Chapter 52 Delay in time
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Fylde motioned to Maev to deal with the overseer, but Maev didn't understand what Fyl meant, but Patrick stepped forward and walked to the side of the mine overseer. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
"The rebels hiding in the Iron Ore Mountains have received the information and are ready to evacuate, and most of them should have left the mines in the mountains and moved to the territory of the mountain dwellers. If Herman and Endrida had been prepared, it was estimated that they would have fought at the exit of the mountain, which would have become the first battlefield. ”
This is the content of Vittorio's second letter, where Fidel notices the phrase "First Battlefield" in the dim environment, that is, the rebels hiding in the iron ore will join forces and attack one of the interceptions?
"Hey, I'm asking you!What the hell are you guys doing, all armed guys!, get out of our boss's private place!," the iron mine overseer shouted, patting the back of the knife at his waist with his hand. The dozens of other miners who were working also put down their pickaxes and turned to look at the hundreds of mercenaries pouring in.
Feder suddenly noticed that there was an iron ore processing table and some minecarts used to store raw iron ore, but there was not a single iron ore on it, and even the iron ore processing table had been wiped clean, and there was not a single piece of iron to be seen. If not a single iron ore has been excavated by this time, then the efficiency of these miners is strangely low, and such a situation should not happen in an afternoon.
Thinking about the information Vittorio had just sent, Fidel suddenly realized that there was something strange about this place - all the income from the iron ore had been transferred, and the miners who were still holding iron pickaxes were just pretending to be mining in order to blind them.
"Hey, I'm talking to you!" the overseer continued to yell, and Ayana wanted to step forward and teach the other a lesson, but Maev struck first. The aristocratic beauty slammed the iron mine overseer on the arm with a dual-purpose iron bow, and the sturdy overseer fell to the ground immediately.
The other miners immediately surrounded him with pickaxes and kept pointing at Maeve who had hurt her, while the overseer shouted that someone had beaten him.
Fylde glanced at Clermont, a young man standing far away, who was also observing the development of events on Mave's side, but when Clermont also noticed Fett's cold eyes, he immediately turned his head and turned to the side to dodge.
"These people are just trying to delay us, the overseers and miners here know the rebels, they just want to help the rebels buy more time to escape, we should catch up immediately!" Fidel had already seen the clue, and he handed the letter in his hand to Patrick and Ayana after reading it.
"Are these people sure they're not rebels?" Winotki asked.
"No, they may be accomplices, but they must be miners. As Fed replied, Mave and dozens of miners on the other side were already arguing, and the knights behind her were also crowding up, huddled together with the dirty miners, pointing fingers at each other.
While Feder was talking to his men, Clermont had briskly walked up the winding passage on the left, heading to the mine on the other side.
"Chase that guy!" Feder and his mercenary men immediately turned to the left, and Maev was surrounded by a group of dirty miners, and she saw that Fed's men were chasing into the depths of the mine, and she had to shout Fed's name, but Feder had already run far away, leaving only her knight and the group of miners who were deliberately delaying time.
Ayana took the initiative to walk in front, "You still have a wrist injury, if there is any danger ahead, it will be trouble!"
Patrick and Widonki agreed with Ayana, and Fede had to follow behind the three, and the mercenaries behind him also took the lead, everyone wanted to follow the passage of the mine to catch up with the fleeing rebels, and at the same time, no one expected that there was no danger here, and those rebels had already escaped from the mine.
Clermont's figure was not far ahead, and the speed of Ayana and Winotchy's pursuit was very fast, but this winding mine passage was very difficult to walk and very unfamiliar, so after a few turns, the hundreds of people of the potato mercenary group completely lost Clermont's trace. Feder followed along the way and found that there were a lot of traps in the mine, but none of them appeared, why did that?
When everyone went to another larger mine, they found that there were a lot of wood supporting the roof of the mine, and there were some minecarts used to load ore. If the wooden supports were knocked over, the mine might have collapsed, but the Rebels didn't do that. Feder noticed that there were three intersections, and according to the marks on the ground, there were traces of people passing through two of them, and they did not know which way to catch up with the rebels. Fed then had his men turn around and tell Maev and the knights to bring the miners and overseers here and interrogate them together.
However, just as Fei De had just sent more than a dozen of his men back, several stones fell out of one of the exits. AYANA and Winoki immediately rushed over with their weapons and disappeared around the corner in the blink of an eye. Feder was afraid of fraud, and although he immediately called out the names of the two, the two girls seemed to have chased away, and Feder had to leave most of his men behind, and then chased after Patrick.
By the time Fed caught up with the two, they made their way through a large mine passage to a cave with little space.
"That suspicious guy is out there!" Winotki and Ayana stood in front of them, and in front of them was a hole in which the glare of sunlight poured in, and the sky could be seen from the outside.
"Who's out there?!" Patrick asked, drawing two iron swords.
"It's the young miner, Clermont. ”
As soon as Winotki's words fell, a voice came from outside the entrance of the cave, "If it's not a coward, please come out, Captain Feid!"
As soon as Fid was about to step forward, Ayana stood in front of him and was the first to walk out of the cave. Fylde and Winotki followed behind her, shielding their eyes with their hands and walking out of the hole.
The dazzling sunlight made everyone who walked out of the cave see only darkness for a moment, and the sun slowly moved to the west in the afternoon, shining on the people who walked out of the cave. Outside the cave was an open-air cliff, and in this less than ten meters radius, Clermont, a young miner, stood on the edge of the cliff with his bare hands, and when he saw Fidel, he sat down cross-legged and looked at the crowd with considerable composure.
"Hello, Chief Fed. Clermont's face was still dirty, but the slightly flustered young man had a different expression.
Ayana pulled out her short wooden bow and mounted her arrows, while Winotki and Patrick stood on either side, watching each other and being wary of their surroundings.
The cliff is surrounded by bare cliffs, which are only halfway up the mountain, but if you fall from this cliff, you will probably be crushed to pieces, after all, it is at least 300 meters from the forest below.
"You... You are a member of the rebels. ”
"I'm Clermont, a cadre of the Rebels, and I'm sure you've already told you about those secret newspapers, right?" Clermont blinked, the round-eyed, pointy-faced young man was not carrying any weapons.
"No, not really. ”
"And how did you find out I was cheating on you?"
"A few details, and... Your panic. If Clermont wasn't the first to escape, Fidel couldn't have promised to hunt down the other party with those suspicious places - the other party's initial behavior led Fidel to believe that he was just a young miner, but the truth was just a lie.
"Oh, I see," Clermont raised his hand and tapped his head, and Ayana raised her bow at that moment, aiming at his chest, "Don't get excited, I don't mean to fight you, I just want to..."
"You're just trying to stall for time. Fidel said lightly.
"You've seen through it!" Clermont stuck out his tongue, "but I didn't delay long, did I? As soon as he had said this, he immediately fell backwards.
Even Ayana's hand clenching the bowstring trembled slightly, and Clermont actually fell directly from the edge of the cliff into the valley!
Fidel and the others immediately rushed to the edge of the cliff to look down, only to see a large black eagle soaring past, while Clermont grabbed the stick that the black eagle had clamped with his claws with one hand, and flew over the forest with the black eagle.