The stone chamber hidden deep in the underground veins, the narrow corridors silently reveal the high engineering skills of the builders and the advanced excavation tools, and Aldrich at first thought it was the work of the dwarves, which was not unprecedented.

For well-known reasons, the human kingdom coalition defeated, and even exterminated the forest elves whose source of spell casting was exhausted, and drove the dwarves to the desolate barren land, among which the dwarf tribes who had no time to retreat could only flee into the mountains or dive underground, and with the adventurers' continuous spying, they could only continue to hide, so many ruins with extremely high engineering standards were found in various places.

Tris tore the hired man's clothes into strips of cloth, bound their hands and feet, and strangled their mouths, and then escorted the only young man in his right mind and went backwards in the way they came.

Carrying a pickaxe in his left hand and a hand-tied cutter in his right hand, the hired man deliberately made noise by mopping the floor on his toes, hoping to remind his unprepared companions.

Aldrich saw through it and immediately tied the 'captive's feet with strips of cloth, though he still twisted restlessly, trying to artificially create an obstacle and delay the knight's advance. Tris didn't care, his right hand clamped around the man's neck bone, and the slightest force made him lose control of his body.

The astonishing strength and calm response made the hired man lose the confidence to resist, and he was dejected to discover that his ingenuity might be a little trick in the eyes of the 'knight'.

With his jaw tightly strangled with a strip of cloth, unable to open his mouth or speak properly, the young hired man approached the gathering place of his companions, struggling with his only movable head, trying to send a warning signal.

However, Aldrich, who had been on guard for a long time, did not give him this opportunity at all, and struck the hired man with a fist in his left hand on the back of the head, which immediately knocked the man unconscious.

Gently putting down the young man who was extremely 'respectable' in a certain sense, Tris walked to the end of the tunnel with an iron pickaxe in his hand, and there were two corner exits on the left and right, thinking that there was only one way out.

Aldrich was about to make a choice when he suddenly felt an inexplicable palpitation, which was a sign of danger, reminding him that he was about to meet the challenge of fate, so he withdrew one foot and slowly crouched down. Tris reached out and touched the stone-paved floor, and with the help of dim fluorescence and a keen sense of touch, he finally spotted the traces of the three cave hiremen passing by.

Walking around the corner to the left, Aldrich's body relaxed, but ready to attack with all his might at any moment, and the cold wind whistled out of the back of his head, which was the chill of the scythe that was about to be slashed from the height of death.

As the surroundings grew darker and the glow of the fluorescent moss faded, Tris carried an iron pickaxe in his right hand and stretched out his left hand, simply closing his eyes as a pathfinder for the blind.

"Poof!" his fingertips touched the cold stone wall, and Aldrich's palm suddenly pressed against it, and after a moment of fumbling for a moment, he found that it was a stone door that could be flipped.

I tried to push it a little harder, but I found that I had to exert all my strength and use my hands to make the heavy portal.

'Strange, how did those three men get through here?' though the mine's hired men were indeed more powerful than the average person, they couldn't compare to me. ’

Lowering the pickaxe, Tris put his hands on the side of the stone door, took a few deep breaths, adjusted his rhythm, and then pushed forward hard.

"Frightened...... Whoa, ...... Boom!" Aldrich pushed through the crack with the sound of tooth-aching rocks, and the cold wind poured into it immediately.

I don't know what the key is to touch, behind the originally dark stone door, "whew", a lot of light flames were ignited, and the brightness became higher and higher, because he was used to the dim environment, he felt a little dazzling, but he immediately entered it.

It suddenly dawned on the eyes of a small temple, flanked on either side by thick stone pillars with hands clasped together, seemingly carved from a single piece of rock, with various patterns of unknown meaning carved on the surface.

'Hidden Temple!, but I don't know which Immortal is enshrined?'

Tris's eyes adjusted to the new environment, and when he looked around, he found that the light source turned out to be a knee-high potted tree, with four neat branches forming a lampshade, and a fist-sized flame inside, with eyebrows and eyes, like the legendary fire elemental.

It was an unexpected surprise. Extravagant enough to be lit with the fire elemental, could it be that this is the temple of some immortal with great divine power?'

As he walked on, Aldrich saw a three-person tall bronze door, flanked by gargoyles with alchemical symbols on the left and right.

'Oops! I have a bad feeling that this is definitely not a place for the hired men to pass by, but a damn trap. ’

Mercury mixed with fresh blood snaws like a venomous snake that meanders through the alchemy statues, filling them with symbols everywhere they pass, and gargoyles of ordinary materials seep in from the outside to the inside, and then reveal a silver-red shimmer.

Magical alchemy gives the dead the ability to animate, and the statue turns into a living monster in the blink of an eye, with bat-like wings folded and limbs crawling on the ground like two leopards ready to hunt.

The Knight's Code clearly records the horrors of these alchemical statues, and if they are not completely shattered, they will continue to repair themselves until they exhaust their opponents to death.

Aldrich's source had been exhausted, but now he was slowly recovering, and he had the strength to give it a goot, so he did not retreat, but dragged him to the ground with an iron pickaxe in both hands, and when the two sides were about to collide, he suddenly turned sideways and threw his weapon at a gargoyle, and then circled behind the stone pillar.

