After that battle, it was as if the Blind Followers had vanished suddenly, and there was no trace of them in the secret base—whether it was their guards or the flesh monsters, they all vanished without a trace.

The crowd walked along the straight underground cavern, immersed in silence and darkness, except for the rustling footsteps under their feet, like an ancient voice, whispering. Fortunately, this is just an illusion about too much nervousness, and if you listen carefully, it is actually the sound of the wind on the surface.

Although the floor of the cave sloped slightly upward, as if it was gradually sinking into the center of the marginal ridge, Fang Yu could conclude that the thickness of the stone wall on one side would not exceed twenty feet at most, and that the outer part was Kukai, and that the thin part might not be as thick as that.

A few meters of rock sounds solid enough, but compared to the thickness of the rocks on the Istanian rim, which is several kilometers deep, it is just a thin layer of eggshell. In the darkness, Ann Lother's emblem still hung on his chest, glittering brightly in the faint light. Miss Tata sat quietly on her right shoulder, her emerald eyes as quiet as usual, and only occasionally looked back at him, at her 'sister', Miss Fonini, who was grabbing two strands of Kita's hair.

After walking for a while, the others finally realized that something was wrong. The first to react was Miss Nightingale, who took two steps against the wall, looked ahead, frowned a little and then quietly retreated, like a silent shadow, slid back and stood in front of everyone.

Fang Yu saw that Alyssa's bright eyes were shining in the darkness, like the eyes of a cat, and looked at him and asked, "Leader, is it a little too quiet?" ”

From before to now, the only living creature she saw was a lemming crawling over the gray layer of earth.

"Yes," and before Fang Yu could answer, Wu Xiaopang couldn't help it for a long time, and interjected: "Will those guys escape, why haven't there been any movement at all?" ”

"It's true, obviously I was fighting back and forth before, but it seems to have suddenly quieted down."

Someone in the Shield of Lufu also mentioned it.

In the darkness, Fang Yu took out the communication crystal and asked, "Sylvide, how are you doing over there?" ”

The rustling of the communication crystal became more pronounced, and a dust storm seemed to be brewing in the Silver Sand Desert, and Erna had told them that the dust storm in the sea of sand was the most disturbance of the Aether, or rather, this powerful natural phenomenon was itself a manifestation of the Aether Disturbance.

The aristocratic lady looked at the dusky canopy that floated above the sea of sand, as if it was under dusk, the moment of doom, but the center of the storm was still hundreds of miles away, and its edge had already affected the port of Tansnir in the south.

She covered her flying turban with one hand, and listened to the somewhat distorted voice of the square plover inside the crystal—like a big child—and couldn't help but laugh: "There is no movement. ”

In the darkness, Sylvid's voice seemed to be elongated and staccato.

“…… By the way, Ed, there may be a storm. ”

Fang Yu was slightly stunned: "Are you okay over there?" If it's not safe, go back to Tansnir with Shesta. ”

"It's still far away, the center of the storm should be in Istan and it won't reach Tansnir for a while, but the next few weeks won't be clear."

"That's good."

"Is it going well down there?"

"Reluctantly." Fang Yu thought for a moment, and could only think of such an adjective for the current situation: "Found some loot, but the blind followers disappeared after only two contacts with us." ”

"Sky Blue would love to hear that," Sylvid laughed, thought for a moment, and said, "There's no one on the ground, it's the same with the Blind Followers or the Mystic, you might have to be careful, my Captain." ”

Fang Yu replied yes and closed the crystal.

Wu Xiaopang's eyes sparkled when he heard this: "Big guy, is it your girlfriend?" ”

"How?"

"Wow, the voice is so good," Wu Xiaopang's eyes flashed with a raging fire of gossip, and he replied exaggeratedly, "Envy." ”

Fang Yu felt a chill, and subconsciously took a few steps away from this guy, he didn't expect this guy to have a hobby with Alyssa, he should have noticed it earlier-and how could such a distorted voice sound good, since ancient times, licking a dog has not been good to death.

