Wilderness Redemption Tour

Arthur's words touched the sore spot of the prophet, who instantly lost control of his emotions. He jumped up from his chair, pointed at Arthur and cursed: "Nonsense! Liar! Full of lies!" He then bared his teeth and claws at Arthur and said: "This is a unique talent of us Indians. My ancestors..."

Seeing that the other party dared to speak so arrogantly when he was completely wrong, Arthur would not tolerate him. He jumped off his horse and raised his fist to the other party: "Do you want to see my talent, huh?"

The prophet thought Arthur was going to attack him, and his arrogance suddenly withered. He shrank his neck and moved around to Arthur's side, rolling and crawling back while muttering: "Ominous... an ominous sign... I'm going to talk to those ghosts, the dark ghosts..."

Looking at the prophet's embarrassed figure when he left, Obadiah said with a trace of regret: "Poor guy, he never said panic to us..."

Hearing this, Lin Yan couldn't help but doubt whether the old man was mentally normal. That charlatan imprisoned you in this village with lies. The mutant dogs that attacked the village yesterday might have been attracted by him. In addition, Arthur just exposed his disguise in front of you. It's okay if you don't hate him, but you actually sympathize with him?

Arthur ignored the old man's overflowing sympathy. He turned to look at him and asked, "Well, do you have an answer to my question just now?"

Obadiah nodded. "There is... there is a mine. It was originally run by people in our village. Most of the people in the village depended on it for their livelihood. Later, a company came and bought it from us." He raised his hand and pointed to a low mountain in the northeast of the village. "It's over there, on the other side of the mountain. But a few years ago, for some reason, the company suddenly closed the mine. There is a path in this wood that leads directly to the mine. The prophet never let us go there before."

"Maybe the answer to all the questions lies in that mine." Arthur patted the man on the shoulder and said, "Let's help him to the end. Let's go to the mine and take a look."

After asking for the detailed route to the mine, the four left the village and walked into the mountains along a forest path pointed out by Obadiah.

The path that Obadiah pointed out to the crowd was completely occupied by weeds, and it was obvious that it had been abandoned for a long time. This coincided with the symptoms of chronic poisoning among the villagers of Butcher River Village. Only by drinking river water containing lead and arsenic for a long time would their physical symptoms be so obvious.

When Lin Yan and his team were searching for the talisman in the woods, they had not noticed the path here. Fortunately, Charles, a wilderness survival expert, was in the team. After learning that this was a trail leading to the mountain, he accurately led everyone to the mine that Obadiah had mentioned. As for how Charles found the correct path quickly and accurately among the weeds, Lin Yan did not understand. He could only attribute it to the powerful racial talent.

Standing in front of the four people was a very small mine cave. Perhaps for safety reasons, to prevent outsiders from entering, the entrance of the mine cave was specially sealed with wooden boards. There were some rusty mining tools and wooden boards used for reinforcement scattered around the mine cave. Based on these relics, Lin Yan judged that something serious must have happened in the mine cave at that time, so that the miners working here evacuated in a hurry.

Arthur dismounted. "Come on, let's go in and see what's going on here."

The wooden board sealing the mine was nailed very firmly. Arthur pulled it for a long time but failed. He didn't believe it and replaced it with another one. It turned out that this one was even stronger than the previous one. Finally, Lin Yan and Charles came forward to lend a hand, and the three of them worked together to pull open a gap big enough for one person to pass through.

"Oh my god, it's nailed so firmly. It looks like the things inside are quite extraordinary." Arthur clapped his hands after finishing.

Lin Yan looked at the dark cave, turned around and asked the other three people: "There may be gases in the cave that are harmful to the human body. Are you sure you want to go in?"

Sadie asked him, "Is it dangerous? That gas you mentioned?" Arthur and Charles also looked at him with questioning eyes.

"Well...how should I put it..." Lin Yan thought for a moment and explained, "This is not a highly toxic substance. It certainly won't kill you if you smell it. But if you smell it too much or come into contact with it too much, it will more or less cause damage to our internal organs. We won't notice it at the time. It will take a year or two for serious cases, or ten or twenty years for mild cases before these symptoms gradually become apparent."

"Huh? That's it?" After hearing Lin Yan's explanation, not to mention Arthur and Charles, even Sadie looked down on him. "Compared to bullets, the dangers you mentioned are nothing. Compared to living a few more years, I'm more curious about what's in the cave."

Arthur and Charles had the same idea. For those of them who lived on the edge of a knife and completely disregarded life and death, Lin Yan's warning was basically not threatening at all. Will aging affect your health? Let's live to that age first!

"Then it's okay to wear a face mask..." Lin Yan compromised.

Having something to block it is always better than having nothing. Lin Yan himself doesn't care. After all, this is not his body. Besides, this is still in the game. As long as he doesn't die, he can do whatever he wants.

Seeing that everyone else had obediently put on their face scarves, Lin Yan didn't dwell on it any more. He took out two kerosene lamps from his bag and lit them, gave one to Arthur and held the other in his own hand. Then, led by Arthur, the four of them entered the narrow mine one after another.

Because there were gaps in the wooden planks that sealed the cave, the air in the first half of the tunnel was normal. Walking in this low mine cave, the four of them had to hunch over, avoiding the roots of the trees on the cave ceiling, and slowly explore the dark unknown space ahead.

After walking along the straight downward passage for a while, everyone found that yellow spots of mold-like substances began to appear on the wooden boards used to reinforce the cave walls. It seemed that this was the beginning of the "contaminated area".

For this reason, everyone stopped and observed these spots closely for a while, but after all, they were not professionals. Apart from seeing that these spots were made up of some tiny lenses, they could not see any other clues.

As everyone went deeper, the mold-like spots on the wooden boards gradually increased. The narrow and seemingly endless space and this strange phenomenon could easily make people feel flustered and irritated. To alleviate the problem, Arthur took the initiative to talk about Lin Yan's speculation about the villagers' physical abnormalities yesterday.

"I didn't expect Jamie to be right. The poisonous ore in the mine might have caused this series of consequences. That charlatan must have been hired by the company that bought the mine. They were afraid that the villagers would find out that the mine was strange, so they used curses and other nonsense to trick them into staying away from here."