Buni Gu seemed a little hesitant, but Fang Pliance would not go back on what he had promised, so he took out the ring and nodded to him.
The ring was dark and inconspicuous in the night, and even over the years, the pattern on the surface was almost worn away. But he did know the material of the ring - rings made of materials taken from the same magnet were different from each other.
With the ability to sense, the magnet rings used by Istanian merchant travelers locate each other in the desert to prevent them from getting lost.
This ring seems to belong to a family of desert merchants who make a living on the silver sand sea. It may be a legacy from his grandfather's generation.
At this time, Rhett came over, took the ring from his hand, looked at Bunicu with his silver eyes and asked: "This ring seems ordinary, would the Blood Shark Pirates be interested in it?"
Bunigou immediately replied: "They took away almost everything, including my grandfather's ring."
"Then why did you keep this ring?"
"Da, maybe I hid it better...because they had to take us here to do hard labor anyway, so they didn't search our bodies at that time."
"Good answer."
Rhett threw the ring to Parker aside and patted Fang Plover on the shoulder: "Let's go, find the secret passage first."
Fang Yu raised his head and glanced at Red. He felt that the big cat man's behavior was strange, but he still nodded silently.
Everyone advanced towards the depths of the valley, and finally stopped in front of a weathered cliff. At this time, the ridge on the other side just blocked the rising moonlight, and the bright silver moonlight fell on the bare mountain tops, giving a desolate look. In this direction,
Just when it was shrouded in a dense shadow, Fang Plover saw Bunigou in front of him and suddenly disappeared.
He was surprised when he saw the other party reveal half of his body again and waved to them:
"found it!"
After his pupils dilated in the dark conditions, Fang Plover gradually adapted to the environment where he couldn't see his fingers. Only then did he see clearly that Bunigu didn't disappear before, but there was a huge rock there that was at least twenty or thirty feet high.
Being close to the cliff, the other party began to walk into the gap between the huge rock and the cliff. Looking at it in the darkness, he thought he had suddenly disappeared.
Only then did Fang Plover remember that he had seen this huge rock in the afternoon, but it was integrated with the surrounding environment, and there was no mystery at all from a distance. He and the big cat man walked into the gap first, and the big cat man walked into the gap first.
You need to have a short head to enter. Others followed, and Alyssa touched the rock curiously.
After entering the crack, Fang Plover could see clearly that between the angle between the giant rock and the cliff, there was a long crack on one side of the rock wall. The size of the huge rock itself completely covered the crack, making it completely visible from the outside.
No clues.
The crack is completely natural, without any trace of artificial carving.
But Bunigu looked around and said to them firmly: "This is it."
At this time, Etila lit the rosin torch, and amid the smoke, the bright firelight outlined the outline of the crack - it was about four meters high, and it was a long and narrow triangle from top to bottom. No light could penetrate inside, and it was pitch black.
.
Fang Yu looked inside and turned around and asked, "How are you sure this is here?"
"There are no other entrances near here. The location here is similar to the one in the records." Bunigou was afraid that they would not trust him, so he added: "But after so many years, I am not sure whether it is still accessible inside, but it should be relatively
It’s safe, unless the Blood Shark Pirates also discover this secret passage.”
"So do you think they can find out?"
"this……"
Sylvide suddenly intervened and asked calmly: "What's the situation on the other side of the exit?"
"This secret passage has more than one exit."
"Then which exit does your grandfather usually use? He should have mentioned it in the record, right?"
"As far as I know, there is an exit in a well, another in a wall, and a tunnel."
"Are the air pirates guarding these exits?"
"With so many exits, they can't possibly find every one of them, right?"
"Then it's impossible for them to enter the tunnel?"
"This is indeed a possibility..."
"Okay," Sylvide turned around and smiled at everyone: "I'm done asking."
Fang Yu nodded. He also realized that this tunnel was not as safe as he thought. The blood shark pirates were digging extensively in the city and it was normal for them to discover tunnels. But if he was prepared in advance and he had the Clockwork Fairy, even if
If the air pirate really entered this tunnel, he was actually confident of avoiding it in advance.
He asked Bunigou to stay, and then left Baggins in this place. Firstly, it was to protect the unarmed former, and secondly, it was also for surveillance. Finally, if there was any situation outside, Baggins could also use Luo Yu's communication crystal.
contact them.
The boatswain understood his order completely, walked to the side with his gun in hand, and sat down near the entrance.
Only then did everyone enter the gap.
The crack is very long, and some places are quite narrow, allowing only one person to pass sideways. If he hadn't known that there was another mystery inside, Fang Plover might have given up and turned back a few times. But the others were okay, only Miss Elf encountered some
trouble.
Alyssa looked at Aitila who was stuck in a dilemma between the rock walls, and couldn't help but joked: "Sometimes I really envy Miss Aitila..."
Sylvester was also smiling at the side.
Miss Elf glared at the two of them angrily, then turned into a bird of paradise and landed on Fang Plover's shoulder. Tata raised her head from the side, looked at her, and then reached out and gently touched her gorgeous feathers.
