"Oh, so you made a special trip to ambush at the entrance of the cave, wanting to rob the newcomers who came here, and do these things of murder and murder?" Liu Ming said with a smile, intentionally or unintentionally fiddling with the bone knife in his hand that originally belonged to the other party.

"Daoist friends forgive sins! I just have eyes and don't know Mount Tai, you have to know that Your Excellency Lu Dao's strength is so amazing, how dare you come to offend if you can't hide in Xia. The main reason is that it is now approaching the end of the month, and I have not obtained much ore this month, and after exchanging it for the antidote, there is not much left, so I waited near the entrance of the cave, wanting to try my luck and see if I could meet some new arrivals, and grab some spiritual artifacts to exchange for some food to wrap my stomach. When the thin man heard this, his heart jumped, and he hurriedly waved a pair of thin arms and explained.

"Listen to what you mean, it seems that there aren't too many new miners here?" Liu Ming ignored the man's plea for mercy and continued to ask.

"Daoyou is right, I also heard from the chatter of several guards when I went to the surface to pay ore once, in the past few years, because of the shrinkage of the Kraken Emperor's crossing of the catastrophe, there are many fewer newly captured mine slaves than before, in the past, several mine slaves were escorted by the guards and thrown down from the cave entrance every month, and now there is no one in a month or two. The thin man exhaled lightly and began to speak again.

"In other words, most of the people who stay here now are old people who have been here for a few years ago?" asked Liu Ming thoughtfully.

"It's true, the environment here is harsh, food and other resources are scarce, and there are frequent disputes between the forces, so the people who can survive in this place now are except for some people who are slightly higher in cultivation or realm. Most of them are extraordinary in nature. As for the weak...... If it weren't for some potential forces or individual powerful people in the mine, they would have naturally been buried somewhere in the mine. The thin man replied honestly.

Liu Ming asked this, and finally had a general understanding of the situation in this pit.

Although this thin man is not good-looking, he knows a lot about the affairs of this place, so he saves himself a lot of work.

Seeing Liu Ming standing in place, the thin man was silent, supported the ground with one hand, slowly moved his body back, and asked cautiously:

"Your Excellency. Everything I know is known and spoken. Words are endless, then I ......"

Before he could finish speaking, Liu Ming glanced at the man lightly, and a ray of crystal suddenly flashed in his pupils.

The thin man only felt a "buzz" in his head. An extremely powerful spiritual force suddenly rushed into the sea of divine consciousness. Let it not scream. Immediately, his eyes were white and he collapsed to the ground again, and for a while he didn't feel anything else.

A faint smile appeared at the corner of Liu Ming's mouth, and he pinched the trick with one hand without pause. Another trick was aimed at the man, and a black light sank between the thin man's eyebrows in the blink of an eye, and his body trembled, and he slowly sat up again.

Looking at the thin man's dull eyes, Liu Ming showed a look of satisfaction on his face.

In the following time, in order to ensure that the other party was not hiding anything from him, Liu Ming actually asked the same question again by using some simple ecstasy techniques.

After making sure that there was no falsehood in what he had said before, and that there was nothing missing, he leaned down and crushed the man's throat with his right hand.

The thin man who fell to the ground, a trace of clarity suddenly flashed in his eyes, and his limbs kept twitching a few times, but after showing a trace of unwillingness, the two eyeballs froze, and he completely lost his life.

After Liu Ming rolled up all the things on the other party's body, he raised his hand and punched, smashed a big hole in the ground, kicked the corpse inside, and after shaking his sleeves, he hurriedly buried it, looked at the two passages not far from here, and after a little hesitation, sneaked forward along one of the passages

After it was so difficult to absorb mana from Zhilu Dao here, he naturally didn't bother to waste any more precious mana and release fireballs to destroy the corpse.

......

Half an hour later, in the passage of the mine, in the remote place where Liu Ming was before, the body of the thin man was dug up again, lying on the ground covered in mud.

Under the faint light of several cyan glowstones embedded in the cave wall, his face, which was distorted by the struggle before death, looked particularly strange.

"It turned out to be Sha Laoer. Tsk, if it weren't for Brother Shi's sensitive nose, I'm afraid we wouldn't have been able to find out. But the person who started it was really simple. His eldest brother knew that this matter was probably going to go crazy. One of the tall figures, after examining the corpse, said in amazement.

"It's not too far from the exit, and when we went to hand over the ore before, we also found some traces of fighting not far below the exit. Obviously, this second sand was most likely killed by the newcomer. A shorter figure next to him said.

