"See?"

The Paparal man asked in a low voice.

The owl's eyes searched the woodland, and a mist as thin as a light veil hung over the forest, where in the dark shadows there silently appeared several pale shadows, ghostly wandering around the edge of the forest, and then disappearing again.

There were also strange undead creatures, skeletons or zombies, with craggy green fire flashing in their eyes, and they marched silently through the forest in groups with heavy steps. Altori's direction was shrouded in a misty mist, and there was silence, with a remnant of a minaret visible in the distance.

On top of the minaret was a scrawny monster that occasionally looked around with a gaze that flickered with pale flames, and with a shrill cry, it suddenly opened its tattered wing bones and flew into the air, circling the minaret around the forest for a circle.

Ai Xiaoxiao was so frightened that she was about to scream, but just after a syllable was uttered, she hurriedly covered her mouth with her hands, the little girl rolled her smart eyes, looked around, and then breathed a sigh of relief, patted her little chest and said, "Huhu...... Ai Xiaoxiao, Ai Xiaoxiao, it's good that you reacted quickly enough......"

Momiji listened to the joke on the side, and couldn't help but look back at her, and then at the square plover not far away. There was a kind of amusement in her light brown gaze, wondering how everyone on this team could be so funny.

"Looks like the army of the undead has attacked Altori."

"The news that the Crowclaw Temple has been hiding from the north is very questionable."

Sylvide's head was reflected in the crystal, and she looked at the scene through the light screen and said—Miss Shipmaster's beautiful face fell into Fang Yuan's eyes, and from other directions, it was just a ray of ghostly fire projected from the pitch-black crystal.

Fang Yu picked up the recording crystal and filmed this scene.

There was a sound of rustling bushes behind him, and Blackcock came out with a tall, burly man parting the branches of the cedars, and said to the people, "The castle is on the west side of here, and we know a road to that place, about an hour or two away. ”

The tall man behind Blackbow was named Cweed Dragonburn, the true leader of the Redeemed, and of course he wasn't originally called by that name, except that he was said to have seen Nicol Bolas with his own eyes, and the moody Dragon Witch not only did not kill him, but left a mark on him.

The brand remained on the left side of the latter's chest, like a golden paw print, and the golden flames were rising outwards at all times, as if they could burn through his soul at any moment—the founder of the Redeemed had been briefed on his story a few days earlier when he had received news from Blackcock and appeared at Greytree Ridge with several of the Redeemed.

He showed the mark to the crowd, and Fang Yu was reminded more than once of the power that Lady Misu had left on Diktor.

Through the Golden Flame Ring, Fang Yu instinctively felt familiar with the same power, which also meant that the other party was not lying. It's just that Nicol Bolas or Miss Misu didn't kill each other for what purpose and left this mark, it's unknown.

"It's a contract."

The man himself replied succinctly.

He pressed his hand to the mark: "I understand that you may not believe it, but I can feel her intentions. ”

"That lady gave me this strength to do something, and all I am doing now is obeying that will."

"As for others who think we are followers of the Dragon Witch, of course you can think so."

Although it sounds a little unbelievable, honesty makes people trust, Fang Yu has seen too many hypocrites who hide their actions, and he can appreciate such frankness even more. What's more, he had always understood that the dragon witch had two completely different souls in her body—

He listened to Blackbo's words, and once again turned his gaze to the latter, a tall man dressed in leather armor with a bear skin over his shoulder, carrying a greatsword with a steel hook underneath his back the magic furnace, his bronzed face full of seriousness, and nodded in this direction.

The two took with them several of the redeemed.

And on Fang Yuan's side, only Sand Night, Red Leaf, Paparal, Luo Hao, Kita and Ai Xiaoxiao, Alyssa, and the elf lady who was carrying a longbow and standing guard at the edge of the forest, plus the people brought by Red Leaf, were all the manpower of this operation.

In addition, Xiao Kong, whose body had just recovered, and the young man named Bane, also participated in the operation with Sand Night.

After receiving the reply, Fang Yu spoke:

"Then we'll leave now."

He paused and looked again at the bleak view in Altori's direction.

The Paparal, holding his crossbow, jumped down from the roots of an old tree, and suddenly spoke: "Wait, I have a question, where have the inhabitants of Altori gone?" ”

Before he could finish speaking, suddenly several eyes swept over and fell on him. There are tens of thousands of people living in the four towns of the North, and everyone wants to know where they have gone, but it is clear that the question is a bit out of place at this time.

He looked at the empty forest around him, and he couldn't help but shiver, thinking that he had asked the wrong thing, and hurriedly closed his mouth and said no more.

"Maybe don't think about it so much...... "Alyssa replied with some difficulty," replied Alyssa with some difficulty, "maybe they're trapped somewhere, like the people in the underground of the Piriede Mountains." ”

The Paparal man shook his head, a little disapproving: "But I'd rather believe that the Ravenclaw Sanctuary was covering up the news, there might be some conspiracy behind them-"

"Shut your crow's mouth, Parker."

