Early the next morning, the campfire was extinguished and there was still a bit of cold temperature in the air.

After entering autumn, the temperature begins to drop rapidly, and it may even feel chilly when you wake up in the morning.

After breakfast, he packed up his equipment. Just when Ai Luo wanted to pick up his backpack, Cream only took two daggers and some food with him and prepared to set off. But the two city dwellers

The same goes for putting things like tents, sleeping bags, etc. here and not planning to bring them in.

"Don't you bring any equipment?"

In response to Ai Luo's question, Ji Lian just sneered but did not respond.

Ai Luo thought for a moment, then turned to look at Brad and Coco who had already carried their things.

"Well... let's put the equipment here too."

Brad and Coco responded and also went into battle lightly.

With a bang, a total of four torches were lit by Arrow, Cream and two city men. Before entering the cave, Cream took out a small birdcage from the package and handed it to Brad.

Brad looked at the birdcage, then turned to look at Arrow.

"What are you looking at? Are you, a small fish guild, a little frustrated when you see a predator?"

Cream's mouth is still so tricky.

Arrow pursed his lips, and finally nodded to Brad, asking him to put the birdcage on his waist.

After being fully prepared, a group of people finally walked towards the mine. Brad and William were at the front, followed by Arrow and Coco, followed by two city dwellers, and the undead soldiers walked at the end of the team.

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Snap—pop—pop—

The mine is very deep.

The sound of footsteps passed back and forth in this narrow mine, turning into low neighing sounds.

I don’t know how long this mine, which has been abandoned for hundreds of years, has been shrouded in darkness. As the light of the torch flashes by, it seems that some darkness can always be seen being dispersed by the light, but after the torch leaves, it quickly fills up as if there is life.

Those spaces that have lost their light.

Brad walked in the front, holding a hammer in one hand and a torch in the other, and moved forward cautiously. But no matter how careful he was, Cream beside him always seemed to make him stop at some point and conduct some exploration.

Then allow him to take steps forward.

Ai Luo held the torch and reached out to pull Coco.

This little magician is now hunching his neck, walking forward slowly as if he is afraid of waking something up, and is walking forward with his feet on his toes.

Fork in the road.

Another fork in the road.

Ai Luo can no longer remember exactly how many crossroads he saw after entering.

The only thing he knew was that every time they reached a fork in the road, the entire team had to stop and mark the route before moving on.

The mine continues to go downwards, and the route becomes narrower and narrower. In some places, you even have to bend down to walk through it.

In addition to the increasingly difficult roads, there are also increasingly higher temperatures.

It obviously didn't take much effort, but by the time Airl came to his senses, his back was already soaked with sweat.

However, this pit seems to have no end forever, and we don’t know where its deepest point extends...

At this time, the two people walking at the front stopped again.

But just when Ai Luo took out a pen and paper and planned to record the map, he discovered that the two people did not mark the fork in the road like before.

"What's wrong?"

Not knowing what was going on, Ai Luo unconsciously lowered his voice and asked softly.

But when his voice came out, it seemed as if it was pulled by some kind of force. This question was beaten back and forth in the cave, and the echoes could not subside for a long time.

Cream in front turned around, with a somewhat uncomfortable smile on his face, and pointed forward.

Airl glanced at him, over his shoulder.

The road ahead is already a dead end.

But there are some very uncomfortable things left on the wall of this dead end -

Word.

The reason why these words are very uncomfortable is because these words are not written with anything, but more like they were clawed out on the hard rock with human fingernails.

Some dark stains are stained on these words. I don’t know if they are the blood left by something when writing these words...

"President, what...is written on it?"

Brad instinctively raised the hammer and asked.

Ai Luo swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said: "These are ancient characters. I have seen them in history books. The current characters are derived from these ancient characters... But some of them are familiar, and some are not so familiar..."

"'Please forgive me'."

Suddenly, a voice came from behind.

Ai Luo turned around and saw the tall city man studying the words. He nodded again and said, "Yes, it's 'Please forgive me'. I have studied history and know some of these things."

Ji Lian exhaled and said with a smile: "It seems that some poor little boy wanted to be forgiven by the girl, so he carved such boring words here."

Suddenly, Ai Luo felt that this guy might have some merits and knew that he should make some unfunny jokes at this time?

Everyone said nothing and re-adjusted their formation and retreated. Before leaving this dead end, Ai Luo turned around again. In his eyes, the words carved by someone unknown appeared in the firelight, accompanied by the light.

It went away again and disappeared into the darkness again.

Go back to the previous fork in the road and choose another path to continue walking.

The road goes deeper and deeper, and the burning sensation in the air becomes deeper and deeper.

Looking at the beams supporting these mines, Aero suddenly felt that something was not right.

If it was originally going to support the mine, the wooden beams should be constructed with the best stress-bearing structure.

But looking at the wooden beams erected here now, they give people the impression that they were constructed in a haphazard manner without considering the stress-bearing area. Under normal circumstances, if the supervisor here saw the stress-bearing wooden beams being placed in such a haphazard manner, they would definitely

Furious! But now it looks like...

It's as if there is something deep in the mine... that is attracting the diggers to dig in frantically regardless of their lives...

"stop!"

