"Sir, many miners were found in the wooden house over at the camp!"

Just as Gervais was standing beside the carriage having a good time, a guard ran over.

"Oh, then go over and have a look!"

It was not surprising that there were miners. I saw at least a hundred people in the camp on the mountain that day. Except for more than fifty guards, the others were probably miners responsible for mining.

Under the leadership of the guards, Gervais came to the middle of the camp. I don't know if it was to prevent the miners from escaping, but all the wooden houses were built in the center of the camp, a long way away from the wooden walls.

When Gervais came to the door of the wooden house, the door of the wooden house had been opened. There were five or six guards holding torches standing at the door. Gervais looked inside through the weak firelight and saw more than 20 people inside in darkness.

It’s hard to imagine that so many people could be crammed into a wooden house of just over 30 square meters.

"Sir, the two wooden houses next to them are also miners!"

The guard who came with Gervais pointed at the two wooden houses next door and said.

"Yeah!" Gervais glanced at the two wooden houses, then retracted his gaze and looked at the wooden house in front of him again.

"Who is the leader here?"

Seeing the miners trembling and frightened, Gervais did not go in, but asked loudly at the door.

However, in the face of Gervais's question, none of the miners dared to speak out first, but most of the miners glanced at one of them. When that person saw that the people around him were looking at him,

Suddenly he was so frightened that he knew that he could not escape no matter what. He could only timidly raise a hand and replied: "I... it's none of my business... I just work the hardest... They

That’s why I was made captain…”

"Come out and take me to the mine to have a look."

Gervais knew what these miners were afraid of, but Lanny's soldiers Gervais would not be merciless in killing them, but he could not kill these unarmed serf coolies. He just wanted to see what the mithril mine looked like.

That’s all.

No matter how scared the man was, facing Gervais's order, he could only squeeze away from the crowd in fear, walked out of the wooden house, and stood beside Gervais with his hands and feet bent and bent.

"Lead the way and be honest and obedient and I won't kill you."

Gervais took a torch from the guard next to him and thrust it in front of the man.

Under the leadership of this man, Gervais finally came to the Mithril mine. There were three mine entrances in the entire camp. The mines were not deep, so they dug more than ten meters underground. Gervais asked.

The miner captain learned that there was a lot of ore here, but the rock walls were relatively hard, so it took more than a month of digging to dig out five loads of ore.

After roughly inspecting the three mines, Gervais withdrew. Through observation, Gervais discovered that the reserves of this mithril mine should be quite large. After all, the three mines were hundreds of meters apart and all contained mithril ores.

, a lot of mithril ore that has not had time to be mined is exposed in the mine tunnel.

When Gervais finished inspecting the mine and came to the middle of the camp again, the guards had already searched the entire camp and found no remaining soldiers. They only found a large amount of food in a wooden house, enough for more than 100 people to eat three meals a day.

Many months of food rations made Gervais very happy. Tonight's operation can be said to be a great victory.

"Lord Nashen, what do you think we should do with this camp?"

When the guards emptied all the food and loaded it on the carriage they came with, Gervais was ready to evacuate, but Gervais looked a little distressed at the huge camp.

Gervais really wanted to take this camp as his own and dig the mithril mine himself, but his reason told him that this was impossible. Six knights with the name died tonight. The identity of the masked Gervais was unknown.

, but Lanny’s men are all noble vassals. No matter what the reason is, killing a noble privately is a serious crime. Gervais is not strong enough to fight against the nobles of the entire principality.

Therefore, it is impossible to obtain this camp for the time being, but once it is withdrawn today, even if Lanni suffers heavy losses, he will definitely send people to continue mining, and it will definitely be heavily guarded by then. Unless Gervais burns down the camp, he can suspend it.

Lanny's mining operation.

"Master Gervais, we have no choice but to burn it! Otherwise, Viscount Lenny will definitely be able to resume production soon. It will not be that simple for you to break into this camp again in the future."

"Well, let's burn it, tie up all the miners and drive them into the woods."

After listening to Na Shen's words, Gervais finally made up his mind. He actually knew that burning it was the best way. It was just that when Lanny built this camp, he paid great attention to it. Except for the construction material being wood, other aspects were quite important.

It is elegant and can be regarded as a small fortress.

If Gervais and the others hadn't outsmarted them tonight, and if Richie didn't further confirm their identities in a panic, there's no telling whether Gervais and the others would have been able to capture the camp.

As a time traveler, Gervais has a strong desire to protect buildings. In addition, he also thinks that when he becomes stronger in the future, he will not have to rebuild the camp after retaking this place.

"Master Gervais, those miners..."

Nashen felt that Gervais was good at everything, but he was too kind-hearted. In his opinion, killing these miners would kill a hundred of them, which would not only eliminate the risk of exposing them, but also increase the difficulty for Lanny to mine again. After all,

Redeploying hundreds of miners is also a troublesome matter.

"Lord Nashen, needless to say, it doesn't matter whether these people are killed or not. Serfs cannot be witnesses to testify against nobles. This is the law of the principality."

Gervais knew what Nashen wanted to say, so he interrupted Nashen before he could finish speaking.

The serfs in this world are lowly, so the serfs cannot be witnesses to testify against the nobles for any crimes. Gervais does not have to worry at all because these people put himself and others in danger, and these miners do not know them at all.

As for Viscount Lenny, Gervais felt that even if they did a perfect job tonight, Gervais must be the top priority among the suspects. After all, he has a direct conflict of interest with him, but that doesn't matter, Gervais

Weiss will recruit troops when he returns. As long as he stays in the castle honestly during this period, he can continue to wander around when his strength increases.

Seeing that Gervais had made up his mind, Nashen stopped trying to persuade him, so he gave a few instructions to the guards next to him. Immediately, the guards were divided into two teams. One team of guards went to the miner's wooden house and took the rope found in the camp.

He threw it to the miners and asked them to tie up the people around them one by one, like threading beads. After all were tied up, the guards took them out of the camp.

The other team piled all the combustibles in the camp next to the walls and wooden houses. After all the miners walked out of the camp, they ignited all the flammables. The hay and sheets immediately burned violently under the ignition of the torches.

The strong night wind quickly rushed up the walls and wooden houses, and instantly the entire camp was engulfed in a sea of ​​fire, burning with crackling sounds.

"Let's go!" Seeing the entire camp shrouded in a sea of ​​fire, Gervais withdrew his gaze, turned over on the horse, and then gave an order to start the return journey with the carriage. This represented the first journey in his life.
Chapter completed!