Being a knight is not easy

Chapter 22: Inside the Cave (Both chapters are released at the same time, please read them later)

After hearing this, Robin nodded thoughtfully. In this mysterious and dangerous forest, every shadow at night may hide a deadly threat.

Lily rolled her eyes and suggested, "Let's rest for a night! Let's make torches first and then go into the cave to take a look. If the conditions in the cave are good, we can use this as our base in the future."

The location of this cave is very special. It is located at the junction of the activity areas of monsters and wild beasts. Although it is full of dangers, it is also the place with the most prey.

Thinking of this, Lily's eyes flashed with shrewdness, and she continued, "Let's process the meat of the jumping sheep and shadow leopard tonight. We can go hunting for half a day tomorrow before returning."

In this way, they can not only make full use of the opportunity of this trip, but also ensure that they have enough food and energy to support the subsequent training.

Robin laughed and joked, "Lily is such a calculating woman."

Soon, the simple torch was completed.

Eric held a torch and walked steadily in front. The jumping flames cast his figure on the cave wall, swaying with his steps.

Robin followed closely behind, observing his surroundings vigilantly, with the sword in his hand ready to deal with any possible danger at any time.

Lily, carrying a large bundle of firewood, walked with difficulty behind the team.

These firewood are important supplies they prepare to maintain campfires and resist the cold and danger.

As arranged by everyone, Thompson stayed at the entrance of the cave to guard the bodies of the jumping sheep and shadow leopard that they had hunted with great effort.

"Thompson, if you find danger, abandon your prey and come find us. Don't fight alone." Before leaving, Robin suddenly stopped, turned around and said to Thompson seriously.

He was well aware of the dangers of the Black Forest at night. Thomson was relatively weak, and it was too dangerous for him to face the danger alone.

Thomson, who had been feeling a bit guilty about being assigned to guard the game and unable to join the exploration of the cave, was overjoyed when he heard Robin's words. He nodded vigorously and shouted, "Okay, I'll remember that!" The tension and disappointment on his face instantly dissipated, replaced by relief and gratitude.

As they continued along the winding cave passage, the humid air hit their faces, mixed with a faint stench that made people frown.

The cave walls are covered with strange-shaped stalactites and stalagmites, which cast eerie shadows under the illumination of torches.

As they walked, Lily suddenly couldn't help but whispered, "If Thompson wasn't the nephew of Knight Malizzi, he wouldn't have become a knight's apprentice." Her voice echoed softly in the cave, carrying a hint of imperceptible disdain.

Robin listened but didn't agree.

He stared ahead silently, thinking to himself.

He understood that what Lily said was true. Nepotism was always offensive, no matter what era.

Especially when those who get to the top through connections have neither strength nor ability, they are more likely to cause dissatisfaction among others.

Following the winding passage, they soon entered a spacious cave.

The scene before them made everyone's eyes widen. The area of ​​this cave was beyond imagination, covering dozens of square meters.

The surrounding cave walls were engraved with strange symbols and patterns, which looked like some ancient text or marks with special meanings. In the light of the fire, the shadows of these symbols and patterns swayed strangely, as if telling an unknown story.

The cave floor was littered with severely damaged documents and items. Papers were torn into pieces, some still showing signs of being burned, giving them a charred black color.
Some strange metal tools were twisted and deformed, with parts scattered all over the ground, and their original appearance was no longer recognizable.

Eric squatted down and picked up a large piece of paper. The handwriting on it was blurred and he could only barely make out a few numbers that looked like some kind of experimental data.

"This seems to be a secret research base." He frowned, with a hint of surprise and confusion in his tone.

Robin was also looking around. He picked up a metal part and looked at it carefully. The material of the part was special and hard. It was definitely not ordinary metal.

"These destroyed things seem to be covering up some important secrets." He said slowly, with vigilance in his eyes.

Lily paced cautiously in the cave. Her eyes swept over the broken objects, and a chill ran through her heart.

"Who would be conducting research here, and why would they destroy it so completely?" she asked softly, with a hint of uneasiness in her voice.

Just as they were puzzled, a slight sound suddenly came from the depths of the cave, like the humming of some creature, or the whistling of the wind blowing through the cave.

Everyone tensed up instantly, gripped their weapons tightly, and looked vigilantly into the depths of the darkness.

Everyone looked in the direction of the creepy sound and saw a huge glass vessel placed deep in the cave.

The glass container was more than a person's height and was filled with a green liquid that emitted a faint glow.

Wrapped in this mysterious liquid, a strange-looking monster was staring at the three of them with its eyes wide open.

The monster had a twisted body, its limbs were extremely disproportionate, and its skin was a sickly grayish-white color covered with dense black spots, as if mold was growing wildly.

Its head was unusually large, occupying almost one-third of its body. Its eyes were like two huge black gems, but they were lifeless, revealing endless coldness and weirdness.

The moment Lily saw this scene, she could no longer suppress her inner fear and couldn't help but scream out.

The sharp cry echoed in the empty cave, as if to shatter the surrounding air.

She subconsciously took a few steps back, her body trembling uncontrollably, and the firewood in her hands fell to the ground.

Eric and Robin were also startled by the sudden scene, but they quickly suppressed their fear.

Eric gripped the torch tightly in his hand and raised it high, trying to use the firelight to see more details of the monster, and also wanted to use the flame to give himself courage.

Robin gripped the sword tightly, the blade trembling slightly, which was his body's instinctive reaction under tension, but his eyes were extremely firm, staring at the monster, ready to deal with any attack it might launch at any time.

But Robin soon calmed down because the system's crisis detection function did not issue any alarm.

Normally, whenever there was potential danger approaching, the system would issue an immediate warning. But at this moment, everything was quiet all around. Obviously, this strange-looking monster did not pose a direct threat to their safety.

"Could it be... this is just a biological specimen?" Robin expressed his guess.

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