The group hid in the shadows behind the ruins of the broken wall, and the excavation site in the distance was filled with fire.

The excavation site was staggeringly large, with a huge bonfire lit in the field, and the laborers were working under the firelight, and the sound of tinkling could be heard in the distance, even late at night.

The air pirates were moving far more than they had imagined, and they had taken an unknown number of people from other places, and at a glance, the long queue of staggering sand and gravel could not be seen.

According to the few pirates they captured, the number of people working during the day would only be more - and that was just one of the three main excavations in the city of Idus.

Fang Yu looked at these people from a distance, and couldn't help but clench his fist slightly.

Among the laborers, men, women, and children, all of them were ragged, and some of them were vain and withered, marching under the whip of air thieves like walking corpses.

Under the firelight there were overseers of the air pirates, and if they didn't get their way, they swept them out of the ranks with a single whip. Then a burly pirate dragged him out of the crowd and punched him.

Fang Yu saw with his own eyes that a man was beaten to the point that he had no breath, and everyone on the side just watched this scene numbly.

"If I were them," Parker replied, looking at the scene, "I would have killed myself and come back to life." ”

But Sylvid shook her head lightly and gestured to the side.

Fang Yu looked in that direction, only to find that the man who was carried out gradually glowed with a little white light, and after a while, the other party sat up from the ground with a dejected face.

Fang Yu was taken aback: "They set up Hengshi here?" ”

Sylvid nodded and replied in a soft voice: "Actually, Bunnigu also has a similar ban on them, and there are some problems with the shackles on their feet, and Baggins quietly helped them lift it, and did not choose to tell them the truth." ”

"That thing is not Hengshi, I tried it, but it doesn't seem to be useful to the air pirates, maybe our method is wrong, or it may be the 'evil thing' of the dark saints."

"So before that, it doesn't make much sense for Bun Nigu and them to be resurrected, since the Blood Shark Sky Island is acting like this, it will naturally be prepared-"

Fang Yu listened, looked at the scene from a distance, and couldn't help but curse secretly: "These bastards! ”

Sylvid looked at him, "Captain, it's best to let the navy solve this matter." Otherwise, we alone would not have been able to save so many people. ”

Fang Yu nodded calmly, understanding that they had come to gather intelligence, not to be heroes.

He couldn't help but look not far away.

The place where the people were hiding was still far from the bottom of the pit, and they couldn't see what was going on below—but in that direction, there was a silent figure.

Alyssa bent down like a cat, silently walking behind a broken wall, stealthy.

Occasionally, she would raise her head to gauge where she was in the firelight, but her bright gaze was so fleeting that she couldn't even notice it.

Not to mention the unaware air pirates, the whereabouts of this twin sister are also a little mysterious in Fang Yuan's eyes, just like a shadow that occasionally stops. Even he would lose his figure in the darkness from time to time, only to reappear in another unexpected direction in the blink of an eye.

Fang Yu was a little amazed.

As a newcomer cultivated by the Lonely White Field, Sister Alyssa is the backbone of the next generation of Nightingale teams of the Rainlisteners, and the so-called Guilds like the Rainlisteners have limited resources, but they can't stand the vision of the Lonely White Wild.

With the level that this Miss Nightingale is showing at the moment, even if it is placed in a team like the Spear of the Silver Forest and Tapolis, it is a talent that will not be buried.

Of course, she may not be as good as the top Nightingales - but sometimes the gap between the top Callers and the non-top Ones in Aitaria is more of a coincidence.

If you want to talk about Odin, the king of warriors, his talent is not top-notch.

So Fang Yu couldn't help but wonder if it was a bit condescending to let this lady work part-time as a sailor in the team. It's just the Seven Seas Brigade, where should they go to find a qualified sailor?

By the time he was distracted, Alyssa had glided lightly across a small slope and leaped through a firelit area into a thicket.

The bush swayed slightly, attracting an alarmed gaze from a short distance, but she just in time released a mouse from her pocket and scurried under the broken wall not far away. The air thief glanced at it from afar, then withdrew his gaze.

Fang Yu was stunned, it turned out that the other party had caught a few mice from the rat colony before, for this purpose.

After Alyssa dived into the dense bushes, she really got close to the inside of the excavation site—

She calmly looked through the branches and leaves, gently opened a page of light, picked up the communication crystal, and projected the situation here into the video communication with Fang Yu and the others.

At the same time, on Mr. Graystone's platform, in the battle room, Kita, Chest, and Shesta were also watching this scene through a glowing light curtain.

It's just that in the center of the excavation site, there is nothing in Fang's imagination, to be exact, there is nothing down there—only the laborers are digging in a clang, and there are still broken walls and ruins below.

"There's nothing down there, Captain." Alyssa's voice came softly from the communication crystal.

"Alyssa, can you see anything over there?"

"No, Captain."

It seems that they have chosen the wrong place.

Tonight should be enough time for them to go to the next digging point, but if they make a mistake, the night will be wasted. And the air pirates imprisoned on the platform don't know when they will react.

