Chapter 42 Kelly's Adventure
"The ice wall on the east side here should have been the skylight of the furnace area!"
"Well, it looks quite similar. So, is the tunnel with all the connections above the furnace area a chimney?"
"Only part of it, right? Most of the others should be the passages inside the mountains for transporting ore."
Milleras and Qin Lun discussed in a low voice. In just over ten minutes, everyone had already investigated the furnace area. There were passages in front and behind the furnace area of this Iron Star Fort. Due to the huge area, after investigation, everyone discovered that the furnace area was actually an arc-shaped area.
Except for the twelve giant furnaces that have become fossils and the broken stone tablet, other artificial objects here have been greatly corroded by the wind and have long since disappeared from their original shape. No wonder the ground is covered with thick dust, and when you step on it gently, you will see a clear footprint.
The furnace area is filled with hazy light because of the ice wall suspected to be a skylight. However, the passage connecting it to the front and back is still dark. When you walk a little further, you can't see your fingers. This is also the main factor that everyone dares to leave this furnace area.
"Hey, this is..." After half an hour, the figure of Kelly finally appeared at the entrance of the tunnel where Qin Lun and others came out.
"So, is there a dwarf castle here?" Robin and Stark looked at each other in surprise. This was a really unexpected development.
"Qin Lun, this place is not safe. The tunnel we came in has traces left by a giant creature. Should we continue to explore?" Stark's voice was a little hesitant and asked softly in the team channel.
"What we apostles have to do is not dangerous!" Qin Lun replied with a smile, "What your fortress team lacks the most at present is the contribution points, and among the additional rewards given by world exploration, the contribution points are generally very rich.
Most of the giant creatures are at the top of the food chain, and they are generally not group creatures. Compared with the attacks from Santalin, aren’t the unknown giant creatures here easier to deal with? Moreover, there are tall people who are holding on to the sky when they fall. As long as this creature is not a smart creature, even if it reaches the legendary level, I believe that Kelly, a violent woman, can handle it."
"That's true. So, we should explore this Iron Star Fort?" Stark nodded.
"Relics, treasures, adventures..." Robin and Stark's two leaders of their respective forts had not yet reached the final conclusion. On the other hand, Kelly, who learned from Milleras, had jumped up like a child who had obtained his beloved toy, and his eyes turned into stars.
"I'll go if I can't go now!" Robin, who knew Kelly's temperament, realized in distress and covered his face.
"Ahem, you guys, have been mercenaries for so long, aren't you curious at all?" Kelly pretended to cough a few times, and gave her waist and scolded the apostles, "This is a ruin. Do you know the ruins? If there is treasure, aren't we mercenaries fighting for life and death for treasure?"
"If you can find some precious antique items here and get a lot of money, maybe you won't even need to hire a job. What a bullshit Elf Prince will do if he dies!" Kelly waved heroically like a female general who was commanding thousands of troops.
"Hey, can we still stand next to you?" Milleras and a few elf rangers were immediately covered in black.
The apostles heard it, and Kelly was right. Putting aside the world exploration, the dwarfs themselves are the best craftsmen. Although the items from thousands of years ago are extremely unlikely to be preserved, if you gain something, you will definitely not get anything.
"Go out, go out...Kelly's adventure, start now~~"
After a while, Kelly held a torch that had just been lit and walked proudly towards the dark passage to the right of the furnace area.
"Feral, why not choose the right side but the left side? Isn't there a stone tablet on the left?" Yilistin pulled Qin Lun's arm and asked softly.
"It's all the same, look at the terrain here!" Qin Lun patted the back of her hand and explained with a smile, "The entire furnace area is an arc-shaped area with channels on both sides, which seem to lead to different areas. However, if you think about it carefully, what would happen if the channels on both sides are still arc-shaped."
"You mean, this area is a circle, and the passages on both sides will eventually close together?" Yilistin's eyes lit up and he immediately thought of something.
"Well, it is certain that the passages on both sides will eventually gather together, but I don't know which section of the road will appear to other areas." Qin Lun nodded and looked at Kelly at the front of the team and showed a smile.
With Kelly's performance, Qin Lun found that she gradually gained a deeper understanding of the female martial artist. After the Fortress and Lost merged together, Kelly was a little silent and basically did not make any mistakes in the team's affairs. All of them were left to Robin to handle.
Qin Lun originally thought that Kelly was not good at leading the team, but now it seems that she is just lazy. Perhaps this is what she is now.
The torches in the team illuminated the passage in front of them red, and the elongated figures were shady in the dim passage, slowly raising a gloomy and terrifying atmosphere.
