Near noon, Lu Ning and Yan Rong returned to the restaurant where they first parted. Jean and Alex were already seated at a table inside. Alex's equipment has undergone significant changes, but Jean has not changed much, and he still has the same gentlemanly demeanor.
Lu Ning and Yan Rong went over and sat down, and then Rang took the initiative and asked, "Did you two gain anything?"
"There are some miscellaneous things, but we encountered the incident last night and were busy running for our lives." Lu Ning said, "Let's sort it out after everyone comes back later."
"Of course, we are not in a hurry." Rang smiled and waved his hand, "It should be time for everyone to come back."
As soon as she finished speaking, Zhu Qinyuan walked into the store. She looked around and saw a few people walking over. There were still some blood stains on her clothes. She must have experienced a battle not long ago. Everyone didn't ask any questions and made room for Zhu Qinyuan to sit down. Finally, about ten minutes later, Yuan Jie and Lian Bisheng also walked into the restaurant.
"Then if you don't mind, let us analyze the current situation from the beginning. I have already told Alex some of our goals. You can add your own information to what I said at any time. Let’s discuss, what do you think?” Rang said with a smile.
"Okay, we'll follow you." Yuan Jie said cheerfully.
"The first thing is that we already know the connection between treasures and ruins. Although we have joined the Anvil Camp, we still have our own small group. We need to obtain something powerful enough to support our own strength. It has been greatly revised in a short period of time, and the treasure is the best one known so far.”
"Excuse me." Lian Bisheng knocked on the table lightly, "Then do you know where the ruins are located?"
"If you find out relevant information, you can tell it here." Rang looked at Lian Bisheng.
"Of course, this matter requires some effort to find out." Lian Bisheng glanced at Yuan Jie, who scratched the back of his head in embarrassment.
"I'll just tell you what I heard. The existence of the ruins has nothing to do with the outer city or the wasteland. It itself is a kind of building made of similar power. According to what we know, the ruins are divided into two types: public and non-public. The former It is the nobles who have searched for the location of the ruins, and encouraged various 'warriors' to go in and search for treasures, and are willing to exchange the type of search harvest on some conditions. The number of this type of ruins is around twenty, and they are huge, but the problem is definitely Many people have been looking for it, and if we want to go in, we have to go deeper.”
"This situation sounds so familiar." Zhu Qinyuan sneered.
"So, another way is to keep it private. This kind of ruins are usually relatively small, and there may be no treasures in them. There are only some bits and pieces related to the king. Although it is also good, it is not suitable for our needs. It's not enough." Lian Bisheng picked up the tea, "The advantage of this kind of ruins is that they are huge in number. There are thousands of treasure map-like things that are traded in the private goods market in the outer city. As long as you can get the real thing, you can bet on it. If there is treasure, no one can snatch our harvest.”
"I have a question." Lu Ning raised her hand, "Do you know where Ruer obtained the treasure in the previous incident at the school? According to the information I know, although some people in the outer city also own the treasure, it is not a big deal. Most of them are still concentrated in the hands of nobles. With Ruhr's status and background, can he obtain treasure?"
"I went to investigate this issue." Zhu Qinyuan said, "Someone sold it to him."
"What a guy!" Yuan Jie exclaimed, "Is there anyone who can sell this thing?"
"If you think about it for a moment, you will know that there must be another purpose." Zhu Qinyuan sighed softly, "I investigated Ruel's origins, and then spent a little money to buy his recent whereabouts. I found him in a place he often visited recently. A group called 'Yoshimitsu Kataha' was discovered in the underground dance hall. There were nine people in the group. This group of people was not easy to talk about. They were careful in their words and deeds and had a strict tone of voice. They actually admitted that they sold the notebook to Ruhl, but it was just Because Rule 'needs help' and insists on being clueless as to what might happen. I highly doubt this group is involved."
"Did you have a fight with them?" Yan Rong looked at Zhu Qinyuan.
