Fang Plover parted the dense bushes and walked out, looking at the nightingale girl who was leaning against a cen tree with her head bowed and bandaging her wounds. The big cat man on the side propped his sword on the ground with one paw, and leaned against another Cen tree not far away, and when he heard the voice, he turned his head and squinted at them, which was regarded as a greeting.

Fang Yu nodded, and then greeted the nightingale girl, "Long time no see, Alice." ”

Alice looked up at him, a hint of restraint flashed in her black and white eyes, of course she hadn't forgotten what had happened on Fenris Island, and she couldn't have forgotten it.

That memory brought her too many unbearable pasts, as if it still turned into a haunting nightmare, lingering - although she knew that all this had nothing to do with the other party, and even that the other party had rescued her from that endless nightmare, she still avoided all the people and things associated with it as much as possible.

These days, I subconsciously didn't contact them, although Alice told herself that it was not necessary - they had nothing to do with her sister anymore. She doesn't need to pick up all kinds of things in the past, and the current life is quite good, a new environment, and new people. But she also understands that it was just an excuse.

But now that excuse no longer applies, Alice forced a smile to make her tone look like it was the past, "It's been a long time, Mr. Eddard, but I've heard from my sister about you from time to time. ”

She looked at Ji Ta behind Fang Yu again: "Hello, little Ji Ta, you have grown a lot taller than last year." ”

Kita, who had lost her glasses, looked at her with empty eyes and replied softly, "Hello, Miss Alice." ”

Nini was climbing up from Fang Yuan's shoulder, awakened by the previous battle, and now sleepy-eyed. She looked curiously at the girl, who was very similar to Miss Nightingale, and said in a milky voice, "Papa? ”

"This is Nini, right?" Alice looked at the little guy with a little curiosity in her eyes.

Speaking of which, the birth of this little girl has nothing to do with her, but thinking of the lizard god, Alice's mind can't help but sink. But after such a distraction, she finally got a lot better than the previous low, and seemed to have regained some of the past feelings.

Fang Yu replied, "Miss Alyssa often talks about you. ”

Alice smiled slightly: "Sister, she must be much more free with you than in the past." ”

“…… It's even a little too liberating. To this question, Fang Yu answered a little dryly. The elder sister of the gentle and kind twins, whom he had in the past, had long since disappeared, and was replaced by a somewhat wicked Miss Nightingale.

Whenever there was any gossip about him, this young lady was always the first participant, and the other party seemed to like to see him embarrassed, such as the rumors about him and Miss Mia, which had been circulating on the ship in recent times.

Alice couldn't help but smile, and the atmosphere eased a lot: "It seems that sister, she has caused you a lot of trouble." ”

“…… More or less," Fang replied awkwardly, "but overall, Miss Alyssa is a very good scout and scout, and she has helped us a lot in the Seven Seas Brigade. ”

"That's nature," said Alice, blinking playfully as if she had finally regained some pleasant memories of the past, "my sister and I are among the best nightingales among the rain listeners, and the lonely white captain has no bad eyesight at all. ”

Regarding this answer, Fang Yu thought so. Not only Alyssa, but also the box, the two former members of the Seven Seas Brigade from the Rainhearer are exceptionally good, and they are not inferior to Kita and Luo Yu from Tapolis.

Compared to the Oak Knights, the Rain-Listeners are far from the size. Before the former was disbanded, it was a guild of free callers who had set foot in the Second World with half a foot, and it was on an equal footing with guilds like the Spear of the Silver Forest, enough to exist as an opponent to the descendants of Flore.

In the first world, it is also the level above the second-tier guilds, and further up, there are those well-known guilds and the top ten.

And the Rain Listener is just a regional guild, not even comparable to the powerful regional guilds such as the Holy White Stone and Twilight, at best similar to guilds like the Art Battle. Generally speaking, how big the guild is and how many resources it has at its disposal, what kind of talents it can cultivate.

However, the reserves of the Rainlisteners are obviously more than a step better than these guilds, which shows the extraordinary ability and vision of the lonely white field. It's just that after the Fenris incident, the other party left the rain listener, and heard that he went to the north and went to Guta, but there was no news coming, and even the box could not be contacted.

"That's pretty much it, Mr. Ed," Alice said, "let's get down to business." ”

Fang Yu also nodded: "Actually, I was about to ask you this, I heard your sister say that you joined the Xingmen Port Special Reserve, but just now?" ”

"It's a long story," Alice replied as she stood up, reaching out to pull her long hair at the back of her head, tying it into a bunch, and then flicking her ponytail cleanly, "and I'm not actually a member of the military, I can only say that I have made meritorious contributions, or that I am still under observation—"

When the Stargate Special Reserve team took her away, they quickly investigated the cause and effect of the Fenris incident and proved her sister's testimony against her. Speaking of which, this is still thanks to the stupid guy in front of him, if it weren't for his shocking actions at that time, some of the inside stories of the rainlistener would not have been exposed so quickly.

