The door to the room was suddenly violently knocked open, and the excitement in the room came to an abrupt end.
The long-faced man had originally arranged for two people to guard the door, but Arthur took out food and weapons one after another. The two people gathered around to eat and get weapons, and they had long forgotten about guarding the door.
The person who opened the door was one of the men who was responsible for preparing meals in the morning. Looking at the food and weapons in the hands of the people in the room, the man was also stunned and stopped at the door for a moment.
Arthur had the fastest reaction. He jumped up from the ground in an instant, knocked away the people surrounding him, and stabbed the man in the throat with the hunting knife in his hand.
"No!" The long-faced man suddenly stopped him.
Arthur's hunting knife stopped under the man's throat, and the man was so frightened that he did not dare to move.
"Don't kill him. The orcs will be in trouble if they find him missing tomorrow." The long-faced man explained.
Arthur grabbed the man's collar and pushed him forward hard, dragged him into the house and threw him to the ground. The blade was again placed on his throat. He looked back at the long-faced man, "What are you going to do with him, Fu Shukou?"
The man looked at the long-faced man in horror, "Buck, who is he and what happened?"
"Captain Silas, he is Captain Arthur of the Snow Wind Legion's former army. Captain Arthur's troops have arrived outside the canyon. He is here to rescue us. If we want to let you go, you plan to go out and report to the orcs. Are you going to fight out with us?"
"Buck, you bastard, I, Silas, was also a great captain back then. Who would become a slave to the orcs if I had the chance to kill him?"
Buck nodded to Arthur, and Arthur removed the hunting knife from Silas's neck.
Silas stood up and took Arthur's hand, looking equally excited, "Brother, we finally have our own people here. How many people are you here? When are you going to take action?"
Arthur had to briefly describe the plan he had just made with Buck and others.
"Those of us who are active outside will fully cooperate with you. We will help you bring news and food to various cabins. It will be safer than if you move outside by yourself."
"Apart from you, are any of them trustworthy?" Arthur asked hesitantly.
"Brother Arthur, don't worry about this. We have no choice but to survive. No one will truly surrender to the orcs, and we have never done anything to harm our own people. If you don't believe me, you can ask Buck and the others." Si anxiously explained to Arthur that he knew that he would have a bad impression in Arthur's mind because he served the orcs.
Arthur patted Silas on the shoulder, "No need to explain, I believe you, because I also worked as a slave in the orc camp."
Silas, Buck and others were stunned for a moment, and then looked at Arthur even more closely, because they had a common experience, which is empathy.
"Okay, let's carefully plan the details of the action. Are there a few questions I want to know first?"
"Brother Arthur, you ask, I basically know the situation of the orcs in the canyon." Silas said, patting his chest.
"How many troops do the orcs have in the canyon? What is the strength of the leading orc?"
"There are one hundred and fifty orc warriors in the canyon responsible for guarding the slaves and guarding the entrance of the canyon, and there are also fifty wolf cavalry."
Arthur nodded slightly. The total strength of 350 men was not much different from what he had previously estimated.
Silas continued: "The orc commander in the canyon is a sixth-level lion warrior, and there are also three orc centurions, all four or five-level orc warriors."
"How come someone from the Golden Lion's tribe appears here?" Arthur was greatly surprised.
Although the Golden Lion Clan is one of the three major tribes of the orcs, the lion people of its own tribe have never been prosperous, and the lion people are rarely seen outside the orc royal court.
"This mineral resource is the wealth that directly belongs to the Golden Lion family, so they will send their own clansmen to personally supervise it."
No wonder the food and equipment of the orc guards in the canyon are obviously better than those of the orc warriors Arthur encountered before. If they were direct warriors of the Golden Lion family, everything would be explained.
Arthur is now curious about what kind of resources this mine contains that makes the Golden Lion family pay so much attention to it that there are even dwarves who specifically refine the ore for them.
Silas saw the doubts in Arthur's heart and took the initiative to explain: "This canyon produces the spirit mother stone. Because we were worried that the orcs would break the spirit mother stone with their clumsy hands, we captured human captives to mine it."
"What? You said you were mining the Mother Stone!" Arthur could no longer hide the surprise on his face.
Lingmaite is an extremely rare mineral resource, and its value is far higher than gold.
The levels of weapons and equipment of each race are divided into fine, rare, and excellent, and above that there are heirloom and legendary equipment. Although there is only one level difference between level 3 sophisticated equipment and level 4 rare equipment, the difference is not that the forging process is more exquisite, but that a special mineral - spirit mother - is added to the rare equipment.
The special thing about the Spirit Mother Stone is that each Spirit Mother Stone is an independent individual. If it is broken a little, the spirituality will be lost and the whole piece will be useless. After initial refining to remove surface impurities, adding it to the equipment is also done in one piece. In this way, it is still a whole in the equipment, just like a whole set of systems like the meridians of the human body are embedded in a piece of equipment.
Equipment with the addition of the Spirit Mother is like an extension of the meridians of the human body, through which Dou Qi flows unimpeded and its power is multiplied, thereby improving the quality of the equipment.
There are also several spirit mother stone mines in the human race, but the annual fixed output is very small, which directly limits the number of rare-level equipment on the market every year.
"How many mined spiritual mother stones are there in the canyon?"
"The Golden Lion Family will send people to transport the refined spirit mother stones in the canyon once a month. Now there are more than 20 days' worth of spirit mother stones in the canyon. As long as we can rush out smoothly this time, we must remove these spirit mother stones. Take all the mother stones away." Silas's eyes shone with excitement, and he knew more about the huge value of this wealth.
Arthur didn't expect that he could make a huge fortune while rescuing human slaves. It was an unexpected surprise.
"Who is that dwarf?" Arthur asked the last question.
"He was also a slave captured by the orcs, because he was the only one who could do the work of refining the spirit mother stone, so the orcs were almost providing for him. As long as he didn't run away, the orcs could satisfy almost any request he had."
Arthur nodded, knowing that he was well aware of the situation in the entire canyon.
"Captain Arthur, when shall we act?" Buck asked impatiently.
"It's easy to leak information if it goes on for a long time. I'll give you a day or two nights to recover. We'll start early the morning after tomorrow."
Arthur took out another large pile of food and gave it to Silas, asking him to distribute it to the slaves in each cabin. As for the weapons and equipment, in order to prevent the orcs from noticing in advance, Arthur planned to divide them up on the last night before the operation.
Silas was holding the food and was about to leave. Arthur suddenly remembered something, "Wait a minute, there is one more thing you need to do."
Arthur said as he took out a small paper bag from his bracelet, "You are responsible for cooking for the orcs. Find an opportunity to add these medicines to the orcs' dinner tomorrow."
Since Arthur followed Tony back then, he actually had various harmful drug formulas for orcs in his hands, but he never had the chance to use them on orcs. He specially prepared a few copies on the way to report to the Snow Wind Legion this time. Unexpectedly, he would finally have the opportunity to try them today.
Silas hesitated slightly when he took it.
"Don't worry, it's not a poison that works immediately. They won't find it. It will only make the orcs weak." Arthur smiled evilly.