The Little King Next Door

The little old man untied the basket, stooped into the cave, and dragged the basket in too.

After entering, the little old man reached out and moved the wooden stake back to its original position.

There are traces of friction on the ground, but as long as you don't look very carefully, you usually won't find it.

The little old man took out the torch from the basket and lit it, and dragged the basket deep into the cave.

After walking for about ten minutes, the terrain is obviously downward, and there are also water droplets dripping on the cave wall. There are still a few side roads on the way. If you are not familiar with this place, you will definitely get lost.

But the little old man is obviously used to this road, and he knows exactly where there are pitfalls.

"Ayu." The little old man called softly.

"Brother!" A tall and thin man came out of the dark cave.Seeing the flames, he subconsciously covered them with his hands.

"I brought you some meat and fruit, eat it quickly." The little old man also straightened up and beat his back hard. Playing a hunchbacked old man is hard work.

The tall and thin man lifted the grass blades covering the basket, grabbed a fruit with a bumpy appearance, and broke it open forcefully, revealing the snow-white flesh inside. He had eaten this kind of fruit before, and he would bite it with his mouth open.

The little old man straightened up, and he looked no longer so short, he was about the same size as the thin and tall one.

The tall, thin man gnawed the fruit, picked up the basket with one hand, and greeted the little old man: "Brother, let's go in and talk. You haven't come for two days. I thought something happened to you, and I wanted to go out to find you."

"Don't. You stay here, don't go out. During this period of time, people are being arrested everywhere on the island. It seems that someone has escaped from prison."

"Really? Can anyone escape from this island?"

"Some people say this, but I don't know if it's true or not, but it's true that people are being arrested everywhere, and there are more patrols than before." The little old man explained: "Two days ago, the guards came to our village to check the number of people and asked everyone to be there. After two days of investigation, no one dared to leave the village."

The two entered a more spacious cave one after the other.

Seeing the darkness in the cave, the little old man couldn't help but said, "Why didn't you light a torch or burn charcoal? It's so cold in this cave, what should you do if you're sick?"

The thin and tall man: "I'm afraid that the flames will be discovered."

"It's so deep and so dark here, most people won't come in casually." The little old man lit the extinguished fire in the cave with his own torch, sat down in front of his younger brother, watched his younger brother devouring it, and sighed: "This time, I found out that there is a lot of food in the cave." There are some fewer people in the village, and no one in the village seems to be surprised. The guards told the villagers that some people came to the island to recruit workers, and those people went to work in the Jiaoge Islands to live a good life."

The tall and thin man said sarcastically, "Shit."

The little old man said again: "I heard that the village used to have 2000 people at its peak, but the population has been decreasing in the past ten years. In the past two years, more and more people have 'leaved'. There were still more than 900 people in the village at this time last year. , now it's less than [-]."

The tall and thin man wiped his mouth: "Brother, we have to find a way to escape, we can't wait here to die."

The little old man frowned: "They are guarded too strictly. And if you want to escape, you must have a boat, or at least a raft, but whether you make a boat or a raft, the movement will not be small, and you will definitely be guarded." We found out. But without a boat, we can’t go anywhere.”

"You can go to Trench Island next door. I heard that prisoners have crossed that trench before and fled to Trench Island. Didn't you say that someone escaped from the island? Maybe they just escaped to the next door."

"Who did you hear that? They say that the trench is a deadly trench, and even boats can't get through it!"

"It's always a chance. That's the closest land to us. If it doesn't work there, we won't be able to go to other places." The tall and thin man gritted his teeth, "If it doesn't work, we'll jump into the sea with a piece of wood and swim there, and live as long as we can. , can’t live... we will die if we stay here.”

In the worm nest space, Lei Mu was talking to Wang Ye: "I just saw this little old man straighten up suddenly, so I thought he was a bit weird."

"The little old man is called the tall and thin Ayu, and the tall and thin one is called Brother. These two should be the twin brothers Zuo Qinsang and Zuo Qinyu we are looking for." Wang Ye judged.

[Congratulations to the player next door, Xiao Wang, who successfully found the mission targets Zuo Qinsang and Zuo Qinyu.100 experience points are hereby rewarded. 】

[30% of the exploration of the cave group is completed. 】

Huh?Finding this pair of brothers is actually one of the quest chains of the cave group?Wang Ye realized that it was no wonder they could come to the ground. It turns out that the mission chain of the cave group also includes the ground.

Is there something odd about the cave the brothers are in now?According to the previous two system reminders, every 10% completed was when he found a cave related to parasites, so is there also parasites here?

Wang Ye was thinking about other things, and said: "It has been more than a month since Zhang Hui and his companions escaped from Trench Island. Why did Prisoner Island only find out now? Or did someone else escape?"

Lei Mu speculated: "If the prisoners on the island escaped for more than a month before we found out, then all the prisoners on Prisoner Island would have escaped long ago. There should be new escaped prisoners, or villagers. It is also possible that they are looking for Zuo Qinyu."

