Ahead is an open water surface, shining with sparkling light in the sun, as dark green as blue.
Surrounded by dead trees by the water, she grabbed the vines of a banyan tree and climbed up, hanging on the tree. She grabbed the vines and looked into the distance. Then she let go, clapped her hands and said to the others: "
Stop and take a rest.”
The elf girl's voice is very soft, like the sunshine in the afternoon shining through the vines on the desk, amidst the undulations of dust, it is quiet, demure and reassuring.
Others also stopped. Jita let out a long breath, unbuttoned the leather button of the giant book, took it off from behind, leaned her thin body against a moss-covered rotten tree, and wiped a handful of sweat with the back of her hand.
, beads of sweat flowed down the slender arms, steaming.
"You shouldn't have brought that broken book with you." Tianlan said to him disapprovingly, fanning with one hand, her fair skin showing pink. "That's not a real magic book, it's just a wooden model.
That’s all.”
The long summer has passed, but the residual heat still lingers on the earth.
"But one day I will carry a real magic book." Jita replied crisply: "So I have to adapt to its weight first."
"I've convinced you, at least learn to cheat occasionally," Tianlan shook her head. "No one will know, right?"
"I know, Luo Yu also knows, Miss Fuli also knows, and Sister Attila also knows, so many people know."
"But we will help you hide it, don't you think so, Luo?" She looked at the young trainee beside her.
But Luo Yu shook his head. "The Knights stipulate that we must supervise each other during the tour. It is my responsibility to inform the examiner of his performance."
Tian Lan looked at him in disbelief. "Aren't you friends? Can't you figure out which is more important, friends or guild? Besides, their demands are unreasonable."
Luo Yu frowned and said nothing.
But Tianlan was reluctant: "Speak!"
The former said helplessly: "The additional provisions of the "Suva Declaration" are not suitable for all situations. As members of the Oak Knights of Tapolis, we know what the guild needs better than a rigid document."
The little French girl couldn't help but reached out and touched his forehead: "Are you crazy? You are not the guild management. You are just a selector. Look what they have done to you." She replied.
Too much. "Brother Ed, tell me, am I right?"
Fang Yu was checking the status of the walker at the side, and couldn't help but shook his head after hearing this.
In the end, he agreed to Etila's invitation and joined the team. In fact, Etila only invited him to return to Elpaxin with them. Fang Pulver understood that they saw his predicament, which was just a more tactful way.
Just lending a helping hand.
They may not really need an alchemist accompanying them for activities near the city, not to mention that they are already on their way back.
Of course, it must be to thank him for helping before, otherwise adventure teams are generally more cautious in the wild and will not easily join strangers.
Regarding Tianlan's question, Fang Pliance wisely chose not to speak. He learned a lot at Dawn Star, one of which was never to take a stand when others are quarreling.
He said vaguely: "By the way, there is a question I have been wanting to ask before, why did those people attack you?"
Seeing that he didn't support her either, Tian Lan couldn't help but feel a little discouraged, and angrily took out a gold statue from her bag: "It's not because of this thing."
"Miss Fuli." Kitta called out in a low voice and shook her head at her.
Fang Yu looked at him strangely, and Xiao Zhengtai was so frightened that he quickly lowered his head.
Fang Plover has actually recognized the statue, the Numelin icon, which is usually carved into the image of a feathered serpent, a stag and a cat. Those are the three animals that the Numelin elves consider to be the most magical. They are found in various ruins and temples.
A large number of them have been unearthed, but they are usually made of stone, and gold ones are rare.
This thing can be sold on the market for tens of thousands of lisels, if sold to aboriginal collectors or explorers who are interested in the ruins of Numelin. But it seems not worth using domesticated maroon weevils and crushed red crystals.
Come and exchange.
After all, the value of the former is no less than this statue, and the broken red crystal itself, which can induce insects to go crazy through low-frequency resonance, is not cheap either.
"It's nothing, just a worthless broken statue." Tian Lan was dissatisfied with Jita's caution. When she saw the latter's neck shrinking like an ostrich, she couldn't help but feel teasing.
He walked to the latter on catwalk and pressed his chest with both hands. Jita screamed in fright and hurriedly covered his chest with both hands, causing her big, thick and clumsy glasses to fall down again.
"Haha." Tian Lan was gloating that his prank had succeeded.
Jita's face was as red as blood and she was about to cry.
