The young woman's voice echoed in the cave. Perhaps due to the temperature, it sounded slightly chilly.
Cheng Lin stared at the "neighbor" opposite and sighed softly in his heart. The other party had obviously discovered him and Cao Wei a long time ago. When did it happen? It's not important, but it was speculated that it should be after arriving at the hilltop in the suburbs.
Cao Wei, who was next to her, had not always turned on her hearing, and Cheng Lin had not activated his ability to sense, otherwise he would not have mentioned the discovery. He reminded himself in his mind that he should pay attention to this. He stretched out his hand to hold down the little girl next to him who was about to move, and pondered.
He paused and said, "It's just like you guessed."
The young woman's sparkling eyes moved, and suddenly she smiled with unknown meaning and said, "You are indeed practitioners too."
really?
It seemed that the other party also had some guesses. When did it happen? Cheng Lin instantly thought of the simple greeting before.
"We are also very surprised." Cheng Lin said, then looked at the hands of the young man named Gu and said, "I think this is just a coincidence. You don't need to be too nervous. The projection is so big, and we have no conflict of interest."
After saying this, he gradually calmed down. In Cheng Lin's judgment, these two people were between the peak of the first rank and the second rank. He could not judge the specific rank of the players and could only guess based on experience.
The young woman's power is obviously similar to teleportation, which is indeed tricky, but neither Cao Wei nor he is afraid of close combat. The young man is not sure which system he belongs to, but as the top student of the two academies, Cheng Lin
They are not afraid of fighting at all.
After hearing what he said, the young couple looked at each other and seemed to relax a little, but then they asked tentatively: "Are you also here to participate in the trade fair?"
Trade fair?
Cheng Lin's mind suddenly moved, and he immediately thought of the information that Cao Wei had overheard by sticking to the wall.
It seems that the man and woman from the other party arrived in Jiangsu Province for some kind of transaction. They have only stayed in the scenic spot for a week. Has the transaction not been carried out yet? What kind of transaction is it? Is it a gathering among casual cultivators?
Cheng Lin suddenly became curious and hesitated. After all, he did not choose to pretend, as it would be too easy to be exposed. He asked frankly: "What trade fair?"
Hearing him ask this, the young man and woman looked at each other again. They were also wearing hats and glasses that hid their faces. Their expressions could not be seen clearly, but they seemed to have a clear understanding.
I saw the young man named Gu put down his offensive posture, and the atmosphere in the cave immediately relaxed a lot, "You don't know?"
Cheng Lin spread his hands, indicating that he had no intention of fighting, and said: "We are just here for a trip, and happened to encounter the projection, so we came in to explore and don't know anything else."
"This little girl..."
"My sister." Cheng Lin said calmly.
"Okay, I believe you for the time being," the young woman seemed to be taking the lead, her eyes swept over Cao Wei, and then suddenly said, "You shouldn't have brought her in. No one knows what dangers there will be here. Children should still leave
It would be better if this place is further away."
Cao Wei stopped and couldn't help but snort.
Cheng Lin secretly laughed in his heart, thinking that he was misled. No one would be too wary of a little girl, but if you knew how violent she was after she transformed, you would definitely take back your words.
Because we had been neighbors before, after a simple test, the other party temporarily lowered their guard.
We sat down and introduced ourselves. The woman’s name was Jiang Ye and the man’s name was Gu Cheng.
When Cheng Lin heard this name, he subconsciously doubted it, guessing that it was most likely a pseudonym, Gu Cheng... I'm still in Beidao.
After being reminded by the other party, Cheng Lin and Cao Wei each made up a pseudonym.
"So, what's the trade fair?"
After sitting down in the cave, after introducing each other, Cheng Lin asked.
It was Jiang Ye who spoke again and said: "The so-called trade fair is actually just a gathering for exchange, purchase and sale of items among casual cultivators. To tell you the truth, this is also our first time here. The organizer is a local casual cultivator.
We don’t know the organization or personnel at all. We first joined the group on the Internet and communicated with each other. After a period of time, the group owner proposed to hold a trade fair, and that’s why we came here.”
Cheng Lin was not particularly surprised after hearing this. He was not ignorant of similar news.
Due to domestic surveillance, many informal cultivators have put their communication platforms on external networks.
However, in reality, this was the first time Cheng Lin encountered such a thing, and he couldn't help but feel strange.
In particular, the trade fair mentioned by Jiang Ye interested him even more.
The transaction of items, the exchange of information, the sale or purchase of cultivation resources...it sounds like a small market, but it is much smaller and has only a few people participating.
Cheng Lin was worried about the lack of spiritual stone reserves, and was a little moved when he heard the news.
"Is the local organization taking the lead very powerful?" he asked after listening.
If it is unconvincing, how can we convince the casual cultivators hidden in various places to gather here? Who knows what kind of ghosts are on the other side across the network cable? Even fishing by the Internet police is not impossible.
