It's brown and green, so it's not a radioactive mineral, right......

That was Angel's first reaction, but she quickly remembered that this was the color of a certain copper ore, which was different from chalcopyrite, known as "fool's gold", which was a mineral that could be seen at a sight to distinguish it from gold.

She came closer, trying to confirm, but it alerted Layton, who took two steps back, put the "gold mine" back in the barrel, protected it to his chest, and asked in a low voice:

"What's the matter?"

With his words, the eyes of the temporary miners who were busy around them glanced at each other, and their eyes were undisguised vigilant, rejecting people.

Angel shook her head, no longer trying to argue with the guys who were clearly something was wrong.

"No, I'm just curious, is this the first 'gold' you've dug up?"

"Of course not, such a harvest can have several dollars every day, according to my estimates, after finding someone to separate and purify, the daily harvest is more than a hundred pounds, and we can divide it evenly, this week can already get thirty pounds of income, this is a good job with an annual salary of thousands of pounds!"

yes, I don't think that copper mine can be exchanged for even a few sules......

Angel looked at the keg of ore and didn't know what to say.

No wonder their team came happily and excavated in full swing, it turned out that they used scrap copper as gold, thinking that they could get rich overnight, if they could really dig gold, it would be good, the question was......

She sighed secretly, squeezed out a smile and said:

"Then I wish you could dig a few more pieces today."

Looking at the mine that had been dug into a deep pit by them, Angel turned slowly and left the direction she had come, until she turned a corner, and the wary view behind her was blocked by the heavy stone wall.

Heading back to the entrance of the mine and taking a few breaths of salty air blowing from the sea, Angel looked back into the deep cavern as if he could hear the clanging of pickaxes hitting the rocks inside.

"Hypnosis, hallucinations, or some kind of paranoia?"

Several possibilities crossed her mind.

As a former "instigator", she may be able to use the power of words to temporarily trick some simple tourists into digging mines, but she can never refer to copper as gold, but these excited and somewhat fanatical "miners" have completely fallen into such fantasies and cannot extricate themselves, and it is obvious that what interferes with them is a deeper force.

Could it have something to do with the gazer she's looking for?

After thinking about it, Angel decided to go back to the town first and look for more clues through other means.

Anyway, these tourists have been digging for a full week, and there should be no danger for one more day, well, unless the spoils are unevenly divided, and a big fight for a few copper mines worth less than one sul, causing death......

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Back in the port town, Angel took advantage of the time to take off the "hypocritical" ring and wait for the negative effects to disappear, and by the way, she made a new "Calamity" charm, this time, she tried to perform a magic mirror divination on the charm itself, and to no surprise, nothing was found, it was clear that the power of the mysterious rune exceeded her so much that even if it was made with her own blood, the divination did not get any valid information.

After regaining her spirit, after dinner, she put on the ring again, changed into a male appearance, changed into a more neutral waistcoat and trench coat, and went to the spice street, which was also noisy at night, and pretended to be a merchant who came to inquire about the ore business, and talked with several unemployed miners.

"The gold mine outside the city? It was developed by an investment company on the side of Byam, almost five years ago, it turned out to be the third pillar of Pará Island in addition to spices and fruits, almost every household has someone working in the mine, and the wharf over there is also very lively, but unfortunately it was ...... half a year ago"

A few glasses of fermented fruit wine that Angel had treated, and the drinkers immediately became good friends with her, and with a little guidance, they told the truth about half a year ago.

It turned out that half a year ago, when they were gradually digging deeper into the mine, they found a natural deep pit, they thought there would be more mineral deposits, but they didn't expect that the inside was hollow, and it collapsed during mining, and many people were injured by falling, and more than 20 people even fell into a coma during the period.

The miners suspected that it was a gas leak, and quickly carried the victims out of the mine and reported it, but they did not expect to wait for the notice of emergency closure instead of compensation and repairs.

After that, the government office and the miners on the island of Pará repeatedly asked for the reopening of the mine and the resumption of everyone's work, but they were not agreed by the investment company, so that the gold mine and the wharf supporting it have been abandoned until now, hundreds of miners have lost their hard but reasonable income, most of them have changed careers to become plantation workers, and a few who have no skills and skills can only sell their work at the wharf in the town, and their income is not as good as before.

The former miners in front of them clearly belonged to the latter, and while they drank, they cursed the investment companies that were far away, in the words of Russell the Great: they occupied the toilet, but did not use it.

Listening to the angry swearing, Angel thought of another possibility.

This kind of treatment plan seems very strange to the outside world, very similar to the requirements of the official extraordinary person after the intervention of the person involved, take the process of the night watchman, if there is an extraordinary event in the mine, they will ask the mine to stop work as soon as possible, and then remove all threats, and only after many assessments that there is no risk will they be allowed to reopen, and that is often half a year or even a year later.

