"Mr. Ambassador, the target has been found."

"At the time of the incident, there was an enemy who planned to hijack the target, and we had no choice but to make a move, and now we have completely annihilated the opponent, and the target is not damaged at present, and we have slightly suffered casualties, but it is not clear which side the enemy is from, but it seems that it is not the one who called it, and our coordinates are located in ......."

Listening to the report that suddenly came from the communication channel, Ambassador Liao, who was sitting on the sofa, sat up straight all of a sudden, put the information in his hand on the alloy table in front of him, his expression suddenly became serious, and replied: "Good job, protect that lady, and ask her to enter the communication channel - immediately transfer to the underground of Fenris." ”

In the darkness of the earth, the plovers, the Paparals, and the lizardmen prince are crossing the lone bridge.

The golden flames of lava were cut off by the massive pyramid behind them, leaving only a glimmer of light in this direction, and rustling steps were walking on the lone bridge that stood in the darkness, and on closer inspection, its deck was not made of the obsidian that the Sinsas snake people loved - it was a gray stone, which was pale in the light of the pine crystal in Parker's hand, like calcified bones.

Perhaps it was the Serpents who believed that obsidian was a precious thing, that it was hard to find on the surface of Fenris, that it could only be mined in the depths of the earth, that only temples and ancient kings' tombs could be used for it, and that in this hierarchical society, these ordinary buildings were not worthy of the precious 'sacred stones'.

But the grey bridge is still a little out of place with its surroundings.

In addition, the fog is filled, the abyss below is bottomless, the lonely bridge seems to be suspended in the air, and from time to time there are stones falling from the bridge because of tremors, and they are submerged into the darkness, as if they are swallowed up by an open mouth, and the unknown is born in the depth, and the unknown is often frightening.

At this moment, the crystal in Parker's hand flickered, and the light became much dimmer.

He shook the crystal vigorously to make the light light shine a little again, but it seemed to overdraw its vitality, but after a moment, the light of the crystal flickered a few more times and then dimmed completely, turning back into an ordinary artificial crystal.

Parker complained in the darkness, "The magic is gone." ”

One of the most basic creations of alchemy, the Songming Crystal, also known as the Illumination Crystal, is an artificial crystal that produces a light source through its low content of etheric magic, which is a very safe cold light source.

But the simple structure determines that it cannot be recharged, and generally speaking, it is not needed, because it abounds in the surface world, and it is enough to replace it when it is used up.

"Isn't there a Songming Crystal in the supply?" Fang Yu asked, "Why don't you take more?" ”

"In the hands of the Silver Veslan, this piece is my own." The Paparal threw the thing into the darkness and replied by patting his chubby hand.

Fang Yu watched this scene, and after a while, the sound of the crystal shattering came from the darkness, as if it had hit something solid under the bridge, shattering to the ground.

"Forget it," he shook his head, "if the supplies from the Kaurin-Ishurian Artisans Association can be met later, we'll get some more." ”

"Do you still have time to send them supplies?"

Parker was skeptical.

And Fang Yu actually has no bottom in his heart.

But then the two saw Tenaric stop behind him, looking down into the darkness below, as if there was something there that deserved his attentive attention.

This move made Fang Yu faintly feel that something was not right, so he also stopped and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"There's something down there."

Tenarec's deep voice, as concise as ever—

The lizardman prince lowered his head motionlessly, his prismatic pupils seemed to be able to penetrate the darkness and peek into the environment under the bridge, but the fog there was too deep for it to see clearly, and he only described in a low voice: "It's big, I don't know if it's still alive, but I seem to have seen it move a little just now—"

Fang Yuan was slightly stunned, a huge presence under the darkness - he couldn't help but think of the ancient legend in the Blood Sacrifice Temple of A-Sukka located in the south of the Noumerin Forest, where there was a huge Quetzalcoatl icon under the abyss, and many people had seen the sight of the huge Quetzalcoatl rising from the darkness.

