After being reborn, I got HE with my deadly enemy [Interstellar]
Chapter 28 The Injured Huo Qi
Jiang Li's head burst into flames, crackling and crackling.
Relic hunters have always paid the most attention to rescue. No one wants to be rescued when they are in danger, so as long as their teammates have a breath, they will not give up. It's like being wrapped in snakes. Hou San, who ran all the way in the tent with his back on his back, was the same.
But when Chen Xi mentioned it like this, it seemed like Jiang Li was forcing them to die, and coupled with the ferocious snake tide just now, everyone suddenly thought of retreating.
When there are too many people, people's hearts are like a big ball of thread that has been messed up. All kinds of threads are intricately linked together, and if one place is involved, the whole ball of thread will roll up inexplicably.
So the more people there are, the harder it is to control the situation.
And most of the threads are in Chen Xi's hands——Chen Xi specially invited some relic hunters who are familiar with him when he came to Dark Star this time, and the relationship between them is far better than the relationship with Jiang Li Get a lot closer.
Don't underestimate this relationship, when it comes to life and death, this group of people will really stand on Chen Xi's side because of it.
But the more it is like this, the more you can't lose your composure. When fighting for people's hearts, you must not rely on brute force.
Jiang Li tightly strangled the butcher's stretched arm, and said in a soft voice, "The snake's nest is very dangerous, but those are our teammates. As long as I don't see their bodies, I can't treat them as dead. In this regard, I am indeed not as cruel as Captain Chen."
"However, I won't let you all accompany me to take risks in vain. The team that went down to the snake's nest with me today, no matter whether they succeed in finding Huo Qi or not, I will make a potion for you in the future. You can choose what kind of potion you want. , I will provide the materials."
As soon as Jiang Li's words fell, the relic hunters around were all moved.
The price of pharmacists making medicines is extremely expensive, and those pharmacists are all over the top, they only serve the rich, and they don’t take their orders at all. Apprentices custom-made medicines, unlike Jiang Li, who also prescribes the right medicine for their physique, Jiang Li also prepares the materials himself, so they are making money no matter what.
But after a while, someone responded to Jiang Li's words.
"I'm going, I want a life-extending potion."
"I'll go too, I want to strengthen my body."
"I want to improve my genes."
"Hey, I'm here to save people! Medicine is second, second."
As soon as the number of people who opened their mouths increased, everyone gained confidence. It seemed that even the tide of snakes was not so scary. Jiang Li took advantage of the heat and led people to the direction of the snake's nest.
Surprisingly, Chen Xi and Sheng Yuan also followed.
Jiang Li always felt that Chen Xi wanted to make trouble, but he really couldn't make up his mind to deal with him, and there was no reason to refuse him. The Snake Nest was not his home, and he couldn't control whether he went or not, so he could only keep it in mind. , so as not to be plotted against by Chen Xi.
Before he left, he also ordered Hou San's teammates to take Hou San to find his teacher on the starship, and then sent a message to the ghost hand, telling him about the current situation, and told the ghost hand not to leave his teacher.
The three of them were "dereliction of duty" if they were not guarding by the client's side. Logically speaking, they accepted the protection task and should not leave Li Rui at all.
Although it is safer on the starship, Li Rui's value is too expensive now. He can be said to be a well-known pharmacist in the empire. flooded.
After seeing off Hou San, Jiang Li hurriedly led the people towards the snake's nest. When passing by the Red River, they found that the small silver fish in the Red River had disappeared, as if to avoid the tide of snakes, only the river full of black gold was left. It is estimated that it will be cheaper than a lot of relic hunters.
Some relic hunters who knew they were not capable enough stayed to dig for black gold, and only relic hunters who had confidence in their own strength followed Jiang Li to continue down.
This actually included Sheng Yuan.
During the period, Chen Xi tried to let Sheng Yuan go back, but Sheng Yuan followed him firmly, holding his head up and saying, "Brother Chen Xi is not here, I am very scared."
Chen Xi had always followed him, and was confident that he could protect Sheng Yuan, so he let him go to the snake's nest together.
The snake's nest is easy to identify. There are many cracks on a piece of yellow land, as if a giant knife has cut the ground. Below the countless cracks, at first glance, the bottom is dark, and it doesn't seem to be very deep. But if someone Throw a fluorescent stick down, and you will find that the crack is almost [-] meters deep.
"These double-headed snakes all climbed up from the cracks and cracks in the ground."
"The narrow gap is only a few centimeters, but the wide one is more than half a meter."
"That's where our people go down."
While speaking, everyone had already come to the top of a ground crack that was about one meter long. Looking down from the top of the ground crack, they could only feel a gust of wind mixed with earthy smell and bloody smell blowing from bottom to top, making people squint. squint.
Next to the cracks in the ground, there are vertical nails driven into the dry loess soil—these vertical nails are generally only [-] centimeters long, and are tied with ropes. They are driven into the ground by special nail guns, and they can usually carry the ropes deep into the ground The land is about five meters long, which can probably hold the weight of two relic hunters, and there is a pulley block mechanism on the vertical nails. The people below can pull them up, so that they can escape when they are in danger. When they need to go down the river or In places like cliffs, vertical spikes are mostly used.
In a hurry, the nail gun is also an offensive weapon, and ordinary rocks can be broken into holes.
There are six vertical nails next to the seam, that is to say, at least six people went down.
In the end, seven people decided to go down with Jiang Li, making a total of eight people including Jiang Li.
Butcher Jiang Li, Chen Xi Shengyuan, and four individual soldiers.
The spirit bodies of these four individual soldiers are A-level chimpanzee, A-level German shepherd, B-level owl, and B-level polar bear. Among them, the chimpanzee soldier was the first individual soldier who ran up from the bottom of the Red River at that time.
