Chapter 111: After killing the headless stone demon and the evil parasitism, Lao Baji [Seeking Pursuit II]
still needs to make some preparations before officially arriving at the cave.
Chen Xuan took out more than two hundred magic tears from the storage compartment.
Thirty spares each were given to Kitty Girl, Yucca and Beria.
In addition, five MK2A3 egg-shaped grenades were prepared for each of them.
During this time, the girls have mastered a lot of firearms knowledge, including simple, convenient and easy-to-use weapons such as pistols and grenades.
This kind of individual explosive is absolutely useful for dealing with swarms of goblins.
Moreover, the shock wave of the explosion can also block the pursuit of monsters.
You can save your life at critical moments!
"Don't rush in later."
"Let's find a way to lure the monsters out of the cave first."
He held an M18A1 broadsword mine in his hand and warned seriously.
There is a limit to the number of monsters that can emerge from the cave every day.
In other words, as long as all the monsters in the cave are eliminated within that day, you can enter it with confidence.
Chen Xuan is different from other adventurers.
Even if other adventurers cleared the cave, they would only be able to obtain a few demon seeds at best.
But he can still harvest fragments of the Rose Key.
The premise is that all the cave passages are related to the Rose Key fragments.
Because he has only conquered one cave so far, he doesn't dare to make any guarantees on this aspect yet.
The specific situation can only be drawn to a clear conclusion after conquering this cave.
After hearing his instructions, the three women nodded in agreement.
This is the crypt closest to the ruins of Colo Leon's farm.
Those adventurers who have repaired the floating bridge will most likely choose to hunt monsters here.
But around the cave, Chen Xuan and others did not see any adventurers.
So those adventurers have either gone deep into the cave, or they have chosen to return.
The four of them came to the entrance of the cave and observed from a distance of fifteen or six meters.
The entrance of the cave is on the rock wall, and the sunlight can only shine on the open ground from an oblique angle.
Therefore, the inside of the cave looks pitch black.
If you get a few meters closer, you can smell a slightly fishy air coming out of it.
Chen Xuan calmly chose a suitable location at the entrance of the cave and deployed three mine matrices.
Four broadsword mines were placed at each location according to their sector coverage.
A total of twelve broadsword mines are enough to completely block the entrance to the cave.
There are 700 steel balls in each mine, and a total of 8,400 steel balls will set off a metal storm there.
"Uh-huh!!"
Just after preparations were completed, a faint scream came from the cave.
The sound is very blurry and it is difficult to distinguish the location of the sound source.
Chen Xuan raised his hand to signal the three women to calm down, and then activated his spatial perception ability.
There was some kind of interference in the cave, which severely shortened his range of perception.
But in the cave passage in the exploration area, there seemed to be two adventurers fighting fiercely.
There were at least more than twenty monsters crowding the passage.
He estimated that they should be the last group of adventurers to arrive.
After hearing the noise, the two sisters Dora and Kitten Girl were a little ready to make a move.
However, Chen Xuan did not attack blindly.
You must know that there is a suspected secret door passage here.
Ophelia has previously issued four investigation requests for bronze-level teams.
The result was that the entire army was wiped out and no one returned.
This proves that the secret door passage is camouflaged.
On the surface, it looks similar to [Micro] and [Small] type caves.
In fact, there is a deeper trump card hidden.
In addition, Kittygirl described to him the battle that destroyed Chloë Leon's farm.
At that time, in addition to Goblins and Night Shadow Wolves, the Minotaur and the Headless Stone Demon were also dispatched to the cave.
These two monsters are almost never seen in the forest.
Moreover, Rebecca had entered this cave before, and there were many forks in it.
It was in the stone room at the end of one of the forks that she saw the magic pillar and those [primary demon species].
Looking back now, that branch road is definitely not the core of this cave.
To sum up, this kind of cave with the secret of the secret door can really eat people.
"Ah!"
"Fiya, run away first!"
The movement in the cave became more and more clear.
There was even a male voice roaring.
"No... don't! Karls!"
followed closely by a heartbreaking female voice.
The sound became particularly permeable after it came out from the passage.
Chen Xuan could figure out what was happening in the cave without being in it.
