Very strange.

Curt quietly led Oscar and Liqi on the mountain road leading to the Coria Mine, and recalled what he had met halfway. It had been almost half an hour since the time when the ghost bat encountered it, but the suspicion that lingered in his heart widened a lot.

The forest tonight gave Curt a strange feeling, which made him feel very uncomfortable. It was a subtle sense of restlessness, as if something incompatible with their essence appeared in this forest, forcing the forest to nervously send out a series of unprecedented commotion.

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The wind blew, and the panic-crowed crows sounded from the mountains in the distance, and the clouds were stacked, squeezing over at an extremely fast speed. The already hazy moonlight was further covered. The flashing light in the sky was showing that it would not take long, and a violent storm was about to hit.

Now we must speed up our pace, and Curt looks at the direction of the storm from afar. The mountain roads in the night are quite dangerous, which is common sense that every mercenary keeps in mind. And if you want to rush to the night in the mountains and forests that are raging storms, this behavior is no different from actively going to danger.

Curt had already planned the route before setting up the plan. With the information accumulated over the years, he was confident that he could arrange a route that could avoid most of the risks. It turned out that he was right, and the initial situation was indeed as unchanged as planned.

It is natural to suddenly encounter wild monsters to come out for food at night. After all, these photophobic creatures use underground caves as their home during the day, and will appear near the berries bushes to collect food at night. Such variables are at most just a slow pace.

But strangely, the sudden appearance of the ghost bat is quite rare, which is a nocturnal creature with the monster. The latest sighting was half a year ago, several hunters found the dead ghost bat's corpse near the deep mountain valley east of Katris, which caused a small sensation at that time.

The degree of rarity matches the level of danger of this monster. In the records of the Royal Bookstore, this monster is even about to enter the level of "specified natural disasters" - it is a monster whose "legendary" is completely invincible, and whose existence is simply comparable to the active natural disasters.

Curt knew that this record was not exaggerated because he had seen the power of the ghost bat once in the past.

It was a temporary hunting mission, with the goal of "eliminating or driving away a ghost bat that appeared in the log log log log land as much as possible." The Mercenary Management Office even emphasized that "driving as much as possible, retreating if it doesn't work, and saving your life is the key", which shows how dangerous this monster is.

No one knows whether the lumberjacks got involved with this monster or that it was just passing by the logging site. But when the mercenaries and the guards arrived at the mission site together, there were only corpses left in the devastated camp, and the ghost bats, as prisoners, had returned to the darkness at some point.

Their existence can be said to be fatal to most living creatures. The black mist coiled around them is actually a highly toxic gas with a high concentration. As long as the gas is slightly inhaled, this "self-defense tool" with excessive lethality will cause most living creatures to lose their breathing ability in just a few seconds.

Fortunately, these destructive monsters are timid and cowardly. They are extremely afraid of the hustle and bustle and light that exists with human cities. In other words, they are simply impossible to appear in the forest so close to downtown Katris.

This is a very strange phenomenon. Curt felt that it was necessary to report it to the management office after completing the task. He vaguely felt that this matter was unusual and might be very involved.

He was shocked to realize that he subconsciously accelerated his progress while thinking. Curt was afraid that Oscar would protest against his running too fast, so he quickly turned around and looked back at the situation behind.

Curt couldn't help but sigh. Sure enough, it was too much for the sorcerer apprentice who was not used to physical exercise to participate in the field mission so quickly. He stopped and asked Oscar, who was still struggling to continue moving forward: "Oscar, can you still keep up?"

"He hasn't fallen down yet, but it's almost too." Liqi raised her brow on her left, then looked at Oscar in anger and said, "But, Curt, with his physical strength, he still wants to be a mercenary, is it okay? For everyone's good, you still tell my elder sister that he hasn't passed."

She was still moving forward at a fixed speed, and her slightly frowning brows declared that she was a little unhappy. Because of the storm that was about to sweep, all the Flame Demon Butterflies that were originally planning to capture nearby hid. As a result, Li Qi had to cancel the plan.

Oscar, who was next to Liqi, seemed to be fighting for a breath. He suddenly wiped away the long-established sweat beads on his forehead and said loudly: "I, I think I can hold on for a while. Mr. Curt, please don't care about me, continue to fry the front of the destination!"

