Chapter 298: The Warning of the White-Furred Beast with a Human Face

After hearing the roar, Chu Danqing decisively took out his 100,000-lumen flashlight and shone it toward the location of the low growl.

The darkness was banished in an instant, and only then did Chu Danqing see the monster.

It was a large feline creature covered in snow-white fur, with a burly and powerful build.

However, its head was that of an old man's face covered in wrinkles, and because that face had likely not seen sunlight for years, it appeared extremely pale.

Once the 100,000-lumen flashlight shone upon it, the monster could not help but close its eyes. Sizzling sounds began to emanate from its face and beneath its fur, and visible black smoke rose up.

"Ah~" the monster let out a sharp, miserable shriek, leaped up, and hung upside down from the top of the cavern, climbing at an incredible speed to quickly escape the flashlight's illumination range.

This monster was very powerful, but light was clearly its nemesis.

It was not just afraid; it could actually suffer tangible damage.

The sound echoed continuously in the cavern, but it did not move far away.

This meant the monster had not left; it had merely retreated into the darkness, waiting for an opportunity to strike.

"Little Chu, it... has no malice." Dabao's expression also carried a hint of confusion.

He could hear that the monster's previous low growl carried warnings and threats, yet it lacked malice, which left him baffled.

"What about now? Still none?" Chu Danqing also didn't understand what was going on.

"None," Dabao said honestly. "Still none. It went... to the side."

"Then do you know why?" Chu Danqing continued to ask.

Upon hearing this, Dabao gave a high-quality answer: "I don't know."

How could he possibly know? Dabao was just a five-year-old child.

Chu Danqing pondered for a moment and reached a conclusion in his mind.

He immediately took out some food with healing properties and medicine to remove negative status effects.

"I was separated from my friends; they entered the depths of the cavern."

"I think you must have wanted to stop us from going in, but I have a reason I must go..."

"Sorry for hurting you just now; this is my compensation," Chu Danqing said, placing the food and medicine in the darkness.

Rustling sounds came from the darkness; clearly, the monster was moving.

However, because of the darkness, Chu Danqing couldn't see clearly, but fortunately, Dabao explained it to him.

"It's sniffing," Dabao said, then added, "It took it and left."

As the words fell, the sound of eating came from the darkness; it had clearly realized that what Chu Danqing provided was not harmful.

On the other side, Dabao became vigilant, and Chu Danqing gripped the flashlight in his hand tightly.

If the monster made any suspicious moves, Dabao would strike immediately, and Chu Danqing would shine the flashlight at it again.

After the sound stopped, a dry and unnatural voice came through.

"Beware... the Elephant."

"The path... is behind."

After the monster finished speaking, the cavern fell into silence once more, without any sound.

"It left," Dabao's posture relaxed; he watched the other party crawl away along the ceiling of the cavern.

"Let's keep going," Chu Danqing said, though his mind was busy thinking about what was happening.

The monster's sudden appearance was to stop them from entering the cavern, and it had no malice.

However, Chu Danqing had sufficient strength and his words were so resolute that the monster did not further obstruct them.

The other party gave two warnings: one was to beware of something called an Elephant, and the other was that if they encountered trouble, they could run back.

But there was still a problem here: what about the legal team?

According to William's memory, the legal team were all ordinary people; how did they get past this monster's obstruction?

"Little Chu, blood." Dabao, who was leading Chu Danqing forward, suddenly paused and picked up a broken dagger from a corner.

There were still bloodstains on the dagger.

Dabao meant that the bloodstains were fresh.

Chu Danqing took the dagger and looked closely; it was made by grinding stone.

At first, he didn't pay much attention, but upon closer inspection, he discovered a problem.

"Sharp... hard."

"It doesn't make much sense; it looks a bit like a knife, but the dimensions aren't right," Chu Danqing said after observing it.

The reason Chu Danqing could distinguish this was due to knowledge from the Spirit Beast Atlas of the Armored Type in the previous Trial World.

This stone dagger gave him the feeling of a crystal spear; it looked very incongruous.

"But if there are gods, then perhaps it's reasonable," Chu Danqing thought to himself. A monster that even Dabao might not be able to beat was injured by his flashlight—wasn't that even more unreasonable?

So, with so many unreasonable things added together, it became reasonable.

"Is there any more of the scent of blood?" Chu Danqing casually stuffed it into his storage space.

Whether it was useful or not could be decided later; storing it first was fine.

"Yes, but... there is a river," Dabao said again.

"Meaning it went in the direction of the underground river? Then let's hurry," Chu Danqing wasn't surprised by the existence of an underground river.

That guide who died suddenly had said that there was indeed an underground river in the center of this cavern.

After crossing the underground river, the cavern would be halfway through.

