"You are one of the fools, right? Where are the others?"
It was not easy for him to meet a living person, or the stupid person he had always cared about. Ouyang naturally wanted to ask more questions.
It's just that the other party seemed to have been frightened, his mouth was open, and he didn't reply immediately.
Nicholas was indeed shocked.
The extremely rapid reversal of life and death just now caused his heart to still beat violently.
Especially the unexpected Ouyang who appeared here was completely unexpected to him.
His mind was in a mess, and his speech system was disconnected.
Looking at the other party's stupid look, Ouyang was confused, never heard of fools recruiting fools?!
However, although he was confused in his heart, he still flicked his left hand and added a buff to the opponent.
Coming!
After Lin Zi Jue, Nicholas's breathing finally calmed down.
Ouyang observed the other party's condition, waited a little longer, and then asked again: "What's your name? Where are you fools?!"
After wandering around in this underground space for more than two days, although he was surprised that it was so big, Ouyang really cared about the advance team members of the Fools.
It's not that I care about them, I just want to know some information.
Nicholas felt his own state in surprise, and became increasingly wary of Ouyang's unpredictable abilities.
But since the other party asked, he had to answer.
"I am from the Ninth Company. My name is Nikolay. I am here to break up the team. As for where the others are, I don't know now."
Due to the qualities of a soldier, he did not tell everything in detail, but only explained it in general terms.
But obviously, Ouyang is not easy to fool.
Nicholas clearly saw the other person's raised eyebrows after he finished speaking.
He quickly added: "Our ninth company came down with Zhidong's machine, and our mission is to help the advance team who came down to explore before complete their exploration mission."
"But the underground mining area in this giant rock abyss is too big. We have been down there for almost half a month. Because we have to protect the machine, not only is our progress slow, but we haven't encountered a large army yet."
"Two days ago, the giant snake monster in this mining area went crazy for some unknown reason. It kept wandering and destroying. In order for the team to complete the task, I chose to divert it away."
"But after we set off, we found that the giant snake had disappeared inexplicably. And the monsters that appeared in our hiding place turned into those abyss mages."
"After that, I lured the monster away to the rugged stone hall. As for the rest, I really don't know."
After seeing the other party raise his eyebrows, Nicholas decisively told everything he knew from the bottom of his heart.
But Ouyang was still not satisfied. He asked again: "Does the information you obtained include information about a large number of monsters?"
"No." Nicholas answered honestly.
However, looking at Ouyang's unmoved expression, he added again: "Before we came here, we knew that there were a lot of monsters in this underground mining area. But not only the first batch of advance teams who came down, but even we who had been here for half a century
We haven’t found a lot of monsters in months.”
"There are only sporadic Abyss mages and some Qiuqiu people. Their distribution is very scattered. Even if they are all included, they will not be large at all."
"There is only the giant relic snake. Its whole body is made of steel. It is a very powerful monster, but it keeps wandering randomly. We can't catch the opponent's movement track."
This is a bit strange...
Ouyang frowned secretly in his heart.
When the accident first occurred, a fight broke out.
It can be said that the Qianyan Army stationed at the intersection may not have been able to withstand the nearly endless waves of monsters if it hadn't been for the condensed light barrage to clear the ground.
Why can’t we see a few monsters underground now?!
Although he is still a little unconvinced, he has indeed not seen a large number of monsters so far. Without evidence, he will believe it for now.
After skipping this moment, Ouyang continued to ask: "Do you have a map of this place?"
"Yes." Nicholas said and took out the map from his arms.
But Ouyang was speechless when he saw the crude map in the opponent's hand.
A few simple lines were drawn on a small piece of leather and a few place names were marked on it.
But if you look carefully, it seems that most of them are the mining areas that Ouyang has walked through before, and other places that Ouyang has not explored should be in another direction.
"Are you fools so careless with your military maps?"
"Sorry, this map was passed back by the first advance team. We really don't have a more specific map."
Damn, isn’t the intelligence system of the Fools very strong?!
Ouyang was a little speechless, but he keenly discovered a loophole in the other party's words, so he continued to ask.
"You just said this is Rugged Stone Hall, how do you know the name of this place?"
"In addition to the map, we also got some information. Of course, I am also guessing the name of this place, which is not accurate..."
Swish——
Before Nicholas could finish speaking, he suddenly found a map made of spiritual energy appearing in front of him.
