"We are from the Yongye Mercenary Group. We have accepted an underground exploration mission and plan to try our luck in Shimmer Canyon."
The map is in Xu Lai's hand, and he is not afraid of others knowing that he is going there. Go down to the dungeon.
The underground world is no better than the surface. Xu Lai has explored it himself and knows how complex the terrain there is. Coupled with the dark sight, Xu Lai has to bring a professional with him if he has a map.
Even if others want to follow him, as long as they go down the underground passage, they will find him.
“What task?”
The teleportation officer glanced at Xu Lai and continued to ask, as if he would not stop until he asked.
Xu Lai handed over another money bag nonchalantly and whispered: "Collection task, I don't know what's wrong with my employer, he just likes to collect some weird things.
I have been partial to it lately. Regarding the items in the dungeon, I found information that there is an underground passage to the underground in Shimmer Canyon."
The teleportation officer weighed the money bag, looked around and said:
"Okay, okay, seeing as you are so sensible, I will help you fill out the return application when you come back, so as not to have to queue up next time."
Xu Lai smiled and said: "Sir, we understand that you are so stubborn, but we really have no way to confirm the return date.
You should also know that this kind of exploration mission is full of uncertain factors. If you are lucky, you will be ready in a week or two. If you are unlucky for a year or two, you may even not be able to come back."
"Haha, that's not the case. I have heard of the name of your Yongye Guild. One look at your people. They are the elite."
Said, for the sake of two bags of gold coins, the teleportation officer didn't bother Xu Lai anymore, let them pay the money, and teleported directly with a team of more than 50 people. leave.
"Sir, they are not mercenaries at all. This is a serious discipline, and soldiers are not so obedient. Could they be mercenaries?"
As soon as Xu Lai and others left, the other officers guarding the teleportation array reported their doubts to the teleportation officer.
The teleportation officer snorted coldly and said: "Nonsense, you've seen it, I can't see it.
And let me tell you, none of these guys are easy to mess with. .
In broad daylight, would a normal person need to cover his whole body with such a big cloak?
Look at how tall their knights are, stand up straight. I can't even reach their horses' backs with my body, and even our lord's horses can't reach this group of people. Do you want me to stop them?
If you really stop these guys, believe it or not, they will poke a few holes in us without any eyesight! "
The officer was speechless after being trained, so he had to apologize.
However, the teleportation officer waved his hand and said: "It's useless to talk about this now. This includes Including teleporters, there are hundreds of people.
There are too many people and we have missed such an obvious target. Once the lord knows about it, we will all be miserable.
Wait a few more minutes. You can bring a few people and follow them in disguise.
I immediately went to report to the lord and told him that we were playing a long game to catch the big fish.
If there is any unexpected gain this time, we brothers will no longer need to guard the door here."
Of course the officer did not hesitate and immediately brought a dozen people with him. They took off their armor and wore only their regular clothes and let the teleporter take them to the same destination as Xu Lai.
After witnessing the officer leading the people away, the teleporter snorted:
“The Evernight Mercenary Group, huh, what a bunch of mercenaries have no identity, no matter how much money I pay, they can’t get the temple’s masters to say hello, okay? ”
Xu Lai didn't know that he was being targeted, but no one in the small town he teleported to gave him trouble.
In addition, all the demons in the Northern Empire have been basically eliminated, so no city has been closed.
Xu came to a grocery store and bought a detailed map of the local area. After adding some water, fresh food and lighting supplies, he successfully left the city and headed straight to Shimmer Canyon.
The underground passage in Shimmer Canyon has always been there, but this small city was built later.
Most of the people who come to this small city are mercenaries, expedition teams and the like for underground exploration, so the city is well prepared for all kinds of materials for underground exploration.
Because the city is not big, the city's owner does not have enough strength to occupy this underground entrance.
Mercenary guilds, adventure guilds, even underground slave guilds, and black market merchants are not something that a small noble can resist.
So the underground passage in Shimmer Canyon has become one of the few public passages in the entire empire.
This undoubtedly brought a lot of trouble to Xu Lai's profession.
