Game: I'm a Hunter in the Blood Curse World

Fan En didn't actually feel anything; on the contrary, he felt quite good, as if his blood had been purified.

Moreover, he had a feeling that the more he used the same blood-based prop, the better.

For example, he discovered that the changes in the sacrificial ritual dagger and the swamp banshee's head definitely represented some kind of evolutionary or upgrading trend.

Although he didn't know what the one-eyed snake's eyeballs were like, he noted down the name and prepared to study the predictive blood-based items more carefully the next time he entered a dream.

"When that stupid she-devil was sucking my blood, I felt that if my Blood Essence Points were higher, I would lose less life points!"

Van En savored the feeling of being drained earlier and decided to wait until he reached level 4 before allocating 5 points to Blood Essence to see the effect. However, he also pondered:

"Blood quality...blood quality, does it mean exactly what it says, the quality of blood? The sacrificial ritual dagger and the Banshee's head both seem to have given my blood positive reviews! Maybe it's related to the modifications I received from the Hearst family? I'll try other blood quality items later to confirm!"

Vann looked ahead and saw Sir Francis moving stones there, so he went over to help.

When Katya saw Vann go up, she followed him and moved the stones.

It has to be said that this girl's strength, honed from her humble beginnings, is no less than Fan En's when it comes to work.

Seeing everyone working without any self-awareness, Luo Linsha perfectly demonstrated her "Yongyue Milk" demeanor, which made Fan En glance at her slightly.

However, given the frail physique of the trainee judge priestess, he couldn't say anything.

But when Vann saw that Katya could lift stones faster than he could, he decided that after everything was over, he would definitely use the bull's head and other things he had bought to nourish his skinny frame.

Five minutes later, he and Sir Francis wiped the sweat from their brows and looked at the rusty, slightly dented square iron gate at their feet, their faces beaming with joy.

Katya stepped on it twice and said, "It's very sturdy, made of good iron. It would be good to melt it down and make farm tools."

France nodded in agreement.

"I should have realized it sooner. The passage I mentioned on the left was a similar iron gate carved into the stone wall. Hmm... this must have been a safety passage for the miners, giving them a chance to survive if the mine collapsed..."

Van En glanced at the mission time and found that there were only two and a half hours left, so he called Rolinsa over and opened the small iron door at the same time.

Crunch! Creak—

A piercing metallic sound rang out.

A dark hole appeared before them. The square opening was irregular, suggesting that it was a crudely constructed escape tunnel built by the miners themselves.

Moreover, the opening is not large; even Sir Francis would have difficulty going down without armor.

Lorinsa shone the light of the Judgment Silver Blood Lamp into the passageway, and a rusty iron ladder extending downwards appeared.

Further down, a pile of bones appeared at the very bottom.

With his Hunter Vision activated, Van En clearly saw the old, bloody handprints covering the iron ladder.

Katya exclaimed in surprise:

"How...how could so many people have died here?"

Sir Francis was removing his armor when he glanced at the skeleton beneath and sighed:

"I heard my father say that there was a major accident in this mine 72 years ago. There were a total of 203 miners, but only about ten survived. The rest of them died here."

"It's just... I never expected that those officials in Putuo Town, who claimed to have come to provide disaster relief, wouldn't have noticed these people right under their noses! Sigh! They were so close, just one step away, and these people could have gone home!"

Before coming to Putt, Rolinesa had naturally read the information about the town, and said in a low voice:

"The Putt Iron Mine massacre was well-known in the church. Back then, the local high priest was sent to investigate, but the church buried the bloodshed with the words 'the disaster relief was effective and there were no too many casualties.'"

From that point onward, Pute Town, once the largest iron ore mining town in the north, began its continuous decline, shrinking from a peak of ten thousand residents to just over two thousand today.

Katya was somewhat downcast because some of the miners here were ancestors of Sweet Well Village.

"I remember Grandma telling me about this. The town's governor back then said that those people went to work in the mines near Yongyue City. At first, they earned some money every year, but later it was said that they all died out there..."

Van En frowned and sneered:

"And yet you still expect us to wait for the hunters from Put Town? By the time they arrive, everyone in Sweet Well Village will be dead."

Sir Francis had already removed his heavy armor, revealing the close-fitting chainmail underneath.

Therefore, Vann observed that Sir Francis's physique was not pot-bellied, but rather robust.

After handing the plate armor he had taken off to Lorinsa for safekeeping, Sir Francis rolled up his sleeves, sheathed his longsword in the scabbard on his back, and slipped into the secret passage.

"I'll go down and scout ahead first, then you can come down."

Frans smiled at Vann and the others, then enthusiastically climbed down the iron ladder.

The decaying ladders creaked with the weariness of metal, but the thumping footsteps of Sir Frans suggested they were still quite sturdy.

Boom!

A dull thud came from underground, making Van En's head ache.

"Ouch! There's a low tunnel leading down here. Remember to duck when you come down. Ouch... it doesn't hurt! I'm going to clean up the remains of these miners!"

Fan En helped Katya and Rolinsa inside one after the other. He glanced around and, finding nothing amiss, was about to go downstairs when he saw Orange jump out from somewhere.

"Meow!"

There was a strong resentment in the orange's green eyes; it probably had a tense and exciting chase with those white spiders.

It sniffed the air and, finding Rolinsa below, darted inside.

"I almost forgot about you!"

Fan En chuckled and followed him down.

After pulling up the metal plate of the escape route, Van En saw a latch on each of the four sides, so he locked them all firmly to prevent the white spiders from cutting off his escape route.

As he climbed down the ladder, Van En noticed that even when some of these rough iron ladders broke in the middle, both ends were firmly riveted into the stone wall, and he thought to himself:

"You were so eager to live, but unfortunately, you still didn't survive."

Recalling how difficult survival was in the Blood Mist World, and how inhumane the upper echelons of Naput Town were, Vann vaguely realized one of the reasons why Doug Hearst had gone into seclusion.

He chuckled softly:

"Heh, maybe my cheap ancestor even said something like, 'If the hunters don't come with me, I'll go up the mountain and make another batch.'"

Snapped!

After Vann's feet touched the ground, Katya reached out to support him, her expression somewhat worried:

"You're still too thin, sir. You look like you could be blown away by the wind. Eat more in the future. I'm a pretty good cook."

Van En smiled and said:

"There are plenty of opportunities. I found some ingredients in the carriage before."

"Okay!" Katya's eyes sparkled; clearly, this girl still had a strong craving for food.

"Van... Master, shall we just follow this path?"

Sir Francis crouched down, pointed his longsword forward, and turned to ask a question.

Van En nodded, while simultaneously catching a strong, strange odor.

The next second, the familiar deep red mission guidance line appeared in front of him, winding downwards along the escape tunnel, which was less than 1.5 meters high:

"Let's go! It shouldn't be far!"