It's also the ruins of ancient Sinsas, and even the two places are so consistent – the Abyss, the Temple of Sacrifice and the Divine Power of the Sun Gods.

There are simply too many unsolved mysteries left behind by this ancient empire.

The mighty gods of the sun are not quite the same as the gods of Orin, and they are said to be the living gods who walk on the earth and leave behind countless miracles and legends.

As this thought flashed through his mind, Fang Yu suddenly heard a high-frequency sizzling sound, and looked up, only to find that Tenaric was shouting to himself with a nervous face, "Get out of this place!" ”

This was the first time Fang Yu had seen such a look on the other party's face.

And the next moment, all three of them felt the lone bridge under their feet shake slightly, it was not quite the same as the previous tremor, more like a shake from side to side, Parker almost flipped under the bridge one by one, but Tenaric was quick and pounced and dragged the Paparal back from the outside.

At this time, Fang Yu also reacted, now was not the time to think about these at all - no matter what was underneath, it would probably not be too kind to them as 'outsiders' who trespassed into the forbidden land.

Not to mention that there are some of their 'kind' who are stirring up trouble in the center of the temple now, and the Sinsas snake people a thousand years ago can't tell the difference between the factions of these humans, not to mention whether there was such an organization as a guild at that time was still a question.

Fang Yu turned around and ran, but fortunately they had already crossed two-thirds of the bridge before, and the remaining third was not too long for them.

But when he stepped on the end of the bridge, something creepy happened to him, Fang Yu felt that the bridge under his feet seemed to come to life suddenly, and it jerked backwards, and pulled out of the land not far away.

The bridge suddenly moved away from his feet—

Fang Yu only felt that his soul was scattered, but fortunately his sanity was still there, he reached forward and shot out his flying claws, and with a snap of the hook hit the edge of the land in the central area, and the whole person flew over, hitting a solid knot on the ground.

But he didn't have time to examine himself, so he hurriedly got up and turned around, just in time to see the bridge pulled away from the arch like a pale bone whip, and the piers collapsed under the action of external forces, scattering and falling into the mist-churning abyss below.

Tenaric was carrying Parker on the bridge that had been withdrawn backwards, and at the last moment it leaped up, flew over a distance unimaginable to man, rolled and fell to the ground, and the Paparal in his hand flew out of his hand.

But that guy really had shit luck and rolled on the ground several times unscathed.

Fang Yuzheng breathed a sigh of relief.

But I heard Sophie's voice in the channel that was seriously disturbed: "...... Watch the back! ”

After getting along for so long, Fang Yu had roughly understood the meaning of the words of the little silver princess, and he didn't want to fly forward, and the sharp sound of breaking the sky behind him roared, as if something huge hit his original position.

There was a roar, the ground shook slightly, and the cliff there also collapsed directly because of the impact.

Fang Plover just escaped because of this flutter, he looked back with palpitations, only to find that the long gray and white bridge that had been withdrawn was moving away from the cliff, obviously it was this 'bridge' that launched the attack before, but Fang Plover saw it.

It wasn't a bridge at all, but a long tail.

After a missed blow, it curled up and retracted back into the mist, so that there was nothing left of the abyss except for a few lone pillars.

Fang Yu was afraid that this thing would crawl out from below, it even had a tail nearly a thousand meters long, what would its body look like, he was just creepy when he thought about it. But strangely, after the thing retracted its tail, there was no movement, and the abyss seemed to be quiet again, and the fog stopped churning.

Fang Yu watched this scene with palpitations, and only then did he get up from the ground with some prostration, he was too unsure if the ghost thing down there had stopped, or if it was just the calm before the storm, but for now it was better to get as far away from this place as possible.

It's best to head to the heart of the Central Temple District right away.

Even if the crawled out of that place, he could find a way to get the Jeffrey Redcoats to taste the pants.

He couldn't help but look in Tenarec's direction, only to find that the blow of the tail had pulled the cliff down and created a rift between them, and although it wasn't too long, it had just as much separating them.

