Passing through the quiet woodland, the Ranger Captain of the Dragonfire Guild stopped in front of a chalk-colored boulder. He saw his first arrow, between a patch of gray pine needles. He looked through there, through the forest on the side of the boulder, and in the darkness there were red lights that flickered and faded like images of wriggling insects.

There was a pool of blood at the edge of the forest, and speckled traces stretched into the depths of the forest. Captain Ranger sniffed, and the air was filled with a heavy smell of blood, which seriously interfered with his judgment.

It seemed that he had been shot, he thought, it should be the second arrow.

He took a few steps forward and saw the second arrow. It was abandoned on the road with a broken shaft, missing the cluster of arrows, and stained with bloodstained handprints. Did you flee into the forest? The Ranger Captain thought again, but it was also possible that he was hiding in the darkness and trapped in the beast.

He paused and listened for a moment. Under the aural 'vision', the boulder is empty, the treetops swaying gently, occasionally outlining the shape of the canopy, and the light is alive and disappearing in the darkness. There was an occasional red glow in the distance, and it was someone else still fighting.

But at least there was no sound around him, so the Ranger Captain was relieved and walked forward quietly. He looked up at the zigzag path that formed under the two high-arched rocks in front of him, but he still didn't dare to enter them easily, but chose to take a detour.

But as soon as he turned, a shadow slipped out of it, and there was a soft 'click'—and as soon as the Ranger Captain turned his head, the corner of his forehead touched a cold object—the muzzle of a handcuff.

He froze for a moment, and in the back of his eye he saw that the hand holding the gun was rough and powerful. It was a sailor's hand, and a knife had cut a cut in his arm, but in a short time it had formed a new scab.

"You're quicker than I am," said Baggins, pulling the hammer away, "but at this distance, you're no faster than the gun in my hand, so I'd advise you not to move." ”

Captain Ranger raised his hand and asked, "You're not a nightingale, why didn't I find out you were hiding there?" ”

"Don't be tempted, I'm much lower than you," Baggins replied, "It's just that I've traveled more places, learned some tricks from the sideways, and above the sea of clouds, some ancient clans have some special methods of holding their breath." ”

"Above the sea of clouds, the second world?"

Baggins nodded.

The Ranger Captain suddenly lowered his hands and pulled out the scimitar at his waist. He was desperate, but his opponent didn't make a mistake. Baggins decisively shot him in the shoulder blade. The Ranger Captain snorted, pulled out the scimitar with his left hand, and turned around to slash.

Baggins turned his head away and shot him in the chest again.

The Ranger Captain's face turned pale and he fell on his back.

Baggins dropped his handcuff and stepped forward, drawing his saber and stabbing him in the chest. After mending the knife, he looked at his opponent again. Before the Ranger Captain died, his eyes were still looking straight at the sky, and he looked like he was dead.

"It's a pity."

Baggins shook his head. I don't know if it's a pity that the other party is still qualified as an opponent, or I don't have a chance to say something.

He reached out and covered the other's eyes, causing their eyelids to droop.

As soon as the Ranger Captain dies, his teammates naturally perceive the information from the team list.

The Iron Guard, who was already clumsy under the attack of Shesta's quick blow, was distracted for a moment and seized the opportunity for Miss Maid. She stepped forward and pressed the rim of her shield and pulled her opponent's defense apart, slamming a punch into the Iron Guard's chest.

With a loud bang, the latter flew out.

At the same time, the Lion-Man also knocked out the paladin of Nasaridor with his scepter, in fact, from the moment the latter fixed the ground with a frost spell for Luo Yu.

Only then did the big cat man turn his head and look at the Paparal man lying on the ground: "Where is Luo Yu?" ”

Parker shook his head with a swollen face. "I saw him lead a nightingale into the woods."

"In what direction?"

"Behind me."

Without saying a word, Red chased in that direction.

……

Luo Yu looked at the swaying golden flames, and the firelight made the surroundings darker a lot. The undulating waves of fire couldn't help but remind him of Dorifin. Nicol Bolas's dangerous gaze lurked beneath the golden, shifting flames, staring coldly at its prey.

But the fire actually came from his spells. It was a twelve-meter-long wall of fire, and its burning flames engulfed everything in its path.

Except for the hostile nightingale.

The other party can silently walk through the woodland, like a slippery shadow, silently.

