Although it failed to kill, the spear that pierced the neck and pierced the chest still did enough damage to the unknown beast.

After confirming that it was safe for a short time, the group dispersed to dissipate heat and breathe, and took this opportunity to remind the sage and inform Narumi himself about the possible infection. The samurai leader was worthy of a person with a traditional spirit, and he nodded without hesitation, agreeing to take the bandage open and check. So the sage came with a torch, and the girl of Roan undid the bandage on him, where the blood had begun to congagulate. The armor was useful after all, and although the large tooth marks on the forearm armor were terrifying, the damaged armor slowed the impact, and the bite didn't cause too much damage to Narumi's tendons after all.

The salty sweat that flowed from the sweltering heat stained the wound, making Narumi snort repeatedly, and when Mira untied part of the bandage that had solidified, she had to forcibly tear it apart as a last resort if she was close to the skin and had stuck to the wound. The girl apologized, and Narumi nodded, gritted her teeth and tensed her muscles, and she "tore and pulled" and ripped off the bandage, causing the samurai leader to gasp and gasp while her other hand couldn't help but pound the mottled stone wall several times in a row.

"There is no black one. "It's been about ten minutes since he was bitten, but the sage raised the torch to see that although his arm was dripping with blood, the inside of the wound was relatively clean. It's just that even if it won't be infected and mutated, who knows if there is any poison on the fangs of this beast, the situation was urgent before, and now that there is respite, they still need to hurry up to clean the wounds of the samurai.

Henry pulled out the leather kettle he had brought with him, the Rigalese-style water utensils were useless in the extremely hot weather, and the beeswax had been used first because the temperature had melted and the cowhide at the bottom had turned dark due to water seepage.

He poured on Narumi's forearm to clean the blood-stained rags around the wound, and then the girl took out the medicine she had bought from the old medicine master from the leather bag on her waist. Among them, the small wooden bottle contains a high-purity distilled spirit, which is a low-alcohol sake, so it is used to clean the wound of a higher purity type close to the Roan sake, which is not drunk by humans.

The strong irritation of the poured liquor on the wound caused the samurai leader to snort repeatedly, and the face of Torataro behind him was pale, and he clutched his weapon for a moment to try to give himself confidence with his waist sword, but when Miss Doctor looked at him, he immediately let go of his hand holding the knife for fear that the other party might have to go up and fight himself.

After cleaning the wound, the blood began to spill again due to the secondary wound when the bandage was untied, and at this time, Mira took out the Japanese medicine called "Golden Sore Powder" that she had bought from Ziyun - this is a hemostatic powder mixed with a variety of medicinal herbs, similar to the hemostatic medicine called dragon blood lipids by the Rigales. The gold sore powder, which is evenly sprinkled on the wound, quickly sucks blood and coagulates and forms a protective film on the surface of the skin. After discarding the bandages that had been stained with blood and filth and replacing them with new ones for Narumi, the girl handed him almost universal mint cream, and after the samurai leader applied a cool plaster on both sides of his temples, even the pain was reduced a lot.

"My teeth are numb. The gold sore powder contains analgesic ingredients, and after a few minutes, Narumi finally stabilized although he was sweating profusely, and he said to himself mockingly, but nodded to the group, "You can move on." ”

He was injured in his left arm, and his right hand was still able to fight with arms, but because the Wato samurai was good at using his two-handed sword, he took on the position of carrying a torch for lighting.

Further on, the passage began to spiral downward, and with the hints of haphazardly abandoned pickaxes and wooden wheelbarrows in the corners, the group more or less guessed what kind of existence this place had been in the past.

The beast did not bother them again, the winding path was quiet, and the narrow passage reached the bottom, and in front of them was an incomparably wide platform.

The sound of "Shalala-" came from the right, it was the previous waterfall, and Henry and Galeva raised their torches, and the platform shone forward with countless passages two or three meters high.

Only a mine would have to dig that high.

This is obviously a big project for several generations, and the scale at a glance is obviously not something that the living quarters above can afford to supply only a few dozen people.

Maybe that living area was just for them to open a small stove, and in the past there was a serious village outside, because no matter how you look at it, it needs a labor force of several hundred people to expand.

Walkways connect the dots, and the empty echoes of the waterfall are far bigger than you think. Huge hourglass-shaped stone pillars strewn with chiseled marks set aside for support, the scaffolding on them had rotted, but the nailed metal wall-hung torch frames were rusty but still intact.

Henry took out some spare candles, lit them directly and put them in them, relying on his height.

