When looking up from the valley to the castle of Aymus, the façade of this ruined castle becomes unusually tall. The gray walls stand on the lead-gray cliffs, surrounded by vegetation, the collapsed masonry gives the towers a strange shape, and the windows of the black holes, covered with rust-colored vines, layer by layer, silently tell the history of decay.

Fang Plover found a path that led to the cliff. He asked Quisu to divide his men into two groups, one under the care of the Big Cat Man and the other Shesta, and search the valley. The rest of the group went with him to the castle above to find out.

Everyone agreed that they all had several flares in their hands, and the flares of different colors represented different messages. If any team encounters a difficult enemy, use the red flare to rally the others in their direction.

Although there is also a means of communication between the teams, and Red also has a box left by his side, the flares are there to prevent emergencies. For example, there is no time to use the communication channel, or the aetheric turbulence in the valley is interfering with the communication.

Climb up the mountain trail halfway up the mountain, and before you reach the castle, everyone makes a discovery. Ms. Quesu noticed several broken fir trees on one side of the hillside, each the size of a human hugging each other. Kita's eyes were sharp, and she saw what seemed to be a glowing metal object stuck on one of the tree stumps, "What's there!" She pointed to the place and said to the others.

Fang Yuan pulled down the goggles and released a goblin. The golden copper ball flew around the woods twice before he could see that it was a long sword stuck in a tree stump—something seemed to be shining in the bushes behind it.

He just turned around. "Miss Elisa, can you go down and have a look?"

"Call me Alyssa, Captain." Alyssa didn't say much, grabbed the trunk of the tree and slid down. She descended into the mountain stream in twos and threes, ripped off the sword, and was about to go around into the bushes behind.

"Be careful." Fang Yu looked at the lush grass and trees in the snow below, and always felt that it was a little abnormally quiet, and subconsciously reminded him.

"Got it, Captain."

Alyssa was a little amused in her heart, this captain was more worried about them than Lonely White Wild. But the feeling that someone cares is pretty good.

She was about to inspect the bushes behind her, but at this moment, a gray 'hand' reached out from the bushes, grabbed her ankle, and pulled it down hard.

Alyssa didn't notice it at all, and slid into the bushes unprepared. Kita couldn't help but exclaim when she saw this. Fang Yu also subconsciously opened a dark blue light door.

But suddenly a low scream came from the bushes, and after a shaking, the twin sister broke out of it. Only then did everyone realize that it was not a 'hand' wrapped around her ankle at all, but a gray vine.

Alyssa tore off the vine and threw it on the ground before shaking her head at it to indicate that she was fine.

But she still suffered a slight injury, and after checking her ankle, she slowly stood up. The girl held a sword in one hand, picked up another thing from the bushes, and climbed up from below.

"What's going on?" Fang Yu took a hand, pulled Elisa up, and asked her at the same time.

"It's a killing vine." Alyssa smiled helplessly, this time it was a big shame. "It's okay that it's just a juvenile, the level is not high, and it's okay to deal with ordinary people. I didn't expect this thing to come in the winter. ”

She glanced at Fang Yuan, but the other party only said seriously: "Be careful next time, you scared Ji Ta." ”

Alyssa breathed a sigh of relief. She looked back at Miss Naturalist, who looked at her with a white face and said, "I'm scared to death, Miss Elisa, I thought something had happened to you." ”

"Thanks, Kita."

Kita also looked relieved.

"But how can there be a killing vine in winter?" Fang Plover was also a little strange. The killer vine is a special kind of plant-like monster, this kind of monster and several of their subspecies usually disguise as withered vines or aerial roots of trees, and when the prey passes by, it stretches out its tentacles to reel it in, and injects venom through the barbs to paralyze the prey and digest it little by little.

They are mostly found at the turn of spring and summer, and after autumn and winter, they burrow back into the ground through 'reverse growth', similar to hibernation. Wait for the snow to melt before returning to the surface, year after year, year after year.

