Oring Hunter

Seeing the mountain monster come back to life, the Olympian hunters instantly became vigilant and ready to fight at any time.

However, these cohesive monster corpses ignored the people around the campfire, but walked staggeringly, following the guidance of the bell from afar, and walked straight towards the direction of the castle ruins.

Under the watchful eyes of the hunters, they immediately walked into a narrow and dangerous cliff path, which the hunters planned to pass through tomorrow.

However, these reorganized corpses stumbled and fell into the cloud and mist beside them because of their staggered steps and their distorted body shapes were difficult to maintain balance. Lost in sight forever.

"..."

After appreciating the farce brought about by the monster's corpse, the four Olympian hunters did not speak, but returned to calm.

And with the disappearance of the mountain monster, the strange ringing from the ruins of the castle soon stopped temporarily, making the misty valley quiet again.

While paying attention to the wind and grass nearby, Yechen took out the dry food and water bottle he had prepared in advance from the black ring, and enjoyed a simple maze dinner like everyone else.

After that, Dodira took the lead in lying down on the sleeping blanket she placed on the ground.

"Okay, let's stop here tonight, I'll rest first, and I'll leave it to you to arrange the work of guarding at night."

The three new hunters looked at this senior who had chosen to be lazy without any disguise, and felt speechless for a while.

Afterwards, Wei Meng resentfully proposed to Ye Chen and Ou Ke: "Then... let me watch tonight, Ye Chen and Ou Ke, you can rest first."

"Then thank you for your hard work."

After thanking Ou Ke with a smile, he lay down in the tent he had just set up, and temporarily disappeared in front of everyone.

Ye Chen felt a little helpless for the girl who didn't even bother to talk about the scene, turned to look at Wei Meng, who was obviously a bit haggard, and then said: "You have been performing arcane spells during the day, and if you insist on staying up all night, It must be unbearable, let me do it."

Wei Meng's expression was half moved, and he shook his head in embarrassment to answer.

"No, what Mr. Dodilla said before is correct. Unlike you, I can't make any contribution to the battle, so leave it to me to do tasks like sentry, just to save your physical strength for you fighters, and I probably have to maintain this kind of work status in the future, so it’s better to get used to it in advance.”

Yechen was silent for a moment, and finally nodded, but he did not completely compromise.

"Okay, then you will be responsible for the safety of the camp in the first half of the night. I will adjust the clock to the second half of the night, and we will change shifts at that time. Otherwise, if you really fall down, you will cause us more trouble tomorrow."

After hearing this, Wei Meng felt that what Yechen said was also reasonable. It was really unwise to be too aggressive and it was not good for everyone. In the end, he could only agree to Yechen's arrangement with a grateful expression.

Thus, the new hunters spent their first night in the maze among the mountains in peace and tranquility.

There were no uninvited guests to disturb them again, and everyone got rest to varying degrees.

……

In the early morning of the next day, Yechen took a sip of the boiled hot water to drive away the cold air in the mountains, and then simply packed his luggage before continuing on the journey with his companions.

They crossed the winding mountain road, stepped over the rough hills, and after climbing five peaks in succession, they finally arrived at the ruins of the castle below the mountains and on the plateau.

Afterwards, the ringing of the bell came from the castle again, and then resounded through the world with a desolate melody.

ding... ding... ding...

Listening to the tune of the bell, the hunter team came to the back of the woods half a kilometer away from the ruins, used the trees as a cover, and secretly observed the wreckage of the building in front of them.

This is a castle covering an area of ​​about [-] square meters.

The surface of the city wall made of stone bricks at the bottom is already covered with years of wind and frost, and there are cobwebs and holes everywhere.The towers above and around the city wall have already collapsed, and the fallen bricks and tiles are scattered all over the open space around the castle, so that only the first floor of the castle is barely preserved.The overall style looks like an ancient relic that has decayed to the point of appalling.

However, only the door that opened its arms to the outside world and was completely black inside showed one thing to everyone: there is a mystery and danger that cannot be underestimated.

"Mr. Dodilla, the gate of the castle just opened... What should we do? How about I let the mouse in first?"

Wei Meng looked at the wide open city gate a hundred meters away, and immediately smelled a strong smell of a trap, and then asked Dodilla, the oldest in the team.

Dodira didn't speak, and seemed to be planning to continue to observe the situation, but at this moment, a series of figures came out of the woods on the other side of the plateau one after another.

Everyone looked around, and quickly realized their real bodies, which were a group of corpses of various labyrinth animals, staggering towards the open gate of the castle ruins, obviously because they sensed Called by that strange ringtone, this is the only way to come back from the dead, following the guidance of the ringtone to come here.

Seeing this situation, Ye Chen immediately had an idea in his mind.

