In front of the entrance to Mine No. 1, Changsun put on protective equipment and prepared to enter.
Changsun took a deep breath and sent a message to the communication device in his ear.
"Chen Ming, I'm ready to enter mine tunnel No. 1." Through code translation, Bai Chenming received the message from his eldest grandson.
"Okay, Changsun, we will keep in touch with you in real time. If there is any danger, please call for support as soon as possible." Bai Chenming replied.
"Thank you, but after entering the thick smoke, our communication may be interrupted. Please tell others to act according to the plan and do not enter Mine Lane 1. If anything is discovered, we will contact you as soon as possible."
After finishing speaking, Changsun walked into the thick smoke.
Changsun turned on the light on the top of the gas mask. The light, which was powered by the thunder stone, was eroded by the mixed spiritual power in the thick smoke and quickly went out.
"Damn it."
Changsun, who has lost his lighting tools, can only smear his progress.
After walking for more than ten meters, the mixed spiritual energy around him became thicker and thicker. Changsun gradually felt the weak but violent energy hidden in it, which was evil thoughts.
Changsun could bear the excitement of the evil spirit in his body.
At this time, it was like a bad wolf that saw a lamb, ready to run wild at any time and devour all the evil thoughts around it.
The eldest grandson did not want to alert the snake, so he tried his best to control the evil spirit.
As Changsun continued to go deeper, the concentration of evil thoughts around him became higher and higher. Due to the evil spirits being controlled, Changsun felt a little troubled at this time.
Fortunately, although the evil spirit could not act aggressively, the evil thoughts that invaded Changsun's body were easily swallowed up by the evil spirit, and Changsun did not feel any danger in continuing to move forward.
On the other side, Lu Xiaoran and others successfully entered the central control room through the secret passage.
At this time, the control room was also shrouded in thick smoke, but Si Qin could sense that the concentration of evil thoughts in the thick smoke was much lower than that in Mine No. 1.
"Chen Ming, can you receive it?" Siqin sent the message.
"You can receive it," Bai Chenming replied.
"We have entered the central control room and are now searching the safe house. The concentration of evil thoughts in the thick smoke here is much lower than that in Mine No. 1. I speculate that the danger is in Mine No. 1 and remind Zhangsun to pay attention to safety." Siqin said.
"Changsun has entered the No. 1 mine tunnel. Due to interference, contact has been lost." Bai Chenming replied.
"This reckless man..." Si Qin felt upset and couldn't help but whisper.
"What's wrong?" Lu Xiaoran asked.
"Changsun has entered the No. 1 mine tunnel and is now out of contact." Siqin briefly informed everyone of the situation.
"Let's act according to the original plan first." Lu Xiaoran said after a brief silence.
"I tried to repair the central control room and find a way to connect our instant messaging equipment with the contact runes in the control room. This should be able to restore communication with the eldest grandson," Tang Xiaoyi said.
Lu Xiaoran nodded, "Well, Fatty and Tang Hao, you guys go with Xiaoyi and pay attention to safety."
Lu Xiaoran led the others towards the safe house.
Changsun encountered a problem at this time.
Changsun stood at the bifurcation of Mine Road No. 1 and Mine Road No. 2. Changsun hesitated whether to go to Mine Road No. 2 or continue to explore the depths of Mine Road No. 1.
Due to the obstruction of the thick smoke, Changsun could not release his mental power to explore, so Changsun did not know which mine tunnel to take at this time.
Even the eldest grandson felt a little tired after walking here. After silently assessing his current state in his mind, the eldest grandson finally decided to risk being discovered by possible survivors and release evil spirits to investigate.
Thick smoke with evil thoughts will make it difficult for the spirit to move forward, but for evil spirits, it is like a fish in water.
Just as Changsun was about to release the control of the evil spirit, a sound suddenly came from the communication device next to his ear.
"Eldest grandson, eldest grandson, can you receive it? I am Xiaoyi."
"You can receive it."
"Huh, it's great that you're okay." Changsun could even feel Xiaoyi's relieved emotion.
