Not long after the two entered the fourth floor, Brando suddenly heard Akane whisper: "Lord Lord."
"how?"
"Let me go down and try." The girl's voice was almost inaudible.
Brando looked down and found that the divine envoy's physique was indeed well-deserved. Although it had lost its strength, the body's recovery ability was still much stronger than that of ordinary people. Brando saw that the wound on Qian's thigh had stopped bleeding and had scabs.
He hesitated and asked, "Is it okay?"
But under the insistence of the girl, Brando finally helped her to let her go down-Akane frowned slightly when her feet touched the ground, but after shaking for a while, she stopped steadily, and although she was a little slow, she relied on Thunder. With the support of the gun, she can barely walk alone.
After discovering this, Qian seemed to be a little happy. She raised her head happily and smiled at Brando, "Lord Lord!" Brando had rarely seen Qian's smile from the heart in the past, and couldn't help being slightly startled.
But the latter also quickly realized his gaffe, don't go too far.
Brando thought that the red-haired girl actually smiled pretty well, but of course he couldn't say it to death. The two kept silent and walked through the low tunnel. Not long after they walked, Brando suddenly saw a faint white thing in the darkness ahead, and he whispered.
"What's the matter?" Qian asked from behind.
"There seems to be something." Brando explained in a low voice. He knew that Akane's eyesight is no different from that of an ordinary person. It is difficult to see far away in this environment. Although there are lighting crystals, the light is too much. Oops.
He drew out the sword with one hand and walked slowly with the girl, and finally saw that there was a person lying on the ground. It looked like it was a miner here. He looked at the opponent carefully and found no obvious wounds on his body.
"Not dead yet." Qian looked at this man and immediately judged.
Brando also saw the other's chest rising and falling slightly, as if he had just passed out in a coma. He nodded, tried to shout but didn't wake up, so he unplugged the water bag and shot some water on the opponent's forehead.
Considering that they don't know how long they will be trapped underground, and the fresh water they carry with them is limited, Brando subconsciously relaxes his hand movements.
Fortunately, his method worked quickly. The miner didn't seem to have suffered any injuries, and he quickly regained consciousness with a blink of an eye.
But as soon as the other party opened their eyes, they saw that the two of them first retracted subconsciously and bumped into the cold rock wall. Brando looked at him uneasy, and said hurriedly: "We are also people here, so don't worry."
The miner was stunned for a moment before he came to his senses. He took a breath, took a closer look at the two of them, then calmed down and asked: "Are you in charge? Supervisor? Or a member of the guard...?" He saw Brando's saber and Akane's halberd. -In this mining area, only the overseers and soldiers will bring weapons, but Brando and Qian are more like the latter except that they don't wear the uniforms of the garrison.
"We are from the garrison." Brando replied, knowing that these miners knew almost every foreman.
The man was obviously relieved, but soon became nervous again, "Have you encountered a monster too?" He saw the blood on Akane's body.
"Monster?" Brando looked back and glanced at Qian.
It can be said that the monster here is probably the wind spirit spider he summoned, but he frowned, "What kind of monster?" Brando used the wind spirit spider to find the way on the third floor, but Brando Instinctively feel that things are not that simple.
"Stone statue, a monster like a stone statue, Martha is on!"
"A monster like a stone statue?" Qian knelt down beside Brando and asked in a low voice.
Stone statue? Brando thought that there are many monsters in the form of Vaughan's rock. The typical ones are the gargoyle sentries and war puppets made by the craftsmen and wizards of Buja, but considering the environment here, the stone element is more likely.
Brando thought for a while and comforted the other party: "Don't be afraid, we are here. Slowly remember what shape those monsters are in, are they in human form? Or beast-shaped?"
The miner breathed heavily, "It's like a beast, but it's all made of rocks, sir, I swear I won't be wrong!"
"Animal? Does it have wings?"
"No!" replied categorically.
Brando is weird. He has never heard of monsters in the form of rocks like this. Although there are weird and strange types of monsters in Vaughan, most of them can be traced back to their origins. Monsters that resemble mud and rock forms are either magic puppets or have something to do with the world of earth elements, but apart from a few gargoyles, animal-shaped monsters are very rare.
Creatures in the earth elemental world are more like insects.
