Chapter563 Adaptive Changes in the Void
After walking along the mine railway for about half an hour, the explosion-proof lights that could not completely illuminate the mine completely disappeared, and only two portable miner's lamps emitted a dark and swaying light in the silent tunnel.
After passing through several wooden frames of the supporting structure of the tunnel, the abrupt narrow tunnel in front of it became a little difficult to walk, and large pieces of broken rock and small piles of ore were scattered here and there, flickering away in the light of the fire.
At the end of the road is a boulder blocking the way, and at the bottom right of the boulder there is a passage blocked by wooden slats, and Lyster can hear the whirring wind on the other side of the passage.
"This is it, go all the way down through this opening, and walk for about a few minutes to the Devil's Mine, which is a natural deep mine, we have organized an exploration team to explore deeply, the Devil's Mine contains rich silver veins and crystal veins, if it weren't for several accidents, this place would not have been abandoned by us, now it's different from before, everyone's life is better, there's really no need to die for a little money."
Kicking hard the thick wooden slats that stood in the way, Laurie, who had expected it, smiled flatteringly.
"It's just a little hard work to get this thing open, but I still have to persuade again, Lord Liszt, or let's stop there, my life doesn't matter, anyway, the factory director has already arranged my family, it doesn't matter if I die here, Quyler is the same old guy, he is terminally ill and half a rebel, he has nothing to worry about all his life, and no one cares about him when he dies,
You're different, you're so young, and you're a big merchant in the Emerald Collar, you must have a bright future in this turbulent era, and the place you should go in and out of is the Noble Banquet Hall, so there's really no need to risk it with us rough people for curiosity. ”
This time, the old miner did not follow to dissuade him, but just looked at Lyster and nodded vigorously.
Lyster knew that the kind-hearted two were not afraid of death, and this dissuasion was at least sixty percent sincere, but he also had a reason to go, and this was the place where Moffett was most likely to appear in the eight underground mines where Moffett was most likely to appear in the Night Blade investigation.
He couldn't bet on whether the Night's Blade killer would anger Moffett and cause him to leave Zaun's underworld, or if the Night's Blade killer would convince Moffett to meet him for a chat, he had to do it on his own.
In the time of the great changes in Zaun, he has to seize any power he can to grasp and try to make the great clever Moffett his help and ally.
With Moffett's help, not to mention Moffett's ability to suppress the forces of the Void, relying on Moffett to find Scana's ancestral land alone is enough to make Lyster unscrupulous.
The Emerald Collar doesn't need, and doesn't have to, wait a few more decades until someone from the Philos family obtains the Shell Life Crystal, and has the key information on Lyster, and the Emerald Collar is enough to do everything on his own.
Emerald Collar, who has obtained the Life Crystal, can develop Hex Crystal technology as soon as possible, and with the monopoly on Hex Crystal, Emerald Collar can do many things, including complete control over the yet-to-be-born Piltover and the future Zaun.
This time, he's definitely going to figure it out.
"Don't worry about my safety, let's go, don't forget our agreement."
"All right, old Quiller, show me a picture."
"Okay."
With a deep sigh, Laurie stopped dissuading and began to pry the plank with a crowbar.
It took more effort than expected to pry open the solid planks nailed by the steel nails, and it took Laurie a quarter of it a full ten minutes, and the narrow passage was crisscrossed by wooden sticks, layer after layer.
The panting Laurie overestimated his physical strength, and he couldn't let the frail old miner get started, so he could only smile awkwardly.
"Master Liszt, I'll take a break, in order to prevent miners from sneaking in to collect crystals, this place is a bit tight, and it's not easy to ......."
"I'll do it."
"Huh? Uh, crowbar......"
Before Laurie finished speaking, Lyster, who pulled out Luoxia, cut it down directly, and the solid wooden plank with the thickness of an adult's arm was split in two from the incision, and several more knives went down, and the wooden board blocking the way fell to the ground like tofu.
A few more knives went down to crack the barricade, and Lyster smiled.
"Looks like you need a crowbar more than I do, don't you?"
With a smirk, Laurie slipped the crowbar back into the sleeve.
