After breakfast, Yang Zhenting, Luo Chen and Lingchen, surrounded by a group of Yang family masters, left Hanyue City and rode towards the west.
The Yang family's refined iron mine is located on the outskirts of the Monster Mountain Range, twenty or thirty miles away from Hanyue City. It is a small refined iron mine.
Concentrated iron ore is a material for forging ordinary soldiers. It cannot be said to be precious, but it is of some value. The Yang family has been operating here for decades and has grown to a considerable scale. All facilities outside the mine are complete and there are a large number of expert guards.
After walking for an hour, Luo Chen and others entered the Monster Mountain Range and then came to the mine.
The mine had been inactive for nearly a month due to monsters causing chaos. The arrival of Luo Chen and others caused the miners who had nothing to do to walk out of the rows of wooden houses and watch from a distance.
Yang Zhenting did not hesitate. As soon as he arrived at the mine, he ordered people to restrain the miners, and then arranged for Yang family experts to guard the entrance of the cave, and finally led Luo Chen and the others into the mine.
Only Luo Chen and the others entered the mine this time. Facing the fourth-level monsters, those acquired warriors would risk their lives if they entered, so Yang Zhenting did not bring any experts from the Yang family in.
Inside the mine.
As Luo Chen walked, he released his soul power and paid attention to the surrounding situation.
Not only Luo Chen, even in the early morning, although he looked casual on the surface, his eyes were alert. As a veteran who has been doing tasks all year round, he certainly knew what it meant to be a lion fighting a rabbit, and he also knew what it meant to capsize in the ditch.
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Therefore, even when facing the monster beasts at the early stage of the fourth level, I was still wary in the early hours of the morning.
The mine is very small, and can only accommodate two people walking side by side. However, after walking a certain distance, several more mines appear, and there are also many mine tunnels in those mines, which are densely packed, like tree roots.
Same.
Yang Zhenting seemed to be very familiar with these mine tunnels, and he led Luo Chen and the two of them directly to the bottom of a mine tunnel.
"You two! These are the footprints left by that monster!"
In the mine tunnel, Yang Zhenting put the torch to the ground and pointed at a footprint on the ground.
Luo Chen looked down and saw that the footprints were shaped like chicken feet and as big as a head, but the marks were very shallow and couldn't be found if you didn't look carefully.
"This is......"
Chen Chen frowned, squatted down, touched the footprints gently with his hand, then lowered his head and smelled it, and finally narrowed his eyes suddenly, looked up at Yang Zhenting, and said suspiciously:
"Master Yang, isn't this monster a vampire?"
Hearing this, Luo Chen also narrowed his eyes and looked at Yang Zhenting with the same suspicion.
If it is a vampire beast, its nature is different, because there is likely to be something else behind this vampire beast, and that is the evil spirit!
In Zhenyuan Continent, evil spirits are divided into three categories.
One type is the blood evil that is cultivated by sucking human essence and blood, or using the essence and blood to make elixirs.
The second type is to devour the warrior's true energy and deprive others of their cultivation achievements to enhance their own evil energy.
The last category is also the weirdest category, and that is the soul evil that devours the souls of others to strengthen its own soul! This type of person is not only mysterious, but also very powerful, and is the category that all warriors least want to encounter.
These three types of evil spirits are existences that everyone in the Zhenyuan Continent is clamoring to kill. Once discovered, they will definitely attract powerful extermination by the local forces.
And this blood-sucking beast is the kind of monster that the blood evil likes to raise. They often release this kind of monster to suck people's blood for their own use, so as to avoid exposing their identity when they go out.
"I'm not sure either!"
Facing the looks of Luo Chen and the two of them, Yang Zhenting shook his head and said frankly:
"If the corpses of those miners were still there, I could still tell something, but their corpses have all disappeared! Besides, there are several kinds of monsters with similar footprints, I really can't be sure!"
"Then why didn't you explain it to the academy when you issued the mission? You know, once the blood evil is discovered, it will be a big deal!"