But the little fat man was obviously unaware of this, and still lowered his voice and whispered: "The big guy is really high." ”

"What?"

Fang Plover was even more confused.

Wu Xiaopang's eyes rolled: "And Miss Kita." ”

Before he finished speaking, he was kicked in the ass.

He turned around and said angrily, "Who kicked me?" ”

The swordsman of the shield of Lufu couldn't bear it anymore: "I said you dead fat man, can you distinguish the occasion." ”

On the side, Luo Hao coughed heavily, feeling an arrow in his knee.

However, the other side finally brought the topic back to the topic, and expressed their views on the current situation, most of which were that the smugglers might concentrate their forces and plan to ambush them in front of them and give them a 'surprise', so they must be more careful in the future.

Only the Paparals seem to have a different view on this issue. He put his hands in his purse and said to everyone with a sworn look: "No, no, no, I don't think it's that simple." ”

"Parker, what do you think?" Luo Yu asked him.

The Paparal's dark eyes rolled and replied, "Everyone, have you forgotten the fact that our regimental leader is a troublemaker, according to my sixth sense, how strange the development of this matter should be, anyway, it is the right direction that you can't think of." ”

"As for the ambush or something," Paparal shook his head, his chubby cheeks swaying vigorously, "It's too easy to guess, I can't see it." ”

Fang Yu was furious, and immediately announced a personal vendetta and slapped this guy on the ground, and said angrily:

"Say something useful."

Parker hugged his head and said angrily, "Isn't this useful? ”

Luo Hao pressed his hands on the shield and sneered: "Only women have a sixth sense." ”

But these words attracted the double hostility of Alyssa and Kita, and Miss Nightingale immediately-for-tat: "Fat Luo, what's the matter?" Looking down on women? ”

Only then did Luo Hao realize that he had said the wrong thing, and hurriedly raised his hand to surrender.

However, on the question of whether the Paparals had a sixth sense, several people within the Seven Seas Brigade finally came to an agreement - because it was only after the serious reminder of the box that they remembered that the Paparals had another identity.

In this way, Luo Hao and Alyssa both got the perfect answer.

Only Parker was a little annoyed, but he didn't think about how to refute it for a while. He couldn't take out the fact that he was wearing a transgender belt, and it was strange that the people of Lufu's Shield didn't laugh when they heard it.

Our Mr. King of Nightingales felt a little bored for a moment.

It wasn't long before the two teams came to the end of the long cavern, where there was a wide underground space, and at the end of the darkness, a closed gate stood silently.

Seeing this door, everyone couldn't help but turn their heads and look at Fang Yuan. They had guessed that the smugglers would join forces in one place and set up an ambush for them in one place, and this gate clearly matched this possibility, and if they were not mistaken, they might face a big battle.

Fang Yu looked at the wooden door.

He could not think of a better word to describe the door than thick and tall—the doors were closed to each other, unpretentious, the solid timber surface was a little pitted, and there were only a few rusty iron hoops on the panels, and the doorknobs were long gone.

Assuming that there are unknown dangers and minions lurking behind the door, he actually has another option - that is, to wait for Abed's troops to arrive, when the blind followers will be attacked by the enemy. But there was always a kind of unsteadiness in Fang Yuan's heart, as if everything was too smooth, as the Paparals had said before.

It went so smoothly that it was even a little incredible.

Where have the blind followers who behaved so cunning in the city, they have only met dull and ignorant opponents before.

And the mystics, too, seem to have disappeared without a trace.

He couldn't help but think of the clockwork goblins he had encountered before, their owners didn't seem to show up yet, could it have something to do with the little episode that happened when they were in the lower caverns, and when the Duke hunter was encountered?

After thinking about it for a moment, Fang Yu actually had already determined the answer in his heart.

Everyone in the Seven Seas Brigade was very accustomed to the way their regiment commander thought, and when Luo Hao saw his expression, he took the initiative to stand up: "I'll open the door." ”

"Be careful." Fang Yu reminded him.

