During the period when Phoenix was instructing the transformation of two high-level monsters on the spot, Lin Qiu had in-depth exchanges with Jennifer, Ella, and several adventurers. They carefully explored the area, which looked like a hub, with the back of it connected to the underground mechanisms of the Musa Consortium, the lake sealing the space on the left, and the ancient road leading to the unknown place in front and to the right.

As a well-read contestant, Lin Qiu knew that at this time, splitting up the investigation was an act of death at first sight, so he avoided the behavior of going back to the room separately knowing that there was a killer hiding outside in a detective film.

But on the other hand, it also creates a certain degree of hindrance to their movements.

Ora and her team had been searching the underground waterways of the imperial capital for a long time, and had even spent the night below, and according to her, the structure of the underground water was extremely complex, and the adventurers of their group often got lost when they first arrived in the underground waters, and no one knew who designed the area, and no one wanted to know. Because it was inhabited by poor people of lower status than the common people, they slept at the entrance to the underground water basin, so that the area was plagued with diseases, and the entrance was also full of poor people's domestic garbage, which caused the whole area to stench, and even the common people did not bother to come here.

On top of that, it's also a high-risk area for crime and homicide, and every downcast sitting on the side of the road can come up to you at any time and steal your gold.

Euler can now recall the nervousness of passing through the downcast.

Fortunately, the poor did not dare to offend the adventurer's guild and did not embarrass them. Because of this, she cast an admiring look at Ella: "I didn't expect you to dare to come here alone to investigate." ”

It takes a lot of courage for a girl.

"Nothing. Ella smiled and shook her head.

She definitely knew more about the structure of the underground water than most people, and when she opened the door in front of her, there was still unfathomable darkness behind the door, and there was a tunnel under her feet that had been eroded by water, and there were sinks and insects everywhere, and there was a sound or two from time to time in the depths of the darkness.

"It should be this, this is the way back. ”

She leaned against the wall and listened carefully, and said in a sure tone.

The structure of the underground water basin is extremely complex, even those who have always lived here occasionally get lost, and the main way for the residents to determine the general direction is the current water, the wind and the sound behind the walls, and of course, the best way not to get lost is not to go deep into the underground water - this is also the consensus of the sojourners.

There are man-eating crocodiles in the depths of the waters.

This is the main reason to prevent the homeless from going deeper, so the ironic fact is that many adventurers have only come up with a common sense that the vast majority of homeless people know after exploring the underground water for a long time, as long as those adventurers who are eager to rush into the underground water basin to try to find out the secret bounty first are willing to spend a gold coin to inquire about the status of the underground water before entering, they can easily get the following general information.

It's just that no one knows what exists behind those crocodiles.

"It looks like this area is somewhere behind the crocodile belt. ”

"You look...... Familiar with this place?" Euler was a little surprised.

After a brief conversation, she learned that Ella was a student at the Furnace Academy, and she had the impression that most of the students of the High Knight Academy were pampered, and they could never tolerate the damp and smelly environment of the underground water basin.

"Of course, if you've lived here for a year, you'll know about it. ”

Dirt and smell are only the appearance of life in the underground waters, and adventurers can only see the appearance. Stealing and robbery are the real face of this world, and the first thing every child born here learns is to steal, and people will buy beautiful clothes for beautiful girls, so that they can lure them into what they call "big fat sheep".

"Are you going to ......?"

This time, even Lin Qiu was a little surprised.

"By the way, I was interrupted by Melia before, and I now say it's part of that story. Ella said calmly: "Melia killed most of the rebels and killed Canor, and the royal family put all the blame on Canor in order to find a culprit, and the next day the kingdom army found Canor's body in the ruins and sent a dead person to the guillotine, and I was wanted by the royal family because someone exposed the relationship between me and Canor." With nowhere else to go, I hid here for a whole year to avoid the guards—the only place where even the Kingdom Army didn't want to set foot here, and maybe they guessed that I was hiding here, but they thought I couldn't survive here. ”

There was a famine, the poor could not even feed themselves, and even adults might not survive the slums, let alone a child.

And even if she survives, she will most likely suffer a tragic fate in that world full of sin and darkness.

At least Ella thinks that the Kingdom Army who wanted her must have thought so, if it had been Melia's "dutiful" catcher, she would have been found and executed many years ago.

"Don't look at me like that, I'm just finding a way to survive. ”

Ella continued.

People who fall into the slums either fall prey or become hunters, rob and be robbed, steal and steal, this is the norm in the slum world, and when people are hungry, they will do anything terrible in order to survive.

Ella, on the other hand, has found a third way to survive - neither a hunter nor a prey.

Middleman.

More precisely, intelligence mongers.

People are not usually very wary of a small child, which makes it very convenient for her to inquire about information. Even in the world of the poor, there are different factions. In order to survive, the weak choose to huddle, which allows them to go from prey to hunter, and when different factions appear, strife ensues.

And strife is the source of the survival of intelligence traffickers.

People usually use a small piece of bread to inquire about the movements of hostile forces, and at this time, Ella can be their eyes and ears, of course, intelligence traffickers need a very high IQ and emotional intelligence, Ella has seen many intelligence traffickers because of offending a certain force The next day in the streets.

So she chose a special way.

It was a little girl who had been thought to be just running errands for a piece of bread for an intelligence monger, and until Ella left, no one realized that she was the mysterious sex trafficker who had never shown up, and her information had offended many forces and caused them huge losses, and those people had been looking for her.

"So, you can trust my judgment now, right? This road should be the waterway to the imperial capital, and if we're lucky, we'll encounter swarms of crocodiles not far away. ”

"And then?" Lin Qiu asked coldly.

"Then, of course, it was to drive away the crocodiles and return to the imperial capital. Ella glared at Lin Qiu inexplicably.

"No, I mean what happened a year later, and how did you get chosen by the Windstove Academy?"

"Secret. ”