Attila suddenly stopped.
Ahead is an open water surface, shining with sparkling light in the sun, as dark green as blue.
Surrounded by dead trees by the water, she grabbed the vines of a banyan tree and climbed up. She hung on the tree and looked into the distance while holding on to the vines. Then he let go, clapped his hands and said to the others: "Stop, take a rest."
The elf girl's voice was very soft, like the sunshine in the afternoon shining through the vines on the desk. It was quiet, demure and reassuring among the undulations of dust.
Others stopped too. Jita let out a long breath, unbuttoned the leather button of the giant book, and took it off her back. She leaned her thin body against a piece of rotten wood covered with moss, and wiped a handful of sweat with the back of her hand. The sweat beads flowed down her slender body. The heat flowed down my arms.
"You shouldn't have brought that tattered book with you." Tian Lan said to him disapprovingly, fanning with one hand, her fair skin showing pink. "That's not a real magic book, it's just a wooden model."
The long summer has passed, but the residual heat still lingers on the earth.
"But one day I will carry a real magic book." Jita replied crisply: "So I have to adapt to its weight first."
"I'm convinced, at least I'll learn to cheat sometimes," Tianlan shook her head. "No one will know, right?"
"I know, Luo Yu also knows, Miss Fuli also knows, and Sister Attila also knows, so many people know."
"But we will help you hide it, don't you think so, Luo?" She looked at the young trainee beside her.
But Luo Yu shook his head. "The rules of the Knights require that we supervise each other during the tour. It is my responsibility to inform the examiner of his performance."
Tian Lan looked at him in disbelief. "Aren't you friends? Don't you know which one is more important, friends or guild? Besides, their demands are unreasonable."
Luo Yu frowned and said nothing.
But Tianlan was reluctant: "Speak!"
The former said helplessly: "The additional provisions of the Suva Declaration are not suitable for all situations. As members of the Oak Knights of Tapolis, we know what the guild needs better than a rigid document."
The little French girl couldn't help but reached out and touched his forehead: "Are you crazy? You are not the guild management. You are just a selector. Look what they have done to you." She replied Overdone. "Brother Ed, tell me, am I right?"
Fang Yu was checking the status of the walker on the side, and couldn't help but shook his head after hearing this.
In the end, he agreed to Attila's invitation and joined the team. However, Etila actually just invited him to return to Elpaxin with her. Fang Pultru understood that they must have seen his dilemma and offered help tactfully.
Activities near the city may not really require an alchemist accompanying the team, not to mention that this is already a return trip.
Of course, Aitila must also be thanking him for helping him before, otherwise adventure teams are generally more cautious in the wild and will not easily join strangers.
As for Tian Lan's question, Fang Pultru wisely chose not to speak. He learned a lot at Dawnstar, one of which was to never take a stand when others were arguing.
He said vaguely: "By the way, there is a question I have been wanting to ask before, why did those people attack you?"
Seeing that he didn't support her either, Tian Lan couldn't help but feel a little discouraged. She angrily took out a gold statue from her bag and said, "It's not because of this thing."
"Miss Fuli." Kitta called out in a low voice and shook her head at her.
Fang Yu looked at him strangely, and Xiao Zhengtai was so frightened that he quickly lowered his head.
Fang Plover has actually recognized the statue, the Numelin icon, which is usually carved into the image of a feathered serpent, a stag, and a cat. Those are the three animals that the Numelin elves consider to be the most magical. They are found in various ruins and temples. A large number have been unearthed, but they are usually made of stone, and rarely of gold.
This thing could fetch tens of thousands of lisels on the market, if sold to aboriginal collectors or explorers interested in the ruins of Numelin. But it doesn't seem worth exchanging the domesticated maroon weevil and crushed red crystal.
After all, the value of the former is no less than this statue, and the broken red crystal itself, which can induce insects to go crazy through low-frequency resonance, is not cheap either.
"It's nothing, just a worthless broken statue." Tian Lan was dissatisfied with Jita's caution. When she saw the latter shrinking his neck like an ostrich, she couldn't help but feel teasing.
She walked to the latter's side on catwalk and pressed his chest with both hands. Jita was so scared that she screamed "Ah--" and quickly covered her chest with her hands, causing her big, thick and clumsy glasses to fall down again.
"Haha." Tian Lan was gloating that his prank had succeeded.
Jita's face was as red as blood and she was about to cry.