Brad's voice was already loud, but when he shouted it in this narrow cave, it seemed even more harsh.

He turned around, his face covered with sweat. But the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, as if... smiling?

"...Brad, what's wrong?"

Aero asked cautiously.

A smile appeared on Brad's lips again, and he shook his head: "I'm fine... I'm just a little hot. Just drink some water and it'll be fine. It's just that..."

He raised his finger and pointed at the wall, and some words that looked like scratches with fingernails appeared on it.

"'Please forgive me'...this again?"

The tall city man couldn't help but touch the sweat on his forehead and muttered softly.

The short city man on the side became a little nervous. He tugged on the tall man's armor and said: "Hey...this mine...isn't there really anything wrong with it? I...I felt like...from just now...

…It’s like something is looking at me…very uncomfortable!”

The tall city man said: "Don't be ridiculous. From the beginning to now, we haven't even seen a single monster. Where is the thing staring at us?"

Ai Luo said softly: "Stop talking so much and keep moving forward."

Continuing forward, the mine continues to maintain its seemingly endless appearance.

However, the words on the wall began to increase in number as the footsteps echoed.

and……

It's not just that sentence.

"'Please forgive me.'"

"'I want.'"

"'Coming.'"

"'I will be saved.'"

There are more and more words, and sentence patterns are starting to become more and more complex.

At first, the tall city man could still explain it, but as the words on both sides became more and more numerous and confusing, even the tall city man could not recognize what was written here.

Ai Luo lifted his steps and put them down gently...

But just as he walked down the next step, his eyes inadvertently glanced at Brad's waist.

There is a birdcage hanging there.

And not long ago, the little bird that was very active inside has now fallen to the bottom of the birdcage, its feathers are messy, and it looks like it is dead?!

"Stop!"

Arrow quickly stretched out his hand to pull Brad, who was still walking forward, but Brad was so strong that he even flicked his arm, broke away from Arrow's hand and continued walking forward?

"Brad!"

Parfait flew out of Brad's pocket, she called her partner's name, and filled his nose with fragrance.

The suddenly overpowering aroma made Brad stagger, and he froze in place as if he had just woken up from a dream, looking at Buffy blankly.

"Are you OK?"

After just a few days of language learning, Buffy only knew some of the simplest languages. But this was enough for her to express her current nervous mood.

After a while, Brad finally came back to his senses. He nodded slightly and rubbed his nose: "I...I seem to have had a dream? I feel light and airy..."

Arrow walked closer to Brad and looked at the birdcage. Yes, the bird inside was indeed dead. But it didn't look like poisonous gas. After all, everyone in his group except Brad was no different.

"It feels like being under an instant death spell..."

Coco hugged the small branch, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and murmured.

The short city man seemed even more nervous, and he involuntarily took half a step back: "Instant death...instant death magic? Who...who knows instant death magic?! Necromancer...you...you undead

……Necromancer……!"

"Stop talking nonsense, what necromancer would kill the little bird that leads the way? The bird must have been killed by the heat."

Cream snorted, stretched out his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead, and came over to put his hand on Brad's shoulder: "Brother, you are the same. It's too hot and lack of water, so your brain is abnormal. I heard that the Changmian Mountains used to be a

Although the active volcano is dormant now, it is understandable that there is some high temperature here. So many crazy-looking words here are probably the result of the former miners not replenishing water in time, and finally hallucinating and scribbling."

Originally, Arrow didn't want to say that it was written by a miner, because the scratches left by the miners on the hard wall with their fingers could not be explained by normal overheating and lack of water.

But since Cream said this, Ai Luo could only follow the trend and say: "I also think it is, the temperature here is too high. It seems that now is not the best time to explore. It is better to come in winter...

"

"no."

The tall city man shook his head and said in a very tough manner——

"We don't have time to wait until winter. No matter what, we must receive certain results today. Let's keep going."

Ai Luo: "Go on? But the bird that leads the way has already..."

"Drink more water and conserve your strength. We are different from those miners. We are prepared."

The tall city man took out a bottle of potion from his pocket and drank it. A layer of mist slowly appeared around him, and the city man immediately showed a cool expression.

So, what a valuable and convenient thing the alchemy potion is! After this mission is completed, we must let this little girl learn to read and write as soon as possible, and then make alchemy for me!

Coco didn't understand why her president suddenly looked at her with a slightly resentful look, which made her feel a little nervous.

The short city man also drank a bottle. In this case, Airl could only agree to move on.

"Please pay attention to replenishing water."

Ai Luo gave an order, raised his head and looked at the messy words on the wall, gritted his teeth, and still directed the team to move forward.

only……

Go a little further inside and the text disappears.

This may not be accurate. A more accurate statement is that those scratches have become the purest scratches.

There are no words, no logic, not even any system.

Just use human fingers to draw meaningless patterns on the stone wall. Sometimes you can still see that the patterns are the sun, villages, and humans.

But more often than not, nothing appears in those patterns, and only occasionally... very occasionally, it seems that some very strange bodies can be seen in those messy patterns...

The temperature begins to drop.

The mist surrounding the two city dwellers also gradually disappeared as the effect of the medicine wore off.

The pattern on the wall finally disappeared completely. The more I walked, the more comfortable I felt.
Chapter completed!