Chapter 67: The Pit of the Underworld
Wu Tie's face was flushed, and he fled from the Foreign Affairs Department building with his head down.
Behind him, there was a tidal wave of laughter.
The first-class deacon of the Shi family actually wanted to take on the task of killing ordinary gray rock lizards, and those rough men in the hall on the first floor were laughing at him wildly.
But after a while, the laughter came to an abrupt end.
The guy with good deeds ran to ask the dwarf girl what task Wu Tie had received.
A gasp came from the hall on the first floor, and then someone shouted, "If that kid comes back alive, I'll eat my horn!"
"It's started, it's started, can this kid come back alive? Bet hey, bet hey, who bet that this kid will come back alive?"
"The Pit of the Underworld, finally someone has taken this damn mission...... But he won't live for a few days, will he?"
"It's a pity that the kid will be shy and blush, I haven't seen such a stupid kid for many years. ”
On the second floor of the Foreign Affairs Division, behind a large window, Shi Meng was carrying a large wine jar in his left hand and a large stone bowl in his right hand, pouring himself a drink very happily. With a hint of drunken redness on his face, he squinted at Wu Tie who had fled in embarrassment.
"This kid, hey, hey, kind of funny. ”
"He's not very old, don't look tall, but he's probably fourteen years old?"
"Well, young and shy, such a little guy can be cultivated into his own person. At a young age, being able to be rated as a first-class deacon by a treacherous and cunning guy like the second child seems to have a lot of potential. ”
He put down the stone bowl, grabbed a leather booklet beside him, and flipped to the line that Wu Tie had written nine days earlier when he received the lava grass.
"The font is right...... No, it's beautifully written...... It seems that he is really from a family background, and he knows some words very well......"
"Talent. ”
Shaking his head, Shi Meng said in a deep voice: "The one who can survive is the talent." The Pit of the Underworld, a place that the old guys of the family don't want to come along. Who knows what's in there?"
"Go to a few people, follow behind, and pick up this kid...... However, don't go into the Pit of the Underworld. I don't want my own people to be lost in it for no reason. If the boy comes out alive, take him back. ”
"As long as he can come back alive, I will train him according to the specifications of the descendants. ”
"I'm not very old, and I'm still shy...... Well, compared to those old guys who have become shameless, this kind of person is still reliable. ”
Picking up the big stone bowl and drinking the wine, Shi Meng muttered towards the void sun on the dome: "Second brother, I believe in your vision. At a young age, alone, a talent who can be assessed as a first-class deacon by you, ho ho, I would rather kill the wrong person than let it go. ”
Wu Tie returned to his small courtyard.
After kneading the dough with cold water and discoloring the flushed dough, he looked at the assignment written to him by the dwarf girl.
In fact, it is a piece of animal skin paper, on which a simple two lines of handwriting are written.
Find out the root cause of the anomaly in the Pit of the Underworld.
The reward is sixty Lava Grass and one percent of all production revenue from the Pit for the next 10 years.
"Good boy, what a high reward. ...... the Demon Mine" Wu Tie frowned, grabbed a stone on the ground, and threw it into the courtyard next door: "Lao Bai, Lao Bai, are you here? ”
......
When the light emitted by the Void Sun was at its most intense, Wu Tie wore a suit of iron armor, carried a steel spear, and carried an animal skin package and left Big Rock City.
Iron armor and steel spears were all received from the arsenal of Big Stone City, and as the first-class deacon of the Shi family's foreign affairs, the consumption of Wu Tie's equipment was borne by the Shi family.
In the package of animal skins, there is wine, jerky, wound medicine, and antidote.
There is also salt for outdoor barbecue...... Especially extravagant, there is actually a small bag of chili powder and spice powder.
Wu Tie remembers very well that in Wujia Stone Castle, Wu Zhan was thinking every day about how to open up more fields and feed more soldiers and slaves.
And the Shi family has been extravagant enough to have spare fields to grow these crops purely for enjoyment.
Paprika and spice ...... Wu Tie was the first time he had encountered it in his life, and he was actually a little salivating, wanting to try how delicious the barbecue could be by adding these things to the barbecue.
However, only the deacons who went out on assignment could receive such a small portion.
Even in the Shi family, this chili powder and spices are very rare treasures.
Leaving Big Rock City and confirming the direction, Wu Tie's invisible force field was activated, and his body suddenly glided up, jumping up more than ten meters high, stepping out of hundreds of meters in one step, and rushing towards the direction of the Demon Mine as fast as a violent wind.
