Chapter 155 Oil Paper Bag in the Sewer
Rancid slimes are thrown into sewers by humans to clean up waste, just like scavengers.
Rancid slimes absorb and digest all kinds of garbage and harmful waste, but as they absorb and digest more, they grow larger. When they grow to a certain size, they will not only have companion groups, but will also be extremely hostile to creatures that intrude into their territory.
Therefore, Fairhaven needs to frequently send people to the sewers to clean out the oversized stinking slimes. This is also the reason why the task of [Cleaning Sewers] has always been popular in the Adventurer's Guild.
At this time, Lilia was facing a rotten slime the size of a seven or eight-year-old child. Although it had not yet grown to the point where it had a companion group, its size was already large enough to occupy territory, and it would treat Lilia who intruded into its territory as an enemy.
"You seem to be very confident about your sister?" Theresa's voice sounded a little muffled through the mask. "Aren't you afraid that she will fail? A slime of that size can already pose some threat."
Glancing at Lilia who was struggling with the rotten slime, Mo Cheng shrugged and said, "That's just the beginning. Even if a farmer who has been working hard for years wears thicker clothes, a slime of that size can be killed by just swinging a hoe. I have already considered the difficulty issue."
Not to mention the mages, even ordinary warriors, if their perception is really poor, can kill the rotten slime by chopping it into pieces with a sword. At most, they will just walk out covered in foul-smelling liquid.
But for Lilia, an apprentice mage who only knows the simplest mental shield and no other spells, if she cannot accurately use the mental spikes to pierce the core of the rotten slime, then the attack will be ineffective.
Seeing that Mo Cheng not only did not pay attention to Lilia's battle, but seemed to be looking for something, Isabella couldn't help but ask: "What are you looking for?"
"Look for the oil paper bag."
Mo Cheng answered with words that no one could understand, not caring at all what the sticky things on the wall were. He knocked here and there with his hands, looking like he was searching seriously.
"Never mind, I hope you find what you want."
Theresa originally wanted to ask if he needed help, but when she looked at the surrounding environment and the unknown slime on the wall, she wisely supported Mo Cheng verbally.
Although they were not mysophobic, it was obvious that these two half-elves were not necessarily willing to help search for something in a place like this.
The half-elf sisters standing nearby suddenly looked stern, raised their crossbows and shortbows respectively, and pointed them at the darkness deep in the sewer, "Who? Come out!"
But Mo Cheng was faster than Isabella and Theresa. Like a ghost, he slid into the depths of the sewer without making any sound. He vaguely saw a figure. When Mo Cheng was about to reach out to grab it, his whole body suddenly stopped and a white light passed over his nose.
He stretched out his hand to try to grab the other person, but the figure was like a slippery loach that was hard to catch. The holy light in Mo Cheng's hand suddenly lit up, which was undoubtedly a flash bomb in this dim environment.
The person on the opposite side seemed to be prepared. He thrust the sword in his hand into the ground, and immediately the entire sewer was filled with a scarlet mist. Not only was the vision obscured again, but the other party also planned to take advantage of the mist to leave.
But at this time, the crossbows and arrows shot by Isabella and Theresa penetrated the heavy fog, like a falcon biting the enemy's body, and the arrows immediately caused blood to flow when they entered the flesh.
"ah!"
He cried out in pain, but this did not change anything. The overbearing holy light completely , and Mo Cheng, who had no vision obstruction, grabbed the other's arm and tried to pull him back.
To be sure, no one could engage in tug-of-war with a full-grown dragon.
However, the man swung the weapon in his hand and chopped off the left arm that was grabbed. Mo Cheng felt his hand was empty. At the same time, dozens of bombs with fuses fell on the enemy and began to burn.
If a bomb explodes in a place like this, its power will increase exponentially.
Mo Cheng turned around and punched out, breaking up the stinking slime. At the same time, the force of the fist turned into soft force and pushed Lilia to the side of Isabella and Theresa.
When he finished doing all this and looked back, the fuse of the bomb had burned to the bottom.
Mo Cheng took a deep breath, the dragon blood in his body boiled, and his fine scales became faintly visible. At the same time, his internal organs began to vibrate synchronously, emitting a scale that ordinary people could not produce.
The next moment, the roar of the dragon resounded throughout the sewer:
"Fuss!"
"Ro!"
"Dah!"
The bomb and the roar exploded at the same time. The strong vibration sound waves not only resisted the power of the bomb explosion, but also reeled back all the flames and shock waves of the explosion, rushing towards the enemies fleeing deeper into the sewer.
Mo Cheng leaned over and grabbed something, then turned and ran. Isabella had already picked up Lilia and followed Theresa to run behind them. They knew very well that the sewer building could not withstand the power of such an explosion.
As expected, not long after the four of them ran, they heard a rumbling sound behind them, and the sewer behind them began to collapse. After running for a while, the collapse of the sewer stopped completely, and the few people stopped.
The holy light illuminated the dusty faces of several people. Mo Cheng first looked at the things he was holding before he ran away.
“What…what is this?!”
Lilia looked at what Mo Cheng had grabbed in disbelief, her tone full of confusion and fear.
"Obviously, corpses." Mo Cheng narrowed his eyes and examined the two corpses in his hands. "Strictly speaking, they are mummies. Judging from the wounds, they were all killed by a long sharp blade. The blade is narrow and curved. The murderer has a good understanding of the vital parts of the human body."
"Judging from the clothes, the body should be a homeless person or a beggar, possibly someone from the sinking area." Mo Cheng pressed the abdomen of the body with his hand. "I don't know why the blood of this body has dried up, but I know this one. The masked guy used blood to create a fog. The blood has dried up, no wonder I didn't smell the smell of blood even though I was so close."
"The abdomen is shriveled and sunken. The internal organs must have been eaten by something."
Mo Cheng recalled the roughly twenty corpses on the ground that were illuminated by the holy light just now. He could roughly guess what happened, "Someone captured people from the sinking area and planned to perform a bloody and cruel ritual in the sewer."
Looking at Lilia who was frightened by the mummy's death, and Isabella , Mo Cheng looked around, took out the map of the sewer area distributed by the Adventurer's Guild, and found the nearest exit.
"Let's go back tell the Adventurer's Guild what happened here, and report the case to the Law Enforcement Corps."
"What the hell, is my luck so bad that my next trip to the sewers can cause such a violent explosion?"