"Don't bully Jita." Aitila glared at her angrily. "That statue is our mission for this trip. It can be used to open the door of the temple in the Traveler's Forest. Legend has it that the second obelisk is underneath." She walked back from the tree and said.
Fang Yu subconsciously wanted to ask her where her brother was found, but she realized something was wrong before she could say anything, so she kept her mouth shut.
However, if this statue is the key to a key mission, it does have this coveted value. Its value depends on the richness of the mission itself. If the obelisk is really related to the Holy Grail of the Numelin elves, this key will definitely The portion is not light.
But after all, it is just one of them, otherwise even the Grand Guild might not be able to help but take action.
"Brother Ed, this statue is actually what the Black Goat Merchant Group wants." Tianlan added at this time.
At the same time, she was holding the bulky glasses in her hand, putting them on the bridge of Jita's nose again, and pushing them with her fingertips. The latter was looking at her with tears.
Fang Yu looked at the other party's reaction and it really didn't look like a boy's. He shook his head and asked: "Black Goat Merchant Group?"
"A business group under the Kaolin Merchant Alliance. Their president is a hateful, greedy and treacherous upstart. It is said that he obtained the permission to transport arms and magic weapons through nepotism when he was young. He made a fortune by relying on the Battle of Bain. Bi Cai, in short, is an arms dealer——"
Tianlan comforted his little friend with some kind words before continuing: "My real name is Luen Lincius. This man is very influential in Elpaxin, but he doesn't actually live in this place. Of course, the businessman is big He calls Kukai his home most of the time, but his mansion and family are also in Grande, the capital of Kaolin.”
"He mainly relies on his business to influence the area around Rainbow Bay. However, starting from 20 years ago, this guy will live in the Traveler Camp for a period of time every late summer and will not leave until the winter solstice. He is not sneaky. He knew what he was doing, and I suspect he already knew there was an obelisk down here.”
It can be seen that Tianlan has a bad impression of this person, but Fang Lu knows that the Kaolin Merchant Alliance, one of the three major business alliances of Kaolin and Ithulian, controls 9% of the commercial trade in the Yunzhihai area. ten.
However, he didn't know much about the Black Goat Business Group. After all, there were hundreds of large and small business groups under the Kaolin Business Alliance. Chosen people who were not interested in business would not care about this. thing.
This also shows that at least the logistics workers of Tian Lan's team are still qualified. Fang Pultru thought that she must have dealt with this hateful, greedy and treacherous upstart.
"Then what's the reward for this mission?" Fang Plover looked at Etila curiously. He thought that Miss Elf should first investigate the obelisk after getting the statue, because it was related to the confusing cause of her brother's death. , instead of completing the task of some business group.
This is obviously unreasonable.
"About 100,000 lisels, and a fruit of wisdom. That guy's price is quite high." Tian Lan waved his hand impatiently, as if he was shooing away flies when he mentioned that person.
This remuneration is indeed very high. The Jeffrit Red Team deceived Dawn Star into committing suicide and only paid about 200,000 yuan in remuneration. Of course, that was two-thirds of the deposit, but no one would be able to get one-third of it afterwards.
Not to mention there is also a Wisdom Fruit. The Wisdom Fruit is actually equivalent to an experience book page. It also only takes effect for the first time and is more advanced. One fruit provides 25,000 first-level experience.
Although the experience given is in the form of random skills and knowledge, it is something that is rare for most people, especially for novices, which is equivalent to accelerating the growth process in disguise.
Even Fang Yu was a little moved after hearing this.
But he was still a little strange: "But aren't you trainees? Miss Aitila... doesn't seem to need these?"
"Ha, because the rewards I'm talking about are for ordinary people. But for us and Sister Atila, that stingy guy won't give us a copper reward."
"Why is this?" Fang Yu was surprised.
"Because Mr. Kidd's body was discovered by that guy's adventure group," Tian Lan replied angrily: "Only he knows what happened at that time. He promised us to use this information in exchange for free help. Find the statue.”
"He also told you where the statue is?"
"Yes, otherwise how could we have found it."
Fang Yu always felt that something was wrong: "If that's the case, then why doesn't he get it himself?"
"How do I know?" Tianlan's face changed, and she suddenly asked: "Wait a minute, sister Aitila, who was the first to take this statue?"
Atila subconsciously looked at the Papalar crossbowman who was unconscious on the ground.
