"Boys, bring the rope ladder, and we'll go straight down the cliff." Gillim yelled at the dwarves of the expedition.

After the exploration team and Qin Lun and the four of them converged, the first small difficulty in front of them was how to go from the bottom of the cliff where they were currently located to the mushroom woodland.

Originally, the dwarves did not climb directly down the cliff, but had to detour a long mountain road. However, the people brought by Gillim this time were sufficient, and he carried a few laps of rope ladders hundreds of meters long, and he was eager for revenge, so he didn't want to take a detour anymore.

From the cliffs where they were located to the mushroom woodland plains, about a hundred meters high, the dwarves hung down four rope ladders and began to attach themselves downward. Qin Lun had something on his mind, so he lagged behind a little and followed Lorraine.

"Lorraine, what did you know to confirm that this underground rift can lead to the Secret Silver Hall mine?" Qin Lun asked cautiously.

"It's very easy, many of our people are experts in finding ore veins, and the rock formations where the large ore veins are stored are different from ordinary rock formations, as long as we go deep underground for a certain distance, we can confirm whether there are valuable ore veins in the vicinity, and whether they have been mined."

Lorraine shrugged his shoulders, now that Gillim had agreed to Qin Lun to join the exploration team, he put aside his concerns, and the information that he couldn't reveal to Qin Lun could now be said without any scruples.

"Is that it?" This answer surprised Qin Lun, and the silver-haired elf asked, "But the spine of the world runs through the northern part of the continent, almost tens of thousands of kilometers long, and there are countless underground ore veins, can you confirm that the ore veins near here have been mined by the Secret Silver Hall before?"

"Yes!" Lorraine laughed heartily, "We dwarves are as familiar with the veins as you elves are with the forests. Large ore veins that have been mined can have a lasting effect on the rock formations within a certain range. It's like replanting trees in a once destroyed forest, you elves can see it at a glance, right? ”

"That's right!" Qin Lun has nothing to say, even if the forest that has been cut down on a large scale is replanted, it will take a long, long time for its ecological environment to recover, not to mention elves, even ordinary people can see it.

"The Warhammer Clan, where the Dwarven King belongs, has returned from Icewind Dale, and their knowledge of the veins near the Secret Silver Hall is like a view in the palm of their hand." Lorraine said with a smile, "Although the existing shield dwarves no longer remember the path to the Secret Silver Hall mining area in the Dark Regions, with their familiarity with the ore veins, they will not be mistaken. ”

"Hmm!" Qin Lun replied absentmindedly, ruling out the possibility that this road could not lead to the mining area of the Secret Silver Hall, then the possibility that this epic branch plot would require a stay of nearly a month, there was only one left.

The entire expedition team soon gathered at the bottom of the cliff and headed towards the mushroom glade under the leadership of Gillim.

"Standing here and looking, these mushrooms are really tall!" Idria looked at the giant mushroom beside her and muttered.

"I can't communicate with them, be careful!" Illistin withdrew his palm from the giant mushroom and furrowed his eyebrows slightly. In these giant mushrooms, the elves' unique elven trivia talent does not work in the slightest.

After all, the mushroom forest is very different from the forest plants on the surface, or maybe it is because the dark region is out of the realm of the priesthood of Ririfin. Although Elven Story is a racial talent, it is actually a blessing from the god of the forest to the elves.

"The vegetation here is amazing, it's like a carpet." Mastasia crouched down and ran his fingers over the dark brown vegetation of the ground like a velvet carpet.

Unlike the flowers and shrubs of the surface forests, the vegetation here is low and dense all year round, mostly less than two inches high, but it is lush and dense, and it is indeed as pleasant as a carpet to the touch.

"Hehe, don't look at them as harmless as they are now, but if you lie here all night, then you will never wake up. These carpet-like vegetation can paralyze and invade your whole body overnight, and after three days and nights, you will be absorbed without a trace, leaving no trace of hard bones behind. ”

Lorraine shook her head and sighed, "For adventurers who enter the Dark Regions for the first time, most of them do not die in the mouths of predators, but are silently devoured by these underground vegetation when they rest at night. ”

Lorraine's account sent shudders down the shoulders of several of the beauties in the group, and Mastacia retracted her finger and looked at the dwarf in exasperation.

"Stop!" The team had advanced some distance through the mushroom forest, and Gillim, who had opened the way in front of them, suddenly stopped the group and motioned for everyone to disperse.

"Are there any enemies...... Damn, the fog here affects the vision of the staring aura! Qin Lun's eyes lit up with a yin and yang fish pattern, but he was quickly canceled by him, and when he stood on the cliff, he didn't feel that after entering the mushroom forest, his vision was very limited, and he could hardly see thirty meters away.

"Do you feel the ground shaking?" The shield guard of Weiss's team suddenly frowned.

"Huh? Very faint, but ...... Indeed there is! Qin Lun and the others concentrated on feeling it and found that it was really the case. They should have noticed it a long time ago, but the thick layer of vegetation on the ground acted as a buffer.

