What appeared in front of everyone's eyes was a castle in the mountains.

The castle is located in the belly of the mountain, surrounded by mountains on three sides, with only one side protruding, and it looks like it was directly excavated from the mountain, which is quite similar to the castle of the Valley of the Helm in the second part of the Lord of the Rings.

Compared to the Valley of the Holy Helmet, the castle in front of him is a little smaller, perhaps because of the years, the castle has become dilapidated, and has become a habitat for the fierce beasts of the valley.

Everywhere in the castle, especially at the foot of the city walls, there were countless piles of white bones.

Most of these bones belong to ferocious beasts, but a small number belong to humans.

In front of the castle, a large expanse of beautiful flowers bloomed on the land, coexisting with the dilapidated, magnificent, and majestic castle.

The few surviving beasts of the valley seemed to be planning to rely on the castle to continue their war, but unfortunately they did not know how to use the terrain or the equipment to defend the city—in the center above the castle, a huge bed crossbow could be faintly seen, the wooden frame had completely rotted, and only the tip of the crossbow still shimmered with a sharp cold light.

What's really surprising is that the entire castle is made of steel, a real steel castle.

"...... here," Hong Lang touched his head and said in surprise, "What's going on? How can there be a castle here?"

"Could it be the wilderness itself?" asked gently.

King Kong shook his head: "Not really." ”

"Is that ......?"

"Adventurers made it. Shen Yi said suddenly: "There is no doubt that someone has walked ahead of us, they not only came to the deepest part of the Alien Beast Valley, but also built a huge castle here that can be used to resist. ”

Wen Rou immediately said: "I don't understand what the point of this is, the wilderness is just a place for us to explore, and building a castle is too time-consuming and labor-intensive, and it will not benefit us." Our main battle location is still in the mission world. ”

Shen Yi asked rhetorically, "What if it was before the existence of the Bloody City?"

Everyone was stunned at the same time: "You mean ......"

Shen Yi said leisurely: "We all know that the wilderness existed before the city, and it has undergone a long period of changes. In the beginning, there was no city, only wilderness...... At that time, a castle with strong defensive capabilities was perhaps more meaningful than anything else......"

His eyes fell on the mountains of white bones under the city walls, and he suddenly imagined tragic pictures in his mind. In the picture, countless ferocious beasts roar and rush towards the castle, while the guardians of the castle fight desperately.

How many battles did they hold?

Shen Yi didn't know.

But he knew that the final outcome of the battle would undoubtedly be tragic and heroic.

The castle fell, the defenders died, and it eventually became a haven for alien beasts.

In the passage of time, the beasts have entrenched here, forbidding any adventurers to set foot in this place again, and eventually turning it into a secret place......

Until one day, someone rushed here with great strength and casualties, and finally unveiled the mystery in the depths of the valley.

Everyone was still amazed, and Shen Yi had already walked forward: "If you want to know more, you have to go in and have a look." Yi Yu, Hong Lang, you lead the troops to clean up the fierce beasts here, King Kong is responsible for the response, gentle, you follow me in to have a look, I hope there is something good to discover. ”

"Be willing to obey. Gentle smile.

Walking all the way along the path between the flowers, Shen Yi and Wen Rou came to the gate of the castle.

The gate has long since decayed, and it can be passed all the way.

After entering the castle, you can still see the bones scattered everywhere. Due to the long-term entrenchment of the beasts, these bones were messed up in the activities of the beasts, and only scattered bones remained.

However, the traces of various knives and axes on the city wall still record the fierceness of the battles again, and one city wall has even collapsed, perhaps the former breakthrough is located here.

In the center of the castle is a small square flanked by stone-paved staircases that lead to the central tower.

Shen Yi stood in the small square and looked to the sides, muttering to himself: "Typical medieval castle-style building, but there are no carvings. The builders of the castle were pragmatic, and for them it was about survival, not art...... Although some of them do possess extraordinary artistic attainments...... This is not the work of the Chinese. ”

By extraordinary artistic attainment, he means that the structure of the castle itself is a kind of art, and its overall atmosphere is vigorous, which has both a strong resistance and an artistic appreciation for the appearance. Even if no artistic architecture is added, it still shows the extraordinary architectural level of the builder.

