The blackened crystal lens hangs from the treetops, like a silent eye watching the darkness and silence of the woodland—a specific circumstance that the artisans call 'staring into the dark'. The Combat Tinkerer is one of the less adept Scouts to work in the dark, as darkness reduces the Clockwork Elf's sight range and detection effect, causing Scouts to overlook more details. Combat artisans tend to rely on sight, unable to use the senses of hearing, smell, or even touch, which is their natural limitation.

But craftsmen also have their own methods, for example, to increase the number of night vision modules, or to increase the number of reconnaissance within the unit, and to compensate for quality with quantity. Very few people would choose the former, as the additional modules would reduce the performance of the Clockwork Elf in general, take up more computing power, or at the very least, put more unnecessary burden on the alchemist.

So the alchemist of Twilight also chose the number strategy, he kept switching between the vision of the seven clockwork elves, and the darkness and deep woods were as quiet as silence - he could actually release more clockwork elves, thirteen, or fourteen was his limit, but he didn't need to. At his level, this is not a good ability to show off, not to mention that it is difficult to be distracted to pay attention to the movement in the forest after reaching the limit.

He understands that he is just a helper - using seven clockwork goblins to control the area, so that the opponent does not dare to move easily, and narrows the range little by little, allowing the 'hunters' in front of him to capture the target. A good combat craftsman should understand the limits of his abilities and cooperate with his teammates in order to make the most of it.

He even sent two clockwork elves to keep an eye on the left near to prevent unexpected opponents from entering the area. In the forest, the airspace below the canopy is a battleground for battle craftsmen, and it is easy to find it if you fly too high, and it is easy to get entangled in the bushes if you fly too low, unless someone can pass through the canopy, but the alchemists of the Twilight Guild feel that such a person should not exist.

But what he thought was non-existent was now like a ghost passing through the pores between the branches and leaves, like three silent gazes, passing over the woodland. In fact, if necessary, in widefield mode, Fang Yuan couldn't even lower the clockwork elf to the height of the bush layer, but it wasn't necessary - he couldn't think of anything other than showing off his skills.

He still calls himself a pragmatist.

The forest at night was presented through the light crystal module in the field of vision of the silver bee colony, and the little amount of calculation added was slightly non-existent for the square plover. He could even easily see the reflection of the clockwork elf hovering under the treetops, and the color was a little pale in the dim night vision, but he could still tell the material of its shell.

There are people fighting in the forest—

Naturally, it is impossible for the Battle Craftsman to release the Clockwork Fairy for no reason, and the other Clockwork Fairy is not aware of them, which means that there is a third party in this woodland who is opposed to the Battle Craftsman. Spotting a clockwork elf may not be a big deal, but Fang Plover knows that clockwork elves move in a regular pattern - they are mostly centered on one point and spread out in all directions, depending on the search habits of different combat craftsmen.

Even Fang Yu himself has his own habits, but his wide-field mode search, as well as his alertness, make it difficult for him not to find the other party when his clockwork goblin is discovered. Fang Plover spread his swarm, and in a very comfortable position, about a hundred meters away, he spotted a second clockwork elf. Ordinary - Fang Yu thought to himself, at least this person's method of using clockwork goblins is a typical academic, not that the academy is bad, but generally speaking, if you don't order your own things, it is easy to guess the intention.

He couldn't have made such an assessment in the past—he didn't even know what genre he was, but now it's different, at least in terms of knowledge. With a second clockwork elf, it's easy to find the next one, or even rip out the opponent's entire scouting net.

Fang Yu did the same.

The three silver bees silently unfolded counterclockwise, capturing each node of the net one by one, which sounds long, but in fact it is only a dozen or so seconds.

Soon, he saw another target, a nightingale lurking in the bushes, a woman in shape, unbelievable of age as she was masked, and a long and short sword, most of whom were full-time wanderers—what was often referred to as night thieves. This is a very common branch of the nightingale's setting system, which specializes in fiddling with traps and can do anything to open doors and pick locks.

The night thieves didn't have the bells and whistles of the shadow nightingale, but they had the sharpest perception of any nightingale, and she even sensed the clockwork fairy of the square plover, and raised her head to cast a glance between the pitch-black canopy.

In a hoarse voice, she asked, "What do I seem to hear?" ”

But it would be too much for the alchemist to see through the clockwork goblin what was in the cascading canopy a hundred meters away. The alchemist complained, lifted a clockwork elf into the air, and looked around, but found nothing.

"Nothing, maybe a bat or a night owl," he replied, "don't be distracted, the target might be ahead." ”

Fang Yu let his swarm fly a little higher, and he was a little surprised by the other's acuity—but when the woman spoke, he recognized that it was the owner of the voice from before, and it looked like the other party was searching for someone, or something.

But what really surprised him was the outfit on the other party's body, and it wasn't the first time he had seen the style of the battle robe—"Twilight guild people? Fang Yu was slightly stunned. He had preconceived suspicions about these people and couldn't help but connect with what had happened before.

