Chapter 604: Giant Fire Beetle

Joan entered the mine pit with doubt.
Not far from the snow-covered pit, he entered a relatively spacious pit. The wooden boxes placed against the wall were piled with dusty mining tools, and the ground was also covered with two wooden rails. Disrepair, the rails have been damp and moldy.
Joan continued to walk along the wooden track, the light in the tunnel gradually dimmed. He raised his hand and touched the prosthetic eye, turning on "dark vision", and his vision became clear again.
Wooden rails are common facilities in mine pits. Just like public carriages in cities, miners place mining carts on wooden rails, load the extracted ore into the buckets, and walk along the wooden rails with human power or mule trailers. Improve the efficiency of transporting ore.
Joan walked not far along the wooden rails, and saw a minecart roll over on the side of the road, in a rusty bucket, gleaming yellow-green light.
At first, Joan thought it was a firefly. He came to realize that the glow of the firefly could not be so strong, and suddenly he was alert, so he stopped 20 yards away from the minecart, and the cast created a "Mage attacking the palm. ".
The translucent magic hand came to call, suspended in the dim tunnel, under the yellow-green flash of light, showing a magnificent luster.
Joan remotely controlled the "Mage Assault Palm" to approach the minecart, pulled the ore, and searched for glowing objects. At this moment a group of black shadows suddenly emerged from the body of the car, squeaking toward the magic hand.
Joan was slightly surprised, and took two steps back to observe carefully, and found that the thing was originally a brown beetle, about two feet in length, as big as a puppy, with twinkling eyes shining, illuminating the surrounding ten feet of space. bright.
Joan's left hand moved slightly, and "Mage Strikes Palm" simultaneously spread out his thick fingers and grabbed the glowing beetle.
The big beetle squeaked in horror, shaking the two membrane wings hidden beneath the hard carapace, leaping high and gliding deep into the pit, but after all, he could not escape and was caught by Joan’s remote control giant palm. .
The beetle screamed more and more quickly, struggling desperately, trying to bite the magic hand. It was of course useless, and it was dragged back to Joan shortly afterwards, let out a desperate cry, and the light in his eyes dimmed.
Joan observed the peculiar glowing beetle nearby, and compared with the illustrations in the "Insect Sub-Volume" of "The Monster Book of Vales", he quickly recognized that this was a rare insect called "Big Fire Beetle". Occasionally seen in natural or artificially dug underground pits.
Miners especially like the giant fire beetle. After being caught and put into a bird cage for rearing, it can be used as a pet to relieve boredom and also serve as a miner's lamp lighting.
A pair of glands grow inside the eye of the giant fire beetle. The special substances secreted by the glands will undergo a complex alchemy reaction after contact with the air, and then produce a bright light. Even if the giant fire beetle dies, the secretions stored in the glands can continue to glow, and can maintain up to a week of light.
Joan remembers that the glowing glands of the giant fire beetle are a valuable alchemy material. In addition, it can also be used as a casting material for many light magics including "brightness", and unlike other casting materials, it can be used once. It is consumed and can be used repeatedly many times, so it is very popular in the magic material trading market. The glowing gland of a giant fire beetle is worth 20 Jinduga.
Joan was really scared. The 20 Kinduga was not a small number for him, so he was ruthless, and the remote control "Mage Strikes the Palm" gave a strong grip and smashed the hard of the giant fire beetle. shell.
The squeak stopped abruptly, and a pungent brown body fluid penetrated through the cracked carapace.
Joan pulled back the "Mage Assault Palm", pulled out the "Electric Light Blade" in his right hand, expertly cut the giant fire beetle, cut off the two groups of self-luminous glands, put it into an empty glass bottle, and received it in a storage bag .
Starting with 20 gold coins of alchemy materials, Joan is in a good mood. Even if the investigation does not explain why, as long as more glowing glands of giant fire beetles are collected in this pit, this is a worthwhile trip.
Putting away the dagger, Joan continued to explore along the wooden track.
Unfortunately, no other giant fire beetles were found along the way, and the wooden rail finally broke off in front of a large pit with water. The tunnels in front are all submerged in water. There are many broken boxes and wooden barrels floating on the water. Sometimes the bodies of dwarf miners soaked in rotting and swollen can be seen, and the air is disgusting.
Joan stood by the pit and recalled it, remembering that Mr. Schmidt said yesterday that this mine had a serious water seepage accident before the shutdown, which caused many miners to drown.
Judging from the current situation, there are mostly underground canals below the pit. Miners accidentally dig through the rock layer that isolates the groundwater during the operation, causing the groundwater to rush back under the influence of pressure. The first miners were engulfed by the water before they could evacuate. Drowned in the mine.
It's been two years since the accident, and the water in the pothole hasn't receded, which adds an obstacle to Joanne's investigation.
Joan could swim, but looking at the dirty water with floating corpses, he immediately dispelled the thought of swimming. Since I don't want to go into the water, and haven't learned the spells like "walking on water", how can I get through this water accumulation area?
Joan first thought of turning into an eagle man, but observed the narrow gap between the water surface and the ceiling of the tunnel. Considering the tall body and wide wings of the eagle man, it could not be opened in such a narrow environment. I am afraid that the feathers were wetted by the sewage before I could fly.
Touching his chin and thinking for a while, Joan thought of a proper way to take out a dried eye stem from the spellcasting material bag, cast 2 rings of "transformation", and transform himself into the "eye of insight" form.
As a kind of subspecies of eye demons, "Eye of Insight" has the ability to use magic power to float in the air, and its size is not too big. The round body has no edges and corners, which is very suitable for traveling in this narrow and narrow underground tunnel.
In fact, the "dark area" inhabited by the eye demons is similar to the mine pit, and the unique movement and physiological structure of the eye demons probably evolved to adapt to this special environment.
After Joan became the "eye of insight", the dark and damp underground tunnel no longer made him feel depressed, but inexplicably produced a kind of intimacy to return home.
Joan wobbled the eye stem expertly, using slight airflow changes to adjust the direction, slowly drifting over the puddle. At the same time, the other two stalks were not idle. One stalk served as a "periscope" to observe the situation on the top of the head, while the other looked around cautiously to observe the movement around.
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