041 The end of the journey

The weather is not good today. www.biquge.info The cold wind whimpered, the dark clouds were everywhere, and the gloomy sky was the same as when Duan Qing first entered the forest, as if the next moment it would pour down a downpour from above.

The five-member team and the two chief mages of the Mage Council packed up a little and set off according to the established plan. Led by Freya, followed by Christine, and Duan Qing and their five-man team walked in the middle, although the formation was rigorous, it actually didn't make much sense - if yesterday's exploration was not mistaken, they would be under the tower in a short time.

But before they did, they wanted to study the human bones.

According to Freya's description last night, the bones were not far in front of the tower, and could be seen by walking down the road along the riverbank. Yesterday she and her sister had carefully surveyed it, and then they heard the sound of the battle in the ruins, so they turned back and did not go any further. However, according to their thoughts at the time, there was nothing to look at some corpses, but after some analysis last night, the existence of these bones became particularly important.

The banks along the river have obviously been artificially repaired, and although they are covered with moss and weeds in the crevices, the blue stone slabs are still neatly and orderly laid on both sides. The clear water of the river flowed quietly in it, barely making a loud sound - the terrain here was already very gentle, and the current was not as violent as before, but the bluestone slabs near the river bank had been washed by the river for thousands of years and became very smooth, so they still needed to be careful when walking.

The black cloak of Snow Spirit Phantom Ice walked at the front of the team, probably because it was finally harvest time, so he looked excited and eager to try. Ah Niu, who was walking behind Duan Qing, was yawning, as if he hadn't slept well last night, Mengzhu and Duan Qing walked side by side, and on the refreshing girl's face, there was a tangled expression at this time.

Duan Qing smiled bitterly, it seemed that she was still thinking about what happened last night.

During yesterday's discussion, Duan Qing also took out the badge he found and asked Christine to "identify", but the answer he got was a little surprising - one of the seven-member council members of the Mage Council, the spokesperson of the water element, and the water mage Christine, known as the "fiery and cold", did not recognize where the strange badge came from.

"Probably the symbol of the ruined village at that time." For her own knowledge can not solve such a problem, the generous woman does not care, she waved her hand casually, and then came to such a conclusion.

For such a vague conclusion, Duan Qing himself naturally would not give up, but he himself could not solve such a problem. The things in this game can't be checked on the Internet, and even the senior "Bai Xiaosheng" of the major platform forums probably doesn't know such a thing - you know, now they are likely to be the first batch of players to arrive here.

Although I didn't get any treasures...... Fairy tales are really deceitful.

But a moment later, the little girl gave Duan Qing a surprise: after the badge was passed around for a while, Mengzhu held it in his hand and raised his eyebrows and looked at it for a long time, and then muttered quietly, as if he had seen this pattern somewhere.

"Hmm......" The girl's expression at that time was the same as the expression standing next to Duan Qing now, and she said intermittently: "I should ...... Where have you seen it....... I can't remember this sign now...... Uh......"

Everyone waited for a long time, but Mengzhu still didn't think about it, Duan Qing comforted the little girl for a while, and had to temporarily put down this very likely source of the ruin's life experience. However, later, a few people still guessed at random, for example, Ah Niu guessed which gang's emblem this symbol was, and Broken Mountain guessed that it was the emblem of an evil force, leaving a standard after exterminating people. Xue Lingphantom Bing thought for a while, and chose to remind the little girl from a different angle: "Why don't you think about where you saw it, when and when did it happen recently?" ”

"I don't remember......," the little girl still remembered, wrinkling her nose and looking tangled.

"This kind of thing is like that, the more you try to remember it, the more you can't remember it; By the time you don't think about it, you might remember. Duan Qing shook his head and reached out to rub the little girl's head.

But if that's the case, it means that you did see that thing inadvertently, such as the advertising logo inserted when you watch TV, or the background picture in the anime, or the necklace around the neck, the metal buckle on the belt, the pattern on the bed sheet, the toilet paper in the toilet, and the ...... Why are you looking at me......"

"Uncle, what you said is so disgusting...... And don't touch my head! People aren't children anymore! Mengzhu shook his head and began to protest, so Duan Qing rubbed it harder, scattering several strands of hair on the little girl's head, causing the other party to scream again.

But even so, Mengzhu is still very sad that she can't help the team at this point, so until now, she is still in a state of recollection. Duan Qing tried to continue to tease, but found that the little girl who was thinking seriously did not accept the offer, so he had to let her go.

