Chapter 158 The story of the past, the dagger and a favor
The two of them moved along the red-grey rock wall, crushing the gravel and leaving a trail of rustling footsteps behind them.
Gu Baizhino said: "The last time I saw him was seven years ago. He and I went around several times, and finally went to a small adventure group called NS. After that, we never heard from each other again.
The last thing I heard about him was that he seemed to be the team leader."
Fang Yu knew that although Aitalia had crystal communicators, the communication distance was limited. The communication between people was usually through the community. As long as there was an ID in the community, they could contact each other through two-world communication.
So he asked: "Don't you have each other's community ID?"
"He didn't use the identity of Aitaria in the community before. After that, he may have changed a community ID. I didn't expect that he would use his real name back. I also changed my communicator several times. Those
I’m afraid not many of the people I met earlier still remember me now.”
Speaking of this, he couldn't help but glance at Fang Yu. His identity was unexpectedly recognized by a strange young man he had never met before. He was both surprised and comforted. Although he may have been forgotten by most people,
There are always people who recognize him.
This may be the only reason why he still stays in this place. He found that his dream for the Chosen One was not completely extinguished, at least there was still a glimmer of hope.
But this expectation did not motivate him to make too many changes because it was too late.
He is no longer young after all
Fang Yu lowered his head and was thinking about other things.
In fact, names can be repeated in the community. The real way to distinguish identities is the digital number of the Glow Communicator. However, once the communicator is damaged or lost, the newly applied identity will not inherit the previous information.
Unless it is added manually, the situation mentioned by Gubai Zhino may also happen. After losing a common goal, people who were originally acquaintances gradually drifted apart, each looking for their own way out.
Day after day, until we forget each other in the world.
It made him sigh.
During the battle at Pegasus Bridge, that flash of genius and unyielding passion left a deep impression on his young mind. But ten years later, the original protagonists are now competing for the same status, as if they are strangers to each other.
They passed each other and didn't know each other.
Fang Yu looked at Gubai Zhiye. The latter, who was nearly thirty years old, was actually not that old, but in Aitalia, this was already the last scene of the Chosen One. His contemporaries were even younger than him.
, and is now semi-retired.
It was only ten years, which was only enough for him to grow from a child to a teenager, but for a super-competitive selector, it was already a long life cycle.
But what will he look like ten years from now?
Will he stand at the top of the world like Kun?
I was still walking with another boy I didn't know, looking back on my walk like this now, my memory was filled with colors like yellowed pieces of paper. The wonderful things of the past were like the words existing in a strange book.
Fang Yu suddenly found that there was no confusion in his heart. Just as the big cat man said, when he came here, everything went straight to his heart. Success or failure was only the final result, but he believed that he would not make any orders.
Decisions that people regret.
That is his most basic confidence.
Gu Baizhino continued: "I heard you mention r, and I recalled this incident. He was the youngest member of us at that time. But his talent was very outstanding, I once thought..."
He suddenly closed his mouth, as if recalling the past, and frowned slightly.
Fang Yu couldn't help but recall the battle ten years ago. Indeed, among the little-known team, apart from Gubai Zhiye, only the young man with the ID name R left him the most profound impression.
impression.
His level is the lowest among the team, but his performance is the best, even far better than that of Gubai Zhiye who is in front of him at the moment. Gubai Zhiye was remarkable in that battle, but in the end
Hesitation destroys all possibilities, and there is only one person he is most sorry for.
But r told him in a private message on the community that he could understand the other person's choice. Although it was that choice that determined the future path of the two of them, it was like a completely different dividing line.
Let them stand at both ends of the turning point, one side is dim, separating them from the most dazzling starry sky.
Gubaizhino paused for a moment before continuing to answer: "I met r by chance. I saw him posting in the community. It happened that we needed a combat craftsman in our team at that time. m had just been disbanded.
, our team is just the fantasy of a group of like-minded teenagers, with no funds and no reputation. It is not easy to get the favor of a combat craftsman, so I sent a letter asking him if he was willing to join, only to learn that he was not selected.
By"
Fang Plover raised his head.
This scene seemed a bit familiar, almost exactly the same as his encounter with R. I don't know if it was an accident of history, or the other party's intention, or maybe it was out of recollection of the past that this chance coincidence happened to him.
