Fang Plover's figure moved, immediately triggering a chain attack of purple flames.
But when he turned the secret door behind him, his head hit the rotating stone door shaft. Fang Yu felt a huge earthquake behind him, and he lost his footing and fell into the darkness in front of him.
There were several steps behind the door, but he missed them and fell down hard. Fortunately, the steps were not too high and he only suffered some superficial injuries.
The thing was still banging against the door outside, causing the earth to shake in the darkness. There was a sound of dust falling above his head, and Fang Plover could only feel the gravel pouring into his neck and collar.
He coughed twice, got up from the ground, and without caring about the dust, he quickly took out a crystal from his arms and held the lower end firmly.
The dim light of the magic furnace lit up the environment, and the surrounding space seemed to be quite narrow. Then the crystal in his hand also emitted bright soft light. He turned the crystal behind him, illuminating the stone door in that direction.
Every impact outside caused the heavy stone door to shake violently, and a layer of gray mist rose up on the surrounding walls. It's just that the stone door is nearly two meters thick and was completely unscathed by the impact.
Fang Luo raised the crystal and looked carefully at the four corners of the stone door. He saw that the black bugs under the cracks had no intention of penetrating in, and then he completely relaxed.
But he didn't dare to stay longer, turned around, and the light of the crystal in his hand extended towards the depths of darkness - using the light crystal requires injecting magic power, and there are concerns about detecting spells, but deep underground, there is no such concern too much.
There seemed to be a corridor in front of him. The corridor was only as tall as him. Even he had to be slightly shorter to avoid touching his head. The corridor was only as wide as three people on the left and right.
I don’t know what direction this corridor leads to.
There was a secret passage behind the secret door. This was not beyond his expectation, but Fang Yu suddenly remembered:
The previous hall was originally under the stairs, one level deeper than the tunnel above. There is no height difference marked on the log. If the secret door above is on this level, does that mean there is actually a deeper dungeon below Idos?
The thing outside the door has not left yet, and vibrations are coming from behind. However, after walking for a while, the vibrations have gradually weakened. Fang Yu's nervous mood gradually calmed down. Then he remembered something and hurriedly took out his communication crystal - but he immediately discovered that the communication crystal was broken in the previous impact or there was something underground. What kind of magic ban can't be lit?
Fang Yu was startled for a moment, and quickly opened the Selector System. A window with a faint fluorescence appeared in his field of vision as expected, showing his physical signs. His condition was relatively stable, but he suffered some contusions.
The system can still be used, but the community cannot be opened.
"What's going on, Miss Tata?"
"The crystal is not damaged, but the communication seems to be interfered with, Mr. Knight." Tata emerged from his shoulder, with a lazy look on her face, and several pages of windows flashed past her green eyes. , and then answered.
His tone was as calm as boiled water.
Fang Yu couldn't help but complain: "This otherworld communication is really difficult to use, and the charges are so expensive."
"Papa."
After some tossing, Nini also woke up and reached out for him to hug.
But Fang Yu was not in the mood to pay attention to the little girl, so he only said a few perfunctory words to her, making the latter look extremely aggrieved.
The corridor ahead seemed to be endless. Fang Plover was a little worried and summoned an angel to block the front. Tata kept checking the communication status on his shoulder and didn't speak for a moment. There was an unusual silence between the two.
Nini probably realized that her 'sister' and 'Papa' had something serious to do, so she lowered her head and fiddled with the corners of her clothes with her hands, obediently and quietly.
I don’t know how long I walked, but Tata blinked her long eyelashes lightly and suddenly said: "Okay."
By what she said, she meant that communication had been restored, but only to the extent that the community could be opened, and Silvid and Attila were still unable to be contacted. And even then, it was intermittent.
It feels like the interference to communication has weakened a bit, but it's still there.
Fang Yu was picking up the diary and comparing it with the map under the light of the crystal. The corridor on the map also extended forward. In fact, the direction was exactly the way they came, which meant that he might be directly below the road they came from.
If Sylvide and the others had escaped, they might still be on top of him right now.
However, Fang Plover had no idea of shouting upwards, not to mention whether it could be transmitted up through the thick rock top, and who knew whether something terrible would be revealed in the darkness ahead.
After the previous encounter, he no longer dared to underestimate this place. What was the 'nightmare' and why was it here. What are the 'ashes' and why are they together with that purple flame?
God knows what lies beneath Idus.
But at this moment, Nini, who had always been obedient and quiet, suddenly raised her head and said to him in a sweet voice: "Papa, Ge."
Fang Plover was slightly startled.
"Papa, sing." Nini said again.
Fang Yu heard it clearly and couldn't help but smile bitterly. He was not in the mood to sing at the moment. But he suddenly realized that Nini had never heard him sing before. She had only heard Tian Lan sing. How could she suddenly let him sing?
"Nini," Fang Yu couldn't help but ask, "Did you hear anything?"