Freya, who was walking in front, was very fast, and seemed to be familiar with this journey, remembering what Christine had said before, Duan Qing suddenly remembered something: "Freya...... Your Excellency, have you explored this area before? ”

The red robe swayed in front of her, but in the fiery woman's reply, she seemed to see what Duan Qing wanted to ask: "Before, I separated from my sister and chased those restorers here, and they found out, and finally fought. ”

"Restorationists?"

Realizing that she seemed to have said something she shouldn't have said, the woman in front of her paused, and then continued her steps: "You just need to know that they are not good people, the others...... It's better not to know. ”

Tsk, that doesn't sound like good news...... Scratching his head, the stone in Duan Qing's heart was a little heavier, and even he couldn't tell whether the weight came from those unknown strong enemies or the tower that stood in front of him.

After turning a corner again, the front finally became clear. The branches of the giant trees swaying on both sides could no longer obscure the scene ahead, because the intersection was already several meters wide. The gentle flow of water continued and then turned in front of the road, and those who saw it could already determine that it was the end of the river, because there was a high gray-black wall blocking the flow ahead.

The walls are too high to see.

If nothing is wrong, this is the end of their journey.

"Right there." Not far ahead, Freya's flat voice sounded, and the others looked in that direction, and sure enough, in the corner under the tree next to the road, they saw a white pile of bones.

"We initially judged that these humans should be the aborigines of this place, and it seems that we were not wrong." The blue-robed mage also raised his finger and pointed in that direction: "They should have experienced something like war in the last moments of this place, and finally died here." ”

Except for Mengzhu, who was standing far away because of his small timidity, several other people in the team were squatting next to the remains at this time, carefully examining them, accompanied by Christine's explanation.

"How do you know what they went through in the last period of their lives?" Snow Spirit Phantom Ice first asked, "Your Excellency the Great Magician is really extraordinary.......

"Silly girl, take a good look at these bones." The answer to her question was the broken mountain: "Look at this." ”

He picked up a bone, half of it technically: "This bone should be broken, look at this stubble...... He couldn't fall like that himself. He threw the bone back and laughed, "And I don't believe anyone would be stupid enough to break off their forearms ......"

"And this one, this skull has been shattered." It was Duan Qing who spoke this time, but he didn't touch these things casually, he just pointed to a place on the ground: "This situation is probably a death from a heavy blow to the head, you look at the posture of this skeleton, it probably can also explain this......"

Perhaps because the scene in front of them was too heavy, a few people confirmed the situation of these bones a little, and returned to the bluestone road next to the riverbank. Standing there was Mengzhu, who was squatting on the ground, and the red-robed woman who accompanied her.

Freya raised her hand and pointed to the ground in front of them, signaling them to continue surveying, where there were more bones lying on the ground, some of them still in their last state, but more of them were inhuman shapes destroyed by thousands of years of wind and rain, scattered all over the ground, and some of them probably fell into the river and were washed away in unknown places.

There is no place to bury the dead, it is said that this is nothing more than this situation, and there are so many people......

Maintaining respect for the last of those who had died, the group carefully avoided the bones and slowly approached the foot of the tower. When the little girl walked over, she clasped her hands together, and kept bowing up and down, chanting words in her mouth. Duan Qing didn't tease her superstition this time, but walked silently.

Several people followed the river and finally came to the bottom of the tower. The river poured into the wall from one side, and then circled around the tower, which was more than a hundred meters long, and then it flowed somewhere.

This is already the lowest place, probably flowing into a crevice in the ground......

Duan Qing and a few people also circled around here, but they didn't find a way to cross this "small moat" normally - there was not even a bridge in this place.

Even more bizarrely, they didn't find the entrance.

Looking at the bare wall on the other side of the river, several people were dumbfounded, and Xue Lingbing even gritted his teeth with hatred: "What kind of setting is this, do you want us to climb up ......?"

"Such a tall tower, you let us climb it? Do you think we are all archmages......" Broken Mountain, who was in charge of the opposition, immediately spoke up.

"Maybe the entrance is a little higher, or maybe it's ...... a little lower."

"Maybe somewhere else, when we came, we didn't find any other man-made structures nearby......"

Freya stood to the side and watched everyone, her face as expressionless as ever. Christine walked to the river and looked at the tower, as if trying to see something from the height. The two archmages just let the players continue to talk about it, with no intention of stopping it.

"Then how do you say you can get in, smash a hole with a punch and get in?"

