Chapter 130: Night Exploration of He Rui Peak (Four)

Li Bucai asked: "Beast tribe? Is that the Daka Kingdom you mentioned earlier?"

Yin Ji nodded: "The Daka Kingdom means the kingdom of barbarians, but they usually live on that basin and rarely go into the mountains, unless they feel there is a force in the mountains strong enough to be their opponent."

That means for now it won't threaten the territory, Li Bucai didn't ask further; the immediate task is to settle the matter of He Rui Peak, and in this Lotus Flower Valley, besides goblins and tree elves, there are also dark night elves and blood people; the Lotus Flower Valley has eight valleys surrounding He Rui Peak, two of them: one leads to the territory, and the opposite one leads to the western basin; among the remaining six, these several races live there.

Now goblins and tree elves have been confirmed as enemies; dark night elves are a race that never interacts with outsiders; as for the blood clan, without taking He Rui Peak we cannot bypass this place to visit them, and we have never even seen their appearance.

While speaking, Yin Ji led everyone into the third level dark cave; since the sleeping caves are not arranged parallel but slant downward, many places have the sleeping caves located high above the dark cave's foot, from here we chisel out several resting caves, and they will not connect with the sleeping caves.

Yin Ji inspected a few resting caves and said: "There are still a few with blue cloud cotton leaves; let's rest here for now."

Li Bucai nodded: "Everyone take turns on watch, the rest should rest as soon as possible."

After everyone jumped into the resting caves, Li Bucai wanted to scout the tree elves' reality, so under Yin Ji's guidance he continued downward; he originally intended to entrust this place to the Young Marshal, but she insisted on following, and given her personality, forcibly keeping her here might cause trouble, so the three of them together descended over two hundred meters.

"Going out from here we will see the light element elves, right? Why not go out and have a look, to see if there are tree elves here, or perhaps dark night elves, we might even be able to communicate with them and win them over, which would help us jointly deal with the tree elves."

Li Bucai said: "I hope that when we encounter them, if there is any verbal disagreement, the Young Marshal can restrain her emotions."

"Rest assured, I know my limits."

The three then walked from the dug passage toward a sleeping cave; upon reaching the cave mouth, they first listened quietly for a while, hearing no abnormal sounds; Li Bucai gently moved the stone slab above, lifted the blue cloud cotton leaves laid on top; although it was already daylight outside, for now no sunlight had shone in, it remained pitch black.

Li Bucai emerged first from the cave, pulling the two up one by one, then he set the stone slab aside and propped up the blue cloud cotton leaves so the cave mouth would not be blocked by anything; if any accident occurred, they could quickly escape from here.

The Young Marshal was the first Li Bucai pulled out of the cave; after coming out, she immediately jumped out of the resting cave, intending to go see how far the light element elves were; as she walked toward the sleeping cave's entrance, she suddenly noticed something odd, looked up, and saw a human-shaped object clinging to the stone corner above the door; their eyes met, and suddenly a cold light burst from that person's body, shooting toward the Young Marshal's face.

The Young Marshal saw clearly, hastily dodged with a butterfly dance step, instantly separating several phantoms from her body, so that the cold light missed, passing through the phantoms with a "clang" sound, striking the stone wall behind her, sending out a large shower of sparks; it was a short arrow over twenty centimeters long, deeply embedded in the stone wall, sunk halfway.

Seeing he missed, the person lunged forward, simultaneously wielding a dagger about an inch long to stab at her vital spots.

The Young Marshal already had dual knives in hand; seeing the dagger's strange approach, she crossed her knives in front of her and swung, the blades acting like scissors, intending to cut the incoming blade; the person saw the weapons about to collide, knowing it would inevitably produce a loud noise, feared alerting those outside, so before the weapons clashed, he hastily retracted the dagger; the Young Marshal pursued, they became entangled, either stabbing at each other's vital points or dodging the incoming blades, trying to make no sound, and in the blink of an eye they had fought three rounds.

At the resting cave mouth, Yin Ji had nocked an arrow on her bow, aiming at that black shadow, about to release when she suddenly felt her body tilt backward, Li Bucai grabbed her and pulled her into his embrace; puzzled, Li Bucai held her and twisted his body, raising his hand upward, stopping it one foot in front of Yin Ji.

Yin Ji stared intently; his hand firmly gripped a short arrow; it turned out that on both stone corners of the sleeping cave, black-clad men were lurking, that arrow was shot by the one on the left; after Li Bucai caught the arrow, he backhandedly threw it toward the right corner, where the black-clad man happened to shoot an arrow toward this side; as Li Bucai threw his arrow, it coincidentally collided with the incoming arrow, with a "clang", the two arrows struck each other, altering their original trajectories, flying off in different directions and embedding into the stone wall.

This sleeping cave is a large rectangle with four corners; at the moment Li Bucai caught and threw the arrow, two more black shadows suddenly leapt down from the other two corners, intending to help the person fighting the Young Marshal; just as they landed, they heard a chorus of "squeak-squeak" from goblins outside.

The Young Marshal and that person heard the sound, immediately stopped fighting; the five black shadows leapt back to their original positions; the Young Marshal quickly found a resting cave and slipped inside; Li Bucai and Yin Ji flashed to the two sides of the resting cave mouth; the sleeping cave once again returned to deathly silence.

At this moment, a goblin troop holding torches passed through the shooting gate; from their speech we could hear they were reporting to some wizard because their chief had not yet returned.

Li Bucai's heart jolted; when he entered the first sleeping cave he had heard a footstep, could it be that black-clad men were also hidden there? At that time it was still dark, the sleeping cave had no light at all, not even the assassin Young Marshal could detect it.

"Thus, will the others also be targeted by these people? From the first sleeping cave to here we have already gone over halfway; how many troops have they come?" Thinking of the hundreds of weapons on the platform, while they watched us enter the dark cave, they would surely follow; Li Bucai couldn't help but exclaim: "Not good, they surely number several hundred; if they are outstanding, they will be in danger."

The goblins outside kept passing by the door from time to time, torchlight occasionally shining in; Li Bucai used the protruding stone wall at the cave mouth for cover and made a gesture to Yin Ji.

Yin Ji understood, drew two arrows from the quiver from the black-clad men's blind spot and handed them to Li Bucai, then took one, nocked it on the bow, and drew the bow fully.