Bunigu looked a little hesitant, but Fang Yu would not go back on what he had promised, and took out the ring and nodded to him.

The ring was dark and inconspicuous in the night, and even the pattern on the surface was almost polished over the years. However, he knew the material of the ring—rings made of the same magnet had a sense of each other, and the magnet rings used by the Istanian merchants were positioned against each other in the desert to prevent them from getting lost.

The ring looked like the belongings of a family of desert merchants who lived on a sea of silver sand, perhaps from his grandfather's generation.

At this time, Red walked over, took the ring from his hand, looked at Bunnigu with silver eyes and asked, "This ring seems to be unremarkable, the Blood Shark Air Pirate will be interested in it?" ”

Bunigu immediately replied, "They took almost everything, and my grandfather's ring was among them." ”

"And how did you keep this ring?"

"Big, maybe I'm better hiding...... Because they were going to take us here anyway to do hard labor, they didn't search us at that time. ”

"That's a good answer."

Red threw the ring to Parker on the side and patted Fang Yu on the shoulder: "Let's go, find the secret passage first." ”

Fang Yu glanced up at Red, feeling that the big cat man was acting differently, but he still nodded silently.

The crowd made their way deeper into the valley, stopping at a weathered cliff. At this time, the ridge on the other side just blocked the rising moonlight, and the silver moonlight fell on the bare mountain, a desolate color. And this direction happened to be shrouded in a thick shadow, and at this time, Fang Yu saw Bunigu in front of him flash, and suddenly disappeared.

He was startled, but he saw the other man re-emerge from there and beckoned to them:

"Found it!"

After the pupils were dilated in the dark conditions, Fang Yu gradually adapted to the environment where he couldn't see his five fingers, and then he saw that Bunigu had not disappeared before, but there was a huge rock at least twenty or thirty feet high, next to the cliff, and the other party began to walk into the gap between the huge rock and the cliff, and when he looked at it in the dark, he thought it had suddenly disappeared.

Fang Yu remembered that he had also seen this huge rock in the afternoon, but it was completely integrated with the surrounding environment, and there was no mystery at all from a distance. He and the big cat man walked into the crack first, the big cat man needed a short head to enter, the others followed, and Alyssa also touched the rock curiously.

After entering the crack, Fang Yu saw clearly that between the angle between the boulder and the cliff, there was a long crack in the rock wall on one side. The size of the boulder itself completely obscured the breach, making it completely invisible from the outside.

The fissure was also completely natural, with no signs of artificiality.

But Bunniculi looked around inside and out, and said to them firmly, "This is it." ”

At this time, Attila lit the torch of pine resin, and in the smoke of the smoke, the bright light of the fire outlined the outline of the rift—it was about four meters high, and it was a narrow triangle from top to bottom, and the light inside could not penetrate, and it was pitch black.

Fang Yu looked inside, turned around and asked, "How are you sure it's here?" ”

"There are no other entrances around here, and the location here is similar to what the records are in," Bunigu added, fearing that they would not trust him, "But after all these years, I'm not sure if it's still possible to walk inside, but it should be relatively safe, unless the Blood Shark Sky Pirates also discover this secret passage." ”

"And do you think they'll find out?"

"This ......"

Sylvid suddenly interjected and asked quietly, "What's going on on the other side of the exit?" ”

"There is more than one exit to this secret passage."

"So which exit does your grandfather usually use, he should have mentioned it in the records, right?"

"As far as I know, there's an exit in a well, there's a wall, and there's a tunnel."

"What about the pirates guarding these exits?"

"There are so many exits, they can't find every single one, right?"

"So it's impossible for them to enter the tunnels?"

"That's a possibility......"

"Alright," Sylvid turned back and smiled at the group, "I'm done." ”

Fang Yu nodded, he also realized that this tunnel was not as safe as he imagined, the blood shark air pirates were digging in the city, and it was normal to find the tunnel. However, if he was prepared in advance, he had a clockwork goblin, and even if the air thief really entered this tunnel, he was actually confident to avoid it in advance.

He asked Bunigu to stay, and then to leave Baggins in this place, firstly to protect the unarmed former, secondly, to keep a surveillance, and finally, if there was anything outside, Baggins could also contact them through Luo Yu's communication crystal.

The boatswain understood his order, stepped aside with his gun, and sat down near the entrance.

Then the people entered into the breach.

The rift was very long, and in some places it was quite narrow, allowing only one person to pass sideways, and if it wasn't clear that there was another mystery inside, Fang Yu might have given up on turning back a few times. The others were fine, but Miss Elf was in some trouble.

Alyssa looked at Attila who was stuck in a dilemma between the rock walls, and couldn't help but joke: "Sometimes I really envy Miss Atila......"

Sylvide was also smiling.

Miss Elf glared at the two of them angrily, and then turned into a bird of paradise and landed on Fang Yuan's shoulder. Tata looked up at her before reaching out and gently touching her gorgeous feathers.

