Rainbow – No, it should be said that Alice was sitting quietly in the corner in a different capacity. The girl's clear and deep gaze watched the dancing tip of the knife turn at an angle on her slender hand—the whirling blade seemed like her uneasiness and fragility at a certain time.

But the blade stopped, becoming cold, sharp, and shining.

She believed that those people were not there to contain her, but to give her a chance to make amends, and that was all. It's like a deal, but the buyer and seller are at least equal.

The word equality seemed to stab the girl, making her slightly purple eyes shrink.

It's hard for her to say whether this counts as an equality, or is it based on charity? She felt her sensitivity and suspicion growing, becoming more and more cold and mean.

She thought, the memory of the past, let it stay in the past.

"My sister is doing well with that person, and I probably don't need to bother others about these things."

"Remember it's your business, Alice."

"Marlan is on top."

The dagger slashed at the snow-white fingertips, the sting that brought her back to her senses from her musings, the kind of true justice of revenge she was seeking.

In this world, only that lady can give.

So she turned to her refuge.

Amatolan walked over and rubbed a rough palm on his chest, and the wound there scabbed over on its own, leaving only a shallow streak of blood. The Berserker's faith gave them the ability to pursue pain, and it is from this that the powerful healing power comes from, and to live to the death is not the lifelong pursuit of the ancestral warriors.

In the previous battle, they had lost two-thirds of their manpower, and it was only a difference to say that the entire army was destroyed.

The situation here has been reported, and of course it will take for the support to arrive. There was also no news from the supply camp, and it seemed to be unlucky.

For the rest of the time, they had to survive on their own.

He looked at Alice and said:

"If you're still frustrated that you've lost your mission, you might as well think of something else. In that case, anything can happen, it's just a matter of ten deaths, or nine deaths. ”

But Alice shook her head and replied:

"I'm not thinking about that, Mr. Commander."

"That's good, I don't want to see anyone distracted from my team."

Amatolan looked at the delicate Miss Nightingale, who had been sent to them by the headquarters, but he was not unhappy with the appointment to be parachuted in—because he was at least good at business.

Alice seemed to sense that the other party had something to say, and took the initiative to ask, "Is there something wrong, Mr. Captain?" ”

"There are some tasks for you," Amatolan hesitated, as if organizing how to put absurd things into a serious expression, "I heard that you know the wood language?" ”

"It's going to be a little bit, what's wrong?"

Alice recalls learning a few languages, and it wasn't a pleasant experience, but it wasn't too difficult. Drawing a line with your past self just sounds a little stiff.

"That's good."

Amatolan repeated the sentence and breathed a sigh of relief, "Have you ever seen a tree man?" A few trees have come up to us, they're just in front of us, can you translate them for us? ”

"The Greytree?"

After listening to the other party's description, Alice was slightly stunned.

……

Just as the parched earth will crack day by day—

And few people can observe the breath of decay beneath the surface of this vibrant world.

The human kingdom on the earth is staging one scene after another of power and profit, from the south to the north, from the desert to the rainforest, from the borders of the kingdom to the heart of power.

People are so obsessed with the prosperity of the moment that they ignore the unsettling messages that are never noticed.

But the populations that are closely related to it have often sniffed out the hidden signs of danger from beneath the surface of prosperity.

There was almost no end to the mine, and the side of the canyon was more like a bottomless abyss, with black rocks and canine teeth and a cold mist.

Their hiding place was nothing more than a platform carved out by the miners over the course of half a year, through the chilly canyon, through the square, surrounded by crowds of people and silent eyes.

There were actually two treemen who came.

One tall and one short, the tall one is called long branches, and the short ones are called short whiskers.

They shook their gray manes and came to Alice. Humans hardly discern any features from their dull faces, which look like carved faces growing out of tree trunks, with long eyebrows, small eyes, and long noses.

The tall tree man spoke first, its mouth opening and humming, as if there was a blower in its body, low and deep, whirring.

"The Guardians from beneath have descended into madness, the darkness is spreading, and the land is in danger. She's hunting down all the prey she thinks is targeting, and it's not safe for you to stay here, human. ”

"Who are you?" Alice asked in the Wood language.

"We are the caretakers of this woodland."

"This piece ...... Woodland? ”

There was a hint of wonder in Alice's tone, this underground canyon with no grass did not look like a woodland in any way.

Changzhi's tone was low and slow: "It's underground here, and you'll understand it when you get to that place." ”

"Wait, but we're not going anywhere."

"Humans, we have no ill will, but if you are broken by each of them, the woodlands will also be destroyed. Guided by ancient wisdom, let us stand together against the ancient Guardians. ”

"But I haven't figured out yet, who is the ancient guardian?"

“…… She used to be the caretaker here like we are, but evil has taken control of her mind, driving her into madness and hysteria. She has killed many people, and she will destroy everything here, and if this place is in danger, your earthly world will be shaky. ”

It took quite a long time for Nagaeda to finish this passage slowly. The square was silent, and the complex Wood language answers seemed like an alien language to most people.

And the fact is that -

Alice instinctively thought that the other party was exaggerating, and she asked, "What is here, so important?" ”

Nagaeda was silent for a moment.