"I just repaired the communication talisman array in the mine tunnel. With the help of their talisman array, I finally contacted you."
"How are you doing now?" Changsun asked.
"Lv Xiaoran and the others are already rescuing the trapped people. Tang Hao and Li Yuan and I are trying to repair the talisman array in the central control room."
"How is it going?"
"It's a little worse than I thought. The underlying structure of the talisman array is damaged, and it will take some time to repair it."
"Okay, please pay attention to safety. By the way, I am now at the intersection of Mine Road No. 1 and Mine Road No. 2. Can you find out whether the problem is deep in Mine Road No. 1 or Mine Road No. 2?"
"Let me take a look... The energy fluctuations reflected back from the depths of Mine No. 1 are strong, so it should be there."
"Copy that." Changsun continued to move deeper into Mine No. 1.
The spiritual energy in the mine became more and more violent, and the concentration of evil thoughts became higher and higher. In Zhangsun's consciousness, he even felt that there were countless evil ghosts howling in his ears.
Just when Changsun was about to reach the deepest point, a dark shadow appeared in Changsun's field of vision.
Changsun stopped and took a closer look. There was a man sitting paralyzed by the mine tunnel in front of him.
Changsun cautiously stepped forward to investigate.
The other party was wearing protective equipment, and he didn't know whether he was dead or alive.
Changsun stepped forward and patted the other party's shoulder, trying his best to let his voice pass through the mask and reach the other party's ears.
"How are you?"
Changsun called out several times, and the other party finally responded.
Through the mask, Changsun could see that the other party opened his eyes.
"Who are you? Why are you still here?" Before Changsun could ask, the other party asked first.
"I am a rescue worker sent by the college. Who are you?"
The other party breathed a sigh of relief, as if he had relaxed his vigilance.
"I am the mine manager, my name is Fan Yuantao."
Changsun recalled that the missing person was indeed the mine director Fan Yuantao.
"Why are you here?" Changsun asked.
"I'm here to investigate the cause of the collapse of the mine tunnel."
"Did you find anything?"
"It's the surviving family! Ahem..." Fan Yuantao was still a little weak.
"After the collapse of the mine tunnel, I organized everyone to evacuate in the central control room and found someone running sneakily towards Mine Lane No. 1. I initially thought it was a miner who was running in the wrong direction, but I chased after him and discovered something unusual. , He actually exudes strong evil thoughts." There was a hint of fear in Fan Yuantao's words.
"How can you come here if you are not a warrior?" Changsun asked. In his memory, it was recorded in the employee information that mine manager Fan Yuantao was not a warrior.
"Um...ah, the equipment I'm wearing is special protection. Without it, I would have died here." Fan Yuantao hesitated.
Changsun looked at it and found that the equipment on Fan Yuantao was indeed special protection.
"Do you know why he came?" Changsun asked.
"I don't know. I fainted when I got here. I saw him go inside before I fainted." Fan Yuantao answered.
The eldest grandson thought for a moment and decided to go investigate.
"Stay here and don't move. The rescue team will come to rescue you." As he spoke, Changsun stood up and prepared to leave.
"I'll go with you." Fan Yuantao grabbed his eldest grandson.
Although Fan Yuantao is not a warrior and is still a little weak at the moment, he naturally speaks with an unquestionable momentum after having been in a high position for a long time.
After Changsun hesitated for a moment, Fan Yuantao stood up from the ground and walked forward holding on to the wall.
Changsun caught up with Fan Yuantao and wanted to help him, but was refused.
"I can do it myself. If you go ahead, I can keep up with you."
After hearing this, the eldest grandson did not insist.
Not far away, Zhangsun began to notice something strange around him.
The surrounding spiritual energy is no longer as mixed as outside, and the air is filled with blazing fire spiritual energy and violent evil thoughts.
Changsun stopped.
In front of Changsun is a huge cave dug by man.
There is a cliff in the cave, about 10 meters from the ground below. Below is hot magma, which illuminates the surrounding rock walls red.
Changsun carefully crawled to the edge of the cliff. Traces of artificial mining could be clearly seen on the surrounding rock walls. The small holes were left after mining the fire spirit stone.
