"Noah, take a closer look and see if there is anyone you know among these living corpses."

Charlotte withdrew her gaze from the corpse miner and looked at Noah.

The little werewolf obviously hadn't seen this formation, maybe it was cold, or it might be frightened, and the whole person was still shivering.

However, after listening to Charlotte's words, he still had the courage to poke his head out and look at the living corpses that were mining.

And at this look, he was quickly stunned, and almost exclaimed again:

"Dore...... That's Uncle Dole! Oh, my God! It's him! ”

"He's still wearing his favorite Kolya gown!"

He ...... He was not eaten, but turned into a living corpse! ”

"Cooper! And Big Brother Cooper, he's even there! He disappeared a month ago, and he is here! ”

"It's them...... It's really them! ”

"They're the miners who are missing! They're all here! ”

"Sister Raisa, they've all been turned into living corpses!"

In the darkness, the werewolf Noah looked at the living corpses with dull eyes, and his voice trembled slightly.

Charlotte sighed slightly, and the secret path was indeed so.

"It seems that this is the secret of the mine, the Mithril mine is not depleted, but deliberately sealed, and someone actually converts miners into undead miners here to mine Mithril!"

"Such a big thing is by no means easy to hide, master, it seems...... The water in the county is deeper than expected. ”

Sebas couldn't help but say, even the title changed.

"Lord...... Master? ”

Werewolf Noah stared blankly at Sebas, not knowing whether he should show a puzzled and surprised expression anymore.

Charlotte thought about the attitude of the territorial nobles towards her, and nodded slightly:

"It's time to put things in order."

Ness looked at the glazed corpses, looked at them for a moment, and said:

"These living corpses are not highly spiritual, they are very dull, and the necromancer who transforms them should not be of high level, I am afraid that it will not exceed the Silver Moon."

"They can only do some simple, mechanical work, and I'm afraid they can't do anything else."

"However, I think many living corpses should be some years old, and many of them even have a tendency to be bone spirited, presumably it has been operating here for many years."

Listening to Nice's words, Charlotte was thoughtful.

She looked at Noah and asked again:

"Noah, when was the Mithril Mine sealed?"

"Seven years ago, it was sealed seven years ago, and it was from that time that the miners began to disappear."

Noah replied with a pale face.

"Seven years ago......"

Charlotte compared the information she had read, and suddenly remembered that Castell's Manor had begun to shrink significantly in its monthly income since seven years ago.

By the way, the cheap grandmother who made Castell a miasma completely sent all the high-ranking nobles who followed the Castel family back to the realm seven years ago.

Seven years ago, Castel had lost control of the nobility of his realm.

It was also seven years ago that there was an accident in the Mithril mine.

Concealing the news of the Mithril mine and arranging for thousands of living corpse miners to continue mining here is absolutely inseparable from the cooperation of the top management of the mining workshop.

It is clear that there is a nobleman involved behind this scene.

Castel's Mithril Mine represents the interests of many nobles, and it is not easy to conceal the truth of the mine, and to be able to hide such a big movement for so many years, there is definitely a large force behind it.

Or rather...... A character who brings together all the nobles involved!

Charlotte thought back to the family information she had read, and there was no such powerful landlord among the local nobles of Castel.

In fact, the county of Castells has always been a lord who is more powerful than a nobleman since ancient times.

This left Charlotte deep in thought.

"Noah, did the rumors of a dragon in the mine start seven years ago?"

Sebas asked suddenly, coldly.

Noah still didn't recover from the shock, his dull gaze still stayed on those terrible living corpses, and he just nodded blankly and mechanically:

"Rumors, yes, but ...... My brother said it had been here for a long time. ”

"Isn't it? Sebas, do you suspect it has something to do with the black dragon? ”

Ness's eyes widened, and he gave the Fire Elf a ridiculous look.

Sebas bowed slightly:

"It's a bit bizarre, but it's not impossible."

"I've heard that some powerful dragons can even take on human form, and dragons have always loved wealth, and the precious Mithril has a fatal attraction to dragons......"

"What if a black dragon controlled the nobles of Castel to help it mine?"

Ness gasped:

"Good fellow, do you really dare to think that a black dragon has infiltrated the human world...... You really think of the black dragon as the silver dragon! Even if that kind of monster has mastered the art of transfiguration, it doesn't bother to transform into a human. ”

"Not to mention that dragons like black dragons have always been born magical idiots, and their talents are all in magic resistance and flesh, as far as I know, except for those old and immortal guys, the vast majority of black dragons can't master the transformation technique at all."

"And for the old ones, the little Castel collar is not in their eyes."

Sebas gave Nice a surprise look:

"You know a lot."

Nice looked proud:

"Hey, I'm not like some waste elf, with long hair and short knowledge, but I'm full of adventures! I think back then, when you little elf was still eating milk honey, I was already talking and laughing with the legendary dragon! ”

Sebastian: ......

