The dark crystal lens hangs on the treetops, like a silent eye, staring at the darkness and solitude of the forest - craftsmen call the investigation in this specific environment 'gazing at the darkness'. Combat Craftsmen are among the investigators who are less good at dealing with operations in dark environments. Darkness will reduce the Clockwork Goblin's sight range and detection effect, allowing investigators to ignore more details. Combat craftsmen tend to rely more on vision and are unable to use hearing, smell, or even touch. This is their natural limitation.
But craftsmen also have their own methods, such as adding night vision modules, or increasing the number of investigations within a unit, using quantity to make up for quality. Very few people will choose the former, because the additional modules will reduce the performance of the Clockwork Elf under normal circumstances, take up more computing power, or at the very least, put more unnecessary burden on the alchemist.
Therefore, the twilight alchemist also chose a quantitative strategy. He kept switching between the sights of the seven clockwork fairies, and the darkness and deep woods were as quiet as silence - he could actually release more clockwork fairies, ten Three or fourteen was his limit, but there was no need. At his level, this is not an ability worth showing off, not to mention that after reaching the limit, it is difficult to be distracted and pay attention to the movements in the forest.
He understood that he was just a helper - using seven clockwork goblins to control the area so that the opponent would not dare to move easily, narrowing the area little by little, allowing the 'hunters' in front to capture the target. An excellent combat craftsman should understand the limits of his own abilities and cooperate with his teammates to achieve the greatest effect.
He even assigned two clockwork goblins to monitor Sakon to prevent unexpected opponents from entering the area. In the forest, the airspace below the tree canopy is a battleground for combat craftsmen. If you fly too high, you will easily find it. If you fly too low, you will easily get entangled in the shrubs. Unless someone can fly under the canopy, However, the alchemists of the Twilight Guild felt that such a person should not exist.
But what he thought didn't exist was now like a ghost passing through the gaps between the branches and leaves, like three silent eyes passing over the forest floor. In fact, if necessary, Fang Plover could not even lower the Clockwork Fairy to the height of the bush level in the wide field of view mode, but it was just not necessary - he could not think of any other meaning besides showing off his skills.
He still calls himself a pragmatist.
The forest under the night appeared in the field of vision of the silver bee swarm through the light crystal module, as bright as noon. The little added calculation amount was almost non-existent for Fang Plover. He even easily saw the reflection of the Clockwork Fairy hovering under the treetops. The color was a little light under the low-light night vision environment, but he could still distinguish the material of its shell.
There are people fighting in the forest——
Naturally, it is impossible for the battle craftsman to release the clockwork goblins for no reason, and the opponent's clockwork goblins did not notice them, which means that there is a third party in this forest that is opposed to the battle craftsman. Finding a clockwork goblin may not be a big deal, but Fang Plover knows that the movements of clockwork goblins are regular - they mostly center on one point and spread to all directions, depending on the search habits of different combat craftsmen. Certainly.
Even Fang Plover himself has his own habits, but his wide-field mode search and his alertness make it difficult for him not to notice the other party when his clockwork fairy is discovered. Fang Plover let his swarm disperse, and at a very comfortable position, about a hundred meters away, he discovered the second clockwork goblin. Ordinary - Fang Yu thought to himself, at least this person's method of using Clockwork Fairy is typical of academics. It's not that academics are bad, but generally speaking, it's easy to guess the intention if you don't have anything of your own.
He couldn't make such an evaluation in the past - at that time he didn't even know what school he belonged to, but things are different now, at least in terms of knowledge, he is no longer what he used to be. With the second clockwork fairy, it is easy to find the next one, and even expose the opponent's entire reconnaissance network.
Fang Plover did the same thing.
The three silver bees spread out counterclockwise silently, capturing every node on this network one by one. It sounds like a long time, but in fact it only takes about ten seconds.
Soon, he saw another target - a nightingale lurking in the bushes. Judging from the figure, she was a woman. Because her face was covered, she could not tell her age. The weapon was a long or short sword. Most people who use such weapons He is a professional wanderer - also known as a night thief. This is a very common branch of the setting system among nightingales. It specializes in setting traps and can open doors and pick locks.
The night thieves did not have as many fancy abilities as the shadow-type nightingales, but they had the keenest perception among the nightingales. She even noticed the clockwork fairy of Fang Plover, raised her head and cast a glance between the dark canopy.
She asked in a hoarse voice: "I seem to hear something?"
But it would be too difficult for the alchemist to use the clockwork fairy to see something in the layered tree canopy a hundred meters away. The alchemist complained, raised a clockwork goblin into the air, and looked around for a week, but found nothing.
"Nothing, maybe a bat or a night owl," he replied: "Don't be distracted, the target may be just ahead."
Fang Plover let his swarm fly a little higher. He was a little surprised by the other party's keenness - but when the woman spoke, he recognized that it was the owner of the previous voice. It seemed that the other party was searching for someone, or someone. some people.
