Deep in the desert, in the forbidden land of death, a once magnificent city, now desolate, sits in front of everyone's eyes.

Helm, the lost city of elves.

It is said to be the last city of the elves in the era of the elven dynasty, but it was later lost in the war, and until now, even the elves can only hear the name of Helm in legends and stories, but they no longer know where it is.

"For a long time, the fall and loss of Helm has been said to be the cause of the war, but now it seems that it is not so simple, unless it will run away on its own, it will definitely not be the cause of the war!" Tang Dou looked at the Lost City in front of him with a sigh.

When the Elven Dynasty fell, the flames of war were also burned to the Tianfeng Continent, and although the humans and the demon clan resisted, they only beat the elf clan out of Jiuxiao and the Barbarian Continent. If you want to attack the Heavenly Wind Continent again, you already have more than enough heart and not enough strength.

The two clans used the tactics of the sea of people to get rid of the elven dynasty of the year, but by the time the elves retreated to the Tianfeng Continent, the humans and the demon clan had no strength to chase and kill.

Therefore, the Tianfeng Continent was not affected by the war at all, so how could the fall and loss of Helm be due to the war?

"The answer should be in this city, and the purpose of Narlius may be the answer we want to find!" Snow Maiden looked at the tall city gate and smiled.

Who would have thought that this sister who is easy to become violent when entering battle mode is actually a person who likes to study historical stories?

In Tang Dou's view, the Snow Girl is simply a otherworldly version of Laura, and her enthusiasm and talent for exploring various historical sites are full.

Usually, he often heard the Snow Girl tell him the story of the Snow Girl who followed her previous master to explore various ancient tombs and ruins when he was a child.

Before the Snow Maiden met Tang Dou, she had never left the Source of Life space in her life, but don't forget that the Source of Life space in its heyday is a complete world, and there are many secrets that can be excavated.

"Ready, let's go inside. There may be danger inside, and there may be a fight at any time! Tang Dou gave everyone a ball of life again, and the local tyrant was mad.

Everyone replaced half of the ball of life, but this thing will not be wasted, just put it in the small box provided by Tang Dou, which can prevent the dissipation of life energy, and when necessary, this thing can also be used to treat all kinds of fatal injuries.

Ready, everyone officially stepped into Helm.

A third of the cave has collapsed, and it can be seen that the solid buildings that were once made of solid diamond (a kind of granite-like but more durable and wear-resistant stone in the Thousand Souls Realm) have not been able to withstand the wear and tear of the years, and a third of the collapsed places have long been half buried by the yellow sand, and the rest have been changed by the wind and sand.

Some of them are even crumbling and may collapse at any time.

However, there are still some places that are quite intact, and you can even see the appearance of the original diamond, and from the walls of these intact places, you can see countless runes.

Those are ancient elf runes, a kind of runes inherited from the dragon language, but different from the dragon language, which was once the lingua franca of the elves, but later during the elf dynasty, because of the influence of humans and demons, the elves institutionalized a new script, which is now the elf language.

They originally wanted to use this method to use culture shock to rule humans and demons forever, but they didn't do it thoroughly and cleanly. Coupled with some of its own racial flaws (stubborn, old-fashioned, stereotyped), it was finally overturned by humans and demons.

What's interesting is that the elven language formulated by the long-eared people has become the current lingua franca of the Thousand Souls Spirit Realm after a certain transformation.

But the elves slowly forgot their traditional ancient language, until the Great Break 10,000 years ago, they simply forgot the ancient language.

Now the elves in the team looked at the ancient elven runes on the wall, and they were both emotional and nostalgic.

"Let's go, we will have a chance to study these things slowly in the future, let's go in first now!" Tang Dou patted Xue on the shoulder, waking him up along with a few other long ears.

The elves nodded in unison, and through the long gate opening, they finally entered Helm.

“…… Strange, it looks like it was broken from within, "Krees, as a wise man, is an elf who has lived for thousands of years, and has a variety of rich experiences.