The iron pickaxe hit the head, and the alchemy statue that almost shattered the upper body fell to the ground with a bang. The stones that exploded in all directions, due to their unique attraction to each other due to their greater or lesser contamination with blood mercury, gradually coalesced into a clump, and although they were fused, the cracks remained.

Another gargoyle, with extremely sharp claws and not very high intelligence, stubbornly pursued Triss who 'fled', and as soon as he bypassed the stone pillar, there was a pair of hands waiting for the alchemical statue.

The right hand like a pincer quickly reached its neck, and the gargoyle was dragged forward and pushed forward, directly hitting another stone pillar.

"Whew...... "The alchemy statue was castrated extremely quickly, hitting an unshakable obstacle that was one with the temple, and its body was damaged in many places.

Before it could react, Aldrich, who was unforgiving, stepped forward and grabbed the gargoyle's strong, thick legs, and smashed them at the other alchemy statue of the restored place.

"Keng...... Gong, sonor...... "Clang!" the sound of a blacksmith striking and forging was like a blacksmith who had met a good and beautiful man, not knowing tiredness, and gladly striking his kind with a gargoyle.

It wasn't until Aldridge had only a broken rock stick left in his hand that he threw it to the ground with confidence, both in terms of results and appearance, the two alchemical statues were completely shattered, and even the energy that kept them running, the heart core full of blood and mercury, was exposed in front of Tris.

'Good thing!' Aldridge reached out and looked through it, picking up two palm-sized alchemy cores, and there was no place to store them, so he simply threw them into the red socks.

The bag of space that Tris had obtained in the secret realm of the lake easily engulfed the two trophies obtained after crushing the gargoyles, and he put them back in place and tied them around his belt.

Aldrich then walked to the bronze door, pressed his hands to the left and right of the door, and easily pushed the door open.

According to Tris's vision, behind the temple should be a synagogue dedicated to the statues of the immortals, but all that appeared in front of him was a deserted alchemy laboratory.

That's right, a secret room that is full of dust, has not been popular for many years, and spontaneously creates the atmosphere of a ruined mansion.

The previous owner left in a hurry, but took with him most of the alchemy tools, three sets of crucibles of various sizes, glass bottles with a thin layer of sediment at the bottom, translucent curved-nosed flasks, fourteen test tubes of different lengths and different calibers, and a patina iron-clad book lying in the corner of the laboratory's rotten bookcase.

Reaching out and gently brushing away the floating patina, Aldrich's cover appeared in front of his eyes, embossed with an eye socket inlaid with two turquoise skulls.

He turned the first page, and there was only one sentence on the bronze page, which Triss quietly read: "Death is only the beginning." ”

A bone-chilling cold wind suddenly stirred up in the alchemy laboratory, and Aldrich felt the hair on his whole body stand on end, and cold sweat was dripping down his back, as if he had triggered a certain key, or achieved a certain condition, and awakened the embodiment of fear from the depths of darkness.

The second page of the tin book turned to the second page without wind, just ordinary parchment, but a subtle faint green phosphorescence flashed in dots, and the face of Terris turned green.

And in the knight's real vision, he saw this page of parchment, which constantly emanated the smell of death from the graveyard, the cold, musty smell of the clammy, like the disgusting long rainy season, when everything fell into a slow and decaying rhythm.

Aldrich immediately closed the tin book, tore off his clothes and used them as strips of cloth to lock it tightly, and then threw it into the red socks, along with all the equipment in the abandoned alchemy laboratory, into the space bag that he had managed to get his hands on.

Exiting the same way and taking the bronze gate with him, Tris walked to the temple, the ground was full of gargoyle fragments, without the slightest smell of danger, he walked straight over, not wanting to waste precious time for them.

When he reached the corner through the stone gate, he was surprised to find that the young hired man with his hands and feet tied had disappeared, and that he had an accomplice waiting for the opportunity to rescue the man. Perhaps the other two unconscious mine workers have also lost their whereabouts. ’

Aldrich walked briskly forward, in the right direction, and soon reached the end, which was also a stone gate.

Pushing open the overturned stone slab, I saw two rows of rock wall torches, brightly lit, but the ground was full of wounded hired laborers, and several young men wearing rattan hats were holding iron picks and iron drills, and treated the assassin knight who was said to be from the Earl's family.

The scrawny hired men seemed to have been exhausted by the heavy work, and some of the people lying on the ground were blackened with the powder of coal and stone, except for two eyes that were thick with bloodshots.

Without real vision, based on experience and knightly instincts, Aldrich knew that the fire of their life was about to burn out, and that was not a good thing.

Pillars of mercy kept springing up, and Tris spread out his hands to show no malice, and the young men standing across from him were stubborn and unwilling to trust each other.

"None of you are my opponent, why don't you put down your mining tools and tell me what the hell is going on in the collapse of the Snake Mine? I know that there is absolutely no way that you can cause such a massive collapse, otherwise there would not be so many wounded. ”

"Alas," ...... long sigh, a middle-aged man who was clearly the head of the hired man struggled to his feet, and he came to Aldrich despite dissuasion.

"It's all my fault, knight, and if you want to punish you, let me bear it alone. ”

PS: I'm too busy at work, so I'll take a day off tomorrow for a while.