Unlike most annual herbaceous plants, most long-lived killer vines can live more than ten years, and although they are called killer vines, their main prey is not humans. They hunt humans primarily to absorb the aether magic in the starlight.

However, the appearance of killing vines in winter is indeed strange enough.

Only then did Alyssa hand over the things in her hand to Fang Yu.

Fang Yu took the sword and glanced at it, the sword body was very wide, the cross gauntlet, and the cage handle was inlaid with a red stone, which seemed to be a very common standard sword, which should be the thing of an adventurer.

But how did the adventurer's stuff end up in this place?

Adventurers' equipment is not left behind for no apparent reason, either by being discarded or dropped after death. However, if it is a battle between adventurers and adventurers, most of the battles will be cleaned after the end, and it is unlikely that the magic guide will be left.

"There's been a battle down there before?" He asked.

Alyssa nodded.

Fang Yu looked at the broken fir trees, and some of them flew sideways. At their level, combat can't do that, unless it's the power of magic. He asked, "Is there any trace of magic?" ”

"Nope." Alyssa replied.

"Pure physical destruction," Fang Yu frowned, "It's not easy to achieve this level-"

"Unless it's a big guy." Luo Yu estimated: "At least three to four meters tall." ”

"Two stories high," Ms. Quesu took them. She was an old lumberjack who was sensitive to the density of the woods, and could tell the general shape of the creatures that passed through them by the lodging of the trees at a glance. "It's about two to two to five meters wide, and it's powerful."

Fang Yu turned around and asked her, "So what are the creatures that meet this criterion in this area?" ”

"Elderly dinosaurs in general," Miss Quesu thought for a moment, "the Ishurian deer, or the dwarf giant." ”

Fang Yu silently estimated. He thought to himself that the adventurer would not attack a giant deer for no reason. Through the dwarf giant, he had thought of something else, but he didn't say it, because there was no evidence.

He turned on the system again and checked. This sword attacks 44-61, increases strength and agility with attribute inserts, and also comes with an active-activated shield with a shield value of 220 points. It's not a superb, but the quality is pretty good.

This also proves the previous perception -

It seems that only one side of this battle is an adventurer, as only beasts and monsters will not be interested in these magicians. And the adventurers should have retreated, not even had time to clean up the battlefield, otherwise they wouldn't have left these things behind.

The sword requires a level 5 Nightingale level and a level 7 warrior level, and it can be estimated that its master level is at least level 9 or above. Of course, this is the lower limit, not the upper limit.

The other thing is a pocket watch, which is also a magic guide, a small magic guide that is mainly used to expand the socket position of the magic furnace. There are two generic plug-in interfaces on it, and two +5 and +7 secondary agile plug-ins are randomly inserted.

This thing is more intuitive, it requires 11 character levels. Fang Yu estimated this—or the level of these Electors, which should also be around level ten.

It can be seen that one aspect of the battle is not the killing vine that Alyssa encountered before, and the juvenile killing vine is only level five, and it is not the opponent of adventurers of this level at all. Taking a step back, the killing vine can't make such a move.

However, it is indeed strange enough that there are murderous vine larvae on such a battlefield.

The group checked the mountain stream below again, and there was nothing in the bushes in the snow except the larvae of the killer vine that had been killed by Alyssa earlier, and nothing related to Lady Quesu's son was found.

Alyssa thinks that the adventurers of this battle may have something to do with the previously discovered camp of the Electors. She didn't have a reason, just a gut feeling. However, Fang Yu also agrees.

There weren't many outsiders to this place, and it was unlikely that new adventurers would emerge one after another. And the traces of this battle are still very new, at best they are just a day or two ago, and it is unlikely that they are the traces of the team that Ms. Quissu's son is on. What's more, no relevant clues were found at the scene.

The crowd could only follow the trail all the way up.

The broken trees must have gone all the way up from the valley below, and the behemoth seemed to end up in the castle above.

