Outside the mine, there are wind and rain. In the mine, darkness entrenches.

The sound of rain came into the corridor of the mine through the barriers of the rocks and roaring thunder, adding a bit of chill to the gloomy mine. The mine seemed to have another exit, and the strong wind swept into the other end, emitting a ghostly low slogan.

The light provided by the mine lamp in Curt's hand was not enough to illuminate the entire mine track, but only allowed the three of them to see clearly the scene in the direction of their journey. The darkness outside the line of sight was particularly clear in the meager light, and they were piled up in the corners to avoid the glimmer of the mine lamp.

There are many traces of the past in the abandoned mines. The things stored in the wooden boxes that were still in time to be moved have already decayed, and they have become a warm home for spiders or other small insects. The simple tracks used to transport minerals still retain an almost complete structure, but the mine cart is missing.

Walking slowly forward, Curt began to briefly introduce the background of the Coria mine to Oscar - of course, this was just a piece of cake that he barely put together with small news he heard about.

In the past, when Coria Mine was still supplying Katris with a large amount of high-quality iron ore dug from its internal sources, this mine was quite famous in the eyes of the Katris people. However, they prefer to call it "Iron Blood Mine" more than the regular name here.

Because Prince Coria, the owner of the mine who started the mine, was a complete villain. He used various methods to squeeze the workers in the mine, and sometimes used violence to force them to carry out high-intensity and high-risk mining operations. Their lives were even worse than those of slaves in the New World Manor.

Some people commented on this mine: what flows in the Coria mine is not the iron ore produced in the mine veins, but the tragic blood and tears of the workers.

So three years ago, the anger of the oppressed workers finally broke out, and dozens of angry workers killed the mine owner Coria with their mining tools.

Curt was not very clear about the subsequent events. It is said that he had also undergone various trials or investigations. It seems that due to the pressure from all parties, this incident even became the fuse for the exposure of many ulterior motives. In short, in the end, the mine was forced to close.

"I remember that's almost like this. After all, this happened before I came here. I can't tell me the cause and effect." Curt said while turning on the mine lamp and leading the way, "But it's really the same as those scholars said, here is almost turning into a mushroom hole."

Since entering the mine track, they have noticed that there are obviously too many mushrooms growing here. Looking around, there are various mushrooms growing everywhere.

"Liqi, are you looking for that kind of shimmer mushroom?"

Curt pointed to the wall of the tunnel not far away and said, where there were several mushrooms emitting light green light, like ghosts' eyes.

These mushrooms emit a soft glimmer, flashing in the dark tunnel. The cold lights are not strong, and the light they provide is not as bright as the candlelight in the wind. In the darkness of the cave where you can't see your fingers, not to mention the words in the book, even the figures on the opposite side cannot easily distinguish them.

This is the most common "Green" of glitter mushrooms. If the others are classified according to their light, they can be roughly divided into dozens of types. These ordinary glitter mushrooms are not toxic and can be eaten or used to extract a fluorescent paint. If they are slightly mixed with other materials, they can also be made into special agents.

"Not this, what I want is the kind of purple light." Liqi shook her head, "But there are so many mushrooms here, maybe there may be some deeper places."

Purple light glow mushroom?

Oscar was a little confused. In his impression, he had seen the medicinal value of various glimmer mushrooms in the herbal illustrations, but he couldn't remember what the purple glimmer mushroom could be used for. He only remembers that the book said that this mushroom is a very rare subspecies.

Oscar sees Liqi's appearance, her age should be similar to that of herself. This should be the age to study in school, but Oscar can confirm that Liqi has definitely not been enrolled in the academy. Thinking of the spell ability Liqi showed when she was hiding from the ghost bat at that time, he did not think that Liqi's qualifications could not enter the academy.

There is also the ability that Curt showed, as an iron-level mercenary, he was really a bit in awesome. But he seemed to be completely unwilling to care about it, and just lived his own casual life carelessly.

Shaking his head, Oscar really became increasingly confused about these two siblings.

As Curt turned a corner, he walked down the second underground passage of the mine along the downward stairs. The scenery in front of him suddenly made Oscar's thinking ability temporarily disconnected.

Wherever you see, it is like a starry night sky.

Clusters of glimmer mushrooms poked their heads out of the rock walls, and the soft umbrellas gently radiated with faint fluorescence. These fungi that shone with various colors poked their heads out from all corners of the mine pit. As long as there were traces of soil, there were traces of these luminescent fungi.

Under the shimmering mushroom community that was rising everywhere, the entire mine was clearly illuminated by various cold lights. Oscar, who had previously despised their light as a candle in the wind, completely understood what violence was formed by pure quantity accumulation when the quality was not enough.

