Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 446 In the Mine

"Wow——"

The black cat Wensa arched his back, stretched his neck, opened his mouth and roared threateningly, even dropping the envelope on the table.

Floating in the air, wearing a complicated but gorgeous black dress, Renette Tinichole stretched her hands forward, and her four heads came together, staring at the messenger who seemed a little petite in front of her with her dull eyes.

"Contract..." "Time..." "Already..." "It's over..."

The four heads in her hand made sounds one after another, and the gentle ancient Fusak language echoed around Wensa like surround sound.

Wensa blinked in confusion, looked at the headless messenger, and then at the dumbfounded Klein beside him, then put away his actions that seemed threatening, but were actually bluffing.

"I'm just here to deliver a message."

It also uttered an ancient Fusac language, then pressed its front paws on the envelope on the table and pushed it in the direction of Klein.

Then, Wensa gracefully raised his limbs, turned around, walked a few steps on the table, disappeared into the spiritual world, and disappeared on the altar.

This time, its tail was not raised proudly.

Klein stepped forward to pick up the envelope, without checking it immediately. Instead, he stuffed it into his pocket and looked up at his own messenger in the air. He frowned and asked:

"You recognize it?"

"In the spirit world..." "I've seen..." "A few times..."

The three heads answered in turn.

"The lonely wild cat..."

The last one who didn't speak quickly added.

I always feel that she has some resentment. Considering her reaction to Wensa just now, it couldn't be that the two of them had some conflict when Angel summoned the messenger last time...

Although Klein was full of questions, he didn't have the nerve to continue asking. After all, he only summoned her again to test the summoning spell, and he didn't even prepare gold coins.

After politely sending the messenger away, he immediately took out the envelope from his pocket, opened it, and read it eagerly.

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After a good night's sleep, Angel welcomed the rising sun and the streets that became noisy again in the port town of Para Island.

She didn't expect that such a small town that combines various functions of a dock, a commercial area, and a tourist destination would be so quiet at night, and it actually gave her the most comfortable sleep since leaving Bayam.

After putting on the "hypocrisy" ring and turning into a completely different face than yesterday, Angel went to the restaurant on the first floor to dine and used this new identity to ask the waiter again about the restaurant he met yesterday.

"I heard that there was an accident in the mine outside the city half a year ago?"

Order first and ask questions later. The other party usually won't refuse...

Sure enough, the waiter smiled kindly and replied:

"It was a gold mine that only had a history of four or five years. There was a big accident half a year ago. It is said that dozens of people were injured. Although no lives were lost, the investment company that owned the mine stopped development and left the place abandoned. .

"However, there have been rumors recently that naked gold has been picked up in gold mines. Many people secretly went down to the mines to hunt for treasures, but I haven't heard of anyone gaining anything."

Bare gold?

I remember that gold mines require large-scale collection and screening to separate a small amount of gold. How could there be lumps for them to pick up? It couldn't be a rumor... Angel was enjoying the experience in such a small town. A hearty breakfast, I thought.

All the clues currently point to half a year ago, and the only major event that happened half a year ago was the accident in the mine outside the city, which was also her main destination today.

After eating and drinking, Angel left the hotel, hired a carriage to follow the gently downhill road, crossed the Spice Street he had visited yesterday, and left the town in the southeast direction.

On the narrow road outside the city, she saw many hired carriages that looked similar to the carriage she was riding in. They all lined up as if by appointment and moved forward slowly, like a team going on an outing together.

Could it be that they were all the "adventurers" the bartender mentioned yesterday... Angel suddenly had an ominous premonition.

It wasn't until the carriage reached the foot of the mountain and stopped at a three-way road that Angel confirmed that his premonition came true: except for a few leading to the town on the other side of the island, almost all carriages stopped here.

There were nearly ten carriages in total, and more than twenty men and women of different appearances got out. They were not too old. Some of them were simple, some were gorgeous, but none of them looked like locals.

Angel silently watched them greet each other, carrying various mining picks and wooden barrels, and walking up the mountain road. Like people who have known each other for a long time. They are adventurers who came together to "find gold"?

Angel was full of questions, but when he saw the hired carriages turning around and preparing to return to the town, he quickly made an appointment with the coachman who sent her here to pick her up in the afternoon, and followed him.

Soon, the group in front noticed Angel, an uninvited guest, and stopped in confusion. Angel did not hide, but followed directly and took the initiative to say hello.

Soon, with the eloquence of the "instigator", Angel was able to extract a lot of information about these people. To her surprise, these people were not professional adventurers, but a group of ordinary tourists.

