Fang Yu shook off his cousin's hand and said a little unhappily, "Tangtang, I ask you seriously." ”

Tang Xin finally noticed Fang Yuan's abnormality, frowned and said, "Brother, are you thinking that I am a fool, I saw Miss Silk Cape before I came, have you forgotten?" And didn't you tell us about you in the Dawn Star? ”

Fang Yu shook his head, "I didn't mean that, I meant earlier, before you came to Aitalia. ”

"Before?" Tang Xin was stunned, and couldn't help but put her hand on her brother's forehead: "Brother, you really don't have a fever, right?" How did I start talking nonsense, how could I have heard before that, Dawn Star is not a well-known team either. ”

The more she spoke, the more worried she felt, but fortunately, the soft fingertips responded with a cold feeling.

"No," Fang Yu pursed his mouth, and suddenly found that he couldn't speak clearly: "Do you remember when I was a child, I dragged you to watch the super competitive game, and you were reluctant at that time." Sugar candy, your memory is much better than mine, you try to think back, is there such a thing? ”

Tang Xin's face flushed, she remembered the situation when the two of them were secretly watching videos in the bed in the middle of the night, and the two of them were holding their knees and sitting next to each other. And most of the reluctance at that time was pretended to be by himself.

She was sweet in her heart, but she glanced at Fang Yu angrily: "You also said that every time you pull me to sneak around in the middle of the night to watch some game, you just want to find someone to share the blame with, and every time you ask me to cover for you." ”

Fang Yu suddenly felt a little weak, and quibbled: "Didn't I help you block it when you were beaten?" ”

"I'm a good boy in the eyes of outsiders," Tang Xin said angrily, "Can I compare with you?" ”

"Okay, okay," Fang Yu begged, "Tangtang, think about it carefully, did you hear of it at that time?" ”

Tang Xin said that she was reluctant, but she was a little happy in her heart, and pretended not to care: "You let me help you think, you have to tell me the cause and effect, right?" Who would remember the name of the Dawn Star alone, it was more than ten years ago. ”

Fang Yu patted his head, thinking that this was indeed the case, so he redescribed the conversation between him and Alvan before.

After Tang Xin heard this, she blinked lightly and said, "Hearing you say this, I seem to be really impressed." ”

Fang Yu's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly asked, "Tangtang, you can talk about it quickly." ”

"Brother, do you remember the first time we were beaten?"

"Suffer...... Beaten? ”

Fang Yuan's face flushed, he had been beaten a lot since he was a child, who could remember this clearly?

"You just came to our house not long ago, you have to pull me to watch some game," Tang Xin couldn't help but smile: "As a result, the voice was too loud, and I was caught by my father and my mother, and that time you were beaten so badly, you howled like killing a pig." ”

"This kind of thing doesn't need to be said so clearly," Fang Yu said very embarrassedly, "Besides, what am I howling about, why can't I remember?" ”

"Of course you don't remember, I don't remember very well." Tang Xin pursed her lips slightly, and only looked at her brother with black and white eyes.

She actually remembered clearly in her heart that what this guy was howling at that time was: "You want to beat me, don't beat my sister——! ”

Fang Yu was ashamed to mention such a thing, and quickly said vaguely: "Let's get down to business, Tangtang, what do you remember?" ”

"When you were beaten, this news was inserted on the screen," Tang Xin said with a smile: "Floating Island, the conflict between the Ottosaurian Empire and Kaulin-Ishurian or something, and the third division was also involved, it was still a big incident at that time." ”

"Huh?" Fang Yu was a little surprised, thinking that it was originally this: "Then have you heard about the Dawn Star?" ”

"It's not clear, it's been too long, maybe it's mentioned," Tang Xin looked at him and asked, "And this kind of thing, wouldn't it be better if you went and asked Miss Scapet?" ”

Fang Yu shook his head, he naturally wanted to ask, but he always felt that Miss Escarpé's temperament might not tell him. And he didn't really care if the 'Dawn Star' was the protagonist of that matter, the 'Dawn Star' must have experienced the Battle of Byrne, but that was nothing, what he really cared about was the faint familiarity that lingered in his heart.