What do ordinary people do here at such a time? And looking at the configuration of the other party, it is not a temporary idea like theirs.

Fang Yu instantly retracted his thoughts, turned around, and made a low-pitched gesture to the big cat man and Ji Ta. Then he gestured and said, "Twilight people, I don't feel like they're doing anything good." We sneaked over to see what was going on, and there was a battle craftsman over there, and a night thief. ”

The big cat man also asked him with a gesture: "How do you solve it with a battle craftsman?" ”

"The other party may not be on the front line, it is not realistic to find him, and the control range of the combat craftsman can be as far as a few thousand meters. We can cut through his blind spot, but it is indeed a problem to get close to the past, and we are afraid to attract the attention of the other party. ”

Fang replied that they weren't clockwork goblins after all—they couldn't fly.

But Kita took a light breath and whispered, "I might have a way." ”

"What did you say, Kita?" Her voice was so low that Fang Yu couldn't hear it clearly for the first time.

"I said I had a solution, Brother Ed."

"Then you can try, Kita."

Miss Scholar nodded, opened her magic book, and held it up with a small hand, like an invisible wind surrounding the large silver book, levitating it in midair.

She pressed one hand to the page, opened her mouth to read a few syllables that sounded obscure to others, and then pointed forward:

“…… As we passed through the mountains of the Talon region, we saw such strange creatures, which were both rocks, living beings, and even strange ecological ......

—684,1,10, "The Ecology of the Taron Region"

In the soft voice of Kita's description, in the direction of her snow-white fingertips, the forest shook and shook, and a gray-white rock shook off the earth and roots, and rose from the ground, gradually forming the appearance of a tall rock puppet. The movement behind had obviously attracted the attention of the people in front of him - although the battle craftsman could not hear the situation on the battlefield, the nightingale had already reacted one step ahead.

"What's going on next?"

She said aloud in the communication crystal.

"In what direction?"

"To the southeast of me."

The alchemist immediately separated a clockwork fairy and flew in that direction, and seeing this scene, Fang Yu immediately pulled the scholar Miss and the big cat man to sneak into the bushes and quietly advance towards the north.

The gray-white rock giants that came into view clearly attracted the alchemist's attention, so that he did not notice what was happening in the bushes on the other side of the river.

In just a moment, his somewhat surprised voice came from the crystal: "A rock giant, be careful, Ruin, it's near you." How did you mess with this? ”

"Silence," came the voice of the ranger who had been silent in the crystal, and he straightened up from between the branches where he had been hiding, raised his longbow, and shot an arrow at the gray-white rock giant. But the arrow was deflected badly, hitting a large tree not far from the rock giant.

Kita didn't expect that there was still a ranger hidden there, and when she saw this scene, she subconsciously moved her little hand on the page, but Fang Yu had already taken the first step to hold her hand:

"Don't move, he's testing you."

"Rock giants are very special elemental creatures, they have no sense of the outside world, but they live in symbiosis with a winged lizard, and through a special connection, the two can make them feel everything around them."

"Winged lizards have poor eyesight and hearing, relying on their sensitive sense of smell to act, if you just move, you will expose the fact that this rock giant is summoned by man."

Fang Yu said in a low voice.

Kita blushed a little, she didn't actually know this, but she didn't react for a while. "I'm sorry, Brother Ed."

"Needless to say, I'm sorry," Fang Plover shook his head, "It's perfect to think of summoning rock giants in this place, goblins, winged lizards, and treants often appear in one area, and they won't suspect too much." ”

"But my magic won't last long."

"That's enough."

The Treant Ranger looked at the rock giant, and then put down the longbow in his hand and said to the two people on the other side of the crystal: "I'll deal with this thing, you continue to keep an eye on the target, don't expose it." ”

With that, he jumped down from the tree, raised his bow again, and shot an arrow at the rock giant. The arrow missed again, and one hit the rock giant's chest, and the latter's massive form shook slightly, and several winged lizards crawled up from behind it and rested on the behemoth's shoulder.

When the ranger saw those winged lizards, he was completely relieved, some elemental envoys could summon these elemental creatures, but they couldn't summon winged lizards that lived in symbiosis with them. He put his hand to his mouth and whistled loudly in that direction before dodging back.

It was thick-skinned, and he wasn't going to waste his arrows on it, he just had to lure it away from the area.

……

By the time the other party had attracted the attention of the rock giant, Fang Plover and the big cat man had already waded across the river, and he left Miss Scholar in the bushes on the bank of the river, telling her not to make a noise no matter what.

Kita nodded obediently, and Fang Yu and Red continued to sneak in that direction.

However, after sneaking for a while, he also stopped, looked up to the north, and for a moment he could no longer see the shadow of the big cat man in that direction. Fang Yu turned over and hid under a huge dead tree, pressed his hand on the information crystal, and projected three dragon hunters.

But he wasn't in a hurry to attack.

Because he is only suspicious of the other party, but he does not rule out the possibility that the other party also has the same purpose as them.