But everyone knew in their hearts that it was impossible to say that so many people were trapped in one place anyway, but did the Temple really have a way to hide the news on such a large scale?

Or is something else happening......

Everyone's hearts were a little heavy, and they went on the road silently.

There was not a trace of starlight in the winter night, the whole forest was dark and dreary, and even the thick snow under his feet was dyed the color of the night, and it was pitch black. The crowd walked through a dense woodland, one foot deep and one foot shallow, and the tall, burly man, Kweed, occasionally took out a small star orbiter to determine whether they had strayed from their original course.

Miss Naturalist also had a more compact star tracker in her hand, and she kept comparing the directions of the two horizontal and longitudinal rails above it to make sure that the pointer was always facing west, and then turned back and nodded to the square plover.

The monster that stood atop the spire in the direction of Altori occasionally flew over the forest, but fortunately it didn't spot them below, but the shadow of its huge wings passed overhead, and each time it was terrifying.

They did not dare to use torches, so they could only move forward by feeling, in groups of two, helping each other, and the front and back queues were not far away, in case someone got lost.

After about half the walk, they crossed several hills, and finally gradually moved away from the direction in which the monster was flying and entered a valley. Entering a valley, snow spilled down the slopes and flooded the forest, and the stream below melted the slopes and solidified into ice, like a glacier.

Then the torches were lit, and there was no sign of the undead in the forest, except for the sound of rustling in the darkness, and the occasional movement of the bushes, which startled everyone—but it was only a beast that had wintered under the bushes, frightened by the fire, and ran away.

Blackbow had a map in his hand, and if he followed the instructions on the map, he would follow the 'glacier' down the road to the bottom of Snow Rock Castle. The castle was built on a cliff, and it was only after they had walked along the frozen stream for about half an hour that they saw it in the distance—perched on top of a hill.

It took them about a quarter of an hour to climb up the hillside, to the north of the cliff, and over a few rocky rocks, before they came to the castle.

Fang Yu motioned for everyone to extinguish the torches, walked out of the woodland, and looked up at the outer wall of the castle—the gray stone wall was covered with a thick layer of moss, and on top of it was covered with a layer of snow, which was gray in the night.

Alyssa and Miss Elf walked over with a roll of rope, "Miss Attila," Fang Plover reminded him a little worried, "Be careful." Our Miss Nightingale looked apprehensive, and said angrily: "Captain, you're too biased, aren't you?" ”

"That's different," Fang Yu knew that the other party was joking with him, and replied, "Miss Attila is a sister-like existence in my heart. ”

"Cut, favor one over the other."

Miss Elf swept the snow off his shoulders and signaled with her eyes that he didn't have to worry.

In fact, the two of them easily climbed the wall, and Miss Elf was in good shape, and although she was the holy daughter of the Temple of the Sacred Tree, she was not inferior to her sister as the nightingale's twins.

She even reached out and let the vines on the wall hang down, grabbing the two of them and rolling them up. Then the two of them hung down the rope from there, and Kweed took them up one by one, and finally the tall man climbed up with the rope.

The courtyard of the castle was silent, but Attila grabbed the Paparal, who was about to take a step, and pointed in one direction, and the others saw that there were several undead creatures wandering in the darkness.

It's just some low-level undead, and it's just a skeleton of bones with tattered clothes hanging on their bodies.

But Attila took the longbow from behind her and looked back at the others, each aiming at their own target. They let go of the bowstring, and several arrows rang out, only one or two missed, flying through the gaps in the skull's ribs, crashing into the wall with a muffled sound.

But Miss Elf's arrow struck the skull accurately, and the arrow passed through it, bringing up a flash of green fire, and with a soft 'click', the skeleton fell down at once.

A few bits of cyan fire exploded in the darkness, and the undead creatures fell one by one.

But at this moment, there was a sudden low roar from under the city wall, and a tall zombie rushed out of the stable in that direction, with pus on its rotten half of its face, staggering, and rushing up along the road of the city wall with its teeth and claws.

Kweed took a spear from his waist and threw it hard, the silver-gray spear struck the zombie through the head, and the monster fell backwards before rolling down the stairs.

The former jumped down the stairs in two or three steps, fell to the zombie corpse, lowered his head and played with his hand, and only after making sure that the latter was out of breath did he pull out his short spear with his hand, bringing up a stream of yellow pus gushing out, and Ai Xiao on the city wall was disgusted for a while.

However, Fang Yu saw it clearly, and the moment he threw the spear in front of the other party, a golden light flashed in his eyes.

He was no stranger to that light, and the ring of golden flame in his chest was slightly hot.

He put his hand over the ring and led the people down.

