"Wait a moment."
At the end of the scene where the team members stepped across the gap in space, a deep voice suddenly appeared behind them. Duan Qing, who was about to cross the gap, also stopped and looked back at the man who was gradually walking out of the darkness. The faces of the two players: "Mr. Mephisto, Mr. Sansheng Fish Pond, you haven't left yet?"
"We want to follow you." Mephisto, who took the lead, tidied up his torn black robe, and after a while he coughed and said these words: "Let's go together, and we can still have a relationship with each other. It’s a favor, isn’t it?”
"Ah? Didn't you say before that you have other things to be busy with?" Duan Qing, who stretched out his hand to press the edge of the crack, asked in surprise: "Why did you suddenly change your mind? If you do this, you will get yourself into trouble. It’s suspicious, okay?”
"Have we said this before?" Before Mephisto could answer, the Sansheng Fish Pond on the side let out a burst of silly laughter: "Forget it, just pretend that we said it, then We are going to the same place as you, and we thought about it, it would be much better to go together than to go our separate ways."
"..."
In the jade stone forest where only one person was left, Duan Qing became more and more surprised when he looked at the two people. He looked up and down at the two people and the empty space behind them. After a long time, he broke the silence he kept: "What's going on? Do you really have any ulterior motives?"
"What are you talking about! We are friends! It's a gracious relationship between the rescued and the rescued! Are you worried that we will retaliate against you for our kindness?"
"If it's the Devil's Paradise, then of course it's possible."
Faced with the two people's sworn words, Duan Qing then smiled bitterly and shook his head: "But whatever, if you really have any evil intentions, we didn't even have the chance to open this space rift just now."
"Ha, we didn't expect you to easily break through this Enchat barrier. This is our...ahem, the proud work of their magic empire." Sansheng Yutang cleared his throat and expressed his ridicule. Zhiyan: "And we didn't expect you to stay at the end of the team - we didn't expect you to value the safety of the Qingling Adventure Team so much."
"If you don't stay at the end, what if this space rift is accidentally closed?" Duan Qing rolled his eyes and replied angrily: "I am the only magician in our team, so I can only stay. Maintaining the operation of the passage——Hey, if it were in our Free City, we would charge at least 50 gold coins to open the door!"
"I understand, you want money, right?" Mephisto nodded and reached into his arms, seemingly groping for something: "One hundred gold coins should be enough for two people, right?"
"Hey, hey, I was just joking, but you actually took it seriously." Looking at the money bag that the other party then handed to him, Duan Qing smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Forget it, the first time is a free service. Come on, come over here quickly."
"……snort."
With the last cold snort, Mephisto took the lead in crossing the boundary of the rift: "In that case, we are not welcome."
"Hey, I saved 100 gold coins... you are quite a nice person." The footsteps following his vice-president paused for a moment, and Sansheng Fish Soup raised his head just before he was about to cross the rift in space. , and met Duan Qing who was waiting at a close distance: "In this case..."
"Huh? What's wrong?" His hesitation caught Duan Qing's attention: "Speak directly if you have anything to say."
"No, it's nothing." Putting away the sigh on his face, Sansheng Yutang put the unbeatable expression on his face again: "Although there is no charge, your service attitude must be normal. As a surveyor, if something unexpected happens and we fail to pass this barrier... Oops!"
"Come in quickly." He kicked the opponent into the space rift. Duan Qing then crossed the space rift that was about to disappear: "Return to the service attitude... If I hadn't thought that you were still a wounded person, I would have killed you You forced it inside."
The feeling of drowsiness and dim light enveloped Duan Qing at the same time, becoming his last
The first feeling after crossing the barrier, the gray-robed magician looked back at the edge of the barrier that had returned to its original state and was no different from usual, and then focused his attention again on the present - among the stone forests still standing everywhere, if Numerous, large and small man-made buildings gradually appeared under the dim sky. Although they looked very simple, countless broken walls and magic devices of different shapes, entangled around the emerald stone pillars, were still shrouded in the dark yellow sky. There was a strange radiance underneath: "...What's going on?"
"You are finally here." Snow Spirit Huanbing, who was the first to pass through the barrier, then issued his own response. Duan Qing turned his head and saw that Nina, who was the first to enter the barrier together, was also attracted by her. Protecting himself behind him, he formed a front with Asahi Dongsheng and Goldman to vaguely confront the Demon Paradise duo who had just entered: "We thought you were plotted by these two people."
"Seeing that you are so calm, I'll just assume that's what you think." Duan Qing, who closed his open arms and stepped forward, sighed and replied, "They claim they have no ill intentions and just want to be with us. Forward."
"I didn't make it clear just now, why did you wait until you were alone?" His explanation aroused Asahi Dongsheng's suspicion: "With all due respect, based on my many years of experience in plotting against others, it's strange that this XX has no evil intentions in his heart. !」
"Okay, okay, don't get excited." After walking into the air between the two parties, Duan Qing stretched out his hand to calm down the inexplicably tense atmosphere: "They are not from our team. They can go wherever they want. Can we take care of it?"
"Then why do you want to borrow the road we opened?" Gedman, holding a shield in front of him, snorted and asked: "Also, why don't they even know how to pass through the barrier of their old club? They said Are every word of what you said true?"
"I know you have a lot of doubts in your hearts, but it's really troublesome to explain one by one." Raising his hands, Mephisto smiled and lowered his eyebrows again: "You just need to know, We who have been designated as traitors cannot enter the barrier at will, otherwise it will cause great trouble. In addition-"
"Look at what's in front of you. Don't you think the scenes in front of you are more suspicious than us?"
