Chapter 436: The Land Forsaken by God (25) (1st + 2nd update) [VIP]
Compared to the small mountain village that everyone had visited before, the Perlan Mine was obviously much larger.
The facilities in the mine are also much more comprehensive.
Everyone is now standing in front of the mine cave of the Perrin Mine. A note was hastily placed on the wooden box in front of them: [For adventurers who come to deal with the incident].
The handwriting was hasty and the note was pressed on the box with a stone, which showed the panic of the person who read the letter.
After opening it, the equipment inside seems to be varied and has everything.
"This should be a helmet?" Enoch's creditor obviously didn't expect this to happen. He had no choice but to open the box and look through the equipment left for them by the manager in front of the mine. He took out a red helmet and guessed, "It's probably needed when going down the mine. Oh, there's a light on it."
The light on the top of the helmet suddenly turned on as he turned the dial, blinding him.
"A small magic." The spell mage stretched out a hand and pressed it. The light quickly dimmed. "It should be a headlamp to provide light for the miners."
"Why are these equipments placed here?" Guan Hongyan had a strange expression, "Why is there a pickaxe and a basket? What is the basket for?"
"Used to store minerals extracted from mining?" Yun Guang guessed.
"What are these things for?" Xu Zichen also came over to pick and choose, identifying them as he went along. "These are all mining tools. This is a protective goggles, this is a pair of gloves, these should be safety ropes... Why is there a bottle of holy water?"
"There is also a small statue of the God of Light," Zhao Yinglai tossed the statue, which looked like a little angel, "So this is what the God of Light looks like?"
The last time they went to the Church of the God of Light, all they saw was a large circle of light.
"That is the messenger of the God of Light," Enoch interrupted weakly, "Many clergymen carry this kind of statue with them."
"Is that so? The carving is so crude," Zhao Yinglai looked at the statue carefully, "What's the point of wearing this? The Goddess of Light is gone, so her messenger is useless too, right?"
"Drive away the darkness," Bai Jinshu glanced at the statue, "but this is useless."
This should be a purely decorative item and can only play a psychological role.
"It seems that the person in charge really believes that there is a ghost." White Moth flipped through the box and took out a thin booklet from it. "Here is also a booklet from the Church of the God of Light."
There weren't many things in the box, and everyone turned it upside down in a short while. Apart from some equipment needed for mining, the other things were either from the Church of the God of Light or various small ornaments to ward off evil spirits.
However, with the Spellcaster and Delmis present, it was unclear whether the things in the box would be useful. It was certain that they would not be used.
The entrance to the mining area had been closed. When everyone walked to the door, a white-bearded gatekeeper walked out of the house next to the mine.
Enoch's creditor walked forward first and opened the mine door after some communication.
"The management is in the town below," he said as he walked. "The gatekeeper said that more than three people have disappeared since I left."
Although most of the miners in the Perrin Mine are young and middle-aged people in the town, there is still a small number of employees from other places who cannot return home and can only continue to live in the dormitory after the mine stops working.
"As a result, on the fifth day, someone suddenly discovered that several people who remained in the Perrin Mine were missing."
There is a town not far from the mine. There are pubs and more entertainment facilities in the town. Miners often go to the town to drink on their days off. At first, no one took it seriously.
As a result, the next morning, those who went out to drink did not come back, but those who still lived in the mine waited for several people from the town to come and look for them. After the two sides exchanged information, they realized that not only were there fewer people here yesterday, but several miners who had returned to the town were also missing.
Both sides thought that the missing person was with the other party, and no one took it seriously on the first day. However, the missing person did not return overnight, so both sides felt something was wrong and went to look for the other party.
Now everyone was even more panicked. The workers living in the mine did not dare to continue living there and hurriedly moved out of the mine residence.
But the strange disappearances did not stop. Someone went missing every morning, and the people of the originally peaceful town were in panic. The person in charge also left the place quickly after leaving some items of the Church of Light collected from the town to the adventurers, leaving only a few old men guarding the gate.