"Don't bully Jita." Etila glared at her angrily. "That statue is our mission for this trip. It can be used to open the door of the temple in the Traveler's Forest. Legend has it that the second obelisk is there.
Down there." She walked back from the tree and said.
Fang Yu subconsciously wanted to ask her where her brother was found, but she realized something was wrong before she could say anything, so she kept her mouth shut.
However, if this statue is the key to a key mission, it does have this coveted value. Its value depends on the richness of the mission itself. If the obelisk is really related to the Holy Grail of the Numelin elves, this key will definitely
The portion is not light.
But after all, it is just one of them, otherwise even the Grand Guild might not be able to help but take action.
"Brother Ed, this statue is actually what the Black Goat Merchant Group wants." Tianlan added at this time.
At the same time, she was holding the bulky glasses in her hand, placing them on the bridge of her nose for Kita, and pushing them with her fingertips. The latter was looking at her with tears.
Fang Yu looked at the other party's reaction and it really didn't look like a boy. He shook his head and asked: "Black Goat Merchant Group?"
"A business group under the Kaolin Merchant Alliance. Their president is a hateful, greedy and treacherous upstart. It is said that he obtained the permission to transport arms and magic weapons through nepotism when he was young. He made a fortune by relying on the Battle of Bain.
Bi Cai, in short, is an arms dealer——"
Tianlan comforted his little friend with some kind words before continuing: "My real name is Luen Lincius. This man is very influential in Elpaxin, but he doesn't actually live in this place. Of course, the businessman is big
He calls Kukai his home most of the time, but his mansion and family are also in Grande, the royal capital of Corin."
"He mainly relies on his business to influence the area around Rainbow Bay. However, starting from twenty years ago, this guy will live in the Traveler Camp for a period of time every late summer and will not leave until the winter solstice. He is not sneaky.
He knew what he was doing, I suspect he already knew there was an obelisk below."
It can be seen that Tianlan has a very bad impression of this person, but Fang Lu knows that the Kaolin Merchant Alliance, one of the three major business alliances of Kaolin and Ithulian, controls 9% of the commercial trade in the Yunzhihai area.
ten.
However, he didn’t know much about the Black Goat Business Group. After all, there were hundreds of large and small business groups under the Kaolin Business Alliance. Chosen people who were not interested in business would not care about this.
thing.
This also shows that at least the logistics workers of Tianlan's team are still qualified. Fang Pulver thinks that she must have dealt with this hateful, greedy and treacherous upstart.
"Then what's the reward for this mission?" Fang Plover looked at Etila curiously. He thought that Miss Elf should first investigate the obelisk after getting the statue, because it was related to the confusing cause of her brother's death.
, rather than completing the task of a business group.
This is obviously unreasonable.
"About 100,000 lisels, and there is also a fruit of wisdom. That guy's price is pretty high." Tianlan waved her hand impatiently, as if she was shooing away flies when she mentioned that person.
This remuneration is indeed very high. The Jefflite Red Team deceived Dawn Star into committing suicide and only paid about 200,000 yuan. Of course, that was two-thirds of the deposit, but only one-third after the fact.
Presumably no one can get it.
Not to mention there is also a Wisdom Fruit. The Wisdom Fruit is actually equivalent to an experience book page. It also only takes effect for the first time and is more advanced. One fruit provides 25,000 first-level experience.
Although the experience given is in the form of random skills and knowledge, it is something that is rare for most people. Especially for novices, this thing will improve even more, which is equivalent to accelerating the growth process in disguise.
Even Fang Yu felt a little moved after hearing this.
But he was still a little strange: "But aren't you trainees? Miss Aitila... doesn't seem to need these?"
"Ha, because the rewards I'm talking about are for ordinary people. But for us and Sister Atila, that stingy guy won't give us a copper reward."
"Why is this?" Fang Yu was surprised.
"Because Mr. Kidd's body was discovered by that guy's adventure group," Tian Lan replied angrily: "Only he knows what happened at that time. He promised us to use this information in exchange for free help.
Find this statue."
"He also told you where the statue is?"
"Yes, otherwise how could we have found it."
Fang Yu always felt that something was wrong: "If that's the case, then why didn't he get it himself?"
"How do I know?" Tianlan's face changed, and she suddenly asked: "Wait a minute, sister Aitila, who was the first to take this statue?"
Attila subconsciously looked at the unconscious Papalar crossbowman on the side.
