After the large-scale offensive launched by the Eastern Legion in 524, Mount Job, a branch of Mount Namoa, was nominally included in the federal territory.

That being said, no one would establish civilian settlements in such places. So, after that, Mount Job was directly under the direct management of the local garrison. Naturally, everything on the mountain, including woods, mountain delicacies and even minerals, fell into the small treasury of the legion.

This is the benefit of the generals for their soldiers who are fighting for their own lives, and it is also a common unspoken rule. As long as they don’t get into their private pockets, even a clean official like Russell will not be more real.

There is a small mitril silver mine on Mount Job, which can provide less than one ton of mitril silver mines every year. Although the amount is not large, considering that the price ratio of mitril silver and gold is almost ten to one, it is enough for tens of thousands of soldiers of the Eastern Legion to live a comfortable life.

The person who managed the mine was a captain named Fenado, who was often in the Logistics Department of the Eastern Legion. He is over fifty years old this year and is a mature and steady civilian officer.

At this age, he is still a lieutenant, which indirectly shows how mediocrity this person is. Fortunately, Fenado is not the kind of person who has a lofty aspiration of "killing enemies on the battlefield and making achievements". He never crawled up against the enemy or his own body. He just hopes to do his job diligently and live leisurely to the retirement age. The military headquarters may upgrade himself to a higher level because he has no contribution and hard work. Then, he can enjoy his retirement life safely as a school official.

Fenado has more than a dozen miners under his command. With the size of this mine, such a small amount of manpower is actually enough. In addition, starting from the mine, you can reach a newly built outpost of a legion within about half an hour, and fifty soldiers are often stationed inside. If there is any problem, you can certainly come quickly.

The haunted incident happened on August 12th.

Fenado had always had the habit of patrolling the night in the dead of night, which may have been related to his being a warehouse manager for nearly twenty years. So, that night, when all the miners rested, Fenado entered the mine with a bronze-shelled alcohol lamp.

As usual, the dark mine duct looks a little gloomy under the dim light of alcohol lamps. Generally speaking, this is a very suitable breeding ground for ghost stories and supernatural legends. However, Fenado has been here for several years. Even if he can't see his fingers, he can close his eyes and walk around it, so he will naturally not be afraid.

The captain took advantage of the dim fire of the alcohol lamp to arrange the tools scattered in the tunnel neatly, and then he was satisfied to go back to bed. At this moment, he suddenly felt a strange sound coming from behind him.

Fenado turned around and happened to see a black shadow disappearing from the corner of the tunnel.

"Is it the beast running in?"

At this time, he did not think about things in a supernatural direction.

Fenerdo followed, and then he found that all the tools he had just sorted out had been messed up. The old captain shook his head helplessly, preparing to rework the work just now. At this moment, he heard the strange noises of the soil and rock walls. The black human-shaped shadow was shaking under the flames of the alcohol lamp, constantly twisting various movements.

"Who!" the old captain shouted, drawing out his sword.

Is it a mine thief? Fenado used his common sense to suppress the unknown feeling of depression in his heart and made such a judgment.

"Hehehehehehehehe..." This series of strange laughters that seemed cheerful turned into an almost frozen cold that dominated Fenado's body and mind. The August night was still a little hot, but the old captain kept trembling, and his skin was already covered with goose bumps.

The laughter became clearer and closer, and Fenado shouted in fear and ran towards the mine.

The unknown opponent did not chase after him, so the old captain quickly woke up all the miners and sent people to the outpost to transfer armed soldiers.

I searched overnight and found no problems.

Many people think that this is the hallucination of the old man Fenado sleeping in a daze, but since then, strange things happened one after another.

The tools placed in the mine were inexplicably broken.

The ore that had just been dug disappeared for no reason.

At night, the nearby birds and beasts screamed inexplicably.

Before the sun set, a miner kept saying that he saw a white shadow dancing facing the sun.

Later, some miners even scoop out red water from the well. It was red like blood...

The army searched the mine again, and of course, but still returned in vain; but this time, several soldiers in the search team started to get sick after they returned, kept talking nonsense, and shouted, cried and laughed from time to time. It took several days to recover.

As a result, the garrison on Mount Job finally knew that it had encountered a problem that it could not solve, so he applied for magical support from the headquarters.

