I, the prince in distress, send money

Chapter 81 It begins
As the night deepened, the water grew colder.

Barnett, wearing a tattered woolen hat, held a torch in his left hand and a rope in his right hand, guiding an ox and the ox cart behind it into a dark and damp cave, with cold wind blowing.

"It's so cold."

Barnett subconsciously shrank his shoulders. He tucked his military uniform tighter, but found that both his hands were busy. He could only sigh and continue to lead the old ox on the way.

"Why does the Colonel want to take a hot bath so late at night?"

Barnett is an auxiliary soldier, responsible for cooking in the fortress...well, boiling water.

There is a special water-fetching team in Bolas Fortress, but they have been busy all day and are very tired, so they go to bed early.

So, when the colonel suddenly wanted to take a bath, the orderly Barnett had to lead a cow into the water cave at the bottom of the fort himself.

Because there was a reservoir in the fortress, the water in it had a quota. After the colonel called for the precious clean water, Barnett had to lead the cattle down to fetch water at night to fill the gap.

Otherwise, the thirsty soldier will have to cause trouble tomorrow.

Barnett didn't dare to bet whether the privates would be reasonable. He was just a poor auxiliary soldier, a non-professional soldier with half pay.

So, let’s make some effort at night and go down to fetch some water.

After walking for a long time in the cold, silent, and winding cave, Barnett finally heard the gurgling sound of flowing water brought back by the cold wind ahead.

Barnett's tired spirit was shaken, and his pace could not help but quicken a bit. Only the old cow behind him mooed in protest.

"Don't shout anymore. I'll give you a snack when we get back. I'll give you soybeans..."

With Barnett's comfort, the old ox stopped its low and powerful roar and continued to walk leisurely, pulling the two-wheeled ox cart forward.

Finally, after turning a small corner, Barnett saw a quiet river reflecting the light of torches.

Barnett led the old cow to the river and stuck the torch on a stone on the river bank. There was a groove on the stone for placing the torch.

The banks of the underground river were very wet and slippery. The soldiers who came to fetch water every day not only removed the moss on the surface, but also used shovels to chop out many small holes on the large bluestone so that people could stand firmly.

However, when Barnett walked to the river, he still felt his feet were slippery, and his straw sandals made a squeaking sound and splashed water.

Barnett could only walk to the river very carefully, pluck up the courage to look at the calm and dark water surface, muttered "Poseidon bless me" twice, then slowly bent down and threw the bucket into the slowly flowing water.

While waiting for the bucket to be filled, Barnett couldn't control his thoughts and began to have wild thoughts.

He remembered that someone seemed to have said that the water flowing in this underground river was the same water as the river in the canyon, and the two rivers were connected.

As for where the underground river flows, I remember that person said that the end of the underground river is deep underground, and there are some fish without eyes or scales at the bottom of the river. They are delicious to eat.

Barnett turned his head to look at the direction of the dark river, hesitated for a moment, and still didn't have the courage to go to the end of the river bank to see what the eyeless fish looked like.

The bucket was full, and Barnett hurriedly carried it back carefully.

If you go down alone, if you slip and fall into the water, no one will come to save you, so you better be careful.

However, when Barnett walked back to the ox cart and put the bucket on the cart, he suddenly discovered something he had overlooked.

What about cows?

Where is the old ox that was tied with a rope and was between the shafts of the cart? Where did it go?
Barnett suddenly thought of the legend. He nervously held up the torch and began to spin in circles.

The man-eating monsters in the dungeon, the dark elves in the underground world, the dwarves who like to live underground, and...

Barnett stopped moving because he saw a humanoid monster with a body as black as ink and no clothes standing in the range of the torch light. It was standing two meters away, staring at him with a pair of eyes as big as copper bells.

"Gah..."

Barnett rolled his eyes, dropped the torch at his feet, and fell backwards... He was so frightened that he fainted. "Uh, why did this NPC faint?"

"I was scared by you... Look at yourself, without any clothes on, you look like a black man."

"You can't blame me for this. This is just the way black oil is."

"Hurry and bring the person here..."

This is really a pleasant surprise, Carrot thought, as he led his men to swim out of the dark river and get ashore. Then this NPC ran out of the cave beside the dark river, leading a cow, and took the initiative to deliver himself to the door.

The plot of this game is pretty good.

After Carrot stopped the two players from fighting, he walked to the NPC in white clothes and looked down at him. Judging from his clothes, he was just a soldier, and a non-combat auxiliary soldier at that.

This is good, as it means that this enemy has not received any anti-interrogation training, and his willpower is not very simple, so it will not be difficult to break down his psychological defenses.

You have to act quickly and be as secretive and quiet as possible during the process.

Because there were not many players diving here with Carrot, including himself, there were only five of them, and in order to prevent themselves from being swept away by the current of the underground river, all of them wore nothing but a layer of black oil that had warmth-keeping and camouflage functions.

As for weapons, the five people only had one crossbow, four daggers, and five bundles of ropes.

With such weapons and equipment, even if they were players, once they engaged in a head-on battle with the fortress guards, the five of them would have no chance of winning.

It’s not that there are no more players willing to take the risk, but that Carrot, as the leader, is unwilling to have them.

For a team that carries out special missions, the more people there are, the better. Therefore, Carrot carefully selects those who sign up.

After much selection, Carrot finally picked out four qualified people, and then took them to start the action tonight.

"You, and you, go to the cave entrance and keep watch. Keep a distance of twenty meters. Stay alert. You watch the cow, and you watch the river. I'll wake the captives."

After Carrot gave some instructions, he walked over, took out a thin rope, tied the hands and feet of the unconscious person, then picked up the bucket of water from the ox cart and poured it on the NPC.

With the sound of water splashing, the prisoner suddenly woke up. He opened his eyes and saw Carrot squatting in front of him at the first sight, and his mouth was about to open wide.

Before he could scream, Carrot pinched his mouth, preventing him from making any sound.

"Can you speak Bagnian?"

After hearing these words, Barnett realized that the dark monster in front of him was a human, and the latter was just a weirdo with blackened skin.

"You...who are you?"

Barnett asked tremblingly in Bagnian with a strong local accent. Besides being afraid, he was also cold. The bucket of water he just drank was really bone-chilling.

"very good."

The dark-skinned Carrot showed a row of big white teeth. He raised the blackened dagger in his hand and placed it in front of Barnett's eyes.

"Now tell me, do you want to die or live?"

"Gulong..."

Barnett swallowed hard.

"I want to live, I want to live..."

"Then tell me about the interior of Bolas Fortress."

(End of this chapter)