In Big Rock City, two nezumi scouts and four werewolf warriors hurriedly ran out.
Seeing Wu Tie's figure shake twice, he ran away several miles away in the blink of an eye, and the four werewolf warriors glanced at each other with wide eyes, and an old wolf with white hair and a little old turned around and slapped a nezumi scout.
"What are you doing stupidly, follow up! If you lose someone, you will confess to the sixth master!"
The nezumi scout was slapped twice and turned around in place, very innocently blinked and looked at the old wolf's head, the two nezumi scouts did not dare to distinguish, and hurriedly followed the trace of smell left by Wu Tie in the air, and quickly chased after him.
Then they each kicked the wolf warrior and kicked them in the ass.
"Idiot, where do you want to follow the smell? Surely he's going to the Grave Mine...... Lead the way directly to the pit of the underworld! ”
The two nezumi scouts looked at each other innocently, and hurriedly ran at full speed in the direction of the Nether's Mine.
The Demon Mine is only more than one hundred and fifty miles away from Big Stone City, and it is only possible to reach it by passing through a mine cave that is dozens of miles long.
Originally, it was called the Cold Crystal Pit, which was a large pit where gold and copper veins intersected, accompanied by an extremely precious Cold Crystal Mine, which was called Hyun Blue Crystal among the people of the Lu family, who were the best at forging in the Cangyan Domain.
Hyun Blue Crystal can more than double the toughness of the weapons and armor created, and can more than double the runes and magic circles when forging, making it an extremely precious forging material. A piece of hyun blue crystal ore can be exchanged for a hundred times the volume of gold nuggets or equivalent materials from the Lu family.
But a few years ago, something strange happened in the cold crystal mine, and some mysterious things happened, and the mine slaves suffered heavy casualties.
After several elders of the Shi family who had cultivated to be powerful entered, they also escaped in embarrassment, but they barely managed to escape, and all the people accompanying them were lost inside.
The pit was abandoned, and the Shi family's income was reduced by a large amount.
The Lu family, who was in urgent need of forging materials, once united with the Shi family and organized a powerful exploration team to enter the mine, but the result was that the soldiers were also defeated and escaped in embarrassment, and an elder of the Lu family stayed in the pit forever and could not come out.
As a result, the cold crystal pit has become a notorious demon mine, and the Shi family's task of exploring the root cause of the pit mutation has been hanging in the Department of Foreign Affairs for several years, and there have been people who have taken over the task in the past few years, but none of them have survived.
Wu Tie recalled the information Lao Bai gave him, and nibbled on a piece of dried meat in his hand.
It didn't take long to arrive at a distance of more than 100 miles, and he ran quickly through the open and wide mine road, and a small stone castle appeared in front of him, and several gray dwarf warriors stopped in front of Wu Tie.
"Boy, there's a pit of the Underworld, what are you doing here, are you going to die?" a drunk, drunk, drunken gray dwarf slammed a hammer to the ground and yelled at Wu Tie.
Wu Tie handed over his mission book, the black handwriting on the milky yellow animal skin paper was clearly visible, and the special mission seal of the Shi Family's Foreign Affairs Department was also stamped underneath, and the blood-colored ink made of cinnabar mixed with animal blood was very eye-catching.
Several gray dwarves were as excited as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and they were screaming and screaming excitedly, and they circled around Wu Tie several times, and then the drunk lover slapped Wu Tie on the thigh.
"He's a good man, go, go...... When you die, our brothers will remember to pour you some when they drink. ”
A group of gray dwarves burst out laughing.
They have been in charge of the entrances and exits of the Demon Mine for many years, and they have seen some unspeakable strange things with their own eyes, and their hearts are under great pressure, and there is no one to rotate shifts, so they are already a little insane.
Wu Tie looked at the smiling gray dwarves, shook his head, and strode past the stone castle.
More than a dozen animal oil torches were inserted into the outer wall of the stone castle, and the torches the size of human heads were blazing, and the firelight illuminated an area outside the stone castle.
Outside the firelight of the stone castle, a gray-white mist like a spider's web was silently suspended in the air.
These fogs, let's call them fogs for the time being, are just suspended in the air lifelessly, without any movement.
Occasionally, a faint cool breeze would blow from the side of the mine, blowing the torches whirring, and the originally red flames would turn a faint green in that instant.
The green light projected by more than a dozen torches shone on Wu Tie's body, and more than a dozen shadows swayed in the mine tunnel in front of him, looking particularly terrifying.