The deeper into the crack, the space opened up, and traces of artificial carving began to appear all around. Soon, the Papalar man in front suddenly stopped and groped for something on the surrounding walls with his hands. When Alyssa held up the
As the torch approached, Fang Plover saw that there was a dead end ahead.
To be precise, a wall appeared there.
The gray-yellow stone bricks, each one the size of Papalar's head, were laid neatly, and in the center of the wall was a closed stone door.
This is exactly the same as what Buniguk described. The big cat man stepped forward and held it up with his hand. The stone door immediately creaked back, and then opened a gap. The light of the torch flashed, and the smell of dust immediately filled the air.
And out.
The big cat man coughed and fanned his face with his paw. After the dust settled, everyone saw clearly that there was a downward staircase behind, which led directly to the dark and deep corridor below, like a black hole.
, a big open mouth.
Fang Plover took the torch from Alyssa's hand and was about to be the first to enter, but the big cat man held his shoulders:
"Bunigu didn't tell the truth."
Fang Yu turned around and said without surprise: "I know."
He had suffered so much and was deceived a lot. He would be a fool if he couldn't even see it. But he replied: "But it's not entirely a lie. This secret passage is of some use to us. Rather than listen to him,
What should I say, why not come and see for yourself what it’s like down there.”
The big cat man let go of his shoulders with some surprise, and looked at Sylvester beside him: "Ed, it seems that you have learned a lot from our ship officer, and I am going to remind you,
It seems like it’s unnecessary.”
Fang Yu coughed lightly: "I thought of this myself."
Sylvester just smiled and said nothing.
"But the ring?"
"If I have the chance, I will go and have a look," Fang Pliance replied: "I promised him, but I am not lying. But I will consider everyone's safety first. Don't forget, I have the Clockwork Fairy
, some things don’t have to be seen ‘with one’s own eyes’, and one is at risk.”
Seeing that his thoughts were clear, Rhett felt relieved and stopped asking further questions.
However, the Papalar man suddenly reacted, holding the ring and asked: "Wait a minute, since you two know that there is something wrong with this ring, why did you throw it to me?"
Rhett glanced at him: "You should solve the problem yourself."
"What did you do to yourself?"
"Aetila——"
Parker quickly raised his hands in surrender and said loudly: "Okay, okay, as a night thief in the team, it is necessary to take some risks for everyone. Needless to say, I will shoulder this responsibility."
Alyssa laughed so hard that she didn't forget to hit her again: "You stay away from me later, Parker."
The Papalar rolled his eyes and nodded quickly.
After this small interlude, the team continued on their way.
The history of the construction of the underground passages in Idos even precedes the prosperity of this city - Idos, which stands on the border of the kingdom, of course first existed as a fortress. The Istanians, also known as
As desert people, they had been in conflict with the kingdom for hundreds of years before they belonged to Corin-Ithurion.
The earliest Idos was established to govern the borders of this kingdom and prevent the invasion of the people of the sand. Its tunnel system mainly consisted of the original caves for hiding soldiers and underground grain and arsenals. Later, with the development of the city,
It was expanded and expanded several times, gradually forming its future scale.
In the prosperous era of Idos, this criss-crossing underground passage once became a shelter for smugglers, thieves' brotherhoods, various black markets, and slave traders, and became a shadow side of the city that cannot be illuminated by the sun on the surface of Idos.
But both light and shadow were reduced to ashes and collapsed in the raging fire more than a hundred years ago. After the city was reduced to ruins, the place was completely plunged into darkness that had not seen the light of day for a long time.
The prosperous underground black market and smuggling corridors of the past, after a hundred years of decline, now only remain a network of dusty underground tunnels and a dead world immersed in pitch darkness.
As the crowd moved forward in the passage, the light of the torches extended forward along the steps of the group - due to the cover of the broken pillars, a few deep shadows were occasionally carved on one side of the wall, dragging long and like
They are the creepy minions of monsters.
But apart from the rustling footsteps and the psychological effect of scaring themselves, they were actually quite peaceful along the way and encountered nothing.
Only occasionally due to vibrations, a layer of sand seeped down from the ceiling, causing false alarm.
There seems to be no danger in the underground world. Idos is a dead city. The disaster a hundred years ago destroyed everything, and even the undead rarely remained. In addition, adventurers and scholars have been visiting this place over the years.
The few monsters wandering in the ruins were also completely eliminated.
Speaking of which, Idos can be regarded as a famous ruin in Corrin-Ithurion, but compared with other similar places, its adventure popularity is much lower.
On the one hand, it is because it is too remote, and on the other hand, people believe that there seems to be nothing valuable here anymore. The Blood Shark Pirates were able to excavate here for nearly two months, and no one could detect their identity.
, it is precisely because of this.
Parker walked ahead cautiously holding the ring, determined in his heart that if he encountered something ghostly, he would run to Alyssa.