There isn't much time left for them.

"Come back, Alyssa," replied Fang Ou, "be careful. ”

"Wait a minute, Captain." Alyssa's voice changed, and she looked through the bushes to see two men approaching in the distance. She hadn't seen those two men, but the other's outfit made her suddenly more vigilant.

The gray robe, with a little glitter on her hand, she was very familiar.

She curtailed her voice slightly, lowered her voice, and said, "It's the Dragon Worshippers, Captain." ”

"You see them?"

Alyssa nodded: "Judging from the people I have seen in the rain listeners, the other party's status is not low. They seemed to be talking to the air pirates, giving them orders. ”

Fang Yu vaguely felt a chance, and hurriedly asked, "Alyssa, can you overhear what they say?" ”

"I'll try."

"Wait a minute." Fang Yu took the initiative to stop the other party, he looked in that direction, the fire outside the bushes was bright, and it was difficult to have a place to sneak in. Alyssa may be able to give it a try, but if the opponent is of a higher level, there is a good chance of failure.

Listening to information is important, but the safety of your own team members must also be the first priority.

He took out the clockwork goblin and whispered, "You stay where you are, I'll try it." ”

Alyssa understood what he was thinking, and couldn't help but be a little moved, in fact, if the task was important, it was not unacceptable for the nightingale to sacrifice once. She reminded in a low voice, "But there is a high-level magician of the other party around here, captain." ”

Fang Yu couldn't help frowning, this was indeed a trouble.

However, he was about to make a move, but Attila stopped him. Miss Elf spoke quietly, "I'll try, Eddard. ”

"Miss Attila?"

Attila looked at Alyssa and asked, "Miss Alyssa, do you still have mice?" ”

"There's another one."

"You let it out, be careful, don't let it escape."

Alyssa nodded, and as she had been told, she had roughly guessed what Attila was trying to do, and only made a small hole in her pocket, allowing the mouse to burrow halfway out, and grabbed it.

The mouse was about to struggle, but it was at this moment that Miss Elf whispered a spell through the light pages. The rat was stunned, then fell silent, and looked blankly at Attila in the pages of light.

Inside the room, Kita looked at the scene and whispered, "Pacify the animals, druids." ”

"I know that," replied the box, "Miss Attila often talks to Mr. Greystone." ”

It was only when the rat had quieted down that Attila whispered something to it, but it was a secret language between the druids, so that no one could understand what she was saying. Then she said to Alyssa, "Now you can let go of it." ”

Alyssa let go of her hand, and as soon as the mouse fell to the ground, she was a little panicked before, but she quickly reacted and quickly crawled in this direction.

It walked through a ruin, no one paying attention to a mouse, and the little thing came to Fang Yu and the others safely. Attila whispered a few words of reassurance before she said:

"I promised it a small favor and let it go."

"How can it help us?" The big cat man squinted at the shivering little one.

But Fang Plover reacted, took out a type II clockwork fairy and asked, "Miss Attila, can you get it to help us get this thing close enough to those people?" ”

Attila nodded slightly.

She took the clockwork elf, placed it in front of the mouse, and whispered something to the latter. The rat circled the clockwork elf, then picked it up in one gulp.

It looked at Miss Elf again. Attila immediately pointed in one direction, and the little creature immediately rushed out in that direction with a clockwork elf in his mouth.

Everyone watched this miraculous scene, and since Améya hardly accepted false believers, the Chosen rarely met the druids, and they would not have imagined that such a profession would have such a hand.

Soon, Fang Yu confirmed its location through the location information fed back by the clockwork fairy. And if he doesn't take the initiative to control the clockwork elf, because there is no active magical connection between the two, no matter how clever a magician is, he can't detect it.

After all, Aitalia still has background magic fluctuations, and the little magic ripples caused by the passive perception between him and the clockwork elf are probably not as conspicuous as the background clutter of this world.

At the same time, a confirmation message came from Alyssa's side: "I see it in the vicinity." ”

Fang Yu immediately hit the hearing channel of the type II clockwork fairy, and a somewhat rough voice immediately came out of it:

“…… My lord, we've been working day and night, but there's nothing down here, and it's not our fault. And it's not just us, isn't it the same situation at the other two excavation sites? ”

It was clearly the voice of an air pirate, and it was pouring bitter water.

"Don't talk about that thing here, not even half of the gold coins have been dug up, those archaeologists have already dug this place to the bottom in the past few decades, how can there be any good things left for us?"

After the air pirate's voice, he was answered by a somewhat somber voice:

"Although the log has been lost, the 'Dark Crystal' will only be found in one of these three places, and if you don't find it, it only means that you haven't done your best. You have so much hard labor at hand, and you all yourselves, do you think that 'Lord Rollin' came to you to let you eat dry? ”

"You can't say that, my lord, we are air pirates, not coolies. Brothers have been complaining about this place where birds don't for so long, you can't let me force them to go to work in person, right? ”

"That's your own business."

