“…… What's this? ”

The surrounding air seemed to freeze for a moment with the freeze of this picture, accompanied by the appearance of Duan Qing and the others who had not spoken for a long time, and the gray-robed magician who stretched out his head stared at the chain in front of him for a long time, and finally blurted out the doubts that he had because he couldn't understand the picture in front of him: "What is this?" ”

"As you can see, it's a chain." Xue Lingphantom Bing, who was also on the side, replied in a much more emotionless voice: "What are you surprised about?" Not to mention a place like a medical area, even if it is a palatial palace or a garbage-strewn underground sewer, it should not seem obtrusive to put such ordinary items. ”

"It's a prop that can exist anywhere." Pinching his chin and standing up, Duan Qing's focus still did not take his eyes off the chains: "But it's precisely because it's a lump of ...... placed here Well, it's a mundane thing, so it doesn't attract much attention and attention. ”

"What's so special about it?" His gaze shifted slightly, and his pretentious voice gradually fell on Shi Ayun, who was still squatting here motionless: "This warrior, would you be interested in explaining to us-"

Standing up from the ground suddenly, the posture of the tribal warrior who was being watched by Duan Qing was originally curled up on the ground and then stretched into a long standing body, and the casual and decadent homeless man who was originally smeared on this back felt that it had also disappeared with a certain momentum at this time, replaced by the cold and solemn atmosphere that obviously surrounded him: "——"

"Hey, hey, where are you going?"

Looking at the action of turning around and rushing out of the room with a back like a wall of a thousand thousands, Duan Qing's voice that originally wanted to continue to test was also elongated into the darkness of the outside world: "Wait, wait a minute!" At this time—"

"Don't go, it's too dangerous to go out now."

Stretching out his hand and grabbing the gray-robed magician who wanted to follow the footsteps of rushing out of this place, Xue Lingphantom Ice lowered his voice and warned: "Shi Ayun himself is in good strength, and he has not suffered any major injuries, he can deal with every enemy he encounters, which is like the two of us, any skeleton encountered is a death." ”

"At a time when the situation is so uncertain, we can only proceed with caution." She patted Duan Qing on the shoulder, and pressed down Duan Qing's floating mind who seemed to be struggling in place: "And even so, there should be a lot of clues that can be explored in our place, such as——"

"This thing in front of you."

She pulled the other party's shoulders and turned around, showing the scene of the room that had returned to quiet in front of Duan Qing, and the gray-robed magician who had calmed down from her inexplicable emotions then took a deep breath with a slowly rising chest, and once again focused her gaze on the old-looking chain in front of her: "...... Not. ”

"It does seem strange."

Squatting down again and inspecting for a long time, the gray-robed magician's gaze observed the surface of the entangled chain for a long time: "This trace, and the sense of error with the surroundings......"

"Are you still afraid of destroying the scene?" Pouting and raising his eyebrows, Xue Lingphantom Ice, who was holding his arms, then gently tapped the back of the man squatting on the ground with the tips of his boots: "If you're really afraid of the existence of something like a toxin, then it's up to me—"

"Don't don't, I didn't mean that." Hurriedly beckoned to the other party, and the fingers belonging to Duan Qing also turned to the ground in front of him: "Don't use anything like a sword to pick it, what I'm observing is not the chain itself, but something around it." ”

"The sense of time on this is obviously not as heavy as the things around it." As he said this, the outstretched finger tapped the surface of the chain for a moment: "Position, elements, dust, etc...... Its abruptness is not limited to what it represents. ”

"Your diction is weird, but I can understand your description." Frowning his brow slightly, Xue Lingphantom Bing, who lowered his gaze, lowered his upper body and brought his attention closer to Duan Qing's face: "That's right, if you look closely, this thing does not exist in the same era as the surrounding ruins. ”

"When did it come here? And who brought it here? Not paying attention to the curves of the white clothes that were close at hand because of the drooping of his breasts, Duan Qing, who had a straight face, fell into deeper thought: "If someone had already entered this place before, how did they enter such a core area?" ”

"Why would they drop such a thing here?" As his voice became deeper and deeper, the gray-robed magician finally stretched out his hand to pick it up: "What does this have to do with Shi Ayun?" ”

Without any accidents, the sound of clanging metal collision also sounded in the ears of the two people, and Xue Lingphantom Bing, who was originally holding his arms, then propped his palms on his knees, and Duan Qing's gaze met in the air: "Judging from that guy's reaction-"

"I guess it's someone he knows."

The ordinary chain, the interlocking chain, the iron chain that looked the same as Duan Qing's cognition, and then gently shook in front of the two people with the dust that had been dusted off. The rust and broken scars representing erosion were also all over every corner of this iron chain at this time, and there seemed to be the same smell of rust as the smell of blood in the middle, Duan Qing, who had carefully observed the metal material of this iron chain in front of him for a while, finally turned over his fingers easily, and then moved the tinkling sound to the other chains: "Although it looks extremely fragile now, it should be very hard in itself." ”

"Complete, it doesn't look like it's broken free." The Snow Spirit Phantom Ice on the side also made a low comment of his own: "Whether it is the person who carries it or the person who is bound by it, it doesn't seem to have caused any harm to it in the end." ”

"In other words, the original owner of this chain just came here with this thing." The chain had already been rotated in a circle, and Duan Qing's thoughtful voice also sounded again with the cessation of the jingle sound: "Even if he was kidnapped, he didn't have any resistance, and then he was released." ”

"Or maybe he got out of trouble in some other way, in a way that didn't tear off the chain." Xue Ling Phantom Bingfu squeezed the iron chain in his hand again: "The iron chain in the closed form...... Phew, I thought it might be someone's weapon or something, but now it seems unlikely. ”

"Who says a closed chain can't be used as a weapon? Chains are not only used as whip weapons. Rolling his eyelids, Duan Qing's voice became slightly louder in reply: "And judging from the slight scars on this, it seems that these chains have indeed been scratched in many places." ”

"Just because it's scratched doesn't mean it's a weapon, and if it's a bundle tied to a person, it's possible to cause this level of scarring, right?"