"I can't be one-on-one, you really praise me." Zhu Qinyuan glanced at Yan Rong helplessly, "It's because something else happened in the middle... I'll talk about that part later."
"So there are various ways to get the treasure, but we'd better choose the safer route of the ruins. After all, you never know what conspiracy is inside what others give you." Lu Ning nodded, "Jean, I think we can Explore one that is public, and then bet on a few that are not public.”
"Then I have chosen a very good one." Jean took off a scroll from his waist, "The relic [Supreme Apostle] has been proven to be formed from part of the king's research on religion when he was young. The contents inside The amount of treasures can be described as abundant, and because many people are afraid of religious matters, it is also the least searched."
Everyone quickly agreed that it didn't matter which one they chose.
"Then the first item is decided. Then comes the second item, about the train."
"We did meet a Dacapo conductor, but the guy's attitude was not very good." Lu Ning said, "There is no doubt that trains are indeed intercity transportation, but the key problem with trains is the 'turning train' event. If we can reach the terminal by any train, we can take a special train there, but before arriving, the train will return to the starting point for a special reason."
"There are two problems." Jean said, "The first is if no one has really been to the terminal, how can the news of 'special trains can be taken at the terminal' come from. The second is if the train really has such If there is no return, how can the nobles return? They should have their own special means."
"It is speculated that there is indeed a way to reach the terminal, but at worst, it may be that the incident encountered by the train needs to be solved - we have just encountered an incident of the same level. Unfortunately, that level does not seem to be something we can handle now. ." Lu Ning said.
"Okay, then after improving your strength, try to take the train line to the terminal." Jean concluded again, "Is there anything else that needs attention?"
“Some kind of qualification is required, but we don’t know what it is.”
"About this..." Lian Bisheng crossed his hands and said, "You can buy this."
"What?"
“In a place called [Unconnected Gambling House], they priced a [King’s VIP] title with a price of 100,000 chips. By the way, this gambling house is opened by Nest, so I don’t think it will What a fool."
"So you just want to gamble?" Yan Rong asked.
"Yes, it's just that you can only rely on luck and some conventional skills in that place. If you try to get away with it, you will end up very miserable. I saw a person being thrown directly into the meat grinder." Lian Bisheng shook his head, " But none of us are good at ordinary gambling skills, and we don’t have much money. It’s not easy to make enough money to change everyone’s qualifications.” Girl
"As for this, I'll give it a try later." Jean said, "If it's gambling like poker and dice, I've been involved a little bit."
Lian Bi Sheng glanced at Rang in surprise: "I didn't expect that gentlemen are also good at this?"
"You have to know that people with money and leisure will always study some strange things. My interest is quite normal." Jean touched his beard, "Very good, it seems that we have successfully solved another problem. At the end of the day One thing, Dark Sage.”
Lu Ning told what Ana said, but even Ana herself had heard this part of the information, and there was no evidence at all.
"Unfortunately, based on this information, we can only think that he is more difficult to find." Rang was a little disappointed.
"Then I probably won't disappoint you here." Zhu Qinyuan said and threw two stones on the table.
They were two tetrahedron-shaped stones. There was a black eye pattern on one of the faces, which was split from the middle by a crack, and the stone was also slightly cracked. If you look closely, you can see that the two stones are slightly different. One has round eyes, while the other has red and phoenix eyes.
"Regarding the incident just now, after I met the people from Kata Yoshimitsu, they told me that if I wanted to gain trust, I had to do one thing for them first - I didn't believe they would believe me so easily, but If I don’t agree, it’s hard to follow up. As expected, what they asked me to do is kill people.”
"Kill who?"
"Some of the people they say have been following them recently are dressed like religious groups. Most of the religions in the outer city have some problems. Although they can do it themselves, they just happened to meet me and sent me to deal with the problem." Zhu Zhu Qinyuan snorted disdainfully, "I didn't take action directly. I investigated first. The group of people looked like ordinary office workers. They had neither weapons nor armor, but everyone wore a necklace and held it in their hands. Holding one of these stones.”