Alice seemed to think of the unexpected things Fang Yu did at that time, and couldn't help but laugh: "After that, the military gave me two choices, one is to end the career of the Elector, but you can consider not holding me accountable for subsequent responsibilities at your discretion, so that I don't have to return to Earth and face prosecution." The second is to join them and help investigate the whereabouts of the high-level Rainlisteners, but I don't really have much choice-"

“…… I was only coerced in the Fenris incident, but I was the one who did it, and it almost caused a catastrophe, resulting in the death of 100,000 people. Even if he returns to Earth, he can only be exempted from part of the responsibility, and he may also face an indefinite regulatory period after that. ”

Speaking of this, she shook her head, as if she didn't care too much: "Although this is also considered my guilt, but in this case, I might as well stay here, be supervised by the military, or do things for them." Of course, the more important thing is that I myself am not reconciled. If we don't find those people, won't my sister and I become their scapegoats and victims in vain? ”

Quiet in the woods.

Fang Yu didn't expect so much to happen behind this, so he couldn't help but reply: "Alyssa, she has never told us about this. ”

"My sister is right not to say yes," replied Alice, "and it has nothing to do with you. Besides, the military didn't treat me as a prisoner here, and on the whole, I was relatively free. After that, I went to St. Huyen's to change my identity, and now my name is Rainbow, and soon after I joined the Holy White Stone Guild under the arrangement of the military, around the time you were in Van Rik. ”

Fang Yu was a little surprised: "You joined the Holy White Stone Guild?" ”

Alice nodded, "I was on the White Stone's team at the time, but I learned more about you from the Time Reflection. He was tight-lipped about the news of you life-savers, and I had to reveal some of my relationship with you before he could relent—"

It took Fang Yu a while to digest the news, and asked with some surprise: "So you joined the Holy White Stone Guild is also the meaning of Xingmen Harbor, what does the Holy White Stone Guild have to do with the rain listeners?" ”

Alice looked at the person in front of her, knowing the relationship between the other party and that side, so she didn't shy away from it: "That's not it, it's just that the Holy White Stone Guild cooperates closely with the people of Twilight, and it is possible that it will also be merged into the descendants of Flor, and I just lurked in advance." ”

Fang Yuan was slightly stunned.

It turned out that the military was burying nails in the alliance, but this is nothing new, such nails have been around for a long time, and Alice will certainly not be the only one.

"Before that? You were discovered by the Twilight Man? ”

"That's not going to happen," Alice sighed softly, "I was the one who exposed it, but if it weren't for today's incident, I might have continued to lurk." ”

Fang Yu looked at her a little surprised: "What's wrong?" ”

"I don't know if you remember an incident not long ago," Alice replied, "Time Reflection told me about your visit to Elder Grayskin, and something about the Heart of the Mountain that Elder Treant had said. ”

"The heart of the mountain?"

Alice nodded, "Yes, Heart of the Mountain...... I feel that the people of Twilight are playing with the idea of the Heart of the Mountain, and if the Heart of the Mountain is really as important as you say, then I will have to take the risk of coming to see you. It's just that I didn't expect them to be so alert, but it also shows that my guess may be right-"

After she finished speaking, she couldn't help but think of the previous thrill, and let out a soft breath, but suddenly found that there was some quiet around her, and there was only the sound of her own breathing.

She couldn't help but raise her head to look at the other party, but found that Fang Yu's expression was calm, and he seemed to be thinking about something.

This time, it was Alice's turn to be a little surprised, and looked at him and said, "You already knew?" ”

"I guessed something." Fang Yu replied.

"But wait," Alice asked in great surprise, "aren't you in a hurry?" ”

Fang Yu shook his head.

He did have some suspicions, but it was only confirmed at this moment.

Most of the people they had chased all the way from the Hall of Trees before were also Twilight people. The other party may have planned to create a disturbance in the Hall of Trees and attract everyone's attention, but he did not expect to meet his own group, and the plan failed, so he had to flee in a hurry.

This makes more sense for the other party's silence, the people of the Twilight Guild must not let their own people be exposed in this plan, otherwise they will become the public enemies of everyone left here, even most of the guilds.

And the only thing that surprised him was that Alice was also in this place, and he came for this.

Of course he cares about this matter, otherwise he wouldn't have chased all the way to this place with the big cat people - what's the use of being in a hurry, and being anxious won't let them fly in front of each other at once - at this time, what they need is more calm.

Fang Yu pondered for a moment before asking, "The people of the Twilight Guild can hunt you down with impunity, does it seem that the Holy White Stone Guild is also involved?" ”

Alice shook her head: "...... Maybe not a part of it, but the Twilight people traded their share of the mine for ours to do it for them. In fact, the head of the group may not necessarily know about the heart of the mountain, but the pressure from the guild should be not small......