The black-robed magician pointed in front of everyone, and at the same time let out a burst of weird laughter. Xueling Huanbing, who was the first to put away his weapon, then looked towards the depths of the stone forest in front, and his eyes were also filled with countless strange large and small fortifications and The dim sky above shifted back and forth: "...Indeed, it looks a bit weird here."
"There is no need to doubt that this is caused by the barrier." Sansheng Yutang, who was responsible for the explanation, also covered his wounds that had not fully healed and walked aside: "The appearance inside the barrier will make anyone who is new here a little surprised. , once you get used to it, you won’t be surprised.”
"Including this sky, is it also caused by the effect of the barrier?" He asked this sentence in surprise. Duan Qing then seemed to sense something, and his eyes suddenly shifted from the posture of looking up to his feet: "Wait a minute, the ley lines here are flowing—"
"It seems a little strange."
Under the feet of several people, the ground that originally looked extremely desolate and barren because it had lost the camouflage of vegetation has now been "stretched" into torn shapes, and colorful magic threads are now densely covered in these cracks. Under the land, the entire ground was illuminated like a buried aurora neon light.
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"How about it?"
After a period of time, in the Emerald Forest barrier, the sound of conversations that were deliberately suppressed due to concealment quietly appeared in a corner of the edge of the barrier, and several temporarily selected hidden gathering points around the open space between several stone pillars also appeared one after another. The lurking figures looked like they had just reunited from all directions: "What did you detect?"
"There are indeed many things hidden here, and it is not empty." Pointing in the direction he came from, Gedmane dragged the heavy armor and showed a helpless smile: "My outfit is really not suitable. Sneaking, so it’s just a long way away
Yuan observed it for a while, but he didn't know if he was discovered by the other party. "
"If there isn't anything fishy on the ground under our feet, they probably won't notice you." The gray-robed magician who has been waiting here to be responsible for Nina's protection and land research didn't even raise his head: "But I didn't expect that there are actually people working here."
"It looks like there aren't many people there, and they seem to be busy with something." He carefully ensured that he didn't make too much noise, and the voice of Gedman, who was approaching, couldn't help but lower his voice a lot: "The ones built next to the emerald stone pillars are used. Devices and tools, and of course, those small buildings, should be used for work or rest.”
"They are small camps built around the mine, right?" Duan Qing pressed his hands on the ground and continued to emit a faint light. Duan Qing replied in a low voice without raising his head: "This should be their large-scale camp." Mine, and the resources that need to be taken are these jade."
"For the time being, we can think of this as the source of the Magic Empire's acquisition of protective gems."
Observing the left and right here carefully, Goldman finally set his sights on the surface of the stone pillar closest to him, which at this time had become as rugged as the surface of the moon: "Their strategy is quite smart, leaving an outermost layer. The surface layer is used for camouflage, and then the outer part is hollowed out first, and the grass on the edge of the nest is kept for later eating - the further you go in, the more complete the remaining jadeite pillar mineral spots will be."
"The premise is that the information they told us is true." Duan Qing, who lowered his head, did not make any other move, but the topic was pointed to the side. Gedman also turned his head to look, his eyes following Duan Qing's gestures and Not far away, two people from Devil's Paradise, who were hiding in a corner, met and said, "You lack trust in these two, and the results of your own investigation are unknowingly close to the information they provided... Sigh."
"Even if you are doing useless work, the intelligence information you verify is much better than easily believing their one-sided words." Xue Linghuan Bing, who also returned to this hiding place at some point, put down his giant sword, replied expressionlessly Said: "And through this level of investigation, we can at least find a safer route."
"Wait a moment, the magic analysis will be over soon." Duan Qing nodded his head at the returning woman, and then suppressed his smile: "Although we can't detect anything specific in a short time, But the basic conclusion can still be drawn: this should be the source of the magic disorder in this area."
"If you want to cast magic here, I'm afraid you'll encounter big obstacles."
The glimmer of light on his hand finally slowly dissipated, and the gray-robed magician completed his work. He tried to surround a magical bright moon between his palms, but the obvious lack of control made the bright moon become... He was much calmer: "Well, if we can't receive the signal for a while, won't our broadcast be impossible?"
"Still thinking about your game?" As expected, his words were scolded by Goldman: "You can rush out now and take a free flight back to the city! There is no obstacle over there!"
"Don't get excited. Getting excited won't solve the problem." The sound of footsteps came from behind him, and the figure of Asahi Dongsheng also returned here carrying a long knife: "There are not many people in charge of the investigation direction over there. Most of them We were all having a great time mining in a far away place, and we didn’t notice at all—or rather, we didn’t expect that there were intruders like us here.”
"Don't forget that we let go of a group of informants, and the retribution may come soon." Gedman replied angrily: "Forget it about those who were leisurely, even the information we brought back was For the useless things we know, can you make a small contribution and bring back something useful?"
"Humph." Unexpectedly, his sarcasm did not receive a counterattack from Asahi Dongsheng. Instead, he chuckled proudly: "Who said I didn't work? What I found back this time must be several times better than yours." All of them are awesome!"
He put on a celebratory posture as if he had accomplished a feat, and at the same time threw a few things in his bag to the ground in front of everyone. Things that looked like broken parts followed.
The ground rolled a few times, and the colorful light that blocked the ground also flashed back and forth in everyone's confused eyes: "This is -"
"I found it over there." Pointing in the direction he came from, Asahi Dongsheng replied lazily: "There is still a patch of battlefield remnants that have not been completely cleaned. These things are lying there. Look. It’s really desolate to go up there.”
"..."
As if he got a hint from the other party's words, Duan Qing took the lead in inspecting these broken parts, and his expression gradually became serious: "These things... are fragments of the devil."
"It must have been left behind by Romulus."