But along the way, he didn't encounter anything. While the Papalar man yawned out of boredom, he gradually felt a little drifting in his heart. He thought to himself that this place seemed to be nothing more than that. What could be seen in this underground passage?
It seems weird, but there are no undead creatures or blood shark sky pirates.
Moreover, the underground ruins were not even as exquisite as those he had seen in Traveler's Swamp. This was just an underground grain storehouse in Idos and had no religious purpose. Naturally, the Idos people would not bother to do anything on the corridors.
What exquisite carvings.
The team headed north - of course, it was difficult to tell the direction underground, and everyone could only rely on the reliable sense of direction of Attila, a druid and ranger; in Fang Plover's memory, there was the number one leader of the Dragon Fire Guild in the north.
They set up an excavation site from underground, just in time to avoid detection by the magicians on the ground.
The Papalar yawned again.
Of course, he would still occasionally see some skeletons lying on the road, scattered on the ground, covered with thick dust, and he knew at a glance that they had nothing to do with undead creatures.
At this time, the Papalar man saw one of the headless skeletons by the light of the torch. This skeleton was very different from what he had seen before, because it was actually wearing a wide robe. After more than a hundred years of glow,
, the robe was just dusty and showed no signs of decay.
Parker was stunned for a moment, vaguely feeling that the robe might have an extraordinary origin, and was about to pull it up with his short, chubby hands, but suddenly something was mentioned under his feet.
The thing rolled out in a clumsy way. There were just a few steps in front of it. It made a series of hollow noises and rolled into the deep darkness under the steps.
In this silent underground, this series of hollow sounds was really harsh. Everyone couldn't help but stop and cast their eyes on the Papalar people in front of them. Parker helplessly raised his short hand and said: "Listen to me.
, This is none of my business, who knows there is something under the dust..."
"What's that?" Fang Plover looked at him and asked.
"I think it's its head." Parker looked at the skeleton at his feet and replied.
"No, I'm talking about behind you."
Parker was startled and looked back subconsciously.
He just heard the sound of wind in the darkness, and a long black shadow was striking straight down at him. "Ah——!" He screamed in fright, and flew forward, rolling like a ball to everyone's feet.
At this time, no one paid attention to this little man. The big cat man was the first to take off the big shield from his back and faced the black figure in front. "Glory!" He shouted in a low voice, holding the big silver shield in his hand.
Above, on top of the relief lion's head, his eyes opened, and two bright lights suddenly emitted, piercing directly into the black shadow in front of him.
But the light passed through the dense black smoke without any impact on it. The black smoke only flickered slightly and rushed towards the Lion Paladin again.
"That's not an undead creature!" Fang Plover shouted.
There is no undead creature that is not afraid of the radiant spell of the Paladin. This thing completely ignores the attack of the big cat man, so it may not be undead.
Only then did everyone see clearly that it was actually a vague humanoid creature - it was lunging in this direction with open arms. There were a pair of huge claws on its palms, and there seemed to be a long tail behind it.
, and where the head is, there is a ball of billowing smoke, with what appears to be a pair of red eyes inside.
Parker almost cried out in fright when he saw this thing. "What the hell is this!?"
But Fang Plover saw it clearly, it was the dragon's claws.
But it was different from the dragon minions they had seen before.
First of all, this thing looked more human and ghostly. Its body shape was not as solid as the dragon minions they had seen before at Traveler's Rest, Fenris and Vanric, but almost collapsed. But
It is this kind of collapse that makes it look windy when walking, which makes people feel a little chilling.
However, since the opponent is not an undead creature, it makes sense that he is not afraid of the big cat man's radiance technique.
But Fang Plover had his own way of dealing with the dragon's minions - he saw the black shadow hit the shield of the lion-man paladin, and seemed to disperse automatically, but in fact it was bypassing the left and right, outflanking the big cat man behind.
.At this time, Fang Plover took a step forward and grabbed the black smoke with his right hand.
A piece of blue light radiated from the back of his hand, and the black smoke screamed, as if it had been touched by boiling water, and it shrank back suddenly. But how could Fang Plover give it this opportunity and continue to attack it?
Take a step forward and reach into the center of the black fog.
After a shrill scream, the dragon's claws were turned into ashes and turned into a fluttering black powder that fell to the ground.
Fang Plover walked over and wiped it with his hand, and the dust disappeared immediately.
"Dragon's claws?" Only then did the others react.
"How come there are dragon minions in this place?" Alyssa couldn't help but ask: "Is Nicol Bolas really in this place?"
But Fang Yu straightened up and shook his head gently.
Although he did feel a hint of Nicol Bolas from this monster, it was not exactly the same - at least he had encountered it from Dorifin, Traveler's Rest, and not long ago from Elfendor Tower.
The aura of Nicol Bolas felt by those dragon minions was completely different from it.
But it is different from the dragon minions underground in Fenris. It does have some of Nicol Bolas's power left in it, but it is very weak, as if it has been around for a long time.
A strange illusion arose in his heart. These dragon minions—perhaps were left behind by the Dragon Witch a hundred years ago.