They have been on the island for about a week. At first, they did not plan to stay on Pala Island for a long time. They planned to return to Zhongcheng Island after trying the special dishes here. However, they became interested after hearing about the legend of the mine outside the port. , rented tools one after another and tried to dig deeper to find the legendary gold.

"Isn't that a rumor?"

Hearing this, Angel couldn't help but ask.

"Maybe, we just want to try our luck." The leader of this team of "gold miners", a young man named Leiden, replied, showing a mysterious smile.

This unusual behavior made Angel even more confused. She nodded and stopped asking. Instead, she continued to follow the group, quickly bypassing the not-so-high mountain and arriving at the gentle slope on the sea side.

Above the hillside is the mine entrance dug into the mountain. It is not a common vertical shaft on flat ground, but an inclined shaft with a very small angle. The reinforced wood at the entrance has been somewhat decayed by the sea breeze for a long time. The simple rails laid inside extend from it, on the hillside. There are twists and turns leading to the freight dock on the seaside below, but most of the tracks have been pried away, leaving only pieces of nailed sleepers.

Looking from a distance, this wharf has no trace of activity. It should have been abandoned as the mine was abandoned. I don’t know what accident happened half a year ago, so that such a wharf has been put into operation, and even a lot of effort has been spent to build it. The gold mine supporting the dock was closed.

Seeing the group of chatting and laughing tourists lighting up the kerosene lamps they brought with them and getting into the dark mine, Angel did not follow immediately. Instead, he untied the citrine pendant on his right wrist and performed a simple pendulum divination. .

"There is danger beneath this abandoned mine."

After reciting silently seven times, she opened her eyes, looked at the crystal, and found that it was slowly rotating clockwise with a silver chain, with a very slight amplitude.

There is danger, but not much?

This may even include mine collapse, gas poisoning and other inherent dangers in mines... It seems that it does not involve extraordinary events, otherwise it would be a great danger to these ordinary people.

But their weird smiles and behaviors are not like those of ordinary tourists...

Angel hesitated for a moment, but decided to go in and take a look first, but instead of following these tourists, he used dark vision to explore on his own.

Because these people all lighted gas lamps, when necessary, she could use "flame jump" to cross the tortuous but not too long passage inside the mine and go directly to them. Following them would not be conducive to these people exposing their abnormalities.

……

Following the sleepers that were probably dug by the locals for the rails, Angel quickly entered the depths of the mine. The tourists who had entered the darkness before had disappeared, but she could sense that they were not far away when she was preparing to perform the "flame jump" Those strings of flames confirmed that the other party was still safe.

She chose another direction and went all the way down. Forked roads soon appeared in the dark vision. They were fixed on both sides and the ceiling by thick logs and baffles, extending down in different directions. Some sections were too long because of the length of the road. It had been left unattended for a long time and had become severely waterlogged, making it inaccessible.

While recording the route she took while going deep into the mine, Angel soon smelled a rancid smell in the humid air. This cheered her up, who was bored with the monotonous mine environment. She followed the direction of the smell and soon found out I saw the source of the smell.

"It's actually leftover food... The degree of decay is not deep. I'm afraid it's not left by the miners half a year ago, but by a certain group of tourists like those 'gold miners', right?"

She murmured, avoiding the food that had been discarded and already infested with maggots.

Continuing downward, the air becomes more humid, which means that ventilation has become poor, and there may be multiple underground water leaks. There are fewer and fewer places with paved partitions around it, exposing the jagged stone walls and clutter behind. traces of digging.

It's a pity that there is no exposed gold mine... As expected, the legends are all lies.

Although he had already expected this, when he looked up, he saw that there was no gold or brown that was different from the dark cave, which still made Angel feel disappointed in his heart.

After circling the depths of the mine, no meaningful traces were found. Angel was about to return the same way when she suddenly discovered that the "gold miners" who had separated from her and headed in different directions had gathered not far away. , the flames of the gas lamp seemed to condense into a huge flame in her perception.

She walked lightly, turned a few corners, and saw the tourists in a relatively empty cave.

Some of them used mining picks to dig hard in one direction, some used shovels and barrels to carry away the excavated gravel, and some carried gas lamps to illuminate the site. They divided labor and cooperated in an orderly manner, like a group of people. A real miner at work.

Hearing Angel's footsteps, Layton, a young man carrying a wooden barrel, looked over. Seeing that he was the temporary companion who had gone up the mountain with them before, he smiled kindly, took out a fist-sized piece of ore from the barrel, and showed off Displayed like this:

"Look, I told you that you can really find huge chunks of gold in the mines!"

The dark brown with some green copper ore in his hand reflected a strange light under the illumination of the gas lamp.

(End of this chapter)