(PS: The matter is almost done, tomorrow the three more will be fixed, and the debt will be repaid...... It's not a day, I'll pay it off in a few days. ）

Except for the two elves who stayed behind, Noldor and Gray, as well as the women and children of the human race, who were also temporarily stationed, everyone else set off and explored the area around Sulan City.

The first two exploration sites have nothing to say, and Ay has not found any traces of heretics or the underworld camp, and the third exploration point is their destination, which is called the Thousand Caves, which is a hilly and valley area, geographically presenting a cave style, and the land is covered with various karst caves, these caves are either connected to each other, or independent, deep or shallow, forming a large underground labyrinth, it is said that in the days when the Plant Alliance was established, this Thousand Caves was the nest of bandits and rebels, which was also an important exploration site for this mission。

Everyone came to this thousand caves, and as far as the eye could see, there were obvious caves on some hills, and the deeper they went, the denser these caves became, which was definitely not more than a thousand, so few, maybe tens of thousands.

At this time, Ay held a book and said as he read it, "It is said that someone once saw the Drow Elf here...... Doesn't that filthy garbage live in the underworld?

Hao looked at the cave group in the distance and said: "No, there should be no passage to the underground world here, if there is, then this place has already been built into a strong fortress, it is impossible for the high-level of the Plant Alliance to be so unwise, this is a rumor, but the deepest cave may be close to the underground world, so it is possible that there may be shadow creatures, so although this trip is an investigation, it is also very dangerous, is the magic scroll that you were ordered to prepare ready?"

Ai Yi glanced at Hao, took out ten scrolls from his arms, and handed them to Hao: "Oh, here you go, really, it's not enough to have me as a magician, you have to make these magic scrolls that are not inspired by magic power, do you know, these magic scrolls alone are thousands of spirit stones." ”

Hao took these magic scrolls without saying a word, these magic scrolls are all made of specially made Warcraft leather, and many precious magic potions are added, each empty scroll light purchase requires about fifty spirit stones, and you also need to buy special writing instruments and ink, the cost price of these ten requires thousands of spirit stones, thanks to the fact that Ai Yi made a low-level magic between tricks and first-order magic, and there is also Hao's analysis optimization, otherwise a waste of one is the cost price of hundreds of spirit stones, which no one can bear.

In fact, ordinary magic scrolls will not be so expensive, although the price is not cheap, but between the magic scroll of tricks and first-order magic, even if it is purchased in the adventure union, it only takes about thirty spirit stones, if the magician makes it himself, the cost price is at most ten spirit stones, or even lower, but this kind of magic scroll must have an internal energy circulation, preferably a legal professional, otherwise it is just a piece of waste paper that others tear up, and this magic scroll made by Ae, the scroll itself can contain magic power, and it doesn't matter if the user is a mortal, it will have an effect if it is torn apart, of course, because this kind of scroll can be used by mortals, So the scroll itself needs Warcraft leather, and the scroll between tricks and first-order magic requires second-order Warcraft leather, and first-order to second-order magic requires third-order Warcraft leather, not all Warcraft can, and the magic potions, additives, and various oils used for the scroll are extremely expensive, and it is said that a legendary-level magic scroll that can be used by ordinary people once auctioned a sky-high price of 80 million spirit stones at the auction of the Azure Empire.

Hao carefully thought about the distribution of these scrolls, and suddenly he saw the appearance of Ai pouting next to him, and inexplicable emotions flowed through his heart, so he explained: "We have to go deep underground, and although this magic is only between magic and first-order magic, but for ghost creatures, for spirit undead creatures, it can be used at the moment of battle, you are precious combat power, it is our hole card and heritage, until the key, I will not let you use magic." ”

Hearing Hao's explanation, Ai Yi was also inexplicably happy, so she smiled and nodded to indicate that she understood.