The deeper the rift, the more the space opened up, and traces of artificial carving began to appear around it. Soon, the Paparals in front suddenly stopped, groping with their hands on the walls around them, and it was not until Alyssa approached behind them with a torch that the Plover saw that there was a dead end ahead.

A wall appeared there, to be exact.

The grayish-yellow stone bricks, each the size of a Paparal's head, were neatly built, and in the center of the wall was a closed stone door.

It was exactly as Bunigu's description, the big cat man stepped forward and held it with his hand, and the stone door immediately creaked back and opened a gap. The light of the torches flashed, and the smell of dust immediately permeated the air.

The big cat man coughed and fanned his paw in front of him. After the dust settled, everyone saw that a downward staircase appeared behind them, and the staircase led straight into the pitch-black and deep tunnel below, like a black hole and a large open mouth.

Fang Yu took the torch from Alyssa's hand and was about to be the first to enter, but the big cat man held him down on the shoulder:

"Bunigu isn't telling the truth."

Fang Yu looked back, not surprised: "I know." ”

He has suffered so many losses and fallen into a lot of fools, if he can't even see this, wouldn't he be a real fool. But he replied, "But it is not all a lie, this secret passage is of some use to us, and it is better to see for ourselves what is going on below, rather than listening to what he has to say." ”

The big cat man let go of his shoulder with some surprise, and looked at Sylvid on the side: "Ed, it seems that you have learned a lot from our ship officer, and I am going to remind you, it seems that this is a superfluous move." ”

Fang Yu coughed lightly: "This is what I thought of myself." ”

Sylvid smiled silently.

"But the ring?"

"If I have the chance, I will go and have a look," Fang Yu replied, "I promised him, but I was not lying." But I'll put everyone's safety first, and don't forget, I have clockwork goblins, and some things don't have to be seen with your own eyes. ”

Seeing that he was thinking clearly, Red put his mind at ease and stopped asking.

But the Paparal suddenly reacted, took the ring and asked, "Wait a minute, why did you throw it at me when you both know there's something wrong with it?" ”

Red glanced at him: "Solve the problems you provoke yourself." ”

"What did you mess with?"

"Attila—"

Parker hurriedly raised his hand in surrender and said loudly: "Okay, okay, as a night thief in the team, it is also appropriate to take some risks for everyone, needless to say, I will take this responsibility." ”

Alyssa smiled and leaned back, not forgetting to mend the knife: "You'll get away from me later, Parker." ”

Paparal's eyes rolled and he nodded hurriedly.

After this little episode, the team continued on its way.

The construction of the underground passages of Idus predates the city's rise to prominence - Idus, standing on the edge of the kingdom, certainly first existed as a fortress. The Istanians, also known as the people of the desert, had been at odds with the kingdom for hundreds of years before they belonged to Kaurin-Ihurian.

The earliest Idus was established to govern the frontiers of this kingdom and prevent the invasion of the people of the sand. His tunnel system is mainly the original Tibetan soldier cave and underground grain and ammunition warehouse, and later with the expansion of the city, it has been expanded several times, and gradually formed the scale of the future.

During the prosperous years of Idus, this crisscrossing underground passage was once used as a place for smugglers, brotherhoods of thieves, various black markets, slave traders, and the shadow side of the city that the sun on the surface of Idus could not reach.

But both light and shadow were reduced to ashes and collapsed in the raging fire more than 100 years ago, and after the city was reduced to ruins, the place was completely plunged into darkness that had not seen the light of day for a long time.

After a hundred years of sinking, there is only a dusty underground network of underground tunnels and a dead world immersed in darkness.

The crowd marched through the passage, the light of the torches stretching along the footsteps of the group—obscured by the broken pillars, occasionally carving a few deep shadows into one side of the wall, dragging long, like the creepy minions of monsters.

But apart from the rustling of footsteps and the psychological effect of scaring themselves, they were actually quite calm along the way, and they didn't encounter anything.

Only occasionally because of the vibration, the ceiling rustles and seeps a layer of sand, which makes people feel a false alarm.

The underworld doesn't seem to be in any danger, and Idus is a dead city, where a catastrophe a hundred years ago destroyed everything, leaving few undead creatures behind. Coupled with the fact that adventurers and scholars have been visiting the area over the years, the few monsters that roam the ruins have been cleaned up.

Idus is a famous ruin of Kaorin-Ishurian, but it's much less adventurous than other similar places.

Partly because it's so remote, and partly because people think it's a place where there's no longer anything of value. The Blood Shark Sky Pirates have been able to excavate here for nearly two months, and no one has been able to detect their identity, and it is thanks to this.

Parker walked ahead with the ring trembling, and made up his mind that if he came across something, he would run to Alyssa.

