Chapter 438: The Land Forsaken by God (27) (1st + 2nd update) [VIP]
What the goblin said, "Humans broke into the goblin territory and trapped them inside," must have been the result of a lot of artistic processing.
At least they should have done more than just trapping these miners in Outlander.
Everyone followed Enoch's creditor to where the two miners had been standing before. They looked around and found that there was no one there.
"They all ran away?" Guan Hongyan looked around and asked, "Should we split up and look for them?"
Before they could even say a word to the miners trapped here, they disappeared without a trace.
Or it cannot be said that there is no trace.
"On the right," Xu Zichen said softly, "look at that bush."
Guan Hongyan: “Hmm?”
She looked in the direction Xu Zichen pointed.
In the weeds on the right, there seem to be a few leaves leaning here and there, looking a little messy.
"Hiding in the bushes and observing us?" Guan Hongyan whispered.
"Yes," Xu Zichen said softly, "there should be three people in the bushes."
"Are you sure it's a human?" Yun Guang looked at Bai Jinshu for confirmation, "Dermis?"
If Xu Zichen hadn't pointed them in the right direction, this abnormality would have been easily overlooked.
But this is the goblin's territory, and there's no guarantee that the bushes might be the goblins' new trick to play tricks on humans.
"It's a human." Bai Jinshu nodded in affirmation, and his eyes turned around and fell in front of Yun Guang.
He suddenly changed the subject and pointed at the bushes in front of Yun Guang with his chin: "There is a trap in front of you."
As soon as these words were spoken, all the people who were planning to look at the bushes turned their eyes to Yun Guang.
"A trap?" Zhao Yinglai picked up a stone from the lawn beside him and threw it over. The stone rolled on the grass, and with a "snap" sound, a brown trap jumped up.
In the bushes where the three people were hiding, the tips of the grass leaves swayed slightly.
"I'll go check out the trap," White Eth carefully picked up a few stones, walked and explored the way, came to the trap, and picked up the brown trap with one hand.
"It seems to be made of some relatively flexible branches and twigs," she studied it for a moment, then turned and handed it to Lu Changfeng who also came to take a look. "Due to the limited materials, the lethality is very weak."
"This trap was set by the miners..." Guan Hongyan muttered, "There can't be wild animals in your Otterlanklee, right?"
This thing doesn't look like it can catch wild animals. Even if the mechanism is really triggered, the most that can happen is that the sharp branches on it will pierce the skin because the bite force is insufficient. Although the branches are sharp enough, they are still not enough to penetrate the skin and get into the flesh.
The goblin shook his neck and said proudly, "Of course there are only goblins in the goblin territory!"
"Because other races were all driven away by their pranks," the spell mage added in a low voice, "You can't stand a neighbor who is always causing trouble for you."
Everyone nodded in tacit understanding.
"What on earth did you do to these miners..." Guan Hongyan looked at the trap in Lu Changfeng's hand, and then at the goblin in Enoch's hand, "I'm telling you the truth, these miners actually wanted to use this trap to take revenge on you..."
There are no other animals in Otterancree except goblins. The miners were trapped in the illusion for four or five days. Even if the goblins' pranks were not malicious, they still caused them considerable harm.
I guess he was really pushed into a corner.
"Revenge us?" The goblin was silent for a few seconds, and then his shrill voice was filled with a hint of doubt. "Aren't you playing a joke on us?"
"Would I use such a sharp clamp when playing with you guys..." Enoch interrupted speechlessly, "It's obvious that he's been fooled by you guys so many times that he can't stand it anymore and wants to fight back."
"But..." The fairy said in a sharp and thin voice, "But we are flying, right?"
A trap placed on the ground, how could it possibly hurt a fairy flying in the air.
This time it was everyone's turn to be silent.
"You pretended to be humans and played a prank on me," Bai Jinshu crossed his arms, "These miners definitely don't know you are fairies."
Perhaps until now, these miners who mistakenly entered Alterac don’t even know where they are, and they think they have encountered ghosts and entered the forest from the mine for unknown reasons.
His counterattack after being teased repeatedly was also seen as playing with the other party. If he were these miners, he would probably want to vomit blood.
"But how can you tell the other person who you are before playing a prank?" The fairy complained in a soft voice, "Humans are really unreasonable. It was obviously them who broke in first..."
"There are even more unreasonable humans," Bai Jinshu said as a blue flame ignited in his hand. "Do you want to feel it?"
The fairy hugged her wings and screamed, "No way!"
"Humans are really not fun to play with!" it yelled.
