Artoria wants to read people's hearts

Artoria walked beside her, looking at the scene in front of her with a relaxed expression.

Since joining this hunting team, the food in the small stronghold has improved significantly.

At least, everyone can eat meat every day.

And the hero of all this is well known to everyone, so for this blond girl, everyone in the stronghold is grateful and respectful to her.

That is to say, in the past few days, the members of the hunting team also contracted all the dirty work, and Arturia, who had caught the prey, didn't have to do anything.

Although she was not used to it at first, in the face of everyone's insistence, Artoria finally chose to accept their kindness.

Pulling her thoughts back to the present, she followed everyone back to the stronghold with brisk steps.

"Pendragon, you are back."

Everyone greeted them friendly, and when they saw the prey being carried on their shoulders by a few guys, they couldn't help showing a happy smile.

Obviously, everyone ate meat again today.

In the midst of the heat, Artoria once again got the best piece of hind leg meat from the beautiful little girl who specialize in meat cutting.

However, the little girl with red hair always likes to blush for some reason.

That kid is really shy.

Sighing, she took the meat back to her house.

And at night, Arturia repeated her plan.

After everyone fell asleep, she took the two machine maps and slipped out of the stronghold again.

Chapter 11 Always Some Unlucky Comrade Rick ([-] in [-])

Above the head was an extremely deep darkness, with thick clouds rolling slowly.

From time to time, silver lightning flashed across the sky, accompanied by rumbling thunder, illuminating everything, but the next second, it was covered by thick clouds again.

Artoria looked up at the sky, marveling in a world where even thunder looked like the end of the world.

She shuttled through the boundless wilderness, her figure was as fast as lightning in the sky.

The endless wilderness always greets the eyes, and there is no shadow of plants on the ground, only the dark brown land is showing its own sense of existence.

The environment here is very bad, and the desertification of the land is very serious. If you observe carefully, you will even find that there is still faint black smoke.

The well-informed Arturia knows that this is a symbol of underground volcanoes under the leylines.

She galloped all the way, and there was no pause in the middle except for a slight stop to check the position on the map.

After traveling like this for about 2 hours, she finally stopped in front of a base that was hollowed out by a mountain range.

The entire base is half exposed above the ground, and the surrounding collapse and dilapidation are not comparable to the previous ruins.

Obviously, for unknown reasons, this place was also abandoned by the goblins.

Arturia slowed down for a while, then walked directly into it and observed the surroundings.

The surroundings of the base are very quiet. Apart from the occasional thunder coming from outside, there seems to be no other sound in the whole world.

I don't know if it is because the sound insulation effect is too good, but there is not even the sound of the wind inside, giving people the feeling that the whole world has stopped.

Could there really be anything of value here?

Involuntarily, Arturia was a little dazed.

However, since everyone has already arrived here, there is absolutely no reason to return on the spot at this moment.

Silently, she was walking, when suddenly a huge iron gate appeared in front of her eyes.

"........."

The emerald green eyes fixedly stared at the rusty door, so——

"Bang!!!"

The heavy iron gate was directly demolished violently, and after a burst of smoke and dust dispersed, a winding corridor leading to the front road was exposed.

At the same time, a gust of cold air mixed with the decayed body temperature of a declining century rushed towards her face. This taste was not pleasant, and it took Artori a dozen seconds to stabilize her mind.

Sometimes....... the nose is too sensitive is not very good.

"........."

Frowning, she continued to walk forward expressionlessly.

Sometimes, darkness and narrowness can paralyze people's sense of time.

The road was very long, and Artoria felt that she had walked alone for a long time, and the corridor made many turns and turns, which made her a little confused for a while.

It wasn't until.......she walked out of the tunnel, that it suddenly became clear to her eyes.

This is a huge and empty space. The walls in the space are not decorated too much, and the outlines of rocks and mountains are exposed very simply.

In the exposed ones, some traces of ore can even be seen.

Looking to the left, Arturia could see a high platform made of wood and steel.

On the high platform, there are a few decayed baskets and broken mining hoes, and on the right side, there are several broken miner's lamps and unusable tracks.

It looks like this is an abandoned mine.

Seeing this, Arturia couldn't help feeling a little depressed.

It seems that eight/nine out of ten, the map synthesized by the two machines on hand points to a mining area that the goblins used for mining a long time ago.

This fact, I have to say, makes people feel a little regretful.

She sighed helplessly, turned around and continued walking towards the forked intersection ahead.

In any case, since she came all the way here, no matter how you say it, you have to go around this place all over again.

Otherwise... I always feel that this trip will be even worse.

