The entrance of the valley where the dwarf camp is located is large and has a gourd shape. The walls of the northeastern direction of the valley are very steep, but to the west is a gentle slope, covered with coniferous trees.

There is a narrow and narrow crack in the innermost part of the valley. It is similar to the underground cave where Qin Lun and others set up a teleportation array when they were teleported from the Candle Fort to the North. It is full of original stalactites and stalagmites.

The shield dwarf intends to regain the outpost camp of the Secret Silver Hall and is now stationed in this cave.

The Miyin Hall is the most famous dwarf fortress in the north and even Feren. It once belonged to the glorious warhammer family, but now it is the nest of Shadow Dragon and Gray Dwarfs. The main part of this dwarf fortress is located in the belly of the ridge of the world. Some of the city's attached mining areas go deep into the dark area. The stone gate is located halfway up the ridge of the world, and only a narrow stone staircase mountain road leads there.

This position is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Without sufficient air force, it is almost impossible to break through the front door of the Miyin Hall. In this situation, the shield dwarves had to find another way. They planned to enter the dark area first and then capture the Miyin Hall from the originally abandoned underground mining area of ​​the Miyin Hall.

However, this method is also difficult to implement, that is, almost no one remembers the underground mining routes hundreds of years ago.

Hundreds of years ago, when the Secret Silver Hall was occupied by Shadow Dragon, the dwarf king Bruno Warhammer was still young, and his fathers all died in that war.

Because the disaster came too suddenly, although the elderly of the shield dwarf fought hard, they could not stop the Shadow Dragon for long. Except for some elderly, weak, women and children escaped, everyone else was buried at the dragon's mouth, so naturally they could not bring out any city map.

Since we cannot attack the castle gate located halfway up the mountain and there is no route map for the underground mining area, the dwarf king had to patiently look for surface cracks near the foot of the Miyin Hall, slowly explore the underground passage until we figure out this dark area, and then let the main force attack Miyin Hall.

In fact, when Qin Lun entered the world of Torrell and encountered Lorraine the previous time, the work had already begun.

However, after more than four months of exploration, the shield dwarves confirmed three places that could truly lead to the dark area from dozens of underground caves, while the other caves were dead ends.

There have been three confirmed locations, one of which was hundreds of meters underground, encountered a bottomless gully, and the exploration team could no longer advance. Along the second passage, there were several dangerous biological nests. If you want to attack hard, the losses would be too great, so they were also given up.

Only the cave where the Qiansuo Camp is located is the best, the direction of the passage is correct, and the depth of the underground is closest to the original Miyin Hall mining area.

This does not mean that this cave must connect to the underground mining area, but the dwarves do not care about this. As long as the direction is opposite, even if the last section of the road is blocked by the rock formation, they are confident that they can use the mine pick in their hands to open a passage.

Of course, this underground cave with the best conditions is just relative to the first two. In fact, the few dwarf exploration teams entering the dark area in front all suffered personnel losses of varying degrees and eventually had to return to the camp.

There are many kinds of dangers they encounter, some are terrain relationships, some are poisonous gases associated with ore, and some are nests of underground creatures. In short, all kinds of strange dangers that cannot be encountered on the ground are just a normal state in dark areas.

"Qin Lun, you haven't received the task prompt yet!" The night after entering the camp, the apostles began to be impatient.

Especially Qin Lun and the other two, their stay was almost gone, and they were about to tomorrow night at the latest. If they had not received the task, they would have to return to the Broken Starry Sky.

"If this specific area cannot trigger the plot mission, we may have to take the initiative." Hill said calmly.

There are three main types of different tasks performed by the apostle. The first is the guidance task arranged in advance by the Broken Starry Sky and the preset main task. The second is the hidden branch line that the apostle passively triggered when performing the main task. Generally speaking, most of these tasks are historical plots that were originally calculated inadequately, but only after the apostle is active in the later stage.

The last type is the sudden mutation of the apostle when interacting with the plot characters, which mostly belong to plot tasks that were not originally in history.

The epic plot of the Secret Silver Hall series belongs to the second hidden branch. There are roughly two ways for the apostle to receive this task, namely, triggering it in a specific region or receiving it from a specific plot character.

It is easy to understand how to trigger in a specific region. If Qin Lun and others can encounter shield dwarves and fight Shadow Dragons or Gray Dwarves near the Secret Silver Hall, they can choose to help one of them, which will naturally trigger this epic plot.

Qin Lun and others originally hoped to trigger this task in the Shield Dwarf's outpost camp, but now it seems that it has been ruined. As for the passage to the Secret Silver Hall alone in the dark area, it is extremely difficult and basically impossible.

Excluding this choice, Qin Lun and others could only accept this task from specific plot characters. At this time, there were only two plot characters who could issue this task to the apostles, one was Gilim Wildhammer, the legendary powerful man of the Shield Dwarf, and the other was Lorraine, the Dwarf Prince of Xuefeng.

Gillim rejected Qin Lun, the elf prince, and probably wouldn't agree to Qin Lun and others joining the exploration team in the Secret Silver Hall. The only hope left is Lorraine.

However, Lorraine is no longer the dwarf prince who died in Iron Star Fort. After that adventure, the dwarf boy has grown a lot. Although he still regards Qin Lun as a friend, he will no longer rely on him without reservation.

