After about half a day's journey, Yugari and the others followed the carriage to a valley. It was a very secluded valley, and the valley was shrouded in a faint mist, and there were no birds or animals to be seen around it, and there was not a single sound to be heard except for the purple-black mountains. As soon as she stepped into the valley, she felt a suffocating sense of oppression emanating from the caverns deep in the valley.

"Is this it?" Eugari asked, looking around.

"It's a little further in, under the caves of the valley." "Be more vigilant, and there will be no accidents." ”

"Okay." Eugari and Miria replied earnestly, and then lifted up the spirit of one hundred and twenty points, and followed closely behind Hehis. After reaching the entrance of the cave, Heather said to the middle-aged man in the carriage, "You should go to the exclusive passage of the 'ants'." Then we'll have a chance to see you again. ”

"Yes. Thank you again for your help. With that, the man drove the carriage toward the slope on the left.

"The entrance to a guest like ours is here." With that, Hecis led Eugari and the others towards the stone gate on the other side.

There is a very narrow stone bridge in front of the stone gate, which is about the width of a person who can only walk. There is a small open space between the stone bridge and the stone gate, on which stand two tall statues of the guards. They are all milky white, all of them hold long swords on their left, shields on their right, and their expressions, armor and helmets, and the carvings are lifelike and vivid.

"That's the Stone Gate Guard, two automatic stone statues. Indiscriminately attacks everyone who passes through the stone bridge. However, as soon as they entered the stone gate, they were no longer attacking. Heather explained.

"Is this the first test to get here?" Miria complained.

"Sort of. I'm going to give you a demonstration. We'll see you inside the stone gate. With that, Hecis hurried across the stone bridge. As soon as she walked across the stone bridge, two stone statues immediately slashed at her with their swords raised. Heys raised her shield to block the two stone swords, and then, taking advantage of the situation, she flipped to the back of the stone statue, and ran easily into the stone gate before the stone statue caught up.

"Such a narrow bridge should be trying to let us pass one by one." Eugari said to Milia.

"In that case, then you're welcome." With that, Miria ran a few steps across the stone bridge, drew her scythe and ran towards the statue. She wanted to be like Hesse, grab the sword and sneak into the stone gate. However, the slashing stone sword caused Miria to take a few steps back, and she nearly dropped the scythe.

"It's so heavy!" Miria sighed in her heart.

"Do you want to help, Miria!" At this time, Yugari on the other side of the stone bridge shouted loudly.

"No need! Not at all. "'It's a shame to be blocked by such a puppet.'" Thinking of this, Miria quickly dodged the attacking stone sword, then stepped forward and stepped onto the stone statue's arm, jumping to his arrow. At that moment, another stone sword swept towards her, and she immediately jumped away from the stone statue. The stone sword saw the stone statue's shoulder heavily, knocking him to the ground. Miria also took the opportunity to slip into the stone gate. "Humph! Simple-minded guy.'

When Yugari flew lightly over the stone bridge, the stone statue that had fallen to the ground had already recovered to its original state and joined the battle to greet her. However, it was not long before Eugari and Bralla had crossed the stone bridge, and they all followed Hecis further into the cave.

It is a very deep cave, and although it is quite spacious, the rough road is very difficult to walk. The most important thing is that the labyrinthine branching roads are dizzying and difficult to distinguish. The light of the cave is slightly dim, and there are shaky black shadows passing by from time to time on the uneven rock walls. If you listen closely, you can hear a chilling howl coming from deep underground. As the Yugari and the others continued to go deeper, the cave suddenly became clearer, and some scattered nests began to be seen on the surrounding rock walls, some of which were covered with mud on the front walls, and some were built in a square and orderly manner, making it impossible to guess what kind of creatures lived there, and the figures wandering around gradually increased.

Suddenly, a creature with thick hair and an ape-like body flashed in front of them with bat-like arms, causing Yugari to gasp.

