"Oh, so you specifically ambushed at the entrance of the cave. You want to rob the newcomers who come here and do these murderous and murderous things?" Liu Ming said with a spurious smile. He intentionally or unintentionally fiddled with the bone blade that originally belonged to the skinny man.
"Please forgive me! I just didn't recognize you. If I knew that your strength is so amazing, I would hide from you. How would I dare to offend you? It's mainly because it's near the end of the month. I didn't get much ore this month. After exchanging for the antidote, there is not much left. Therefore, I waited near the entrance of the cave to try my luck and see if I can meet some newcomers. I want to rob some spiritual weapons to exchange for some food. "The skinny man's heart skipped a beat as he heard the words. He quickly waved his skinny arms and explained.
"Listening to what you said, it seems that there are not many new miners here?" Liu Ming ignored the man's plea for mercy and continued to ask.
"You are right. I also heard it from the chatter of several guards when I went to the surface to pay the ore. In recent years, because of Siren King's calamity and shrinking his forces, the newly captured slave miners are much less than before. In the past, there would be several slave miners thrown down from the entrance of the cave by the guards every month. Now I haven't seen one for a month or two." The skinny man sighed and began to speak again.
"In other words, most of the people who stay here now are the old people who have been here for a few years?" Liu Ming asked thoughtfully.
"It's true. The environment here is harsh. Food and other resources are scarce. There are frequent disputes between forces. Therefore, those who can survive here now, except for some Physique Cultivators or those with slightly higher realms, most of them have extraordinary temperament. As for those weak ones … If they are not attached to some forces or individual powerful people in the mine, they would naturally be buried somewhere in the mine. "The skinny man replied honestly.
As Liu Ming asked this, he finally had a general understanding of the situation in the mine.
Although this skinny man was not handsome, he knew a lot about the things here. In this way, it saved a lot of time.
The skinny man saw Liu Ming standing in the same place and pondering silently. He supported himself with one hand on the ground, slowly moved his body back, and asked cautiously,
"Sir, I've already told you everything I know. I'll tell you everything I know. Then I …"
Before he could finish, Liu Ming glanced at the man indifferently, and a glimmer of light suddenly flashed in his eyes.
The skinny man only felt a buzz in his head, and an extremely powerful mental force suddenly rushed into his sea of consciousness. He couldn't help but scream. His eyes immediately turned white and he collapsed to the ground again. For a while, he didn't feel anything else.
A faint smile appeared on the corner of Liu Ming's mouth. He made a gesture with one hand and launched another symbol at the man. A black light went into the skinny man's eyebrows in the blink of an eye. His body trembled, and he slowly sat up again.
Looking at the skinny man's lifeless eyes, Liu Ming had a satisfied look on his face.
In the following time, in order to ensure that the other party didn't hide anything from him, Liu Ming used some simple enchantment to ask the same question again.
After confirming that the previous words were not false and there were no omissions, Liu Ming leaned down and crushed the man's throat with his right hand.
The eyes of the skinny man who fell to the ground suddenly flashed with a trace of clarity. His limbs kept twitching a few times, but after showing a trace of unwillingness, his eyes became stagnant. He completely lost his life.
After Liu Ming swept away all the things on the other party, he raised his hand and punched a big pit on the ground. He kicked the corpse into it, then he shook his sleeves and hurriedly buried it. He looked at the two tunnels not far from here. After a little hesitation, he sneaked forward along one of the tunnels.
After knowing that it was so difficult to absorb spiritual power here, he naturally didn't bother to waste his precious spiritual power to release a fireball to destroy the corpse.
…
Half an hour later, in the mine tunnel, in the remote place where Liu Ming was previously, the skinny man's corpse was dug out again. It was lying on the ground covered with mud.
Under the faint light of a few green fluorite inlaid on the cave wall, the face that was distorted because of the struggle before death was particularly strange.
"It turned out to be Sha Lao Er. Tsk tsk, if it weren't for Brother Shi's sensitive nose, I'm afraid we really wouldn't have found it. But the person who did it is really straightforward. His elder brother will probably be furious if he knows about this. "One of the tall figures said in amazement after checking the corpse.
"This place is not too far from the exit. When we went to hand over the ore, didn't we also find some traces of fighting not far below the exit? Obviously, this Sha Lao Er was probably killed by the newcomer. "A shorter figure next to him said so.
"Hehe, this kid probably wanted to blackmail the newcomer and get some benefits, but he didn't expect to be killed instead. It's really a case of going for wool and coming home shorn. "Another slightly plump figure said with a sneer.