Could it be that when I was beaten, I heard the name 'Dawn Star' and didn't care about it? He couldn't help but think that he had joined Miss Scarpet's 'Dawn Star', and that there were sometimes coincidences in this world.

At this time, everyone on the other side had already finished their preparations, Luo Hao brought a big shield to block the front, Abed opened the door with a key, and Ai Xiaoxiao beckoned to them over there:

"Sugar Candy, big cousin, come here, we're going in."

Only then did Fang Yu say to his cousin: "Sugar candy, let's go over and take it." ”

Tang Xin glanced at him and bowed slightly.

……

Ambassador Liao looked out of the glass window, in the vacuum and darkness of the universe, the silver-white circular corridor No. 02 was slowly rotating, and the sunlight was falling on the snow-like ceramic material, emitting a halo of light.

He loved watching the microgravity ring spin as if he were watching a ballet dancer dance, which reminded him of his prom and his first encounter with his lover.

It wasn't until the automatic door slid open, making a muffled sound of air leaking out, that he came to his senses.

He looked back - the control hall was busy, the work of Xingmen Port seemed to be several times heavier in the past few months, the staff were coming and going to pass on the changing data and materials, and from time to time there were intermittent exchanges in Chinese, English, French, and occasionally a sentence or two in Russian.

Noisy, chaotic.

He saw the automatic door slide open to the left and right, and his assistant came in from behind the door and hurried in his direction.

"Mr. Ambassador, things have progressed on that staff member."

Ambassador Liao took the materials from the other party's hand and asked, "That 'snake head'?" ”

'Snake Head' was the nickname they gave to the incident more than a year ago, and it was so unbelievable that a staff member of Stargate Harbor actually got a minor to Aitalia in order to earn a little extra money. Although the matter was finally resolved quite satisfactorily, the internal self-examination of Xingmen Port has not ended, and this 'smuggling' incident has exposed some problems, saying that there are still big loopholes in the management system of Xingmen Port, and there is still room for further improvement.

In response to his question, the assistant nodded.

Ambassador Liao glanced at the materials first, and a pair of brows involuntarily raised, revealing a hint of surprise in his heavy eyes. Suddenly, he raised his head to stare at the other party and asked, "Is this true?" ”

"This is an investigation by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and there should be no mistakes."

Liao Da tapped the material with his knuckles, making a 'whoosh' sound, and muttered for a while before saying, "'Dawn Star', if I'm not mistaken, they're still stuck in Xingmen Harbor, right?" ”

The assistant nodded again.

"Can you arrange a meeting with them?"

"At the moment, the Russians have announced that they will provide asylum to the 'Dawn Star' -- mainly the former American citizen lady," the aide replied, "and they are at a standoff with the Americans at the moment, and if we want to intervene, we have to engage with both sides first." ”

"Then give it a try," Ambassador Liao replied, "Tell them that it's not our family's business." ”

"Okay, I see."

……

Seeing the assistant leave, Ambassador Liao turned his gaze.

He looked at the stack of materials and couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.

"Dawn Star."

"Could it be a coincidence?"

He slowly flipped open his collar and flicked the button communicator underneath before whispering:

"File A-144-5, documents numbered 03 to 07, I'd like to take a look."

……

The room was a little dark.

Silk Capet was opening the locker, taking the box from under a stack of laundry and placing it carefully on the table. When her hand touched the cold metal surface of the box, she couldn't help but subconsciously recall that when she handed over the box to the 'owl', she had seen the two little girls at the airport that day.

"Don-Xin."

"Ai—little."

"It's true."

She thought to herself.

At the same time, she put her hand on the surface of the box, and her slender fingertips groped for the edge of the box in the darkness inch by inch, until she touched two slight bulges. She gently pressed the bulge down, and the box made a soft 'click' as the lid slid to the side.

She pulled out the lid, and even in the darkness, she seemed to be able to see what was inside. It was a stack of paper, not an antiquity, just a standard industrially produced A4 paper, with a smooth and snow-white surface, a thick stack, quietly placed at the bottom of the box.

But Scarpe was reaching out when the sound of an automatic door opening behind her was heard.

"Why is it so dark?"