"That's the 'eye' here, it's half a sapient race, and it's also a remnant of some of the local residents. Don't let them take you away. "There are also a few other races where the original inhabitants are also dangerous, but as long as you don't go to their territory to provoke them, you generally won't come out to cause trouble." ”

"It's like a labyrinth." Yugari sighed.

"It's a labyrinth." "If you're not invited, you're going to get lost here and become dry bones on the side of the road. Because the stone gates of this cave are basically alive and will lead you to some path that you will never turn out. As she spoke, Heather pointed to the side of the road. Some carrion-strewn bones were being discarded there, and they shuddered at the sight of Yugari.

In this way, I walked for a long time in caves large and small, and passed through countless stone gates. Yugari and the others finally stopped in front of a simple, keel-shaped stone house.

"This is it." With that, Heys stepped forward and shouted to the stone house without a door, "Hey, I've brought a guest, can I go in?" After a long time, there was no response. Heather turned around and said, "Let's go, no problem." ”

"But, is that okay?" Nervously, Eugari led Miria and Brala into the stone house with Hithis.

The inside of the stone house was black and hollow, and there were no fingers to be seen, only a purple oil lamp seemed to flicker at the end of the room in the distance. Eugari and the others followed Hecis to the oil lamp. An old woman dressed in an old, dark purple animal skin was sitting in front of an oil lamp. She wore a purple-black felt hat, her exposed skin was dry and wrinkled, covered with large lilac marks, and her slightly purple-red eyes were fixed on the dagger made of white bone in her hand.

After seeing Eugari and the others come in, she put down the dagger in her hand, beckoned them to sit down, looked at Heys, and said slowly, "I've heard the 'ants' talk about the things on the road, and the elder hasn't been here for a long time." I didn't expect to be followed by a few tender little guys. ”

"Let's be clear, Purple Pupil. They're not your food. Didn't I come to you because there were few people passing by? Heather said calmly.

"Just kidding, don't worry about it." Saying that, the purple pupils glanced at Youjiali and them charmingly. They couldn't help but shiver.

"Don't worry, Grown. The things you need have already been prepared, and the basic skeleton has already been built by the rare guest, so you only need to stir in the additives you just arrived with the black magic crystal that you prepared before, and you can complete it. Don't worry, don't worry...... Hehehe......"

"Huh? Isn't it a white magic crystal? Miria blurted out, then immediately realized something and quickly covered her mouth.

"Hehehe." Purple Pupil smiled, "Little guy, I didn't see that you know a lot." ”

Looking at Yujiali, who tilted her head and looked puzzled, Heysis patiently explained, "Indeed, this place is known to the world for the extremely precious White Magic Crystal. However, in fact, a large number of white magic crystals are buried in the lowest level of the Dust Wind Cave. Because the cave is sealed by powerful magic, it is generally difficult to enter. Moreover, there are a large number of high-level dangerous species inside, and even if you go in, you will basically not be able to get out alive. The people here have given it a more vivid name - Shattered Dream Realm. In fact, almost all of the white magic crystals collected here were derived from the vicinity of the secret realm, and even so, there were many dangerous monsters gathered around there, and ordinary adventurers would not dare to approach them. There are very few white magic crystals that can be collected every year. Not to mention the high price, if you really want to build weapons and equipment based on that kind of material, there is no eighty or ninety years that you can't collect. Therefore, generally speaking, the White Magic Crystal is more used as the finishing touch material for weapons and equipment of the "Elite Level". ”

"I see." Eugari nodded.

"The materials are still being smelted, and they will almost be fused by daylight tomorrow. You can stay here for one night in peace. Let's wait until tomorrow. Purple Pupil said slowly.

Heather looked at Eugari and the others, and everyone nodded in unison. That's it.

"About Starlis...... In the evening, Cessis sat in front of the stone house of the purple eyes, and told Yujali and the others in detail about the previous commission she had received in Starlis.

