Chapter two hundred and ninety-eight of the beard?
After that battle, the blind followers seemed to have suddenly disappeared, and no trace could be seen in this secret base - whether it was their guards or the flesh and blood monsters, they all disappeared without a trace.
Shadow is invisible.
Everyone walked forward along the straight underground cave, immersed in silence and darkness. Only the rustling footsteps under their feet lingered in their ears. It was like an ancient voice, whispering. Fortunately, this was just a question about nervousness.
The hallucination, if you listen carefully, it is actually the sound of wind on the surface of the earth.
Although the floor of the cave is slightly tilted upward, as if it is gradually deepening into the center of the edge of the ridge, Fang Plover can conclude that the thickness of the stone wall on one side is no more than twenty feet at most, and there is Kukai outside, and the thinner parts may not be there.
this thickness.
Rocks several meters thick sound strong enough, but compared to the thousands of meters deep rock layer on the continental edge of Istania, it is just a thin layer of egg shell. In the darkness, Anloser
The emblem is still hanging on his chest, shining brightly in the dim light. Miss Tata is also sitting quietly on her right shoulder, her green eyes are quiet as usual, she only occasionally looks back at him and her 'sister' -
—A look at Miss Fang Nini who was grabbing two bunches of Jita's hair and acting domineeringly.
After walking for a while, the others finally felt something was wrong. The first person to react was Miss Nightingale. She took two steps against the wall, looked forward, frowned nicely, and then quietly backed away.
, like a silent shadow, slid back and stood in front of everyone.
Fang Yu saw Alyssa's bright eyes shining in the darkness, like a cat's eyes, and looked at him and asked: "Captain, are you a little too quiet?"
From before to now, apart from themselves, the only living creature she saw was a lemming crawling over the gray soil.
"Yes," before Fang Pliance could answer, Wu Xiaopang couldn't help it and interrupted: "Did those guys escape? Why is there no movement at all?"
"Indeed, it was clear that there was a lot of back and forth fighting before, but it seems to have suddenly calmed down."
Someone in Rufu's Shield also mentioned this.
In the darkness, Fang Yu took out the communication crystal and asked: "Sylwede, how are you doing there?"
The sound of rustling interference in the communication crystal became more obvious. A dust storm seemed to be brewing in the Silver Sand Desert. Erna told them that the dust storm in the sand sea caused the greatest disturbance to the ether. In other words, this powerful natural
The phenomenon itself is a manifestation of etheric disturbance.
The noble lady looked at the hazy sky floating above the sea of sand. The sky was like dusk, the moment of doomsday was coming, but the center of the storm was still hundreds of miles away, and its edge had already affected the southern plains.
Port Snier.
She covered her flying scarf with one hand and listened to the slightly distorted voice of the plover inside the crystal - like a big child - and couldn't help but laugh: "There is no movement."
In the darkness, Sylvester's voice seemed to be stretched and intermittent.
"...By the way, Ed, there might be a storm."
Fang Yu was slightly startled: "Are you okay over there? If it's not safe, just go back to Tansnir with Shesta."
"It's still far away. The center of the storm should be in Istan. It won't affect Tansnir for a while, but it's hard to say in the next few weeks."
"That's good."
"Is everything going well down there?"
"Barely." Fang Yu thought for a moment and could only think of one adjective for the current situation: "We found some trophies, but the blind followers only had two contacts with us and then disappeared."
"Tianlan will probably like to hear this news," Sylvide smiled, thought for a while and then said: "I didn't see anyone on the ground, it's the same for blind followers or mystics. You may want to be more careful. I
Captain."
Fang Yu responded with a yes and closed the crystal.
The young fat man next to him heard this and his eyes sparkled: "Boss, is this your girlfriend?"
"how?"
"Wow, the voice is so nice," Wu Xiaopang's eyes flashed with the fire of gossip, and he replied exaggeratedly: "I'm envious."
Fang Yu felt a chill and subconsciously took a few steps away from this guy. He didn't expect that this guy actually had the same hobby as Alyssa. He should have noticed it earlier - and how could such a distorted sound sound good? Licking has been done since ancient times.