Tenaric happened to be looking in that direction at this time.

Fang Yu waved his hand at him, not daring to speak loudly, only using gestures to tell the other party to bypass this rift and converge on a block in front.

The sign language was not complicated, and the lizard prince immediately understood, nodded, and dragged Parker, who was still pretending to be dead on the ground, and ran in that direction. Fang Yu didn't dare to stay longer, only turned back to take one last look at the misty abyss, and also turned around and ran in the direction where the block was.

Fortunately, the situation was better than he expected, Murphy's law did not work here, and the giant thing under the abyss did not seem to appear immediately for some reason-Fang Yu breathed a sigh of relief, and then thanked Her Royal Highness the silver princess of Vislan:

"Sophie, thank you."

Speaking of which, when he was fighting alone underground, this was not the first time that the other party had helped him.

Sophie shook her head, as if she didn't want to say anything more.

Fang Yu could see the worry in her expression: "Is there still no news from Miss Qian?" ”

"Our communication with you is also intermittent, and there is no news over there," Sophie frowned, "The aether pathway has been greatly affected by Fenris's upheaval, and now the only stable pathway is the military's A3 path—"

"Maybe it's because of the influence of the communication channel......" Fang Yu replied.

Sophie nodded, and now she could only believe it wishfully.

"Excuse me," Ambassador Liao's voice came from the channel, and since the military maintained the aether channel of strategic-level spells, his voice was extremely clear: "There's already news from Miss Qian's side, don't worry, they just don't have time to contact you for the time being-"

Sophie's beautiful eyes lit up suddenly: "What's going on over there?" ”

"I'm sorry," Ambassador Liao shook his head, "I'm afraid we don't have time to discuss this now, Mr. Char, we have found the person you are looking for." ”

"Alyssa!?"

Sophie and Fang Yu called out the name at the same time.

"It's Miss Elisa."

"She wants to talk to you alone, Mr. Char." Ambassador Liao replied.

Fang Yu nodded.

That's exactly what he couldn't ask for now.

Although Sophie was a little curious about the two of them, she also knew that now was not the time to satisfy her curiosity, so she had to withdraw from the communication channel. The noise in the communication channel disappeared for a moment, as if there was silence, but after a while, Fang Yu heard the soft, somewhat familiar voice coming from the other end of the channel.

"Mr. Eddard......"

"Alyssa."

"I'm sorry, Mr. Ed,......" replied Alyssa softly.

"It's none of your business, Miss Alyssa," Fang Yu paused before replying, "Because I believe you are innocent, but now the question is, do you believe me once, Miss Alyssa?" ”

Alyssa seemed to be silent.

It was a long time before she asked, "What do you believe, Mr. Eddard?" But I've always believed in you, and I know you're a good person—"

"This is different," Fang Yu shook his head, "because this time, I need your wholehearted and unreserved trust." ”

The other side seemed stunned.

Fang Yu continued: "Do you remember the message I sent you before this? ”

Alyssa still didn't answer.

But Fang Yu didn't care about that, and he continued: "At that time, I asked, 'Alyssa? You know very well that you are confirming your identity with Alice. ”

"And you answered — 'What's wrong?'"

"From that moment on, I knew you were innocent."

"The reason is simple—"

Alyssa holds her starlight device and stands beneath the icon of the goddess of life.

Lady Mirera in the temple was not as serious and impartial as Roman, her eyelids drooped, as if she were looking at her people with tenderness.

The girl remained motionless, and the men who had come to protect her withdrew from the hall in accordance with the agreement with her, so that she and the goddess were the only ones standing opposite each other in this small temple.

Starlight device.

A well-organized voice is constantly coming out of the communication channel.

“…… Because Torragotos has a fatal message missing," Fang Yu pointed to a black crystal on his chest: "Remember this information crystal?" ”

"I met you on the fourth floor, and at that time a Token of Information dropped from the Kukulkan Relics, and after you picked it up, you traded it to me. Toragotos may have the control of all the ruins, but he also has no way of knowing the details. ”

"The Summoner's trading system is actually based on the fair agreement of the Romanes, and it will record the true identities of both parties to the transaction - so you know very well that at that moment, I have already confirmed the identity of you and your sister."