But judging from the monster's words, it seemed that was not the case.

Going back is the path, and going forward is a trap?

William Hamlet's identity was complete, but because he was just an ordinary person who had never come into contact with anything related to gods or the mysterious, he knew nothing about this.

It was possible that both the guide and the monster were telling the truth.

"Malice... two."

Just as Chu Danqing could hear the sound of the underground river flowing, Dabao spoke first.

This utterance immediately alerted the two sources of malice by the underground river.

"Yi!!!" x2

Two youthful voices suddenly erupted.

Chu Danqing instantly locked onto the source of the sound and turned on the flashlight toward that location.

Because of the sudden intense light, the two sources of malice couldn't help but squint and use their hands to block it.

At the same time, Chu Danqing saw what these two sources of malice looked like.

They were two dwarves about one meter tall, with abnormally small eyes that looked like they were embedded in heads as round as basketballs.

There was not a single hair on their bodies, but they were covered in bulging muscles and looked quite robust.

Next were the weapons; they held short knives in their hands, the same style as the broken dagger Chu Danqing had obtained earlier.

Only then did Chu Danqing understand; his judgment hadn't been wrong—this thing really was a knife.

The reason it looked like a dagger was that the specifications weren't for normal people, but for this group of dwarves.

At the same time, the two dwarves seemed to have adapted to the strong light and launched an attack again, wielding their short knives.

From this, it could be seen that the dwarves didn't seem to fear light like the monster did.

The reason they weren't adapted was naturally because of the sudden exposure to strong light in the darkness, which inevitably caused a subconscious reaction.

At this moment, Chu Danqing caught sight of something out of place on one of the dwarves.

Hanging on its dirty, old clothing was a pocket watch that was clearly a modern industrial product.

It was clearly a trophy obtained from Chu Danqing's legal team.

This news had both good and bad sides.

The good news was that Chu Danqing hadn't gone to the wrong place; the bad news was that his legal team had likely suffered significant casualties.

Dabao immediately rushed up and fought with these two dwarves.

In the fight, Dabao had the upper hand even while facing two opponents.

The dwarves' strength was clearly inferior to that of the white-furred monster, but the short knives in their hands were extremely sharp and hard.

When attacks landed on Dabao, they could cause a large chunk of his shield to drop, and they could also use the short knives to block Dabao's sharp claws.

The strength of these short knives matched Chu Danqing's guess.

Seeing this, Chu Danqing immediately activated his Elemental Spirit Gauntlets and, through a random summon, brought out an Earth Elemental Spirit.

This made Chu Danqing's eye twitch; he had wanted a Fire Elemental Spirit.

Not only could it increase Dabao's attack power, but it could also serve as a lighting device.

Unfortunately, this thing was random, and he couldn't decide.

So whatever came out randomly, there was no way around it.

If it were his own skills, Chu Danqing could control them, but skills from equipment were not.

The former was self-controlled, while the latter was a rigid program, unless you were an Apostle walking the corresponding equipment-based path.

The increase in defense didn't change much for Dabao.

Dabao had a shield on him, and Chu Danqing was also keeping the Array Co-Defense active to supply the shield.

So even if the shield dropped, it could be replenished immediately.

"Yi?" One dwarf noticed the Earth Elemental Spirit, and then its gaze fell on Chu Danqing.

It immediately grabbed its short knife and was about to rush toward Chu Danqing.

As a result, because of this distraction, the other dwarf was pierced through the neck by Dabao's claws on the spot, and its head was torn off along the wound.

But that dwarf's vitality was extremely tenacious; even though it was decapitated, it still didn't die. Its head rolled on the ground, and it could even blink its eyes.

Chu Danqing was also shocked; even Guo Ming at Rank 3 couldn't do this if he were decapitated by a sword.

As for the other dwarf coming toward Chu Danqing, Dabao chased it down, kicked it to the ground, and stabbed its back a dozen times in succession with his claws.

Chu Danqing could even clearly see the internal organs already torn by the claws through the wounds on its back.

Yet even so, this dwarf still hadn't died, and its state was even better than the decapitated dwarf.

Chu Danqing only felt it was troublesome; these two dwarves were highly likely just at the level of minor mobs.

Their own strong vitality combined with the attack power of the unknown stone short knives—two might not be much, but if the number increased, it would be very troublesome.

Chu Danqing also understood in his heart that the War Mission was indeed high difficulty.

And this mission type was Secret Invasion; Chu Danqing had no other Apostle teammates, so the difficulty was even greater.

However, the corresponding danger was also lower; after all, he was now in the dark and the Nightmare Walker was in the light.

As long as he didn't expose himself, he could completely disguise himself as a native to gain enough advantages.

(End of Chapter)