However, Qin Lun sensitively noticed that the plot elves such as Milleras and Ilistin were calm and did not feel uncomfortable at all. Then he thought about it, and he felt relieved. Whether it was the Comanso Forest or the Jondale Forest, it was the kind of forest that covered the sky and the sun. The elves might have been used to this dark and gloomy environment.
For them, perhaps this is just another rock forest.
The passage built by the Sannata dwarves thousands of years ago is still very well ventilated today. Although the passage is a bit cold, the air is dry, and it looks like a cellar that has been untouched for a long time.
The team was not moving fast, mainly because the distance that the torch could illuminate was limited. Everyone looked at the environment of the passage with curiosity. If it weren't for the fact that it had been proven to be the "Iron Star Fort" of Aogrand, then everyone would never believe that this passage was built by the dwarfs.
The reason is that this passage is too big. Perhaps even the Titan giant will feel a bit too spacious when standing in this passage.
The furnace area is more than 50 meters high and has an area of tens of thousands of square meters. It can also be said to be accommodating a giant furnace. However, this passage, which is more than 30 meters high and more than 20 meters wide, does not seem to be tailor-made for the dwarves.
The stone walls of the passage were not directly carved out in the belly of the mountain. From the regular wall gaps, it can be seen that the passage was all made of huge stones and had an extremely strong structure.
There was no decoration on the stone wall, and there was not even a single stone carving. The footsteps of everyone echoed in the darkness and extended towards the depths of the passage. Walking in this huge corridor that no one had passed for thousands of years, an ancient and vicissitudes of emotion slowly grew in the hearts of everyone.
"Hey, is there a fork here?" While everyone was immersed in this strange mood, Kelly in front of the team stopped.
At present, all the teams with only eighteen people left flocked to Kelly and looked forward curiously. Fortunately, the passage was so spacious that all eighteen people stood in one place, and it was not crowded at all.
There are three forks that are stumped by Kelly. In addition to the one that may have gathered from the left passage on the furnace area, there are two forks side by side.
On Kelly's left hand, a slightly narrower passage tilted downward, which seemed to lead to the ground. The other one on Kelly's right hand hovered upward at a thirty-degree angle, which seemed to lead to the top of the Iron Star Fort.
"Millerras, since you recognize this Iron Star Fort, you should have some understanding of it. Which passage do you think we will take!" Kelly turned his head and looked at the Sun Elf Prince and asked seriously.
"This..." Milleras frowned slightly. He had seen records about Iron Star Castle in the Comanso Elf Court, but these ancient books do not have a map of Dwarf Castle for inquiry.
"I suggest everyone walk the passage above!" At this moment, a clear voice came from the team.
"It's him!" Kelly looked back and saw Qin Lun nodding at her with a smile, and a hint of interest appeared in her eyes, "Your Highness Feral, can you tell me why?"
"Of course!" Qin Lun bowed slightly and said with a faint smile, "I once saw in an ancient book that the Alamir Mountains were an active volcano ten thousand years ago. The Iron Star Fort built by the dwarves used the earth fire here to forge ore.
Since this is the case, in order to make more efficient use of ground fire resources, the dwarf should build the furnace area on the bottom floor of the castle. The residential area and conference venue must be on the upper floor, and the furnace area can only be the smelted residue and waste area."
"Active Volcano?" Kelly turned to look at Robin.
"It should be true. The thieves in the group have investigated the giant furnaces. Although they were blocked inside, it is certain that there is a pipe directly below the furnace that reaches the ground, which may be the underground fire vein that the Moon Elf Prince said." Robin replied quickly in the Lost Team Channel.
"Yeah!" Kelly shrugged indifferently and took the lead in stepping into the upward extension passage.
"Sister Kelly, are there any problems?" Robin, who was very familiar with Kelly, suddenly asked in the team channel as he looked at her movements.
"It's very interesting! As soon as you say it, you can't even make a rebuttal idea, so you naturally believe his judgment." Kelly said in the team channel with a chuckling, "Robin, don't you think that His Highness Firal gives us a very familiar feeling?"
"Listen to what you said... Deputy Commander Morning Star?" Robin raised his beautiful willow eyebrows slightly.
"Hehe, by the way, it's that dead boy Chenxing!" Kelly's eyes flashed and she said lightly, "Of course, the Elf Prince of the Moon cannot be Chenxing this time. However, there seems to be someone who is very similar to him in my memory, but I can't remember it for a moment..."
Chapter completed!