Chapter 46 Chapter 46 The Evil Underground Visitor
Chapter 46 Chapter 46 Evil Underground Visitor
"He...he is the miner Gerald from Rupert's search party."
After tremblingly identifying the man under the dark cave, Blister heard the majestic and steady voice of the lord.
"Joy, quickly find a long enough rope, tie one end to the fixed stone pillar, and come back with the other end. I will use the rope to pull the person.
Blister, you quickly organize the rest of the people on this level of the mine, stack the unfixed wooden beams at the entrance of the mine, take the torches and oil lamps on the wall, and send someone to notify all the guards.
The Noxian Black Iron Guard soldiers and Black Rose mages in the mining area will come to support, and then you and a few people will wait for my order at the entrance, ready to set fire to block the passage."
"yes!"
After receiving the order, Blister said nothing and turned around to greet the others.
Joey was still looking at Gerald who was struggling to climb up with some hesitation. He was about to say something when he saw the lord's wife, who was gentle and calm just now, picked up his collar and looked at her with cold gray eyes.
Staring at himself.
"Follow Lord Leicester's instructions."
His legs went weak and Joey rolled away.
"Margaret, just wait here and prepare to pick me up with a long rope."
Watching Gerald climb up with cold eyes, Leicester turned over and fell amidst Margaret's exclamation.
But before they climbed down the two high platforms, the sound of metal bowstrings being ejected came from the darkness.
A short, thick dark red crossbow bolt cut through the air, inserted into the thick rock wall close to Gerald's face, and spattered a piece of fine pebbles, scratching the miner's cheek.
"Whaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!"
"Gerald!! If you don't want to die, move quickly!! I'm here!!"
Already in complete despair, Gerald suddenly heard a familiar voice and couldn't help but look up.
In a daze, he saw a familiar face.
"Lord!! Save me!!"
"I will save you! Keep climbing up!!"
Biting his lip, the taste of rust penetrated deep into his throat. Gerald's desire to survive was activated and he moved much faster.
The torch at the bottom was completely extinguished.
The low squeaking sound of mice was getting closer and closer, as if there were endless mice approaching the three of them quickly in the darkness.
"Whizzing!"
Two more crossbow arrows were fired at Gerald. One of them missed and flew into the depths of darkness. The other crossbow arrow accurately entered Gerald's chest and brought out a handful of blood flowers.
, piercing a bloody hole in Gerald's chest and biting the stone wall fiercely.
"Lord... big... big..."
The unspoken words froze in his chest and could no longer be spoken. The eyes that stared at hope quickly lost their luster. The miner's body was hung on the rock wall by a crossbow arrow, and his life withered.
Drops of blood fell from the sky and dripped on the ground, telling the final elegy of life and death.
He looked away from Gerald's body and stared into the darkness. The man's eyes turned completely cold.
"Lord! Here comes the rope!"
"Lord Lester! Catch the rope!!"
"Whoosh whoosh!"
Three crossbow arrows were shot from bottom to top from three different directions. Lester quickly crawled on the ground, avoiding the two crossbow arrows that flew first and shot into the rock walls on both sides.
The last crossbow arrow seemed to be at a wrong angle. Instead of piercing into the rock wall, it scraped the rock wall and then sliced away directly. It fell from the air and was held by Lester before falling into the darkness.
Grabbing the rope and attaching the forearm-long crossbow bolt to his waist, Lester quickly alternated his hands and climbed upwards.
"Zhizhizhi..."
The chirping of the mice became louder and louder, and crossbow bolts flew from behind, but they could only vent their dissatisfaction feebly behind Lester, creating small craters on the rock wall.
Climbing up the dark cave, pushing away Margaret who wanted to block him, and dodging several crossbow bolts flying towards him, Lester took the torch from Joey's hand again and threw it directly towards
Deep in darkness.
For a moment, time seemed to have stood still.
The torches flying in the air emitted dim light, and the arc of light slowly cut through the darkness, illuminating a pair of red and bloodthirsty eyes.
They were hundreds of red-skinned mice about the size of children, wearing simple dark leather armor, holding short knives with dark blood light and strange crossbows with metallic luster in their hands. The arrows of the crossbow arrows were like bloodthirsty ones.
Like the cruel eyes of a mouse, it exudes an evil dark red light.
"Squeak!"
The torch that fell to the ground was extinguished instantly, and hundreds of pairs of dark red light spots disappeared from the darkness. Only the harsh sound coming from the rock wall told that the metal steel claws were piercing the solid rock wall deeply at this moment, carrying the evil master with them.
Climbing upward.
Cut the rope with a sword.
"Run! Don't stop! Don't look back!"
After picking up a few fallen crossbow bolts from the ground, Lester pulled Margaret and ran towards the entrance.
"Lord, please wait for me!!"
He also saw clearly the terrifying evil things in the depths of the darkness. Joey followed the two of them with weak legs, rolling and crawling outside.
The three of them arrived at the entrance to the third branch of the mine tunnel, next to some tall wooden beams. Blister was sweating profusely, holding a torch, and leading three other miners who were holding oil lamps and looking frightened.
"Smash the lamp on the wood and light it with a torch."
The glass broke, and the oil soaked into the surface of the wooden beams, emitting a unique smell. As everyone took two steps back, Blister dropped the torch in his hand, and the flames quickly ignited the stacked wooden beams, igniting a raging fire.
"withdraw!"
Not long after everyone left, a shadowy squeaking sound came from the other side of the fire, and was briefly blocked on the back of the fire wall.
The earthen jar flew through the air and hit the burning wooden beam. A strange green juice spilled out of the cracked earthen jar, which quickly suppressed the burning flames.
When retreating to the entrance of the second branch of the mine, Lester encountered a dozen Noxian Black Iron Guards and two Black Rose mages coming towards him.
Lester, who originally wanted the Black Iron Guard to face an unknown enemy, had to give up this somewhat arbitrary idea after seeing the true face of the enemy.
If there is anything more terrifying than the number of red-skinned rats and the weird weapons in their hands, it is the degree of organization reflected in the clear division of labor.
Even though he only had a quick glance in the corner of the torch, he saw the terrifying degree of organization hidden beneath the frenzied rats.
Without organization, they are just a bunch of violent rats that can be easily exterminated. However, the fact is that this group of mutated rats act in a very measured manner. The climbing rat is responsible for building the locked and suspended wooden ladders, and the melee rats guard them with shields and knives.
In front of the mouse holding the crossbow, the mouse holding the crossbow fired the crossbow arrows to cover the attack of the other mice.
There is no doubt that the red-skinned rats under the ground are a terrifying army with clearly defined arms. To wipe out an army requires not only another army and key battlefield intelligence, but also a real war.
