At the same time.

Soma Alliance's Western Frontier Region, somewhere, inside a huge underground space.

The group of long-haired women were standing in front of a huge stone wall at this time, their brows furrowed, and their expressions looked a little wrong.

After a few seconds, the long-haired woman's dark brown eyes narrowed, and she gritted her teeth and said in a deep voice: "I don't believe it, try it for me again, this time to the left." ”

"Yes...... Captain. ”

The strong man with a height of one meter eight nodded in response and walked towards the stone wall.

You can see the surface of the stone wall, carved with dense magic patterns, which finally meet together in the middle of the bottom. In two positions, there is a small hole in each position, which is like a key insertion opening.

The strong man walked to the small hole on the left, reached out and felt a blue seal, and inserted it carefully.

"Click!"

There was a soft sound, and something seemed to be touched in the small hole, and immediately most of the magic patterns on the stone wall lit up.

"Buzz!"

The stone wall shook slightly, and a lot of stone chips fell, and a faint crack appeared in the middle, as if it was about to open like a door.

But the inside of the "door" was like something blocking it, allowing more and more stone chips to fall, allowing the magic patterns to get brighter and brighter, but it was to keep it as it was, not to let the gap in the door widen by a point.

One second, two seconds, three seconds......

Time passed, slowly, the stone wall shook and weakened, and the magic pattern dimmed little by little, and it looked like it was about to fail to open.

The long-haired woman frowned, her eyes widened, and she opened her mouth to say, "I still don't believe it!"

When the words fell, the long-haired woman raised her right hand, stretched it into her mouth, and bit it hard, and red blood suddenly flowed from the tips of her index fingers.

The long-haired woman pointed her bleeding hand at the stone wall, and the blood was attracted, detached from the fingertips, flew towards the stone wall, landed on the surface, and quickly penetrated into it.

One, two, three......

The blood flowing out of the long-haired woman was very viscous and slow, and it was only a dozen drops in half a day, and the long-haired woman seemed to have a great consumption, and her face was visibly pale.

More than a dozen drops of blood seeped into the stone wall, and the stone wall finally reacted, and all of a sudden, it shook violently again, and the magic pattern became brighter than before.

But...... No matter how violently the stone wall vibrates and the magic patterns are brighter, the gap in the middle of the stone wall still remains its original appearance, refusing to expand a bit.

Slowly, slowly, the blood that seeped into the stone wall ran out of energy, the stone wall vibrated again, and the brightness of the magic pattern decreased again.

Failure to open is inevitable.

The long-haired woman saw it, her slender eyebrows raised, and her eyes widened, "This shouldn't be, this can't be!

When the words fell, the long-haired woman stepped on her feet, her long hair straightened out at the back of her head like a gun, and the whole person flew towards the stone wall as fast as lightning, and a rich purple energy condensed on her palm, and she slapped it heavily.

"Open it for me!"

The long-haired woman shouted.

Almost instantly, Shibi responded.

"Brush!"

The demonic patterns of the stone wall, which had dimmed, all lit up, and golden arcs the thickness of fingers appeared on the surface, wrapping around the body of the long-haired woman like a poisonous snake.

"Ahh

The long-haired woman let out a short cry, was knocked away by the energy, and whistled backwards like a meteorite, smashing a crater into the ground.

"Captain!"

In an instant, everyone shouted, especially the strong man who was 1.8 meters old, his eyes were red, and he was about to step forward to treat the long-haired woman.

"Ahem!"

At this time, in the pit, the long-haired woman coughed twice, raised her hand, and shouted: "I'm fine, I don't need to come." "Stop the crowd from coming forward.

Under the worried gaze of everyone, the long-haired woman got up a little, her hair was scattered behind her shoulders, and she walked back to the stone wall in a somewhat messy manner.

At this time, the stone wall had regained its calm, and the blue seal inserted into the small hole automatically slipped out and fell to the ground.

The long-haired woman beckoned, and the blue seal flew up from the ground and landed in her hand. She held the blue seal, turned it a few times, stared at the stone wall in front of her, muttered to herself, and said with some sighs: "Sure enough, it's not as simple as I thought." ”

"Captain, why don't we shatter this broken stone wall with a spell!"

The strong man was next to him, and he suggested it out loud. He was very angry about the long-haired woman's counterattack by the stone wall demon pattern, and he very much wanted to vent his anger for the long-haired woman.

At this time, the white-haired old man with a black iron mask next to him spoke faintly and said to the strong man: "If you really want to bury us all here, and want to completely destroy this ancient ruin, just do it." ”

"What do you mean?" the strong man frowned at the white-haired old man.

The meaning is very simple, don't take the obstacles set by your predecessors too simple. Under the black iron mask, a faint voice of explanation came, "If I'm not mistaken, this stone wall must be connected to this underground space, just like the metal door in the tomb before - as long as we dare to forcibly destroy it, the entire underground space will collapse."

Even, I suspect that this stone wall may be connected to some of the energy hubs in the ancient ruins. If we forcibly destroy it, it will trigger a chain reaction inside the ruins and blow everyone up in the sky. Even if it doesn't blow up to the sky, the entire ruins will be destroyed. ”

"Then how about we change the entrance and enter the ruins?" The lame woman with thick lips suddenly spoke up at this time, proposing a new idea, "We can directly open an entrance at a certain location on the ground, dig vertically to the center of the ruins, and leave after taking things, which is convenient and trouble-free." ”

"That's right!" the strong man's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he agreed, "This is a good solution! Why didn't we think of it sooner?!"

Actually, the predecessor had already thought of it. The white-haired old man spoke in a cold tone, "That one did this when he first explored the ruins, but the consequences were extremely bad. According to him, the inside of the ruins is extremely complicated, and it is safest to enter from this entrance, at least gradually. And if you enter from the rest of the entrance, you don't know exactly where you will fall into the ruins, and if there is an accident, you will never be able to get out. ”

"Then ......" the strong man was anxious, and couldn't help but ask, "Then what should we do? We can't, we have been preparing for so long, and we ended up standing in front of the stone wall and admitting defeat, right?"

The white-haired old man listened, shook his head, and did not give an answer, but looked to the side.

The strong man followed the old man's gaze, and then saw the long-haired woman walking up to him for some time.

Strong man: "Captain, you ......"

The long-haired woman didn't speak immediately, but looked around at everyone, including the strong man, took a deep breath, and made a decision: "Okay, let's stop discussing it, send a signal to that person, and we will cooperate with him to explore this ruin together." ”

"Captain!"

"Don't!"

"We can think of another way. ”

"yes, why do you want to work with that unknown person?"

As soon as the long-haired woman finished speaking, many people immediately raised objections.

When the long-haired woman heard this, she did not waver, and said seriously: "This exploration of the ruins is a beginning, but also a flame, we can't afford to fail, and we can't afford to wait, we must succeed, after all, many people are still waiting for us to go back."

Also, we can't stay in the Soma Alliance for too long, after all, it's not safe for us, and if something happens, it's all a failure.

In this way, if the other party really holds the indispensable blood seal in his hand, it will be nothing for us to cooperate with him. As long as we make sure that the most important things in the ruins are in our hands, and give him a little bit of the rest, it's no big deal. After all, I'm not a stingy person.

Someone has taught me that sometimes you have to know how to share the benefits with others, so that you can bring greater success. ”

"But ......" still has some people who want to say and stop.

The long-haired woman looked at her: "No, but, this is an order!"

"Yes!"

Everyone's expressions were solemn, no longer verbose, and responded in unison.

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