"It's true that the Shadowhunters have their own rules, but now that the Underground World is in an eventful time, I'm afraid those rules won't be able to be bound for long." Bai Ye said quietly.

"I know the leader of the Redstone, the Red Ghost is a guy who is greedy for life and afraid of death, plus he and his team members are in the hands of the Hunters' Guild, so it's not surprising how much information he will reveal to those who wear badges. If Locklac's movements were fast enough, the underground union would have suffered a lot of vitality at this time, if not completely paralyzed. As for the team that participated in the volcano commission before, I am afraid that none of them will be able to survive. The fact that he has been detained for so long is just to prevent us from ventilating and informing us. ”

"You remember, that commission was issued by you from the beginning, right?" Kaede cross-examined with a strange face.

Captain Scales didn't seem to hear it, and continued to himself, "Although the relationship between Shadowhunter and Lockrak is inextricably linked, there is still a bottom line that cannot be crossed. Organize a team to invade a country? Although it is not known whose order it was, the underworld has completely crossed the line this time. ”

If the poachers were just mere insects, the hunters' union would certainly allow them to sleep on their side, and even trade with them in disgust. However, the underground trade union changed from a worm to a tiger and a leopard overnight, and even caused a crisis in the kingdom level as soon as it made a move, so Locklac couldn't help but liquidate it.

"So, is Reverse Scale planning to clean up the mess after the turmoil?" Feng smacked his lips, his eyes full of unreasonableness, "You have no airship, no funds, most of the shipwrights team has been dismissed, and even the core members have left...... If it were me, I wouldn't have had such a lot of faith. ”

He silently recited in his heart a few times, "The reverse scales are really a group of crazy people", before he changed his tone and said lazily: "Forget it, what does this have to do with me?" I've made up my mind that when I get out of this cage, I won't show my face in front of any of the Shadow Hunters. A lone wanderer like me won't have as much trouble dealing with the wrath of the entire underworld as it does against the scales. ”

"Is there anywhere else to go?" Feng Chen interjected.

"The hunter world is so big, there is always a place for the three of us." The old hunter poked his head out of the gategate. In another room in the depths of the corridor, Ah Dong and Ah Xia are being imprisoned inside: "If you can't go to the southern snow mountains if you can't do it, if you can't go on land, you can go to the islands in the southeast sea of the overseas continent, there are many human settlements scattered among the islands, and the monsters there don't care if the hunters wear the badge of the union or not." ”

Kaede suddenly remembered something, and said mysteriously, "Earlier, I heard that if you sail deeper into the sea across that archipelago, you will eventually arrive at a new world that does not belong to the old and new continents. ”

"Hunter World...... And a third continent? At first hearing such news, Bai Ye was also shocked, "In that southern sea, there shouldn't be any airships that can pass through, right?" ”

Deep in the South China Seas of the New World lies a narrow belt of hurricanes that stretch across the horizon, and perennial storms can leave even the heaviest airships helpless. The hunting ships that dared to approach the storm circle were all lost in the howling wind, and were even rudely dismembered into steel plates, floating forever on the surface of the sea.

"Just because airships can't do it doesn't mean that ships can't do it, and don't forget how the New World was discovered hundreds of years ago." In the distant room, Lena was concentrating on what she was drawing on the ground with stones, and she didn't stop until now.

"About a decade ago, Pirecente had recruited explorers and united several kingdoms to organize the first fleet of voyages, with the goal of a whole new world on the other side of the hurricane belt. Over the years, fleets have been crossing the hurricane belt, and information has been transmitted back to the South Marsh Country, and the news about the new world is no longer groundless. Kaede searched his mind for the few words he had gathered, "It is said that the ecology there is very different from the two continents today......

