Chapter 25 Two minutes of life and death
The monsters in the crystal jungle were originally named Whistle Beast before they became demonized. They were a not-so-common monster in the mountains of Yara Continent. The Whistle Beast is only less than one meter tall, and its two lower limbs are very strong. Just a pair of lower limbs can support the body's running and jumping. On the contrary, the two upper limbs are relatively slender, and they only play an auxiliary role in running. Most of the time they are only used to maintain balance. This kind of monster is very weak. The front end of their heads is very flat. Although their teeth are sharp, they do not have much biting force, and it is difficult to give a fatal blow to their prey. Therefore, it is difficult to hunt. They can only pick up the remaining monsters or beasts that are eaten by other ferocious monsters.
.When they encounter predators, they will erect their tails. The tip of their tails is not composed of muscles, but becomes something similar to the cuticle, with small holes of different sizes in the middle. When they erect their tails and sway in the wind, the roar of the more ferocious monsters in this area will be heard in the holes in the cuticle. Interestingly, the sounds of the whistle beasts in different regions are different. They will only imitate the roar of the monsters they have in their place. The group of monsters in the crystal jungle are obviously transformed by the whistle beasts after being polluted. By chance, it has reached a symbiotic relationship with the Hell Crystal.
The cave where the Hell Crystal Jungle is located is a narrow spindle-shaped cave with a length of about 800 to 900 meters. The narrowest end is only less than ten meters, and the widest part of the spindle abdomen is only less than a hundred meters. The direction of the five people coming out belongs to one end of the spindle, with only one entrance, and the three outlets are far away at the other end of the spindle, one at the tip of the spindle in the middle, and one at the left and right sides close to the tip.
The middle of the spindle-shaped cave is covered with countless crystals, which are chaotic and cannot pass through the ground. Only in a not-wide range along the rock wall can there be no crystal growth.
When the five people rushed into the cave of the crystal jungle, the demonized whistle beasts hidden in the crystal jungle turned to the direction of the five people, and more than one hundred tails were vertically facing the sky. If the location was not considered, the scene of more than one hundred tails facing the sky was still full of joy.
But now, no one in the five people in the team could laugh because they only had two minutes, separated by two minutes, one side was survival and the other was death. The five people rushed into the world of Hell Crystal, and the tails of the demonized whistle beasts began to swing violently, but they were magically not making any sound.
"Quick, they are starting to start, and they must arrive within two minutes, to be safe." Panis shouted as he ran and turned around. As if to confirm Panis' warning, some thin dwarf crystals near the center began to shine slightly.
"The crystal is starting to shine." Vivian, who was lying on Catherine's back, was the only one who had the energy to pay attention to the crystal situation. She was the first to discover the abnormality of the crystal and reminded everyone loudly.
"That means that the voice has begun to resonate. Go quickly and there is not much time left." Panis replied without looking back: "Don't look at the crystal, be careful not to fall down when you look at the road."
Fifteen seconds.
In the blink of an eye, the five people had already run more than 200 meters away. Seeing that the distance had passed by one third, Panis did not relax his vigilance at all and shouted loudly: "Be careful, we are going to be attacked."
Before he finished speaking, fifty or sixty thick white bones were thrown out of the crystal jungle and landed less than half a meter in the direction of the five people's advance.
"Ah." Lina suddenly exclaimed. She was almost hit by a bone while running. She was almost avoiding the bone, but she was tripped by another bone. If Rachel hadn't helped her, she might have fallen to the ground.
"Bastard." Lina, who passed by danger, ran and cursed: "You wait for this group of bastard monsters, I will kill you all sooner or later."
"You have no chance, they are almost invincible here." Panis kicked away several bones that might trip over people, and coldly interrupted Lina's fantasy: "The biggest difficulty through this is that she will be blocked by monsters at any time. Be careful, the next round of attack is coming."
Thirty seconds.
A large number of bones were mixed with stones, and were thrown at the five running people without any interval. Bones of various shapes were scattered on the road, like traps, waiting for prey to step on.
