Edward, who was not caught by Celia, rolled straight down the mine, slamming into the wall next to him. At this time, the head of the chamber of commerce had not given up hope of life, although his head was dizzy from being hit, but the hissing screams around him still made Edward's hair stand on end, and he instinctively jumped up and tried to escape. But at that moment, a piercing pain came from his right foot, and Edward felt a tremendous force pull him back.

"Don't o-a-o-a-o!! Help o Ah o Ah Ah ————"

The screams came to an abrupt end.

"Father's big entry!"

Seeing her father swallowed up by those terrible monsters, Emily suddenly fell to the ground with her legs weakened. At this moment, she seemed to have completely forgotten the dangerous predicament she was in, and just stared blankly at the pit not far away, her mind blank. It wasn't until a violent gust of wind came from Emily's ears that she returned to reality.

"Boom!!"

The shattered stone giant fell to the ground heavily, its huge body had completely shattered in the middle, and dozens of sword marks had completely cut out countless wounds on Shi Jujin's body everywhere, although as an earth elemental creature, Shi Jujin could instinctively repair his body by absorbing the surrounding stones. But before Rhodes' stormy attack, its recovery was still a little too poor.

"Be careful, Miss Emily!"

"Hey, o............!!"

Hearing Rod's voice, Emily raised her head in surprise, and at this time, she saw that the "half-paralyzed" stone giant was turning his head to look at herself, in the dark and deep eye hole, two strange magical lights flickered from it, and the moment she saw the other party's eyes, Emily involuntarily stiffened her whole body, which was the instinctive reaction of life in the face of danger, at this moment, Emily found that she had never been so awake. Time seems to have slowed down a lot at this time. She could even see the terrible monster open its mouth and yell at itself, and then it stretched out its right hand, and Emily could even clearly see the rubble circling around the monster's arm, then merging into it——— then blasting forward.

"Bell !!"

At this moment, a dark shadow suddenly appeared beside Emily, grabbed her body and rolled on the spot, avoiding Shi Jujin's attack. Emily could even feel the cold, hard fist flying over her head, and the swept air pressure even brought up her long bright red hair at this moment. At the same time, the voice of "Miss Ceren" rang in Emily's ears. Emily looked up, just in time to see Miss Sylen slash at the top of Shi Jujin's head, and then she quickly retreated to her side. Without saying a word, he hugged her body like this, and suddenly rolled into a side road next to the mine. Immediately after, Emily saw a dazzling flash of light in front of her, accompanied by a deafening roar, and the tumbling dust came towards her, and then she said "woo............... without knowing anything...............

I don't know how long it took for Emily to come back to her senses, and when she opened her eyes, all she saw was darkness.

"Are you awake?"

"Uh............ I'm ..............."

Emily shook her head, and she followed the lookout, only to see "Miss Ceren" sitting beside her. As for her, leaning against the wall next to the mine, the cold stone touch came through her thin clothes, which made Emily shiver, and this made her finally sober up completely.

"Here it is......... I ..............."

"We're still in the mines, Miss Emily."

Looking at Emily, who was a little panicked, Rod couldn't help but smile slightly, and then spoke. He patted the dust off his body, then stood up and looked at the blocked exit of the mine not far away——— and when he struck the back blow of the stone giant, the other party chose to explode himself. And Rhodes had already seen through this, so at the moment when Shi Jujin was self-detonating and accumulating, he rushed into the auxiliary passage next to him with Emily, and he could avoid the other party's "eager invitation" to die together. Although Shi Jujin's self-explosion is very powerful, as a swordsman who has truly entered the master-level realm, it is too difficult for a monster who is only in his early thirties to self-detonate to hurt him. Emily, on the other hand, fell unconscious when she crashed into a nearby wall due to the impact of the eruption.

However, although neither of them was injured, Shi Jujin's self-explosion still caused them a lot of trouble. Although Rhodes could easily resist the explosion of the stone giant, those fragile mines were not so lucky. The self-explosion of the stone giant has completely buried the entire entrance to the mine, and even collapsed part of the main mine, so it is impossible to return the same way———— that is, they are already trapped in this mine.

"So............ Miss Ceren, what shall we do? ”

Silently listening to Rod explain the current situation, Emily asked uneasily, and Rod pondered for a moment before giving an answer.

