Friedlier walked through the secret door with a torch he had seized from the soldiers. Behind the secret door is a spiraling staircase, not steep, but seemingly long. By the light of the fire, Friedlier walked for a while before reaching the end of the stairs. At the end of the staircase, he waved his torch and saw that the basement space connected to the staircase was a stone hallway.

After taking two steps into the hallway, Friedlier saw that the hallway had a stone wall on one side and a small door to the room in front of the other. As for how long the corridor was, and whether there was such a small door in front of it, and the light of the torches could not shine, he could not tell.

Looking ahead of the unknown hallway, Friedlier reflexively pushed the soldier and pointed his sword at the back of his neck to let him lead the way in front.

"Take us to find a sword, a black sword." Oiv said to the soldier in Asor.

The soldier whispered a few words to Oive, and then walked slowly to the door of the first room.

Before reaching the door of the first room, Friedlier lit the brazier in front of the door. By the light of the brazier, it became clear to Friedlier that there was a very sturdy-looking stone door in the eaves of the first door, and that on one side of the door was a strange lattice groove with ten stone shards.

The ten stone shards in the checkered slot are not all exactly the same size and shape. The largest of them is carved with the image of a marshal, the other five rectangular tablets are carved with the image of a general, and the four smallest small square stone tablets are carved with the image of a soldier.

Looking at the stone chips in the groove above the door, Friedlier pushed Azore's soldier and said to Oive, "Let him open the door." ”

"He said he wouldn't open the door, it was a puzzle and the door would only open if it was solved." Oeve said to Friedley.

Friedreer looked at the puzzle on the stone door and said, "Ask him how many doors there are behind him, if they all have puzzles." ”

"I just asked him, and he said there are three gates here." "He also said that we had to find what we were looking for, and that he had to take us here." ”

As soon as Oive's words fell, Friedlier stabbed the blade of his sword into the back of the soldier's neck. The blade of the sword burst through the neck, and the soldier fell to the ground with the sword that Friedlier had loosened.

"Then we'll do what he said and find it ourselves." As he spoke, Friedlier held the torch and looked at the puzzle on the door again.

Glancing at the fallen Azor soldier, O'Eve, "Why are you in such a hurry to kill him, maybe he can still be useful." ”

"The puzzle looks difficult, we need to concentrate on solving the puzzle as quickly as possible, I don't want to be distracted from looking at a useless captive again." Friedleer looked at the puzzle without looking back, and continued, "Look at this, I think the way to open this door is to let this larger stone tablet bypass the other smaller stone tablets, and then pass through this gap and enter another stone door. ”

"You're right." "And you can't let the other five medium flakes and four small flakes into the gap. ”

"How do you know?" Friedlier asked.

"The stone gate is written in Asor, solve the puzzle, the stone gate opens by itself, and the generals need to get rid of the enemy's interception and escape." O'Eve said.

"Oh—" Friedlear scratched his nose before reaching out and trying to flick the stone chips on the door. There are grooves between the stone flakes, and the flakes move accordingly as Friedlier toggles.

"It's so hard!" After fiddling with it for a long time, Friedlier said depressedly, "How can this marshal be so fat, can't he be a little thinner?" ”

Oeve was silent, and after a closer look, she spoke, "Let me do it, just watch." ”

"Well, I'm going to collapse anyway." Friedlier said.

After fiddling with it for a while, Oeve suddenly smiled and said to Friedlier behind him, "Look here. ”

Friedreel looked sideways, but saw that Oeve simply moved the small piece of soldier twice, and the large piece of marshal passed through all the stone flakes and moved smoothly into another door.

Friedlier tried to push the stone door, which was easily pushed open.

"Oh, it's unbelievable." Friedleer opened the stone door completely and said, "How did you do that?" ”

"Maybe that's talent." O'Eve said.

"Okay." Friedlier squeezed his shoulders and said, "Let's go and see what's in here." ”

Upon entering the room, Friedreel immediately saw that there was no night in the first chamber. In this small chamber, there were a few Ilo knives hanging on the wall that looked strange to Friedlear, and the bronze tripod on the stone platform in the center of the room.

