With an attitude of not giving up until the results were achieved, Green's team basically made a home underground.

Rao is like this, and the progress is still not ideal. It takes a long time to explore all the branches of a passage, and it is not a small drain on physical and mental strength.

Not to mention the fact that the number of people who can be mobilized is limited at the moment, which increases the burden on the participants.

Church personnel can be stationed here for a long time, but the professor cannot, and he still needs to return to the clinic every day. On the one hand, it is impossible to relax about the clinic that mainly relies on Davy to help and Koop help; On the other hand, it takes care of Yvonne's rest.

However, it seems that it should be too much to worry about for a few days.

The girl showed resilience in line with her previous impressions, expressing things that she was not good at, but persistence or stubbornness. This reminded Kraft once again of her specialness.

Although he will never show it, it is undeniable that he does have a little hope that the search in the past few days will achieve the purpose of persuasion.

It turns out that this is really just a hope.

After overcoming the initial difficulties, her ability to adapt quickly allowed her to integrate into her environment, like the moss that sprouted in the masonry and cold water streams, and opened the cracks in the opposite direction.

She traveled back and forth between the two places every day, going from tunnel to tunnel with the team, and finally the monks agreed that she was part of the team, not a distraction from normal search activities.

As the unexplored areas dwindled and the collapse points on the map outlined more and more pronounced circular boundaries, Green gradually stopped thinking about whether he seemed too eager and began to speed up the process.

From Kraft's point of view, every other night, the search progress will be one or two tunnels higher than the previous day. He had to advise Green in advance not to rush in if he made a discovery, or at least to inform him to be there before continuing.

The proposal was prescient. After an intense search, something weird but not entirely unexpected was soon brought back.

One morning, when Kraft arrived at the camp, Green showed him the results of the previous night's overtime.

A rusty stick.

To be precise, it is a relatively flat and long piece of rust, and the ends have been broken off due to embrittlement.

The thing the monks found in the mud in a niche in a passage seemed to have been flipped out by a change in the current, revealing swollen corners like fused lymph nodes.

Indescribable places, lesions of metal, the remains of some kind of man-made object. They tried to pull it out, but found that part of it was embedded in the masonry, not in the gap, but in the middle, and finally had to be forcibly broken and brought back. This makes it more like some kind of lesion rooted in the channel.

Kraft blotted the remaining moisture from the surface with a sackcloth, held it in the candlelight with gloves, tapped it with the small tweezers he had brought with him, and then tried to pry off a small piece of it, which was still red and rusty underneath.

The oxide layer is so thick that this thing can basically be defined as a rust block, and when the shell is peeled off, there is not much left, and only a gut can guess the approximate purpose of the original body.

Without excluding the prejudice caused by personal cognition, he felt that it was more like a sword body, or at least a section of a long-bladed weapon.

Regardless, Kraft was glad that Father Kraft had followed his advice and decided to bring it back as soon as he found it, rather than just going back in search of the source.

"Actually, it's not the only one." Green folded his arms around the wall, leaning against the wall and taking time to rest, every second he was worried that the vapor above his head would condense into a rain cloud again, "There are still small fragments, but they are too small to sift out and not recognize what they are." ”

"It looks like a part of a sword, with a spine in the middle, which is a little thicker than the sides."

"Now it's okay, not only the armor has fallen here, but also the sword has fallen, is it to gather an army?"

"I advise you to say less." Kraft's face was not very good-looking. If that's right, they should be approaching the goal.

Now it's easy to get ready, go down until something comes your way, and then decide to move forward. For better or worse, everyone has been waiting for it for a long time.

But before we go, there's one last thing to solve.

If memory serves, not everyone here is ready to go, and there is one who has come to train.

At least Kraft didn't initially have the idea of turning apprenticeship directly into practice, and he looked at Yvonne who was playing with the dagger, and the girl seemed to have a special interest in this old trophy beyond its practical significance.

The latter, of course, felt the look in the Mentor's eyes, clearly understood the meaning, and looked back at each other - she wasn't here to take a walk for a few days and then leave at a critical moment.

Kraft wanted to say things like, "This time is different, I'm not sure" and "Take it gradually, next time."

But Yvonne had already passed the initial test, having faced more than one incident of the same kind before, and in terms of experience, he was not inferior to most of the people present. And in terms of ability, the last batch of people who had doubts about this will no longer have doubts.

She desperately needs the respect she deserves, to be treated as an individual with enough will and ability to be independent, even if it may be expensive.

There's never a perfect time, and maybe it's just right to start with an initial in-depth mission.

"Come on the hammer, not too long." Kraft asked for a small hammer from the monk stationed there. Originally, I thought that Coop would always be in charge of this position, but Mr. Hu Cong's work has been getting more and more detailed recently, and he spends most of his time with Dr. David fiddling with the puncture needle.

"Holding this is like wielding a candlestick."

"Is there anything else I need to know?"

"You can collect some strength, and most of the time you don't need to use all your strength." With the strength of an ordinary adult, this thing smashed hard enough for the head under the protection of the armor to see the great-grandfather, "Also, the most important thing, do everything as I say, otherwise there will be no next time, understand?" ”

Yvonne nodded excitedly, eagerly taking the beautiful weapon that forged the hammer into a wing-like shape.

After giving the order, Kraft turned to Grimm and asked, "Do you want to leave early?" I've got enough people on my side. ”

He didn't plan to bring Koop with him, it was just a preliminary in-depth and there were enough people. Instead of calling Koop, learn more in the clinic. There won't be an extra knight to follow for the time being, but a professor's assistant may be needed soon.

"No, let me sleep." When the signs began to emerge, the priest showed patience. He found a comfortable spot by the wall, and forced himself to close his eyes by the package he pulled in with him.

In fact, he didn't fall asleep. Through the eyelids, you can still see the eyes turning after the obscuration.

After a short time, Green reopened his eyes and led the party across the crevice to the waterway where the rusted relics had been found.

(End of chapter)