"The message I sent you wasn't to confirm anything, just to get an answer you want—an answer that you know and I know, but the people behind you don't understand."

"So when you opened your mouth, I understood everything," Fang Yu replied quietly, "If there is no coercion, how can you say anything, and Miss Alice's reaction afterwards convinced me of this." ”

"Because it's an agreement between you and me, and no one will find out that I'm aware of her identity, including your sister."

Fang Yu was silent for a moment.

There was silence over there, too, except for the sound of gentle breathing.

After a long while, Fang Yu continued to speak.

“…… Miss Sylvide's handcuff was left in the place where you were killed, perhaps to make others think that you were killed by 'that woman', which is consistent with Alice's claims after that. ”

"But there's a loophole in it, and that's that in this black holy city, no one else knows Sylvid, and the only ones we know are those who listen to the rain. So, this detail is not so much a blame as it seems to me to be more of an attempt to deceive the eyes of your own people—"

So what's the point of this deception? I think it makes sense, that is, to make it clear to the rest of the rain listeners that it is you or Alice who is being killed. ”

"On the eleventh floor, I specifically asked the people who listened to the rain if you had ever left their sight before that, but the answer was no. So I'm guessing that your identity swap was actually done in the chaos the moment you were killed. ”

"Why would you want to do that?"

"I guess sometimes we think of being killed as a very serious thing, because that's a way of thinking that the Elect are used to. But on the other hand, this is Aitalia - killing, in fact, can also be a kind of protection. ”

"So your sister is protecting you, Miss Alyssa."

"And you, too, are protecting her."

Fang Yu stopped and looked solemnly at the girl who appeared in the light page, Alyssa's eyes were slightly red and swollen.

"But you know what true protection is, Miss Alyssa," he said softly, "show the courage and wisdom of your reply in that short reply, for there is no one around to stop you from speaking at this moment, and perhaps it is still too late for us to save everything." ”

"Whether it's your sister, or the lives of hundreds of thousands of people on Fenris Island—"

Alyssa stood there stunned.

She closed her eyes slightly, tears streaming down her cheeks: "But it's too late, Torragotos controls everyone, we can't contact Alice without alarming it, it will kill Alice, really kill her, I've seen it all......"

"Torragotos controls everyone?"

Fang Yu was slightly stunned.

Somehow, he immediately linked the incident to the disappearance of the high-level leaders of the Rainhearer's Guild.

And what surprised him even more was that everything that Alyssa had described - that Torragotos would kill her sister, really kill her? What does it mean to actually kill? Although he vaguely thought of that possibility, his heart was filled with a shudder of disbelief.

If all this is true.

Doesn't that mean that the natives have the possibility of killing the Chosen One in Aitalia?

But how is this possible?

However, Fang Yu only reacted for a moment, realizing that he was not thinking about this time at the moment, he shook his head and forced himself to calm down, and replied: "Miss Lovely Lisa, if we don't do anything, do you really think Torragotos will let us go after everything is successful?" Spare your sister? ”

This sentence seemed to hit the deepest nightmare in Alyssa's heart.

She looked at Fang Yu with wide eyes, and her face turned pale.

"And I," Fang Ou said word by word, his voice was categorical, "I swore that I would never let myself have any more regrets, so I would try again anyway—so Miss Elisa, would you like to believe me once?" ”

Alyssa pursed her lips, her eyes full of complicated looks, and it was a long moment before she spoke, "But what should I do, Mr. Eddard?" ”

Fang Yu breathed a sigh of relief.

He seemed to have a kind of happiness in his heart, and replied in a low voice: "Do you remember the pair of daggers I gave you?" ”

Alyssa paused and nodded.

"So," Fang Yu's tone was full of affirmation, "Perhaps, we can always think of a way." ”

……