"Yucca, go in and take a look at the situation."
"Beria is following behind. If anything goes wrong, pull out immediately." "
Take it and use it for lighting."
After thinking for a moment, Chen Xuan said to Dora who was about to move. The sister gave the order.
He took out the spare headlamp, turned it on and put it on Yuclan's tactical helmet.
The two sisters drew their single swords and nodded to him.
Chen Xuan took out the detonator of the broad sword and hid behind a large bluestone more than ten meters away from the cave entrance.
Rebecca hid behind a large pile of skeletons on the side, also preparing for the attack.
Yucca and Beria moved quickly, the bright beams of their headlamps piercing the darkness in the cave.
Chen Xuan saw a large area of slippery moss clinging to the stone wall, as well as a burned-out bonfire.
The passage in the cave is extending toward the bottom of the mountain at a certain angle.
After entering only more than ten meters, the light disappeared, indicating that the two Dora sisters had entered the blind spot.
"Roar!"
"Bang bang!"
About half a minute later, roars and dull hammering sounds came from the cave.
There is a certain delay in the transmission of sound in the cave, and there is obvious distortion.
But Chen Xuan knew that these noises must have been caused by Yuclan and Beria!
Less than a minute later, Chen Xuan saw light and shadow swaying in the cave again.
Soon, Yuclan lazily carried a seriously injured and weak human woman and ran out of the cave.
"There are many monsters, come out!"
She shouted loudly, carrying the human woman to the big bluestone.
It was only then that Beria belatedly appeared at the entrance of the cave.
Turn your back to the outside.
Chen Xuan saw her reaching out and grabbing three magic tears from her storage bag and throwing them forward.
After doing this, she turned around and ran away.
"Master, explode!"
Her legs were filled with magic energy, and she ran ridiculously fast.
Chen Xuan activated his supersensory vision, and everything around him was slowed down to 0.7 times.
When Beria ran to the big bluestone, he suddenly jumped up and landed next to his master.
At the same time, several invisible huge shadows appeared in the cave.
"Bang!"
"Bang bang!"
As these huge figures moved, the ground made a muffled sound like a drum.
Two minotaurs holding logs and a headless stone demon carrying a net bag walked out of the cave one after another.
Entering the minefield previously laid out by Chen Xuan.
There are still traces of magic tears on their bodies.
The mercury is corroding the magic power, and the chaotic magic power on the monster is constantly being annihilated.
It turned into wisps of black smoke and disappeared.
It makes these guys look like they are shrouded in thick black fog.
Under the erosion, the Minotaur roared angrily, its eyes were like two red light bulbs, and it was about to rush towards the big bluestone with its hooves, and the log stick in its hand was dancing randomly.
The stones on the headless stone demon's body were slowly peeling off, and its eyes on its chest glanced left and right.
He reached into his net bag and took out a stone the size of a basketball.
The stones thrown by this guy are as powerful as a trebuchet.
When the Colo Leon farm was destroyed, the wooden wall could not withstand a few stone bullets.
And just behind these three big guys, there are more than a dozen goblins, including two more fierce-looking black goblins!
Seeing that the Minotaur had launched a charge, the Headless Stone Demon also grabbed the first stone bullet.
Chen Xuan no longer waited and pressed the detonator decisively!
The first explosion sounded after a pulse ignition delay of less than half a second.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
...
Twelve balls of fire exploded, and countless steel balls flew towards the two Minotaurs and the Headless Stone Demon.
Monsters of the second level and above can use chaotic magic to protect their bodies.
This is just like how adventurers can automatically protect themselves with magic when they reach bronze level.
Chen Xuan hugged Beria and hid behind the big bluestone.
Occasionally, flying steel balls would hit the other side.
Yucca hugged the rescued injured and huddled next to them.
Even the place where Kitten Girl was hiding was affected.
After all, the general direction of the steel balls exploded by the mines can only be controlled, but there is still a high possibility of scattering.
Normally, after this thing explodes, everyone within a radius of thirty or forty meters may be affected.
The scene of 8,400 steel balls shooting randomly is amazing.
It was different from the previous ambush arrangement when the city was in charred ruins.
This time the venue is more open.
