There was a 'click', and a black passage was cracking open on the stone wall where the curtains hung behind them.

Fang Yu and Ji Ta turned around and looked at the secret passage that suddenly appeared in some surprise. They had been just looking at the painting, and they didn't know how to trigger the mechanism.

If it was said that the action of lifting the curtain earlier caused the change, it was too long.

Kita looked at Fang Ou. "Wait." Fang Yu looked at this secret passage and did not rush forward. It also appeared a little too coincidentally, as if someone behind it had deliberately let them in.

With a slight flick of his right hand, he raised his five fingers to summon clockwork elves and let them fly into it. At the same time, he sent a message to Alyssa's side, telling the three of them the location and the situation they found.

After the message was sent, it was like a mud cow entering the sea, and there was no news at all. The aether magic in the valley was so chaotic that Fang Yu didn't know if his communication crystal was working properly. The Clockwork Elf is similarly poorly detected. There was no light source in the twists and turns of the secret passage, and the clockwork fairy did not emit light by itself, and flew out of the light range of the crystal lamp and then crashed headlong.

He improvised a hook and subtracted unnecessary weight so that one of the clockwork elves could carry a crystal lamp. Twenty or thirty meters of flying forward in this way, there are only one step after another in the secret passage that extends downward, and the scenery is the same. Farther away, the crystal lamp was out of the maximum range of the magic furnace, and the light flickered before going out.

Fang Yu had no choice but to take them back.

He took out his pocket watch from his bosom and looked at the time, and felt that staying here was not the way to go. Anyway, this secret passage will not disappear here, and for the sake of caution, he decided to take Kita to find someone else to meet first.

But before leaving, he had other things to do. Fang Yu ordered the Angel to loosen the revitalized armor on the ground, which had fallen into disrepair, and fiddled with it for a while, intending to map out the drawings of this thing in reverse.

Although the Activation Armor is sluggish, the blueprints are preserved in several major alchemy families, and even the Karin-Isharian Artisan Craftsmen's Guild does not record it. Now that he's in a situation, he's going to have to give it a try.

This thing really lives up to its name of 'disrepair', it lacks arms and legs too much, and the rust even connects the gears one by one, and it is a complete miracle that it can move. Fang Yu mastered the multiple parallel technique, which was far more efficient than the average alchemist, but before carefully maintaining the value of its structure and falling out, it only got 17% of the drawing progress in the first disassembly.

After the first disassembly, the remaining structural values are basically only a fraction of the value, and it is almost impossible to reinstall them. Fang Yu had no choice but to try destructive analysis. The second time, I finally got 30% of the drawing progress and a temporary design drawing.

This blueprint allows him to craft three animated armors, and the rest of his progress will be used as a reserve of knowledge. The next time he maps a similar structure, he plays a role.

Kita watched as Fang Yu used his dazzling speed to disassemble the activated armor into parts. And watch him turn the mapping progress into a light map and integrate it into the system.

Although it was not the first time she had seen the captain complete this job, she was still amazed every time. It seems that this time, the captain is much more skilled than before, and he doesn't know where his ceiling is? The latter is not comparable to the artisan electors of Tapolis.

It may be too much to say that it is the light of rice grains and the light of the bright moon. But she didn't forget that the captain was only level fourteen, and his future was unlimited.

Fang Yu finished his work, put away the craftsman system, and then let out a breath and stood up. He kicked the empty breastplate of the activated armor, causing it to make an 'empty' sound and roll to the wall.

It's no wonder that the original eighteenth-level benchmark activated armor has fallen to only thirteenth, this thing is too tattered, how long has it been here? He couldn't help but wonder in his heart: I don't know how many adventurers have been here for a century before and after Aimao Fort. It's a miracle that this broken metal wasn't dismantled by other adventurers before him.

Fang Yu raised his head again and looked around. The place doesn't seem to be hidden, and on the second floor, the wall with windows is directly across from the northern corridor. Anyone who sees such a strange place will come in and investigate, right?

It's a pity that Luo Yu is not here, otherwise the magician can use the detection spell to check if there is a spell such as illusion to maintain it.

He opened his communication crystal, and it was empty, with no information. It looks like the communication was indeed jammed. Fang Yu was going to take Kita out of this place to meet with Alyssa and the others. But it was at this time that he stopped, looked at a place and said softly.

With this soft sigh, Kita naturally saw it too—the breastplate that had been kicked over before hit the lower left corner of the frame, and something actually came out of it. It was a silver bracelet, small and delicate, originally buried under the dust, but now it was revealed.

She glanced at the captain before she walked over and picked it up, compared it, and handed it to the latter. She found that the bracelet was just right for herself, but the captain was a little smaller if she wore it.

It is the size of an ornament that seems to be worn by small children.

The bracelet itself has no attributes, nor is it a magic accessory.

And the name that Fang Yu sees in the system is 'Chain of Life Blessings'. Although the years had left marks on it, when he gently stroked it with his hand, he could still feel a faint divine aura in the silver brilliance.

