Chapter 173 It seems that he has done something extraordinary again!

After more than an hour of trekking, Ryan soon found the abandoned mine used as a base by the Zalal rebels in the undulating hills.

Because Ryan had gone through a battle before, although it took a short time, he had burst out with all his strength and used the secret skill "Earth-shattering Hammer" twice, which consumed a lot of physical strength.

Now after more than an hour of "forced march", his physical condition has dropped to about 60% to 70% of his peak.

Although Ryan already knew that the other side did not have any powerful people stationed, there is an old saying in the past life that "arrogant soldiers will be defeated". In addition, there is no guarantee that there will be any sudden personnel transfers on the side of the rebels.

So, Ryan thought about it for a while and decided to add a point to the mental attribute to quickly restore his physical condition.

As the remaining attribute points increased from 2→1 and the mental power increased from 24→25 points, a surge of heat was pumped out from the heart and quickly spread to Ryan's limbs.

In an instant, Ryan felt that his condition had returned to its peak, and the muscle soreness after the "Triple State" burst just now disappeared.

Since this abandoned mine is the enemy's base in the entire Mayest County, Ryan was still quite cautious. He first carefully explored the mine entrance.

Soon, Ryan found that the enemy had set up two sentries, one bright and one dark, and three hidden traps that could be easily trapped.

Sure enough, the rebels were not the kind of lax bandits. Some of their military qualities might not be as good as the regular army of the empire, but they were not completely without combat effectiveness. They were roughly above the militia and below the city guards.

So, Ryan quietly solved the two sentries, the bright and the dark, and after bypassing the traps, he began to slowly explore the mine.

After killing two patrols in succession, Ryan passed through a dark and humid mine tunnel and came to an empty underground hall.

Although it is called a hall, it is only about three meters high and covers an area of ​​about two to three hundred square meters. It was probably the intersection of several mine tunnels. After further excavation and repair, it has become what it is now.

Bonfires were lit all around the hall. About thirty strong men dressed as mercenaries were gathered in twos and threes. Some were chatting, some were oiling their swords, and some were wiping the shiny barrels of their matchlock guns.

Another part of them was gathered in front of a knight in plate armor, listening carefully.

When Ryan saw the knight in plate armor, his eyes narrowed and his gaze obviously stayed for a while longer.

It seems that this person should be the leader of the rebels who ambushed him. The knight who stayed behind is as strong as a senior knight.

After a few seconds, Ryan shifted his gaze from the people to the surroundings of the underground hall.

Ryan discovered that the underground hall was connected to at least four deep tunnels.

From this point of view, Ryan knew that he had chosen the right tactic by sneaking in carefully all the way.

Because if he forced his way in, even if he could successfully rush all the way here, the rebels in the underground hall would flee even if they were defeated, and many of them might have escaped.

After all, it was difficult to guarantee that these four tunnels were not secret passages leading to the outside world.

In addition, he was only one person, and it was impossible for him to intercept or kill all the dozens of rebels on the spot.

Suddenly, a thought flashed through Ryan's mind like a flash of lightning.

Ryan gently raised his left hand. Since the chrome iron plate armor gloves had been damaged in the competition with Salem, Ryan was now bare-handed, and he focused his eyes on his left little finger.

There was a ring that looked like an emerald ring on the surface, but it was actually a ring filled with hallucinogenic poison gas.

Ryan had not had the opportunity to use this thing since he purchased the poison gas and filled it in the Bat Market last time, but he did not expect that today, he would encounter such a perfect occasion to use it.

Ryan still remembered that Endri had also used it in the Elim Mine.

And the place where he was about to use it for the first time was also in the mine. Ryan couldn't help

but

laugh, and then shook his head slightly.

It's a pity that Endri is not a hero.

Otherwise, he would have to say "Heroes think alike!" Ryan thought.

After sniffing the antidote in advance, Ryan gently pressed the needle-sized trigger on the side of the emerald ring. With a "click", the colorless and odorless poison gas was released and spread instantly.

Estimating the time, when it was almost time, Ryan drew out the glimmering giant sword and held it in his hand, and walked forward calmly.

In the underground hall, the few strong men closest to the edge saw Ryan's sudden appearance, their faces suddenly changed, and they shouted angrily:

"Who are you?"

