Chapter 11: Mia's whereabouts
This was the first time that Fang Yu had clearly seen the whole picture of this huge object, as tall as a mountain. It resembles a giant deep-sea multi-legged moth, sitting quietly at the bottom of the pit, its torso leaning against the rock wall, its ovoid head as high as the cliff.
Layers of copper-plated armor covered its torso, refracting a hint of luster in the shimmer, thick and imposing, and the protrusions of the scales were covered with earth, and covered with shrubs and lichens, like layers of gardens. The huge eye socket is at the junction of the carcass and the wrist and foot, slightly lifted outward, and under the moss-covered underneath, the orbit has lost its luster, and the black hole is hollow, like two tall caves.
The sky grew brighter, blue and purple stained with a layer of morning glow, and the morning light shone on its yellow and clear shell, revealing a bright purple and pink glow, with a hint of light. A few red-tailed robins flew over and landed into the forest above them, and immediately at the bottom of the pit there was a clear chirping of birds.
Only then did Fang Yu realize that the behemoth seemed to have fallen into a deep sleep. Its twelve brachiopods, the ends of which were those hideous and terrifying giant insects, and the four pairs of dark red eyes on the top of its head had also lost their luster, and they were entrenched at the bottom of the pit, motionless.
He stood still and watched carefully for a long time before he was convinced that the other party had stopped moving. I don't know if it's the arrival of daylight that quiets down this huge thing, or if it's for some other reason.
Fang Yu became bolder, put aside Miya and the dagger for a while, and looked around, only to find that he had landed on a platform, and below it was the rubble of the layered buildings. He went to the edge again and looked down—it wasn't quite steep.
He grabbed the edge and slowly climbed down from there—it was a bit of a struggle without help, and he couldn't help but think back to the days when he was in the party. Thinking so, it took me a few minutes to get to the bottom of the pit, where the light was still a little dim and the air was full of dirt and moss.
He looked to the north, and the lake on the cliff hung down like a curtain, still falling in a sparse voice, and under the morning sun the mist was shining, and a rainbow was faintly hanging. A pool of water had formed below, and Fang Yu only felt that his mouth was dry, and his throat was on fire, so he hurriedly walked over, came to the edge of the pool, leaned over and took a big sip of water.
The feeling of cold water soaking in water made his pores all over his body stretch out, and the whole person was vibrating, as if he was alive again, and he couldn't help but breathe a long sigh of relief.
However, Fang Yu endured it and didn't dare to drink more.
It's thousands of miles away from Kapka, and his usual medicine is left in his backpack and he doesn't bring it out, so if he unfortunately catches some kind of emergency, it can be bearable, and if he accidentally loses his life, it is even funnier.
His stomach was rumbling with hunger, and he seemed to have little energy left. Fortunately, he has always had the habit of preparing early, and he still has a few biscuits stuffed in his trouser pocket, but this is also his last reserve food, and even if he escapes from here, he still doesn't know how to trek out of the vast sea of ancient trees on foot.
But he didn't worry too much, anyway, he was used to taking one step at a time.
Fang Yu bit half of the biscuit and chewed it and swallowed it, finally deceiving his stomach a little. Then he looked up at the motionless behemoth.
He had almost observed, and there was no way up to the surface at the bottom of the pit, and the only way to do it was to find a way to climb to the top of the big creature's head.
He knew that large constructs like this usually had emergency passages for craftsmen to maintain, and he didn't know if the ancient alchemists had this habit, if not-
That's too bad.
The Owl walked around the hill-like cephalopod creature in a small half circle, and finally found an entrance at its bottom. He leaned over there, but the impact of the behemoth's fall liquefied the soil beneath him, making it difficult for him to trek.
In some places, the water is still bubbling up, and the waves flow from north to south, which indicates that the terrain is lower in that direction. The cephalopod's beak is generally located underneath its body, where the brachiopod meets the torso, and where the entrance is—and the brachiopod, the square plover carefully walks past the sleeping giant insects.