"Strange monster materials, never-before-seen types of ores, and even large hills made of precious coral...... The New World is all about that. I've heard that the peritoneal fluid of some large insects can act directly as a restorant there, and the effect is much better than that of ordinary restorants. ”

Kaede leaned against the wall and said lightly, "If there is no accident, I will take Ah Dong and Ah Xia to Pirecente to try my luck." If explorers are still being recruited there, and we get on one of these ships, we probably won't come back. ”

"The war is about to begin, and its outcome is about to affect the lives of everyone in the New World, and the predecessors really have to ...... at such a time Leaving the mainland? Sealing the dust close to the root of the wall, he hesitated for a moment, and did not use the word "escape".

"Little ghost," Kaede knocked on the wall, and from his voice it was no discerning compliment or teasing, "I heard something about you in fits and starts, you know, wars and ancient dragons and stuff like that. I never thought that the guy I randomly pulled to form a team at the foot of the snowy mountain would still have the blood of a hero. ”

"I'm not ......"

"Although I have long been fed up with your repeated concealment, and I don't think that you alone can affect the course of the war, but you can be considered courageous in facing that kind of pressure alone." The hunter's words shifted, "But, this time it's your battle after all, not mine." My adventures, my life, may never have been here. ”

"Today's Ah Dong and Ah Xia can't be on their own, and besides, the lone hunter would rather die on the way to explore the unknown than get involved in this war built up by conspiracy, and give his life in vain in the aftermath of the madman and the catastrophe." Kaede paused for a few seconds, as if fantasizing about something, "The archipelago of the Southern Continent lives with a beast dragon species called the Broken Dragon, and those lords secrete an explosive slime fungus on their claws and crowns. Only by living can we see such a wonderful ecology, right? ”

Hearing a sigh from a nearby room, the lone hunter chuckled softly, "If you want to find an ally, Reverse Scale is a better choice than me." ”

"Since the start of the war, the New World needs a stable underground world more than ever, and the Scales also needs new help to complete the unfinished business. We're not going to work with the Hunters' Guild, but we're not going to sit idly by and watch this continent fall into the hands of the Elder Dragons," White Night said, "That's the only thing Reverse Scale can guarantee." ”

"That's exactly what I want," Sen Luo wiped the sweat from his forehead and said with a gloomy smile, "The ancient tower didn't have a happy battle with the golden lion, and he was already holding back his anger. If there are more opportunities to fight in the future, I don't care if the opponent is a monster or a human. ”

"Don't count me in." In the room in the distance, Lena said weakly, "No offense, but now that Reverse Scale has lost the airship and has not had enough research funds, I have little interest in it." ”

"So, do you want to belong to the Hunters' Guild?" The green-armored hunter suddenly raised his voice and said in a threatening tone.

"Just because I leaked information to them, it doesn't mean I'm in the same boat as the union." The Huntress replied coldly, "In every sense of the word, the Hunters' Guild is much worse than the Underworld. ”

"I've seen it let lord-level monsters roam the perimeter of villages and towns, until that monster went berserk and slaughtered an entire village of civilians just because that guy was a one-in-a-million peculiar." "So this time, whatever disaster befell the Hunters' Guild, it was to blame. ”

"My heavy crossbow army, there are hundreds of main parts that make up it, and after I have transformed it, I have changed and added dozens of special parts. It can have a hundred qualified parts, but as long as one is flawed, I will not take it to the hunting ground, which is also my attitude towards the Hunters' Guild. ”

"No matter how many good reasons it has, as long as one of them is untenable, never want me to treat it squarely."

"Lina is still a craftsman, isn't she?" Feng Chen suddenly asked.

"The best in the underworld, so what?" The huntress said with some smugness.

"In that case, I think of a man in Locklac, and I think you must be interested in him."

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"What the hell am I doing...... Lena sighed, looking at the towering door in front of her.