There was no threat in the courtyard, and Fang Yu looked up at the main body of the castle hidden in the darkness in the distance, it was about four stories high, divided into three buildings, southeast and west, and there were countless rooms in the hall, study, and bedroom.

He had seen similar fortresses in Istania, but the castle buildings in the north and south were completely different in style, and could only be said to be somewhat similar in function. They didn't have a map of the castle in their hands, so they could only use the most stupid way to search the place in a carpet way.

"In what direction is the servants' room?"

"Is there a dungeon here?"

"Is there a shrine?"

Fang Yu divided the group into several groups, and went to explore the place in groups of three or three, in order to save as much time as possible.

Cweed used the same method, and he and Blackbow each took a team to scout the buildings to the east and south. After saying a word of respect to Fang Yuan, Blackbow led the people in that direction, and Fang Yuan and the others also dispersed one by one, entering the main building on the west side from the hall.

They were divided and inspected floor by floor, and in the dark corridors of the castle, there were scattered undead creatures, but none of them were difficult to deal with. The costumes worn by these undead creatures clearly show that they were servants and guards here during their lifetimes.

Joining Fang Plover were Kita and Miss Elf, the former of whom was turning around and whispering:

"Brother Ed, how many servants and guards are there?"

Fang Yu shook his head.

These wandering spirits may not have been incarnated by the dead, but rather the starlight they had escaped from here, combined with the dark forces to form such an image.

But where the servants and guards ended up is unknown, except for the empty rooms and the whispers that linger here, as if to tell of what had happened here.

It seems that the undead have attacked this place before, but for what purpose, it has become an eternal mystery. Perhaps it cannot be ruled out that there was another force that killed everyone here in a short period of time, otherwise it would be impossible to explain why none of the guards and servants fled the place.

"Did Bane's friend really come here?" Miss Naturalist asked again, her voice softly in the darkness.

"And the people of the Altori Adventurer's Guild," she blinked her eyelashes up and down slightly, "If they also die in this place, will they be able to see these undead here?" ”

"Maybe ask someone else."

Fang Yu rummaged through the bookshelves, he lit a candle with his hand, picked it up from the table, and swept it around with a faint light—there was a thin layer of ash in the room, and Kita had judged that it would be like this for at least a month or two before it would be like this.

But judging by the rumored time of the army's journey south, it is unlikely that it would have been a month or two since the 'living' left this place, probably long before the fall of Artori.

Counting the time, it happened to be about the same as the timeline of Bane's two friends who disappeared.

He silently jotted down this detail in his mind, and put back the books that had no information, no logs, and no written records, either there was nothing strange about this place in the first place, or the people who left here took all the information with them.

Someone else's voice was soon heard in the communication crystal:

"There is nothing on the fourth floor, and the attic is empty."

"It's the same with the third floor."

"On the second floor, I found a robe worn by someone with the insignia of the temple on it, and nothing else."

But a robe doesn't mean much, at best it says that the clergy of the Crowtalon Temple have lived here for a while, but in the vicinity of Altoria, it's nothing.

They also need stronger evidence.

But the news from Cweed was just as unsatisfactory as Blackbo's, and Fang asked about the situation, and they didn't find any undead about the Adventurers' Guild or Bane's friends.

"Assemble first," Fang Yu replied, "let's go to the dungeon." ”

He walked out of the room with Kita, and outside the door, Attila was checking in the distance along the hallway, where she seemed to meet the end of the corridor and stopped.

"Miss Attila," Fang Ou shouted in that direction, holding the candle. But Miss Elf turned and beckoned to them, motioning for them to come and have a look. Fang Yu was slightly stunned, and walked over with a candle, "Have you found anything, Miss Attila?" ”

The light of the candle reflected the end of the hallway, which was nothing but a gray stone wall, and nothing suspicious about it. But Miss Elf pressed her hand against the stone wall, drew a rough range, and then turned back to the two of them, and said:

"There's a secret door here, Eddard."

"Huh?" Fang Yu paused for a moment, looking at the tightly knit wall, he couldn't tell where the secret door was, "Miss Attila, you said there is a secret door here?" ”

Miss Elf nodded, "I feel that the wall here is slightly different from the surroundings, but I haven't figured out where its switch is yet, but there must be a secret passage behind it." She said, curling her fingers and tapping on the stone wall.

The sound coming back from the wall was nothing more than a muffled fluttering sound, but Attila's pointed ears twitched slightly, and it was obvious that she had heard something.

Fang Yu thought that he was just an ordinary man, and he really couldn't compare to the sensitivity of the elves, and he knew that the elves had a natural inspiration, and he was aware of these details. This instinct is not even something that the Elector can inherit, only true elves have such abilities.

Of course, not all Chosen Ones are incapable of inheriting the talents of their native race, with Parker, for example, appearing to be an exception-

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