Fang Yu threw the torn pages into the campfire, watching the handwriting on the paper curl and turn yellow, and finally carbonize and turn into scattered embers. The wind whined in the valley, and the light of the fire was golden red on the snow in front of the tent.

With the light of light and darkness, he held the remaining pages in his hand and continued to read the words that followed.

It's a journal that Azure dug out of the camp, presumably left in the tent by one of the Electors, and before he could retrieve it, it had died at the hands of the constructed creatures outside.

It sounds unlucky, but it's just right for them.

The first half of the journal records some of the boring things they had to do as they set out from the advance camp. But from this page, something appeared that Fang Yu was interested in.

On the thirteenth of May, they recorded some discoveries in the valley:

'Fourteenth, fine

The wind outside was a little lighter, and we were ready to go into the crack to check the situation. The alchemists on the team had confirmed that the glowing stones they had picked up from the valley the day before contained elemental crystals, and that they were not low in purity.

The valley is on the north side of the tuyere, and it can be reached by walking down the slope for two or three kilometers. Since it didn't go deep last time, it's reasonable to suspect that there might be something more valuable inside the cave. ’

On the 15th, the weather outside was unclear

Introducing our team, there are three of us in a group, me, Qiao Sen and a young man nicknamed Big Head.

Josson is the sorcerer of the team, an aborigine, and apart from a bit of a godly chatter, we don't have a bad relationship.

On the 17th, it was still not clear what was going on

We went deep into the chasm for two days, and the space below was bigger than we thought.

Today, we hit a big fault and we unanimously decided to stop and fix it. ’

'On the twentieth day,

We went a few kilometers in the direction of the fault, which was deep below.

The bad news today is that we lost a squad, a squad of four, whose ropes broke and they all fell under the breach.

They may withdraw from this adventure, but even if they are resurrected at the nearest respawn point, it will take at least a week to return to the forward camp, and I wish them good luck. ’

'Twenty-one day,

We continued for a few kilometers. ’

'On the twenty-third day,

The previous approach ran into a dilemma, and a cliff with no focus point blocked us.

We had to go back the way we came, looking for another way. And this time it's better, and we're a little bit better. ’

The rest of the writing was left three days later, and once again they were dead, and their food reserves were running out, and they had to return in vain.

Here are some whining, about complaining about the weather with other people and the like.

They returned to the camp, where they were encouraged by the fact that the hedron they had harvested sold for a good price, and it wasn't long before the team set out again.

They went underground three times, and the last time they found the right way to get under the crack.

Also this time, they found the treasure beneath the crack:

'The glittering orange-yellow crystals that dotted the rock face along the long dark bands of rock spread all the way down the cavern, and even if Josson didn't say it, we knew that we might have run into good luck. ’

The excited tone when the log arrived at this point was overflowing, and Fang Yu could fully imagine the excitement of these people.

However, the Karin-Ishurian rule was that all mineral deposits in the kingdom belonged to the king. If it is found in the realm of the nobility, then the king receives thirty percent of the income in addition to taxes.

Nognes did not have a fief of the nobility, so the mineral deposits found here belonged to the royal family, and the discoverer could receive a large reward.

If the discoverer is willing to buy the ownership of the discovered deposit for ten years, the king still receives 30% of the proceeds, excluding taxes, and the rest goes to the owner of the deposit.

But before he came, he had checked the information on the community, and the ownership of all the mines in the kingdom had changed in the last six months, and there was no information that any new mines had been discovered.

And where did the Art Dispute Guild and the Lizards get these Earth Source Crystals, which is very interesting.

He found the answer in his account of the day of July 11:

"On the 11th, there was a lot of wind and snow

The head of the group suppressed the news of the discovery of the ore vein, we are just an adventurous group, we can't afford to buy the ownership of such a mineral deposit, if it is only a reward for the discoverer, it is only a fraction of its value.

But it is obviously not realistic to mine by himself, but the head of the regiment has thought of a way, he has already contacted several guilds nearby, they have the manpower and channels to transport things out.

To be on the safe side, we've also brought in lizardmen so that we can all share the fruits of this vein. ”

The information behind it has become boring again, which is roughly the daily output information of the mining area, and some bookkeeping.

