Mechanical Alchemist Chapter 62: Beautiful woman in the cave

 Originally, I thought it was just a simple trial guide task, but now that it has developed, Su Lun failed to see that there was something fishy in this trial.

Looking back briefly, Su Lun has connected the limited clues in his mind.

Even if he didn't know the ins and outs of the matter, he could guess that there might be some grudges between wealthy families and internal fighting among the plutocrats involved.

 This was a premeditated "accident".

  80% of the tutors and teaching assistants who disappeared inexplicably were in accidents.

 After all, if something happens to the young masters and ladies of these plutocratic families, the mentors are also to blame.

 Of course, Su Lun, the guide, will also be implicated.

 It seems that the target of the mastermind is not Su Lun, but probably these students; but for him, this is a greater hidden danger than his own crisis.

 Level 2 professionals can be sent to the fighting arena, but those plutocrats are definitely not easy to deal with. If something goes wrong among these noble students, Su Lun, a gang member from the outer city without any foundation, will definitely be the first to be buried with them.

 At that time, even the president of the Cross Society may not be able to keep him.

 “I thought it was a good job to make money while lying down, but I didn’t expect to get involved in the infighting among the chaebols. Now it’s a bit troublesome.”

Su Lun’s thoughts were racing in his mind, and he was already thinking of a way out for himself: "Is it possible that after this time, he will change his identity again and mix into the 'Steam Party' or the 'Cross Society'?"

 Only when you join a gang will you know how powerful the three major gangs are in the outer city.

 Once you defect from the Cross Society, it will be very troublesome to be wanted by the gang. By then, the entire outer city will have no place to stay.

 Su Lun does not intend to give up his current identity unless he has to.

 In this moment, the students behind him had already run away.

Su Lun also breathed a sigh of relief.

 At least now I have saved my own people, and even sacrificed my life, which is considered as fulfilling my duty. If there were any casualties, he himself would have his own excuses, and the gang's top brass would also have an explanation for the inner-city benefactors. It was not in vain that Qiantiao recommended himself to Mrs. Philo.

 After all, before coming, everyone regarded this guide's mission as a big "opportunity".

 If used well, it is really an opportunity for low-level gang members like them to stand up.

 …........

 Su Lun wouldn't mind a few more bullets if he could help the female assistant.

 Obviously, that kind of number of strange moths cannot be dealt with by a few muskets.

 Without Rosa's ability to attract fire, those strange moths would definitely chase any living creature in this tunnel. Su Lun didn't have the combat uniforms of those noble students. His simple leather armor probably couldn't withstand a few hits.

  He also thought that the assistant teacher of Black Tower College must have more ways to save his life than expected, so he always kept a safe distance.

 Sure enough, it was as he expected.

 At this time, the female assistant coach breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that Su Lun had taken action to alleviate the crisis. Without any hesitation, she took out something like a grenade, twisted it violently, and threw it toward the tunnel entrance.

 “Bomb?”

Su Lun watched the woman throw something towards him and guessed that she might want to blow up the tunnel and completely block the path of these strange moths.

 But if it were a bomb, it would probably kill him as well, and it might even cause a large-scale landslide.

Su Lun instinctively wanted to shoot this thing in the air, but when he saw the female assistant running towards him quickly, he knew it was not as simple as a bomb.

 “Let’s go!”

  Rosa shouted loudly as she ran wildly.

Su Lun’s reaction was not slow at all, he turned around and ran towards the depths of the tunnel.

At this moment, he heard the "grenade" fall to the ground, and then made a "hissing" sound like a gas leak.

 Looking again, streams of white foam spurted out of the bottle, suddenly expanding ten thousand times. In just a few seconds, it had the tendency to engulf the entire tunnel entrance.

 The puffed foam behind them seemed to be hit by a tsunami, and the two of them were chased wildly. After two or three hundred meters, the bubbles stopped expanding and they finally calmed down.

Su Lun looked back at the foam that blocked the passage and was slightly surprised. This thing was much more reliable than a bomb and would not cause large-scale landslides. In his impression, although there were similar expanded materials in the chemical industry in his previous life, they could never be doubled in volume to such a large extent.

 Perhaps due to too much exertion before, the female assistant coach was out of breath from running, and her chest was heaving violently.

  She saw that Su Lun was interested in foam and took the initiative to explain: "That is [Super Foam Expanded Bomb], an alchemical product. It is still a product in the laboratory stage and cannot be seen on the market."

Su Lun showed a hint of surprise: "Oh."

No wonder I haven’t heard of it, it turns out to be a laboratory-grade product.

 Black Tower Academy indeed has a lot of black technology.

 At this time, the female assistant teacher glanced at Su Lun, seemed to remember something, and said, "Thank you for saving the students just now."

 She probably did not expect that a local snake guide arranged by the hospital would actually be a hidden "gun expert".

If it weren’t for the person in front of her just now, she really wouldn’t be able to handle it alone.

