Chapter 1693: The Swamp Monster
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The night was dark and the light was dim.
After leaving the camp, Allen continued to follow the marks left by the scouts, where one side was at the foot of the mountain and the other side was the dense jungle. Gradually, the flames of the camp could no longer be seen, and the neighing of people and horses could hardly be heard. Loneliness surrounded the mountains and forests, and also surrounded Allen. The humidity of the air began to rise, and the oncoming wind carried a faint smell of rotting forest leaves. There are some faint lights in the forest, emanating from some glowing plants. These plants shimmer at night to attract animals. The attracted animals will eat them, and they will drop the seeds on the animal's fur, and spread them all over the forest by the animals' walking. The cycle of life and death is so wonderfully passed on, and sometimes dangerous beasts are attracted by the shimmering light. So after Alan left the camp for nearly a kilometer, a huge black bear stopped him. Black bears are different from their compatriots on the earth. They are taller on Paradise. This black bear stands almost four meters high, and blood-red crystals are embedded in the head, chest and shoulder blades to provide this black bear with terrible strength.
Allen had no time to entangle with the black bear, and let out a breath. The black bear was frightened immediately, turned around and ran away.
Gradually, the scouts left fewer and fewer signs. It was 500 meters away from the previous sign, but Allen hadn't discovered the new sign yet. Fortunately, it didn't take long before he saw an arrow drawn with a sharp object such as a dagger under a tree. From here, the ground became softer and softer, and it was obvious that he was close to the swamp. Rodke said earlier that there was no swamp here. Since the plan for the big tunnel was disrupted by hellworms, some bugs dug to the exit of the tunnel. But those bugs don't like the wet soil, so they go back to the dry ground in the middle of the mountain. The place dug out by the insects was first connected to the underground water flow in the Lishan Mountain, so the flowing water poured in and mixed with the soil and rotting leaves, and many animals stumbled, died, and rotted here. Over time, swamps began to form here. Although this is not the same as the swamp in the strict sense, the same thing is that there are traps everywhere here, so scouts are needed to explore the way.
Rodke sent a total of ten first-class scouts, but none of them have returned to the camp yet.
Approaching the swamp, Allen could feel a dangerous smell in the air. Especially in the depths of the swamp, he felt a dark aura. That is obviously not the breath emitted by humans, but some kind of creature. Although it wasn't obvious, the obscure aura quickly shrank deep when the air mechanism touched. Allen frowned, and he picked up a piece of dead wood casually. When the eyes fell, there were bursts of blue smoke rising from the dead wood, and then a flame lit up at the front end, and it became a simple torch.
Allen held the torch and went deep, under the light of the fire, in the shadows in the forest. From time to time something watched Allen, and then they quickly retreated into the shadows. The fire light illuminated a place less than three meters around Allen, and it should have been able to illuminate farther, but there seemed to be something in the air that was blocking the transmission of the light. Not only that, Allen vaguely felt some kind of force field, which would disturb people's perception. The fault is that he has a keen sense, and it is really difficult to detect it.
This is a bit like the force field laid down by Alice in Agareth's legacy. But it was far worse than Alice's force field. Allen had an intuition that it was like a spider's web. This force field was probably laid by the owner of a dark machine deep in the swamp, and the purpose was naturally to capture prey.
After walking another kilometer or so, Allen stopped. There was a man lying under a tree in front, a scout sent by Rodek. When Allen didn't know whether he was dead or alive, the man raised his head and looked in the direction of the fire. It turned out that he was not dead. Allen hurried over, knelt down and asked, "How are you?"
This person's body was covered with mud and leaves, as if he had just come out of a swamp. In fact, the ground here was already very soft, and stepping on it was like stepping on cotton. The man said with difficulty: "My lord, there are..."
At the end of the sentence, suddenly the whole person flew up, and then flew back. Allen snorted, and he felt a very faint breath lingering on that person. Immediately stretch out your hand to catch in the flames, catch a flame. Allen popped out the flame, and a little spark floated away, but it continued to grow in midair, and finally turned into a golden fireball the size of a fist. The fireball chased the man, and under the light of the fire, it could be seen that something came out of the scout's stomach, which turned out to be a tentacle. The fireball hit the tentacles, and the flames ignited the entire tentacles like kerosene. The tentacles retracted immediately, and the scout fell to the ground with a plop, his eyes wide open and he was already dead.
Allen's eyes were cold, his body leaned forward, and he kept tapping the ground to move forward. That tentacle still carried flames, and quickly retracted along the way, sprinkling sparks. Allen chased after this clear trace, and went deep into the swamp in a blink of an eye. The tentacle suddenly drilled down, and there was a sound of water, and this place was already a swamp. Allen landed on a cut tree, lightly holding the hilt of the sword with one hand, his eyes froze. Purely motivating the spiritual power to turn into a sharp blade and stabbing heavily into the marsh, a series of low whistles sounded in the marsh after a while, and then the marsh began to bubble up, like boiling water.
After a while, a large cloud of mud gushed out, splashing muddy water and rotten leaves all around. Allen waved his hand, and the dirt that was thrown at him bounced back as if hitting an invisible wall. There was a burst of muddy rain on the swamp. In the muddy rain, something emerged from the swamp. This monster has a huge head, like an octopus, but with a human face. He looked like a man in his 40s or 50s, with two huge but pupilless eyes rolled over, and a big mouth with two rows of yellow teeth dripping with sewage. From under the head, a circle of flying tentacles emerged, and the tentacles stretched into the air, and there were faces at the bottom. There are men and women, old and young.
Allen threw the torch away, and instead of being extinguished when the torch fell on the swamp, a big fire arose instead, illuminating the monster more clearly. You can see a cluster of tentacles floating on the monster's head, just like a person's hair; and the face under the tentacles has some changes because of the light, as if everyone is staring at Allen look. At this time, several corpses gradually floated up on the swamp near the monster, all of them were scouts sent by Rodek. The corpse was decomposed, and I didn't know what it had been through, and then the monster began to slap its tentacles, as if threatening Allen.
Allen sneered, the big sword was unsheathed, and there was a hissing sound in the air.
The sword energy is overflowing!
As if frightened, the monster backed away, and then opened its mouth to let out a strange howl from the manly face. Several tentacles danced for a while, and then smashed towards Allen with his head covered.
The wind howled.