The southern suburbs of Jinguan City, Changlin Mountains.

It doesn't take much to get a long way south from the city to see the mountains that stretch out. Even though the map of the entire western part of Kitcher shows that it is only a short mountain range to the south of the castle, it is not small on the ground.

A horse-drawn carriage drove along the avenue, along the green shade all the way into the depths of the Changlin Mountains, and with the continuous rotation of the wheels, the greenery under the wheels was fading little by little. Soon after, the carriage finally stopped, and in the deep green mountains, a large black and exposed rocky surface appeared.

Zhang Yuan, who was sitting in the car, didn't know the situation outside at all, and he didn't know how long it had been outside, so he could only stop the carriage and know that he should have arrived at the place. Soon, he sensed some movement outside the carriage, presumably the temple guards who were driving the car had left temporarily, but it didn't seem to have gone far, because after a while there was another conversation outside.

The voice of the speaker said that it was far away and whether it was close or not, of course, it could also be because of the sound insulation of the carriage, Zhang Yuan couldn't hear what the people outside the car were saying, but his mind moved, and the spirit of the plug-in opened the horizon of perspective.

After the familiar feeling, the figure outside the car was clearly displayed in front of Zhang Yuan's eyes, but only the figure could be seen, and Zhang Yuan could not see the scene outside. There were two men standing facing each other, one in a robe, most likely the temple guard. The other was dressed as a soldier, but he was not armed and did not know who he was.

Outside the car, the man dressed as a soldier was chatting with the temple guards without a word, and seemed to be acquaintances. Although this temple guard followed Jiang Lu at first, they were not subordinate, he was really just a lower-level guard who specialized in cleaning up.

Cleaning up, naturally, refers to dealing with people like Zhang Yuan for the temple, after all, for a sect like the temple with a head and a face, killing people and seeing blood is too indecent. But in the end, this kind of decency can always cheapen some guys who make dead money, such as this one.

The Templar guard touched his body, took out two silver ear coins, and handed them to the soldier opposite. This soldier is a guard here, and this is the burial place prepared for Zhang Yuan by the temple guards, a magic crystal mine.

The Magic Crystal Mine, as the name suggests, is the place where the Magic Crystal is mined. As for what the magic crystal is, it is a general term for mineral magic materials, including light stones used for lighting. In terms of this world, magic crystals are minerals rich in one or several elements that are generated after the remaining seven elements are solidified by the earth element.

The mine guard looked at the money in the guard's hand with some disdain, and said, "The adults should have given more than a few numbers, it would be too much for you to take so much to yourself." ”

The temple guard smiled wryly, took out two silver fungus coins from his bosom and put them in the guard's hand, patted the other party's hand at the same time and said, "That's all it takes, you know, it's not an important person, just a small person." ”

The guard swept the money in his hand and pursed his mouth, but finally put it in his pocket: "I really believe your nonsense." ”

"Why do you have to bargain with me every time, I'll be honest with you, brother, I only made this amount this time, it's all a worthless deal, I bothered to bring people over to you." The Templar guard held up three fingers and said to the guard, as for how much money he had left for himself, only he knew.

When the guard heard him say this, he sighed and said, "You have been in the car all the way, is it also called bothering, if you want me to say that I still wish to go out for activities, my bones are about to rust when I stay here all day." And I don't have a cost to this, every time I have to pay a few more companions in order to cover things up. ”

The temple guard crooked his mouth and scolded: "You are really shameless, can you care about the cost of this called you, isn't it just a matter of killing a few more slaves?" I've obeyed you, doing this kind of immoral way of making a fortune with the dead, and still being so at ease, be careful of retribution in the future. ”

"Aren't you too, embarrassed to talk about me. Besides, they're going to die anyway, so it's better to give the two of us brothers a little money to spend before they die. Okay, I won't tell you so much, you bring it down, and I'll put it in in a while. By the way, remember to bring me two bottles of wine next time, and I won't let you in empty-handed. ”

"Okay."

Zhang Yuan saw in the car that the temple guard had stuffed things into the other party's hands twice, and he should have been bribing. As a person who crossed over there, in the Water Margin, one of the four famous novels, Zhang Yuan remembered the bridge section where the two dog officials took people's money to eliminate disasters for others, but he didn't expect that he would make a cameo appearance in Lin Chong and Lu Junyi today.

After watching the two of them chat for a while, Zhang Yuan saw the temple guards walking towards the car, and he quickly turned off the perspective and leaned back in his chair as if he didn't know anything. But speaking of which, these temple people are really considerate, and they can still sit in such a comfortable carriage before they die.