"What happens next?" Yan Rong asked.
"I hired several private detectives and asked them to inquire about the relationship network of six of them. There was no communication at all in these six people's lives, and there was no coordination and synchronization in their actions. It can be determined that they acted separately, not as a group. Action. This is very strange to me. In the outer city, where no one cares about killing people as long as they are hidden, Yoshimitsu Kataha and the others are not worried about the trouble caused by killing a few office workers, right?"
"They obviously want to use you to step on the thunder first." Lu Ning said.
"It's normal. I probably don't understand the origins of this group of trackers." Lian Bisheng agreed.
Zhu Qinyuan took a sip of tea and continued:
"I knew there was a problem, but it would be too stupid to do nothing if there was a problem. So I picked a person who lived in a remote place and went into his house at night to ask questions first. However, the defense methods on that guy were obvious. It was more powerful than I thought - the moment I entered the room, he and his wife jumped up from the bed at the same time, with black exoskeletons growing crazily on their bodies. Only two of them were holding a piece of this in their hands. The stone didn’t change much. I was lucky enough to use some means and Hei Ke’s own immortality to kill them… I couldn’t hold back, otherwise I would have died there, do you understand?”
"No need to explain this." Lian Bisheng waved his hand, "But you must have gained something, right?"
"Yes, some information about the Dark Sage. The man's exoskeleton fell off when he was about to die. He was also very surprised by these changes. He told me that this was a task given to him by the Dark Sage."
"Tsk." Lu Ning shook her head, "An answer, a blessing, and a mission. It seems that the Dark Sage will not give you something good so easily."
"It's a pity that I can't ask so much. I only asked him how he met the Dark Sage. What he told me was that when life reaches its lowest point, the road leading there will appear in front of him."
"Another urban legend-like description!" Yan Rong looked unhappy, "These people like to hide the lowest point in life? Can people who are about to die get in?"
"I think this has something to do with the state of mind. It sounds like the Dark Sage is someone who uses people's desires to get them to do something for him. Where are these two stones? Did you just take them over?" Jean pointed to the table. superior.
"You'll know what's going on when you pick it up."
Lu Ning reached out and touched a stone, then held it in her hand. An intuition like a road map suddenly appeared in her mind, and blurry images of several people also appeared in her mind.
[Track them and monitor their actions. 】
It seemed as if someone was talking to Lu Ning like this. Of course, when Lu Ning immediately let go of his hand, all this disappeared.
"Here's leader." Yan Rong tried it, threw the stone away and muttered.
"We can easily break free of the stone, but those people can't. What do you think is the reason?" Zhu Qinyuan and others tried before speaking.
"That blessing, or in other words, a curse?" Yuan Jie said, "After all, these are the two we got from the Dark Sage, right? But how are we going to see him? For us, even if we fall into death, it's not that big. Is it really easy to fall into a slump?”
"We can try to adjust personal mentality, some principles similar to self-hypnosis." Jean hesitated a little and said, "I just don't know if you are willing to try it. After all, there may be other ways to see the Dark Sage. If so, It’s not beautiful if it damages your physical and mental health.”
"It doesn't matter. It's best if you hurry up. Let's try it after we prepare other things." Yan Rong waved his hand, "Is there anything else?"
"Well, about Alex's companions." Jean glanced at the boy next to him who had never spoken. "There is no way to know what happened to the bonfire from the outer city, but we can find out about his last companion, the Ed Some of Edmond’s whereabouts. Although it’s not necessarily in this outer city, Edmond doesn’t seem to have a fixed shopping location, and a black engraver can be easily remembered if he doesn’t deliberately conceal himself.”
At this time, Alex finally spoke: "We found out that someone saw Edmond a day ago. He drove a carriage purchased from Dacapo to the southeast of the wilderness. It was not the kind we rode. He can only move on the ground - the question is, where does he get so much money? Our income can only meet everyone's survival needs, and buying vehicles is not something we can afford!"
