Through the persuasion of the dark elf Revan, the Minotaur tribe accepted the olive branch offered by the dwarves. After the most urgent matters were over, the exploration team began to treat the wounded and clean up the battlefield.
"Hey, where's Ferrar?" Elisten's whisper from a distance made Hill and Rand's expressions tense. They turned their heads and looked around, only to find that Qin Lun, who was still in the hall during the battle, had disappeared.
"I didn't notice, not to mention that it would be easy for him to avoid us." Seeing Rand's puzzled eyes, Hill waved his hand.
The changes in the hall brought the members of the exploration team together again. After asking each other, no one noticed Qin Lun's trace.
"If you're looking for a silver-haired human..." The dwarves' loud discussion caught the attention of a small minotaur. The little guy poked his head out from behind a tall and tall adult Minotaur, staring at everyone with big watery eyes.
Since it was born, it has never seen an elf, and only thought it was a handsome male human being.
"Little guy, do you know where Filar went?" Gilliam yelled loudly, the old dwarf's loud voice startled it, and the young Minotaur's little head swished and shrank back.
"Don't pay attention to that old guy, kid, if you've seen that silver-haired elf, can you tell us?" Mustasia glared at the old dwarf, making him back away embarrassingly.
Encouraged by the adult Minotaur, the little Minotaur finally stood up with a blushing face and timidly.
"That man... oh, elf, he just squatted on the ground with his head covered, as if he was suffering, and when he stood up, he went straight there!" The little Minotaur said, pointing to the portal they came out of earlier.
"Where does that portal lead to?" Elistine's face changed, and he grabbed Raven's arm and asked.
"That's the straight path of the maze. There is no organ partition along the way, and it can lead directly to the rear exit of the maze." The person who answered was an adult Minotaur, and it said in a slow and dull voice.
"Why does he want to go alone again?" Elistine was a little lost.
"Maybe he went ahead to explore the way first." Idriya took two steps forward, hugged her in her arms, and comforted her softly.
"Don't worry, we'll find out later." Gilliam frowned, beckoning to Lorraine, "You stay, and after meeting the ore prospecting experts at the back, survey the location where an outpost camp can be set up nearby, we Let's go ahead to find the way first. Arrange a few more soldiers to send the two dark elves back to the cave on the surface."
"Let's go!" Following Gilliam's order, the dozen or so people who had just finished the battle embarked on the journey again.
"Monkey, you go with those two dark elves. When you reach the surface, remember to leave their map behind." Weiss ordered in the team channel, hesitated, and asked Hill, "Qin Lun What's wrong?"
"He has some minor troubles, but it won't affect our mission." Hill replied with a smile, "Don't worry, this mission is almost complete. After it is completed, you can return to the starry sky first. worry about us."
"That's the best!" Weiss gave Hill a meaningful look, and he already realized that there might be something wrong with Qin Lun.
However, as Hill said, it doesn't matter if the three of Qin Lun don't continue to cooperate with this task. They got what they deserved, even if the two sides were to tear each other apart immediately, at least the characters in the plot would not help Qin Lun and the others besiege and kill their companions, so they didn't have to worry about anything.
The labyrinth hall is located in the core area of the labyrinth. It took several days for the exploration team to arrive here from the entrance. But without the barrier of the organ partition, when they saw the exit at the back of the maze, it only took half a day.
Along the way, they failed to see Qin Lun. As a hunter, besides perception, Qin Lun has the highest agility attribute. Most of the members of the exploration team were short-legged dwarves, so of course they couldn't catch up with him.
"Where can he go without a dwarf expert to scout the way ahead?" Elistin's face was full of worry.
"Hill, has he still not responded to your telepathy?" The elf druid looked at Hill expectantly. It's just that the latter's silence quickly made her understand the answer.
Of course, Hill tried to call Qin Lun on the team channel, but the other party didn't respond at all.
Although Qin Lun was not seen at the exit of the maze, the dwarf exploration team did not stop for this. While exploring the surrounding environment, they continued to search for Qin Lun.
Although at this time, the dwarves' mining experts were still behind, assisting Lorraine to survey the location of the outpost camp, but when they arrived in this area, all the dwarves in the team basically had a premonition that the Mithril Hall mining area was nearby.
"We're almost reaching our destination." A dwarf ax thrower who was squatting on the ground stood up, rubbed his fingers, and showed everyone a smear of yellow powder on his fingertips.
"This is cooked sulfur, a mineral additive that we dwarves use all the time during mining, smelting, forging, etc." Gilliam said with some excitement, "These powders can be found everywhere in the shallow soil in this area, they It was emitted during the blasting process and melted into the plain with the air circulation."
