Luke knew very well that killing the Ice Cave agent who was investigating him would not free him from suspicion. But Enoch was a big trouble. That guy had a nose as sensitive as a dog, and facts proved that it was right to get rid of him.

Now, due to the death of a team of Ice Cave agents, the surveillance agents have to evacuate, and Luke needs to use this window of time to make some arrangements.

"I don't know when the follow-up surveillance will be arranged... Unfortunately, the preparations for the secret technique are only halfway completed. Only by retaining a legal identity can we ensure that the ritual can be set up quickly."

Luke rode a summoned stone wolf forward along the dark tunnel. Less than ten meters ahead, there was a floating guide lamp, illuminating the way forward for him.

The underground world has been developed by Dongdu for more than a hundred years, and the used and abandoned tunnels have turned it into a complex underground maze. It is full of various traps and dangerous underground creatures, and even the people of the underground steam city dare not explore it deeply.

Mina's father led the resistance army to hide in the tunnel maze and escaped the pursuit of the company's security team and the Ice Cave agents.

Now Luke needs to find them.

The spiritual sphere transferred from Qingkong revolved around Luke. It was ordered to automatically use spiritual attacks, so in this secluded and dark tunnel, the screams of some animals being attacked could be heard from time to time.

Luke was riding on a stone wolf, holding a compass made of green light in his hand.

This was the secret tracking technique that Luke had quietly cast on Mina, so that he could find her quickly just in case, but he didn't expect it to be used so soon.

Luke opened the map of the Winter Capital dungeon maze drawn by the player on the phone in his consciousness. Through multi-point positioning, he has roughly determined Mina's location.

There is an underground pool there, which is a rare place for replenishment and rest.

After making sure that Mina had not moved, Luke put away the compass, activated the guide light to speed up, and the stone wolf also started running.

…

Underground waterhole campsite.

Several simple tents were built around a campfire, and a group of people in miner's clothes were sitting beside the campfire. They were eating freshly roasted food, drinking groundwater, and discussing something in low voices.

Mina was changing the medicine for the injured. She was wearing new clothes that she had just bought not long ago. Her young face was covered with dust, which made her look much more mature.

Soon she ran out of medicine and gauze.

Mina came to her father's side and said, "Father, the medicine we brought with us is all used up."

Rachel said to Mina with a smile on his face: "Don't worry, your uncle Farliang has gone to find medicine and food, he will be back soon."

"Okay father, I'll go take care of the children who came with you."

“Mina…”

"What's the matter, father?"

Rachel said apologetically: "I'm sorry for involving you. Don't worry, we will find a way to send you children away from Dongdu to a safe place."

"Aren't you coming with us?"

Rachel looked at the miners who had joined him in the rebellion against the company and said to Mina, “No, we want to take back what belongs to us, and we want to create a home that belongs to you.

We need to fight for you and your children."

"But...you will die!" Mina couldn't help crying.

Rachel touched his legs, which were a pair of mechanical prostheses.

"If I only rely on that meager salary, I will have to lie in bed forever, and you have to go out to earn money to support the family. What's the difference between that and death?

Did you know?

It is difficult for underground miners to live to the age of 40. There are always various accidents that take our lives. Every time we enter the mine, it is a gamble with our lives. Why don’t we gamble with our lives for ourselves!

Look at them, are they afraid of death?"

Mina looked at the miners who came out with her father. Although they looked disheveled, their spirits were much higher than when they were working in the mines, as if they had found the meaning of their existence.

"Let me stay here too. I'm grown up and can do a lot of things... I'm not afraid of death."

"If you stay, my fight will be meaningless. And we have to keep moving in the maze of tunnels, you will be a drag on us."

Mina was silent. She felt confused and couldn't help but think of Luke.

"I, I didn't even say goodbye to Mr. Luke..."

"Mr. Luke is a respectable man. Saying goodbye to him will bring trouble to him. Have you ever told others that he is Mr. Bai Ye..."

Mina immediately responded, “No, Father!”

