Ten minutes later, Li Ang walked into the passage and observed it, and then motioned for everyone to follow.

Not only are there more and more forks in the road, but the traps are also gradually increasing, acid, flame, lightning, all kinds of elements, in the middle, on both sides, at the top, in a variety of positions, and in a strange way of triggering, it can be regarded as a unique trap show. Without a wanderer who can detect traps, it can be said that few people can pass intact, but even if they do, they are likely to get lost in this vast natural labyrinth.

And to put it more strictly, even a peak-level third-order wanderer would not have such an all-round and non-consumable detection method as Li Ang, not to mention that he also had a portable version of the panoramic overlooking map.

Leon moved faster and faster, for he knew that there were so many traps in the path that said one thing at the same time—that the direction was most likely the right one.

"Commander, there are traces here!"

Melissa, who was very stubborn in some ways, insisted on this name, and Leon did not go out of his way to correct it, and walked to her place.

It was a forked four-way intersection, and there was a very messy footprint in the soft corner of the wall, extending from one passage to the nearest other path, that is, he did not choose the one that Li Ang took, and it seemed that it was really unlucky.

Leon's attention had been focused on many places, so he really ignored this, he squatted down and observed for a while, then stood up and said, "I'll go over there and take a look, you guys take a rest first." ”

"I'll go too!" several voices rang out at the same time.

"No need," Leon waved his hand, "I'm just going to take a look and I'll be back soon." ”

His words were now quite majestic, so there was no objection, and Leon walked briskly towards the path in the direction of the footprints.

If you look closely, it is estimated that at least five or six people have passed here, and they are in a very bad state, otherwise the footprints would not be so messy. Leon walked a few dozen meters and found the bodies of two humans next to a trap that had been triggered.

This is a fire trap, the power is equivalent to the four-ring secret method cast by a third-order junior archmage, the two corpses were charred black, and only vaguely judged that one was male and the other was female, and their bodies were covered with other types of wounds, indicating that they wanted to escape along the labyrinthine path after a fierce battle, but died on the trap.

Their belongings were also burned, or they were taken away by other companions, and there was nothing to prove their identity anyway, so Leon crouched on the ground in disappointment and made a few more identifications, only to find that the rest had left along another passage.

He thought about it for a while, and continued to chase along the path, for him there was no worry of getting lost at all, but he set a time limit of twenty minutes, and if he did not find a trace after the time limit, he would turn back immediately.

It only took half the time to find the three bodies again, this time not from the trap, but from the numerous deep wounds cut by some creature with an extremely sharp jagged weapon, and finally died from the wounds or blood loss......

Leon immediately breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the faces of these people - very strange, not a member of Red's team, it was possible that he was a member of the other two mercenary groups. He walked a few steps forward around the corpse, picked up his torch, and found no trace of footprints on the ground, knowing that although these men had fled all the way to this place, they had not escaped death in the end.

Leon retreated to the spot, looked at the three corpses for a few seconds, and then walked over to sit the corpses in a back-to-back position, then sprinkled a can of fire oil.

"I don't know who you are, but in order not to let the undead creatures disturb your souls and prevent you from becoming the same kind of undead, I will send you on your last journey, and I believe you will agree. ”

When placing the corpse, a small cloth bag fell out of one of the people's hands, and Li Ang picked it up casually, then looked around to see that there were no more items like bags and backpacks, and directly used torches to ignite the raging flames. Then he turned around and walked back, through the intricate forks in the road, and soon saw his companion who was waiting anxiously.

Leon first recounted what he had just discovered, then opened the small cloth bag, took out the contents and handed them to each of them, so that they could try to distinguish the origin.

On the way back, he had already opened it, and there were more than a dozen gold coins, of a peculiar style, with the same pattern engraved on both sides—this was an old man with a solemn face, with curly and fluffy hair, a round nose, and two whiskers more than an inch long on his lips.

The alchemy master looked at the string of words at the bottom of the gold coin and suddenly sighed, "Your luck is good, this should be Yaris Latin XIII, the former emperor of the Dupon Empire, more than eight hundred years ago." ”

"So he's a big man in the age of change?" asked Leon.

