Chapter 24: Unknown but Familiar Civilization (Part II)
"Although I can't go with you, I can give you the help you need through the temporary portal, including troops, supplies, daily necessities, etc. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info" Anna Far's voice came from a purple crystal ball.
Zhang Ye and the others, who were sitting on a red boulder, were not at all focused on what Annafar said, but on the huge arch that was rapidly forming in the red and blue light not far away.
After the arch was formed, red and blue quickly spread inside the door, and after the red and blue were intertwined and filled every inch of the door, Wang Ling and other seekers walked out of the door one after another, but in one step, they spanned thousands of years or even longer, and came to extremely ancient times.
This era naturally has no history that existed in the time when they came, but the degree of similarity is both astonishing and incomparably strange.
However, when Wang Ling and the others saw Zhang Ye, their attention was obviously not in the city not far away, but they stepped forward one after another or hugged or chatted warmly, and Xiaobai and Zhang Ye kissed.
After that, Zhang Ye introduced Talis to everyone in a ridiculous voice, and her identity as a seeker who abandoned the darkness and turned to the light.
Although everyone did not oppose Zhang Ye's decision, they were obviously still suspicious and wary of Tallis.
Zhang Ye was not in a hurry to change the attitude of his teammates, he coughed a few times to attract attention when the arch gradually turned into a rain of light that disappeared with the wind around everyone, and said: "The general situation of the sea god should have already told you, I will tell you in detail." ”
"First of all, this realm king of the apocalyptic plane launched an invasion during this period, and he also destroyed the civilization of this period with his army as he wished, and it was also because of this and some other reasons that he was so deeply hidden in that period when we came." Zhang Ye said as he picked up the purple crystal ball beside him.
The purple crystal ball immediately released a holographic projection-like image, which contained all the textual information and drawings about the invasion of the Realm King during this period that Annafar knew, but it was obviously very trivial and one-sided.
It's no wonder, after all, the time of the first invasion of the Realm King, and the time since Annafar's birth are very long, very long, and it is amazing to have a little bit of a record.
However, although the information is small and trivial, it also allows everyone to see what the soldiers under the command of the King of the Realm look like, although they are dressed in armor and so on like the demon spirits, their bodies are almost translucent and covered in scaly wounds, looking like ghost soldiers killed in battle.
Zhang Ye continued after everyone had seen the general appearance of the enemy: "What we have to do is to find and lock the position of the Realm King in this historical period, and at the same time find a way to defeat it, and then kill him before he launches a full-scale invasion!" ”
Zhou Hao said with some interest when he heard this: "This is the best, the province will have to go through various levels to see the boss during that period." ”
"Even in the days of the first invasion, it wasn't as easy as you might think, but at least it was easier than in our day to directly confront a large army that was ready and experienced." Zhang Ye said things that were not easy, but the battle intent in his eyes was getting stronger and stronger.
Wang Ling pointed his finger on the outside of his thigh, and asked in a cold voice with a slight frown: "Is this the eve of the invasion or the period when the enemy has never appeared?" ”
Zhang Ye seemed to remember something, and replied with a slight frown: "I flew to the city just now to take a look and inquire, although there are some news that some remote towns died inexplicably overnight, but there are no direct witnesses. ”
"So we'd better split up and investigate the towns that were attacked at the same time, doing everything we can to get the space lockout." Wang Ling said that most of her teammates were a little puzzled, so she repeated the information asked by the sea god.
But when Zhang Ye heard it, he had a different arrangement, and he said to everyone: "This thing is in that city, I saw it in a few garbage bins, and I didn't ...... it at the time."
Wang Ling said with some anxiety when she heard the words: "Then let's enter the city as soon as possible, the appearance of those things means that the army of the King of the Realm is about to invade." ”
Zhang Ye didn't speak when he heard it, and Tallis took out the three black irregular spherical instruments he found from the spatial ring.
Wang Ling raised her eyebrows in surprise and asked, "Ambush?" ”
"Don't set up an ambush, turn these three off or dismantle them, and then find the other locking devices in the city, just observe near them, collect more information about the Realm King Army, and of course, don't let them touch any innocent people." Zhang Ye made his own arrangements.