Ouyang controlled his spiritual power and said directly: "Point out everything you know."
Well...
Looking at the detailed three-dimensional map in front of him, Nicholas was stunned.
Feeling the opponent's powerful strength again, he immediately told everything he knew from the bottom of his heart.
"It's said that there is a rugged stone hall here, and there is a ruin under that cave."
"There is an underground water system above the ruins..."
Following Nicholas's words, some simple lines appeared on the spiritual map to demarcate each area.
While Ouyang controlled his spiritual power, he was secretly shocked by the size of this underground mining area.
According to the other party's description, the area he had traveled through before could only be regarded as a very small part.
Ouyang really couldn't imagine how a mining area could be dug so deep and so big?!
"...That's all I know now, but among the information given by the miners, these are only part of the information. I don't know where the boundary of the entire underground mining area is."
"Well, let's do that."
Ouyang collected his spiritual power and stepped forward to leave: "I want to continue to investigate, where are you going?"
"I want to go to the underground water system... I have agreed with my company to meet there."
"Okay, then goodbye."
Before the other party could speak again, Ouyang unfolded his wings of wind, controlled his balance and flew directly towards the deep pit not far away.
That familiar energy fluctuation came from here.
After Ouyang left, the surrounding area became dark. Fortunately, there were some luminous stones in this rugged stone hall, which prevented complete darkness in this space.
Nicholas looked at Ouyang flying away and couldn't tell what he felt in his heart.
There are both palpitations of surviving the disaster and worries of an uncertain future.
Recalling the moment of life and death just now, he still felt a little frightened.
But it is always a happy thing to escape.
Using the dim light, he picked up the materials he had thrown away in order to escape.
He rummaged around and took out the balalaika that meant so much to him from his backpack, and found that the key had been broken at some point.
After remembering how his sister would look if she knew the piano was broken by him, Nikolay kicked two feet in front of the ashes of the Abyss Mage as if to vent his anger.
He took one last look at the deep pit beside him, tightened the package on his shoulders, and walked away.
It needs to be faster, I don’t know if I can catch up with the team.
Or find a place to repair the piano first.
Katarina...sister...should be worried about me now, right?!
Nicholas chose a direction and left here.
As for Ouyang, who was floating downward, he controlled the balance of his body and raised his vigilance to the highest level.
He felt the strong power of the abyss!
And the further down he goes, the stronger and more annoying the force becomes.
Soon, Ouyang, who was still floating in the air, found that his eyes suddenly opened up.
Unlike what he expected, it was not dark here. Although it was filled with the power of the abyss, there were some luminous stones around it that acted as light sources, making the sight much better than when he first entered the mining area.
But what appeared in front of him was a ruins of a city that shocked him, a ruins of a city hanging upside down.
Even though the distance was still quite far, it was precisely because of this that he could see the whole city.
One after another, the spiers go straight down from the top. If the tallest one hadn't been cut off at the middle, Ouyang almost thought it could have hit the ground directly.
So... what is the so-called ruins?!
Ouyang controlled the Wings of Wind to stop on a stone wall that had fallen from the top building. He was shocked and weird in his heart.
Inexplicably, he recalled the mission of the protagonist after meeting Dyne for the first time in the game. The upside-down statue also gave him a very strange feeling.
Is there any connection between the two?!
Out of caution, Ouyang wanted to leave here in the direction of the energy fluctuation.
but...
"Messenger of the sky, please accept my greeting gift - revenge!"
I don't know if it's because the light around me is so dazzling in this environment, or because of other reasons.
Just when Ouyang wanted to leave, five monsters wearing armor and exuding the aura of the abyss came out from behind the stone wall not far away.
Someone?!
Ouyang looked at the other person in surprise. This was an enemy or monster he had never seen before.
Ouyang had already traveled through time before the empty shell monsters came online, so he didn't know the human-shaped monsters in front of him.
But now Ouyang is more concerned about what the other party just said. When did he become the messenger of the sky?
I wonder if the maintainer of heavenly principles will agree to your words?
Ouyang looked at the other party strangely and asked.
"Who are you?"
Whoosh——
bite--
What answered him was an arrow enchanted with the element of water.
The arrow hit the shield at an extremely fast speed and then fell to the ground.
Obviously, the other party doesn't want to chat.