The above is the so-called haunted incident of Job's Mirsil Mine.

This time, the headquarters actually sent three magicians at once. Although they all looked very young, the old captain was very pleased. In addition, there were a group of more than 20 armed soldiers with the magicians, each of them were fully armed and even brought some talismans to exorcise ghosts.

All so many people squeezed into the mine, and Fenerdo's courage came back immediately. He respectfully led the magician and the army to the mine.

"This is the haunted mine." Fenado said, pointing to a tunnel that can only accommodate two or three people.

This is the entrance of a small mine that looks very ordinary. Several thick logs fix the hole into a standard door frame. The entrance is more than one person high. Because it is daytime, Lu Xi can use the sun to see the tunnel closer to the door, but further inside, there is an unpleasant darkness.

"Don't you light the lights when you mining?" Lu Xi asked.

"Of course I need to do it. But in the past few weeks, no matter when the lights are lit, they will go out as long as no one takes care of them. Now, workers no longer dare to go down the well to work."

Listening to the old mine manager's description of this incident, Lu Xi was really confused. Judging from the development of the matter, it looked like a prank no matter how it looked.

"It sounds like a ghost of evil taste." Lu Xi said helplessly, "It seems that there is no danger anyway, so why not go down and take a look first."

"Well, you must beat it hard after you find it. Even if it is a ghost, pranks in the military camp are absolutely not allowed." Carol said.

"If it's really a ghost, you probably won't be beaten."

"Then I will throw a fire obsidian into it and turn the tunnel into a sea of ​​fire. I don't believe it anymore. Is it really impossible for a ghost?" Carol looked at the entrance of the mine in front of him and said viciously.

"If even the mine cave is destroyed, wouldn't it be worth the effort?"

Compared to the two of them discussing passionately, Sai Xiliu looked straight ahead with a very dull look, without saying a word.

Lu Xi looked at the girl's pale face and couldn't help but grinned gloatingly, then pretended to be kind and said, "If it's too forced, you'll stay. Carol and I will take our entourage down."

Hearing Lu Xi's words, Sai Xiliu couldn't help but shivered. She gritted her teeth, struggled for a moment, and shook her head firmly: "No, I want to go down!"

"But……"

"Nothing is it! Isn't it just a ghost? I won't admit it! Look at me finding out your true face, and you must make it look good!" Sai Xiliu shouted loudly, constantly making a bold statement to encourage herself. For some reason, Lu Xi always felt that this girl had a bit of a hysterical smell after giving up on herself.

"Okay. Since you insist..." Lu Xi finally agreed. He said to Carol: "Then, Lim and I, Sai Xiliu, go down first. You and Vial will lead everyone to guard the door."

"Is it okay for you three?"

"It doesn't matter. Three people plus Sai Xiliu's puppet is enough. The mine is so big, and too many people will cause trouble." It's just a D-level mission, so it should be fine, right? Probably?

"...Okay, but be careful. If you haven't come out for two hours, I'll take people down."

"Don't worry. You have to be careful. If the other party is driven out by me, you will be blocked."

"Pack to me."

After assigning the task with Carol, Lu Xi picked up the staff, condensed a lighting magic on the energy-gathering crystal at the end of the staff, and walked in first, and Primra naturally followed. Sai Xiliu hesitated for half a second, closed her eyes, and gritted her silver teeth and walked to the end.

As soon as she entered the tunnel, Sai Xiliu released the constituent puppet. She held the staff to her chest and placed her left hand on the magic book. She was careful and trembling every step she took, as if she was facing a great enemy.

"If you continue like this, you will scare yourself to death before the ghost comes out."

"Luo, long-lasting!"

"Haha, I really didn't expect that a person as good and serious as Sai Xiliu would be afraid of ghosts."

"Talent, not afraid. It's just... like them, floating around, without any sound... Ah! Wordsy! Everyone has something that they are not good at dealing with! Don't you have nothing? Besides, if you are not sure, it's a ghost, it may be someone else's prank!"

"Haha, that's true." Lu Xi shrugged and smiled, "If it's really a prank by ordinary people, what are you going to do?"

"Of course I have to find that guy! For the guy who plays with others like this, I must stomp it hard, until his mother doesn't recognize him, and even when he hits him, he doesn't dare to confirm his face! I want him to know: Even if it's a prank, it will have to pay an irresistible price!"