Luo Hao nodded: "I understand." ”

As the only Iron Guard in the regiment, he is indeed the only one who can handle this kind of task - as for the people of Lufu's shield, they are not as high as him at the moment.

He stepped forward, pressed his hands on the door, lowered his body and snorted, and pushed forward with all his might, and the door trembled and let out a low rumble, and opened a gap in the back. Luo Hao changed his posture again, and slammed his shoulder on one side against the door.

The door slammed back.

He immediately rolled back alertly, picked up the large shield from the ground and put it in front of him, and looked behind the door, but there was no light in the black hole behind the door.

"Pyrotechnic—"

The box snapped its fingers.

Behind the door, a flame of light hung in the air, radiating a gray light in all directions, reflecting the scene behind the door.

In fact, before the box could cast the spell, Fang Yu had already seen the situation behind the door, which was a large hall - a bit like a huge stepped classroom, from the gate to the center, longitudinally distributed from high to low, the center of the hall was a pulpit, and behind it were rows of stone seats.

But the hall was empty at the moment—or rather, it wasn't at all, and there was a thick smell of blood in the air.

Everyone had experienced the previous battle, and subconsciously was a little wary of this smell, thinking that the darkness would once again pounce on hordes of flesh monsters, but Alyssa turned back to them and said, "There is no sound." ”

"There are corpses."

Luo Hao said in a low voice.

Everyone was stunned, and then they saw that there was a layer of misty light in the hall, but it was not black light, but soft white light.

Fang Yu was stunned in his heart, and hurriedly walked in that direction. White light emanated from under the last row of chairs, and when he walked to the place, he found a corpse lying on the ground, and the light emitted from the corpse was the soft light emitted by the starlight before the resurrection.

But that's not what the blind followers look like after they die.

Fang Yu saw that the corpse's outfit was a little familiar, and walked over to flip the other party over to take a look, only to find that the robes on the corpse were the outfit of the mystical sorcerer.

"It's the Mystic."

Alyssa also recognized the other at a glance.

"They actually came in, and they looked like they were already ...... with the blind Smugglers handed it over. ”

Miss Nightingale subconsciously wanted to say 'blind followers', but suddenly realized that they had nothing to do with this task, so she changed her words. This is not a distrust, but a kind of caution - rashly involving irrelevant people is irresponsible to both the person involved and the client of the task.

Fang Yu nodded, he stood at the back and looked down the hall, there was no longer a corpse of the blind follower in the hall, but there were still blood stains and scattered blades in this direction, in addition to some small objects, which seemed to have fallen in the battle before.

There were also two entrances to the lower part of the hall, one on the left and one on the right, and there were traces of spell strikes near the pulpit - and based on the traces of these fights, Fang Yuan roughly judged that the mystic had invaded through the small door on the right side of the hall and engaged the blind followers, who retreated into the aisle on the left after being defeated.

And the door at the rear has not been opened from beginning to end, which also makes him aware of a problem -

If the blind followers did not leave the gate behind them from beginning to end, the guards who fought them in the cavern behind them might have been stationed there in the first place, so they would have heard the sound to go down and probe and engage with them.

And those Blood Servant Primordials, maybe they got one thing wrong - they were 'raised' in that place in the first place.

Fang Yu suddenly understood what had happened to them before, if the blind follower was attacked by the mystic warlock first, then a lot of things would make sense.

He took out the communication crystal, planning to inform Sky Blue and Abed's side of the situation, after all, the Mystic Warlock is also one of the official forces of Istania, and it is a matter of course to communicate what happened here with the eldest princess in advance.

However, I don't know if it is the reason for the further aggravation of the interference outside, only a rustling sound came from inside the communication crystal, and there seemed to be someone talking over there, but I couldn't hear it clearly.

He informed Sylvid again, and the same was true.

Fang Yu thought for a while, and sent a private message to Tianlan on the community - but to his surprise, the community is also slow and abnormal today, and the thing of 'network latency' seems to be an ancient term hundreds of years ago, but he didn't expect him to experience it.

Is Desert Storm really that powerful?