Mental power is divided into grades. Under the pressure of mental power, even if a B-level polar bear is a few laps older than an A-level German Shepherd, it can't beat the German Shepherd.
However, these few people are really good in the relic hunter circle of the Golden Lion Association. With them, even if they can't find anyone, they can bring Jiang Li up safely.
Before going down, everyone smeared some odor-masking powder on their bodies to confuse the two-headed snakes below and prevent them from coming up to bite people by smelling them.
After applying the powder, everyone started to make preparations for going down to the ground seam. The butcher used a nail gun to drive a new vertical nail, and then went down the ground seam together with Jiang Li on his back while grabbing the climbing rope.
This crack is narrow at the top and wide at the bottom. The upper part is hard and dry soil, but the lower part is rocky, and the air gets wetter as the rope goes down. Jiang Li speculates that there may be a water source like an underground river below.
The further you went down, the colder and darker the surroundings became. Jiang Li leaned on the butcher's back and took out the searchlight on his head. A beam of light came down from above his head, piercing the darkness brightly.
The rock walls are rugged, and occasionally black grass and some weird-looking bugs can be seen.
When the rope descended to about 100 meters underground, they finally saw the ground.
The ground is hard and cold rock, rough and covered with moss, very slippery. The cracks in the ground are about three or four meters wide. When people look up, they can see a red sky above their heads.
The deeper you go, the smaller the gap above the head, and the bigger the gap below. After walking for about 2 minutes, I actually walked into an underground cave. The cave is very long, and there are rocks and small wet puddles everywhere. , Occasionally, human bones can be seen, and rats seem to gather beside the bones. As soon as a person walks over, the rats run away.
Ever since Jiang Li came down, he saw the chimpanzee soldiers swaying fluorescent powder all the way, as a guidepost for lighting and guiding the way.
Below this piece of yellow land is actually empty. There are small passages formed by gaps around a large cave, which cannot be entered by people. There are mice and small scorpions crawling in it. The whole cave looks like intertwined intestines. .
"This bone looks very fresh." Jiang Li's miner's lamp was very bright, and the light fell on the bone on the rocky ground. He shook his head from side to side, letting the light circle around the human bone. Sure enough, he saw some blood, and Meat shreds that haven't been eaten.
"Wait." The owl soldier suddenly signaled Jiang Li to stop in a low voice. Jiang Li kept his head tilted, and saw the owl soldier step forward and use the light blade to push aside the bones.
Borrowing the light, the owl individual picked up a team bracelet with a light blade.
When he saw the team bracelet, Jiang Li's blood seemed to be frozen.
"It's a member of our guild, Team One Star, named Wang Ermazi." The owl soldier looked down at the skeleton again, with a pitiful tone: "The bones have been eaten up, so I'll take the squad bracelet back."
When Jiang Li heard that it wasn't Huo Qi, he recovered from the coldness, took a light breath and said, "Is this the only bone? What gnawed him away, is it a snake?"
While speaking, Jiang Li looked around, but he didn't see a single snake.
"This group of double-headed snakes live under here." The chimpanzee soldier lowered his voice: "I saw them come out of these cracks with my own eyes, but why can't a single snake come across it now?"
At this time, the owl soldier reminded Jiang Li: "Master Jiang, turn off the searchlight, it's too bright, it will attract the attention of some reptiles, you need to get used to the darkness first, and then use a light stick will be better."
Jiang Li said "Thank you" and hastily turned off the searchlight.
After turning off the light, he couldn't see anything. Fortunately, the butcher was by his side to protect him. It didn't matter if he couldn't see well.
In the darkness, Jiang Li heard Chen Xi's voice.
"There are many ground fissures on the loess land, and the bottom of these fissures should be interconnected. We can analyze the surface trend and specific orientation on the loess land, but when we go below, we have to shuttle through countless caves. I guess, Huo Qi They should have come across a wave of snakes after they came down, and they were scattered by the wave of snakes."
"The people who come down are all good hands. We can apply medicine powder, and they are no exception. In addition, the terrain here is complicated. I estimate that they should have fled in all directions, or they may have been eaten elsewhere. There are too many twists in this place. , any crack may be connected to other directions, and it is not easy to search here."
Chen Xi paused, and then said: "Besides, there will be two-headed snakes lurking around here. We haven't encountered them now, so it's probably just luck, but if we continue on, luck may not be good."
After all, they are still pouring cold water on them.
The team itself is just a relationship of interests, not reliable, and there is always such a person who is singing the opposite tune, the team can disband at any time, but it is about Huo Qi, no matter how angry Jiang Li is, he can't turn his back. Once he turns his back, the team will definitely If he wanted to break up, he could only grit his teeth and fight with Chen Xi.
"What Captain Chen said is very reasonable." Jiang Li said, "But we have already come down, so we can't just turn around and leave. At least we have to look for it. I suggest that everyone keep moving forward. Whether you find it or not, it will take an hour. After that, we all meet here and leave here."
Jiang Li actually wanted to say "two hours", but after thinking about it, he finally gritted his teeth and shortened the time to one hour.
It wasn't that he didn't want to search for a while longer, but that he was afraid that if he asked for too long, the group of relic hunters would be dissatisfied, and the teammates who came here would naturally not be willing to follow him to find Huo Qi like a butcher.
One hour is exactly the bottom line for everyone.
All the relic hunters, look at me and I look at you, and they all nodded in agreement. In the end, the German Shepherd hit the head alone and groped forward. The second was a polar bear, the third was an owl, and the fourth was a chimpanzee. Li Shengyuan is tied for five or six places, and the seven or eight are Butcher and Chen Xi.
Everyone was walking, and when they reached a certain place, the leading German Shepherd soldier suddenly stopped, Jiang Li followed behind, and vaguely heard the sound of gasping for air.
