“Forty-seven… Beware… Forty-seven…”

“Be careful, Oliver…”

“Mom? Dad?” Oliver looked around the dark, dusty tunnels after hearing his parents’ warning him as always. Then the familiar rocky walls started seeping blood! Countless green eyeballs emerged as the stone turned into pulsating flesh…

“Theoretically… Yes.” Klein frowned, “Unless…”

“Unless it’s a Banned Word.” Verna narrowed her blue eyes and explained, “Nobody knows what Words are ‘banned’ or not. At least no normal people would know. Because once a Banned Word is discovered, it’s ‘erased’.”

“I’m glad you’re back too, but you can’t be seen by anyone else!”

A big black tarp suddenly appeared around the four of them and Verna pushed Oliver’s chest while whispering, “Go! Hurry up and hide! Meet us at your house!”

“Wait, what’s wrong? Are we…”

A large green carriage was traveling through a small dirt path through the mountainous woods. Even with special rubber and metal wheels, along with a rather expensive suspension, the carriage was still incredibly bumpy and shaky. Rattling constantly.

“Can you see Verde Village from here?”

“Umm…”

Oliver stood on the edge of the cliff in a gray shirt, with black suspenders and pants. A pretty typical mining outfit around Greenstone. After reaching Rank 6, most of their bodily functions should be 10 times stronger than before, but Miners weren’t Archers. Rocks also didn’t have particularly amazing eyesight either. Even after being strengthened 10 times, the actual effect wasn’t necessarily better than using binoculars.

“Ollie, I missed you so much.”

“I missed you too, Peri.”

A short, bald-headed boy with gray eyes was sitting at a metal picnic table and eating a ham sandwich with mustard, lettuce and pickles. It wasn’t particularly fancy, but he still smiled as he remembered the cute girl who made it for him. He went on lunch break while Jade and Oliver were arguing.

*Boom~!*

*Bang!*

The two guns were fired at the same time. One big bullet hit the bed of the steel cart and bounced back, smacking into the metal helmet on the rifleman’s head. The other shot five big lead balls that hit Jade’s almost flat chest and either flattened or ricocheted away.

“No, I… I actually feel fine now.” Oliver took off his mask and coughed a few times, shaking his head, “Nope, that was a bad idea.”