Due to the terrain restrictions, it was still the expedition team composed of Jialan and others to enter, but before entering, Jialan specially took out a crystal mirror and handed it to Casey and Div, who rushed to hear the news, as well as a few old mercenaries.

Jialan told them that if there was anything, she would contact them through this "communication mirror".

After arranging support and logistics, the group entered the dungeon of Doom Fort again, and the three gold-level warriors, plus a standard silver team, were beaten back by a group of giant rats.

This record somewhat made Captain Kenmet feel very shameless, so whether it was to protect the reputation of the golden two-headed dragon or to vent his anger, they had to clear out this dungeon.

(Due to Jialan's plea for the rest of her "magical powers" to be kept secret, she claims to have encountered an explosion trap in the dungeon.) ）

When the group re-entered the dungeon, under the bright light of the Eternal Light Staff, they were surprised to find that the entire spiral room had become clean, not to mention the giant rat swarm, even the corpse of the giant rat that had just been killed in the battle was gone.

Jia Lan frowned, no one knew better than him the power of the forbidden spell fireball just now, although it seemed to be huge, in fact, after the extreme split and elemental dispersal, the remaining "elemental resonance" effect was not enough to cause lethal power.

Otherwise, in this narrow space, a "small forbidden curse" was hit, and the expedition team would not have a chance to come again.

"Could it be that the corpses have been swept down by the wave of air?"

Kenmet looked down suspiciously, and there was silence in the darkness, as if those dark demon rats and giant rats had been killed by the Little Forbidden Charm.

"It must have been dragged away by the rats. ”

Old Jimmy deduced, "The Dark Demon Rat is a creature that eats even rotting corpses, so there is no reason why they would spare those roasted and fragrant giant rat corpses!"

"The Dark Demon Rat eats carrion because of the lack of food, and this place is directly connected to the surface of the earth, not the deep underworld. The rats can go out and forage for food, and if the need for food is so urgent, why do they never leave this dungeon to attack the hired men of Doom Castle?"

"Photophobia? Rodents just hate exposure to strong light, but that doesn't mean the light will do them any harm!"

Jialan frowned and questioned: "And the smell of rat creatures is more than ten times more sensitive than that of canine creatures, it is impossible for them not to detect such a large number of people coming to Doom Castle, I suspect that under this dungeon, there may be something to control their existence......"

As a librarian, Jialan rarely participates in battles, but that doesn't mean he doesn't know the ecology and habits of various creatures. The creatures he decomposed on the dissecting table with his own hands were not ten thousand, but eight thousand.

And Kenmet and Old Jimmy's so-called "dark demon rats", the first time Jialan saw them, they found that these demonized giant rats should be the descendants of the low-level arcane beast "Fierce Rat" that was common in his time. It's just that the descendants of these ferocious rats seem to have been infected by some filthy and evil thing. Quite serious mutations have been created.

Control the existence of the Dark Mouse?

Old Jimmy and Kenmet looked at each other. The Dark Demon Rat is originally an evil monster, and the one who can control the evil monster is not an existence such as a demon king?

Reminded by Jialan, the group was much more vigilant, and did not relax because there was no giant rat in the spiral staircase, and took a while to go down to the bottom of the spiral staircase with a depth of 80 meters, and everyone found out. Aside from a few tattered and rotting debris, there wasn't a single giant rat carcass here.

Emerging from the spiral staircase was a small small hall of rock, the floor covered with a thick layer of dirt that had flowed into the dungeon with the rain. This also results in an exceptionally low ceiling in the small rock hall.

Originally, there should have been some passages or doors in the small hall of the rock, leading to the rest of the dungeon, but now, except for a huge rat hole dug out by the giant rats, the swarthy passage has been buried in the earth.

Kenmet's gold thieves walked around the small hall, examined the identifiers on the lintels that were exposed a foot above the ground, and looked up, "The rat hole leads to the cell area and the warehouse area, and the roads buried in the dirt should lead to the interrogation room, the execution room, and the guard's lounge respectively." ”

The layout of the dungeon of the noble castle is similar, the closest to the exit must be the place where the guards responsible for guarding the prisoners stay, and the area of the interrogation room and execution room is usually not large, no wonder even the giant rat is not interested in making holes and making nests.

"In addition, I probably know what kind of castle the original owner of the castle would choose to build a dungeon near the Sea Wall Mountains!"