He couldn't help but wonder.

While trying to use the various communication tools at hand, Fang Yu also gave the people of Lufu's Shield a minute to collect the loot—which was also a clue.

Most of those things were some tabula rasa equipment, and there were a few valuable magic guides, but the equipment level was too low for the Seven Seas Brigade, so Fang Yu simply let it out.

These equipment are of little benefit to them, but they are a windfall for someone of Wu Xiaopang's level.

Being kind to others is sometimes good to yourself, and although they have signed a merger mission agreement, they don't have to worry about everything. The people of Lu Fu's shield were really a little grateful, and the black fat and the swordsman called him the big guy before, although they were sincere, and they were grateful for the grace of the rescue that day.

But others may not have benefited from Fang Yuan, they were just supposed to be harmonious before, but now they are very different.

The people of Lufu's shield specially elected the priest girl to thank the people of the Seven Seas Brigade.

However, Fang Yu didn't care about these red tapes.

"Big guy, do you want to continue?"

Wu Xiaopang put away his things, looked at the entrance on the left, and couldn't help asking.

The others tasted the sweetness, and at the moment they also showed some eager expressions.

Fang Yu actually wants the other party to be able to trust him at a critical moment, and the current situation is a bit complicated, and he must guard against the possibility of extraneous branches.

Although the two sides also had a lot of benefits before, those 'trophies' were not too little, but too much, and most of the military structures or something would eventually be handed over to the adventure group.

Although the 'point system' within each adventure group is of course also a way of wealth distribution, compared to the psychology of people, where can it compare with the tangible benefits of getting it, these small things are distributed to specific people, whether it is the person concerned or others will feel hot.

This eye fever can immediately turn into motivation to act consistently.

There are only seven people on the plover's side at the moment, and he really needs the help of the people of the Shield of Lufu.

In fact, when the people of Lufu's shield were cleaning the battlefield, Fang Yu had already released the 'Wasp-I' to fly in a small circle, and behind the entrances on the left and right, there were intricate underground passages, leading to large and small dormitories, warehouses, and even functional buildings such as workshops.

This is a real 'underground base', and it is obvious that the one that Celestia swept away before was just something that the other party used to hide people's ears.

The true face of this smuggling port is the secret of this fjord.

Fang Yu nodded at the other party's black fat question—but it seemed that the mystic warlock had been fighting with the blind follower for a while, and there were traces of fighting in every passage he saw, but most of the corpses had long since disappeared, leaving only a mess.

The other party doesn't know where he is now, the passage is zigzag, this underground base is very large, and it is obviously not feasible to use such a search mode.

Only then did he open his mouth to describe what he saw later.

As soon as Wu Xiaopang heard it, he understood what he meant: "It means that we will go our separate ways and find out where the other party has arrived first?" ”

Fang Yu nodded: "Although the mystical warlock seems to be at war with these smugglers, our task is our task, and if we don't do much from beginning to end, the natives won't give us the credit for nothing." ”

That being said, his real fear was that the mysticists would eat 'solitary food', and they had gone to great lengths to find this place, not to help Tansnir rid the smugglers, but to obtain information about the wandering alchemists.

Without this goal, the mission will not be a success.

The people of the Shield of Lufu obviously agreed with this, and someone nodded, "That's true, the primary purpose of our coming here is to complete the mission after all. ”

After reaching an agreement, everyone divided into two more ways - in fact, there were more than two roads, and even the seven people of the Seven Seas Brigade were divided into two heads, so to speak, four roads, or even five roads, and scattered into this underground base.

Due to the imminent sandstorm, Fang Yu distributed some magic messengers, and when the communication crystal was not available, it could only use such a primitive method of communication. However, the hard work paid off, and not long after everyone split up, Fang Yu received a good news from Wu Xiaopang.

Luckily, they were the first to find a clue and sent a magical messenger telling them that they seemed to have found a trace of a mystic.

Fang Yu looked at the simple map drawn on the slip of paper—although it was a bit of a soul painting style, he probably understood it.

The place is on the north side.

……