“…… To be able to perform your sword skills in such a narrow place, your martial arts are truly amazing. ”
"Squeak!"
"Hehe, Lord Liszt, even the big rat praises you."
Knowing Lyster's 'real' force, both Laurie and Queller's faces had a little more relaxed looks.
"Alright, stop complimenting, keep walking."
"Old Quiller, you'll lead the way."
"Okay, I'll go ahead, cough cough ......"
After walking for dozens of meters, I crossed two forks in the road, and the terrain was sharply lowered.
After walking for another hundred meters or so, the three of them finally came to the mouth of the 'Devil's Mine', only three meters long and two meters wide, the mouth of the mine was located on a relatively flat rocky ground, and Lyist could see a lot of broken amethyst on the ground.
Picking up a thumb-sized crystal shard from the ground, Lyist crushed it twice, frowned, and glanced at the damp hole.
Not noticing Lyster's unusual behavior, Laurie pointed to the extinguished torches on the wall, "It's okay here, right?" ”
He sniffed vigorously a few times, and then confirmed with the big gray mouse that there was no flammable gas leaking here, and Quyler nodded.
"No problem, let's do it."
With Quiller's permission, Laurie poured grease on the torch and lit it with a match, the bright light of which made the cave much more visible.
Coming to Lyster, Laurie said with a serious face.
"Down here is the Devil's Mine,
The terrain of the devil's pit is extremely complex, often walking less than ten meters will appear a number of very similar forks, some forks will lead to another fork in the road so that you have been spinning in place, there are also forks in the road leading to unknown dangerous directions, subsidence, collapse, poisonous gas and groundwater will also appear at the foot at any time to take people's lives,
In order to explore a safe path, hundreds of lives have been buried in the Devil's Mine, it has been more than twenty years since the last time I came here, if I am not mistaken, the sign set up by the former miner has long been decayed, and if you want to pass through the Devil's Mine, you can only follow the sign all the way, bypassing the labyrinth passage of several hundred meters to reach the lower space, the silver mine and the crystal mine are also there, since the appearance of the Earth Dragon more than twenty years ago, the mineral resources there cannot be continued to be mined.
Even if you don't talk about the screaming demons in the miners' mouths and the earth dragons that cause earthquakes, you don't have to think about coming out of it unharmed without large-scale equipment and safety devices for directional development......
"Alright, give me the lamp, you stay here and wait for me, I'll go down and see for myself, and I'll come up in a moment."
"Okay, be careful, then."
From Laurie's hand, the miner's lamp was handed, and Lyist jumped straight in, leaving only the two of them looking at each other.
"Laurie, the young man brought by the jade has really gone down, I don't know whether to say that the ignorant are fearless, or that the artist is bold, cough cough...... lives well, but doesn't cherish life so much. ”
"I've seen it, this Liszt is definitely not an ordinary person, old guy, I guess we are also worrying, that knife is not something that ordinary people can have, I thought it was a toy used by the noble young master to coax the little girl, but I didn't expect to cut such a thick solid wood is the same as cutting shallots, and it is estimated that it can be exchanged for a mansion in the rich area of Zu'an on the auction floor."
Somewhat unimpressed by Quiller's sigh, Laurie sat on the ground and sighed.
"If you want me to say, I guess there are treasures in this pit that we don't know, and people are eyeing them, otherwise they wouldn't be so active, but the danger in the eyes of you and me is an opportunity for others."
"You don't want to ......"
Quiller narrowed his eyes, looking a little weird, but Laurie laughed and cursed.
"What do you want, old thing? There are some things that you have a life to take, and you have to have a life flower, and the things under this devil's pit are not something we can move at all, and it is enough to live this life in peace. ”
"Fart, live a peaceful life, if you really think so, can you still be greedy for so much money?"
For Quiller's disdain, Laurie was unimpressed.
"I'm greedy for so much money because I can be greedy for so much money, and the factory director can hold on to it even if he looks for me.
Unlike a rotten person like me, you are incorruptible, you are hardworking, you are noble, but you have no money, what can you do without money?
