Chapter 50 The Slaughterhouse
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"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh." Lina tripped down the foot and rolled down the last ramp, rolling along the ramp for more than twenty meters in a row, rolling out of the range of the dense forest before stopping because the terrain became smooth. The rest of the people rushed out of the dense forest and turned around and found that five ground bears stopped at the edge of the dense forest. They roared at the team with unwillingness for a while before turning back to the depths of their territory. When they walked, they turned around frequently, showing reluctance.
"Haha, stupid Lina, you're in a mess." Vivian jumped off Pannis's back and stretched out his hand at Lina: "You're not hurt."
"Fortunately, I finally got rid of it. I must eat the bear's paw when I go back." Lina grabbed Vivian's hand and stood up, holding her knees and gasping for breath: "Also, Huhu, you are the big fool, Huhuhu, I'm exhausted."
Catherine knocked on the heads of the two people and then looked at the surrounding environment. At the end of the hillside, it happened to be opposite a canyon crack. From here to the inside of the canyon, the ground was covered with countless gravels, without any trace of plant growth. The gravel was weathered and peeled off by the surrounding red soil, and then naturally formed after years of rain. The texture was brittle and floating. It was easy to slide when stepped on with a slope. Lina just now slipped because she guessed such a ground.
Now the time is just the best stage for the afternoon sunshine. The bright sunshine shines directly on the ground, making the members of the team who have just walked out of the darkness of the dense forest feel a little uncomfortable for a while. This strange sense of time that flickers lightly and flicks day and night has permeated throughout the adventure of more than ten days, giving people a sense of unreality in the illusion.
Through the dazzling sunshine, you can see the canyon ahead. The entrance to the canyon is empty, but a faint smell of rotten came from the canyon. The smell of odor and death mixed with the smell of stench made every member of the team look disgusted and frowned at the deep and tortuous canyon.
"It seems that it's here." Catherine's face was not very good. After all, no matter how much adventure experience was, it would not make people like this abnormal environment: "It's very quiet here. Is there anything nearby?"
"No, it's safer here." Elard said negatively: "It's quiet because there is no water, no plants, no food, and nothing here, so no animals are willing to come. Moreover, the ground here is basically full of such gravel, and even animals can slip easily, which is really unfavorable to move."
"Then let's camp here today?" Dora maintained a good habit for more than ten days. She would never leave Catherine three meters away when she was not doing anything: "Why are you all looking at me? Did I say something wrong?"
"Captain, it's not possible here." The fantasy fox pulled Dora aside and explained softly. Although Dora has rich combat experience as a mercenary, she has been following large-scale team actions for a long time and belongs to the top team. These details are far less clear than those of adventurers and grassroots mercenaries: "There is no hidden object here, no cover, no good retreat. The most important thing is that the smell here is not suitable for garrisoning and resting. At least it needs to be changed to an upper wind direction."
"Okay, okay." Dora waved her hand in a bad mood: "I know, listen to you. Hello, that explorer over there, don't just watch jokes, it's your time to work, find a place soon."
"This canyon is Raccoon Valley, which is 900 meters long in total." Panis looked at the entrance of the canyon: "I just discussed it with Elard. When I walked through here, there was the upper wind place opposite, and the canyon entrance there was not far from the jungle, and the location was just right for camping."
"So, just go to the opposite side?" Dora took Catherine's arm and said, "It's great, senior sister, let's go."
"Die me." For more than ten days, Catherine seemed to be back when she was still studying in the Knights Academy. She used various violent means every day to expel her junior sister who always wanted to take advantage of her: "Mr. Guide, will she encounter any dangerous monsters inside when she travels through the canyon? After all, you can know that there are many animals left here, and will there be any corrupt monsters linger here?"
"If it were me, I wouldn't have been through here." Elard replied very directly: "But there is no problem with you."
"Well, there are almost no warcraft with too high rank among scavengers." Panis added: "We can deal with it very easily, so don't worry."
Walking into the Raccoon Valley, it seems that you have entered a new world. The Raccoon Valley is not wide, and the widest place is only six meters, and the narrowest position is only less than one meter wide, which can only accommodate one person to pass sideways. Although it is not wide, there are towering cliffs on both sides, with a height of more than one hundred meters. When you walk at the bottom of the valley, you can only see a narrow blue sky. When you look up, the cliffs on both sides of the head seem to fall down, which brings a heavy sense of oppression to the pedestrians in the canyon, making people's emotions become anxious involuntarily. Such emotions directly affect the atmosphere of the team and become tense and dull.