At first he was a little apprehensive, but soon he relaxed and curiosity took over. It's a pity that he doesn't have a user interface, otherwise he would have taken two pictures of them, and it might have caused a sensation in the community. He walked over and gently touched their metal shells, and when he found that there was no response, he stroked them instead, which was very unique to the touch.
Fang Yu then discovered that the ancient alchemists were really rich, and the coating of the shell of this thing turned out to be not copper but pure gold, and the components inside were almost pure copper - because it was more suitable for the transmission of magic power, and the part that needed to take into account both magic and strength was Mithril.
He drooled as he watched.
I even wanted to dismantle the two pieces, especially the Mithril part, but after thinking about it, I still didn't dare to make a mistake. Not to mention that we don't have the tools at hand, it would be fun if we woke up the big guy.
He patted the big dick's shell and sighed. Thinking that this adventure could be regarded as a blood loss, not to mention the loss of three clockwork elves, and in the end, the money that Scapet gave him was lost under the ruins.
Not to mention the alchemy tools that I had managed to save with great difficulty.
Fang Yuan's heart was full of negative impressions of the Jeffrey Redcoats and the Spear of the Silver Forest, but he just cursed in his heart, and he didn't live enough to fight the Grand Guild head-on.
Of course, if he has the opportunity, he doesn't mind causing some trouble to the Jeffrey Reds, especially the Jeffrey Reds, and it can be regarded as avenging everyone.
There will always be a chance, Fang Yu thought to himself.
He had just walked under the shadow of the hill when suddenly the chirping of the red-tailed robins came overhead, and the plover looked up just in time to see the brown and red birds flying in flocks.
He was somewhat surprised to see a figure appear on the edge of the cliff in that direction.
At that moment, Fang Yu's heart seemed to skip a beat, and he immediately recognized who it was—it was Miya.
But the girl didn't notice him below, she raised her right hand to unbutton the shawl, ripped it off and threw it to the ground, revealing the delicate figure below. The girl wore a leotard with tall twin peaks, and a chic star-shaped ornament pinned between the collarbones.
She backhanded her long silver hair and tied them in a bunch with a silver ring below her neck and above the shoulder blades.
Then jump down.
Fang Yu was so frightened that he almost cried out when he saw this, but immediately saw Miya fall lightly, like a feather, and finally disappear into the forest above this behemoth.
"Wind and wind in tune?" Fang Yu knew one of the rarest kinds of magic adaptability, wind magic adaptability, and people with such adaptability would have a certain amount of buoyancy in the air sea, which was similar to the working principle of a floating ship.
People with such adaptability are born air knights, and they are the top talents among the aborigines and the drafters, and they are often the top talents that the major forces compete to woo.
The Electors are often jokingly referred to as the reservists of large ship regiments.
But not everyone is proficient in using this ability.
Except for those overlords in the sky, except for the dragon knights and sky knights-
Is Mia really a dragon knight or an empty knight? Fang Yu couldn't help but touch his chest, the previous scene was still in front of him. However, the other party had never shown this in front of people, and even he himself had always thought that Miya was just an ordinary fire-based magic adapter.
After seeing the other party's figure disappear completely, Fang Yu opened his mouth and didn't speak.
Only then did he realize that what he knew might not be all that Miya knew.
Maybe it wasn't even a mask, and he couldn't help but feel an unequal resentment in his heart, but before the anger swept away, Fang Yu gradually calmed down again.
Like the chagrin of a young man, there will always be a moment when the smoke disappears, and he suddenly understands that it is all just his wishful thinking.
He sighed slightly.
There is something empty in my heart.
But in any case, he thought to himself that he would have to ask the other person what he thought: why did he leave at that time? Why did you give him that dagger? What is her purpose?
With this thought in mind—but it could also be that it was simple, just to see her again, Fang Yu involuntarily quickened his pace.
He came to the bottom of the entrance, and 'Oooo He grabbed the valve with both hands and twisted it, and there was an exhaust sound from inside the door, and then it opened with a thud.