Fang Yu put away his sword as a trophy. He also gave the pocket watch to Alyssa to use, but they are now a formal team, and the distribution of these things will have to be approved by everyone when they are returned, and given to those who really need it. For now, it's just a matter of letting it work a little bit earlier.

After walking along the fallen vegetation for some distance, they found themselves to the west of Fort Erimu. The collapsed parapet wall was also located in this direction, and the falling rubble formed a slope that flooded the original mountain.

Fang Ou looked up at the gap. "It looks like it's inside the castle." Luo Yu said on the side.

"Be careful." Fang Yu reminded.

He unleashed several clockwork elves and summoned an angel to follow him. The others drew their weapons and walked up the rubble slope towards the gap in the wall.

The crowd crossed the gap and saw that the courtyard behind them was quiet and empty. There were only a few strange bare trees, covered with snow and sparsely overgrown with weeds.

The thick snow buried the trails, and the trails they had followed all the way disappeared. Fang Plover glanced at the courtyard, and on one side it seemed to be a temple, next to the broken tower, the hole of the black hole, on which grew a tree, which had lost its leaves in the harsh winter, and the branches remained motionless.

On the other side is the main building, which is five stories high, and the building is relatively well preserved, except for the layers of rust-colored vines on the mottled walls. The sharpened black roof, pointing straight into the lead-gray sky, is silent in the building, and it has long since lost its former grandeur.

The crowd walked through the courtyard, surrounded by the sound of clattering footsteps in the snow, and it was empty and silent.

And Kita always felt that there seemed to be a pair of eyes peeping at them on the windows of those black holes, and that feeling was really chilling.

On top of the roof stood a few crows, looking at them condescendingly. When the group passed by the ancient well in the center of the courtyard, these black Grim Reapers, croaked and frightened the naturalist lady.

Fang Yu helped her from behind, and Wen Yan comforted: "Don't be afraid." ”

The courtyard was empty, and it didn't look like it could hide some behemoth. This abandoned castle looks huge from the outside, but the interior is very compact, and the courtyard formed by the main building is actually not too large.

You can see through it at a glance.

He looked left and right, and to be honest, the atmosphere was a bit nerve-wracking. This is especially true when surrounded by this silent forest and the legends of its past.

However, someone has to explore the inside of those black holes, which is what he and Lady Quesu have agreed on. If the Elect don't even have the guts to do so, what is the risk?

It's a lot safer on Earth.

No matter how poor it is, you can also be a living professional without leaving the city.

Fang Yu pointed to the temple and said to Kuisu, Luo Yu, and Alyssa, "Let's check separately to save a little time." You go check that direction first, Kita and I-"

Originally, he wanted to take Luo Yu with him, because Kita's ability was more suitable for protecting the employer, but with Miss Naturalist's appearance, he was worried that she would not be able to use her strength because she was too nervous.

He asked the three of them to inspect the temple, as the structure of the building looked simple—just a hall and a tower at the back. If the three of them finish first, they can come and meet him.

The three nodded. Ms. Quisu, in particular, couldn't wait to walk in that direction. Fang Yu could understand her feelings, after all, her son might be in this castle.

"Then Mr. Ed, please be careful." Alyssa reminded him.

When there are no outsiders, she prefers to use this title.

Fang Yu nodded.

After separating from the three of them, he walked with Tata towards the tall main building. Miss Naturalist followed closely behind, eager to pull the former's coat with her hands, as if she was afraid that if one of them did not pay attention, some demon would separate the two.

Fang Yu walked up the steps in a few steps, walked to the door, and pushed forward with both hands. The wooden shaft of the gate had long since rotted, but it could barely push open a crack and make a strange noise.

Kita took a step back in fright, nearly tripping in the snow.

Fang Yu couldn't help but be a little funny when she looked like this. He didn't expect that the little girl who had always been serious was afraid of these ghosts, and he had never seen her so scared when he was in Doriphon - presumably because he knew it was an illusion.

"Are you alright?" He asked.

Kita's face turned pale and she shook her head.