"It sounds more like a goblin," the spellcaster muttered. "Isn't that what goblins love to do?"
"What do fairies love to do most?" Lu Changfeng asked curiously.
"It's a prank," Bai Jinshu said casually after taking a look at the environment around the mine. "Often, ordinary people get lost in the forest and see a figure not far ahead. They think they have seen a fellow creature in the forest, so they start to talk to the figure and run in the direction of the figure. In the end, they are led by the goblins into desperate situations. When they are finally found by hunters, there is often only a corpse left."
"So bad?" Guan Hongyan added, "They can't stand humans?"
"It's not that they can't stand humans, it's that fairies don't know about humans..." Enoch couldn't help but add, "They love to play pranks, not only on humans, but on other races as well. However, humans are too fragile to magical races, and they often die in their pranks."
For example, many humans who got lost in the forest were killed by goblins because the goblins leading the way wanted to play a prank on them and tricked them into the territory of wild beasts or dangerous cliffs.
Ordinary humans cannot defeat the beasts, nor can they get ashore from the edge of the cliff with their bare hands, so they will die under their pranks.
"You know so much about goblins. Have you ever come into contact with them?" Bai Jinshu suddenly turned his head.
"No," Enoch blurted out, "my dwarf craftsmen told me that they once made jewelry for the goblins."
He looked at the necromancer's scarlet eyes in front of him and looked at him thoughtfully for a few seconds, then turned away without saying anything, his heart beating.
"Now it looks like the goblins have trapped some people in the mines, and then disguised themselves as people trapped in the mines to get out..." At this moment, Enoch's creditor, who had not noticed this little episode, thought to himself, "And they deliberately leave one person missing every day to make the miners panic?"
"It should be," Bai Jinshu took a few steps forward, "There is no road ahead."
"Oh, yes, we need to take a mine cart to get in," Enoch's creditor suddenly realized that they had already walked a long way. "The Perrin Mine is very large, and we need to take a mine cart to get to the deepest part of the mine."
The mine cart needs to be driven by a person and can be connected in series. However, in the current situation, there are no experienced miners to drive it, so everyone can only try to do it themselves.
Fortunately, this thing doesn't require much technology, and it can only move on a fixed track. Yun Guang studied it for a while, then nodded and said to the others affirmatively: "Okay, I'll drive it."
The mine cart swayed forward along the track.
There was little lighting in the mine, and it got darker as you went deeper. Yun Guang turned on the lighting magic on his helmet and placed it in front of the mine cart to use as a headlight.
"There should be many routes in the mine," he stopped the mine cart, "This is a fork in the road. Should we split up or find them one by one?"
It would be more efficient if they acted separately, but there was no guarantee that they would not be trapped by the fairies' "pranks". It would be less efficient if they acted together, but with Delmis around, at least no one would be entangled by the fairies.
And there is Enoch who might have some relationship with the goblins.
"I can do all of that," the spellcaster stroked his chin, "but if you've never dealt with fairies before, it's best not to split up."
"Dermis," Yun Guang asked, "what do you think?"
"It's all right," Bai Jinshu leaned against the mine cart with his eyes half closed, "You can go any way you want."
There were also players and other people there. The exploration team members didn't want to say it too obviously, so they exchanged a few words and decided to act together.
They had no experience dealing with fairies in the Western fantasy world, so it would be safer for them to stay with Delmis.
[Heavier than ghosts] and [Innocent Wild Cockroach] were sitting in a car. [Innocent Wild Cockroach] also looked around and opened a private chat with the player: "Did you see it?"
“I see,” [Grudge is heavier than a ghost] twitched his lips, “There are health bars all around.”
The goblin has been in this mine all along.
No wonder Delmis said they could go any way they wanted. As soon as they entered the mine, they would probably have been seen by the goblins here.
