Sylvide extinguished the torch, and the surroundings fell into darkness.
The corridor seemed very quiet in the darkness. At first, no one heard the voice that Alyssa said, but soon, an indistinct voice suddenly came from Fang Plover's ears. It came from beneath their feet, from somewhere underground.
The sound seemed to have penetrated a layer of barrier before reaching everyone's ears. It seemed extremely subtle and vague, making it difficult to hear its content clearly, but it was still possible to tell that a person was speaking.
And it’s not talking to oneself, because talking to oneself does not require a pause or waiting for feedback from others. It is easy to tell the difference. This means there are at least two 'people' down there, although it's unclear whether they are people or not.
At this time, several people had gradually adapted to the dark environment. Red stretched out his paw and pointed forward. Everyone nodded. In that direction, it was the entrance to the downward stairs that Alyssa had found before.
The sound came from below.
Alyssa gestured to the others, meaning: "Would you like me to go down and take a look?"
Fang Yu also forgot about the secret door at this time and only nodded.
Alyssa nodded in response, then snuck silently against the wall, and disappeared at the entrance to the stairs. Everyone just held their breath in the dark environment, listening to the sounds coming from below intermittently, but getting closer and closer.
Just when Fang Yu started to worry, Alyssa's deliberately lowered voice came from the communicator: "It's safe down there, you can come over."
Fang Plover looked at the others, motioned to the heavily armored big cat man to stay behind, and then asked Parker to clear the way in front, and also walked in that direction. The stairs going down are not too long, only about ten steps. The structure below is a bit strange, it is a square hall.
The hall was pitch dark, and it was temporarily unclear what was being used below. In fact, the stairs did not lead directly to the hall, but to the first-floor corridor above the hall. When Fang Yu and others came to this place, they understood why Alyssa said this place was safe.
Because the voice came from the hall below——
The other person obviously didn't realize there was someone above him, so the conversation continued at this time.
"Luo Lin, I believe you are loyal to your beliefs, but some fanatics are not." The voice was very hoarse, as if there was something blocked in the throat. With the movement of swallowing, he was slowly and laboriously swallowing. Every word squeezed out.
Just the first name spoken by the voice made Fang Plover pay more attention.
"That person tried to throw away Lord Deluan's power and fight Bahamut on his own. This is really stupid."
"But some people will always be blinded by greed. I even suspect that he has not told us the truth from the beginning."
Fang Plover was greatly surprised.
Who was talking to Rollin? Who is Deluan? He knew that Bahamut was the protector of the dragon, but judging from the other party's tone, the former seemed to have power that was not inferior to that of the dragon god. Could he be one of the Dark Saints?
And who is the person in the other party's mouth who wants to fight against Bahamut on his own? Not to mention that he can't beat Bahamut, but as long as the other party is not so arrogant and dares to go against a real god, there is no way he can do it. You have to have some strength?
There was a light coming from the darkness.
It turns out that the square hall below is a cross-shaped intersection, with a passage at each exit in the southeast and northwest directions. At this moment, the light is coming from the south, gradually outlining the rubble and dust in the hall.
The source of light came from the magic wand in the hand of a rickety old man. When Fang Yu looked at the staggering and trembling old guy, he couldn't help but be shocked. Who is that if he's not the master of potions Pudra?
But how could Pudra become like this? Fang Plover looked at the other person's face that looked pale and aged under the light. The loose skin was covered with criss-crossing wrinkles. Compared with when he was in Vanrick, he seemed to have aged at least twenty years in just one month. .
Moreover, the other party's voice was so unfamiliar that Fang Pliance couldn't believe it.
The young man in front of the old man had the light behind him, so Fang Plover couldn't see clearly what he looked like. But just by looking at his figure and the previous conversation between the two, he could recognize it. It was undoubtedly Luo Lin.
But what was the conversation between these two people about? It seems that the Dragon Cult is not as tight-knit as imagined - Fang Yu couldn't help but have an idea, could this be the reason for the differences between Nicol Bolas and the Dragon Cult?
Light gradually penetrated into the hall, and everyone on the corridor stepped back a little, hiding under the shadow of the railing.
Luo Lin stopped next and said, "Master Pudra, are you afraid that I will reveal these words?"
"You won't reveal it," Pudra looked at the young man, as if to see through it, and sneered: "I know the exchange between you and him. But he can't give you what you want. Things, think about it, will you be tied to a person who is destined to fail?"
Luo Lin remained silent and did not answer.
Pudra continued: "You have paid such a high price, how can your success be entrusted to the hands of an arrogant person? In fact, you know very well that once the time comes to abandon the car and jump ship, you will never hesitate. repeatedly."
Luo Lin turned around, and Fang Plover could see his face clearly - the opponent had not changed much from when he competed with Van Rijk, but his face also looked a little pale whether due to the light or not.
