Dagon stepped on the slippery moss and his body tilted slightly. Fortunately, his other hand was holding the hunting axe, and its tail bit it tightly on the ground, helping him to restore balance immediately.

"This road is really hard to walk." After Dagon stood firm, he lifted up the strap of his backpack and looked back. The friends of the hunting and trial team were about thirty or forty meters behind, which was invisible to each other in the winding passage. However, the people behind him lit the lanterns, and the swaying lights were tools for communication.

Dagon also has a lantern in his hand, which is currently hung on the hammer head of the hunting axe. I have to say that the hunting axe is really a good weapon, but it is not a good tool for hunting or exploring the way. It is much heavier than a crutch and is more dangerous. Dagon needs to be used carefully to avoid being scratched by the axe blade or being caught by the side rivets. Even if it is just tilted, if it hits the foot, all the bones will be broken.

"It's getting harder to go. Is this the right way?" Dagon held the wall to change his breath and continued on the road. "The road I said before was about to end. Everyone was going back to the commonly used main road, but I saw no sign at all. There was more and more moss, the road was getting slippery, and the walls were seeping out of groundwater. It was obviously more primitive here."

The more natural and primitive the place is, the more likely it is to change when it moves underground, which often means unpredictable and full of danger. Fortunately, the road is a bit slippery and difficult to walk, but it is very quiet, with no beasts, no monsters and no small animals. The largest creature Dagon has ever seen are several nail-sized reptiles.

Moss and lichens are the owners here. They are lush and look like they are about to turn into jungle. On the top of their heads and on both sides of the passage are covered with long-haired tapestries. Small spores are floating in the air, as if they have not been cleaned for decades, with only dust dancing inside.

Jian Gu people were not afraid of these spores. On the one hand, their beards were thick, which could prevent them from entering their mouths and noses too much. On the other hand, Jian Gu people's body was tough and had strong resistance to toxins or diseases. At present, such spore concentrations do not need to be taken seriously.

The upper and both sides were occupied by bryophytes, and there were several streams at the bottom of the passage. It was said to be a stream, but in fact it could not overflow the foot. The groundwater seeped out from the stone wall and the top of the head gathered into several streams of water, flowing along the passage. Dargon walked barefoot on the rocks and often had to flow through the water surface. He found that the rocks at the soles of his feet were not as smooth as expected.

Two long whistles came from behind him, and Dagon was about to stop and wait for everyone to catch up and meet. He picked up the whistle from his chest, answered with a short whistle, and then picked up a stone without water to stand up, waiting for the people behind him to come up. Under the light of the lantern, Dagon saw a shiny white thing floating up along the stream, so he bent down curiously and picked it up.

It was a bone, very much like the part between the head and tail of the fish bone. The bones were clean and without meat, there was no sign of gnawing, but it was a little unclear and irregularly sunken. The bones were very crisp and began to fall apart when they were picked up from the water.

Dagon looked at it and threw it away casually. It quickly flowed along the stream, dispersing and disappearing into the shade of moss.

After a while, everyone came to meet up. "This road is really hard to walk," Doma's words expressed everyone's common thoughts.

"Where is the leader of the team?" Dagon looked back at the back of the team and did not see the figure riding a bear lizard.

"He goes around and let's meet you first and wait here. He also told me not to put down my backpack and set off at any time." Doma rubbed his face, blew his nose into the stream, and then rubbed his legs. "Dagon, do you want to eat something?"

"Let's eat when camping. Find a way to heat up the food, you can..."

"I can get a little more calories - I've heard this many times." Doma sighed and said, "Can you not be so strict?"

"Then eat something. I have potato cakes here, so I don't need to unpack it." Dagon took a potato cake from his waist bag and gave it to Doma, saying, "This is what my mother prepared for you, and it seems to be different from what I prepared for me."

"Is it different? I can't see the difference." Doma actually wanted to eat frosted snake meat, and the meat was definitely much better than the scones pressed from potato flour. However, the frosted snake meat must be taken down in the backpack, and Dagon would definitely not agree.

Holding the potato cakes with your palms to prevent the slags from falling off, sucking the palms in one last breath is the standard way to eat potato cakes. Just as Doma was sucking, Barde led the team to ride the bear lizard and rushed up. Everyone noticed that his brows were frowning, which obviously did not bode well.

"You can't stop, move forward quickly, I feel something is wrong." Barde said: "Dagon, go to the end of the team, I'll go to the front to investigate. When I encounter a fork in the road, I'll mark the wall. If you can't find it, contact it with a whistle and I'll hear it."

After saying that, the bear lizard climbed onto the top of the cave on the moss. Leader of Valde crossed the heads of the crowd and rushed to the front. Dagon picked up the hunting axe and said to everyone: "Okay, cheer up and prepare for a forced march. Shizhu, didn't you say you had a sharp hearing? You were holding a lantern in front and I went to the end. Everyone should listen to the whistle. Let's set off!"

