A nauseating stench filled the entrance to the sewer, like the aftertaste left after a corpse decomposes. Patches of copper-colored moss covered the water-logged stone bricks and walls, extending into the depths of darkness.
Luo Hao frowned and stood there for a moment, then clattered back on the Shuiyuan Road, took out the communication crystal, and contacted Yu Wenyu: "The guard at the entrance to the sewer is missing."
"Are there signs of a fight?"
"did not find."
"Don't be suspicious. Maybe you're just watching the game. I still don't understand why you care about this."
There was a rustling sound coming from the crystal, which seemed a little distorted.
But Luo Hao didn't think so and shook his head: "As far as I know, this sewer can lead to the bottom of Elfendo."
"So what?" The other party's tone was obviously impatient.
Luo Hao took the crystal away slightly and said, "That is the core area of the spire, otherwise they would not arrange guards at this entrance."
"What does this have to do with us?"
"Don't forget that the Dragon Cultists may be in league with the Shadow Throne."
"But our mission is to keep an eye on the people in the Throne of Shadows. And the alchemists are not fools. They know what is going on under the Elfendor Spire. Fatty Luo, you'd better come back as soon as possible."
Luo Hao was about to say more when he suddenly heard a sound of wind. He turned around smartly, and the whizzing gray light hit the communication crystal in his hand. The crystal flew out of his hand and swirled into the water.
He looked back and realized that it was a gray feather arrow. The arrow had penetrated into the wall, and its tail feathers were still trembling.
Luo Hao broke into a cold sweat, turned around again, and saw a long and narrow shadow walking in from the sewer.
The shadow passed through the sunlight and was imprinted diagonally on the ground. Its owner was a tall lizard man with brown-grey skin, looking down at him with narrow, cold pupils.
Luo Hao noticed that it was dragging a long spear-like tail behind it. The tail was curled and swept from one side to the other, just blocking his way.
But lizards don't have spear-like tails. A terrible thought flashed through his mind, and that crazy term emerged - dragon's claws.
There was a chilling smile in the other person's narrow pupils, and he bent down and got in, approaching him step by step.
Luo Hao knew that the lowest-level dragon minions were above level fifteen, and the one in front of him was obviously not that kind of unconscious monster, but a higher-level existence.
He glanced at the direction where his crystal disappeared, but it was too late. His heart moved, and he suddenly turned around and ran away.
Escape deeper into the sewer.
Yu Wenyu patted the crystal in his hand suspiciously and frowned.
The other party's unilateral interruption of contact made him a little uneasy. He looked through the window in the direction of the apartment. There was still no movement from the Throne of Shadows - he just looked away, still a little hesitant in his heart. Do you want to go take a look? But the tasks assigned by the group leader cannot be left behind.
Thinking of this, he picked up the crystal again, called up one of the communication numbers, and said:
"Captain, I have something to report..."
…
Alyssa watched with her own eyes as the turbulent lake water merged into a green wall four to five meters high, just like emerald.
The Bai Lian I saw earlier was actually just the broken wave that went ahead.
"Hold on tight!" the big cat man suddenly shouted.
The waterline first reaches the inner harbor area and lifts up the boats parked outside. Smaller fishing boats and yachts seem to be hung on a standing wall. There was a cracking sound on the wall, and he continued to move forward, hitting the Skaar not far away, causing the three-masted sailing ship to come across and hit the trestle.
The wood was instantly overwhelmed, cracked and disintegrated, and several trestles were broken into several sections.
From a distance, it looks like the entire port is moving inward.
There was a panic on the pier, and Alyssa saw the workers screaming and passing by Mr. Gray Rock - not far away, the tide had already reached the embankment and was rolling up. After it came ashore, the impact of the impact was reduced a bit, but when it hit Mr. Gray Rock, it still pushed the huge thing to one side for a few steps.
The latter let out a low chirp and bumped to one side in fear, causing the entire platform to tilt down.