"Really? So how did you become a cat that couldn't defeat even the lowest-level Blood Fiend? ”

He smiled slightly.

Nice cat's face darkened, and it was obviously said that it was a sore spot, and it exploded in an instant:

"Who said you can't beat it! Master Cat, I can kill it with a Void Banishment, okay! Don't say it's a blood demon, the evil god has revived the cat master! Back then, the Holy Court asked me to seal the evil gods! ”

"Well, yes, and then I became a pet who lost weight every day."

Sebas nodded approvingly.

Nice:......

A cat and a dog stared at each other, and there was a tendency to dry up again.

"Silence!"

Charlotte glanced at them.

"Humph!"

They snorted at each other and looked away from each other.

Charlotte: ......

These two guys have good abilities, one has more secrets than the other, but they can't pee in a pot when they work together.

However, the black dragon......

Charlotte thought about Sebas's guess.

It sounded reasonable, but she always felt that something wasn't right.

It wasn't until she looked at the mountain of Mithril in the depths of the cavern again that she realized something was wrong.

The dragon who is greedy for money...... I'm afraid I won't put so much Mithril here alone without protection, and I won't use just one seal that Nice can easily unlock to seal the mine!

Thinking of this, Charlotte looked at Nice again and asked:

"Nice, is there a dragon's breath here?"

Nice's instant color turned up:

"That's where I wondered, I didn't smell the dragon here, either...... It's been gone for a long time, or it hasn't existed at all. ”

Sebastian: ......

He glanced at Ness speechlessly:

"Since you didn't smell the dragon, why didn't you say it sooner?"

Ness laughed hesitantly:

"Why say so early? I just like to see the embarrassment of some people's misjudgments. ”

"You ——!"

A cat and a dog have a tendency to dry up again.

It wasn't until Charlotte glanced at them coldly that they were silent.

Charlotte withdrew her gaze and looked at the living corpses in the cave, the surging light in her eyes, and after a moment, she closed her gaze and said:

"These living corpses are indeed only the lowest level of living corpses, not even the undead who attacked us that day."

"Aside from looking terrifying, they are not dangerous, and I am afraid that they will only be sluggish to execute the orders given to them by the spellcaster......"

"I didn't perceive the necromancer's mental fluctuations, presumably these living corpses were just left here alone to perform mining work."

"Let's go, let's go down and see, maybe we'll find something."

With that, she took the lead and entered the cave.

Sebas and Nice quickly followed, one left and one right, followed by Louv.

Although the little werewolf Noah looked frightened, he looked at the few people who walked away, and suddenly felt more uneasy standing in place, and hurriedly trotted all the way to chase after him.

Charlotte came to the cavern, and as she judged, the miner's living corpses didn't care about them breaking into the cavern.

They are still rigid, mechanically, repeating the work of mining.

Only those living corpses that looked relatively fresh and should not have been transformed for a long time, seemed to have a high spiritual sense, and as everyone approached, they turned slightly and stiffly revealed, and a pair of glowing green fire eye sockets were facing Charlotte and the others.

What's more, some of the undead who are not highly spiritualized still retain their original eyeballs, and their rotten pale cheeks and hollow eyes are extraordinarily permeable, which frightened Noah's face to turn pale, and he hurriedly grabbed his tail and hid behind the tallest Luf, pinching the corners of his clothes.

"If you're scared, don't look at them."

Luffy glanced at the little werewolf and said.

However, despite the horror, Noah's gaze still fell on the living corpse.

Or more accurately, wandering among the living corpses, as if searching for something.

Charlotte saw everything in her eyes, and her heart moved, and asked:

"Noah, how many years has your brother been missing?"

Noah drooped his ears:

"It's been seven years."

Charlotte sighed:

"It should be safe here, time is limited, let's go and investigate, Luff, you take Noah to the bone miners for a walk."

It's been seven years......

If Noah's brother had also been transformed into a living corpse, he would have been hard to identify by now.

Luff nodded silently, and led the little werewolf towards the miner who had obviously been converted earlier.

"Sebas, go to the workshop and check it out."

Charlotte ordered Sebas again.

There's nothing strange about the workshop, but it looks elven-style, and maybe Sebas can spot something.

Sebas was supposed to be gone, and Charlotte continued to spin between the living miners, trying to see if anything new had been discovered.

However, as she passed in front of a living corpse that had apparently been transformed recently, the living corpse suddenly stretched out its hand towards her.

Even if Charlotte's keen spiritual sense made her mentally prepared, she was taken aback, but this living corpse did not attack her, but trembled its body, and said with a dull gaze:

"Save ...... Save...... I ......"

Charlotte was slightly stunned, and then her expression instantly became solemn.