"What is this?" Friedlier looked at the bronze tripod and said, "A basin? Or a urinal? Or a strange pot? ”

"This item doesn't look like it's from the Athols." Oeve looked at the bronze tripod and said, "It's more like an item from Ilo or Jara." ”

"Iro or Chanla, it's in the far east, is it right, will their belongings come here?" Friedlier asked.

"Yes, before Athore's full expansion, there was a trade route that ran through Randy and Ilo, and through that trade route, Ilo's stuff would be sold here." Oeve looked at the bronze tripod and said, "However, this item doesn't look like a commodity that could be easily sold, it looks like it's made of brass, and it should have been made for a long time, and it has lost its golden brilliance, but is covered with patina." To be honest, I feel more like it was looted and resold by nomads from the north. ”

"Oh, it must be worth a lot of money, anyway." Friedlier looked at the bronze tripod and said, "It's a pity it's too big." ”

"Do you want to move it?" Oeve said as she took a small amount of gold dust and sprinkled it on the bronze tripod, but instead of heading towards the bronze tripod, the gold dust slowly drifted in the direction of the next room.

"This item doesn't seem to be an artifact, the gold dust has drifted to the other side, let's go to the next room and have a look." Oeve said as she looked at the scattered trails of gold dust.

"Alright, let's go."

The two of them came out of the first chamber and continued down the hallway, and soon came to the door of the second chamber. After lighting the braziers on either side of the stone door of the second chamber, Friedlier and O'Eve saw that the stone door of the chamber was embossed with five Phettons wearing horned helmets and carrying battle axes. Unlike the other four Feitonians, at the foot of the first Feiton, there is also a small knob with three numbers connected in parallel, and the numbers on the three knobs are staying at 0,0,0 at the moment.

Continuing to look down, the two found that underneath the five Pheton warriors was also inscribed a passage written in the Yasorian language.

"Solve the puzzle, and the stone door will open by itself." "Five clever and sane Pheton pirates snatched 100 gold coins from the Gold Coast of Athore, and they wanted to divide the money, so they decided to draw lots to determine the order of their speeches, and each of them proposed a distribution in turn. First of all, the person who won the first lottery proposed the distribution plan, and then the five people voted together to vote on the plan, and when more than half of the people agreed, the plan will be passed, otherwise, the person who proposed the plan will be thrown into the sea to feed the sharks, and then the person who won the second lot will propose the plan, and so on. The question here is how many coins you can get if you win the lottery. ”

"You're talking about five clever and sane Featon pirates?" Friedlear looked at the five giants with horned hats carved in relief on the stone door and said, "They carved the clever and sane Pheaton warriors like this, damn it, we don't wear those horned hats, it looks stupid, it looks like a cow." ”

"Concerned about the point, Friedlier, I don't think this question is very difficult, the answer should be twenty gold coins." "Twenty gold coins per person, this fair plan should be acceptable to everyone, so I think we should turn the number knob to 020." ”

As Oeve tried to flip the knob after some thought, Friedrier reached out to stop her and said, "No, there are too few coins. ”

"Do you have a better solution?" Oeve asked Friedreel suspiciously, "If there are more than twenty gold coins, then the plan will not be agreed to by the others, right?" The first person to propose a plan will be thrown into the sea. ”

"As long as more than half of the people agree to the plan, and that includes those who propose it." Friedrell said thoughtfully.

Oeve thought for a moment and said, "You're right, how about changing the plan to 32, 34, 34, 0, 0?" In this case, the first proposer will be supported by the two who received 34 gold coins. ”

"No, it's still less." Friedleer spoke after a moment of thought.

"More words. . . It's hard to get support for the distribution plan. Oeve thought for a moment and said.

“097。” After a moment of silence, Friedlier spoke suddenly.

"What did you say?" Oeve asked.

"97 gold coins." "The first person can get up to 97 gold coins without being thrown into the sea. ”

"No, that's not possible." O'Eve said.