So not long after he entered the city, he judged the situation of this gap from the collapse of the surrounding city walls and the direction of the rubble falling, "You see these positions, they are all collapsing from the inside out. ”

Tang Dou raised his eyebrows: "So it's even more certain that the fall and loss of Helm is not the cause of foreign wars." ”

Krees sighed and nodded, "I'm afraid there's something wrong in the city." And that question is why Narius is here! ”

"The source of evil energy?" Xue asked suddenly.

Tang Dou looked at him: "What do you think?" ”

"If everything you say is true, then whether Narlius wants to destroy everything, get rid of any control, or want to rule the whole world, all he needs to do is strength. And you said that there is evil in him. Although the evil qi is dangerous, it also has the ability to quickly increase its strength......"

Needless to say, following his train of thought, anyone can think of how Xue asked how he thought of the source of evil qi.

"To borrow the assumption of His Royal Highness the Prince, then it is not impossible. And it makes sense! Krees nodded, "If Helm was not destroyed by a foreign war, then it could only be for internal reasons. It was the last city of the Imperial Dynasty at that time, and suddenly it was completely lost from the outside world, and no news came out at all, it is very likely that everyone was infected with evil qi, and then everyone was fighting together! “

"In other words, after so many years, there may even be some guys here who have been infected by evil qi and become monsters. Those who have been infected by evil qi and have not been fully assimilated, they are equivalent to immortal! Tang Dou spread his hands.

As soon as everyone looked right, they immediately began to check their respective combat preparations.

Chihuo had been wandering outside the world, and at this time, he finally heard what he was interested in, and immediately came to his senses: "My dear, is there an enemy?" Where to kill? How many kills? ”

Tang Dou twitched his face and pressed the girl back: "Wait obediently, you will fight when the time comes!" ”

Chihuo immediately became honest, but he still kept waving his nine-toothed nail palladium, looking impatient.

It's rare for Tang Dou to say anything more, it's not easy for this girl to stay by her side honestly.

Everyone continued to move forward, and the moment they walked through the outer city and walked to the inner city, Tang Dou noticed the changes in the surrounding environment.

The power of the curse has appeared as if it were substance.

Layers of black mist appeared in everyone's sight.

The orb of life on everyone's body was stimulated by the power of the super-concentrated curse, and immediately emitted a green light, enveloping everyone in it and protecting them.

"Damn, this kind of consumption has to be replaced every hour, I have a big loss!" Tang Douwei screamed, and rubbed out ten balls of life for everyone, and at the same time put on a painful expression.

With the protection of the ball of life, everyone continued to move forward, and Tang Dou also exuded a large amount of life energy, forming a protective field to protect everyone.

In this way, as long as everyone does not leave this protective field, the life energy in the ball of life will not be consumed. Of course, once the battle is fought, it is impossible for Tang Dou to maintain this kind of protective field, so the ball of life is used for everyone when fighting.

Moving on, the whole of Helm was haunted by an air of desolation and death, and there was no trace of Narlius ever coming, but Elucie assured that Narlius was here, and the voice of her soul was already very clearly felt.

Unless Narus has the ability to split his own soul, or directly break through the diamond level to exclude Elucie's soul voice, it is impossible to fake.

Of course, Tang Dou believed in the dragon girl, so he didn't have any doubts at all.

Everything around was silent, making everything here feel even more oppressive, and even the two diamond-level elders felt their hearts flutter.

This has nothing to do with strength, it is completely instinctive as a human being.

Wherever everyone walked, the streets and alleys were silent, and black mist flew and fluttered, enveloping all sides in a hazy mist.

These are the mists of the curse, of the same origin as the evil spirit, but with a difference.

Maybe it's a variant, or maybe it's something more primary.

"Give me an opinion, where is the best place for us to go?" Tang Dou looked at Xue and asked, "This is your ancient city." ”

Xue asked and rolled her eyes, "How do I know?" ”

At the critical moment, Elder Krees was reliable, and he carefully recalled the memories of the lost city of Helm, as well as the fragments that were barely preserved: "According to the architectural style of the imperial period, we should be walking on the main passage into the center of the city. That is, the central axis of the city. And on the central axis, there will definitely be a temple! ”

"The temple is the most important building in the city, and as long as it hasn't collapsed yet, we're sure to find some useful clues inside!"