"Very good! Go and rest. We will leave here in an hour."

Just as Mina stood up and prepared to rest, there was a commotion outside the camp.

Rachel immediately grabbed the pickaxe at hand, protected Mina behind him, and asked loudly to the guards outside: "What happened?"

No one responded!

Could it be that the company’s security team and the people from the Ice Cave found this place?

A sense of crisis enveloped the entire camp.

The miners picked up the weapons at hand, some ran to the mining machines, and skillfully started the steam machines that were larger than war machines.

A strong light illuminated the small camp, and a figure slowly walked towards the camp in the middle of the light. He was wearing a straight windbreaker and a hood on his head, and the strong light came from a ball of light hanging above his head.

A mage.

The miners became more nervous and looked at Rachel one by one, waiting for him to give the order to attack.

At this time, the light of the light ball quickly weakened.

The man approached and said, "Sorry, my magic ball automatically attacked your sentry. Fortunately, it was only a mental attack. The poor guy will wake up after being unconscious for a while..."

Before the visitor could finish his words, Mina popped her head out from behind her father.

She recognized Luke's voice, but when she was about to shout out, Luke made a gesture to silence her.

Mina immediately stopped herself from shouting out the name. She pulled her father's sleeve and whispered, "It's Mr. Luke."

Mr. Luke!

Rachel looked at the newcomer in confusion, wondering: How did he find this place?

It is not appropriate to reveal Mr. Luke's identity now. After all, many people have seen him in the B36 mining area.

"Don't panic, this is Mr. Bai Ye."

When they heard that the person coming was Mr. Bai Ye, everyone immediately let down their guard and showed expressions of reverence.

They were all awakened by what Mr. Bai Ye said, and in order to no longer live and die in obscurity, they embarked on the path of confrontation with the ruling class of Dongdu.

Rachel sent more people to set up further sentries, and then welcomed Luke into a tent.

Sitting down on the stone, Mina brought Luke a glass of water and couldn't help choking up again: "I'm sorry, Mr. Luke, I can no longer fulfill the employment agreement."

Seeing that only Mina and her father were in the tent, Luke lifted his hood and said to Mina: "The employment agreement is a small matter. I feel relieved to see that you are safe."

Rachel bowed to Luke and apologized: "I sincerely apologize to you, Mr. Luke, I stole your name for my own selfish reasons."

Luke looked at Rachelde and saw that Mina’s smile had disappeared: “The Ice Cave agents found me last night, and you really put me in great danger.

Mr. Bai Ye...

You guys are really good at naming things.”

Mina said in a low voice with shame: "Yes, I gave you the name. My father said that your real name cannot be told to others..."

“That’s why we can still meet.”

"I'm sorry..." Rachel said, "We didn't expect things to get to this point. Some people went too far and killed the supervisor and the overseer."

Luke said, "Yeah, we didn't expect that...some of the things I said casually could cause such a big incident."

"The wisdom you unintentionally reveal is the truth that illuminates the fog in our hearts."

Luke said helplessly: “Well, since it has already happened, there is no point in pursuing it.

This is your resistance army?"

When Luke walked into the camp, he roughly understood the configuration of this rebel army. The weapons were basically mining tools, and there were three steam-driven mining machines.

There were also family members who had escaped with the group in the camp, including women and children.

Fearing being looked down upon, Rachel said: “We have fewer people, but we brought out some money and gold.

I plan to send non-combatants out of Dongdu through underground channels, and then use the money in my hands to transform the remaining soldiers.

Throughout the underground mining area, there are many people who support us. With them as insiders, we can attack weakly defended areas through the pit maze and rob the weapons and money there.

Then we will expand the staff step by step.”

Fight to support war.

The intricate maze network of underground mines is indeed a good place for guerrilla warfare. Rachel has clear thinking, understands his own weaknesses and advantages, and can pull out such a team in difficult situations. He is really an excellent leader who was almost buried by mining.

Luke took out a tube of reagent and said, "This is our first meeting. I'll give it to you as a gift."