Every steel ball can release kinetic energy wantonly.
The Minotaur and the Headless Stone Demon, which had already been eroded by the magic tears, were quickly consumed by the chaotic magic power in their bodies under the flying fire of the steel balls.
When the storm of the explosion completely subsided, Chen Xuan poked his head out with an M16A1 automatic rifle.
The yellow-brown skin of the two minotaurs was covered with dense holes.
These holes are about half a finger deep.
There is a steel ball embedded in each hole, and black blood is slowly oozing out.
The Minotaur is huge, two to three meters tall.
Their body defenses are also amazing. Even without chaotic magic to protect them, the steel balls cannot tear them apart.
But it couldn't stand up to the large number. The Minotaur at this moment was like a big lotus pod.
Even the log stick in his hand was beaten into rotten "sugar cane" in the metal storm.
After the explosion, the two minotaurs took a few more steps, and finally fell down helplessly.
The headless stone demon was in much better condition.
There was no blood flowing out of the rock-like body, but the originally thick body was suddenly thinned out.
The big eye on the chest was severely damaged and turned into a pile of rotten flesh.
But this guy was still not dead. The giant rock's arm swayed and threw only half of the stone bullets left.
He flew to the other side without any clue.
As for the goblins further back, they have now become assembly building blocks.
The arms are arms, the legs are legs, and all the parts are tangled together.
Thick blood spread out along the ground.
"Most of the body of this so-called headless stone demon has been separated from the concept of flesh and blood." "
But the eyes on its chest are its weak point!"
After confirming, Chen Xuan picked up his rifle and shot at the rotten flesh on the chest of the headless stone demon. Fire three times until the magazine is empty.
This guy is an astonishing five meters tall, nearly as tall as a two-story building.
The big eyes on the chest are sixty centimeters in diameter.
When a bullet hits it, flowers of flesh and blood will bounce up.
The mine's steel ball had already damaged the eye, and Chen Xuan's shooting made its injury worse.
When he replaced the magazine and fired another shot, the huge headless stone demon fell to the ground.
This is not surprising. It is a third-level monster and is stronger than ordinary bronze-level adventurers.
Especially when covered by other monsters, each headless stone demon is equivalent to a multi-functional sling that can move at will. It can not only shoot flatly like a baseball, but also throw parabolas beyond the boundary.
Even if a stone bullet the size of a basketball just falls to the ground, it is still incredibly powerful!
During the battle of destruction of Colo Leon's farm, the bodies of Goblin warriors, shamans, night shadow wolves and minotaurs were left on the scene, except for the headless rock demon.
Apart from his eyes, this guy has almost no defensive shortcomings.
Their bodies were just a chunk of rock, which did not disintegrate even under the sweep of broadsword mines.
Chen Xuan figured that if he met this guy again, he would either hit his eyes with a gun and slowly wear away the blood.
Or just use the CG4 recoilless rifle to give it a HEAT 751 armor-piercing round (tandem warhead) or HEAT 551 armor-breaking round.
Not to mention that this thing is just a pile of stone, even an iron ingot can resist armor-piercing bullets with a penetration depth of 400~700 mm in homogeneous armor.
After the battle, there was no movement in the cave for a while.
Monsters also come in waves.
Chen Xuan stretched out his hand and made a gesture, and Rebecca, who was waiting not far away, immediately stepped forward.
The white spar she carried with her had absorbed a lot of escaping magic power, and now it had been transformed into green spar.
More than a dozen small pits appeared near the entrance of the cave, and the scorched soil was emitting turbid green smoke.
After all, the broad sword is a directional charge, which mainly kills by flying steel balls, not the shocking high-explosive bomb.
Quickly cleaning the battlefield, Chen Xuan prepared to attract a few more waves of monsters and use the mine array to kill them all as much as possible.
There are about seventy or eighty broadsword mines in his storage compartment.
Enough to lay out five to six more rounds of mine arrays.
While Rebecca was cleaning the battlefield and checking the situation.
He focused on the seriously injured female adventurer.
Yuclan rested her head on her thigh and watched Chen Xuan explain word by word.
"She was knocked down."
"Gob, you're going to have a baby."
"She passed out."