Nini nodded seriously, put her hands next to her pointed ears, making a 'listening' gesture, and then said to him: "Tianlan, sing."
Why is Tianlan here? Fang Yu was full of doubts and looked at Tata, but the latter shook his head - Tata is a fairy dragon soul, and his perception ability is much inferior to that of Nini. At best, he is on the same level as him.
He looked ahead again, and once again slowed down his pace and walked forward. The angel could lightly open the way in front, making less noise than he did.
After walking about a hundred meters - Fang Plover estimated by himself, he finally vaguely heard the 'singing'. It was a timeless and long song, with a thin and melodious voice, completely unlike Tianlan's tone-deaf voice.
Only then did Fang Yu realize that Nini had only heard Tianlan sing, so she probably thought that only Tianlan could sing, which was why there was such a misunderstanding.
The singing voice came from afar, not loud, but very clear, as if lingering in people's minds. It was almost like the song of the legendary siren, but this song did not make people ecstatic. After listening to it for a while, Fang Pliance simply thought it sounded pleasant.
He then continued walking in that direction. It was strange to say that as he gradually approached the source of the singing, the voice did not rise much, as if the singer was gradually lowering his singing voice as he approached.
After a few more steps, the front suddenly opens up.
Fang Yu saw a hall that was almost exactly the same as the previous square hall, except that there was a skylight embedded above the hall, and a soft white light fell from the window hole, reflecting a rock in the center of the hall.
The huge rock was originally part of the broken ceiling above the hall, and now it stood alone in the center of the hall.
Under the soft light, Fang Yu looked at a girl wearing a linen robe, sitting half on the rock, holding one hand on her chest, closing her eyes, and singing softly with her mouth open. She has a very unique long ebony hair, which is like a dark waterfall, hanging down from her slender neck to her snow-white feet.
Fang Plover walked into the hall and seemed to alarm the girl. She turned around and her long eyelashes blinked slightly - but Fang Plover could see clearly that the other party still had her eyes closed and was looking in this direction.
"Yao Xiude, is that you?"
The girl asked, her voice as beautiful as her singing voice.
Fang Yu was startled for a moment, asked Xiude, was he talking about the legendary dragon-slaying hero? He was hesitating whether to speak, but the girl suddenly reacted. She couldn't help but chuckle, and her laughter was like a string of silver bells falling to the ground: "It turns out it's not Yue Xiude - I'm sorry, I'm waiting here. People have been waiting for a long time, and every time someone comes, I get the wrong person again.”
Fang Yu looked at the other person's closed eyes and thought that she couldn't see. He couldn't help but feel a pity that the girl was blind.
But he immediately realized that what he should be concerned about shouldn't be this. Who is the other party and why is he deep underground? She said every time someone came, she would get the wrong person again.
Does this mean that he is not the only one who has been here?
He couldn't help but look up at the skylight above the hall. Where did the light above come from? Is the surface of Idos outside? But it doesn't quite look like it. Not to mention that this place should be at the same depth as the hall outside, and it should also be night on the ground in Idos right now?
He calmed down and looked at the girl.
The girl's appearance is somewhat pretty, and combined with her long eyelashes and closed eyes, she gives people a feeling of weakness. But when Fang Yu looked carefully, he vaguely felt that the other party's appearance seemed to be somewhat similar to Sylvide.
He couldn't help but rub his eyes, wondering if he had seen it wrong. The feeling was not obvious, but more like a psychological suggestion, fleeting.
"Are you waiting for someone here?" he asked.
The girl nodded.
"Is the person you are waiting for named Yue Xiude?" he asked again.
"Yes, have you seen him?" The girl's voice was slightly surprised: "He asked me to wait for him here, but I waited for a long time, and he never came back. I don't know how long I have to wait, can you Tell me where he is?"
Fang Yu was a little surprised. He thought to himself that this girl was a ghost from the era of the Dragon Witch? But the ghost should be afraid of light, and the other party doesn't feel like a spirit at all. It's a pity that he doesn't have any means of detecting the undead, and he has no way of knowing this by looking at the other party from a distance.
He took a few steps closer and asked: "I do know a Yoshid - but he has been away from here for a long time. He is the dragon-slaying hero of Kaolin-Ithurian. The Yoshid you know?" Is he such a person?"
The girl was slightly startled: "Dragon-slaying hero? Others have told me so. It turns out that he really became a hero after leaving here. But did he tell you when he would come back?"
Fang Yu listened more and more strangely, and she was filled with doubts - others had also told her so, could it be that many people had really been to this place? But didn't those people tell her that Yue Xiude had passed away for more than seventy years?
He thought for a moment before replying: "If you are really talking about this dragon-slaying hero, then he can't come back. As far as I know, he has been dead for many years, and I have never even seen this dragon-slaying hero." The heroic side of slaying dragons.”
