The group of people hid in the darkness behind the ruins of the broken wall. In the distance, the excavation site was illuminated by fire.
The scale of the excavation site was astonishing. A huge bonfire was lit inside the site, and the hard workers were working under the firelight. The sound of clanging could be heard from afar, even late at night.
The noise caused by the air pirates was far greater than they imagined. They didn't know how many people were kidnapped from other places. At a glance, the long queue of stumblingly transporting sand and gravel could not be seen at the end.
According to the few air pirates they captured, there will only be more people working during the day - and this is just one of the three main excavation sites in Idos City.
Fang Yu looked at these people from a distance and couldn't help but clenched his fist slightly.
There are no distinctions between men, women, old and young among the hard workers. Everyone is in ragged clothes, and some people even have shabby steps and haggard faces, like zombies advancing under the whip of air pirates.
Under the firelight, there were overseers of air pirates everywhere. If they were slightly dissatisfied, they would whip over and knock people out of the team. Then the burly air pirate dragged him out from the crowd and fisted him.
Fang Yu saw with his own eyes a man being beaten until he lost all breath, while everyone on the side looked at this scene numbly.
"If I were them," Parker replied, looking at this scene, "I would have committed suicide and gone to resurrection."
But Sylvide shook her head slightly and pointed to the side.
Fang Yu looked in that direction and discovered that the man who was carried out had white lights gradually glowing on his body. After a moment, the man sat up from the ground with a look of despair.
Fang Plover was surprised: "They set up Hengshi here?"
Sylvide nodded and replied in a soft voice: "Actually, Bunigu and the others also have similar restrictions. There was something wrong with the shackles on their feet. Baggins quietly helped them lift it and did not choose to tell them the truth. .”
"That thing is not the Hengshi. I tried it, but it doesn't seem to be of any use to the air pirates. Maybe our method is wrong, or maybe it is the 'evil object' of the Dark Saints."
"So before this, it actually doesn't make sense for Bunigu and the others to be resurrected. Since Blood Shark Sky Island behaves like this, they will naturally be prepared -"
After hearing this, Fang Yu looked at the scene from a distance and couldn't help but cursed secretly: "These bastards!"
Sylvide looked at him: "Captain, it's best to let the navy handle the matter here. Otherwise, we alone won't be able to save so many people."
Fang Yu nodded calmly, understanding that they were here to collect intelligence, not to show off as heroes.
He couldn't help but look not far away.
The place where everyone was hiding was actually far away from the bottom of the pit, and the situation below could not be seen - but in that direction, there was a silent figure.
Alyssa bent down like a cat and walked silently behind a broken wall, keeping her whereabouts secret.
Occasionally she would raise her head to judge the position of our enemies and friends under the firelight, but her bright eyes would disappear so quickly that it would be impossible to detect them.
Not to mention the unobservant air pirates, the twin sister's whereabouts were also somewhat mysterious in Fang Yu's eyes, just like an occasional intermittent shadow. Even he would lose his figure in the darkness from time to time, only to reappear in another unexpected direction in the blink of an eye.
Fang Plover was a little surprised.
As newcomers trained by the lonely white field, Sister Alisa is the backbone of the next generation nightingale team of Listening to the Rain. Guilds like the so-called listening to the rain have limited resources, but they cannot hold up the vision of the lonely white field.
With the level that this Miss Nightingale is showing at the moment, even if she is placed in a team like Silver Forest Spear and Tapolis, she is a talent that will not be buried.
Of course, she may not be as good as those top nightingales - but sometimes, the gap between the top selectors and non-top selectors in Ettaria is actually more of an opportunity.
Speaking of the warrior king Odin, his talent is not top-notch.
So Fang Yu couldn't help but wonder if it was a bit unfair to let this lady work part-time as a sailmaker in the team. It’s just the Seven Seas Troupe, where should they find a qualified sailmaker?
When he was distracted, Alyssa had gently slid across a small slope, jumped, passed through an area illuminated by fire, and merged into a bush.
The shrubs swayed slightly, attracting alert glances not far away, but she released a mouse from her pocket at the right time and scurried under the broken wall not far away. The air thief glanced at it from a distance and then looked away.
Fang Yu was stunned. It turned out that the other party had caught a few rats from the group of rats for this purpose.
After Alyssa sneaked into the dense bushes, she really got close to the inside of the excavation site——
She looked calmly through the branches and leaves, gently opened a light page, then picked up the communication crystal, and projected the situation here into the video communication with Fang Pliong and the others.
At the same time, on Mr. Gray Rock's platform and in the combat conference room, Jita, Box and Siesta were also watching this scene through the glowing light curtain.
But in the center of the excavation site, there was nothing like what Fang Plover had imagined. To be precise, there was nothing down there - only the hard workers were digging noisily. There were only broken walls and ruins underneath.
"There's nothing down there, Captain." Alyssa's voice came softly from the communication crystal.
"Alyssa, can you see anything over there?"
"No, Captain."
Looks like they picked the wrong place.