As communication became increasingly close, Yuclan's general speaking skills also made great progress.
Occasionally I can say a somewhat complete and coherent sentence.
When Yuclan and Beria arrived, the female adventurer had already been knocked down by the goblin.
Her clothes were torn apart and she could only half-cover her body.
Monsters like the Minotaur have no interest in such things.
They have their own internal understanding, or distribution mechanism.
Any female creature knocked down by the goblin will not be attacked by other monsters.
At this moment, the female adventurer is in a coma.
There were wounds on his limbs and several wooden arrows stuck in his legs.
The right arm was twisted and obviously broken.
Just when Chen Xuan was about to ask Yuclan to treat her wound.
The female adventurer suddenly twitched all over.
She suddenly opened her eyes, and they were two eyes completely covered with red blood!
The convulsions have not stopped, her situation is definitely not simple!
"Yuca, hurry up!"
Chen Xuan greeted, pointing the M16A1 automatic rifle in his hand at her head.
Dora Yuclan did not dare to neglect, pushed away the trembling female adventurer, rolled sideways and jumped up.
While raising his gun, Chen Xuan activated [Insight].
The golden reminder appeared and he immediately pulled the trigger!
[The dying human adventurer is parasitized by the beholder's evil intentions. Her vitality is rapidly draining. Please blast those two eyes within 6.4 seconds, otherwise they will become beholder parasites] ... "Bang bang bang
bang
" !”
“Bang bang bang bang!”
After two long bursts of ejaculation, a burst of blood burst out from the face of the female adventurer.
Those two terrifying eyes were shot out one after another.
Then she stopped shaking and the pain ended.
"Beholder..."
Chen Xuan muttered to himself.
It is indeed one of the caves where the secret door passage is located.
There is indeed a more powerful monster hidden inside.
No wonder it can destroy a team of bronze-level adventurers!
He asked Yucca to drag the body of the female adventurer aside for now.
Wait until the cave raid is completed before proceeding with the cremation process!
The strange evil parasitism made Chen Xuan wary.
But the tactics of "attracting monsters" must continue, but the process must be cautious!
He got up and went outside the cave entrance to lay mine again, and at the same time issued new orders to Rebecca.
...
The end of the alley due west.
Outside the ruins of Colo Leon's farm.
Sorel and others came here, dismounted and tied up their horses, and then walked across the pontoon to the other side.
We walked into the forest along the path in the bushes.
Franco Bage had sweat on his forehead, and he kept wiping it with the back of his hand.
He borrowed the map of the distribution of caves and was using his brain to analyze it.
The companion-seeking drone flew lazily, still looking listless.
"Both here and Brendan Zeman's farm are within the scope of the Eya Forest." "
Those people had a clear goal and chose the due west path, so they must have come for the Colo Leon farm." "It's
a distance from here There are three nearby monster burrows."
"One of them overlaps with the edge of the area where Brendan Zeman's farm is located." "
It is more towards the south, so it can be ruled out for the time being." "
The second one is deep in the forest to the west. It can be ruled out if the distance is far away."
"The only cave that is relatively close to Colo Leon's farm and has an obvious location is here!"
His eyes looked at the north of the Ea Forest on the map, where many waves were drawn. The line represents the mountains, and that cave is the most likely location.
Just when Old Buggy was thinking about it and his head was sweating.
Sorel's voice that sounded like a reminder sounded again.
"Damn old Buggy, has your 'little guy' returned to normal?"
He used the excuse that the little bee was in trouble all the way.
"Okay, okay!"
"My little guy is flying north!"
"There's only one cave there!"
"You're right to follow the path to the north!"
Old Buggy patted his chest, confident Mandi said.
Sorel holds a one-handed sword and has a flail hanging from his waist.
"Very good!"
"When I catch that guy, I'll give you a reward of 2,000 crowns!"
He promised excitedly.
Old Badji quickly agreed.
He felt exhausted from the quick wits he encountered along the way.
This money is really hard to earn.
Especially for a moody guy like Sorel, he is always shrouded in a sense of crisis.
He silently prayed that his guess would not be wrong.
Follow the crowd and trek through the forest along the path!
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(End of chapter)