Chapter 47

The underground passages were extremely complex, with roads extending in all directions; some paths simply led to dead ends.

This was also the reason why, despite the Undead Legion defeating the Gold-Eating Rats last night, the Gold-Eating Rat tribe had still managed to escape.

The Gold-Eating Rat nest was about two or three li away from the Red Iron Mine; if one followed the underground passages, it was a journey of about five or six li.

Moreover, the corpses of Gold-Eating Rats or Undead could be seen everywhere in the passages, and obstacles had to be cleared to continue moving forward.

For a short distance of five or six li, they had spent nearly an hour.

And this was with the guidance of the Undead and the correct path.

Finally, the narrow passages ended, and a vast underground space appeared ahead, resembling a giant karst cave.

Qin Luo could not help but take a deep breath of fresh air.

"Lord, why have you come?"

Wang Yi and the others gathered around, respectfully welcoming Qin Luo's arrival.

"How is the situation?"

Qin Luo asked.

"Not very good!"

"Those rats have burrowed back into the narrow, labyrinthine rat tunnels!"

"Once again, our offensive has been obstructed!"

Wang Yi shook his head and said.

"Didn't you say that the Gold-Eating Rat nest had already been found?"

Qin Luo asked in confusion.

"We originally thought we had caught them too!"

Wu Ershiyi, standing nearby, explained, "A large number of Gold-Eating Rats were gathered here, and we originally thought this was the final nest of the Gold-Eating Rats. But when we paid a great price to conquer it, the Gold-Eating Rat swarm scattered and fled again. We suspect that there might be a second Gold-Eating Rat nest here!"

"So what is the difficulty you are facing now?"

Qin Luo asked.

"First, the surrounding rat tunnels are too narrow. We must slowly expand them before we can accommodate our Undead entering!"

"The second point is that there are too many passages here. We cannot determine which one leads to the Gold-Eating Rat nest and must eliminate them one by one. Furthermore, we face attacks from the Gold-Eating Rats when entering these tunnels, and having gone through several major battles, our current troop strength is far from sufficient!"

"And because we are deep underground, we dare not use the Corpse Explosion Technique. If this place were to collapse, we would all die here!"

"However, since the Lord has brought so many Skeleton Soldiers, this solves our problem of insufficient troop strength!"

Wang Yi said.

"I brought five thousand Skeleton Soldiers this time; that should be enough, right!"

Qin Luo said.

"Of course, the current number of Gold-Eating Rats is probably less than five thousand!"

Wang Yi said excitedly. "Then let us immediately launch an attack on the Gold-Eating Rat tribe!"

"Very well!"

Qin Luo nodded slightly.

Wang Yi immediately deployed various combat plans, dispatching squads of Undead into the rat tunnels connected to the karst cave.

From time to time, various sounds of battle could be heard from within the passages.

Qin Luo, meanwhile, carefully observed this giant karst cave and pried a stone off the cave wall with his hand.

"This looks like bronze ore?"

Qin Luo could not help but ask in surprise.

"Lord, after we conquered this cave, we discovered that a large amount of metal ore was stored inside!"

Wu Ershiyi came to Qin Luo's side and pointed to the middle of the cave, where small mountain-like piles of brightly colored ore were stacked.

Due to the narrow space in the passages, the Undead could only conduct a carpet-style search.

The role of the Undead Necromancers was greatly restricted, so they appeared relatively idle.

As for combat deployment and command, it was basically handled by the Undead Bone Generals.

"Take me to see!"

Qin Luo followed Wu Ershiyi to the metal mounds. When he saw what was before him, a look of wild joy appeared on his face.

【Ding, you have obtained 3000 units of Red Iron, 1000 units of Bronze, and 500 units of Mithril!】

"So many rare metal ores!"

This was something Qin Luo had never expected.

One must know that this was not even the true location of the Gold-Eating Rat nest, yet it contained so many mineral resources.

Besides Red Iron, there were also Bronze and Mithril, which were even more precious than Red Iron!

What surprised Qin Luo was not just the capture of these two types of rare metal ores.

It was that the appearance of Bronze and Mithril meant that there might be a mineral deposit nearby capable of producing these two types of metal mineral resources!

"Great, I was just worrying about how to find metal deposits other than Red Iron!"

"This really came without any effort!"

"This Gold-Eating Rat tribe must be conquered so that we can explore the location of this mineral deposit!"

Qin Luo laughed.

After half a day of fighting in the rat tunnels, the Undead suffered nearly five hundred casualties and finally found the location of another Gold-Eating Rat nest.

"Lord, we have found another nest of the Gold-Eating Rats!"

"And this time, our offensive has met with great resistance, so this nest is highly likely to be the final location of the Gold-Eating Rat nest!"

Wang Yi came to Qin Luo's side and said.

"Very good!"

"How much longer until we can break through?"

Qin Luo asked.

"Currently, both sides are fighting for control of three main passages!"

"The enemy is resisting strongly!"

"I have decided to personally lead all the Undead Bone Generals to take these three passages!"

"At most, one hour."

Wang Yi said.

Although the Gold-Eating Rats had been defeated by them and had even lost one nest gathering place.

But the Gold-Eating Rats had extremely high defense, and it was difficult for ordinary Undead Skeletons to kill them.

Only the bone spears of the Black Iron Realm Undead Bone Generals could easily pierce through the Gold-Eating Rats' armor-like fur and kill them in one strike.

"Good, take the passages as soon as possible!"

Qin Luo said.

Currently, they had only discovered the passages leading into the Gold-Eating Rat nest.

And due to the narrow space of the passages, it was not suitable for large-scale combat at all.

Therefore, the advantage of the Undead Army could not be brought into play.

Only by occupying the passages and moving the army into the Gold-Eating Rat nest would the real battle break out!

Accompanying the Undead Bone Generals were several Undead Necromancers.

Although the Undead Necromancers dared not use the Corpse Explosion Technique recklessly, they could use Dark Magic to cause massive casualties to the Gold-Eating Rats, and then use Undead Transformation to turn the Gold-Eating Rat corpses into Undead, beginning to disintegrate the Gold-Eating Rat tribe from within.

Less than half an hour later, they successfully occupied the three passages leading to the Gold-Eating Rat nest.

Qin Luo followed behind the Undead Army and arrived at the so-called Gold-Eating Rat nest, nearly blinded by the dazzling light emanating from within the cave.

This was no Gold-Eating Rat nest; it was practically a treasure trove!

The giant cave was several times larger than the previous one!

On the towering mineral walls, metal ores shimmered with various fantastic colors.

Some were a dull blood-red, others a serene green, and among the pitch-black ores, the Mithril, which looked like obsidian, stood out from the rest.

Qin Luo looked at the dazzling stones in the mine and recognized at a glance that they were various rare metal ores!

(End of chapter)