"It's better to slow down than sprain or fall." While jumping flexibly in the bones, Panis did not forget to remind the girls behind him: "Look at the place to stay, don't worry, we have enough time."
The light emitted by the bright red hell crystals around it became brighter and brighter. The bright red light enveloped the bones scattered on the ground, sprinkling a layer of charming weirdness on the bones.
"Squeak, squeak." Seeing that the attack did not work, the large group of demonized whistle beasts made provocative screams, and more bones and stones were thrown out as throwing weapons. Fortunately, the five people who had already been guarded were prepared and flexibly dodged while running.
Forty-five seconds.
"Open the Dou Qi Shield, we will arrive less than 200 meters. Don't have any problems in the end." Seeing the hope of victory, Panis first opened the Dou Qi Shield, no longer avoiding the flying thrown objects, but just focused on avoiding the obstacles under his feet, allowing these debris to bounce off the Dou Qi Shield.
"The mantra is slow."
"Illusion, silence."
Two chants sounded one after another, the first chant was completely unfamiliar, while the second chant belonged to Vivian's familiar tender voice.
A short and hunched man appeared at the entrance of the hole that the five people wanted to enter, and wanted to release the slowing technique to the five people two hundred meters away, but Vivian had already prepared. Seeing someone using magic attack, he instinctively released a silent technique, and then came first, breaking the other party's intention to kill someone with a knife.
"It's him." Seeing the attacker's appearance, Rachel screamed in a harsh voice: "It was this demon who attacked us."
"Don't stop, rush over." Panis did not pause at all: "If you stop here, you will die. If you rush in, you will talk about it."
"Is it that easy? Hehehe." The hunched figure laughed in a very strange accent: "Die here for me, element, freeze."
"Protection, spell deflection." Vivian, who was moved with high speed, seemed to completely ignore the common sense that the mage was unable to concentrate on casting while moving. The spell released casually showed her terrible spell fine manipulation ability and mental concentration ability. The casting of the spell easily cracked two spells that could cause great trouble to her side.
One minute.
Seeing that the five people had rushed to a distance of less than fifty meters, and the fighting shields of several people also began to appear on the ripples that represent the attack. A grim smile appeared on the face of the hunchbacked man under the mask that no one could see: "It's so amazing, then try this. Elements, earthen walls."
The earth wall technique, which had no clear target, made Vivian, who was still in the cooling of the silence technique, helpless. A earth wall rose from the ground and sealed the hole tightly without a trace of space.
"Beast." Panis, who was getting closer and closer to the entrance of the cave, cursed angrily, accelerated his feet, rushed through dozens of meters away, clenched his right fist, and punched the earth wall: "Martial arts, dragon roar."
Although the martial arts that should have belonged to the Berserker failed to smash the earth wall, it also made the earth wall covered with cracks. Panis was about to make up for it a few more times when he heard Catherine shouting behind her: "Get out of the way."
Without hesitation, Panis heard the sound of wind in his ears. The one-person-high kite shield rolled in the air, smashing directly against the crumbling earth wall, and the earth wall fell down with a bang.
One minute and fifteen seconds.
Cleverly hiding behind the flying shield, Panis wanted to use the shield to rush into the passage, but unexpectedly, after the shield defeated the earth wall, it bounced back in the air. Panis had no choice but to sideways and let go of the impact of the bounced shield, and also found the culprit of the bounced shield. A nearly colorless magic power field was blocked at the entrance of the cave. The hunched monster stood behind the magic power field, his eyes full of hideous smiles, and silently watched the ripples on the protective shields on the five people's bodies becoming more and more rapid.
"Tactics, fearless charge." Catherine held up the magic steel shield just obtained from the fire element and launched a charge against the magic power field. The golden-level fighting air spread on the surface of the shield, colliding with the magic power field with an indomitable momentum.
With the sound of the magic power field breaking, Catherine took two steps back under the recoil of power, and did not care about her left arm, which was numb and thrust her right one-handed sword and was about to rush into the hole.