"Yeah, the humans who can't afford to play with you burned half of your wings," Xu Zichen walked over unhappily and picked up the goblin and shook him, "Now that we're all in, you won't let us go, right?"
The goblin was shaken left and right: "We never let them go. They just couldn't get out..."
"It's hard for humans who haven't learned magic to get out of the fairy's illusion. You don't think they stayed here for so long just for fun, do you?" The spell mage shrugged and took the lead to pull Enoch's creditor to the front. "That's why I say you fairies are an unpleasant species."
Naturally born magical creatures will never have a correct understanding of humans, a race that needs to undergo systematic learning before they can use magic.
The fairy was dizzy, but she still retorted: "Why do we have to please others?"
They don't need to rely on humans to survive. On the contrary, quite a number of wizards still need the magical materials provided by goblins.
"Just stop talking. You've been dealing with wizards and potion makers for a long time and have never met a tough opponent." Enoch twitched his lips. "Look, Delmis is going to set fire again."
The goblin immediately shut his mouth.
He gets along harmoniously with the goblins.
Bai Jinshu glanced at Enoch, his eyes running across the exaggerated makeup on his face, as if thinking about something.
The goblin just now said that he looked familiar, so Enoch once lived in the goblin territory for a period of time?
This would explain where the fairy alchemy item in his hand came from, but if that were all, then why would he hide?
This thing was given to him voluntarily by the fairy, so he has no reason to feel guilty.
If this wasn't given voluntarily by the goblin, and there was no curse so Enoch didn't take it from the goblin by force, then this was...
Stolen?
Is there anyone who dares to steal things from the goblin?
Enoch, who was holding the goblin, had no idea that his past had been exposed.
The fairy held its wings and dared not say a word. After a few seconds, when Delmis turned around, it spoke quietly: "Although you are ugly, you are still a good person."
Enoch, who was given the nice guy card: ...
"Although you praised me as a good person," he said speechlessly, "you don't have to say that I'm ugly."
"I'm telling the truth," the fairy muttered, "and you look familiar to me. I feel like I've seen you somewhere before."
"I used to be an apprentice in the Mage Tower," Enoch quickly evaded the question, "You may have seen me coming to get materials."
"Were you wearing a pretty dress when you came here before?" The fairy blinked, "Why don't I remember having such an apprentice?"
"Uh... I am..." Enoch stammered for a long time, "I started wearing a skirt recently because I met Delmis. He forced me to wear it."
There is also Enoch's devil apprentice Hector, and three other terrifying teammates who, for some unknown reason, wear various styles of women's clothing.
Why are these people so keen on catching people wearing skirts?
He thought that after he said this, the fairy would say how pitiful he was, but he didn't expect the fairy to think about it and said with certainty: "Then Delmis is also a good person."
Enoch: ?
"Why?" He was overwhelmed.
"He asked you to wear a pretty little skirt." The demon believed it.
[Yes, this is very fairy. ]
[Confirmed, purebred fairy. ]
[Enoch's defense was broken just like me who had just been tortured by a goblin. ]
[So next time you go to the fairy territory, can wearing a skirt increase your chances of getting materials? ]
【? A direction never imagined. 】
[Hiss, maybe, is there anyone who wants to try it? ]
[I don’t know, you try it.]
[I don’t know, you try it.]
[I don’t know, you try it.]
[Then I'll give it a try... I'm going to pick up the magic materials for the next quarter tomorrow. If it works, I'll come back and tell you guys? ]
【Okay, I will check it out again and report back. 】
*
In front of the man and the goblin, everyone who walked towards the bushes finally started a conversation with the three miners in the bushes.
The miners had been pranked by the goblins for four or five days, so they were wary of these people who suddenly appeared. However, for the sake of Enoch, the creditor, and some holy water of light brought in by the spell wizard, they still took everyone to the miners' gathering place.
A rough count shows that there are at least dozens of people trapped here.
Enoch's creditor didn't know how many people were missing in the Perrin Mine, so he could only count the number of people first. Everyone had nothing to do, so they helped him count the number of people.
Bai Jinshu and Huai Jiamu didn't look like good people. Under the vigilant gaze of the miners, they simply did nothing and just watched everyone slacking off.
At first, the miners were on guard but they still cooperated with the hope of leaving. The exploration team members were responsible for registering their names and asking them when they entered this strange place. The spell mage pretended to be an invited priest, sprinkling holy water while casually observing the temporary settlement of the miners.
As everyone expected, the entrance to Alterac was on the side of an abandoned mine. Most of these miners did not accidentally enter Alterac during normal mining, but came in to look for their missing companions. As a result, they walked to the end of the mine and accidentally entered this forest.
