Blue Star

The archaeological release to the library was scheduled at six o'clock in the morning. Before the sky was fully lit, Osid began to whistle and call people.The third team was left in the base to take care of the food, and the second team was split into three small teams. The two teams were responsible for patrolling nearby, and the remaining team followed the first team to guard the ruined library.

The location of the library is in a deep pit 300 meters away from the base. Like many buildings in the town, people prefer to build the underground city downwards rather than upwards.

However, the depth of the library is different from that of the buildings in the city. The depth of the underground buildings can reach up to 80 meters.From the top down, it looks like a spiraling bottomless abyss.

About 200 years ago, when Patriarch Elder was still alive, it was rumored that the controllable range of the magnetic field could reach up to 100 meters.But with the blood combination of different talents, in the current generation, the range of 50 meters is already the limit.

Gu Li was ready to go, and he quickly tied the climbing rope around his waist and abdomen, waiting for the order of Captain Oxide to climb down.

The buildings around the library are covered with unknown plants, and many brightly colored flower species have never appeared in the textbooks that Gu Li studied.Maybe it's a new product after mutation, or maybe it's because his original knowledge is very lacking.

There is a large area of ​​new moss on the edge of the library, and almost every step you take gives you the illusion of being in a deep swamp.

He roughly looked at the families and genera covered on the ruined walls, and he could only guess that most of them were ferns.It's just that the body is too large, and he can't be sure whether his guess is correct, and the height of some ferns is almost as high as trees tens of meters high.

Walking to the edge, where the sun cannot reach, the dense vegetation can almost weave a net for this abyss.Crazy ferns, twisted and sickly fungi, and rotten leaves loose around the plants after they withered and decayed, sealed the entire ruined library under the vegetation layer by layer.

The original building height of the library should be at least 70 meters, and the depth of the underground city should be no less than [-] floors.However, the buildings on the surface have been destroyed, and now only the abyss that can be explored is of some value.

Osid's archaeological team went here no less than [-] times, but the deepest distance can only reach the position where the sun can shine, which should be one-third of the underground library by visual inspection.The place where the plant note was found was in the rest room on the next floor, and it was also the place where the baby salamander was found.

It is said that members of the archaeological team encountered a mutated wasp at that time, and while getting rid of the wasp, they unlocked the safety lock on their bodies, so they fell to the next floor and got an unexpected harvest.But the price was that the archaeologist was also killed by the wasp sting.

Osid jumped into the library first, and while checking the previous device, he re-embedded the crystals every one meter.

He waited until the distance of the climbing rope reached one-third, and then he ordered the rest of the soldiers of the first group to come down one after another.

Gu Li glanced at the abyss, took a deep breath and jumped down a while holding the climbing rope tightly.The military boots stepped on the damaged wall, and the safety of the surroundings was always confirmed before continuing to descend.

Iris followed on his right, and the fish went down the library much faster than him.But it seems that they are cooperating with him again, waiting for him to synchronize after every distance before continuing.

It has to be said that the mermaid's learning ability is really fast.If he is just a person who doesn't know anything, it's really hard to see the difference in Iris' behavior.

He withdrew his gaze, grabbed the climbing rope and jumped down another section.But when he was approaching a broken corridor, he accidentally stepped on slippery moss, and the frictional soles of military boots could not relieve him, causing him to quickly fall nearly two meters down.

The moss whose epidermis was trampled off fell in lumps, and there were also flakes of fungi all the way down.The white is small and umbrella-shaped, and when touched, the epidermis is smoother than moss.It is non-toxic, but it emits an unpleasant smell similar to rotting flesh when stepped on.

Captain Osid, who had reached the corridor where he could stand steadily, couldn't help frowning, and shouted at Gu Li: "Are you injured?"

Gu Li held the climbing rope tightly with one hand, and there was a library doorway under his vacated body, and his legs couldn't find a wall to support them.

"Gu Li."

Iris quickly descended, approached Gu Li and jumped onto the broken wall that could be stepped on obliquely above. He pulled the climbing rope that tied Gu Li shaking and rubbing against the rock wall, and dragged him to his side in twos and twos.

Gu Li panted for a while, and then hurriedly said to Captain Ossid below: "No injury."

Remy, who came down together on the left, saw that Gu Li was safe, he was relieved and said with a smile: "I fell down, but I have to go to the third team to cook."

Gu Li was hugged by Iris, looking like a kid who went out for the first time.Although strictly speaking, it was indeed his first archaeological expedition.

The two went down to a corridor, and Iris was willing to let him go after making sure that he was standing safely.Although he thought it was embarrassing, he still had to thank this fish who was also fledgling.