Changsun stuck his head out of the cliff and looked down.
Zhangsun could feel the heat waves emitted by the hot magma through his protective mask.
This is the place where the Fire Spirit Stone was first discovered in Mine No. 1. Even though it has been mined for many years, you can still feel the rich Fire Spirit Energy around you.
It's just that the surrounding fire aura is still mixed with evil thoughts. Although the number of evil thoughts is not large, they are extremely active. Among the many fire auras, the evil thoughts are like evil wolves, fierce and cunning.
Due to evil thoughts, his mental power is still affected and it is difficult to conduct stable exploration.
The eldest grandson did not dare to release evil spirits to investigate, for fear of being discovered by the surviving family members. So you can only rely on your eyesight to find the target.
"No abnormalities were found." Changsun looked at Fan Yuantao with some confusion.
Fan Yuantao was also searching downwards carefully.
After a while, Fan Yuantao also replied: "I didn't find it either. Could it be under the magma?"
Changsun thought about it for a while and thought it was possible.
The temperature of magma is extremely high, but it is not a desperate situation for warriors.
As far as Changsun knows, there are more than five kinds of body-protecting Qi armors in the magician realm that can withstand the high temperature of magma, not to mention the powerful ones above the charioteer realm.
"While he is still under the magma, I will stay here while you go back to get reinforcements." Fan Yuantao said.
"No, it's too dangerous for you to be here. I'll stay here and you go back."
"I'm exhausted from walking here, and I don't have the strength to walk back. Okay, stop arguing, time is running out, and it's most important to pass the information back to the academy." Fan Yuantao shook his hand and said unequivocally.
Changsun originally wanted to persist, but seeing that Fan Yuantao had made up his mind, he had to give up.
Just as the eldest grandson was about to leave, in his peripheral vision, a dazzling red light suddenly flashed below.
Only for a moment, but dazzling.
The eldest grandson bent down to investigate, and sure enough he found the light source.
On the rock wall below, among the pits left after mining the fire spirit stone, a fire spirit stone the size of a head is embedded in one of the pits.
Because of the dark red color of this fire spirit stone, it looked like a stone without spiritual energy in the rock wall, so Changsun had not noticed it before.
After the fire spirit stone flashed with light, it dimmed again, but if you look closely, you can find a dazzling red color hidden in it, swimming like a spiritual snake.
"You stay up there and I'll go check it out." After saying that, the eldest grandson stood up and jumped off the rock wall.
I saw the grandson sliding down the cliff strangely like a black shadow, at an extremely fast speed but silently.
After the eldest grandson landed, he immediately fell to the ground.
After the air flow around him stabilized, Changsun carefully climbed towards the fire spirit stone.
Bypassing the hot magma, when Changsun was still twenty or thirty meters away from the Fire Spirit Stone, Chang Sun finally saw clearly what the Fire Spirit Stone was.
Changsun was so shocked that he couldn't breathe.
"Tinder?!"
The dazzling red color inside the Fire Spirit Stone was actually a kind of fire.
The eldest grandson didn't care that he might be discovered by the bereaved family, and mobilized the evil spirits in his body to explore the fire spirit stone.
"It's really a spark of fire!" Changsun was excited.
"No, there is something wrong with this fire spirit stone..."
Just when the eldest grandson was confused.
"What a strong evil thought..."
In Changsun's perception, a strong evil thought suddenly appeared behind him.
It was precisely because the eldest grandson released evil spirits to investigate that he could discover the abnormality behind him at this time.
"What are you doing?" Changsun exclaimed loudly.
At this moment, Fan Yuantao stood up on the cliff, holding a bow in his left hand and pulling the string with his right hand. A strange arrow was on the string.
The reason why it is weird is because the arrow is filled with evil thoughts.
At the same time that Changsun exclaimed, Fan Yuantao let go of the string in his hand.
The arrow was flying in the air, and in Zhangsun's eyes, it was like an evil ghost dragging its tail towards him.
This arrow was not aimed at the eldest grandson, but at the fire spirit stone.