"Feng Lin and I, the vice president who received you before, have been conducting investigations in areas where the case is dense since we accepted the commission. At first it was strange to us that we were never able to meet children, even though cases of missing children continued to occur during our investigations. Whether we are hiding in the mountains or in the children's carriages, they can always avoid our convoys and commit crimes in other areas. So I guess they have a very well-informed intelligence network, or someone secretly tipping them off. Their style of doing things is unusually cautious, and they will immediately evacuate at the slightest disturbance, and will never drag mud and water. And it should be a large-scale detection skill, and the exact number of people in each carriage can be grasped. Until you have confirmed the true face of each passenger, or if you are not completely sure, you will never take the initiative. It wasn't until later, when we used some hidden potions, that we were able to meet them. ”

"What kind of guy is that?" Yugari asked anxiously.

"Judging from the way they dressed, it is likely to be related to the Apocalypse Revolutionary Army, but there is no conclusive evidence. In addition to the dozen or so attacking miscellaneous soldiers, there are also two men who are almost identical in body shape and even physical features, and their strength is also superior, and they can completely match the top adventurers. ”

"Do you know what their profession is?" Miria asked.

"Well...... One of them is not very agile in reach, but his arm strength is outstanding, he has a brute strength, and his weapon is a huge metal hammer, so he has no special skills, and I think he should be a weapon warrior. Another speculation based on Feng Lin is that he should be a hunter. There's nothing special about him himself, it's just that his pet is very weird, elusive, and he can't catch his shadow at all, so he doesn't know what kind of battle pet he is carrying. ”

"So weird? Is it really a hunter? Miria muttered to herself.

"I think it's still very credible. Because Feng Lin is a hunter herself, she can be said to know a lot about the hunter profession, and I believe that her judgment should not be wrong. Heathis paused and continued, "We couldn't leave the convoy because we had to protect a carload of children. In fact, it didn't take long to fight, and the other party immediately retreated after realizing that he could not succeed. It's unlikely that we'll be able to win quickly, and we can't chase them with our kids, so we'll have to go back. ”

"Where did they go, did they continue to investigate?"

"We met them in the grave forest. At that time, when they fled, they were scattered and retreated, so it was not easy to judge the direction in which they really retreated. When we returned, we organized a large-scale search in the forest. Nor can it be said that there was no harvest at all, and in the deepest part of the forest, almost at the foot of the mountain to the north, a dilapidated camp was found. However, when we arrived, we found that the building was already empty. Feng Lin felt that it should be their temporary base, and they would definitely go there in the future. But we couldn't stay in Starlis for long, so we couldn't arrange for someone to stay there all the time, so we had to leave. For the most part, we basically informed the local Guild Alliance when we left Stalis. As far as I know, they also organized several searches later, but they all came empty-handed. I guess they were either too cautious, or they knew their actions beforehand, so they didn't return to camp. ”

"Anything else?"

"Let me think about it......," Heatis dragged her cheeks, looked at the stalactites in the cave and thought for a moment, and continued, "There was a guard who was caught, and he said before he was killed that they seemed to have been in charge of this task recently, and it seemed that it had been done by another team before. And the location where they kidnapped the children has also changed, and now it seems that they still have to travel some way by water. Because he was slurred at the time, how much credibility did he have...... It's hard to say. ”

Heather sighed, shook her head, and said, "That's pretty much it, but there isn't much of value, and if I think of anything later, I'll tell you." I hope I didn't disappoint you. ”

"Where, that's enough. Thank you so much. Yugari thanked them.

"Also, because their intelligence network is very well-informed, there are many things that few people know as little as possible, and we haven't made the previous report with the Guild Alliance public. And, I suspect that there may be their eyeliner within the Alliance, so the reports submitted to the Alliance are not all. Pay more attention to it in the future. ”

"And that kind of thing?" Yujari's eyes widened in disbelief.

"Of course, but there is no evidence. It's not good to say this kind of thing. Just in case. Heath shrugged her shoulders and said.