In the plot, the player has been blessed by the Goblin King and can see through the goblins' disguises. For the two of them, as soon as they enter the mine, they will see the goblin's health bars all around them.
However, these health bars are green bars representing friendliness, not red bars, so the two are not very worried.
"I remember this location was a place for mining materials," the [Pure Wild Cockroach] observed the surroundings, "Were there so many fairies back then?"
[The grudge is heavier than the ghost]: "No."
This map should be a pure collection map, how come there are wild monsters?
"Let me write it down," [Pure Wild Cockroach] took out her notebook and muttered, "I think this map is not right. It's a good collection map, but when did wild monsters appear? And why is this road getting more and more desolate..."
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At the front of the mine cart, other exploration team members sitting on the mine cart also felt something was wrong.
"It feels like no one has been around for a long time," Guan Hongyan leaned out of the mine cart, scanning the area with a flashlight she exchanged in the mall, "It feels like it's semi-abandoned. It doesn't look like someone was passing by here a few days ago."
"Yes, Sister Yan," Lu Changfeng followed her and looked around, "Should the right side be the normal mining road, right?"
"Well," Guan Hongyan sat back on the mine cart, "this should be an abandoned mine."
But since they are here now, they are here to look for someone, so it doesn’t matter whether the place is deserted or not.
"This mine is so deep, the mineral output must be huge," Lu Changfeng looked at Enoch's creditors who were transporting magic sand in the mine. "Isn't the Perrin Mine privately owned? A private company would also need such a large mineral output. Who bought the mine?"
"I don't know," Enoch's creditor shrugged, "I am only responsible for transporting the minerals to the shipping point. As for the boss... Anyway, we have only met the person in charge."
It seems that the people in the Perrin Mine don't know that the person who bought this place is the great magician of Besser City.
Lu Changfeng tried to ask a few more questions.
Enoch's creditors were not clear about the specific operating details of the mine, but some simple information about the mine could give them a general idea.
The Perrin Mine was not so large in the early years, and magic sand, as a rare magical material, did not have much demand. Only alchemists who needed this material would find channels to order it.
It was only after it was bought by a private individual and turned into a private mine that the Perrin Mine expanded to its current size. The amount of magic sand that needs to be supplied each month is increasing. In order to ensure the supply, they can only keep digging deeper, so the mines are getting deeper and deeper, and there are more and more abandoned mine tunnels.
Until this incident, no one had ever seen the owner who bought the mine, nor did anyone know who provided the alchemical carriage in the Perrin Mine.
"I see," Xu Zichen touched his chin, "Since magic sand is a material that only very few alchemists use, aren't you curious about who the boss is?"
Do these workers at the Perrin Mine really have no curiosity at all?
A slightly shrill voice came from the front: "Not curious."
"Then you guys are quite inquisitive..." Xu Zichen replied subconsciously, then suddenly realized, "Who was talking just now?"
The voice didn't sound like Enoch's creditor, nor did it sound like that of the spellcaster.
If I had to say who that voice resembled, it would be more like Enoch speaking with a pinched throat.
But Enoch was sitting on the mine cart behind him.
This side was an abandoned mine, and apart from the missing workers, there couldn't be anyone else there.
"Who is it?" Guan Hongyan swept the flashlight forward. The mine was empty and there was nothing in it. Only a few people in the front row turned around with the same confused and vigilant faces.
"Who is it?" another voice sounded.
This time the voice sounded extremely similar to Guan Hongyan's voice.
"We've reached the end of the road," Yun Guang turned around and told everyone, "There's no track ahead. We can't turn around."
"There's no way to turn around!" the voice sounded again.
【Fairy,】The spellcaster sat in front and mouthed to everyone, 【Don't say it out loud.】
This is a goblin playing a prank.
【Play with them,】The spellcaster mouthed, 【pretending to be scared.】
The Foundation's watch vibrated, and a message popped up in the temporary group chat:
Dermis: [Fairy.]