This living corpse ...... He still retains a certain amount of consciousness.

However, when she looked at the other party again, the living corpse had regained its stiff movements and continued to dig up the ore.

"It's a living transformation...... It turned out to be a living transformation that even a necromancer would despise deeply! ”

The Nice cat, who followed Charlotte's side, had a solemn face.

Charlotte's heart moved slightly:

"Living transformation?"

"Yes, some evil necromancers will choose to directly transform the living into the undead because they are not capable enough, in order to make the transformed undead more spiritual."

"They are dead, but not completely dead, and until they actually die, their souls will still retain their consciousness, and they will watch their bodies decay and feel the pain of their bodies, until their spirituality gradually fades and they completely become undead, and the bodies of the dead will always remember the last actions they were forcibly ordered before they were alive, and they will repeat it all the time......"

"Because it's too cruel, the transformation of living bodies, even among necromancers, is a taboo!"

Ness said solemnly.

Charlotte was silent.

She looked at the glazed-eyed living corpse, gently stretched out her hand, and placed it in front of the other party.

Immediately afterward, a surging brilliance flowed in her red eyes.

At this moment, Charlotte opened memory sharing with the living corpses in front of her, just like she did with the souls of those mutilated girls.

It's just that after turning on memory sharing, Charlotte didn't get any memory fragments, but only a kind of fear and pain that went deep into the bone marrow.

That is the pain of the miners, the fear and pain that they lose control of their bodies in the process of being made into living corpses, watching their bodies gradually decay, feeling their hearts gradually being eaten away by maggots, and their souls dying day by day!

That fear, that pain, like a bottomless abyss.

Charlotte only felt as if she had fallen into the infinite darkness, and in the darkness, countless pairs of rotting arms trembled and stretched out towards her, and countless painful and desperate prayers rang in her ears:

"Save ...... Help me......"

When Charlotte withdrew from the memory sharing, a layer of cold sweat broke out on her back, and she gasped slightly, and even she shuddered with the pain and fear of being there.

"Lord Charlotte, the undead who have been transformed into living bodies cannot read their memories because of their spirituality."

Ness said in a deep voice.

As he spoke, it scratched its head:

It's a little strange to let me have a kitten educate you about this knowledge, but ...... Looks like you've forgotten more memories than I thought......"

Charlotte was silent.

She gave up memory sharing.

Glancing at the trembling living corpses, Charlotte sighed and continued walking.

However, as he walked, Ness suddenly stopped.

Charlotte's heart moved, and when she turned around, she saw that the other party was looking at a mushroom growing on the ground in a daze, and her eyes were a little weird.

Her heart moved:

"Nice, what's wrong?"

"Charlotte-sama ......"

Nice's expression was a little odd:

"Perhaps, what Noah said is true, there may have been a dragon here!"

"Huh?"

Charlotte raised an eyebrow.

Ness pointed to the mushroom on the ground:

"Lord Charlotte, you see, this scaly mushroom is called ambergris, and it only grows where dragons are found......"

"However, this ambergris looks a little degenerate, and I'm afraid the dragon has been gone for a long time, which is why I haven't smelled it."

Is there really a dragon......

Charlotte was thoughtful.

And a little later, Sebas, Luff, and Noah also returned.

The little werewolf looked a little lost, but at the same time, it seemed to be relieved.

Charlotte's heart moved:

"Didn't find it?"

Noah nodded with a complicated expression.

"I didn't find it, maybe it's a good thing, maybe your brother is still alive."

Charlotte reassured.

As she spoke, she looked at Sebas again.

"There are only a few living corpses working in the workshop...... Well, master, did you find anything? ”

Sebas asked curiously after the debriefing.

"Nice has found a patch of ambergris."

Charlotte said.

"Ambergris?"

Sebas was stunned.

Then, surprised:

"So...... Is it really possible that my speculation is true? ”

"Who knows, but ...... Maybe we'll find out soon. ”

Charlotte looked at the living corpse miners around her and said.

After saying that, she closed her eyes again and stretched out her hands, and the magic on her body surged.

Nice's eyelids jumped:

"Lord Charlotte, are you going to ......?"

"Help them get free, they ...... It's too painful. ”

Charlotte sighed and said.

As she spoke, her voice turned slightly colder:

"At the same time, it is also through this way that the people behind it are called out."

There is a sense between the necromancer and the undead, and even if there is no contract, they can sense the changes in the cave.

Now that she knows the secret of the Mithril mine, Charlotte is too lazy to play hide and seek with the guys behind the scenes, the hole cards of True Ancestor Liberation make her fearless, she wants to ruin this place and force the other party out directly.

However, as soon as Charlotte finished speaking, a lazy voice sounded in the cave:

"Oh? Call it out? ”

"Lovely Miss Werewolf, are you talking about me?"