Secret Cave 3
-Tch, tch…
Crazy noise and nauseating smell.
It was an impression looking down from the cave.
If there are hundreds of thousands of bats living there, that means hundreds of thousands of bats making noise and their droppings piling up at the bottom of the cave.
[Ugh… the smell… is the dragon okay?]
[Dragon, are you okay?]
Hwa-eun and Seol, who had their mouths and noses covered with cloth, approached with disgusted eyes and asked with expressions of incomprehension.
I think he noticed that my eyes were smiling.
It seemed like he didn’t understand why he was smiling to himself when he was in a situation where he had no choice but to pinch his nose and cover his ears.
[Yes, that’s fine.]
I answered both of them and laughed out loud to myself.
‘Hahaha. Rather than saying I’m okay, I’d say I’m in a good mood.’
Not only Seol Nui and Hwa Eun, but most of the people who accompanied me were looking down at the cave and feeling disgusted, and of course my ears were itching and the smell was disgusting, but unlike the people who were feeling disgusted, the reason I was smiling alone like this was because an important fact had occurred to me.
‘If there are a lot of bats, that means there are a lot of cave guano piles, right?’
The reason a smile came to my lips was because I realized that there was a lot of guano accumulated in the cave.
The droppings of bats that accumulate inside caves are called cave guano, and because they contain high levels of minerals such as nitrogen and phosphorus, they are used as fertilizer and as a material for making gunpowder.
Additionally, cave guano is a very important source of nutrients for cave ecosystems, so caves with a lot of bats are likely to harbor a variety of creatures.
That meant there was a high probability of discovering a new species.
‘Where there is a new species, there is Fabre, and where there is Fabre, there is a new species.’
So that’s why I couldn’t help but feel this good.
But, as Seol and Hwa-eun said, it was too noisy.
‘By the way, it’s noisy, so I’d like to make it quiet down.’
I was looking down into the cave, wondering if I should cover my ears from the horrible noise, or if I could just silence those guys.
-Tsurut!
The crow that was looking down the cave next to me suddenly made a sound as if it knew what it was saying, and then suddenly shook its antenna and sent a loud sound down the cave it was looking down at.
-Tsrrrrrrrrrr···.
The warning sound of a spear striking the cave wall without mercy.
The warning sound of the first bell echoed off the cave walls, followed by the sound of something like hail falling.
-Thud thud.
And then all the sounds inside the cave suddenly became quiet as if a mute button had been pressed.
“omg”
Let’s take a closer look at the bottom of the cave and what catches our eye is this.
A scene where the weaker bats among hundreds of thousands of bats roll their eyes and fall to the cave floor like raindrops, while the survivors tremble in fear and hold their breath in the cave’s crevices.
At the entrance to the cave that had become quiet, the voices of Seol Nui, Hwa Eun, Yang Bu, and Man Dok Shin Gun’s grandfather echoed.
A look of surprise as everyone’s eyes widened.
“What is this!?”
“T, is this alive!?”
“You know how to spread life. You have similar names to the Heavenly God, but are you really a teenage poison?”
“Haha, isn’t this a murderous intent that would make even a person’s neck shiver?”
Listening to what the two of you said, it seems like the martial artists can use the first method.
‘This dad hasn’t even learned how to survive yet, so maybe our daughter is a martial arts genius? No, I guess I should consider it as a kind of skill. Huh? Then what about the second skill!?’
Isn’t it a parent’s duty to identify their daughter’s talents at a young age and guide her in a direction where she can grow up to be competent?
That’s why at first I thought that maybe my daughter was a martial arts genius because of Cho’s killing, but after thinking about it, Cho isn’t a human, so this must be a skill.
I quickly organized the second skill in my head.
Flight using the first skill, Eogi Chungso (御氣衝溯).
Second skill: Weak killing spirit.
The third is probably poison.
When I met the enemy, I also wanted to shout something like ‘First, second skill weak killing!’
‘That cartoon was popular back in our time.’
“Well done, Choya. Our daughter knows how to do a lot of things.”
It was when I was patting Cho’s head and praising him for his cool display of his second skill.
Suddenly a sound comes from my left wrist.