Rachel took the reagent with both hands, and a mysterious purple halo rippled in the blue reagent.

"What's this?"

"This is a second-generation mysterious substance mixture unique to the lower city of Saint Lun City. It can allow ordinary people to gain extraordinary powers."

Upon hearing that this was a potion that could grant people extraordinary powers, Rachel's hands trembled with excitement.

These bottom-level miners had no chance to come into contact with supernatural powers, and could only rely on the brute force acquired through long-term mining and a small amount of steam machinery. Therefore, facing the company's security team and ice cave agents, they could only run away.

Now with a tube of potion that can allow ordinary people to gain extraordinary powers in their hands, the resistance's survivability will be greatly improved.

"This, this must be very valuable!"

"Of course it is very valuable. This tube of reagent is worth no less than 400 gold coupons."

Upon hearing that the price of this tube of reagent was equivalent to more than 2 million At coins, Lazier held it tighter with both hands, fearing that it would drop to the ground and break.

"This is more money than I can ever earn in my lifetime, and it's not a small sum for you either. Mr. Luke, it's too expensive, I can't accept it."

Rachel returned the reagent.

Luke didn't answer: "I like Mina very much, she is a kind and smart child, I don't want her to lose her father too early.

Take it, you need it more than I do."

Rachel looked at Mina and took the reagent back: "It is Mina's luck to meet you."

Mina knew what this tube of reagent meant to her father. She bowed to Luke and said, "Thank you, Mr. Luke. I don't know how I can repay you..."

"Our meeting may be arranged by God. If you need to repay me, I think God will continue to arrange it." Luke said to Rachelde, "Since I can send you this potion, I believe you have already doubted my true identity."

Rachel asked: "Are you... a spy from the Golden Shield Empire?"

Luke said, "I am a spy of the Golden Shield Empire, and I mainly serve the City of Raging Tide. Although what you did was unexpected and even disrupted the mission I was carrying out, it may not be a bad thing for the Empire.

Do you need our help? "

Rachel was silent, and the reagent in his hand became unusually heavy.

If he accepted the help of the Golden Shield Empire's spies, he would be a traitor to the Art County Alliance; if he did not accept it... this tube of reagent was the first and last funding.

"Mr. Luke, I am very surprised by your identity; your question is difficult for me to answer."

Luke smiled and said, "I can understand that your identity makes it difficult for you to make a choice. But you must recognize that this war was entirely instigated by the Art County Alliance. From ancient times to the present, the Golden Shield Empire has no territorial claims on the North.

The war not only hurt the Golden Shield Empire, but also deeply hurt the people of At County. You lost your legs because the pressure in the steam pipe exceeded the dangerous value due to the increase in production tasks.

Among the security team that protected me yesterday, three people have been drafted or are about to be drafted into the war. They are the pillars of their families, but they have to use their lives to satisfy the greed of the rulers and oligarchs of the Art County Alliance.

This is not a just war. It has been stained with foul blood since the beginning. It is the selfish desire of a few people. To end it, we cannot rely solely on the invaded empire. We also need you who have also suffered from the war. "

Rachel looked at his legs, which were cold and without any feeling.

The reason for this rebellion, in the final analysis, is that the war has caused the company to exploit people to the limit, and Mr. Luke's words are a life-saving straw for those who are struggling to survive.

Even though I know what the ending is that awaits me, I can't help but hold on tight.

Now all my fantasies about the future are just fantasies, but with funding from the Golden Shield Empire, it is possible to realize them.

"This is indeed an unjust war." Rachel answered, and also convinced himself: "The rulers and oligarchs of the Art County Alliance are our enemies, and your enemies as well."

"Yes, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Raising the banner of anti-war will not only gain you support from the underground mining community, but also from all the lower-class people in Winter City.

If you want to realize your ideals, you cannot just set your goals underground. You must step out from underground and let the truth you believe in be tested by the sun.

Only the living victors can define: who... betrayed this country! "