The mouth of the valley where the dwarven camp is located is small and large, and it is gourd-shaped. The valley is steep in the northeast and on the other side, but on the west side is a gentle slope overgrown with coniferous trees.

There was a long, narrow crack in the innermost part of the valley that was inclined downward, and inside it was similar to the underground cave where the teleportation circle was set up when Qin Lun and the others teleported from Candle Fort to the Northland, and it was full of pristine stalactites and stalagmites.

The Shield Dwarves intend to retake the outpost camp of the Silver Hall, and are stationed in this cavern at this time.

The Silver Hall is the most famous dwarven fortress in the Northlands and even in Ferron, once home to the glorious Warhammer family, now the lair of the Shadow Dragons and Grey Dwarves. The main part of this dwarven fortress is located in the belly of the Ridge of the World, and some of the city's annexed mines go deep into the dark regions, and the stone gate is halfway up the mountainside of the Ridge of the World, where only a narrow stone staircase road leads there.

This position is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and without sufficient air power, it is almost impossible to break through the front door of the Secret Silver Hall. In this situation, the shield dwarves had to find another way. They plan to enter the Dark Realm first, and then attack the Secret Silver Hall from the abandoned underground mining area of the Secret Silver Hall.

However, this method is also difficult to implement, and the fact that few of today's shield dwarves remember the underground mining routes hundreds of years ago.

Hundreds of years ago, when the Silver Hall was occupied by the Shadow Dragons, the dwarven king Bruno Warhammer was still a child, and his father died in the war.

''Because the disaster came so suddenly, despite the hard work of the elders of the shield dwarves, they couldn't stop the shadow dragon for long. Except for some old and weak women and children who escaped from the entire Secret Silver Hall, everyone else was buried in the dragon's mouth, so naturally they couldn't bring out any city map.

Since he could not storm the gate of the castle located halfway up the mountain, and there was no road map for the underground mining area, the Dwarven King had to patiently look for the surface rift near the foot of the Secret Silver Hall, and slowly explore the underground passage until he found out the dark area of this area, and then let the main army attack the Secret Silver Hall.

In fact, when Qin Lun entered the Torrell world last time and met Lorraine, this work had already begun.

However, after more than four months of exploration, the Shield Dwarves were able to identify three of the dozens of underground caverns that could truly lead to the dark regions, while the others were dead ends.

One of the three identified sites encountered a bottomless ravine at a depth of several hundred meters underground, and the exploration team could not move forward. Along the way of the second passage, there are several dangerous creature nests. If you want to attack, the losses will be too great to bear, so you will be abandoned.

Only the karst cave where the outpost camp is located is in the best condition, the passage is also in the right direction, and the deep underground is the closest to the original Miyin Hall mining area.

This is not to say that the cave is necessarily connected to an underground mine, but the dwarves don't care. As long as they are in the right direction, even if the last stretch of the road is blocked by rock formations, they are confident that they can use the pickaxe in their hands to open a passage.

Of course, this underground cave with the best conditions is only relative to the previous two, in fact, several dwarven exploration teams that entered the dark region in front of them all suffered different losses of personnel, and finally had to return to the camp.

There are many kinds of dangers they encounter, some are terrain-related, some are ore-related poisonous gases, and some are the nests of underground creatures. In short, all kinds of strange and untouchable dangers are only a norm in the dark region.

"Qin Lun, I haven't received a task prompt yet!" On the night of entering the camp, the apostles became impatient.

Especially Qin Lun and the three of them, their stay time is running out, and by tomorrow night at the latest, if they haven't received the task, they will have to return to the Shattered Starry Sky.

"If this particular area can't trigger the story quest yet, I'm afraid we'll have to take the initiative." Hill said calmly.

There are three main types of otherworldly missions performed by the Apostles, the first is the guidance mission arranged in advance by the Shattered Star Sky and the preset main mission. The second is the hidden branch that the apostle passively triggered when performing the main quest, and this kind of task is generally speaking, most of the historical plots obtained by the broken starry sky with insufficient original calculation data, and later with the activity of the apostle.

The last is the sudden mutation plot of the apostle when interacting with the plot characters, most of which belong to plot missions that did not exist in the original history.

The epic plot of the Secret Silver Hall series belongs to the second hidden branch, and the Apostle wants to receive this quest in two ways, either by triggering it in a specific region, or by taking it from a specific plot character.

It is easy to understand that it is triggered in a specific region, if Qin Lun and the others can meet the shield dwarves near the Secret Silver Hall and fight with the shadow dragon or the gray dwarves, then they can choose to help one of them, and this epic plot will naturally be triggered.

Qin Lun and the others had hoped to be able to trigger this quest in the shield dwarf's outpost, but now it seems that it has come to naught. As for the passage to go deep into the dark region alone to find the secret silver hall, it is extremely difficult, and it is basically impossible.

ruled out this choice, Qin Lun and the others could only take this task from a specific plot character. At this time, there are only two characters who can give this task to the Apostles, one is the legendary powerhouse of the shield dwarves, Gillim Brutehammer, and the other is Lorraine, the dwarven prince of Snow Peak.

Gillim rejected Qin Lun, the elven prince, and it was estimated that he would not agree to Qin Lun and the others to join the exploration team of the Secret Silver Hall, and the rest of the hope was only Lorraine.