Dogs don't deserve to die well.
But the little fat man obviously had no awareness of this, and still lowered his voice and whispered: "The boss is really tall."
"What?"
Fang Yu was even more confused.
Little Fatty Wu rolled his eyes: "And Miss Jita."
Before he could finish his words, he got kicked in the butt.
He turned around and said angrily: "Who kicked me?"
The swordsman of Rufu's Shield couldn't bear it anymore: "I asked you, you damn fat guy, can you tell the difference between situations?"
Luo Hao coughed heavily and felt like an arrow had been hit in his knee.
However, the other party finally brought the topic back and expressed their views on the current situation. Most of the opinions were that the smugglers might concentrate their forces and plan to ambush them in front and give them a 'surprise', so they must be more careful next.
Some.
Only the Papalar man seemed to have a unique view on this issue. He put his hands in his pockets and said to everyone with a solemn look: "No, no, no, I don't think it can be that simple."
"Parker, what do you think?" Luo Yu asked him.
The Papalar man rolled his dark eyes and replied: "Everyone, have you forgotten the fact that our leader is a troublemaker? According to my sixth sense - the development of this matter should be
It’s weird no matter what, it’s just a direction you didn’t expect.”
"As for the ambush or something," the Papalar shook his head and his chubby cheeks swayed: "It's too easy to guess, I don't think it will work."
Fang Yu was furious, and immediately avenged his personal revenge and slapped the guy staggering, and said angrily:
"Say something useful."
Parker held his head and said angrily: "Isn't this useful?"
Luo Hao pressed his hands on the shield and sneered: "Only women have the sixth sense."
But this remark aroused the double hostility of Alyssa and Jita, and Miss Nightingale immediately responded tit-for-tat: "Fat Luo, what's the matter? You look down on women?"
Luo Hao then realized that he had said the wrong thing and quickly raised his hands in surrender.
However, regarding the question of whether the Papalars have a sixth sense, several people in the Seven Seas Brigade finally reached a consensus - because it was only after the serious reminder from the box that they remembered that the Papalars had another
Comes with an identity.
In this way, both Luo Hao and Alyssa got the perfect answer.
Only Parker was a little annoyed, but he couldn't think of how to retort for a while. He couldn't bring up the fact that he wore a transgender belt. It would be strange if the people in Lufu's Shield didn't laugh out loud.
Our Mr. Nightingale King felt a little boring for a while.
Not long after, the two teams arrived at the end of this long cave, where there was a wide underground space. At the end of the darkness, a closed door stood silently.
Seeing this door, everyone couldn't help but turn around and cast their eyes on Fang Plover. They had previously speculated that the smugglers would gather together and set an ambush for them in one place. The door behind this door was obviously consistent with this possibility. If there was no
If you guess wrong, they might face a big war.
Fang Plover looked at the wooden door.
In addition to being thick and tall, he could not think of any other more appropriate words to describe this door - the opposite doors were tightly closed to each other, and they were plain and unpretentious. The surface of the solid wood had some pits, and the door panels only had hoops.
There were a few rusty iron hoops, and the door handle had long since disappeared.
Assuming that there are unknown dangers and minions lurking behind the door, he actually has another option - that is to wait for Abed to lead his troops. At that time, the blind followers will be attacked from both sides and will naturally defeat themselves. But in Fang Plover's heart
There is always a sense of unease, as if everything is going too smoothly, just as the Papalar people said before.
It was so smooth that it was almost incredible.
Where have the blind followers who behaved so cunningly in the city gone? The only opponents they had encountered before were dull and ignorant opponents.
The mystics also seemed to disappear without a trace.
He couldn't help but think of the clockwork goblins he had met before. Their master seemed to have not shown up yet. Could it be that they had an incident with the Duke hunter in the lower cave?
related?
After Fang Yu thought about it for a moment, he had already determined the answer in his heart.
Everyone in the Seven Seas Brigade was already used to their leader's way of thinking. When Luo Hao saw his expression, he took the initiative to stand up and said, "Let me open the door."
"Be careful." Fang Yu reminded him.