Fang Plover had already walked over and rolled up the other person's sleeves. He saw that his chubby right arm was all white and there was nothing there. When he looked at his left arm, he found that there was a dark mark coiled like a snake.
"Curse!" Tian Lan exclaimed, gritting her teeth: "That damn abominable arms dealer."
"Don't worry," Fang Plover replied: "This is just a simple feathered serpent curse. It will bring bad luck to the recipient. Other than that, it has no other effects. It will dissipate on its own after a certain period of time."
He looked at the unconscious Papalar crossbowman and thought that the unlucky mark seemed to have an amazing effect.
"Everything else is fine," Fang Plover added: "You'd better keep him away from lottery draws and treasure chests during this period. The effect of this curse mark is really obvious."
Hearing that the problem was not serious, Tianlan felt a little relieved: "Humph, it's better to let this guy suffer a little. At that time, sister Aitila clearly said that she wanted to check it first, but this guy couldn't move after seeing the treasure.
It’s gone, it’s obviously just a short hand.”
"Thank you, Ed." Attila also nodded to him.
Fang Plover scratched his head. This was the first time that his knowledge of the second world came into play. It is true that the second world also has many ruins of Numelin elves. This is also a very strange thing.
"But I won't let that damn arms dealer go." The little French girl added hatefully.
However, Fang Yu was pessimistic about this. He felt that it would be very difficult for Tianlan to fulfill his words. Since the other party was counting on them to bring the statue back, there was no way they had not estimated these things in advance.
Miss Scarpet was very good at this method of hitting a stick and giving a sweet date, and he had suffered greatly from it.
But he wisely didn't speak.
Fang Yu suddenly felt that he was no longer the young boy who didn't know anything before, at least he knew how to weigh the pros and cons. This was thanks to Miss Scarpe's Chunchun teachings.
"So are we going to the Traveler's Camp now?" he asked again.
He had long realized that the team was traveling in the wrong direction. In theory, the way to the El Paxin area should be all the way south, but this team had been heading east since the morning.
"Don't worry," Etila said to him gently: "We just want to go there to rest for a while, and we will leave for Elpaxin soon."
Fang Yu shook his head. He was not in a hurry, he was just asking. Anyway, he was also curious about the Traveler’s Camp. That camp was actually very famous. It was not so much a camp as a camp between the Traveler’s Forest and Elpa.
The hotel between Xin.
A very large hotel.
"Yes, brother Ed," Tian Lan also encouraged: "The traveler camp is actually very interesting, and we have to go back to the 'base' first before heading to El Paxin."
"base?"
The little French girl winked at him playfully: "That's Luo Yu's masterpiece, you'll know later."
The Traveler's Wood is actually an extension of the Egon Forest.
There is another more formal name here, called Traveler Swamp, because in the past this swamp was located on the only road between El Paxin and "Charter City", another city in the Seven Cities of Rainbow Bay.
When the group of people arrived at the edge of the swamp, it was at dusk. The swamp became darker and deeper, filled with thick fog. A dilapidated trestle bridge penetrated deep into the fog, and there were dots of firelight in the distance.
This place is actually not far from the traveler's camp. Tianlan told him that the firelight in the mist was the wind lantern hung by the people in the camp, so this trestle is actually maintained by someone.
Fang Yu found that if he hadn't met Aitila and the others, he would never have imagined that there would be a civilized camp within a day's trip, and he was really happy in his heart.
Getting closer, there is a crooked road sign erected next to the trestle. The bark is peeling off and covered with moss. Three place names are crookedly carved with a dagger:
'Traveler's Camp'
'Traveler's Trail'
'Traveler's Swamp'
The Traveler's Trail is actually a land road leading to Charter City. However, since air transportation became more convenient, this road has actually been abandoned for a long time. Now adventurers mostly use it as a shortcut to penetrate into the Traveler's Swamp.
use.
Fang Plover also saw a few crosses made of wood not far away, with unknown adventurers buried deep beneath them, most of them helped by their companions or passing travelers.
The owners of these tombstones have either returned to reality, or have completely returned to the embrace of this world.
For ordinary people, crossing these tombstones symbolizes entering the more dangerous advanced area from Elpaxin's "novice" area. But for Fang Plover, it's a little weird——
Because he has finally returned to the 'novice' area from the advanced area.
So when he saw the sign, he couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.