The next morning, the bonfire went out, and the air was still a little cold.

In autumn, the temperature begins to drop rapidly, and it is even chilly to wake up in the morning.

After breakfast, pack up your gear. Just as Arrow was about to pick up his backpack, Cream only took his two short swords with him, carried some food with him, and was ready to go. And the two city dwellers were the same, they put tents and sleeping bags and stuff here, and they weren't going to bring them in.

"Don't you bring gear?"

In response to Arrow's question, Cream only sneered, but did not respond.

Arrow thought for a moment, then turned his head to look at Brad and Coco, who had already carried their things.

"Hmm...... Let's put our gear here, too. ”

Brad and Coco responded, equally lightly.

With a stab, Arrow, Cream, and two city dwellers, a total of four torches were lit. Before entering the cave, Cream takes out a small birdcage from the package and hands it to Brad.

Brad looked at the birdcage and turned to look at Arrow.

"What do you see? Your little fish guild is a little upset when you see the predator, aren't you? ”

Cream's mouth is still so tricky.

Arrow pursed his lips, but finally nodded to Brad and told him to pin the birdcage to his waist.

Ready, the group finally walked towards the mine. Brad and Cream were at the front, followed by Arrow and Coco, followed by the two citymen, and the undead soldiers at the back of the line.

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Smack-smack-smack-

The mine is deep.

The sound of footsteps echoed back and forth in the narrow cavern, turning into a muffled hiss.

This century-old mine has been shrouded in darkness for I don't know how long, and with the light of the torches flashing, it seems that some darkness can always be seen dispelled by the light, but after the torches leave, it quickly fills the space that has lost its light as if it were alive.

Brad was at the front, hammer in one hand and torch in the other, cautiously moving forward. But no matter how careful he was, the cream on the side always seemed to stop him at some point, and after some probing, he would be allowed to step away.

Arrow pinched the torch and reached for Coco.

The little magician was now hunched his neck, as if he was afraid of waking up something, and walked slowly.

Forks in the road.

It's another fork in the road.

Arrow couldn't remember the first fork in the road he had seen when he entered.

The only thing he knew was that every time he reached a fork in the road, the whole team had to stop, mark it and move on.

The mine is constantly descending, and the route is getting narrower, and in some places you have to bend down to get through.

In addition to the increasingly difficult path, there are also higher and higher temperatures.

It didn't take much effort, but by the time Arrow came back to his senses, his back was already soaked with sweat.

However, this crater seems to have no end, and it is not known where its deepest part ends......

At this time, the two people who walked in front stopped again.

But when Arrow took out a pen and paper and was about to record the map, he found that the two men did not mark the side of the fork in the road like before.

"What's wrong?"

Somehow, Arrow unconsciously lowered his voice and asked softly.

And when his voice came out, it seemed to be pulled by some kind of force, and this question was hammered back and forth in the cave, and the echo that came from it could not be calmed down for a long time.

The cream in front turned his head, a somewhat uncomfortable smile on his face, and pointed ahead.

Arrow glanced at him and over his shoulder.

Ahead, it is already a dead end.

But there are some very uncomfortable things left on the wall of this dead end-

Writing.

The reason why these words are uncomfortable is that they are not written with anything, but more like they were scratched out of this hard rock with human fingernails.

Some of the smudges that had already gone black had been stained on the words, and I wondered if it was the blood left by something when they were written......

"President, this is ...... What was written? ”

Brad instinctively lifted the hammer and asked.

Ero swallowed and said, "This is ancient writing, I have seen it in history books. The present script was born from these ancient scripts...... But some know, some don't......"

"'Please forgive me.'"

Suddenly, a voice came from behind.

Arrow turned his head and saw the tall city man reading the words, nodded again, and said, "That's right, it's 'Please forgive me'." I've studied history and know some of these things. ”

Cream exhaled and smiled, "It seems that some poor little boy wants to be forgiven by the girl, so he carved such boring words here." ”

Suddenly, Arrow thinks that this guy may have some merits, and knows that he should make some unfunny jokes at such a time?

The crowd did not speak, regrouped and retreated. Before leaving this dead end, Arrow turned back again, and in his eyes, the words that he didn't know what had been carved out of them appeared in the firelight, and then disappeared again with the light, and disappeared into the darkness again.

Go back to the previous fork in the road and choose another path to continue.

As the road gets deeper, the burning sensation in the air gets deeper and deeper.

Looking at the beams supporting the mines, Aero suddenly felt that something was not quite right.

Originally, if the mine was to be supported, the wooden beams should be constructed with the best stress structure.

But look at the wooden beams that are now erected here, but they give people a kind of indiscriminate construction, and they don't consider the stressed area at all, and under normal circumstances, the supervisors here will definitely be angry if they see the stressed wooden beams so messy! But now it looks ......

It's like there's something deep in this mine...... It is attracting the people who dig the mine to dig inwards frantically regardless of their lives......

"Stop!"

Brad's voice was already loud, and it became even more harsh when he shouted out of this narrow cavern.

He turned his head, his face covered in sweat. But the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned, as if ...... Laughing?

“…… Brad, what's wrong? ”

Arrow asked cautiously.

