Adventure One

　　The gopher is a little smaller than Aunt Beth, but it is also a favorite for humans. The hole it punches is a circle larger than itself, which is convenient for walking.

　　Drilling holes is his talent and his hobby, but there are no plans to make holes, and it seems to be very arbitrary. In its territory, there are several such holes, and Frandy and Lilia just found one of them. one.

　　After resting for a while, Frandy and Lilia each held a shining light and started walking towards the depths of the hole. Frandy had explored a hole in the ground before, and remembered the fork in the road not far from the hole. So bend over and walk in front. Lilia followed behind him.

　　With the shining light, there is no choking black smoke produced by burning grease like torches. The soft light is not dazzling, but it can illuminate far away, and the scene in the cave can be clearly seen.

　　Because it is not far from the ground, there are many bare tree roots on the wall of the cave, if it is illuminated by torches. These tree roots are like ferocious giant snakes in the black smoke generated by the torches. When the little friends came to explore together, they were scared and retreated by these tree roots.

　　The forked roads in the cave are crisscrossed, and after entering the cave and turning two turns, the entrance can no longer be found. Lilia took out a bottle of viscous liquid that glowed faintly in her bag. At a fork in the road, Lilia will use this viscous liquid to make a mark on the cave wall.

　　"Lilia, which direction are we going?" After a few forks, Freddie asked curiously.

　　"You have to go straight down. The place to go is under the cliff at the northernmost point. The only way to go is to go through the Gopher's Hole." Lilia replied to Fran while marking the fork in the road. Dee.

　　"Alright then, we'll keep going when we see the downward fork in the road." Frandy was very curious about what Lilia was going to do over the cliff. He once looked down from the top of the cliff. Below is the sea, and the sea is a huge rock, and there is no fun at all.

　　The holes made by the gophers are very irregular, but the good thing is that there are no dead ends. As long as you know the approximate direction, you will always go around. Because there are more holes.

　　The further down they went, the dank and colder they became, and Frandy and Lilia turned when they saw the fork in the road. With a flashing fluorescent marker as a guide, a lot of wrong paths have been avoided. During this period, I encountered a few large spaces, which are estimated to be used as nests. But never met the big mouse. It is estimated that the gophers have already discovered them. I just don't want to deal with these two little guys. Anyway, these two little guys didn't ask for help, just pretended they didn't see it.

　　Turning, turning, I don't know how long it took. Frandy estimated that he had walked several dozen meters underground. During the time, Lilia still took out a water bottle in her backpack, and the two took a few sips of water.

　　Suddenly, when passing a fork in the road, Frandy felt a slight breeze blowing in the calm hole. I stopped and felt it carefully. The hole on the right was blowing. Turning back to Lilia, he said, "There is wind here, Lilia, there may be a hole here."

　　Lilia also came over to feel it, and said happily, "It's really windy, Frandy, let's go this way!"

　　The two walked along the windy passage and passed a fork in the road, feeling that the wind was getting stronger and stronger. The temperature is no longer so humid. The detour ahead has already had sunlight pouring in.

　　After going through this detour, the light is getting stronger and stronger, and the shining light is no longer used to provide illumination. It can be seen clearly that the cave wall has gradually changed from dark soil to rock structure.

　　Lilia put away the two shining light glass balls and put them back in the backpack. Continue to walk forward, the front is suddenly open, and the hole where Frandy had to bend a little to walk just now became seven or eight meters high, and there was a blue sky not far ahead.

　　The walls of the cave are all rock structures, the ground is covered with a thick layer of dry shade grass, and some huge bird feathers are mixed in it, and there are several huge eggs that have been destroyed scattered on the edge. The shell, the eggshell was big enough to fit Frandy in. There was a thick layer of dust on it, apparently it had been damaged for a long time.

　　"Ah, this is the den of the griffins" Lilia whispered in surprise.

　　"Griffin? Is that the crazy griffin last year?"

　　Frandy still remembered that in the early autumn of last year, one evening, a huge griffin with the body and claws of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle was on the north side of Psal Island, which is In the Gopher Rat's territory, the trees were uprooted like crazy, and countless boulders were blown away by its huge wings. The huge cry was deafening even the people in the castle.

　　The children who were running and playing outside the castle were all caught in the house by their parents, and Frandy was no exception. Dad, who came from the kitchen of the restaurant, took him straight home. Later, the Great Magister Algernon brought several great magicians on the island to quell the incident.

　　Frandy touched the dust on the eggshell and said to Lilia, "The dust here has accumulated so thickly that the griffin probably doesn't live here anymore."

