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The wound was deep, and had already touched its internal circuits and machinery. Sparks mixed with elemental power gushed out, forming a scorched earth on the ground next to the puppet.
"Cough...cough cough!"
After a long time, the puppet that had been motionless suddenly moved. The cough scared away the birds that were resting on it and made the hares in the grass retreat.
"Where... is this?" The soldier struggled to get up, and then he felt a sharp pain in his head.
"Hiss——" The soldier who had just stood up knelt on one knee. After coming to his senses, he finally figured out what had happened.
"I didn't expect that traveling through the abyss passage would be so terrifying. If I weren't a puppet, I would have gone crazy."
"Those ground rats are quite capable."
The scattered soldier rubbed his temple and muttered to himself with some relief.
As soon as he entered the abyss passage, countless memories came flooding back. If he hadn't shut down his consciousness core in time and entered a dormant state, he would have become a madman long ago.
"Bandage it first." Looking at the wound on his abdomen that was emitting sparks and purple light, the soldier pushed aside the outer part of his thigh and took out a simple repair box from the groove.
This was something the Fatui had specially equipped him with, so that he could easily repair his injuries in the wild.
Dolls are not like humans. If a person is injured, he can find an alchemist or someone with the Eye of God to heal his wounds easily.
But if a puppet is broken, it is really broken and cannot repair itself. So the soldiers learned to repair themselves early on.
After a while, the wound on the soldier's abdomen was finally repaired. Looking at the bandage on his abdomen that was completely different from other parts of his body, the soldier suddenly shook his head and laughed, "Oh, what a scary guy."
"Is the harvest enough?" The soldier looked up at the sky. He didn't know how far this place was from the Dragon Ridge Snow Mountain, but the faintly visible golden color on the horizon reminded him of the existence of the golden tree.
Although we only got the name of the Golden Tree this time, it is not bad to get news about such a strong man like Mongget.
The soldier withdrew his sight and looked around. He was now in a crack in the mountain, with a rushing river next to him and nearly vertical cliffs on both sides.
"Liyue?" Sanbing took a look at the surrounding landforms. The exposed boulders and brown-yellow vegetation all told him that this was Liyue.
Looking into the distance, a large tree made of wood and stone grew beside the river valley, which made the scattered soldiers shudder.
There shouldn't be another Albedo or Monggot popping up here, right?
The scattered soldiers carefully observed the big tree in the distance. The trunk and top of the tree showed a faint sky blue color, which made it look like jade growing out of the tree.
"Earth veins?" San Bing breathed a sigh of relief. Although he didn't know much about earth veins, encountering familiar things was enough to put San Bing at ease.
Limping along the river valley, the skirmisher soon arrived next to the big tree. He knocked gently, but there was nothing unusual.
"Maybe it just happened to grow at the node of the earth vein." Sanbing shook his head, thinking that he was being too suspicious.
Trees growing at the nodes of the earth veins generally undergo very strange changes, so it is reasonable that they can emit blue light.
Catching a glimpse of a cave in the valley, the soldier sighed. He didn't know how serious his injury was until he walked.
So heavy that it needs major repairs.
"Hehe, I didn't expect that I would be in such an embarrassing situation. It's really a bad feeling." After laughing at himself twice, the soldier walked into the deep cave.
Chapter 284 The Dragon on the Ground
2023-11-10
"This hole seems quite deep."
In the deep cave, the scattered soldier looked back at the vague light spot behind him that was only emitting a faint glow, and exclaimed slightly.
Who would have thought that a cave you walked into could be so deep?
Although it was extremely dark in front of him, Sanbing did not feel any discomfort. The darkness alone could not arouse the emotion called "fear" in his heart.
On the contrary, the scattered soldier was a little irritated. The cave was really steep, and after walking so far, he couldn't find a place to stay.
"Let's walk a little further. If we can't find a suitable location..." The soldier didn't continue. If he hadn't been injured, he would have used brute force to flatten the cave.
Behind him was a cave entrance that emitted only dim light, and in front of him was a dark cave bottom. As the skirmishers moved forward, he became more and more impatient.
Just when the soldier was about to blast his way out of the cave, a bright light suddenly appeared in front of him.
The light was amber in color, very similar to the light emitted by the stone amber unique to Liyue.
"Oh? Could it be an amber mine?" Sanbing showed a hint of surprise on his face. Amber of good quality is very valuable, and this place is deep in the mountains.
This is simply a good source of funds for the Fatui. Walking forward quickly, what appeared in front of the scattered soldier was not a vein inlaid with bright amber, but a jade halberd.
On the jade halberd are mysterious runes and the profound power that is restrained and contained.
A punch hit the jade halberd, but apart from causing a few ripples on it, there was no other effect.
"The power of the Rock God?" San Bing asked in doubt. This was his first time in Liyue, and he had only heard about the Rock God.
So he was not sure whether this jade halberd was made by the God of Rock.
The scattered soldier looked up at the scene behind Yuzhang. Behind this small hole was a huge space that was so vast that it could not be expanded.
He even suspected that this huge hole had hollowed out the entire valley. On the top and walls of the cave, countless jade minerals that the scattered soldiers could recognize or could not recognize emitted various colors of light.
The brilliant lights intertwined and illuminated the space inside the jade halberd as if it were daytime.