Wang Ye's eyes lit up: "It's possible. From the appearance of Zuo Qinyu, it can be seen that he should not stay in this cave for a long time. I suspect that he may have discovered something and was imprisoned by the guards, but He escaped with the help of his brother."

Wang Ye suddenly shook his head again, "That's not right, if the guards are looking for Zuo Qinyu, it's impossible for the brothers not to know."

Lei Mu: "That means another prisoner has escaped."

Lei Mu frowned: "I'm afraid that the escaped prisoners have been transformed by parasites."

Wang Ye said indifferently: "That is also impossible."

The intelligent parasites have obviously been lurking on Double Moon for a long time. Like an infectious disease with a long incubation period, they spread little by little, but no one can find out. People who already know are either dead or parasitized.

It has been six years since the parasites broke out in the game world.

Before the parasites were discovered, people only thought that there were more mutants and mutant creatures in the world, and many copies were dominated by such mutant creatures.

In fact, these mutated creatures are all parasites transformed by the parasites.

When the two were talking, the Zuo brothers were discussing the specific method of escaping from the island.

"Are we going to contact these brothers? They should know more things." Lei Mu said.

"Wait a little longer." Wang Ye had doubts in his heart. Before the doubts were resolved, he was not at ease to let Lei Mu contact the two of them.

Zuo Qinsang stayed for a while, fearing that it would be too long to make people suspicious, he returned to his appearance as a hunchbacked little old man, left the cave, and repeatedly told his brother not to run around.

Wang Ye stayed where he was.

Lei Mu also stared at Zuo Qinyu outside.

Zuo Qinyu put out the fire with water not long after his brother left.

The cave suddenly became extremely dark.

Wang Ye turned off all the lighting equipment in the insect nest, making the insect nest as dark as the outside.

After the two of them got used to the light for a while, Lei Mu's eye technique first came into play, and he saw Zuo Qinyu climbing up extremely nimbly like a monkey, and climbed into a narrow passage above the rock wall of the cave.

Wang Ye manipulated the insect nest to follow Zuo Qinyu.

Zuo Qinyu climbed ahead for a while, and a cliff appeared in front of him.

On the opposite side of the cliff is a rock wall like a honeycomb, and the caves on it are densely packed and arranged in an extremely regular manner.

And there is a faint fluorescent light here, so it won't be completely dark.

Wang Ye and Lei Mu looked at each other with astonishment in their eyes.

[60% of the exploration of the cave group is completed. 】

They actually made 30% progress in one fell swoop. Did they find the more important part of the parasite race?

"Mumu, is there any living thing in the hive wall?"

"Yes, there are many. At least three hundred." Lei Mu looked solemn, "And these living creatures look very much like... people."

"What are they doing?" Wang Ye was not too surprised.

Lei Mu: "They are not active, as if they are all sleeping?"

"All lying down?"

"No, there are sitting ones too. But none of them move, but they're all alive."

"Let's go over and have a look." Relying on the fact that no one could see him in the space of the hive, Wang Ye jumped over the cliff with lightness kungfu and landed on the opposite rock wall of the hive.

Zuo Qinyu also crawled over, his movements did not look human, and his actions were not affected in the dark.

A crocodile-like creature crawled out of a beehive hole at the bottom.

Lei Mu blurted out, "The giant toothed crocodile."

Wang Ye had also heard of the megalodon crocodile, which was a species similar to the earth crocodile, but more ferocious.

In the game world, the so-called ancient remnant generally means that the current form of the creature is not much different from that in ancient times, and the obvious blood relationship can be seen.

"Is this a native creature?"

"Megalodon likes dark and damp waters. This Prisoner Island has huge underground caves all over the island, and there are underground rivers inside, which are very suitable for Megalodon to live in." Lei Mu doubted that the several powerful caves he had seen before The energy group, there may be a giant tooth crocodile.

Wang Ye suddenly said: "This is a parasitic giant-toothed crocodile."

Lei Mu looked over and saw Zuo Qinyu talking with the giant tooth crocodile.

"We've been spotted outside. Don't go out to look for parasites during this time. Wait a minute. The population of Prisoner Island is only so small, so we can't catch fish." Zuo Qinyu warned the megalodon.

The megalodon made a low, creepy guttural sound, one after another, as if talking.

Zuo Qinyu seemed to understand: "Those guards are not so easy to deceive. Look at those guards, who took the initiative to take the talent awakening pill? They have already noticed that something is wrong with the prisoner, but they want to cover it up. The incident of the mine did not report the abnormalities of those prisoners."

The giant toothed crocodile spoke again.

"We shouldn't make a big move now. How many female worms have we hatched so far? If humans are made aware of our existence, as long as dozens of intermediate magicians come, all our fellow worms here will be finished."

Megalodon: "Roar..."

Zuo Qinyu: "Don't worry, I've already contacted the steward of Li's family, but unfortunately the other party is too timid to take me out. But with the talent awakening pill hanging on him, he will agree to take me out sooner or later."

"Roar!" The megalodon suddenly opened its mouth wide, as if angry.

