Everyone walked out of the forest and came to the road. Parker carefully crossed the Tower Bridge and did not encounter the expected ambush. He climbed up a broken wall at that end, disappeared behind the tower, and soon appeared behind a window, waving to everyone on the second floor to signal safety.
Others walked over one after another, and the edge of the woodland was a little quiet, with only the sound of the gurgling water under the collapsed bridge deck. The river surface reflected the afternoon sun, and occasionally a wave of light reflected on Fang Plover's face. He looked at the reeds in the distance, and there was a shadow lurking under the river water.
After everyone got off the bridge, Parker rolled out of the second-floor window of the tower, grabbed a piece of vine and slid down, clapping his hands and landing next to them. Tianlan then asked him: "Parker, did you see anyone else?"
"No!" Parker shook his head: "But there is a skeleton in the tower. I don't know if it is someone else, but I have killed it. I used the crossbow to knock off its head and get out far away."
After hearing this, Fang Yu was convinced that there was no one else here. The undead are very sensitive to the breath of the living. If there are living people nearby, they cannot be so quiet.
"That's weird," Tian Lan asked with some confusion: "Didn't you say that someone is 'booking out' the place here? They shouldn't be blocking various intersections, but why is there no one here? Could it be that Chris is here Lie to us?"
"Sky blue." Attila glared at her angrily.
But the older knight on the side only shook his head and looked at the other side of the Tower Bridge.
Only then did Tian Lan realize that she had said the wrong thing, and quickly changed her words: "I'm sorry, I'm not doubting Chris, it's just a little strange. Mr. Protector, is this what this place is like?"
"I haven't been to this place for some years, but there should have been a camp on the avenue outside, where adventurers used to exchange some things -" Dickert's voice was a little cold. He regarded Chris as his student, Tian Lanxin's straightforward words clearly offended him.
Fang Yu was helpless and could only try to change the topic to ease the atmosphere. He asked: "How long has it been since Mr. Dickert came here?"
"It didn't take long actually."
Fang Yu was stunned for a moment. If he remembered correctly, the other party had previously replied to Tianlan: "He hasn't been to this place for some years." Fang Yu didn't know whether the other party's words meant that "these years" were not a long time for him, or whether he was just angry at Tianlan.
He actually asked this question to confirm whether the camp had moved to other places over the years, or whether it had been dispersed by the 'chartered' organization. The ambiguous answer made his question somewhat unsustainable.
Fortunately, the older knight seemed to understand the meaning of his question.
He looked away and said to Fang Plover: "They should have left not long ago. Did you see that hazelnut tree? I watched the first group of adventurers set up their tents at that place, and they are still there. rope."
Fang Plover hurriedly looked in that direction, but his awareness was only a little high and he had no investigative skills - he did see the tall hazelnut tree, but he couldn't see clearly what was going on underneath. .
But Aitila came over, patted the back of his hand gently, and whispered to him: "There are indeed signs of camping down there, Ed."
Fang Plover glanced at Miss Elf and nodded.
That camp has been stationed here for many years. It is impossible for the adventurers to leave for no reason. Judging from recent events, it is very likely that they were driven away by the 'mysterious organization' that Chris mentioned.
He couldn't help but look around with some confusion - the group of people should be at the city gate. Half of the building had collapsed, and part of the city wall could still be seen submerged under the green vegetation.
Looking inside, it was a dead street, with dilapidated and deserted buildings coexisting with parasitic plants. In some places, towering giant trees had grown, crushing the rooms and causing rubble and gravel to fall to the ground.
It clearly looks like no one has ever existed here.
But Tianlan was right. If the other party wanted to occupy this place, the easiest way would be to block the entrances to several city gates. But after that mysterious organization drove away the adventurers, it seemed that it itself had disappeared into the city.
This is a bit too strange. Could it be the reason for the wave of undead last night?
"So did those people leave, or did they enter Dolifen?" The Papalar man found a rock and sat up, looking at the others and asked.
These words couldn't help but make Fang Yu feel a little confused on his face. Before that, he had clearly analyzed seriously that those mysterious people were still staying in Dolifen.
But it seems a bit untenable to say that these mysterious people went to the city - Chris said that the other party had a conflict with the adventurers, and seemed to have won the battle. With such strength, they should not be included in the search. When the city was invaded, even the troops guarding various places had to give up.