"For five smart and sane Phettons, it's very likely." "The distribution scheme is, 97,0,1,0,2. ”

"This... "How could it be," said Oeve after a moment's thought, "it's incomprehensible, how could the other two agree to such a completely unfair distribution?" ”

"I don't think it's hard to understand." Friedlear laughed and said, "Actually, no matter what plan the first person proposes, normally the other four will vote against it, so as to throw him into the sea to reduce the total number of people who distribute the gold coins." Similarly, the second and third people's plans will be rejected, and even if the fourth person proposes his own plan of 0,100, that is, he does not want a single gold coin, the fifth person can vote against it, and let the fourth person feed the sharks and take the gold coins himself. ”

"In this case," said O'Eve, "the fourth person who proposed the plan was very passive, and he had to support the third person in order to save his life. ”

"Yes, even if the third person proposes a distribution plan of 100,0,0, then the fourth person will support him for safety." "However, there is a second man's plan before the third person comes up with a plan. And the second person will definitely see through the plan of the third person, so he will propose, 98,0,1,1. ”

"Give the fourth and fifth people a gold coin each.." Oeve thought for a moment and said, "The second person's plan is more beneficial to the fourth and fifth people than the third person's plan, and they should agree to the second person's plan." After all, they can get at least one gold coin in this plan. ”

"Yes, if the fifth person doesn't agree with this plan, then he will get nothing in the next person's plan." Friedlier said.

Oiff thought for a moment and said, "I probably understand your inference, the first person can indeed come up with a distribution plan of 97,0,1,0,2 after reading through everyone's distribution plan. The fifth person who can only get one gold coin in the second person's plan will definitely support the first person's plan, and the third person who can't get gold coins in the second person's plan will definitely support the first person's plan. In this way, the first person's plan will be passed. ”

"Yes." "Flip the digital knob." ”

"I hope you're right, otherwise I think this knob will be locked up after the wrong turn." Oeve said as she flicked the number knob on the stone door, and after dialing the number to 097, the stone door creaked a few times. Then, Friedlier reached out and pushed the door, and the stone door suddenly opened.

Entering the room through the stone door, the two of them saw the "night" at first sight. At this moment, "night" is placed on the stone platform in the center of the room. And the walls around the room were also covered with some fine Pheton battle axes and sharp swords.

"That's it." Oiv looked at the "Nightfall" sword on the stone platform and said, "It's really a perfect work of art. ”

"It seems that the Athorians put items from different regions into different rooms." Friedlier looked at the walls of the room and approached the stone platform, reaching for "Nightfall." ”

"Wait a minute." Oeve suddenly spoke, "Be careful, there may be some traps here." ”

"Stand behind me." Friedlier said as he stood in front of Oive.

Before Oeve could speak again, Friedlier quickly reached out and took the "Nightfall" from the stone platform. "There don't seem to be any pitfalls." Friedlier said.

Friedlier, who took the "Night" in his hand, held the torch in one hand and the "Night" in the other, and looked at the lost "Night" by the light of the torch, and Friedlier only felt that some past events came to his heart.

"Artifact, Nightfall." Oiv looked at the night and said, "Putting the sword here, it seems that the Athollians still attach more importance to this sword, but I think their knowledge of this sword must be limited to what they think is a sharp sword." ”

"Before I met you, I thought so about Nightfall. "Now that I've got it back, I'd like to see if it has the kind of abilities described on the rock wall." ”

"Artifacts are all subject to use. Like the wave of the Nightmare Commander Doim, it needs to be used where there is seawater. "Although I don't know the specific conditions and effects of Nightfall, I think that if you use Nightfall at night, it must be a useless waste of energy." ”

"If I want to use it, can I use it as long as I have in mind what it can do?" Friedlier asked.

"Yes, as long as you know what it's capable of." Oiff said, "So the owner of an artifact will not easily say what the power of his weapon has, so as to prevent the artifact from being stolen and used by others. ”

"But the name of the night is its power." Friedlier said.

"You can call it that less." "Besides, even if you tell the people of Athore that it's called Nightfall, they won't understand your strange Facton." ”

Friedlier looked at Nightfall and nodded, he felt that the sword that had followed him for many years suddenly became both familiar and unfamiliar.

"Okay, let's go, now that we have the sword, we have to get out as soon as possible." Oeve said to Friedreel.

"Let's go to the last room." As he spoke, Friedlier walked briskly out of the second chamber with his sword in hand.

After lighting the brazier in front of the door of the third chamber with a torch, Friedlier saw that this was indeed the last chamber in the basement. Further down the hallway, it's a solid wall.

"Sphinx." Oeve said as she looked at the relief statue in the third chamber.

