Attila stopped suddenly.

Ahead is an open surface of water, sparkling in the sun, as green as blue.

Surrounded by dead trees at the water's edge, she grabbed the rattan of a banyan tree and climbed up, hung diagonally on the tree, and looked into the distance with the vine in her hand. Then let go and fell, clapped his hands and said to the others, "Stop, rest." ”

The elf girl's voice is very soft, like the sun of the afternoon and Xi, shining on the desk through the vine, between the ups and downs of the dust, quiet, demure, and reassuring.

Others also stopped. Jita let out a sigh of relief, unbuttoned the leather button of the giant book, took it off from her back, leaned her thin body against a piece of rotten wood covered with moss, and wiped a handful of sweat with the back of her hand, sweat beads running down her slender arms, steaming.

"You shouldn't have that broken book with you." Sky Blue said to him disappreciatively, one hand fanning it, and pink was shining under his fair skin. "It's not a real magic book, it's just a wooden model."

The long summer is gone, but the residual heat still lingers on the earth.

"But one day I'll have the real magic book with me." Kita replied crisply, "So I'll have to get used to its weight first." ”

"I've convinced you, at least once in a while, I'll learn to cheat," Azure shook her head. "And no one knows, does it?"

"I know, Luo Yu also knows, Miss Furi also knows, and Sister Atira also knows, so many people know."

"But we'll hide it for you, don't you, Luo?" She looked at the trainee boy on the side.

But Luo Yu shook his head. "The Knights have stipulated that we are to supervise each other during the procession, and it is my duty to inform the examiner of his performance."

Sky Blue looked at him incredulously. "Aren't you friends, don't you know if friends are important or guilds are important, not to mention that their requests are unreasonable in the first place."

Luo Yu frowned and did not speak.

But Tianlan didn't give up: "You speak! ”

The former reluctantly said: "The subsidiary provisions of the Suva Declaration are not suitable for all situations, and as members of the Knights of the Oak of Tapolis, we know better what the guild needs than a rigid one. ”

The little French girl couldn't help but reach out and touch his forehead: "Are you crazy, you are not a guild manager, just a call-up qualification, look at what they have tossed you into." She looked back. Brother Ed, tell me, am I right? ”

Fang Yu was checking the status of the walker on the side, and couldn't help but shake his head when he heard this.

Eventually, he agreed to Attila's invitation and joined the team. However, Attila had only invited him to return to Elpahim with him, and Fang Ou understood that they should have seen their predicament and offered a more tactful hand.

To operate near the city, you don't really need an alchemist to accompany the team, not to mention that this is already a return trip.

Of course, Attila must also be thanking him for his help before, otherwise the adventure team is generally more cautious in the field and will not easily join strange members.

As for Tianlan's question, Fang Yu wisely chose not to speak. He learned a lot at Dawnstar, one of which was to never take a stand when others were arguing.

He muttered, "By the way, there's a question I've been wanting to ask before, why did those people attack you?" ”

Seeing that he didn't support him, Tianlan couldn't help but be a little discouraged, and angrily took out a golden statue from his bag: "It's not because of this thing." ”

"Miss Frey." Kita let out a low cry and shook her head at her.

Fang Yu looked at him strangely, and Xiao Zhengtai was so frightened that he hurriedly lowered his head.

The Plover had actually recognized the statue, the Noumerin Icon, usually carved in the form of a feathered serpent, a stag and a cat, the three most magical animals considered by the Nummeline elves, and had been excavated in large quantities in various ruins and temples, but it was usually made of stone, and gold was rare.

It can be sold for tens of thousands of miles on the market, if it is sold to Aboriginal collectors or explorers interested in the ruins of Noumerin. But it doesn't seem to be worth exchanging domesticated brown weevils with broken red crystals.

After all, the former is not less valuable than this statue, and the broken red crystal that can induce insects to go crazy through low-frequency resonance is not cheap itself.

"What's it, it's just a worthless broken statue." Sky Blue dismisses Kita's caution, and when she sees the latter with her neck curled like an ostrich, she can't help but tease.

He stepped on the cat's side, pressed his hands on his chest, and frightened Kita 'ah-' screamed, and hurriedly covered her chest with her hands, and her large, thick clumsy glasses fell again.

"Haha." Sky Blue gloated over the success of the prank.

Kita's face was as red as blood, and she was about to cry.

