This reminded Jiang Bai of the soldiers who were sent to die in Qunyu Pavilion.
A single word from the executive officer could determine the lives of many soldiers.
They are so insignificant, yet they are also people with names and flesh and blood.
Jiang Bai didn't criticize anything, he just left some food for them and told them the location of the treasure thieves who dug tunnels.
It is difficult to judge the time in the dark underground, and the role of clocks here is equivalent to nothing.
As an immortal, Mandrill has plenty of physical strength, so whether he is traveling or exploring, it will not burden him. But Jiang Bai is different. He needs to eat when he is hungry and sleep when he is sleepy.
Sometimes Jiang Bai felt a little embarrassed to let Mandrill watch for him. After all, if he hadn't accommodated him, Mandrill would have reached the deepest part of the ground at his speed.
But it was impossible for a person to walk alone. There was a force in the ground that made people uncomfortable. He was afraid that Mandrill would be affected, and he just happened to encounter a karma, so he stayed here directly.
After all, he still wanted to bring Mandrill back intact.
"Strange, why do you encounter more treasure thieves as you go down?"
Jiang Bai was a little unsure if they were going the wrong way.
At the beginning, they only occasionally encountered some people from the treasure thief group in the outer layer, but as they passed through a natural canyon and entered deeper underground, they encountered people from the treasure thief group more and more frequently.
This is somewhat abnormal.
After all, it is understandable that you dig a hole in the ground to avoid the seal and enter the shallow abyss, but it is a bit outrageous for you to dig directly into such a deep place.
After thinking about it, I decided to find a lone member of the treasure thief group and ask them in a friendly manner.
Just do it.
He covered his white hair that was easily reflective in the dark with a hat, and then quietly followed the darkness to find himself behind the members of the treasure thief group who were digging alone.
The sharp dagger was quietly placed on the neck of him, a miner in the treasure-stealing group.
Looking at the reflection on the ground illuminated by the light, and the cold touch on his neck.
The miner froze and stopped mining.
"Shh, you know what I mean, right?"
Jiang Bai's voice rang in his ears, and the touch of the cold dagger raised goosebumps all over his body.
Staring at the shadow cast by the light behind him, the miner nodded cautiously, fearing that he would see blood if he moved too much.
But at the same time, he was also looking around without any trace to see if the person who held him hostage had any accomplices.
He is not very far away from his companions. If he can make any big noise, maybe they will find something abnormal here and come to rescue him.
Mandrill hid in the dark and did not show up.
The miner could only see the shadows of himself and the person holding him hostage behind him.
Jiang Bai didn't care about the miner's little thoughts, and it wouldn't matter even if he was discovered.
With his current strength, even if he doesn't use elemental power, it won't be a problem to deal with these treasure stealing groups.
The reason I only picked one to inquire about was because I didn’t want to cause any trouble.
But his choice was not random.
Although the people in these treasure-stealing groups are all mining, this miner is the farthest away from them, digs the deepest, and the quality of the mine is the best.
These ores have also been specially screened, and the good and precious ones are stored in separate frames.
It was obvious that this was an old miner with sufficient mining experience. Maybe he was the miner who worked below here before. After the abyss was closed, he had nothing to do and joined the treasure stealing group.
"How did you get to the depths of this abyss?"
The miner swallowed carefully, "The seal of the great abyss has been released, we took a shortcut here..."
"Untied, when?" Jiang Bai was a little surprised.
It's been less than a week since they came down, and the seal has been released?
Or is it that someone discovered their coming down, and they are coming to arrest them after breaking the seal?
Jiang Bai felt that this possibility was equal to 0.
How could the General Affairs Department deliberately break the seal just because one or two people went underground?
So something else must have happened.
"Three...four days ago..."
Hearing Jiang Bai's somewhat surprised tone, the miners knew Jiang Bai's identity.
This person obviously sneaked into the underground, and must be a fellow traveler.
But he did not feel relieved, because sometimes his peers were more vicious.
"Do you know why the seal was suddenly released?"
"I don't know, it suddenly got solved..."
"You are a miner, right? How many years have you been digging under this abyss?"
"It didn't take long...just a dozen years..."
Hearing this answer, Jiang Bai's mind moved, and he felt that this was indeed the case.
"For more than ten years, you should be familiar with this underground."
The roads in the Juyuan were complicated, with caves everywhere leading to unknown directions, and there was no map, so they had been walking blindly based on their feelings.
I don’t know where I am in Juyuan now.
An old miner could serve as their guide.
"fine……"
The old miner swallowed again, wondering what he wanted to do.
Jiang Bai moved the dagger away from his neck and drew a knife flower.
He smiled evilly, looking more like a villain than the Treasure Thieves.
"We plan to go to the deepest part of this abyss. Since you are familiar with it, please lead us the way."
"I...can I refuse..." the miner cried sadly.
Going to the deepest point is several times more dangerous than sneaking in to mine.
At least it was safe for them to come in to mine, but there was a risk of being caught by the Qianyan Army.
And if you go to the deepest point, you might die.
"What do you think?" Jiang Bai asked.
"No, we can't go!" The miner shook his head wildly, still fearful.
Jiang Bai raised his eyebrows, "Why?"
He still doesn't know what's under the ground, but these miners seem to know something.
The old miner sighed, "We were mining before and dug out that strange thing underground..."
He used to be a serious miner, not a member of the treasure stealing group.
That time, he followed the team to mine, and when he used explosives to blast the rock, a huge crystal exploded.
Since then, the entire Abyss has become particularly dangerous. There are more and more black mud, and the environment of the abyss has become particularly bad.
Those luminous lumen crystals slowly appeared after that.
"Those workers who had been in close contact with that thing all fell seriously ill, and some are still not recovering..."
Listening to his words, Jiang Bai became even more confused.
The Nail of Cold Sky shouldn't have the effect of making people sick, right?
So, is the thing deep underground actually the Nail of Cold Sky?
"What on earth is it?" Mandrill suddenly appeared.
Seeing this sudden appearance, the old miner was startled.
He tried to open his hands, trying to describe how big the thing was.
"A huge blue crystal stone floats in the air and glows..."
"Is it this blue?" Jiang Bai took out the fragments of Hantian Nail.
In Chapter 602, I revised a bit about the "nails" in the underground. I have been doing this task for too long, and I forgot that it was a crystal at the beginning, not a nail. It was only later that it was aggregated into nails. Has been changed to crystal
(End of chapter)
