Chapter 18 Earthquake and Underground (Part 2)
The next morning, Annen woke up from a simple camp. Yesterday he had reconstructed the magic, including four spells of fossils into mud. He opened the cloth of the camp and immediately lit up. Annen narrowed his eyes slightly.
"Sir, have you gotten up?" The sound of footsteps came from the left. Annien turned around and saw a large number of soldiers and tenants, all holding tools, obviously ready to work.
"Very good, very well prepared!" Annien smiled slightly satisfied, so he said to the captain: "Have you eaten breakfast? The labor below is very tiring."
"Sir, you have eaten it. Sir, don't worry, they are all good boys and are good at working."
"Yeah, that's good." Annien began to chant loudly, his hand stretched out high, and above his fingertips, a blue magic light floated up, and everyone looked at him in awe.
"Fossils are made into mud!"
A blue light shot out from the top of the finger, and a faint blue light immediately covered the large stone in front of everyone, and the magic began to work.
A few seconds later, the magic light disappeared, Annien nodded and ordered, "Go dig!"
"Yes, Lord." Everyone looked at each other for a few moments, and then the captain stepped down and started digging with a shovel. As soon as he dug, the originally hard rock had now turned into soil. Although it was relatively hard soil, it was much easier than digging stones. Sure enough, everyone's morale increased greatly and they began to dig hard.
"This is magic, really, the stone has really turned into soil!" Seeing Anne walking farther, someone began to sigh.
"You said, will the Lord turn people into soil?"
"What nonsense, why don't you work quickly!" the captain roared softly.
But in this way, Annien actually heard it in his ears. He shook his head and smiled slightly - magic will have strange associations among the people, and of course he will not care about this.
Of course, more than twenty people dug the soil quickly. In less than half an hour, a big hole was dug, but because the magic could only transform the rock three meters deep, it was soon dug again. Annen felt it. He looked at the distance again, and then the sound of a spell sounded again.
"Fossils are made into mud!"
Time passed quickly. About an hour later, after the third "fossil into mud" was put into use, the person who was digging in front shouted excitedly, and it was obvious that he had already dug up the entrance of the cave tunnel, and suddenly the cool wind blew into it.
"Go down to see if there are any living goblins," Annen said instructing order.
After hesitating for a moment, everyone looked at the black cave and paused. The captain said, "Sir, wait for me to find the torch."
"No need, put this on." As he said that, Annien took out the two rings. There was nothing special about these two rings, just silver rings. However, there was nothing special in the sun. Once he approached the dark cave, he saw white light coming out from the ring, illuminating the deep cave - he cast two "Immortal Flames" on these two ordinary rings, which could keep the lighting for one month. With the ring as the center, it could illuminate the space with a radius of twenty meters nearby, and it was more than enough to reach the bottom.
"This ring can not only shine. I can also know where you are, so don't worry!"
"Yes, Lord." Since that's the case, the four of them went down and crawled into the deep cave.
The cave was very deep and the speed of climbing was certainly not fast, so Annien didn't have to wait outside. He walked to the front of the camp tent and leaned against the bonfire. Although he didn't feel cold, the pot of coffee on the bonfire still gave him a satisfied smile.
But a little farther away, the leaders did not have such leisure time. They were always paying attention to the movement of the cave. Therefore, the place became quiet. They could only throw firewood into the fire from time to time, and a crackling sound was made. The bonfire was red, and the aroma of coffee was even more overflowing. After a while, the coffee became hot. He poured a cup, then lifted the curtain of the tent, and just wanted to rest inside, but then he stopped and returned and said, "Come here!"
"Sir, is there anything wrong?"
"Go, let's heat up a little, go down and make some pottery, boil some boiling water, and whether it's dry food or dried meat, you have to cook and heat it before eating, maybe it's going to be used later."
"Yes, Sir, I'll do it right away!"
In the afternoon, the sky became cloudy and the cold wind blew. Annien had been waiting for two hours, and the pottery had been brought up below. The water in the pottery was boiling. He turned his eyes to the thick clouds above his head, and the temperature suddenly dropped. If the goblins had not been found, he would have to take his people to retreat before it rained and snowed. After all, this is not a good place to stay.
But when he decided like this, he seemed to hear something. He focused and focused. Sure enough, he heard some sound from the entrance of the cave. Sure enough, he stood up and the waiting people outside immediately turned their attention to him, but they heard nothing.
Annien walked to the entrance of the cave, and at this time, people came over. Sure enough, there was not much time, and even they heard the sound. After a while, one hand reached out. First, it was a man who entered. He crawled underground for several hours, exhausted.
The people outside quickly pulled him out, and then, there were a few other people. In the end, the head of the goblin was in the ground. As soon as the goblin was exposed, he saw Anne, and then it cried: "Earthquake, Mocha, alive, dead, so many."
Mocha was the leader of the goblin. Annien was very happy that it had not died. Behind it, there were thirty goblins who followed - as for many goblins who died? What was going on? Annien thought about it and brought them all to the matches. The warm flames calmed them down, and their purple faces returned to blood. Boiled water and roasted dry food were swallowed voraciously.
First, the leader said that the leader crawled in the wet underground and his clothes had been soaked, so he had already frozen and numb and blue. After being roasted by the fire, he recovered a lot. Then he explained: "Sir, the mine road below has collapsed many places, and sometimes it has gone far. Because it collapsed, he had to turn back to find other passages, so it took such a long time."
"Where is the goblin?"
"It's not very good. I only saw a group of them, which was included, but for the specific situation, Lord, you can ask this goblin."
Annien nodded and began to ask Mocha. Although he was frightened by Mocha, he often made mistakes in his questions, Annien did not show an impatient expression. After half an hour, he basically understood the problem. It turned out that goblins were distributed in various goblin caves, so the earthquake collapsed, causing some goblins to be buried alive, but most of the goblins were just surrounded in their own goblin caves.
Although the passage is separated, the air still has a certain circulation or reserve, and there will be no problem in a short period of time. However, after a long time, it is hard to say. Annien focused on it and said, "Mocha, bring the tools and dig on the underground passage. If I can't dig, I will use spells."
Although "fossils into mud" is the best use, other spells can also open up the way, but it may have some bad consequences. So, the thirty goblins who are full, take shovels and other things, go down to find goblins, or dig out goblins isolated in goblin caves.
The goblins who were familiar with the tunnel were much faster. Within a few hours below, the gnomes crawled out of the tunnel. They surrounded the fire anxiously, recovered their cold bodies, ate food in big mouthfuls, and then entered the tunnel again to save their compatriots.
In the evening, Alce served dinner specifically, so it was quite rich for Annien, with dried fish and crabs of a beeless fish. Annien smiled at her and expressed her gratitude. She ate it in big mouthfuls. There were already many goblins coming up opposite him.
"Brother, how is the situation?" Alce ate a little, and the goblins full of dirty soil poured her appetite. She took a sip of coffee and then looked at the whole scene. The goblins were very dejected and attracted her attention, so she asked.
"It's not very good. There are only about 800 goblins who are alive and out of the tunnel. There are already four hundred people who are sure to die. In other words, at least one thousand goblins still have unknown life and death. However, as the excavation time has passed, fewer and fewer goblins still alive below will be less and less." Annien raised his eyes and wiped his mouth gently with a small towel, and then explained to her: "There are some stones below. If a landslide is collapsed, it will be difficult to solve, so the goblins trapped inside will be suffocated to death and will starve to death in the future. Although I have the spell of fossils into mud, I have only used up four times a day. If I want to use it, I have to wait until tomorrow."
Chapter completed!