"How did you get in!"

With the scolding of several people, all the members of the resistance in the underground hall were alarmed.

They all raised their heads and focused their eyes on Ryan.

Facing the sudden appearance of Ryan, the uninvited guest, these people immediately took a fighting stance, but as soon as they stood up, they stumbled and fell to the ground!

Everyone's face suddenly changed!

And the senior knight who stayed behind also took four or five steps, and his body swayed twice, staring at Ryan with a gloomy face and said:

"Did you poison him?"

Ryan nodded and said, "Yes!"

"Despicable guy, you are not strong enough, so you use such a despicable method!"

"Go to hell!"

Following the roar, the opponent chopped with a powerful sword holding a knight!

As expected of a senior knight, the poison gas tactics from Endry had little effect on the senior knight.

It only reduced the opponent's speed and accuracy.

However,

the opponent obviously misunderstood Ryan's strength.

He thought Ryan used poison because he was not strong enough.

The strength of the knight was far inferior to that of Ryan, and it was also slightly affected by the poison gas. As the strength of the two sides increased, the gap between them became even greater!

"Dang!"

The two swords collided!

The next second, the sound of the sharp blade cutting into the flesh was heard. "

Puff!"

Just a face-to-face encounter, the opponent's right hand was cut by Ryan from the armpit, and it was directly cut off with an upward stroke.

An arm holding the knight's long sword flew in the air!

"Puff!"

With the other sword, Ryan took a side step, went around the left rear side of the senior knight, and quickly chopped down the opponent's weak armor behind the knee, directly cutting off one of the opponent's calves.

"Ah! Who are you?"

"Ah! Why did you attack us?"

The person in charge of the remaining rebels screamed and asked questions.

But Ryan ignored it.

You attacked me first.

Then you will naturally have to bear the pain of being attacked by me! Ryan thought to himself.

The other elite rebels who saw this scene turned pale!

The boss who stayed behind, a senior knight, was knocked down in just two moves and was now wailing in a pool of blood.

Their strength was naturally inferior.

In order to survive, many people had begun to get up and planned to run towards the surrounding tunnels.

But after being poisoned, they were all like drunkards. They fell down as soon as they stood up. After falling down, they continued to struggle to get up and fall down again under the stimulation of the desire to survive.

After repeating this several times, most people could no longer stand up. They looked confused or terrified, and began to talk nonsense.

Obviously, the hallucinogenic gas has begun to attack rapidly among this group of people!

Ryan looked at the scene in front of him and nodded secretly. The hallucinogenic gas was still very effective in dealing with a large number of ordinary people, which saved him from the embarrassing situation of being driven by a tiger.

At this moment, except for a few quasi-knights who could barely struggle a few times, everyone else had become meat on the chopping board to be slaughtered.

After leaving alive several rebels who were obviously leaders, Ryan killed all the others with one sword.

Then, Ryan began to search everywhere.

After all, this is an organization's stronghold, and some supplies are still very rich. Pieces of bacon stacked together, piles of cabbage, potatoes, etc. are all food.

In the small room that served as the armory, there were many weapons, such as knight's long sword, shield, two-handed sword and several brand new matchlock guns.

Ryan seemed to have thought of something. He stopped and turned back to the small room to pick up a matchlock gun.

Although Ryan didn't know much about matchlock guns, he saw that the pirates needed to light a matchlock before they could fire normally in the battle of the "Shipwreck", so he knew that this was a relatively primitive firearm. It seems

that according to the development process of the previous life, the matchlock gun was followed by the flintlock gun?

Ryan shook his head slightly, because this was not the focus of his attention.

What he just paid attention to was the barrel of the matchlock gun.

The moment he left, his eyes were attracted by the shiny barrel. This craftsmanship seemed very unusual.

It seemed to be some kind of stainless steel!

Last time, I heard that these matchlock guns were all from the Eagle Federation.

Sure enough, after Ryan carefully checked the barrel, he confirmed his guess.

According to the manufacturing process of the barrel, the metallurgy level of the Eagle Federation is very high, which made Ryan have a lot of reverie.

After a little thought, Ryan took down all the matchlock guns.