But what really surprised him was the attire of the other party. This was not the first time he had seen the style of that shirt - "A person from the Twilight Guild?" Fang Yu was slightly startled. He had preconceived suspicions about these people and could not help but associate them with what had happened before.
What do ordinary people do here at a time like this? And looking at the other party's configuration, it's not just a temporary move like theirs.
Fang Plover instantly recovered his mind, turned around, and made a gesture to lower his voice to the big cat man and Jita. Then he made gestures and said: "The people in Dusk, I don't think they are doing anything good. Let's sneak over to take a look at the situation. There is a combat craftsman and a night thief over there."
The big cat man also asked him with gestures: "How do the combat craftsmen solve it?"
"The opponent may not be on the front line, so it is unrealistic to find him. The combat craftsman's control range can be as far as several thousand meters away. We can cut in from his blind spot, but it is really a troublesome to get close. I'm afraid You have to attract the other person’s attention.”
Fang Plover replied that they were not clockwork fairies after all - they could not fly.
But Jita took a gentle breath and whispered: "I may have a way."
"What did you say, Jita?" Her voice was so soft that Fang Pulver couldn't hear her clearly at the first time.
"I said I have a way, Brother Ed."
"Then give it a try, Kitta."
Miss Scholar nodded, opened her magic book, and held it up with a small hand. An invisible wind surrounded the silver book, making it float in mid-air.
She pressed one hand on the page, read out a few syllables that seemed obscure to others, and then pointed forward:
"... When we passed through the mountains of the Talon region, we saw such strange creatures. They were both rocks and living beings, and even a strange ecology...
——684, 1, 10, "Ecology of the Talon Region"
In Jita's soft description, in the direction pointed by her snow-white fingertips, the forest shook. A piece of gray-white rock shook off the soil and roots, climbed up from the ground, and gradually It looks like a tall rock puppet. The movement behind obviously attracted the attention of those in front - although the battle craftsmen could not hear what was going on on the battlefield, the nightingale had already reacted first.
"What happens next?"
She said loudly in the communication crystal.
"What direction?"
"Southeast of me."
The alchemist immediately separated a clockwork goblin and flew in that direction. Seeing this, Fang Plover immediately pulled the scholar and the big cat man into the bushes, and quietly moved towards the north.
The gray-white rock giant that came into view obviously attracted all the alchemist's attention, preventing him from paying attention to the situation in the bushes on the other side of the river.
Just a moment later, his somewhat unexpected voice came from the crystal: "A rock giant, be careful, Ruin, it's near you. How did you provoke this thing?"
"Be silent," the voice of the ranger who had been silent came from the crystal. He straightened up from the branch where he had been hiding, raised his long bow, and shot an arrow at the gray-white rock giant. But the arrow missed a lot and hit a big tree not far from the rock giant.
Jita didn't expect that there was a ranger hiding there. When she saw this scene, she subconsciously moved her little hand on the page, but Fang Yu had already held her hand down:
"Don't move, he's testing you."
"Rock giants are a very special elemental creature. They themselves have no ability to perceive the outside world, but they live in symbiosis with a kind of winged lizard. Through a special connection between the two, they can feel everything around them."
"The winged lizard has poor eyesight and hearing, and relies on its sensitive sense of smell to move. If you had just moved, it would have exposed the fact that this rock giant was summoned by humans."
Fang Plover said in a low voice.
Jita blushed a little. It wasn't that she didn't know this, but she just didn't react for a moment. "I'm sorry, Brother Ed."
"No need to say sorry," Fang Plover shook his head, "It's perfect to think of summoning rock giants in this place. Goblins, winged lizards and tree people often appear in the same area, and they won't doubt too much."
"But my magic power can't last long."
"That's enough."
The tree man's ranger looked at the rock giant, Hecai put down the long bow in his hand, and said to the two people on the other side of the crystal: "I will deal with this thing. You continue to keep an eye on the target and don't expose it."
After that, he jumped down from the tree, raised his bow again, and shot an arrow at the rock giant. The arrow missed again and hit the rock giant's chest. The latter's huge figure swayed slightly, and several winged lizards climbed up from behind it and stopped on the shoulders of the giant.
The ranger was completely relieved when he saw those winged lizards. Some elementalists can summon these elemental creatures, but they cannot summon the winged lizards that live with them. He put his hand to his mouth, blew a loud whistle in that direction, and then stepped back.
This thing was rough-skinned and thick-flesh, and he had no intention of wasting his arrows on it. He just needed to lure it away from this area.
…
While the other party was attracting attention to the rock giant, Fang Plover and the big cat man had already waded across the river. He left Miss Scholar in the bushes on the river bank and told her not to make a sound no matter what.
Jita nodded obediently, and Fang Plover and Red continued to sneak in that direction, one from the south to the other from the north.
However, after sneaking for a while, he stopped and looked up to the north. Within a moment, he could no longer see the shadow of the big cat man in that direction. Fang Plover turned over and hid under a huge dead tree. He pressed his hand on the information crystal and projected three dragon hunters.
But he was in no hurry to attack.