Several chairs, tables, and the tea and snacks on them rolled down in one direction, hit the side of the ship, and disappeared into the waves in the blink of an eye.
Fortunately, Rhett reminded him in time, and everyone grabbed the other side of the boat to steady themselves.
"I'll go down to appease Mr. Gray Rock." Attila only said one sentence when she saw this. She flexibly rolled down the side of the ship and climbed down along the rope net of the air bag.
"Miss Attila!" Alyssa leaned out of the side of the ship and looked at the shaky rope until Miss Elf disappeared behind the magic engine.
At Mr. Huiyan's feet, there was a vast water. The water had already covered its belly, and countless pieces of wood were floating in the water.
She looked up, not knowing what had happened.
"Look over there." Baggins said calmly.
Alyssa and Rhett looked in that direction and saw that the first wave crest had passed and the water was receding.
The Skaar was pushed to the shore and tilted to one side. In the inlet in that direction, a strange thing was swimming upstream.
Alyssa took a closer look and realized that they were fish fins, long, spiny fins.
Like a blade, it splits the current and swims towards the port. You can even vaguely see their shadows underwater.
"It's the sticklebacks. It looks like they want to cause trouble."
"Don't let them get close," Rhett turned back to Baggins and said, "I'll go down to protect Mr. Gray Rock. There is a high ground to the east. Take Mr. Gray Rock in that direction."
"Alyssa, go and inform Tianlan and the others."
Alyssa nodded quickly.
But at this time, the three of them heard a muffled sound at the same time, coming from far away from the center of the lake. They couldn't help but look in that direction. The sound before was like the sound of heavy objects falling into the water.
However, this sound came from several miles away, giving people a different feeling.
The three of them saw at the same time that a water ridge was slowly rising on the shining lake there. The water of Long Lake looked heavy in the sunlight, and a huge shadow seemed to be floating across the water ridge.
The previous gurgling sound had now turned into a dull roar that continued continuously.
It just seemed like something huge was rising from under the lake.
The elder sister of the twins took a breath of air:
"Then, what is that?"
"...Corath."
Baggins looked in that direction motionlessly: "The god of fishmen."
…
The match between Shadowthrone and the military is halfway through.
The performance gap between the two sides has never widened. Since they don't know the strength of the military alchemists, Fang Pultru and his party can't tell what the strength of the other side is. However, it is obvious that the Shadow Throne team obviously retained a lot of strength when they played against them in the audition that day.
Chickpea was happily talking to others about the news he had just learned: "I heard that the format of the finals has been greatly changed this time. It seems to have been decided by many parties on the spur of the moment. There are more than 100 teams participating in the finals. Two."
Mu Lan and others obviously didn't believe it after hearing this: "Just brag, chickpeas, there are not only two, but how many more are there? Then what's the point of the previous elimination round? The organizers of the competition are not fools."
"No, no," Chickpea waved his hand quickly: "I said there were more than two teams participating in the finals, and I didn't say they were the eliminated teams, but the participating teams in the main competition."
"Teams participating in the main competition?" Mu Lan frowned and looked at this guy: "What are the teams participating in the main competition doing in this competition? They have no shortage of places."
"So it's Elfen's decision in many aspects," Chickpea replied: "To be honest, the championship of the exhibition competition is meaningless, and the bonus is nothing to us. And there are only a few participating places in total, By this time, the chief judge has almost already had a candidate in mind—"
"So this year's organizers probably want to make the finals more meaningful. They decided to let the two teams that entered the finals have a showdown with the main competition teams and Elfendor's own team."
"What's the point of this duel?" Mu Lan asked.
"Of course it makes sense," Chickpea lowered his voice and replied mysteriously: "I heard that Elfin has set up separate rewards for this competition, and I heard that the prizes are very generous."
Fang Yu listened to several people whispering and had no intention of interrupting. He had actually known about this play-off match for a long time, and it was not a premeditated plan, but just a spur of the moment idea at the banquet in the manor yesterday.