"Brother Gu, how should we deal with this matter? Looking at the corpse is still soft, he should be dead not long ago. With your tracking ability, there should be a big chance to catch up with this person. This is a great opportunity to sell a favor to Sha Lao Er. "The previous shorter figure asked the tall figure.
"Hmph, forget it. Although Sha Lao Er's cultivation is not high, he is not weak. He can stay here for so long, so he is not easy to deal with. Since the newcomer was able to capture him so easily and bring him here before silencing him, it was clear that he was not an ordinary person. Let's not get involved in this matter, so as to avoid unnecessary trouble. "The tall figure hesitated a little, but he still shook his head.
Although other people felt a little pity after listening, they still nodded.
So the group of people didn't ask anything. They directly stepped over the corpse and left toward another tunnel.
Half a day later, this corpse was found by another group of slave miners passing by nearby, and it finally spread in this underground world.
…
At this moment, Liu Ming was walking slowly in a dim mine tunnel alone. Not only was there a bone blade on his waist, but the clothes on his body were even more tattered and stained with a lot of mud. He looked very old.
His current appearance was like a slave miner who had stayed here for a long time. No one could easily see through his identity as a newcomer.
He held a light yellow beast skin map in his hand. The contents of the map were extremely simple and crude, and it outlined a rough outline of the underground mine, causing him to have to stop and carefully identify it every time he arrived at a fork in the road.
In the process of moving forward, Liu Ming's eyes kept glancing at both sides of the tunnel. He found that the rough gray-white stone wall was full of potholes, but he didn't see any ore inside. It seemed that they were all collected many years ago.
Liu Ming didn't feel strange at all, and he continued to move forward.
After all, this place was still near the exit. According to the previous skinny man, the ore here had long been collected. If he wanted to find the ore now, he must go deeper into the mineral vein to get it.
What made him frown secretly was that as he continued to move deeper, he couldn't explore too far with such a powerful mental power after leaving his body, and it would be consumed at an astonishing speed.
As a result, unless there were some suspicious places, he naturally didn't dare to release his mental power easily.
After all, in this underground world where danger lurked in every corner, preserving a portion of his strength might be able to save his life at a crucial moment.
After walking like this for about ten minutes, he saw a light flashing at the end of the tunnel not far ahead. He came to a three-way intersection, and the stone wall near the intersection was inlaid with a few worthless green stones, exuding a faint white light.
However, as soon as Liu Ming entered this intersection, his face suddenly changed. His feet didn't move, but his body suddenly slid to the side.
Just at this moment, a "hu" sound came from above his head. A black iron rod smashed down at an astonishing speed, almost brushing past Liu Ming's body.
A loud "boom" echoed in the entire tunnel, setting off a cloud of dust. After the dust dissipated, there was a large pit of ten meters on the ground where Liu Ming was standing just now.
After Liu Ming's body shook, he appeared 60 meters away, then he looked coldly at a skinny figure that appeared out of thin air on the edge of the pit.
"You actually dodged it! I didn't expect a newcomer like you to be quite capable. " Seeing this scene, the skinny figure muttered to himself in surprise, then he easily lifted the huge iron rod that was completely out of proportion to his body size. He waved it casually and put it on his shoulder, then he raised his head and looked at Liu Ming curiously.
Liu Ming naturally saw the other party clearly. It was a young man in gray clothes with a sallow face and a sickly appearance. His facial features were decent, but he had thick eyebrows and big eyes. He seemed to be about the same age as Liu Ming. He was looking at Liu Ming up and down with a lazy look.
"How do you know I'm a newcomer? Do you know everyone here?" Liu Ming looked at the bone blade on his waist and the tattered clothes on his body, then he asked faintly.
"It's impossible to know everyone, but I have lived here for so long. I should have some impression of most of the people I have seen. Furthermore, although you have purposely dressed up, anyone who has lived here for more than a year would have a pale face and weak aura. How could you still maintain a vigorous aura of Spiritual Energy? "The skinny young man chuckled when he heard Liu Ming's words and said unconcernedly.
"So that's how it is. I was negligent. I'm Liu Ming, you are also a human cultivator right? May I know your name? "After Liu Ming nodded, he seemed to turn a blind eye to the sneak attack just now. Instead, he smiled and wanted to ask.
"If you want to know my name, as long as you can live for a year, there will naturally be a lot of opportunities in the future. Also, you were able to dodge my attack, so you have the qualifications to live here. Also, I'll give you a warning. No matter where you got the map, you can only trust the first half. The second half of the deeper tunnels will increase or disappear every once in a while. " The skinny young man sneered. After he finished speaking, his body shook and turned into a black shadow that disappeared into another tunnel.
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