"Weimon, the maximum detection range of your mouse is one kilometer, right? I think you can send a mouse to follow these corpses, and go in to see the internal structure of the castle, and check what will happen to the corpses by the way. "

Weimon nodded with some insight, and immediately turned the scar on his wrist into a big squirrel, and nimbly jumped out of the woods, and sneaked to the end of the corpse line according to his master's instructions.

For this little guy approaching quietly, the sluggish animal corpses did not show any reaction, just continued to move towards the gate of the castle like puppets, staggering along the way, and almost fell down several times, finally Finally, he led the squirrel through the threshold of the castle, formally entered the dark room, and disappeared from the hunter's line of sight.

Then, Wemon began to close his eyes and concentrate, quickly sorting out the massive messages sent from the big squirrel's mind, while the other hunters waited quietly.

A few minutes later, the ringing of the bell from inside the castle stopped abruptly. At the same time, the mouse hunter Wemon also opened his eyes, and then showed a complicated expression.

"Have you found the source of the ringing in the castle?" Seeing Wei Meng's eyes open, Yechen asked softly in a calm tone.

Weimon shook his head and explained intermittently.

"No, my mouse passed through the gate and followed the corpses of the creatures into a dark and empty hall."

"The hall is very spacious, but it is also very empty, surrounded by piled up gravel and rubble, but there is a large hole leading to the bottom in the center of the ground, with a radius of about a hundred meters. That burst of bells came from the bottom of the big hole."

"As for the group of corpses that my mouse followed, after arriving at the hall on the first floor of the castle, they jumped into the hole without hesitation, and then I sent the mouse to jump down too, and it turned out...it turned out..."

Seeing Wei Meng's faltering look, Dodira immediately became impatient, and immediately urged: "What's the result? If there is any abnormal situation, please explain it clearly."

Wei Meng swallowed his saliva, and finally told everyone what he saw and heard.

"The bottom of the hole is probably more than 100 meters deep."

"And at the bottom of the pit is a mountain of corpses... Literally a mountain of corpses..."

"Countless corpses are piled up at the bottom of that hole to form a mountain of corpses."

Chapter 0193 Corpse Worm

"In the pit below the castle...is there a mountain of corpses?"

After hearing Wei Meng's creepy description, Yechen's eyes sank slightly, and he came to a conclusion softly.

"That's probably the corpses of all the creatures that have been attracted by the weird ringing these days..."

On the other hand, Oke and Dodilla's expressions didn't change much at the moment. After the word "corpse" was mentioned in the commission, they had expected this situation a long time ago.

"The corpses that just appeared in front of us, what did they do after they jumped to the bottom of the pit?" Oke continued to ask expressionlessly.

Weimon rubbed his stiff brows, and gave an explanation with an ugly expression.

"As soon as they jumped to the top of the mountain of corpses, they fell down as if they had lost their souls. The corpses that had been condensed together also scattered one after another, and they just merged with the mountain of corpses."

Dodira paused for a while, and then said: "Can you see the source of the bell in the corpse mountain?"

Waymon shook his head.

"The place where the mountain of corpses is located is like an underground square, and around the square are some palace-like ruins. The bell comes from the depths of the ruins. My mouse can no longer explore inside."

When the other three hunters heard this, their eyes changed again.

"Under the castle, there is still a dungeon ruins? It's amazing..."

Oke couldn't help admiring, compared with Wei Meng's ashen complexion, she looked very excited.

Yechen bowed his head and folded his chest, thought for a moment, and then confirmed another matter to Wei Meng.

"Wamon, aren't the corpses you saw moving? I wonder if they will attack us collectively when we go down there."

The tone of Weimon's answer was uncertain.

"From the current point of view, all the corpses under the pit are very ordinary, just a pile of rotting meat, and there is no sign of any activity—"

Having said that, Wei Meng's face stiffened, and he immediately covered his chest and let out a breath of cool air.

"What's wrong?" Seeing that Wei Meng's state had changed, Yechen hurriedly said again.

Wei Meng gasped for several breaths with lingering fear, then regained his composure, and told his companions the reason.

"I take back what I just said..."

"There is a huge monster lurking in the mountain of corpses, it swallowed my mouse in one bite..."

"I didn't see what it looked like. It looked like an earthworm, but it was really big, at least a dozen meters long..."

After Weimon finished speaking, the scar on his wrist returned to its original state, which obviously meant that something bad happened to the little squirrel sent by Waymon.

He paused for a while, then doubted in a horrified tone: "I don't know the owner of the bell, the purpose of gathering the corpses of so many creatures... Maybe they are all used to feed that monster Feed..."

As a senior, Dodilla responded calmly.

"The reason for the ringing of the bell is not necessarily caused by living creatures, but may also be caused by some kind of cursed item handed down from ancient times."

"So maybe there's no purpose at all."

"After all, in the maze, anything is possible."