When Fang Yu heard the words 'Lord Luo Lin', he couldn't help but be slightly stunned. But then, he heard the pirate snort disapprovingly.

But after a while, the other replied, "Okay, I'll step up a little more, but I'm going to say that if I don't find anything after digging to the end, then don't blame me for being unkind to the Chosen One." ”

"They lost the journal in Van Rik, and this account can't be counted on us, and the Chosen One...... Hmph, they were originally lackeys of the Olin gods, and I suspect that they and we are not of the same mind at all. ”

"Enough," the gloomy voice said, "the alliance with the Chosen One, which was made by the Eternals himself, and it is not your turn to talk nonsense." ”

and the Eternals.

It wasn't the first time Fang had heard the name, and at first he thought that the Eternals were Nicol Bolas's dragon minions, and that included its admirers, of course.

However, as his investigation progressed, he came to realize that the relationship between the Ryonists and Nicol Bolas was not always so harmonious, and that the Eternal seemed to mean something else from the Rainhearer incident.

And here, he heard the name again, and the other party's words seemed to confirm a thought in his heart—the Eternals were not inferior in status among the dragon worshippers.

However, after this conversation, the other party no longer mentions any sensitive information in the conversation.

Rather, it was a question and answer about the daily work of the excavation site, and after listening carefully, Fang Yu could vaguely determine that there were at least a thousand or more workers working here.

He couldn't help but be secretly surprised that it was not a small project to kidnap so many people from Eden and Anquid to this place. What is the plan of such a big plan of the Dragon Worship Sect and the Dragon Fire Guild?

The voices faded away.

Fang Yu was silent for a moment, recalling what he had heard before, before he said, "It sounds like what they are digging up should be the so-called 'black crystal'. ”

He whispered to Miss Elf, "Miss Tata, do you know what 'Dark Crystal' means?" ”

Tata shook his head slightly, "I may know a little about the Dark Dragon, Mr. Knight, but there are too many specific references to 'Dark Crystal'. It itself simply refers to black crystals, of which there are countless in Aitalia. ”

Fang Yu thought for a moment, picked up the communication crystal, and asked, "Ji Ta, what does 'black crystal' generally refer to in the context of dragon worshippers, and can you find it?" Is there a precedent? ”

"Got it, Captain."

There was a soft reply, followed by the sound of flipping books.

After only a moment, I heard the naturalist lady say in surprise: "I found it, this word has appeared in the past, and it is recorded in the "Kaurin-Ishurian Cult Examination". It is said that the 'black crystal' in the mouth of the Dragon Worship Sect generally refers specifically - it refers to the 'Dragon Scales' of the Dark Dragon. ”

"Dragon's First Scales?"

"There's a note in the book, Captain. The so-called dragon first scales are the scales shed by natural dragons for the first time, which is the witness of the juvenile dragon entering adulthood. ”

Fang Plover was a little surprised: "This means that the Dragon Worship Sect is here looking for Nicol Bolas's dragon scales, but does the dark dragon also have a teenager, isn't Nicol Bolas a dragon who has changed from a human to a dragon?" ”

Before Kita could reply, Tata's calm voice came: "I know that, Mr. Knight. For dragons, the dragon's first scales are the only product they leave behind at the moment they turn into dragons. ”

"Turning into a dragon?"

"That is, the dark dragon that is specifically humanized."

"Wait a minute, Miss Tata," Kita couldn't help but say, "You mean to say that Nicol Bolas is a dragon in Idus?" But this seems to be a bit inconsistent with the rumors, didn't Nicol Bolas become a dragon in the hometown of the hero Josyud? ”

Fang Yu had also heard this rumor.

He couldn't help but look at the western sky, and under that purple star, there was a vast sea of silver sand. And in the middle of the sea of sand, there is a small oasis, which is called the land of dragons by the world.

It was once the homeland of Mazak's ancestors for generations, the resting place of the Holy Sword, and the birthplace of the dragon-slaying hero Joshide. Legend has it that Nicol Bolas was born into that ancient clan and then irrevocably transformed into a disaster.

Eventually, the Land of Dragons vanished completely, leaving only ashes behind a sea of fire.

Nicol Bolas spread his wings and the Dragon's Shadow traveled north, eventually reaching this place, reducing the ancient and thriving city to ruins.

He looked at the sky in that direction, and his mind seemed to be the scene of the dragon volleying in the sky, the figure that covered the sky and the sun, and the flames of destruction that fell from mid-air, plunging the sand city into a sea of fire with desperate screams and cries.

Fang Yu shuddered.

"It is true that there are rumors," Tata replied calmly, "although I missed this history in my sleep, I have read about it from some sources before. ”

"Then it can't be that the Dragon Worship Sect has put up an oolong, right?" Parker couldn't help but say, "This widely circulated rumor, even we know it, how can they not know." They're followers of the Dark Dragon, aren't they? ”

The Paparals rarely had some truth in their words, and the crowd fell silent for a while.

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