And at the other end of the forest, the moment the twilight ranger whistled, Alice couldn't calm down - although the rock giant appeared by some coincidence, she could only believe that it was a coincidence, there were only two of the other three left, and if she couldn't seize this opportunity again, she really couldn't think of what better time she would find.

She pulled out a dark crystal and threw it in one direction, and the crystal turned into a cloud of smoke in midair, forming a humanoid shape.

At the same time, Alice jerked out of her hiding place and ran in the opposite direction. But as soon as she moved, a figure in the darkness swooped towards her.

Alice turned around in shock, and was thrown to the ground by the shadow, "Got you, little kitten!" The nightingale of the twilight guild screamed, but before the sound fell, he saw the girl in his hand turn into a cloud of smoke.

Only then did the other party realize that he had been deceived, and when he turned around, he saw that Alice had jumped up from the bushes, and was getting farther and farther away from her.

But Alice hadn't run a few steps before she suddenly felt a void under her feet, and she reacted quickly, reached out and grabbed the aerial roots of a nearby giant tree and volleyed into the air.

It's just that at this time, a net crossed in the air, which happened to entangle her solidly.

She felt a tremendous force coming from her feet, pulling her upside down, her head hanging in the air. It was in the midst of an upside-down view that Alice saw the grizzled nightingale walking towards her.

"Kitten, do you think you're the only one who can calculate people?"

She said with a sneer.

Alice just wanted to speak, but the other party had already slapped her: "Shut up, I hate the shadow dance department the most." ”

Alice was beaten and snorted, but she knew that she could not be spared, and she was still very conscious, so she reached out and pulled the short sword at her waist with force, ready to cut herself.

But the nightingale was much higher in rank than her, and his hands were quick, and he slapped the short sword in her hand again, and then grabbed her by the hair and pulled her up:

"Don't try to play these little tricks."

"You can't torture me." Alice squinted her eyes and said calmly.

"This is not torture," the other party replied with a sneer, "The battle between us is not over yet." ”

"Really?"

Alice asked rhetorically.

The woman was slightly startled, and suddenly her face changed dramatically, but Alice pressed her other hand on her magic furnace, and the dagger that had been knocked out flew back like a bolt of lightning.

It was impartial, right on the back of the woman's shoulder.

"Poison on the dagger." Alice kindly reminded the other party.

The woman snorted, kicked her away, pulled out her long dagger with her backhand, and stabbed Alice in the chest.

But Alice didn't struggle, she understood that this was already the best outcome, and only closed her eyes and waited for death. It's just that the imaginary death did not come, but heard a scream from the woman.

She opened her eyes with some surprise, only to find that the woman had stepped back again and again, and her right hand, which had been holding the dagger, had been severed from her arm. The other party pressed the broken mouth with one hand, and the pain was so painful that he almost burst into tears-

And a tall figure, holding a holy sword, with a long mane and a majestic figure, stood in front of her. The owner of the figure even spoke to her in a graceful manner:

"Miss Alice, long time no see."

"Because of that fragrant kiss between you and your sister—"

"Our captain has been thinking about it."

Alice opened her mouth, and couldn't help but think about how she and her sister had deceived that fool, and she couldn't help but feel a little hot on her face. But it's not because of shyness, it's probably just a kind of weakness that has been caught.

……

The moment the big cat man saw Alice, Fang Yu had already received the news, in fact, he had already seen the situation over there through the clockwork fairy.

He didn't expect that they would meet the twin sister of Miss Nightingale in this place - I heard that the other party had been incorporated by the military, but how could they be here?

However, considering these things at the moment is obviously not the first priority, and at the moment when the big cat man made a move, the other party's ranger also reacted.

At that moment, Jita's magic power finally couldn't support it, and the rock giant summoned from the book "The Ecology of the Taron Region" suddenly fell apart and turned into several gray boulders that rolled down-

The winged lizards also turned into specks of light and dissipated into the darkness.

In the midst of the ranger's stunned gaze, he heard a panicked voice coming from his communication crystal: "...... My Clockwork Elf...... Be careful, there are enemies ......"

But the announcement was a little late.

In the gaze of the ranger, behind the falling rocks, several slender figures appeared, and they were raising their guns and aiming in this direction.

The Ranger reacted quickly, rolling over into the bushes behind him, and in the flickering firelight, the bullet hit where he was standing.

He roughly judged the direction of the enemy from this round of shooting, and rolled and hid under a nearby towering ancient tree, but as soon as he stopped, a soft buzzing sound was heard in his ears.

A golden, palm-sized thing, flew in from the outside, slammed into the ground not far from him, and came to a tumbling stop in front of him.

Clockwork goblins?

The Ranger was slightly stunned, he hadn't seen anyone who could manipulate the clockwork goblin to hit the ground, and he subconsciously reached out to the thing, intending to pick it up and throw it out.

But he will soon regret his actions-

There was a loud bang.

Fang Yu looked at the dark forest in that direction from a distance, and a golden firework was rising.

……

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