A deep voice sounded by the door, and Quilrod was looking left and right suspiciously, "Didn't you turn on the lights?" ”

Frightened, Scarpe hid her hand, but when she heard the sound, she stopped moving her hand again and turned back.

Quelod was adjusting to the dim environment before he could see her clearly, and couldn't help asking, "What are you doing, Scarpet?" ”

"I'm looking at something."

"Something?" The other party walked over and stopped behind her, his eyes flashed: "...... is this?" ”

A hint of surprise flashed in Quilold's eyes.

He looked at Scapet and asked, "...... I thought you left these things in Lublin. ”

Scapet looked at him before replying, "They're in Lublin," she paused, "but the owl has been here lately." ”

"'Owl'?" There was some surprise in Quelod's tone: "He's in Stargate Harbor." ”

"No," Scarpe shook her head, "he just came up secretly, I'm not sure anyone is staring at him...... After giving me 'this thing', he went back to Lublin. ”

"Why don't you tell me?" Quelod asked, "What are you going to do with these 'things', I thought they would stay there forever and become a secret that no one knows...... Scarpet, you know, I think that's the best way for them. ”

"I understand," Scappe replied, "but I've always had a concern lately, especially when I've heard about what's going on in Europe...... You know, you can't hide it...... At the moment, Xingmen Port is a safer place. Also, I'm worried about another thing......"

Quilrod sat down gently against her and asked in a low voice, "What are you worried about, no matter what, I will face it with you." ”

"I was going to tell you, but I haven't had time yet." Scarpe shook his head, "Quelod, I'm a little undecided. ”

Quelod looked at her with a gentle gaze and placed a hand on her lower abdomen.

As if sensing something, Scarpaet quieted down slightly.

"It's a secret," Quelod replied, "the owl is a reliable man, and it will be safe for the time being until no one knows about it, so don't think about it so much." ”

"How are you inquiring about the matter of Xingmen Harbor?" Scarpe asked.

"The news blockade is very close," Quelod thought for a moment, "but recently another group of troops have entered the port of Stargate, and they have arrived on Federation ships, including Americans, Chinese and British." There is also some news from our old friends that recently Division 2 has recalled a group of retired personnel. ”

"Does this have anything to do with the Plan for Area C?"

"It is not known that during the elections to the State Duma, there was a lot of confusion in the country." Quilrod shook his head.

"But I have a hunch," he replied, "Scarpet, there may be a big plan for the Star Gate Harbor side. ”

……

Fang Yu was pushing the door in, and a foul smell hit his face, so he couldn't help but turn his head away.

Tianlan and Ai Xiaoxiao even hid their faces and fled, only Ji Ta still insisted on standing behind, Sylvid and Attila both frowned, even Tang Xin was pale, and several boys also turned back, only Luo Hao still looked like nothing.

"Don't you think it stinks?" Alyssa retched for a while, then turned back to him curiously and asked.

"I've had a bit of rhinitis lately." Luo Hao replied angrily.

Abed explained to them in a low voice, and even though several days had passed, the stench in the courtyard had not yet disappeared. He pointed to a place where there were several corpses, and when they found the place they had decomposed, they were supposed to be slaves taken by the air thieves.

The body had no external injuries and no signs of poisoning, and should have died of natural causes. Slave traders would only provide for strong and strong slaves who would make them money, as well as beautiful slave girls, and it was not uncommon for the old, weak, sick and young to die in the process of transportation.

"Is this the yard?"

Fang Yu asked.

The yard had been cleaned, there was really nothing to see, and the bounty hunters of Kaulin-Ishurian had learned to preserve the scene, but the habit did not seem to have reached Istania - of course, it was not appropriate to leave a few seriously ** corpses untreated in the hot weather.

However, when Her Royal Highness found this place, the corpse was already serious**, indicating that the slave trader may not have left this place in a hurry. Estania is rich in necromancers, and it's easy to tell them when the corpse really died - about four days ago.

That is, on the third day of their arrival in Tansnir, the slave traders left the place.

It was the time they had made their way to the Sand Journey, and they had met the wandering alchemist.

I don't know if there is a connection between them.

"There are still a few rooms in it," Abed told them, "and in the middle is a warehouse, and on the left is where the slaves are held." The elderly, men and women were separated from each other, and there was a compound where Mr. Arfan had been given a communicable disease in disguise and placed in solitary confinement.

