The robbery took place eight days earlier.

The tax convoy that escorted as many as tens of thousands of Stolins, of course, it was impossible for a few trenches to pull the car directly on the road, and the people in charge of escorting that day, although far inferior to this expeditionary group, also had more than a hundred people, led by four sleeve mages, one each from Du Jue and Cong Jue, and the remaining two were temporarily hired, and the one sent by Du Jue was the highest, the purple sleeve mage, and there was one blue and two green. This configuration, taking the main road to escort the tax in the rear, should be very safe.

As a result, the vast majority of the more than 100 people collapsed in the Pirangf Forest, and of the four mages, only one hired blue-sleeved mage survived.

There have been several implausible claims from the outset about the perpetrators of the attack on the convoy. Some say it's a giant as tall as a tree and full of hair, some say it's a giant wolf that can fly, and some say it's a legendary vampire man, all of which come from the big-headed soldiers who escaped with their heads in their hands, but the blue-sleeved mage who was supposed to be calmer and better able to identify the murderer than them was frightened before he could see his opponent clearly, and directly used an earth-running spell that was quite difficult for a sleeve mage to use, and escaped from the ground. What's even more strange is that when the nearby patrols rushed to support them, they didn't know what was going on in the forest, and not only did they see no monsters, but they didn't see the wagons transporting taxes, and even the hundreds of corpses disappeared.

Since nothing is missing, how can we be sure that the things have not been taken away, but are still in the forest? This is about the blue-sleeved mage, when he used the earth spell, he found that there was a fairly large crypt space under the forest of Piranf, but he was in a state of panic, and he did not dare to take a closer look and escaped.

It is precisely because of the vast crypt underground that the monster theory has evidence to support - the underground world of Proz belongs to those ancient relics abandoned by the gods, as well as various inhuman creatures.

Each world has its own history and legends, and the gods are the earliest beings in the world of Ploz, who existed long before the establishment of the Suvarho Divine Calendar, and the history of human civilization can only be traced back to two or three thousand years. In the ancient legends of mankind, there were at least three generations of civilization in the world of Proz before humans established civilization.

He didn't study the history of these civilizations in detail at that time, but he only knew that it was precisely because of the decline of these previous civilizations that human civilization was given the opportunity to rise. And these previous civilizations did not completely extinct themselves, and some of their survivors were constantly forced to retreat in the rise and expansion of humanity, until they retreated into the ground, and only then did they truly find a world that could accommodate them.

What the underworld looks like, few people go in to see it, because for thousands of years, people have been taught by ear and face from childhood to never enter the underworld. In the minds of ordinary people, breaking into the underworld can be equated with the search for death. In fact, almost everywhere on the mainland, there are stories of people who have taken the initiative or accidentally entered the underground world and never returned.

As the story sounds, the convoy passing through the Piranf Forest may have intentionally or unintentionally alarmed or angered the ancient relics or monsters living in the underworld, so the entire convoy was slaughtered, and all the corpses and taxes were dragged to the underworld as food storage and collectibles.

But is the story really plausible? Why did they go into the Piranf Forest, which is not on the side of the road?

All the survivors agreed on this question, which was raised by the leader of the escort convoy, the Purple Sleeve Mage sent by the Dujue. And his reason was that it was faster to cross the forest of Piranf than to take the main detour. This reason is actually not very convincing, because this is an escort, and it is not an urgent need, and safety is definitely more important than time. But this is from the suggestion of the team leader, there are three mages left, and their cultivation is not as good as others, and there are two hired mages who have no right to speak, so naturally it is not easy to object. What's more, although everyone felt that the forest was not as easy to walk as the road, they did not feel that there would be any danger. As a result, he had only walked for more than a while, and before he reached the center of the forest, those monsters suddenly attacked the convoy, and more than half of the more than a hundred people were killed and injured in an instant, and the purple-sleeved mage was smashed to the ground in full view of everyone at the beginning, and his eyes flew out more than two distances.

"That means that our opponent tomorrow may be a giant like a tree, a giant wolf that can fly, and a vampire demon?"

Arrogant is not that he has no confidence in himself, what he is curious about is that his joining is purely outside the plan of Xiye Garang, that is to say, even if he does not join, the other party should be this scale, at most one or two sleeve mages - Du Jue himself has a total of two mages, and it is impossible to send them all. After deducting the fifty untrained Minyong, this expeditionary group actually has one more mage leader than the escort team that was almost completely wiped out. However, that purple sleeve mage was easily killed by the other party that day, and he was so confident as a green-collar mage?

"I understand the suspicions of the Aorfal, in fact, these monsters would not have been easy to attack if they were not suddenly attacked. And knowing their identities, we also have targeted measures to deal with them", in the face of arrogant questioning, Wang Duolan was neither nervous nor angry, and the confidence between his words seemed to have another hand.