Gu Baizhino continued: "After several exchanges, I found that r is a real genius, at least a theoretical genius. Therefore, I used some old connections that still existed in the original guild to help him get a selector.
Of course, the rules of the Super Competitive League at that time were not as complete as they are now, and the identity of a legal selector was not as valuable as it is today."
Fang Yu opened his mouth slightly, and then he realized that there is such a relationship between Gubai Zhiye and r. If it were placed today, it would be almost equivalent to the grace of reinvention among the chosen ones.
Even at that time, it was very rare.
But the facts proved that Gubai Zhiye's vision was not wrong. Without that boy, their team would not have been able to go as far as it did later.
But everything has become a loss. Fang Yu looked at the lonely white field and suddenly understood what the other party had not said. He never contacted anyone else before. It must be because of the guilt in his heart for his companions. The so-called replacement
The community ID is actually just an excuse.
"I remember that R is a combat craftsman." Fang Pultru said. He had watched almost every match of the opponent, and of course he understood the composition of that team.
Gu Baizhiye nodded. "He is a genius. I have always thought that he should have a higher achievement than Kun. I have never seen a combat craftsman with such talent, and he never knows what giving up is. Our team originally
It should be his first step."
"But no, where on earth did he go?" Fang Yu couldn't help but ask again.
Gubai Zhiye still shook his head.
He suddenly stopped and took something out of his arms and handed it to Fang Pliance: "This thing was sent to me before he left for the adventure group seven years ago. It was a souvenir of his new era. I
A dagger from the trainee days. I thought he returned this thing to me to express his dissatisfaction with the battle at Pegasus Bridge, but today I understand what he meant."
Fang Plover looked at the rusty dagger, which was engraved with the seal of Stargate Port surrounded by seven stars, and a line of small words:.
m, solitary white wilderness.
Both the former and the latter seem to be a piece of forgotten history.
He looked at the other party with some confusion, not understanding why Gubai Zhino gave the dagger to him. Although he was nominally half a student of R, the latter had never admitted it.
What's more, he and Gubai Zhiye only met once. As for those feelings of admiration, they were already a story in the past. They just met for the first time today.
But Gubai Zhiye had no intention of taking back the dagger, but slowly told another story.
He raised his head and asked: "You must be curious about what happened between the Rain Listener and the Blood Oath, right?"
Fang Plover nodded.
In fact, he couldn't be called curious, but since he was involved in it, he naturally wanted to understand the cause and effect.
"Actually, I have more or less guessed something about the Rain Listeners myself," Gubaizhino replied: "As early as half a year ago, there were signs of division within the club. At that time, a group of people from the club's senior management left.
, this matter once caused a commotion within the Rainlisteners Guild in Aitaria."
"But something else happened after that, which diverted everyone's attention. That is the thing that the Blood Oath is looking for now. It is actually an incomplete map."
"Incomplete map?" Fang Pliong asked, another term sharply thinking of it in his mind.
Obelisk.
If he remembered correctly, Tian Lan once told him that there was also an incomplete map on the obelisk under the abyss. Could it be the same one? If so, wouldn't it be the same as Etila's brother?
Are their adventure groups connected?
He frowned slightly,
But I heard Gu Baizhiye continue to say: "Yes, a map is contained in a black box. I saw it two months ago, so I am sure. It was transported from the south of the kingdom. Before I
So I know this because the brigade was the escort of this box at that time."
"Escort? Is this a task designated by your guild?"
Gubaizhiye shook his head: "I'm sure that's not something from our guild, because I've seen the client. They seem to be Istanians. Do you know which desert people? Some of them are said to be
Descendants of dragon slayers."
There was a vague feeling in Fang Yu's heart that the fragments and clues were connected by invisible threads. The changes in the Kaolin-Ithurian Kingdom in the past six months, from the Changxia War, the changes in the Great Guild, to his time in Doli
What happened to Fen was actually caused by the same chain of events.
Of course, this is just his guess. He must also confirm that the map is the one on the obelisk. The adventure group that Miss Attila's brother participated in went to the abyss near Gula, so he can be sure
The thing is that it is in the northern area of the Sea of Clouds, not in the same direction as the Silver Sands of Istaria.