When talking about the last few words, he was a little confused. With such a state, he probably wouldn't be able to lose his temper or something again. This stubborn boy was sweating and blushing. If it weren't for his willpower to refuse, he could barely follow his current position.

Curt originally wanted to tell Oscar that it was good to have ambition, but he was exhausted before he reached the destination and had no meaning at all. But after thinking for a while, he decided not to tell him anymore. He just slowed down his pace of progress slightly.

"arrive."

Finally, after some trouble, the three of them finally arrived at the workplace. As the leader turned over a series of continuous gentle hills, his vision suddenly became wider, and a section of artificially built road was revealed in front of the visitors. The weeds that grew to the road seemed to declare that this place had been abandoned for a long time.

Walking along the weed path for a while, an abandoned building complex surrounded by wooden fences entered the field of view of several people. Most of the fences had collapsed in the wind and rain in recent years, revealing all the interior, and it had no effect of defense and blocking.

After stepping into the complex through the gap that fell from the fence, Oscar's eyes saw all the low sheds. These wall panels tied with simple wooden blocks and ropes shivered in the increasingly strong gust of wind, making a rattle, like a wailing death.

I don’t know how long it took to take care of it, but when I looked in through the dilapidated window, the shed looked gray. It can be seen that when the people were evacuating, they also took away all their daily necessities, so the shed only had a lonely frame and nothing else.

Rumble!

The dazzling flash fell in the distance, followed by a thunder that resounded through the heaven and earth. With the fleeting light in that moment, Oscar saw a slowly rising ramp slightly further ahead, leading to the black-scared mine cave - it was like a dead dog sticking out his tongue.

Oscar had a feeling that this place was not a mine, but rather a grave, burying many forgotten things. As Curt said at the time, this place had been abandoned for a long time, and the once-heavy mining area now has a decayed and stale atmosphere.

There was no sign of anyone coming along the way, but when I arrived at the gate of the mine, Oscar noticed that the lock, which was as big as a fist, was obviously newly replaced. This large lock did not have the lock hole that I usually remember, but was replaced by a wonderful groove. The large lock tightly locked the cast iron door leading to the inside of the mine, and it was matched with the rusted door, which seemed quite inconsistent.

"This mine has been blocked, so no one has come for a long time." Curt stroked the door lock, and then took out a sphere of the same color as the lock. "Recently, those people from the Books Team have come here to investigate. The door lock was replaced by them."

Curt fiddled with the ball for a moment, pinched out a page that looked like an open book, and then embedded it into the groove on the door lock. After the strange thing was embedded in the door lock, the huge door lock made a "ding-ding-dang" sound, but it was opened in a moment.

"This is a specially made model password lock for the Books and Scholars. It is said that it cannot be opened without a corresponding model sphere." Pushing open the heavy cast iron gate, Curt explained, "They said that such a password lock was used to prevent the guy without a key from entering the mining area easily."

It was similar to a stale work shed, and the inside of the mine was already in decline. However, there were a series of footprints back and forth on the deposited dust, telling Curt and the others that a group of people had entered and exited the mine not long ago - they were undoubtedly the Bookman team who came to investigate.

Click!

Another thunder roared, and this time it seemed to be extremely close to the score, which made Liqi, who had always been very calm, tremble slightly. After a while, the raindrops as big as beans launched a crazy charge towards the earth. The strong wind carried the heavy rain, wrapped the world.

After entering the mine, Ke Te lit a mine lamp and took out a small map from his bag and scanned it: "The task we are here this time is not just to collect, but also to check the conditions inside the tunnel and record it and inform the Administration."

Then he said to the two behind him: "The terrain inside the mine is very complicated. If you get lost, you may be trapped in it. So follow me closely after you get inside the mine."

"I understand."

Oscar nodded. He finally eased his exhausted state and was now moving forward, which really made him unable to bear it. However, he also knew that such actions after becoming a mercenary were common and he had to grow up as soon as possible.

Looking at the Oscar who was trying hard to make him excited, Ke Te nodded - this young man gave him a good feeling. Maybe he is not the best, maybe it is strange that a magician apprentice wants to become a mercenary, but he is proving himself with his perseverance.

Pushing the mine lamp into the dark mine pit, a series of new footprints pointed out the direction for the three people who were about to step into it.
Chapter completed!