"Don't bully Kita." Attila glared at her in disgust. "That statue is the mission of our trip, and it can be used to open the gates of the temple in the Traveler's Forest, and legend has it that the second obelisk is underneath it." She walked back from the tree and said.

Fang Yu subconsciously wanted to ask her brother if he was found there, but before he could say anything, he realized that something was wrong, so he honestly closed his mouth.

However, if this statue is a key to a mission, it does have this coveted value, and its value depends on the richness of the task itself, and if the obelisk is really related to the Holy Grail of the Noumerin Elves, this key must be very important.

But after all, it's just one of them, otherwise I'm afraid even the Grand Guild can't help but make a move.

"Brother Ed, this statue is actually something that the Black Goat Merchant Group wants." At this time, Tianlan added.

At the same time, she was holding the bulky glasses in her hand, placing them back on the bridge of her nose and pushing them with her fingertips, who were looking at her with tears in his eyes.

Fang Yu looked at the other party's reaction and really didn't look like a boy, he shook his head and asked, "Black Goat Business Group?" ”

"A merchant group under the Kaulin Merchant League, their president is a hateful, greedy and treacherous nouveau riche, it is said that when he was young, he obtained permission to transport arms and magic guides through nepotism, and made a fortune through the Battle of Byrne, in short, he is an arms dealer——"

Tianlan soothed his little friend with kind words before continuing: "His real name is Rune-Lincius, this person is very influential in Elpahin, but he doesn't actually live in this place, of course, the merchant takes Kukai as his home most of the time, but his mansion and family are also in the king of Kaulin. ”

"He mainly relies on his business to influence the area around Rainbow Bay, but since twenty years ago, this guy has been staying in the traveler's camp for a period of time at the end of summer and won't leave until before the winter solstice, and he doesn't know what he's doing, and I suspect he already knew there was an obelisk down there."

It could be seen that Tianlan had a very bad impression of this person, but Fang Yu knew that the Kaulin Business Alliance, one of the three major business alliances of Kaulin and Ihurian, controlled ninety percent of the commercial trade in the Cloud Sea area.

However, he didn't know much about this black goat business group, after all, there were hundreds of large and small chambers of commerce under the Kaolin Business Alliance, and those who were not interested in business would not care about this matter.

From this, it can also be seen that at least the logistics workers of Tianlan's team are still qualified, and Fang Yu thinks that she must have dealt with this hateful, greedy and treacherous nouveau riche.

"And what is the reward for this mission?" Fang Ou looked at Attila with some curiosity, he thought that Miss Elf should first investigate the obelisk when she got the statue, because it was related to her brother's mysterious death, not to complete a business mission.

This is clearly unconscionable.

"It's about 100,000 miles, and there's a fruit of wisdom, and that guy's price is quite high." Azure waved her hand impatiently, mentioning the man as if to drive away flies.

This reward is indeed very high, and the Jeffrey Redcoats deceived the Dawn Star to send him to death, and only paid about 200,000 yuan. Of course, that's two-thirds of the deposit, but after the fact, one-third of the money must have been unexpectedly unpaid.

Not to mention that there is also a wisdom fruit, the wisdom fruit is actually equivalent to the experience book, and it is also only effective for the first use, and it is a little lower, one provides twenty-five thousand first-order experience.

Although the experience given is in the form of random skills and knowledge, it is also unattainable for most people, especially for novices, which is equivalent to speeding up the growth process in disguise.

Even Fang Yu was a little moved when he heard it.

But he was still a little strange: "But aren't you trainees, Miss Attila...... Don't seem to need any of that? ”

"Ha, because these rewards I'm talking about are for ordinary people. And for us and Sister Attila, that miser won't give us a bronze reward. ”

"Why is that?" Fang Yu was taken aback.

"Because Mr. Kidd's body was found by that fellow's party," Azure replied angrily, "and only he knows what happened, and he promised us to use the news in exchange for helping him find the statue for free." ”

"Where the statue is also where he told you?"

"yes, otherwise we wouldn't have found it."

Fang Yu always felt that something was wrong there: "In that case, then why didn't he go and get it himself?" ”

"How do I know?" Tianlan's face changed, and he suddenly asked, "Wait a minute, Sister Atira, who was the first to take this statue at that time?" ”

Attila subconsciously looked at the Paparal crossbowman who was unconscious on the ground.

