The crowd moved quickly along the street, and the surrounding scene quickly receded.

It was midnight in Dorifin, and the scenery on both sides of the street was very different from that of daytime, the ruined city was gone, and a layer of fireflies between the surrounding trees was misty, replaced by its former shadows.

That was 30 years ago.

The neat building, with closed doors, seemed to have pale faces standing behind the windows, and the sound of laughter and daily conversation came from behind.

In a hurry, he passed an empty workshop, in which stood a still running magic furnace, rows of tall shelves, orange firelight. And it was the middle of the night, and there was a clanging sound in the empty workshop.

This scene is really weird.

But what makes the scalp even more numbing is the pursuers behind, the glowing ghost light at the end of the street, the countless ghost army.

The persecution of the crowd did not dare to stop.

Kita ran a few steps and slowed down against her chest, her face pale. Fang Ou looked back, Sylvid was holding Shesta, Attila was carrying Sky Blue, Paparald was taking care of himself with his short legs, and Dickt was carrying one of Hansen's wounded men.

He turned around and walked over. "I-I'm fine, Brother Ed." Ji Ta lifted her glasses, knowing that she was at a loss, and her voice was like a mosquito.

"I'm not here to blame you, but it's too slow to run?" Fang Yu asked.

Kita nodded slightly, the surface of the wound on her chest had healed, but the wound left by the blade through her lung still affected her fitness - plus she wasn't a warrior in the first place.

She frowned, feeling a terrible pain in her chest.

Fang Yu didn't say a word, and reached out to put his hand around Ji Ta's shoulder. The little girl was startled, and subconsciously wanted to shrink back. "Don't move," Fang Yu said to her, "I'll carry you away." ”

"Team...... Captain. A red cloud appeared on Kita's face, and she looked at him in surprise, and she was incoherent.

"Don't think too much about it, just treat me as Miss Attila."

"But," said Kita, a little ashamed, curled her head and muttered, "it's all my fault that I want to come out......"

"It's none of your business, the captain must understand the value of the decisions he makes, in fact you've done us all a lot during the day. That's what you're worth, Kita, and you're sure to be the best naturalist in the future. Fang Yu looked at her and replied seriously, "And now, it's my turn as the captain to be responsible." ”

Ji Ta nodded with a red face and reached out to put her hand on Fang Yuan's arm.

Fang Yu then bent down and lifted her sideways with his hand through the crook of her knees—a bit of a struggle for him as a non-combat draftee. But after I picked it up, it was much easier.

Kita was fluttering, like a trumpet ghost.

The little girl buried her head in his arms, her face was like dripping blood, and her long eyelashes reflected the bright moonlight, soft and moving.

But for such a little girl, Fang Yu didn't have any other thoughts in his heart, just like his sister who had protected him before, and took her to catch up with others. As he passed Miss Elf, the former glanced at him with some relief in his eyes, "Well done, Ed." ”

This guy was a little embarrassed, and subconsciously wanted to touch his head but couldn't pull it out, so he had to giggle there.

Not far away, Sylvide couldn't help but be a little amused when she looked at him.

Seeing this, Shesta shook her head slightly. "Why are you shaking your head, Shesta?" Sylvid turned her head and looked at her maid with interest.

"It's nothing, Miss."

"Tell the truth."

"I just don't understand, it's just a big boy."

"Shesta really has a hard time understanding that." The aristocratic girl smiled and replied, "The older boys are more reliable, and the men are just cunning and selfish creatures, and in fact when he grows up, he will become like that, insatiable." ”

"So what does the eldest lady like about him?"

Sylvid smiled in the moonlight, but didn't answer.

On the opposite side of the workshop is a small hill covered with lush vegetation, reflecting the bright bay that runs through the inner city, and a trestle bridge stretches out into the shimmering waves.

There was a low wooden house with white walls and brown eaves on the side of the trestle, which, according to Hansen, was the duty of the guards, and if it was in the old days, there would have been a small battle to escort the mission target here, and the guards who had to defeat the way in the way.

But today, there are neither guards nor mission objectives here.

Ahead is already Fisherman's Street -

Fang Ou remembered what the older knight had told him about the inside of Dorifin, which was connected to the Ruined Avenue across Fisherman's Street, which was not far from the outer gate where they had come.

