The mine tunnel was damp and dark. Han Shuo, an outsider who should have been led by someone else, instead strode ahead the entire way, as though he knew the mine very well.
At first, Delia had assumed Han Shuo would fall back once they entered. Little had she expected that he would never take a single step back, instead acting as a guide intimately familiar with the terrain and heading straight into the depths of the mine without a single wrong turn.
After a while, faced with the puzzled looks of several miners, Delia could no longer suppress her own curiosity. She hurried up beside Han Shuo and looked at him in surprise with her bright, wide eyes. "My lord, have you been to Lingluo Mountain before?"
Han Shuo shook his head and replied, "No, this is my first time at Lingluo Mountain. Why?"
"Then why are you so familiar with the terrain inside the mine? Ever since we came in, you haven't stopped to consider which path to take. You just headed straight inside without making a single wrong turn. If you've never been to Lingluo Mountain, how can you know all the winding passages inside the mine so well?" Delia's doubts only grew as she pressed the relaxed, casual Han Shuo for an answer.
In Han Shuo's eyes, everyone in the group, Delia included, was extremely weak. Since there were Stone Men deep within the caves whose hard bodies had nothing to fear from magic, he did not want the others to be killed without warning. With a Yin Demon scouting ahead, and based on the miners' descriptions, Han Shuo naturally proceeded without the slightest hesitation. He had not expected this to arouse Delia's suspicions.
Grinning, Han Shuo gave a low chuckle. "Didn't I hear you describing