The Emperor’s Angel of Death

　　 The journey to the abandoned mine was as unremarkable as Soshyan had expected.

　　 Since they left the city, they have been attacked only once by blind and angry rebel farmers, and occasionally there are native wild animals that are hungry or stupid enough to attack the Astartes.

　　 If Soshyang calls a mortal guard to let the mortals take care of everything, the journey will be much easier, but this will also make the news spread quickly.

　　 They will be known before they find the target.

　　 In the end, he judged that it would be better for them to enter on their own. He just asked West to send a few people and a housekeeper, and ordered the other party to keep their appearance and itinerary strictly confidential until they allowed it to publicize.

　　 Soshyang believed that, at least for a short time, that person would not dare to disobey his orders.

This mine, called the "Dead Man's Dump", is a typical primitive vertical excavation site. Its main body is located under a mountain with an average elevation of thousands of people. After passing through the passages for the workers to enter and exit, the mine can be seen. The living area is located on the edge of a huge pit, and the faint light spot on the top of the huge cave provides extremely limited illumination, far from enough to illuminate the entire huge pit.

　　 A large number of wooden tracks and lifting secrets are placed on the edge of the huge pit. Workers go down from here to the bottom to dig out the minerals that are exposed to the rock.

In addition to iron ore, precious metal minerals such as copper ore, lead ore and gold and silver are also produced here. According to the manager of West, this mining area once had 30,000 miners, who were digging deep underground, day and night. Of wealth.

　　 Although this is an agricultural world, the most basic smelting industry is still available. Many of the minerals excavated are turned into farm tools or living utensils, and precious metals have become a show off for the families or individuals of the landlords.

　　 However, a few decades ago, the mines began to have frequent accidents. Miners often disappeared underground for no reason, and the output of mines was getting lower and lower.

　　Finally, after a large number of miners disappeared and died, the owner of the mine abandoned them, and the miners lost their jobs and left.

　　 In order to prevent accidents from continuing, nearby landlords chose to seal it off, that is, the roadblock made of rocks and wood that Soshyang had piled up at the entrance before they came in.

　　 "There is a hole there."

　　 Standing on the edge of the huge pit, Almin suddenly pointed at the rock wall 100 meters below.

　　 "It looks like it was chiseled out, but... it may not be too smooth."

　　 "I saw it."

　　 Soshyang kicked a cobblestone off the cliff, and it should have fallen to the end after ten seconds, but the never-ending sound of the nearby underground river swallowed any possible echoes.

　　 "Be careful."

　　 Thor followed Soshyan carefully to the cliff.

　　 "I guess the bottom must be at least two kilometers deep below this."

　　 "I wish there was a ladder."

　　 Soshyang sighed, trying to make others think he was joking.

　　 Of course, there is no ladder.

　　 But at the end of the cliff, there is a lift that can be used according to the housekeeper, which extends down to a series of rock platforms, forming a simple and irregular passage.

　　 This made Soshyang relieved.

　　 It's too deep here to tell whether it is rock or extremely old concrete, but no matter what, the surface is loosely covered with a layer of moss, and every time you fall, you will get a little slippery.

　　 Looking at the lift that was gently swaying in the breeze, Soshyang was a little uneasy, but after checking the power system, he found that it could still be used normally, so he was relieved.

　　 Fortunately, this thing was very sturdy when it was repaired—someone had nailed rivets on it as a fixation, and it was easy to stand up to the four Astartes. It was supposed to be a freight elevator used to transport minerals.

　　 "Leave two people on it, and the others will go down in two batches. Sol and I will take the lead, Calvin and Levi's will follow, and Armin, you will take the second batch."

　　 After making a simple deployment, Soshyan boarded the lift with the other three.

　　As soon as Astarte stepped on, the iron elevator squeaked in pain, and a large amount of rust and dust fell from the unused bracket and hit the silver-gray armor.

　　 Soshyang stood for a few seconds, and after confirming that there was no problem, he nodded to Sol.

　　 The second star warrior stepped up, and the elevator platform suddenly sank a little.

　　 But it persisted.

　　 is third and fourth.

　　 After confirming that there were no more problems, Soshyan made a gesture to Arminby, and the other party immediately activated the lift.

　　 Accompanied by the roar of the engine and a large amount of black smoke from the exhaust port, the power system recovered again after decades of sleep, and the winch was rotated to slowly lower the cable thick enough for an adult's forearm.

　　 The lifting platform also slowly sank.

　　 Everything went well, two minutes later, they arrived at the first rock platform.

　　 From here, they had to walk with their feet, and the miners built many small railroad tracks for transportation.

　　 There is at least one kilometer below the depth.

　　 After the lift was pulled up, Soshyang waited for a while on the rock platform, and the three people led by Armin arrived here soon.

　　 "Which way do you think we should go?"

　　 After observing the terrain, Soshyang looked at Sol beside him.

　　 The road branched off, and the main road continued to descend along the railroad tracks, while the other narrow and broken, barely able to stand on the trail, stretched out into the darkness roughly horizontally.

　　 "I propose to walk along the main road."

　　 Thor was silent for a moment, and then said his opinion.

　　 "The trail is not even a road. Our team will be forced to form a line that cannot support forward and backward."

　　 "Agree."

　　Almin nodded

　　 "This seems to be just a crack in the rock, which makes people mistaken for another road."

　　 "Wait a minute."

　　 Soshyan used the tactical lights of his helmet to illuminate the trail~www.wuxiahere.com~ There are traces on the road, it looks very fresh, and someone may have walked along there. "

　　 "Sir, there are also footprints on the main road."

　　Almin also pointed to the main road with lighting equipment, and there were indeed some traces of similar footprints on it.

　　 "It still looks like a complete footprint, not the traces on the trail that may just be smashed by falling rocks."

　　 "Has anyone been here recently?"

　　 Soshyang has a new question, but every moment they hesitate, the time to complete the task will be delayed.

　　 Then he shone the light into the depths, hoping to illuminate more traces.

　　 A faint reflection came from a pool filled with mixed sewage and poisonous gas. Some shadow spots were obviously printed on the cliff wall, which was shaking disturbingly outside the scope of the beam of light.

　　 Soshyang turned the beam of light outward and found a long string of stepping stones across the pool.

　　 "We need to be careful, it seems that the pools are not shallow."

"no doubt."

　　 Thor agrees.

　　 "I estimate that the average depth is between ten and twelve meters."

　　 Soshyang turned around and decided to continue walking down, then he stretched the beam of light across the cliff to check the downward route one last time.

　　 Suddenly, he found that a large cliff seemed to be moving. At first he thought it was a landslide, but then he realized that something else was actually happening.

　　 "Enemy attack!"

　　 Before he finished speaking, he had already pulled out the explosive pistol.

　　 At this time, the shadow spots he had noticed before were climbing up the cliff at a speed that was almost beyond common sense. He used the helmet's lighting to aim at a shadow spot to confirm his guess.

　　 "It's a group of underground creatures!"