However, the current Lorraine is no longer the dwarven prince who was killed in Iron Star Castle, and after that adventure, the dwarven boy has grown a lot. Although he still regards Qin Lun as a friend, he will no longer rely on him unreservedly.

If he persecuted the dwarf boy too much, it would make him suspicious and suspicious of Qin Lun's motives.

Of course, this does not mean that Qin Lun and the others have no choice.

If they forcibly held Lorraine into the Dark Realms, they might be able to trigger this epic plot as well. But then they will have no way out. Unless they succeed in finding the Silver Hall and prove that they are helping the shield dwarves, the angry dwarves will instead regard them as enemies.

This method is very undesirable, and neither Qin Lun nor the Weiss team dare to implement it lightly. The reason is simple, the shield dwarves have not been able to find a breakthrough for several months after setting up an outpost camp here. No matter how arrogant Qin Lun and the others were, they would not think that they were more suitable for exploring the dark region than the shield dwarves.

"You're so anxious, don't you have a whole calendar day?" Weiss's calm words appeared in the team channel.

Their team stayed for a few days longer than Qin Lun and the others, but if Qin Lun returned to the starry sky, they would have to take the initiative to leave the dwarf camp. Their identities on the surface are mercenaries protecting the elven prince, and if Qin Lun disappears for no reason, it would be strange if the shield dwarves did not suspect them.

"At dusk, I asked the monkeys to explore the camp and found some clues." Weiss groaned and said, they are now grasshoppers on a rope, and naturally they will not hide information.

"What kind of clues?" Qin Lun's eyes flashed, and the importance of the thief's profession was shown here. Although Qin Lun and Hill's strategies are good, without buffer time, their speed of obtaining information is not as fast as that of thieves.

"Maybe it's different from what we thought, although the shield dwarves haven't been able to find the Secret Silver Hall in the past few months, they should already have some clues." Weiss thought for a moment and said, "In the news that the monkey scouts heard, the last few groups of dwarven explorers who have come back have all mentioned a mushroom woodland! Different batches of explorers have all mentioned the same location, you should understand what that means, right? ”

"Well, it means that the dwarves have been moving in the same direction, not searching for nothing." Qin Lun touched his chin thoughtfully, "It seems that the old guy really doesn't trust us, maybe I should ask Elistin to ask Lorraine about it......"

Compared to Qin Lun, Lorraine was not so wary of Elistin and Idria. It's just that Idria won't do "private work" for Qin Lun, and Elistin is not very good at clichés, so it is estimated that he can only give it a try.

"Let's try it first, if we really can't get the clues of the mission, we have to forcibly take Lorraine away." Qin Lun shrugged helplessly, anyway, there was not much time left for them to stay, at most, they would return to the starry sky during the exploration, and it didn't matter if they gave up this epic plot and offended the dwarves.

……

As the night faded, the warm sunlight lit up an area at the mouth of the cave, and most of the campfires in the camp had been extinguished, leaving only a few faint wisps of invisible smoke.

In the open space outside the camp, there were already quite a few dwarves practicing martial arts and eating.

Qin Lun got out of his tent and stretched, thinking about how to coax Elistine. Although the elven druid likes him, the kind-hearted elven beauty is equally unwilling to cheat Lorraine for him.

Maybe I can only use the righteousness of the moon elf to persuade her! Qin Lun had a headache, and he was unwilling to force Elistin until he had no choice but to do so.

Just as Qin Lun was organizing his words in his mind, there was a commotion from the depths of the cave, and several dwarven guards guarding the entrance to the dark region in the depths of the cave hurriedly carried a wounded person towards the center of the camp.

"It's the first group of dwarves to explore the dark regions...... Maybe it's an opportunity! Qin Lun's eyes lit up, and from the wounded's outfit, he could immediately tell that this was an expedition member.

Qin Lun greeted the team channel, and without hesitation, he swept towards the few dwarven guards, stopping a few people before they could report to Gillim.

"He's badly wounded, let me see!" Qin Lun stretched out his hand to stop the guard, took out a needle from his arms, and without waiting for the dwarf guards to object, he directly injected it into the neck of the wounded.

The seriously injured dwarf's face quickly flushed, and he slowly opened his eyes. When the dwarven guards saw this scene, they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and their tense expressions eased.

"What did the exploration team encounter, is there anyone else alive besides you?" Qin Lun asked the guards to put down the wounded, took the water bladder they carried, and carefully fed him a few sips of water.

The dwarf of the expedition team had a broken arm, a large sunken part of his chest, and was already in his dying stages.

However, under the strong stimulation of the potion, he insisted and said, "He...... They ......"

As soon as the dwarf spat out a few words, his body spasmed violently, his eyes lost their luster, and his pupils slowly dilated. The injection Qin Lun fed him was too irritating, and it hastened the dwarf's death in disguise.

"What do you say...... Uh-huh! Qin Lun lowered his body, put his ear to the dwarf's mouth, and nodded slightly from time to time.

"He's dead...... Qin Lun pretended to sigh, and said to a few guards next to him with a solemn face, "The place where they are trapped is not far from the entrance, you go to report Lord Gillim and Prince Lorraine, and a few of my followers will go to rescue the trapped members of the exploration team first." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Qin Lun didn't wait for these dwarven guards to react, he glanced at Hill and Weiss and the others who had received the news not far away, and led a few apostles to quickly rush towards the depths of the cave and the entrance of the dark region. I1292