“This is the entrance.”

After a little rest and recovering, Knight Byron, who had recovered a little strength, brought Gao Wen and his party to the woods near the Goring Mill, and found the entrance and exit of the tunnel under a raised earth slope. The entrance and exit of the tunnel were not big, hidden between the stones and the tree roots at the root of the earth slope, and the outside was covered with vines and fallen leaves. If it weren't for the guidance of Knight Byron, anyone who passed by here would subconsciously ignore it.

When Byron left the tunnel, he destroyed some of the plants covered on the entrance. Although he did some re-covering work after that, he could still see traces of people entering and leaving here. Pittman squatted down in front of the entrance, observed the situation inside and judged: "This place should not be an exit. It was mostly earthquakes or the roots of giant trees that stretched open the cracks to connect the cave with the tunnel below."

While talking, the old man smiled and said casually: "There are really a lot of things buried underground in the south."

Gao Wen suddenly felt that the old boy had something in his words: "You have included me too!"

Pitman laughed dryly, then took out a small magic crystal from his arms. He injected magic power slightly to make it emit a bright and constant light, and then threw it into the hole to make a "you go first" gesture: "This is the time for you to take action."

Gao Wen shrugged and stopped the Philip Knight who was originally the first to go down, and jumped down first.

He felt like he was stepping on a layer of soft and wet rotten leaves and branches, surrounded by narrow and narrow earth and stone space, and the light emitted by the magic crystals falling on the ground illuminated the surroundings, allowing him to see the situation deeper: ahead was a winding and downward slope, with no traces of artificial processing, and more like the old druid said, it was connected to the deeper artificial tunnel due to natural factors.

He picked up the magic crystal, shook it twice to indicate that it was safe below, and then took the lead and walked forward.

After a moment, the amber breath followed. After the half-elf thief entered this underground space, she was obviously like a fish in water. While she was happily turning the baby dagger in her hand, she looked around curiously: "This place is always extending downward."

"If it were the 'battle tunnels' dug out back then, it would have to be very deep," Gao Wen said casually, "After all, there is often a scent of demonic tide leaking on the surface. If you don't dig a little deeper, people who take shelter in the tunnel will be easily infringed."

The inclined downward passage continued for a short period of time, and the surroundings began to become wide and dry. Gao Wen noticed that the soil and natural gravel on both sides of the passage were gradually decreasing, replaced by artificially processed support beams, stone bricks, and solid walls treated with soil element spells. Continue to move forward, the ground also becomes straight and no longer tilts downward.

Looking at the scene around him, Gao Wen's brows gradually frowned.

Amber also discovered something unusual. She stopped fiddling with the dagger and ran to a nearby wall to carefully observe the material of the latter and the patterns on the wall. Then she ran back to Gao Wen in surprise: "No... the style of this place is different from the authenticity we walked when we ran out of your tomb..."

"Yes, different. These are not the underground fortifications in the South that I presided over the construction," Gao Wen raised the magic crystal to illuminate the surrounding walls and ground. "No wonder... Knight Byron mentioned that there was an underground passage underground in Tanzan Town. I was surprised because there was no development plan in this area at that time, even if I died for a long time... Who would build an authentic tunnel here..."

Amber frowned: "If you look closely, it's a bit like the ruins in the dark mountains?"

Gao Wen finally realized the vague sense of familiarity in his memory.

The architectural style and material of this underground passage are very close to the giant ruins in the dark mountains!

The Byron Knight himself was also very surprised. He looked around carefully and was surprised: "It really... it looks very similar. I was so dizzy that I was cursed and couldn't see it at all!"

"The underground facilities left by the Spark Age are actually here..." Gao Wen's heart was ups and downs for a moment, "So the ruins in the dark mountains are just part of a large group of relics? Or..."

A bolder thought came to his mind: Could it be that the fortress buried in the dark mountains are connected to the underground passages of this place?!

These ancient passages cross a large tract of land on the north side of the mountain range, cross the Baishui River and the Shanbei forest area, completely continuous and scattered?!

However, Gao Wen's bold speculation did not last long. He quickly shook his head and thought that these ideas were unlikely: Even if the Gondor Empire was extremely powerful back then, its productivity was limited. Not only was it far away from the Dark Mountains, but there were also complex terrain such as mountain rivers in the middle. How easy was it to build a cluster of facilities of such a large scale underground?

Although to be honest, if the Gondor Empire was determined to rush through this land, it would not be impossible to build such an "underground city-state" underground near the Dark Mountains, but Gao Wen couldn't figure out what was worthy of their crazy investment, and it was a secret project to invest so much. The people in Gondor and people from later generations were completely unaware of this...

Could it be... it is related to the human experiments mentioned by Nicholas Egg and the so-called "demon evil"?

"Hey, hey, what are you thinking?" Gao Wen's thoughts were interrupted by the sudden sound in his ears. When he came to his senses, he saw Amber stretching out his claws and shaking hard in front of his eyes. The half-elf-like lady's face also came over, "You are distracted in this situation?"