Hao looked at the sky and said to Ai Rui beside him: " Eri, you are responsible for coordinating the construction of the camp, and you can assign the personnel at will, including me and Miss Aye, all of whom obey your orders, my request is to build a strong camp, and the camp facilities are controlled by yourself, it is best to use local materials, there must be a shooting hole, there must be a magician platform, and at the same time, it is best to have a hidden tunnel as an escape point, as for the number of settled personnel, the number of people is based on the number of 1,000 people, and the storage warehouse is also built according to the basis that 1,000 people can eat for half a month. ”

Airy himself is a construction engineer, and his knowledge is also rich, he heard Hao's words and thought about it for a while, and said to Hao: "God, this project is a lot of work, I have to need the help of you, Anyang, and Miss Aiyi, especially magic, if there is no magic, I am afraid that this project may not be able to be built in a year just for those of us, especially in terms of tunnels." ”

Hao looked at Aiyi, and Aiyi immediately said: "Look at what I'm doing, anyway, if you ask why you want to build such a camp, you will never answer, so you can just say what you need me to do." ”

Hao said patiently: "It's not that I don't answer, but even if I answer some things, you will only think that I am too cautious, cautious to the point of delusion, if I don't anticipate the mistake, the war will soon spread, and it is estimated that something will happen before the war, this is our retreat, at least one of the retreats, so I need to build it stronger, because ......"

"No one can predict what the future holds, can it?" Ay covered her head and sighed, and then she said to Ari, "Anyway, that's what you command, Master Ari." ”

Ai Rui smiled and said: "If you can't be a master, then in the future, I will divide these people into three batches, change one batch of people every day, two batches are enough to build, and the remaining batch will be brought by you to explore, is this a good arrangement?"

Hao nodded in acknowledging Ari's thoughts, and then he ordered the non-commissioned officers to start camping with their clansmen, while he took Ai and Anyang to a nearby hillside.

Hao raised his eyes and looked into the distance, and from time to time took out the official topographic map here, as well as some of the maps of the caves that had been indicated purchased from the black market channels, and kept comparing them, from time to time with a pen and swiping something on the map, just like that, while calculating, swiping, and looking into the distance, at least two or three hours had passed, and there were bonfires lit in the camp in the distance, and it was already at the end of dusk, Ay couldn't help but ask: "Okay, I thought you had exact news, but I didn't expect it to be calculated." ”

Hao swiped on the map without raising his head, calculating, and at the same time he said: "Many things may deceive you, but mathematics will not, this is the most direct and straightforward basic rule of the multiverse, in fact, the avenue is in front of you, but many people simply turn a blind eye, you know?" Unless they become holy gods, it is the day when the spiritual positions have their life spans, not to mention the many legends and demigods, and those legendary demigods who are illustrious, when they die, if their power is not strong enough, or weaker than the hidden enemy, then they will hide their tombs, from being discovered, using a lot of magic, many traps, and even resorting to the lower plane and even low-latitude existence, just to prevent people from intruding on their bodies and their wealth, but as long as it is a parked dead thing, there is no absolute infallibility, I remember in the war of all races, There are even many top 100 races that have organized official tomb robbers to steal the tombs of these famous powerhouses, and many of them have been broken down and stolen, but do you know what is the most difficult step for those tomb robbers?"

Ay thought for a moment and guessed, "Is it a magic trap?" No, even if it's permanent magic, it will gradually weaken over time...... Could it be the erosion of the lower planes and lower latitudes?"

"This is indeed a difficult point, but it is not the most difficult, it is still that sentence, a mausoleum, itself is a dead thing placed there, if it doesn't work once, it will be ten times, and if it doesn't work ten times, it will be a hundred times, as long as the benefits are big enough, even the holy throne will come directly to break the tomb. ”

Hao said something rebellious, but he didn't care, just continued: "The most difficult thing is actually to find the mausoleum, this is the most difficult, if you can't find it, even if you have thousands of people, no matter how powerful you are like sand, you can't use it, because you don't even know where the mausoleum is, how can you break the mausoleum? This is the biggest difficulty, and then, you know the so-called leyline, right?"