Jiang Li bypassed the crowd in front of him, looked into the distance, and was startled.
They were on a raised rock wall, which was clearly underground, but when they came out, they were all blown in the face by the head-on wind.
The wind was fierce and fierce, Jiang Li squinted his eyes.
At the same time, the chimpanzee soldier next to him whispered: "Is this... a dungeon? There is actually a lost civilization in the dark star."
About a few hundred meters away, there is a huge city stretching for thousands of miles, only a part of it can be vaguely seen in the darkness, and the end is endless. The inside of the city is dead silent, standing under the yellow earth, quietly waiting for these visitors.
Drilling down from the cracks on the surface, after walking for a while, they found an underground city—this discovery made the relic hunters present breathe a little more quickly.
Because, the job of a relic hunter is to search for lost civilizations.
In the long cosmic galaxy, countless civilizations have been born, such as the ancient Egyptian pyramid civilization, the orc civilization in the Western Regions, the mysterious oriental cultivating immortal civilization, the high-dimensional mechanical civilization, the mermaid civilization, the elf civilization, the dwarf civilization, the Zerg civilization, etc. wait.
Some civilizations have spread widely in the universe, but more civilizations have been buried in the long river of history because they have not been discovered, and have become relics of civilizations one after another.
In the beginning, in order to collect these lost civilizations, the official people of the empire formed the official organization 850 base, which was dedicated to wandering and searching in each planet. Later, they found some valuable things and sold them when they came back. Some people in the empire I moved my mind.
What the official people can sell, they can naturally sell. There are many people in the empire who can't afford to study and don't have a good background, but they are born with a spiritual body and the strength to fear death. This group of people started to mess around Run, dig civilizations on other planets and sell them back.
This is the origin of the relic hunter.
In the beginning, the relic hunters only sold lost civilizations, but later on, as long as they could be sold for money, no matter what they were, the relic hunters would not pick anything. In the end, because the market was born, the "acceptance of commissions" was born. The function of the relic hunter has gradually become a profession, and it has become the last choice of some lower class people.
After all, as long as a person is alive, he can become a relic hunter. There are often some people with low levels of mental power, poor families, and people who are in desperate need of money to risk their lives to become relic hunters.
With the development of relic hunters up to now, the guild management model has been formed among the people. Some guilds have deep foundations, and they are not far behind the official organization 850. Even sometimes, 850 encounters difficult problems. After consideration, They will directly submit a commission to the guild.
When almost every relic hunter enters the industry, he yearns to find the lost civilization by himself—those flowers, grass, and black gold are all objects with no origin, and they are things that grow naturally. They are valuable because of necessity. Do something that saves lives, or it can be used as medicine, but those civilizations are different.
Those stone tablets that recorded the life of the ancients, the words written by the predecessors, and the porcelain fired in ancient times, in the words of the nobles of the empire, these are all treasures, and they are civilizations that their inferiors do not understand. Everything is pricey.
And as long as it is successfully taken out and made famous, the value of the relic hunter will also rise and become famous in the industry, so the relic hunters present are green-eyed.
When Jiang Li saw this dungeon, in addition to the initial shock, he also felt a little grateful.
He didn't care about the lost civilization, but after seeing this dungeon, he knew that Huo Qi was saved.
No relic hunter will let this city go, when the time comes, people from the whole yellow land will come down, if there are more people, someone will always see Huo Qi.
"Let's go down." Chen Xi said.
"Let's not enter the city rashly." Jiang Li's voice almost fell with Chen Xi's voice. The two of them looked at each other, and there was a cold light in each other's eyes. Chen Xi moved his lips, but did not make a sound. , Jiang Li continued: "First find someone to go back and report the news, let the relic hunters of our Golden Lion Guild come down first, try to block the news from the outside world, just say that we will go down to find the lost companions, and wait until the people from other guilds react. By then, we had picked most of the peaches."
After a pause, Jiang Li said, "It's the same for my client, don't mention the dungeon to him."
Jiang Li's remarks were made entirely from the perspective of the vice president of the Golden Lion Guild. Everyone present was from the Golden Lion Guild. No one disapproved of his words, but Chen Xi's "let's go down" seemed to be Something is wrong.
If they are all trapped here, there will be no reinforcements for a while.
Invisibly, Jiang Li's words were more serious than Chen Xi's words, and Jiang Li quietly pinched some "threads".
Although both of them are vice presidents, Jiang Li is obviously more sober. The more dangerous the relic hunters are, the more they tend to be calm and intelligent leaders. The reason for leaving the team - the captain wants to die, and everyone must die, but the captain must be smart, so that everyone can live and make money.
In the end, Jiang Li chose the German Shepherd to go back alone, and the rest of them opened the way first.
There is at least a few hundred meters between their protruding rock wall and the ancient underground city. They have to create a safe path first, and when the big troops come, they can go down directly.
After the German shepherd left, he changed to a chimpanzee and an owl to lead the way. He climbed down the rock wall to find a way out, while the polar bear patrolled around to avoid the double-headed snake generals. They surrounded.
After everyone around them moved, only Chen Xi Shengyuan and Jiang Li Butcher were left waiting at the spot.
The atmosphere among the four of them was weird, and none of them spoke. During the period, the butcher tugged at Jiang Li's sleeve. The butcher didn't speak, but Jiang Li knew that he was worried about Huo Qi.
Jiang Li tugged his sleeve back and made a "wait" gesture.
According to Jiang Li's thinking, Huo Qi should be in the dungeon.
They walked all the way just now, the biggest and most convenient way is the one leading to the dungeon, if Huo Qi sees the dungeon, it is normal for Huo Qi to go in to avoid the snake tide.
It's just that there may still be risks in the dungeon, and they need a large number of people to go down.
