Chapter 464: The Problematic Cave

"Ugh..."

Gu Xiaobei bent over at the very back of the team and threw up profusely.

This was inside Beast Emperor Hill, located in the center of the Gloomy Forest dungeon.

It had been ten months since they entered the Gloomy Forest.

Three days ago, stopping and going, they finally arrived outside the hill.

And the reason why Gu Xiaobei was vomiting was entirely because the inside of the hill was always filled with an indescribable foul odor.

But the strange thing was that this foul odor seemed to be only smellable by Gu Xiaobei.

"I say, could this kind of thing be related to you being an elf? How about you go outside and wait first, just wait for us."

Vivian, who was supporting Gu Xiaobei from the side, said teasingly while gently patting the other party's back.

Gu Xiaobei wiped her mouth with her arm and then very reluctantly stood up.

Although Vivian was teasing her, she also knew that she was worried about her.

But it was definitely impossible to let her stay outside alone.

Setting aside those cliché tropes that often appeared in TV shows and movies like 'when there's only one person left, something bad always happens'.

Just speaking of the monster spawn frequency that they had long since figured out, it was impossible for her to stay in that kind of place alone.

After these ten months, they also had a deeper understanding of this dungeon.

Just like after living in a place for a long time, you can gradually learn about some of its various ways of survival.

The alternation of day and night here was twenty-four hours, just like on the Karim Continent.

Although this might seem like nonsense, in reality, it was precisely because of this that Lan Qingyou and the others could calculate the time that had passed in the outside world.

Secondly, here one needed to pay attention to every small puddle without running water.

These places usually had all sorts of strangely shaped monsters jumping out, making them impossible to guard against.

To tell the truth, if it weren't because the ones locked in the dungeon this time were vampires and witches, two relatively hard-to-kill races, maybe their numbers would have been severely reduced in the very first month.

But even so, it didn't prevent reductions in personnel from occurring.

Over ten months, the vampires lost 13 people, and the Witch race lost 8 people.

Although everyone was somewhat sad, this couldn't be helped.

Since it was a battle, no matter how good at calculating one was, it was inevitable that casualties would appear.

However, both Lan Qingyou and Vivian put the corpses of these people into their cards to take them straight out when they had the chance.

After all, it was impossible to let the corpses of their own people be buried in this kind of nameless space.

Thirdly, right now, apart from inside the hill, the monsters outside could no longer provide any experience for them, all of whom were at level fifty.

"Do you think the foul odor Gu Xiaobei mentioned could be like that mosquito sound on Blue Star that only children can hear?"

After walking a section of the road, Li Huai, who rarely spoke, offered his opinion.

"That is indeed a possibility."

Vivian, who was holding up Gu Xiaobei, couldn't help nodding upon hearing this guess.

After all, she definitely wouldn't pass up a topic that could mock Gu Xiaobei.

However, how could Gu Xiaobei not hear the mockery in her words.

"Hey, are you saying I'm a child?"

"No, no, no, how could that be? How could you be as cute as a child?"

"Vivian, you bastard. Just wait until I feel better, I'll show you."

Gu Xiaobei, who was already vomiting because of the foul odor, was currently in a physical state that, while perhaps not terrible, was very weak.

According to Gu Xiaobei's own estimation, she only had about a quarter of her stamina from her peak state right now.

It was a state of 'even if mocked, I can only barely speak to fight back'.

"Boss Lan, can't you make some potion to make me feel relaxed?"

Gu Xiaobei weakly asked the floating Lan Qingyou.

The other party was an alchemist, doing something as trivial as mixing a potion should be doable.

"I actually want to research it too, but unfortunately the conditions here don't allow it."

Lan Qingyou shrugged.

She wasn't lying.

Regarding Gu Xiaobei's symptom, let alone her, even the other witches were more or less somewhat interested.

It was just that although they each had their 'tools of the trade' like crucibles and such.

In the forest, apart from some wild vegetables and ordinary herbs, there were no special materials that could treat this foul odor or vomiting symptom.

Ultimately, right now, apart from Gu Xiaobei, no one else had smelled it.

This point alone gave Lan Qingyou a bit of a headache.

It was this kind of problem where the cause couldn't be found again.

"But it's not like there isn't a way."

After shrugging, Lan Qingyou added a sentence in the face of the disappointed Gu Xiaobei.

"What way?"

"Once and for all, if I just send you off directly, you should be very relaxed, right?"

"..."

That would indeed be relaxing, relaxing for the rest of this life.

Gu Xiaobei rolled her eyes speechlessly at Lan Qingyou, and then chose to ignore this guy.

However, although Lan Qingyou was joking, she wasn't a fool either.

With her Demon Eye open for so long, apart from the mountain walls and the cave, she hadn't seen anything else at all.

She had experienced this kind of thing before.

In that Treant cave.

When she first entered the cave, there were only the cave and mountain walls, and some stalactites, pools, and the like, but absolutely nothing else.

And what happened after that was fighting the Treants, then obtaining the Star Dragon King essence blood, and making Witch Potions.

It could be said that to some extent, that cave was a starting point for Lan Qingyou.

It was precisely because of that essence blood and the Witch Potions that the subsequent series of events occurred.

Looking back now, it was also a happy time.

It's just that that was something that happened on the Karim Continent, whereas the place she was at now was a dungeon.

She didn't know if this experience could be applied here.

But as everyone knows.

If there are too few monsters in a place, there can only be two situations.

Either there are no monsters, or the monsters here are so strong that they don't need to live in groups.

And Lan Qingyou leaned towards the latter.

"I think there's a big problem with this cave itself."

After walking along the cave for another ten minutes, Lan Qingyou also voiced her opinion.

And her statement directly caused the entire slowly advancing team to halt.

This wasn't to say there had been some prior agreement or anything, it was purely because Lan Qingyou's words meant this cave might contain danger, so they needed to stop and carefully deliberate over it.

Of course, there was another important reason why they stopped.

And that was that Lan Qingyou was in the scout squad at the very front of the team.

Once she stopped, the people behind would naturally be blocked.

"Gu Xiaobei, tell us again what the situation was like before you vomited?"

Lan Qingyou, having stopped, decided it would be better to resolve the doubts in her heart first before setting off again.