From behind came the laughter of the gray dwarf: "Don't dare to go in, then come back...... No shame, really. ”
"Come back, boy, don't go to death...... Don't say you...... Half a year ago, the special five-star deacon of the Department of Foreign Affairs, the iron-horned ox and the axe were also damaged inside. He is a master of the Chonglou Realm, a master who has comprehended the Bull Demon Overlord's supernatural powers!"
"Come back and have a drink with your brothers...... After drinking, go back to Big Rock City to sleep...... Isn't it just a task? If you can't complete it, you won't be ashamed. ”
Wu Tie hesitantly looked at the silky gray mist outside the firelight area in front of him.
The mist hung in the air, and Wu Tie faintly felt that behind the mist, someone seemed to be staring at him.
The eyes were smooth and greasy, like rice porridge that had been spoiled overnight, cold, sticky, and with an inextricable stench. In short, this gaze gave him a very bad feeling.
A few of the grey dwarves were still shouting and shouting behind them, and then they took out the jar and sat down at the door of the stone castle and drank it heartily.
Wu Tie licked the corners of his mouth.
Just go back like this?
That's more embarrassing, okay?
He still remembers the laughter in the room when he received the mission.
"Old Iron ...... Isn't it a bit stupid for me to do this?" Wu Tie gritted his teeth and stubbornly walked towards the area that the fire could not cover step by step.
He took a deep breath, and a ball of fire jumped out of his side, turning into a fireball the size of a human head suspended above his head, emitting a snowy light to shine in all directions.
Then another fireball, another fireball.
In order to strengthen his courage, Wu Tie made a total of forty or fifty snow-bright fireballs the size of human heads suspended above his head, the flames were shining, the heat wave was rolling, and the fireballs swallowed up the free Yuan Energy in the air by themselves, releasing domineering light and heat.
A few gray dwarves lowered their jars in astonishment.
"Yuan Mage?"
Wu Tie had already walked away, and the two nezumi and the four wolf warriors broke into the stone castle.
The four wolf warriors listened to the words of the gray dwarves, and their eyes suddenly widened.
As soon as Wu Tie ran so fast, jumped so high, and went straight to the Underworld Mine, the four wolf warriors suspected that he had activated some kind of natural supernatural power.
Now I look at it, and sure enough, it is.
The little guy in the foundation realm can actually rub out a big fireball out of thin air to use it as a torch lighting, and he can control the fireball so easily to follow him forward, this kind of person has a special name for Yuan Mage in this era!
Master Yuan was born with strong spiritual power, superior innate soul power, and was born with excellent communication skills with Yuan Neng.
Yuan mages can use all kinds of wonderful spells when their cultivation is extremely weak, and their cultivation gradually improves, and it is easier for them to comprehend supernatural powers than ordinary people, and obtain all kinds of extraordinary spell-casting abilities.
Thunder, fire, magma, wind.
and even calling for wind and rain to scatter beans into soldiers, all kinds of miraculous means emerge in an endless stream, just like the legendary gods and immortals.
Any Yuan Mage, no matter how weak the Yuan Mage, should not be just a first-class deacon.
"The second master looked away this time. A wolf warrior muttered to himself.
"This kid, he doesn't know how much he's worth...... Why did you go in so stupidly?" the white-haired old wolf scratched his scalp, sighed in anguish, and slapped a nezumi scout.
"Don't you have any eyesight? Why don't you hurry back and tell the sixth master that this kid is actually a Yuan mage...... said that he ran like the wind, much faster than when Lao Tzu was stabbed in the ass and ran for his life, proving that he can at least control the power of the wind. ”
"He can also use fireballs as torches and follow him all the way...... This kid has mastered the power of fire?"
"The power of wind and fire is mixed, and when this kid arrives at the Senses Realm, he condenses his mana...... Obediently, if a fire burns, it can burn at least hundreds of people, and the terrain is suitable, so it is not a problem to burn thousands of people. The old wolf licked his nose and kicked the two nezumi scouts hard.
"Hurry up and report to the sixth master, just say that this kid is a baby, and ask him what to do...... He's already walked in...... It's all to blame for you being too slow to lead the way!"
A nezumi scout turned and ran, running away with a puff of smoke.
The four wolf warriors stood at the gate of the stone castle, staring blankly at the mist-filled place, and they didn't dare to enter.
Wu Tie strode into the mine, his eyes faintly flashing with golden light, and for some reason, he suddenly read aloud an article that he had never studied.
"Heaven and earth have righteousness, and miscellaneous manifolds ......"
Wherever he strode past, the gray mist in the air inexplicably collapsed, disintegrated, and never reappeared.