Chapter 48 Thank the Goddess!
Joe spat out the blood foam in his mouth, calmed down, and turned to observe the people around him.
Edith and her teammates, Xia Zhi, and those stupid and lazy people in the team... Somehow, they didn't show any dissatisfaction at this time, but watched everything happen in silence.
It turns out that everything had been discussed.
Joe suddenly grinned, and the corners of his mouth curled up higher and higher, almost tearing his entire face.
"Why are you so stupid?" He whispered, his smile deepening. "Helping the enemy capture teammates? Their points will only increase, while yours will always be zero."
"So, 'teammates' who are capable of helping to earn points, how many points have you earned in total?" Xia Zhi tilted her head.
Qiao's smile faded, and he threw the question back to the other party: "How about you, how much did you earn?"
"Not much, just 21 points. Although they were found in three different places, unfortunately one of them was repeated." Xia Zhi picked up a net bag with three uprooted herbs hanging in it.
This is a slap in the face.
Joe's face darkened.
He hates it when someone puts the blame on him.
"We couldn't get any points when we worked together. Once we separated, the four of us found something quickly, but you two found nothing... Controlling the variables means it's your fault." Xia Zhi sighed, squatted down, and patted Qiao, who was hanging in the net bag in a downward position. "So, catching you is also helping us, isn't it?"
Joe is too unstable and it would be easy for him to get hurt. If her family and the Rodney family were not in the same boat, she would not want to team up with such a lunatic.
Fortunately, the rule this time was that the group advanced together, so she could finally control Joe with peace of mind. If her father asked, it would be easy to explain - I have successfully led him to the next round, so what does a little mistake in the process matter?
As for how to "control" Joe, it's not easy to get a chance to play a game without any surveillance, so of course he has to use it to vent his anger.
Xia Zhi quickly reached a consensus with Edith's team who had the same idea. They simply set up a trap and successfully picked up Edith and Amy. Then the two of them completed the last step of the decoy and finally succeeded in catching Joe in the net.
"Where's Hoover? Do you want him or not?" Edith leaned lazily against the rock wall and turned to look at the other side. "I advise you not to. The two are too close. If you let one go, Joe's range of movement will increase. Who knows what he might do."
Xia Zhi hesitated for a moment and said, "Let's release him."
Hoover is strong and obedient, and his competition with Edith and the others is just normal. Without him, the strength of their team will drop by an unknown amount.
Edith didn't quite agree, but after all, it was someone else's team's business, so she couldn't interfere.
Xia Zhi carefully released the man, quickly waved her wand to tighten the net, and lifted Qiao to a higher position. "This way, we don't have to worry about him getting into trouble." She smiled, with a hint of teasing in her tone, "Of course, he can also choose to grind his teeth off bit by bit."
Either hang it up like a pig or bite the net bag into pieces like a dog. Just thinking about it makes people feel refreshed.
Edith shrugged. Seeing that Xia Zhi was checking Hoover's physical condition, she turned around and cast two protective spells on Joe to prevent him from harming the outside world.
Then reinforce the net bag to ensure that Joe will not come out to cause trouble for the time being.
After dealing with everything, the two teams continued to move deeper.
"I think there must be ruins of the residents of the mines down there." The brief alliance brought the two teams into an eerie harmony, and Xia Zhi simply shared basic intelligence, "In addition to the moss I told you about, I also saw water marks on the surface, what looked like fish bones that had turned into powder in the cracks, and the sound of water that became clearer the further down we went."
"There must be a hidden river here. The herbs we want must grow in large quantities near the water source. Going down is the right way."
Edith nodded, but touched the rock wall with some doubt. "The temperature inside the cave is still high, but the rock wall is very cold... With this combination, plus the nearby water source, there should be a lot of condensation on it."
“But why is it so dry here?”
Xia Zhi choked and walked to the side to touch the rock wall, and found that Edith's problem was indeed there. "Maybe it's because it's still a little far away? Or maybe the road below is tortuous, and the water vapor from the underground river can't reach here?" She made a reasonable guess.
After all, solids conduct sound the fastest, and there are rocks everywhere here, so the sound of water that sounds right next to your ears may be a long distance away from you.
Edith nodded hesitantly: "... is also a possibility."
The two teams continued to descend, occasionally finding a few herbs along the way, but they were all peacefully distributed evenly. It was not until everyone went down a "small cliff" with a huge drop and fell into complete darkness that they realized something was amiss.
"The water is so loud, it must be close now." Edith touched the rock wall, "But it's still dry."
"Besides, we walked so far, why didn't we see any monsters?" Mu Lin also stood up and asked, "This shouldn't be the case - there is still magic fluctuation in the cave, which is more than enough to support a few monsters."
She raised her wand, and the little light at the tip was quickly swallowed up by the darkness. She could only gather everyone together to cast a light spell, hoping to restore the visual perception of natural light.
The ball of light appeared in the air, but it only illuminated itself. When everyone looked up, they only saw the circle of bright light, and the surrounding scene was still not revealed.