Perhaps this log will cause an uproar if it leaks out, but it may not be a big deal for the Chosen One who is not afraid of heaven and earth.

The big deal was that the mine was reclaimed, but before that they made a lot of money.

It was difficult for the royal family to find these lawless people accountable, and it was a big deal that they would become pirates on the air and sea, or hide in places like St. Huyen.

As for the guilds that are involved, as long as the Super Athletic Alliance doesn't trouble them, it's okay to say.

Fang Yu continued to scroll down, and it was not until a month later that he found what he was interested in.

The diary records what happened on August 3:

'We're having some trouble exploring the lower mines, and some strange constructs have come out of beneath the rock formations, killing a lot of people. ’

This is the first time these constructed creatures have appeared in the record.

And there are more and more traces of them later.

According to the journal's owner, the name of these constructed creatures is 'Crystallized Beasts', and their most distinctive feature is that they are not just living crystals, but have an intricate structure inside, as if they were man-made.

But there is no evidence that they are artificial, and they have a tight social structure, with larger crystallized beasts ruling over smaller groups.

The large crystalloid beast, in the description in the journal, should be the large crab outside, and the small individual plover has not yet been seen, but in the description of the journal, it should be humanoid.

In addition, there are larger Crystallized Beasts in the Log, and the owner of the log even suspects that these Crystallized Beasts should have a leader.

Because the Crystallized Beast soon swarmed out of the depths of the earth at its command, and began to attack the entire mine.

That day was clearly the turning point for all of this, and since that day onwards, the mining area has been in dire straits, with the Crystallized Beasts encroaching from the bottom to the surface.

The team of the log owner found that they couldn't control the situation and had to turn to the outside for help.

That's what happened during the week, and in order to protect their own interests, the guilds that cooperated with them also sent their own teams to support.

On the distress letter they had intercepted earlier, the man named Bourkeso was the leader of one of the guilds' people who came to their aid. It's just that their luck is obviously not good, and it didn't take long for the Crystallization Beast to attack the camp.

After reading the last word, Fang Yu threw the last page into the fire and burned it to ashes.

Now they have a few questions before them:

First, the place that Becky mentioned did have earth-origin crystals, and there were quite a few of them. But now there are constructed creatures called Crystallized Beasts all over the place, and since they don't know the rank of the Chosen Ones in this camp, they don't know where these creatures come from, their habits, and how dangerous they are.

The Big Cat Man once said that the generation of Earth Source Crystals below may have something to do with the extraction of magic from the entire region of Nogones. Therefore, although he couldn't figure out the origin of the crystal beast, he had to wonder if there were followers of the Dark Saints behind it.

Second, the only good news was that their former Elect had established a reliable path beneath that chasm, so that they would not be blinded to finding their own way.

However, it is uncertain whether the Crystallrodens have destroyed those paths, and according to the description in the journal, it is not impossible for them to have this awareness.

Thirdly, the journal mentions that before the camp was attacked, the guild team that arrived to support had sent several advance teams into the pit. Although it cannot be ruled out that these people have been hanged, it is still possible that they will remain under the pit.

As for those who died in the camp, judging from the date of the disconnection of the log, they should have been attacked at the earliest before the Dawn, and even if they were to be resurrected in the advance camp, it would be a week to arrive here at the latest.

In other words, they have only three or four days at most.

Most of these people have guilds behind the guild and are involved in the hunt for the Seven Seas Brigade. Although these people may not take the initiative in the current situation, they will certainly not let them go easily in the future.

In comparison, those who may remain in the pit are just a minor nuisance. If they were still alive under the mine at the moment, they would definitely be in a state of anxiety, and they wished that someone could help them, and even if they recognized the people of the Seven Seas Brigade, they would not dare to trouble them easily.

Moreover, the Seven Seas Brigade only wants some earth source crystals, and it is impossible to empty the mining area, and there is no fundamental opposition between the two.

After Fang Yu finished speaking, he raised his head and looked at the people around the campfire.

And listening to his analysis, everyone also behaves differently.

The walnuts in the ground naturally have no right to speak, and the titanium peas and dates are even a little worried. Several guild members were wiped out in this place, which made them feel a great sense of crisis in their hearts, and they always felt that there was danger lurking in this heavy snow, and the unspeakable monster might be lurking behind some snowflake.