"Actually, it's not that I haven't considered borrowing power from within the Holy White Stone, the head of the regiment is quite upright, and the reflection of time can also testify for me. It's just that I'm worried that the guild leaders may not have guessed Twilight's intentions - but the temptation is too great, and Twilight's share here is close to one-third. ”

“…… I didn't dare bet on that, that's why I thought of you. ”

When Fang Yu heard this, he had roughly understood the situation.

He looked up at the pitch-black rock top, and then asked, "Alice, were they already on their way when you left there?" ”

Alice still shook her head: "Not yet." ”

"How long has it been since you got out of there?"

Alice thought for a moment: "About half an hour." ”

Fang Yu lowered his head, just in time to see the big cat man looking in his direction, the feline pupils glistening in the dark.

"They're probably already there," the Lionman Paladin didn't seem to be afraid of anyone spotting someone here, and with a match in his hand, he struck it and set it on fire, causing the dark red sparks to fall into the pipe, and replied with an urn in a loud voice, "I remember that we didn't go long in that valley last time, and we probably don't have much time left-"

Fang Yu also frowned.

"Alice," he asked, "do you know any other way into that valley?" ”

Alice shook her head, she didn't know more about the place than the two of them.

Fang Yu and Red glanced at each other.

"Let's go to that entrance first," replied the big cat man, "but I guess it's not a chance." ”

Fang Yu nodded silently.

……

It turns out that the big cat people were prescient.

His large furry claws pressed the bushes very low, and he looked faintly in that direction for a moment, watching the Electors patrol back and forth in the valley entrance, and fiddled with the hair rings tied around his mane before turning around.

"As you can see, the other party is not stupid, the few people who fought with us must have reported the news, and they have just had time to come back to life," he pointed to the shadowy figure below, "Those are the people of your guild?" ”

"It's our people."

The girl's heavy gaze looked in that direction and nodded.

Fang Yu put down the communication crystal in his hand, he had just contacted the others on the other side, and Sylvid told him that the crystal had not yet attacked, but that the crystal had already appeared in the withered woodland.

The Electors on the periphery are returning to the defense, and the scope of the investigation is shrinking again and again—to be exact, it is forced to compress for the Crystallization Beast, which has never happened before. The Crystallized Beast's march seemed to be much more orderly than the previous ones, which was not good news.

Most of the people were aware of the anomaly, the front line was unprecedentedly tense, several regimental commanders had already asked about the situation on his side several times, and the ship's attendant had to fool around first.

"If you don't come again, there's nothing I can do." She said.

"I'll be there later."

Fang Yu could only reply like this first, but the situation on his side was also not optimistic.

He closed the crystal, and then asked the two of them, "How is it, can you rush through?" ”

The big cat man shook his head.

"It's better to dive into the past, little one."

"In front of half a regiment?"

Fang Yu looked in that direction, he hadn't noticed it the last time he came, but the entrance to the valley was less than a hundred feet wide.

He thought about it for a moment and decided to adjust the position of the clockwork fairy in front of him, intending to see if there was a better entry point nearby. But it was at this moment that suddenly a huge force came from behind him—the lion paladin dragged him and Alice backwards one by one, and then pushed them down in the bushes one by one.

Before Fang Yu could figure out what was happening, he felt the world spin and the back of his head hit the ground—just as he was hitting Venus, he heard the deep voice of the big cat man coming from the side:

"Be silent."

Fang Yu turned his head and saw the silver-gray gaze of the big cat man hidden in the grass, and he hurriedly asked the other party with his eyes:

"What's going on?"

Red was silent for a moment, as if he understood what he meant, and replied in a low voice, "Someone is coming, we seem to have been discovered." ”

Discovered?

How is this possible?

His clockwork goblins are still in front, and the other party hasn't even found his clockwork goblins, so how can they find them? But it was at this moment that the three of them suddenly heard a rustling sound coming from the front, and then a round, ball-like creature emerged from the bushes there.

And the strange thing reacted even more when it saw the three of them, it almost jumped from the ground three feet high, and at the same time couldn't help but scream in fright:

"Don't kill me, Gollum is a good person! Gollum doesn't want to die, Gollum doesn't want to die——! ”

Although Alice had already pounced on the other party's big mouth the moment she saw this thing, it was still a little too late. The terrifying screams of the dwarfs, in the silence of the woodland, were like a large megaphone, conspicuously marking their location.

The big cat man looked embarrassed, looked at the little guy who was writhing and struggling in Alice's arms, spread his hands and said, "I didn't expect it to be it." ”

But Fang Yu didn't have time to say this.

He was only glad that Miss Scholar didn't come—

Almost instantly, he saw several flashes of magic lit up under the valley, Fang Yu didn't say a word, he took back his clockwork goblin, and only dropped a sentence: "Run!" But he rolled headlong down the hill.

But the moment he left the spot, a bright flame exploded behind him, and the scorching air currents and shockwaves swept him out from behind.

Fang Yuan's last memory was that he felt that he saw a tree trunk coming across his face, which was impartially hitting the bridge of his nose.

"Ouch wow——!"

It was his last scream.

……