The two mages confirmed the identity of the voice at the same time. The members of the exploration team exchanged glances very quickly. Zhao Yinglai grabbed Bai Mo's sleeve and said in a trembling voice: "What is talking? Hong Yan, was that you just now?"
"It wasn't me," Guan Hongyan said immediately, "I didn't say anything just now."
In a temporary group chat:
Xu Zichen: [Can you catch him now? ]
Dermis: [Yes.]
Delmis: [But it would be better if you could lure out more. ]
"Quickly count how many people there are now," Xu Zichen immediately understood and shouted, "Are there more people?"
Guan Hongyan swept the surroundings with the flashlight in her hand. When it swept over normal people, there was a blurry human figure on the wall of the mine. Only when it swept over Delmis and his partner, there was half a blurry human figure and half a skeleton.
"Oh my god," Zhao Yinglai complained quietly behind her, "I've seen a lot of people alone, but this is the first time I've seen half a person."
Guan Hongyan struggled to hold back her laughter for a few seconds before she continued in a frightened tone, "The number of people is correct, there are no extra people..."
"Really?" Xu Zichen's voice rang out, "Count again!"
"I didn't say anything!" Xu Zichen blurted out.
"There's an extra shadow!" Hector shouted.
"I just counted, and there's one extra!"
"Where is the extra thing?" Guan Hongyan swept the flashlight around and turned to stare at Hector.
"Sister Yan," Lu Changfeng swallowed his saliva, "There are people around us..."
Guan Hongyan's eyes flashed, and she immediately turned around with a flashlight.
The flashlight illuminated the small mine cart. Apart from him and Lu Changfeng, there was no third person, but there was an extra shadow on the wall.
"Huh? What is this?" A thin voice sounded beside her ear, "I've never seen it before."
The next second, the flashlight in her hand was suddenly pulled by something. Guan Hongyan subconsciously pulled back with force and pushed forward with her other arm.
Encountered an entity.
The goblin probably wanted to take away the flashlight when she was not prepared, but she didn't expect Guan Hongyan to react so quickly. She also subconsciously attacked forward and was knocked away.
"It hurts." The thin voice complained aggrievedly, "It hurts!"
"It hurts! It hurts! It hurts!" The sound echoed around her in layers.
"What?!" Guan Hongyan waved her hands and quickly replied in the group: [Are you done? Is that enough? ]
Delmis: [That's enough.]
The next second, a strong wind suddenly rose in the quiet mine, and all the dust on the ground was suddenly swept up. The invisible wind also took on color under the visible dust, forming a huge whirlwind and rushing towards the person sitting on the mine cart behind.
Before the people sitting on the mine cart had time to avoid it, they felt the strong wind passing by their scalps. The strong wind blew their clothes and passed closely against their skin. They could almost feel the shivering caused by the sharp sand carried by the wind as it brushed against the edges of their hair.
The clothes of everyone on the mine cart were blown all over the place by the howling wind, and even the hood of the wizard robe that Bai Jinshu had been wearing on his head was instantly blown open. In the strong wind that swept all over the sky, only the blue flame in his eyes seemed to be unaffected, and it was still floating up and down quietly, flashing a fluorescent blue light.
The mine was pitch black, with only the two flashlights in Guan Hongyan and Yun Guang's hands emitting light. Apart from that, only the blue flame in Bai Jinshu's right eye socket was still a little bright.
In this cold light, a strong wind swept through the entire mine, sweeping up all the goblins hiding in the mine.
In an instant, the mine, which was quiet a few minutes ago, became extremely noisy.
The goblins' shrill voices instantly filled everyone's ears.
"What is this! I can't fly anymore! My wings are caught!"
"So fierce! This person is so fierce!"
“Run, run!”
“You can’t run away!”
"This is not an ordinary human!"
"Woohoo big monster!"
"What a fierce monster! It won't kill us all!"