The butcher didn't understand Jiang Li's plan, but he was obedient, and Jiang Li told him to wait.
Until 10 minutes later, the German Shepherd came with a large number of relic hunters from the Golden Lion Association.
The relic hunters of the Golden Lion Association were all excited when they saw the dungeon, like wild horses that had run loose, and they rushed into the dungeon with full energy. The polar bear ran back in a hurry, just as the chimpanzee and the owl came back alone. The two of them found out the way and led the crowd to the dungeon ahead.
The underground city is much more majestic than imagined. The moat has long since dried up, leaving only a dead city. You can smell the dust when you approach it. I don’t know how many years it has been sealed.
"It looks like a very ancient oriental city, only the oriental people would build a moat in front of the city."
"Hey! Oriental civilization! It should be able to sell for a lot of money, right? The last discovered oriental civilization seems to have sold for a lot of money!"
"I heard that there are many porcelains in the East, so it's hard to move."
A group of relic hunters chattered excitedly on the road, but when they reached the dungeon, everyone fell silent and held the Shining Blade tightly.
The underground city is towering and towering. I didn't see it clearly from a distance before, but now I got closer and realized that all the buildings here are actually made of black gold!
Rows of low-rise houses seemed to have no tall buildings in that era, and the tallest was a small courtyard on the second floor. In the middle of the dungeon, there seemed to be a large mansion with black cold light everywhere.
It means that every brick and tile of this dungeon is sold at a high price.
Moreover, there are some tables, chairs and benches in the house, which are in good condition, except for the dust on them, there is basically no damage.
All the relic hunters were rubbing their hands greedily. In order to see the dungeon clearly, they finally lit up the miner's lamp, and they were even more excited when they saw the light—it's about to develop!
The number of people who came this time was less than a hundred people. With so many people, it is no longer suitable for a group of people to gather together and search in groups. So before going in, Jiang Li divided the hundred people into five teams, each with 20 people. people, and divided the search territory.
"Remember to ask for help when you are in danger. Take any good things according to your own ability. When your teammates are attacked, you must remember to support them. There are many good things in the dungeon. Each team can only search on the territory that they can search. , don’t go to other people’s territory to search for other people’s things.”
Jiang Li pointed to the door and said, "I won't leave the gate. If a teammate is injured, he will be sent to the door as soon as possible. I will be in charge of rescue."
Jiang Li paused, then said, "If you see my missing team member, remember to call me."
Jiang Li's arrangement can be said to be flawless. First, each team was assigned a search area, and each team only searched within its own range, so as to prevent the internal staff of the Golden Lion Guild from competing with their teammates because of the search. He also voluntarily gave up the opportunity to go in and search, and voluntarily acted as a medical kit to treat everyone at the gate and provide everyone with medical insurance. Naturally, everyone was willing to sell him face, and a group of people repeatedly said yes.
"When you meet Huo Qi, you will be the first to send him back."
"Master Jiang, don't worry, Huo Qi is definitely fine."
After a group of people left, Chen Xi and Sheng Yuan also entered.
The butcher finally spoke, a little sullenly anxious: "Are we really not going in to search?"
"No." Jiang Li shook his head: "The dungeon is so big, the two of us must not be able to find it as quickly as they do, and only if I stay here and promise to treat them, they will be interested in Huo Qi."
Everyone wants to sell Jiang Li's favor, and Jiang Li can remember them with a little effort, so why not do it?
Jiang Li's calculation was indeed correct, but within ten minutes, someone rushed over and said, "Master Jiang, we found the missing team members, and Huo Qi is also there, but—"
"Where is he?" Jiang Li was overjoyed, dragging the butcher to rush over to ask.
"Man, man is in a room at the back." The relic hunter faltered and pointed in one direction, not daring to say more.
Jiang Li knew something was wrong, but he didn't bother to ask, and rushed over with the butcher first.
He led the butcher through the streets and alleys of the underground city, stepped on the ground paved with black gold, and rushed to a low door. In this ancient house, there were four people, Everyone was tied up and rolled desperately on the ground, because no one was restraining them, so those hissing and screaming kept drilling into people's ears.
From a distance, Jiang Li saw that a second sarcoma had grown on the side of the necks of this group of people. The sarcoid had grown to the size of two fists, and the facial features could be seen faintly.
It has the same symptoms as Hou San above, but it looks much more serious than Hou San.
Jiang Li's heart sank. This looked too much like an infectious disease, and he hadn't found the source yet. If this disease spread, would all of them turn into two-headed snakes?
When Jiang Li glanced aside, he was slightly relieved.
A total of six relic hunters came down to catch the double-headed man-faced snake before, one died on the road, four fell here, and only one Huo Qi fainted inside the house covered in blood.
A group of relic hunters surrounded these five people, and the atmosphere was weird.
When Jiang Li arrived, he heard Sheng Yuan say: "These four people have become like this, will Huo Qi also become a human snake? What if it infects us? Or we should lock him up first. , don't touch him."
When Sheng Yuan said these words, his voice was full of worry and uneasiness. As a poor medical soldier, he seemed to be purely afraid when he said these words.
But the relic hunters present began to think seriously because of his words—should Huo Qi be locked up?
When they found Huo Qi, the room was already in this state. Four people were tied up, and one Huo Qi was in a coma. He tried his best to subdue and tie up the four people, and eventually fell into a coma due to serious injuries.
Probably because they were afraid of being infected, the rest of the people didn't go in.
Jiang Li's eyes turned red when he saw Huo Qi was seriously injured, he strode towards the room, but was stopped by Chen Xi when he was about to enter the door.
"Huo Qi may have been infected." Chen Xi narrowed his eyes and looked at Jiang Li, and said, "If you go in, you may also be infected. I suggest that you block this place first and wait for rescue to come. After careful study Touch them again."