Iris stood up straight and took out a water bottle mixed with sea salt from his backpack, unscrewed the cap and drank most of it with his head up.After quenching his thirst, he suddenly turned his eyes to the abyss behind Gu Li, and the intermittent sound of the wind resembling the breathing of a beast made him subconsciously vigilant.

"What do you see?"

Gu Li looked into the abyss following Iris' gaze. Under the dense vegetation and in the buildings that had been attacked and trampled by wild beasts, there was nothing abnormal except for the whistling wind.

He could see many moldy books that had been blown by the wind and rain, as well as damaged statues built at the bottom of the abyss that were about six meters high.

He once heard his brother say that there are many statues of great men in the library.And the one right now, if nothing else, should be the former Patriarch Elder.

Iris didn't answer, the surrounding creatures, plants and humans confused his vision, he couldn't accurately distinguish the characteristics of prey and other creatures through sound waves like in the sea.

Gu Li patted him on the shoulder, then installed the buckle and went down for the second time.The climbing rope is long enough for them to reach the bottom of the library directly, but for safety reasons, everyone can only reach one-third of the way.

There is an arch at the end of the half-collapsed corridor, and because the part of the top that shelters from wind and rain is still there, the remains are still relatively intact.But even so, the marks scratched by the beast's claws can still be seen on the nearby wall.

"There's no light inside, everyone take out the lighting crystal ore." Osid took down the dagger at his waist, and took out a crystal ore with a handle embedded in it from the bag.

But Gu Li is much more convenient, because of his talent, the ring on his index finger provides him with a lot of convenience.

After entering the arch, there is a corridor leading to the lower lounge. There are many abandoned books and a few withered vegetation on the ground.Inside the six arches on both sides is the messy canteen after being destroyed, and it is covered with spiky vines that have not mutated in a mess.

Starting from the basement tenth floor of the library, most of them are living areas, kitchens, lounges, and then down should be dormitories.

Gu Li manipulated the magnetic field around the team to minimize the danger as much as possible.

There are obvious traces of a large-scale search in the cafeteria. It seems that this floor has no value worth exploring.

"It's raining outside." Remy stood at the end of the line and said with a grim expression.

Osid heard the sound, pulled the soldiers away from the rest area under the stairs and returned to the corridor where they came in first to check.The originally sunny weather began to rain lightly again, and the clouds began to become dark and thick.

"Damn it," he cursed angrily, so much slippery vegetation and rain! "Everyone retreat! Return to the base immediately before the rain gets heavier!"

It is undoubtedly a pity for Gu Li, who went to the library for the first time, to retreat before the operation really started.But he knew the impact of bad weather on the archaeological army. If the rain turned into a heavy rain, everyone would be tied to the bottom of the library full of unknown dangers.

Ossid urged the army to climb up, but at the same time, he suddenly looked at the corner of the stairs leading to the lounge with a livid face.

There was a buzzing, high-frequency flapping of numerous insect wings.There is far and near, bottom-up.

"Everyone get down! Put away the light source!"

Ossid dragged the nearest Remy to the ground together, and the rest of the soldiers also pressed down on the lighting crystal mine and crawled on the ground.Only Iris stood like a normal person, even trying to find the sound and walk down the stairs.

Ossid yelled, "Get down, are you deaf!"

Iris stood at the stairs, and the dense flying insects rushed towards the crowd like crazy.Gu Li looked at Iris who was still unmoved, got up and flew on his back, and rolled down the stairs together with Iris while brushing past the flying insects.

The dense flying insects have obvious mutations, resembling mosquitoes, but more than five times larger than mosquitoes.There are as many as six pairs of wings, but the wings that are close to the body are mostly shriveled and useless, and the mouthparts and feet are either missing or too many.

But fortunately, the target of these flying insects is not human beings, and they fly outside the library as if fleeing from the protective layer under his control.

Under the stairs, there were still some people who had gone down with Captain Osid before, and after confirming that there were no more flying insects, they all ran up the stairs obediently.

I don't know who yelled, and said to Osid with a nervous face: "Captain, two people fell down! There is a collapsed hole in the middle of the corridor in the lounge."

Ossid calmly asked the rest of the team to evacuate, and then said: "You go up first, and I will stay with the wizard to rescue."

He walked through the corridor to the middle of the stairs where Gu Li and Iris were, took down the heavy crossbow behind him and looked at Gu Li's bruised cheek.

Gu Li wiped the blood on his face, "It's just a scratch, not a bite."

Closing his words, he glanced at Iris beside him.At the moment, he seems to have done something wrong, as if he has regained consciousness.The fish looked down the corridor just now, as if it was fascinated by something and couldn't control itself.

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Yu Ling:

To put it quietly, when Gu Li and Iris really leave the town and start exploring, the people in the team will not be the ones that appear now.The army is to stay in the town to protect other humans and cannot leave.