Those monsters will appear at any moment and swallow them to the bone.

The walnuts in the ground were slightly better, after all, they had seen Fang Yu and them fight, and they had a little confidence in the Seven Seas Brigade.

Betty was silent, her head bowed, not knowing what she was thinking.

The Seven Seas Brigade fared much better, with only Sky Blue holding her little head down, holding a steaming cup in both hands, and pecking at the warm milk in the cup without a sip, leaving a faint milk mark on her lips.

Fang Yu looked at her, where did she not know that this little girl was weak-hearted, although she was the earliest with the group, she had experienced the least battles, and it was inevitable that she would be a little nervous.

As for Kita, she had already exercised her courage in the Blood Thistle Glade, and at most she would be a little worried about the unknown, but she would never be afraid or afraid.

Parker had no heart or lungs, and was already asleep.

The big cat man wiped the bright sword with a cloth, and only replied:

"Those things are not powerful, you will know when you try it, if it is not easy to deal with, we will find another way."

Indeed, it can only be like this, without knowing the strength of the enemy, Fang Yu is not good at boasting about Haikou, saying that the people hanging here are all rookies.

If it was the forty or fifty level of the Crystal Analysis Beast, then wouldn't he slap himself in the face?

"And what about the people in the other guilds?"

"We can't take care of the people at the camp," replied the big cat, "three or four days is enough, and we're going to meet up with the Seven Seas Traveler in a week, so we can't stay here for long." As for the fact that there are still people under the pit, let's talk about it when we meet them. ”

Met again?

The three of them looked at each other, can they still be like this? It didn't sound like a credible suggestion anyway, and the reliable image of the lion paladin suddenly collapsed in their hearts.

But Fang Yu agreed to this proposal, indeed, the people under the underground pit may not be alive, they may not be able to meet them if they are alive, and they may not necessarily recognize them if they do.

So thinking about these now, it's a pure waste of time.

What's more, even if they really recognize it, the other party can't do anything with them.

Therefore, it is undoubtedly the best way to act when the time comes.

Finally, Sylvid suggested, "We'd better bring climbing tools, and we have some supplies to use in the camp." And regardless of whether or not the Crystallization Beast may destroy the road built by its predecessors, it must always be prevented. ”

Fang Yu nodded, and the discussion ended so simply.

I only saw the walnuts and others in the ground stunned.

In the eyes of the members of the Seven Seas Brigade, who have become accustomed to more intractable troubles, the troubles in this world are nothing more than two levels.

What can be solved and what can't be solved, what can be solved is not troubled, and what cannot be solved is useless.

So the problem is simpler.

It's nothing more than how to deal with it, and it's pointless to ask for trouble.

……

Nothing was said all night.

They stayed in the camp they had left behind for the rest of the night, and in the end they were not attacked.

The crystallized beasts seemed to have retreated after the attack and never reappeared.

Fang Yu was a little sorry for this, he decided to stay here, firstly, because there was a ready-made camp to use, and secondly, to see if those crystallized beasts would attack again. This way, they will have an intuitive idea of possible enemies before heading to the mine.

He didn't think that the Crystallized Beasts would be able to surround them again, he had just changed a batch of constructs, and he still had some confidence in himself.

Of course, if all the crystallization beasts are really forty or fifty years old, then there is no way. After all, this is outside the category of ability, and taking risks when you come out to take risks is not something that can be taken for granted?

The next morning, the group continued on their way, heading in the direction described in the log.

The journal helped them a lot, and while Betty knew the place, all she knew was a general direction.

And the log is not only about the specific location, but also about how to get there and how far away it is, so that they can avoid many detours.

During the day, the wind and snow gradually subsided, but the mountains were still gloomy.

The clouds were low in the western foothills of the Piriede Mountains, and after passing through the canyon in front of them, they were in fact entering a cloud-shrouded area.

The suspended fog contains not only fine ice crystals of water vapor, but also snow particles, making visibility extremely low.

After crossing the tuyere, the entire northern slope becomes a narrow glacial belt.