"No, nothing," Gao Wen quickly calmed down and put all the guesses aside for the time being: Now is not the time to think about them. "Judgement from the location, we should have already reached directly below the bed of Baishui River."

"Really?" Amber looked up in disbelief. The "stone" arch above was dry and stable, without any drops of water, and could not hear the slightest sound of the river flowing. "My God...then this place is really deep enough. How could those people open such a tunnel under the riverbed..."

"I'm even more curious about how he can accurately determine his position in this situation." Pittman secretly looked at Gao Wen and muttered.

Amber's ears shook and opened his mouth, "I still need to ask, I've been buried underground for more than 700 years, so I'm professional...ah, it hurts!"

Gao Wen twisted Amber's ears around, then ignored the guy and signaled that the Byron Knight to continue leading the way.

At the same time, he looked at the team he led, and his heart suddenly felt a little cold.

An elf thief who is ashamed of everything, a druid who is good at making soup and selling fake medicines, and an old fried dough stick knight who can say that he is so righteous about running away. There are three of the five people in the team who are incorrect in style. It seems that in addition to being able to stabilize morale with a national face, the Philip Knight who follows the side with a serious and silent look on his face and opens the way may be the only conscience of the entire Cecil Operation Team...

He was thinking about it when he saw the Philip Knight suddenly turned his head and asked Byron seriously: "By the way, Byron, is the 'Justice retreat' you mentioned before a knight skill that I don't know?"

Everyone: "…"

Gao Wen sighed in his heart: It’s rare to be a good guy, but he still has a passive supporting role…

As we got closer and closer to the area of ​​Tanzan town, everyone gradually stopped chatting.

Based on the cheating memory map and terrain pre-reading ability, Gao Wen was able to roughly determine his current location. He found that this long underground passage was not straight, and there were many detours and forks in the middle that ignored those collapsed or wrong routes, and he found that he had walked half a circle around the eastern part of Tanzan Town.

This is located just below the Tanzanite Mine.

I have already mentioned the terrain of Tanzan town: it is backed by the huge Tanzan mine on the east side, and on the west side are two tributaries of the Baishui River. The whole town is roughly triangular, and Viscount Andrew's castle is located in the east of the town, connecting the gentle part of the Tanzanite mine. In fact, the main building materials of the castle itself are mined from the mine: the mine not only produces iron ore and a variety of crystal mines, but also produces high-quality stone. It is not unreasonable that the Leslie family, who owns this land, has enviable wealth.

At this moment, Gao Wen was walking in the ancient tunnel directly below the mine, and the first thought that came to his mind was: Does Viscount Andrew know the existence of these underground relics?

...He probably didn't know that, because the iron ore and crystal mines in the Tanzanite mine were not deep veins, but were located in the mountain. There was no need to dig deep into the underground. With the productivity of this era, digging deep into the underground without any need is not a joke. No one would do such a thankless thing. And if Viscount Andrew really dug out this ancient ruin... there would be no news outside.

As the largest population gathering place and business and travel distribution center nearby, Tanzan Town is not a place that can keep secrets, but it is different from the dark mountains where birds do not shit.

The terrain ahead began to rise.

The air became wet, and a clear airflow was felt on the skin, and a faint sound came from the front, indicating that the exit was approaching.

Not long afterwards, they walked out of the tunnel and saw the location when the Byron Knight fell down: this was an open and steep cave, with a pool of water from the bottom of the cave, and the exit of the tunnel was located on the edge of the pool. It was said to be an exit, but it was actually a cracked rock crack. Obviously, it was not a normal entrance, but it was cracked like this due to geological changes.

The real entrance and exit of the tunnel is unknown, and most of them have collapsed.

Seeing that there were no serious signs of water-soluble wind erosion in the rock cracks beside the pool, Gao Wen couldn't help but turn his head and ask Philip: "Have there been earthquakes in this area in recent years?"

"No," Knight Philip shook his head, then frowned, "but I heard people living in Tanzania say that they occasionally hear strange sounds like howling from the underground of the mine. The locals said that it was the undead of slave workers who died in the mine. However, Viscount Andrew had checked the psychic and wizard several times, but he did not find the source of the strange sound."

"Is that..." Gao Wen said without any objection, then looked up at the top of the cave.

There were vines everywhere, and huge roots of trees could be seen spreading out from the side. I guess the hole was once covered and hidden, but now it was hit by a big hole: Knight Byron was so lucky, and he should really thank the goddess of fate when he survived.

If there was such a god in this world.

"From here you can see the east wall of the castle," Byron said, "but the hole is almost straight and full of soft soil, so it is not easy to go up."

"It depends on the professional now!" Pitman walked up to him at this time, and the old man smiled, then took out a tender green branch from his arms. He waved the branch like a magic wand, constantly outlining runes in the air, and the branch itself seemed to have lost its vitality, quickly turning from the vibrant tender green to withered and shriveled.
Chapter completed!