Because he was only suspicious of the other party, but he did not rule out the possibility that the other party had the same purpose as them.
At the other end of the forest, the moment the twilight ranger blew his whistle, Alice could no longer calm down. Although the appearance of the rock giant was somewhat coincidental, she could only believe that it was a coincidence at the moment. There were only two people left. If she couldn't seize this opportunity, she couldn't think of a better opportunity.
She took out a black crystal and threw it in one direction. The crystal turned into a smoke in mid-air, forming a humanoid shape.
At the same time, Alice suddenly rushed out of her hiding place and ran out in the opposite direction. But as soon as she moved, a figure flew toward her in the darkness.
Alice turned around in shock, and was thrown to the ground by the shadow, "I've got you, little kitten!" The nightingale from the Twilight Guild yelled, but before her voice fell, she saw the girl in her hands. Disintegrated into a cloud of smoke.
Only then did the other party realize that they had been deceived, and when they turned around, they saw Alice jumping up from the bushes and getting further and further away from her.
But Alice had not run a few steps when she suddenly felt the air beneath her feet. She reacted quickly, reached out and grabbed the aerial roots of a nearby giant tree and swung into the air.
It was just at this moment that a net came across in mid-air, wrapping her up tightly.
She felt a huge force coming from her feet, pulling her upwards, hanging head down in mid-air. In her upside-down vision, Alice saw the gray-faced nightingale walking towards her.
"Kitten, do you think you are the only one who can scheme against people?"
she said with a sneer.
Alice was about to speak, but the other party had already slapped her: "Shut up, I hate the shadow dance system the most."
Alice grunted after being beaten, but knowing that she could not survive, she was still very conscious, so she reached out and pulled out the dagger at her waist, preparing to commit suicide.
But the Nightingale was much higher than her, with sharp hands and eyes. He slapped the dagger out of her hand, then grabbed her hair and pulled her up:
"Don't even think about these little tricks."
"You can't torture me." Alice narrowed her eyes and said calmly.
"This is not torture," the other party replied with a sneer: "The battle between us is not over yet."
"Is it?"
Alice asked rhetorically.
The woman was startled for a moment, and suddenly turned around with a change of expression. However, Alice pressed her other hand lightly on her magic furnace, and the dagger that was knocked out flew backwards like a bolt of lightning. return.
It hit the woman squarely on the back shoulder.
"The dagger is poisonous." Alice reminded the other person kindly.
The woman groaned, kicked her away, pulled out a long dagger with her backhand, and stabbed Alice in the chest.
But Alice didn't struggle. She understood that this was the best result, so she just closed her eyes and waited for death. But the death he imagined did not come, instead he heard the woman's scream.
She opened her eyes somewhat unexpectedly, only to find that the woman was backing away continuously, and the right hand that originally held the dagger had been broken off at the level of her arm. The other person pressed one hand on the broken wound, almost crying from the pain——
And a tall figure, holding a holy sword, with a long mane and a majestic figure, stood in front of her. The owner of that figure even said to her gracefully:
"Miss Alice, long time no see."
"Because of that sweet kiss between you and your sister——"
"Our captain has always been thinking about it."
Alice opened her mouth, and couldn't help but think about how she and her sister had deceived that fool, and her face felt a little hot. But it's not because of shyness, it's probably because of a guilty conscience about being caught.
…
The moment the big cat man saw Alice, Fang Plover had already received the news. In fact, he had already seen the situation over there through the clockwork fairy.
He also didn't expect that they would meet Miss Nightingale's twin sister in this place - he heard that she had been recruited by the military, but why did she appear here?
But considering these things is obviously not the first priority at the moment. The moment the big cat man took action, the opponent's ranger also reacted.
At that moment, Jita's magic power finally couldn't hold on anymore. The rock giant summoned from the book "Ecology of the Talon Region" suddenly fell apart and turned into several rolling gray rocks——
Those winged lizards also turned into specks of light and disappeared into the darkness.
Under the stunned gaze of the ranger, he heard a panicked voice coming from his communication crystal: "...my clockwork goblin...be careful, there are enemies..."
But the notice was a little late.
In the ranger's sight, several slender shadows appeared behind the collapsed rocks. They were raising their guns and aiming in this direction.
The ranger reacted quickly and rolled over into the bushes behind him. In the flickering light of the fire, the bullet hit the spot where he originally stood.
He roughly judged the enemy's direction through this round of shooting, and rolled and hid under a nearby towering ancient tree. But as soon as he stopped, a gentle buzzing sound came from his ears.
A golden thing, no more than the size of a palm, flew in from the outside, hit the ground not far from him, rolled and stopped in front of him.
Clockwork goblin?
The ranger was slightly startled. He had never seen anyone control a clockwork goblin so that it could hit the ground. He subconsciously reached out to the thing, intending to pick it up and throw it out.
But he will soon regret his actions——
There was a loud bang.
Fang Plover looked at a group of golden fireworks rising in the dark forest in that direction from a distance.
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