"Hoo ..............."

Duanmu Huai also opened his eyes at this time, and then looked at Mary who fell to the ground, stunned for a moment.

"What is this?"

"Ah............ Miss Mary seems to be a little unwell........."

At this moment, Ann and Grua also hurriedly stepped forward and helped Mary up.

"Did the magic fail? But I think it's a success, huh? ”

Duanmu Huai could now clearly see that there was a pink thread connecting himself and Mary.

Well, of course, the location is a bit indescribable——— but considering it's a spell from the Pink Book, it seems understandable?

"Uh............... It's just that Miss Mary isn't quite used to magic yet, so she'll just rest for a while. ”

Ann also hurriedly said at this time.

"Alright then, I'll go out and have a look first, you guys are here to take care of Mary."

Duanmu Huai didn't think too much about it, just nodded, and then left the room. Watching Duanmu Huai leave, Ann and Gu Leiya breathed a sigh of relief, and then looked at Mary, who was still in a trance at the moment, and the girl under her eyes was confused, panting slightly, her whole body was weak and weak, and she looked dazed.

“…………… I'm very interested in the magic that Mr. Knight just used. ”

Ann stared at Mary and whispered, and when she heard Ann speak, Gurea was taken aback and turned to look at her.

"Ann?"

"Isn't it interesting?"

"Uh......... Who are you going to give it to? ”

"Hee-hee..............."

Hearing Grea's inquiry, Ann grinned at her, and seeing Ann's smile, Grea trembled and subconsciously took a step back.

Well, it's all in plain sight.

At the same time, Duanmu Huai is experiencing the power of the golden pupil in the town.

"That's amazing......... Tsk tsk, why doesn't anyone brush it in the game? ”

Looking at the world in front of him, Duanmu Huai couldn't help but sigh.

Of course, if you just look at it, it doesn't seem to make a difference. But when Duanmu Huai focused his will on his right eye, he was able to see different lights, Mary couldn't understand what it was, but Duanmu Huai understood it at a glance.

That's the direction marker.

In the eyes of the locust at the end of the eye, everyone has a direction mark, pointing straight into the distance, that is to say, as long as you look at it, you can know where these people are coming from and where they are going. For example, the guard is going to drink in the tavern next to him, and the man on the other side is going to the river to fish, even if it is a black cat chasing a mouse, Duanmu Huai can see how it gets out of the broken glass window and then chases the prey into the alley.

And if you focus on a goal, you can see everything related to it.

For example, the river right now.

"Is that the problem here?"

Duanmu Huai stood by the river, looking at the river in front of him, the dim aura in the belly of the pregnant lady before was connected to this river, that is to say, does the dead baby have anything to do with this river?

However, no signs of curses or magic were detected......... Well.........

Duanmu Huai stared at the river again, concentrating, and soon, his gaze began to "swim upstream", following the direction of the river's rushing, and then came to the cave located in the mountain, and then Duanmu Huai saw a strange and dazzling flash, in a huge pond, a stone was emitting dazzling light, and then ...............

"Whew!"

The next moment, a sharp headache came, and Duanmu Huai came back to his senses, only to find that the light that connected him to Mary had disappeared.

"Sure enough, it's not your own golden pupil, so it's still troublesome to use."

Obviously, the golden pupil is indeed an artifact, and when placed in the game, this is simply a plug-in that automatically guides the way. To put it simply, it's like a player who takes a task and directly gives you a direction marker, and the player can directly complete the task as long as he follows the direction mark, which is simply cheating.

But it's a pity that this thing doesn't seem to support sharing, although Duanmu Huai is fine, but Mary's side can't support it anymore.........

Forget it, anyway, the clues have been found.

"Oh no!!"

At this moment, a guard came running panting, his face pale and terrified, while Duanmu Huai retracted his gaze and stared at him.

"What's wrong?"

"Blame, monster! There are monsters in the mines! ”

The guard who came back was one of the guards who had ordered Duanmu Huai to follow the imp to inspect the mine, and according to his account, the group followed the imp to the mouth of the mine halfway up the mountain, only to find that the mine that should have been sealed was indeed smashed open by something. Everyone was taken aback, they were supposed to leave immediately and report the news to Duanmu Huai, but a few of the guards who were miners were stunned by the destruction of the mine, and then walked into the dark mine. I want to find out what's going on inside the mine.

But soon, the guards left outside heard the screams coming from inside, and the screams that seemed to tear their souls apart made the others tremble, and they almost immediately dropped their weapons and hurried back.

"I see."

Duanmu Huai thought for a moment, then nodded.

"I'm going to deal with it and ask your people to block all mine entrances and exits——— there are a lot of entrances and exits?"

"There are only two, I'll plug them up completely!"

The guards who returned turned pale and their lips trembled, but they still mustered up the courage to answer.

"Do you need me to inform your companion?"

"I don't need it for the time being, it's better for me to handle this matter alone."