You have been a miner for decades, and I have become a big foreman after five years, with hundreds of people under my hands, and the factory director has personally instructed me to entertain Master Liszt, don't you want to think about why the factory director didn't ask you to do this?
Old Quiller, this is the difference between you and me, the factory director and those big businessmen only look at money, they don't care about the life or death of workers at all, they want a stable factory to create wealth, and the rest don't care at all.
Let me tell you, as long as I put enough money into their pockets, they will never trouble me, and the only one who makes trouble for me is a self-righteous guy like you, but you can only live by it, and you can't be a person like me, it's just that you can't eat grapes and eat grape sour.
I will retire directly after this transaction, even if it is for the sake of my hospitality to Master Liszt, the factory director will not embarrass me, I am greedy enough for money to buy a few good shops in Zu'an, and what about you? I have been working hard for decades, working hard under the mine, and I know if I can light a fire in the pit with my nose, and I can find a way out of my fart through the echo.
You are amazing, so powerful that you made yourself half dead, you made yourself penniless, you were seriously ill, your wife ran away with someone, even you kid looked down on you, you lived a lifetime, what did you do?
In this life, you are a waste, if you want me to say, you should learn a little in the next life, broaden your horizons, be ruthless, only by stepping on other people's heads can you have a bright future, don't be a worker for a lifetime, let alone be a bad person, you kid is so kind of to you, you still want to leave a sum of money for that bastard, I feel sorry for you, in my opinion, that kind of bastard should be left to fend for himself, regardless of whether he is stabbed or not. ”
……
Unaware of the doubts that Laurie had taught Quiller a lesson, Lyster sighed as he stared at the sign on the wooden frame of the support.
As Laurie points out, most of the signs had rotted away in the damp tunnels and couldn't be used for wayfinding at all, but that wasn't a problem for Lyster, as he wasn't prepared to use them to find his way in the first place.
By fusing the world rune fragments, Lyist can already sense the direction of the elemental flow, normally this does not help him find the right path, after all, the elemental energy is everywhere in the rune land, but once it is affected by the void energy, the element will turn into a conspicuous purple light band,
At this moment, in the elemental horizon of Lyster, an infected purple energy light belt has pointed out the direction for him, and he is eighty percent sure that there is some kind of void creature at the end of the light band, and Moffett is likely to be there, otherwise the void creature would have run out to harm the human race.
Lyster, who confirmed the route of travel, directly accelerated his pace, and ran quickly towards the road without signs while marking along the way.
Ignoring the pit beneath his feet and the poisonous gas in the air, the man left the deadly devil's pit in less than five minutes, and reached the deeper, open underground space without danger.
Magnificent and treacherous colored crystal clusters grow on the surface of the red rock, luminous mica lights up and fluoresce, in the dark underground world looks beautiful, a small world hidden in the underground comes into view, with excellent night vision, Lyist directly extinguished the portable miner's lamp, put the miner's lamp in its own position to make an exit mark.
The man's gaze was on the strange purple clothes that surrounded the crystal clusters, and he pulled out the magic steel long knife again and walked slowly.
Like a moving fungus blanket, it was distributed in small pieces around the crystal clusters covering the rocks, as if sensing the breath of Lyster, and the fungus carpet began to wriggle violently, growing dense mouthparts like octopus suction cups, and moving in the direction of Lyster, the mouthparts continued to release spore-like paralyzing toxins into the air that were enough to kill normal adults.
It's a pity that this toxin can't do anything for Lyster, who has long since left the mortal womb of the flesh, and Lyster doesn't even bother to wear a gas mask.
With a sword slash, the protruding mouthparts were directly crushed by the blade, and the retracted fungus blanket became much more sluggish.
These mushroom blankets actually know how to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages.
Gently vibrating the knife peak, the purple sap on the falling glow drew a thin line on the ground, squatting down and pinching a little purple sap, Lyist could be sure that it would not take long for these thin lines of purple sap full of vitality to grow into a new fungus blanket.
"Although this kind of thing grows slowly, it is extremely aggressive, but it is in line with the characteristics of some void creatures, it seems that there is indeed a source of void energy in the underground of Zu'an, but I don't know if the great smart Moffett is also here."