Seven dwarves passed by Dagon in a row. Dagon saw that each of them was more or less tired. He had already taken out the potato cakes, so he broke them apart and gave them some of them. He quickly filled a few bites. After everyone passed, he looked back at the dark tunnel and then followed the team.

They rose along the slope, turned at the fork, and then turned into a bare cave. For some reason, the moss disappeared completely here, as if there was a clear dividing line. One side of the line was lush and the other side of the line was the forbidden area of ​​moss. The tunnel became even flatter here, such as many places, and even smoother. Dagon walked along the way and noticed that some pits often appeared on the ground, which made him suddenly think of fish bones.

Dagon felt uncomfortable. Looking back, the tunnel behind him was very quiet, quiet and a little invisible, making people feel unrest. "Shiwu, blow the whistle and ask if the leader of Valde is in front."

Shizhu blew the whistle and soon received a response from the front. Dagon calmed down - but when he thought about it carefully, he didn't seem to be so relieved. What kind of feeling is this? Dagon couldn't say it clearly, he only knew that it was a delusion of persecution, which was a strange thought that must have been happening before. He could not find a reason to support it, but he was very firm.

‘Calm down, Dagon,’ he reminded himself in his heart. ‘You have been trained in combat, and you will not be afraid even if there is a danger, and there is no danger yet.’

But at this time, a rapid whistle came from the front, and it was completely out of the scope of whistle language. The stone beard signaled everyone to stop, and then heard a dull loud noise in front of them. The wind came with dust, and the leader of Barde rode the bear lizard out of the smoke and dust.

"Change! Turn around immediately!" Barde looked very embarrassed. He drove everyone in a hurry - even a little panic - tone: "Dagon leads the way, you run fast! Take another road at the second fork, walk on Koushui Gorge, and cross the suspension bridge, and be safe!"

"What happened?" Ishisu asked right in front of Barde.

"Slug mud - a large ball of brown mud blocked the passage. It was coming here and devouring everything on the road." Barde said to everyone: "You can go quickly, and you can go back to the main road through Gushui Gorge. You still have the chance to complete the trial. Staying here will only turn into mud monster feces. I'll block here for a while to see if I can delay it. The key is to see how fast you can run."

How fast can I run? The young dwarfs immediately turned around and found that Dagon was already seven or eight meters ahead. "Come with me!" Dagon shouted in front: "I will make a fire at the second fork and then continue to open the road. As long as I don't see my body, it means that the front is safe!"

"Run!" The young man from the Jiangu tribe grabbed the strap of his backpack and charged forward as fast as possible, while Barde left behind to break the back.

Behind them, a huge brown mud ball was rolling through the smoke and dust, rolling everything along the way into it. The mud ball had a slug worm face in the direction of its progress. No matter how mud rolled on the body, this face was always in front, and it was named for it.

Most mud monster creatures rely on rolling the creature bag into their bodies to eat, while the slug mud monster's face is actually its tentacles, which can suddenly stretch and swallow food with the mouth at the top and teeth inside. Those teeth are hard objects that cannot be digested by it for the time being, often bones, gems, etc. Sometimes when it eats the Jiangu people, it will also add the weapons and armor it carries to its teeth.

"I hope this works." Barde took out a bunch of grass tubes wrapped with fuse from his backpack. This short tube device rolled up with green oil paper is an explosive device that the ancients would use when mining. The fuse is a red metal powder. After ignition, it can catalyze the power of the wood element in the grass tube. Just like a seed pushes the soil, these wood element forces can break the rocks. As long as it is used properly, it can cause landslides, and may block the mud monster here, at least it can delay its speed.

Barde rode the bear lizard upside down on the top of the cave, and held his body with the strap on the saddle. "Let's down and bend down!" Barde directed the bear lizard so that he could get close to the top of the cave. In a crack in a rock, Barde stuffed the grass tube in, and the fuse lead naturally fell down.

He opened the lid of the lantern, and the ready-made flames generated by kerosene were inside, and successfully ignited the fuse. Looking at the jumping Mars, Barde's eyes suddenly became blurred and his whole spirit was a little dazed.

The bear lizard under the seat wailed, his eyes were red, and his head swayed from side to side. Valde smiled strangely and reached out to cut off the lead of the grass tube.

"Okay, I have done all my efforts, and it depends on their luck next. If the gods had not been enlightened, how could I have encountered such a disaster? So, it was all Dagon's problem: he appeared in the wrong place at the wrong time. That suspension bridge would be his burial place."

With his legs clamped the bear lizard and controlled it to go down the wall, Barde quickly returned to the ground. As if affected by the change in gravity direction, Barde's eyes were clear. He shook his head, reached out to pat the bear lizard's cheek, and said anxiously: "Old guy, run quickly! The grass tube is about to explode!"
Chapter completed!