Although the golden pupil didn't see the end, Duanmu Huai already had some guesses, perhaps this could also explain why neither the priest nor the paladin were aware of the problem. Because it's beyond their knowledge and common sense. Just as the so-called magic or magic is more like a trick to deceive people in other worlds, some things are also strange to people in this world.

The entrance to the mine is halfway up the hill behind the town, and the railroad tracks are still paved with empty minecarts all around——— and it's clear that they once had a glorious time, but now the dust and cobwebs of the minecarts show that those days are gone.

"Get out of here, don't come closer, don't come in anyone."

Before Duanmu Huai walked into the cave, he turned around again and said to the mayor and the garrison.

"If you're going to come in, you're going to do it at your own risk."

"Is it dangerous inside?"

"You don't need to know this."

Duanmu Huai's icy gaze stopped the mayor's stupid and curious inquiry.

"Feel free to come in if you want to, after all, I've warned you."

After saying this, Duanmu Huai turned to leave, while the others swallowed a mouthful of saliva, looked at each other for a moment, and then retreated.

They're not stupid.

The mine was dimly lit.

Duanmu Huai clenched his hands into fists and strode in. The confined space wasn't for him wielding a Thunder Hammer or a Power Sword, but it didn't matter. For Duanmu Huai, these fists alone were enough to turn all the creatures that dared to stand in his way into a pile of meat sauce.

Even more effective than Warhammer.

"Click......... ...............Click, click ”

As Duanmu Huai went deep into the inside of the mine, a strange noise appeared in his helmet, but Duanmu Huai was not surprised by this noise, and it can even be said that he had already guessed it!

"Sure enough, damn radiation!"

Looking at the radiation warning coming from the helmet, Duanmu Huai clenched his fists.

That's what he guessed when he saw the last scene through the golden pupils, although it wasn't strange that in the wizarding world, stones glowed, and even many gems glowed. But Duanmu Huai quickly remembered what Priest Tyre had said before that their investigation had yielded nothing.

If the stone was the work of some kind of magic, then they couldn't have been undetected. But what if that's not magic?

Can radioactive material be detected with the detection of toxins or the detection of curses?

It wasn't clear what this magic was based on, but it now appeared that it had no effect on the radiation produced by nature.

So, was it just an accident?

Duanmu Huai doesn't think so, the reason is very simple, this is an iron ore field, if there was a radiation mine here for a long time, then the miners in Rock Town are estimated to be almost dead. But it's not right if you say that it was dug up recently, as can be seen from the previous minecarts, because the mine deposits have been exhausted, Locke Town has not opened for mining for a long time, and there is no such thing at all.

In other words, it is not news that someone deliberately put a piece of radioactive ore here in order to poison people downstream of the river——— and the radiation contamination caused fetal malformations and miscarriages, so the distortion of the shape of the stillborn in Locke Town is understandable, the only thing to say is that this process is a bit too fast, and there doesn't seem to be a similar situation elsewhere.

Maybe it's because Locke Town is the closest and therefore the most affected?

This is also the reason why Duanmu Huai does not let Ann and Mary and the others come with him, the power armor of the inquisitor can resist all radiation and extreme cold and heat, and can also move freely in a vacuum. But he didn't believe Ann's magic could protect him from radiation contamination.

Radiation ore, but it's not like ordinary radiation ore, Faeron doesn't seem to produce this thing, is it from another world? Then it is even more interesting, who, for what purpose, and from what world brought it here?

You must know that this area is deserted except for Locketown, and it is not a densely populated place like Waterdeep or Winterless, and generally speaking, if you use radiation to cause pollution, you can choose those big cities to attack, rather than in such small places.........

"Hoo —————!"

Just as Duanmu Huai was thinking, suddenly, a sharp spear-like thing emerged from the dark shadows, stabbed Duanmu Huai's head, and then hit Duanmu Huai's helmet and bounced away. Feeling the impact of the battle, Duanmu Huai also roared angrily, gathered his mind, stretched out his hand and grabbed the spear, and pulled it hard, and then accompanied by a scream, a black shadow fell from the sky and smashed to the ground.

At this moment, under the light of the searchlight, Duanmu Huai clearly saw the monster that attacked him——— its body was an adult human, but it only had a body. His limbs were very elongated, especially the lower arms and lower legs, which were like spider's feet, and the monster had no neck at all, its twisted face was "indiscreted" in the middle of its shoulders, its jaw opened and closed and let out a scream of pain, and muddy filthy blood spurted out from the broken one of its feet, spilling all over the cave.

What the hell is this? Arachnid humans?

Looking at the ghost thing in front of him, Duanmu Huai was also confused, he had never seen similar mutant monsters, but it was certain that these things should be monsters that came out of the belly of the woman in Rock Town before, because Duanmu Huai remembered very well that the mayor and the garrison captain once said that the body of the victim seemed to be pierced and torn apart by something similar to a spear...............

Duanmu Huai looked at the section on his hand, which looked like a slender human calf that had been pulled, but the place where it should have been the sole of the foot was erected high, forming a sharp tip.