Tonight should be enough time for them to go to the next excavation point, but if they make another mistake, the night will be wasted. The air pirates imprisoned on the platform don't know when they will react.
There wasn't much time left for them.
"Come back, Alyssa," Fang Plover replied, "Be careful."
"Wait a minute, Captain." Alyssa's voice changed somewhat. She looked through the bushes and saw two people walking over from a distance. She had never seen those two people before, but their attire made her suddenly alert.
The gray robe and the sparkle on her hands were very familiar to her.
She slightly restrained her voice and lowered her voice: "It's the Dragon Worshipers, captain."
"Did you see them?"
Alyssa nodded: "Judging from the people I met at Listening to the Rain, the other party's status is not low. They seem to be talking to the air pirates and giving some orders."
Fang Yu vaguely felt that there was an opportunity and hurriedly asked: "Alyssa, can you overhear what they said?"
"Let me try."
"Wait a minute." Fang Plover took the initiative to stop the other party. He looked in that direction. The fire was bright outside the bushes, and it was difficult to find a place to sneak in. Alyssa might be able to give it a try, but if the other party is of a higher level, the chance of failure is also high.
While gathering intelligence is important, the safety of your own team members must also be given top priority.
He took out the clockwork fairy and whispered: "You stay where you are and I'll give it a try."
Alyssa suddenly understood what he was thinking and couldn't help but be a little touched. In fact, if the mission was important, it would not be unacceptable for Nightingale to sacrifice once. She reminded in a low voice: "But there is a high-level magician from the other side nearby, captain."
Fang Yu couldn't help but frown, this was indeed a problem.
But just as he was about to take action, Aitila stopped him. Miss Elf said quietly: "Let me try, Ed."
"Miss Attila?"
Attila looked at Alyssa and asked: "Miss Alyssa, do you still have mice?"
"There's one more."
"You put it out, be careful, don't let it escape."
Alyssa nodded and followed her words. She roughly guessed what Attila wanted to do, so she only opened a small opening in the pocket, letting the mouse get out halfway, and then grabbed it.
The mouse was about to struggle, but at this moment, the elf lady whispered a spell through the light page. The mouse was startled, then calmed down immediately, looking blankly at Attila in the light page.
In the room, Jita looked at this scene and whispered: "Soothing animals, Druid magic."
"I know this," Box replied, "Miss Aitila often talks to Mr. Gray Rock."
After the mouse calmed down, Attila whispered something to it, but this was the secret language among druids, so no one could understand what she said. Then she said to Alyssa: "You can let go of it now."
Alyssa let go of her hand, and as soon as the mouse landed on the ground, she was a little panicked before, but quickly reacted and crawled over in this direction.
It passed through the ruins, and no one would pay attention to a mouse. The little thing came to Fang Pliong and the others safely. Etila softly comforted it for a few words before saying:
"I promised it that it would do us a small favor and let it go."
"How can it help us?" The big cat man glanced sideways at the trembling little guy.
But Fang Yu reacted, took out a Type II clockwork goblin and asked: "Miss Attila, can you let it help us bring this thing close enough to those people?"
Etila nodded slightly.
She took the clockwork fairy, placed it in front of the mouse, and whispered something to the latter. The mouse circled around the clockwork goblin and then picked it up in one gulp.
It looked at Miss Elf again. Attila immediately pointed in a direction, and the little guy immediately ran out in that direction with the clockwork fairy in his mouth.
Everyone looked at this magical scene. Since Amaya hardly accepts false believers, the selectors rarely see druids, and they never thought that this profession would have such skills.
Soon, Fang Plover confirmed its location through the location information fed back by the clockwork fairy. And if he does not take the initiative to control the clockwork goblin, because there is no active magical connection between the two, no matter how clever the magician is, he will not be able to detect it.
After all, Aitaria still has background magic power fluctuations. The magic power ripples caused by the passive perception between him and the clockwork fairy are probably not as conspicuous as the background clutter in this world.
At the same time, a confirmation message came from Alyssa: "I saw it approaching there."
Fang Yu immediately opened the auditory channel of the Type II Clockwork Fairy, and a rough voice immediately came out from inside:
"...Sir, we have been working day and night, but there is nothing down here, and we can't blame us. And it's not just ours, the situation at the other two excavation sites is similar, isn't it?"
This was obviously the voice of an air pirate, and he was pouring out his grief.
"Don't talk about that thing here. Not even half of the gold coins have been dug out. In the past few decades, archaeologists have dug this place upside down. How can there be any good things left for us?"
After the air pirate's voice, he was answered by a somewhat gloomy voice:
"Although the log has been lost, the 'Black Crystal' will only be found in one of these three places. If you haven't found it, it only means that you haven't tried your best. You have so much hard work on your hands, and you, too, can't you Do you think 'Lord Luo Lin' came to you to ask you to come and make a living?"
"You can't say that, sir, we are air pirates, not coolies. Brothers have been complaining about this place for so long. You can't let me force them to go and work in person. Son?"
"That's your own business."