"You must pay more attention to the top of your head when walking here." Panis knew very well that persuading and reminding had no effect in such an atmosphere, because this is the natural psychological reaction of human beings. The only solution is to distract yourself, so he said naturally: "With geological reasons, it is easy to fall rocks from high altitudes. If you don't want to leave a more funny cause of death on your tombstone, you must look up more. You must not know how many adventurers die of this kind of rock falls every year because of carelessness."
"Huh? You know?" Lina's curiosity was immediately roused: "How many are there?"
"I don't know, how could I know." Panis said scoundrelly: "But there are indeed a few such guys every year. And I also know that many, many years ago, there was another unlucky guy who died of falling objects from high places in the adventure, but it was not falling rocks."
"What is that?" Lina asked, "Brand? Warcraft?"
"Well, the one who fell off was another adventurer, another team, slipped from above the canyon, and the guy happened to rest in the canyon against common sense." Panis commented unscrupulously: "Then he died, and the one who fell off was only seriously injured."
"It's so sad." Lina's expression didn't mean anything sad: "Let's pray for him, haha."
When he heard the story of Panis, Catherine was a little worried and kept looking up at the sky above her head. Panis patted Catherine's arm and whispered: "Don't be nervous, it's safe for the time being. It's only a hundred meters away. Even if there is someone on it who can hide from me from my perception of existence, if he wants to attack us from above by throwing a heavy object, I can hear the sound of the heavy object moving."
Catherine was stunned and showed a tacit smile, which was considered to have accepted Panis' persuasion.
Walking through the canyon is not easy. In addition to preventing falling rocks above your head, you also need to be on the loose and slippery ground. At the same time, the narrow space also constantly brings interference. In many places, everyone has to take off the backpack behind them in their hands before passing by side, so the journey of these hundreds of meters is not smooth.
With the increasingly strong smell of rottenness, after walking out of more than 500 meters, I turned around a corner of the canyon, and a slaughterhouse-like scene appeared in everyone's eyes.
Behind the corner is a pocket-shaped terrain, with narrow sides and wide in the middle, equivalent to a small square close to a circular shape. In the space of more than 30 square meters, a large number of corpses of monsters are stacked layer by layer, most of which are only bones left, but some relatively fresh bones still have no completely rotten muscles left.
"It should be here." Panis looked at it and came to a conclusion, pointing to the few half-decayed corpses near the corner and said, "Look at that, the corpse of the giant rock sheep has been taken away neatly, and the number is also correct, twelve, this is probably the prey of the Blue Coral Adventure Group."
Cathery pointed toward Panis, and Dora was dragging her tail behind her. The two squatted beside the giant rock sheep's corpse, ignoring the stench of the rotten corpse, put on a layer of leather gloves outside the chain armor gloves, and began to carefully look at the corners of the head of the corpse. After a while, the two female knights nodded to each other. Catherine grabbed a half-rotted head and raised her voice and said: "It should be these. Guli Elmer mentioned to us that there was a mistake in their operation when taking the corners, which was not cut according to the standard position. There were too many remaining parts. I found this special head."
"Then it's basically certain." Panis's voice came from the pile of corpses.
"What are you looking for?" Catherine saw Penis squatting on piles of corpses and constantly checking them, so she walked over and squatted beside her and asked, "What's the special discovery?"
"Some." Panis looked up at Catherine, and said, holding up the thigh bones left by two unknown animals and with rotten muscles. "Look at these bones."
Catherine took the leg bone and leaned in front of her and looked at it. She suddenly frowned and said, "These are the traces of the knife."
"That's right, and these bones are all scattered. Obviously, the monsters will not divide the bones and eat them in parts, so they must be done by smart creatures. Look again, these are the leg bones of the Great Wind Musk, and the tree lizards, and they are definitely not from the giant rock sheep." Panis said: "The Blue Coral people could not consume such a large amount of food during the period when they stayed here."
"In other words, we're looking for the right place?" Dora stared at her leg bones with broken flesh. As a knight, she had unforgettable hatred for the thieves' behavior of damaging others' lives like Catherine: "This should be the kitchen of those thieves?"
"No, it should be said that it is just a slaughterhouse." Panis continued: "Looking at the corpses here, the bottom of the corpses are rotten, and it is impossible to judge. However, the higher the level of decay of these layers above, the higher the degree of decay, the earlier the corpses are produced, and it also means that they have been stationed here for a long time."
"No." Catherine bit her lip and said thinking: "A month and a half ago, in the ruins of Briana, were the corpses we saw not members of this thief group? Otherwise, time would not match."
"I'm afraid those are teams looking for new camps or doing another raid," Dora said. "After all, our inside line also mentioned that they have always had a station in the forest. We have been investigating them so tightly recently that they have just retracted."
"No matter what." Catherine stood up: "Let's find their base first, and then these questions will naturally have answers. The key now lies in how to find their base."
Chapter completed!