At first the miners thought they had seen a ghost. Most of them lived in a nearby town and had grown up seeing all these illusions around them. They had never seen a forest like this one.
Besides, if the mine is dug downwards, even if the forest is geographically behind the Perrin Mine, it is impossible for the mine to be dug downwards and end up on the ground.
The goblins played a prank on them. The miners who had no experience in dealing with magical creatures thought they had fallen into the water and swam towards the shore. They saw human figures chasing them, but after losing them, they realized they were lost in the forest. After several setbacks, they no longer dared to believe what they saw.
"The miners gathered here now are all the miners who have entered Alterac," Yun Guang and his team found Delmis and his partner who were fishing in the woods after they settled the miners. They briefly explained the current situation. "The miners are roughly divided into three groups. The first day is to look for missing miners who have mistakenly entered here. The second day is to look for missing miners and miners who have mistakenly entered here. The third day is for missing miners and miners who have mistakenly entered the mine before leaving."
On the fourth day, fearing an accident, the Perrin Mine temporarily closed the mine and allowed the miners to return home.
On the fifth day, the goblins who had disguised themselves as miners and returned to their homes or temporary dormitories disappeared, causing panic among those who had not entered Alterac.
There is no night in Alterac, and the miners who enter here cannot feel the change of day and night. Except for the first few days when someone comes in every day and can judge the time outside, the miners are not sure how much time has passed in the next few days when they are trapped here. Some think they have been here for more than half a month, while others feel that the fifth day has never come.
"Where did the people who disappeared on the first day go?" After hearing Yun Guang's words, Bai Jinshu raised his eyebrows slightly.
The miners here came to look for people on the first day, and some disappeared on the second and third days and some entered the mines. So where did the miner who disappeared on the first day go?
"This is one of the suspicious points," Yun Guang nodded, "We have counted all the people, and now the miners here are basically here to look for the missing, but the miner who disappeared on the first day is gone."
"We also asked the miners about the situation in the mine," he added, "They said that the side we entered has been abandoned for several years, and the track has not been maintained for a long time. Under normal circumstances, no one would go in, and they would not go in if they were not looking for someone. It is said that the abandoned mine tunnel is because the magic sand mined from there in the past few years has become less and less effective. The owner who bought the mine was very dissatisfied, so the management of the Perrin Mine had to quickly open another mine tunnel and abandon the previous line..."
"Impossible." Before he finished speaking, Dermis's firm voice rang out.
"The mine we entered is so close to Alterac, the magic materials we dig out will definitely be getting better and better."
Fairies are a species that is extremely picky about their living environment, and they have a naturally high affinity for certain elements. This is why some rare materials that cannot survive in the outside world can only grow in fairy territories. In order to obtain rare materials, many mages have good relationships with fairies and will regularly send people to fairy territories to pick up goods.
Although we don't know why the fairy territory appeared under the Perrin Mine, since the largest fairy territory is under the mine, the magic materials in the mine will inevitably be influenced by this territory and contain several times more magic power than normal materials.
In this case, the closer you are to the goblin territory, the better the materials you will dig up.
The location they entered was only a few meters away from Outlander. It could be said that they had dug to the other side's front door. The purity and effect of the magic materials produced at this location absolutely reached an astonishing value.
It is absolutely impossible for the effect to "get worse and worse".
"You mean..." Yun Guang pondered, "This is what the Grand Mage said to deceive them. In fact, when he saw the magic sand, he found that the concentration was too high. It is very likely that the collection site is too close to Outlante, so he quickly stopped the miners and asked them to open another mine."
"Doesn't that mean that the Grand Mage has long known that Alterac is beneath the Perrin Mine?" He looked up at Bai Jinshu, a thoughtful look on his face. "Then he bought this mine because of its special location?"
"That's what it seems at the moment," Bai Jinshu nodded, "If I found a mine near the fairy kingdom, I would buy it too."
And according to Enoch and his creditors' past descriptions of the Perrin Mine, before the Grand Mage bought it, no one discovered that there was a fairy kingdom under the mine, and no one realized that the magic sand here was abnormally effective.
The former can be explained by the fact that the Perrin Mine was only a small mine at that time, and the latter is naturally because magic sand is not a must-have popular material among alchemists. Only a small number of alchemists will buy it. Lacking comparison channels, they naturally do not realize that the quality of Perrin's magic sand is exceptionally good.
Even if they realize it, most people would only think that it is because the magical environment here is good, and no one would think that there is Alterac under the mine.
But in this case, the second doubt arises.
