Chapter 186 185. The Unknown War
"Cheers!" X4
Horn, Old Hammer, Aimee and Noah were sitting around the table at dawn, when the dim light in the tavern had not yet dispelled the shadows of last night. Amid the mess of cups and plates, they began the prelude to a new decadent day.
As the first team to think of the wonderful event of the "Puji Lottery", they dawdled in the fourth and fifth floors of the maze for two days, until their backpacks could no longer fit any prizes, and they reluctantly returned to the ground.
Without a doubt, they are the biggest winners in this lottery craze.
Apart from them, there were other teams that came down in the second group, such as Vera, who also got some broth to drink, but they were no match for them.
There were more than two hundred gold coins, which, when divided among the four of them, was even more profitable than those adventurers who took part in the operation and risked their lives in the dungeon.
What would an adventurer do if he had money?
Except for Noah who saved most of the gold coins, the other three people in the team immediately plunged into the carnival.
The cheap beer is no longer available at the Rotten Willow Tavern, but is replaced by the rich aroma of ale.
After three rounds of drinking, Lao Chui was picking his teeth. Suddenly, he narrowed his eyes and pointed at Horn: "Hey, Horn, do you still remember when you were drawing the lottery, did you take out a silver pendant?"
"What...what pendant?" The real beer was quite strong. Horn's tongue was tied and his eyes were blurry. He was trying hard to grope in the fog of memory.
"It was the one that was taken away by the cunning Buck later." Old Hammer took another sip of wine and added.
There were so many odds and ends that he won in the Horn draw that time, how could he remember the specific items? But he still remembered the name "Buck", the vendor who packed up a lot of their odds and ends.
"Oh...that's what happened. Then what happened?" Horn asked, shaking his head.
"That pendant," Aimee suddenly interrupted, her tone somewhat distressed, "belonged to Captain Solarin of the Wings of Judgment! Buck was so bold that he sold it to the original owner. I heard that he sold it for a full 10 gold coins!"
Buck's action of raising his voice at the time attracted a lot of attention to protect him, but it also spread the news.
“10 gold coins?!” Horn was so shocked that he almost spit out his beer on the table. His eyes widened, and it took him a while to recover. Then he waved his hand and said, “He is very brave and powerful. Anyway, I dare not offer such a price to the church.”
"But what I want to say is," Old Hammer put down his glass, tapped the table with his fingers, lowered his voice, and was a little mysterious, "Buck... has been missing for several days."
"What do you mean?" Horn's drunkenness seemed to be diluted a little by the news.
Lao Hammer shrugged and glanced across the table: "Literally. I went to the places where he usually stays to ask, and other people also said that they haven't seen him at all in the past few days."
"You mean... the church...?" Aimee's brows furrowed slightly, with a hint of uncertainty in her voice.
Noah, who had been listening quietly, suddenly raised his head, frowned, and interrupted in an extremely serious tone: "The church would never do such a thing!"
Her voice was not loud, but it was full of unquestionable firmness. Even though she was just an apprentice pastor, Noah still didn't want others to slander the church.
Lao Chui glanced at her with no expression on his face: "I didn't say it was the church who did it. It's possible that he left Yafeng Town out of guilt."
A brief silence fell over the table, with only the clinking of wine glasses and the vague noise of distant noises.
Ai Mei cleared her throat and took the lead in breaking the subtle silence, trying to change the topic: "Speaking of which, have you heard? There seems to be fewer traces of Puji in the dungeon recently. Is something going to happen..."
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Of course there are changes, but they happen in the deep areas.
In Cave No. 4, a small snail tree grows in the center of the fungal carpet, and ten cavemen live inside to guard it.
But now there are only eight left.
When Chis's six claws lurked over, even though Lin Jun discovered the trail in the first place, two cavemen who were confused about the situation were still ambushed and killed.
The remaining cave dwellers, along with Puji, hastily retreated into the snail wood, using this natural fortress to resist the subsequent influx of Qis beetles.
However, the snail wood had not yet fully grown and was not strong enough. The six claws tore at the wooden wall frantically, and debris flew everywhere - it was about to dig through it!
In mid-air, a bat swooped over, but it did not pounce on the battlefield. Instead, it chased after an eye bug that was prowling at the edge of the passage!
The eyeworm sensed the threat, and several long-tailed chisels around it immediately rolled up stones and threw them at the bat.
The bat nimbly moved between the flying rocks without getting hurt.
It was too late for the euglena to run away.
The bat suddenly fell, and Louisa's figure appeared in the air. With the momentum of falling, blood instantly wrapped around her right arm. With a sharp sound of breaking through the air, she crushed the fragile eye worm, and purple liquid splashed everywhere.
The group of Chis that were besieging Wo Mu were thrown into chaos, and the Puji reinforcements that came from the nearby cave took the opportunity to attack and quickly killed all the remaining enemies.
After the war, the cavemen worked with the Pujis to throw the corpses onto the fungal mat to decompose.
Lin Jun planned to strengthen the caveman with the best performance and the fastest reaction. It didn't need to be too much, just strengthen a skill as a reward so that it could stand out among the other cavemen.
On the other side, a group of Puji raided a Chis transport team and neatly killed eight Beasts and their guards. However, when the Beasts' swollen bellies were cut open, what rolled out was not the expected supplies, but heavy stones!
trap!
By the time they realized it, it was too late. From the three surrounding passages, a tide of Chiss troops surged out and soon overwhelmed the 300-man assault team.
The more than 20 interconnected caves between Lin Jun and Qis have now become a cruel meat grinder, with the two sides switching between offense and defense.
The brutal tug-of-war turned the battlefield into a wasteland. Except for scattered mycelium, all other monsters disappeared naturally.
After the war escalated to an all-out war, Lin Jun was able to witness Chis's intelligence.
Not only can he ambush and attack, he also has an amazing learning ability.
The same trap would hardly work a second time, and they might even learn from it and use it to bite Lin Jun back.
The annihilation battle in front of us, which used the transport team to set an ambush and lure the enemy deep into our territory, was exactly what we learned from Lin Jun's tactics last time.
The current situation is that Chis is constantly learning Lin Jun's tactics, and Lin Jun is constantly absorbing Chis's skills, mainly [Cold Resistance] and [Refractive Invisibility].
The reconnaissance skills of eyeworms are also good, but there are too few of them, and the improved proficiency is very limited.
The skills of the Evil Eye are even more powerful, but Lin Jun has not found a chance to kill it yet.
It’s not that the heavy-armored Pujis are not strong enough, but that Lin Jun deliberately kept them out of the tug-of-war.
The heavy-armored Puji's movements were not slow, but they were definitely not fast, and it could not catch up with the speed of the floating evil eye.
Once the other party finds that the heavy-armored Puji is difficult to deal with, with Qis's wisdom, they will definitely withdraw the Evil Eye decisively, and then it will most likely turn into more troublesome guerrilla harassment. Lin Jun does not have so much time to waste on this.
Lin Jun was waiting for a decisive battle, a decisive situation that would completely trap the Evil Eye and a large number of Chiss troops, leaving them nowhere to escape.
And Lin Jun is almost ready for this decisive battle!
(End of this chapter)
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