About five hours later, the enemy finally showed up. I really admired these monsters. They inexplicably waited in the small underground until dawn before showing up. As a result, Ruby and I were waiting fully armed.

, there were several times when I almost couldn’t help but want to blow them up directly with a grenade.

There are a dozen enemies in total, and just as Ruby said, except for the leader, they are all kobolds. Not to mention threats, the moment the enemies come out of the ground, we haven't even had time to point our weapons at them.

They took the initiative to raise their hands and surrender, as if they had planned to do so from the beginning. In short, many small accidents occurred after capturing them. For example, the leader of the monsters actually spoke Anno, which saved the time of finding Ruby to translate.

, but its race was different. The elf rangers present were shocked.

This is a little goblin. Strictly speaking, this thing does not belong to the category of monster, and it is still a member of the elves, but it is not the same clan as the elves. For example, it is like the difference between a human and a monkey.

The little gnome looks like a small human, but its body proportions are like that of a dwarf. Its height barely reaches my knees. This height always makes me feel like it is a human child in disguise. The body

There is nothing special about its characteristics. The legs are quite short, but it is very agile when walking. If the opponent had not surrendered on its own initiative, I would have been hard-pressed to catch this little thing with my bare hands. What’s also surprising is that

Its appearance makes me feel like a wretched old man. He always smiles unpleasantly at the elves. He also wears a pair of dirty monocles and looks somewhat shrewd. There is a chin on his chin.

He has an exaggerated beard but his head is bald for some reason. In short, this appearance makes me feel a little difficult to summarize it in one or two sentences, and the surrender of this guy to the elves makes it difficult for me to casually

Take action to torture it.

"Good evening, noble nobleman, son of Arabis, Pyram sends you his sincere greetings."

As soon as this little old man came up, he flattered the surrounding elf rangers, but unfortunately, only Puffy among the rangers could understand Anno, but it was a pity that she had just returned to the camp to inform Diana.

He was waiting for someone, so the elves didn't understand the little goblin's greeting.

Although I don't think there is anything wrong with what it did, I was the one who captured it, and I am the leader of this team, so when I saw the little goblin's behavior, I felt a little disappointed and angry. And the little goblin

Seeing that the elves had no reaction, it was stunned. It stayed there and thought for a while before reacting.

"Oh, I am so stupid. How can a noble person understand the language of despicable people..." Then the little goblin quickly said hello to the rangers in Elvish with a heavy accent.

To be honest, I didn't think there was anything wrong with it doing this at first, but when it said the word "despicable person", it really pissed me off, so when it greeted the elf rangers

I then turned around to deal with the dozen or so kobolds.

"Aren't you going to tie them up?" I asked after watching Liz drive the kobolds to a nearby corner.

"No, these kobolds should be slaves, and they are very enslaved. They probably won't eat without orders." Liz took out a roll of rope and circled the corner casually.

Leave them alone. Then she looked at the little gnome who was dancing in front of the elves and asked curiously: "You didn't tie it up?"

"No, it looks like it knows the elves." I glanced at the little goblin and said disdainfully: "It feels like a clown, so there shouldn't be much of a threat."

"Don't underestimate the little goblins." Liz casually escaped from a bundle of ropes and took me over there and explained: "The little goblins are one of the most notorious races on the continent.

Extremely greedy and cunning. Almost all the underground black markets in the south have their shadow, and sometimes they even dare to risk their lives to sell fake goods to the dragon tribe in order to make money."

"Oh, I understand, this is a group of profiteers who want money rather than life..."

"Well, almost, but their behavior is definitely worse than you imagine." Liz walked up behind the little goblin with the rope, and then tied it to the ground in an unexpected moment. The little goblin was tied up

Then he started chattering something. Although I couldn't understand it, it was easy to understand the general content from the disgusted expressions of the elf rangers.

In short, Liz didn't care about its nagging mouth at all. After tying it up, she threw it aside. After the little gnome landed on its butt, it was still talking endlessly incomprehensible words. Finally,

The noise made me a little irritated, so I simply took out my pistol, piled it at its feet and shot a round.

The bullet was accurately shot between its legs. The single hole made by the strong impact and the dust raised immediately shocked the little goblin.

look at me.

I'm too lazy to care about it. Anyway, even if it wants to say anything, it will have to wait until Diana and the others come over for interrogation. Yes, it is an interrogation. No matter if it confesses and gets leniency or resists, I will torture it anyway, because

It really makes me irritable, and it's really uncomfortable to stay up all night, so I need to find an opportunity to vent my dissatisfaction casually.

I walked up to the Elf Rangers and gestured with them to let them go down to rest. Then I didn't bother to care about the little goblin, and walked straight to my tent to take a nap for a while. After entering the tent, I casually said that I had already fallen asleep.

I hugged Ruby in my arms, because although the temperature in the underground space was not low, I always felt that there was something wrong with my body temperature this morning, so I simply used Ruby as a heater to keep warm.

"It must not be a cold..." My head was a little groggy. After lying down with Ruby in my arms, I soon lost consciousness and fell into a deep sleep.

"...Where is this?"

I don't know how long I was in the unconscious state just now. Anyway, judging from the current situation, I must have been dreaming.

In the dream, I seemed to be another person, a person whose face I couldn’t see but who felt very familiar. Moreover, in the dream, I seemed to be fighting a huge black shadow, and I was using a gun that was as tall as a person.

Greatsword.

"This is simply ridiculous..."

I carried this big sword that barely felt any weight and swung it randomly at the disembodied black figure a few times. Of course, these meaningless attacks had no effect on it, but from the other side's black figure,

The magic emitted from the mist-like palm could always hit my body accurately. After a few rounds, my body was already covered with bruises and bleeding, but the black shadow still kept using a long barbed weapon.

