The night had sunk.

The sparse coniferous forests of the Ayzeon Mountains are covered in a layer of silver-gray moonlight, and the mountains rise and fall like beautiful ink.

There was silence all around, except for a few overwhelmed and dilapidated carriages, squeaking and squeaking, forming a line on the winding mountain road.

Inside the carriage was a lively and singing scene, and among the muscular miners sat two thin figures.

"Uncle Sam, is it true that you just said that there is no trace of the dire wolf on the Azeen Mountains?" Northon said to one of the miners that the miner was strong enough to fit him and the old man.

"When I was a child, I occasionally encountered a few dire wolves, they are not bad by nature, but they can hurt people when they are very hungry." Sam is strong, but he often has a smile on his face, and he has an amiable temperament, "Afraid of threatening the lives of miners and affecting copper mining, Jocha County issued a long-term mission to hunt dire wolves, and over time, the number of dire wolves is getting smaller and smaller, and in the last ten years, there is not even one." ”

Ellen interjected, "Some say the dire wolves have moved to the cold flakes further north, while others say they've been wiped out. In short, you won't see it in the Azern Mountains. ”

"What, you took the task of the Dire Wolf Core?" Sam asked.

Norson hurriedly denied it, hearing Ellen say that "that task has long been ignored", and even the fat woman in the bounty office was angry. said indignantly: What an old woman with a needle in her cotton actually played with us in the palm of her hand.

Thinking about it, it seems that the embarrassing level of a level 6 gunsmith can only take on the task of one star.

He didn't know much about the bounty system, and he didn't know anything about the punishment for failing to complete the task. Wandering gunsmiths who are on adventure, and people who are not attached to any guilds, chaebols, or other forces, will live on the rewards of bounty tasks.

Ay! I had to go to the mine first, and then take the carriage back to Jocha County, and find another way.

Seeing that Northon was suddenly silent, Sam accosted: "Little brother, why are you a miner when you are young?" ”

Innocent was infected by his innocent smile, put his worries behind, and said in a thoughtful manner: "No way, the children of poor families are in charge of the house early." ”

The old man couldn't help but sneer, and said in his heart: Good boy, you can lie easily.

"Are miners bitter?" Northon asked, "Uncle Sam, why are you a miner?" ”

"When I was a teenager, I asked the same question." Sam unbuttoned his shirt from his breast pocket, pinched a crumpled piece of paper between his fingers, spread it on his lap, and gently pulled it as flat as he could.

"Your daughter?" Seeing that the paper was a bust of a brown-haired girl, Northon leaned over and asked.

Sam stared at the portrait and smiled, then he put away his smile and said with a little sadness: "In this world, Irina and I are each other's only relatives." ”

Northon hurriedly apologized sincerely, but Sam interrupted him and continued: "In just over two years, Irina will be eighteen years old, the age of marriage. The work of a miner is a little harder and more tiring, but the salary is the highest, so I will earn more while I am still working, and give her a better dowry. When she was married, I went with a few old fellows to live in seclusion in the depths of the Azeon Mountains. ”

Ellen quipped: "Hey, Brother Sam, marry your daughter to me, our miner brothers are diligent and thrifty, and they are the most reliable." ”

"you," he said, putting away the portrait and symbolically punching Eren in the shoulder, "I don't want her to spend all day with the slag." ”

The frolic of the miners adds a lot of fun to the boring night road.

Northen talked and laughed with them, and it was not until the middle of the night that he became tired and fell into a deep sleep. The old man always closed his eyes and recuperated, and after losing the gun spirit, he felt physically and mentally exhausted, and his condition deteriorated, and he fell asleep leaning on the frame of the car not long after setting off.

The carriage traveled through the mountains and forests for two days and three nights, and arrived at the mine at dawn.

Noxon and the old man were pulled out of the carriage while still asleep, and they were carried to the mine platform with the miners.

Although the two men repeatedly emphasized their intentions and took out their pistols to identify themselves, the mine supervisors did not buy it, and showed their guns one after another, and invariably stuffed them into elevators and transported them to the mine at the bottom of the mountain.

The air was cloudy, the lights were dim, and there was already a wave of people working underneath, topless, or knocking or carrying ore. The overseer stood not far away, whipping and moaning.

According to the speed and time of the fall, Northon estimated that the bottom of the shaft was at least three thousand meters away from the surface, and he muttered to the old man how to escape from the mine, and was found by the overseer and reprimanded.

Sam beckoned the group to go to their respective posts, fearing that Norson and the old man would be bullied by the overseer again, so he kept them by his side.

"So you're a gunsmith!" Sam pushed a minecart and held the rudder himself, motioning for the two to assist.

Northon laughed at himself: "Is a one-star white spearman worthy of being called a gunsmith, but if you have a little talent, you won't come to the Azern Mountains." ”

"That's better than us big guys." Ellen came over to help.

Semu said earnestly: "Little brother, it's a pity for you to be a miner, listen to the uncle's advice, don't come to the mountain after this trip." As long as you are willing to endure hardships, one day, you will become a famous gunsmith in Jocha County. ”

Northon smiled silently, pulled the topic away, and talked about matters related to copper mines.

The work in the mine was heavy and boring, and within two days, he and the old man could not bear it, but the whip that should have fallen on them was snatched by Sem and Ellen, and the other miners saw that he was weak and weak, and took special care and attention to them.

Northen was grateful, but hated the overseer.

The old man was much more open-minded and rarely complained, which couldn't help but impress Northen. As early as in the dense forest, he revealed that the indifference when the spear spirit was destroyed, which had already made the five bodies that Nuosen admired fall to the ground. For senior gunsmiths, he has formed a stereotype of being high-powered and pampered, but he didn't expect the old man to endure hardships, and he was not ambiguous at all.

He expected that the old man was by no means an ordinary person, and of course, the senior advisor of the Forging Association was not ordinary.

While the others were resting, he and the old man would go to investigate the topography of the mine so that they could use it in order to escape, and they found that the mine was very large, and the caverns were intricately intertwined, like an underground labyrinth.

Life at the bottom of the well is long and boring, seemingly endless, and it is impossible to distinguish day and night underneath.

On this day, everyone was working hard when suddenly there was a low roar of a demonic beast. The roar flickered far and near, and he could only roughly discern the direction, but he didn't know where the monster was.

The miners threw down their tools and fled to the other side in a panic, and the overseer made Northon feel incredulous not to stop him.

Suddenly, the roar intensified, and then suddenly disappeared, but everyone heard the roar, mixed with the screams of someone who stopped abruptly in the middle of the shout.

A miner must have died.

Norson drew his pistol and wanted to see what was going on, but was stopped by Sam and said, "Don't, don't go over!" ”

He and the old man stood in place, staring ahead, but the light was dim, and they could only see the light and shadow of dozens of meters in front of them, and then there was a gray and dull nothingness.

In the void, a pair of huge pupils shining with a faint green light lit up brightly, terrifying.

"Run!" Seem pulled Nuosen to run for his life, but the other party didn't have the slightest intention of escaping, he eagerly persuaded, "That's a man-eating devil, we can't afford to provoke it, hurry!" Run......