“…”

"What's wrong?" Seeing Lu Xi showing a horrified expression, the other party instantly recovered from his madness and turned into a serious look of a top student.

"Nothing. I just think: In order not to cause irreparable disasters, it is better for the other party to be a ghost."

"What do you mean?"

"By the way, Sai Xiliu, do you usually think that the footsteps are double when you walk, when there is no one, you always feel that someone is peeping, and when you are in a daze, someone is talking to you. Well, that is, the legendary dual personality..."

"By the way, what do you mean?"

"Well, it's good if you don't. Just think I'm talking nonsense, oh hehe... Oh, it hurts... Lim, why did you hit me again?"

Primra put away his knife, then pointed to the front with a blank expression. Lu Xi looked in the direction of his finger and was stunned.

“…”

"What are you doing? Why do you always do this?" Sai Xiliu said with some dissatisfaction. As soon as she finished speaking, she suddenly felt a trace of ominous atmosphere. She turned her head and saw a shadow faintly appearing, like a translucent mist. Under Lu Xi's illumination, the shadow reflected on the wall. With a strange laugh from somewhere, the hazy shadow kept twisting and making various strange actions.

"You, you, you..." Sai Xiliu widened her eyes and opened her mouth wide and made a mechanical sound.

"Hehehe." The ghost shadow flashed, revealing his pale facial features, and gave Sai Xilu a strange face.

"Um... Gum..." The girl rolled her eyes and collapsed to the ground and fainted.

Thanks to her actions, Lu Xi and Primra had already reacted from the shock of seeing the ghost. Lu Xi glared at her eyes and completed a spell in a low voice. The red light of the energy-gathering crystal on the staff appeared.

Lim was naturally moving faster than Lu Xi. She flipped her right hand and a blade with a flame-like color flew out and shot towards the hazy mist.

The ghost moved lightly like paper blowing in the wind, avoiding this attack. Lim pulled his wrist and the blade that had lost his target flew back as if he was ordered. The flame-colored blade slashed through the fog and made a burst of flames.

A closer look reveals that a long dark red chain is connected to the end of the blade. Primra's right hand grasps the chain to control the direction of the flying knife; another long knife of the same style is connected to the other end of the chain, tightly grasping it in Lim's left hand.

This set of male and female double swords is a gift from Oruzero to Primula. It is also one of the few top-notch products in Oruzero, who has collected countless treasures.

These two long swords were weapons tailored by the dwarf's sword-casting master Ron during the Qiming War. They were called "Holy Fire Meteor". The male sword was 1.2 meters long and was like a fire when chopping; the female sword was 0.6 meters long and was as fast as a meteor when flying, with invincible destructive power and cutting iron like mud.

According to legend, Goron has singled a piece of star iron in the melting pot of the shining hall for 108 days, making the formed Holy Fire Meteor born with the magic of holy flames, and has extremely strong restraint on dark things such as the undead and demons.

With this holy object, Lim's combat power has also risen directly to the 5th level of silver, still overwhelming Lu Xi.

(Name: Holy Fire Meteor. Quality: Golden Epic. Attributes: Sharp 63, Hard 45, Durability 120, Strength +4, Physical Constitution +2, Flame Attack 19, Divine Attack 14, Damage to Demons and Undead +15%.)

Sure enough, the ghost let out a sharp scream, and the mist appeared and seemed to collapse soon.

At the same time, Lu Xi's magic was also ready to be completed. The red light was divided into three, like a sharp arrow, and they did not fly directly to the struggling ghost, but were nailed to the ground around it. The red light kept changing, forming a burning flame cage.

Seeing that the flames had trapped the ghost, Lu Xi breathed a sigh of relief. He had just turned around and was about to see Sai Xiliu who fainted. But at this moment, the ghost actually recovered from the attack just now. It shook its foggy body, and a ferocious bloody mouth appeared on its pale face.

The mouth opened and a fierce and shrill horn spewed out.

It was like a heart-wrenching cry that could only be strangled to death at the same time. It could make people fall into an indescribable state of dizziness. The moment they saw the other person open their mouths, Lu Xi quickly recited the spell silently to protect his spirit, but he was still one step too late.
To be continued...