Because of Fenris's party, he was familiar with Milella's divine powers. The divine breath on this chain should also come from the goddess of life, who at least received the blessing of her priests, or the baptism of holy water.

When he saw this bracelet, he suddenly remembered a rumor. "Miss Tata, is this that thing?" Miss Fairy's emerald eyes were as flat as mirrors—she could feel her knight's thoughts, and nodded slightly.

In Aitalia, the rate of infant mortality was still quite high, so the nobles would seek relics blessed by the goddess of life as a way to pray for the safe growth of their offspring. Milella, the goddess of life, is responsible for fertility, which is itself one of her priesthoods.

The bracelet in his hand was supposed to be one such holy thing. It is worn on a baby or child, and the divine power of the goddess of life will naturally protect it from thriving.

Fang Yu took the bracelet and looked at the painting again. "Let's go." That's when he said to Kita. This should be the last discovery in the room, though it appears by some coincidence.

However, he had a vague feeling in his heart that this bracelet did not appear because of a coincidence. It was so well preserved that it was clearly alien to everything else around it, and the divine aura of the goddess of life on it had not dissipated for hundreds of years.

It's like an obsession that haunts it, like a holy object in Dorifin's illusion, which lasts for a long time.

It seems to be just like this room.

There was a faint force that led them to this place—

The two pushed the door out, only to find that the room outside was like weathered sand, the previous illusion had long since disappeared, and the orderly room had turned into a ruin.

"Huh?" When Kita saw this, she couldn't help but let out a low cry.

But it was this exclamation that seemed to alarm something in front of it. Fang Yu suddenly saw a dark shadow flickering behind the window in front of him, this time he saw it clearly, it was definitely not an illusion.

had chased and lost the other party several times in a row before, how could Fang Yu let go of this opportunity. He released a goblin as soon as possible, and at the same time protected Jita behind him, and chased after him with an arrow.

The Angel of Energy came first, flickering on the other side of the wall almost at the same time as him.

As soon as Fang Yu rolled over the window, a black shadow rushed in front of him. Seeing this, Kita held up the crystal lamp, and the soft light shone brightly—let him see it clearly, and in the darkness was a half-naked zombie, with a bloody mouth, a mouthful of sharp teeth, and a long tongue curled up towards him.

The Hungry –

This thing suddenly appeared in the darkness, making Fang Yuan's scalp tingle. However, he was quick to react, and waved his left hand diagonally downward. On one side, the angel raised the knife and fell, and a silver light sliced diagonally downward along the zombie heavenly spirit cover.

Fang Yu turned sideways again, staggering past the zombie whose head had landed. But his dodge was too low. As the zombies staggered past him, their evasion points reset to zero, and their long claws still pulled a hole in his chest, and blood immediately stained his coat red.

From behind came Kita's exclamation.

The system also provides hints for kills and experience. But Fang Yu didn't have time to see it, the 'starving ghost' would not appear alone, and there must be another type of undead behind it - vampires.

But his perception was too low, and the vampire was a master of concealment. Fang Yu clutched his chest and was vigilant around him, and for a moment he couldn't feel anything from the dark and narrow environment.

Fortunately, his vigilance is not useless. Just as he was about to start, Fang Yu suddenly felt a strong wind hit behind his head. "Be careful, back!" Kita also shouted crisply, and the little girl's voice was full of nervousness and worry.

Fang Yu didn't think about it, raised his right hand and blocked back, and turned around at the same time.

It's just that he blocked an air.

The attacker cunningly changed direction, and its blow in the darkness was almost the same as a surprise attack, which was destined to inflict heavy damage on the Plover. But at this moment, Fang Yuan's dark ritual came into play.

Foreseeing the danger automatically controlled Fang Yuan's body, making him pounce forward. The vampire turned into a giant bat and flew over him. It flapped its wings and fell to the ground in smoke and back into human form.

Fang Yu hurriedly got up from the ground, and only then did he see the other party's appearance clearly. It was a skinny human, with a pale face, wearing a tattered black robe, like a dark wizard.

Fang Yu saw the other party's level in the system: high-level minion, lv22.

It had a bloodless face, missed a blow, and let out a low growl. At the same time, its figure flashed to one side, and it disappeared from Fang Yu's sight again—the level was too high! Fang Yu secretly screamed that it was not good, and at the same time released a second energy angel to protect his back.

Then he heard a stammering spell coming from behind him: "Vines! ”

It was Kita's voice.

Thorns spread out of the stone corridors.

At the same time, there was a loud bang, and a thorny vine the size of a bucket rushed through the wall, carrying scattered stone bricks, and swept towards a steering wheel behind Fang Yuan.

Fang Yu knew that Ji Ta could see where he couldn't see in the back. He didn't want to think about it, he just moved on instinct, and he didn't even need to turn around, the metal glove in his right hand lay flat, and his five fingers swept lightly.

I saw the angel shoot there with an arrow, and a sword stabbed at the thing in the vine roll.

There, the black shadow coiled around the vines let out a scream—and Fang Ou felt his Angel of Energy stab something. But the black shadow suddenly repeated its old tricks, and once again dispersed into a cloud of smoke, and countless bats flew out of the smoke, as if they wanted to escape from all around.