Ancient ice streams split the rocks, and the great fissure where the mine is located is beneath the ice.

The ice was full of dangerous crevasses, and the journey was full of dangers, but there was no real trouble.

On the contrary, the crystallized beast seems to have disappeared, and they haven't encountered one in half a day.

At about four o'clock in the afternoon, everyone successfully arrived at their destination.

The rift was in the middle of a steep rift, and the glacier seemed to cut a cut in the black rock, creating a chasm as straight as a knife.

The crowd lay on the cliff and looked down.

Not far away on the rock wall, the crack curled like an open, twisted opening, exactly as described in the journal.

But there was no sign of the Crystalloid at the entrance of the cave, or there was hardly any sound in the valley except for the howling wind.

"Is this the place?" Fang Yu turned around and asked the underground walnuts and the others.

Although it was not much different from what was described in the journal, he asked the others to be on the safe side.

It's going to take a lot of time to get down here, and if you get it wrong, it's a lot of fun.

The walnuts in the ground set their eyes on Bey.

The silent girl finally spoke: "My father has been to this place, and he said that the crack was like a devil's mouth, and that the men had made a mark on the hillside south of the rift. ”

Everyone couldn't help but look around, and soon Parker shouted, "I found it!" ”

With a short gesture of his hand, everyone saw a small pile of stones in that direction, which at first glance looked no different from the surrounding rocks, but a closer look could still see the difference.

Fang Yu looked at the place before letting go of the goblin to the bottom of the rift to investigate.

Streams of silver light weaved into the valley.

Although it was not the first time that even the walnut people in the ground had seen him control the clockwork fairies, they watched the clockwork fairies throw out one by one, and finally the bottom of the rift was covered with silver flying light spots, as many as twenty or thirty.

They retracted their gaze and looked at Fang Yuan's rattling control gloves and the magic cursor on them that couldn't help but change direction, and their hearts were still full of amazement.

If there is any construct that can represent the multi-control level of the combat craftsman, it is the clockwork elf that must be the most intuitive.

That's why so many craftsmen like to use it to show off their skills.

Although multi-control does not necessarily represent the full strength of the combat craftsman, people who measure the potential of the rookie of the combat craftsman will often subconsciously use the level of multi-control they show in the rookie stage to draw conclusions.

Those who are excellent combat craftsmen have shown amazing potential during the apprenticeship stage, such as Loofah's five-control clockwork elf in a competition, which is known as the swan song of the world.

And her later performance did not live up to people's expectations.

Of course, few people know that Fang Yu himself has indeed achieved the level of five controls in the apprenticeship stage.

At least the walnut people in the ground looked at the dozens of flying silver lights under the rift valley at the moment, although they knew that Fang Yuan's level was not low, but they still couldn't help but be speechless.

Obediently, how much control does this have?

It's not that they don't know Fang Yuan's origins, after all, this deal between the Seven Seas Brigade and the Art Dispute Guild is well known in the guild.

And the nickname of the Dragon Alchemist is also well-known in the third division.

It's just that there is no video of Dorifin's battle after all, and many people question it.

As for the battle of Elffindor, in the eyes of the keyboard god, with the support of the computing power of the fourteen great craftsmen, who can't control a dragon knight?

Especially after experiencing what happened to Luo Lin, many people suspect that Fang Yu is also a rookie who has been hyped up.

On the contrary, after he broke up in the Super Athletic League, he won a lot of fans, because after all, this proves that there is really no capital behind him.

Of course, there are still many people who still think that this is a new hype method, and in the future, Seven Seas Brigade will definitely reach a settlement with the Super Athletic League.

Although they said that they didn't believe such an absurd thing, the reason why they chose to cooperate with Fang Yu in the first place was mostly because they were desperate.

Instead of being optimistic about the Seven Seas Brigade or something early on.

It's the walnuts in the ground, barely half of the square plover's passers-by.

Therefore, it is reasonable for a few people to be a little surprised.

However, they, including the walnuts underground, naturally did not know - Fang Yu still had a little secret that he had not told them.

That's the silver swarm, and they're not really clockwork elves.

They're a lot harder to control than clockwork elves.

They didn't even know that Fang Ou's methods at this moment were more proficient than when he was on Fenris Island:

This is actually the Wall of Fairies.

