Chapter 17: The Truth
Greed is the original sin, ignorant greed is even more harmful to others and themselves, those people don't know, the stone that can emit light is not only the pearl of the night, but also may be a deadly radiation source, but it doesn't matter, if it wasn't for the deadly "pearl of the night", the battle that day would definitely not be so easy.
βThe Autobiography of Terry, Vol. 12
The enemy is bright and I am dark, and the result of the battle speaks for itself, the guy named Park Zan, with a bloody hole in his forehead, died so much that he couldn't die anymore.
Another cunning guy also shot Trey at the moment of the gunshot, but in the darkness he didn't notice that Terry had retracted his body into a corner, and his shot could only give him some psychological comfort.
But this guy is also a good one, and after firing a shot, he didn't care about the result and immediately hid back in cover.
Terry leaned out immediately after the other party's gun, and fired a random shot, of course, due to the opponent's decisiveness, this shot only splashed a pinch of smoke and dust on the cover.
After Terry's gunshot, the guy turned and fled, and in his mind, there would be at least two seconds between each of the shots, and that was enough time for him to run around the corner behind him.
Unfortunately, he didn't know that Terry was holding a repeating rifle, and he didn't know that Terry could see in the dark.
When he turned to show his back, the strange gunshot rang out again, and he only felt a huge force on his back, and the person lost consciousness.
The authentic environment made the gunshots spread very far, and at this time, Sean and others in the dungeon also heard it.
"Terry must have encountered an enemy! Liu Yiming, you take a few people to stay, and the others come with me. β
Can't let Terry have an accident, that's the only thought in Sean's mind at this time.
The guy who was hit in the back by Terry didn't die, and when he regained consciousness, the pain in his body nearly made him faint again.
"Well... Heroes spare their lives! β
But he couldn't faint, the strong desire to survive, and the cold muzzle of the gun on his head made him endure the pain and cry for mercy.
"I can spare you from dying, but what do you have to answer if I ask?"
Terry's shot just missed his vital point, just to save his life and get information.
"Yes, yes, yes... Small... The small ones will never dare to hide... Conceal! β
Feeling the cold muzzle on his forehead, this guy didn't dare to hide it, after all, life is important, and these bandits don't have any loyal qualities.
In the bandit's painful and intermittent confessions, Terry finally figured out what was going on in the tunnels.
According to the bandit, the tunnel leads to a legendary and mysterious treasure land, and in that treasure place is buried the legendary treasure - the Night Pearl.
"Pearl of the Night", when this term appeared in the mouth of the bandits, Terry couldn't help but swallow his saliva.
Since ancient times, whether it is the royal family of the Blue Flag Empire or the small people in the borderlands, they all know that there is a stone in this world, which can shine at night without oil or fire, but unfortunately this kind of stone is very rare.
There is a legend in the Blue Flag Empire that in ancient times, demons swept through mankind and the people were devastated, and then God sent a god to save the world.
But the demons were too powerful, so in order to save the world, the god led these demons to a valley, and detonated the god body to destroy these demons, and the spirit of the god also turned into a stone that can shine many nights, and continues to protect the land of the Blue Banner Empire.
Legend has it that these stones with divine spirits can distinguish good from evil, and if a good person owns it, he will receive the blessing of the gods and live a long life. If the wicked get it, soon the person will be covered in pus and die.
Of course, this is just a legend, although many adventurers have been searching for this legendary "Godfall" valley, but unfortunately none of them have found it.
"You're saying this is the legendary Godfall Land?"
"Yes, good man, I really didn't lie to you, now the second master is still looking for the Night Pearl there, I was just ordered to guard here."
After listening to the bandit's words, Terry finally understood why the guards of the huge fortress were so sparsely guarded, and they had all gone into it to find treasure.
"Are there any other exits to this passage?"
Suddenly, Terry thought of the huge copper lock, and asked in passing.
"Yes, man, there is an exit not far behind me that leads to the ground, from which we usually go in and out, and the way you came here is mainly for the detention of coolies and brothers...... Brothers vent ......".
"Okay, don't talk about it, just tell me, how many people are there under the second master?"
Next, Terry learned from the bandits that the treasure land was discovered by the second master more than ten years ago, but others were weak and could not mine it, so they colluded with a group of horse bandits on the Yigan Plateau to build this fortress here.
From that time on, the bandits divided into two groups and took turns, one went out to grab food and grabbed coolies, and the other group took these coolies and began to dig up this treasure.
In the past ten years, the coolies have died a lot, but they have not found the main veins of the Night Pearl.
And this time, I don't know if it's the bandits, or Terry's luck, three days ago, they finally found the main vein.
So for the sake of safety, the remaining second boss brought most of his men into the mining area, leaving only a small number of personnel to guard his hometown, which also gave Terry and them an opportunity to successfully capture this fortress, which can really be described as the bandits digging their own graves.
"Tom"
The bandit's confession did not save his life, and after interrogating everything, a gunshot rang out, ending the bandit's criminal life!
Without glancing at the corpse on the ground again, Terry picked up his rifle again, pulled out the pistol at his waist and continued to grope along the passage.
Sure enough, just as the bandits confessed, around the corner, Terry saw another fork in the road.
Terry, the passage to the exit on the left, ignored it and prepared to continue further into the mine.
"Rustle"
At that moment, there was a murky sound of footsteps from behind him, causing Terry to stop his progress and turn to point his gun behind him.
However, everything was a false alarm, and when several figures with torches appeared in Terry's night vision devices, Terry put down the gun in his hand and said hello.
It turned out that the people who came were Sean and others who heard the gunshots and were worried about Terry's danger.
"Brother Terry, what's the situation ahead?"
In fact, seeing the bodies of the two bandits just now, Sean understood that Terry should be fine, but at this moment, seeing Terry unscathed, he was truly relieved.
Seeing Ensign Sean, Terry didn't hide it, so he told Sean about the bandits' confessions one by one.
"What! The pearl of the night? Or a whole vein! β
Hearing such news, even Sean, who was born in the aristocracy, opened his mouth in surprise.
"Yes, it's the Pearl of the Night! But that's not a good thing, wait a minute, you guys don't leave me for five meters. β
In fact, when he got the news of the Night Pearl, Terry had already learned the true situation of this so-called "Night Pearl" from the system.
In fact, these "pearls of the night" are those mutants that are strongly radiated, but these radiation acts on minerals, not living organisms.
Far from being treasures, these minerals, which absorb a large amount of radiation, are powerful sources of radiation that can be deadly.
Looking at Sean's puzzled eyes, Terry simply explained the dangers of the "Night Pearl", and then walked towards the depths of the passage with everyone.
Although it is not clear why Terry would know this? It is not clear why Terry asked them not to leave the body for five meters, but since Terry refused to say, out of trust in Terry, Sean and the others did not ask, but just followed Terry with a stern expression, and groped forward cautiously.