Zuo Qinyu took a step back: "I didn't do my best, well, I know, I will let the other party take the pill as soon as possible. I'm going first, you are here to guard these war bug seeds. When they evolve, they will be King's best fighter. Don't steal any more."

"Roar!" The megalodon sprayed Zuo Qinyu's face with water.

Zuo Qinyu turned around and ran away.

Battle bugs!Wang Ye's heart beat like a drum.

More than 300 war insects of the parasite race have been cultivated here.

As long as these war bugs are fused with the parasite, they will be at least level [-] when they wake up, and their growth and advancement speeds are extremely fast, and they can easily rise to level [-] or even level [-], just like a super talent among human beings warrior.

When he brushed the dungeon of Prisoner Island back then, these war bugs never appeared at all.Maybe there is one in the hell-level dungeon, but the previous normal and difficult dungeons are not there. Otherwise, these two dungeons would be impossible for level [-] players to clear.

A few years later, he heard that the elves were attacked by tens of thousands of super-powerful talented fighters, and most of the clan land was submerged. The place of origin.

At that time, the elves thought that humans were attacking them, and the escaped elves went crazy and started a war with the humans. Both the elves and the humans suffered heavy losses.

Until some players discovered that those super talented fighters were not human beings at all, but mutant creatures parasitic and transformed by parasites when playing the dungeon.

From then on, the name of the parasite war insects became famous all over the world.

The parasites were not regarded as a common enemy by the various races of the Double Moon Star until then, and they were still super powerful enemies. All camps merged into one and began to jointly resist the parasites.

With more and more battles with the parasites, the Double Moon Stars discovered that their world has been thoroughly invaded by the parasites. There are parasites almost everywhere. The original relatives, lovers, friends, classmates, Companions, battle pets, etc., can turn into mutant creatures in a blink of an eye.

Wang Ye frowned.

In his previous life, he had always had the idea of ​​playing games, and he only cared about his own strength and the benefits he got. He didn't care much about the game world, and he didn't study her background and world changes much.

So much so that he overlooked an obvious thing—although the parasites had already appeared, they attacked a certain race in a certain place on a large scale, and it seemed that they started with the elves.

But the elves themselves are very powerful, so they are not a good early target.Why did the parasites take down the elves first, even at the risk of being discovered or even defeated?

Why does the game system set the task reward for hatching elf eggs so high?

Wang Ye felt that he seemed to have touched some key points, and he wanted to know why the parasites cared so much about the elves, maybe not only from the parasites, but also to understand the elves.

"Mumu, none of the parasites of these war insects can stay."

"Of course." Lei Mu was full of fighting spirit: "That giant-toothed crocodile should be the guard of this lair. You go around behind that giant-toothed crocodile, and then let me out. You stay in the nest space, don't come out .”

"I'm with you. I won't hold you back. I know different skills and medicine. If it's dangerous, I will quickly enter the insect's nest." Wang Ye insisted.

Wang Ye didn't say that ordinary poisons and drugs are not very useful against such magical creatures.Even if it works, it will take a while.

Lei Mu looked at Wang Xiaoye firmly, patted his head, and agreed.

Wang Ye maneuvered the worm nest to the side behind the giant tooth crocodile, and let Lei Mu out first.

"Turn over!" Lei Mu directly cast a strange spell, trying to turn the giant tooth crocodile over.

The giant toothed crocodile roared, and turned over the moment it turned over, but its bulky body was as flexible as a human being.

Lei Mu and Megalodon fight.

Wang Ye suddenly appeared next to the eyes of the megalodon.

The giant tooth crocodile opened its mouth suddenly and bit Wang Ye.

Wang Ye could still laugh at this moment.He didn't make a move, it was the giant tooth crocodile who made the first move, and after the cause and effect, he could fight back.

【Entangling】Activate, the causal line tightly entangles the limbs of the giant tooth crocodile, and then pulls and lifts forcefully.

The megalodon was overturned again, revealing a softer abdomen.

Seeing the opportunity, Lei Mu quickly jumped up and shouted loudly: "Cut!"

A "cut" character floated up, turning into a sharp blade and slashing towards the belly of the giant tooth crocodile.

"Roar!" The surface of the megalodon's body was suddenly covered with a thick layer of ice.

The word "cut" fell, and a large number of ice flowers splashed.

The giant toothed crocodile opened its mouth wide and made threatening noises. It desperately wanted to turn over, but invisible ropes entangled its limbs and wrapped around it. Unable to turn over in time.

Lei Mu kept using ultimate moves, attacking the belly of the giant tooth crocodile.But this megalodon's defense is also very strong, and Lei Mu's attack has only broken a little skin for a long time.

Wang Ye's level was still too low. He found that this giant toothed crocodile had at least level [-]. If he wanted to solve it, such hard work was not the way to go.

And the noise of their fight is so loud, it will be troublesome if other insect guards are alarmed.

It must be done quickly!As soon as Wang Ye was cruel, he hid in the worm's nest and rushed into the mouth of the giant tooth crocodile.