Shadow Covenant

Chapter 98 "The Truth"

When the body was immersed in the thick and soft soil again, Woody's hearing and vision were directly restricted, but his perception expanded exponentially.

He felt Angelina's footsteps resounding from above his head, like ripples on the surface of the water, the landing point was extremely clear.

He didn't care about these, but tried his best to perceive other "ripples". Although falling and collapsing were extremely dangerous, there was still a glimmer of life, and he just had to have a clear conscience.

A deep pit with a radius of 20 meters is about four times the range of Woody's perception, and it will take a lot of time. After all, he moves much slower in the mud than on land. At least Woody finds that if he just stays in the shallow Soil layer, then it would be difficult for him to catch up with Angelina's "ripple".

Tens of seconds later, Woody, who had searched in the shallow soil layer, sent a simple message to Angelina through telepathy.

"How about it? Have you noticed their residual breath? If you don't feel it, jump once, and if you sense it, jump twice."

After a while, there was a crisp tremor on the surface, only once.

It seems that it is still below, or it is...

Having said that, there is another piece of good news that he forgot to tell Angelina.

He didn't find other obstacles in the shallow soil layer, which to some extent also showed that they still had a chance of survival, at least the corpse was not here.

However, he continued to sink for about two to three meters, and he felt that in his perception, there was a flat object, which appeared on the right side of the sink like a long board, which was different from the granular metal raw ore. .

He let his body approach the obstacle slowly, and then controlled his right hand to touch the "flat obstacle".

As soon as I touched Woody, my heart sank gradually, but I couldn't pretend that I didn't notice anything when I sensed it.

It feels a little hard to start with, but it is definitely not an obstacle formed by raw metal ore or carving. He also groped for the cloth that can be wrapped around that obstacle.

It is the body of the victim.

But it was discovered that Woody didn't have the ability to pull the corpse out of the soil, or recognize its appearance.

The head is estimated to be squashed, judging from perception.

All he could do was to take out part of the cloth on his body for Angelina to identify.

Although a bit cruel, that's all he can do.

Woody fumbled to tear off a piece of fabric from the body of the found victim, and then stuffed it into the "dimension ring". He was not in a hurry to go back to the top, but continued to search on this layer.

If there is no accident, it is definitely not only Angelina's younger brothers and sisters who died in the deep pit collapse, there must be others. It takes too much time to come and go. It is better to collect enough sample information to let She identified them one by one.

Sure enough, when the body of the first victim was found in a certain range of soil, the other victims were also densely distributed in this general range. Woody even found several collapsed holes made by tremor worms. The cavity, like the air bubbles in the tempered film, is temporarily surrounded by earth and rocks.

But Woody just leaned over, poked his head out to see if there were any traces of victims inside, and then took it back.

After all, he has telepathy, and he can detect whether there are living things or not with his mind. If he is not a professional, it is difficult to learn how to avoid the mind.

It is worth mentioning that some races enslaved by psykers have inherent psychic resistance, such as the gray dwarves who have been enslaved by mind flayers for centuries. Their racial specialty is to increase psychic resistance. With Di's perception level, it is difficult to perceive his position based on this.

……

Half an hour later, Woody put the token of the last victim he collected into the ring. He planned to end this underground expedition. The collapse made him find almost no clues except for the corpse. The only thing that was considered good was probably The tokens of dozens of people in the ring.

Obviously, during the benefit performance in the garden that day, apart from Angelina's younger siblings, everyone else, including the servants of the Vermeer family, also became part of this land.

After deciding to leave, Woody did not go up directly, but quickly found an abandoned underground tunnel, stuck his head out to sense the gravity to confirm the direction, and after these steps were confirmed, Woody went up.

Because the Thor stone walk technique can make the subject who stays in the soil for a long time lose the five senses, just like you can never walk in a straight line with your eyes closed, and there is no gravity when traveling in the soil.

