Chapter 107, Preparation and Departure

In the following week, Ryan bought a lot of things for exploring in the mine, including but not limited to tents, dry food, candle lights and other things.

For this reason, Ryan also went to consult some professionals, but the answer given by the other party made him dumbfounded.

This expert is a devout believer who believes in the god of mines, Galgali. The method he taught Ryan was to tie a piece of Galgali prayer paper to the sparrow's leg before entering a new mine, and then they put the sparrow Locked in a cage and carried. If the sparrow dies during digging, the miners think they are close to a new vein.

Ryan thought this method didn't sound very effective...

By the way, I have never heard of mines and gods.

Ryan spent money on mercury bullets and some magic scrolls.

A week flies by quickly amid preparations and investigations.

Early January, Fort Marien, 53 Amber Avenue, at nightfall.

For the dark elves, this is already the twentieth day since she came to this house. After a period of recuperation, Olika's body has recovered, but due to the vicious spells of the high elves and the effect of the slave contract , the dark elf's soul is still very weak.

To her surprise, the human seemed to have no idea about her, and he never asked her to do anything for twenty days, but let the maid who was there before train her.

The dark elf was dressed in a black and white maid outfit, her waist-length black hair was simply tied up with a white ribbon. After the wind, frost and scars on her face were removed, her amazing beauty was truly displayed at home. In front of everyone, it was a wild and haughty beauty, especially the high breasts and the slender legs under the maid's skirt added a bit of color. This was made to order at Queensberry Tailor. A complete set of maid outfit, with white stockings and black short boots.

What makes her feel the most ironic is that she has lived the best life since she was born as a slave of this human being. She has never eaten such good food, and has never worn such good clothes. The elves are always in short supply and cannibalism, just to please the elves' god of war and murder, Kane.

However, it seems that because she has become a prisoner, she can feel that Kane has abandoned her.

It was snowing again outside, and Olika stood at home blankly with a broom in her hand, looking out at the world covered with snow through the glazed window.

"Olika? What are you looking at? What's so interesting about snowing?" A male voice sounded from behind her, and the dark elf subconsciously pretended that he hadn't done anything and was focused on sweeping the floor.

Ryan was a bit self-defeating, but he didn't care about it, he just continued: "You must be very strange, why haven't I done that to you?"

The dark elf refused to answer, and according to Emilia, she almost never spoke.

"That's because you are something out of my plan. Actually, I never planned to buy a dark elf maid." Ryan said to himself, and didn't care whether the dark elves listened: "Because I have always heard that the dark elves The skin of the whole body is as black as ink, and then the body stinks, as if it came from the ground..."

"Stupid...human beings!" Olika couldn't keep calm anymore, and the dark elf looked at Ryan with contempt: "You don't know anything about Drucci."

Seeing this, Ryan snickered in his heart, not afraid of you crying, not afraid of you laughing, but afraid of you not crying or laughing.

He knew that dark elves were not dark. Most low-level dark elves had pale skin due to lack of light. Only dark elves with higher status had the opportunity to come into contact with the sun. Orika's skin color was not dark at all. It is still very fair, and the skin is a light wheat color, which is very similar to the healthy skin color that Chinese and Westerners admired in Ryan's previous life.

This shows that Orika's class is not low. She is likely to be a dark elf nobleman, but Ryan has already thought about it. If she is not a nobleman, she probably has no chance of being captured by a high spirit.

The dark elf realized that he had lost his composure, so he stopped talking, and Ryan ignored her. The Primarch had lunch with his three maids, and then said to Emilia who was washing the dishes: "Emily Ya? Just come up here and leave the dishes to them."

"Okay!" Emilia wiped her hands and followed Ryan to the second floor.

Opening the door of the study, Ryan was sitting behind the desk. He motioned for Emilia to sit beside him. The little maid blushed when she saw this situation, but she still sat beside him with her skirt: "Mr. Ryan?"

"Starting tomorrow, I will go to the Luigi Chamber of Commerce's mithril mine to explore and find out the real reason why countless miners go crazy. I will leave the family affairs to you." Ryan said, holding Emilia's little hand.

"Okay." Emilia also knew about this, and the little maid responded seriously: "Mr. Lane must be careful."

"Hmm." Ryan didn't say anything more, the girl in front of him was actually very smart.

So early the next morning, Ryan was fully dressed. Under the envious eyes of the little maid Miranda, Ryan gave Emilia a big hug, and then went out of the house alone.

Along the road paved with thick stone slabs, along the University District of the Temple and the Civic District all the way to the South City Gate, Hadrian, the president of the Luigi Chamber of Commerce, Alfred the Paladin, Estelle the Half-Elf Ranger, and others have already arrived. Arrived.

"It's all here? Let's go, let's talk about it on the road if there is anything else." Ryan rode on his tall big horse pinecone. Seeing that everyone was here, he signaled to start first, and talk about it on other roads.

Hadrian's mithril mine was a distance away from the city of Marienburg. The 15-kilometer road might not be considered a big deal in his previous life, but it took about two hours to reach it in this world.

Two hours is enough to clarify everything.

Hadrian is still dressed in a very gorgeous outfit today, but he changed his gold-plated boots into leather boots just because he was going out in the wild: "Mr. Lane, this is Mr. Weasley, he is the director of my chamber of commerce, He is also the person in charge of this mithril vein, let him introduce it to you."

"Hello! Mr. Lane, I'm Weasley." A middle-aged man with fiery red hair came up from behind on a horse, and he began to introduce the situation of the mine: "In June last year, we purchased this mine from the Gentlemen's Union Chamber of Commerce. A mithril vein, the chairman of the Gentlemen's Union Chamber of Commerce, Viscount Adalbert-Casanova, gave us this vein at a cheap price."