"I know you and Huo Qi have a "deep relationship", but you can't make fun of everyone's lives, right?"
Relic hunters have always paid the most attention to rescue. No one wants to be rescued when they are in danger, so as long as their teammates have a breath, they will not give up. It's like being wrapped in snakes. Hou San, who ran all the way in the tent with his back on his back, was the same.
But when Chen Xi mentioned it like this, it seemed like Jiang Li was forcing them to die, and coupled with the ferocious snake tide just now, everyone suddenly thought of retreating.
When there are too many people, people's hearts are like a big ball of thread that has been messed up. All kinds of threads are intricately linked together, and if one place is involved, the whole ball of thread will roll up inexplicably.
So the more people there are, the harder it is to control the situation.
And most of the threads are in Chen Xi's hands——Chen Xi specially invited some relic hunters who are familiar with him when he came to Dark Star this time, and the relationship between them is far better than the relationship with Jiang Li Get a lot closer.
Don't underestimate this relationship, when it comes to life and death, this group of people will really stand on Chen Xi's side because of it.
But the more it is like this, the more you can't lose your composure. When fighting for people's hearts, you must not rely on brute force.
Jiang Li tightly strangled the butcher's stretched arm, and said in a soft voice, "The snake's nest is very dangerous, but those are our teammates. As long as I don't see their bodies, I can't treat them as dead. In this regard, I am indeed not as cruel as Captain Chen."
"However, I won't let you all accompany me to take risks in vain. The team that went down to the snake's nest with me today, no matter whether they succeed in finding Huo Qi or not, I will make a potion for you in the future. You can choose what kind of potion you want. , I will provide the materials."
As soon as Jiang Li's words fell, the relic hunters around were all moved.
The price of pharmacists making medicines is extremely expensive, and those pharmacists are all over the top, they only serve the rich, and they don’t take their orders at all. Apprentices custom-made medicines, unlike Jiang Li, who also prescribes the right medicine for their physique, Jiang Li also prepares the materials himself, so they are making money no matter what.
But after a while, someone responded to Jiang Li's words.
"I'm going, I want a life-extending potion."
"I'll go too, I want to strengthen my body."
"I want to improve my genes."
"Hey, I'm here to save people! Medicine is second, second."
As soon as the number of people who opened their mouths increased, everyone gained confidence. It seemed that even the tide of snakes was not so scary. Jiang Li took advantage of the heat and led people to the direction of the snake's nest.
Surprisingly, Chen Xi and Sheng Yuan also followed.
Jiang Li always felt that Chen Xi wanted to make trouble, but he really couldn't make up his mind to deal with him, and there was no reason to refuse him. The Snake Nest was not his home, and he couldn't control whether he went or not, so he could only keep it in mind. , so as not to be plotted against by Chen Xi.
Before he left, he also ordered Hou San's teammates to take Hou San to find his teacher on the starship, and then sent a message to the ghost hand, telling him about the current situation, and told the ghost hand not to leave his teacher.
The three of them were "dereliction of duty" if they were not guarding by the client's side. Logically speaking, they accepted the protection task and should not leave Li Rui at all.
Although it is safer on the starship, Li Rui's value is too expensive now. He can be said to be a well-known pharmacist in the empire. flooded.
After seeing off Hou San, Jiang Li hurriedly led the people towards the snake's nest. When passing by the Red River, they found that the small silver fish in the Red River had disappeared, as if to avoid the tide of snakes, only the river full of black gold was left. It is estimated that it will be cheaper than a lot of relic hunters.
Some relic hunters who knew they were not capable enough stayed to dig for black gold, and only relic hunters who had confidence in their own strength followed Jiang Li to continue down.
This actually included Sheng Yuan.
During the period, Chen Xi tried to let Sheng Yuan go back, but Sheng Yuan followed him firmly, holding his head up and saying, "Brother Chen Xi is not here, I am very scared."
Chen Xi had always followed him, and was confident that he could protect Sheng Yuan, so he let him go to the snake's nest together.
The snake's nest is easy to identify. There are many cracks on a piece of yellow land, as if a giant knife has cut the ground. Below the countless cracks, at first glance, the bottom is dark, and it doesn't seem to be very deep. But if someone Throw a fluorescent stick down, and you will find that the crack is almost [-] meters deep.
"These double-headed snakes all climbed up from the cracks and cracks in the ground."
"The narrow gap is only a few centimeters, but the wide one is more than half a meter."
"That's where our people go down."
While speaking, everyone had already come to the top of a ground crack that was about one meter long. Looking down from the top of the ground crack, they could only feel a gust of wind mixed with earthy smell and bloody smell blowing from bottom to top, making people squint. squint.
Next to the cracks in the ground, there are vertical nails driven into the dry loess soil—these vertical nails are generally only [-] centimeters long, and are tied with ropes. They are driven into the ground by special nail guns, and they can usually carry the ropes deep into the ground The land is about five meters long, which can probably hold the weight of two relic hunters, and there is a pulley block mechanism on the vertical nails. The people below can pull them up, so that they can escape when they are in danger. When they need to go down the river or In places like cliffs, vertical spikes are mostly used.
In a hurry, the nail gun is also an offensive weapon, and ordinary rocks can be broken into holes.
There are six vertical nails next to the seam, that is to say, at least six people went down.
In the end, seven people decided to go down with Jiang Li, making a total of eight people including Jiang Li.
Butcher Jiang Li, Chen Xi Shengyuan, and four individual soldiers.
The spirit bodies of these four individual soldiers are A-level chimpanzee, A-level German shepherd, B-level owl, and B-level polar bear. Among them, the chimpanzee soldier was the first individual soldier who ran up from the bottom of the Red River at that time.
Mental power is divided into grades. Under the pressure of mental power, even if a B-level polar bear is a few laps older than an A-level German Shepherd, it can't beat the German Shepherd.