As Luo Yu turned, the shadow formed in a cloud of mist, and from it stretched out its claws—a dagger in the shape of a crow's beak, pitch black, and an emerald extending from its hilt with a thin tongue that sipped into the flames until the tip of the blade.

Luo Yu suddenly turned his head as if he felt something, and the hand that was covered by turning around was holding an azure crystal pillar at this moment. The crystal pillar was filled with light, in stark contrast to the silent expression on his face.

When the nightingale saw this, his expression was shocked, and he only had time to stab the dagger in his hand with all his might, and he screamed and was sent out by the light in the crystal.

Luo Yu snorted, holding the dagger and kneeling down. The dagger was stuck in his left chest, about an inch and a half from his heart.

The nightingale was no better, struggling to rise from the ground, her right shoulder stretching down to her lower abdomen was a patch of hoarfrost, and her right arm was covered in a dark purple patch under the frost, almost completely necrotic. But in terms of the level of the two, she is of course the losing side.

She looked at Luo Yu with some complications, and she still hadn't reacted to how the other party found her.

The dagger was quenched with poison, and both of them could barely move. The nightingale struggled to put her hands behind her back and asked, "How can you find me?" ”

Luo Yu thought about this question seriously for a while, coughed a little, and then stretched out his left hand.

He wore a pair of artisan gloves on his left hand, and with a slight lift, a dark golden clockwork goblin flew down from the canopy. The dark gold shell is because of the long use of this clockwork goblin, and I don't know how much wind and frost this clockwork goblin has experienced.

But its owner still cherishes it as much as ever.

The clockwork elf turned to face the nightingale.

"You're still a combat craftsman?" Nightingale was a little incredulous: "You're not going to use other flexible builds, are you?" ”

Luo Yu shook his head.

Nightingale breathed a sigh of relief: "If you say that you will, then I don't dare to act rashly." ”

Luo Yu thought for a moment and felt that it seemed to be true. But it was too late, so he chose not to say a word.

Nightingale suddenly felt that this was an honest man in front of him, and couldn't help but ask, "But I obviously used stealth techniques, how can you see me?" ”

"Shadows."

"You're not lying to me, stealth doesn't leave a shadow."

"Stealth won't, but Fallen Leaves will." Luo Yu was concise and to the point.

Nightingale gasped and looked at the wall of fire still burning behind him—suddenly speechless. She thought that the other party's spell was to force her to show up, but she didn't expect that it was just to create a one-way light source, nothing more.

The nightingale spoke, her left hand behind her back carefully groping for something. It wasn't until she grasped the handle of a flying knife that she raised her head again and looked at Luo Yu.

Her eyes wandered: "Thank you for telling me this, but now it's time to say goodbye." ”

"Indeed." Luo Yu nodded in agreement.

What does that really mean?

The nightingale was stunned. But she didn't think much of it, her left hand was withdrawn from behind her and three silver rays of light were thrown forward.

Three silver rays of light went straight towards Luo Yu.

Luo Yu was looking up, and an array of light formed on top of the nightingale's head, and an ice edge fell straight down from it. Before the latter could react, it was pressed underneath.

At the same time.

On the clockwork fairy in front of Luo Yu, a green shield of light suddenly unfolded. Two silver rays of light bounced off the light shield, and the third pierced the light shield, but it had already lost its strength, hit Luo Yu's robe, and fell again.

Only then did Luo Yu let go of the hand holding the dagger, and his hand was stained with blood. He glanced blankly and breathed a sigh of relief. He asked the other party to look at his control gloves and watch the clockwork goblin, in fact, all to divert the other party's attention.

He wasn't stalling for time, using the dagger to cast spell gestures.

In the end, it seems that he is the better one.

A sharp warning about the intrusion of toxins is being heard in the system.

Luo Yu stood up with the trunk of the tree on the side, trying to take out the neutralizer. Suddenly, he felt lightheaded, and as soon as his eyes were dark, he fell to the ground, unconscious.

……

In the eyes of Assassin XX, the names of the Warriors flashed a few times on the team list, and then darkened after the Berserker and the Dexterous Swordsman.

Not far away, Fang Yu was also listening to the voice of the box and Jita in the communication channel: "Captain, we are almost recovered." Together with Luo Hao, we took out the Gunner, and Attila and Miss Sylvide helped Alyssa get rid of each other's Nightingales and Battlemen. ”

Then there was Miss Atira's voice: "Ed, hold on a little longer, we'll be there in a minute." ”

Miss Elf's voice came from Alyssa's communication channel.

