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#143 - Goblin Lair

"Is this really a miracle?"

Having safely arrived in a cavern, the wind and rain outside had gradually subsided.

While everyone else collapsed to the ground, rejoicing in their successful escape from the previous crisis, Liang Yue felt a sense of doubt in his heart, the more he thought about it, the more he felt something was amiss.

However, he quickly dismissed the thought from his mind.

"Never mind that! Now is not the time to think about these things. In any case, the Mountain Giant plot is finally over, and what comes next is the main event!"

"Everyone be careful, this cave looks like it's often inhabited, search around."

"…There's no one in the cave."

"Then let's make a fire and have a good roast."

"Don't make a fire here, I feel like something's not right. Let's just rest for tonight!"

After Thorin himself had patrolled the area around the cave for a week, he still felt uneasy, so he interrupted the actions of the dwarves beside him.

Although others inevitably grumbled inwardly at his words, they had no objections.

Subsequently, everyone lay on the ground, soaked to the bone. Soon, sweet snores echoed within the cave.

Liang Yue was accustomed to cultivating at night, so he was assigned the task of keeping watch. He had no complaints about this. Anyway, while practicing the "Primal Chaos Skill", his spirit would always be in a subtle state of extension, perceiving all the surrounding fluctuations in silence.

His bodily functions seemed dormant, yet maintained a critical point where he could explode into action at any time.

Regardless of feeling, hearing, and other human senses, they could all be gradually adjusted back to their best state during the practice of the Primal Chaos Stance.

Unless another opportunity for selfless enlightenment like the one he had experienced in the Outpost World were to appear, Liang Yue in cultivation was definitely the most suitable person to keep watch.

Soon, it was late into the night.

The people in the cave were now in a deep sleep, and even the originally loud snores had begun to fade away.

However, at this moment, a faint rustling sound suddenly echoed in the cave.

"They're here?"

Liang Yue, who was constantly paying attention to all the surrounding sounds, suddenly opened his eyes, glanced at the fine sand on the ground that was gradually sinking like a centipede, and the corners of his mouth curved slightly.

"What's wrong, Liang Yue? Where's the enemy?"

Thorin, holding the battle axe beside him, turned his gaze over.

"It's the ground, there's something happening on the ground."

Just then, a cracking sound suddenly came from beneath the cave floor. Hearing the sound, everyone quickly looked down and subconsciously retreated.

But before they could retreat to a safe enough distance, the ground suddenly rolled over, and slabs of rock suddenly flipped down, revealing a deep, dark pit trap below!

"Ah~! !" "Ooh~" "Everyone be careful!"…

The dwarves didn't have time to react. Flailing their arms and legs, they fell down one after another.

Although Liang Yue had been prepared, he didn't plan to escape alone. Instead, he grabbed Bilbo Baggins beside him, and also pretended to be unable to dodge, falling into the trap with everyone!

However, unlike the surrounding dwarves, he maintained his balance throughout the fall, like skiing. Even though the trap passage was unusually smooth and the orientation was uncertain, it didn't cause him to fall, or even stumble!

Even the little hobbit in his hand benefited greatly from this, and was not harmed in any way.

Compared to the dwarves around him who were directly turned into tumbling gourds, spinning around and rolling down in every possible way, this treatment was simply heaven and earth apart.

Finally, when the trap passage reached its end, after a brief moment of suspension, everyone crashed to the ground!

Just as the dwarves were still dizzy and seeing stars, almost the moment they landed, a group of goblins who had been waiting for a long time nearby, howled and rushed over.

Fortunately, Liang Yue had remained conscious.

After landing, he directly threw Bilbo in his hand on the ground, then with a flip of his sleeve, two standard longswords suddenly appeared in his hands.

Facing the surging goblins rushing towards him, Liang Yue had a look of great interest on his face, took a few big steps forward, and wielding the two swords in his hands, like herding ducks, slashed left and right, without any skill at all.

Compared to the previous disaster-level encounter, the goblins in front of him, who were shorter than hobbits and had frail physiques, had almost no momentum at all.

At most, they could only rely on their numerical advantage to play a group brawl tactic with him.

Liang Yue was like a rock rooted on the seashore. No matter how turbulent the waves or how surging the crowd, he remained unmoved, blocking the way forward.

With the longsword in his hand, the cold light radiated everywhere. Wherever the blade passed, the goblins fell to the ground screaming, like crops of leeks.

"Swish~" "Swish~" "Swish~"…

In just a few breaths, the smell of blood began to rise in this underground cave.

The dwarves behind him had also slowly returned to normal at this time, and began to help Liang Yue resist the surging enemies like a flood under the leadership of Thorin.

As time passed, the situation was slowly tilting towards their side~

However, to be honest, although the goblins in front of them were inherently lacking in combat talent, had weak bodies, and almost none of the individuals had mastered any combat skills, only knowing to rush up headlessly.

But their fighting will really shocked everyone.

Even after being repeatedly slashed, falling to the ground and wailing, they were still able to maintain a strong desire and desire to attack without retreating.

This situation even made Liang Yue, at some point, think of the scene when he faced the zombie tide in the Apocalypse World.

"Ah! !"

Fortunately, the number of goblins was not as large as the zombies.

After nearly a hundred of them were continuously beheaded, and the corpses covered the road in front of them, the front of everyone's vision finally began to become clear.

"We need to leave here as soon as possible! These goblins are too crazy, there must be more of them on the way!"

The white-bearded dwarf wiped the sweat from his forehead, gasped for breath, and approached Thorin to say.

Liang Yue then put away his swords and kicked the corpses piled up into hills in front of him.

Suddenly, a large number of broken limbs and arms immediately rolled off the cliff from the road.

In front of them, everyone was in a bottomless cave, the surroundings were dark, like a natural cave, and the goblins had dug out simple roads.

At intervals, torches would illuminate the limited space around.

Ropes and wooden planks formed suspension bridges, connecting the cliffs to each other, up and down, left and right, forming a rather complex underground project.

Making it impossible to see the edge at a glance~!

Between the dim and bright firelight, groups of goblins were surging towards them from all the surrounding roads, making sharp howls in their mouths, constantly echoing in the mountain rock cave walls.

"Let's go! Kili, Nori, you follow me to open the way in front, Liang Yue, I'll leave the rear to you!"

"No problem!"