"Yes!" Kaka looked at the gold coins over and over again, his eyes that had always been squinted wide at this time, and he looked very interested, "And it was the beginning of the Age of Change, and it was said that the former Dupont Empire was very powerful, but after more than a hundred years of its founding, it fell into civil strife, and the emperor's position changed hands repeatedly, and finally perished in the thirty-seventh year after the abdication of Arris Latin XIII, and became several different countries. ”

"I've heard of this history, too," Erin thoughtfully said, holding the gold coin, "as if because the trigod belief on which the empire depended was gradually eroded by power, and then a protracted 'holy war' broke out, and then several grand dukes seized the opportunity to break away from the empire and stand on their own, so that a powerful nation perished." ”

"Far away," Leon quickly interrupted the discussion between the two "scholars", "I'm very interested in this history, but I don't have time to study it for the time being, let's talk about other questions, such as how these gold coins appeared on those corpses, could it be that they have already been to the underground ruins that Dick said?"

"Stinky boy who doesn't know how to learn!" The alchemist was very concerned about the fact that he had finally become interested in but was interrupted, and educated his apprentice hatefully, "Only knowledge can bring power and wealth! Do you know that this Dupeng gold coin is equivalent to the current value of one or two thousand gold coins!"

"Oh?" Leon's eyes lit up, and he quickly took out another gold coin from his bag and looked at it carefully, and felt that this gold coin seemed to be much heavier than just now.

When Kaka saw the apprentice's expression, he immediately felt very proud, and his heart was much more comfortable, and he snorted heavily and stopped scolding the ignorant apprentice.

"Since it's so valuable...... Leon looked at his companions who were about to return the gold coins to him, and said with a grin, "Then you can keep it, it can be regarded as a souvenir of our trip to the underground." ”

Some people hesitated for a moment, and finally put the gold coin close to their bodies, for them, the symbolic meaning of the gold coin was far greater than its actual meaning, and the remaining people had long been accustomed to Leon's style, so they didn't think about handing it back in the first place.

They then continued their way deeper into the underground cavern, and on the way, Kaka agreed with Leon's judgment that it was likely that the men had reached the ruins and escaped without knowing what had happened.

This judgment indicated that they were already very close to the ruins, so the already dull atmosphere along the way was reactivated, and the speed began to increase unconsciously and gradually, and just twenty or thirty minutes later, when they had just entered a rather wide passage, Leon waved his hand backwards to silence them, and then slowly walked forward.

"Another trap?" asked Caterina.

Because of Leon's foresight, his companions were "immune" to the traps scattered throughout the pathway, and instead of being nervous, they were happy to guess what the next trap would be, or where it would be placed, but eventually they lost interest as the number grew.

"Who is so boring and putting so many useless things in the passage!" - these are the original words of the priest girl, and from this sentence you can feel the status of the trap in her mind.

But this time they guessed wrong, Li Ang walked more than ten meters, and the light of the torches reflected the five corpses on the ground.

"It's a member of the Flame Souls...... Red: They're really in this cave. ”

The young lord crouched down and stretched out his hand to slowly close the eyes of a thin man, this person and the other man next to him were the twin assassins under Red, when he was fighting the big goblins in the land of chaos, the sharp and swift attacks of these two assassins left a deep impression on him, but he didn't expect to find their corpses first.

He also had some impressions of the remaining three corpses, and Li Ang was silent for a while, stood up and said, "They should have passed here a long time ago, and the direction of travel is also towards the depths of the cave. ”

The corpses were already stiff and began to show signs of decay, and according to the impression left on him by some detective novels in his previous life, Leon initially judged that the time of death of these people would be at least two days or more.

Moreover, there were five corpses here, plus Dick, who had died, and the death toll was more than a third of the number of Flame Souls, and it happened a few days ago, and Leon was extremely worried about Red's current situation.

"Now that we've confirmed that Red and they're here, let's speed up!" Caterina could sense Leon's mood and immediately proposed to build a yì.

"Alright," Leon said, "but we'll have to deal with a few enemies first!"

As soon as he finished speaking, three tall figures appeared not far ahead, their blue eyes unusually clear in the light of the fire, but more obvious were the wide noses, hard, sharp horns, and huge nostrils that spewed hot air.

"Minotaur?"