Fang Yu put his hand into the door, and a pull-up hung up with all his strength, he couldn't help but be glad that his injury was healed, otherwise he wouldn't be able to enter this door.
And after entering the interior of this huge constructed creature, Fang Yu couldn't help but be shocked all of a sudden.
Inside is a long maintenance walkway, which connects the entrance from one end to the other, with improvised railings on both sides, and the bridge deck is covered with barbed wire. Looking down, below are rows of dark copper-colored gears, the largest of which can be as tall as two people, and one tooth is tightly interlocked.
On each side of the passage was an even larger brass counterweight, which protruded from above, and was only half visible from the ceiling. One end is connected to the transmission link, but the link is the thickness of his own, and the length is seven or eight times that of his.
After that, there are dense pipelines, and I don't know where they lead.
Floating above the head are three glowing crystals, which are actually held on the Guy Ring, which is made from the scraps of the float ship's buoyancy engine, which looks like an ordinary ring, but with a certain buoyancy - used to act as a lamp.
These dim lights are the only illumination in this passage.
Fang Yu then cautiously crossed the maintenance bridge, his thick leather shoes dripping with mixed sand on the barbed wire. The bridge creaked, and since the passage was so quiet, it was a bit of a tingling sound.
What's more, he was afraid that this rusty barbed wire bridge would suddenly break, after all, there are too many film and television works with such bridges.
Fortunately, the fantasy did not happen, and at the other end of the passage was an iron staircase that turned back and went up, a structure that did not surprise Fang Ou.
While he was in Kapuka, he had visited the inner workings of the Eighty-Seven-Type A Doll of the Kingdom of Kapuka, one of the most expensive teaching aids of the Kapuka Artisan Guild, and although the Noumerin Elves of the time when it was born had long since disappeared, the internal structure of the two was the same.
Including this repair bridge, and the way to access the upper level, there is almost no difference. It can be seen that although Aitaria has experienced several cataclysms in its history, the techniques of the ancient alchemists seem to have been inherited relatively intact to this day.
But the upper level is not the imaginary core power room - placed on the wingship is the lift module, and in the ground magic guide is usually the place where the core crystal is placed - Fang Yuan thought that he could see the legendary ice feldspar, but he couldn't.
Only then did he realize that this hill-like structure was much larger than the giant puppet of the Kalin-Ishurian Alliance.
The second floor is also a maintenance passage, and the corridor is full of dust and mud, and there is a smell of rust, and no one has set foot on it for many years. Fang Yu even saw that several iron plates were growing together with the ground, inseparable from each other.
Further up there is a living quarters, a long walkway, on both sides of which are house numbers, and the text on it has not been studied and cannot be understood. Some of the doors were still open, and the inside was empty, and there was no strange smell in the hallways other than the rust mentioned earlier, no musty smell, and not a single skeleton in sight.
It looks like the big guy was deliberately left here, and its original owner didn't leave in a hurry, at the very least.
Fang Yu went deeper and deeper, and became more and more curious about what the last order this big creature had got, was its original owner the Noumerin Elf, and why would they leave their homes to leave this thing behind?
He vaguely felt that Miya might know the truth, but he was cranky and remembered the other party's purpose—was her purpose the same as that of the Spear of the Silver Forest and the others of Jeffreyt?
Fang Yu was not a fool either, and vaguely guessed that Miya might have put everyone together, because it was clear that neither side had gained much from the fight last night.
Of course, not to mention the Dawn Star Adventure Group, which is cannon fodder.
Fang Yu suddenly wondered how Miss Scarpe and the others were doing outside, and how many people in the adventure group still survived? Although those who die, are destined to never return to this world.
It's a pity that he doesn't have a UI either, and he can't contact the outside.
He paused and pressed his hand to his chest, and the glow stone of Silk Cape was still in his pocket, which reassured him a little. And it was at this time that he suddenly heard footsteps in the darkness ahead.