From there, he secretly dug a tunnel to the warehouse and escaped from there. ”

When Fang Yu heard this, he couldn't help but admire the old scholar a little, he could turn knowledge into power, to arm himself and flexibly transform it into real effect, which is not something that everyone can do.

He walked into the room under the guidance of Abed, and when he entered the hall, he was stunned for a moment.

The hall on the east side was supposed to be the place where the slave traders lived on a daily basis—in the center of the hall, a brown trail of blood dragged from one end to the other, and it gathered in a circle in the middle, not so neat, like a child's graffiti.

But that's what makes people feel a little creepy.

When the naturalist lady saw this scene, she couldn't help but let out an 'ah'.

"Cult Sacrifice—"

As soon as Fang Yu saw this scene, he realized what it was. He had dealt with the dark believers so much that he seemed to be half an expert.

Abed had apparently seen this before, and told them with a blank face that there was originally a corpse in the hall—an old man, also a slave, and that when they found the body, the other was lying flat on the floor, with both of his heart and two eyeballs missing.

In fact, Princess Rupert had told them all this before she came, and it was still a little shocking to see it with her own eyes.

"Blind Follower," Tata's voice rang out in Fang Yu's heart at this time, "Mr. Knight, Eyes and Hearts, is the living sacrifice of the 'Blind Follower' mentioned in the dark texts, and those slave traders have summoned the blind god Deska here—'The blind god will devour the flesh and heart of the sacrifice, and respond to the requests of the believers, and it will paint the path with blood, leading to the realm of bones in the darkness-'"

Fang Yuan's understanding of the Dark Saints is only half a claw. He knew more about the 'Fire of Venus', which came from the power of the Dark Dragon King, Lifgard.

The followers of the Dark Dragon, the Dragon Worshippers, also perform living sacrifices, but they use fire.

But they believe that the 'fire of Venus' will sink into the dust, and that 'the golden flame will consume everything, evil, justice, filth and good, all equally, that is the judgment of the last days, and all things will be doomed,' so Dorimin fell into a sea of fire.

He couldn't help but ask, "What is a blind follower?" ”

"An evil god, one of the saints of darkness," Tata replied quietly, "and its followers are not common, and they have very little or no contact with the dragon-worshippers. ”

Fang Yu was a little surprised: "I've never heard of it-"

"Because they haven't been in this world for a long time," Miss Goblin's voice was very calm, as if from another world, "because the blind followers are dead, in the middle of the War of the Giants, at the hands of the elven gods." The Lady of the Forest plunged her sword into Deska's heart, and the latter let out a shrill howl, which caused a rain of blood to fall over the plains, among the mountains, over the forest, for seven days and seven nights, and then the monster was reduced to a mass of flesh and blood. ’”

"This is what is written in the sacred book of the Dryads."

"Miss Tata, have you read the sacred books of the Dryads?"

Fang Yuan turned his head and glanced at Miss Attila not far away.

Scholars are curious and want to know all the secrets of this world, which often causes them to get into trouble. The sacred book of the Tree Elves was placed in the heart of the Giant Tree Sanctuary and was a truly forbidden object, and few people had ever seen it except for a few Chosen Ones of the Lady of the Forest.

He was afraid that if Miss Elf knew about this, he might kill his relatives in righteousness, and under the guidance of Miss Forest, he stabbed him through with a sword.

But Miss Tata replied, "There is also a fragmented flow of knowledge in the Elven Holy Book. ”

Fang Yu stood in place and asked quietly, "Miss Tata, you said that the blind follower is dead, but will it have been resurrected again, just like ......?"

Just like the gods of the lizardmen.

"It's entirely possible," Miss Tata nodded, she was in Fang Yuan's mental world, but her emerald eyes seemed to be able to penetrate the barriers between worlds, and quietly looked at the long blood streak in the center of the hall: "Judging from the scale of the blood sacrifice, the strength of the blind followers is still very weak, and it should be in the process of recovery." ”

Another god of darkness has awakened.

Fang Yu faintly felt that something was wrong.

The dark saints who died in the war of giants are resurrecting one after another, is this a sign of something. Could it be somehow related to the advent of the Third Calamity?