Wang Ling nodded when she heard this, and Zhang Ye threw the three spatial locking instruments to Alesa and said, "Bring them back to the Source Heart Hall intact."
"I'm just going back......" Alaisa reluctantly took the three spatial lockers.
"I'll send it back, I'll come back again, there's a lot of things I want you to help with." Zhang Ye said that, he turned around and walked towards the city not far away, and the other seekers followed closely.
As they walked towards the city in the red sand in the boiling heat, Aretha smiled with interest and faded away.
However, regarding the point of moving forward on foot, Zhou Hao complained: "How good it is to fly over directly by stealth." ”
"The human civilization of this period has developed magic technology very well, so it is very likely that we will be discovered directly." Zhang Ye's answer made Zhou Hao shrug helplessly and stop talking.
Wang Ling frowned slightly and said, "I suggest that after entering the city, no matter what happens, don't attract attention, we don't know which side we should be on now, and we don't know if the infiltrators of the Realm King's army are in the crowd." ”
But after she finished speaking, she found that no one answered, at first she was slightly puzzled, but soon like her companions, she looked at Zhang Ye who was moving forward in silence, if he found anything unjust, could he bear it?
And his answer surprised everyone a little, he said: "Just do what Wang Ling said, no matter what you find, don't act rashly." ”
"But if it's ......" Haixin smiled and wanted to tease, but Zhang Ye interrupted her.
"Then track it and then fix it where you're sure there's no one." Zhang Ye's words made everyone smile suddenly.
As he was talking, Zhang Ye noticed an overturned carriage on the side of the dirt road not far away, which he hadn't discovered when he went to reconnoiter the city before.
The crowd stopped near the carriage, and Wang Ling only glanced at it cursoryly and said, "The unlucky merchant has been robbed, and the robbers have taken the jewels and kidnapped three people, and fled to the west in the hilly area away from the dirt road. ”
"There is a guide, Wang Ling and Yang Tingting will follow me, and the others will stay here and summon the shadow carriage out." Zhang Ye pulled out the original sword as he spoke, and flew to the direction where the robbers fled with Wang Ling and Yang Tingting.
Not long after flying, Zhang Ye and the three of them found a group of people on the ground who were preparing to set up camp, and not far from them were two men and a woman who were tied up.
"Free the hostages, I'll deal with the robbers, remember, don't rush to ask questions first." Zhang Ye ordered in a low voice, and the two women behind him nodded when they heard this, watching Zhang Ye swoop down with the firelight!
He fell like a meteor from the sky, then fell to the ground with a roar and flash! The smoke and dust in the sky and the sky-high flames followed, and the original sword in Zhang Ye's hand exploded one after another!
And when the smoke and dust gradually fell, Zhang Ye shook off the blood on the sword and put the sword into the sheath, turned around and stepped on the gradually infiltrating blood pool, walked past the corpses that had been decapitated or beheaded or dismembered, and walked towards the three people who had just been untied.
The three of them seemed to be speechless by the sudden upheaval, and the first middle-aged man was the first to react, but he asked suspiciously, "Did Talenna send you?" ”
Zhang Ye frowned slightly when he heard this, and he asked rhetorically, "Tarena? Is it someone I should know? ”
The middle-aged man narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at Zhang Ye carefully, and then he suddenly said gratefully and apologetically: "I'm very sorry, I thought it was a chaser sent by someone with whom we have a grudge." ”
After that, he stretched out his hand, Zhang Ye shook hands with him and said, "We just passed by here, and when we saw someone being robbed, we chased after us." ”
"There are still good people in this world, this is a little bit of heart, please don't shirk." The middle-aged man smiled politely and said so, and also took out a dark gold money bag from his backpack.
But Zhang Ye didn't take the money bag he handed over, but said: "We don't want the money, we want to ask for help for something." ”
"Please say, as long as you can do it, there is no ambiguity." The middle-aged man was obviously more willing to help than give money, so he agreed to be particularly simple.
"That's the case, there are some problems with the commission we received, and now we are unfamiliar with the place and have no place to live, I don't know if we can help arrange a place to live, and we will leave as soon as the problem is solved." Zhang Ye said his request.