"...Amy?" Edith had a bad feeling. "Can you tell the existence of the illusion?"
Amy's usually cheerful voice became cautious: "I'll try."
He squatted down, touched the floor, and carefully felt the traces left on it. "A half-finished silencing spell, a small amount of protective spells, it really looks a bit like a spell to create an illusion..."
He moved his feet slightly, wanting to feel something farther away, and stretched out his arms to expand the range of his exploration.
"A suppressing form of the Light spell, a reinforcement spell, and... um? What is this?"
A small piece of coldness appeared under his palm. He squeezed it in confusion, and the thing suddenly broke free and instead grabbed his hand tightly.
"What--"
Before he could say anything, another cold hand covered his mouth in an instant, and then the unconscious Amy was dragged into the darkness.
"Amy?"
Edith didn't hear any more responses, frowned, and wanted to reach out to feel where the person was.
Unexpectedly, at the same time her arm left her side, a pair of hands appeared silently and touched the wand she kept in her pocket.
Edith's breath hitched.
Sure enough, a second before she pulled out her wand to fight back, Joe, who was supposed to be trapped in the net bag, suddenly appeared in front of him. The smile on the boy's face was very strange, as if he was angry, but also as if he was very satisfied with the current situation.
He held his wand in his hand and pointed it at Edith and the others.
"I am angry."
How did this guy break free!
Xia Zhi still wanted to negotiate, but frowned when she heard this: “What do you want to do!
The person on the other side didn't even give her time to ask questions. The tip of his staff drew a curve in the air, and the road beneath everyone's feet began to shake. Stones splashed and revealed a glowing magic circle underneath.
It really is an illusion!
Edith's face looked unhappy. She couldn't understand how a student knew the specific structure of the ruins that had only appeared three days ago. She couldn't understand why Joe seemed so unfamiliar with the road in the previous chase, but now he was so familiar with it as if he was home - it was extremely disconnected.
Joe controlled everyone with one spell, and the magic power in his body ran wild again. It was obvious that the situation was completely broken, and it was so stressful that people couldn't breathe.
He spoke slowly: "I didn't want to bring you here... After all, with so many people missing all of a sudden, the school will definitely be suspicious."
"But it's okay. As long as you can't find anyone, you will be completely forgotten."
The smile on Joe's face was extremely creepy. Edith wanted to take out her wand to resist, but her whole body suddenly became stiff as a rock, and she couldn't even lift her arms.
Joe stepped forward and smiled as he took the wand from Edith's hand. "Don't try it." He shook his head with a look of pity. "I actually like you very much, and I really want to have a real fight with you, but... I wish you success."
As soon as the words fell, the people gathered together disappeared in an instant, and the magic circle on the ground flashed by.
"...Tsk, boring."
Seeing that his plan was realized so smoothly, Qiao lost sight of his original goal and turned away in annoyance.
......
"Cough, cough, cough, cough!"
Edith struggled to get up from the water. Her clothes, soaked with moisture, were being blown away by the cold air, and she was too cold to think carefully. At this moment, an unclear figure stood up, screamed and rushed into the water, pulling people out one by one.
It's Amy who disappeared at the beginning.
The first person to be rescued was Edith. She spat out the two mouthfuls of water that had choked her, and finally came to her senses. She held herself and walked to the drier shore.
Cold wind, running cold water...
Wait, when did the water actually appear!
Edith rubbed the water droplets on the back of her hand with her lips. It had a slightly strange taste, but it was basically fresh water, not salty or bitter.
She wiped her eyes, looked at the scene in front of her, and couldn't help but gasp.
Where is this!
The rest of the people also came to their senses after landing, and began to point at the house in front of them. The broken altar, the offerings that were so dry that they would break if squeezed, and the countless strange magic arrays embedded in the pillars.
"What is this?" Xia Zhi frowned and touched the magic circle, "I have never seen it before."
Her specialty is magic circles. Even if she has never seen a case before, she can infer its general function through the materials and the spells on it. But these magic circles in front of her... she didn't recognize any of them.
Edith: "Don't worry about that for now, let's figure out how to get out."
Everyone started to take action, and their surprise at Joe's sneak attack gradually subsided. They began to look around for a possible "ladder".
Bad news, none.
"How could it be that there is none?" Tuttle frowned. "It's square, just like a box. There are no doors on the sides, and no gaps on the top or the bottom. It's like a completely independent space, independent of the entire world."
"Damn it, our wands have been taken away. Otherwise, we could have determined whether it was completely sealed by destroying the surrounding rock walls—"
Edith slowly took out a wand from her chest.
Tuttle: "..."
"Before I became Hedda's study partner, I had a low-quality wand that I bought myself." Edith touched the rough surface of the wand with a nostalgic expression, "I couldn't bear to throw it away, thinking that I could use it as a backup if it didn't work."
I didn't expect it to come in handy.
Everyone's eyes followed the voice and looked over, with burning passion in their eyes.
The only magic wand - thank the goddess!
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