The lighting range was expanded by dividing the lighting by dividing the lighting by two, so that the group could have more control over the surrounding environment, and at the same time, it was finally possible to temporarily extinguish some torches and lanterns to save time for burning.

The distinction between those who have received serious military training and those who have become monks halfway through the ranks is also rapidly emerging in the future. While Kaleva and Torotaro were still in a daze, and Miss Doctor was in a state of shock, the professional combat professionals, including Sage, Luoan Maiden, and Aota family samurai, quickly secured the surrounding lighting, and then Yajiro and Old Joe explored the relatively easy area with weapons, vigilantly clearing a safe area.

Laymen like to lock themselves off and turn a blind eye to horrors when faced with fear and threats. But this self-isolation approach often leads to deaths.

It has been a thousand years since the birth of this sentence, but time has not diluted its correctness.

The candles lit by Henry were placed in a fan-shaped shape on a stone pillar close to the place, and the samurai of the Aota family who had spread out were also fan-shaped to inspect and search. With a distance of about 7 meters from the candle to the exit behind them, the spread out formation is a disadvantage for engaging the enemy, but maintaining a buffer distance from the vital retreat route allows non-combatants like Aya and Torotaro to evacuate beforehand.

If it's all huddled together, they'll just be in a hurry.

It's just that they don't have enough people, and if the ideal situation is to leave some people in such a place to ensure a way out.

The strange beast is not low in combat, it is difficult to kill, and it is very strong, and it needs to wear heavy armor and hold a long knife to deal with. But now that Henry's sword was in the open area, the group who were familiar with the sage's abilities were not too afraid of the creature reappearing.

Miss Doctor was still thinking about trying to summarize what she had seen along the way, and most of the people didn't understand the explanations she had been talking to herself in the passageway. On the one hand, the level of knowledge is limited, and on the other hand, the people who could hear it at the time were actually in a state of extreme mental tension, and although he reacted immediately to some of them, it was actually just a simple black and white line of thought, and it was very different from what Aya wanted to say.

The small Miss Doctor is probably the first real adventurer Henry and Mira have seen since arriving in Crescent Island, although she is not good at fighting, but this kind of enthusiasm for new knowledge to solve mysteries is like a demon, and even after seeing the danger clearly, she still tries to think and solve the mystery with her eyes shining, but it is a real adventurer spirit.

And Aya's knowledge is not just as simple as listening, playing, and enriching knowledge.

The lion and tiger like to bite the throat, while the wolfhound is good at attacking the road. Unlike felines, the structure of the forelimbs of dogs is difficult to use with slapping, so they are more adept at gnawing with their snouts. Different beasts actually have completely different attack styles - when facing a big cat, you should be careful to stand up and use your claws to try to grab and bite you down to the throat of the attack, so you should take the middle and upper part of the posture, and in the face of the wolf dog that likes to attack the crotch and thighs, and is good at using the snout to bite the end of the limbs such as hands and feet and other places to drag you down, you should consider more protection in the lower section.

What kind of beast determines the defensive thinking that the group should take, which can effectively prevent them from suffering casualties due to their unknown knowledge of the enemy and the wrong way of responding.

It's just that the weird beast is different from any known species in every way—and that's not all.

Old Joe and the others, who were on guard and exploring the perimeter, found something, which matched the impression of the thick and blunt claws of the beast they had noticed during the previous confrontation - it was a scratch on the stone floor and walls that was so subtle that it was difficult to detect without careful observation.

"Can this thing run against a wall?" The claws were apparently dulled and broken under this use, a suspicion that matched the suspicion that another beast roared from behind the empty trail - it was probably actually climbed up the cliff next to the waterfall to outflank it.

"So it's cooperative, it's a social life, but it's a natural creature or just a strange coordination between the hundred-legged and the earth spider like before—" There are more things they don't know, but in this three-meter-high cave full of supporting stone pillars, it is more or less difficult to guard against a target that can climb up and down.

A few minutes of inspection was enough for the group to find out the general topography of the place - the platform that descended from the narrow spiral passage could be seen as an open Crescent Island fan, and the bottom of the platform that spread out in a fan shape was a narrow passage, and the passage was like a tassel of a fan.

On the left side of the fan is a waterfall, and on the top edge is roughly divided into three roads that are connected to each other.

Although there are rock pillars blocking the view, the three roads are generally quite clear. There were also some holes in the far left part of the rock wall that was close to it, and the group noticed this and walked over to see if there were any supplies available. The entrance is not high, only about 1.5 meters, and even Mira and Yajiro have to bow their heads, but the inside is nearly two meters high. Inside, there were dusty and decaying beds, as well as personal items such as clothes and rice bowls, apparently a makeshift resting place for the miners.