Only then did Fang Yu relax and realize that the overall situation had been decided.

He looked at the Assassin in front of him, dressed in a black and white coat shirt, with white gloves, holding a caged sword with the tip of the sword pointing towards the ground, the emerald of the collar shining slightly in the sunlight, and a top hat he had ever seen.

The other party didn't seem to have any intention of retreating.

That's exactly what Twenty Hearts thinks.

His gaze was fixed on a message from the Berserker's last pass, and he swept it slightly: "The opponent is Van Rik's genius boy—"

He raised his sword—the two had dealt with each other at the Traveler's Rest, and he had suffered a loss at that time—and they had met again at Dorifin, but that time the two had not really met each other because of Nicol Bolas and the Cult of the Dragons.

But after Van Rik's attack. The fact that Fang Yu and his party are the heroes of Dorifin has long been passed down by people.

The two hadn't seen each other for nearly a year, and now Fang Yu was no longer the same Fang Yu he used to be. Twenty's gaze swept over Fang Yuan's four energy angels one by one from under the brim of his hat, and he frowned slightly.

He raised his left hand and pointed to the emerald on his chest.

But Fang Yu took the first step to stop him: "Wait a minute." ”

Twenty hands stopped and looked at him.

"Your name is twenty, right?" Fang Yu asked, "I saw you once almost a year ago in the Traveler's Rest, and we don't know each other anymore. We have fought once, and we both know each other's strength, and now I have four energy angels, and I may not be able to help you for a while, but it is not a big problem for you to hold back. ”

The two fought for a moment before, and Twenty naturally knew that what Fang Yu said was true. Although he was very curious in his heart, in just one year, how could this person in front of him make such great progress?

Or did they just say that when they fought at the Traveler's Rest, the other party happened to have no flexible equipment in their hands, so they couldn't show their strength?

But he thought for a moment and asked, "What do you want to say?" ”

This was the first time Fang Yu had heard the other party speak, and his voice was quite ordinary, not at all as indifferent as he imagined.

"Nothing, I'm just curious. Because I have dealt with you, so in my opinion, you and your eldest sister are just ordinary people, I don't understand a little, why are you with the Dragon Fire Guild, aren't you worried about the consequences? ”

Twenty was slightly stunned, raised his head and looked at him: "You care about this?" ”

"I'm just curious. You should know the reason for my conflict with you, but it is just a coincidence that it is due to some personal conflict. ”

Fang Yu deliberately concealed the matter related to Attila, after all, very few people knew about this matter, and the scope of influence was not large. In fact, I am afraid that apart from the mastermind behind it, few people know that Sylvid, the original mercenary of Attila's brother, has been investigating the disappearance of those adventurers.

But even if the other party really knows some clues and behaves differently in his expressions, he is not worried. Because at least it can be analyzed from it, the connection between the Dragonfire Guild and the mastermind behind the scenes.

But the other party really didn't seem to know, and there was no change in his expression.

Fang Yu then said: "And now that we have defeated your brigade, your guild is already in danger under the attack of giant spiders and giants, as long as we take another step forward, you should know what will happen next, right?" ”

"You want to negotiate with us?"

Fang Yu nodded.

Twenty hesitated, but before he could speak, a voice suddenly came from the emerald of his neckline:

"What do you want?"

It was a man's voice, serious and cold.

Fang Yu was slightly stunned when he heard this—he didn't expect that the emerald turned out to be a communication crystal, and in addition to this man's voice, there were faint sounds of fighting in the crystal. He even heard the voice of the 'big sister' coming from inside.

This shows that the other party is not in the Dragon Fire Guild Brigade, but on the battlefield.

This person's status must not be low, Fang Yu thought of this almost immediately.

There was a faint movement in his heart, this was the first time he had really 'face-to-face' with the high-level of the Dragon Fire Guild. But Fang Yu didn't speak directly, but asked Twenty: "Who is that?" ”

The voice took the initiative to reply, "I am the leader of the third regiment of the Dragon Fire Guild, and I am fully responsible for this mission at the moment. ”

If Fang Yu hadn't followed these people all the way before, maybe he would have really believed it. But how can a mere regiment commander command such a large-scale operation, a guild and a war group are only a hundred or ten people, that is, some regiment commanders with great power, and it is already the limit to be able to command two or three regiments.