He remained silent and listened to Gubai Zhiye continue to speak. The latter seemed unwilling to talk more about the map and only said: "When we were escorting this box, we had a conflict with the Blood Alliance. But at the time, I thought
The other party just accepted a task that was opposite to ours, so we didn't think much about it. After all, the guilds in Aitaria always cooperate and compete, especially between regions, so conflicts are normal.
matter"
"But no one expected that the other party's purpose was not that. They really came for that map. So after that, the conflict between the Rain Listeners and the Blood Oath intensified, even to the point of triggering a war."
"How can a mere escort mission be worth it? Generally speaking, in such a situation, the senior management of the club or guild should initiate negotiations, but what everyone did not expect was that this time the senior management's attitude was extremely firm. Others also expressed their opinions on this.
There were no doubts, but they were all suppressed by the club."
"The voice of the club actually represents the voice of the shareholders and investors behind it. Since they are willing to accept losses, naturally the association has nothing to say. But no one expected that something like this would happen after that."
Found by Fang Plover.
When Gubai Zhino described these things, he didn't have much sense of involvement, as if he was always standing as a bystander. Obviously, either the club's performance made him feel chilled, or he was frustrated from the beginning.
I don’t have much sense of belonging to Listen to the Rain.
But who isn’t?
Perhaps the only place in his heart that should belong is just called vem, a name that only exists in history.
Fang Yu understood that these things the other party said were the secrets of Listening to the Rain.
Although it is still a question whether this guild is still necessary to exist.
However, he knew that these words were obviously due to the benefit of their vice-president Grant. The professional ethics of these older generation electors was commendable, even if they did not have much sense of belonging to a guild.
But it won't betray the guild's secrets.
Of course, except for a few scum among them.
"That is to say," Fang Plover then asked: "Actually, your vice president doesn't know where the top leaders of the guild have gone?"
Gu Baizhiye shook his head: "Listening to the Rain has several vice-presidents. Grant is in charge of new member training. Although important, he was not the core in the guild originally. The real core people have long since disappeared."
"Then what are you doing here? He brought three training camps and members of your brigade to this place. There must be a purpose?"
The lonely white field was silent for a moment.
Then he slowly replied: "He didn't say it clearly, but I can understand his thoughts. The so-called president asking him to come to this place is just an excuse. His real purpose is just to get the name Listen to the Rain."
It’s just that it can survive.”
Fang was stunned for a moment.
How can a guild survive when its top management has disappeared? The best outcome is that it will be dismantled by the Super Competitive Alliance, and after dealing with the negative assets, the remaining valuable parts will be sold to other successors.
As for that time, it was still an unanswered question as to whether it was a rain listener, or even whether it was still called that name, and where its original members should go.
And bad results
It's nothing more than being absorbed by another guild.
Just like it is now.
"This idea is too naive. Even if the Super Competitive Alliance agrees," Fang Yu took a breath: "Don't you think there is no problem? Without the support of the club, you are just a free guild, but the Blood Alliance swears to give
Do you have room to stand?"
"It's not impossible, although it's very slim." Gubai Zhiye replied.
Fang Yu looked at him curiously, waiting for his next words.
"The answer lies here, the Dragon Trial." The former said: "If the person he chooses can excel in the trial, we can ask Mageri to fulfill one of our requirements."
"Satisfy one requirement?" Fang Pliance asked: "Can your guild be resurrected from the dead? Even if it is a rich green dragon, it doesn't have the ability to intervene in the affairs of the chosen ones, right? If it is Kaolin-Yi
If the Xiulian Kingdom takes action, there might be some possibility."
"Of course it's not that outrageous," Gubaizheye shook his head: "There are many restrictions on meeting the requirements, but technically it can be done. Listeners to the Rain can ask it to provide shelter. At least in Fenris.
, the protection of this green dragon is everything, even though it only lasts for one year."
"But a lot of things can change in one year," Fang Plover took over his words: "I see. But it's still too ideal. Will the Blood Alliance give you this opportunity?"
Gu Bai Zhi Ye shrugged, that was not something he could decide.
Fang Yu looked at the dagger in his hand and asked, "So what is this dagger?"
"I want you to do me a favor, Ed." Gubaizheye said.
"Help you?"
But Gu Bai Zhiye shook his head.
"No, it's not the one listening to the rain, it's me."