bookrandom Chapter 130 Slime
Chapter 130 Slime
The fire burned, illuminating the dark sewer.
Bishe felt a little sick.
When her long feet stepped on the ground, she felt something sticky, and she didn't know what it was.
After going out, you must wash your toes a hundred times.
she thought.
The sewer system in the royal capital is a tubular structure with walking paths on both sides for the convenience of personnel to carry out maintenance. In the middle is a turbulent flow of water, and various water pipes lead to the homes of the residents of the royal capital to discharge sewage.
The sewers are also divided into flood season and dry season. During the flood season, the entire pipe will be filled with sewage. Many people who grew up in the royal capital have heard the ghost story about a disobedient child who ran out to play when it rained, and accidentally fell into the sewer and was swallowed up forever.
His wronged soul lingered in the sewer for a long time. Every time it rained heavily, he would use his own bones to knock on the water pipes in the sewer. If you put your ear close to listen, you could hear his unwilling cries for help.
Since the water flow during the flood season is quite large, all the mess in the pipes will be washed away by the surging water, so the rumor that "there will be oil paper packages that can repair water pipes in the corners of the sewers" does not actually exist.
As they walked, everyone noticed that there seemed to be something strange on the ground.
"Something's wrong. What are these things on the ground?" The spider girl Vera discovered something was wrong.
Everyone looked at the ground and found something wrong.
At some point, a thin layer of net-like structure appeared on the ground, like dried blood.
Leila squatted down, took out the dagger from her waist and scraped the ground, but nothing came out.
These red things penetrated into the bricks and stones of the ground, spreading from far away, looking very strange.
The sewers in the royal capital are interconnected, and the direction these things come from is exactly the direction they are going to get water.
Leila reached out and touched it, but didn't feel anything special.
"Stay alert and keep moving forward," she commanded, "Draw your weapons and get ready for battle."
She stepped forward and moved side by side with Bishe, and the two of them cleared the way together to avoid dangerous situations.
After walking a distance, Leila heard a strange sound.
"Stop." She raised her right hand, everyone stopped, and she listened attentively.
"Patta, patta." It sounded like a bag full of water hitting the ground.
But there seemed to be a mixture of the sound of mucus wriggling and rustling sounds, coming from a long distance away.
The road ahead is still very long and dark, like a bottomless mouth.
"Vera." Leila called softly.
Vera understood what he meant and tightened her grip on the staff in her hand, with magic power quickly gathering on it.
【Big Fireball】!
Although the name of this magic has one more big word compared to the bronze-level [Fireball], there is a real difference in power.
This is genuine silver-level magic.
The dark blue flames gathered in the air, and the intense heat seemed to burn away all the bad smells in the air.
"Oh!"
It flew forward quickly with dazzling flames, illuminating the entire sewer.
"Bang!" It flew to the maximum distance before exploding, emitting brilliant fireworks.
"Squeak, squeak!" The sound of mice rang out, and countless scarlet eyes opened in the darkness, making people feel terrified.
They were frightened by the fireball and ran away quickly like headless flies.
Some even became dizzy and jumped into the river, but many still rushed towards the team.
Some of these mice are obviously larger than the others. Although they cannot be considered as advanced magical beasts, their number is at least over a hundred.
"Don't move," Leila said.
Everyone stood still as rats swarmed past them like a tide, some even running right over their feet.
Some mice will panic and run towards you, just swat them away.
When a rat colony becomes large in number, they can no longer be considered as individual rats. They have to be considered as completely new individuals, and their habits will also change greatly.
When there are few of them, just kill a few of them and they will feel frightened and retreat on their own.
But once their numbers increase, this method will no longer work.
Once you kill one of them, the smell of their companion's blood will not only not scare them, but will arouse their ferocity, making them show you their sharp fangs at all costs.
......
I don't know how long it took, but the rushing swarm of rats finally subsided, and the sound echoing in the sewer became quieter. Only a few stupidly lagging rats were still running forward.
"Squeak!!" A shrill cry was heard, coming from Bishe's side. Her long legs were like a spear, with several mice pierced through their bodies. They were still struggling, making shrill wails.
The Spiders include mice in their diet. They grill these black and gray little guys on skewers and sprinkle them with salt. They have eight times the protein of beef and taste crispy.
Bishe put these little things next to her nose and smelled them, then took them away with disgust and threw them away.
"Wow, it stinks." She reached out and pinched her nose: "The rats in the big city stink."
From the smell she smelled, the blood of the rats sounded like rotten bananas and meat mixed together and fermented for several days, which made her feel like vomiting.
Having their blood on your feet makes you feel even more disgusted.
"It was you who wanted to touch them." Vera laughed and said, "You deserve it."
The people in the team burst into laughter, and even Leila showed a smile on her face, but she was the captain after all, so she quickly adjusted her mood: "Okay, don't relax, we will reach our destination soon."
After getting through the rat tide, the team moved forward again.
The red lines on the ground became deeper and deeper, but no one encountered any strange things. At most, there were two lost slimes, which were easily dealt with by everyone.
"Okay, this is it." Leila looked at the place in front of her. On the wall next to her, there was a mark painted with an unknown green fluorescent dye. This was the place where the employer required her to get water.
Bishe walked to the water's edge, tied the water bottle to a thin rope, and wrapped the other end around her hand.
This kind of bottle is specially made. The stopper of the bottle will only be pressed into the bottle when the water pressure reaches a certain level. The stopper is connected to a rope. You only need to pull it up quickly to block the bottle mouth again, so that you can get water at a specific depth.
She dropped the bottle and slowly dived under the water.
The rest of the team was on guard around.
After a few minutes, she estimated that the water was almost full, so she pulled the rope with her hand to pull the bottle up.
"Hmm." She pulled hard, but failed to pull it up immediately, as if she was entangled by something.
She tried again, using all eight legs at the same time, but still couldn't pull it up.
That's weird, is something entangled in it?
Can aquatic plants still grow in this kind of sewer?
Bishe felt very strange, as if there was some shadow under the water, so she leaned over to look.
"Be careful!" Vera, who was watching from the side, noticed something was wrong and grabbed her collar and pulled her back, causing her to fall backwards.
Something transparent, gray brushed past her nose, and she could even smell the stench of sewage.
"Splash!" Water splashed all over the sky, and a strange figure emerged from the water.
A creature that no one present had ever seen appeared.
The gray, transparent body seemed to have been seen somewhere before.
But unlike the round slime, this thing's structure is very similar to that of a woman, with unclear facial features, a curvy figure, and long, transparent gray hair.
Bishe, who sat down on the ground behind him, was still in shock.
"A...slime...man?!"