"Hey, don't think you can hurt me. Let's not talk about any strange magic or devices in this place, what if I smash it with a punch and this tower collapses, this thing doesn't look like a well-maintained thing......"

"Can you smash it? Don't be kidding, how good do you think you are......"

"Alright, okay, don't make a noise guys." Duan Qing, who was also standing by the river, looked at the calm river and interrupted the slow and endless argument: "Come and take a look, I seem to have seen ......"

He pointed to the river: "The entrance is underground." ”

"Oh? Are you sure? The silence only lasted for a moment, and Ah Niu on the side ran over excitedly: "Do you want us to swim down?" I'm good at this, I won the swimming championship when I was in school......"

"A champion swimmer is not a champion diver, stupid!" Mengzhu patted his head, then walked to the water next to Duan Qing and squatted down, and poked his little head out: "Really, why can't I see ......"

"In this way, I seem to have seen ...... too" The soft voice of the blue-robed mage standing on the side came, and several people looked at her, only to see Christine just retract her upward gaze: "I see...... There is indeed a passage under the water. ”

Did you really see it, anyway, you've been looking at it all the time......

“....... Are we really going to swim down? Xue Lingphantom Ice behind said hesitantly, Duan Qing looked at her face and found that her eyes were also a little flickering.

"What's wrong chick? Sounds like you're not confident, huh? Isn't it impossible to swim......" Broken Mountain caught the cowardice in the other party's words and wanted to laugh again, but the stubborn woman immediately woke up and took it, and her towering breasts hidden under the cloak stood proudly.

"Who...... Who is afraid, I just think about it...... In this process...... Isn't there any danger......"

"That's not necessary."

As soon as the elegant and melodious words fell, the rumbling sound of water suddenly sounded.

The sound of churning water was already in everyone's ears as they hurriedly retreated, and in the moat ahead, everyone watched as the calm water lifted upwards with Christine's white hands, and then parted outwards as her hands parted.

Countless glowing patterns were constantly wrapping around the white hands, shining and flowing on the wrists on one side, and then disappearing into the blue sleeves of the robe behind the hands. The colorful streamer occasionally becomes intense, and then the wall of water formed by the lifting of the flowing water will also rise a few points.

Except for Freya, the players present all opened their mouths to stuff eggs in, and their eyes were about to fall when they looked at the scene in front of them, which seemed to be the opening of the sea.

"This is magic...... Duan Qing came back to his senses first, and then saw Christine looking back at a few people, and her beautiful eyes were emitting a blue light.

"Okay, don't be amazed." Her voice became somewhat ethereal, as if she no longer belonged to the world: "Come in, hurry up." ”

"Uh...... Good. Duan Qing replied, and then pulled the other team members who had not yet reacted, and slid down from the bank where the water had been pumped away - it had even become a little dry.

"Sure enough, it's a master...... The level of manipulation of the flow of water is not seen in life. Broken Mountain was the first to come down, and he patted the unwet dirt slope next to him, and then sighed.

"That's the strongest water mage in the Free Continent, I guess you won't see such a high level in the future." The snow spirit phantom ice on the side slid down, and walked over without looking back: "So we are now, and the time and place are favorable, and we can't seize such an opportunity......" She crossed to the front and walked into the hole formed by the separation of the water, where there was indeed a hole in the wall, and there were traces of the existence of the door shaft next to it, but now the original door could not be found.

Duan Qing was the last person in the team to jump. He glanced back.

Christine raised her hands on the side, occasionally shaking slightly, as if she was directing something, noticing Duan Qing's gaze, she looked back at him with blue eyes, and then nodded slightly. The red figure behind was still expressionless, but Duan Qing could still find a hint of encouragement in it.

Then she nodded her head as well.

Duan Qing's gaze continued to move back. The river, the riverbank, the path made of bluestone, then the huge trees on both sides, and the scattered bones on the ground not far away.

Now it seems that the bones are all turned this way...... But in any case, they did die here in the first place.

Are they from the village? Why do you gather here? What's really going on here?

Duan Qing's mood was like the gloomy sky at this time - along the way, there were more and more unusual places, and even the scene in front of him was like countless question marks painted on the ground, and then deeply reflected in Duan Qing's eyes.

He remembered something, opened the map on his adventure notes, and saw the name displayed on it.

"Emerald Tower".

Duan Qing didn't think much about it anymore, he motioned to the two great magicians, then turned his head and jumped down, heading towards the tower.

There should be an answer in that.