"From love comes sorrow, from love comes fear. Without the one you love, there is no worry or fear."
"What does this remind you of...?"
"Your direction is wrong. Previous competitions are worthless. Why do you say that? The essence of each level in the competition is different, because it is never arranged by someone. But we can still find patterns. For example, the difficulty of the first game
Even lower. Seven years ago in the top five competition, 80% of the contestants were screened out in the first stage.”
"emotion."
"So you're suppressing your emotions?"
"I've always been like this."
"Further north we will be close to the cursed title trial area. Maybe we can try our luck? Stupid idea. You outsiders don't understand the horror of the forbidden area. 30 people die in the swamp every year in the lower level. 30 people? I miss her
It said 30%, which is really not a good idea anyway. Tovani, what do you think? I don’t know...well, maybe Mr. Lu Li has a solution?"
After talking to no avail, everyone turned their attention to Lu Li again.
"The Bloodline Family Alliance knows what the exit is." Lu Li recalled the tone of the young man he talked to. "They stay in the mining area for hunting."
"They themselves are also prey." Heinz Ellis did not conceal the ridicule of those who were more arrogant than him: "Are you going to go back when they are unprepared?"
"The swamp is full of their eyes. If you want to get close to us, you have to find a way to be more hidden." Pasha Rivas fell into thinking.
"Wait a minute, everyone, I have a better idea!" Kaiser suddenly shouted, his face flushed with excitement, like a young boy: "We can return to the mining area from the mud, they won't think that we can suddenly appear in
in!"
"The premise is that the local people don't tell the truth."
"Can confirm."
The businessman Anthony came due to the summons and contacted the mining area through the Earth Dweller Chamber of Commerce, and got information that would benefit them: the abandoned mines have not yet been exposed.
Considering the trade volume that has been generated through merchants shipping to the underground city of Vina's Freezing Harbor and the Land of Light in recent months, they are worthy of trust.
Before heading back to the mining area to give those arrogant guys a look, Lu Li asked the businessman Anthony to contact Claire, Kiruit, and Margaret.
Claire was the first to respond, and Lu Li asked for the export information, but unfortunately she knew nothing.
"But I eliminated twenty-three guys, and one of them was that annoying scion of the Mengsk family."
Compared to Lu Li, who formed an alliance and is still hiding in XZ, Claire is like an undefeated protagonist in a knight's novel.
However, Kiruait, Margaret, and even Fudot, Yeager, and Naxi were unable to contact them.
This means that they either did not carry the positioning eyeball, or there was an accident.
Hope it's not the latter.
…
Players from the Bloodline Family Alliance would never think that they would come back.
Even if he comes back, he doesn't care that the blood power of the two Aztec families is the uncrowned king of the swamp.
Although it still puzzles them how Nunes and others left the mining area while they were in prison.
Following the traces that only Heinz Ellis noticed back to the mud, Pasha Rivas still entered first, this time without taking off his armor.
Then Kaiser, Ida, Tovani, and Lu Li returned to the mud one after another and appeared in the abandoned tunnel.
When Heinz Ellis finally stepped out of the muddy water curtain, they returned along the mine tunnel.
In the interplay of light and shadow caused by the shaking of the miner's lamp, Pasha Rivas suddenly stopped and pinched a ball of mud that squirmed out from the gap between the lining and armor.
"I've been marked. Thoth, what about you?" Holding the mud that looked like a living thing, Pasha Rivas looked at his companions.
Thoth frowned and untied the fitting of the shoulder armor, and a line of mud crawled along the inner lining like an earthworm.
"Me too."
Thoth turned his shoulder armor around, trying to wipe away the mud.
"It will be noticed." Pasha Rivas shook his head to stop.
To avoid accidents and save time at the same time, Lu Li and others would not stay. Pasha Rivas and Thoth retreated to the mud, processed the marks outside of perception, and then reunited.
Leaving behind a miner's lamp and a fluorite lamp, Lu Li continued to move forward.
The sound of metal friction without armor became silent in the abandoned mine, and the light of the miner's lamp only drifted away from the side, bright as they came, and silent as they went away.
After passing the fork in the road and still some distance away from the core area of the mine, they encountered ground tremors again. Distant tremors rippled from the depths of the earth, gravel and gravel fell, dust clouded their eyes, choked their noses, and they could not continue to move forward.
forward.
Different from the experience on the surface, they were located underground in the mining area, closer to each other, and the narrow mine tunnels echoed and buzzed, as if they were some kind of mournful cry originating from somewhere underground.
After dozens of seconds, the tremors gradually weakened, the gravel stopped falling, and the diffuse dust gradually became thinner.
Lu Li looked around at his four companions, who were also lost in some thoughts because of the mournful cries that seemed to be heard.
If you think about it carefully, the tremors that sound every ten minutes do not look like some kind of rock-breaking method.
It's too frequent and... lengthy.
Whether it was caused by the earth dwellers or the hidden secrets of the swamp, it had nothing to do with them. Slightly speeding up, they arrived at the exit of the abandoned mine in a few minutes.
You can already hear the echoes in the underground halls of the mining area, the harsh quarrels between the earth dwellers and their equally unique looks.
"...The only way to escape is through the mine."
“If you say you haven’t seen it, you haven’t seen it!”
"...Humans...come in..."
"Damn mine slave! Your food is gone today!"
The aggrieved mining slave got into the main mine tunnel.
The abandoned mine next to it was neglected, and darkness crawled in the shadows.
"You still don't admit it?" Derek McAlliser said coldly.
"If you haven't seen it, you haven't seen it!" The Miner Head resident refused to admit it.
"The McAlisse family and the Earth-dwelling Trading Company have always been cooperating. As a deep-diving class..."
The shadows squirmed, and Lu Li retreated to his waiting companions.
"Ida, can your spider web restrain the enemy?"
"It will get all over the place and won't come off."
"It doesn't matter. This is the mine, that's the enemy."
…
Moving out of the family did not make the locals relent, and Derek McAlliser realized that this was related to the "legend".
The "legend" in the rumors is extremely wealthy, and all the nobles in the entire Midnight City combined are not as wealthy as him...
The sudden impact behind him caused McAlliser to fall forward. When he regained consciousness, he was stuck to the ground, and several figures slowly walked towards him.
"Prohibited in the territory of local residents"
"I am Lu Li, an Earth Core-level customer."
The piercing scream suddenly turned into flattery and attentiveness: "Do you need a rope, distinguished guest?"
Everything went smoother than expected.
Lu Li stopped in front of Derek McAlliser, lowered his eyes and looked at him calmly: "Tell us the location of the exit."
"The family will not submit to anyone, not even a 'legend'." Derek McAlliser stared at Lu Li mockingly.
Ida, whose emotions took over, was eager to give it a try.