"Can't tell them," said the shorter beard next to it, in a gruff voice, "we can't fully trust these people yet. ”

"So we have to find a way to get them to trust, Shortbeard, the Heart of the Tree guides us, and we must follow the will of the earth."

Changzhi faced Alice and said slowly, "It's the heart of the mountain." ”

"The heart of the mountain?"

Alice pondered the unfamiliar term.

At this time, there was a slight sound from the top of the cliff, and in the distance stones rolled down the cliff and fell into the abyss. The people turned their heads in that direction alertly, and the leaves on the long branches trembled, and their voices trembled in a low voice:

"Here they are."

It stared at the girl in front of it.

"Humans, you'd better make a decision quickly."

A dark blue phantom appeared on the other side of the cliff, "It's those things!" Someone shouted, like a sign of unease, that spread through the crowd. The men of the Hydra Guild ran out, having suffered even greater losses in the previous battle, and their faces turned pale at the sight of the demonic enemies above the cliffs.

The blue phantoms quickly vanished, but the uneasiness did not fade from the crowd, and soon the sound of rustling appeared on this side of the cliff, above the heads of the people.

"They're coming!" The people of the Hydra guild couldn't help but shout.

Anxiety is contagious, not to mention the bloody scars that had been ripped open a moment earlier, and the crowd could be shaken irrepressibly, and in such a situation the same enemy would be almost lifeless.

"These idiots." Amatolan cursed with a grim face.

"Can you take us to safety?" Alice looked at the scene as well, and she immediately turned back to the tall tree man and asked.

Nagaedy nodded slowly.

"At least relatively safe, human."

Alice immediately turned around and relayed its words to Amatolán.

Amatolan took the tomahawk from behind him and replied without looking back, "Tell it, we agreed." As long as it can get us to that place safely, what could be worse than staying in this place? ”

Alice's lips moved, wanting to tell the other that there was still a place of dead silence, that she had seen such a place, an abyss more desperate than despair. But out of some thought, she swallowed it back into her stomach.

She turned and nodded to the tall treant.

"Get behind me, human." Changzhi replied solemnly.

Alice was slightly stunned: "What? ”

"Get them behind me, everyone."

A faint blue shadow appeared at the other end of the canyon.

The crowd was in a panic, and only the shield-wielding guards were still calm, and they formed a silent formation in a line without the need for anyone to command.

It may not help, but for the warriors, it is their fate.

The long branch took a step forward, stepped over Alice and Amatolan, leaned down, and rooted his deadwood-like hands on the ground. Countless luxuriant branches and leaves grew from its gray arms, like new branches from dead wood, like sprouting seeds—the power of life pierced through the black rock formations, and they sprouted cracks from the ground, and from between the cracks, vine branches were drawn.

The thorny branches grew wildly in all directions, and it was still expanding outward, connecting to the sides of the rock wall, as if drawing nourishment from the whole barren land, and it was about to drain all its own fire of life. One had never seen such vigorous vitality, a patch of green beneath the gray bark of a tree, which had never seen spring coming, but had bloomed in all its glory in winter.

The brilliance in the eyes of the tall treant gradually dimmed, and it seemed to inject all life into this wall of thorns, and a deep voice echoed above the canyon:

"Take them away, Shortbeard."

"Let me stop these things."

People wake up from a dream, as if they have just noticed the changes behind them. They gazed incredulously at the wall of vibrant trees beneath the cold black rock formation, and every branch and leaf on it seemed to be blooming with a dream-like glow.

One by one, the tendrils reached out, entangled those who had not yet reacted, and sent them one by one behind the tree wall. More tendrils stretched out, curling towards the dark blue phantoms, weaving shadows of death in their path.

More people slipped through the holes under the tree walls.

Holding the tomahawk in both hands, Amatolan hesitated to put it down. "Pass the order on, let's get out of this place."

Alice looked at the giant tree with long branches and was stunned for a moment: "But ...... it?" ”

"Don't worry, human." The bearded urn roared, and a dark blue shadow leapt from above the canyon, and the Treant threw it back against the stone wall with a blow of his long arm, shattering it.

It turned its head with a look of calm on its silent face, "We originated from a seed, born in this land. And the reincarnation of the ether will eventually return to this land, connecting it with you and our mother, returning is not the end, every life has a day of farewell. ”

Alice opened her mouth slightly.

Amatolan put down his tomahawk and said in silence, "Let's go, let's go and see the woodland." ”

People began to evacuate in an orderly manner, and the people of the Hydra Guild were also in a huge shock, and they even sent people to ask what was going on.

But everyone heard an ancient blessing that echoed in the canyon for a long time:

"Ancient wisdom guides you."

"Life and the earth be with you."

Shortbeard turned his head and glanced silently at the back of the canyon. One by one, the people turned around, and they saw that on the other side of the canyon, the huge monster was appearing, waving its chelicera, and bringing up a rain of stones.

But the stone rain fell on the tree wall.

The warriors all looked at the shields in their hands.

……

"There's a battle ahead."

In the darkness, the big cat man flashed out of a fork in the road in the form of a ghost, bringing back news from the outside.