"Then this scratch is too fine, look at the density that can almost cover half of it...... Do you want to say that someone was tied to this chain and rolled all the way to here? ”

"Well, let's just assume you're right."

The argument between the two of them showed obvious signs for a while, and Xue Lingxue Phantom Ice, who was pouting, then re-landed his finger on the place where the chain had just been placed: "If this thing is really someone's weapon, then why did he drop it here?" In the depths of such ruins, isn't it no different from suicide to throw away a weapon? ”

"Maybe he's in the same situation as you and me, but he just escaped to this place for the time being." Duan Qing spread his hands casually: "Then he found something else when he was resting in this place—such as unexpected clues or strange noises, and was attracted to another place and never came back...... Ha, if you want to explain, you can find a lot of reasonable reasons. ”

"Weapons or equipment or something like that, I guess you can find the characteristics from it." Turning around angrily, Xue Lingphantom Ice, who was looking towards the iron chain in the direction Duan Qing indicated, turned to look for other reasons to bar: "Even if there are no emblems and notches, at least there should be something like a handshake or a round handle, where is it like this iron chain - and it looks a little short." ”

"It's only about a few meters long, but it's good enough to be used as a weapon." Shaking his head slightly, Duan Qing also refocused his gaze on the iron chain again: "As for this shape...... If you are good at using chains as attack items, you will usually wrap half of them around your arm, so that you can use half of them as a defensive tool while making it easier to telescopic and controllable. ”

"It's like this." Struggling to control the half of his arm, he flung one end of the chain around his left arm little by little: "If you wrap it on both sides, you can even imitate the way nunchucks are used...... What's wrong? ”

"I used to say that I was an excellent magician, and my true form was revealed so quickly." He laughed out loud, and after staring at Duan Qing's Snow Spirit Phantom Ice for a long time, he suddenly let out a chuckle: "Should you say that you are due to an occupational disease, when it comes to explaining the strange weapons, your spirit and excitement level are completely different." ”

"I don't have any intention of letting you continue to change careers." Somewhat helplessly, he put away the pose he was about to put on just now, Duan Qing pursed his lips and removed the chain from his arm: "Taking a step back, whether it is a weapon or a restraint doesn't make much sense, this is probably only a little help for us to find clues and satisfy our curiosity......

"The problem is that he doesn't seem to have the will to explain it to us." After looking in the direction of the door of the room for a while, Xue Lingphantasm continued to ask in a low voice, "Do you need to get him back now?" ”

"I don't think we're capable of that right now, God knows where he went." dragged his heavy steps to the corner, and Duan Qing's voice also lost the spirit of the period just now: "Instead of counting on this right path-"

"I'd rather go a little bit of the way."

The chains that had not been completely discarded made a clanging sound on the ground, and the gray-robed magician then began to wander around the room, and the appearance of constantly scrutinizing the surroundings undoubtedly attracted the attention of Snow Spirit Phantom Ice, and the eyes that followed the other party kept moving back and forth also fell with the slender body that sat down against the wall again: "Hasn't this place been almost turned over by us?" What else are you looking for? ”

"Of course it's something that shouldn't exist in this place." Carefully inspecting every nook and cranny scattered among the ruins of this room, Duan Qing, who was moving slowly, replied without raising his head: "If, like the other rooms we encountered before, the chaos here was naturally formed thousands of years ago, then I may not be able to find what I am looking for, but if this is not the case, there must be some discordant parts mixed in these ruins-look." ”

"There's a rag." The footsteps paused slightly, and he pulled out a fragment embedded in the countless miscellaneous items: "The rags from a thousand years ago may not be preserved at all, but if they are decades old, they may be preserved." ”

"This is certainly not a contemporaneous artifact of the ruins." A sudden strange light flashed in his eyes, and Xue Lingphantom Bing, who stepped forward, nodded and said, "And judging from the situation left by this iron chain just now, it is extremely likely that these two items are in the same period. ”

"Now it's up to us to see if we can find any clues about the identity of this owner from this piece of cloth." After checking his gaze around the other corners of the ruins again, Duan Qing then focused his gaze on the dim light: "Hmm, it seems to be one of the pieces of clothing sewn together with wool and flannel, it should have been torn from a certain shirt or coat, although there are no blood marks or wounds, but the possibility of this piece of rag created by violence that was not the owner's will...... Wait a minute. ”

"Did you hear anything?"

The movement of rummaging up and down the cloth paused slightly, and the voice belonging to Duan Qing suddenly stopped in the dark depths outside the door with the movement of raising his head, and then the sound of bones colliding appeared in the distance in that direction with the vigilant eyes that Snow Spirit Phantom Ice also revealed, and slowly approached their location with the footsteps of shaking their bodies.

“…… Worst. ”