"This is the entrance."

After a little rest and a little recuperation, the Byron knight led Gawain and his party to the woods near the Goering Mill, and found the entrance and exit of the tunnel under a raised dirt slope - the hole is not large, hidden between the stones and tree roots at the root of the dirt slope, and the outside has been covered with vines and fallen leaves, if it were not for the guidance of the Byron knight, I am afraid that anyone passing by here will subconsciously ignore it.

Byron had destroyed some of the vegetation covering the cave as he left the tunnel, and although he had done a little bit of recovering since then, he could still see signs of people coming and going. Pitman crouched down in front of the entrance to the cave and observed the situation inside, and then judged, "This is not supposed to be an exit, most likely because of an earthquake or the roots of the Giant Wood that opened the cracks in the ground to connect this cave to the tunnels below." ”

As he spoke, the old man said casually with a smile: "There are really a lot of things buried in the ground in the south. ”

Gao Wen suddenly felt that this old boy had something to say: "You included me in it!" ”

Pitman laughed dryly, then pulled out a small magic hedron from his bosom, injected a little magic into it to make it glow bright, constant, and threw it into the hole, making a "you go first" gesture to Gawain: "This is your time to get out of the horse." ”

Gawain shrugged his shoulders and stopped Knight Philip, who was supposed to be the first to go down, and jumped down first.

He felt himself stepping on a layer of soft, damp rotting leaves, surrounded by a narrow space of earth and rock, and the glow of the magic crystals that fell to the ground illuminated his surroundings, allowing him to see deeper: a winding and downward-sloping ramp ahead, with no signs of human processing, but more like the old druids said, connected to the deeper artificial tunnels by natural factors.

He picked up the magic crystal, shook it twice to signal safety underneath, and then took the lead in walking forward.

After a few moments, the amber aura followed, and the half-elf thief was clearly at home after entering this underground space, and she looked around curiously while turning the precious dagger in her hand in a happy mood: "This place has been stretching downward." ”

"If it's really those 'combat tunnels' dug up back then, then it must be very deep," Gawain said casually, "After all, there are often demonic tides leaking on the surface, and if you don't dig deeper, the people who take refuge in the tunnels are easily harmed." ”

The downward slope of the passage continued for a short period of time, and the surrounding area began to become wide and dry, and Gawain noticed that the dirt and natural gravel on both sides of the passage were gradually decreasing, replaced by artificially machined support beams, stone bricks, and solid walls treated with earth elemental spells, and as he continued to move forward, the ground also became straight, no longer sloping downward.

Looking at the surrounding scene, Gawain's brows gradually furrowed.

Amber also noticed something unusual, she stopped fiddling with the dagger, ran to a nearby wall to carefully observe the latter's material and the pattern on the wall, and then ran back to Gawain in shock: "That's not right...... The style of this place is different from the tunnels we walked through when we ran out of your tomb......"

"That's right, it's different, these aren't the Southern Underground Fortifications I presided over back then," Gawain held up the magic hedron to illuminate the surrounding walls and ground, "No wonder...... I was surprised when the Byron Knight mentioned that there was an underground passage under Tanzania, because there were no development plans for the area at the time, and even if it was not developed for a long time after I died...... Who's going to build tunnels here......"

Amber frowned, "If you look closely, it's a bit like that ruin in the Dark Mountains?" ”

It finally dawned on Gawain that vague sense of familiarity in his memory was coming from.

The architecture and materials of this underground passage are very similar to the giant ruins in the Dark Mountains!

The Byron knight himself was greatly surprised, he looked around carefully, and was surprised: "Really...... It did look very similar, but my cursed brain was so dizzy that I didn't even see it! ”

"The underground facilities left over from the Spark Age actually have ...... here" Gao Wen's heart fluctuated for a while, "So the ruins in the Dark Mountains are just part of a large group of ruins?" Or ......"

An even bolder thought popped into his mind: Could it be that the fortress buried in the Dark Mountains was connected to the underground passage of this place?!

These ancient passages cross a large area of land on the north side of the mountain range, cross the Baishui River and the forest area in the north of the mountain, and are completely contiguous?!

However, Gawain's bold speculation did not last long, and he quickly shook his head and thought that these thoughts were unlikely: even if the Gondor Empire was extremely powerful back then, the productivity was limited, and it was not only a long distance from the dark mountains to here, but also an intricate terrain such as mountains and rivers, so how easy it would be to build a complex of facilities of this magnitude underground?

Although to be honest, it is not impossible for the Gondor Empire to recklessly penetrate this land and establish such an "underground city-state" underground near the Dark Mountain Range with the strength of the whole country, Gawain really can't figure out what is worth their crazy investment here, and it is still a secret project to invest so much, and the people in Gondor and future generations are completely unaware of it......

Don't...... Is it related to the human experiments mentioned by Nicholas Egg, and related to the so-called "divine iniquity"?