Then, he stretched out his hand and rubbed his stubble-covered chin, thought for a while, and then told the younger generation the next action plan.

"Next, let's look for other paths leading to the ruins below in the hall on the first floor of the castle. There may be more than one enemy hidden in that mountain of corpses. The risk of jumping in directly is too great."

The three new hunters, Ye Chen, Oke, and Wei Meng, naturally agreed to this safe suggestion, and immediately took the potion specially customized by the mission guild for this mission and handed over to the hunters in advance.

The name of this potion is anti-corruption potion, it can increase the hunters' body resistance to corpse poison and decay, and by the way, it can also reduce the sensitivity of their olfactory center to corpse odor, which can be said to have a great impact on the current situation. Props for the help, too.

After strengthening the poison resistance, the hunter team walked out of the hidden woods, maintained an armed posture, and formally stepped into the gate of the castle full of mysteries and corpses.

Entering the dimly lit castle room, the scene before everyone's eyes was, as Wemon said before, a ruined hall full of gravel and rubble, filled with a desolate atmosphere.

The only thing that was eye-catching was the foul-smelling hole in the center of the gravel floor.

Dodira took a lit cigarette in his mouth, quickly looked around the surrounding environment, and then gave instructions to the team members.

"Okay, keep a distance from this hole first, and look around here to see if there is any other way to go underground—"

However, before he could finish his words, a strong sense of vibration suddenly emerged from the ground under everyone's feet at this moment.

thump, thump, thump——!

Accompanied by the vibration, an ear-piercing sound resounded from the hole in the center of the ground, as if some kind of giant from the ground was climbing towards the ground at a terrifying speed.

Faced with this sudden change, the hunters hesitated for a moment, and immediately scattered back, but the giant was one step ahead of them, protruding its head as big as a hill out of the hole, and then exposed its face before the eyes of the hunters.

This is a giant beast with a round head that resembles an earthworm.

However, when Yechen carefully observed its skin, he immediately discovered that the other party's body was actually made up of scattered corpses, large or small, like a thread condensed by countless biological corpses. The giant corpse worm that came out!

With sharp eyes and quick hands, Yechen pulled out the revolver at his waist first, and directly shot out the "blood bullet" he had prepared in advance, while Dodilla also exhaled a puff of smoke, which immediately turned into dozens of gray needles, and shot directly at the giant beast. go.

However, in the face of their subconscious counterattack, the corpse worm did not dodge or evade, and resisted the heavy blows of the two, and the flesh was immediately blasted out with large and small blood holes.

However, the huge corpse worm didn't respond to this, as if it didn't feel pain, it directly opened its bloody mouth to the hunter team.

Immediately afterwards, a strange light shone from the depths of its throat, and in the next moment, an extremely powerful pulling force swept out from the corpse worm's blood mouth, directly dragging all members of the hunter team into the center of the hole.

"Um!?"

Everyone showed different degrees of surprise, each clenched their weapons, and planned to launch a fierce attack on the corpse worm the moment it got close to it.

However, this monster saw the timing when the hunters slid to the edge of the hole, and then cunningly retracted its head quickly, so that not only was it too late for everyone to attack it, but it continued to be dragged to the bottom of the hole by its big mouth below. place.

Chapter 0194 Depths of the Ruins

Dodilla, who fell at the bottom of the team, felt the cold wind brought by the fall, and his expression immediately became shocked and dignified.

He turned his head and glanced, and found that the side wall of the pit connected to the ground was actually the entrance or crack leading to different levels of the dungeon, so he hurriedly reached out and grabbed a stone pillar extending in front of him, in order to Stop your fall.

However, just as Dodilla's palm grasped the steel bar for a moment, the corpse worm that sucked everyone into the pit suddenly shot back, and its head suddenly poked out, and in the next second, it appeared in Dodilla's The lower part of the body.

Swish!

Feeling the stench erupting from under his feet, Dodilla's eyes changed drastically, but before he could react, the corpse worm swallowed Dodira, who had opened his mouth, in one gulp with his bloody mouth.

"what!?"

Seeing that Dodilla was the first to suffer, the expressions of the three new hunters all showed varying degrees of surprise.

However, after swallowing Dodilla, the corpse worm quickly retreated to the bottom of the cave below, obviously not intending to give other people any chance to rescue Dodilla.

"whispering sound!"

Yechen clicked his tongue because of the sudden turn of the situation, but he still chose to reach out and grab the handrail of the threshold protruding from the ruins beside him, so as to prevent himself from being directly injured by a fall from a height of nearly half a hundred meters.

And Oke and Weimon also reacted in the same way as Yechen. Oke's fluffy ponytail twirled in the air and wrapped around the railing extending from the side of the ruins, while Weimon was Both hands frantically grabbed the vines growing on the side of the ruins.

As a result, the three of them hung in different directions and between the relic faults of different heights, buffering most of the fall.