The temple guard opened the door and stood outside looking at Zhang Yuan, apparently motioning for him to go out from the inside. Zhang Yuan looked out from the open door, and a bare mountain just came into his eyes.

"Here?" Zhang Yuan was taken aback by this sight, at first he saw that the person talking to the temple guards was dressed as soldiers, and he thought it was somewhere in the city of Jinguan, but now it was obviously not. He quickly recalled the journey he had made with Siwei, and had not seen anything like this on the way, except that there were many fields, but there were only tall stone mountains.

"Hmph, you'll know in a moment, why don't you hurry down, do you want me to help you?" The temple guard said to Zhang Yuan angrily.

Zhang Yuan sighed twice and got out of the carriage, and this time he came out, he saw all the scenes around him clearly. As far as the eye can see, there are rocky surfaces all around, and you can see the entrance to the cave supported by wood not far away, so it seems that I have been thrown into a mine to work as a miner.

"Why didn't you give him leg cuffs or forbidden items?" The guard pointed at Zhang Yuan and asked suspiciously.

"Well, he doesn't even know magic, and you see he's like a weak chicken, he needs some leg cuffs."

"That's it, too, it's not good to work when you wear it." The warden nodded.

After handing Zhang Yuan over to the guard, the temple guards left in their own carriages, and Zhang Yuan was escorted by the guards to continue walking. After a while, a three-person high stone fence appeared in front of Zhang Yuan, and the wall opened an opening, and a wooden barricade blocked the entrance, and there was a low house next to it.

As soon as Zhang Yuan walked to the barricade, other guards from the house came out, except for a short guard, everyone else went to help move the barricade.

"Boss, are you alive again?" The short guard asked while looking Zhang Yuan up and down with a lewd smile.

The guard boss who brought Zhang Yuan to the scene glared at a glance, making the short guard stunned, and soon the latter also reacted, how could he say it in front of the victim. Seeing that the others moved the barricades, the boss was about to push Zhang Yuan in, when suddenly as if he had thought of something, he turned back to the short guard and said, "How did you get done, is that stinky boy still pestering?" ”

"Oh, boss, don't you know, that kid surnamed Xuan is really a stone in the toilet, and it's so difficult. I told him what you asked me to say over and over again, and he just didn't believe it, I really couldn't help it. When the short guard heard the boss's question, he immediately began to complain.

"Stupid, you can't do this thing, what use do I want you. Okay, I'll figure it out. After the boss finished speaking, he took Zhang Yuan in with a gloomy face, and Zhang Yuan, who was escorted by him, was also thinking about how to find a way to run out of this place. It doesn't look like the guards here are very powerful, and the guy who is called the boss is just an ordinary soldier.

It's normal to just think about it, according to what this guard said before, some of the slaves who were brought over would wear forbidden magic props. If it is to manage some prisoners who can't cast magic, these soldiers' swords are more than enough. Now Zhang Yuan still needs to observe how many guards there are here, and how they are usually distributed.

In addition, Zhang Yuan also needs to find out the terrain here, so that it is convenient to escape when the time comes. However, according to his thoughts, the place where the slaves lived must not be too close to this door, otherwise the slaves would easily escape. Once you've figured out the terrain and escape routes, you'll only need to get your weapons, and since it's a mine, it's easy to find some broken rock. There is no injustice between himself and these guards, and throwing objects like flying stones are enough, and there is no need to cause too many casualties.

Just as Zhang Yuan was thinking about his escape plan, someone called out to the guard boss who was holding him: "Sir, you're back, I just have something to report." If you look at this escape, we can conclude that it was an accident, right? But so far, we have only found that the prisoners have escaped, not where they have escaped, and if we can't find the reason for the escape, I am afraid that some people will run away. ”

Where did you run from, from the hands of labor and management, you said you were investigating so carefully. The boss scolded secretly in his heart, this guard is really nosy, collecting money by himself, letting someone out, what an ordinary thing, why was he caught by this scheming guy.

But what he was thinking about in his heart was one thing, the boss would definitely not say that you don't want to investigate, I took the money and let it out, he turned to say: "I know, Xiao Xuan, you don't have to investigate this matter anymore, we have thousands of slaves here, and it's not a big deal to run one or two out." ”

"No, sir......"

Seeing that the other party was still arguing, the boss quickly interrupted: "What's not, don't say it, you don't have to worry about this matter!" If you think about it, hundreds of us people look at thousands of people, and you have to manage more than ten people alone, how good it is for you to take care of your ten people, I will ask others to check this matter. ”

"Yes, sir." The guard, who was called Xiao Xuan, was scolded inexplicably, so he had to leave with his head down, but Zhang Yuan looked at his back with interest.

"What do you see, don't go quickly!"