"Whew!" The gray-brown mist slowly dissipated from his eyes, and after flying most of the way through the deep trench underground, Gillie saw the black whirring mouth of the mine from the back of the giant eagle.

The square tunnel, which is three meters high and three meters wide, looks like a black hole the size of a pocket from this distance.

The old dwarf stood up from the back of the transformed giant eagle of Elistine, and the blood boiling in his heart already made him a little impatient. He leaped lightly from the eagle's back, and although there was still some distance, he was enough jumping skill for the legendary warrior to throw himself into the mouth of the pit that looked like the size of a pocket.

Sensing the old dwarf jumping away, Elistin turned around and flew away without hesitation. The two sides had fought side by side, and she believed in the strength of the old dwarf.

Seeing the eagle disappear into the fog again, Gillim turned his head and began to look at the cavern in front of him.

There were large pieces of mineral rubble scattered at the mouth of the tunnel, and two half-buried rails stretched out of the hole and hung down the cliff, twisting and breaking at the end, as if torn by a tremendous force.

Perhaps it was the tracks that stretched out of the potholes that made Illistin discover something unusual about this place.

About a few meters from the mouth of the tunnel, a battered mineral truck was dumped. The surface of the mineral car is covered with a thick layer of dust, and it looks gray and unremarkable.

The old dwarf took out a sackcloth from his bosom to wipe his sweat and stepped forward to wipe the dust off the minecart@sidewall. Yellow-brown rust grows like wildflowers on the surface of the mineral cart. It had one less of its four wheels, and the other three were rusty.

Gillim wiped a little harder, and he pressed a hole in the side wall of the minecart. Over the years, the mineral car has completely decayed.

The old dwarf stared at the "bubbling beer mug" emblem on the mineral cart, the kingdom crest of the Warhammer family. His piercing eyes slowly blurred, flashing with tears.

Hundreds of years! When he panicked and fled the Silver Hall, he was a beardless dwarven child. After a difficult struggle to survive in Icewind Dale, and many cold and hungry nights, he finally returned to his father's home in his lifetime!

"We will, we will definitely take back the Secret Silver Hall!" Holding his double-edged battle axe aloft, Gillim roared loudly into the black rumbling hole, as if shouting out all the feelings that had been suppressed in his heart for hundreds of years.

The roar echoed in the distance along the dark tunnel, and the old dwarf gripped the tomahawk in his hand with a resolute look on his face. However, the tunnel did not seem to be in the danger he had imagined, and after a while, nothing jumped out of the tunnel for him to vent.

One by one, the members of the exploration team were picked up by Elistine, except for the three beauties of the Apostle and Elistine, and the eyes of each dwarf who returned here were full of feelings and bitterness that only they understood.

The apostles were astonished to find a determined and fierce momentum spreading among the dwarves. They had no doubt that if any underground creatures came out now, they would be torn to pieces by these dwarves.

The dwarves walked silently towards the depths of the mine, not touching anything at the mouth of the mine.

In fact, even the dwarven predecessors hundreds of years ago could not have imagined that the abandoned minecart that was inadvertently left at the entrance of this mine would become a battle flag for the shield dwarves in the battle to recover the Secret Silver Hall in the future.

Later, every shield dwarf who arrived at the pit from the outpost camp carved the same oath into their hearts when they saw the historic minecart. Either you want to recover the Secret Silver Hall, or you want to die here, there is no third option.

As members of the exploration team, the final duty of Gillim and the others is to explore this place, find the main road of the mine, and then report it to the shield dwarf headquarters.

Hill and Rand follow the team deeper and deeper into the mines, where they discover that the dwarven mines are not the same as those seen in the Earth films.

The dwarves did not use a lot of supporting structures such as wood in the mines, and the tunnels in the mines were very tortuous and untidy. Hill even saw a stone pillar in the shape of a twisted vine in the center of a section of the road.

The two of them couldn't imagine how this twisted stone pillar, with an inclination of almost 30 degrees, supported the top of the mine.

Inquisitively, one of the dwarves beside Hill proudly told him. Dwarves were born with the ability to identify rock formations from the texture of underground rock formations. They cut the pillars into this shape by following the texture of the rock formations.

Like stacked bricks, sometimes the bricks that seem to be stacked crookedly on top of each other are actually extremely stable and able to support the huge pressure and weight on top.

When the dwarves are mining, they will never destroy important support points. It is only on certain sections of the road where there is a lack of bearing points that they use auxiliary wooden pillars. Although the winding tunnels are more difficult to transport ore, the rails and mineral carts laid on the ground largely solve the problem.

