At this moment.

"big guy!"

The insect monster's sharp male voice rang out as it led a large group of monsters from behind and said, "Kill him and eat him!"

Before Thales could frown, Shilai sighed. She leaned half of her body on Thales' arm and staggered around to the troll:

"And you, Warniak!"

She yelled at the top of her lungs:

"Hit the wrong person!"

Hilley's female voice was particularly clear amidst the roars of monsters in the sewer. For a moment, the noise made by the monsters became smaller.

"Stop, stop, everyone stop!"

The half-human, half-insect monster shouted loudly to its kind to get out of the way, and then it appeared in front of them with the sound of treading water.

The situation was unclear, so Thales nervously protected the girl behind him.

Whoosh!

A torch was lit, causing Thales to narrow his eyes quickly.

"twenty four?"

Under the light of the fire, the insect monster's face was still covered with ugly and disgusting tumors, but its voice was full of doubts:

"You, are you okay?"

"Isn't that right," Xi Lai said angrily, wiping the blood on his face, "Is this how you welcome me?"

What's going on?

twenty four?

Thales looked at Hille and then at the insect monster, confused.

The insect monster named Warnyak held a torch and looked at Thales with vigilance. Finally, under Shilay's stern gaze, it sighed and began to "slough" reluctantly - to be precise,

It is to take off the holster full of carapace, spikes and insect limbs to reveal a normal human body.

Thales opened his mouth wide.

Behind him, the giant monster who had just received an elbow from Thales shook his hands and pulled his arms out of a pair of fake giant arms, but his face was still twisted and crooked—probably because of nature.

More and more torches were lit, illuminating the sewer: the monsters behind Warniak also began to move and "slough" in the commotion. They took off different monster masks and hoods, removed their skins, and threw away their prosthetics.

, revealing a silhouette.

Thales suddenly realized: So, what the hell senses just saw were actually flesh-and-blood people wrapped in skins.

Fuck the water ghouls.

"Hey," Thales exhaled helplessly and put down the dagger, "After working on it for a long time, it turns out that the person is scary."

Fortunately, he thought his martial arts had improved, and he could leap and jump in dangerous sewers full of water ghouls, killing seven in and seven out - Huh?

Thales blinked in surprise and watched as Warniak removed the monster's skin and revealed his true body:

He looked young, but the tumor on his right shoulder was as big as two or three heads. It was like a ball stuck in his body, not only squeezing his body into a bulging mess,

He even arched his head to the left and raised his right shoulder and arm by one foot. The whole person walked up and down, uncoordinated and irregular. To make matters worse, the pus-producing tumor also extended to Warney.

Half of Yak's face looked swollen.

To be honest, it's even more disturbing than the half-human, half-insect image just now...

Thales frowned subconsciously.

Warniak, who had a strange figure, seemed to be extremely sensitive. He realized that Thales was staring at him, and he glanced at him suddenly:

"What? Never seen a monster?"

Warniak said viciously. As he spoke, his shoulders rose and fell, and the large, dazzling tumor on his neck twitched up and down, making people uncomfortable.

Thales showed an awkward smile and whispered to Hilley: "What exactly is here..."

"Ah, it turns out it's you, the little troublemaker, twenty-four!"

Before Thales could finish speaking, a short figure waded in front of them, dragging a pile of limp leather cases with great difficulty.

Thales had to lower his head to see this figure clearly - this was a man with short arms and legs, only three feet tall at most, but with an unusually large head and a face that looked about forty years old. He was, um, a dwarf?

"Why are you back! The party day hasn't come yet!"

The surprisingly short man raised his head, revealing a weathered face.

"Uncle Hauser," Hilley said weakly, "don't you want me to come back early to take a look?"

Warniak on the side snorted, and the tumors on his face and shoulders trembled.

The short Uncle Hauser stood on tiptoes, glanced at Hilley with squinted eyes, and then glanced at Thales. Then he hummed, turned around and walked back squeakingly, waving his short hand:

"Go back, it's not an invasion, it's just that our own people have come back, dispersed, and don't want to eat?"

There was a loud sound of relief coming from the sewer, and the people who had taken off their leather jackets turned back one after another, whispering to each other and dispersed.

Uncle Hauser patted the "troll" with an ugly face and surprisingly small eyes, and drove him up:

"Yes, Bobo, you go back too, go back, go back to eat, it's none of your business, yes, you stupid big man..."

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

"Okay, okay, you cute big guy..."

"Woo!"

Thales looked at the "monsters" dragging their leather jackets back in confusion: some of them were ugly, some were missing arms and legs, and some had strange shapes...

This is……

"By the way, where is Srimani?"

Xi Lai reacted and asked quickly:

"Woniak, where is the man who came down with us?"

Warniak leaned forward, shrugged his only free left shoulder, and raised the torch to make way for him:

Behind him, Slimani was lying upright under the corner of the wall, his eyes closed, and he had long fainted from fright.

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A few minutes later, Thales and Hilley gathered around the fire and sat on the edge of a large, long-abandoned reservoir. The sewage flowed quietly in the lowland a few meters away from them, and a few beams of light were cast from the wellhead above their heads.

"what can I do?"

Warniak sat across from them, waving his hands, and the tumor on his shoulder looked like another head:

"The emergency exit suddenly opened. You were carried back by Bobo, unconscious with blood on your face. Then two people came, and the second one was holding a weapon. Anyone else would have thought that you caused trouble outside and were chased.

Kill...you said, twenty-four, what can I do?"

"Maybe you could be nice instead of just being scary."

Hilley changed into a slightly cleaner set of clothes and had a bandage on her head. She held up a container that was more like an iron box than a cup, and drank the strange-tasting potion inside:

"I haven't been back for a long time. When I turned a corner, I stepped on the air and hit my head. I fainted. Hiss, it hurts!"

Hilley touched the wound on his head with a painful expression.

Thales sat next to her and frowned at the potion in his "cup".

"Hey, you came up with the idea of ​​scaring people away!" Warniak protested.

Thales looked around anxiously:

This is a long-abandoned sewer. The conditions are simple, but the area is not small. There are all kinds of people living in it, all kinds of, well...

"The phantom in the teacup today showed 'return', and I knew something was going to happen, haha." On the other side, a short dwarf woman scooped a spoonful of unpleasant potion from a broken bucket and walked towards the huddled room.

In the corner, Slimani was even more frightened after waking up, "Keep drinking, unless you want to get sick or die from infection! You know, that was sewage from the sewer!"

"Thank you, Madam Gadama."

Hilley sighed and drank the unpleasant potion without hesitation.

"Anyway, twenty-four is back. This is the best thing. Just in time, come and have lunch with us!" Beside the fire, a girl stirring the pot took over. Her voice was sweet and clear, and she had long hair.

Hair is black and shiny.

"Thank you, Dorothy, I can't wait." Healey smiled back and her voice was particularly gentle.

Thales couldn't help but glance at Xi Lai. This was the first time he heard the other party speak with such a good attitude.

But for some reason, the other girl named Dorothy kept pointing the back of her head towards them - Huh?

Thales was shocked and realized:

This girl's face is covered with dense hair from her forehead to her eyes, from her nose to her chin.

That's why when viewed from a distance, it looks like the back of the head.
To be continued...