And the more the other party conceals his identity, the closer he is to the truth of his guess in his heart - anyone who can command an operation of this scale must at least be a figure at the level of vice president.

But Fang Yu chose to trust the other party's words on the surface-

He thought for a moment before he spoke: "Mr. Regiment Commander, your brigade is already here, and the current situation is very clear, if I want the loot, in fact, we can come and get it ourselves, and you don't need to do it for you." ”

The other party was silent for a moment, and then asked, "So what do you want?" ”

"First, satisfy my curiosity."

"Second, Mr. Commander, can you estimate your losses if the mission fails, I can't overdo it?"

"Third, the grievances between the 'eldest sister' and us, after that, both sides have their own gains and losses, so since then they have been written off."

"Don't you think about it!"

There was a scream of rage from the 'big sister', but it quickly fell silent.

Fang Yu only looked at Twenty, as if he hadn't heard the protest - to be exact, he didn't care about this trivial 'grudge' at all, and the reason why he added this was just to make his 'excuse' seem more real and credible.

The man's voice was silent for a moment before asking, "Friend, are you asking too much?" ”

"Is it much?" Fang Yu asked rhetorically: "For example, the third point, right now we are talking about a deal, if the deal is reached, do you still plan to hunt us down?" ”

After he said this, he hurriedly took a breath, because he almost couldn't hold back his laughter. I've been with Miss Ship Officer for a long time, and now he seems to have learned to talk nonsense in a serious way.

"Well, that's what we agree on in principle." The man replied.

"And the second point?"

"If you can defeat Greyscale, we accept this offer."

Only then did Fang Yu know the name of the Dragon Fire Guild Brigade, but he remained silent: "Then what about the first point?" ”

"Friend, it's not a good thing to have too much curiosity."

"It's not that exaggerated, Mr. Commander," Fang Yu asked rhetorically, "I'm not snooping on anything, I'm just curious if you're not afraid of Xingmen Port's accountability?" ”

There was a noticeable change in the man's tone: "It's none of your business. ”

Fang Yu frowned slightly.

He didn't actually expect the other party to answer, but the other party's vigilant reaction was enough to explain many problems—if the other party's reaction was hesitation and anger, it could also indicate that the other party was bewitched and coerced by the Dragon Worship Sect.

But the man's reaction just shows that the Dragon Fire Guild is very aware of the consequences of its actions:

The higher-ups of the Dragonfire Guild knew very well that once they returned to Earth, they would face sanctions from Stargate Harbor, and with the seriousness of their actions, they would almost certainly spend the rest of their lives in prison in the future. But the other party still chose to embark on such a path, so what is the reason?

Fang Yu looked at Twenty and found that the other party also seemed to have an indifferent look on his face.

This look allowed him to capture more details, which meant that the Dragonfire Guild was not just at the top, but even their core elite members seemed to be involved. It's just that whether ordinary members are like this or not, he can't be sure for a while.

These many thoughts only flashed between the flashes of lightning.

Negotiations seem to have reached an impasse.

Fang Yu was a little undecided, and asked Miss Tata in a low voice in his heart: "What should we say next, do you want to relax some conditions?" ”

"Mr. Knight, according to your negotiation skills, you should press further."

"At the moment, we have an absolute advantage, and you will only arouse suspicion if you take the initiative to give in—"

Fang Yu was a little surprised in his heart and asked, "Miss Tata, where did you learn this?" ”

"I am the guardian of the Great Library, Mr. Knight."

Fang Yu couldn't help but be dumbfounded.

However, he made an unceremonious look on the surface, looked at the jewel on the twenty neckline and said, "Mr. Commander, you mean, our negotiations have broken down?" ”

There was a long silence over there, and then a cold rhetorical question came: "Friend, it is good for us to accept you when we see a good thing." Although you have a temporary advantage at the moment, don't forget that Stargate Harbor has not been able to help us so far, and we will always have a time to deal with each other in the future-"

"If it weren't for a coincidence, I wouldn't want to deal with you," Fang Yu replied. It's just that he heard that although the other party's tone was hard, the subtext was actually showing weakness: "Let's talk about it-"

"So what exactly do you want?" Sure enough, the tone changed over there.

Fang Yu hesitated for a moment before asking the most important question: "I just want to know what benefits the Dragon Worship Sect has given you. ”

There was a dead silence in the communication channel.

……