Jiang Ye smiled and said: "This has been proven repeatedly, but the real reason why everyone is attracted here is that they have a batch of magic weapons in their hands."
Upon hearing this word, Cheng Lin and Cao Wei both became interested.
Jiang Ye continued to explain: "They seem to have obtained a lot of damaged magic weapons from the last island projection through some channels, which is very attractive to everyone. In addition, there are other resources, and even
High-grade cultivation techniques.”
Speaking of this, her expression became much more solemn.
Cheng Lin was also shocked.
"Being able to obtain damaged magic weapons... and high-level cultivation techniques... this local organization is very unusual." He thought.
At this time, Cao Wei, who had always been silent next to her, suddenly spoke. According to Cheng Lin's previous reminder, she deliberately held a breath of spiritual energy in her throat. This was the simplest way to change her voice.
"Why are you telling us this?" she asked.
Jiang Ye smiled when he heard this. Although he couldn't see her face, Cheng Lin could still feel her smile at the moment: "I think you should be interested in this. It's not a secret, so what does it matter if you share it? You should
Do you want to take a look too?"
Cheng Lin instinctively felt that there was some calculation in Jiang Ye's words, and he seemed to intend to bring the two of him into the gang, which was a bit strange.
But due to lack of information, he couldn't figure out the clue for a while.
After thinking about it, with the cultivation of the two of them and their trump cards, they are not afraid even if there is any accident.
After thinking for a moment, Cheng Lin looked at Cao Wei. The two of them had developed some tacit understanding during this time.
"certainly."
…
…
According to Jiang Ye, they had already decided on the gathering place in the group before they came in. It was at a corner of the entire floating continent. To be on the safe side, the place where Jiang Ye and Gu Cheng landed was not close to there.
Four people need to walk through the frozen soil to reach it.
Speaking of which, the world inside this frozen soil is also quite wonderful. This frozen soil is close to the surface, and it can be said that it is excavated by the people in the underground city in all directions. When these passages were built, they did not have a systematic underground structure plan, so,
The various passages are almost illogical, chaotic, criss-crossed, and more dizzying than the most complicated sewer pipe.
Walking inside is like entering a maze, or a huge cave.
The passages are winding and winding. The large ones are several meters in diameter, while the small ones can only allow one person to pass through. The walls on the four sides are covered with frost. If you scratch it open, you can see the frozen soil that is as hard as steel inside.
"The passages were obviously dug out with tools."
Jiang Ye retracted the dagger that was slashing at the stone wall, stared at the ancient marks in the fracture, and judged.
"It should be dug by humans. I mean humans from another world. It can be seen in the pictures played before. Before, I was curious about how the humans in the pictures ensured the supply of supplies when fighting those alien beasts. Now
Only then did I understand that it relied on underground transportation. It seems that the human base camp in the other world should be far away from the war zone."
Relatively speaking, Gu Cheng, who was relatively silent, said in an admiring tone.
The light in the cave was already dim, not to mention it was still dark at the moment. The four of them turned on their flashlights to be able to walk through the dark night. At the same time, they did not dare to walk too fast for fear of being discovered.
"I wonder where those strange beasts are? They don't seem to be found around here."
"Their activity area is probably somewhere else. After all, this is the edge of the floating continent."
Several people talked and kept walking along the edge, trying to avoid the Sixth Division's men and horses as much as possible. If they had to stick their heads out to adjust the direction, it took more than two hours before they finally arrived at the predetermined target area.
"puff!"
A group of ice and snow blocking the entrance of the cave was broken, and a howling cold wind immediately rushed in.
"The ground temperature is even lower, so be careful to keep out the cold," Gu Cheng said.
Several people climbed out of the cave one after another. Cheng Lin looked around and found that they had arrived on the snowy field on the surface.
"Do you want to have a party on the surface?" Cheng Lin frowned.
"It's not clear, but it's obviously easier to see other people on the surface." Jiang Ye said.
"It's also easy to be discovered by others." Cao Wei muttered.
The silent Gu Cheng lowered the brightness of his flashlight to the lowest level, suddenly looked forward and said, "Look! There is someone!"
Several people looked up and saw, in front of the darkness, a very weak red light suddenly flashed three times.
It seems to be a secret code.
"It's someone from the trade fair. Let's go, be careful." Jiang Ye said.
Cheng Lin deliberately stayed a few steps behind, one step deeper and one step shallower, and moved forward with them.
Then, under the guidance of the other party, we came to a sheltered place. This place was not inside the cave, but on the surface, but the terrain was very good and wide, like a big pit. It could block the cold wind, even the light of a flashlight, as long as it was not
If you hit it upward, it will be difficult to be discovered.
"Welcome to you."
A man of ordinary stature walked over. He was wrapped in clothes and his appearance could not be seen clearly. "I am the host of the trade fair, Zhu You."
However, Cheng Lin's eyes ignored him and looked at a tall figure behind him... Although he couldn't see his face clearly, his figure of nearly two meters...