Fang Yu froze slightly, he should be on the fourth or fifth floor now, and estimated that the height was still on the lower floor. It stands to reason that there should still be a distance between him and Mia, could it be that there are others in this huge structure?
Is it Jeffrey or the Spear of the Silver Forest? Or is it a Noumerin elf?
But what made him feel most uneasy was that he was afraid that it was not people who came.
The voice quickly approached, and there was a fork in the road in front of it, and Fang Yu cautiously took a step back, hiding behind the wall and not daring to take a breath to look outside.
Then he saw a white shadow walking quickly from the fork, and Fang Yu was slightly stunned - he found that it was clearly Miya's back.
He chased him out—
But there was no figure in sight in the hallway.
"Walking so fast?" Fang Yu was a little stunned, and subconsciously opened his mouth to shout, but the ghost retracted his voice unexpectedly. After thinking about it, he closed his mouth and followed in that direction.
He didn't walk slowly, the floor made an empty sound in the dark, and after a while, Fang Yu suddenly reacted, and it stands to reason that Miya couldn't have heard his footsteps. He had just had such suspicions, but suddenly he saw that the front had reached the end - the hallway leading to the only room. I can't help but be happy, now I finally don't have to worry about losing it.
But through the door, Fang Yu was stunned again.
He thought he could see Miya here, but behind the door it turned out to be a platform, and it was empty outside, how could there be a shadow of a girl?
Fang Yu couldn't help but look left and right, the platform was made of that kind of maintenance passage, a layer of barbed wire was laid between the iron frames, and the perimeter was a simple railing. It was pitch black ahead, and I don't know where it was, but there was a railing that had been knocked open and bent outward.
Did she jump from here?
Fang Yu couldn't help but be stunned when he saw there, so there was no need to break the railing?
Fang Yu had doubts in his heart, and couldn't help but lean over to take a look, but before he reached the edge, he suddenly felt someone behind him push him vigorously.
He lost his center of gravity and fell out of the gap, and his heart was cold, and when he looked back, he just saw a figure formed by a white mist gradually emerging on the platform.
There was a shrill laugh in the darkness, and the owner of the voice looked smug and arrogant.
"Hahaha......"
The laughter echoed through the black space, and it seemed very ethereal, it didn't look like a human sound at all. And Fang Yu was in a cold sweat, and then he realized what the hell he had encountered when he came over - resentful souls.
How could he have forgotten all this?
Adventurers can always encounter these things in the dark shadows of Aitalia, and these negative energy creatures born of resentment will inadvertently read people's negative emotions and become the uneasy way in their hearts, tempting them to step into the trap of death.
Fang Yu was familiar with these things—from the descriptions of the top recruiters on TV, on the Internet. He thought that he was by no means comparable to those newcomers, and it was impossible for him to fall into such a bad deed, but he didn't expect that the first time he encountered this thing, he fell for it because he was in a moment of confusion.
He couldn't help but curse secretly, these ghost things are too pervasive.
But there will be no next time.
This time it was definitely his bad luck, Fang Yu was embarrassed to justify himself in his heart.
Fortunately, he still had a chance to use the slow-fall member, otherwise this time it would have capsized in the gutter. Fang Yu glanced at the arrogant resentful spirit angrily, thinking that you are waiting, so he backhanded and pressed down the lever of the magic guide furnace.
But under this pressure, he broke out in a cold sweat.
What about his magic furnace?
Such a big magic furnace, why did he obviously put it there, disappear?
Then he finally reacted, and immediately looked back, and sure enough, he saw a misty figure floating in the air with one hand holding his magic furnace, and smiling triumphantly at himself.
"I ——!" This time, Fang Yu really scolded it. Unfortunately, before he could say anything, he felt as if a wall stood up in the darkness and slapped him in the face, and with a loud bang, it smashed into darkness in front of his eyes.
Fang Yu lay on the floor, and it took a long time to breathe a sigh of relief.
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