A group of people hid in the darkness behind the ruins of a broken wall, and in the distance the excavation site was illuminated by fire.
The scale of the excavation site was astonishing. A huge bonfire was lit inside the site, and the hard workers were working under the firelight. The sound of clanging could be heard from afar, even late at night.
The noise caused by the air pirates was far greater than they imagined. They had kidnapped many people from other places. At a glance, there was no end to the long line of shambling people transporting sand and gravel.
According to the few air pirates they captured, there will only be more people working during the day - and this is just one of the three main excavation sites in Idos City.
Fang Yu looked at these people from a distance and couldn't help but lightly clenched his fist.
There are no distinctions between men, women, old and young among the hard workers. Everyone is dressed in rags, and some people are even more shabby and haggard, like walking corpses advancing under the whip of air pirates.
Under the firelight, there were sky pirate supervisors everywhere. If they were slightly dissatisfied, they would whip the person over and knock him down from the group. Then a burly sky pirate would drag him out of the crowd and hold him with his fists and feet.
Fang Yu saw with his own eyes a man being beaten until he lost all breath, while everyone on the side looked at this scene numbly.
"If I were them," Parker replied, looking at this scene, "I would have committed suicide and gone to resurrection."
But Sylvester shook her head slightly and pointed to the side.
Fang Yu looked in that direction, only to find that the man who was carried out was gradually glowing with white light. After a moment, the man sat up from the ground with a look of despair.
Fang Plover was surprised: "They set up Hengshi here?"
Sylvide nodded and replied in a soft voice: "Actually, Bunigu and the others also have similar restrictions. There was something wrong with the shackles on their feet. Baggins quietly helped them lift it and did not choose to tell them the truth.
."
"That thing is not the Eternal Stone. I tried it, but it doesn't seem to be of any use to the air pirates. Maybe our method is wrong, or maybe it is the 'evil object' of the Dark Saints."
"So before this, there is actually no point in resurrecting Bunigu and the others. Since Blood Shark Sky Island behaves like this, they will naturally be prepared -"
After hearing this, Fang Yu looked at the scene from a distance and couldn't help but cursed secretly: "These bastards!"
Sylvide looked at him: "Captain, it's best to let the navy handle the matter here. Otherwise, we alone won't be able to save so many people."
Fang Yu nodded calmly, understanding that they were here to collect intelligence, not to show off as heroes.
He couldn't help but look not far away.
The place where everyone was hiding was actually far away from the bottom of the pit, and the situation below could not be seen - but in that direction, there was a silent figure.
Alyssa bent down like a cat and walked silently behind a broken wall, keeping her whereabouts secret.
Occasionally she would raise her head to judge the position of our enemies and ourselves under the firelight, but her bright eyes would disappear so quickly that it would be impossible to notice.
Not to mention the unobservant air pirates, the whereabouts of this twin sister are also a bit mysterious in Fang Yu's eyes, just like an occasional intermittent shadow. Even he will lose his figure in the darkness from time to time, but in the blink of an eye
Appeared in another unexpected direction.
Fang Plover was a little surprised.
As newcomers trained by the lonely white field, Sister Alisa is the backbone of the next generation nightingale team of Listening to the Rain. Guilds like the so-called listening to the rain have limited resources, but they cannot hold up the vision of the lonely white field.
With the level that this Miss Nightingale is showing at the moment, even if she is placed in a team like Silver Forest Spear and Tapolis, she is a talent that will not be buried.
Of course, she may not be as good as those top nightingales - but sometimes, the gap between the top selectors and non-top selectors in Aitaria is actually more of an opportunity.
Speaking of the warrior king Odin, his talent is not top-notch.
So Fang Yu couldn't help but wonder if it was a bit unfair to let this lady work part-time as a sailmaker in the team. It was just the Seven Seas Brigade, so where should they find a qualified sailmaker?
When he was distracted, Alyssa had gently slid across a small slope, jumped up, passed through an area illuminated by fire, and merged into a bush.
The shrubs swayed slightly, attracting alert glances not far away, but she released a mouse from her pocket at the right time and scurried under the broken wall not far away. The air thief took a distant look and then withdrew his gaze.
Fang Yu was stunned. It turned out that the other party had caught a few rats from the group of rats for this purpose.
After Alyssa sneaked into the dense bushes, she really got close to the interior of the excavation site——
She looked calmly through the branches and leaves, gently opened a light page, picked up the communication crystal, and projected the situation here into the video communication with Fang Pultru and the others.
At the same time, on Mr. Gray Rock's platform and in the combat conference room, Jieta, Box and Siesta were also watching this scene through the glowing light curtain.
But in the center of the excavation site, there was nothing like what Fang Plover had imagined. To be precise, there was nothing down there - only the hard workers were digging noisily. There were only broken walls and ruins underneath.
"There's nothing down there, Captain." Alyssa's voice came softly from the communication crystal.
"Alyssa, can you see anything over there?"
"No, Captain."
It seems they chose the wrong place.