"Whether we leave or enter the city, we always have to go in and take a look. Instead of having meaningless discussions here, it is better to determine the plan after entering." Sylvide was at Siesta's side at this time. The hand man jumped from the collapsed tower bridge. She patted her skirt very ladylikely, raised her head just in time to hear the end of the conversation, and then spoke.
Her words made everyone nod.
Fang Yu couldn't help but look at the older knight and asked: "Mr. Dickert, do you have any plans?"
The knight thought for a while and replied: "Doriffin is very big, and there are many legends that have been spread over the years, but in general, the main purpose of adventurers is Doriffin's three things."
"That is to say, the possibility that the mysterious man's target is three objects should be the highest. Even if it is not completely correct, at least we will not be wrong to launch the investigation according to the idea of first, first, and second. After all, we have nothing else. Clues." Fang Yu couldn't help but nodded.
"The Papalars think this works," Parker interjected. "At the worst, even if we don't investigate anything, at least we will have some extra income."
Before he could finish his words, Tianlan Yifan snatched his words: "Parker, shut your crow mouth!"
Fang Yu ignored these two living treasures and continued to ask: "Then are we going to Gray Oak Square along this avenue now? I remember correctly what Mr. Dickert said before?"
"No," but at this moment Jita spoke up. "If we want to start an investigation based on the three things, we have to start at Fujiha and the Lady's Inn."
"Why?"
"I know a little bit about this," Sylvide replied softly: "I also heard some related rumors when I was in Elpaxin, Mr. Captain."
After Sylvide's description and Jita's addition, Fang Yu finally figured out what was going on. It turns out that Dolifen’s three items are not three isolated pieces of equipment, but three rewards in a series of events. This event starts from the Vineleaf and Lady Hotel. After getting the Mark of Martyrdom of the Faithful from the bedside table in a room on the third floor of the hotel, a special event - Phantom of the Past will be triggered.
When the event begins, the phantoms in Vineleaf and Lady's Hotel will go back to a certain moment in the past, and then require participants to find a plot character in the hotel in the shortest possible time and protect them from harm until the latter leaves the hotel and arrives. to Ruins Avenue.
After completing this event, the participants can obtain the martyrdom mark of the faithful, and use this mark to open the next scene - the battle of Gray Oak Square. And in the battle of the square, he used the Blade of False Victory to defeat an illusion from the past called the 'Shadow of Void'.
After defeating the Vision of the Past, the path to the City Hall will open. There, adventurers will challenge the leader-level undead holding the arrogance scepter, and finally obtain the arrogance scepter of the ignorant. When the three objects of Dolifen come together, all the illusions in the city will return to nothingness, and only then can the participants return to reality from the shadow of the past.
After listening to this description, the group of people had almost reached the Fisherman's Crossing - according to the elderly knight Dickert, this place was named after a curved street. Going north from the fork here is the Gray Oak Square.
To the south is the Vineleaf and Lady Hotel.
He also mentioned that the end point of the Stalwart's Mark of Martyrdom mission was this long street. When the plot characters in the phantom are escorted to this long street, all the illusions from Ms. Fujileaf Inn to here will disappear.
"I was lucky enough to experience it once, here -" Dict came to the middle of the fork in the road, pointed to a place and said: "I saw her abandoning all of us and disappearing into the darkness."
For some reason, Fang Yu always felt that his tone was a little sad.
Fang Plover stopped and looked around. Dickert said before that there are usually many adventurers gathering here, but now this street is quiet and empty.
Moreover, the mission described by the other party also made him feel a little unfinished. Generally speaking, escort missions are to deliver the target to the end, or in the hands of the responder, right? How could a target suddenly abandon his escort and disappear into the darkness?
Fang Yu always felt that the description was more like a metaphor than the task.
Parker in front suddenly bent down and picked up something from the ground.
Behind the Papalars, Tianlan was still thinking about what Sylvide had said before. "Sister Sylvide, do you mean to return to reality? Are you saying that everything before this was a dream?"
"No, Miss Fuli," Jita shook her head and whispered, "Have you ever heard of resentful spirits and earthbound spirits?"
"Ah, I know a little bit about that."
