"Captain Joey, this..."

Medes was speechless. These three horses wouldn't disturb the red dragon, but the digging might not be so easy.

"Alright, I regret it now, but there's nothing I can do. I have to grit my teeth and go for it!"

Joey drew his longsword and slowly approached the red dragon's lair.

What is this smell?

Less than ten minutes later, the bearded man sniffed the air and was hit by a strong smell of blood mixed with the stench of rotting flesh.

"It must be a piece of meat left over from the red dragon's meal. It seems he doesn't know the meaning of 'every grain is hard-earned'."

Joey led them to hide behind a large tree, his eyes fixed on a clearing ahead.

There was a nest piled up with rubble and dead branches in the open space, which looked like the red dragon's nest they were looking for.

"Red Dragon isn't home?"

The bearded man asked curiously.

"If he's not home, he's not home. We can try to find someone to ask him now."

Joey kept his eyes fixed ahead and didn't turn to look at the bearded man.

"Huh? Am I seeing things? Did the soil next to the nest move?"

Joey rubbed his eyes and asked somewhat uncertainly.

"It looks like it's actually moving!"

The bearded man's eyes widened as he watched the soil in front of him undulate up and down.

"This red dragon doesn't stay in its lair, so does it live underground?"

"This is a dragon, not an earthworm, although I kind of wish it were an earthworm!"

"Crackling sound—"

As the soil continued to be turned over, suddenly the top layer of soil was broken through, and a strangely shaped iron pickaxe appeared in front of the three people.

"Oh no, it's digging!"

Joey recognized the pickaxe the moment she saw it, and her heart was in her throat. Although the Red Dragon was not here now, no one could guarantee when it would return. If it saw Digger digging in front of its house, it would probably be furious and start a killing spree!

Wawa emerged from below and swaggered towards the nest as if no one else was there.