However, what puzzled Shen Yi and Wen Rou was this-what made a group of adventurers have to build such a castle in this natural Jedi?

And what is it that makes so many fierce beasts attack here one after another?

Judging from the shocking traces of the battles all over the castle, the battles that took place here were far more tragic than you can imagine. Battles were taking place in almost every corner, blood even stained the land red, and even after decades of fierce beasts, there were still many bones everywhere......

How many people, how many lives, are buried here?

This may be a mystery that will never be solved.

At that moment, he looked at the tall central tower in the center of the castle.

Maybe there will be some answers for him.

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"Whoa!" the fat man exclaimed excitedly.

Running all the way, panting, almost tired the fat man to lie down.

Not only him, but even Amber, Tang Zhou and others also breathed a long sigh of relief.

These days, they're running hard enough.

It's just that after coming to the ant hill at this moment, the scene in front of everyone's eyes still makes everyone's hearts tremble.

As far as the eye can see, the hills are littered with ant bones, as if black sand covers the earth.

The land was dyed red with blood, and it may not be long before the Ant Hills were renamed the Red Clay Heights.

How could the ant hills, which once made people talk about their color, become like this, everyone couldn't believe their eyes.

Only the fat man was complacent, as if he had expected it to happen—and it was.

But despite this, seeing the endless ant corpse, the fat man couldn't help but shudder. Captain, how many ant nests have they destroyed?

After this battle, a new life corridor has been opened again, and it is much more convenient for adventurers in the third district to come over to hunt wild food.

"This ...... Who did this?Adventurer of the Third District?" Tang Zhou asked in a lost voice.

What he feared most was that the adventurers of the three difficulties would join forces again to open up the life corridor, if that was the case, it would mean that there might be high-level adventurers in this area to ambush them at any time. It is even more dangerous than the imprisoned child.

The fat man wanted to tell Tang Zhou not to worry, it wasn't done by the people of District 3, but at that moment he suddenly thought of what Shen Yi had said: leave some mystery for his team members when necessary, and seize every opportunity to establish majesty.

So at that moment, his mind suddenly turned, and he decided not to say it for the time being, but walked directly to the hills.

He first pretended to observe for a while, and then said, "This is not the work of a third-difficulty adventurer. ”

"How do you know?" Amber asked.

The fat man smiled, pointed to the wilderness in front of him and said, "You see, if it is a third-difficulty adventurer who is opening up a life corridor, then there is no need for them to expand the area of battle to such a large area. Since it is a corridor, it should be a straight line, and the target of the three-difficulty adventurer is just the fierce beast on this straight line, there is no need to provoke creatures outside the straight line and bring unnecessary battles. ”

He paused for a moment, seeing that everyone was paying attention to what he was saying, and continued: "You see, there are at least seven or eight large ant nests in this area, and the whole battle surface is square rather than straight. What does this mean? This shows that the people who are cleaning up this area are mainly engaged in fighting, not with the main purpose of opening corridors. It's just that in the process of fighting, this group of people opened the road all the way to the third difficulty area by the way. I think this is also to make it easier for them to cross the three zones directly. ”

"You're saying it was done by the people of District 2?" Amber couldn't believe her ears.

On the contrary, Tang Zhou Tadun looked at each other, and was even more shocked by the fat man's "seeing the subtleties". Originally, I looked at the pig appearance of the dead fat man, but I didn't expect this guy to be so amazing in terms of observation.

They don't know that there is a term in this world called "backward extrapolation", and on the basis of all the conditions known, hindsight is actually something that everyone can do.

On the contrary, the fat man enjoyed Tang Zhou's eyes very much at this moment, and he was very sure of the way they looked at him, and continued to pretend shamelessly: "That's right, it can only be done by people from the second district." ”

"But how can the adventurers in District 2 have the strength to sweep through the ant hills?" Du Zhiyun definitely didn't believe that there was such a powerful existence in the city.

