Chapter 229: Shortcuts
"You're out, Master Lynn!"
Master Ike's voice came from behind him, and after seeing the intention of Lin An's move, he turned into surprise,
"Where are you going?"
When Lin An saw Master Ike, his eyes lit up:
Ike is the head of the mine, and he usually carries a pass pass with him - even if a soldier clears the way, breaking through the pass can still cause chaos and delay her speed, but if there is a pass pass, all the trouble is solved. 「」
"Get out of here now, or we'll all die!" Lin An said quickly, "Give me the pass token, Ike!" ”
"Wait, Master, I'm still ......"
Mage Ike's voice stopped abruptly—
The aquamarine stone staff that shimmered with a cold blue light pointed at Ike, and Lin An's hand holding the staff was steady without a trace of trembling.
She said with a blank face:
"Dead, or a passtoken."
Lin An's eyes overflowed with evil energy, and he unabashedly intimidated Ike.
The evil aura condensed by having killed a white-robed mage and killing many elites of the same level in the Tower of Babel was extremely cold, making the person opposite Lin An intuitively feel that he was confronting a devouring monster.
Ek, who was treated with great attention, felt particularly prominent, and for a moment he felt like falling into an ice cellar, his head was dazed, the corners of his mouth trembled a few times, and he made a meaningless sound. 「」
Several mages and soldiers behind him couldn't help but take a few steps back.
"Passpass? …… In、Here! ”
The sound of the soldier's armor grinding backwards woke Ike, and he scrambled to pull a palm-sized square plaque from his body.
As soon as the token was in her hands, Lin An knew that it was true, and threw it directly to the leader of the soldiers who had been talking to her without looking at it. His gaze coldly swept over the leader of the soldiers who was holding the token in a daze.
"Get out of the way, go!"
"Yes...... Be! Excellency! ”
Ike and the others looked at the backs of Lin An and the others leaving.
"Mage Ike. Now what? A mage behind him asked.
At this time, the shaking from the ground had calmed down, and even the aftershocks had disappeared without a trace, and it seemed that it was just a whim of the gods to play a joke on the people, let them shake the world like an ant's nest twice, and test the courage of their little ants.
This underground mine was extremely strong because it produced mage metal, and the mine only shook twice in this sudden, god-like joking movement. Poofs shed a bit of dust, and there were no direct casualties.
Something similar. These people are not unexperienced, after all, no matter what era it is, mining can be called one of the top ten dangerous operations.
In this mining area, there have been accidents in the past where slaves accidentally dug down a weak point, and a small section of the mine tunnel and even the lower mine cave collapsed, and the collapse and shaking that occurred in that accident were very similar to this one. 「」
These people thought it would probably be the same this time.
Although there was some uneasiness, it was felt that the shaking was calming down. Most of them comforted themselves in their hearts, thinking that Lin An was making a big fuss.
But because of the mage's deep-rooted notion of the supremacy of strength. Lin An's actions also left uneasiness and shadows in their hearts.
――In the entire underground mine, I'm afraid only Lin An knows. What a terrible catastrophe they are about to face!
Most of them hadn't gotten along with Master Lynn, who was under Lin An's pseudonym, and didn't know his personality, otherwise Lin An might have been able to influence them to make the same decision as her.
Only Ike was empty-handed, his face pale, as if he was hesitating about something.
He looked at Lin An's back, which was almost at the corner, and suddenly took a few steps forward, and said loudly:
"Master, I know there's a shortcut to the ground!"
Everyone was stunned by Master Ike's sudden move, but Lin An seemed unmoved, and his back disappeared around the corner.
Mage Ick's heart was almost covered with a thick sense of despair.
Of all the mages stationed in the mines, he was probably the only one who knew Lynn's character best.
He knew that this taciturn mage was not as unstable as his apparent age. "Since Lynn has made such a ruthless move in order to race against time, Ike wants to believe that the situation they are facing this time is really dangerous!
If he immediately follows Lynn's footsteps now, he is not out of the question.
But—
“…… Kalinda! ”
Ike deeply regrets why he let Kalinda go to control the zhì room instead of keeping her by his side:
Without Lynn's warning, she had no idea how dangerous it was now, and perhaps after closing the control valve, Kalinda would have been waiting for him to come back - then, it was his order that killed her!
How could he leave her like this and escape with Lynn?
Many confused thoughts flashed through his mind—
It wasn't until he faced a life-and-death crisis that Ike realized that he couldn't let go of his feelings for Kalinda so lightly.
"Perhaps, it's not too late to go back to her...... We've got that secret passage! ”
Just as Ike's thoughts became clear, Ram behind him let out a low sigh-
"Master Lynn!"
As soon as Ike saw the figure that had gone and returned, a sentence had already slashed in front of him-
"Where's the shortcut!"
The turbulent momentum is mixed with a suffocating aura. 「」
Ike found that he had probably never seen this mage of his own strength - he was much more difficult than he thought!
"It's a secret passage, it's on this level, only I know how to open it, it's very safe, and it can shorten the distance by at least fifty percent, but ......"