Just like that, another three or four minutes passed, when Arturia turned another alleyway.

Suddenly, an accident happened.

Arturia's footsteps stopped suddenly, and a strong sense of crisis suddenly hit her heart.

Her expression froze, she turned and hid to the side.

"Crack——!" The ground she was standing on suddenly split open, and a pliers more than four meters long rushed out.

"what is this?!"

Looking at the ferocious pliers with black hairs, a question mark appeared above Artoria's head.

Tracing the memory, she recalled the racial information that the squad leader told her before.

It seems... This is another demon species?

Taking two steps back, she dodged the opponent's attack with a seemingly dangerous movement.

However, in fact, you can't blame her for not recognizing it at first.

These monsters are all kinds of strange, and the animals in this world are also different from those in other worlds.

For her who is not so familiar with this world, it is normal for her to have a moment of doubt when she sees this monster.

Because of a missed hit, he got out of the ground, and the guy's whole body was exposed.

It looks like a huge beetle, or it looks like a scorpion, with mosquito-like sharp mouthparts on its head.

Its body was covered with dark brown scales, and its whole body exuded a hideous and terrifying aura.

Hmm...it looks pretty ugly.

Arturia was thinking like this, while bending down to pick up a rusty mining pick.

She covered it with a lot of her magic power, and with a flick of her wrist, she fired the mining pick like a cannonball.

As soon as the mining hoe touched the body of the demon species, it also exploded violently while piercing through the opponent.

"Bam—!"

Before he even had time to utter a scream, the monster was directly blown to pieces.

The magic barrier on Artoria's body played a very good role in isolating the flesh. She stood where she was and didn't hide. After everything settled, there was no mess on her body.

From an onlooker's perspective, it seems rather unfathomable.

However, this scene was broken in the next second.

A rustling sound came from her ear, and Artoria's expression changed suddenly.

It seems that because of the explosion just now, the huge sound awakened the sleeping mining area, and it seemed that all the monsters in the vicinity were alarmed by the sound just now.

They smelled the smell of flesh and blood, even if the flesh and blood belonged to their own kind, it was enough to arouse their ferocity.

Here.......is not safe anymore.

Although she wasn't afraid of these monsters, Artoria didn't want to fight these big bugs.

After all, to be honest, their looks are too ugly and disgusting.

Even an experienced knight like her would subconsciously feel physical discomfort with the appearance of these monsters.

Thinking about this, Artoria has already decided to leave here immediately.

An abandoned mine, coupled with a group of disgusting monsters, there is no longer any need to attract her to continue exploring.

Looking back, Artoria turned around and chose to run forward.

The previous tunnel seemed to be blocked by the monsters who were rushing this way. If we return to the same way now, we will definitely have a face-to-face friendly exchange with the group of bugs.

Artoria subconsciously didn't want this kind of thing to happen.

But even so, in the end she still couldn't avoid several fights with the group of bugs.

There is no way, because for some reason there are unexpectedly many monsters here.

It seems... as if this abandoned mine was used as a lair.

"Bam—!"

Artoria raised her left foot sharply without looking sideways, and then kicked open the closed heavy wooden door.

The door fell straight down with a "puff" sound, and scarlet liquid oozed from the ground under the door.

"........"

Artoria walked around the corpse of the demon species that was smashed by the gate in disgust, and walked to the spacious avenue.

However, just as she was about to walk out along the avenue, there was a sound of weapons hitting from her right side.

Although the voice was faint and difficult to detect, it was completely unaffected by her.

"???"

He looked over there suspiciously, but all he could see were ruined walls and exposed rocks, and the place where the sound came out was tightly blocked.

Without the skill of clairvoyance, Arturia had no choice but to turn around and walk over there.

The sound of the golden spear of the weapon is obviously not made by the monsters who can only fight in hand-to-hand combat.

There is definitely someone there in that direction, maybe... maybe not a person.

And at the location of Artoria's destination, Rick felt that he was simply unlucky at the moment.

Originally, I came here with two confidantes just to check it out, but I didn't expect that this place was just a mine, or even a lair of demon species.

It was fine before, but I don't know why so many monsters suddenly came out.

This is really fatal, no, the result is really fatal!

In order to give him a chance to survive, his two confidantes were swallowed up by the demon species in the end.

He didn't even have time to feel sad about this kind of sad thing, and he was driven to a desperate situation by the demon species that appeared next.

Rick has reached the moment of life and death at this time, and he has no way to hide with his back against the corner.

The spider-like monster raised its front paws at him, and he could clearly feel the fishy wind from the opponent's waving.

Reluctantly, his eyes widened, and Rick's heart was full of despair.

However.........