"This is not a buried corpse." Axel squatted on the ground, his eyes scanning the dead body that was no longer moving.

"Oh?" Harley's voice showed interest, "Why not? Tell me."

He pointed to the severely rusted ancient armor on the corpse. The armor was not only dilapidated, but also embedded in the body of the deceased: "This is definitely not equipment from the 16th century. Compared with the nobles who were actually buried here, the age of this corpse is obviously It’s more long-term.”

Harley's eyebrows rose slightly. She secretly marveled at the keen insight of this outsider. She remembered that when she first entered the Longvinsk family tomb, she didn't find such details at all.

"Then why do you think this happens?"

After pondering for a moment, Axel raised his head and turned to the captain: "Under this tomb, there is an even older tomb."

"Boss..." Wolfe frowned and narrowed his eyes, "Where did you find this guy?"

"Picked it up in the suburbs." Harry said seriously.

Wolfe laughed.

"Rookie." When Harley said this word, her tone was somewhat inconsistent with its semantics. It seemed to be ironic, "Now you have two choices - you have just completed the Black Bones mission. If you return now, you can officially enlist in the army and obtain Your full outfit and skull lapel patch.

"Another option is that we can go deeper and you can explore for yourself what is going on in this tomb."

Axel turned his head and looked into the darkness, and soon he replied: "Let's go in and have a look."

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As they move forward, Wolfe and Crystal learn of the fact that Axel has lost his memory.

"Maybe he was a bronze-bone level before he lost his memory." Harley shook her collar badge and said to her two team members.

Wolfe, who was walking behind, gave the newcomer a hard look. Even if he wants to be promoted to Bronze Bone, he or "Bad Mouth" will be promoted first. This guy with no name and no surname is nothing.

Tick ​​tock.

Axel turned his head sharply. He heard the sound of water drops in the darkness ahead. But he knew that the source of the sound was actually extremely far away. According to common sense, it was impossible for him to hear it so clearly.

"Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up..."

"...You disrespect your elders so much, which is really a misfortune for your family!"

"Dad...can you shut up that old man? I want to sleep for a while..."

"...You should never sell your ancestral land, if Amundsen is still in the hands of my family..."

Axel turned his head in confusion: "Someone is talking in front - seems to be quarreling?"

"Rookie, you're not talking about a 'human being'." Wolfe said rudely.

When they advanced a little further, the voices in the darkness became more obvious: "Oh, great! Someone is coming to kill us again!" In the firelight, Axel saw that the person speaking was actually a man in a gorgeous dress. of dead bodies. "She" was lying on a stone bed dug into the rock formation, like someone who had been woken up in a dormitory at midnight. Unfortunately, her face was so dry that it was unbearable to look at it.

"The Longwinske family," Wolfe introduced, "They have been quarreling here for more than two centuries."

A dark figure stood up in the depths, and it was very large: "You guys retreat quickly, don't go any further! There is an ominous thing ahead that the world cannot touch, and we swear to guard this place forever..."

"The old man is so motivated!" A sharp voice came from the darkness next to him.

"He's always been like this!" yelled another voice, "Who are you? Which 'squad' are you from?"

"Hari Yumira." Harley said lazily.

"Team Yumira?" The voice in the darkness seemed to turn a corner, "Turn down the firelight, I need to confirm!"

Harley made the tooth fairy stop glowing temporarily, and Axel saw several pairs of will-o'-the-wisp eyes staring here in the darkness.

"Oh, it's them!" The corpse who spoke turned to look at the person blocking the road, "Old man, get out of the way! They tore us all into pieces last time, and they even used my head as a ball to kick!"

"No! I swear to guard you forever..."

"Come on, old man! Move away!" shouted a smaller corpse, which seemed to be a woman from the Longvinsk family who died young.

The voice holding the sword said no more, and walked away in embarrassment amidst the roars of the juniors. Once he took off his guardian posture, his size seemed to shrink a bit. "The world is going downhill...the world is going downhill!" He muttered and sat aside holding the rusty sword.

"Have a nice trip down to the deep!" As Axel passed by, a "corpse" lying in the wall said sharply.

"What's going on with them?" the recruit asked with a frown. He didn't feel comfortable with these talking, even some too smart corpses.

"There was a baron in the Longvinsk family. He was addicted to black magic and did some terrible things. As a result, the dead members of this poor family were burdened with the responsibility of guarding the border..." Harley said as she walked, "The dead ones The body is their prison, and they can only perform their guarding duties here until the end of their service."

They passed the dejected and oldest guardian. The corpse wearing armor and cloak held a rusty giant sword with his head lowered, and the beard in his arms looked like a big handful of hay. The team passed through a crack in the stone wall and entered a flight of stairs that led down. The dead skeleton family behind them started making noise again. For some reason, Axel also felt a little aggrieved when he thought of the dejected look of the old patriarch.

Perhaps, rather than being scolded by his juniors to make way for a powerful enemy, this overly upright defender would definitely prefer to fulfill his duties faithfully, even if he is chopped to pieces by a powerful enemy again...

The artificially dug stairs ended, the ground turned into a smooth slope, and they entered a natural cave. It's a bit colder here than the Longvinsk Tomb above. Going deeper, the darkness gradually spreads, and the space below is so open. Stalactites formed over time hang upside down in the vague darkness, like the teeth of some prehistoric beast. Tick-tock, tick-tock, there is saliva dripping from the tips of the teeth.

From time to time, Axel could hear strange sounds coming from the depths of the huge cave. He could not imagine what kind of secrets were hidden in such a place...

"What on earth is this place?" Axel couldn't help but turned around and asked.

"Rookie, don't you know a lot of things, why do you need to ask us for help?" Wolfe said.

The recruit ignored Wolfe's sarcasm and walked forward on his own. Soon, in the faint light of the fire, he saw it.

He saw the same corpses wearing rusty armor standing in the darkness as before, but this time there were more than four - hundreds of corpses of ancient soldiers sensed the firelight and turned their heads one after another in the dark world...