What he did just now was to regain his sense of direction and determine the upward direction. This is a crucial step to return to the ground, and it is also the last step.

Soon, Woody sensed the end of the dirt ahead, and the surface was approaching.

He quickly approached, and then straightened his whole body, with the top of his head facing upwards.

When they returned to the surface again, the clouds in the sky became more and more dense, as if hanging over the tiankeng, people standing on it could reach out and touch it.

The appearance of Woody naturally also attracted the attention of Angelina, who was struggling to carry the stones and was looking for Lin and the others. Her extraordinary perception made her look in Woody's direction almost subconsciously. When she saw Woody's hands were empty, and When her face was serious, her face also became ugly.

Woody recited the spell engraved on the ring, stopped the stone walking technique, and then pulled his shallow feet out of the soil before looking at Angelina formally.

He walked over without saying anything, and directly handed the various pieces of clothing collected from the ground to the monk girl who was also walking towards here.

"Identify them one by one, and see if there is any scent of your younger brothers and sisters in it."

"There are no living people down here. After confirming which one it is, we'll see if we should bring it up."

The atmosphere at the moment was extremely dignified. Although Angelina had been prepared in her heart, she still couldn't help trembling when she saw the colorful rags or one or two ornaments in Woody's hands.

For the first time, she felt that she could sense the familiar aura. This ability was so terrifying that she hesitated to use it.

But she couldn't refuse, she could only accept the cold things that were light but extremely heavy in her heart.

The first one was a black copper buckle, which Woody pulled casually.

Angelina breathed a sigh of relief.

The second was a small piece of white rag, which, judging from the workmanship, seemed to be some kind of fine weaving.

There is still no familiar atmosphere above.

Angelina regained her composure, and suddenly felt that she was no longer afraid, and she began to seriously feel the aura attached to every small item Woody brought up.

Time passed by, and Angelina put down the last token, a black ribbon.

She finally breathed a sigh of relief, looked at the young nobleman who had been sitting beside her and said.

"Is that all?"

"Yes, this is where I can find all the victims. Ten meters below is already granite, and the geology there has not been damaged."

Woody explained that his method of digging three feet into the ground, unless Lin and others fell into a different dimension, such as Fairy Wilderness, Shadowfall Underworld, etc., otherwise it would be impossible to leave their traces in place.

"But there is no smell of Lin and others in it, really."

Angelina was immediately confused when she heard Woody's words, and Woody was also a little confused after hearing it.

What, no?

Although he hoped that there would be no sign of them in these tokens, because at least it meant that they were still alive, but when there were no such tokens, Woody couldn't help being curious.

"Where did that person go? Or where did the body go?"

This is not a script where every person jumps off a cliff and has an adventure. The bloody reality below has already made Woody realize that this disaster is extremely real, and God will never let it go because of the child, unless the person who planned it Instigator...

A possibility suddenly flashed in Woody's mind, and it was the possibility that he had buried in the dusty memory.

"Come on, let's go up."

Woody immediately greeted the monk girl. Although Angelina was puzzled, she still followed him.

After he went up, he politely rejected the group of nobles, and directly found the member of the Vermeer family who was in charge of the pension business and stopped Angelina.

Fann.

"My lords, what can I do for you?"

When Vann Vermeer saw Woody and Angelina coming over, he thought it was the autumn queen who was trying to settle accounts, and immediately trembled and trembled with fear.

"Show me the list of manor pensions."

"Ah?" Fann was a little dazed, but quickly realized the meaning of the pension list.

"I have it here, I have it here."

Fann hurriedly took out the parchment list hidden in the coat pocket.

After Woody took it, there were two lines of names densely displayed on it. Among them, Lin's pseudonym Noah, and the pseudonyms of the other three were recognized by Angelina one by one.

"Ten, eleven, twelve...a total of 33 victims and 23 tokens."

Woody counted the number of people, then counted the tokens he just got, and then asked Fann.