It was Tang Zhou who said: "If there are enough people, maybe it's okay." ”

The fat man immediately shook his head: "There won't be many people, six or seven at most." ”

"Huh?" everyone lost their voices.

Ta Dun scratched his head in confusion: "How can you be sure?"

The fat man was stunned, yes, how did I know?

He thought about it, and his eyes turned to make him come up with a reason, so he coughed and said, "Of course it's to see the corpse." Look at the corpses of these ants. Judging from the corpses, most of the damage they received was artillery fire and bullet attacks, with a small amount of melee damage. From the traces of the damage, it can be analyzed that these attacks belong to almost a limited number of people. If hundreds of people join forces, then these corpses should have more scars and ways of dying. ”

As for how to analyze the traces of "injuries that belong to a limited number of people", he will not talk about it, you can understand it yourself.

But when he said this now, everyone suddenly felt justified.

Ta Dun was the first to rush forward, pointing to an ant corpse and saying, "This is a whip mark." Judging by the depth of the whip marks, the adventurer's strength attribute is quite high. And this one, this one, these are all whip marks, roughly the same shade, probably from the same person. ”

Tang Zhou was also looking at a group of ant corpses next to him: "This is another adventurer's shot, using a sword, almost cutting in two." Judging from the corpses, there are four melee weapons to kill these ants: axes, knives, swords, and whips. The power of the sword is the highest, almost the wounds of the knife are accompanied by freezing damage, and the power of the axe is also very strong, but why is there an axe wound and a sword wound on the corpse of every ant?"

Fat Interface: "Why can't it be that the tomahawk and the sword are used by the same adventurer?"

Tang Zhou suddenly realized: "Yes, why didn't I think of it." ”

In fact, it's not that he didn't expect it, it's just that in the second difficulty, there are too few people who can be extravagant enough to use two high-level weapons at the same time.

Then Tang Zhou looked at the fat man in surprise: "Aren't there only two or three adventurers in melee combat?"

The fat man spread his hands: "So I said six or seven at most." ”

"It can't be. Amber exclaimed, "Even a third-difficulty adventurer can't sweep such a large area with just a few people. ”

"Maybe it's because they have something else. The fat man pointed to a wreckage in the distance.

The tower shield tiger rushed over, took a closer look, and shouted, "It's the T800 Terminator!"

As he spoke, he stood up, searched repeatedly, and suddenly pointed into the distance: "There is another one here, it is a broken mecha! There are also mecha soldiers on the other side!"

Searching all the way, Tadun found more than a dozen T800 wreckage and abandoned mecha shells.

Looking at all this, Amber Tang Zhou looked at each other.

There are nearly thirty abandoned Terminators and mechs alone, and it is conceivable that there must be more Terminators in the hands of this group of people.

But a T800 Terminator is a double-D class, what kind of team does it take to have such a large number of teams and sweep the wilderness here.

And what great gains have they made here?

Looking at the stunned appearance of the four people in front of him, the fat man's obscene psychology was suddenly greatly satisfied at this moment.

He patted everyone on the shoulder and said, "Now you know that there are people outside the world, and there are heavens outside the sky, right? But don't be discouraged, we all have a chance in the future." Now, let's move on to the target point. ”

All the way ahead, the fat man is complacent.

Finally got these guys down.

But at that moment, Amber from behind suddenly caught up and whispered, "There's a question you haven't explained to me yet." ”

"What?" the fat man, whose neck was tickled by the breath of amber's breath, was unable to react at once.

Amber smiled slyly, "I remember you said that by the time we arrived at Ant Hill, this place was no longer a threat. At that time, how did you know? Did you already know that a team was coming to clean up this place?"

The fat man was immediately stupid.

Damn, how did you forget about that?

If the bull blows too much, there will always be a day when it will be punctured.

He looked at Amber, who put her index finger to her lips and shushed, "You don't have to explain, let alone lies." Don't worry, I won't tell them. ”

Blinking at the fat man, Amber stepped back, it was clear that she had decided to maintain the fat man's position as leader.

What a good girl.

A warmth rose in the fat man's heart, and his mind became more and more active.

How can I take you down?