Chapter 86 Miner's Diary

When You entered a wall again, he was uncharacteristically uncharacteristic, and it took a long time before he floated out again.

"It's empty in here, but I can't find the door."

There was some confusion in the Banshee's voice: "How can a room with no door be inhabited?"

"Shouldn't you first consider how to open such a room?" The five and a half living people looked at You in surprise. They have been dead for too long, so their thinking is different from that of normal people?

"We haven't reached the next floor yet, right?" Sera used the light of the light spell to look down, "Why is there an empty room here?"

There is nothing else on the second floor except some beasts and cave-dwelling monsters. They are currently at the junction of the second and third floors.

"I don't know about that, I just know that it's very, very big inside!" You tried to figure out the size and height of the space inside, but he went straight through the stone wall above. It looks like the space inside might be two stories high.

"Is it very thick?" Ivy stretched out her hand and knocked on the stone wall. It was indeed empty inside, but the specific thickness was not easy to judge. Although their group also brought pickaxes that they might use, they did not dare to dig casually in this old mine hundreds of years ago.

"It's not too thick," You wandered around twice, "Maybe it doesn't need to be dug out - take a look here, can you get in?"

You found a narrow crack. If you lay down on it, you can vaguely see the darkness inside, but it is not that easy to squeeze in from here.

"I'm definitely finished," Sera shook her head, "Look at my muscles! I can't even stretch my forearm in!"

"Me too..." Sylvia looked down and found that her size was probably more difficult than Sera's.

Victoria and Ivy are both wearing armor. If they take it off, they can get by, but it is not a good idea to take off their defenses in a place like this.

"Honestly, my head is a bit big," Drayford muttered and began to squeeze in, while Ron attached the light spell to his short bow to help Drayford see better. surrounding environment.

Darkvision is dark vision, and light is better than no light.

"That banshee, I think you are mistaken," Drivedo's voice soon came from behind the wall, "No wonder you said there are no walls here."

"This room should be on the upper floor, it fell down!"

"Falled off?" Ron asked outside.

"The floor collapsed!" said the goblin. "Look at the corpses and bones in this room! I'm sure they fell down!"

"There are six, seven, eight corpses, all ghouls, and I can't recognize the bones - wait?"

"Drivedo? What did you find?"

There was silence for a while, and then Drivedo's voice sounded again: "Notes! There is a notebook here! I also found some writings painted with blood on the wall!"

"But I can't understand what's written on it."

"Throw it out," Sylvia said, "let me see it. Can you think of a way for us to see those on the wall?"

"I can!" You went in and came out again, leaving a string of shining illusory words on the wall here.

"Dwarf language," Sylvia recognized it at a glance, "Am I too hungry?"

"It's written in the notes: On a certain year, month, and day, Lao Chui and the others were trapped for three days. After returning from the unfinished fifth floor, they became strange, taciturn, and didn't answer ten questions..." Ron picked it up. Picking up the notes that Dreyfus had thrown out, he opened a page that was still intact.

"'The Queen suddenly ordered the closure of the mines, but why?'" Sylvia frowned and leaned over to read, "'Old Hammer and the others had a conflict with the soldiers who came to perform their duties, and I also joined in. My My wife and six children are waiting for me to earn this job, and I can’t lose this job!’”

"'We have hidden the bodies of the soldiers, and the overseer has been convinced by us. If the Queen no longer pays us wages, we will pay ourselves. After all, this is a gold mine!'"

"'But what did I find? When I got up at night, I saw Lao Chui and the others going to the place where the corpses were buried, and then digging them out?'"

"'I should figure out what's going on. Lao Chui and the others have been doing this for three days. I asked them, but they thought I was sleepwalking?'"

"'They're getting weirder and weirder. They're sleeping in the same dormitory and I can smell the rotten smell coming from them.'"

Ron turned the pages again, only to find that several entries at the back had been torn out, and the diaries further down were, without exception, stained with blood and bloody handprints.

"'I contacted several workers, questioned Lao Hammer, and started fighting with them. The reckless alchemist threw an alchemical bomb, which collapsed the floor and everyone fell down.'"

"'We finally won, but it was a miserable victory. I tried to call the people above to come to the rescue, but what emerged were a few soldiers. They ignored us and walked away.'"

"'I can hear the roar of the machines outside stopping. Is the mine still shut down?'"

"'Poor Shitou, he must have been infected by Lao Hammer. He kept trying to attack me last night. In order to save his life, I could only tie him up.'"

"'These people are crazy! They are all crazy! I didn't tie the stone just to let you eat it! God...'"

Sylvia looked at the words You left on the wall again: "The back of the diary is unreadable. I guess what's on the wall is the final result."

"It's almost the same as the ending of the three on the first floor, and the 'Old Hammer' in the diary should have encountered something similar." Ron walked to the gap and pulled Driver out.

"There is indeed not much food in the mine, but it shouldn't be to this extent, right?" Ivy frowned, "Five-layer mine, this kind of thing happened on every layer?"

"It's the mine of the entire ancient kingdom," Sylvia corrected, "Did you forget? 'Plague'"

"Dilemmas create ghouls, and ghouls will create new dilemmas. I guess the last queen ordered the blockade after exploring a mine and discovering this."

"But the ghouls transformed in this way...will not immediately turn into beasts, but can still maintain consciousness for a period of time. The queen should have been resisted by her non-human subjects under this situation and was eventually overthrown."

"I thought I could be professionally matched." Ron sighed. If it was this kind of 'plague', he was afraid that he would not be able to cure it.

"Maybe the fifth floor has the answers we need," Ivy said. "Hopefully there won't be so many ghouls on the lower floors."