“Boys, bring over the rope ladder. We’ll go straight down the cliff.” Jeremy shouted at Dwarves of the exploration team.

After the exploration team met up with Qin Lun and the others, the first small difficulty before them was how to get down from the cliff to the mushroom forest.

Originally, Dwarves didn’t directly climb down the cliff. Instead, he had to make a long detour around the mountain path. However, Jillim had brought enough men this time. He carried several laps of several hundred meters long rope stairs and was eager for revenge, so he did not want to take another detour.

From the cliff they were on to the Mushroom Plains, about a hundred meters tall, the dwarves hung down four rope ladders and began to attach themselves to the ground. Qin Lun had something on his mind, so he lagged behind a little and followed behind Lorraine.

“Lorraine, what did you use to confirm that this underground crack can lead to the Silver Hall Mining Area?” Qin Lun asked cautiously.

‘”This is very easy. Many of our clansmen are experts in finding ore veins. The strata with large ore veins are different from ordinary strata. As long as we enter a certain distance underground, we can confirm whether there are valuable ore veins nearby and whether they have been mined.”

Lorraine shrugged his shoulders. Since Jillim had agreed to let Qin Lun join the exploration team, he put aside his worries. The information that he couldn’t disclose to Qin Lun could now be revealed without any scruples.

“Is that so?” ‘”But the World Ridge runs across the northern part of the continent. It’s almost ten thousand kilometers long. There are countless ore veins underground. Can you confirm that the ore veins nearby have been mined by the Mithril Hall before?” Silver-haired elf asked.

“Sure!” Lorraine laughed heartily. “We in Dwarves are as familiar with the mineral veins as you are with the forests of Elves. The large mineral veins we have mined will have a constant impact on the rocks in a certain area. It’s just like the forests that were once destroyed being replanted with trees. You Elves can tell with a glance, right?”

“That’s true!” Qin Lun was speechless. Even if he replanted a large area of deforested forest, its ecological environment would still take a long time to recover. Not to mention Elves, even ordinary people could tell.

“King Dwarves’s Warhammer Clan has returned from the Ice Wind Valley. Their knowledge of the ore veins near the Silver Hall is like a palm print.” Lorraine smiled and said, “Although the existing Shield Dwarf no longer remembers the way to the Silver Hall Mining Area in the dark region, with their familiarity with the ore veins, they can’t be mistaken.”

“En!” Qin Lun replied absent-mindedly. Excluding the possibility that this path would not lead to the Mining Area of the Silver Hall, there was only one possibility left for this epic branch to stay for nearly a month.

All the members of the exploration team quickly gathered at the bottom of the cliff and headed towards the mushroom forest under Jillim’s leadership.

“Standing here and watching, these mushrooms are really tall!” Idrea murmured as she looked at the giant mushroom beside her.

“I can’t communicate with them. Everyone be careful!” Elizabeth withdrew her palm from the mushroom and frowned slightly. On these giant mushrooms, Elves’s unique talent for the Elves tale was useless in the slightest.

After all, the mushroom forest was very different from the forest plants on the surface, or perhaps it was because the dark region was out of the reach of the priesthood of Reiffen (God of the Elves Forest). Although the Tale of Elves was a racial gift, it was actually the blessing of the Gods of the Forest on Elves.

“The vegetation here is really amazing. It’s just like a carpet.” Mastasia crouched down and used her fingers to touch the dark brown vegetation on the ground like a carpet.

Unlike the flowers and shrubs in the forest on the surface, the vegetation here was long without sunlight. It was short and dense, mostly less than two inches tall, but lush and dense. It was indeed as comfortable to touch as a carpet.

“Haha, even though they are harmless now, if you lie here all night, you will never wake up. These carpet-like vegetation can paralyze and invade your entire body in one night. After three days and nights, you will be absorbed without a trace. Even your hard bones will not be able to leave a trace of residue.”

Lorraine shook his head and sighed. “For adventurers who first entered the dark region, most of them did not die from predators’ mouths. Instead, they were silently devoured by these underground vegetation during the night’s rest.”

Lorraine’s narrative caused the beauties in the team to tremble. Mastasia retracted her fingers and looked at Little Dwarves angrily.

“Stop!” After advancing for a while in the mushroom forest, Jillim, who was clearing the path ahead, suddenly stopped the group and signaled for everyone to disperse.

“Are there any enemies … damn it, the fog here has affected the vision of the staring halo!” Qin Lun’s eyes lit up with the Yin Yang Fish pattern. However, it was quickly cancelled by him. When he stood on the cliff, he did not feel that his vision had been greatly limited after entering the mushroom forest. He could barely see thirty meters away.

“Do you feel the ground shaking?” The shield guard from the Wei Si team suddenly frowned and said.

“Huh? Very weak, but … there is!” Qin Lun and the others focused their attention and felt it for a moment, and discovered that this was really the case. Originally, they should have noticed it long ago, but the thick layer of vegetation on the ground served as a buffer.

“Ji ~ Lim ~ ~” As the tremors grew more and more intense, a strange cry that seemed to have dragged on the nasal sound came from the air in front of the procession.