But it's not just the Wall of Fairies, or an improved version of the Wall of the Fairies.

Fang Yu added the idea of Hades' swift tactics to it, of course, this is not his originality, as the inventor of swift tactics, Ms. Hades may not know how to do this.

But at least one thing Fang Plover can be sure of, that is, Lady Hades is definitely not as good as him in the use of a single clockwork elf and a wide-angle field of view.

He now knew that his use of a wide-angle field of view was actually diametrically opposed to that of others, so naturally he would no longer make jokes about the Traveler's Rest.

Therefore, it is understandable that this is his goblin wall.

Fang Yu retracted his hand, and the clockwork goblins that spread throughout the rift valley flew up in unison, as if countless silver rays of light were in his hands together.

And one by one disappeared in the light of the information crystal.

The reverse use of this hand with multiple wings is also perfect.

The big cat man smiled and shook his head, thinking about the young man's nature.

Kita was a little surprised and said, "Brother Ed, your calculation power has improved again?" ”

Fang Yu lifted his goggles and shook his head, his calculation power had improved a little since he studied the Star Array, but what was more important was the proficiency of the operation technique.

At least in the past month, he has gained a lot.

However, everyone in the Seven Seas Brigade could still understand it, and the walnuts and others in the ground were left with only amazement.

Beji couldn't even marvel, but felt that the previous scene might be a little powerful, so he asked the walnuts in the ground on the side:

"Is he a very good alchemist?"

"It's a combat craftsman," the walnut in the ground didn't know how to describe it, "it should be a very powerful one......

Bei Ji couldn't help but glance at Fang Yu with some surprise, in her mind, she still thought that her brother was the top alchemist in the world.

I didn't expect the walnut underground to have such a high evaluation of the person in front of him, obviously he has such a high standard, why should he be a pirate?

She had always been very unaverse to pirates.

Fang Yu still didn't understand the reason why the girl in front of him was so repulsive to everyone on the Seven Seas Traveler.

He was concerned about other things, such as the existence of the Fairy Wall that had indeed greatly shortened the time it took to investigate.

His improvements to the Fairy Wall have proven to be effective.

He almost wanted to send a message to Ms. Hades to praise him, but he hadn't contacted him for a long time.

It's the weird woman at Elite who sends messages to herself twice in three days, and she doesn't bother it.

He blocked the other party once, but he didn't expect the other party to find another trumpet to send him a message, asking him if he wanted to join the Elite, which was simply bothering.

He led the group down to the bottom of the rift and came to the chasm.

From the top of the cliff, this crack is not very big, but when you really walk in front of it, you can find the width and breadth of this crack.

Climbing up from between the rocks and standing under the crack, Fang Yu looked up and found that he could not see the top of the crack.

It was nearly ten meters wide on the left and right, and could almost accommodate several carriages in parallel, and it was better to say that it was a crack than the entrance to a narrow cave.

And in this place, he finally saw the corpses of those crystallized beasts again.

And the giant crab I had seen in the camp was crawling motionless on the ground. And next to its corpse, there were a few other fragmented corpses.

However, it is not the Chosen One, as it is known that sapient beings such as humans can be resurrected after death by consuming Starlight, and unless Starlight is depleted, they rarely leave a corpse.

The corpse that Fang Yu saw turned out to be a fallen tree trunk, gray-white bark, vivid facial features on it, and painfully closed eyes.

The little fat jujube behind him snorted softly, and couldn't help but ask, "Aren't these gray tree people?" ”

"They're Greytree people indeed." The big cat man replied.

"Looks like we've got something wrong." He looked at the corpses and said.

"What's the matter?" Parker asked.

"The Greytree people who migrated in the valley below probably did not come from the lower swamps, but from here. The reason for their migration was not the flood, but the crystallizer. ”

"But the question is," Tang Xin held a healing staff, frowning at this scene, "how can they inhabit here?" ”

Fang Yu frowned as he took two steps forward, trying to turn over the corpses of the two Grey Tree Men.

But his hand had just touched the other party's gray bark, when suddenly a voice came from his spiritual world:

"Young man, I need your help."

It was an old voice, and it was said twice in a row.

……