"What should we do now, Captain? Go straight in and look for the ghost?"
He Xi shook his head, putting on the air of a seasoned adventurer. "As a qualified adventurer, your first priority is to make yourself useful and provide the team with convenience and support."
"Now, please cast a [Light Spell] for your captain, too."
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A glimmer of amusement passed through Flora's eyes, but she put on a serious, eager-to-learn expression and nodded obediently.
He Xi took the orb of light and crouched down to inspect the ground at the entrance. "Let's look for clues outside first. Ghost or anything else, if it's been active here, it'll have left traces."
Flora's eyes lit up, and she crouched beside him. "We can piece together the truth from the traces, like detectives!"
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Feeling the prompts pop up repeatedly in his mind, He Xi began searching for any clues he could use to guide this "detective" toward the truth.
The snow at the entrance was trampled into a mess, with tracks leading both in and out. They had clearly been left by the miners and unlucky adventurers who'd come here before.
But He Xi's gaze soon settled on several deeper drag marks. They stretched from deep inside the tunnel to near the entrance, then turned back the way they'd come.
"Look here. These marks."
Flora followed his pointing finger and examined them closely. "Wheel tracks? They're pretty deep, and there are two parallel lines... Are these marks from minecart rails?"
"Exactly. And look at these tracks—they're pressed into last night's fresh snow. The mine's been closed for a long time, so these marks must have been left recently."
"So these marks