Once there, they were safe, and these ghosts, including the Knight of Dawn behind them, were no match for Red the Lionman.

But Fang Yu suddenly stopped.

They had been to Fisherman's Street during the day, but Fang Yu remembered that the street was not what it was during the day. Even though the buildings on both sides of the street were intact, the terrain had never changed so much—he looked up at the abyss that lay in front of him.

There was no bottom, so wide that you couldn't see the other side of the abyss, and in front of you was a cliff, and half of the street was swallowed up. To be exact, including the entire Nancheng District and the ruined avenue in front of it, it has long been gone.

Fang Yu couldn't help but look to the left and right, and could only see a few remnants of buildings, and the stones even kept peeling down on the edge of the cliff, rolling down the abyss.

Hansen stopped far ahead, frowning at the scene. And when Fang Yu approached, he turned around, saw Fang Yu and Ji Ta in the other party's arms, and paused for a moment before he spoke: "Brother Ed, we are in big trouble. ”

"What's the matter, what the hell is going on?" Fang Yu put down Ji Ta, looked at the abyss in front of him, and the half of the fisherman's street that disappeared in front of him, and couldn't help but ask.

"Remember what I told you, this is the boundary of this illusion."

"Boundary?" Fang Yu was stunned: "Doesn't that appear after the mission is triggered, does it mean that we are already in the mission illusion now?" ”

"I don't know," Hansen was also confused. "Without the mark of martyrdom of the Faithful, without the mission objectives, we should theoretically miss the mission, but ...... This borders it ......"

Fang Yu couldn't help but look at the scholar behind him, who had been very calm from the beginning of the Traveler's Rest, as if all these dangers had nothing to do with it.

He felt strange from the beginning, but at this moment he couldn't help but ask, "Mr. Scholar, do you know anything?" ”

"Is this a question?" The scholar asked, looking at him through the shadows under the hood.

"We are a partnership, Mr. Scholar." Fang Yu frowned, and said in a not very good tone: "It's not that I have a request for you, you know, I am the Elector." ”

"But she's a trainee," the scholar replied, "don't try to deceive me." ”

Then he saw that Fang Yu still wanted to say something, and hurriedly stopped: "Okay, I don't want to waste time on boring disputes, it's not that I don't want to answer this question, after all, it is also closely related to my safety." But the truth is, I'm here to investigate, and if I knew everything, would I still be here? ”

Fang Yu gave this guy a suspicious look and nodded. Then he turned back and asked Hansen, "And what about entering this border, Mr. Hansen, I mean, if we abandon the mission, can we cross it and leave this place?" ”

"That's where the trouble is," Hansen said with a wry smile, "you can't get out of this boundary if you go in, and some of the Electors say it's the Starlight Dead Zone, I don't really understand what that thing is, but I've heard that the Dead Zone doesn't work for us natives - but it's different. ”

At this time, Tianlan, who caught up from behind, tiptoed to look down at the abyss, and was so frightened that he almost fell. If it weren't for Attila running up and grabbing the lawless little girl, Miss Elf said a little sternly, "Don't make trouble, Frie. ”

But Tianlan still asked with some fear: "Then what should we do now?" Wait until dawn? ”

"I'm afraid it won't work until dawn, we don't know if Dorifin's vision is actually in Dorifin, and there is no precedent for outsiders to meet other adventurers in the mission before the mission is over." Ji Ta leaned on Fang Yuan's arms and whispered to her.

Hansen also nodded, sighed and said, "Maybe we will be trapped forever until we die." ”

Wait for death to forget it, Fang Yu thought to himself, not to mention that his ordinary electors and aborigines can be resurrected five times, with a total of six lives. And he, the stowaway, can only be resurrected twice, only half of the starlight, and the two trainees, Kita and Sky Blue, can't be resurrected.

And the old knight in the team, Diktor, according to Chris, said the same.

He looked back. "What should I do to accomplish this task?"

Hansen heard what Fang Yu meant, but shook his head. "Normally, the normal process is this, after obtaining the Martyrdom Mark of the Faithful, go to Grey Oak Square to activate the Shadow of the Past, and after defeating it, the road to the town hall will open, and you should have heard the story after that-"

"Alright, let's go over there." Fang Yu still remembered this fork in the road on Fisherman's Street, he looked back at the other side of the street, and asked, "If I'm not mistaken, this direction leads to Gray Oak Square, is there a border over there?" ”

Hansen was stunned and replied, "Of course not, it's also a mission area over there." But wait, but now our problem is that we don't have the mark of martyrdom of the faithful. ”

"Gotta give it a try."