Tonight should be enough time for them to go to the next excavation point, but if they make another mistake, the whole night will be wasted. And the air pirates imprisoned on the platform don't know when they will react.
"Wait a minute, Captain." Alyssa's voice changed a little. She looked through the bushes and saw two people walking over from a distance. She had never seen those two people, but the other party's attire made her
She suddenly became more vigilant.
The gray robe and the sparkle on her hands were very familiar to her.
She slightly restrained her voice and lowered her voice: "It's the Dragon Worshipers, captain."
"Did you see them?"
Alyssa nodded: "Judging from the people I met at Listening to the Rain, the other party's status is not low. They seem to be talking to the air pirates and giving some orders."
Fang Yu vaguely felt that there was an opportunity and hurriedly asked: "Alyssa, can you overhear what they said?"
"Let me try."
"Wait a minute." Fang Plover took the initiative to stop the other party. He looked in that direction. There was a bright fire outside the bushes, and it was difficult to find a place to sneak in. Alyssa might be able to give it a try, but if the other party was of a higher level
, the probability of failure is also very high.
While gathering intelligence is important, the safety of your own team members must also be given top priority.
He took out the clockwork fairy and whispered: "You stay where you are and I'll give it a try."
Alyssa immediately understood what he was thinking, and couldn't help but be a little touched. In fact, if the mission is important, it is not unacceptable for Nightingale to sacrifice once. She reminded in a low voice: "But there are high-level magicians from the other side nearby.
team leader."
Fang Yu couldn't help but frown, this was indeed a problem.
But when he was about to take action, Adela stopped him. Miss Elf quietly said: "Let me try, Ed."
"Miss Attila?"
Attila looked at Alyssa and asked: "Miss Alyssa, do you still have mice?"
"There's one more."
"You put it out, be careful, don't let it escape."
Alyssa nodded and followed her words. She roughly guessed what Attila wanted to do, so she only opened a small opening in the pocket, letting the mouse get out halfway, and then grabbed it.
The mouse was about to struggle, but at this moment, the elf lady recited a mantra in a low voice through the light page. The mouse was startled, and immediately calmed down, looking at Attila in the light page with some confusion.
In the room, Jita looked at this scene and whispered: "Soothing animals, Druid magic."
"I know this," Box replied, "Miss Attila often talks to Mr. Gray Rock."
After the mouse calmed down, Attila whispered something to it, but this was a secret language among druids, so no one could understand what she said. Then she said to Alyssa
: "You can let go of it now."
Alyssa let go of her hand, and as soon as the mouse landed on the ground, she was a little panicked before, but quickly reacted and crawled over in this direction.
It passed through the ruins, and no one would pay attention to a mouse. The little thing came to Fang Yu and the others safely. Aitila comforted it in a low voice before saying:
"I promised it that it would do us a small favor and let it go."
"How can it help us?" The big cat man glanced sideways at the trembling little guy.
But Fang Yu reacted, took out a Type II clockwork goblin and asked: "Miss Attila, can you let it help us bring this thing close enough to those people?"
Attila nodded slightly.
She took the clockwork fairy, put it in front of the mouse, and whispered something to the latter. The mouse circled around the clockwork fairy, and then picked it up in one gulp.
It looked at Miss Elf again. Attila immediately pointed in a direction, and the little guy immediately ran out in that direction with the clockwork fairy in his mouth.
Everyone watched this miraculous scene. Since Amaya hardly accepts false believers, the selectors rarely see druids, and they never thought that this profession would have such skills.
Soon, Fang Plover confirmed its location through the location information fed back by the clockwork fairy. And if he did not actively control the clockwork fairy, because there was no active magical connection between the two, no matter how clever the magician was,
Undetectable.
After all, Aitaria still has background magic power fluctuations. The magic power ripples caused by the passive perception between him and the clockwork fairy are probably not as conspicuous as the background clutter in this world.
At the same time, a confirmation message came from Alyssa: "I saw it approaching there."
Fang Yu immediately opened the Type II Clockwork Fairy's auditory channel, and a rough voice immediately came out from inside:
"...Sir, we have been working day and night, but there is nothing down there, so we can't blame us. And it's not just ours, the situation at the other two excavation sites is similar, isn't it?"
This was obviously the voice of an air pirate, and he was pouring out his sorrows.
"Don't talk about that thing here. Not even half a gold coin was dug out. In the past few decades, archaeologists have dug this place upside down. How can there be any good things left for us?"
After the air pirate's voice, he was answered by a somewhat gloomy voice:
"Although the log has been lost, the 'Black Crystal' will only be found in one of these three places. If you haven't found it, it only means that you haven't tried your best. You have so much hard work on your hands, and you, too, can you
Do you think 'Lord Luo Lin' came to you to ask you to come and make a living?"
"You can't say that, sir, we are air pirates, not coolies. Brothers have been complaining about this place for so long. You can't let me force them to go and work in person.
Son?"
"That's your own business."