Even in Loclac, such a workshop is quite large. The hard-sanded building occupies the width of the five ordinary stores, and just standing here gives people a sense of oppression. The exterior walls are as smooth as mirrors, and the crystal particles left behind after firing are scattered on it, as if they were hand-inlayed. The signboard on the door of the store only has the word "craftsman" written in the lingua franca, but on the door eyebrow is a long list of sentences of unknown meaning written in the dragon language like a ghostly drawing, and the pen is drawn with silver hooks and iron, but it only makes Lena frown: "Hey, dragon man pretending to be a ghost." ”

The huntress looked up, but was surprised to see that there were as many as four smoky chimneys on the vault: "But I should say ...... Is the forging town in the north really worthy of its name? ”

Once upon a time, Lena's apprentice's workshop had only a small furnace, far from being guaranteed to open once a day. At present, it is close to noon, and a considerable number of craftsmen and apprentices are taking a break for lunch, but the four large furnace groups have no intention of stopping, and they are clearly running at full capacity, and the female craftsman can feel the melting heat coming from behind the door when she stands a few meters away from the door.

The news of Morin's defection spread in the street market, causing the entire Knights of the Guild to be questioned to varying degrees, especially the Knights of the Headquarters. Therefore, on the third day of Feng Chen's return to the Little Hunting Group, Reverse Scale and Feng and his party also left the secret prison one after another.

After parting ways with her former companions, Lena had planned to wander aimlessly in the desert city as a Shadowhunter, she had never had the opportunity to set foot in Locklac in her life, but she did not expect to follow the guidance of the dust in her memory and unknowingly come here.

The purple-clothed hunter turned his head slightly, and there were clearly two guys dressed as hunters in the crowd behind him, rummaging through the things on the stall, and their eyes were thrown at him intentionally or unintentionally.

"Guild knights? Or a guard hunter? Lena sneered. Someone like himself is not as easy to stay as in a union prison, and Locklac probably intends to send someone to guard him around the clock, and if he does something that goes beyond the norm, he will be arrested and returned to prison for a reason: "I don't even mean to cover up my deeds...... I really don't know if it's too arrogant or too inexperienced. ”

The craftswoman turned around and beckoned to the two of them generously. Sensing the watchful eye of their watchdog, the two knights awkwardly ducked into the crowd, only to make their movements more obvious. Lena smiled triumphantly, and without looking at the two pale-faced stalkers, she strode into the workshop.

"Hunter...... Belch...... Lady. Seeing that the purple-clothed hunter was not wearing a badge, the apprentice in charge of the guest hurriedly changed his words, "What do you need?" ”

"Just take a look." Lena said this, her eyes scanning all corners of the workshop. The factory building is much larger than it looks from the outside, with dozens of large and small workshops, and half-finished castings are stacked messily on conveyor belts, with apprentices shuttling in between. The furnaces set up in the four corners of the workshop emitted a scorching light, staining the entire interior of the workshop with a layer of red.

The melodious sound of forging was incessant, and the craftswoman closed her eyes comfortably after only a few moments of being there. She took a breath, the smell of rust and sulfur creeping into her nostrils, and the feeling of being held for more than a month in a familiar environment swept away at once.

The craftswoman turned around and beckoned to the two of them generously. Sensing the watchful eye of their watchdog, the two knights awkwardly ducked into the crowd, only to make their movements more obvious. Lena smiled triumphantly, and without looking at the two pale-faced stalkers, she strode into the workshop.

"Hunter...... Belch...... Lady. Seeing that the purple-clothed hunter was not wearing a badge, the apprentice in charge of the guest hurriedly changed his words, "What do you need?" ”

"Just take a look." Lena said this, her eyes scanning all corners of the workshop. The factory building is much larger than it looks from the outside, with dozens of large and small workshops, and half-finished castings are stacked messily on conveyor belts, with apprentices shuttling in between. The furnaces set up in the four corners of the workshop emitted a scorching light, staining the entire interior of the workshop with a layer of red.

The melodious sound of forging was incessant, and the craftswoman closed her eyes comfortably after only a few moments of being there. She took a breath, the smell of rust and sulfur creeping into her nostrils, and the feeling of being held for more than a month in a familiar environment swept away at once.