Their outfits were originally intended not to attract attention, but because they were too neat and numerous, they became particularly eye-catching.
The good news is that, after all, they are blocked by the cloak, so they attract attention. After all, others don't know the identity and strength of this team, and they don't dare to provoke them easily.
The bad news is the same. They didn't show their strength, but many people thought they had an advantage, so they quietly followed Xu Lai and the others.
Roland frowned and couldn't help but said to Xu Lai: "Sir, would you like me to take someone to kill them!"
As Xu Lai's bodyguard, Roland I can't accept this scene of so many people following me.
“Calm down, Roland, you don’t look like a Holy Light Knight.”
Roland said helplessly: "It is precisely because I am a Knight of Holy Light that I have to be brave enough to use my sword against these little guys!"
Xu Lai shrugged and said helplessly: "Let them follow you if you like. "Follow me. If someone is really looking for death, let's wait until we go underground."
Going underground does not mean that everything will be fine, but that the underground does not belong to the empire's sphere of influence, and the restrictions on heroes will be much smaller.
The nobles can make themselves justified in killing by playing with legislation and through legal situations.
Ordinary people don't care at all, or in other words, the rules have almost no restrictions on ordinary people.
Only the group of heroes is a very special kind of existence.
On the one hand, the laws of the world favor heroes; on the other hand, the laws of the world also place great restrictions on heroes.
It’s not that heroes can’t kill, Xu Lai has killed a lot of people, but he will be punished even if he kills heroes from the opposing camp.
Killing one's own people, especially those from one's own camp, if it is not for a suitable reason such as self-defense, will at least lose the goodwill of the surrounding people, and at worst, will lose the goodwill of the entire empire or even the human camp.
Of course, the lower the status of the person killed, the smaller the impact.
Previously in Conaston, he just locked up the heroes who offended him, but he could fully bear the consequences of killing these ordinary people.
But relatively speaking, the underground is a closed environment. If Xu Laizhen does something bad, the impact will be much smaller, and the reputation will be less deducted if it shows up.
The impact on the surrounding areas is almost non-existent, because the surrounding areas are not imperial forces and will not affect the relationship between Xu Lai and the residents of the small town. Besides, Xu Lai, who had been underground, knew very well that if he wanted to kill people there, he really didn't need to do it himself.
Glimmer Canyon is named after the many fluorescent mushrooms that emit a shimmering light at night.
Xu Lai is very familiar with this kind of mushroom. It is a specialty of the underground city. It will grow very well in the dark, but it cannot stand the strong light.
The canyon environment of Shimmer Canyon blocks these mushrooms from the intense sunlight, allowing them to survive in the canyon, but they have been unable to spread out of the canyon.
The origin of these mushrooms naturally comes from the mercenaries, rangers, and adventurers who are constantly entering and leaving the dungeon.
As they keep coming in and out, they always come across many mushrooms and bring their spores to the surface.
Over time, these mushrooms spread across the surface world.
This characteristic was quickly discovered by humans, but humans did not clean up these mushrooms with strong spreading ability.
First of all, these mushrooms are afraid of sunlight and cannot survive in the sun.
Secondly, humans can judge the danger of the underground world connected to the current underground passage based on the number of these mushrooms.
If the number of mushrooms is large, it means that there are more people returning from the underground. Otherwise, the seeds cannot be carried to every corner under the sun.
But if there are no mushrooms around, especially in the dark corners, then unless this is an underground passage that has never been discovered, you have to be careful.
The fact that there are no mushrooms at all usually means that none of the targets, including humans, who have gone in have come out alive.
This underground passage in Shimmer Canyon no longer needs to be judged by mushrooms. After all, the reputation has spread long ago.
Xu Lai just glanced casually at the entrance of the cave, asked his assistant Jilong and a few Holy Light Knights to guard the horses, and then led the people into the underground passage.
There was a ding, and before Xu Lai had time to react, a machete slashed at him with great force, but was blocked in time by Roland, who had been carefully guarding him.
But Roland could block the ambushes from both sides, but he could not block the crossbow bolts and arrows shooting from a distance.