Fang Yu pulled out the sword from earlier and handed it to her. "With this thing, maybe you can strengthen your courage."

Ji Ta froze for a moment, pushed her glasses, and looked at him a little strangely. The level requirements of this sword couldn't even be used by Fang Yu himself, let alone her? But the little girl suddenly understood what her captain meant, blinked slightly, and took the sword.

Her heart was slightly warm, and she was not so scared.

Only then did the two push the door in, and a smell of dust came to their faces. Fang Yu couldn't help but fan his hand and coughed twice—he looked up and found that there was a hall behind him, and the carpet in the hall had long since rotted to the point that only a pile of rags remained, and a thick layer of dust and cobwebs was covered with it.

Lifting inside, the drapery, which could not be seen on the left and right sides, hung limply from the pillar and collapsed to the ground. There are a few statues around, but they are either lying sideways to the ground or in tatters.

Directly in front of him was a staircase, and on the wall hung several empty picture frames, which Fang Yu thought were originally well-preserved, but were stolen by the adventurers who had arrived first.

After emptying, only this dilapidated hall remained.

Kita followed him into the hall, and then she became a little curious, looking left and right. Tata whispered and quietly about the role and history of some things, and she listened quietly.

The three of them checked the hall, but found nothing, it seemed that no one had been to this place for a long time, and there were only footprints left by them in the hall.

In the center of the hall, the corridors on both sides lead to the other directions on the first floor, and Fang Yu intends to start the inspection from the first floor, and the way to save trouble is naturally for him to go separate from Ji Ta. But he thought about it for a while, but he gave up on this plan.

He didn't want to scare Miss Naturalist out of anything.

Kita was also aware of this, and was slightly embarrassed. But she was reluctant to leave Miss Tata in any way.

But after inspecting a few rooms, Fang Yu realized that something was wrong with his approach. "It's too much trouble to go on like this—" he said to Miss Elf on his shoulder, "This castle is so big, and we can't go through room by room for two days." ”

Although there were other people outside, the valley below the castle was not small, and the people brought by Lady Quesu might not be enough.

This is still him controlling a few clockwork elves around the building, otherwise the progress will be slower.

"This stupid solution obviously won't work," Fang Yu continued, "maybe we can think differently and think about if the other party is still in this castle. Or they've been here before, and they've gone somewhere, and they've left some traces. ”

"In general," replied Tata, after a moment's thought, "Mr. Knight, adventurers are interested in the belongings of an ancient castle when they explore it. These are either hidden in the basement chamber or in the mezzanine of the owner's room. ”

Fang Yu nodded, this was indeed an idea. He didn't understand what the men were going there for, but he could at least eliminate them, which was much more efficient than the previous stupid methods.

However, he was a craftsman, not an architect, and was not familiar with the interior of various castles. It is not easy to find the basement, study, and other important rooms that may exist.

Fortunately, this is not difficult for the three of them, whether it is Kita or Tata, both of whom have a wealth of knowledge.

"Let me try it," Kita exhaled softly, "...... You might be able to find those places. ”

Fang Yu nodded.

Kita breathed a sigh of relief that she could finally make a difference.

However, Miss Naturalist walked a few steps, and with some curiosity, she asked in a low voice, "Brother Ed, why does Miss Tata call you Mr. Knight?" ”

"Well...... Fang Yu gasped, he didn't expect there to be a flaw here. He cheekily replied, "It's because of the settings I gave Miss Tata." ”

"Settings?"

"Just, just, just like ......" Fang Yu was sweating profusely and stammered: "Some people like to be called 'master', it's just a ...... Well...... Fetishes, fetishes. ”

Fortunately, Kita sighed softly and didn't ask any more questions.

It's a good thing it's this little girl who is a little quiet, Fang Yu bets - if Tianlan is here, he will definitely break the casserole and ask the end. But fortunately, he has come up with a 'reasonable' excuse.

Kita only repeated softly in the darkness.

"Mr. Knight......

The voice was so small that she could hear it almost exclusively on herself.

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