"Many scholars have come here to study Dolifen's vision, the most famous of which is undoubtedly Lilbain, the seventh tower master of the Silver Tower. Mr. Lilbain came here in order to study Dolifen's phenomenon. After living there for three years, he finally believed that the reason for the formation of Dolifen's phantom should be the huge resentment lingering here. It was a kind of illusion of dead souls. Its principle was similar to that of resentment. It was the lingering thoughts and feelings. The product of information——"
Tianlan couldn't help but rub her brows. The Silver Tower is the largest scholar organization in Aitaria. It is relatively loose, but it has branches in various countries - because scholars have no borders. She knows that Lilbain was the previous one. The master of the Silver Tower is the general person in charge of this organization.
But that's all she knew. She sighed and said, "I understand the truth, but can you explain it more simply, dear Jita."
The little girl frowned and looked at her: "Miss Fuli——"
"Okay, okay," Tianlan couldn't help interrupting her loudly: "I know, read more books, Jita, you are really more verbose than my old grandmother in Caen. When you grow up, you will definitely Turned into a terrible tongue-tied woman."
So Jita became angry and refused to speak.
It was Sylvester who explained to her with a smile: "To put it simply, just imagine the entire illusion of Dolifen as a huge earthbound spirit. Because the yearning won't go away, this illusion will always reappear again and again. .”
"In fact, some people did see the image of a strange woman appearing everywhere in this city." Ditke suddenly added, "Some people say that it is the incarnation of Dolifen's vision. They don't care about that woman. Called—the non-existent lady.”
When he said this, he seemed to think of something and stopped talking.
But the little French girl frowned with a look of disgust on her face: "Then we are equivalent to being in a huge ghost body? Oh, it's so disgusting. I should have known I wouldn't come."
Everyone couldn't help but be defeated by this little girl's weird idea, and couldn't help but roll their eyes.
"Since it's an illusion of the undead, has no one ever tried to dispel it?" Fang Yu turned around and asked.
"Why not," Jita replied: "Brother Ed, the priests from the Elpa Xin'oli Temple will come here every year in February to hold a dispersal ceremony. Even the Great Temple as far away as Grande will send out priests. A professional caduceus-bearing bishop came to lead the ceremony, but with little success.”
"Since the results are minimal, why do we need to mobilize troops every year?" Tian Lan asked puzzledly.
"Okay, Tianlan," Aitila shook her head. "Don't always argue with Jita."
"oh--"
At this time, a skeleton suddenly crawled out of the ruins not far away. It climbed out from under a horizontal wall through the rubble, and the rubble on its body fell to the ground.
Attila just happened to see that direction, and without thinking, she took the spear from her back and threw it in that direction. The spear penetrated the skeleton and brought it down.
But when the elf lady saw the place where the skeleton had fallen, she let out a light sigh.
She walked over, and Fang Yu also saw the thing and walked over. He even arrived first, pulled out his spear, opened the skeleton, and pulled out a piece of rag from underneath.
He grabbed the rag, shook the dust off it, and unfolded it. A emblem drawn with red paint unfolded on the cloth.
A broken dragon head with one horn missing.
"ah--!"
Tianlan couldn't help but screamed when she saw what Fang Plover was holding. Fang Yu looked at Aitila, who also looked at the emblem solemnly.
"This should be part of a cloak, but this skeleton should not be the original owner. There may have been a battle here before, and this is how the cloak was left." Fang Plover looked at the fallen wall. Pointing to one of them: "The traces of fracture here are still very new. I can recognize this trace - penetrating shooting. There is a nighthawk on the other side, but I don't know who attacked whom."
"Are they those people?" Tian Lan ran up and asked.
Aitila and Fang Yu nodded together, both of them were a little surprised. They didn't expect to find clues so quickly - the other party was indeed in the city.
But before they could take a closer look at what was happening nearby, they heard Parker shouting hurriedly from the front.
"Jita, Jita, come and take a look. Did you say that the person who attacked you that day was carrying this thing?" Fang Plover turned around and saw the Papalar man waving something in his hand, pointing this way. ran over.
This guy never seemed to know what the whisper meant anymore, nor how he got the Thief's Blade in Sanshak.
Fang Yu couldn't help but touch his mask angrily.
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