Ay immediately said: "Of course I know, in fact, heaven and earth have free energy nodes that naturally converge, which is said in the foundation of magic, but the free energy naturally gathered by heaven and earth is often too dispersed, and this free energy is not the extraordinary body energy generated by life, so it cannot be used, only a few magic arrays, and large-scale magic ceremonies and the like can be used slightly." ”

Hao nodded and continued: " That's right, that's right, but that's for the living transcendent professionals, for the dead transcendent professionals, they can't use their magic or other energy, as you said, even if they use permanent magic, it will gradually pass over time, this is the law of nature, irreversible, so in order to slow down as much as possible, or even reverse this process, the mausoleums of legends and above powerhouses often rely on these nodes to build, although the naturally converging free energy can not be actively used, but it can still be used to maintain the most basic magic array, and this usual maintenance is actually the key point, thousands of years, ten thousand years, one hundred thousand yearsIf there is this maintenance, as long as no outsiders find the mausoleum, it is really possible that the mausoleum will continue to exist. ”

Ay suddenly said, "I understand, are you calculating the natural energy convergence node here?"

Hao looked at Ai Yi with an idiot-like gaze, and Ai Yi immediately yelled angrily: "Hey, you yourself talked about the natural energy convergence node! Why are you looking at me with such a gaze!? I tell you, don't keep despising my intelligence like this, I admit that I'm not as smart as you, but you don't have to be so proud all the time, I also have self-esteem, okay?" ”

Hao retracted his gaze a little embarrassed, stood up from his squatting state, and said seriously: "Miss Aiyi, I didn't mean that...... The reason why I just mentioned the natural energy convergence node is actually to tell you that those tomb robbers who want to find the mausoleum often take the high-level magician as the core, use magic to check the natural energy convergence node, and then calculate its specific location, this means is a combination of magic and mathematics, and I am a mortal, I can't see natural energy, Miss Aye can probably see it after becoming a high-level magician, but at least we can't do this now, so I'm not calculating the natural energy convergence node, sorry, Miss Ey...... I will pay attention to my words and actions in the future. ”

Ai Yi nodded with satisfaction, and then reached out to pat Hao's shoulder, Hao was fine when he squatted before, and at this time Hao stood up, Ai Yi needed to pad his feet to be able to pat Hao's shoulder, by the way, Hao has grown at least five centimeters taller these days, and now he is more than one meter and six.

Hao looked at Aiyi, he suddenly squatted down slightly, so that Aiyi's outstretched hand would not be empty, after all, he patted him on the shoulder, Aiyi immediately smiled, Hao continued to squat down and looked at the map and said:" I had seen rumors about this half-blood spiritual magician in a book before, and I didn't think about it at the time, but in one of the photos, I saw some clues, it seemed to be a poem that was completely wrong at the beginning and the end, but in fact it was a phonetic digital code, and after I decoded it, I found its mathematical orientation, and I am actually confirming this direction now. ”

Ay said a few words and asked, "Is that decrypted?"

"Not yet, at least the direction here is wrong, judging from the size of the entire Thousand Grottoes, we will need about ten days to find the direction in the worst case, if we are lucky, we can find it tomorrow, according to the probability, we need about ......"

"Alright, alright, let's go back to dinner. Ai Yi now knew how to treat Hao, she grinned and patted Hao's back, then hummed a song, and took An Yang to the camp first.

Hao didn't care, he followed behind the second daughter, watching Ai Yi talk and laugh all the way, he sighed inexplicably.

This exploration is actually far more significant than what he said, because from the information he has recently collected and deduced, the Plant Alliance may not have started a war with the underworld camp, but this large area led by the elven race, the elven empire, and the surrounding vassal alliance groups, have encountered the lower plane camp in many places, so far, in addition to the underworld camp on the border of the elf empire, it has also found a number of lower plane camps such as the dark world and the world of terror, although they all appear in the way of advent, and they are not the real regular army of the lower plane, but this is also very terrifying, especially the demon refining camp, one of the three giants of the lower plane。

There are a large number of lower planes, but the three most powerful lower plane camps are demons, devils, and alchemists, representing the bottomless abyss, Bato Hell, and purgatory, which are the strongest and most terrifying lower plane camps.