The golden thief scraped the dirt from the walls with his dagger, revealing the rock wall below: "This is not a man-made excavation, but a reconstruction and repair on the basis of the original cave, which is why this dungeon is so ......deep."

He slammed the rock wall a few times with the handle of the dagger, and a few sparks burst out: "Look, the natural granite, there is no trace of piling up, no wonder the location of these passages is so irregular, this is simply composed of several natural caves." ”

This explains why the dungeon's spiral staircase is up to 80 meters deep, and although it is a big job to dig a spiral shaft, it is better than digging an entire dungeon!

Captain Kenmet nodded: "Keep going, I guess there will definitely be some 'surprises' waiting for us ahead!"

The flying head of the hired man's head has long been lost to where it has flown there, but no one cares about its whereabouts anymore, in addition to being "tracking powder" by gold thieves, it has also been secretly marked with a secret method mark by Jialan, as long as you chase it down the tunnel, you will always find it.

With gold-level thieves exploring the way ahead, it was much easier for everyone to walk, and it was only a dungeon for prisoners, not a treasure trove for storing treasures, so there was no need to worry too much about any traps.

They soon made their way through the burrows dug by the giant rats and into the dungeon's cell area, where the prisoners were kept, the smell of dust in the air was strong, and there was a strange smell of burnt and damp mildew.

Although the fire cloud just now almost blew up here, it also formed a strong air flow, and everyone didn't have to worry about suffocating here.

The cell area is not close to the spiral staircase, so it is relatively dry, and there is not much damp dirt on the ground, just a thick layer of dust, and a large number of paw prints remain on the dust.

The small cells in the prison area, which were originally isolated by logs, have now completely turned into piles of wood slag, gnawed into pieces by giant rats, which makes the space seem empty.

The gold thieves even found a large number of skeletons in the wood slag pile, most of which had already been trampled by the giant rats and turned into bone slag, but the gold thieves still judged that in this irregular prison area converted from large and small caves, there were more than 1,000 prisoners imprisoned at least densely!

"That's the bones of a little goblin!"

Old Jimmy could tell at a glance the unusually short tibia that the golden thief was holding belonged to, and he pulled out several large and small bones from the wood and bone residue and a large amount of granular giant rat droppings, and placed them with the intact small goblin tibia that the gold thief had found.

"Look, little goblins, big goblins, bear goblins... The goblin family is here!"

Old Jimmy pointed to three shin bones of different sizes side by side: "The original owner of the castle must have been a goblin slave owner in the era of the chiefdom! There must have been a powerful slave hunting group under his command! No wonder there are rows of barracks-like buildings built in the Doom Castle, which should be their military camp!"

From the books in the library, Jialan learned some about the history of Gilago County and Dagon County after the "Apocalypse Era".

Before the Apocalypse, that is, in the era of the "Dawning Calendar" where Jialan was originally located, the Kingdom of Gilago was a territory belonging to the gnomes, and humans were only a "minority race" here, and the population only accounted for about 15% of the total population.

The population of gnomes accounts for about 60% in the kingdom of Gilargo, and together with some dwarves and other races, they form the population structure of this small kingdom located on the southern coast of the Kovaré continent.

The Dagon Kingdom, which is adjacent to the Kingdom of Gilago across the Sea Wall Mountains, is the territory of the goblin race, with more than 80% of the population structure, and the Dagon Kingdom is more remote than the Kingdom of Girago because of the harsh geographical environment.

This also has something to do with the legacy of history, in general, the ancestors of the goblin race were also glorious, and in ancient times, they even ruled the entire Kovarare continent with their powerful construction and manufacturing skills, and they were the well-deserved kings of the continent.

It's a pity that later, due to various reasons, the Dakan Goblin Empire established by the goblins declined, and the descendants continued to decay, and the goblin race once became synonymous with ignorance alongside the beasts.

After the Apocalypse, the goblin civilization gradually recovered, but not as fast as the rise of the dwarf civilization, and the rapid development of the dwarf civilization required a large amount of cheap labor, so a war broke out between the kingdom of Gilago and the kingdom of Dagon for the slave population.

The final outcome is obvious, the goblin race and the dwarf race failed to defeat each other, and the human race waited for an opportunity to migrate from the dangerous inland areas of the continent to the southern coastal areas on a large scale, and instead became the main population of the Kingdom of Gilago, and the anti-guest became the master here. (To be continued......)