However, seeing that the miner became suspicious again, he hurriedly calmed down his emotions: "Is there anyone besides you here?" He knew that miners usually enter the mining area in groups.
The miner swallowed, as if he had just remembered it, and nodded quickly: "Yes," he said, "I came with a group of people, but when I met the monster, I was washed away."
He couldn't help but look at the depths of the deep cave, and said with some uncertainty: "I don't know where they are, or if they are still alive, the monster may have chased them..."
He seemed to be a little lucky, but a little scared.
"That's right," the miner suddenly thought of something: "Mahan-sama is also here."
"Master Mahan?"
"Don't you know him?" The miner was taken aback for a moment: "He is a foreman in this area. I heard that he was also in the army before, and his sword skills are very good. When the earthquake started, he said he would go to the front. Look, then those monsters appeared."
Brando was ashamed, thinking that he almost missed it when he asked casually. Fortunately, the worker was not very alert when he saw his own person.
But he didn't hear the problem, but Qian frowned slightly: "Didn't it start to collapse in an instant when the earthquake started, and what else did he go to see ahead?"
As a person who has been a mercenary since a very young age, the girl's way of thinking is much more vigilant than Brando.
When Brando heard this, he also reacted: "That's right, shouldn't you find a safe place to evacuate at this time?"
"No, no," the miner hurriedly waved his hand: "The vibration was not so severe at first, and the rock formation below is relatively strong, and the collapse is not so severe. The key is that the vibration is transmitted from the south, don't you feel it?"
The shock came from the south—
Brando reacted to this unexpected information, and it seemed that his guess was inseparable, that something incredible had been dug out under the Shavlund Mine. But even though he didn't know each other, he was still worried about Ke Wen and the young people. They must have become more fierce at the moment, Brando couldn't help sighing.
"It doesn't look like an earthquake," Akane turned her head and whispered, "My lord."
Brando has made up his mind to go ahead and take a look. Although the silver legacy is not as rare as the golden apple, it is also a rare good thing, but the reward is so expensive, the task must not be so simple.
He suddenly interrupted Qian and put a finger on his lips: "Shhh—"
There was silence in the mine, and only the heavy breathing of the miner remained. But soon, both Qian and the miner heard a rustling sound coming from the south, as if something was moving on the ground.
"They are here."
The man's face turned pale all at once.
But Brando put down the sword, he was a little confused, and there were a lot of things coming, but this slightly heavy footsteps didn't look like what a powerful thing.
However, the monsters in the mouth of the miners soon showed their figures from the dark. The first thing that appeared was a gray-white cat. It gracefully stepped into the dark and entered the light range of the lighting crystal, using a pair of gray gemstones. Staring at Brando.
No, it should be said that it is a pair of gray gems.
Because this slender cat is actually just a stone statue—a living stone statue—with gray crystals as eyes.
Brando knew for a while when he saw this thing, it turned out that this was not a monster in the form of a rock at all. It is a summoned object, to be precise, a creature formed by mimicking the earth element.
As for what form it takes, it all depends on the wishes of the summoner.
But Brando was taken aback for a moment, "Is there an elf underneath?" This thought flashed through his mind for a moment, "Or something unconsciously controlling these creatures?"
It seems that the latter possibility is much more obvious. But if it is a device with autonomous consciousness, even if it has no underlying consciousness of intelligence, at least it is at least one level or above fantasy.
And it may still be a very high-level fantasy level.
Brando burst into tears when he thought of this snack, thinking that since he came into this world, he could finally see the advanced equipment in a serious manner.
When he thought this way, more and more cats appeared in the dark, and there were more than a dozen in hastily, and there were still a few pairs of gleaming eyes shaking outside the dividing line of light and shadow.
More than twenty rock panthers have formed a semicircular enclosure to surround them.
There was no panic on Brando's face. He stepped forward and put down the long sword: "You stay away, Akane."
Qian grabbed the miner who was frightened with weak legs and was crawling on the ground preparing to escape, then turned her head and nodded to Brando, and stepped back obediently. She knew that she didn't have much power right now, at most she had a slightly stronger physique than ordinary people with the help of a divine envoy, and staying on the front line could only interfere with Brando's actions.
However, although she has lost her power, she still has her eyesight. She has already seen that these big stone cats seem to be not threatening—especially for Brando.