In addition to resting rooms, there are several rooms that have been used as utility rooms, and some minerals are stacked inside. And after seeing what the minerals are, many people can't take their eyes off it.

Over the course of three hundred years, iron will turn rusty brown and bronze will turn green. The precious metals that have been able to shine under the torch light for three centuries are basically precious metals that are regarded as the most precious in the human world.

"It's a gold mine, no wonder the Earth Spider clan has been fighting the imperial court for so long in legends. Having such financial resources is obviously-" Aya didn't go on, the gold mine that filled 4 full rooms was already a huge fortune, although many of them still needed to be purified.

With such financial resources to open up relationships and form an army, coupled with the ability to dig pits and hide, there is also a realistic basis for the legend that this nation will leave behind a long time to compete with the mainstream society of the people.

But that's not all, as everyone else focused on the gold mine, Henry picked up some kind of dark gray mineral mixed in with the gold mine, while the Loan Maiden looked curiously at what appeared to be the clothes left behind by the Soil Spider Clan.

"It's all such a small piece. She picked up a coat on the ground that had stiffened as a thin plank under the influence of time, and although the style was different from that of today, it was roughly evident that it should be a man's coat.

But the shoulder width of this jacket is up to standard, but the length is very incorrect.

"It's—" At the same time, Aya leaned in to observe the ore that Henry was holding in his hand.

"Iron, not iron. She stood on tiptoe and reached out to touch the ore in the sage's hand—"It's for the cold iron." Aya's eyes widened, and despite the heat and the fact that Henry held it in his hand for a while, the ore was still cold.

"Gou Tiezi (Han Tie)?" the unheard name made the white-haired girl come closer, and Henry noticed the coat she had brought with her.

"This color. Mira felt familiar.

"Hmm. The sage nodded, and threw the ore back.

"It's Mithril. ”

"Because it is extremely insensitive to the outside temperature, even if it is burned with an open flame for a long time, it is still cold, so it is called cold iron by others. ”

"That's why so. He looked at the clothes in Luo An's hand: "The forging temperature required is extremely high, and it needs to be heated for a long time, which is an extremely difficult material for human craftsmen to handle. ”

"Someone who can mature the art of Mithril forging. ”

"Only dwarves. ”

"Good at digging tunnels, so the so-called earth spiders are actually the dwarves who lived in the Crescent Continent in the past. "The hidden truth of history seems to have been revealed, and although several major civilizations other than humans have disappeared in Rigal, they can still be found in places like the Padrosi Empire.

But there are only humans in Crescent Island.

Not only did the rest of the major civilizations disappear, but even the records about them were erased by the imperial court. Only a few rumors were left that had weathered over time.

Judging from the costumes and the food and beverages found earlier, it is clear that the dwarves here are highly assimilated with the natives and humans, wearing similar costumes and eating similar food.

What happened to the group, the group did not know at the moment, and they did not have much time to think. They came with a mission, came in to inspect the rooms, and in fact to find something that could be used.

"This. The stunned young man who followed behind saw something leaning against the corner of the wall through the light of the torch, and he reached out to pat the dust before picking it up.

"Oh?" the sage came over, clasped it with his knuckles, and squeezed it with his hand.

"Oak wood. "The stone room has no door, but it has a frame, and the door next to it is about 1.6 meters long and half a meter wide, and it is equipped with metal edges and reinforcements, which looks very strong.

"Can you be a shield, right?" The stunned young man with no strength but no combat experience is quite self-aware, he knows his strengths and weaknesses, and he may be more effective with a large shield than with a sharp weapon.

"Not bad. Henry affirmed Caleva's idea, but it was clear that the door, which had just been made and had not yet had time to be fitted, was very different from the doors of the other rooms around it.

Perhaps it was a sturdier door for the precious metal mine's room, or perhaps the residents of the place once sensed something was wrong and made a stronger door out of oak and metal in their uneasiness.

Either way, before it could be installed, it was already in ruins.

Resistant to insects and moisture, oak is the material that is enshrined in Rigal, and in many places it is even considered a sacred object.

Only such materials, coupled with the relatively stable and unchanging environment inside the cave, can still be strong after so many years.

All in all, after gaining some subtle knowledge and temporarily taking a shield for Kalewa, Lao Qiao and the others who acted separately next to them also found a map of the tunnel carved by oak in a room, and after finding that the terrain here was not as complicated as they imagined, the group hurried to move on.

The candlelight that remained near the entrance of the place flickered slowly, and then suddenly went out with a "boom".

It was as if something was extremely fast, and it was causing a strong air current.