Joining Dark's group was an old Menzaro man named Marduk, who looked to be in his sixties, with almost white hair, a slumped back, and a shovel that could barely hold in his hand. As soon as Duck made a move, the old guy's eyes lit up: This kid, you have strength!

With great strength, Duck wielded a shovel and divided the clay and fine sand from the silting tunnel, digging a large hole.

"Well done, boy, if we go on like this, we can do it for two days a day...... No, three days of work, fifteen hundred dinars, plus the commission for digging out the earth, at least two thousand twenty-three, developed!"

Duck didn't look back: "Two thousand for work, two hundred for mouth." That's it. ”

The old guy smiled: "Without my guidance, do you know where to dig? ”

"Three hundred at most. ”

"Just kidding, nine hundred!"

With a bang, Duck threw the shovel at the old fellow's feet: "Do it yourself." ”

The old guy hurriedly smiled: "Don't, don't, I'll let you let it again, six hundred, six hundred is okay? I'm old, I really can't do it." Young man, bear more. ”

Duck scoffed: "It's not my fault that you're old, don't you rely on the old to sell the old and eat and drink? and also instruct? Dig at the light-colored place, who can't see this little thing? Three hundred, not a single copper plate!"

The old guy rubbed his hands awkwardly: "This, how did you say this, help, help." ”

"It's useless to pretend to be pitiful, my friends are lying in the clinic, spending money like water, your old face can't get their lives back. Two hundred!"

The old fellow collapsed to the ground in despair, like a water bladder with a big hole in it.

"Unless—"

The old guy opened his eyes all of a sudden: "Unless what?"

Duck patted the sand on his hand and said, "Dig where there is a mine, say." ”

The old guy shuddered, "How do I know? If I knew, I would still be doing this life-saving work?"

Duck smiled, picked up the shovel, and continued digging.

The old guy's face kept changing, and finally gritted his teeth: "Okay, I'll tell you! I'm afraid you won't dare!"

The nearest node to the two is called the Farah Node, from which more than twenty tunnels stretch out, some of which have been carved into major arterial roads, along which many caves of various sizes have been dug into each side, each of which is inhabited by at least one Mensaro man, like grapes on a bunch of branches.

Other tunnels lead into the terrifying depths of the earth, each entrance guarded by at least twenty sentinels, who are constantly listening day and night, and are immediately sealed in the event of an anomaly. No one knows when the terrifying monster will launch a surprise attack. These pathways that can spawn monsters at any time are called the Path of Despair.

Standing at the entrance of the road of despair, the old man explained: "For more than three hundred years, digging and digging, all the high-quality ore that can be obtained has been dug up, and all that is left is some slag. There are many people who fight the idea of despair, and those who go down, none of the teams come back. ”

Duck said: "The explanation method is wrong, go in and take a look." ”

The old guy said helplessly: "It's useless to go in and see, the food and water we bring can't go far, and there may not be any man-eating monsters inside...... Hey, wait a minute!"

Under the pitiful gaze of a group of guards, Duck was the first to step into despair.

The cave wall is relatively high, at least seven or eight meters, it moves freely, the air is stuffy, one of the two has a slime face moon, and the other has been active underground for a long time, so it is more adaptable, and the movement is not affected at all.

After walking for more than 20 minutes, there were several undulating sections in front of me.

"Wait, the Thunder Demon Hill has arrived. Marduk pointed to the top of his head, "That's it." ”

"So what?"

"Young people, this shows the value of the experience of the elderly...... Okay, okay, I'll get to the point. ”

If you cut the desert longitudinally, you will see a structure like a cream cake, and in some places the cake crust is very thick, and the "cream" on the top layer will also bulge.

If you blow away all the sand and soil in the Thunder Demon Hill, you will see the hard rock foundation that rises high and is like a hill, and the tunnels in these undulating rock foundations are more complex, making them ideal habitats for cavemen.

Duck asked, "There may be an enemy ahead at any time?"

"That's right," Marduk nodded solemnly, "I'm in front, let's go slower." ”

The two of them walked one after the other, slowly, and every forty or fifty meters Marduk put his big ears to the cave wall to listen carefully, and then continued to walk.

There was silence in the deep, dry cavern, and Duck could hear his own breathing.

In the darkness, only the cold blue light emitted by the light stone lamp in his hand illuminated a distance of more than ten meters from the front and back.

Marduk suddenly leaned down and picked up something: "Look, the silver ring." Even if it's an old item, it should be worth at least one hundred and eighty dinards, right?"

Duck looked closely, and sure enough, it was a shiny silver ring, and he tried to find clues, but found nothing.

"Don't bother," said Marduk, "maybe the tunnel beetle ate the unlucky guy and pulled out the indigestible ring and dropped it here." ”

"Tunnel roll beetle?

"Don't talk!" Marduk suddenly waved his hand, slammed his ear to the ground, and raised his head, "Here, run!"

The ground trembled violently, and two tentacles the thickness of an arm swept back and forth, poking out from the corner in front of them.

In Dark's field of vision, a tabletop-sized crimson appeared in the darkness ahead.

Dangerous!

A horse-cart-sized beetle crawled slowly, its body covered in a heavy, mottled earthy yellow carapace, and its sharp teeth swayed like a cluster of sharp knives, closing in on the two of them.

"It looks like the carapace is quite thick, and it is estimated that the knife will not be able to cut through it. In this kind of terrain, melee combat must be beneficial to it, so let's try this. Duck muttered to himself as he pulled a thin Mithril noose from his belt.

Mithril is an expensive alchemy material with excellent conductivity of magical energy, and the loss rate of magical energy during transmission is extremely low.

Although it is worth a lot of money, as the founding father of the kingdom of New Tenotiran, it is natural that Mithril is not a problem.

Darkk patiently laid the noose on the ground, ignoring Marduk's anxious calls.

The tunnel roll beetle spotted Duck and crawled at a noticeable speed, and Duck grabbed the end of the noose and stepped back unhurriedly.

The forelimbs of the curly beetle stepped on the noose on the ground, and the noose did not respond. As most of its body pressed up, there was a soft click, and Duck pressed the button on his waist.

The core of the belt is the Capacitor Slime.

In the deep cave that has not seen the light of day for tens of thousands of years, a thunderous roar sounds.

The blue-purple thunder flashed, and the tunnel scroll beetle, which had never known what thunder and lightning was, was paralyzed all over, and its belly was turned upside down, and it was stiff.

The tunnel was filled with a pungent burnt smell.

Duck smiled slightly: "It's easiest to deal with these brainless things." ”

Marduk was overjoyed, covering his mouth, and strode towards the corpse of the curly beetle, saying, "Your belt has electricity, which is a good way, how many times can you use it?"

"The discharge time is too short, seventy or eighty times like just now. ”

"Young man, we have made a fortune, we have made a fortune! This thing eats everything, its mouth is big, and a lot of things are swallowed, quick, bring my shovel, such a big man, to say the least, it has grown for twenty or thirty years, there must be something good in the stomach, quick, quick!"

It was a huge curly beetle, its shell as hard as steel, but its belly soft, and of course, it had now turned into a mass of charcoal, which Marduk shattered with a slight stroke.

Marduk wielded a shovel, divided five by two, cut open his belly, poked his head in, and searched carefully. Darke watched with disgust.

After a while, Marduk laughed wildly: "Haha, look, what is this! A box, a delicate little box! Sure enough, there is a treasure!"

A fist-sized locket of pinched gold wire appeared in front of the two of them. 10