When Fang Yu heard the words 'Lord Luo Lin', he couldn't help but be slightly startled. But then, he heard the air pirate snort in disapproval.
But after a while, the other party replied: "Okay, I will speed up the progress a little more, but I will say something ugly first. If you don't find anything after digging to the end, then don't blame me for being rude to those Holy Chosen Ones."
"They lost the diary in Vanrich. This debt cannot be blamed on us, and the Holy Chosen... Humph, they are originally the lackeys of the gods of Orin. I suspect that they are not of the same mind as us at all.
."
"That's enough," the gloomy voice said: "This alliance with the Holy Chosen One was decided by the Eternal One himself. It's not your turn to talk nonsense."
And the Eternal One.
This was not the first time Fang Plover had heard this name. At first he thought the Eternals referred to Nicol Bolas's dragon minions, which of course included its admirers.
But as the investigation deepened, he gradually realized that the relationship between the Dragon Cult and Nicol Bolas was not always harmonious, and it was clear from the Rainlistener incident that the Immortal seemed to have another
refers to.
And here, he heard the name again, and the other person's words seemed to confirm an idea in his mind - the Eternal One's status among the Dragon Worshipers is not low.
However, after this conversation, the other party no longer mentioned any sensitive information.
They were some questions and answers related to the daily work at the excavation site. After Fang Pulver listened carefully, he could vaguely determine that there were at least a thousand workers working here.
He couldn't help but be secretly surprised. It was no small project to abduct so many people from Eden and Anquid to this place. What exactly was the plan of the Dragon Worship Cult and the Dragon Fire Guild?
The voices over there gradually faded away.
Fang Yu was quiet for a moment, recalling what he had heard before, and then said: "It sounds like what they are digging should be the so-called 'black crystal'."
He asked Miss Goblin in a low voice: "Miss Tata, do you know what the 'black crystal' refers to?"
Tata shook his head slightly: "I may know something about the dark dragon, Mr. Knight, but 'black crystal' refers to too many specific things. It itself just means black crystal. In Aitali,
There are countless such crystals in Asia.”
Fang Yu thought for a moment, picked up the communication crystal, and asked: "Jita, what does 'black crystal' generally refer to in the context of Dragon Worshipers? Can you find it? Is there any precedent?"
"Got it, Captain."
There was a soft reply from the other side, and then there was the sound of turning pages of a book.
Only a moment later, I heard the naturalist lady say in surprise: "I found it. This word has appeared in the past, and it is recorded in the "Kaolin-Ithurian Cult Examination". It said that the 'black crystal' spoken by the Dragon Worship Cult
', usually has a specific reference - it refers to the 'Dragon's First Scale' of the dark dragon."
"Dragon's First Scale?"
"There is a note in the book, Captain. The so-called dragon's first scales are the scales that a natural dragon sheds for the first time. It is a witness to the young dragon entering the adult stage."
Fang Yu was a little surprised: "This means that the Dragon Cult is looking for Nicol Bolas's first dragon scale here, but does the dark dragon also have a teenage age? Didn't Nicol Bolas transform from a human to a dragon?
"
Before Jita could answer, Tata's calm voice came over: "I know this well, Mr. Knight. For dragons, the dragon's first scale is the only product left at the moment they transform into a dragon.
"
"Change into a dragon?"
"That specifically refers to the humanized dark dragon."
"Wait a minute, Miss Tata," Jita couldn't help but said: "You mean that Nicol Bolas turned into a dragon in Idus? But this seems to be inconsistent with the rumors, Nicol Bolas
Didn’t Si transform into a dragon in the hometown of the hero Yue Xiude?”
Fang Yu also heard this rumor.
He couldn't help but look at the western sky. Under the purple stars, there was a vast sand sea covered with silver sand. And in the sand sea, there was a small oasis, which was called Dragon by the world.
Town of.
It was once the homeland where Mazak's ancestors had lived for generations, and it was also the resting place of the Holy Sword, and the birthplace of the dragon-slaying hero Yoshude. According to legend, Nicol Bolas was born into that ancient clan, and then he could not survive.
Redemptively transformed into a disaster.
In the end, the Land of Dragons completely disappeared, leaving only ashes behind a sea of fire.
And Nicol Bolas spread his wings, and the dragon's shadow traveled north. It finally came to this place, turning this prosperous ancient city into ruins.
He looked at the sky in that direction, and his mind seemed to see the giant dragon flying in the sky that day, the figure that covered the sky and the sun, and the flames of destruction falling from the mid-air, making this city of sand at the edge of despair.
Screams and cries descended into a sea of fire.
Fang Yu suddenly shuddered.
"There are indeed such rumors," Tata replied calmly: "Although I missed this period of history during my long sleep, I have read relevant information from some materials before."
"Then it can't be that the Dragon Worship Cult made an mistake, right?" Parker couldn't help but said: "Even we know about this widely circulated rumor, how could they not know about it. They are followers of the dark dragon,
Isn’t it?”
The Papalar man rarely said something that made sense, causing everyone to fall into silence for a while.