-Tsurut!
If it was my left hand, it would definitely be empty, but I felt like I was jealous because I kept praising my older sister, so I shouted at her to stop.
I thought I had solved everything last time, but it seems Bin, who has a tsundere personality, can’t tolerate it.
He took his hand away from the boy’s head, flinching, and asked his adoptive father.
“Should I go down first and take a look around?”
“Are you okay?”
“I don’t think you have to worry since I’ll be going with the dragonfly and the fairy. And if the fairy goes down the spider web, I can use that as a rope later, so wouldn’t it help the others get down faster?”
The adoptive father asked with a worried expression, but what was there to worry about when he was going with two teenage poisonous beasts, no matter what was down there?
My adoptive father, who had been looking around at the cradle and the dragonfly, nodded at my words.
“Ah, so that’s the way to do it. And of course, if it’s those two guys like you said, then you don’t have to worry. But be careful. So that neither you nor your precious children get hurt.”
“Of course.”
As expected, the adoptive father is the highest ranking person in the Beast Palace who is sincere when it comes to treating animals, and he even worries about the children.
Although he gave permission to go first, he was still uneasy and ordered Seol and Hwa-eun to go together.
“And just in case, take your sister and Hwa-eun with you.”
“All right.”
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While the warriors were making ropes with the vines they had cut at the entrance of the cave where the sound of bats had disappeared, I approached the end of the hole in the collapsed ceiling with Seol Nui and Hwa Eun.
And he asked the celestial being and the fairy.
“Hey, I have to go downstairs. Is it okay for two people?”
-Tsurut!
“Will you please bring Sister Seol down?”
-Kissit!
Seol asked Yohwa, and Hwaeun asked Cho to come out and wrap their bodies around each other and slowly go down.
“Hey, Yohwa, please take good care of me.”
Although she was a little taken aback by the fact that her older sister was being carried by Yohwa, she adapted surprisingly quickly, perhaps because she was being carried on Pedipalp’s back in the form of Hwaeun.
As they slowly descended down a large hole about twenty or thirty meters long, the light from the lanterns held by Seol Nui and Hwa Eun slowly turned downward, revealing the cave walls and ceiling.
On the ceiling, countless bats were hiding and shaking between the stalactites, and I could see something like black mud filling the space between the stone pillars on the floor.
And of course, the stench got worse as we got closer to the floor.
As you get closer to the bottom, you see the corpses of bats strewn all over the floor, along with the swarms of crickets, cockroaches, and civets and maggots that live in caves.
The guys were having a party with countless bat corpses strewn across the floor.
I wanted to run over there and find the new species among the guys, but that hobby would probably be better after the search was over.
‘Hold on, little dragon, hold on. Let’s act sensibly.’
He spoke to the demon with superhuman patience.
“Hey, don’t come down from the floor.”
-Kissit!
Although bat droppings are called guano and are used as fertilizer and gunpowder, they are actually dirty.
Moreover, bats are creatures that carry numerous viruses.
The black mud on the floor is probably all guano, and there are bat carcasses and insects galore.
I told the fairy to hang on the spider web and wait for a moment before Cho and I checked the surroundings, because I thought it might not be good for the children to touch it directly.
And he gave directions to the strays and let them explore the place we came down from.
“Over there, over there.”
As we descend through the hole in the collapsed ceiling and the light from the lantern illuminates the surrounding area, it is revealed that this is a natural cave.
The place we arrived was a large hollow.
Collapsed rocks and stones piled up on one side of a cave wall.
As we led the demon to the other side, a long passageway appeared in front of us, a cave full of stalagmites and stone pillars.
The passage is a circular cave about three meters in size.
The floor is also clean, so it seems the bats don’t come that far.
First, I put down Hwa-eun and went back to Seol-nu, and brought her and Yo-hwa.
When told to run towards the passage, Seol’s sister was startled as the witch moved the spider web as if riding a swing.
“Whoa… It was scary. But it doesn’t smell here?”
“Really?”
“Yeah, strangely enough, there’s no smell at all.”
The smell of rotting excrement is due to the methane it contains, so it rises upwards. The smell completely disappeared as soon as I entered the passage.