However, these few people are really good in the relic hunter circle of the Golden Lion Association. With them, even if they can't find anyone, they can bring Jiang Li up safely.
Before going down, everyone smeared some odor-masking powder on their bodies to confuse the two-headed snakes below and prevent them from coming up to bite people by smelling them.
After applying the powder, everyone started to make preparations for going down to the ground seam. The butcher used a nail gun to drive a new vertical nail, and then went down the ground seam together with Jiang Li on his back while grabbing the climbing rope.
This crack is narrow at the top and wide at the bottom. The upper part is hard and dry soil, but the lower part is rocky, and the air gets wetter as the rope goes down. Jiang Li speculates that there may be a water source like an underground river below.
The further you went down, the colder and darker the surroundings became. Jiang Li leaned on the butcher's back and took out the searchlight on his head. A beam of light came down from above his head, piercing the darkness brightly.
The rock walls are rugged, and occasionally black grass and some weird-looking bugs can be seen.
When the rope descended to about 100 meters underground, they finally saw the ground.
The ground is hard and cold rock, rough and covered with moss, very slippery. The cracks in the ground are about three or four meters wide. When people look up, they can see a red sky above their heads.
The deeper you go, the smaller the gap above the head, and the bigger the gap below. After walking for about 2 minutes, I actually walked into an underground cave. The cave is very long, and there are rocks and small wet puddles everywhere. , Occasionally, human bones can be seen, and rats seem to gather beside the bones. As soon as a person walks over, the rats run away.
Ever since Jiang Li came down, he saw the chimpanzee soldiers swaying fluorescent powder all the way, as a guidepost for lighting and guiding the way.
Below this piece of yellow land is actually empty. There are small passages formed by gaps around a large cave, which cannot be entered by people. There are mice and small scorpions crawling in it. The whole cave looks like intertwined intestines. .
"This bone looks very fresh." Jiang Li's miner's lamp was very bright, and the light fell on the bone on the rocky ground. He shook his head from side to side, letting the light circle around the human bone. Sure enough, he saw some blood, and Meat shreds that haven't been eaten.
"Wait." The owl soldier suddenly signaled Jiang Li to stop in a low voice. Jiang Li kept his head tilted, and saw the owl soldier step forward and use the light blade to push aside the bones.
Borrowing the light, the owl individual picked up a team bracelet with a light blade.
When he saw the team bracelet, Jiang Li's blood seemed to be frozen.
"It's a member of our guild, Team One Star, named Wang Ermazi." The owl soldier looked down at the skeleton again, with a pitiful tone: "The bones have been eaten up, so I'll take the squad bracelet back."
When Jiang Li heard that it wasn't Huo Qi, he recovered from the coldness, took a light breath and said, "Is this the only bone? What gnawed him away, is it a snake?"
While speaking, Jiang Li looked around, but he didn't see a single snake.
"This group of double-headed snakes live under here." The chimpanzee soldier lowered his voice: "I saw them come out of these cracks with my own eyes, but why can't a single snake come across it now?"
At this time, the owl soldier reminded Jiang Li: "Master Jiang, turn off the searchlight, it's too bright, it will attract the attention of some reptiles, you need to get used to the darkness first, and then use a light stick will be better."
Jiang Li said "Thank you" and hastily turned off the searchlight.
After turning off the light, he couldn't see anything. Fortunately, the butcher was by his side to protect him. It didn't matter if he couldn't see well.
In the darkness, Jiang Li heard Chen Xi's voice.
"There are many ground fissures on the loess land, and the bottom of these fissures should be interconnected. We can analyze the surface trend and specific orientation on the loess land, but when we go below, we have to shuttle through countless caves. I guess, Huo Qi They should have come across a wave of snakes after they came down, and they were scattered by the wave of snakes."
"The people who come down are all good hands. We can apply medicine powder, and they are no exception. In addition, the terrain here is complicated. I estimate that they should have fled in all directions, or they may have been eaten elsewhere. There are too many twists in this place. , any crack may be connected to other directions, and it is not easy to search here."
Chen Xi paused, and then said: "Besides, there will be two-headed snakes lurking around here. We haven't encountered them now, so it's probably just luck, but if we continue on, luck may not be good."
After all, they are still pouring cold water on them.
The team itself is just a relationship of interests, not reliable, and there is always such a person who is singing the opposite tune, the team can disband at any time, but it is about Huo Qi, no matter how angry Jiang Li is, he can't turn his back. Once he turns his back, the team will definitely If he wanted to break up, he could only grit his teeth and fight with Chen Xi.
"What Captain Chen said is very reasonable." Jiang Li said, "But we have already come down, so we can't just turn around and leave. At least we have to look for it. I suggest that everyone keep moving forward. Whether you find it or not, it will take an hour. After that, we all meet here and leave here."
Jiang Li actually wanted to say "two hours", but after thinking about it, he finally gritted his teeth and shortened the time to one hour.
It wasn't that he didn't want to search for a while longer, but that he was afraid that if he asked for too long, the group of relic hunters would be dissatisfied, and the teammates who came here would naturally not be willing to follow him to find Huo Qi like a butcher.
One hour is exactly the bottom line for everyone.
All the relic hunters, look at me and I look at you, and they all nodded in agreement. In the end, the German Shepherd hit the head alone and groped forward. The second was a polar bear, the third was an owl, and the fourth was a chimpanzee. Li Shengyuan is tied for five or six places, and the seven or eight are Butcher and Chen Xi.
Everyone was walking, and when they reached a certain place, the leading German Shepherd soldier suddenly stopped, Jiang Li followed behind, and vaguely heard the sound of gasping for air.
Jiang Li bypassed the crowd in front of him, looked into the distance, and was startled.