Well, it looks like this is the murder weapon.

It's just that this thing is obviously bigger than Duanmu Huai imagined, you must know that at first this thing was hidden in a woman's belly, no matter how you guess it, it will only be as big as a baby, but now the body of this monster is about the same as a strong adult man.

What does it eat............... Well, it's not going to be radiation.

Duanmu Huai's face sank, and he now felt more and more that this was a conspiracy.

Twisted corpses of dead babies, mutated monsters that feed on radiation, plus a stone that radiates energy.

These three things are put together, and they always give Duanmu Huai a thick standard plot plot like the opening of a mission.

"Humph!"

Duanmu Huai stepped on the twisted monster, directly trampling its body into a bloody mass of meat sauce, then he clenched his fists and continued to walk inside——— the mine cave extended in all directions, but it didn't matter to Duanmu Huai anymore, he just needed to follow the radiation detector now and find the place with the highest radiation concentration.

The deeper you go into the mine, the more weird monsters there are, and Duanmu Huai also saw the corpses of the soldiers who entered the mine before, their bodies were pierced, their abdomen was cut open, and the internal organs were scattered all over the ground, and it was obvious that the monsters that were eating them didn't seem to be very familiar with how to eat. However, Duanmu Huai did not doubt that these monsters would understand after a few experiments.

Unfortunately, they don't have a chance.

"Squeak Squeak—————!!"

The twisted monster let out a mouse-like scream and lunged at Duanmu Huai, their attack simple as piercing the body of their enemies with their spear-like limbs and tearing them apart. However, this trick was completely useless for Duanmu Huai, he didn't even have the intention of hiding, but let the other party hit him.

"Bell —————!"

Duanmu Huai stood still like a rock, but the monster screamed and retreated, but Duanmu Huai had already stretched out his fist at this moment and slammed into the monster's body, directly breaking it in half. Then he grabbed the monster's stump and threw it off, breaking the slender leg of the other monster, and the moment it fell to the ground, a big steel foot slammed down.

"Bang!"

The monster's stump shuddered for a moment, then became unresponsive.

"Waste."

Duanmu Huai clapped his hands, stood up and continued to move forward, he had already heard the sound of running water, which meant that he was getting closer and closer to his destination. If he was right, when he walked around this corner, he would see an underground lake, and in the middle of the underground lake there would be a glowing stone.

But all Duanmu saw was pitch black.

The sudden darkness didn't even allow Duanmu Huai's searchlight to pass through, and it wasn't until a moment later, when Duanmu Huai saw through the light the crimson flesh and sharp teeth that he couldn't stop wriggling in front of him, that he realized what had happened.

"Damn, what the hell!"

Duanmu Huai roared angrily, stretched out his hand, directly grabbed the other party's mouth that bit his head, and then pulled it hard. I saw that the rubber-like skin and muscles were torn apart by Duanmu Huai, and soon, a gap was torn open in the originally dark space, and then Duanmu Huai roared and used his hands again to expand this gap, and then he threw the fool who attacked him to the ground.

It was a snake.

It looks more like a strange animal than a snake, with a wolf-like head, a snake body, and even gecko-like feet and tail. It looks weird and distorted. But it's a pity that in front of Duanmu Huai, this twisted mutated deformed monster has no effect, and its head has been directly torn in half by Duanmu Huai, turning into a pile of flesh and blood that has collapsed on the ground.

Then, Duanmu Huai saw the stone that radiated a shining light.

"Dididi—————! Didi"

At the same time, the alarm sound of radiation also increased rapidly, and it was obvious that the radiation brought by this stone had exceeded the critical value, and fortunately, Duanmu Huai's power armor was completely able to resist this level of radiation. He walked into the underground lake, came to the rock, and stared at it.

"Where are you from?"

Duanmu Huai did not believe that the stone was of local origin, it was about a meter high, and it looked like a semi-circular stone, exuding a bright light like an incandescent lamp. Duanmu Huai remembers that there is this ore in the game, and it is used by certain races to make power systems, but it is a relatively backward power source.

Soon, Duanmu Huai found the answer, and he found a corpse not far from that piece of ore——— a corpse that did not belong to this world.

The reason why Duanmu Huai is so sure is also obvious, there are no people in this world who will walk around in spacesuits or space armor.

Except for yourself.

And this person also fell in the lake at the moment, the cause of his death is obvious, it can be seen from the lower half of his body that he lost, this deceased should have been attacked by some kind of local monster here, and then torn in half, and then died unlucky, then the stone he brought is easy to explain.

The people who brought it are dead, and it can't run away on its own long legs, right?

But when Duanmu Huai turned the corpse over and saw its swollen, sore face and the blasphemous, ugly marks on its chest, Duanmu Huai got far more than he had imagined.

"Believers of the Dirt of Corruption...............

Staring viciously at the corpse in front of him, Duanmu Huai gritted his teeth.

"You've really run a long way away..............."

(End of chapter)