Chapter 2454: Escape Beast

Qiao An smiled helplessly and turned around to calm the old marsh man who was too nervous.
"Evening beasts eat stones just like we eat bread. Gems are like candy and spices in their recipes. As for metal, they are equivalent to stimulants for the beasts."
"The Evacuation Beast who eats metal will become addicted, become mentally disordered, and even take the initiative to attack the explorers who carry metal products with them. But you can rest assured that I have just cast a spell to check the Evacuation Beast on the opposite side. Its body is very healthy. Get addicted to drugs."
"As long as you don't show off the shiny, clinking metalwork, that stray beast won't lose its temper at us."
"Oh! That's how it is!"
Elder Gu quickly checked his belongings and quickly tore off the copper buttons, stuffed them in his pockets and hid them.
Qiao An also tidyed up his robe, untied the dagger from his belt, stuffed it into the storage bag, approached the Escape Beast carefully, waved at it, and greeted him in "Turkish language".
"Old sir, good morning!"
"Um... hello, strange kid." The Dunge Beast lowered its head slowly and looked at Qiao'an. "Excuse me for not having a good look, and I can't see your looks, since you know so much. Polite, there is still grass growing on your head, so I can see that it is not a bald gray dwarf or a kobold, so I venture to guess that you are probably an underground dwarf? A relative of Belling, right?"
"I am not a dwarf, but a human from the surface world." Qiao An added, "but I recognize Belling, and the dwarf mage is my old friend."
"That's good, that's good. Although Belling is mischievous, at least he won't bully an old good person like me. You are a friend of that little dwarf, and you are not a bad boy if you want to come."
Dundi Beast muttered to himself and turned his head, looking behind Qiao An.
"Um... young man, what kind of monster is the big toad behind you? It looks so vicious!"
"I'm not a toad!" Elder Gu puffed up his cheek pouch with anger, "I'm a dignified marshman, born in a noble family!"
"Well... my friend, I know a little bit of lingua franca, to understand from the literal meaning, marsh people... are not toad people living in mud puddles?"
"Qua! You shellless old tortoise, a big slug, you are so confused!" Elder Qu was fragrant.
"You just screamed, right?" Dundi beast firmly asserted, "I said it was a toad man!"
Qiao An was afraid that Dundi Beast would fight with Elder Gu, and interrupted quickly: "Old sir, you live in the acid lake. You must be familiar with this area. Have you seen death bell beetles on the lakeshore recently?"
"What beetle?" Dundi Beast asked in confusion.
"A large nine-foot-long beetle, the whole body is pitch black, only the elytra on the back is dark red, and the most prominent feature is a horn-like organ growing on the forehead."
Qiao An followed the illustrations in the literature to describe.
"Hmm... So you meant'horn worm'." The Dunge Beast shook his head slowly, and said thoughtfully, "Occasionally, there are that kind of strange bugs wandering around the lake, but they are all smaller in size. Nymphs, adults are rare."
Qiao An's heart was stunned. It's no wonder that the beetle that he and Elder Gua inferred from the footprints by the lake just now is small, and it turns out that it is an immature nymph.
"Well, the horn worms, they scream in groups, and they always make sharp screams, which make me a headache. I have to go deep in the mud or dive into the bottom of the lake to isolate the worms and get a good night's sleep." Tao.
Qiao An once read in a document that the supernatural trills produced by the horn-like organs of the "death beetle" can be used to kill prey or destroy buildings, and the death knell beetles always act in groups. It is no wonder that the Escape Beasts are too afraid to avoid them.
"Old gentleman, my friend and I are tracking the death bell beetle, which is what you call the'trumpet beetle'. Where is the nearest beetle nest?"
"Um... kids, you have the courage, but I know where the hornworm's nest is, but I have never approached it. The area is too dangerous."
The Escape Beast shook its body, as if shivering.
"Hey...Is the beetle nest in the north or east? My stomach is empty and my head is empty. I can't remember it for a while."
Guamoduo heard Dundi beast talking to himself, and lowered his voice to remind Qiao An: "Little Mage, can't you hear it? The old slug is suggesting that we have to give it some benefits before it will show us the way! "
In terms of human relations and sophistication, Qiao An is indeed not as smart and skillful as Elder Gua. He suddenly realized that after his reminder, he quickly pulled out a large piece of coarse crystal from the storage bag, and used the "mage's hand" to hand the coarse crystal to Dundi Beast.
"Huh? How ashamed..."
Dundi Beast was polite, but did not reject the gift Qiao An had sent, lowered his head, swallowed the 5 pounds of coarse crystal in one bite, and nodded with satisfaction, as if he had eaten a large piece of chocolate candy.
"Um, good-hearted kid, I suddenly remembered, you bypass the acid lake and continue walking north, until you reach the end you will see two forks. The road on the left leads to the hornworm’s nest. Don’t go near the tunnel on the right!"
The Dundi Beast's solemn warning aroused Qiao Andi's curiosity and asked him where the road on his right led.
"There are many dangerous mushrooms growing near the entrance of that road. They look like huge eyeballs with many tentacles. If you get too close, they will burst and spew out countless toxic spores. It's itchy and painful to get stuck on the body, and it's uncomfortable."
"I have been bombed by that kind of strange mushrooms. Fortunately, I dived into the lake in time to wash off the spores stuck on my body, otherwise it would become the host of the spores like those hapless hornworms, and new mushrooms would grow from the corpses. "
After listening to the description of the Dundi Beast, Qiao An immediately guessed that the "strange mushroom that would explode" was the "eye of the air spore", which he had met near the blood tundra many years ago.
"The tunnel blocked by the explosive mushroom leads to a tyrant’s lair, and at the end of the tyrant’s lair, there is also a'earth navel'. Legend has it that you can reach the deepest layer of the dark region through the'devil's eye nest city. 'Udinus, um...but so far, no one has dared to verify whether this rumor is true."
"What does'tyrant' mean? An unpopular underground lord?" Gumodo asked Qiao'an.
The young mage glanced at the old marshman and explained in a low voice: "When creatures in the dark regions speak of the word'tyrant', they usually refer to the'eye demon' in particular. Do you want to drop by the'giant eye tyrant'? '?"
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