Don't call me evil god

Chapter 956 A bold idea

As soon as we left the Limoen settlement.

Thick darkness surrounded everyone again.

Lancelot rubbed his eyes uncomfortably.

"No matter how long I stay in this damn place, I just can't adapt to the environment."

Being accustomed to the unobstructed view on the surface, the severely limited visibility in deep areas not only makes people feel depressed, but also requires them to remain vigilant at all times.

Otherwise, you may be safe and sound one second, but be faced with deadly danger the next, without even enough time to react.

When we were in the Limoen settlement, there were phantom fire braziers everywhere providing lighting, dispelling the darkness and barely increasing visibility.

Returning to the wilderness of the deep region, it immediately became "difficult to move forward" again.

Dolan carefully held the ghost fire lantern in his hand and shared the fire inside with his companions, lighting them one by one.

This thing is a "luxury" in the deep regions.

The lantern itself is not expensive. The gray dwarves can easily forge a batch of this simple little gadget.

What is valuable is the raw material used to keep the ghost fire burning.

It was a grayish-white, run-down grease.

According to the gray dwarves, they will transport the selected corpses to the Fungus Sea, where there is a special kind of mushroom that will grow wildly on the corpses and then release these broken oils that will emit a faint blue flame when ignited.

This is also the reason why the gray dwarf collection team needs to go to the Fungus Sea frequently.

In order to maintain the burning of the fire basins, torches and other lighting fixtures in the entire Limoen settlement, a large amount of rotten oil is consumed every day.

A gathering team is needed to travel back and forth between the Fungus Sea and the Limoen Settlement for a long time.

When exploring the wild in deep areas, a ghost fire lantern can expand the visibility range from the original dozen meters to dozens of meters, and safety will be greatly guaranteed.

Lancelot and others are naturally not short of money.

Bartering is popular here, and the sale of "slaves" alone allowed the entire investigation team to gain a lot of valuables.

The "money" earned in the Deep Region was eventually spent here.

By exchanging various valuable items for the worn-out grease, everyone prepared enough grease to last for 5 days.

If you use it sparingly and turn off the lantern when you are sure it is safe, it will not be a problem to last 7 or 8 days or even longer.

The guide for this trip, the gray dwarf Gree, also held a lantern in his hand, which was emitting a bright blue light.

Gray held the lantern carefully to his chest, as if he was cherishing it, for fear of breaking it.

The better the quality of the ruined grease, the longer it burns and the better it is at dispelling darkness.

Everything that can be put into a lantern is of excellent quality.

When the gray dwarves of the Pais settlement go out, the most they use is the kind of low-quality, run-down grease that can only burn for a few hours.

He had never used such luxurious things before!

"Don't be in a daze, hurry up, we have to reach the Howling Abyss as quickly as possible!"

Dolan had a strange smile on his face, bent down slightly, patted Gray's shoulder hard, and then pushed him forward.

"Lead the way!"

Gray had no choice but to take a step forward with a bitter face.

Although he had no experience as a guide from the Limoen Settlement to the Howling Abyss, and had never even been close to it, he was now forced to do it, and he had to learn how to do it even if he didn't know how!

The only thing that made him feel at ease was that the map used to guide the general direction was clear enough, and it also specially marked the possible dangers and ambushes along the way.

For example, there is the bloodthirsty poison ivy that will suddenly shoot out vines and abduct the victim when the target is not prepared.

They attack extremely quickly and usually disguise themselves as dead vines, making it easy to subconsciously ignore them.

If you are not careful, you might get caught in their sneak attack. For example, the ferocious minotaurs roaming around in the Deep Region, the size of the gray dwarves is comparable to that of the 4-5 meter tall, smelly minotaurs, so the latter can be eaten as a snack.

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After setting off, Gray walked ahead, vigilantly observing the situation ahead and around him, and spoke in a low voice:
"I'll teach you a few simple gestures..."

"Raise your left palm and bend your fingers, which means take cover on the spot."

"Make a fist with your right hand and extend your fingers. The number of fingers represents the size of the enemy. If you open your palm and wave your hand, it means that the number of enemies is too large to count."

"The last move is to raise your hands into fists."

"This represents the worst-case scenario. We have been spotted by the enemy. Prepare to fight."

"Next we will pass through a dangerous area where we must remain quiet the entire time."

"There are many monsters hiding in the darkness, using sound to locate and attack."

"If we're quiet enough, we can get through."

"If you accidentally make a noise, you'd better stay away from the one making the noise. It would be best to just abandon them."

Gray didn't want to die.

Therefore, he really did pass on his experience of survival in the deep regions to Lancelot, Dolan and others.

In a place like this where silence is a must, if you don't take precautions in advance, it's easy for one guy to kill everyone.

Gray thought that if he acted alone, he should be able to protect himself.

But he was afraid that these guys from the surface would trap him as well because they were not prepared enough.

So he specifically warned:

"Do you see the path with dense vines crisscrossing the ground ahead?"

“That’s the Silent Woodland.”

"Before you completely walk out, no matter how terrible the situation is, don't make any sound!"

But to the believers.

They soon understood it to mean something else.

"A monster that determines the direction of attack based on the sound?"

"Eh? Does that mean that their hearing is very sensitive and they will detect any noise you make?"

"Of course it is. Why are you asking? Stupid!"

Everyone made crazy "eye contact".

Without saying a word, the group chat in the illusion light screen was filled with messages.

"Then if we make noises somewhere else, will they also attack from the source of the sound?"

"If we find a way to capture them, prevent them from hearing the sound, and keep them as pets, maybe we can use them as some kind of attack method?"

"When you need to launch an attack, just make noise at the target!"

"If we can bring this thing to the Howling Abyss, will they attack the ghosts when they hear their howling?"

"It's hard to say! But I think it's possible!"

Someone came up with a bold idea:

"How about we try to lure a few of them over here and take them to the Howling Abyss?"

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(End of this chapter)