Luo Lin smiled slightly: "Well, I really don't care who I turn to. But how can I believe that you are the one who wins in the end?"
"You don't have to believe it," Pudra replied: "We are not in a hurry to ask you to do anything, you just need to watch. I believe you are a smart person, Luo Lin, and you will make the right choice by then. .”
Luo Lin looked at the old guy and asked word by word: "What do I need to pay?"
Pudra put his hand on his mouth, coughed heavily, raised his head, and replied: "You know what you need to pay, but there is no risk in this matter for you, right? You are invincible. "
"There is nothing in this world without risks," Luo Lin said lightly: "Okay, I understand what you mean -"
As he said this, he raised his hand, covered his heart with his right hand, and maintained this movement, and said: "You want to see if that is true, then I will show it to you."
A black light shone out from the space between his palm and chest.
For a moment, it seemed that even the light of the magic wand in Pudra's hand was suppressed.
Fang Plover stared closely into Luo Lin's eyes. When Luo Lin lowered his eyelids and opened his eyes again, a pair of golden gazes appeared in the darkness.
Just like the preview in Earl Xilin-Spica's manor, Fang Pliong suddenly felt his heart jump heavily, and a burning sting came from the Ring of Golden Flame.
It was like my chest was burning and burning a hole through it.
The feeling was fleeting, and he didn't even have time to pull it away with his hands. The next moment, everything was like an illusion - the ring of golden flames was still coldly attached to his chest.
But at this time, Luo Lin below stopped.
He turned back and looked in a direction - not the direction where Fang Plover and others were - the black light in his hand disappeared, and his pupils returned to their original color. He looked into the darkness in that direction and asked with some confusion:
"Did you hear anything?"
Pudela apparently heard it too.
The old man turned around slowly and pointed in that direction with the light of his magic wand.
Next, Fang Plover also heard it - it was a rustling sound, like countless tiny creatures crawling on the ground. The sound grew from small to loud, from far to near, and soon became clear.
Under the light of the magic wand in Pudra's hand, in the southwest corner of the square hall, a shallow layer of black liquid actually seeped out from under the square tiles on the floor that should have been tightly fitted.
The liquid was growing more and more, occupying an increasingly larger area, and was accompanied by louder and louder rustling sounds - like a swarm of ants, the darkness quickly filled the hall. A corner.
Before Fang Yu could recognize what it was, he heard Luo Lin's somewhat surprised voice below: "Ashes?"
"...Why are they here?"
Before he finished speaking, there was a loud noise under the floor of the hall, like a purple flame bursting out from under the stone bricks. Under the purple firelight, a huge shadow rushed towards Luo Lin and Pudra.
Pudra bore the brunt and was caught by the shadow. He screamed, and his entire upper body burned. The temperature of the purple flame seemed to be extremely high. In just a blink of an eye, the master of potions was reduced to ashes.
Luo Lin obviously did not expect such a situation to happen, but he reacted quite quickly. He only glanced at Pudra who still had a few bones left - immediately stepped back, then turned around and walked towards the way he came without looking back. Escape.
After the purple flame swept through the Potion Master, it turned towards Luo Lin, but Luo Lin retreated in time, and it only hit the entrance of the square hall. Its huge size is much larger than the entrance to the underground hall, and it looks like a flame-like energy form, but it seems to have an entity.
The collision shook the hall, and sand and gravel flew down, but the other party failed to catch Luo Lin.
Fang Plover could see it clearly from the hanging corridor. The flame monster below seemed familiar. Except that it was not in human form, it was somewhat similar to the flame humanoids he had seen fighting Ms. Leya.
He saw with his own eyes how terrifying that thing was. As a dragon knight, Ms. Leya was beaten by three flaming humanoids and could hardly fight back. What's more, the current 'flame monster' is at least several times the size of the three flaming humanoids in terms of size.
Not to mention that when the flame monster appeared, the black liquid that Luo Lin called 'ashes' did not disappear. In fact, it was gushing out from the place where the flame monster appeared like a black spring.
And they actually made a 'buzz' sound, suddenly flapped their wings and flew up, aiming directly at Fang Plover and his group.
Fang Yu was horrified. It turned out that those tiny black 'liquids' were actually countless insects that were too dense to be counted. As for what they were doing by rushing towards them? Certainly not here to welcome them.
Fang Yu immediately summoned the powerful angel without thinking and asked it to open a blue absolute shield.
Black bugs rushed straight from the sky, hitting the blue shield like gravel. The indestructible light blue absolute shield actually shone with a blazing white light that was almost like lightning and thunder under the impact.
Fang Plover only saw that the core mana of his powerful angel was falling off a cliff in a straight line.