There is no shortage of companies that are afraid of getting into trouble again and simply abandon the mine and seal it off permanently.

"After the mine accident, did the Storm Church or garrison on Midrange Island come here?"

Angel interrupted the miners' complaints and asked, knowing that there was no church of the Church of the Storm on the island, so she asked about the nearest island to the middle range.

"The army? Of course not, this little place where birds don't, they don't come once a year, the church seems to have come to a few priests, helped treat the poisoned miners, and left after they woke up. ”

It seems that this is the action of the "substitute punisher", and they left directly, either because they didn't find a problem, or because they cleaned up the anomaly at the time? Can ...... now

After some inquiry, Angel had more doubts in his mind.

Bidding farewell to these already drunk miners, she continued to wander around the town for a while, and in the dead of night, sneaked into the town's government office, and used her skillful lockpicking skills to pry open the door to the archives.

With just over a thousand permanent inhabitants and therefore a small number of archives, Angel quickly searched for dusty mine information from various plantations, and there was no detailed account of the collapse that had occurred six months earlier, or more specifically at the end of June 1349, but a rough internal map marked the location of the accident and the number of victims.

It was evident that the "substitutes" had dealt with it and deleted the relevant content...... In this case, only the most abnormal person will be attacked......

She restored the file, left the dark government hall, felt the magic mirror, and quickly confirmed the residence of Leiden, the leader of today's group of temporary miners, through divination.

As an outsider, he also lived in a hotel in the town, and Angel walked directly past the sleepy receptionist, went upstairs to the door of Leiden's room, opened the door through the silk thread cut through the door, and swaggered inside.

The "miner's chief", who had been overworked during the day, had fallen asleep, and Angel found a chair to sit on, threw out a "dream" charm, and entered his sweet dream......

…… Entered the dream realm where he was in full swing.

Unexpectedly, Leiden was also struggling to mine the brown and green copper ore in his dream, and his mining friends were the young male and female tourists who Angel had a relationship with during the day, and everyone worked together in the dream, regardless of fatigue, and the efficiency was even higher than during the day.

Of course, this all came from the imagination of Leiden alone, who was obviously not so satisfied with the working conditions during the day, so he dreamed of more efficient night work.

Angel did not bother Leiden in the dream, but wandered around in this wonderful dream, which usually reflects the dreamer's subconscious longing or fear, and may be able to find some important clues in it.

Soon, she realized that the mine was a closed scene, the roads around her were blocked by endless darkness, and as an intruder of the dream, she could not control the dream to change accordingly, so she had to go back the way she came.

But when Angel returned to Layton, he was surprised to find a short man in a black trench coat and a half-height silk top hat, with a somewhat blurred face, who did not belong to anyone during the day, and even before Angel left the cave, he did not even notice his existence before leaving the cave.

Another dream invader?

Angel raised an eyebrow, she used the dream charm to dream, and she could leave at any time with her mind, so she didn't immediately act aggressively, but wanted to see what the other party was going to do.

"Hello, young night watchman," the trench-coat man took off his hat and pressed it to his chest, bowing politely, "I'm glad that I was able to grasp all the clues and come to this Mr. Layton's dream. ”

Me, the night watchman? In a sense, yes, but how did he know...... Because of the ability to think of the "Dreamland" spell as a nightmare?

Angel held her breath, her face flat, as if she had acquiesced to her identity.

"I'm sorry, I was supposed to communicate with you alone in your dreams, but unfortunately your vigilance stopped me, so I had to make this decision and wait for you in these people's dreams."

The man pointed to Leiden and the others, who knew nothing and were still wielding their pickaxes.

My vigilance...... But I slept well last night, and it should have been the function of the "Hidden Holy Emblem...... Angel almost couldn't hold back her expression, so she had to nod her head to hide it and asked:

"So, who the hell are you?"

"Me? A wretched man waiting for redemption, didn't you come to the island of Para because ......"

The man in the trench coat said suspiciously, and his hazy face began to gradually show his facial features, but at the moment when Angel was about to see each other clearly, the gas light placed next to Leiden and the others was instantly extinguished, and the entire mine suddenly fell into darkness that even Angel's dark vision could not see.

Without hesitation, she severed the connection between the dreams, opened her eyes, and rose from the wooden chair.

On the single bed in front of her, Layton suddenly twitched on all fours, his eyelids went up, and only the whites of his eyes were left below, like he was having a seizure.

"Night."

Reciting the opening spell, Angel threw out a "sleep" charm in his hand, and the silver piece exploded in the air with a dark red light, and the invisible waves rippled out, and Leiden, who was on the verge of madness, immediately stopped struggling and lay back on his warm bed.

(End of chapter)