Fang Yu had already walked over. He rolled up the other party's sleeves and took a look. His chubby right arm was completely white, with nothing on it. When I looked at my left arm, I found a dark mark coiled like a snake.
"Curse!" Tian Lan exclaimed, gritting his teeth: "That damn abominable arms dealer."
"Don't worry," Fang Plover replied: "This is just a simple feathered serpent curse. It will bring bad luck to the recipient. Other than that, it has no other effects. It will dissipate on its own after a certain period of time."
He looked at the unconscious Papalar crossbowman and thought that the unlucky mark looked very effective.
"Everything else is fine," Fang Plover added: "You'd better keep him away from activities such as draws and treasure chests during this period. The effect of this curse mark is really obvious."
Hearing that the problem was not serious, Tianlan felt a little relieved: "Humph, it's better to let this guy suffer a little. At that time, sister Aitila clearly said that she wanted to check it first, but this guy couldn't move after seeing the treasure. It’s gone, it’s obviously just a short hand.”
"Thank you, Ed." Aitila also nodded to him.
Fang Plover scratched his head. This was the first time that his knowledge of the second world came into play. It is true that the second world also has many ruins of Numelin elves. This is also a very strange thing.
"But I won't let that damn arms dealer go." The little French girl added hatefully.
However, Fang Yu was pessimistic about this. He felt that it would be very difficult for Tianlan to fulfill his words. Since the other party was counting on them to bring the statue back, there was no way they had not estimated these things in advance.
Miss Scarpet was very good at this method of hitting a stick and giving a sweet date, and he had suffered greatly from it.
But he wisely kept his mouth shut.
Fang Yu suddenly felt that he was no longer the ignorant boy before, at least he knew how to weigh the pros and cons. This is thanks to Miss Scarpet's earnest teaching.
"So are we going to the Traveler's Camp now?" he asked again.
He had long noticed that the team was heading in the wrong direction. In theory, the way to the El Paxin area should be all the way south, but the team had been heading east since the morning.
"Don't worry," Etila said to him gently: "We just want to go there to rest for a while, and we will leave for Elpaxin soon."
Fang Yu shook his head. He was not in a hurry, he just asked. Anyway, he was also curious about the Traveler's Camp. That camp was actually very famous. It was more like a hotel between the Traveler's Forest and El Paxin than a camp.
A very large hotel.
"Yes, Brother Ed," Tian Lan also encouraged: "The traveler camp is actually very interesting, and we have to go back to the 'base' first before heading to El Paxin."
"base?"
The little French girl winked at him playfully: "That's Luo Yu's masterpiece, you'll know later."
The Traveler's Wood is actually an extension of the Egoon Forest.
There is another more formal name here, called Traveler Swamp, because in the past this swamp was located on the only road between El Paxin and 'Charter City', another city in the Seven Cities of Rainbow Bay.
When the group of people arrived at the edge of the swamp, it was at dusk, and the swamp became darker and deeper, filled with thick fog. A dilapidated trestle bridge penetrates deep into the mist, and there are dots of firelight in the distance.
This place is actually not far from the traveler's camp. Tianlan told him that the firelight in the mist was the wind lantern hung by the people in the camp, so this trestle was actually maintained by someone.
Fang Yu found that if he hadn't met Aitila and the others, he would never have imagined that there would be a civilized camp within a day's trip, and he was really happy in his heart.
Getting closer, there is a crooked road sign erected next to the trestle. The bark is peeling off and covered with moss. Three place names are crookedly carved with a dagger:
'Traveler's Camp'
'Traveler's Trail'
'Traveler's Swamp'
The Traveler's Trail is actually the overland road leading to Charter City. However, since air transportation became more convenient, this road has actually been abandoned for a long time. Now adventurers mostly use it as a shortcut to penetrate into the Traveler's Swamp. use.
Fang Plover also saw a few crosses made of wood not far away, with unknown adventurers buried deep beneath them. Most of them were buried with the help of their companions or passing travelers.
The owners of these tombstones have either returned to reality, or have completely returned to the embrace of this world.
For ordinary people, crossing these tombstones symbolizes entering the more dangerous advanced area from Elpaxin's 'newbie' area. But for Fang Plover, it’s a little weird——
Because he has finally returned to the 'novice' area from the advanced area.
So when he saw the sign, he couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.
He was finally back where he was supposed to be.
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