There is no day and night in the mine, but Yang Long can rely on the biological clock accurate to "minutes" to determine that it is from the moment he entered the mine of death, and after several stop-and-go rests, almost five days have passed.

During these five days, the entire army was cleared without encountering any enemy.

If it weren't for the professionals in the ranks, who were good at following the trail, and made sure that the army was rushing in the right direction every day through every rectification and cultivation opportunity exploration, perhaps the morale of the army would have been exhausted by this boring rush.

But even when the enemy could be encountered at any moment, some discordant voices began to grow when the army began to recuperate on the fifth night of the army's entry into the mines.

"We can't go on like this. A top-ranking major officer, at a simple meeting held by Yang Long, expressed his opinion quite worriedly: "Even if you encounter the enemy, it is better than going aimlessly like this!"

This opinion attracted a burst of echo, and several other major officers nodded yes, and even Matilda Valen, who commanded the whole of the world, couldn't help but agree with it: "It's too depressing to rush in such an environment. ”

In fact, this situation does not blame the soldiers for not being tenacious enough, as a creature with intelligence and living in the sun all year round, marching in a mine cave with no fingers visible is indeed a very torturous drudgery.

In particular, in order to save materials and ensure the supply of life, the torches lit in the ranks during the march could only barely illuminate the mine road under their feet. The area a little farther up was pitch black, which added to the psychological pressure of the soldiers.

You must know that in the scientific world of the previous life, the darkness was feared by people, not to mention this world that originally had ghosts and demons.

Regarding the discussion of several officers, Yang Long seemed a little absent-minded, and did not participate in this meeting, but recalled the passage he had traveled in the past few days, and secretly thought about his thoughts.

As an outsider who grew up in the world of technology, Yang Long didn't expect this so-called death mine at first. There is such a huge underground transportation network. It was very surprising to him.

Considering that the speed of the underground march was not fast, the old butcher originally thought that the size and area of this death mine was at most the size of more than a dozen Montreal dungeons in the previous life.

"Just a few hundred years of mining has reached this scale. ”

He took out a yellowed paper map and looked at it. Yang Long couldn't help but think of another very famous dungeon: "No wonder the remnants of the orc army back then. It can rely on the black stone tower that has been built for thousands of years. Survive the attack of the Alliance Army of the Five Kingdoms of Humanity. ”

Through Lordaeron's three years of study, Yang Long also has some unnecessarily correct perceptions of the Second Orc War, which ended more than ninety years ago.

For example, the alliance of the five human kingdoms. The defeat at the Battle of Blackstone Mountain led to the death of Duke Anduin Lothar, the last of the direct descendants of Soradin Torbairn and a powerful warrior of the fifteenth rank.

It was also because of the complex terrain of the Blackstone Mountains that the coalition forces were unable to completely wipe out the orc tribe, and after the new alliance commander Mellas Tulayan entered and closed the Dark Gate, there was the current resurgence of the Blackstone tribe in the Burning Plains.

This is the strength of the wizarding world, and with the help of years of development and powerful magic, it is not impossible to create a grand project that is unimaginable in the world of technology.

The discussion between the officers was not long, but less than ten minutes passed, and there were two different arguments, so several people had to interrupt Yang Long's contemplation and ask, "Lord Grofe, what is your decision?"

There are two ways to deal with the discussion, one is to carry out a major renovation to fully relax the nerves of the soldiers, and the other is to speed up the march and release the pressure by making contact with the enemy and fighting, so that the soldiers have no time to worry about anything else.

Neither of these countermeasures was good, a major refurbishment would delay the rendezvous with Cromwell, create unnecessary variables for the occupation, and the march of several days had shown that it was not easy to find the army of the Brotherhood of Defia.

However, in response to the questions of several officers, Yang Long did not hesitate to stretch out his hand, and nodded on the old paper map: "Our current location should be in this place, and from tomorrow we will go in this direction." ”

The worn-out scrap of paper depicts a complex map that Yang Long is pointing to at the moment, and the entire map depicts the transportation network of the Death Mine.

To be exact, the transportation network of the former Death Mine.

Although the Stormwind Kingdom, which originally built and developed the Death Mine, experienced a great disaster and was forced to cross the country to Lordaeron during the First Orc War, some precious blueprints were preserved.

This map of the Dead Mine was the result of the last exploration of the mine before it was abandoned, but after such a long time, it was occupied by the Brotherhood of Defia for more than a hundred years, and the underground network has greatly expanded.

It was precisely because of a map, in the east, west, north, south, and underground that the army was able to maintain a certain morale and keep close to the large force led by Cromwell.

However, during the march these days, Yang Long also found hundreds of passages that were not marked on the map, and through the perception of up and down, left and right for a kilometer, the old butcher could clearly feel that there was the breath of a professional in some branch passages.

Therefore, if you want to solve the problem of unstable morale, you can only enter the bifurcated channel, grope your way in the unknown direction, and leave everything to luck and providence.

Looking at the direction that Yang Long pointed on the map, several officers showed disagreement in their eyes, but after thinking about it carefully for a while, they still acquiesced in this method that was not a solution.

Even Matilda Valen just gave Yang Long a strange look, and then acquiesced in his decision.

This reaction made Yang Long a little surprised, originally he had prepared a set of rhetoric, and even had plans to do it, but he didn't expect these officers to be so cooperative, which made him slightly happy.

So the matter was settled, and the officers dispersed to rest on their own.

It wasn't until about three hours later that the clearing troops advanced again, and after continuing along the mine road for two or three kilometers, they turned into a branch road in the lower right direction that was not marked on the map, and went diagonally into the ground, and soon disappeared into the depths of the branch road.

It took about fifteen minutes for the clearing army to enter the mine bypass. The faint sound of shredded footsteps, approaching from the direction from which the clearing troops came, stopped at the interaction point of entering the fork.

Then there was a sound of rustling and fumbling, and after a few minutes or so, a fast-talking male voice muttered to himself, "What's the matter with Matilda, why did you deviate from the direction of this road?"

Of course, the quiet underground tunnels could not answer this question, and the man who was talking to himself, after thinking about it for a moment, decided not to think about it and follow the clearing troops in front first.

But just as the man who was following behind had just raised his feet and was about to move forward, a flash of fire suddenly flashed in an inconspicuous corner of the mine road about seven or eight meters away from him.

Boom –

A blazing fireball with an incandescent glow suddenly appeared in front of the man, and the raging flames formed by the explosion completely enveloped him.

With the moment the fireball appeared, the man who was attacked by magic could be seen, wearing a set of pitch-black night clothes all over his body, even wearing a black hood on his head, and a mechanical glasses on his eyes.

The unsuspecting sneak attack made this man in a night suit, although he instinctively used the inheritance secret technique to protect himself, and was not engulfed by the burning flames, but he was still seriously injured by the impact of the explosion

(To be continued......)