Luo Hao nodded: "I understand."
As the only Iron Guard in the regiment, it is true that only he is qualified for this kind of task - as for the people of Rufu's Shield, their level is not as high as his at the moment.
He stepped forward, pressed his hands on the door, lowered his body and gave a low shout, and pushed forward with force. The door trembled and rumbled, and opened a gap back. Luo Hao changed his posture again,
Use your shoulder to push your body against the door.
The door swings open backwards.
He immediately rolled back alertly, picked up a large shield from the ground and put it in front of him. He looked behind the door, but there was a dark hole behind the door, and there was no light at all.
"Light Flame Technique——"
The box snapped his fingers.
A bright light shines through the door, and a ball of flame hangs in the air, emitting gray light in all directions, reflecting the scene behind the door.
In fact, before the box could cast the spell, Fang Plover had already seen clearly the situation behind the door. It was a hall - a bit like a huge stepped classroom. From the door to the center, it was distributed vertically from high to low.
In the center is a pulpit, with rows of stone seats behind it.
But there was no one in the hall at the moment - or rather it was not quite empty. The air was filled with a thick smell of blood.
After everyone had experienced the previous battle, they were subconsciously wary of this smell, thinking that hordes of flesh and blood monsters would once again emerge from the darkness, but Alyssa turned back and said to them: "There is no sound."
"There are corpses."
Luo Hao whispered.
Everyone was startled, and then saw a layer of misty light in the hall, but it was not black light, but soft white light.
Fang Yu was startled and hurriedly walked in that direction. White light emitted from under the last row of chairs. When he walked to that place and took a look, he found a corpse lying on the ground. The light emitting from the corpse was exactly
The soft light emitted by the stars before resurrection.
But this is not what happens after a blind follower dies.
The corpse's attire looked familiar to Fang Yu, so he walked over and turned it over to take a look, only to realize that the robe on the corpse was the attire of a mystic.
"It's the mystic."
Alyssa also recognized the other person at a glance.
"They actually came in, and it seems that they have already made contact with blind... smugglers."
Miss Nightingale subconsciously wanted to say 'blind followers', but suddenly realized that Wu Xiaopang and the others had nothing to do with this mission, so she changed her mind. This was not a matter of distrust, but a kind of caution - rashly involving irrelevant people.
Involvement is irresponsible both to those involved and to the client of the task.
Fang Yu nodded. He stood at the end and looked down the hall. The body of the blind follower could no longer be seen in the hall, but there were still blood stains. The scattered weapons were still visible in this direction. In addition, there were some small objects. It seemed
It was dropped in a previous battle.
There are two entrances below the hall, two small doors on the left and one on the right. There are also traces of spells near the pulpit - and based on these traces of fighting, Fang Plover roughly judged that the mystic came from the small door on the right side of the hall.
He invaded through the door and fought with the blind followers. The latter retreated into the left aisle after being defeated.
There was no sign of the door at the rear being opened from beginning to end, which also made him realize a problem——
If the blind followers never left the rear gate from the beginning to the end, the guards who fought with them in the cave behind may have been stationed there from the beginning, so they heard the sound and went to investigate and fight with them.
.
As for those Servants of Blood, perhaps they made a mistake - they were originally 'raised' in that place.
Fang Yu suddenly understood their previous encounter. If the blind follower was attacked by the mystic first, then many things would be explained.
While taking out the communication crystal, he planned to inform Tianlan and Abed of the situation. After all, the mystic was also one of the official forces in Istania. He wanted to inform the princess about what happened here in advance.
, which is also a matter of course.
However, I don't know if it is because of the further increase in interference from outside. There was only a rustling sound coming from the communication crystal. Someone seemed to be talking over there, but I couldn't hear it clearly.
He informed Sylvide again and the situation was the same.
Fang Yu thought for a while and sent a private message to Tianlan on the community - but what surprised him was that the community was also abnormally slow today. The term "network delay" seems to be an ancient term from hundreds of years ago.
I thought of letting him experience it.
Is Desert Storm really that powerful?
He couldn't help but be a little confused.