Too much force the dwarf boy, he might even be suspicious and doubt Qin Lun's motives.

Of course, this does not mean that Qin Lun and others have no choice.

If they forcibly rob Lorraine into the dark area, this epic plot might also be triggered. But in that case, they will have no way out. Unless they successfully find the Secret Silver Hall and prove that their behavior is helping the Shield Dwarfs, the angry dwarfs will regard them as enemies.

This method is not advisable. Neither Qin Lun nor Weis's team dared to implement it easily. The reason is very simple. After the Shield Dwarf set up a outpost camp here, he has not yet found a breakthrough for several months. No matter how arrogant Qin Lun and others are, they will not think that they are more suitable for exploring in dark areas than Shield Dwarfs.

"You are too impatient. Isn't there a whole day?" Weiss's calm words appeared on the team channel.

Their team stayed several days longer than Qin Lun and others, but if Qin Lun returned to the starry sky, they had to take the initiative to leave the dwarf camp. Their open identity was a mercenary who protected the elf prince. If Qin Lun disappeared for no reason, it would be strange if the shield dwarfs didn't suspect them.

"At dusk, I asked the monkeys to explore the camp and found some clues." Weiss said in contemplation. They are now grasshoppers on a rope, so naturally they will not hide information.

"What kind of clue?" Qin Lun's eyes flashed, and the importance of the thief profession was shown here. Although Qin Lun and Hill's strategies were good, they lacked buffer time, and their speed of obtaining intelligence was not as fast as that of the thief.

"Maybe different from what we imagined. Although the shield dwarf has not been able to find the Secret Silver Hall in the past few months, he should have already had some clues." Weiss said thinking, "In the news that the monkey heard, the dwarf exploration team members who came back recently mentioned a piece of mushroom woodland! Different batches of exploration team members mentioned the same location. You should understand what this represents, right?"

"Well, this means that the dwarves have been moving in the same direction, rather than searching aimlessly." Qin Lun touched his chin thoughtfully, "It seems that the old guy really doesn't trust us. Maybe I should ask Ilistin to inquire with Lorraine..."

Compared to Qin Lun, Lorraine is not so vigilant about Ilistin and Idriya. However, Idriya does not do "private work" for Qin Lun, and Ilistin is not very good at talking, so I guess she can only give it a try.

"Try it first. If we really can't get the clues of the mission, we have to force Lorraine away." Qin Lun shrugged helplessly. Anyway, their stay was not enough, and at most they returned to the starry sky during the exploration process. It doesn't matter if they don't offend the dwarfs.

...

The night faded slowly, and the warm sunlight illuminated a area at the entrance of the cave. Most of the campfires had been extinguished, leaving only a few wisps of invisible light smoke.

In the open space outside the camp, there were already many dwarves practicing martial arts and eating.

Qin Lun crawled out of his tent, stretched, and thought about how to coax Elistin. Although the elf druid liked him, the kind-hearted elf beauty was also unwilling to deceive Lorraine for him.

Maybe he could only persuade her with the righteousness of the Moon Elf! Qin Lun had a headache, and he was unwilling to force Ilistin unless he had no choice.

Just as Qin Lun organized his words in his mind, a noise came from the depths of the cave. Several dwarf guards guarding the entrance of the dark area hurriedly carried a wounded person to the center of the camp.

"It was the previous group of dwarves who explored the dark area... Maybe this was an opportunity!" Qin Lun's eyes lit up. From the injured's outfit, he could immediately tell that this was a member of the expedition team.

Qin Lun greeted the team channel and rushed towards the dwarf guards without hesitation. He stopped several people before they reported to Gillim.

"He is seriously injured, let me see!" Qin Lun reached out to stop the guards and took out an injection from his arms. Without waiting for the dwarf guards to object, he directly injected into the injured person's neck.

A hint of blush quickly rose on the seriously injured dwarf's face and slowly opened his eyes. When the dwarf guards saw this scene, they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and their tense expression eased.

"What did the exploration team encounter? Are there anyone else alive besides you?" Qin Lun asked the guards to put down the injured, took the water bags they carried, and carefully fed him a few sips of water.

The dwarf of the exploration team broke one arm and a large area of ​​his chest was already in his dying stage.

However, under the strong stimulation of the potion, he forced himself to say, "He...they..."

As soon as the dwarf spitted out a few words, his body had a strong spasm, his eyes lost their luster, and his pupils slowly dissipated. The injection Qin Lun fed him was too irritating, which accelerated the death of the dwarf in disguise.

"What did you say... well, um!" Qin Lun lowered his body, put his ears to the dwarf's mouth, and nodded slightly from time to time.

"He has passed away..." Qin Lun sighed pretendingly, and said to the guards next to him with a serious expression, "The place they are trapped is not far from the entrance. You go and report to Lord Gillim and Prince Lorraine. I and my followers will first rescue the trapped members of the exploration team."

As soon as he finished speaking, Qin Lun did not wait for the dwarf guards to react, and winked at Hill, Weis and others who had received the news from a distance, and led a few apostles to quickly towards the entrance of the dark area in the depths of the cave.
Chapter completed!