Fortunately, Xu Lai was experienced in the battlefield. With the few tenths of a second that Roland had bought, as soon as the sound of breaking through the air sounded, he subconsciously raised the shield in his hand.
Several adventurers were not willing to use armor-piercing arrows, and precious arrows such as magic arrows could not do anything to the Lion King Shield in Xu Lai's hand.
Xu Lai, who has the ability of night, can see clearly at a glance that his opponents are just a dozen masked strangers dressed as mercenaries.
Perhaps it was because the Seraphs following Xu Lai all looked bulging in order to cover their wings, so they were targeted.
But no matter what the reason, this was the first time Xu Lai had been attacked.
Apparently, he wasn't the only one who thought the underworld was a good place to do bad things.
Xu Lai did not use his Prophet Sword, or even the Doomsday Blade, in order to prevent these two obvious artifacts from revealing his identity.
You know, he has provoked a lot of enemies now. If it was known that he only took a few people outside, then the people who attacked him would not be this group of ordinary mercenaries.
It cannot be said that this group of mercenaries is ordinary. The mercenaries who had been prepared for a while still broke out.
The mercenaries on the left and right sides, one uses an ax and the other uses a machete.
Although the machete's attack was blocked by Rolande, he used his skills to rush forward, so he was so fast.
The charging skill directly hit Roland, and even the Holy Light Knight was stunned for two or three seconds, unable to make any reaction for these two or three seconds.
The ax on the left is even more exaggerated. Although its movement is not as fast as the machete, after running up quickly, it started spinning without saying a word.
On the left side of Xu Lai is Jian Yuan, who is responsible for exploring the road.
Jian Yuan was only level 6. Xu Lai was worried that something might happen to him, so he raised his shield and rushed over quickly, blocking the whirlwind ax of Jianyuan's axe.
The sound of metal clashing was endless. The opponent who used the whirlwind ax was obviously a powerful power professional, and his skills had additional power blessings.
But even so, Xu Lai, who was extremely powerful, still held up his shield and forcefully forced the still rotating ax out of the entrance.
The entrances and exits of underground passages are generally in open areas, and are most likely surrounded by flat land.
But if the entrance and exit are really blocked, the passage will transport subsequent people in and out to a nearby open area instead of near the entrance and exit.
Xu Lai and the others were not surrounded, but not many people could pass through at one time. If Xu Lai didn't force them away, we still don't know where our own troops would be sent in the future.
He used his unreasonable strength to suppress the big axe. Even if the other mercenaries used their skill arrows, they could not cause any harm to Xu Lai.
The leading mercenary knew that he had hit an iron plate this time, so he immediately threw down a smoke bomb and immediately called his accomplices to leave.
The archers and crossbowmen in the distance escaped relatively smoothly.
Smoke bombs completely blocked the sight of Xu Lai and others. They were far away from Xu Lai and very fast.
If it was just Xu Lai and the others, they would really have escaped.
However, there are more than 30 seraphs behind Xu Lai. Even the immortal phoenix here does not dare to compete with the seraphs blessed by Xu Lai.
Without Xu Lai's greeting, Elvi, who had just landed, immediately took off with her Seraphs.
"Oh my god, angel, boss!"
"Oh my god, how can such a place exist? Oh my god, everyone should run for their lives!"
Mei Boss Bing didn't believe that there could be legendary creatures like angels in a place like this. But when he turned around, the angels had already passed through the smoke, following the shimmering light emitted by the mushrooms, chasing these people.
The few melee mercenaries abandoned by the mercenary boss were directly stabbed to death by Xu Lai and the others with a few backhand swords.
With the blessing of ultimate defense, even a warrior like Jian Yuan who does not wear heavy armor may not be injured, let alone the others who are all heavily armored Holy Light Knights.
Xu Lai no longer cares who is ambushing him. Anyway, judging from the level, this team is very capable, but it seems a bit ridiculous to use it to ambush him.
After finishing all the enemies in front of him and lighting the torches near the entrance of the cave himself, Xu Lai asked Roland to notify Jilong and return underground with the follow-up troops.
As long as we get to the underground smoothly, according to the map, we can reach the burial ground of the God of War's Hand in a few days. (End of chapter)