From the time the turtledove noticed another follower pounce on him, to the time he used both hands to smash his cervical vertebrae, it all happened between the lightning and flint, and it was too fast to react.

Exiting his furious state, Turtledove looked at his clothes that had been scratched a few times, - not bad, his reaction was fast enough, his attack was hard enough, it was only his clothes that were torn, otherwise it would have been cut like his own belly.

The little worm quickly ran to the turtledove's side and asked in a lip whisper:

"You're not hurt, are you?"

The turtledove waved his hand heroically and replied:

"How is that possible?"

……

Both the turtledove and the worm knew that if they continued to go deeper into the mines, they would encounter more followers, and now it was only a small episode, but this did not affect their determination to move forward, especially the worm, this girl was clearly on the bar with the new empire.

After crossing four intersections, they finally came to Mine Road 18, where the entrance was sealed.

I don't know if it was because of the collapse and the death of people, this mine was much colder than the others, and the turtledove touched the back of his neck from time to time, and he always felt that something was watching him in the dark.

Don't forget, the turtledoves are most afraid of ghosts.

He doesn't show the slightest fear when fighting the Voice Followers, and the same is true when facing wanderers, but the turtledove is afraid of ghosts, just like some people have a fear of heights, whenever they are in the dark, they can't help but think of ghosts, and then become afraid.

The little insect took the flashlight and tried to pull the stones blocking the eighteenth mine road twice, to see if she could find anything, but of course she didn't find anything, she was not too surprised by this, and took the map to the turtledove, and the little insect reached out and gestured on it.

What she meant was that we could go down Mine Road 18 to the depths.

……

After a few steps deeper, the two of them felt that the temperature in the mine was rising significantly, and the cold feeling they had before was swept away, and they must have been very close to the underground coal mine that was still burning.

As he walked forward, the worm used his pen to write and draw on the simple map, as the map only recorded the part of the mine entrance, and the worm wanted to mark the mine behind it, as it was likely to be needed when leaving here.

The turtledove was not in a hurry, he knew that the worm was not wasting time, the depths of the mine would definitely be like a maze, if he didn't have a map in hand, even if he and she finally found out the truth hidden in the depths, I am afraid that there would be no way to leave, and they would be trapped here alive.

While the worm was drawing a map, the turtledove turned on his flashlight and looked closely around him, and almost every once in a while, he could see a clenched black fist on the wall, which the worm told him was the mark of the new empire.

"Minecart?"

After walking a little further, Turtledove found a rusty section of railroad tracks in a nearby mine, and an abandoned minecart next to the tracks, which had broken into disshapen shape, and several wheels had fallen crookedly beside the rails.

The light of the flashlight went all the way along the railroad tracks, and the turtledove tiptoed like a deep look in this mine, and it was just such a glance that the turtledove quickly turned out the flashlight and retracted his head, - there were seven or eight humanoid monsters in this mine.

It's the kind that often appears in the ruins of cities.

The turtledove's little heart liver was about to be frightened apart, where would he have thought that he would casually pick a mine path and look inside, and just happened to pick a one with so many humanoid monsters, fortunately it was daytime, and those humanoid monsters were in a sleeping state like the sound followers, otherwise he would have really gotten into trouble just now.

Quietly exiting the mine, Turtledove found the worm that was still drawing a map there, attached it to her ear, and whispered to her what he had just seen.

"Nothing strange," said the worm, "I had already guessed that there would be one of those humanoid monsters when I saw the Voice Followers. ”

Turtledove didn't understand how she guessed.

"We can call humanoid monsters the basic breed of those monsters, because they are the most numerous, then the Voice Followers and Wanderers are rare breeds with special abilities."

"They're all homeless people in the camp, so of course the most are humanoid monsters, and if there are no humanoid monsters here and all of them are followers or wanderers, it would be strange."

The turtledove pondered for a moment, and the little worm's analysis made sense, but he didn't know how many monsters were still hiding in the dark.

……

The unexpected "discovery" made the turtledove more cautious, where did he dare to run around again, and followed the worm step by step, and the two of them walked all the way along the eighteenth mine road, the worm suddenly stopped leaving, she asked the turtledove to keep quiet, and then pricked up his ears.

The turtledove clenched his machete, ready to fight at any moment, and he thought that the worm had sensed a monster nearby, but who knew that it was not, because the worm said to him:

"Listen, is there the sound of water?"

The turtledove listened carefully for a while, and sure enough, he heard the sound of "ticking, ticking" water.

"This way."

The little worm led the turtledove into a side tunnel, and before they had gone far, they came to a small puddle. The puddle is not big, and you can walk through it with your legs, but the insect's attention is attracted by this puddle.

She crouched down and dipped the tip of her pen in a drop of water, and met the glow of the flashlight, which suddenly shimmered with a crystal green light.

"Dripping from above."

The turtledove flashed his flashlight on the wall next to it, only to see a few thin lines of water divide the wall into several parts, and following the traces of these water flows, the light of the flashlight finally fell on the top of the mine.

"Tick."

A drop of water fell from above and landed in this small puddle.

"Above?"

The little worm stood up, she suddenly understood something, and couldn't help but whisper:

"Upper!"

The turtledove didn't know what the worm was trying to understand, but he knew that the worm's low cry had awakened the monsters in the darkness, and one after another low roar had been heard from everywhere.

"Hurry up, hurry up."

The roar came and went, and the turtledove pulled the worm and ran wildly in the direction it came, and as soon as it ran to the intersection of this mine and the eighteenth mine road, it was confronted by a humanoid monster with teeth and claws.

The turtledove raised and fell with his knife and cut off the opponent's head with a single sword.

However, more humanoid monsters emerged from the mines, roaring and running, trying to tear turtledoves and insects to pieces and swallow them.

Not only the humanoid monsters, but also several Sound Followers in the deeper tunnels were rushing towards this side, they heard the voices of the humanoid monsters, and they also wanted a piece of the pie.

For a while, the entire Gray Soil Ridge pit was filled with the roars of monsters, and the situation was extremely critical for the turtledove and the little worm.