The same sword light appeared inside the cave entrance, and the hunched monster took out a one-handed sword from nowhere, and used sword techniques that were not inferior to Catherine to force the unprepared female knight to retreat.
"Be careful, Katherine, this is a magic swordsman, not a mage." Panis reminded loudly.
One minute and thirty seconds.
The two swords kept colliding.
Catherine, who was eager to break through, was unable to break through the weird guy who had made up his mind to delay time for a while, and the girls outside the cave were completely unable to fight with Catherine due to the obstacles of the narrow cave entrance. For the five people exposed to the attack of the sonic wave, the situation in front of them was a fatal crisis.
"It's too late." Panis saw that the fighting shield on several people was becoming dim. He did not help Catherine in vain, but walked to Vivian: "Don't be afraid, believe me?"
"Of course." Vivian nodded: "I can see through your heart, and of course I believe in you."
Pannis didn't bother to ask Vivian what he meant. He picked Vivian up, sighed that Vivian was amazingly light and pushed her to the hole on the opposite right. Vivian had already understood Pannis' intention in mid-air and tried his best to adjust his posture in the air. Although it was not stable when landing, at least it did not fall too hard.
When Vivian was thrown out, Pannis didn't bother to speak and picked up Rachel, who had broken his leg before and could not use too much force. Lina understood it and rushed out at the same time. Her toes lightly borrowed the force on the chaotic crystal in the middle, and landed steadily outside the right hole. While landing, she heard the sound of wind on her head, and she copied it and just caught Rachel, who was thrown over.
Seeing the danger of the three girls leaving, the hunched monster let out a roar, and a huge ball of fire passed by Catherine and smashed towards the hole where the girls stood on the right.
Panis, who had just turned around, had no time to pick up the shield that Catherine had thrown before, and plucked it on the lower edge of the giant fireball, and regretfully passed by the fireball, unable to block the fireball's attack on Lina and Rachel who had just landed.
One minute and forty-five seconds.
"Enter the hole." Lina pulled Rachel and Vivian and got into the hole. As soon as she entered, the giant fireball did not hit the hole because of Panis's slight blockage, but hit the hole above the hole, making a violent explosion. As the fireball exploded, a large amount of gravel rolled down, completely closing the hole. Just before the closure, the girls heard Panis' shout: "If you are separated, camp and wait. We will go to find you, don't run around."
"Catherine, it's too late, stop rushing, prepare to retreat." Panis looked at the stalemate situation between Catherine and the hunchbacked monster. He knew that Catherine could not get out of the battle for the moment, so he adjusted the angle slightly, as if he had no intention of choosing a position behind Catherine.
"Huh?" The seemingly unintentional choice of positions had a great impact on the hunchbacked monster. The hunchbacked monster subconsciously took two steps back and adjusted his direction at the same time.
"Let's go." Panis seemed to have known this result before, and had prepared himself to pull Catherine's left hand, turned her head and rushed towards the hole at the tip of the spindle.
"Fearless Charge." Katherine, who understood, held Panis's hand in his backhand and activated her combat skills at the entrance of the cave. The two rushed towards the entrance of the cave with extremely high speed. During the charge, the fighting shields on their bodies became dimmer and dimmer, and finally began to flash faintly, as if they were about to fail at any time.
"Get in." Catherine tried her best to push Panis into the hole with her left hand. The result was that her speed was reduced due to the reaction force, and she was likely to die under the attack of the sound wave. But at this moment, Catherine did not think, did not weigh, or hesitate, and pushed Panis forward with her left hand out of instinct.
But Catherine did not expect that Panis cleverly used the force to turn around, but instead pushed her towards the entrance of the hole, allowing her to reach the safe area while the Douqi Shield was completely closed.
The Panis Dou Qi Shield, who was still outside, closed almost at the same time. In an instant, all the blood vessels in the body exploded under the sound waves, and a large amount of blood gushed out from all parts of the body like a bloody man. He rushed through the last road with inertia and fell head-on toward Catherine.
Chapter completed!