Chapter 6: Infiltration
As the sun set, Il's return home to dinner with his family was followed by a plan to meet Mark and the others at the entrance of the West Village. Before leaving, his mother told Il, to be safe, not to go home too late, and his father, because he had to be on duty at night, left a word after dinner not to cause trouble everywhere, so he rushed away ahead of Il.
Il walked towards his destination, enjoying the tranquil and peaceful atmosphere of the village of Camp along the way. He grew up in the village since he was a child, although there will be a few people who will laugh at him for his weak fighting spirit, but the kind-natured Il doesn't care about this, he loves this village very much, and loves those simple and kind villagers.
"Hey, I'll!" Mark saw Eir from afar, and couldn't wait to say hello. Evan also stood beside Mark, smiling and waving to Il. Looks like they've arrived a long time ago.
Ilr walked up to Mark and Evan and smiled, "You're really early. ”
"Of course, the village has been quiet for so long, and now there is a rare situation in the mine, if we don't actively and quickly investigate and investigate, how can we be worthy of the great organization of our Mark Adventure Group." Mark recounted with gusto.
"Uh......" Il was speechless, turned to Ai Wen and said, "Ai Wen, did you find any news from the mine?"
Hearing this, Evan replied, "I heard from my father, the town of Vannar has sent people over early this morning, and they have already entered the mine to study the progress of mining, but it seems that they still can't get the hard stone wall. Later, they really couldn't help it, so they contacted the professional demolition master in the town. It was planned that tomorrow morning they would blast with explosives. ”
"It's going to be exploded tomorrow......" Ilr muttered to himself.
"So what are you waiting for, before they explode, let's go in tonight and find out!" Mark said excitedly.
"Well, there's only one night left for us, so let's go," Il affirmed.
After allocating a handful of miners' shovels made by the Mark family and torches prepared by Il, after about thirty minutes of travel, Il's group of three finally arrived at the destination of the trip: the western suburbs mine.
The western suburbs of the mine, as mentioned before, is the place where the iron ore is excavated in the village of Kamp, and the abundant iron ore here is excavated, first transported to the workshop to be smelted into pig iron, and then through the hands of skilled craftsmen, it is made into a variety of high-quality and inexpensive iron products, so the village is famous.
"Hey Iir, there's a handle at the entrance to the mine!" Mark reminded Eir nervously.
"Well, see, there are 4 doormen. Ilr replied.
In the usual mines, although guards will be arranged to patrol, they will not be as special as today, specially sent to guard the entrance of the cave.
"It seems that the mine owner is very serious. Ill said.
"So, what then? They won't just let us into the mines. Evan asked.
"Hey, let's make a noise!" Mark said confidently, "let's send someone to lure them away, and we'll run inside." ”
Once again, I'll be knocked out by Mark's IQ and say, "Then who's going to be the bait?
"Uh......" Mark said dumbly.
Il, who pondered for a moment, said, "Evan, remember where you were shortly after entering the mine?"
"Remember, it's the Mine Hall!" replied Evan.
Ilr nodded, "Then do you remember those vents in the cave hall?"
"Oh yes! We can go in from there. Thinking of a solution, Mark got excited again.
Having set a route to enter through the vent, Il's party sneaked around the doorman at the entrance of the cave and came to the location of the vent in the cave hall.
As mentioned earlier, the vents where the three Ils are located are connected to the cave hall. In fact, there are many vents in the entire mine, but only the vents in the cave hall can accommodate small adults to climb in, of course, this is not a problem at all for Il, who is only in their 15s. It was also thanks to the fact that they had been exploring the mines in the past, and Il was able to get an impression of the vents.
The plan went relatively smoothly, and after evading the patrol of a group of mine workers, Il, they chose a relatively hidden vent, quickly pried open the cover, and finally followed the air duct and entered the mine.
"Hey man, what are we going to do next?" asked Mark to Il.
"We're going to the South Mine, and although we've been on expeditions before, we don't know what the situation is like when we find the rock wall, so we have to pay attention to safety. Also, don't make too much noise to avoid attracting the attention of the guards, especially you, Mark. "Il arranged it carefully.
"Oh, oh good!" Mark replied, blushing and a little embarrassed.
In fact, Il's worries are not superfluous, in the previous expedition experience, the three of them have caused a lot of trouble, among which the rough nerve Mark caused the most trouble, so Il prescribed the right medicine in advance and told Mark to be cautious.
Seeing that the mine was going to blast the stone wall tomorrow, and that there was only tonight for them, the three of them didn't stay in the cave hall for long, so they went deeper into the south cave with a torch and shovel.
"Strange, why are all the torches in the mine lit?" said Aven on the way.
In order to save resources, at most, a small number of torches will be left on the stone wall of the tunnel for lighting the night patrol personnel. Nowadays, the entire south-facing tunnel is brightly lit, which is indeed rare.
Yir thought for a while, but couldn't think of a good explanation, and guessed and said: "Maybe it's because the mine owner pays more attention to the situation that happened this time, so we have to be more careful so as not to be discovered by the inspectors." ”
When Mark heard Il say this, he immediately became a lot more excited, and said, "Look at what I said, this expedition will definitely make a big discovery!"
"Yes, yes, let's go. Il wanted to argue something, but he didn't know what to say, so he had to say a few perfunctory sentences.
The expedition proceeded relatively smoothly, and although there were people patrolling the mine on the way, they all avoided it with "wit".
"Past the corner ahead, you should be there. Evan reminded.
"Hmm......" Il replied with a nod.
"Oyeh, it's finally here!" called out Mark happily, he could finally vent after being depressed for so long along the way.
"Who?!"
A shout came from the corner ahead.
"It's over, it's been discovered. Il, realizing that the situation was not good, whispered to Mark and Evan beside him, "Find a place to hide!"
"There!" As Mark finished speaking, he pointed to a large wooden box not far behind him, intending to serve as their hiding place.
"Quick!"
Without too much hesitation, the three of them hid behind the wooden box with lightning speed. Indeed, with the environment in which they lived, there was no better place to take refuge than that.
"Da Da" footsteps followed.
"Kai, did you hear me wrong, there's someone somewhere. The voice of an immature girl came first.
Triumphant......? How does this sound familiar?" Ilmed.
"Miss, my subordinates didn't hear me wrong. The young man replied respectfully to the girl's question, "There was indeed movement behind us just now, and I also felt their breath, and now their breath is ......"
"Whew!" The young man waved the long sword in his hand, and a pale golden sword qi roared out.
The big wooden box shattered.
The inverted blue sword qi seemed to be full of lethality, but in fact, the strength was controlled just right, and the three of them did not suffer any damage. With the damage of the wooden box, the three of them were revealed unabashedly, which scared the three of them a lot. Mark shouted for mercy, and Evan was simply stunned, but Il seemed calmer, because he knew that he was only afraid that it would not help the situation in front of him.
As the smoke and dust gradually cleared, Yir saw a man and a woman in front of him, and said in surprise, "It's you?"