When Fang Yu heard the words 'Lord Luo Lin', he couldn't help but be slightly startled. But then, he heard the air thief snort very disapprovingly.
But after a while, the other party replied: "Okay, I will speed up the progress a little more, but I will say something ugly first. If you don't find anything after digging to the end, then don't blame me for being rude to those Holy Chosen Ones."
"They lost the diary in Vanric. This debt cannot be blamed on us, and the Holy Chosen... Humph, they are originally the lackeys of the gods of Orin. I suspect that they are not of the same mind as us at all. .”
"That's enough," said the gloomy voice: "The alliance with the Holy Chosen One was decided by the Eternal One himself. It's not your turn to talk nonsense."
And the Eternal One.
This was not the first time Fang Plover had heard this name. At first he thought the Eternals referred to Nicol Bolas's dragon minions, which of course included its admirers.
But as the investigation deepened, he gradually realized that the relationship between the Dragon Worshipers and Nicol Bolas was not always so harmonious, and it was clear from the Rainlistener incident that the Immortal seemed to have another refers to.
And here, he heard the name again, and the other person's words seemed to confirm an idea in his mind - the Eternal One's status among the Dragon Worshipers is not low.
However, after this conversation, the other party no longer mentioned any sensitive information.
They were some questions and answers related to the daily work at the excavation site. After Fang Pliong listened carefully, he could vaguely determine that there were at least a thousand workers working here.
He couldn't help but be secretly surprised. It was no small project to abduct so many people from Eden and Anquid to this place. What is the purpose of such a big plan of the Dragon Worship Sect and the Dragon Fire Guild?
The voices over there gradually faded away.
Fang Yu was quiet for a moment, recalling what he had heard before, and then said: "It sounds like the thing they are digging should be the so-called 'black crystal'."
He asked Miss Goblin in a low voice: "Miss Tata, do you know what the 'black crystal' refers to?"
Tata shook his head slightly: "I may know something about the dark dragon, Mr. Knight, but 'black crystal' refers to too many specifics. It itself just means black crystal. In Aitali, There are countless such crystals in Asia.”
Fang Yu thought for a moment, picked up the communication crystal, and asked: "Jita, what does 'black crystal' generally refer to in the context of Dragon Worshipers? Can you find it? Is there any precedent?"
"Got it, Captain."
There was a soft reply from the other side, and then there was the sound of turning pages of books.
Only a moment later, I heard the naturalist lady say in surprise: "I found it. This word has appeared in the past, and it was recorded in the "Kaolin-Ithurian Cult Examination". It said that the 'black crystal' spoken by the Dragon Worship Cult ', usually has a specific reference - it refers to the 'Dragon's First Scale' of the dark dragon."
"Dragon's First Scale?"
"There is a note in the book, Captain. The so-called dragon's first scales are the scales that a natural dragon sheds for the first time. It is the witness of the young dragon entering the adult stage."
Fang Yu was a little surprised: "This means that the Dragon Cult is looking for Nicol Bolas's first dragon scale here, but does the dark dragon also have a teenage age? Didn't Nicol Bolas transform from a human to a dragon? "
Before Jita could answer, Tata's calm voice came over: "I know this well, Mr. Knight. For dragons, the dragon's first scales are the only product left at the moment they transform into dragons. "
"Change into a dragon?"
"That specifically refers to the humanized dark dragon."
"Wait a minute, Miss Tata," Jita couldn't help but said: "You mean that Nicol Bolas turned into a dragon in Idus? But this seems to be inconsistent with the rumors, Nicol Bolas Didn’t Si transform into a dragon in the hometown of the hero Yue Xiude?”
Fang Plover has also heard this rumor.
He couldn't help but look at the western sky. Under the purple stars, there was a vast sea of silver sand. In the sea of sand, there is a small oasis, which is called the Land of Dragons by the world.
It was once the homeland where Mazak's ancestors had lived for generations. It was also the resting place of the Holy Sword, and the birthplace of the dragon-slaying hero Yue Xiude. According to legend, Nicol Bolas was born into that ancient clan and then irrevocably turned into a disaster.
In the end, the Dragon Country disappeared completely, leaving only ashes behind a sea of fire.
And Nicol Bolas spread his wings, and the dragon's shadow traveled north. It finally came to this place, turning this prosperous ancient city into ruins.
He looked at the sky in that direction, and his mind seemed to see the giant dragon flying in the sky that day, the figure that covered the sky and the sun, and the flames of destruction falling from the mid-air, making this city of sand at the edge of despair. Screams and cries descended into a sea of fire.
Fang Yu suddenly shuddered.
"There are indeed such rumors," Tata replied calmly: "Although I missed this period of history during my long sleep, I have read relevant information from some materials before."
"Then it can't be that the Dragon Worship Cult made an mistake, right?" Parker couldn't help but said: "Even we know about this widely circulated rumor, how could they not know about it. They are followers of the dark dragon, Isn’t it?”
The Papalar man rarely said something that made sense, causing everyone to fall into silence for a while.
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