"Is it true that only ten children were sent here for this charity performance, and the rest are adults and servants of your manor."

"Yes, yes, how do you know?"

"Are there any clothes these children changed?" Woody's irrelevant question really made Fann puzzled, but he still nodded.

"They did leave the replaced shoes here, in order not to be rude in front of the distinguished guests."

"Bring it here."

He already had a guess in his heart, looking at the list of ten children and thinking silently, and Angelina seemed to have understood something, but she still stood quietly beside Woody, without saying much.

Soon the child's shoes were brought over, and Woody asked Angelina to take them to sense the breath.

"Take a look and see if they are all completely unfamiliar except for the breath of your younger brother and sister."

Angelina was still a little uncomfortable when she received the shoes at first, but she became a little more serious when she heard this. After a while, she frowned and said.

"That's right, except for Lin's breath attached to it, it's the first time I perceive the breath of others."

After hearing this, Woody showed a clear expression and sighed.

"They all disappeared and were captured by the drow. I forgot about it. The drow may have done it on purpose."

"What on purpose?" Angelina looked a little excited.

"Take advantage of the chaos to snatch children, and then wait for the opportunity to make a comeback!" Woody looked at the deep pit not far away, his voice was low enough for Angelina to hear clearly.

"But... haven't you already taken precautions? Drow has other means?"

Angelina was a little unbelievable. After all, not to mention the city gates, even the pier has begun to detect people entering and leaving. Everyone must look directly at the beam of light emitted by the magic lighthouse.

"of course."

There was still half a sentence Woody didn't say, because he was afraid that Angelina would not accept it.

After all, if this is the case, then her younger siblings are likely to become pawns in the drow's next plan here in the future.

Become the one who is not afraid of strong light, and is no different from human beings at ordinary times, but there will be six auxiliary spider legs on the back during the battle, and the palms, feet, and navel will have more silk spinning, and the one with spell-like abilities...

——"Half-spiderman".

The reason why Woody forgot this was because after the Dark Years, the half-spiderman chose to escape from the control of the drow, and became his own master just like the gray dwarf escaped from the mind flayer.

Woody remembered that their gathering place at that time was chosen on the ruins of a city in the Underdark region, and he had been there for supplies, but unfortunately, as the haze of the corrupt mother tree completely swept the entire material plane, that The gathering place soon disappeared in the history of the mainland and became an insignificant place.

It is worth mentioning that the destruction of Asenland's plane did not cut off the birth of the half-spiderman, because when creating a character, as long as the player gains a favorable opinion of more than friendly in the half-spider city, the "half-spider" function can be activated. race options.

After entering the main material plane "Terra", half-spider players will be directly incorporated into Rose's belief, and their status is not low, but at that time, half-spider players don't care what gender you are when you are a human.

In the end, they will be forcibly twisted into females.

……

At the Vermeer Manor, Woody already knew what he wanted to know, so he didn't stay there for long. He took Angelina and left the manor quickly under the watchful eyes of everyone.

On the way, Angelina couldn't wait to ask.

"Then they're still alive?"

"I think so, barring accidents."

Woody smiled, since the sinkhole this time is to cover up the conspiracy to enter Palermo next time, the factors are very clear, as long as the relevant personnel are told to add a small hole to check whether the hands and feet are sprayed with spider silk, This intrusion can be prevented.

As for the safety of Lin and others, Woody planned to go back and ask his aunt Susan for advice.

After all, I heard that she and other nobles in the city and the advance team of the temple organization have entered the Underdark.

If drow can really be wiped out, then Lin and the others should be able to be rescued by the way.

He didn't need to do it at all.

And Woody also told Angelina about his plan, and the monk girl was still half suspicious.

But she didn't listen to Woody and chose to wait where she was.

She plans to go to the Underdark as well.

Since Lin and the others are not dead yet, then she is the older sister.

They must be brought back intact!

　what!Finally, the plot that almost gave me the whole eunuch is over, everyone!I am back again.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)