"Hey, hey, what do you want?" Gawain's thoughts were interrupted by a sudden voice in his ears, and when he came back to his senses, he saw Amber shaking vigorously in front of his eyes with her claws outstretched, and Miss Half-Elf's face also leaned over, "You are distracted on this occasion?" ”

"No, it's nothing," Gawain quickly gathered his thoughts, putting aside all the speculation for now: now was not the time to think about them, "judging by the location, we should be directly below the bed of the Whitewater River." ”

"Really?" Amber glanced up in disbelief, the "stone" vault above was dry and steady, not the slightest drop of water, and not the slightest sound of the river flowing, "Oh my God...... This place is really deep enough, how can those people open such a tunnel under the riverbed......"

"I'm more curious about how he can accurately determine the position in this situation." Pitman stole a glance at Gawain and muttered.

Amber's ears twitched, and she opened her mouth to come: "This doesn't need to be asked, people have been buried in the ground for more than 700 years, and they are professional...... Alas, pain, pain! ”

Gawain twisted Amber's ears around, then stopped paying attention to the goods, and motioned for the Byron knight to continue to lead the way.

At the same time, he looked at the team he brought, and his heart suddenly felt a little cold-

An elven thief who is ashamed of everything, a druid who is good at making soup and selling fake medicines, an old fritter knight who can say that running away is so righteous Ling Ran, there are a total of five people in the team, and some of them have the wrong painting style, so it seems that in addition to being able to stabilize morale with a national face, Philip Knight who followed him with a serious and silent face to open the way is probably the only remaining conscience of the entire Cecil action team......

He was thinking about it when he saw Knight Philip suddenly turn his head and ask Byron seriously: "By the way, Byron, is the 'righteous retreat' you said before a knightly skill that I don't know?" ”

Everyone: "......"

Gao Wen sighed in his heart: It's rare to be a good guy, but he turned out to be a passive kind of praise......

As we got closer to the town of Tanzania, we stopped talking.

Based on his cheating memory map and ability to pre-read the terrain, Gawain could always roughly gauge where he was, and he found that the long underground passage was not straight, with many detours and forks in the middle—ignoring the collapsed or wrong routes, he found himself walking a small half circle around the eastern part of the town of Tanzania.

This is located right below the Tanzanian mine.

The topography of the town of Tanzania has been mentioned before: it is backed by the huge Tanzanite mine on the east side, and the two tributaries of the Baishui River on the west side, the whole town is roughly triangular, and Viscount Andrew's castle is located in the east of the town, connecting the gentle part of the Tanzanian mine base, in fact, the main building materials of the castle itself are mined from the mine: the mine not only produces iron ore and a variety of crystal ores, but also produces high-quality stone, It is not for nothing that the Leslie family, who owns this land, has enviable wealth.

At this moment, Gawain walked in the ancient tunnel directly below the mine, and the first thought that came to his mind was: Does that Viscount Andrew know about the existence of these underground ruins?

…… Most of him didn't know, because the iron ore and crystal ore in the Tanzanian mine are not deep veins, but are located in the mountains, and there is no need to dig deep underground in the mining tunnel, with the productivity of this era, digging deep underground without necessity is not a joke, and no one will do such a thankless task. And if Viscount Andrew really dug up this ancient ruin...... Then there will be no wind in the outside world.

As the largest populous and commercial hub in the vicinity, Tanzania isn't a place to keep secrets – it's not like a dark mountain where birds don't.

The terrain ahead began to rise.

The air was getting damp, a distinct air flow was being felt on the skin, and there was a faint sound coming from the front, indicating that the exit was near.

Not long after, they walked out of the tunnel, and saw the spot where the Byron knight had fallen: it was an open and steep cavern, and the bottom of the cave had a pool of groundwater, and the exit of the tunnel was located on the edge of the pool, and it was said that the exit was actually a cracked rock crack - obviously this was not a normal entrance, but a geological change or something that had cracked into this.

The real tunnel entrance and exit is not known where, and most of them have collapsed.

Seeing that there were no serious traces of water dissolution wind erosion in the rock crevices on the edge of the waterhole, Gawain couldn't help but turn his head and ask Philip: "Has there been an earthquake in this area in recent years?" ”

"No," Knight Philip shook his head, then frowned in thought, "but I've heard from those who have lived in Tanzania for a long time, that they occasionally hear a strange crying sound coming from the underground of the mine, which the locals say is the ghost of a slave worker who died in the mine, but the Viscount Andrew has searched with psychics and wizards a few times, and has not found the source of the strange sound." ”

"Yes...... Gawain said noncommittally, then looked up at the top of the cave.

There were vines and huge roots of trees could be seen spreading out from the side, and the hole must have been covered and hidden, and now it had been knocked out of a big hole: Byron's knight was so lucky that he really owe it to the goddess of fate for surviving.

If there was a god in this world.

"From here, you can see the east wall of the castle," Byron said, "but the entrance to the cave is almost straight and soft with dirt, and it is not easy to get up." ”

"Now it's up to the professionals!" Pitman stepped forward at this time, the little old man smiled, and then took out a tender green branch from his arms, he waved this branch as if waving a magic wand, constantly outlining one rune after another in the air, and the branch itself seemed to lose its vitality, and quickly turned from a vigorous tender green to withered and shriveled.

A rustling sound came from above, and the vines around the cave entrance were catalyzed and pulled by the druid's spells, and quickly grew and hung down!