But along the way, he didn't encounter anything—the Paparal man yawned in boredom, and his heart gradually fluttered. He thought to himself that this place seemed to be nothing more than that, the underground passage seemed eerie, but there were no undead creatures or blood shark air pirates.

Moreover, the ruins underground were not even as elaborate as those he had seen in the Traveler's Swamp, this was just a grain cellar under the Idus, and there was no religious use, and the Idos people naturally did not bother to make some exquisite carvings on the road.

The team headed north—of course, it was hard to tell the way underground, and the crowd relied on Attila's reliable sense of direction as a druid and ranger; In Fang Yuan's memory, there was the first excavation point of the Dragon Fire Guild in the north, and they advanced from the ground, just in time to avoid the detection of the magicians on the ground.

The Paparals yawned again.

Of course, he would occasionally see some bones lying on the road, scattered all over the ground, covered with a thick layer of dust, and at a glance he knew that they had nothing to do with undead creatures.

By the light of the torches, the Paparal saw one of the headless bones, which was very different from what he had seen before, for it was dressed in a broad robe. After more than a hundred years of glow, the robe was only dusty, and there was no sign of decay.

Parker froze for a moment, vaguely feeling that the robe might be of extraordinary origin, and was about to pull it up with his short fat hand, when suddenly, something was mentioned at his feet.

The thing rolled out of the stairs, exactly a few steps ahead, and it made a series of hollow noises that rolled into the deep darkness below.

In the silence of the underground, this series of hollow noises was so harsh that everyone couldn't help but stop and look at the Paparals in front of them. Parker reluctantly raised his little short hand and said, "Listen to me, it's none of my business, who knew there was something under the dust......"

"What's that?" Fang Yu looked at him and asked.

"Its head, I think." Parker looked at the bones at his feet and replied.

"No, I'm talking behind you."

Parker was stunned and subconsciously looked back.

He heard the sound of the wind in the darkness, and a long black shadow was slashing straight down at him. "Ah——!h He screamed in fright, and lunged forward, rolling like a ball at the feet of the crowd.

At this time, no one paid attention to the little man, and the big cat man was the first to take off the big shield behind his back and greeted the black shadow in front of him. "Radiance!" He let out a low cry, and on the silver shield in his hand, above the relief lion's head, his eyes opened, and suddenly two strong lights radiated, piercing straight into the black shadow in front of him.

But the light passed through the thick black smoke, and it did not affect it in any way. The black smoke flickered slightly, and then rushed towards the Lion Man Paladin.

"That's not the undead!" Fang Yu shouted.

The undead are not afraid of the Paladin's glorious spells, this thing completely ignores the attacks of the big cats, and it is only possible that it is not the undead.

Only then did everyone realize that it was actually a vague humanoid creature - it was swooping in this direction with its arms outstretched, its palms were a pair of huge claws, there seemed to be a long tail behind it, and the position of the head was a cloud of billowing smoke and dust, which seemed to have a pair of crimson eyes.

Parker almost screamed in fright when he saw this thing. "What the hell is this!?"

But Fang Yu saw it clearly, it was the dragon's minions.

But unlike the dragon minions they'd seen before.

First of all, the thing looked more human, and its body was not as solid as the dragon's claws they had seen earlier in Traveler's Rest, Fenris, and Van Rik, but almost collapsed. But it is this kind of collapse that makes it look cloudy and windy when it walks, which makes people feel a little chilling.

However, since the other party is not an undead creature, it is reasonable that he is not afraid of the brilliance of the big cat people.

But Fang Yuan had his own way of dealing with the dragon's minions - he saw that the black shadow hit the lion paladin's shield at once, and it seemed to collapse automatically, but in fact, it was around left and right, outflanking the big cat man behind. At this time, Fang Yu stepped forward and grabbed the black smoke with his right hand.

I saw a clear blue light radiating from the back of his hand, and the black smoke screamed, as if it had been dipped in boiling water, and it shrank back violently. But how could Fang Plover give it this opportunity, he continued to take a step forward and stretched out his hand towards the center of the black mist.

With a terrible scream, the dragon's minions were wiped out, turning into a cloud of black powder and falling to the ground.

Fang Yu walked over and wiped it with his hand, and the dust disappeared suddenly.

"Dragon's minions?" That's when the others reacted.

"How can there be dragon minions in this place?" Alyssa couldn't help but ask, "Could it be that Nicol Bolas is really in this place?" ”

It's just that Fang Yu straightened up and shook his head slightly.

While he did feel a hint of Nicol Bolas's aura from the monster, it wasn't exactly the same—at least the aura of Nicol Bolas he had felt from Dorifin, the Traveler's Rest, and the dragon minions he had encountered on the tower of Elffindor not long ago was very different.

But it wasn't the same as the dragon minions beneath Fenris, it did have some of Nicol Bolas's power left, but it was very weak, as if it were old.

He had a strange illusion in his mind, these dragon minions, perhaps left by the dragon witch a hundred years ago.

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