The middle-aged man thought for a moment when he heard this, and then said: "No problem, we bought a small apartment in the city, if you don't dislike it, you can live there and live whenever you want." ”
"Thank you, thank you." Zhang Ye smiled and thanked.
"Don't be so polite, you guys saved my life, this little favor is nothing, let's go back to the carriage and get some things, and then we'll go into the city." The middle-aged man turned around and wanted to leave.
He turned around again and said apologetically, "Look at my memory, I forgot to introduce myself, my name is Balu, the owner of the Balu caravan. ”
"Zhang Ye." Zhang Ye said his name but did not reveal his identity, and Balu didn't ask about it, he knew that there were some things that he still didn't know.
After that, the group returned to the place where Balu was robbed, and Zhang Ye also introduced his team members to Balu there, and Balu did not ask about the commission and identity of Zhang Ye and his party as before.
It was only when he was loading the goods onto the Shadow Carriage that Balu and the two masked women who had been following him silently were surprised by the interior space of the Shadow Carriage like a small bar, but after asking the question, when they saw that Zhang Ye did not mean to explain, they did not ask anything more and only expressed surprise.
After that, the ghost horses who pulled the shadow carriage neighed, and they galloped towards the city not far away at a very fast speed, but they were not afraid of being discovered and difficult to explain, after all, there were "aborigines" in need of "escort" on the carriage.
In order to get shelter, Balu will naturally say that Zhang Ye and them are very close partners.
In the carriage, Balu looked at Zhang Ye's gold-rimmed white armor and asked, "You are from far away, if there is a strong team like you nearby, I will not know it, and I will not not hire it." ”
"yes, it took a long time just to get on the boat." Zhang Ye deliberately said that he was taking a boat, but also to avoid some place names Balu mentioned that he couldn't answer.
Hearing this, Balu asked unexpectedly: "No wonder you look different from us, it turns out that you are from the mysterious Eastern Continent." ”
In the subsequent communication, Zhang Ye was both cautious and relaxed, so by the time of the city gate, Zhang Ye and Balu were already quite familiar, but the details of the two sides were not probed out of each other at all.
This didn't seem to surprise the two of them, even in their hearts, each other's identities and powers were indispensable.
And when the carriage stopped at the gate of the city, which was more than 30 meters high, Balu volunteered to get out of the car alone and talk to the purple armor guards, their conversation did not deliberately lower their voices or anything else, so Zhang Ye and others listened to it really.
It's not surprising that after paying the "entrance fee", you don't need to register to enter the city, which is good for Balu and Zhang Ye, who have different purposes.
However, after Balu returned to the inside of the carriage, he said the news that made Zhang Ye frown slightly.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the carriage cannot enter the city now, so we are afraid that we will have to move forward on foot, don't worry, the carriage will not be lost, and there will be no possibility of being harmed." Seeing Zhang Ye frowning halfway through speaking, Balu hurriedly gave a guarantee.
But Zhang Ye was obviously not worried about the carriage, but after thinking about it, he decided to follow the customs, so he said to everyone in the carriage: "Then get off the carriage, Haixin put the carriage away." ”
As soon as Zhang Ye gave the order, everyone stepped out of the carriage one after another, and the eyes of the purple-armored guards outside the carriage also became more and more round with Zhang Ye and the others who got off the carriage one by one, but it was not because of the internal space of the carriage.
It's really because there are too many beauties in Zhang Ye's group, and just by looking at the clothes of Zhang Ye and the others, you know that even if they are not royal nobles, they are quite powerful escorts.
At the same time, the Purple Armor Guards can also be sure that they are definitely not hired by Balu for a long time, because the armor and weapons on their bodies alone are worth more than the total value of goods that Balu wants to bring into the city!
At least it looked like that, so the purple armor guards changed their previous cold and indifferent eyes, and said to everyone with a smile: "Welcome to Yunjin City, please also put a hundred hearts, your goods and carriages will get the best ......"
Before the guard could finish his words, he saw Haixin, who was the last to get out of the carriage, pat the ghost horse on the head, and the ghost carriage suddenly shrank and was included in the ring.
The smile on the guard's face was even brighter, but it was also a little embarrassed, so he had to make a gesture of invitation and bend slightly, and then carefully admired the beauties in the group until they entered the magnificent gate made of amethyst and white metal. (To be continued.) )