Compared with the first floor where the road is relatively simple, the road on the second floor is obviously much more complicated.

Round after round of monotony, roads without ups and downs, and overly hidden forks... These are just deliberately arranged to make people get lost inside the tunnel. Oscars would doubt whether the miners who dug the road were preparing to dig a maze from the bottom of their hearts.

If Curt had not looked at the map with the shimmer light scattered by the mushrooms on the wall and guided the direction of his progress, the three of them would have been able to move forward by the paths opened by the Books Team that were almost occupied by the mushrooms again. This was really unbearable.

But no matter how much I complain, this is already a thing of the past. I don’t know how long it took, but the three of them finally walked through the mining area. Although they did not find the night-melting mushrooms needed for the mission in the mine, Liqi finally found the kind of shimmer mushrooms she needed at the end of the last short section of the road.

Oscar looked at Liqi who was getting better, and felt that the feeling of pressure that had been radiating from her small body had been slightly relieved. Although her gloomy face was as always, when she carefully observed the material of her hand, her unshakable expression softened a little.

Maybe this is a good start, right? Oscar thought so.

Oscar originally wanted to communicate with Liqi for a while while she was in a better mood, but this opportunity disappeared in a flash. In front of a corridor blocked by an iron door that had not yet been completely rusted, Curt greeted him slightly: "Come on, come here. We're going here next."

Taking advantage of the faint light and looking carefully, you can see that the fence on the iron door is covered with rust, which is obviously not maintained for a long time. The paint specially marked on the door has peeled off, but the line of "No entry" can barely show the outline.

What is particularly unpredictable is that there are many new traces of damage on this gate. A large part of the fences were broken, and a clear break was also exposed at the connection at the edge of the gate. The remaining traces of damage nearby undoubtedly prove that the door had been violently damaged.

If nothing unexpected happens, the scattered traces of monster activity found in the cave before should all be based on this point. The monsters destroyed the isolation door and invaded the inside of the mining area. After that, they rage everywhere in the mining area, leaving evidence of their visit here.

Looking at the twisted traces on the gate and the prohibited signs, Oscar felt a little worried about the ability to destroy the cast iron gate and invade the tunnel. These monsters had a considerable power. He asked Curt with doubt: "Here? Are you saying we are going in?"

"Ah, yes. We're going to go in - to be precise, we've got to go in." Curt confirmed Oscar's doubts and emphasized the purpose of the mission, "The gate was repaired by the Books. Another purpose of our visit here is to try to collect information about the culprits."

A thing hanging on it is similar to the door lock on the outside of the mine pit.

Looking back now, Oscar was dissatisfied with the quest being too simple, but now he is backing off. He couldn't think of any reason to refute the reason for continuing the quest - since this is a need for the quest, he must act.

So he clenched his fists and said to Curt, "I understand, let's continue to act."

Scream-

The iron door that was barely repaired by the members of the Books Team was shaking and seemed extremely unsafe. When Curt untie the door locks connected to several chains for maintaining stability, it suddenly opened in a terrifying friction sound, as if it was a sigh of death.

A corridor is connected behind the crooked iron door. The corridor is very wide, but the height is only Rong Liqi passing by. Curt and Oscar have to squat down to pass. Walking in the corridor, you can vaguely hear the sound of "rattle" water coming from the other end of the passage.

After a lot of effort wasted, the three of them passed through the corridor. Suddenly, an open space appeared in front of the three of them. This was a huge cave. The shimmer mushroom community that seemed like a star map was rare to see, but compared with the scenery presented at this time, it would be insignificant.

Only then did they realize that the storm had passed, and the night sky washed by the storm seemed extremely clean. The dark clouds dissipated, and the stars seemed extremely thin under the clear light of the white moon. After a moment of looking, the situation of the cave was also taken into consideration. If it weren't for witnessing it with your own eyes, no one might have thought of such a scene.

The cave is not completely closed. It is probably because of geological movements. Some of the mountains in the distance have collapsed, and the Qingming moonlight shot into the crack, illuminating the environment inside the cave. The vast space in the cave has fallen, leaving only the island in the center of the lake surrounded by an underground lake.

The corridor that the three of them had just walked out directly to a high cliff in front of them. A little closer, a downward fork was a slope leading directly to the lakeside of the underground. After walking down the slope, you can walk directly to the island in the middle of the lake along several intermittent shallows.

The area of ​​the lake center island is not large, at most it is the size of an ordinary small garden, but thick sand and soil have been deposited on the ground.

Perhaps it is thanks to the huge gap that birds or other flying beasts can enter and exit freely, and their interactions have also brought seeds of various plants. Looking around, many trees that can be seen everywhere in the outside world are naturally distributed without planning. They grow in a mess with vines and mushrooms that should be native plants in the cave, making the scenery of the island in the middle of the lake look like a botanical garden.