"Quite simply, Miss Syren, we can continue to look for a way out. This place has been blocked, and I believe that even if the outside invaders try to save us, they will not succeed in a short time. In general, there are several underground tunnels used in case of emergency, so that those miners can leave quickly in case of emergency. I thought, instead of sitting here and waiting to die, I should go around and see if there is a way out. ”

"But ..............."

Hearing Rod's inquiry, Emily couldn't help but look embarrassed.

"But Miss Syren, the mines are so complicated, in case we get lost......... And, those monsters ........."

"I've been to a lot of mines, so I still know a little bit about the methods of the miners, so I don't think it's a big problem. As for those monsters............... Before you woke up, Miss Emily, I had looked around, and they seemed to be just as frightened and fled from here. So you don't have to worry, Miss Emily, even if anything happens..............."

With that, Rhodes came up to Emily, crouched down, and took her hands.

“……… I'll protect you, Miss Emily. ”

“…………………”

Hearing "Miss Syren" speak, Emily couldn't help but be stunned, she raised her head and looked at Rhodes in front of her.

"Miss Syren......... Why can you be so calm? ”

"As a traveling merchant, I've encountered similar emergencies more than once."

Saying this, Rod's face suddenly became much gloomy, he lowered his head, and let go of the hand holding Emily. This made Emily feel a little regretful and disappointed——— because with Rod's action, she seemed to have lost the support she had found so hard.

"I'm so sorry, Miss Emily, I didn't expect such a ferocious and cruel monster to haunt here, if I had noticed this earlier, then Ling Zun wouldn't have ..............."

“……………”

Hearing Rod's words, Emily also fell silent. She didn't want to remember all this, but now Rod's words ruthlessly pulled her back to reality, yes, the reason why she was here was because the Miss Syren in front of her insisted on coming down to see the situation after hearing a series of rumors in the mine, and she and her father would follow her to the mine, which happened to her. Now, her father is dead, and she is trapped in this dark underground mine, and she doesn't even know if she will get out alive.

Thinking of this, Emily couldn't help but subconsciously clench her fists and bite her lip, she didn't expect that parting from life and death would be such an easy thing, her father, who was still with her just now, is now separated from her forever yin and yang. And she didn't expect that she was in a life-and-death crisis right now. For a moment, Emily even thought she was dreaming, obviously in the morning, she was still drinking steaming black tea, tasting delicious pastries, and longing to go to the outside continent to be a merchant. But now, covered in mud and dirty, trapped in this dark and dim tunnel, death is everywhere——— and it is only at this time that Emily realizes for the first time how easy it is to destroy the so-called peaceful and peaceful life.

"No......... It's not your fault, Miss Celen. ”

Emily, who gradually calmed down, shook her head, she clenched her teeth, the pain of losing her family was still precipitating in her heart, although from a certain point of view, the young lady in front of her was indeed the culprit who caused their father and daughter to be in such a situation. But in all fairness, Emily doesn't think she did it on purpose. And............... "We were so negligent, I'm sorry, Miss Syren." In fact, my father had learned of strange news in the mine several years ago, but he had never sent it in to investigate. If we had investigated this sooner, this might not have happened..............."

"There are no ifs in this world, Miss Emily."

Just as Emily gritted her teeth, regretting her and her father's negligence, Rod's calm voice came again.

"Nothing we can do to change what has happened, so the only thing we can do is to make sure that what happened is not wasted. We pay a heavy price for our mistakes, but we also learn from them in order not to make the same mistakes......... Look up, Miss Emily. ”

“…………………”

Hearing Rod's words, Emily raised her head and looked at the beautiful face in front of her, even in the dim tunnel, this face made Emily feel at ease like she had never felt before, as if she existed, even in this ubiquitous darkness, it didn't seem so terrible——— she nodded vigorously, and then wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and stood up, trying to show a somewhat stiff smile to the "Miss Ceren" in front of her.

"I'm sorry, Miss Ceren, for worrying you, so let's keep going......... Maybe after a while, those monsters will come back again. ”

"It's good that you think so, Miss Emily."