With the gradual detection of the concentration of cooked sulfur, the exploration team came to the edge of the Minotaur Plain at a slow but determined speed. However, here, they had to stop. In front of them was a deep ditch with an unknown width and a layer of gray-brown mist above it.
"In the past few hundred years, newly formed geological cracks!" The dwarves looked at the bottomless gully in front of them, surprised and delighted.
The good news is that new geological rifts mean new, rare underground minerals. Every time the earth veins vibrated, it was as if the cultivated land had been plowed again, turning up the "nutrition" deep underground.
Surprisingly, the new geological fissures are very dangerous. No one knows what is underneath, and it takes a long time to explore bit by bit. And the existence of this deep ditch is tantamount to putting a problem in front of everyone, and they can no longer move forward.
"Elder Gilliam, please come here!" Just as the dwarves were hesitating, Weiss' voice came from afar.
"What's wrong?" Even though Qin Lun disappeared without a trace, the dwarves still respected the followers of these elf princes. After all, they had fought with the team until now.
"Look, there are traces of claws here. I think Prince Feral should have gone to the opposite side." Weiss pointed to a huge black rock on the edge of the cliff.
"Feral does have a chain hook. I'll turn into a giant eagle and go take a look first." Elistin knelt down, stroked the claw marks with his fingers, and showed a look of expression on his face, "If the gully is not wide, I will come back Let's go with you on your back."
"You have to think about it carefully, we don't know whether the gray-brown fog is poisonous!" Mustaxia frowned and persuaded.
"It doesn't matter, I will do what I can, and I will come back if I can't hold on anymore." Elistine said slowly and firmly, "No matter what happens to Filar, I will rescue him back."
Idriya opened her mouth to speak, but after hearing the words of the elf druid, she swallowed them back abruptly.
Maybe she didn't have the kind of feelings Elisine had for Qin Lun, but once when she was curled up in the troll's bamboo cage and was about to be sacrificed, feeling extremely hopeless, the silver-haired elf ignored the danger and crossed the entire land of death. Earth, falling from the sky like the legendary Prince Charming, pulled her and Elistine back from hell.
Even if he knew that the only person Qin Lun wanted to save was Elistine, and that she was just an incidental item, this kindness could not be ignored. Ms. Lovita is capricious, but as a Templar, the word of loyalty has been etched into her bone marrow.
Idriya silently took off a ruby ring from the middle finger of her right hand and stuffed it into Elisten's hand.
"The ring of evil spirits, which can suppress poisonous and dark things, is one of the inheritances I got in the tomb of my ancestors in Candlekeep." The female knight said lightly, "Find that bastard and bring him back!"
"I will." Elistine nodded emphatically, turned into a giant eagle, and flew into the gray-brown fog.
Rand glanced sullenly at Weiss and the others in the distance, "Hill, why don't you speak up, no matter what Qin Lun has become, since he chose to leave us, he wouldn't leave such traces on purpose. "
"Is it useful to explain to a woman who is trapped in love and can't extricate herself?" Hill said blankly, "Weiss saw this clearly, so he deliberately asked the elf druid to find the way for us, otherwise , how can the mission continue?"
Fortunately, what everyone was worried about did not happen, and Elistine returned about half an hour later.
"This underground ditch is about 300 meters wide, and there are some towering stone pillars in the center that can be used as footholds." The elf druid said with joy, "I found some crushed stones on one of the stone pillars. Gravel, Feral really passed towards the opposite side."
This is really surprising! Hill and Rand looked at each other, and Weiss and the others were wrong.
"In addition, I also found an artificially built mine in the middle of the cliff on the opposite side." Elistin said with a smile, "Judging from the rusty mine car rails at the entrance of the mine, it has existed for a very long time. .Unsurprisingly, it should belong to one of the mining tunnels in the Mithral Hall mining area."
"Wow..." The dwarves stamped their feet and beat their chests, raising their axes and roaring to the sky. After nearly half a year of exploration, they are finally only one step away from success.
"You're not in any danger, are you?" Compared with the ecstatic dwarves, Idriya cared more about her companions.
"It's going well. The mist covering the deep ditch is not poisonous, but the smell is a bit pungent. You'd better cover yourself with a damp cloth, and I'll take you there in turn." Elistine looked back at the gray mist with firm eyes, "This time, I won't let you escape alone again."
She didn't want to delay even half a second. If it wasn't for her, everyone would have risked jumping off those stone pillars, and she might have followed Qin Lun's whereabouts directly.