The girl couldn't help but laugh: "You are wrong, Yossiude will not die. He hasn't come back to me yet. He always does what he says. Since you know that he is a hero, you should know it very well. That’s it.”
Fang Yu couldn't help but be speechless. This logic was very good and powerful.
However, there was a faint feeling in his heart - he had probably determined that this girl must be a ghost who died in the Dragon Witch disaster. She might have had a certain relationship with Yu Xiude during her lifetime, and she had been waiting here for the dragon-slaying hero. Come back to her.
But the world outside is changing, and the once prosperous city has long been turned into ruins under the gravel. In a hundred years, even the legendary hero himself has long been turned into a withered skeleton. Only his sword is left, and he sits quietly on the Dragon Knight structure on top of the Vanrick Spire——
Still telling the story of the past.
And this girl, in the ruins under the sand, is waiting forever for the end of that story. Maybe she doesn't even know the fact that she is dead, right?
"Kind stranger," the girl closed her eyes and asked again: "I've been waiting down here for a long time. I don't know when it became like this. I'm not afraid, but can you please Do me a favor?"
Fang Yu raised his head, looked at the other party and asked, "What help do you need?"
The girl pressed her belly with her hand, a little embarrassed on her face: "I seem to have not eaten for a long time. Can you give me some food first?"
Fang Yu was slightly startled. Does the ghost also need to eat? However, he saw that the girl didn't look like she was being fake, so he groped around for a while. He actually didn't have anything to eat, only a few emergency biscuits.
He took out the biscuits, but the girl immediately got off the rock as if she didn't mind. Fang Yu looked carefully and found that the other party actually left a series of footprints - she walked on the dust with bare feet, but not a trace of dust was stained.
The girl took the biscuit from his hand, held it up and bit off a small corner. Then, as if remembering something, she raised her head and thanked him.
She said: "I haven't eaten for a long time, about two or three days...? If I hadn't met you, I really don't know what I would have done."
Fang Yu was filled with surprise. When he handed the biscuit to the other party, he felt that the girl's hand was tangible when he touched it - although it was ice cold, there was still a hint of warmth. This completely overturned his previous assumptions.
Could this really be a living person?
But how is this possible? Who can wait underground for a century? Even if she can live that long, she should have realized what happened outside, right? This is a bit too ridiculous.
It was at this time that Fang Plover heard Tata's voice first:
"Mr. Knight, communication has been restored."
Fang was stunned for a moment, and Miss Tata added: "It's just that the communication crystal still can't contact Miss Atila, but we should be able to send information through the community."
This was an unexpected surprise. He couldn't help but look at the girl in front of him who was chewing the biscuit in her hand carefully. The latter looked like a treasure, as if she had never eaten such a delicious thing - even though it was just an ordinary compressed biscuit.
And born out of elf craftsmanship.
Fang Yu felt vaguely that this place was a bit strange.
He looked at the square hall again and confirmed that it was exactly the same shape as the hall outside, except for the skylight above his head. It’s just that we don’t know what is outside the skylight.
He resisted the urge to take out the Clockwork Goblin and check it out. And just as communication was restored in the community, he could find a way to contact other people, report the situation here, and see if Jita and Sylvide had heard of the current situation.
At least, of course, he didn't completely trust the self-introduction of the girl in front of him. After all, the other party appeared too weird——
Seeing that the girl was not paying attention to him, he quietly opened the selector system and entered the community. Tian Lan, Luo Yu, Jita and Xiang Xiang naturally have their own IDs in the community. Even Parker, who has been hanging out in the Chinese competition area, has registered one. Naturally, everyone has already added friends.
But before Fang Yu opened the friend bar, he was startled for a moment because after entering the personal center, he found that he had an extra private message from a stranger.
The time on the private message was actually sent half a week ago. Because it was a stranger, it was judged by the system as advertising letterhead and was scanned into the temporary mailbox. Ms. Tata would not read his private messages on weekdays, so she did not find such a letter.
On normal days, Fang Yu would probably turn a blind eye to this kind of 'spam', but after he accidentally glanced at the sender, he couldn't look away. The sender's ID can be said to be very simple, only one letter:
'R'
But just such a letter was enough to make Fang Plover freeze in place.
After he came to Aitalia, he changed his ID twice in the community. One time was when he got the communication crystal for the first time. In order to prevent his identity from being exposed, he gave up his previous ID and registered a new account.
The second time was after the Fenris incident, when the communication crystal was damaged and he had to change his ID.
As for these two IDs, according to his own habit, he immediately sent a friend request to his mysterious teacher in the community - 'R'. Of course, he actually didn't expect the other party to add him at all, because since he last met 'R' on the community about two years ago, the other party has never been online again.
The reason why he sent the friend request was actually just a habitual move. After all, 'R' taught him so many things, and he was quite grateful to him deep down.
If he had the chance, of course he really wanted to see each other again.
But he didn't expect that he would actually see the private message sent to him on the community at this time.
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