"What?" Friedlier looked back at the Sphinx on the stone door and asked Oive, "Do you know this woman?" This strange woman with wings and the body of a dog, oh, she still has her mouth open..."

"That's not a dog's body, it's a lion's body." O'Eve said.

"Oh, well, the lion's." Friedlier looked at the Sphinx's body and said, "If I have the chance, I must see with my own eyes what the lion really looks like, whether it has two rings on its chest like her." ”

"Solve the puzzle, and the stone door will open by itself." Oeve read to the words at the feet of the Sphinx, "I am the colored son of the colorless father. I am a wingless bird that can fly into the sky. ”

"Done?" Friedlier asked.

"That's what these words mean." Oeve said to Friedley, "This is supposed to be a riddle, can you guess the answer?" ”

"I'll have to think about it." Friedlier looked at the open mouth of the Sphinx and continued, "But do we need to find something to put in this monster's mouth?" ”

"Perhaps." O'Eve said.

After thinking for a moment, Friedlier asked Oive, "Have you thought of the mystery?" ”

"No, we can't afford to delay any longer, let's go, we've already got the night anyway." "I think the guards outside will soon find out that their patrol didn't get back on time. ”

"There must be a treasure hidden in here." Friedlier pondered, "But what's the mystery?" ”

"Even if we think of the mystery, we don't necessarily have that in its mouth right now." O'Eve said.

"Hey! I've got it. Friedlier said. With that, Friedlier shoved the torch into the open mouth of the Sphinx.

"The mystery is... Smoke? Oeve asked, watching Friedley's movements.

"Yes, it must be smoke. A wingless bird, soaring into the sky. Friedlier said. Before Friedlier's words fell, the stone door sounded, and Oeve stepped forward and pushed, and the stone door opened.

Upon entering the third chamber, Friedlier saw that a spear was placed on the stone platform in the room.

But this spear is completely different from a normal spear, it has two spear heads that are split in two. The two spear heads also have double edges like short swords. The sharp blade of the gun is straight and sharp, and there is a hint of red at the edge.

As for the body of the spear, it was mostly wrapped in bloodstained gray clothing, with only a small number of gray barrels of unknown material exposed.

"O'Eve, is this an artifact?" Friedlier looked at the spear and asked, "It looks special." ”

Oeve poured a little more gold dust from the vase and sprinkled it over the spear. Friedleer saw that the gold dust was spilled and then slowly fell onto the spear, and as the powder touched the spear head, the red dust seemed to melt and disappeared.

"It's an artifact." Oiff said with a look of surprise on her face.

"Then take it." As he spoke, Friedlier reached out and picked up his spear.

But before Friedlier's hand could touch the body of the spear, Oiv suddenly grabbed his hand and hurriedly stopped him.

"Don't take it." Oive said to Friedrie, "You don't know what kind of artifact it is. ”

"Wouldn't it be nice to take it back first, and then learn about it later?" Friedlier asked.

"Nope." Oeve stopped Friedrier again, telling him, "There are artifacts that could hurt you if you don't know them and get them easily. ”

Friedreel looked at the bloodstained gray coat wrapped in the spear, hesitated for a moment, and then asked Oive, "Why?"

"Some artifacts require people to actively trigger their abilities, while others don't." Oiff said, "An artifact that doesn't need to be triggered by a human will always have its unique ability to passively affect those who have it." I don't know exactly what this spear is capable of, but judging by the blood-stained clothing it wraps in, I don't think it's a good sign. ”

Friedlier looked at the blood-stained garment and asked, "Is there any way you know what kind of abilities it has?" ”

"I can't, except for those who know its abilities to tell me personally, either to see the display of its abilities with my own eyes, or to see the records of its refining. There is no other way. O'Eve.

Looking at Friedreel, who was reluctant to give up on the spear, Oives pulled him and continued, "Let's go, don't be greedy, Friedrear. ”

"To be honest, it's hard for me not to be moved by an artifact." Friedlier was pulled back by Oeve and took two steps back and said at the same time.

"Trust me. Don't let greed get in your way. Oiff genuinely advised Friedrear.

"Okay." After catching another glimpse of the spear, Friedlier turned and quickly left the chamber with Oive, walking back towards the entrance.