Fang Yu had already walked over, rolled up the other party's sleeve and saw that the chubby right arm was white and there was nothing. When I looked at my left arm, I found that there was a black mark coiled like a snake.

"Curse!" Tianlan exclaimed in surprise and couldn't help but grit her teeth: "That damn hateful arms dealer." ”

"Don't worry," Fang Yu replied, "It's just a simple Quetzalcoatl curse, it will bring bad luck to the recipient, but it doesn't have any other effect, it will dissipate on its own after a certain amount of time." ”

He looked at the unconscious Paparlar crossbowman, and thought to himself that the unfortunate mark still looked amazingly effective.

"Everything else is fine," Fang Yu said again, "You'd better keep him away from lottery, treasure chests and other activities during this time, the effect of this curse mark is really obvious." ”

Hearing that the problem was not big, Tianlan was a little relieved: "Hmph, it's good to let this guy suffer a little, at that time, Sister Atira obviously said that she would check it first, but this guy couldn't walk when he saw the treasure, obviously he was just a little short hand." ”

"Thanks to you, Ed." Attila nodded at him as well.

Fang Yu scratched his head, this was the first time that his knowledge of the second world had come into play, and it was true that there were many ruins of the Noumerin elves in the second world, which was also a very strange thing.

"But I'm not going to let that damn arms dealer go." The little French girl added hatefully.

However, Fang Yu was pessimistic about this, he felt that it would be very difficult for Tianlan to practice his words, since the other party hoped that they would bring the statue back, it was impossible not to estimate these things in advance.

Miss Scarpe was very proficient in this method of beating a stick and then giving a sweet date, and he had suffered greatly from it.

But he wisely didn't speak.

Fang Yu suddenly felt that he was no longer the hairy boy who didn't know anything before, at least he knew how to weigh the pros and cons. This is thanks to the guidance of Miss Scarpe.

"So we're heading to the Traveler's Camp now?" He asked again.

He had long sensed that the group was moving in the wrong direction, and that it was theoretically necessary to go all the way south to the Elpahim area, but the team had been moving east since the morning.

"Don't worry," said Attila to him gently, "we're just going to get there and recuperate, and we'll soon be on our way to Elpahim." ”

Fang Yu shook his head, he wasn't in a hurry, he just asked. Anyway, he was curious about the Traveler's Camp, which was actually very famous, not so much a camp as an inn between the Traveler's Forest and Elpahin.

A very large inn.

"Yes, Brother Ed," Azure encroached, "The Traveler's Camp is actually quite interesting, and we have to go back to the 'base' before we can get to El Pahin." ”

"Base?"

The little French girl winked at him playfully: "That's Luo Yu's masterpiece, you'll know later." ”

The Traveler's Forest is actually an extension of the Egunn Forest.

It is known as Traveler's Swamp, as it used to be located on the way to Charter City, another city in the Seven Cities of Al Pahin and Rainbow Bay.

When the group reached the edge of the swamp, it was dusk, and the swamp was even darker and darker, and a thick fog filled the room. A tattered trestle bridge plunges deep into the mist, and there are fires in the distance.

It was actually not far from the Traveler's Camp, and Sky Blue told him that the fire in the fog was a wind lantern hung by the campers, so the trestle was actually maintained.

Fang Yu found that if he hadn't met Atira and them, he would never have dreamed that there would be a civilized camp in the near day's trip, and he was really glad in his heart.

Coming closer, there is also a crooked street sign erected by the trestle, on which the bark is peeling and covered with moss, and three place names are carved crookedly with a dagger:

'Traveler's Camp'

'Traveler's Trail'

'Traveler's Swamp'

The Traveler's Trail is actually the overland road to Charter City, but it has been abandoned for a long time since the 'airlift' became more convenient, and now adventurers use it as a shortcut into the Traveler's Swamp.

Fang Plover also saw a few crosses tied of wood not far away, and deep underneath were unnamed adventurers, most of whom were buried with the help of their companions or passing travelers.

The owners of these tombstones have either returned to reality, or have completely returned to the embrace of this world.

For ordinary people, crossing these tombstones symbolizes a move from the 'newbie' area of Al Pakhin to a more dangerous and advanced area. But for Fang Yuan, it's a little weird-

Because he is equivalent to going from the advanced area, and finally back to the 'newbie' area.

So when he saw the sign, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

He's finally back where he's supposed to be.

……