His eyes fell on the aquamarine staff that was pointing at him again, and Ike spoke calmly, his eyes revealing determination.
"I'm going to pick up Kalinda first."
The crowd was stunned.
Lin An swept over the people behind Ike and found that the figure of the female mage was indeed not inside. Her eyes narrowed slightly, and everyone tensed with her murderous expression.
But Lin An's eyes fell on Ike, and in the other party's blue eyes was a calm look at death-only he knew the shortcut, but he wanted Kalinda.
"Where's the entrance? What are the limitations? Lin An said coldly, "If you dare to lie to me." I'll kill Kalinda first! ”
Since the shortcut is only in Ike's hands, it must be an emergency escape shortcut for the main characters in the mine. This kind of shortcut generally limits the number of people and cannot pass indefinitely.
"I know that in the storeroom, there is a secret passage hidden in the elevator ladder, which is limited to twenty people and can be ridden, it is a one-time use!"
A mage behind Ike suddenly shouted,
"Master Lynn. Please take me! ”
"What! What's going on! Someone exclaimed. 」
"Secret passages? How I didn't know! ”
"Twenty!"
……
Several mages and more than twenty soldiers were in an uproar.
Obviously, the others also sensed the urgency of the approaching crisis from Lin An and Ike's actions. There was a commotion.
The human heart is particularly prominent in the line between life and death.
When faced with a limited chance of escape, even the white-robed mage is no longer so prestigious.
Idiot!
Lin An scraped the mage's face with a murderous gaze.
The mage broke out in a cold sweat and took two steps back, only to understand what kind of pressure Ike was facing in front of Lin An.
"Yes, the passage is in that location, but after I took over the mine, the way it was opened has already been changed by me, and even Kalinda doesn't know the way."
The voice of Mage Ike. Calmly sounded in the midst of the noise. Suppressing the noise of the others, Ram whispered at his own soldiers—
"Quiet!"
Lin An was sure of the unflinching toughness in Master Ike's eyes, and made a choice in a short period of time.
"Where's Kalinda?"
"Control zhì room!" Ike was shaken.
Ram beside him hurriedly said, "I can lead the way!" ”
"You take two people. Pick him up! ”
Lin An quickly motioned for the leader of the soldiers to go with Ram,
"We'll go to the storehouse at once, and we'll be out of sight in half a moment, and we'll set off too."
Ike's lips moved slightly, and he wanted to say something, but Lin An's cold gaze swept over-
"That's the bottom line, Ike! As long as I know the entrance, I don't have a way to break down the door by force,"
Lin An warned coldly, the corners of his slightly hooked mouth were not smiling,
"Don't play any tricks on me, Ike, I don't have time to play any martyrdom games with you!"
"If you bring people along the way, I will give you the opportunity to come up first!"
Without waiting for Ike to say anything, Lin An said to Ram and the soldier leader again.
A few soldiers' eyes lit up.
"Yes, Your Excellency!"
Without waiting for Lin An's order, Ram had already led people to run in the direction of the control room, and he didn't even look at Ike.
The mage who almost became the target of everyone, I don't know when, has come close to Lin An's side.
Lin An's indifferent gaze swept over everyone and fell on this mage-
"Let's go, you lead the way!"
"Yes!"
The sound of intricate footsteps faded away.
Soon, the thick iron door of the warehouse, weighing more than ten tons, appeared in front of everyone, but the soldiers who usually patrolled outside the warehouse were gone, and there were a mess of footprints on the ground.
Obviously, although the shaking did not continue, the chaos in the mine did not calm down because it was not effectively contained.
Fortunately, Lin An and the others did not encounter any accidents and obstacles along the way, and even the figures were rare - Lin An's residence was remote, and the warehouse itself was a place where idlers could not be approached, and in the corner of this layer of the mine, it was not close to the exit of the upper floor.
Without waiting for Ike to take out the key to the warehouse, Lin An had already thrown the cane is a switch technique, and there was a dull spring sound behind the iron door, and the two soldiers got Lin An's signal and stepped forward to turn the winches on both sides.
With the sound of the winch crunching and turning, the heavy iron door slowly opened, and the heavy smell of rust and darkness came to the face.
Two mages and a few soldiers rushed into the dark storeroom.
"There's nothing in there." Mage Ike said, striding in.
Lin An glanced at the few people who had already entered, and lit up a dance light technique, and four white balls of light scattered to the four corners of the warehouse, illuminating the mountains of iron ore inside, shining with a cold and dull metallic luster.
Lin An strode in.
With the low and clear sound of chanting the incantation, after more than ten seconds, the sea blue stone burst out with a faint blue light, and an invisible force field round shield was already floating beside her, and an indistinct green shadow disappeared into the shadows from the drooping sleeve.
Everyone who heard the sound of the spell looked at Lin An, but they didn't see anything unusual around her, only Ike, who had been paying attention to her, saw the blue light of the staff before.
He smiled bitterly in his heart.
"Where's the entrance?" Lin An asked.
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