Coming out of the woods, a few people walked into a canyon. As they went deeper, the canyon became narrower and narrower. When the light was above their heads, the width at the top was only less than ten meters.
"Is it the end of the road ahead?" Avro controlled the light ball to fly forward. Instead of the end, there was an artificially constructed mountain road in front of it. The reason why it was said to be artificially constructed was because there were stone steps on the ground, although some
The stone steps are no longer in shape, but the entire mountain path is still obvious.
"Go up?" The hammer-wielding dwarf looked up. They had not fully understood the situation in this quarry. There seemed to be some roads leading to other places before they came here.
Ke'er made a decision and said: "I don't think so much anymore, let's go up this road."
After walking for more than a hundred steps, a guiding stone appeared on the side of the mountain path, with the words "Nitate Mountain Fortress" written in Mohu's handwriting on it. There was no room for the Dark Gold Sun Crown Dragon to follow any longer. Bimoye recalled it and followed it.
Cole continued to climb behind him.
The road steps gradually entered the mountain. Under the hollow mountain shell, a majestic fortress was built inside. Bimoye carefully observed the steps and the situation in front of the fortress gate: "There are no traces of anyone coming."
"Do we still want to go in?" Miao looked at this dark mountain fort that had not been visited by anyone for many years, and really didn't want to go in.
"We must advance, we have no way out." Bimoye stepped forward, put his hand on the dirt-covered fortress door, and called Delma to slowly push the door open.
The biggest advantage of losing fear is that you are fearless. Even if you have some bad premonitions, you won't be afraid.
The interior of the fortress is very large, and there is no obvious bad luck. Several people entered one by one holding miner's lamps and copper chandeliers, and Moye and Afro illuminated the surroundings with light balls first. There are traces of militarization in the fortress, but they are not obvious. On the walls
There are some breathable windows high up, as well as two ancient magic rock cannons and some bed crossbows. In addition to these military traces, the planning and layout of the internal room passages are more like an office, rather than a military castle with strict barriers. As you can imagine
, the previous structure here should have been one or two senior officials or officers, and underneath were some personnel doing various things. They posed certain external threats, but they were certainly not serious. They were mostly monsters in the forest, and their main function was management.
Mining and production of quarries and mines.
These are Bimoyer's guesses. He has visited the mines on the outskirts of Theberes. The organization responsible for managing the mines has a similar layout, but it is not in the form of a fortress.
On this point, the two dwarves affirmed: "Some dwarf tribes living underground will build a fortress near the mine. This is the habit of the tribe... Hey, is this fortress also built by our dwarves?"
Several people went deep into the fortress. It can be seen from the preserved state of the room that the people here were evacuated, and the evacuation was relatively hasty. There were fallen candlesticks and hangers, and drawers that were not closed after being opened, because this kind of furniture was not
It is completely made of wood, so one can also imagine the scene at that time from these conditions. Obviously, the evacuees had no intention of coming back. In addition, they found signs that dwarves had lived here. The tables, chairs and beds in some rooms were too short and too small.
Some of the instruments that were short and left lying around include hand axes and armors that are suitable for use by the dwarves.
"Sure enough, building this castle is the idea of our dwarves." The two dwarves said a little excitedly: "Maybe Lao Wang has really been here."
The fortress has several floors, each of which is empty. Delma wondered: "Will the secret be in this fortress?"
"I don't think it's here." Bimoye said, but he took every step very carefully. They came to the largest room on the highest floor, which was a high-rise conference hall. The structure was vertical.
There are many traces of random digging on the wall, as if something was cut out and taken away, or something was destroyed and hidden.
Delma found half an old and corrupted piece of paper in the stone. If it had not been sandwiched between two wall stones and the paper was relatively good, it would have long since decayed into dust. Even so, Delma was digging through the stone.
I still broke it when I tried to block it. There was writing on it, but unfortunately the writing was blurred and I could only vaguely make out the word "tree"!
"Tree?"
A few people thought about it for a while, but couldn't think of anything. It was probably just ordinary words in an ordinary official document, and at most it was related to those touching branches.
"Come and see, there is a stone door here." Miao shouted and tried to push the stone door, but it couldn't be pushed.
"Is this a darkroom?" Several people stood in front of the door, unable to push it open.
Bimoye told them to get out of the way, punched Frost Arm, and violently broke open, revealing a large cave behind.
"It's a cave again!"
Now they are disgusted and disgusted when they see the cave. If there are complicated roads again, things will be even more troublesome. A few of them decided to search the fortress. What if they can find something?
Because they did not dare to search a room alone, everyone entered and exited together, which made the efficiency very slow. Soon everyone was hungry and tired, so they found a room to get something to eat. Feeling that the environment was quite safe, Bimoye took out
The small soup pot in the backpack decided to eat some hot food. In this cold environment, the food is always old and hard, which makes no one feel comfortable.
Just when everyone was looking forward to boiling the dried meat and drinking it hot, Bimoye suddenly felt something standing at the door of the room. When he looked up, he saw that it was several familiar people from the Bloody Mercenary Group.
"Bimoye, you're making broth here and you don't invite us?" A few generous members of the Bloody Mercenary Group walked in with a smile, as if they were not in a gloomy environment at all.
Delma and Mio, the two dwarves, jumped up in fright, and even Avro and Cole exclaimed.
"Hey, what are your expressions? We were finally separated and reunited. Aren't you happy?" A total of eight 'people' from the Bloody Mercenary Group came in. They sat down by the soup pot very familiarly and picked up the spoon.
Stirring: "What, how can such a small amount of meat be enough for us people? Put more, more, more."
The seven Bimoye people looked livid, and no one dared to move. Delma asked: "Where did you come from? Where did you go before?"
A Yuxue member gestured: "We came out of the cave in the conference hall over there. We were separated before. We are looking for you everywhere."
"Where's the leader? I mean Deputy Scar, as well as Luo, Yin Linna and the others." Bimoye and everyone stepped aside.
"We haven't found them yet. Have you met them?"
Bimoye shook his head solemnly and asked again: "Are you happy? What good things happened?"
One 'person' said cheerfully: "My wife is pregnant. It's a boy. I'm going back to reunite with her soon."
Another 'person' said: "We dug out several sacks of magic crystal coins from the cellar of our house. They are all of high quality. I am also planning to go home and stop being a mercenary."
The seven people listened to each of them talking about good things and looked at each other, and a nervous heat rushed from their backs to their faces, necks and ears.
Delma asked: "Your home is in Magic Moon, and you haven't been home for many months. How did your wife get pregnant? How do you know she is pregnant, or is it a boy?"
The 'person' was stunned for a long time with a smile on her face and a frown on her face, and said, "She told me in a letter."
"When did she write you the letter, and how did it get to you?"
"It was just yesterday. It seems that the postman delivered the letter to me... It seems..." He couldn't continue talking, and the joyful expression on his face gradually solidified. Suddenly he showed an extremely frightened look, and then his whole body
It dissipated in the air like mist, as did the other people, exactly the same as the six people in the lumber camp.
Avro said: "I have a bad feeling that all my companions in this situation are dead."
Bimoye nodded: "Fortunately, Luo and Yin Linna are not among them this time, but it's hard to say next time. We have to save every break and speed up before everything becomes irreversible!"