In this case, Ouyang was not polite, he raised his hand and fired a magic array.
But the brilliance flashed, and the scene of controlling the five people did not happen as he expected.
The attacks by those five people did not stop.
This is the first time Ouyang has encountered this situation. Ever since he learned the magic array, he has never seen anyone who is completely immune to the magic array.
Even if the opponent is a master, there will be a moment of pause or confusion, but although the five people on the opposite side move slowly, their movements are not affected at all.
Ouyang frowned slightly when he saw this.
His current attack method is actually quite simple - explosion!
It was the method used to kill the Doctor with a nuclear explosion.
The same method was used to save Nikolai before.
But he doesn't want to kill anyone now. It's rare to meet someone who can talk. He wants to keep a living muzzle and give out some information.
So...Ouyang stretched out his hand and took out the Penetrating Rainbow, and rushed forward without any plan.
Dog beating stick method!
Bah——
Taking advantage of the opponent's slow speed, Ouyang put on a shield to withstand the opponent's attack. He saw the opportunity and struck one of them to the ground with a powerful blow.
Then he swept through the entire army with one move and knocked everyone down.
But as the first monster he knocked down fell to the ground with a "clang" and his armor fell to the floor, Ouyang, who had seen clearly, dodged back to the original stone wall.
He looked at the armor scattered on the ground with strange eyes, and saw that the enemy he had just smashed had nothing but armor.
Like an empty shell.
Ouyang looked at the enemy who had climbed up and continued to attack him tenaciously. Out of curiosity, he ducked into the battlefield again, and used the same method to face the monster who had been shooting arrows at him with the penetrating rainbow in his hand.
Smashed it down hard.
Bah——
Clang——
The archer also fell to the ground. Under Ouyang's close gaze, there was also an empty shell under the broken armor.
The discovery that two people in a row were in the same situation made him a little frustrated.
When he teleported away from the place, a little spiritual light also dispersed.
boom--
Boom boom——
The shock wave caused by the violent explosion spread out in all directions.
Ouyang, who returned to the stone wall, quietly watched the empty shell monster dissipate in the air and curled his lips.
Really weird.
He looked up at the hanging city, spread his wings of wind, and flew towards it.
Something so weird needs to be investigated more.
At the same time, in Liyue Port, in Qunyu Pavilion.
After two days, Ningguang finally received the news from Ouyang.
Not only that, all the information about Liyue was on her desk at the moment.
All the information about Ouyang was also posted on the intelligence wall next to it.
Her expression was extremely solemn.
After thinking again and again, Ningguang said to Ye Lan, who was standing aside waiting for orders: "I would like to trouble you to go to the Layer Rock Abyss."
"Bring back our 'courageous' Tianshu star."
"Okay." Ye Lan accepted the order.
Then when Ning Guang stopped talking, he turned around and left.
Ning Guang looked at the messages on the intelligence wall. Ouyang's itinerary and everything he did after leaving the city were recorded.
She watched very carefully, and it was certainly not because she had any special hobbies.
It's just that Ouyang is too important.
Of course she knew about Ouyang leading the Qianyan Army to the Strata Rock Abyss to suppress bandits.
But no matter what, she never expected that things would turn out like this.
She only understood part of the specific situation in the underground mining area. The other party was a fool after all, so the detailed information must be given to Dadalia in the winter first.
But from the limited information, Ningguang also knew that it was very dangerous there.
The chaotic and unknown energy, the shockingly destructive ruins snake, and the sludge that seems to corrode everything all indicate that it is not suitable for exploration right now.
You should at least make some preparations.
At this moment, Ningguang only hoped that nothing would happen to Ouyang and that he could return to Liyue Port safely and continue his work.
She has discovered that although the relationship between the two seems to be irreversible, at least the two of them can still cooperate tacitly.
This can be inferred from the fact that Ouyang invited immortals to speed up the canal excavation.
Ouyang understands what she needs, and only he can always prepare the conditions she needs one step ahead of time.
In the empty office, Ning Guang looked at the information wall, feeling a little lost.
－－－－－－Digression－－－－－
After re-checking the information, I found out that Nicholas and his sister were not the same ones who entered the underground mining area. Uh... Anyway, I will treat it as a demon. Anyway, it will not affect the plot. In the end, the six thousand words attempt failed. I will continue tomorrow.