“I feel dizzy…”
The goblins' voices were shrill. After being caught in the air by Bai Jinshu, they thought they were being crushed to death. Each one of them was shouting louder than the other, and when all of their voices came together, it made one's brain ache.
"So noisy..." Huai Jiamu frowned.
"Did you hear that?" The blue flames in the eyes of the necromancer who controlled all the fairies with one hand flashed, "My partner said you are too noisy."
A strong wind blew past, and all the goblins instantly became quiet, unable to make any sound.
In the wind, the fairies who had relied on magic to hide themselves finally revealed their true forms.
The fairies, each only half the size of a human's arm and with huge wings, were blown all over the air by the tornado, losing their balance and rolling up and down.
"Boss, you are awesome!" The spell mage poked his head out, "Now that we have caught the goblin, we know where those workers went."
"Well," Bai Jinshu turned his head and glanced at her, "Did you figure out where the miner is?"
This spellcaster is not completely useless.
"No," the spell mage said with a blushing face, "I'm a wimp. I can't even catch a goblin."
Bai Jinshu: ...
He turned around silently and stopped the spell in his hand.
The fairies in the sky fell to the ground one by one, and several even fell into the mine cart.
"Is this a goblin?" Xu Zichen picked one up. "I thought it was an ugly one like the ones in Harry Potter..."
The goblin he picked up said: "You are ugly! A pathetic biped without a fluffy tail and wings!"
Xu Zichen: ...
Why does this goblin have such a foul mouth?
"What does that pathetic biped look like?" He silently turned the goblin around and looked at Enoch. "Is he like that?"
Enoch with cat ears and cat tail:?
"Nice little skirt!" The fairy's eyes lit up.
Enoch covered half of his face with the fan in his hand: ...
"But he doesn't have beautiful wings," the fairy flapped his wings proudly, "and can't fly..."
It flapped a few more times.
"Why can't I fly anymore?" It glared at Xu Zichen.
Xu Zichen, who was holding the goblin, said: "I don't know."
"It was Dermis who did it, right?" He looked at Dermis silently.
"I have forbidden the flow of wind elements," Bai Jinshu crossed his arms, "Tell me, where did you hide the miners here?"
"What do you mean by hiding?" The goblin jumped up and down.
"They broke into the goblin territory for no apparent reason!" the goblins shouted, "We didn't kill the invaders! Instead, we let them live in our territory! Goblins are good! Humans are bad!"
"How come you broke into the fairy's territory?" Xu Zichen shook the fairy in his hand, "Keep your voice down, it hurts my ears. This is a mine, how come it's your territory?"
"This is our territory! How could it become a mine?" the goblin shouted.
"It's too noisy." Bai Jinshu made a prompt decision and continued to seal the fairy's mouth.
The goblin continued to glare at Xu Zichen.
"Why are you glaring at me?" Xu Zichen lifted its wings and turned it around. "Glaze at him."
Nowadays, goblins also bully the weak and fear the strong. Why don't they say that Delmis is a pathetic bipedal animal without a fluffy tail and wings and half flesh and blood?
"Can I keep one of these?" Zhao Yinglai's eyes lit up. "It's so cute. I want to take one back to the native space and keep it!"
"Then why don't you make a shadow puppet..." Before Guan Hongyan finished her words, she heard the spell wizard at the front of the crowd suddenly speak.
"Everyone," she said, standing at the end of the road, "I think I know where those miners are."
As she spoke, a complex pattern suddenly lit up at the end of the road.
The lines flashed by, and the stone wall at the end of the road suddenly shattered, and an extremely dazzling light came through from the front.
At the end of the road, there was a lush forest.
"What the hell," two players blurted out from behind the crowd, "Alterac!"
——The fairy kingdom of Alterac, an independent map in "Breath of Slenkmed".
The miners at the Perrin Mine actually dug through both maps!
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Miners in the Perrin Mine can go to Weibo to vote for the Miner's Summit, because this is the real miner (not)
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