This is the second layer below the mine, and the narrow fissures that make up the cavernous landscape are hidden in one of the breaches.

A parchment map is tiled on a rock, next to a glittering three-dimensional map, but while it works, it's not safe in the dark.

Sylvade lit a crystal and used a duckbill pen to transfer the map layer by layer onto parchment, a process that practice makes perfect, and it didn't take her long at all, but only time to recuperate.

The crowd was attracted by the sudden appearance of the lion paladin, who stuck his sword in the rock, rubbed the flint and lit the pipe, and took a puff.

It held the pipe in one hand and looked at the three-dimensional map and said, "There are three forks under the canyon ahead, and there are people fighting in that direction, and they seem to be entangled by those constructed creatures. ”

"That's our people."

Time Reflection hurriedly spoke, but seeing everyone looking at him, he couldn't help but be a little embarrassed, and slowed down his voice, "If it's too troublesome, forget it......"

"I haven't asked yet," the big cat man looked in this direction and suddenly said, "Who are you?" ”

"We're from the Holy White Stone Guild, and the Hydra Guild."

At this time, a line of text appeared in the chat channel, reflected in everyone's field of vision.

Kita: "I've heard of these two guilds, and they're still famous in the southeastern region of Nognes, in the Reliquary's Harbor, at the southernmost border of the Old World Staircase with Azuka. ”

Although the big cat man couldn't see the words, he could read something from Fang Yu's clear gaze.

"What about you?" Time Reflection looked at them and asked.

"You can see us as people who come to support you," Red replied, "but we have our own purposes, but there is no ill will towards you. ”

"Mercenaries."

Time Reflection nodded, "I see, the people who went to the camp asked you to come." ”

The big cat man looked at him and nodded. He didn't intend to break this wonderful misunderstanding, the other party thought he was a knight of virtue, and every word he said could be verified.

That's it.

"We can go and help your people, but we need the ore down here as payment."

"I can't help the head of the regiment answer you, although there are a lot of ores below, and they may not be worth a penny at this time." Time Reflection shook her head.

"It's okay," Fang Yu said this time, "We just need you to keep it a secret for us." ”

"What's the secret?"

"I want you not to contact your guild for the time being, and hand us the communication crystal first, okay?"

Time Reflection hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded: "You saved my life, I want to believe you." ”

Fang Yuan is a little funny, such a person is quite interesting.

But they didn't mean anything malicious, just to protect themselves.

……

They hadn't gone far from the chasm when they saw the flick of the battle beneath the canyon in the distance, the flames of magic that flickered in the darkness.

But strikingly, in front of them was a tall Greytree Man, who was waving its arms in rage, keeping the constructed creatures in front.

Relying on it to cover in front, the Electors behind can calmly line up and fight the Crystallization Beast.

But the situation is still precarious, and more and more blue phantoms appear on both sides of the canyon, which has already posed a serious threat to the other side.

But what was truly deadly was the crab-shaped crystallizer, which could use a magic ranged attack, and the sharp rocks rained down on the Elector's formation, sending several white rays of light.

The big cat man and the others watched this scene condescendingly.

Fang Yu asked people to pass on the word and ask about the reflection of time about the tree man, but learned that the latter did not know. This is actually not unexpected-

It seems that the Grey Tree people have found the Holy White Stone and the Hydra Guild, just as they have found him, but in a different way.

The big cat man suddenly spoke:

"They were more numerous than we thought, and I may have made a mistake with Parker before."

Fang Yu almost froze for a moment before he reacted: "You mean, the footprints of the more than twenty people before may not have been left by them?" ”

The big cat nodded, "Not a possibility, but almost certainly." I'm afraid those footprints were left a little later than we thought. ”

Fang Yu was silent for a moment, frowning, and still hadn't figured out the key to the problem for a while.

Who left those footprints?

And Sylvade was already laughing, and her laughter was always heartwarming.

"Something to say, the people who passed by behind didn't save him," she asked in a tone of deep meaning, "they may not have noticed, or they may have taken care of themselves, what does the captain think?" ”

Fang Yu knew that what she said was a reflection of time, but from the tone of the ship's young lady, he heard a layer of intrigue and intrigue.

Of course, the aristocratic daughter grew up in such an environment, and the slightest clue will always make her think deeper and farther than others.

But it's really suspicious—

"I'd suggest you come back to this later," Red interrupted the conversation, "and if you don't make a decision, those people may be out of luck." ”

He was referring to the people of the Holy White Stone Guild below.

Fang Yu looked in that direction, "Actually, those small crystalline beasts don't pose a threat to them, we just need to help them get rid of the big one." ”

"Hmm-" the big cat man said in an inexplicable voice, "I'm afraid it's a little tricky." ”

"Will it be difficult to fight head-on?"

"That's not a low grade."

"Maybe we change tactics?"

Red put away the holy sword, thrust it behind him, and shook his head, "No, you can try it." With that, he lowered his body and crawled towards the cliff in that direction.

Fang Yuan's eyes were roaming the cliff, and suddenly, he saw a protruding sharp rock.

Maybe you can do it again.

He thought to himself.

……