　　Lilia pointed to the hole behind her and said, "Look, the big mouse has already punched the hole into the griffin's nest. These griffin eggs must have been eaten by the big mouse."

　　"Tsk tsk, it's a pity, I don't know what a griffin's egg tastes like." Frandy shook his head.

　　Lilia glanced at Frandy strangely and said, "The egg of a griffin is very precious, and the baby griffin hatched from it has been trained since childhood, and when it grows up, it can ride on it and fly in the sky. "

　　"Haha, Lilia, you're right, it's better to ride on it than to eat it, but now that it has been eaten by that nasty big mouse, there are only a few eggshells left. It's really nasty."

　　"Let's continue on our way. If we go back too late, someone will be worried."

　　The two came to the entrance of the cave. It is found that this is not the bottom of the cliff, and the rock pile is more than 20 meters high from the mouth of the cave to the bottom. The cliffs at the entrance of the cave are very smooth, and there is no place for borrowing. Obviously there is no way to climb down.

　　"Lilia, it looks like we're going to continue drilling. We can't get down here at all." Frandy said with some disappointment.

　　"It's okay, I brought the rope. It's in your backpack."

　　Both the shining light and the water bottle were taken out from Lilia's backpack, and Frandy really didn't know what was in his backpack.

　　Quickly put down the backpack, and then opened it to take a look. Sure enough, there was a roll of rope inside, about the thickness of a finger. It was no problem to bear the weight of two people. In addition to the rope, this backpack also has a water bottle. There are also two pieces of clothes with silver fins rolled together.

　　This kind of lint, which Frandy knows, is the lint of a fish that swims very fast in the sea. In addition, there are two glasses made of glass, just like diving goggles. The edges of the glasses are made of leather, which is used for waterproofing at first sight. There are also a few gadgets, I don't know what they are used for. .

　　"Lilia, are we going to go to the sea?" After seeing these things, Frandy knew that he was going to go to the sea. It was obviously a diving suit and diving goggles.

　　"We're going to take a trip to the bottom of the sea, and that place can only be crossed from under the bottom of the sea."

　　It was drilling into the ground and into the sea. Frandy felt that the place Lilia was going must not be easy, but she didn't know why she didn't ask Algernon to help. It seemed that this mysterious little girl had a lot of secrets hidden in her.

　　Frandy found a protruding stone pillar in the cave, tied the rope firmly to it, and then threw the other end of the rope off the cliff. Lilia's rope was very long, and it was only more than 20 meters away from the bottom of the cliff. , and a lot richer.

　　After thinking about it, Frandy pulled the rope back again, measured about five meters at the end, and found a sharp rock to break the rope. Then he tied it around his waist and said, "Come here, Lilia."

　　Lilia was looking out at the entrance of the gryphon's den to find the direction. After hearing the call of Frandy, she came over and said, "What's the matter? Frandy."

　　Frandy tied the other end of the rope to Lilia's slender waist and said, "I'm good at climbing the rope. I'm afraid you won't be able to hold the rope and slip it down. Connect us so that it's safe."

　　"Thank you, Frandy." Lilia said gratefully. The nine-year-old girl was already very tired when she came here. When she was looking down at the entrance of the cave just now, she also felt a palpitation. If it weren't for the importance of this matter, she didn't know if she would back down.

　　Frandy took off his shirt again, folded it a few times, and handed it to Lilia.

　　Seeing her puzzled, she explained: "When you climb the rope, you are very restrained, especially when you slide down, the temperature will be very high. You put this on the rope, and it will be much better."

　　Although Lilia is very careful, everything on the road has been imagined, but she obviously overestimates herself, because she has never climbed a rope.

　　"You gave me this, what about you?" Lilia said worriedly.

　　"Haha, I'm a boy. Climbing ropes and trees is my forte." Frandy smiled proudly.

　　Packing the backpack, Freddie pulled the rope to the hole and said, "I'll go down first, you're on top, call me if you can't hold on any longer." After that, he pulled the rope hard, feeling that the end was very strong. , just slide down the rope little by little.

　　Lilia placed Frandy's shirt on the rope, and it really wasn't too restrictive. He also learned from Frandy's posture and slowly slid down the rope.

　　Because the two of them were tied together with ropes, Frandy didn't dare to slide down too fast. He could only slowly slide down, and sure enough, when he was still seven or eight meters from the ground, Lilia's hand lost the strength. Frandy let her feet rest on his head for a while before sliding safely to the bottom of the cliff.

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