Chapter 1030 Ninety-seven. Labyrinth

Did    Pasha Rivas, Thoth, and Nunes who were looking for them answer the call and step through the mud into the depths of the mine?

   "There are their footprints on the opposite side."

   As the dust filled, Heinz Ellis said.

   did not return to the surface, the three of Nunes did go deep into the abandoned mine tunnel, but why did they do it, because of some irresistible force?

   At least at this time, if there is a call that seems to be nothing, it cannot shake their will. As the tremors subsided from the depths of the earth, the mud closed, and the grotesque was concealed by the calm.

   "Are we going to find them?"

   asked Tovani in a low voice. He was pessimistic about the survival of the three Nunes - under normal circumstances, they have no reason to leave Lu Li and his companions behind.

   Something must have happened that made them lose their will.

"Um."

   Lu Li wouldn't give up his companions until he got the news of their deaths.

   "We need to keep someone," Tovani suggested.

   "Three companions have been missing, and we have to continue to disperse?" Heinz Ellis frowned.

   "The bloodline family members may come down at any time. If the land dwellers betray us, there is no way to escape, so we have to let them stand by our side and seize the bloodline family members to interrogate the intelligence." Tovani said.

   "And I can ask the dwellers where the mines lead."

  Lu Li let Tovani and Joshua Carvalho stay behind, they are trustworthy from the Academy of Giant Trees and the Council of Nobles. Give him eyeballs to use if necessary, then burrow into the mud and step on the other side of the unfamiliar mud.

  The abandoned mine tunnel is quiet and silent.

  Following Heinz Ellis who led the way, Lu Li and the four went deep along the mine.

  The fork in the road appeared on the edge of the oil lamp, and there were messy footprints.

   "It's keeping us scattered?" Cather observed the footprints. Both forked mines have extended footprints.

  Heinz Ellis identified the footprints and analyzed the whereabouts of the three Nunes: Pasha Rivas and Toth walked into the same fork, then retreated, entered another fork, and returned again, choosing to each enter a fork. Nunes, who was chasing after him, entered the fork on the left and did not return.

   "Let's go left first."

   Follow Heinz Ellis into the mine on the left. After a distance, a flat stone wall blocks the road in front of them.

   The footsteps they followed wandered before and into the stone wall.

  Nunez and the others entered the space behind the stone wall.

  The rock wall prominently protruded the trap, and after being allowed, Kaiser tried to press it, and the trap responded by sinking into the rock wall, but nothing happened.

   "No accident, the other branch road also has the same device, and it will only be activated if the two organs press the stone wall at the same time." Heinz Ellis judged and looked at Lu Li: "Let's give up or continue."

  Lu Li asked Ida to stick the trap with cobwebs, but it was of no use. Only when they touched the trap would it remain activated.

   The forbidden swamp itself is permeated with perpetual obscurity. Just as you can't distinguish the aroma of individual grains of rice in a steaming pot of porridge, they can't distinguish the smell of a mine.

  It’s a pity that worms can’t come to forbidden places.

   After a brief silence, Lu Li calmly spoke.

"continue."

   Strangely enough, neither Heinz Ellis nor Ida and Kaiser were dissatisfied with Lu Li's decision to take risks.

  Heinz Ellis and Kaiser stayed, Lu Li and Ida detoured to another fork in the road, and Ida revealed part of the reason.

   "I don't know what the upper-level academy looks like. The lower-level academy is no different from other places. The weak eat the strong and fight. The only difference is that killing is forbidden."

  Luli is constructed by human civilization into a symbol, a symbol of hope, light and future.

   Although some people are still pessimistic, despised and dismissive. But for many -

  Lu Li is indeed the only light.

   And light is light because it opposes darkness.

  Egoistic, selfish exorcists are still exorcists, but they will no longer be preached and sung.

   At the end of the fork on the right, a mirror-like stone wall and a mechanism emerge. With Date's limbs touching and pressing, the stone wall slowly rose, revealing a disturbingly deep mine.

   Luli and Ida stepped over the stone wall. But when looking back, behind him is not an open passage or a slowly falling stone wall, but a rock wall of unknown thickness.

  Ida's forelimbs slashed, leaving only a white mark at the strike.

The    rock wall is real... as if they stepped into the stone wall and reached another space.

   There are no traps around to trigger, and they have no way out.

   Just in case, Lu Li summoned the businessman Anthony, and conveyed a message to Claire asking for help: "I am digging a mining area in the north of the swamp, and three of my companions are missing, and we are also trapped in the mine tunnel.", and then moved on.

  Unexpectedly, they joined Heinz Ellis and Kaiser on the other side of the road.

   They encountered the same thing: disappeared as they stepped into the way behind the stone wall.

   and the mines where they also meet extend deep. As we continued onward, a new fork in the road emerged.

   Three this time.

  The messy footprints are divided into three parts and extend into three deep mines.

   "Whatever exists, it is dividing us." Heinz Ellis couldn't suppress his irritability.

   No doubt they became prey, caught in some kind of existential trap.

   To make matters worse, they have no way back, but keep going forward.

   They might meet the Nunes trio at the next fork in the road. It is also possible to continue moving forward until the number of people is less than the fork in the road, unable to trigger the trap and trapped here forever.

   "Are you still going to take risks?" Lu Li asked his companions for their opinions.

   Whenever he is calm and rational, he can protect the people around him from being wrapped in irritability and despair.

   "Go ahead, we have no other choice. Either find Nunes or they end up like them!"

   But they still have blind trust - trust in Lu Liwuyang.

   Ida followed Lu Li firmly, while Heinz Ellis and Kaiser entered the mine separately.

   Triggered the traps in the three mines, and the stone wall rose again. As you stepped in, it became an unfamiliar rock wall behind you.

   But this time, the footprints of the three Nunes who were guiding the direction disappeared.

   As if they stopped at the previous mine, Lu Li passed them by.

  In any case, the scattered people can only move forward along the mine road, and then meet again.

  The endless mine road forced them to move forward. After a certain distance, the mine road ahead did not accidentally divide into four forks.

   "Will Ken, can you feel anything?" Lu Li thought.

   "It feels strange to me here...I don't know how to describe it...Go ahead, maybe we will find the answer..." Will Ken replied slowly.

   The four people who met for a short time dispersed again and entered their respective mine tunnels, triggering the mechanism to reach a new space.

   This time, the extended mine tunnels did not meet again.

   At this time, the tremors deep in the ground surfaced again.

   (end of this chapter)