"Reminder, you have opened the teleportation scroll of the Blackstone Mine, and the teleportation gate has been opened. Please organize a team to go there as soon as possible. The current teleportation limit: 20!"
As Chu Xin opened the teleportation scroll, a teleportation gate as tall as a person appeared on the territory map outside the black castle. It marks an 8-hour countdown, which is the duration of the portal. You need to go through this portal to go to the Blackstone Mine and return to the territory.
This time he could organize a team of up to 20 people to explore. Chu Xin thought about it and chose 10 combat dwarves, Ding Xiu, Friday, golden villains and gray goblin mechanics, occupying a total of 14 units. It is the main force in exploring black stone mines.
For the rest, he chose 2 gray goblin crossbowmen and 4 gray goblin trappers.
With the combat dwarves in the melee power, the Iron Skeleton is not so necessary. On the contrary, the long-range power is a weakness. Chu Xin had to summon the only two gray goblin crossbowmen in his hand, which can be regarded as the shortest general.
The reason why he brought the gray goblin trappers was because in this narrow terrain, the traps might have miraculous effects, so Chu Xin specially added them to the team.
"Tip, you are about to go to the Black Stone Mine scene. Please confirm whether the team has been assembled. The teleportation will start in five seconds."
When his vision dimmed, Chu Xin discovered that the golden villain had appeared in a gloomy and dark mine tunnel. A 19-person strategy team stood in the mine tunnel, waiting for his order.
There is no light source in the entire mine, except for a fluorescent white crystal inlaid every ten meters on both sides. This kind of crystal Chu Xin recognized was called white fluorite. It was a synthetic ordinary magic crystal specially used for lighting.
The mine is not too wide, and can probably accommodate four or five people walking side by side. There are some thick wooden bars scattered in the middle, which are the sleepers of the mine car track, giving people a dilapidated and desolate feeling.
"Two combat dwarves stay behind, others are ready, move forward!" Chu Xin left two combat dwarves to guard in front of the portal to prevent unexpected situations from cutting off the way back.
Everyone walked towards the inside of the mine. The ones leading the way were three fighting dwarves equipped with small bucklers. With the shields, their defense power undoubtedly increased to a higher level.
It's just that in this team, which is generally about one meter tall, Ding Xiu, the golden guy and Friday seem a bit redundant. Once such an obvious target is exposed to the local field of vision, it will be hit by the opponent's long-range attack as soon as possible. .
Dwarves can protect their lower bodies, but not their upper bodies.
It was very quiet in the mine. After walking forward for a while, the road began to slope down gently. The white crystal stones on both sides disappeared at this point. The darkness in front seemed like an invisible big mouth, about to swallow them up.
With her peripheral vision, Chu Xin noticed that the wall from here to the back was originally inlaid with white fluorite, but it seemed that it had been dug out, and now only some irregular grooves remained.
"It seems that they are some shady underground races!" Chu Xin had some speculation in his mind. After all, white fluorite is not an expensive material. In order to operate the mine efficiently, it is not possible to save even such a small amount of cost. So those who dug out these white fluorite can only be the culprits that caused the black stone mine to be abandoned.
Many underground races have lived in darkness for a long time and do not like this feeling of light, so it is understandable to dig out the white fluorescent stone.
Chu Xin stopped the team and directed the golden man to dig up the white fluorite embedded in the cave wall. Except for Friday, everyone in his team has weak night vision. Without light, it would be very inconvenient to fight.
Because they often needed to be replaced, the white fluorite was not firmly inlaid, so it was dug out without much effort. What surprised him was that these white fluorescent stones could be stored in the warehouse as props. Chu Xin immediately arranged for Friday and Ding Xiu to collect all the white fluorescent stones along the way.
Although the white glowstone is just a cheap and ordinary prop, Chu Xin needs it just right. It can finally end the dark life of being blind at night, and it is a worthwhile trip.
There were more than fifty white fluorescent stones in total. Chu Xin put most of them into the warehouse, leaving four. The dwarfs who opened the way in front had three for exploring the way, and the one behind was held by Friday.
At this point, the entire mine gradually fell into darkness, and Chu Xin's exploration team became the only source of light in the darkness.
This kind of light in the darkness is extremely eye-catching, and it is easy for the opponent to sneak attack, but Chu Xin has no good way. There is no moonlight in the mine, and it is difficult to see things in the darkness. However, as an underground race, the enemies are definitely not affected. Without white glowstone lighting, their situation will only become more passive.
The few white fluorescent stones specially selected by Chu Xin are full of magic power and extremely bright. Like high-quality LED lights, they can illuminate a long distance in the dark.
After walking about five hundred meters further, some traces of fighting began to appear sporadically on both sides of the corridor, and blood could be seen splattered in many places.
Suddenly, there was a rustling sound in the darkness, as if something was pouring out of the darkness.
"The front row of gray goblin trappers quickly set up traps and prepared for battle!" Chu Xin took out the magic book and gave the battle order.
Iron mines took time to lay, so he opted to have the trappers lay the easier traps.
Almost immediately after the gray goblin trapper set the trap, a group of monsters appeared at the end of the light of the white glowstone.
This is a green humanoid creature with a hunched back and a spear slightly taller than them. What's strange is that they have bare heads, no eyes, and only a big mouth, which makes them ugly.
"It turns out to be a caveman!" Chu Xin felt slightly relieved. Cavemen are a common underground creature with very weak racial strength, basically only one-star level. They have no eyes and rely entirely on their sense of warmth to fight.
This group of cavemen did not attack immediately. Instead, they held up their spears and kept making some incomprehensible notes from their mouths, as if they were threatening. This mine has been regarded as their own territory, and Chu Xin's behavior is regarded as aggression by them.
Seeing that Chu Xin did not retreat, the cave people rushed up angrily with sharp and harsh roars. They were in groups, covering a large area of the dark land.
"The crossbowmen attack, the dwarves prepare to meet the enemy!" Chu Xin fired a fireball, kicking off the battle.
The fireball sank into the cavemen, causing a brief commotion, but was quickly overwhelmed by more cavemen.
"Puff! Puff!", the gray goblin crossbowman's crossbow accurately took away the two cavemen. Although they were badly chopped by Ding Xiu before, it does not mean that they are really weak chickens. Against these cavemen, the lethality of crossbow arrows is not weak.
The cavemen gradually approached and soon entered the animal trapping formation. With a "click" sound, a large piece of cavemen in the front row fell down. The original forward formation was disrupted, and the entire momentum became completely chaotic.
Seeing that the opponent's momentum had weakened, Chu Xin directed the fighting dwarves to come forward and took the initiative to greet him!