Looking up, you can see several majestic natural bridges rising above the abyss under the moonlight, connecting a more distant broken platform, extending to the end of the line of sight, the other end of the darkness. It seems that there are several forked holes in the distance that cannot be seen clearly, and I don’t know where to lead.

On the right side, where the moonlight shines, a waterfall flows down from the invisible hole above. The rushing water splashes like flowing silver belts under the moonlight, pouring into the underground lake. The splashing water splashes form waves of mist, which directly hit the faces of the visiting three people.

It was almost a dark cliff, and you could barely see many plants poking out from the remaining soil on the bedrock, and they kept swaying with the night wind pouring in from the cracks. And in the underground lake surrounded by the rocks, the illusionary flowing light that shone from time to time was no less than the bright moon in the sky.

Strong and powerful.

This is simply a holy place that is independent of the world. Although there are many places inside the cave that cannot be illuminated by the moonlight, those areas that seem particularly dark do not cause any fear, but only makes the space reflected by the water-like moonlight appear extremely holy.

I really didn't expect that there would be such an amazing structure in the place where I originally planned to pick mushrooms. This is a scenery that is difficult to describe in words. Oscar even didn't know what language should be used to express his thoughts on the scenery carved out by this geological wonder.

Now he was speechless and could only stare at the scenery in front of him in a daze.

"How is it, it's amazing?"

Just as Oscar was watching this inexplicably touching scene, Curt disturbed his interest, but he was not talking to Oscar, but asking Liqi who was standing beside him.

“It’s indeed a rare sight.”

Liqi let out a breath and narrowed her eyes and told Curt that she was satisfied.

Oscar, who was suddenly pulled out of surprise, jumped first and then stammered: "What should I say... This is simply, well... a miraculous scene!"

"Please do you straighten your tongue and then talk." Liqi glanced at Oscar, who was trying hard to express her feelings, and was dancing. "Or are you now using magic tools to cast spells, so the daily courses for practicing spells have been cancelled?"

"I'm sorry, I've lost my composure."

Oscar, who was still excited, suddenly got blocked by Liqi from the side. His face, which was so excited that he was unable to control himself, became stiff and his high expression was restrained. After a while, he became a little disappointed, and it was obvious that he was quite hit.

However, he calmed down a little, then suddenly turned to Liqi and asked, "Uh, by the way. Another thing... Miss Liqi, what kind of 'songsing' course you just mentioned? Can you tell me what it is? I have never heard of such a course in the college in the past."

"Uh, what should I say...?"

Now it was Liqi's turn to be speechless. She kept glanced at Curt and signaled him to quickly get rid of the situation.

"Hahaha, Oscar, you don't have the strange nouns that Liliki said. She has never received formal education and her understanding of the college is all about popular novels. It's not surprising that any strange things come out. In general, this is not an important thing..."

Curt looked at Liqi's embarrassing expression and casually helped her smooth things over. After this counterattack, Oscar felt that he had finally won a goal in front of Liqi, and he slightly saved his face as a "regular magician apprentice". His face was a little proud, and he no longer pursued Liqi.

He looked at the lakeside of the underground, where there were many mushrooms of different sizes. Some of them were as big as a baby's fist, which looked quite eye-catching among the mushroom bushes. They were like clusters of lava, emitting a viscous flame under the moonlight.

Those are the main goals of this work - night melting mushrooms.

These mushrooms are named after their daytime lurking under the soil without leaving any traces. Only when night falls, they will produce umbrellas like dry lava. The sticky, fluid-like appearance and the mixed color of red and black that obviously flashes with "fire" are its main representative.

Tentacles have a burning sensation and are slightly toxic. They should not be eaten directly, otherwise they will have the same pain as burns all over their body, but they are not fatal. In medicine, they are generally used to create drugs to treat elemental diseases or mix other materials and slightly refine them as ingredients for alchemy potions.

Because this mushroom is extremely difficult to cultivate manually, it is also very expensive in related markets. Many farmers will collect it and resell it to buyers to subsidize their household expenses during the slack season. So he was quite surprised that mercenaries actually had to do this kind of work.

However, after actually participating in this operation, he felt that he understood the reason. At the same time, he also guessed that the reason why Curt chose such a long-distance operation was because it was quite dangerous to want to participate in a task that might be fighting with his current physical fitness. Now the only thing that made him feel a little worried. Curt took on the task of investigating the unconfirmed monster activity information that appeared in the mine when he didn't know. Now they have found many traces in the mine, but after coming to this area, the clues suddenly disappeared.

This is quite suspicious.
Chapter completed!