Fang Yu said, glancing at the bottomless abyss as if satisfying his curiosity, and then put his arm on Jita's shoulder, who nodded to him, and then he picked up the little girl and continued in the other direction.

At this point, there was no need to give an order, and Hansen's men followed him in that direction—after all, the ghosts were already chasing him closer and closer.

Hansen naturally followed, he sighed and said to Fang Yuan: "Although I always think it is a superfluous move, but you are right, no one wants to close their eyes and wait for death, they have to try." ”

"I didn't think much of it, Mr. Hansen, but I was used to it, and I didn't want to give up until the end." Fang Yu replied with some seriousness.

Hansen gave him a surprised look. "Twenty years earlier, I'm as motivated as you are, Brother Eddard."

Fang Yu smiled and didn't answer.

However, Kita whispered a little unconvinced: "Brother Ed is different. ”

Han Sen was stunned for a moment, then looked at the little girl and smiled: "I'm not convinced, even an uncle like me has a young age, how is it different?" ”

Kita moved her mouth, of course she knew Fang Yuan's courage in the battle against the Silver Forest Spear and the Jeffrey Redcoat Team in the Dragon Roaring Mountains, after Fang Yuan confessed that day, she privately found that video in the community and watched it many times.

How can such a Drafter and Combat Artisan be like everyone else?

But when she said it, she realized that these things couldn't be said, and she was also very embarrassed, so she turned red and curled up and stopped talking.

Hansen looked at her and couldn't help but joke: "Of course, even when I was young, I was not as popular with girls as Brother Ed." ”

It's also a shame that this guy can still tease with a big nerve when there are chasing soldiers in the back and interception in front, and make Fang Yu and Ji Ta blush at the same time.

"It's not like that!" Fang Yu hurriedly explained, what are you kidding, didn't this make him go straight to the three-year start? "Mr. Hansen, you may not understand—"

"I understand, I understand," Hansen said with a smile, "the young man is thin-skinned, understandable. ”

"No, it's not like that."

But such a pale and feeble defense can only be exchanged for a burst of giggling laughter. Fang Yu turned his head and wanted Tianlan to explain to him, but the little French girl was happy to see him embarrassed, and only pretended to be stupid on the side.

In the end, Fang Yu could only leave the team alone and walked to the front, making up his mind to stay away from these boring guys.

According to Dicht, the section of the road leading from the Fisherman's Fork to Grey Oak Square is still actually part of the Ruined Boulevard, which does not have many intersections and leads almost straight to the square.

Therefore, it didn't take long for Fang Yu to faintly see the spear and flag in the hand of the statue in the square.

The moonlight on this night was undoubtedly very bright, and a lonely moon hung in the sky, and the moonlight was extremely full.

Fang Yu recalled the moon phase a few days ago, and still had some doubts in his heart, it stands to reason that he should not see such a bright moonlight today. And Kita, who had been shrinking into his arms and quietly observing his expression, seemed to see what he was thinking.

She grabbed the hem of his shirt with her little hand and whispered to him, "Brother Ed, when Doriffin abandoned it thirty years ago, it was almost April and May, and there was a full moon in between. ”

"Is time frozen in that day?" Fang Yu looked at the ghosts surging in all directions, wishing that he could figure out what had happened that day.

Because they were in the front, the two of them were the first to enter the square.

Unlike Traveler's Rest, which is full of ghosts, the square is quiet – the surrounding buildings, though well preserved in the mirage, still look like they were decades ago, with no signs of burning down.

But the doors of the buildings were closed, silent, and the lights around were dark.

On the uneven stone floor of the square, there is only the clear glow of the moonlight.

Fang Ou put Tata down again, and looked at the place with some confusion - it seemed to him that there was nothing of interest here.

There was no such thing as the legendary blade of vanity of victory, not even any sign of the existence of an enemy, not to mention the shadows of the past, not even a ghost citizen.

But if there was anything strange, there was one detail that caught his attention.

He turned back and said to Kita:

"Kita, do you feel anything?"

"Well, that's weird, Brother Ed."

The little girl also replied in a whisper, word by word.

……