Chapter 120 The Mountain is White
Before Thor could figure it out, Bill walked back to Byron.
For some reason, Bill suddenly became interested in Byron's mission and offered to go with him.
Thor initially suspected that it might be because of himself.
But after those two exchanges, Bill never took the initiative to talk to Saul again.
It made his suspicion seem a little self-indulgent.
Byron was initially hesitant about Bill's proposal.
However, considering that there have been some abnormalities in Chuishou Valley recently and the surrounding area seems to be unsafe, he still agreed.
After all, if three level three apprentices act together, as long as they don't fight among themselves, they can basically move around the outskirts of Chuishou Valley.
"Our mission is to capture an evil spirit." Byron stated the need first.
"You catch evil spirits and we pick up corpses, that's perfect. Maybe we can even find some relics from our ancestors in the cave." Bill raised his eyebrows, looking like he was going to cooperate obediently.
Having two more third-level apprentices in the team is beneficial to Thor and his team's plan to capture evil spirits.
Before leaving, Bill casually dumps the four men he just killed into a hole in the ground.
Even if the body is destroyed.
The group set off to go deeper into the Chuishou Valley. The Wooden Spider Valley became even more crowded. Fortunately, there was no fat person among this group of wizard apprentices.
As we walked along, we saw more and more holes on the ground.
Some of these holes are as thin as a forearm, some are three or four meters in diameter, and most are more or less bottomless.
When driving a wooden spider, be careful not to let the spider's legs get stuck in the hole.
"Many of these caves were dug by wizards for the purpose of exploration. Because there is no overall plan, the holes are dug at will. It is easy to get lost underground due to the crisscrossing of the underground." Byron chatted with Thor while carefully driving the wooden spider.
At the same time, he was also warning Bill and the other man, who were not familiar with the place, not to run around.
After walking for an hour, Nick turned on the sensor from time to time to check if there were any spirits nearby.
But perhaps because everyone is still outside the Chuishou Valley, or because spirits are not very active during the day, the sensor has not responded.
"Is this thing of yours useful or not?" Bill bent his fingers and tapped twice on the mirror of the sensor.
Just as Byron frowned, Nick suddenly shouted, "We found traces of ghosts!"
Thor leaned over to take a look, and sure enough, he saw a blurry shadow on the mirror.
The reason why we can be sure that it is a spirit and not any other reflection is that the shadow is a very flat human shape, without the distortion and changes of other images in the mirror.
But this shadow was different from the one Thor had seen alone before.
The shadow he saw alone, although his facial features could not be seen, was very close to the mirror, as if it was standing behind Thor.
The color of the image was also dark gray, almost black, not as blurry as it is now. It was light gray, like a puff of smoke that would dissipate at any time.
Byron controlled the wooden spider to slow down, looked sideways, and said with certainty: "Yes, it is a spirit, but it is so blurry, it must have passed by in a day or two."
Bill finally became interested. "A day or two ago? Could it be that it crawled out from underground?"
Wright sat behind the mirror and couldn't see anything, but that didn't stop him from joining in the fun. "Bill, your fingers are pretty useful. Do you want to tap them again?"
Sol was startled, fearing that Bill would mess around again. If this kind of equipment is messed up, it will take a lot of time to re-adjust it.
Fortunately, Bill heard the traces of a spirit and diverted his attention from the sensor.
He jumped out of the window without waiting for the wooden spider to stop.
"What are you waiting for? Find a hole to go down now."
But Byron ignored him and stopped on a relatively flat ground not far away near the cliff.
This is their temporary position.
Thor helped Nick lift the sensor down, put it on the ground, clapped his hands, and looked around.
There were many more caves here than near their original camp. They were like standing on a huge cheese, and even on the cliffs on one side there were many caves, and no one knew where they would lead to.
After setting up the new camp, Byron began to arrange tasks.
"I suggest that you all spread out and search for caves with signs of contamination. When you come back, summarize your findings and choose the most likely one to enter."
But Bill jumped out to object.
"Light and I are not good at observing spirits. If we keep searching like this, we might miss clues without knowing it. In my opinion, we should all find a hole in the ground and keep going down. If we go deep enough, we will definitely encounter evil spirits."
But Byron was a little worried, "If we go too deep, we might encounter enemies we can't deal with."
Nick and Thor are both second-level apprentices, especially Thor, who has only mastered one first-level witchcraft and lacks the ability to protect himself.
"If you can't handle it, just run away." Bill said nonchalantly, "Byron, you are too conservative. That's why it took you so long to advance to level three."
Whether intentionally or unintentionally, Bill slapped Thor on the shoulder and said, "If you want to be a wizard, you can't be afraid of danger."
Thor had seen Bill melt corpses with his purple smoke, and now he felt uncomfortable being held down by him.
But the diary didn't say anything, so it shouldn't have been tampered with. I don't think Bill would suddenly attack him in front of Byron.
After some consideration, Byron finally agreed to Bill's proposal.
"What you said makes sense. Let's move together and go deep underground. But we still need to leave someone in the camp to observe the sensor. Let Nick and Thor take turns to be in charge."
While assigning Thor a task, he pulled Thor aside and said, "What happened before was still a little strange. Even if a tidal storm occurs, it rarely affects the entrance of the Valley of the Hands. So I plan to catch the evil spirit as soon as possible, complete the mission and leave."
Thor nodded.
"Of course, we will help you find a suitable spirit along the way, but we may not have the time for you to study it slowly."
Finding a more complete spirit for himself was just a side job. Since something was wrong here, Thor naturally wouldn't force it.
Besides, the credits earned from this trip alone for completing the mission were quite a lot, so Thor was not too greedy.
"I'll figure it out myself. Don't worry too much about my spirit."
Thor thought, at worst, he could ask Nick to break the spirit and strengthen his hands again. It would be a bit of a waste at best.
The tasks were reassigned. It was already afternoon, but no one wanted to waste the day, so after a quick meal, the exploration team prepared to set off.
The person in charge of guarding the camp today is Nick.
Wright crossed his arms over his chest, looking at the densely packed holes in front of him, a conflicted look on his pale face.
"Which hole do we enter from?"
Bill clapped his hands, "We're all going to go deeper anyway, so let's just pick the closest one!"
He pointed to a hole in the ground five meters away with a diameter of nearly two meters.
Byron chose a cave with a diameter of about three meters, with traces of human activity around it. "It's better to find one that has been explored by others and has a large space so that it is convenient for everyone to move together."
Thor did not join the discussion immediately. He thought of what Byron said at the beginning, the method of following the traces of pollution to track down the spirit, and his heart moved.
Observing pollution, isn't that what he is good at?
Thor half-closed his eyes and imagined the monster walking.
Suddenly, the world before my eyes...didn't change.
Is it because there are too few spirits outside Chuishou Valley? Or is it because too many people have cultivated this place, so why is it so clean everywhere?
It doesn't look like a wizard's burial ground at all.
There were dozens of large holes on the ground in front of him, and even more small holes, but none of them showed any abnormal reaction.
Thor was a little disappointed. He turned around and was about to stop meditating when he suddenly saw the cliff behind him.
He noticed that on the side of the mountain wall behind them, there were some strange white shadows wriggling outside several caves.
Thor couldn't help but walk over and was about to take a closer look when the white shadows suddenly stretched out and turned into white hands as thin as bones.
Those hands, slender as wooden poles, densely packed like weeds, grew on the outskirts of the cliff caves, waving and shaking constantly.
When Thor's eyes fell on them, the arms seemed to feel his gaze and waved even more vigorously.
It seemed like it was calling Thor over, or like it was asking Thor for help.
(End of this chapter)
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