"Ji~Limu~~" As the amplitude of the vibration increased, a strange cry that seemed to have been lengthened in the air in front of the team was heard.

"It's a mushroom!" Qin Lun, who had the best eyesight, saw the things in front of him first, and his face couldn't help but change slightly.

The giant mushroom at the front of the team was suddenly pulled open by a pair of huge palms, and a giant with a mushroom head leaned down from the air, and the huge face with facial features was facing Gillim at the front of the group.

Although this mushroom man is bent over, it is initially estimated to be more than 70 meters tall, and the umbrella-shaped mushroom cover almost covers the sky above the team, like a giant spirit god looking down on all beings in the clouds.

"Roya!" The dwarven elder's face was a little solemn, and his right hand holding the battle axe was bruised~, "We have already reached an agreement with you mushrooms, why are you still blocking our way at this time." ”

The mushroom named Loa tilted his head in thought, as if he was thinking about why he was stopping the dwarven exploration party here. It soon remembered, though, that the strange tone of the previous voice sounded again from the great mouth.

"Balance~Balance~~"

The mushroom man had only said two words, and then he stopped speaking, and stared at Gillim in a daze, as if he was confident that the dwarven elders would understand what it meant.

"Got it, we'll leave the old and weak women and children of the rat tribe behind!" The old dwarf's face darkened slightly, and strangely enough, he really understood the mushroom man's strange words of only two words.

After hearing Gillym's promise, the mushroom man straightened up, let go of the hands that were holding the giant mushroom, and slowly left the exploration team.

Don't look at the frequency of its pace, but each step can step dozens of meters, and soon the vibration of the ground tends to be weak again, and the huge figure of the mushroom man disappears into the pink spore fog around the mushroom forest.

"What does that mean?" The apostles were a little confused, but the two plot elves, Elistin and Mastaxia, were thoughtful.

"The balance that the mushroom people refer to is to ask the dwarves to give up the extermination of the rat tribe, leaving the old and weak women and children in the tribe." Mastasha sighed and explained to Qin Lun and the others.

"Does this have anything to do with balance?" The black-robed mages in the team still didn't quite understand.

"The rat-man is an omnivorous organism that eats everything, not only the plant giant mushroom, but also the insects of the endangered mushroom forest. They are an important part of the entire mushroom ecosystem, just like wolves in the jungle. Illistin explained with a smile.

In this way, the apostles understood it. Wolves are predators, but they are essential to the jungle. Without wolves, the herbivorous population would not be controlled, and once the forest flooded, the vegetation would be destroyed, and eventually the ecological environment would be out of balance.

The nezumi killed the passing dwarven exploration party, and the mushroom people could not stop the dwarves from taking revenge, otherwise the shield dwarves would return with the goal of destroying the mushroom forest. The lesser of two evils, the mushroom people had no choice but to ask Gillim to spare the old and weak women and children of the rat tribe.

In this way, the nezumi will be able to continue to reproduce, and the dwarves will no longer be hindered from their exploration.

After such a small episode, the team was back on the road, but the morale of the exploration team was noticeably not as high as before, and even the most chatty dwarves were reluctant to speak.

This situation did not last long, as the exploration team soon followed Weiss's guidance to the location of the Light Sound Bat, which is the cave where the Nezumi tribe is located.

This nezumi cave is located on the left edge of the mushroom forest, slightly above the mushroom forest, forming a gentle slope with the ground, about ten meters high. The gentle slope of the cave is planted with a grayish-white mushroom capped the size of an adult's palm.

From the perspective of Qin Lun and the others, it looked like a planned mushroom field, with only a two-foot-wide passage in the middle that went straight to the depths of the cave.

"Squeak!" A black shadow flashed in mid-air, and Weiss had two more light bats on his shoulders.

"The rats that attacked the dwarves have all entered the burrow, but there are too many forks in the burrow for the light bat to find out the details!" Weiss pretended to report to Qin Lun, while Gillie and Lorraine listened from the sidelines.

In fact, at the speed of a light bat, it was possible to explore the entire cave before they came. But the Light Bat has no defense, and if it is discovered by the nezumi, the cave is so narrow that it may be shot down, and Weiss doesn't want to lose such a valuable alchemy item here.

"I'll go!" The monkey is eager to try, and this kind of occasion is naturally going to be a thief.

"I'll have another stealthy summoned beast work with you!" After such a long period of cultivation, Venus, who had been hit hard, could finally be summoned again, Qin Lun turned his head and asked, "Lord Gillym, do you think it's okay to arrange it like this?" ”

The Dwarven Exploration Team does not have the Rogue and Ranger classes, or the Dwarves who are bold by nature, and generally do not switch to these two combat classes.

"Thieves and Shadow Leopards don't have much of a role to play in the Shadows, they can't get by." Hearing Qin Lun and the others' discussions, Gillimu showed a strange look on his face, "Or...... Do you really think those nezumi are beasts, and think they're easy to deal with? ”I1292