However, the news came out so early, which still surprised him.
He was startled when he heard Chickpea talk about rewards. After all, this competition actually has a potential reward, which is to select the next generation successor of Rose Workshop. Of course, from the perspective of the Effendor Council and the Earl himself, this heir should have been predetermined——
However, the competition party actually set up another reward, which even he didn't know about. But after thinking about it, he was relieved. After all, this was an additional competition. It would be too strange if there was no prize.
He just didn't know if this was also an opinion put forward by his teacher, but what Chickpea said next dispelled his doubts.
"This is absolutely true. I heard it from a friend," the other party said: "He has been studying alchemy at the Du Lun School for several years. A standard insider, this proposal was made by the founder of the Du Lun School. It was proposed.”
"Pudela?" Fang Plover couldn't help but ask.
Chickpea was stunned: "Do you know Ed too?"
Fang Yu nodded, feeling a little curious. He remembered that there was also this person who came out to oppose Count Silin Spica yesterday. Afterwards, he asked Sylvide and learned that the other party was not on their side.
On the contrary, the old speaker who seemed to be confused was the 'insider' she bribed with money.
"He is not from the same group as us," Sylvester whispered to him at that time: "This man has always been at odds with the one in the north. He and his school have always been a heretic in Elfendor."
He felt a little pity after hearing this. He was originally thinking about whether he could get the formula for the magic solution from this person.
Fang Yu came to his senses, and over there Mulan was already dragging Chickpea and asking fiercely: "Who cares about this? What is the generous reward?"
After hearing this, Chickpea could only spread his hands helplessly: "I don't know about this either, Sister Mulan, Elfine has to keep many aspects secret, and my friend doesn't know what the reward is."
"Tch, it's useless."
While a few people were talking, Fang Yu suddenly heard a low voice coming from the square.
He thought something had happened on the field, but when he looked back, he found that several more rays of light were flying out from the Elffindor Spire and flying over the square.
It was Elfendor's alchemist - Fang Plover had seen such a scene a few days ago. He looked along the direction of the streams of light and realized that that direction should be the direction of the port area.
What happened?
Fang Yu was startled.
"Someone left the VIP stand," Dill, who was always observing carefully, suddenly whispered, "There are quite a few people."
Fang Plover looked in that direction, and sure enough he saw many people walking out of the box and hurriedly walking towards the Elffindor Tower. He looked at the clothes of those people and saw that they were all important figures from the Southern Alchemist Alliance.
Among them are one or two big craftsmen in gray and red coats, and the others are at least senior craftsmen.
But apart from them, everyone in the square was attracted by the stream of light in the sky, and no one noticed the details on the other side of the stands. The two sides who were competing on the field were naturally focused on the situation and were completely unaware of the changes in the outside world.
Fang Yu was confused when he suddenly felt his communication crystal move.
He quickly picked up the crystal, only to find that two messages were coming from it at the same time.
One of them is sky blue:
"Brother Ed, Sister Alyssa said something happened in the port area."
Fang Yu's heart tightened and he quickly asked: "What's wrong?"
"It seems like the sticklebacks are causing trouble."
"Are they okay?"
"Fortunately, the port is flooded. Mr. Big Cat Man plans to take Mr. Gray Rock to a dry land east of the pier."
"Then, did the sticklebacks attack them?"
"I don't know, there shouldn't be one...The communication was cut off after that."
Fang Plover looked up and realized what had happened. He didn't know whether the sticklebacks specifically took advantage of the competition to launch an attack. However, the communication there was cut off, presumably because the city's mysterious lock was opening, cutting off the connection with the port area.
However, the sticklebacks often attack the south of Long Lake, and they are not high-level creatures themselves. Seeing the intention of the Elfendor Council, they have no intention of interrupting the game, so the attacks must still be under control.
He then said: "Is there a clockwork fairy on Luo Yu?"
Tian Lan shook her head on the other side of the screen: "No, they are not allowed to bring these things into the venue, but Luo Yu has already gone to the nearest alchemy shop to look for them."