But he thought more about how he was always associated with such things. It seems that since Mazak handed him the ring of golden flames, he couldn't help but be involved in a huge whirlpool, and he wanted to withdraw at one point, but no matter how he struggled—

In the end, it fell deeper and deeper.

The matter of the dragon king Lifgard has just come to an end, and now there is another 'blind follower', will there be anything more in the future?

It's just that in his heart, he subconsciously ignored that the source of all this may be much earlier than the 'Traveler's Rest'. When he was in the basement of the elven ruins, when the mark of the Helin crown was engraved in his blood, everything had changed subtly.

"Okay."

Fang Yu sighed slightly.

He had at least figured out that these slave traders did not have much to do with the Worship of the Dragons, and Sylvid's analysis had once again come true.

However, the people who entered the hall knew even less about the Dark Saints, and apart from Kita's slightly thoughtful look, most of them probably associated this scene with the 'cultists' they had seen before. It's not the first time they've dealt with a 'cultist', and they even have a lot of experience, Luo Yu, Kita, and Sky Blue all came all the way from Dorifin.

Chest and Alyssa also experienced the Fenris incident.

Even Luo Hao, who was the last to join the team, personally participated in the battle between Idus and Van Rick.

There are many active dark cultists in Kaurin-Ishurian, but because of the Dragon Witch, the mainstream is still the Dragon Worshippers.

Of all the people, only Attila stepped out, came to the dark brown blood, and examined it carefully for a moment. Miss Elf walked from one end of the hall to the other, looking down in thought, but did not speak for a moment.

Fang Ou watched this scene, and because of the knowledge he had gained from Miss Tata, he probably understood that Miss Atila, as a priest of the Temple of the Sacred Tree and a believer in the goddess of the forest, must have seen something. He saw Attila slowly walk to the end of the bloodstain and stop there.

"The path of blood leads to the world of bones—" Tata said again, "according to the custom of the Blind Followers, this path of blood should mean something, and there are very few people today who understand this ritual of sacrifice, and these people should not have taken much precautions." ”

With her voice, Miss Elf reached out and placed her palm next to a gray stone wall there.

Fang Yuan's heart moved, and he understood Miss Fairy's words.

He turned back to the box and said, "Box, spy over there." ”

The box understood, pressed the scabbard in one hand and the wand in the other, kept a cool look, and walked in that direction.

Abede was a little surprised on the side, and out of kindness, he persuaded: "Mr. Ed, the guards of the Wang family have checked this place inside and out, and there should be nothing missing. Her Royal Highness, Princess, she—"

As he spoke, he was stunned.

Because he saw that the wand in the hand of the box was emitting a glowing light, and the light was like a wave of water, diffracted in the direction of the gray stone wall. After a few moments, the shape of the outline of a glowing door, where Miss Attila had pressed it, gradually appeared—

Parker couldn't help but whistle: "This is your eighteenth-level newly learned spell, detecting the secret door?" ”

"Great, we won't be afraid of not being able to find the entrance to the secret treasure house in the future."

The box listened, and looked thoughtfully at his staff.

By this time, Attila had found the switch to the secret door.

She pressed on the bricks, painted with dark red patterns, and the bricks made a slight grinding sound and slowly receded backwards.

In just a moment, the mechanism behind the stone gate made a muffled 'smack' sound, and the gears turned, dragging the stone door to the side slowly, revealing the entrance to the black hole behind. A row of stairs followed, down the stairs, with dark red blood stains like a carpet, spread over the stairs, descending step by step until they submerged into the darkness.

Tianlan and Ai Xiaoxiao ran in from outside at this time, and just saw this scene, they couldn't help but exclaim: "Ah, the secret door!" ”

Fang Yu immediately turned around and said to Abed, "Mr. Abed, please inform Princess Rupert that the builders and craftsmen of this building can be found and protected first-"

But before he could finish speaking, he heard a low roar that did not resemble a human voice from the hall.

Fang Yu subconsciously turned his head, only to see Miss Atira take a step back, and the next moment a blood-red shadow was flying towards her.

"Be careful!"

Seeing that Miss Elf was about to be injured, Fang Yu couldn't help but shout.

……