"I said girl," standing on the outer edge of the Grey Ridge, the turtledove stopped the little worm that was about to break inside, "you have a secret and refuse to tell me, it's not that I can't understand that you have a problem, but you must tell me first, what are we looking for in the Grey Ridge?" ”

"Ash Ridge used to provide coal for the New Empire before it was destroyed by fire."

"So what?"

"So didn't we happen to be passing by here, stopping by to have a look."

"By the way? You know there's a fire burning underground, right? ”

"Yes."

The worm replied easily, and the turtledove couldn't help but be speechless for a moment.

"Let's go," the little worm snapped his fingers at the turtledove, "don't be like a big girl with yellow flowers, and you are so big." ”

"Although the final destination is an oasis, there are many places along the way that can be related to the Wings of Liberty or the new empire, and we should not let go of places like this, and if we are lucky, we may have a windfall."

The turtledove scratched his ears and cheeks for a while, and finally decided to listen to the worm, so he and the worm stepped on the thin gray dust all over the ground, and slowly advanced towards the mysterious and strange gray soil ridge.

……

The sky here seems to be snowing.

In order to cope with the prying eyes of the actual forces, the local people not only formed their own militia units, but also accepted the name of the new empire in exchange for the protection of the new empire at the cost of supplying coal mines.

The so-called protection refers to the fact that the new empire specially sent an army to be stationed here, and the new imperial army equipped with elves presumably, the several forces around the gray soil ridge cannot be put on the table at all, so this move of the gray soil ridge cannot be said to be unwitty.

Later, I don't know what happened, there were several accidents in the coal mine here, and finally the entire gray soil ridge was ignited by a sudden fire, and no one survived in the whole town, and those who survived were not in the town for various reasons.

Even the troops of the new empire stationed here suffered serious losses and were almost buried with them.

There is a grapevine that the fire was not a natural disaster, but a man-made disaster, and the forces around Gray Soil Ridge saw that the coal mines here were connected with the new empire, so they united and quietly burned Gray Earth Ridge into ruins with a fire.

Of course, this is just grapevine.

……

The ruins of the town remained, and the turtledove walked through the ruined houses, and he couldn't help but feel creepy, knowing that these houses had been inhabited before, and not only that, but their owners were probably burned alive in them.

Speaking of which, Turtledove remembered another "gossip" related to Grey Ridge, where it was said that someone had come here after the fire had gone out, but strangely, they had not found a single body in the ruins of the town.

It was as if all the inhabitants had vanished from the world.

Since then, no one has wanted to approach Grey Ridge again, because the place has an eerie smell and rumors of being haunted, and for so many years, except two years ago, when a group of homeless people who were not afraid of death wanted to re-establish a settlement here, there was no one in a hundred miles of people.

However, no news has been heard from the group of outcasts since they entered Grey Ridge, and no one knows if they are still alive.

"Hiss......"

The more I thought about it, the more scary it became, and I couldn't help but take a cool breath, and my whole body was covered with goosebumps.

……

Passing through the ruins of the town, Worm leads the turtledove to the edge of a huge pit, the Gray Ridge Mine, which once provided a large amount of coal resources for the new Empire.

All the facilities in the pit were burned to ashes in the fire, and there was only a bare oval pit left in front of me, which was a little ugly, and exuded a slightly hot and scorching smell, and if you breathe a little wider, you will feel that your nasal cavity is very dry.

"Let's go down."

As the worm spoke, he tried to find his way down.

"Don't, don't, don't worry," Ikaruga was excited, and his voice trembled a little, "Are you sure you really want to go down to the pit?" ”

"Of course."

The turtledove didn't know where the little worm got so much curiosity, he saw that the little worm had a firm attitude, and he had already been said by the little worm "mother-in-law", gritted his teeth, and the turtledove dragged the little worm back, and pretended to be heroic and said:

"Follow me, I'll go down first."

The pit wall is not steep, the slope is still relatively gentle, and the turtledove slides all the way down the pit wall, where there used to be a special road for workers to go down to the bottom of the pit, but now it is gone, and the turtledove can only choose this way of adventure.

By the time the turtledove slid to the bottom of the pit, it was covered in dust, and he slapped his clothes as hard as if he were slapping a bag of flour.

"A lot of entrances have collapsed."

The little insect also slipped to the bottom of the pit, and she patted her clothes as she looked around, only to see that there were not only entrances at the bottom of the pit, but also many entrances on the walls of the pit, but most of those entrances had collapsed, and even if they hadn't, they couldn't go up.

At this time, the turtledove suddenly remembered something.

"How are we going back?"

Yes, the two of them were able to slide down the pit wall, but how could they get up.

"We'll see when the time comes."

The little worm replied nonchalantly, and then swayed around the bottom of the pit with a big grin, and she counted slightly, there were about a dozen entrances to the bottom of the pit, and in addition to the completely collapsed ones, there were three entrances to enter.

Choose one of the three, not very easy to choose.

"Then choose this, it's all the same anyway."

Since the little insect showed the courage to not be afraid of heaven and earth, as a big man, the turtledove naturally couldn't fall behind her, and with a finger, the turtledove picked an entrance for the two of them.

"Done."

The little worm did not object, and the two of them walked side by side, walking into the entrance of the mine with four faded red letters of "Pay attention to safety" at the top.

It was dark but not damp, and you could feel the air circulating, and the turtledove was walking in front with a flashlight, and the little insect was following with another flashlight in his hand.

The mine road is very narrow, every time you walk forward for a while, you will see the wooden shelves used to support, walking for about ten minutes, turtledove patronized the flashlight to illuminate the road ahead, walking, he suddenly stumbled, almost tripped under the soles of his feet and fell to the ground.

"What's wrong?"

Worm asked with concern.

"It's fine, I just tripped over something...... Ay? How can there be a can here? ”

The turtledove crouched down, and at first he thought it was a stone, but it was not a stone, but a can of beans, and the beans in it were eaten up, and an empty jar was left here.

"Is that the outcasts?"

The little worm picked up the jar and looked at it, but the turtledove stood up and said:

"There's still one ahead!"