At present, the situation of the Elven Empire, as well as the surrounding vassal alliances, is not optimistic, and in Hao's plan, once such a situation occurs, it means that there is no longer any safe zone around the Elven Empire, for example, from the Plant Alliance to continue to move away from the Elven Empire, he calculated that it is possible to leave the Elven Empire's sphere of influence only if he crosses at least five alliance regions in a row.

This is still the situation where the lower plane forces only besiege the Elven Empire, if the lower plane forces fully invade, then there is no safe place in the entire Flood Desolation Continent, and the elves such as Ai can move freely in the vassal alliance around the Elf Empire, not only have preferential policies, but also do not have to worry about encountering security problems, but once they are out of the Elf Empire's sphere of influence, there are still a large number of races on the Flood Continent that are enemies of the elves, such as the ancient orcs line, such as the barbarian line, etc., these ten thousand races often chase and kill the elves when they see them.

So Hao doesn't think it's a good solution to keep hurrying and fleeing all the time, seeing that the war of all races is about to come again, if the strength of their team is not improved, maybe a battlefield in the future will be wiped out immediately, which is why Hao insists on staying in the Plant Alliance.

This is the elven civilization radiation circle, in which, the role of elves such as Aye is very large, and at least it is safe for now, he needs to improve the strength of the team as much as possible in this safe time.

But this also means that once the war breaks out completely, it is impossible for him to lead the team to a safe place in a short time, because no matter if he leaves from any direction of the Plant Alliance, he may encounter hostile forces in the lower plane, unless he leads the team to leave now, but this goes back to the previous question, how does he know that it is safe outside the cultural radiation circle of the elves?

And once the Plant Alliance is caught in the war, especially before the Plant Alliance will be defeated and destroyed by the lower plane forces, he must find a way to lead the team out of danger as quickly as possible, with this as the goal, he only thought of two ways, the first way is to go farther away through the empty door, the advantage is that the speed is fast, as long as the empty door is found, then there is no possibility of being blocked.

But the disadvantages are also obvious, first of all, it takes a lot of time to confirm the situation opposite the empty door, across a wide range of empty doors are under the strict protection of various cities, and the empty doors are often blocked during the war, which is a difficult point, and the second is what Hao thought of before, a series of difficulties after staying away from the radiation circle of the elf culture, and the opposite side is also likely to be in the war, in short, the choice of the empty door is not the most preferred.

There is another way to do it besides the empty door......

Finding the treasure of this spirit level magician, whether there is a floating magic tower or not, a spirit level magician, its inventory is enough to make a qualitative change in their team, and at that time, they have a choice between leaving or staying, or returning to the elven empire.

This is a spiritual position, and it is also a spiritual position of the legal system, this is an existence that can barely speak in front of the holy gods, it is an existence that has been recognized as a reserve of the holy gods, and has obtained its treasure, plus Ay has become a high-level magician, then the strength of this team will be ten times stronger or more than now......

Of course, the premise is that they must find the location of the treasure and enter it to obtain the treasure, and they must have the treasure.

At the same time, an Eagle Clan and a half-breed came to Suran City, after they walked out of the Plant Express Hall, each of them exhaled a few deeply, and the Eagle Clan said: "Lao Yi, wouldn't it be good for us to visit like this, it's not that I said you, you are also too positive, although the other party is a second-order magician, or a magician of the Elf Clan, but we lean up so blindly, what will others think, it's not that I said you, Lao Yi, you are also an old businessman, and you are so naïve, we should... ...”

The half-breed was none other than the leader of the Blue Salt Merchant Clan, Ishanjiu, who responded to the words of the Eagle Clan without a word, and one of his hands, the other of which held the necklace under the collar......

Does he finally have a chance to return to the magic tower he left behind?

No, maybe it's not him......

No, that's him......

Each one, it's him......

Here he is the one who has died in the past, he who is in hell, he who is in the abyss, he who is in the abyss, or he who is in the outer plane, who is in the future......