In the next three days, on the way to Pompeii, the Flying Eagle team passed through more than a dozen ruined villages, and it was indeed quite difficult for people to live in this barren land. On September 13th, the group finally arrived at Pompeii after about eight days under the guidance of the villagers from the north, and stood on a hill not far south of Pompeii, looking around at the surroundings, which looked much better than the villages they had passed before, it was like a valley surrounded by dense bushes, cedars, gelatinous trees, and all kinds of other trees.

According to the villagers, Pompeii is a small basin with a long Dallas mountain range rising north of the valley to block the cold snap from the north, and it is not covered with snow and ice from April to October, so it can grow two crops a year, which is the most habitable place compared to other places north of Tucker Town.

The entire basin of Pompeii is open and flat, and Stern has visually measured that the area here is at least thirty square kilometers, and such a large basin can accommodate at least 30,000 to 50,000 people, but what is infuriating is that it has become a stronghold of thieves, and the Black Wind Thieves Band, which is less than 2,000 people, occupies the only good place in the north of Tucker Town suitable for human survival.

Along the way, Stern saw the hardships of the people of Tucker Town, and maybe he should do something for them in the future, but for now, he still aims at the Myr Mine, and the rest of the things can only be said after the mission is completed, otherwise the mission to the secret realm of the frozen lake will not be completed when the cold wave comes.

After completing the quest in the Frozen Lake Realm, you can try to solve the problem of Black Wind Village, so that all the people in the northern part of Tucker Town can settle in this paradise-like basin.

Stern sat alone on a stone on the hill, took out the parchment given to him by the dwarven patriarch Higg and looked at it, he still had to be cautious near this Black Wind Village, so he arranged the other three in the Faerie House.

According to the parchment, it was necessary to travel northeast from where he was now, and it would take him about half a day to ride Ash all the way to the eastern end of the Ras Mountains, where the Mines of Namir were at the easternmost foot of the Dallas Mountains.

After determining the route, Stern put away the parchment and stood up and prepared to go, if you need to cross Pompeii Village all the way to the northeast, the thieves living in the village of nearly 2,000 people will inevitably cause unnecessary trouble, so Stern plans to go all the way to the east first, and then change the route to the north when it is far away from Pompeii Village, so that although the distance is much farther, you can bypass the Black Wind Village.

After leaving the basin range, the temperature dropped a lot in an instant, and Stern, who was riding on the back of the wolf, had to add a thick coat with a cloak in the face of the oncoming cold wind, so that he felt a little warmer.

It took him half a day to reach the easternmost foot of the Dallas Mountains, and he was presented with a narrow col between the two mountains, which was marked on parchment, and it seemed that he had not gone wrong, and he could find the exact location of the Mir Mine by crossing the col.

The col in front of him was steep and uneven, and the strange rocks were too rough to ride through the timberwolves, so Stern had to put away the little gray and climb slowly through the rubble pile alone.

I don't know how long the col is, it took Stern two hours and still didn't reach the other side, he continued to walk, and walked until he came to the narrowest position between the two mountains, on the left and right sides of the towering cliffs, and on top of them were huge rocks, thus forming a mountain tunnel less than two meters wide, and the inside of the cave was cold and dark.

"Click, click, click", the sound of slapping the stone wall came out of the tunnel, and Stern heard it clearly, could it be that there was some terrifying monster in this dark tunnel?

He stood at the entrance of the cave and began to hesitate, should he step into this tunnel or not? After climbing on foot for a long time, and then let him go back the same way, he didn't know how many long detours he would have to make, after thinking quietly for a while, Stern decided to go through the dark tunnel, but he still needed to prepare some things before stepping into the tunnel, he lightly moved away from the mouth of the tunnel, and cut down two branches that grew in the cracks in the col, and then took out two magic crystal candles from the storage space and tied them to one end of the branch, so he made two torches.

Then Stern entered the Faerie House again, pushed open the door of Thea's room, and at this time Thea was resting on the bed, and when he saw Stern coming, he immediately got up from the bed, "Uncle Andy." Stern nodded and said to Thea, "Thea let's go, there's some trouble outside, you can go out with me to solve it."

"Okay, Uncle Andy," Sia said, taking out his massive copper hammer from the spatial ring and getting ready for battle. The two of them walked towards the dark tunnel with the magic crystal candle in hand, and the light of the magic crystal candle gradually illuminated the narrow tunnel.

Stern walked lightly in the cave, while looking around to find the source of the snapping sound, suddenly Stern saw several basin-sized objects covered with black hair on the stone walls on both sides not far away, one of them also shook violently and made a 'snap' sound, the sharp-eyed Stern found that the black monster had a pair of huge black wings, and the sound was made by the wings flapping against the stone wall.

The black monster on the stone wall is called the Dark Gold Demon Bat, which is a social animal, accustomed to day and night, and its belly can be firmly attached to the stone wall, and the fangs in their mouths contain severe anesthetic toxicity, which can anesthetize animals countless times larger than them.

Stern had seen this kind of acquired low-level magical beast in the library of Cloud Dream City, and it was said that they were very fond of preying on animals that were several times larger than their own size, anesthetizing their prey through the bite of their sharp teeth, and then slowly sucking the blood of their prey dry. Although they are the smallest low-level Demonic Beasts, many large low-level Demonic Beasts are sometimes planted in their hands, which shows how powerful they are.

Facing the several dark gold demon bats in front of him, Stern was like a great enemy, he gently pulled Xia and motioned him to slow down, this dark tunnel doesn't know how long it is, and I don't know how many dark gold demon bats live in it, it's definitely not a good idea to hastily disturb them.

It was midnight outside the tunnel, and the Darkgold Bats were in a deep sleep, so Stern and Thea didn't wake them up as they passed by. Five minutes, ten minutes, and fifteen minutes, the two of them slowly groped in the tunnel at the same speed as a turtle crawling, and finally saw some bright light penetrating into the corner of fifty meters in front of them, and the exit was in front of them, and the nervous mood of the two could finally relax slightly.

When Stern took Thea out of the tunnel, he was completely drenched in sweat, and now the weather here was a little cold, and they sweated completely because they were afraid of waking up the dark gold demon bats in the tunnel, and they had seen at least a hundred demon bats perched on the stone walls along the way, and once they were woken up, the consequences would be unimaginable.