They were on a raised rock wall, which was clearly underground, but when they came out, they were all blown in the face by the head-on wind.
The wind was fierce and fierce, Jiang Li squinted his eyes.
At the same time, the chimpanzee soldier next to him whispered: "Is this... a dungeon? There is actually a lost civilization in the dark star."
About a few hundred meters away, there is a huge city stretching for thousands of miles, only a part of it can be vaguely seen in the darkness, and the end is endless. The inside of the city is dead silent, standing under the yellow earth, quietly waiting for these visitors.
Drilling down from the cracks on the surface, after walking for a while, they found an underground city—this discovery made the relic hunters present breathe a little more quickly.
Because, the job of a relic hunter is to search for lost civilizations.
In the long cosmic galaxy, countless civilizations have been born, such as the ancient Egyptian pyramid civilization, the orc civilization in the Western Regions, the mysterious oriental cultivating immortal civilization, the high-dimensional mechanical civilization, the mermaid civilization, the elf civilization, the dwarf civilization, the Zerg civilization, etc. wait.
Some civilizations have spread widely in the universe, but more civilizations have been buried in the long river of history because they have not been discovered, and have become relics of civilizations one after another.
In the beginning, in order to collect these lost civilizations, the official people of the empire formed the official organization 850 base, which was dedicated to wandering and searching in each planet. Later, they found some valuable things and sold them when they came back. Some people in the empire I moved my mind.
What the official people can sell, they can naturally sell. There are many people in the empire who can't afford to study and don't have a good background, but they are born with a spiritual body and the strength to fear death. This group of people started to mess around Run, dig civilizations on other planets and sell them back.
This is the origin of the relic hunter.
In the beginning, the relic hunters only sold lost civilizations, but later on, as long as they could be sold for money, no matter what they were, the relic hunters would not pick anything. In the end, because the market was born, the "acceptance of commissions" was born. The function of the relic hunter has gradually become a profession, and it has become the last choice of some lower class people.
After all, as long as a person is alive, he can become a relic hunter. There are often some people with low levels of mental power, poor families, and people who are in desperate need of money to risk their lives to become relic hunters.
With the development of relic hunters up to now, the guild management model has been formed among the people. Some guilds have deep foundations, and they are not far behind the official organization 850. Even sometimes, 850 encounters difficult problems. After consideration, They will directly submit a commission to the guild.
When almost every relic hunter enters the industry, he yearns to find the lost civilization by himself—those flowers, grass, and black gold are all objects with no origin, and they are things that grow naturally. They are valuable because of necessity. Do something that saves lives, or it can be used as medicine, but those civilizations are different.
Those stone tablets that recorded the life of the ancients, the words written by the predecessors, and the porcelain fired in ancient times, in the words of the nobles of the empire, these are all treasures, and they are civilizations that their inferiors do not understand. Everything is pricey.
And as long as it is successfully taken out and made famous, the value of the relic hunter will also rise and become famous in the industry, so the relic hunters present are green-eyed.
When Jiang Li saw this dungeon, in addition to the initial shock, he also felt a little grateful.
He didn't care about the lost civilization, but after seeing this dungeon, he knew that Huo Qi was saved.
No relic hunter will let this city go, when the time comes, people from the whole yellow land will come down, if there are more people, someone will always see Huo Qi.
"Let's go down." Chen Xi said.
"Let's not enter the city rashly." Jiang Li's voice almost fell with Chen Xi's voice. The two of them looked at each other, and there was a cold light in each other's eyes. Chen Xi moved his lips, but did not make a sound. , Jiang Li continued: "First find someone to go back and report the news, let the relic hunters of our Golden Lion Guild come down first, try to block the news from the outside world, just say that we will go down to find the lost companions, and wait until the people from other guilds react. By then, we had picked most of the peaches."
After a pause, Jiang Li said, "It's the same for my client, don't mention the dungeon to him."
Jiang Li's remarks were made entirely from the perspective of the vice president of the Golden Lion Guild. Everyone present was from the Golden Lion Guild. No one disapproved of his words, but Chen Xi's "let's go down" seemed to be Something is wrong.
If they are all trapped here, there will be no reinforcements for a while.
Invisibly, Jiang Li's words were more serious than Chen Xi's words, and Jiang Li quietly pinched some "threads".
Although both of them are vice presidents, Jiang Li is obviously more sober. The more dangerous the relic hunters are, the more they tend to be calm and intelligent leaders. The reason for leaving the team - the captain wants to die, and everyone must die, but the captain must be smart, so that everyone can live and make money.
In the end, Jiang Li chose the German Shepherd to go back alone, and the rest of them opened the way first.
There is at least a few hundred meters between their protruding rock wall and the ancient underground city. They have to create a safe path first, and when the big troops come, they can go down directly.
After the German shepherd left, he changed to a chimpanzee and an owl to lead the way. He climbed down the rock wall to find a way out, while the polar bear patrolled around to avoid the double-headed snake generals. They surrounded.
After everyone around them moved, only Chen Xi Shengyuan and Jiang Li Butcher were left waiting at the spot.
The atmosphere among the four of them was weird, and none of them spoke. During the period, the butcher tugged at Jiang Li's sleeve. The butcher didn't speak, but Jiang Li knew that he was worried about Huo Qi.
Jiang Li tugged his sleeve back and made a "wait" gesture.
According to Jiang Li's thinking, Huo Qi should be in the dungeon.
They walked all the way just now, the biggest and most convenient way is the one leading to the dungeon, if Huo Qi sees the dungeon, it is normal for Huo Qi to go in to avoid the snake tide.
It's just that there may still be risks in the dungeon, and they need a large number of people to go down.
The butcher didn't understand Jiang Li's plan, but he was obedient, and Jiang Li told him to wait.