While trying out various communication tools at hand, Fang Plover also gave everyone in Lufu's Shield a minute to collect loot - which was also a clue.
Most of those things were whiteboard equipment, and there were a few magic weapons of some value, but the equipment level was too low for the Seven Seas Brigade, so Fang Plover simply let them go.
These equipments have little benefit to them, but for people of Wu Xiaopang's level, they are an unexpected windfall.
Sometimes being kind to others is also being kind to yourself. Although they signed a merger mission agreement, they don't have to care about everything. Everyone in Lufu's Shield was really grateful. It was certainly true that Wu Xiaopang and the swordsman called him boss earlier.
Sincerely, I am grateful for the saving grace that day.
But other people may not have benefited from Fang Plover. They just responded in the past, but now they are completely different.
The people of Lufu's Shield specially recommended the priestess to express their gratitude to everyone in the Seven Seas Brigade.
But Fang Plover didn't care about these red tapes.
"Boss, continue?"
Wu Xiaopang put away his things, looked at the entrance on the left, and couldn't help but ask.
The others had tasted the sweetness, and at this moment they also showed some expressions of eagerness to try.
What Fang Yu actually wants is that the other party can trust him at the critical moment. The current situation is a bit complicated, and he must guard against the possibility of extraneous complications.
Although the two parties had made a lot of profits before, the 'trophies' were not too little, but too much. Military constructs and the like would most likely be turned over to the adventure group in the end.
Although the 'points system' within each adventure group is of course also a way of distributing wealth, compared to people's psychology, it is nothing compared to the real benefits obtained. When these small things are distributed to specific people,
Both the person involved and bystanders will feel jealous.
This enthusiasm will immediately turn into motivation to maintain consistent action.
Right now, there are only seven people on Plover's side, and he really needs the help of people from Rufu's Shield.
In fact, when the people of Rufu's Shield were cleaning the battlefield, Fang Plover had already released the 'Wasp-i' to fly in a small circle. Behind the entrances on the left and right sides were intricate underground passages, leading to dormitories of various sizes.
, warehouses and even functional buildings such as workshops.
This is a real "underground base". Obviously, the one that the eldest princess cleared out before was just a thing used by the other party to hide from others.
The true identity of this smuggling port is exactly the secret beneath this fjord.
In response to Fang Wu Xiaopang's question, Fang Plover nodded - but it looked like the Mystic and the Blind Follower had been fighting for some time. There were traces of fighting in every passage he saw, but most of the corpses had long since disappeared.
Just leaving a mess on the ground.
The other party didn't know where they were at the moment. The passage was winding and twisting. The area of this underground base was very large. It was obviously not feasible to use this search mode again.
Only then did he begin to describe what he saw next.
When Wu Xiaopang heard this, he understood what he meant: "It means we split up and find out where the other party is first?"
Fang Yu nodded: "Although the mystics seem to be at war with these smugglers, our mission is ours. If we have not contributed much from the beginning to the end, the aboriginal people will not give us the credit for no reason.
.”
He said that, but what he was really worried about was that the mystics would eat alone. They went through a lot of effort to find this place, not to help Tansnir eliminate smugglers, but to obtain information about wandering.
Alchemist information.
If this goal is not achieved, the mission cannot be considered a success.
The people from Rufu's Shield obviously agreed with this. Someone nodded and said, "That's true. After all, our primary purpose here is to complete the mission."
After reaching an agreement, everyone divided into two groups - in fact, there were more than two groups. Even the seven members of the Seven Seas Brigade were divided into two groups. It could be said that there were four groups, or even five groups marching together and dispersed into the underground base.
Due to the impending sandstorm, Fang Plover distributed some magic messengers. When the communication crystal was unavailable, he could only use this primitive method of contact. However, the hard work paid off, and not long after everyone split up, Fang
Plover then received good news from Wu Xiaopang.
They seemed to be lucky. They were the first to find the clues and sent a magic messenger to tell Fang Piao that they seemed to have found traces of the mystic.
Fang Yu looked at the simple map drawn on the note - although it was a bit soulful, he probably understood it.