"Kita, stop him!" Fang Yu shouted.

"Anstali Glacier!"

Kita closed her eyelids slightly, her long eyelashes fluttering slightly. She placed her hand on the silver pages of the book and pronounced the incantation in a slightly trembling tone.

There was a loud bang.

The corridor was filled with cold, and curling walls of ice rose from all sides, sealing the narrow space completely.

At this moment, the only exit is the direction where Kita herself is. And after a group of blood-red bats flew around and hit the wall, they turned in that direction.

Fang Plover immediately threw a Ts-1 Infiltrator capable of generating gravity traps in the direction of the window.

But at this time, the corridor where the three of them were suddenly sinking downward, and it sank down with a bang. "Oops!" Fang Yu secretly said that it was not good. He knew that it was Kita's previous vine spell that had destroyed the already fragile structure of the corridor that had fallen into disrepair.

The ground cracked downward, and Fang Yu raised his hand and shot his flying claws, grasping at a protrusion above him to keep himself from falling.

But he heard an exclamation from ahead.

"Mr. Knight, it's Kita."

Fang Ou heard Miss Tata's prompt and looked up, only to find that his Ts-1 lurker also rolled down with the cracked floor, and did not work. And the cloud of smoke was rolling towards Kita.

The latter had already turned pale with fright, and had forgotten what other spells he had. Besides, even if she still has any spells, she is only a sixth-level naturalist.

As soon as the smoke hit the ground, it turned into a pair of hands to grab Miss Naturalist. The vampire seemed to be injured and did not dare to stay, grabbing Kita and disappearing into the other side of the hallway.

That direction was the room from before.

Fang Yu was so anxious that he didn't have the heart to see where his Ts-1 lurker had fallen. He knew that vampires could be replied by sucking human blood, and if he gave the other party enough time, Kita would be more likely to be more than lucky.

He hurriedly swung forward with all his might, landing steadily on the platform formed by the rupture of the corridor in that direction. I didn't even have time to check the wound in my chest, so I gritted my teeth and chased in that direction.

He didn't expect that he would return to this place in just a few minutes. But when he pushed the door in, the room was empty, and he took out a lighting crystal and lit it, and there were no Jita and vampires around?

The painting was still in that place, and the girl on it looked at him quietly—

Fang Yu inadvertently glanced at the girl, only to find that the other party was wearing a strange ring on the ring finger of his right hand. There was a wolf's head on the ring, which made him vaguely familiar.

But the thought was fleeting. He didn't have the heart to think about it right now—he just glanced at the only exit in the room, and knew that the vampire had fled with Kita.

He didn't care about anything at this moment, so he hung the illumination crystal on his chest with his backhand, then pulled out the silver handcuff that Silk Capet had given him and Sylvid, and walked in cautiously.

Two angels of power protected him, one in front of him and one behind him.

The secret passage was not much different from what he had seen in the Clockwork Fairy Vision before, narrow and tortuous, and the scenery was the same as the previous part, all the way down. This kind of place is the easiest place to set up traps and traps, but Fang Yu is anxious about Ji Ta's safety at the moment, and he can't care so much.

Fortunately, it seems that because time has passed, the trap has long since failed. Or maybe the original owner didn't set any traps here in the first place, and he didn't even encounter any trouble along the way.

He walked more and more quickly, and he didn't know how long he walked, but there was no trace of the vampire and Kita in front of him. But suddenly, his vision suddenly widened, and in the glow of the crystal lamp, Fang Yu found himself entering an underground hall.

In the darkness, the hall was not known how wide it was. But at least it wasn't smaller than the one in the antechamber he and Kita had seen when they entered the castle.

The silence around Fang Yu made Fang Yu feel a little strange, and only then did he slow down slightly—the hall was very empty, only his footsteps rustled and echoed. Fang Yu glanced around before removing the crystal from his chest and holding it high.

The range of the light was slightly wider, allowing the halo to spread out in all directions, but only to the center of the hall.

Only then did Fang Yu notice that there seemed to be a flash of light on the ground in that place.

He walked over to take a look, only to find a silver emblem in the shape of a bat on the ground, lying flat in the dust. Fang Yu couldn't help but pause, this is the squire emblem, the vampire will leave this emblem after death, but I don't know which level?

He secretly wondered in his heart, and carefully looked behind him to the left and right before picking up the emblem. The emblem still has a residual temperature in the hand - vampires naturally have no body temperature, but this is a reaction that the magic has not yet dissipated.

Indicates that the emblem has just been left behind.

A hint is also given in the system: the Emblem of the High Squire.

Fang Yuan's heart sank. Unless there are other high-ranking minions in this place, then the emblem is likely to have been left by the previous vampire. But how could it die in this place?

Could it be that this unlucky guy died of his injuries before he could suck Kita's blood?

But the question is-

What about Kita?

Fang Yu stood up with confusion and looked around. The hall was dead silent, and if Kita was still in this place, she should have seen him with the light source in his hand.

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