“It’s a mushroom!” Qin Lun, who had the best eyesight, was the first to see clearly the things in front of him, and his expression couldn’t help but change slightly.

The giant mushroom in front of the group was suddenly cut open by a pair of huge palms. A giant with a mushroom head bent down from the sky, its facial features facing Jillim in front of the group.

Although the mushroom man bent down, he was roughly 70 meters tall. The umbrella-shaped mushroom cover almost completely blocked the air above the group, as if a Giant Spirit God was looking down on all living beings from the clouds.

“Roja!” Elder Dwarves’s expression was exceptionally solemn. The veins in his right hand, which was holding the axe, rose. “We have already reached an agreement with you mushrooms. Why are you blocking our path at this time?”

The mushroom named Roja tilted his head and thought, as if he was thinking about why he wanted to stop the Dwarves exploration team here. However, it quickly remembered that the strange accent from before had once again resounded in its giant mouth.

“Ping ~ Heng ~ ~”

The mushroom man only said two words and stopped speaking. He stared at Jillim blankly, as if he was confident that Elder Dwarves would understand what he meant.

“I see. We will leave behind the old, weak, and weak women and children of the Ratman Tribe!” Old Dwarf’s face was a little dark. Strangely enough, he really understood the strange two-word phrase of the mushroom man.

Hearing Jillim’s promise, Mushroom stood up, released his grip on Giant Mushroom’s hands, and slowly left the exploration team.

Although its pace wasn’t fast, it was able to step over tens of meters at a time. Soon, the ground trembled slightly again. The mushroom man’s enormous figure disappeared into the dense pink spore mist around the mushroom forest.

“What does that mean?” The apostles were puzzled, but Elizabeth and Mastasia’s Elves were thoughtful.

“The balance the Mushrooms are referring to is that the dwarves should give up on the extermination of the Ratman Tribe and leave behind the old, weak, women, and children in the tribe.” Mastasia sighed and explained to Qin Lun and the others.

“Does this have anything to do with balance?” The black-robed mages in the team still didn’t quite understand.

“Ratmen are omnivorous creatures. They usually eat everything, including not only giant mushrooms, but also insects that harm the forest. They are an important part of the ecological chain of the forest, just like wolves in the jungle.” Elistine explained with a smile.

With that said, the Apostle understood. Wolves may be predators, but they are essential to the jungle. Without a pack of wolves, the number of herbivorous creatures would be uncontrollable, and once they overrun the forest, the vegetation would be destroyed and the ecological environment would lose its balance.

The Ratman killed a passing Dwarves expedition. The Mushrooms could not stop the Dwarves from taking revenge, or Shield Dwarf would return with the goal of destroying the mushroom forest. The Mushroom Cultivator could only ask Jillim to let go of the old, weak, women, and children of the Ratman Tribe.

In this way, the Ratman could continue to reproduce, and the exploration of the Dwarves would no longer be hindered.

After such an episode, the team went back on the road. However, the morale of the exploration team was obviously not as high as before, and even Dwarves, who was the most talkative, was unwilling to speak.

The situation didn’t last long, because the expedition team quickly followed Weiss’ directions and arrived at the location of the Light Sound Bat, the cave where the Ratman Tribe was located.

The rat-man cave was located at the left edge of the mushroom forest. The terrain was slightly higher than the mushroom forest, forming a gentle slope with the ground. It was about ten meters tall. A gray mushroom was planted in front of the gentle slope of the cave. The mushroom cover was the size of an adult’s palm.

From the point of view of Qin Lun and the others, they looked like mushroom fields that had been planned. There was only a two-foot-wide passage in the middle that led to the depths of the cave.

“Squeak!” A black shadow flashed in midair, and two light-sounding bats appeared on Weiss’ shoulders.

“The rats that attacked Dwarves have all entered the cave. However, there are too many forks in the cave for the light-sounding bats to be able to find out the details!” Weiss pretended to report to Qin Lun, while Gilliam and Lorraine were watching from the side.

In fact, with the speed of a light-sounding bat, it was entirely possible to explore the entire cave before they arrived. However, the Light Sound Bat didn’t have much defensive capabilities. If the Ratman discovered that the cave was so narrow, it might be shot down. Wei Si didn’t want to lose such precious alchemy tools here.

“I’ll go!” The monkey was eager to try, so it was only natural that the thieves would have to fight in such an occasion.

“I’ll have another summoned beast that can stealth cooperate with you!” After such a long period of cultivation, Venus, who had been severely injured, could finally be summoned again. Qin Lun turned around and asked, “Lord Gilliam, do you think this arrangement would work?”

The Dwarves Exploration Team did not have Thief and Ranger professions, or Dwarves, who was naturally bold and unrestrained, would not change professions to these two combat professions.

“Thieves and Shadow Panthers are useless in the dark region. They can’t pass.” Hearing Qin Lun and the others’ discussion, Jillim’s face revealed a strange expression. “Or … do you really think those rat men are wild beasts? Do you think they’re easy to deal with?”