Walking at the end of the team, he rubbed his eyes in disbelief, trying to see if he was dazzled. As a mage apprentice, he had seen many extraordinary things in his studies, but the scene that appeared before him this time still made him feel unbelievable from the bottom of his heart.

"It's really exaggerating. It's not that it makes sense for too long since no one comes." Curt raised his eyebrows, as if he was expressing himself as if he was surprised. "When those bookmakers said that mushrooms grew wildly, I thought it was the level upstairs... It seems that this is the so-called crazy growth."

While he was speaking, he had already put out the mine lamp he was carrying and put it back into his bag. The lighting provided by these mushrooms was enough, but the lighting provided by the mine lamp in his hand seemed insignificant. In the sea of ​​mushrooms with cold light, it was no longer necessary to continue working.

“So many!”

Liqi sighed. She looked up at the mushrooms on the cave wall, and carefully searched each cluster of mushroom-growing cave walls, trying to find the target she was searching for. However, after discovering that there was no such "fluorescent mushrooms that emitted purple light" that she needed, she obviously lost interest in them.

She complained about walking through the mushroom-covered land to Curt and said to him: "There is no here, it's simply too many and useless. It seems that she has to go a little deeper."

This place is nominally an old mine, but it no longer looks like a mine. The mine tunnels dug in the cave have now fallen into their territory under the continuous attacks of mushroom communities. And in the kingdom of mushrooms, there is a road clearly opened by the invaders extending forward.

This road is not wide, and Curt compared it with the footprints left before with some confusion. It is certainly the one that was pioneered when the Books Team was measured, and the surrounding mushrooms had traces of being collected. He was surprised to find that the road opened not long ago has grown mushrooms again.

On the rock walls, he also found some traces that seemed to be scratching the claws. These traces were very new, like those left not long ago. If the information reported by the members of the Books Team was not retained, then this should be left by the creatures they called "unconfirmed monsters".

Following this path opened by the predecessors, the three of them walked carefully in the tunnel. Every time they took a step, they were wary of the safety of the place where they were settled. Because not only were the rock walls covered with shimmer mushrooms, there were clusters of strange-shaped clusters of mushrooms on the ground. Compared with the harmless shimmer mushrooms of humans and animals, the safety of these guys is a bit doubtful.

"Be careful at your feet!"

Sure enough, before taking a few steps, Liqi, who was standing at the end of the team, saw a bunch of dangerous things at the place where Oscar was about to take the next step, and hurriedly reminded him. Oscar was startled by Liqi's sudden reminder. In desperation, he had to quickly adjust his forward posture so that his feet could land in another place.

He stabilized his body's center of gravity and looked back at the place where he should have been the place where he was the place. A small cluster of round-shaped mushrooms grew in height. Looking closely, their bottoms were actually connected together, like small walls, and the umbrella-shaped part at the apex seemed to be soaked in blood from somewhere, showing a strange bright red.

"Hu——" Oscar, who was relieved, breathed a sigh of relief, but when he realized what the group of mushrooms that were still pitiful, he couldn't help but sweat, "It was actually a blood-stained crown... Why does this place even have such dangerous poisonous mushrooms growing?"

The botanical knowledge learned on weekdays reminded him that these mushrooms are extremely dangerous. Usually, their appearance is harmless Xiaoxiao mushrooms. But if someone accidentally destroys their umbrella, they will burst out with strong toxic spore mist that can easily kill nearby humans.

"Be careful when walking, you're walking, there are traps everywhere." Looking at Oscar with disgust, Liqi didn't know whether it was a kind reminder or just worried about her brother's safety. "If the first task was explained to my life because of this little thing, Curt, who was responsible for leading you, would be very troublesome."

Oscar turned around and noticed that she was walking casually, her steps lightly and quite cleverly through the cracks where mushrooms did not grow.

Is this the gap in experience?

Oscar, who was hard to defend, lowered his head: "I'm sorry."

Indeed, if you really cause trouble accidentally, the group may have to explain it here, which is absolutely unforgivable in the team's actions. No, when it comes to that kind of time, there is no question of forgiveness or not. You can be sure that you will become a shame in the company.

Liqi didn't care at all, but just walked behind him and urged him to stop and act faster: "No need to be sorry, you'd better leave quickly, just be careful."

Oscar suddenly felt that although the girl in front of him looked quite inconspicuous - she was even much shorter than him - he had already been suppressed in his momentum, so he had to repeatedly respond "Yes, yes, yes..." and at the same time speeding up his progress.
Chapter completed!