Hearing Emily's answer, Rhodes smiled softly and comfortingly at her, and then he turned away, his right hand letting go of the hilt of the dagger hidden in the hem of his skirt.

"So, let's move on."

The roads to the underground mines are as complicated as Emily suggests, but they are a matter of course, as the miners dig around like rats, searching for the riches buried in the soil, as well as digging through them. Some of them are interconnected, and some of them are completely dead ends. Even if the miners who are familiar with the situation are here, it is questionable whether they can clearly say which way they have dug up. For Rhodes, though, the problem is completely non-existent. Before the Stone Giant exploded, the reason why Rhodes chose to enter this auxiliary path was precisely because it connected to a path that led to the Earth Elemental Seal. Of course, when he first came here, Rhodes was also dizzy and lost in the mine for a long time. But after leading the new team here for countless times, he can be said to know every mine under Fiat well, and can even tell with his eyes closed which one is a dead end, which one has a treasure at the end of the road, where to reach the dungeon the fastest, where there is a possibility of hidden waves and rare elites——— Bi Jing's "walking library" is not in vain.

Of course, in front of Emily, Rhodes couldn't have behaved so lightly, otherwise if he really acted so explicitly, then as long as he wasn't an idiot, he would wonder if there was anything wrong with him. Although Bi Jing said that the excavation of the mine road follows many laws and conditions, but the first time he went down the mine for an outsider, he is more familiar than all the people here, so it will definitely lead to suspicion.

As for the situation outside, Rhodes is not worried. Before the Earth Giant exploded, he had already sent Celia out of the city. With Celia and Celestina out there, Rhodes wasn't worried about not getting first-hand intelligence reports. In fact, before Emily woke up, Rhodes had already communicated with Celia once, and it was the latter who told Rod that the self-detonation of the Giant Invasion had completely blocked the passage. At present, the Edward Chamber of Commerce is sending in to check the situation, and according to the miners, because of the violent explosion, the entire mine road has become extremely fragile, and a secondary collapse will occur if you are not careful, and because of this. I'm afraid the miners outside won't be able to open the mine to rescue them for a while. This is also in line with Rod's intentions, otherwise with his strength, why would he bother to make such a scene?

Now, his mission is almost complete, the mine is closed, and the president of the Edward Chamber of Commerce is finished, even if Emily accepts, it is unlikely that she will be able to resume production for a while. Even if they had finally managed to deal with these troubles, I am afraid that the war between the royal family and the reformers would have been won or lost long ago. This is not a good sign for Rod, but now he can't let his guard down. Because he has an even more important question to solve, that is, ——— who "awakened" the earth elemental spirits.

The reason why Rhodes knew that there was a sealed Earth Elemental Elven Lord under Fiat was because he was a player and was very familiar with the content of the game. But these natives don't know the Dao, they can't know anything about the monster deep underground. Otherwise, Edward would never have been so indifferent when he heard that something strange was happening in the mines. But it is impossible for the earth elemental spirit to wake up suddenly, and Rhodes knows very well how strong the seal is, like a safe, unless you go out of your way to get a crowbar, there is no way to loosen it at all, so you said that it will open with a push......... Even demons do not believe.

Rhodes didn't believe it was a coincidence, he wanted to find out what was hidden inside, who had awakened the earth elemental spirit, and what was his purpose?

Led by Rhodes, the two walked slowly through the complex underground labyrinth, and in the silent passage only the footsteps of the two entered echoed in it, and there was no sound other than that. The monsters that had attacked them before were now gone, as if they had never been there. Emily was still leaning close behind Rhodes at first, grabbing the hem of his clothes, and now she wasn't so nervous. It's just that for Emily, being taken around by Rhodes like this is really a little dizzy——— she doesn't even know if she has walked here just now, the passage in front of her looks so familiar, and she seems to have turned around several times under the leadership of "Miss Syren......... "Miss Cylen?" What are we competing ............... now?"

When Rod stopped again and looked around closely, Emily finally couldn't help but ask. At this time, Rod's face moved slightly, and then he quickly reached out and covered Emily's mouth, and the two of them were tightly pressed against the wall, and soon, Emily heard a faint sound from the silent passage.

That's the voice that speaks.

Hearing this, Emily's eyes widened in surprise.

Is there anything else here besides them? (To be continued)

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