Many of the miners who fled were still concerned about the situation in the mines, and many of those who were not notified, or who had volunteered to stay for various reasons, were former friends or distant relatives of their blood.

The terrible noises they had heard before had caused a deep panic in their hearts, but the will to survive and the reason in their minds prevented them from turning their heads back, so they could only continue to walk along this narrow passage.

The person in charge of opening the way was the same young man who had been in the same room as the veteran and the others, and he walked quickly with the crystalline miner's lamp that was always available in the cave, following the traces left by his last exploration.

There was a constant breeze blowing ahead.

This suggests that they can find an exit not far ahead, or maybe it's a rock crevin that allows them to expand with their tools!

"Uncle Hadera, do you feel it, it's windy! We're almost there! ”

He turned around and gave a few words of encouragement to Hadera, the mine supervisor who was following him.

Unlike the others, the old supervisor Hadra was indeed the elder of the young man, and the young man's father was very afraid that his child would be captured and sent to the front line, so he sent him to Hadra at the beginning of the last round of conscription, hoping that his brother would take care of him.

Hadera was a little old after all, and he really couldn't keep up with the footsteps of the young man in front of him, so he stretched out his hand and pulled the young man's clothes, panted and said, "Go slower, we can go slower...... There are a lot of people in the back. ”

"Eh, good uncle."

Hearing this, the young man slowed down, he turned around, and saw that his uncle had been nervously holding a small mining pickaxe in his hand, so he cried and laughed and persuaded him: "Uncle, what have you been doing with it, this thing is quite heavy......"

"You know, I always need something to defend myself, right?"

Seeing that his nephew wanted to reach out and take away the "weapon" in his hand, Hadra retracted his hand very dissatisfied, and he glared at the other party: "If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have needed to drill a mine at this time...... The last time I walked in a place like this was more than 20 years ago, and I should have stayed at home and rested if I had known that there would be such things as today! ”

“……”

The young miner glanced at his uncle, his lips twitched twice, but he said nothing.

Of course, he knew that it was impossible for his Uncle Hadra to rest at home, and that his sons and daughters were quite famous for their ruined level in Overwatch, and that if Hadera ran out of income, his house would soon be emptied.

There were no pursuers in the rear, so the miners slowed down and began to talk quietly, and although it seemed as if they had been given a chance to escape, they still had a cruel problem to face when they were back on the surface.

Where should I go next?

No one knows the answer to this question.

Because the current kingdom of St. Steele has been completely controlled by the Black Sun Society, their eyes are everywhere, and those terrible and vicious Black Sun Secret Rituals are everywhere, as a group of ordinary people, the only thing that can accommodate them now is the remote countryside far from the town and the cold forest that is uninhabited.

It would be too cruel to think about this kind of question for the locals, who have always valued family and kinship, because they know that with the Black Sun Society, it is too easy to track down their families, and now there is absolutely no way for them to return to Overwatch, which is about to be transformed into a fortress by the royal army of St. Steele!

In this moment of depression and despair, it was the young miner who was responsible for leading the way at the front that brought some vitality to the people.

"Cheer up, I've got an exit!"

His voice was heard down the tunnel to the rear, which reinvigorated the depressed miners, who had to get out of here now, no matter what happened next, they didn't want to die of thirst or starvation in this underground world.

The young miners who led the way regained their previous speed, and the old supervisor Hadera, who followed behind, also lifted his spirits and quickened his pace, and soon they saw the faint starlight shining diagonally above.

The young man looked left and right to make sure that what appeared in front of him was a gentle slope made of countless jagged gravel piles, so he hung the miner's lamp around his waist and climbed the gravel upwards first.

The gentle slope wasn't too long, so he soon came to the exit, but just as he was about to climb to the ground with all his might, an extremely strong palm reached out and grabbed the young miner's wrist tightly.

It happened so fast that the people in the tunnel didn't even have time to react, they only heard an exclamation, and then the figure of the young miner disappeared into the starlight - someone dragged him out!

Where could the poor young man have thought of such a thing, he was already frightened, and as soon as he was dragged out of the mine, he struggled violently, but before he could move twice, several invisible magic forces as cold as ice and snow pressed him down, and fixed him in place like shackles, and this made him unable to say a word.

The crowd in the mine exploded in one fell swoop.

It's clear that this abandoned pit has already been discovered, and even these people have been waiting outside the exit of the pit for a long time!

All their plans, their escape intentions have long been seen through!

The veteran who was originally in the middle of the line finally came to the side of the exit at this time, he looked up at the starry sky outside, and couldn't help pinching the crystalline gun in his hand.

Reason and experience told him that all acts of resistance had now lost their practical meaning, and with their ability and the little force in their hands, it was a complete search for death to attack those on the ground, and if there were one or two mages among these besiegers, they would even have the ability to kill all the miners directly in this narrow passage.

In this moment of despair, the old supervisor smiled instead.

"I'll go up and have a look."

He grinned at the other, then dropped his object and crawled tremblingly up the gravel.

As if knowing that Hadra's climb was difficult, an ice-blue mage's hand suddenly appeared in the darkness, and it very gently supported the old director's body, helping him to continue his upward climb, and when he was about to reach the exit, two tall figures peeked out, and they used their lamps to shine into the mine, and then worked together to bring Hadrera out of the mine.

