Chapter 174 Mysterious Cave

What Qi Tian said was so terrifying that Li Jiajia was so frightened that she quickly hid behind Jiang Feng, not having the courage to get close to the mound to observe.

Gao Fei tiptoed close to the mound, stood on tiptoes and took a look. Sure enough, as Qi Tian said, a large, dark, bottomless hole opened in the center of the mound.

The exit of the cave is pointed at the top and wide at the bottom. The cross-section is an irregular isosceles triangle. Visually, the bottom is about three meters long and about four meters high, giving people an indescribable weird feeling.

"Could these big holes on the ground be dug by sandworms?" Gao Fei turned around and asked Jiang Feng.

Jiang Feng glanced at the sandworm beside him and shook his head slightly.

"With the size of the sandworm, it cannot dig such a wide burrow, and the cross-sectional shape of the burrow is also wrong."

"I think it's more likely to be burrowing insects." Qi Tian put forward another guess, "I have seen burrowing insects in the Ranger module. They are slightly larger than sandworms, and they are often found in pairs of male and female or in a family. They live in the same burrow, so the cross-section of the burrow is often wider than their body size."

"Are ground diggers powerful?" Li Jiajia asked.

"The challenge level is higher than that of Sandworm. The fighting method is similar. It also has a move to spit acid. It should be said that it is a bit powerful, but it is not a big trouble for our team."

"It would be great if it was really a ground-digger, but unfortunately, I don't think so!" Wang Daqing suddenly interjected.

"Brother Daqing, what do you think?" Gao Fei asked.

"The worms are flat in body, and most of the burrows they excavate are oval in cross-section. But if you look at the burrows in the bamboo forest, the shapes are completely different!"

Wang Daqing wiped away the cold sweat and his tone became solemn.

"I've seen this kind of weird-shaped cave in the Paladin module... It was a side mission that required our Knight Order to appoint four elites to investigate the mysterious cave. I accepted the mission and then tried to do it, continuously. After three failures, the system will forcibly cancel the task.”

"You probably think I feel sorry?"

"But it's not!"

"In fact, the moment the system prompted me 'mission failed', I breathed a sigh of relief, because I knew that my own skills were simply not enough to challenge that terrifying monster. No matter how many times I tried, I would die and injure three people. NPC teammates suffer with me, it’s better to give up.”

"Brother Daqing, what level was your paladin when you received that side mission?" Ma Tao asked.

"Level 6, the three NPC teammates are also level 6 paladins." Wang Daqing replied sullenly.

"What exactly is this monster that four level 6 paladins can't even defeat?" Qi Tian asked curiously.

"Shark Lizard Beast." Wang Daqing whispered the name that left a psychological shadow on him. "It is also nicknamed 'Land Shark' because this monster looks like a big shark with four legs. His temperament is as cruel and bloodthirsty as a shark!”

"How strong is this monster?" Qi Tian asked next.

"The data in the game is challenge level 6, but you'd better not take it seriously. In fact, the combat power of the shark lizard is much stronger than its challenge level. At least I haven't seen any better than the shark lizard in the game. A more terrifying level 6 creature!”

"Brother Daqing, are you worrying too much?" Li Jiajia forced a smile, "Maybe the monster in the cave is not the shark-lizard beast you imagined."

"Jiajia, big brother doesn't want to disappoint you, but there's one thing to say, it's useless to lie to yourself." Wang Daqing sighed, pointed to the mound opposite and said, "Look carefully, everyone, the caves in the forest are all wide. "Shangzhai, have you ever thought about why there is a sharp point at the top of the cave?"

Everyone remained silent, expecting his answer.

"Actually, the reason is very simple. Not only is the burrowing monster huge, it is covered with a layer of hard scales like a pangolin. It also has a row of towering hard dorsal fins protruding upward from head to back, along the line of the cervical vertebrae and spine. !”

"That's right, just like the dorsal fin of the great white shark in the movie!"

"When the shark lizard digs a cave, its hard and sharp dorsal fin is like an upward steel knife, cutting through the soil on the top wall of the cave to form a raised groove, so it shows what we see at the moment. See the shape of the cave.”

Wang Daqing has already said this, so everyone can no longer take chances.

"Let's first assume that the cave was dug by the shark lizard. Next, there are two questions: How many shark lizards are there and which caves are they hiding in?" Ma Tao said thoughtfully.

"So we need to conduct a wave of reconnaissance first." Gao Fei opened the astrolabe and tried it, then shook his head and smiled bitterly, "The cave is too deep and exceeds the detection radius of the astrolabe."

"I can send sandworms to drill into the cave. By sharing the sandworm's vision, I can see the structure inside the cave clearly." Jiang Feng proposed an idea.

"It's best not to do this." Gao Fei shook his head, "If there is a ferocious monster hidden in the cave, and the sandworm rashly pokes its head in, wouldn't it be like delivering food to your door and seeking death?"

"It would be great if there was a drone. You can remotely control the drone and fly into the cave to take pictures of the conditions inside..."

Li Jiajia sighed casually, not thinking that her whimsical idea was feasible.

Ma Tao nodded and followed her train of thought and said, "Although we don't have drones, we can use magic to achieve similar effects."

"Brother Tao, what are you going to do?" Gao Fei asked.

"My Tiangong Special Police has been upgraded to level 4. The remaining experience points are enough to upgrade the deputy professional priest to level 3. He can automatically learn the 1-level magic spell of destiny field 'Destroy the Enemy First'. In addition, he can also choose a 1-level magic spell of his own." , the key lies in this magic!"

Ma Tao answered confidently.

Quickly allocating experience points and improving the priest's level, Ma Tao's last magical choice was "Level 1 Monster Summoning".

Spending 3 magic points to perform the summoning ritual, a "dire rat" was soon summoned out of thin air.

The ferocious rat is actually the mutated giant rat as big as a dog that everyone saw in the supermarket in Heye Town yesterday.

Summoned creatures created by magic have time limits.

With Ma Tao's current priest level, the summoned dire rat can only exist for a maximum of 3 minutes. During this period, it will completely obey his instructions and can communicate with the dire rat telepathically.

In order to save time, after completing the summoning ceremony, Ma Tao immediately ordered the dire rat to get into a cave and conduct in-depth investigation.

It took about a minute for the dire rat to have a clear view of the situation inside the cave, and quickly turned back the way it came.

The cave below was empty, so Ma Tao controlled the Dire Rat to continue exploring the second one.

After exploring two caves in succession, both of them were empty. The summoning time of the Dire Rat had also come, and it automatically decomposed into disordered magic power and dissipated out of thin air.