The corners of Brad's mouth showed a smile again, and he shook his head: "I didn't ...... thing, just a little hot. Just drink some water. It's just ...... there."

He lifted his hand and pointed to the wall. And there were words that looked like fingernails had been scratched out of them.

"'Please forgive me'...... This sentence again? ”

The tall city man couldn't help but touch the sweat on his forehead and muttered softly.

The short city man on the side became a little nervous, he tugged at the tall armor, and said, "Hey...... This mine ...... There can't really be any problems, right? I...... I've been feeling ...... since I was right now It's like something is watching me...... Very uncomfortable! ”

Tall city man: "Don't be crooked, we haven't even seen a single demonic beast from the beginning to now, where is the thing staring at us?" ”

Arrow whispered, "Don't talk so much, keep going." ”

Moving on, the mine continued to maintain its seemingly never-ending appearance.

However, the words on the walls began to increase as the footsteps echoed.

And......

And that's not all.

"'Please forgive me.' ”

"'I want to.' ”

"'It's almost there.' ”

"'I will be saved.'" ”

As more and more words appear, sentence patterns begin to become more and more complex.

At first, the tall city people were able to explain, but as the text on both sides became more and more disorganized, even the tall city people could not recognize what was written here.

Arrow's footsteps lifted and lowered gently......

But as he walked down the stairs, his gaze inadvertently fell on Brad's waist.

There is a birdcage hanging there.

And not long ago, the little bird that was very active in it now fell to the bottom of the cage with messy feathers and looked like it was dead?!

"Stop!"

Arrow hurriedly stretched out his hand to pull Brad, who was still walking forward, but Brad's strength was so great that he even shook his arm, broke free of Arrow's hand and continued to walk forward?

"Brad!"

Parfay flew out of Brad's pocket, calling out her partner's name and slamming the scent into his nose.

All of a sudden, the aroma was too strong and made Brad's steps stagger, and he froze in place as if he had just woken up from a dream, looking at Parfay blankly.

"You, okay?"

In just a few days of language learning, Parfay will only know some of the simplest languages. But it was enough for her to express her nervousness right now.

It took Brad a while to finally come to his senses, he nodded lightly and rubbed his nose: "I...... I think I'm in a dream? I feel like my body is fluttering......"

Eero leaned over to Brad and looked at the birdcage. That's right, the bird inside is indeed dead. But this doesn't look like poison gas, after all, there is nothing unusual about everyone in his group except for Brad.

"It feels like you've been hit by instant death magic......"

Coco hugged the twig, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and muttered.

The short city man looked even more nervous, and his steps involuntarily took half a step backwards: "Death...... Instant death magic? Who...... Who's going to die magic?! Necromancer...... You...... You necromancy...... Necromancer......! ”

"Stop talking nonsense, which necromancer has nothing to do to kill the bird that leads the way? This bird must have been killed by heat. ”

Cream snorted, reached out to wipe the sweat from his forehead, and came over to put his arm on Brad's shoulder: "Brother, you too, it's too hot and dehydrated, so your brain is not normal." I heard that the Changmian Mountain Range used to be an active volcano, but now it is dormant, but it is understandable that there is some heat here. There are so many crazy words here that should be the previous miners who didn't replenish water in time, and finally hallucinated and scribbled. ”

Originally, Iero didn't want to say that it was written by the miners, because the miners used their fingers to leave these scratches on the hard walls could not be explained by the normal overheating and lack of water.

But since Cream said so, Arrow could only take advantage of the situation and say, "I also think so, the temperature here is too high, it seems that now is not the best time to explore, it should be winter......

"Nope."

The tall city man shook his head and said in a very tough attitude—

"We don't have time to wait until winter, no matter what, we have to get some results today. Let's keep going. ”

Arrow: "Go down?" The bird that can lead the way has ......"

"Drink plenty of water and conserve your strength. We're not like the miners, we're ready to come. ”

The tall city man took out a bottle of potion from his waist bag and drank it, and a layer of mist immediately slowly appeared around him, and the city man immediately showed a cool expression.

So, what a valuable and convenient thing alchemy potion is! After this mission is completed, you must let this little girl learn to read and write as soon as possible, and then give me alchemy!

Coco didn't understand why her own president suddenly looked at her with a slightly resentful look, which made her feel a little hairy.

The short city man also drank a bottle, and since that was the case, Arrow could only agree to move on.

"Everyone, take care to stay hydrated."

Arrow commanded, looked up at the garbled writing on the wall, gritted his teeth, and still commanded the team forward.

It's just that......

A little further inside, the text is gone.

It may not be accurate to say this, but it would be more accurate to say that those nicks have become the purest ones.

There is no text, no logic, not even any system.

It is to use human fingers to draw meaningless patterns on the stone wall. Sometimes you can see that the sun is in the pattern, the village, and the human being.

But more often than not, nothing appears in those patterns, only occasionally...... Very occasionally, it seems that some very strange bodies can be seen in those messy patterns......

The temperature began to drop.

The mist surrounding the two city dwellers also faded away as the effects of the medicine passed.

The pattern on the wall finally disappeared completely, and the more you walked, the more you could feel a comfortable temperature.

However, this comfortable temperature did not last long, and soon, a damp, but mixed with the smell of feces and urine, gradually spread from the depths of the mine.