"What the hell is this!" Parker was so frightened that his voice changed - because he was in the same team, others could obviously see the current state of Angel Fang.
Fang Yu didn't even look back. He pushed Sylvide behind him with his backhand and shouted: "Run——!"
The light blue shield flashed and then disappeared.
Black bugs all over the sky pounced on the angel, and a purple-black flame immediately appeared on its body, and the solid alloy flowed down from the angel's body like melted wax.
In the blink of an eye, an expensive alien sword wielder was reduced to broken and incomplete parts.
When Fang Yu saw this scene, he didn't dare to neglect, so he immediately summoned the second powerful angel and opened the shield again.
He didn't dare to look back, not knowing whether the others had obeyed his orders and escaped from the hall. But after he opened his shield, he turned around and prepared to evacuate. He even took out a fire giant and prepared to blow up the passage.
But just after taking a step back and inputting the closed-loop command into the efreet, Fang Yu suddenly felt a purple light flash out of the corner of his eye.
A huge force came from behind, and the hanging corridor instantly made a loud sound of falling apart and collapsed. Fang Yu only felt that he was flying up under the huge impact.
In the midst of the whirlwind, he seemed to vaguely hear two exclamations coming from that direction, including Sylvide's voice.
Only then did Fang Yu realize that it was the purple flame monster. His attention was completely focused on the black bugs, but he forgot that the monster turned its target towards him after chasing Luo Lin.
Then he fell heavily to the ground. The clockwork fairy in his hand couldn't hold it firmly and fell out.
The closed-loop command in the flying fire giant automatically took effect. The moment it touched the first object, bright fire exploded. And the purple light was falling from mid-air, and it happened to be caught in the flames.
The shock wave generated by the explosion once again blew Fang Plover away - Fang Plover activated the unstable mode of his newly acquired shield device at the critical moment, and a shallow arc of light saved his life at the last moment. .
He only felt that he had hit something, but under the buffering effect of the shield, he seemed to have fallen into a ball of soft cotton. Then it bounced down again before making heavy contact with the ground.
But this contact would only make him bruised and swollen at most, but it would not kill him.
He raised his head and saw the purple flame once again turning towards the direction of Attila and Sylvester among the smoke and dust. Without thinking, he immediately took out an efreet and threw it at the opponent.
Another explosion.
In the closed underground environment, the explosion shook Fang Plover's internal organs, his ears were buzzing, and his eyes were numb. But it was all worth it, because he saw that after the smoke of the explosion, the purple flame monster finally turned towards him.
Without even thinking about it, Fang Plover got up, staggered and ran away in one direction. At this moment, he had fallen into the hall below. As for losing his sense of direction in the explosion before, he couldn't tell the direction for a while, so he could only escape in the direction he thought was safest.
But before he could take two steps, he couldn't help but scream in pain.
Because behind the smoke and dust ahead, there is a dead end.
Fang Plover immediately turned around, but after turning around, he froze in place. It turned out that the purple flame monster had already caught up and blocked his path from behind. The opponent was huge, giving him no room to escape from the left or right.
Fang Plover could only retreat, and soon his back was against the cold wall. He looked up nervously, and then he saw clearly the true appearance of the giant flame monster not far away from him——
It turned out to be a dragon.
Or rather, a dragon that has shrunk in size. But it was very different from the Nicol Bolas, Toragotos and even Milleuthymis in his impression - the biggest difference was that the other party had seven horns and three eyes.
The one in the middle opens and closes from time to time as the flame changes, giving people an elusive feeling.
But Fang Yu was not sure why he encountered the same monster as he had seen in the Hall of Thousand Doors in this place, and what exactly this purple flame was, Anlose was vague to him at that time.
All he said was that they were nightmares.
But what the nightmare is, Fang Plover has no idea.
The dragon-shaped monster was approaching step by step, and its heavy steps seemed to knock on his heart. But the monster didn't seem to be in a hurry to kill him, otherwise with the agility shown by the other party - he would have followed Pudra's footsteps before on the hanging corridor.
Fang Yu swallowed his saliva, subconsciously picked up the crystal, and whispered: "I can't escape, don't look back, try to minimize the loss... We'll see you on the ship."
"Ed."
That was Sylvide's voice.
But Fang Yu didn't dare to answer. In fact, he was holding his breath so nervously that his throat was making a gurgling sound. Because the flaming dragon-like monster suddenly lowered its head and was close to his chest - to be precise, it was right near the ring of golden flames.
Fang Yu subconsciously took a step back, even though he was already pressed against the wall, almost unable to retreat. But when he exerted force on his back, he heard a soft "click" sound.
The sound was so clear in the dark underground.
At that moment, Fang Plover seemed to be blessed and realized what was behind him - he found what they had failed to find before, the secret door marked on the map.
It's here.
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