"Since it's so cheap, there must be a reason. Didn't you guys think about it at that time?" Estelle interrupted suddenly. Half elves are naturally at a disadvantage when facing high elves, but they are automatically half a head taller in front of humans. .

"That's what I want to ask too." Ryan and Alfred walked side by side, and he was also curious.

"Hey, this is a trick within a set." Hadrian said distressedly: "Viscount Casanova told us that there is a problem with this mithril vein, and there are many monsters in it, and he still has some Many other things need manpower, and I don’t have the energy to organize patrols and pit guards, so I gave this mine to us cheaply. I saw that he didn’t seem to be lying. After several inspections, he felt that it was all right, so I bought this mine.”

Then Weasley took over the conversation: "After the president bought this mine vein, we did organize a large number of patrols and guards, but we found nothing, except for the elimination of a few rats and a few bats. Other than that, nothing else was found in the vein."

"Seeing that the monster has been swept away, we arranged for the miners to start mining this vein. The work went very smoothly at the beginning. In the first two months, except for a miner who was killed by falling rocks due to an operating error, no more incidents occurred in the mine. casualties."

"But this was the beginning of everything. In the next few months, the miners began to have frequent accidents and casualties, and most of these casualties were caused by the miners' careless operations. At the same time, miners continued to respond that they could listen I heard a deep voice, a low and muddy voice resounding in their ears."

"We reorganized the mercenaries and guards to enter the mine, and it was still the same. We found nothing except some small animals." Speaking of this, Weasley also felt very helpless: "At first we thought it was the miners who had problems. , deliberately slowing down work, so the chamber of commerce changed two groups of miners successively, but the situation was the same.”

Speaking of which, both Ryan and Estelle became serious. Apart from the powerful spiritual wizards, the only ones who can unknowingly break down the mind are the terrible chaotic creatures.

No wizard would stay in such a deep mine to conduct experiments.

"Then have you asked the priest to check for corruption? Are there powerful Chaos creatures haunting?" Alfred asked. Today's paladin has turned into a full-body plate armor, which made many people sit down to him. The panting horse was sympathetic.

"Please, we invited a pastor of the Church of Life to check the mine, but the pastor told us that the chaos corruption in the mine is indeed stronger than that on the ground, but in general it is not What's the problem." Hadrian said distressedly: "So we really can't do anything, so we asked Mr. Lane for help."

"That's it, I understand." Ryan also felt very strange, isn't it a wizard? Not Chaos?

Two hours later, the group arrived at their destination.

There is no huge mine entrance as imagined, only a small house made of stones. Only after opening the house, everyone can see the bottomless mine passage below the house.

It is now the first ten days of January, and the weather is still very cold. Even the miners will not go to the mine to work in this season. The mine is currently closed. There are a few workers from the chamber of commerce in the small house, eating around a big iron pot. I was having a good time with stew and ale.

Seeing Chairman Hadrian coming in, several workers stood up immediately in fright: "President!"

"The food is so good?" Hadrian didn't care about the actions of the workers. These people were only responsible for guarding the entrance of the mine. Now that no one is working in the mine, they don't have to be so nervous: "What's new? What's the matter?"

"No! President, we have been staying near the entrance all the time. Even at night, we take turns to change shifts, and we don't feel anything special!" Several people said quickly, and at the same time Hadrian and the others noticed that several people were still eating. A heavily armed guard is on duty.

"Is that so?" Several people discussed it and realized that it was useless to talk about it. Ryan said that there are some things that you can only know if you go down and have a look.

"My strength is not enough, Mr. Ryan, I think I may not be able to accompany you down the mine." Regarding this, Hadrian seemed very sincere: "I will wait for you up there, and Weasley will accompany you down."

"Okay." Ryan knew that this kind of big businessman would not risk his life because of this kind of thing. His strength is very poor, and he will not go down with him, that's for sure.

Weasley called another guard who was familiar with the terrain of the mine to follow them down the mine. The group lit candles and walked towards the depths of the dark mine. Only Hadrian was left on the ground. The big trench merchant in the southern country watched Ryan and the others disappear under the dark stairs, and there were flashes of light in his eyes.

He never told Ryan that after a few months of mining this mithril vein, he had already recovered half of the cost. If Ryan failed, it didn't matter, at least the legendary powerhouse owed him a big favor .

If Ryan succeeds, all the better because the two already have a solid partnership.

No matter what, he won't lose money.

Some things are hard to buy with money, such as the friendship of a human hero, a legendary knight.

…………

an hour later.

"Mr. Ryan, we have arrived at the No. 1 mine." Under the leadership of the guide and Weasley, a group of people have arrived at the No. 1 mine that is being mined, which is already hundreds of meters away from the ground.

There are three mines in this mithril vein. The No. 1 mine is the most stable and the deepest. Unlike Ryan's imagination, this mithril vein is very wide, and the top of the high rock formation has Pointy stalactites, cold water droplets dripping from the top of the stalactites, forming huge icicles, can be described as dripping into ice.

The road available for walking is very wide and the ground is slippery. In order to facilitate the transportation of ore, the Luigi Chamber of Commerce laid tracks in the pit. Alfred, who was in full plate armor, praised: "It's so big!"

The voice of the paladin echoed in the dark and deep mine pit, startling many creatures in the dark, and the sound of flapping wings sounded from the top of the rock formation, but due to the darkness, the light source of the candle lights in everyone's hands was not strong. Can't see what that is.

Ryan frowned. He thought it would be great if there was a spellcaster on the same team. The zero-level trick light spell could solve this problem. The spell he simulated through psionic power couldn't leave his body too far.

And Estelle, the half-elf looked up and immediately realized something was wrong: "It's a vampire bat! The vampire bat is coming towards us!"

"Ready to fight!"

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