A group of people marched through the narrow passage holding torches.
Jack, who was walking at the front, seemed to hear the sound of water flowing, and ordered: "Quiet, I heard the sound of water flowing."
The team stopped, and the team members who were still whispering also fell silent. The sound of rushing water was very prominent under such circumstances.
"It seems we are lucky and found our destination in one go!" Jack's voice sounded a little excited, but he quickly calmed down, "This also means that we are about to come into contact with the enemy, everyone, be prepared.
Let’s rest for a while and then set off.”
During the rest, Philip came close to Brutus again. He glanced at his companions not far away, and then said to Brutus in a very small voice: "Brutus, before we
There seems to be something following us in the direction we came from."
Brutus looked back after hearing this and saw nothing but darkness: "Are you sure?"
"Not sure." Phillip shook his head. "My intuition told me that something must be following me along the way, but when I looked back, it seemed to have disappeared. After a while, it appeared again.
It will pop up again out of nowhere."
"I think you need to tell Jack about this. We need to prepare for the worst. If something is really following us, we have to watch our backs."
"Yes." Philip nodded in response, handed the torch in his hand to Brutus, and then squeezed towards the front of the team.
Brutus held a torch and stared at the dark passage behind him, lost in thought. Ever since he entered this passage, he had always had an ominous premonition. Before, he thought it was brought by the goblins in front. But now he heard Philip
After finishing speaking, he suspected that it was from an unknown enemy behind him.
"Is there any other creature that likes to stay in such a dark place?" Brutus thought quickly in his mind. There were quite a few fantasy novels he had read, and he had to stop this senselessness.
Thinking.
"Anyway, let's solve the immediate trouble first. As long as we solve it quickly enough, we still have a chance without being attacked from both sides."
After the team rested for about ten minutes, Jack stood up and said to everyone: "Brothers, let's set off."
"What did Jack say?" Brutus asked Philip beside him during the march.
"The captain thinks we should deal with the group of goblins as soon as possible to avoid being attacked from both sides."
Brutus nodded, since everyone had the same idea, there was nothing to worry about.
As the team approached the end of the passage, the sound of running water became more intense. The group passed through the exit of the passage and entered a mine.
"Is such a mine dug manually?" Brutus looked around. The mine seemed so huge that the team's torches could not even reach the top.
Phillip, standing next to him, replied: "I heard from the old people in the village that this mine seems to have existed for a long time. The previous miners just dug a passage to get here."
The uneasiness in Brutus's heart became stronger, and he suspected that there was some kind of restlessness hidden in the sound of running water.
"Be alert." Jack shouted loudly, his voice unable to form an echo here.
"Ah!" a team member screamed, "There is a trap! Watch your step!"
"Enemy attack! Be careful with bows and arrows!" This was Anil's voice.
"Raise the shield, raise the shield! Those holding the shield quickly form a formation! Pay attention to cover the teammates around you!" Jack quickly reacted and ordered in a roaring voice.
The team that was originally in chaos calmed down after Jack quickly resumed leadership. After forming a formation, under the cover of long shields, the damage caused by bows and arrows was not great, but these bows and arrows flying from nowhere kept harassing them.
The village guards were unable to do anything else and could only huddle up and defend.
"Damn it, these goblins can also use bows and arrows." Jack quickly looked around. These goblins were hiding in the darkness and used the sound of running water to hide their movements. "We can't go on like this. They are holding torches."
We are living targets."
"Extinguish the torches!" he ordered.
The mine once again fell into endless darkness, and all movement was buried by the sound of running water.
Several more bows and arrows approached the village guards with whistling sounds, but the final destination was still some distance away from them. It seemed that the goblins did not have very good night vision, and everyone was still standing on the same starting line in the darkness.
...
No, maybe it's not the same level...
Phillip took off the hunting bow he had been carrying from his back, put an arrow on it and shot an arrow into the distance.
"Hit." He said in a voice that could only be heard by those around him. As soon as he finished speaking, a shrill scream came from the distance.
This arrow slightly restored the somewhat low morale of the team members. At least they temporarily escaped from the situation of being passively beaten.
"We retreat." Jack finally made up his mind. He believed that he could not let his team members continue to be beaten in this dark environment. They had to move the battlefield to a place where they had an advantage.
Jack threw a newly lit torch to illuminate their retreat direction, and then arranged for the team members holding shields to retreat. A few minutes later, the group finally retreated into the passage without any danger.
In the passage, Jack counted the number of people by the light of the fire. There were many of them: "Is anyone injured?"
"Captain, I sprained my foot." The team member who just said he stepped on a trap reported.
"Simmons, you can support Brandy later." Jack arranged for Simmons, and then looked at the team members beside him, "I didn't think carefully enough this time. We have to go back and rearrange the plan. Now be careful.
, we retreat."
However, as soon as the team reached the halfway point, Brutus and Philip noticed something very bad - the goblins seemed to be catching up.
"There are a lot of footsteps in the direction of the mine, and we have to prepare for a fight." Brutus reminded the others.
"Our way back seems to be blocked." The team members at the front of the team told others the same bad news.
"Don't panic! Stay calm. We defeated those goblins very easily." Jack comforted the panicked team members, "Leave the four of you to watch your retreat, and the others to prepare."
Brutus stood up on his shield, held his dagger, and looked at the village guard beside him who replaced Philip, who did not have a shield.
Seeing that he was a little nervous, Brutus comforted him: "Don't be nervous. The shield must be set up firmly. The Goblins have little impact due to their size. As long as we are stable, we can easily defeat them."
But looking at the steady stream of goblins coming as far as the fire could illuminate, Brutus began to become a little nervous.
He took a deep breath: "Come on, in this long and narrow passage, it is true that the brave will win."