Su Lun nodded in response and said politely: "This is what I should do."

 After thinking about it, he still asked: "If it is convenient, I would like to ask, was this trial...an accident?"

 In principle, as a guide, he is not qualified to ask anything about the trial.

 But now, it is clear that something is wrong.

  The female teaching assistant thought for a while, but did not avoid it. She said seriously: "There must be something going on with Assistant Teaching Assistant Daniel and Instructor August. Let's go find the students now and end this trial immediately!" ”

 “…”

 Su Lun heard that it was indeed an accident.

However, the end of the trial now is also good news for him.

 At least no students have died.

 His role as a guide is not too negligent.

 But...it seems that the current situation is that they can end the trial if they want to.

  .....

 The two of them didn’t say much, and just walked along the way they came from.

 But after walking for a while, Su Lun discovered something unexpected when he reached an intersection.

  Traces at the scene showed that the group of students did not go back by the route they came from, but chose another route at this fork in the road and ran deep underground.

 Obviously, something is wrong with this situation.

Su Lun and the female assistant looked at each other and naturally guessed something.

 “Be careful, there may be monsters.”

 “Hmm.”

 The students did not choose to go back the way they came. There is only one explanation, and that is that there is some reason that forces them not to go back the way they came!

 Furthermore, there are some strange battle traces left at this fork in the road.

 Some dark, petroleum-like mucus was left in various places in the tunnel.

Suellen used the Eye of Omniscient to identify it and found that it was a trace left by an aberrant creature.

 【Mutated amoeba fragments】

 Detailed explanation: This is part of the body of a slime mold amoeba; its body has the characteristics of division, deformation, fusion and strong corrosive toxins, and its vitality is very tenacious; it has almost no sensory system, but it can detect certain smells. Very sensitive sense of smell;

 “Did you really encounter a monster?”

Su Lun frowned as he looked at the dark mucus.

 He didn’t feel too surprised to encounter another monster he had never heard of, but... why didn’t he encounter it when he came here, but why did the students encounter it when he returned?

 What's more, the students' abilities can handle ordinary deformed monsters, even if they are "weird".

Judging from the traces at the scene, the students seemed to have little ability to resist, so they were driven underground and deep into the ground?

Suellen found this very puzzling.

 Looking at the introduction of "very sensitive to certain smells", he narrowed his eyes slightly and vaguely noticed that something was wrong.

  .....

  The female teaching assistant did not recognize the origin of the dark mucus, but she also guessed that the situation was critical. She shouted to Su Lun urgently: "The students should be in danger, let's go and take a look!"

Su Lun nodded and followed.

 As the two of them went down, the line fragments in Su Lun's mind became increasingly blurry. He vaguely remembered that this was beyond the territory of the previous zombie-type aberration monsters.

  There are not just two types of aberrant monsters in the caves, they also have a complete ecological chain.

 Su Lun doesn't know what kind of monsters are going deep underground now, but judging from the memories of monsters harvested before, it seems that there is also a very terrifying group of aberrant monsters hidden there.

Fortunately, not long after, they finally found the group of students hiding in a cave.

 "Oh my God, Teacher Rosa, you are finally here!"

 A group of students saw Su Lun and the two, and gathered around them as if they saw a life-saving straw.

Before Assistant Rosa could ask, everyone was talking about the experience they had just experienced.

 "Teacher Rosa, it's so scary! We just encountered a few black dogs that were impossible to kill..."

 "Yeah, those black dogs were chasing us crazily. No matter how we attacked, it was useless. We beat their bodies to pieces, and the black mucus would soon aggregate and resurrect. Even if they were If you burn it with fire, its size will only become smaller, but you can't kill it at all..."

 “Moreover, the smaller black dogs will merge with each other and then become larger monsters...”

 “…”

 Listening to what the students said, Su Lun finally understood. It turned out that the oil-like traces were the body fragments of a "black dog".

Su Lun took a closer look at the students. Apart from some corrosion scars on their bodies, there seemed to be no fatal injuries.

 Hmm... aren't there twenty students? Why is there one missing?

 Assistant coach Rosa obviously realized that it was wrong to admit defeat. One of the four five-person teams was missing. She asked: "Where is Colm?"

 “He...he’s gone.”

 “Gone?”

  Rosa's face was filled with surprise. How could such a big living person just disappear after saying she couldn't see him?

 At this time, a student named Brown said: "Just now... Just now Colm told me that he saw a very beautiful woman in the corridor, but I didn't take it to heart. Then he turned around and she disappeared. ”

  Rosa thought it was an enemy and asked seriously: "What woman?"

 “Nude...naked woman!”

 “…”

 As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere suddenly became weird.

 There are quite a few monsters in this cave. Where would some beautiful naked woman come out?

 Su Lun on the side heard this and felt vaguely familiar, as if he had heard it somewhere.

 A very beautiful woman?

 Suddenly, he thought of something.