"Alright, let's head to the temple!" Tang Dou clapped his hands to finalize the itinerary.

With a goal, everyone continued to move forward, cautious and careful, in this place where even the air was full of malice and curses, Tang Dou, who was extremely bold and had no discipline, was also honest.

He pulled the red fire in his left hand to prevent the girl from suddenly rushing out and fighting anyone; Pull Elucie with her right hand to prevent the fool from getting lost.

Then the Snow Girl saw that it was interesting, transformed her body, turned herself into a palm-sized person, and lay on Tang Dou's body.

This is also a unique skill of the Snow Maiden, even Po, who is good at controlling the size of her body, is not as powerful as her.

So Tang Dou was like this, holding a murderer in his left hand, a fool in his right hand, and a violent woman on his head, walking on the streets of the Lost City with great momentum.

Walking down the street, you can see that the buildings on both sides of the street are full of those ancient elves, but almost no one can understand them, not even the erudite Krees.

On the contrary, because they know the dragon language, and the ancient elven language is close to the dragon language, Tang Dou and Elucie can understand most of it. Tang Dou even took this opportunity to learn two or three very interesting ancient elven runes.

Just this one had already made the eyes of the long ears in the team red with jealousy, and Xue asked and grabbed Tang Dou's collar and asked him to teach him the ancient elven language.

"What are you going to pay me? I won't do it without pay! "Tang Dou is a scoundrel.

"My sister is married to you, you can do it yourself, what else do you want?" Shockingly, the elven prince has also begun to be a scoundrel.

In Tang Dou's stunned expression, a truth was once again confirmed.

Sure enough, when he got close to Tang Dou, he was going to drop the festival.

Although there are many words around, there are not many that can really be fully recognized, and Tang Dou also recognized two or three interesting rune combinations, half of which is due to his master-level rune skills, as well as the envoy who has mastered the dragon language, and even Meng Dai guessed it.

In fact, most of the runes have been worn away by the wind and sand, and it is a miracle to be able to recognize three.

"These three runes all have a similar effect, that is, to calm the gods and suppress evil spirits! And I'm pretty sure that all the buildings around have a lot of these three runes, and without considering the other unrecognizable runes, what do you think that means? Tang Dou squinted at the long ears in the team.

"There's a plan here, something that's being consciously suppressed!" Krees's face was a little unsightly.

At first, he guessed that Helm was destroyed by the evil qi, but what he thought was that the evil qi suddenly appeared and then exploded in full force, but now it seems that if it was not for the long resistance in the later stage, it was that the existence of the evil qi was known in the first place, and some kind of research was still being carried out on it.

Otherwise, it would not have been possible to have this kind of situation where the whole city was full of anti-evil runes, but no one went out to report the news.

Finally, the crowd came to the door of the Great Temple, which, as Krees had speculated, was at the point near the second third of the city's central axis.

The entire temple consists of a main building that resembles an ancient tree and an annex tower with two obelisks.

Two towers lined up in front of the ancient tree building, like two spear-wielding guards, and the ancient tree looked a bit like an elven sacred tree, but it was much smaller, only a dozen meters high.

"Let's go, our purpose has arrived!" Tang Dou took a deep breath and once again made preparations for the battle with everyone. In such an environment, it is impossible to be too cautious.

Then the crowd walked into the large square in front of the temple, through the large square, through the two obelisk towers, and finally to the main gate of the temple.

The door of the temple was closed, and it seemed that it was not affected by time and wind and sand, Tang Dou stepped forward and pushed it, and found that the gate was incredibly thick, he cleaned the wind and sand dust on the gate, and then was surprised to find that this thing was made of pure gold.

"Oh, the Elder Elves are really rich! Tsk tsk. Elucie, remember to remind me to dismantle this thing and go home, good thing! Tang Doucai's heart burned again.

The dragon girl nodded suddenly, completely ignoring the few long ears at the bottom of the pot with a black face on the side.

Tang Dou made a lighting rune stone, and in the bright light, everyone walked into the dark passage behind the door.