In the end, Manhe agreed to Ian. And asked to be the first to go down, much to Ian's surprise, it didn't look like his style at all. Manhe's explanation for this is that he knows the mine best of the four, because it is not the first time he has gone down.

"There are a lot of them in the mines, but most of them are immobile and trapped in the mines. With a little care, you can avoid them and reach the ground safely. ”

"Trapped in the mines?" Ian was stunned, "what does that mean?"

"You understand when you go down, they can't move. "I didn't go down on the lifts like this, but I think as long as I don't alarm them, there shouldn't be any big problems." ”

Ian frowned, "Otherwise, I'd better go down first." ”

"No, no. Manhe refused, "I must be the first to go down." ”

Ian saw a rare determination in Manhe's eyes, and knew that the former dwarven patriarch had made up his mind, so he had to agree. Then he began to shoot arrows at the bamboo basket hanging in the air, for the first time in months he had picked up the Musk Moon Goddess, and he was a little rusty, the first two arrows were missed, and it was not until the third arrow was missed.

"Brush. ”

The rope broke in response, and the bamboo basket, which had lost its support, immediately fell down. Fortunately, Bowen was quick to stab the sword out in time, accurately stabbing it to the grip of the bamboo basket, and then gently picked it up, and the bamboo basket was in his hand. Bowen's swordsmanship brightens Ian's eyes, stabbing at a high-speed falling object in the darkness, which Ian thought only he and Dennis could do.

It seems that every high-level hunter is not a person with a vain name, let alone a person with the same name as the former Maple Leaf Lord.

The bamboo basket is not very large, and it is a bit difficult for an adult to sit in it. After all, this is designed for the dwarves, at least Manhe would be able to sit in it. However, when the basket arrived, they found that there was a problem that they had not considered before. That is, the gears of the elevator were on the first floor, about five or six meters away from them, and they couldn't attach the climbing rope to it, and the old rope had been broken by the arrow. That is, they made the lift invalid at the same time as they got the bamboo basket.

"What can I do?" Ian frowned, "It seems that I can only climb down with a climbing rope, but Ivy can't." ”

"There's another way. Manhe said as he shrank into the basket, "That thing covers me." ”

"What do you mean by that?" Ian didn't quite understand.

"I'm hiding in the bamboo basket, you just put the bamboo basket down. "They rely on their sense of hearing to discern the location of living people, and of course they rely on their sense of smell, but the sense of smell in the mine has long since deteriorated, and there are no eyes when it comes to sight." ”

"And then?"

In other words, I hid in a bamboo basket, covered the smell of my body with my clothes, and kept absolutely quiet, so that even if I passed by, I would think that it was just an ordinary stone and ignore it. ”

"And that kind of statement?" Ian was stunned.

"I've not been here for nothing for twenty years, trust me, or I'll be the first to die. "Besides, that girl is going to go down this way, isn't she? she doesn't have any fighting power now, and as for you, just hang the rope and go down, and there is nothing you can do about it." ”

Ian, Bowen, and Green looked at each other, and while Manher's statement sounded ridiculous, it was as he said, and at this point he could only believe him, a guy who had been underground for twenty years. What's more, he asked to be the first to go down, which made it impossible for Ian to refuse him.

After a brief hesitation, Ian helped Manhe shrink into the basket, and then, as he said, put a blood-stained garment over him.

"The smell of blood will confuse judgment. Manhe said.

Everything was ready, Green and Bowen were in charge of pulling the rope, and Ian pushed the basket to the mine, and with a slight push, the basket would stick to the rocks and be lowered little by little. This was what worried Ian the most, as they had planned to use the lift so that they could descend directly away from the rocks. And now, clinging to the rocks means clinging to those.

The basket hadn't been completely sealed, and Manhe's face was exposed, and he looked at Ian, apparently having something to say to Ian.

Ian crouched down and looked at the old dwarf, his cloudy pupils full of vicissitudes.

"Do you know why I agreed to go down with you?"

Ian shook his head, then nodded.

"Do you know why I decided to be the first to go down?"

Ian shook his head.

"I just don't want to watch your backs disappear. Manhe put the blood-stained garment over his face, "It doesn't feel good. ”

Ian nodded, "I see." ”

Manhe didn't reply, he couldn't speak anymore, and if he could, Ian hoped he would be able to be absolutely quiet as he fell. Then, Ian put the bamboo basket down, and under the control of Bowen and Green, the climbing rope was lowered little by little, and Manhe in the bamboo basket also fell little by little.

"What did he just tell you?" asked Green.

"He asked me if I knew why he agreed to go with us?"

"You know that?"

"I know a little, but not much. ”

Bowen looked at Ian with a puzzled expression: "What do you mean." ”

Ian was about to answer, but Green replied first, "I don't want to be abandoned." ”

"Don't want to be abandoned?"

"yes, didn't he say he had two companions? "Then those two companions died, right, on the first floor." It seems that the two companions did not listen to his advice and lost their lives, but from another point of view—"

The two men left him behind. Ian whispered, and then the images of Irin and Shirley came to his mind, "Those two people died, which means left him behind." Let him live alone underground for many, many years, but what can he do alive? Loneliness has always been a taste that makes life worse than death. ”

"So he didn't want to be left behind this time. Green laughed, "That's why he chose to be the first to go down, even if it was to die, he wanted to die before us." This old man, he was already afraid of loneliness, more than death. ”

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