Until 10 minutes later, the German Shepherd came with a large number of relic hunters from the Golden Lion Association.
The relic hunters of the Golden Lion Association were all excited when they saw the dungeon, like wild horses that had run loose, and they rushed into the dungeon with full energy. The polar bear ran back in a hurry, just as the chimpanzee and the owl came back alone. The two of them found out the way and led the crowd to the dungeon ahead.
The underground city is much more majestic than imagined. The moat has long since dried up, leaving only a dead city. You can smell the dust when you approach it. I don’t know how many years it has been sealed.
"It looks like a very ancient oriental city, only the oriental people would build a moat in front of the city."
"Hey! Oriental civilization! It should be able to sell for a lot of money, right? The last discovered oriental civilization seems to have sold for a lot of money!"
"I heard that there are many porcelains in the East, so it's hard to move."
A group of relic hunters chattered excitedly on the road, but when they reached the dungeon, everyone fell silent and held the Shining Blade tightly.
The underground city is towering and towering. I didn't see it clearly from a distance before, but now I got closer and realized that all the buildings here are actually made of black gold!
Rows of low-rise houses seemed to have no tall buildings in that era, and the tallest was a small courtyard on the second floor. In the middle of the dungeon, there seemed to be a large mansion with black cold light everywhere.
It means that every brick and tile of this dungeon is sold at a high price.
Moreover, there are some tables, chairs and benches in the house, which are in good condition, except for the dust on them, there is basically no damage.
All the relic hunters were rubbing their hands greedily. In order to see the dungeon clearly, they finally lit up the miner's lamp, and they were even more excited when they saw the light—it's about to develop!
The number of people who came this time was less than a hundred people. With so many people, it is no longer suitable for a group of people to gather together and search in groups. So before going in, Jiang Li divided the hundred people into five teams, each with 20 people. people, and divided the search territory.
"Remember to ask for help when you are in danger. Take any good things according to your own ability. When your teammates are attacked, you must remember to support them. There are many good things in the dungeon. Each team can only search on the territory that they can search. , don’t go to other people’s territory to search for other people’s things.”
Jiang Li pointed to the door and said, "I won't leave the gate. If a teammate is injured, he will be sent to the door as soon as possible. I will be in charge of rescue."
Jiang Li paused, then said, "If you see my missing team member, remember to call me."
Jiang Li's arrangement can be said to be flawless. First, each team was assigned a search area, and each team only searched within its own range, so as to prevent the internal staff of the Golden Lion Guild from competing with their teammates because of the search. He also voluntarily gave up the opportunity to go in and search, and voluntarily acted as a medical kit to treat everyone at the gate and provide everyone with medical insurance. Naturally, everyone was willing to sell him face, and a group of people repeatedly said yes.
"When you meet Huo Qi, you will be the first to send him back."
"Master Jiang, don't worry, Huo Qi is definitely fine."
After a group of people left, Chen Xi and Sheng Yuan also entered.
The butcher finally spoke, a little sullenly anxious: "Are we really not going in to search?"
"No." Jiang Li shook his head: "The dungeon is so big, the two of us must not be able to find it as quickly as they do, and only if I stay here and promise to treat them, they will be interested in Huo Qi."
Everyone wants to sell Jiang Li's favor, and Jiang Li can remember them with a little effort, so why not do it?
Jiang Li's calculation was indeed correct, but within ten minutes, someone rushed over and said, "Master Jiang, we found the missing team members, and Huo Qi is also there, but—"
"Where is he?" Jiang Li was overjoyed, dragging the butcher to rush over to ask.
"Man, man is in a room at the back." The relic hunter faltered and pointed in one direction, not daring to say more.
Jiang Li knew something was wrong, but he didn't bother to ask, and rushed over with the butcher first.
He led the butcher through the streets and alleys of the underground city, stepped on the ground paved with black gold, and rushed to a low door. In this ancient house, there were four people, Everyone was tied up and rolled desperately on the ground, because no one was restraining them, so those hissing and screaming kept drilling into people's ears.
From a distance, Jiang Li saw that a second sarcoma had grown on the side of the necks of this group of people. The sarcoid had grown to the size of two fists, and the facial features could be seen faintly.
It has the same symptoms as Hou San above, but it looks much more serious than Hou San.
Jiang Li's heart sank. This looked too much like an infectious disease, and he hadn't found the source yet. If this disease spread, would all of them turn into two-headed snakes?
When Jiang Li glanced aside, he was slightly relieved.
A total of six relic hunters came down to catch the double-headed man-faced snake before, one died on the road, four fell here, and only one Huo Qi fainted inside the house covered in blood.
A group of relic hunters surrounded these five people, and the atmosphere was weird.
When Jiang Li arrived, he heard Sheng Yuan say: "These four people have become like this, will Huo Qi also become a human snake? What if it infects us? Or we should lock him up first. , don't touch him."
When Sheng Yuan said these words, his voice was full of worry and uneasiness. As a poor medical soldier, he seemed to be purely afraid when he said these words.
But the relic hunters present began to think seriously because of his words—should Huo Qi be locked up?
When they found Huo Qi, the room was already in this state. Four people were tied up, and one Huo Qi was in a coma. He tried his best to subdue and tie up the four people, and eventually fell into a coma due to serious injuries.
Probably because they were afraid of being infected, the rest of the people didn't go in.
Jiang Li's eyes turned red when he saw Huo Qi was seriously injured, he strode towards the room, but was stopped by Chen Xi when he was about to enter the door.
"Huo Qi may have been infected." Chen Xi narrowed his eyes and looked at Jiang Li, and said, "If you go in, you may also be infected. I suggest that you block this place first and wait for rescue to come. After careful study Touch them again."
"I know you and Huo Qi have a "deep relationship", but you can't make fun of everyone's lives, right?"
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