He planned to study them slowly after returning home.

When Ryan came to another independent compartment on the side, as soon as he entered the door, he saw the bottles of Bordeaux wine on the table and the ruby-colored wine in the wooden cup.

He couldn't help but shake his head and sighed:

"Tsk tsk, the living conditions of the rebels are really luxurious."

"Huh? Isn't this the emblem of the Crowley family?" Ryan glanced at it unintentionally and found the familiar pattern on the surface of the wooden frame box containing Bordeaux wine - a kite-shaped shield plus a rose-like flower.

Undoubtedly, this is the symbol of the Crowley family.

This immediately made Ryan frown.

Could it be that the Crowley family is related to this Zalal rebel army?

No!

The plump and beautiful figure of Baroness Crowley appeared in Ryan's mind.

The woman in charge of the Crowley family couldn't be so stupid.

If they were supplying alcohol to the rebels, even a fool would know that they would have to remove their family emblems.

Could it be that someone else purchased it from the Crowley family's store and then supplied it to the rebels?

Forget it, why guess? It's better to ask directly to save trouble.

Fortunately, they didn't kill all of them!

After asking the leaders again, Ryan suddenly realized.

It turned out that these precious Bordeaux wines were looted along the way by the rebels disguised as bandits.

In this case, the Bordeaux wines in these dozen wooden boxes should all be the Crowley family's goods.

It seems that the Crowley family has suffered a lot this time!

After counting the supplies in the base, Ryan looked at the pile of supplies in front of him and couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

He was alone, and it was obvious that no matter how strong he was, he couldn't move so many things back to Shimmering Gold Town.

In addition, it would be best for him to eliminate the traces, that is, to blow up this abandoned mine directly.

The nearly one thousand imperial gold coins that were found must be taken away, and these matchlock guns must also be taken away. As for the Bordeaux wine,

take them away too.

Who made me the guardian knight of the Crowley family?

Ryan found that one day he would be troubled by too many spoils of war.

It seems that this is the only way.

Ryan used the original cart in the stronghold to transport the Bordeaux wine and some high-value goods to the vicinity of the mine, covered them and marked them.

Then, he returned again and moved several barrels of gunpowder to the middle of the narrow mine tunnel, connected them in series with a fuse and ignited them.

As Ryan's figure flew out of the mine quickly, a dull explosion sounded at the entrance of the mine a few seconds later, followed by a violent airflow that swept up the surrounding fallen leaves and gravel.

After doing all this, Ryan began to return to the place where he had hidden his horse before.

As the sun set, a thin mist floated above the entire Shining Gold Town, and under the shining of the sunset, it was like a layer of golden gauze.

When Ryan returned home, he saw his sister Mint playing with his greyhound Cookie in the front yard.

Mint had been unhappy for a long time since Anna left.

Fortunately, as Cookie grew up, he was able to play with Mint.

Thinking of this, Ryan couldn't help but think of the wisdom potion. He had already prepared all the materials at the Nightingale Market in Rossby City. When the time comes, he will take the time to make it, which may further improve the intelligence of "Cookie".

"Brother, it's my brother who is back!" As the sound of horse hooves became clearer, Mint suddenly looked up, stunned for a moment, and then shouted with joy.

It was dinner time.

Ryan's family sat around the wooden dining table.

"Ryan, you said you are a baron now?"

The wooden spoon in the hand of mother Emma fell into the soup plate with a "clang", splashing a lot of vegetable soup juice. Her eyes suddenly widened twice, and she looked at her son in surprise.

Although she knew that her son was going to participate in the noble canonization examination, she only hoped that if her son could really pass it, he would become a distinguished knight.

How could Emma think that her son could jump two levels and become a baron directly!

Oh my God!

Goddess!

Old Ryan's mouth was also wide open, with an expression of disbelief, looking at his son.

He never thought that he could become the father of a baron one day!

Only his sister Mint seemed a little confused, but she also fluttered her long eyelashes, stared at her brother, and then turned her head to look at her parents.

From the expressions of her parents, Mint could be sure of one thing.

That is, her brother Ryan seemed to have done something extraordinary again!

There will be another update at noon! ^_^

(End of this chapter)