【Chapter 404】 Monster Lair
On the exposed mudflat by the canal, there is a row of strange footprints. The footprints are wide in front and narrow in the back, and the toes are spread like palm-leaf fans. There seems to be web-like connections between the toes, and the heels are similar to those of humans.
"It's not a human, indeed." Yiluli scratched the footprints with a scimitar and cleared out a ball of green powder. It looked like the green algae in the water was formed by the sun exposure and withering.
"The soles of feet are covered with green algae?" Yi Luli carefully observed the mud pool. The water in the canal was not much, and there were indeed a small number of dry green algae on the exposed mudflats, but it was obviously much more sparse than those in the footprints.
"Is this...come from the water?" Yilil stared at the calm water surface in the canal with vigilance. The bottom of the canal was covered with green algae.
"Flippers, green algae." Yiluli stood up slowly: "Eight out of ten."
She had a very bad premonition, and looked around the distance of the canal. This was a canal led from the Tamsui River outside the city. In other words, this monster is most likely from outside the city.
"Let's go, sisters, let's go to other places to see." Yi Luli's mood became gloomy. The two missing families were probably attacked by monsters.
"Do you want to notify Rena, Yiluli?"
Yili was also a little nervous. The environment on both sides of the canal was particularly harsh, with weeds over half of the body growing, and some broken walls were hidden in it, and even the air was filled with a fishy bitter taste.
"There is no time left. The faster we move, the more likely Sokm and Piseko will become safer." Yiluli patted Yili's shoulder and turned to the sisters and said, "Everyone is gathered together and take care of each other. Never run around, especially pay attention to the movement of the canal."
Fortunately, everyone has been pirates and has much more courage than ordinary people. Yiluli and everyone started searching along the canal. Except for the traces of fighting here, there were some scattered traces not far from the shore, blurred footprints and dry blood, leading to the distance of the canal.
The length of the entire canal stretches and turns, leading to the base of the city wall, and it is becoming increasingly desolate, with bushes, collapsed houses, and large trees growing in chaotic shapes.
There is almost no people here, and even homeless people and thieves will not get involved.
It lasted until afternoon, when the sun was covered by lush leaves, the mottled darkness was like a huge net, covering the ground, and the leaves rustled, as if whispering to the spreading darkness.
The crunching and crunching footsteps stepped on the grass, which seemed particularly monotonous. Soon, a few shocking thunder sounds came from the direction of the sky, and dark clouds began to condense, and the darkness became closer.
At this time, the city wall was approaching the decaying ones, with dark light and covered by plants and trees, and it was almost impossible to accurately determine where to step next.
"Yulli, it's going to rain heavily." Yili raised her head and barely saw thick gray-black clouds through the gaps of the leaves: "The thunder is getting louder and louder."
"I understand, Yili. But we have to search. Once it rains, the footprints and blood will be washed away, and then all clues will be lost." Yiluli's mind was extremely clear, and she kept cutting off the weeds with a scimitar and observing any possible traces.
Although Yiluli usually has every positive appearance, once things involve family members, she will completely enter another state - courage and fearlessness, and firm beliefs.
The thunder became louder and louder, and the walls and dilapidated buildings were filled with layers of echoes, gathering from all directions.
Slap, slap, huge raindrops began to fall from the sky, hitting the leaves, rubble, and hitting the various places. The darkness became even more intense, and only when the lightning flashed by, the surrounding scenery revealed their gray outlines.
The elves' night vision ability played a role. Even in the dark, Yiluli could see the faces of her friends. They all looked nervous and had to be yelled because of the existence of thunder. The conversation between them needed to be loudly yelled.
"Yulli!" The partner on the side shouted nervously, but deliberately suppressed: "Yulli."
When Yiluli walked over, the elf suddenly grabbed her arm and gently pushed the scimitar in her hand away from the grass. At this time, a flash of lightning exploded above her head. Yiluli could see her partner's eyes wide open and staring at the front, as if something amazing was found.
Yiluli's eyes also looked over. A few meters away from the weeds, twisted trees and branches tangled together like snakes. Under the shadow of the trees, a collapsed earth wall emerged.
In the darkness, something is moving on the inside of the earth wall - jumping, squirming, climbing, waving, and hiding between the twisted trees and the earth wall.
The lightning lit up again. This time, besides being able to clearly see them and on the twisted trunks, there were other living things.
It was a thing that was turned green, similar to the color of the leaves, but it was definitely not part of the tree, it was a big and round thing, hanging upside down on the branch, with two arms like ropes swinging under it, squirming and extending.
"What the hell is that?" Yili came over and swallowed heavily.
"I don't know, but it's definitely not a good thing." Yiluli locked her brow tightly. She didn't expect that such a strange thing would happen in Arab City, and such a strange creature would exist.
"Eriel, you took your sisters back a while."
"What about you?"
"I want to go up and take a look." Yiluli pointed at an uncle not far away with a scimitar, facing the angle between the twisted trees and the earth wall.
"Okay, you have to be safe."
"I know the measure."
Yili and the others knew that Yiluli had been blessed by gods and mastered divine power. It was the best choice for her to observe.
Yiluli, who was separated from her sisters, climbed up the big tree quickly and silently, following a thick branch and supporting the leaves as a shelter.
Then, she saw the creature behind the earthen wall.
It was a creature that looked like a human, but was lying on the ground like a frog, with its head arching in the grass, unable to see what it looked like.
etc!
Not one!
Behind the creature, there were two similar creatures, with slender arms, black and green skin like mud, and heads were creeping in the grass.
Yiluli gritted her teeth and continued to climb upwards with some adventure, and closer to the edge to make her vision clearer. The leaves rustled and the thunder rumbling, and she couldn't even hear her breathing.
Immediately afterwards, Yiluli saw a narrow hole covered with shrubs behind the three creatures, with dark green skin squirming and rolling, squeezing out layers of mud.
What exactly is that?
A layer of fine hot sweat oozed out of Yiluli's forehead, and the raindrops as big as beans became more and more urgent, and the monsters squeezed in the cave were wriggling faster and faster, as terrifying as a bunch of earthworms tied together.
When the gathering of rain began to rage on the ground, the three living creatures on the outermost side of the hole began to crawl outward, and their heads also emerged from the grass.
They were triangular heads that were as flat as toads, dark green skin with sick white patches, and webbed hairs on their feet and palms, as if they were coming out for food and sniffing in the air, gradually expanding their range of activities.
Finally, the cave also boiled, with creatures of different sizes, crowded and crawling out of the cave as if endless.
What made Yiluli's scalp even more numb was that many of the monsters were wearing human clothes, tattered and covered with mud.
"Yulli, go quickly, go quickly! They are here!"
Yili and others who retreated to the distance also discovered this strange monster, immediately climbed up the tree, urging Yiluli anxiously.
Chapter completed!