The bottom of the cave was abnormally flat, and the mineral jades growing wildly on the walls and ceiling of the cave seemed to deliberately avoid the vast bottom of the cave.
"Is that... the big tree at the entrance of the cave?!" The soldier rubbed his eyes, seeming a little unable to believe his eyes.
At the flat bottom of the cave, a ground vein tree grew out that looked like it was carved out of the same mold as the cave entrance. In terms of size, this tree was even much bigger than the one outside the cave!
But how could such a big tree grow in the depths of the earth? Just as Sanbing was wondering, he suddenly saw the earth vein tree move.
"Boom!"
The scattered soldiers' vision began to shake along with the ground, as if the movement of the big tree had caused an earthquake.
In the eyes of the scattered soldiers, the big tree that was supposed to stand still actually grew rapidly on the spot.
Then, the scattered soldiers saw a huge figure breaking through the earth's crust and walking out of the earth.
The so-called "big tree" just now is the tail of this thing!
Dragon scales carved from jade, bright and ferocious dragon horns, chaotic and crazy red double suns, the guy in front of him is clearly a giant rock dragon hidden deep under the earth!
"Damn... Damn it! What... what is this thing!" For the first time, Sanbing felt that his luck was so bad. He first fought with the unpredictable Albedo, and then was defeated by Monggot and fled in panic.
He didn't expect that he would find such a horrible thing when he just wanted to find a place to rest. Why didn't he realize that his physique was so hateful before?
The scattered soldier quietly retreated a few steps, looking for an opportunity to escape. As for testing the giant dragon in front of him, he didn't even think about it.
The dragon's body looks like a mountain. With its size, even if it can't use elemental power, it can be crushed to death by being stepped on.
"Human...human beings. Come...over here. (Go...quickly)." Overlapping and grand voices came out of the dragon's mouth. It actually wanted the stragglers to stay.
"What are you?" The soldier stopped retreating. He was now thinking rapidly in his mind about what to do next.
"Save me...save me (No...you can't do this), and I will give you an immortal body! (I...I can't do this myself)"
It was as if two dragons were talking at the same time, but the scattered soldiers only heard the temptation of the dragon.
The other voice was so small that it could only serve as noise amid the dragon's roar that was loud enough to shake the mountains and forests.
After the dragon said this, it went completely crazy. Every swing of its limbs was like an earthquake.
Flames, water waves, thunder, ice and frost...all kinds of forces emerged behind Yu Zhang, destroying the cave beyond recognition.
Each of these strikes could turn mountains and rivers upside down and shatter the earth, but they were all buried in the bright yellow jade halberd.
"The power of God." The soldier looked at the devastating scene behind Yu Zhang, then looked at Yu Zhang who was still standing, swallowed and was extremely shocked.
"Li Yue, I remember it was the young master. Did he offend the clown?" The scattered soldier just took a quick look and fled without looking back.
After seeing Ruota's power, Sanbing had strong doubts about whether the young master could obtain the Heart of the God of Rock.
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"Your Excellency is..."
Kaia, with the Knight of Favonius behind him, stared at Monggot in front of him and asked with some vigilance.
It's no wonder he was wary, but the guy in front of him looked too much like the monsters in poems and novels.
"Well... you should have seen it before. It's the same type as that dragon." Monggot looked at Albedo's research notes in his hand and responded casually.
"Dragon?" Kaia raised an eyebrow.
"That's Lance who comes here every day to eat and drink for free..."
"Lance Shanks!"
"Oh! It's her!" Kaia reacted immediately. Lance Shanks either ate or drank for free every day, so that people who knew her identity automatically ignored her identity as a dragon.
"Haha, it seems that she has caused you some trouble." Mongget closed the book and put it back to its original place.
The words were too small and he felt tired reading them. His eyes were about to be squeezed by the horns, and if he didn't pay attention to protecting his eyes, he might go blind.
"Fortunately, compared to the help she brought us, it's nothing." Albedo responded by shaking his head.
As the first person to know Lance Shanks's identity, Albedo knew how much contribution Lance Shanks made in the dragon disaster.
"Then I feel relieved. It seems that I don't need to compensate her for anything." Mengget nodded.
He knew the personalities of those guys from the dragon clan. Every time they came to Rodel, they always gave Godwin a headache for a while.
"In that case, you are here to look for ashes as well?" Kaeya looked up at the golden tree not far away. No matter how many times he looked at it, he was still shocked.
"Of course, it would be great if you could tell me the king's location."
Mongert said as he took out several bright halos from his cloak and placed them on Albedo's research table.
"We call this Rune. You can think of it as an elemental polymer without any conditions for use. It is the source of our power."
"There is no magic ring here, so its full function cannot be brought into play. But it is still no problem to use it for research or to strengthen the body."
"It's my gift to you, I guess."
"Really?" Albedo looked down at Rune, who was shining with an inexplicable glow. He looked up at the bright golden color in the sky. The two colors were very similar.
"Gift?" Kaia muttered something in a low voice, then took out a map from the team behind him.
He said to Mongert: "This is the map of our place. You are here now, and Ember is here."
Looking at the two places where Kaia pointed, Mengte nodded. He turned around and glanced at the golden tree, then turned into a shadow and disappeared from everyone's sight.