"Okay, don't rub it off, keep walking!" gently pushed Xiao Cheng away at his feet, Yang Fan said.

Hearing this, Keith walked over to the dead spider, retrieved the arrow stuck in its abdomen, and walked back to the front of the group to clear the way with Xiao Cheng.

The spider's body had already been smashed to pieces by Xiao Cheng's "falling stone", so Yang Fan didn't put this disgusting thing into the ring this time.

The group walked and stopped all the way, and after a few hours passed, it still did not come to the end, and the mine seemed to be deeper than Yang Fan imagined.

Yang Fan also confirmed his conjecture, this place has indeed become a spider's nest.

In fact, most of their time was spent cleaning up the webs and killing the spiders, and the cooperation between them became more and more tacit from the time they met the second spider. Often as soon as the spider is discovered, Xiao Cheng's magic will overturn it as soon as possible, followed by the attack of Yang Fan and the four of them falling towards its abdomen like a storm.

Unconsciously, Yang Fan's ring had already collected dozens of spider corpses, which was still the result of giving up a lot of spiders that were smashed by Xiao Cheng with magic.

Looking at the road ahead, there seemed to be endless darkness, Yang Fan was irritable, and suddenly heard Xiao Cheng let out a slight cry.

The voice was not as vigilant as when he detected the demonic beast, and he did not feel its tyrannical emotions in the face of danger, Yang Fan couldn't help but secretly wonder.

"Xiao Cheng, what's wrong?"

Xiao Cheng turned his head to look at him and spit out the letter, as if to say to him, "Don't worry", and then crawled into the darkness with a flick of his tail.

Knowing that there was no danger this time, Yang Fan didn't stop it, but just beckoned a few people to follow behind and turned on the magic lamp on the cave wall.

As the magic lamps lit up, the darkness in the cave was gradually dispelled, and Yang Fan finally knew what Xiao Cheng's cry just now meant.

There was nothing strange in the cave, what appeared in front of everyone was just a fork in the road, and Xiao Cheng was constantly spitting out letters at the fork to explore the situation inside.

"Master, what now?" asked Gate.

Yang Fan shook his head, walked over to Xiao Cheng's side, and patted his forehead. "Xiao Cheng, which way do you say to go?"

"Silk!" Xiao Cheng rubbed his palm, then turned around and slowly crawled towards the fork in the left.

Without Yang Fan's instructions, Keith and the others followed it into the fork in the left road, while Yang Fan followed a few people and lowered his head and fell into deep thought.

There is no doubt that this is a mine dug by man, and the manpower and material resources consumed to dig the mine so deep are definitely not small.

Such large-scale mines are generally mined by the state, but since the establishment of the Duchy of Perus for more than 200 years, there has never been a record of large-scale mines in the Great Wilderness, which shows that this mine was either dug secretly by private individuals or existed before the establishment of the Duchy of Perus.

If it is excavated by a private person, then the rights of this person are probably not far behind those of the king. But if it was before the establishment of the Duchy of Perus, why is there no information about the previous dynasty in the memory of the little prince?

In the middle of his doubts, Gate, who was next to him, tugged at his sleeve and pulled him back from his thoughts.

Looking up at Gate, seeing that he was pointing to the cave and signaling to himself, Yang Fan hurriedly put his eyes on the front of the team.

It turned out that just as he was pondering, several people had already reached the end of the fork in the road. Obviously, this fork in the road is not the main mine, because everyone has only been in for a few minutes, the main mine road is not so shallow, and the surrounding area does not look like a mining place.

On top of that, the furnishings here are more like a living room. In the center of the chamber is a stone table made of several large stones, on which is a notebook and pens made of feathers. Behind the stone table, against the wall, there is a stone bed, and there is no quilt or pillow on the stone bed, only a tattered mat.

Yang Fan walked to the stone table and picked up the notebook and looked at it, the handwriting on it was faintly visible.

This notebook was written by a mine manager named Caro, and from the first page onwards it was a detailed account of what happened after he arrived in the mine.

Yang Fan also learned about the origin of this mine from this notebook, it turned out that today's Duchy of Perus was only a state and county called the Anta Empire two hundred years ago, and the current Great Wasteland was also the domain of a duke at that time.

That duke was powerful and ambitious in the Anta Empire at that time. After he knew that the people of his realm had stumbled upon a huge gold mine, it fueled his arrogance.

After destroying the people who knew the location of the gold mines, the Duke began to secretly organize the mining of men, and then used this vast wealth to recruit troops and expand his strength.

But these actions of his were informed to the emperor, the emperor was worried that the duke would have his own army, and wanted to cut off his title and take back the territory, but how could the duke, who was already strong, be slaughtered by others, so he gathered all his forces to defend the territory, and directly announced that he was out of the Anta Empire.

Because of the duke's years of operation and the support of the gold mines, the emperor's repeated crusade armies were in vain, and the emperor had no choice but to draw 100,000 people from the several main legions guarding the border, forming an elite army of 300,000 led by top masters.

After a whole month of fighting, it seemed that he was about to capture the territory, but the situation was completely broken by the two necromancers that the duke had been hiding in his hands.

Since the two necromancy gods went into battle, they directly resurrected all the dead soldiers on both sides and turned them into zombies and skeletons. Under the onslaught of these painless undead, the conquest team eventually collapsed.

The mine was never discovered by the Empire, and Carlo learned about the outside from the person in charge of collecting the gold mines.

This is the end of the note, and it does not say anything about the final fate of the Duke and his domain, nor is there any news of the Anta Empire.

Just on the last page of the note was written the following sentence: "When the light dispels the darkness, the deceased will be laid to rest." ”

Yang Fan sighed and put the notebook into the ring, now he finally knew why this mine was abandoned.

It turns out that when the war between the Duke and the Empire was in full swing, the miners in the mine accidentally dug through a spider cave, and after swarms of giant spiders poured into the mine, they began to hunt miners everywhere.

After Carlo reported the incident, the Duke sent two masters over, because there were too many spiders and the Duke was short of manpower at that time, so these two masters killed all the spiders in the mine, blocked the entrance of the spider cave with stones and left.

For some time afterward, the miners were worried that the spider cave would be dug up by the spiders. Until one day Carlo wanted to go out of the mine and go back to the territory because he hadn't seen the people who had come to collect the gold mine for a long time, but he knew that the entrance of the mine was actually blocked by a boulder, so he hurriedly returned to the cave to gather the miners to make a hole from the side of the boulder.

But the heavens seemed to be deliberately playing tricks on them, and the spider cave that had been quiet for a long time was once again dug up at this time, and the miners were chased everywhere by these murderous creatures, and they had no energy to gather at the mouth of the cave to dig holes.

Seeing the living beings being chewed into the mouths of these spiders, Carlo ran into his bedroom in despair, leaving that sentence on the last page.