"Since the Grand Mage has stopped the first abandoned mine tunnel," Yun Guang waved to Guan Hongyan who was coming over after counting the number of people, and turned to continue, "Then why are some people digging down now?"
The miners said that the mine tunnel on the left had been abandoned for a long time and no one would enter under normal circumstances. So who dug this hole and where did the first missing miner go?
"There are two possibilities," Bai Jinshu glanced at the miners, "the first miner dug a mine hole and entered here, and the first miner did not dig a mine hole, and someone else dug the mine hole."
But if it is the first possibility, it cannot explain why the first miner would come to the end of an abandoned mine to mine. The second possibility cannot explain who discovered that the end of the abandoned mine was Alterac and came to dig the mine.
"I thought I was just dealing with an ordinary missing persons case..." Yun Guang held his forehead with his hand, "How come it has become so complicated all of a sudden?"
There is a fairy kingdom underground, and a mine that was dug through for unknown reasons.
It would be fine if these were just because the map of the Perrin Mine was special, but these things were related to the great magician who disappeared inexplicably and was looking for the "purple-haired adventurer".
The Grand Mage has been missing for so long, it's a miracle that the Perrin Mine has remained safe and sound until now.
"What's so complicated?" Guan Hongyan came over, followed by Su Hao. "We just counted the number of people. There are more than 70 miners in Alterac after they disappeared. We can't get away with so many old people here, so the driver of the Perrin Mine plans to take them out first.
"The driver you are talking about is... Enoch's creditor?" Yun Guang hesitated.
"Yes," Guan Hongyan shook her hair, "Isn't he the driver of the alchemical carriage?"
That's not wrong, after all, no one remembers his name.
"The driver and his friend have to go up first," Su Hao continued, "and those two players have to leave too. I guess they have to log off because it's time to sleep."
"Lu Changfeng, a shadow puppet from Zhaoying, and Su Hao also went with them to prevent the Perrin Mine from defaulting on its debt. By the way, they also split up with us to check where all the magic sand has been transported over the years," Guan Hongyan pointed behind her with her chin, "I wish you a happy marriage. That guy also wanted to go with them, but was threatened by Hector."
"Hector would threaten people?" Bai Jinshu was puzzled.
What can Hector threaten Enoch with?
Enoch is now wearing women's clothes, cat ears, and no longer has a face. What threat can he pose?
"He said that if no one accompanies him in wearing women's clothes in the fairy territory, he would spread the news and pictures of him wearing a maid outfit with cat ears and a cat tail at a cost of over a hundred yuan all over the continent." Guan Hongyan was silent for a moment.
"How did it spread?" Bai Jinshu looked up.
When did Hector become so powerful?
"Go to the Adventurer's Guild to publish the commission, and let all adventurers travel around the continent with this news," Guan Hongyan said sincerely, "Dermis, your apprentice seems to be broken. How did you teach him?"
Hector wasn't like this just a few days ago!
When did he become so horrible?
"It's you who forced him to wear women's clothes..." Bai Jinshu was speechless.
"You didn't stop him either," Guan Hongyan said confidently. "Besides, he learned four spells in the time it took him to wear a cake skirt! Isn't that much faster than you teaching him in person? You also approve of this high-speed teaching method! You even said you would give it to your apprentice in the Mage Tower when you get back."
"Hongyan," Yun Guang interrupted, "Let's talk about the miners first."
How come the topic turned to Hector?
"Oh, right, miners," Guan Hongyan quickly changed the subject and pointed at the miners who were about to leave. "Anyway, everyone who should leave is ready to leave now. Yun Guang told you that the first miner is missing. The mine we came in from has been abandoned for a long time. Now we have to find where the first lost miner went."
Yun Guang nodded and repeated to her what he and Bai Jinshu had just discussed.
The Perrin Mines are related to the Grand Magister, and the other party may have known the entrance to Alterac for a long time.
Regardless of what role this great magician played in the Perrin Mines, now that he has been missing for a long time, the dug-up mines and the disappearance of miners seem to have nothing to do with him.
The first missing miner was said to be an old employee of the Perrin Mine, nearly forty years old. He had been working here before the Perrin Mine was bought by the Grand Mage and was a native local.
But according to his co-workers, he doesn't know magic, has never been exposed to spells, and even rarely interacts with adventurers. He has lived here since he was a child and has never left this area, so it is impossible for him to know the relationship between the abandoned mine and Alterac.
For these ordinary people, and not just ordinary people, but also for wizards who have never been exposed to alchemy, the magic sand from the Perrin Mine is just an ordinary sand, nothing special about it.
So did the first missing miner know that the abandoned mine was special or not?
How did he get through this passage and accidentally enter Alterac?
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