Hearing this in the early morning, he didn't obey, and stared at Yang Zhenting closely.
"Ling Gao doesn't know something!"
Yang Zhenting smiled bitterly, wondering: "It's because it's a big deal, so I don't dare to say nonsense. I don't know whether this beast is a vampire or whether there is a blood evil behind it! If it is reported like this, if the academy sends a large number of experts here
But if we make a mistake and waste manpower and material resources, then my little Yang family cannot afford to suffer the consequences."
Hearing this, Xiao Chen fell silent and his eyes softened. His family was also a small family, and he knew very well the difficulties of being dependent on the family.
But Luo Chen ignored it. He still looked at Yang Zhenting with squinted eyes and said slowly:
"Master Yang, are you sure you've had a face-to-face encounter with that monster? Are you sure it's an early stage fourth-order monster?"
Luo Chen no longer believed Yang Zhenting's words at all. Luo Chen even guessed that Yang Zhenting probably ran away when he saw the footprints and never came in again.
After hearing Luo Chen's words, Yang Zhenting smiled awkwardly, and then said with a bitter smile:
"I hope you two can understand that I, the only one in the Yang family, have a natural talent, so I have to be cautious in everything!"
After saying that, Yang Zhenting immediately nodded solemnly: "However, I am sure that the monster is in the early stage of the fourth level!"
Hearing this, Luo Chen looked deeply at Yang Zhenting. Although Luo Chen could understand the difficulties of the small family, he cursed secretly in his heart.
However, Luo Chen now believed what Yang Zhenting said about the monster's strength. After all, if the monster's strength was unknown, then the cautious Yang Zhenting would definitely not go down to the mine together.
Next to him, Chen Chen also looked deeply at Yang Zhenting, then smiled at Luo Chen:
"Whether it's a vampire beast or not, with the two of us here, it can't change the world! If it's a vampire beast, that would be even better. Maybe we can get some surprises from it!"
Hearing this, Luo Chen raised his brows, but did not answer immediately. His eyes flickered at a dark mine tunnel twice before he suddenly smiled and said:
"I don't know if there is any unexpected surprise, but now I am definitely a vampire!"
"Um?"
Chen Chen and Yang Zhenting frowned and looked at Luo Chen suspiciously.
But before the two of them could speak, Luo Chen suddenly took out a purple bow from his storage bag.
Immediately afterwards, under the suspicious gazes of the two people, Luo Chen quickly bent his bow and pulled the string.
moment!
With a 'stab' sound, a white zhenqi arrow flew past the two of them in the morning and flashed towards the dark mine tunnel.
"Whoa!"
Quickly turning their heads, Ling Chen and Yang Zhenting immediately looked at the arrow.
I saw the white arrow flashing a bright light in the dark mine tunnel, and suddenly!
"Buzzing..."
A shrill scream came in vain from the mine tunnel.
The sound was like the buzzing of mosquitoes scratching the glass.
Along with the sound, there was also the sound of flapping wings.
With the last light of the white arrow, several people also happened to see a shadow flying towards the depths of the mine tunnel.
"That's right! That's it!"
Seeing this, Yang Zhenting's eyes lit up and he quickly dodged towards the mine tunnel.
Luo Chen and Chen Chen had already ducked past.
In the blink of an eye, the three of them appeared at the place where the scream came from and stopped.
Turning on the torch and looking towards the ground, the three of them saw a pool of bright red blood on the ground, mixed with a few pieces of black feathers.
"That's right! It's a vampire beast! I just don't know if it's wild or domesticated!"
Seeing this feather, Chen Chen's eyes froze.
Immediately afterwards, in the early hours of the morning, the torch in his hand shone forward and he saw drops of blood remaining on the ground in front of him, and they were still extending deeper into the mine tunnel.
"Chase!"
Without any hesitation, the three of them immediately followed the blood trail and chased deeper into the mine tunnel.