The mines dug by the dwarves rarely collapse, which is their innate talent.

All members of the exploration party were asked to maintain extreme silence, occupying the Shadow Dragons of the Secret Silver Hall and enslaving a group of gray dwarves.

Despite their chaos and evil, it is undeniable that the Grey Dwarves are also experts in mining and smelting. It is possible that they will also be mining in the mines, and if they are discovered, the tunnel that they have managed to find will be destroyed immediately.

They are moving fast, and the dwarves are at home here. They seem to have an innate idea of which way to go in order to find the main road to the mine.

"Hill, have you found any traces left by Qin Lun!" Along the way, Elistine harassed the shepherds incessantly. Because he was not good at observing details, the elven druids had to take the trouble to ask about progress.

"In this kind of place, the dwarves are more perceptive than we are, and if they find out, I believe they have already sued you." Hill was a little helpless, but in fact, there was something strange in his heart.

According to the previous clues, Qin Lun would not have been unable to discover this cave. If he gets here, he'll leave some clues. If you don't come in after finding out, then it would be quite strange.

Although Qin Lun had reminded him to be careful of himself before the problem, Hill didn't think that Qin Lun would sabotage this plot mission at the last moment, after all, it also had a vital interest in him.

"Silence!" After walking around the tunnel for a long time, Gillim in front of him suddenly gestured to the back, and he found something.

The old dwarf beckoned, and the two dwarves lightly lowered their axes and pressed their ears against the stone wall to the right of the hole.

"It's a gray dwarf!" After listening for a moment, the two dwarves showed a hint of surprise on their faces, "We're lucky, behind this wall is the newly dug mine tunnel of the gray dwarves......"

"Go back!" Gillim waved backwards, and the members of the exploration team held their breath and retreated backwards for some distance.

"Lord Gillym, aren't we going forward any further?" Weiss's eyes flashed, and he asked tentatively.

"No, no, our mission is complete, it's over!" Gillim twisted his beard and smiled a little.

The mission of the exploration team is to find the passage to the mines leading to the Secret Silver Hall, but not to alarm the enemy. Although the Miyin Hall mining area extends in all directions, there are not many passages into the interior of the city.

Their mission is indeed over, and the Shield Dwarves will send a powerful vanguard to try to break through the mining passage once and for all, at least to occupy a forward position within the city. Otherwise, the gray dwarves will block the tunnels leading to the city, which is no easier than attacking the gates of the Secret Silver Hall from the surface.

"But...... What about Ferral, we can't leave him here alone! Elistin exclaimed, clutching Gillym's arm.

The old dwarf patted the back of Elistin's hand and said sternly, "Please rest assured, Elistine, the shield dwarf will never give up on his friends. If we don't alarm the gray dwarves, Feral will be in no danger. However, the situation here must be reported to the surface camp ......"

"We don't have much food and we can't leave too many people here. You and Ferral's followers will go back first, and I will stay here and continue to look for Filar until you bring the next group of dwarven warriors with you. ”

"No, I'll stay with you!" Elistin said firmly, "Let them go back." ”

Gillim eventually had to compromise, and Elistine, Idria, and Mastacia stayed with the dwarf, giving them all the extra food. The other dwarves and apostles had to embark on the return journey, but except for Hill and Rand, Weiss and the others didn't care about this.

When they return to the labyrinth fortress and take Lorraine back to the cave base on the surface, then the conditions for the completion of the epic pre-plot have been met.

Counting the entire stay, by the time they get back to the surface, there will be about a week or so left.

In fact, the time left to stay is due to the drow elves. If they hadn't stumbled in and cleared out most of the maze of minotaurs, the exploration team might still be wandering the maze right now.

Not to mention the four Gillimu who stayed behind, the mood of the exploration team members became much lighter and happier when they returned. Only Hill and Rand in the team were a little sullen. Although they knew from the list of team members that the guy was still alive, they were still a little unhappy.

Although they had been reminded by Qin Lun before, and even imagined that he would betray his team members and target his companions, they didn't expect him to disappear like this, and he didn't even leave a word.

This gave Hill and Rand a very bad feeling, as if the other party didn't care about them at all.

"Ciel, can you guess Qin Lun's intentions?" Rand asked softly, "I have a bad premonition!" ”

"Don't worry, he'll always be in front of us." Hill's eyes flashed, and he said slowly. I1292