The forest of Piranf is not very vast, about four or five times, and hundreds of years ago there was an officer named Piranf, who took advantage of the terrain to fight a great victory here, so he named the forest after himself.

This forest belongs to the two counts, and the woods and elms and blue peach are popular materials for wooden furniture and furnishings, so there are no particularly tall and stout trees here, and because of the need to transport trees, the ground is also opened up one by one, and the trench car will not be too bumpy.

On the face of it, it's not a bad idea to walk through the woods as a shortcut.

According to Wang Duolan's arrangement, the first task of the expedition is to search - to find the entrance and exit of the underground world.

Thirty slaves stayed in the camp, and twenty Dujue's personal soldiers guarded the three mages in the rear—in fact, they were mainly guarding Wang Duolan. The rest of the people were divided into groups of five, and each group was fanned out according to the configuration of two crossbowmen, two spears and one knife and axe, and searched in groups.

This arrangement didn't seem like a problem, but Ao Zongheng couldn't stand this kind of slow search—as soon as his qi unfolded, he could cover the range of these thirty groups of people. He didn't say hello to other people, he drove himself to the depths of the woods, and Wang Duolan chose to ignore his behavior - you are very capable, you are awesome, I will not accompany you.

After running a little half of the woods, Ao Zongheng really found the entrance - under a big tree far away from the forest path, there is a crack ditch that is not too long but quite wide, and there is a hole in the wall of one of the ditches, the hole is not too big, and adults can bend down to enter, but Ao Zongheng penetrates with a sense of qi, but it is getting wider and wider, and there is no cave. If this crack ditch is not very close, it is not easy to find with the naked eye alone, let alone the hole hidden in the shadows.

Arrogant and arrogant didn't want to look too shocking, so he pretended to meditate under the tree for a while before running back to beckon everyone over. The hundred or so people thought that it would take at least a day to search this forest, but this mage master found the entrance in half a time, and everyone looked at this one with a little respect, the big man of the legal management department is a high level, and people don't take Qiao, so they ran to find the entrance in person, thinking about the two adults hiding behind, it was really too far away.

If you want to find the hole, you have to explore, and if you find the hole, you still have to explore. At this time, the meaning of Minyong is reflected - it is still a group of five, and two groups will go down to explore the way first. Ao Zongheng didn't speak, just watched from the sidelines, with his pride, he didn't want to waste too much time looking for the hole in person, and it was impossible to rush ahead in everything. What's more, just after meditating just now, he had already explored the large space below, and found that there was no movement of living creatures below, and no matter how dangerous it was, it was limited.

"Didn't you say that you were going to crusade against the giants? this cave is so small, how can the giants get in and out?" Youmin Yong muttered quietly.

"Shut up, who said there is only this one entrance, don't talk nonsense". Someone next to him immediately stopped him, but with his arrogant ears, he naturally heard everything.

The pathfinders below quickly reported back the security information, and the next step was to enter the brigade. But there is only such a small hole, which naturally has to be looked at again. Of course, Ao Zongheng would not choose to stay on the ground, and at this time, Wang Duolan also took out the responsibility of leading the mage, saying that he would personally lead the team down, so it was Punji who took fifty subordinate soldiers of the second lord here as backup.

Between the top of the underground cave and the ground, there is about 8 to 10 feet of rock and soil thick, and from the ground to the top of the cave, the height is between 10 and 20 feet.

The torches only guarantee clarity at a very limited distance, and the dancing flames and the heavy human figures make the scene in the cave even more trance-like. Fortunately, there was Wang Dolan, who released a bright ball of light like a small sun, illuminating most of the cave as bright as day. Feeling the admiration of everyone, Wang Duolan looked at Ao Zongheng intentionally or unintentionally, but saw that Ao Zongheng looked indifferent, as if he was completely unaware of his complacency.

The cave where everyone is located, with an area of about 500 yuan, should be regarded as a relatively large cave, and there are some cave points of different heights and widths everywhere, leading to other places.

Ao Zongheng didn't want to wait for Wang Duolan to command one by one, so he picked a cave and walked over by himself. Although Wang Duolan felt that the other party's solo heart was too reckless, he didn't care about this one's own actions, anyway, don't come to fight with him for command is his bottom line, and the rest, let him go.

This underground cave complex is far more complex than he imagined, Ao Zongheng has passed through at least three large caves, but he still can't find the end, and he feels that he is going down these acupuncture points and caves, what will be in the depths of the cave?

There was another cave in front of him, and this cave was connected to more caves, and just when Ao Zongheng was thinking about which cave to go to, from the direction where he came, a faint and short scream suddenly sounded.