Chapter 84: A Glimmer of Hope
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"Let's go to the camp not far to the north, which the dwarves have set up improvised, and we need to spend the night there, and then listen to the dwarves' reports." Doyle glanced at a few people and said.
It was true that the camp to the north was not too far away, but the excavation site was so large that the camp had to be built all the way up on a mountainside platform. By the time they arrived at the camp, it was already completely dark.
Ascending to this platform, the footsteps of several people stopped in an instant, and near the edge of the platform, rows of dwarf corpses were parked here covered with white cloths. The wind in the mountains was sometimes strong and sometimes light, and a strong wind blew, and the white cloth was turned up and then fell. But the situation under the white cloth has revealed a lot.
Laila seemed to be a little overwhelmed, and approached Doyle, holding his arm tightly with one hand and covering her mouth with the other. Andy was also shocked, although it was some relatively complete corpses, but they were also relatively intact. One of them, Andy could see clearly, one arm and one leg were missing, and a huge crack in the stomach exposed the intestines inside.
Doyle's brow furrowed, he really didn't expect that the dwarves would leave all the corpses here. "Let's go inside!" Doyle said with a wave of his hand.
In a makeshift tent, a dwarf sat helplessly on a chair, sighing from time to time. He heard the curtain ringing, looked up, and said listlessly, "You are the adventure team of the Iron Forge, sit inside." ā
Doyle nodded, and suddenly asked, "Why didn't you remove or dispose of those corpses?" ā
The dwarf glanced at Doyle and said, "You saw it too, I'm alone here!" The bastards helped me set up my tent and ran back to Sersama, leaving me alone. After a few words of grumbling, the dwarf continued: "By the way, my name is Ginza, and I am the surveyor of this site, and this is the message I passed to Ironforge Castle. ā
After hearing this, Doyle also said: "My name is Doyle, I am the captain of this team, and these are all my team members. Excuse me, do you have an update on this incident? ā
Genesa sighed and said, "If I made any progress, I wouldn't have sent someone to Iron Fort again and again!" ā
Doyle and the others looked at each other and shook their heads helplessly, their eyes full of disappointment. It seems that this matter is indeed quite tricky, and he is now wondering if the teams in Ironforge Castle know some specific circumstances before they don't take on this mission. Now that he has taken on this task by himself, no matter how tricky it is, he will not give up.
The dwarf Ginza suddenly said, "Oh yes, there is indeed a situation that I found when I counted the corpses in the afternoon. One of them was a guy named Grimmaud, who was originally from this quarry. Later, because of his excellent work, he was transferred to a quarry in the Gobi to the south as the head of the quarry, but he had to submit a report to the iron ring quarry every week. On the day of the attack, he was supposed to submit his report, but he was not among the bodies. ā
"Did he not come or did he go back early?" Andy asked with a frown.
Genenza clapped his hands and said, "Then you have to find him and ask him clearly, I am only responsible for providing some information!" ā
Doyle nodded, signaling that there was nothing wrong with him. Gienza gave them a few more precautions, then told them that the tent they were staying in was behind it, and got up and left.
In the tent where they stayed, Doyle and the others did not sleep, but gathered together to discuss: "What do you think? ā
Andy glanced at the others and said, "Basically, there are no clues, only a person's name and address, and it is not easy to find out." ā
"It's up to you to say that!" Before Andy could finish speaking, Layla choked on the side.
Andy smiled, and continued without annoyance: "I think it is very necessary to find out the situation of this Grim Mode, and it is possible that it will provide us with some valuable clues. ā
Doyle thought for a moment, nodded and said, "Then let's rest, early tomorrow morning, let's go to the Gobi to have a look." ā
Early the next morning, they said goodbye to the dwarf Gienza and, according to the message he gave, headed for the quarry in the Gobi Desert. By noon, they could already see the quarry, and the dwarves were busy on the shelves they had built.
"Hello, I'm looking for a dwarf named Grimud." Doyle was at the edge of the quarry, talking to the guards here.
The guard glanced at Doyle and asked, "Who are you, what are you looking for Director Grimmeade?" ā
Doyle glanced at the others, this quarry was unusually calm, didn't they know that they had just experienced a massacre in the quarries at Lokmodan? "We are an adventure party recruited by Ironforge to investigate the massacre at the Iron Ring Quarry in Rockmorean." In order to avoid misunderstandings, Doyle tried to make himself as detailed as possible.
"What? The Iron Ring Quarry has been slaughtered! The guard looked shocked, and it seemed that they really didn't know.
"What's the matter?" It was a bearded dwarf who walked over and asked.
The guard briefly relayed the story, then pointed to Doyle and the others, explaining their identities. The bearded dwarf nodded, letting the guard leave, and then said to Doyle, "I'm Redu, the surveyor here, tell me something." ā
Doyle explained the matter again, and then said, "The clue they gave was that Grimmead was going to submit a report that day, and we came here to ask him if he knew anything about it. ā
Lei Du's eyes darkened obviously, and he said in a deep voice: "It's unfortunate that you guys are here, the director is not here." In fact, he has not been back since he went to Loquemodan that day! ā
Andy's heart sank, and he suddenly felt his body cold, this was their only clue, if it was broken, they would have no clue. "Which way he went, we didn't find any suspicious traces on the way we came."
Redo thought for a moment and said, "When he comes back, there is a good chance that he will go to Uldaman." It's an ancient underground city, and we're doing archaeological excavations there, and it's the same with our quarry. He didn't go alone, he was accompanied by a dwarf named Grace. ā
Andy glanced at Doyle and said, "I think we need to go and see." ā
Doyle nodded and said, "Without further ado, let's go!" ā
Doyle asked for directions, and several people trotted all the way towards Uldaman. Uldaman is in the northeast of this quarry, and there is no grass on the entire Gobi, only stones and gravel, and his feet hurt when he runs on it. After running for half an hour, Leila suddenly pointed to a pile of gravel not far away and shouted, "There, look, there it is!" ā
Andy looked in the direction she was pointing, and was lying alone on the pile of gravel, looking like a dwarf. Andy's heart tightened, the worst thing that had happened was that he didn't know which of the two of them this dwarf was.
Andy sped up and ran quickly to the dwarf's side, sighing that they were late, he had obviously been dead for more than a day.
"Dead ...... He's dead! Doyle gasped and muttered.
Andy crouched down and touched the dwarf, and suddenly his hand touched the dwarf's arms, and there was something hard. Andy pulls it out and finds that it is a notebook that has been soaked in blood.
He opened the record, and it was a report of his trip to Lockmodan and Uldaman: they had found some ancient stone jars in Uldaman, just like the small stone statues we had found.
Then he turned the next page, and the handwriting was no longer legible, so he could only continue to turn backwards, and near the end of the page, he found some handwriting that could still be read: We were attacked by some monsters, and I ran out desperately, but Grace was in the middle of it, but I knew that he must still be alive!
Andy's eyes flickered, this Grimad was obviously attacked to death by the monster he said, but how could he be sure that Grez, who was trapped in Uldaman, would be alive? Andy handed the notebook to Doyle and sighed helplessly.
Doyle glanced at the records a few times, and his face was also gloomy. Andy stood up and said, "Let's bring his body back first, no matter what, he gave us a glimmer of hope!" ā