Hadera, who had returned to the ground, first saw his nephew, who seemed to be stupefied, and was now slumped in the open space beside him, while next to him, a dozen people were standing.

Although Hadera was old, he had a good memory, and by the light next to him, he immediately recognized that it was the servants who were following Baron Fiorlando standing here, and among them was the mediocre-looking head maid who was manipulating the mage's hand.

"What's going on?"

For a moment, all kinds of chaotic ideas were mixed together in Hadera's shrewd mind, thinking of the abnormal movements in the rock lake mine and the pursuers who had inexplicably disappeared into the darkness, Hadra faintly had some guesses, but these guesses were too outrageous and strange, so that he didn't dare to make inferences at all.

Under the blank gaze of Hadra and the young miner, the head maid raised her hand to remove the camouflage magic from her face, revealing her delicate countenance with a strong scholarly temperament.

Then, she reached out and took out a pair of glasses from her pocket and put them on slowly, then she smiled and said, "Mr. Director, please let everyone in the tunnel come out, don't shoot in it, and don't use alchemy bombs, this tunnel is not strong, it may collapse at any time." ”

"This ...... You...... Lady...... You? ”

Director Hadera's heartbeat was frantically accelerating, he opened his mouth, stumbling and changing several different names in a row, and after a few seconds he completely calmed down a little, and at the same time, the figures around him who were also dressed as retinues also lifted their disguises, so unfamiliar faces appeared in front of Hadra's eyes.

Hadera, who had been in the Chamber of Commerce for a long time, did not recognize the faces in front of him, but he could recognize the insignia worn by them.

He saw the badges that symbolized the mages of the stream, lake, and valley, the eyes of Mel, which represented the members of the Law Council, the special emblem of the Highland Council, and even the fleur-de-lis pendant that represented the irises of the Kingdom of Dereland!

Almost instantly, tears welled up in the old director's eyes.

The sudden excitement made him almost unable to help himself, he stood up straight with excitement, wiped his face with his sleeves full of dirt and dust, and walked towards the mouth of the pit without further urging Wei Lin.

Looking at the somewhat rickety figure, Wei Lin breathed a sigh of relief, she turned her head to a mage beside her and said, "I hope everything goes well in the mine, I don't want to have to participate in the battle when I rush back with the miners......"

"I don't think so, after all, Mr. Ernst himself is in the mines."

The mage shrugged: "You can make such a plan in half a day and implement it completely...... Oh, maybe my vision is too narrow, but I've never seen anyone like this before, maybe that's why Mr. Ernst has become a 'living legend of the city of Salem'? ”

"A living legend of the city of Seren?"

This somewhat exaggerated title made Wei Lin frown: "This kind of strange title, you should praise him directly to his face, I really listen to it...... I think it's a little strange. ”

The mage shrugged, "Will it?" I thought you'd be glad to hear that, Miss Verin. ”

Hearing this, Wei Lin couldn't help but glare at him: "Why am I happy?" ”

"Uh......"

The mage laughed for a moment, and then he explained, "Everyone says that every day, and the best way to praise a teacher is to praise his students, right?" ”

……

Late at night.

Three giant Asaru birds flew across the night sky, and on their backs, each boarded a spellcaster of the Black Sun Society, who was different from the mage who was in charge of the Rock Lake Mine before, all three of them were core members of the Black Sun Society, they were all from the Abyss Historical Society, and they were mainly responsible for inspecting the strongholds in the area around Watch City.

Half an hour earlier, an alarm had been sent out from the branch of the Secret Ritual that coordinated the status of the rituals around Overwatch, indicating that something had happened to the Secret Ritual located inside a large mine near Overwatch City, and that it had completely lost contact, meaning that it had either been cut off by other powerful magical rituals or had been destroyed by brute force.

Regardless of the truth, the Black Day Society could not tolerate such a thing.

After the grand ceremony witnessed by the black sun, the original rituals were given a new meaning, and they were no longer the signs used to connect and gather the members of the association, but the real "gifts" from the lost times and the true gods.

Any malicious act against this sacred thing is a blasphemy against the "legitimacy" of the Black Sun.

And the members of the Abyss History Society, who have the strongest feelings for the black sun, are even more unbearable.

Therefore, within minutes of receiving the warning, the three heavily armed members of the association immediately set off, and at the same time, they also issued a notice to the large and small strongholds around the rock lake mine - immediately gather in the direction of the mine and form an encirclement, obey the orders of the association members, and prepare to mercilessly strangle potential enemies.

One of the female members of the association riding the Yasharu Giant Bird shouted to her companion, "I saw before I left, it was Fiorlando of the royal family of San Steele who took over the rocklake mine, I know this guy, he has some minor problems, but he is absolutely loyal to us, and there are not many problems with his abilities...... The battalion of archers who followed him was now repairing and resupplying Overwatch, and they were contained. ”

"So you think this Fiorlando didn't mutiny?"

"I prefer to believe that there is some accident in this mine, and one of them will always let me go to see the situation first, and if there is an accident, or if there is no signal, you will attack the mine directly!"

The other two chose to agree with this opinion: "Yes, if you don't send a signal within half an hour, then we will attack directly." ”

After the three of them had exchanged opinions, the Ashlu Birds dispersed, two swooping towards the next scheduled place to assemble the army, and the other alone rushed in the direction of the Rock Lake Mine, the member of the association ready to see what could happen to such an ordinary mine.

(End of chapter)