At Seol Nu’s words, Hwa-eun shook her head and only then did she take off the cloth covering her mouth and nose.
“I thought I was going to die. That was such a horrible smell.”
I wondered why Hwa-eun was so disgusted, but when I thought about it, Dang-ga was a kind of poison perfumer.
Since they were also receiving olfactory training, it seems that the smell of rotting bat droppings was difficult for them.
He looked back at the two and said.
“The other side is the real entrance that has collapsed into a rock, so I think we can go inside through this passage.”
“Then should we check a little further inside?”
“Yes. If the entrance were only up in the sky, no one would come and go.”
It was at least several dozen meters from the ceiling to here, but there was clearly no trace of people at the ceiling entrance, so it seemed like no one had visited this place for a while.
So, I was about to take a step forward with a slightly relieved mind.
-Squeak. Squeak.
When I heard a squeaking sound and looked down, I saw a bat crawling at the entrance of the passage.
It looked like the guy had fallen from the ceiling, but he was still breathing.
It looked like he was going to die soon, but I didn’t think much of it and just passed him by and headed inside.
-Tsurut!
Suddenly, Bin-yi crawled up onto my shoulder from my left arm, checked on him, and quickly crawled down.
“Binah?”
Suddenly, I crawled down to the floor and wondered why, but Bin looked back at us in front of the guy who was squeaking and shaking.
I was wondering what was going on because I felt like it was telling me to take a good look, but Bin-i, who had approached the guy, started shaking his antennae and making noises.
-Tsrrrrrr···.
But Bin keeps trying because something doesn’t work out the way he wants.
-Tsrrrr···.
-Tsrrrrrr···.
I was wondering what on earth he was doing, when I heard Hwa-eun’s cautious voice.
[Isn’t he trying to show that he can kill people too?]
‘What!? Oh my gosh… You’re so damn cute!’
If what Hwa-eun said is true, this is a very precious scene.
It’s because she’s acting like she’s bragging that she can show off how to live like her older sister.
But what kind of killing power could Bin-yi, who is still a young child of the Blue and White Dragon, have?
If we do this wrong, our youngest daughter could end up disappointed.
‘Huh, what should I do!? That bat bastard, just die quickly. Why is your life so long!?’
It was when I was secretly angry at the stubborn bat for no reason.
The sound of Hwa-eun’s sorrow is heard again.
[Get ready. I already told your sister.]
As I tilted my head at the sudden request to prepare something, a sliver of light was secretly shot from Hwa-eun’s hand.
The smallest of the needles used in Tang Dynasty.
A silently flying quill pierced the bat’s head.
As the bat hung down, Hwa-eun and Seol’s sisters continued to praise him.
“Oh my! Bin-ah, Pyeonbok just died? Our Bin-ah can shoot life energy too? Oh my, that’s amazing. Our Bin-ah is so small, but he can shoot life energy. Bin-ah is his mother’s pride.”
“My aunt also believed that Bin could shoot the living. My sister did it too, so of course.”
[what are you doing!]
The following scene is the urgent sound of Hwa-eun’s voice and Bin-yi’s gaze as she turns her head.
The moment Bin’s eyes met, he immediately started to get excited and started talking.
“Oh my! Our daughter! She’s great! Our Binnie is amazing!”
-Tsurut! Tsurut!
After the three of us congratulated Binnie so much, Binnie, feeling proud, finally returned to my body.
“Now let’s start again.”
Now that Bin’s heart has been satisfied, it is time to start searching again.
It was the moment when I took another step towards the passage.
-Tsururut!
This time, the scent from my right arm tapped my cheek and pointed to the ceiling.
Perhaps he wanted to show himself too.
‘Oh my, raising three daughters is no easy task!’
Swallowing back tears, I asked Hwa-eun.
“Would you drop just one piece of clothing from the Hwaeun ceiling? I want to show you the fragrance too.”
At my request, Hwa-eun and Seol smiled awkwardly.
“Ahaha. Oh, yeah.”
“Oh my, the fragrance is so pretty. Are you going to show it to your aunt?”
I was wondering when the search would be replaced.