The whip whipped my arms. Although I couldn't feel the pain myself, the man in the dream was knocked to the ground by these attacks. But even so, the black shadow did not stop there, but stretched out a

A huge black hand covered my face, and then a strong smell of blood filled my mouth.

"Are you going to die? No way? What kind of messy dream is this?" I tried to resist tenaciously, but I still couldn't change the wounds on my body.

Finally, just before I thought I was about to die and woke up, I actually saw another familiar figure falling from the sky.

"Sevena?!" I sat up in panic.

"Are you awake? Why are you sweating so much? Are you having a nightmare?" The person in front of me at this moment was the familiar and familiar Diana. She was wiping the sweat on my forehead with a clean hand towel.

"It seems so...I don't remember. How long have I been asleep?" I stabilized my mood and then looked around. I found that I was still in the temporary tent, but Ruby was nowhere to be seen.

"About an hour. If you don't get up, I'll just leave you in the trailer and follow everyone." Diana brought me a bottle of mineral water and said, "The scouts have just returned, we

We need to take a shortcut to go deeper underground.”

"Really..." I drank a few sips of water and followed Diana out of the tent.

At this time, my mind was still a little confused, because although the dream just now had begun to be a little blurry, the final scene of Severna falling from the sky was really fresh in my memory and unforgettable.

This dream is really weird. It doesn’t feel like it’s just something made up by my brain. It’s like it really happened. Especially the expression on Severna’s face when he appeared, it just makes me feel like

It’s incredible. The sad expression on Savina’s face was so shocking to me. I simply couldn’t imagine that she would do something like this... How should I describe it... I couldn’t find a suitable metaphor after thinking about it, but really

I didn’t want to see her sad expression again, and I always felt that it had too much of an impact on me, because when I thought of her expression just now, the corners of my eyes became moist unconsciously.

"Forget it... let's not think about it." I shook my head and planned to try to forget the memory just now. After all, the key now is to embark on a more unknown exploration.

"By the way, Diana, I caught a goblin an hour ago..." I quickly followed Diana and planned to tell her what happened before going to bed.

"Well, I know. I came over when you just fell asleep, and I've already interrogated it, and got an unexpected delivery."

"What is it?" I couldn't help but asked curiously.

"This is the 'shortcut' I just mentioned." Diana led me to the arrow rest that had not yet been dismantled.

"What...what is this?" I looked at the scenery in front of me and almost couldn't stand still.

At this moment we are still in the temporary camp before, but the original bloody battlefield in front of us has long disappeared, replaced by a huge pit with a radius of nearly ten meters wide, or a pit that looks like a mine. The end of the pit is

At the bottom is an underground hall similar to the rear camp, but the top of the hall has been removed. I can only feel the new underground hall and its atmosphere from the pillars that have not yet collapsed and various familiar lighting fixtures.

The one at the back is exactly the same, except that this one looks older, and there are a lot of useless things that are not from our team. The whole space has undergone earth-shaking changes, and I almost can’t recognize that this place was once a bloody battlefield.

.

"Did you dig this?" I asked nervously, looking at the deep hole.

"Well, just when you were sleeping. The little goblin named Piram provided us with the accurate route, so we don't have to fight in from the outside passage. If we go from here, we will have more than ten hours left.

The distance will be longer, and it will also avoid many unnecessary battles." Diana said as she helped me put my weapons on my body.

I looked up at the entrance to the previous passage. It seemed to have been completely sealed now. It should be some trick of the magicians. Therefore, the wall looked very new at the moment, and there were no traces left on it from the previous battle. I did not

I didn't use a telescope to observe that side, because at some point the wall had changed from a pitted earth wall to a very thick rock structure.

"Where does it lead below?" After I put the ammunition box on my back, I checked the strap and asked: "By the way, didn't you get any other information from the little goblin when you interrogated it?"

"There is a lot of information. I will tell you more on the way. Hurry up and leave. We should be the last group to go down. Eve and the others have been waiting below for a long time."

I nodded and didn’t ask any more questions. After quickly preparing all my weapons, I followed Diana down the arrow stand and arrived at the entrance of the mine. Here, I saw someone else sitting on an empty cart being shot.

Desmo yawned, as if she hadn't slept well either.

"Good morning, Desmo. Where are Ruby and Hex?"

"Good morning, Erica." Desmo yawned listlessly again, then rubbed his eyes sleepily and said, "Ruby went down with Aurora a long time ago. What Hex said...yesterday

She will leave later in the evening."

"Oh... that's right." I walked up to her and put the salute in my hand on the car. Then I sat on it and asked quietly: "Why don't you just tell me what happened last night?"

"It's okay. There are some things that I'm not comfortable doing myself, but it's different if I leave it to Ruby."

"What's the difference? Shouldn't I handle it in the end?" I said with some dissatisfaction.

"Well, of course it's different." Desmo lowered his voice and said in my ear: "After all, I am a god, and some things will cause unknown changes if I interfere casually, but Ruby is different. She is an elf.

She is the intermediary between nature and living beings, and no matter what she does, it will not affect the direction of destiny."

"Destiny...? I remember you..."

"I'm thinking too much. The concept I'm talking about is not the same thing as what you think. Don't worry about it. Just let nature take its course." Desmo stretched lazily and then lay down.

Above my salute. However, because my luggage bag was filled with weapons and ammunition, she seemed to feel a little uncomfortable. She twisted her body and lay directly on my lap and said: "Let me rest for a while...
To be continued...