them.

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

As Thorne tracked the traces of the basilisks' activities and got closer to their lair, his keen hearing also caught the slightest sound of beating the wall or the ground.

This kind of slapping sound is more like the sound of their thick tails, and it is full of rhythm, fast and slow, making Thorne not quite understand what the petrified lizards hidden in the ruins are doing.

Finally, as the slapping became more intense, Thorne tracked down the basilisk's lair.

Then he slowly took out the composite longbow and a sharp armor-piercing arrow behind his back.

But the only thing that surprised him was that the petrified lizard's hidden cave didn't let him notice it in the dark, except for a slightly excited hiss and a tail slap so violently that the entire half-collapsed ruin seemed to be vibrating. To the pale blue light of the basilisks like a flashlight.

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

So he stood at the entrance of the cave and pondered for a while, seeing that there was no light blue light in the cave, and soon realized 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, otherwise they will be easily petrified by each other. This 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 light blue scales lying on the ground overlapping up and down, their tails tightly intertwined. It slapped the ground emotionally, and the whole half-collapsed ruins trembled slightly.

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

"It's so intense, isn't it afraid that the house will collapse." Thorn noticed the slightly trembling ruins and muttered in a low voice.

Immediately after that, he put the arrow on the bowstring, looked at the excited petrified lizard stacked on it, and aimed the arrow directly at the petrified lizard's bloody mouth.

"call out!"

An arrow jumping with a deep purple arc and light orange flame tore through the air, and with a whistling sound, it all sank into the mouth of the petrified lizard, and the deep purple arc and light orange flame spread to the surroundings instantly.

The petrified lizard's hard-working body suddenly twitched, and the movement stopped abruptly, lying limply on the back of another petrified lizard like a dead fish, motionless.

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

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

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

——"Desert Wind School (Strike Skill): Flame Star!"

Just as the light blue pupils of the basilisk, like a flashlight, were searching for the prey that disturbed its good deeds, a ball of fiery white light suddenly burst.

The petrified lizard's eyes hurt as if being pierced by a sharp blade. 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.

Naturally, Thorne would not let go of the opportunity of the petrified lizard to close its eyes. He jumped onto the petrified lizard's back violently, and the Demon Slaying Sword pierced through the thick scales of the petrified lizard.

However, the effect was not that obvious. Although it could pierce the petrified lizard's scales, the blade was stuck by the spine.

Sensing the petrified lizard that had fallen into madness, Thorne understood that standing on the back could not deal the most fatal blow to the opponent.

So he jumped down, leaned over to avoid a large cloud of poisonous mist sprayed by the petrified lizard, and took advantage of the opportunity to drill out of its abdomen.

"Pfft!"

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

But as it ran out of Thorne's attack range, a shocking gap was drawn from top to bottom by the sharp blade on its soft neck, and it was directly disembowelled, and the blood mixed with internal organs was all dragged on the ground.

Thorne looked at the struggling petrified lizard, put his long sword into its sheath, and ignored it, but went into the cave, pulled out his dagger, took 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 howl silently, and its bright eyeballs also dimmed.

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(End of this chapter)