"Hehe, this kid probably wanted to blackmail the newcomer and get some benefits, but he didn't want to be killed instead. It's really a recipe for stealing chickens. Another chubby figure said with a sneer in his eyes.

"Brother Gu, how do we deal with this matter? Seeing that the corpse is still soft, it shouldn't be long before the person is dead, with your tracking skills, there should be a good chance to catch up with this person." This is a great opportunity for a sand maniac to do a favor. The shorter figure asked the tall figure.

"Hmph, forget it. Although Sha Lao Er's cultivation is not high, he is not a weak person, and he can be here for so long, and he is not an easy person. Since the newcomer can catch it so easily, and only kill it here, it is obviously not an ordinary person. We should not get involved in this matter, so as not to cause extraneous branches. After a slight hesitation, the tall figure shook his head.

The others nodded their heads, although they felt a little pity.

So the group didn't ask a question, just stepped over the corpse and left towards another passage.

Half a day later, the body was found by another group of miners passing by, and it was finally spread in the Underground World.

......

At this moment, Liu Ming was walking slowly in a dim mine road, not only did he have an extra bone knife on his waist, but his clothes were even more tattered, stained with a lot of mud, and he looked very old.

The way he is dressed now, a mining slave who has been here for a long time, I don't think anyone can easily see through his newcomer status.

In his hand he held a pale yellow map of animal skins, the contents of which were so rudimentary that they outlined a rough outline of an underground mine, so that every time he walked to a fork, he had to stop and make it carefully.

During the journey, Liu Ming's eyes kept scanning the sides of the passage, and found that the rough gray-white stone wall was full of pitted grooves, but not a single ore was found inside, and it was all collected many years ago.

Liu Ming didn't feel any strange and continued to move forward.

After all, this place is still near the exit, and according to the wizened man before, the ore here has long been mined, and to find it, it is necessary to go deeper into the veins to get it.

What made him frown secretly was that as he continued to move forward, with such a powerful spiritual power, he couldn't even reach too far after leaving his body, and he would consume it at an astonishing speed.

In this way, unless there is something suspicious, he naturally does not dare to release his spiritual power easily.

After all, in this dangerous underground world, if you save more strength, you may be able to save a small life at a critical time.

He walked like this for about half a day, but he saw a light flickering at the end of the passage not far ahead, and suddenly he came to a three-way intersection, and the stone wall near the intersection was inlaid with a few pieces of cyan fluorite that had no value at all, exuding a faint white light.

However, as soon as Liu Ming entered this intersection, his face suddenly changed, his feet did not move, and his body suddenly slid to one side.

At this moment, there was a "whoosh" above his head, and a black iron rod smashed down at an astonishing speed, almost grazing Liu Ming's body and sweeping diagonally.

A loud "boom" echoed throughout the passage, kicking up a cloud of dust. After the dust cleared, there was a large pit on the ground where Liu Ming had stood before.

After Liu Ming's body shook, he appeared five or six feet away, and then coldly looked at a thin figure that appeared out of thin air on the edge of the big pit.

I didn't expect that you, a newcomer, still have some ability. Seeing this, the newly thin figure muttered to himself in some surprise, and then easily lifted up the huge iron rod that did not match its size, waved it casually and carried it on his shoulder, and then raised his head and looked at Liu Ming with some curiosity.

Liu Ming naturally saw the other party clearly, it was actually a young man wearing a gray cloth shirt, with some yellow muscles and thin skin, his facial features were quite upright, but he had thick eyebrows and big eyes, and he seemed to be about the same age as himself, and he was looking him up and down with a lazy look.

"How do you know that I am a newcomer, can't you know everyone here?" Liu Ming looked at the bone knife on his waist and the tattered clothes on his body, and asked lightly.

"It's impossible for everyone to know each other, but I've lived here for so long, and most of the people I've seen in my daily life should have some impressions. Besides, although you have deliberately dressed up, how can anyone who has lived here for more than a year not be pale and weak, and still maintain a strong spiritual aura. When the thin young man heard this, he said disapprovingly.

"I see, but I was negligent. In Xia Liu Ming, Your Excellency is also a Terran cultivator, I don't know your name. After Liu Ming nodded, he seemed to ignore the sneak attack just now, and instead smiled and wanted to ask.

"If you want to know my name, as long as you can live for a year, you will naturally have a lot of opportunities in the future. Besides, if you can dodge my blow, you'll be able to live here. Another piece of advice to you, no matter where you got the map in your hand, but generally you can only trust the first half, the deeper passage in the second half, every once in a while, a part of the ...... will be added or disappeared" The thin young man sneered and finished speaking, his body flickered, and he turned into a black shadow and disappeared into another passage. (To be continued......)