Fang Yu nodded. There were several clockwork goblins on him. It's just that if he releases the clockwork goblin here, he will probably be expelled from the arena, so after thinking about it, he can only say, "Let Parker and the box go and take a look first."
Tianlan nodded quickly.
At this time, the third round of the competition between the Shadow Throne and the military craftsmen had already decided the winner. Fang Yu took a look at the score and basically concluded that it would be difficult for the military craftsmen to advance to the next round. It seems that if the game is not interrupted, their opponents in the finals will probably include people from the Throne of Shadows.
Only then did he look at the next message. He didn't know it, but after a quick look, he saw that it was from Hongye:
"Have you made it to the finals?"
"If you enter, you wait-"
"I'll beat you up soon!"
Fang Yu was confused by this information that had no beginning or end.
But in normal times, he might still feel a little guilty, but at this moment, how could he care about this? He only glanced at it and skipped this one - because it was at this time that the next message was transmitted to his crystal.
He originally thought it was another message coming from Tianlan, but when he took a closer look, he realized it was an ID he didn't recognize.
But how did the unknown ID end up on my communication list?
Fang Yu was startled, thinking that he had met a legendary hacker - although the technology of this era had no way to deal with the Chosen System, the communication crystal itself was actually plugged into the system.
Although officials have always claimed that cross-border communication is the most secure method of communication, the existence of top masters who can hack cross-border communications has always been a long-standing legend in the community.
Fang Yu subconsciously thought that he had bumped into a ghost.
The ID was called SSAT900822AX. This row of garbled characters made him a little dizzy. The letters SSAT looked familiar to him, but he did not associate this row of garbled characters with those familiar names for a while.
I saw the message from the other party:
"Mr. Ed, we want to talk to you."
"What?"
"we are at……"
Fang Yu suddenly reacted and cursed in his mind: "Damn, cross-border fraud!" Without thinking, he blacklisted this ID.
He was about to put away the crystal, and suddenly, another message came into his field of vision:
"Can we talk?"
Damn, it’s not over yet! Fang Yu couldn't help but be a little annoyed, but when he saw the ID of this message, he was suddenly stunned. The owner of that ID was added by him just a few days ago. He remembered that the other party claimed to be an official of the Super Competitive Alliance stationed in Ragnarok——
The other party made some incomprehensible suggestions to him at that time, and then asked him to go back and think about it. After that, there was no news. Unexpectedly, the other party suddenly took the initiative to contact him at this time.
He was stunned for a moment when he saw the news, and was about to ignore it. But suddenly, Fang Yu thought of those contestants in the Throne of Shadows again, and subconsciously moved in his heart, asking:
"What do you want to talk about?"
"Way to help you win games."
Fang Yu was stunned for a while when he saw this message.
He raised his head, looked around carefully, thought for a moment, and then typed:
"No need, I can win myself."
But the other side quickly sent a reply: "That's not necessarily the case. The young man named Luo Lin is not simple."
Fang Yu was a little surprised: "You also know him?"
"Of course, his background is not simple."
"Who is he?" Fang Yu asked subconsciously.
"I can't tell you yet," the man replied, "How about it, do you want to cooperate with us?"
Fang Yu pondered for a moment:
"How to cooperate?"
Although he asked this question, he had no desire at all to get involved with these people.
…
And it's not far outside the arena.
A military staff member with the four letters SSAT and the Stargate Ring emblem pinned to his coat was looking at the communication crystal in his hand with a confused look on his face, listening to the emotionless tone from inside:
"Communications interrupted."
"The other party has added you to the blacklist."
"Holy crap!" He almost threw the crystal away: "This kid has gone too far!"
His companion looked at him speechlessly: "What should we do now?"
"What should we do?" He said angrily: "Go up and arrest them!"
"But what about the competition?"
"After the game is over of course, are you stupid?"
…
Set a small goal first, such as remembering in 1 second: Shukeju
