Early the next morning, Mayor Sain and Business Director Daric arrive at the Tower of Time to discuss how to manage the elven refugees, and only Nia, Xado, Albuck, and DeParker are on the Tower of Time.

During the discussion, Xia Duo suddenly received a notification from Leiden from the territory through [Communication Scroll - Level 3 Event], Leiden could not transmit specific information through the communication scroll, but could only transmit information about the severity of the incident through different scrolls preset by Xia Duo.

Level 3 events are the minimum requirements for using communication scrolls, and although not the most important, they are still quite important.

At this moment, Xia Duo couldn't sit still, and said to everyone: "Something happened in Linshui Village, I have to go back." ”

Naturally, the others didn't have any opinions, Xia Duo said so, who would force him to stay, but Niya asked with concern, "What's going on, do you want us to go over together?" ”

"No, I can handle it! You can continue to discuss, I suggest that you can ask Oreps Silver Leaf to come and ask, maybe he can make some more suitable suggestions, after all, the one who knows the elves best is the elves themselves! ”

Nia was thoughtful and wanted to ask again, but Xia Duo couldn't wait to leave first.

……

Coming out of the Tower of Time is the ruins of the Lost Lock, and now the magic web environment here has been continuously restored by those Arcanist "volunteers" for nearly a year, and it is no longer the original state of riot.

Although it was not yet peaceful, the impact on Xia Duo was minimal, and he could easily smooth out the fluctuations of the surrounding magic web, and eliminate those random spells triggered by his arrival.

Flying in the air, he glanced at the seven or eight well-defined temporary shelters below, and silently estimated in his heart how long it would take before the magic net environment here was completely restored.

But soon, he put down his thoughts again, because Linshui Village had arrived, more precisely, Linshui Village Altar Square had arrived.

Today's Great Xia Territory has sufficient personnel, and the front line of development has long passed the ruins of the Misty Lock, in other words, the ruins are within the scope of the Great Xia Territory and Linshui Village.

The Tower of Time is also located on the boundary of Linshui Village.

As if knowing that the lord was about to return, Leiden stood at the altar of the Lord of Light in the center of the altar square, and after Xia Duo fell from the sky, Leiden immediately stepped forward and saluted: "My lord! ”

"No need to be polite, let's talk about what is going on!"

Xia Duo knew that Leiden was not a person who did not know the importance of things, and he must have made some judgment before choosing to contact him, so as soon as he returned, Xia Duo asked about the incident and wanted to deal with it as much as possible.

"My lord, that's right, in the morning Clark came to report that the Pioneer Department had found a crypt in the forest, and there was a cry of pain from it, because that crypt was not far from the Pioneer Front, so I asked Simon to take his people to investigate the cause, and the result-"

Speaking of this, Layton showed a complicated expression, as if he didn't know how to describe it, "I found Polk there!" ”

"Polk?!"

Chado immediately interrupted Layton's narration, remembering that Pock must have been exploring the ruins with Jabas! Could it be that the crypt that Layton is talking about is the entrance to the troll's lair that may have hidden the ruins?

Thinking back to what I had just seen in the sky, it seemed that the frontier had been pushed there!

"Are you sure it's Pock? What happened to him? ”

"My lord, I'm sure it's Poke, it's just him, his legs have somehow turned to stone, which makes it impossible for him to climb up from that crypt, and he's been screaming, he can't ask any answers, I'm worried that something might happen there, so I informed my lord."

Petrifaction?

Xia Duo's first reaction was that the ruins really existed, and then he realized that Jabas who was with Pok was probably not good, so he asked again:

"What about Bock? Where is he now? And what about Jabas? Don't hear from him? ”

"My lord, Bock has been screaming and wailing, I soothed him and fell asleep, right in the barracks, as for Jabas, Simon didn't find him, maybe he was still under that crypt, but because it may involve magic, I didn't let Simon continue to search."

"Let's go see Polk first!"

With that, Xia Duo walked in the direction of the barracks, and Layton immediately followed.

……

At first, there were only a few simple tents in the Linshui Village barracks, but later, as the number of people in the territory and the number of soldiers increased, some long-term barracks, training grounds and other infrastructure were also built here.

However, when Shado came this time, he found that a tent had been erected in the corner of the barracks, and Leiden told him that it was a temporary construction for Pock, and the soldiers were a little reluctant to let Pock live in the barracks.

Xia Duo didn't say much about this, he could understand the thoughts of these soldiers, even if magic was not rare in this world, but for ordinary people without magical abilities, unknown dangerous magic could still be avoided.

Entering the tent, there was a soothing incense in it, if Xia Duo remembered correctly, this incense should have been given to Leiden, it could soothe the spirit, and it was very suitable for the caster, but I didn't expect Leiden to be willing to use it here.

There was only a simple wooden bed in the tent, which was called a bed rather than a plank, and Pock lay on it, sleeping peacefully, but it was also true that Layton had said that he would wake up with a bitter wail.

Even when he was asleep, Pock's face twitched from time to time, as if he was suffering from some unknown pain.

And the lower half of Pock's body, from the root of the thighs down, both the clothes and the exposed skin at the ankles, have turned into a gray stone appearance.

Seeing this, Xia Duo took out a pure gold knife from his personal space, squatted down, and gently tapped the back of the knife on the suspected petrified part of Pock's body.

There was a clear sound when the knife and Pock came into contact, if it was still flesh and blood, it shouldn't be like this, it seemed that it was indeed petrified.

If not petrified, at least hardened.

What surprised Xia Duo the most was that the petrified dividing line on Pock's pants was obviously two different substances, but they were still connected together, and the flesh and blood inside were also connected to the petrified part in this way.

Perhaps this is the source of Pork's pain.

After thinking about it for a while, Xia Duo didn't try anything on Poke in the end, if he could, he still hoped to save Pock as much as possible, after all, there were only two of his subordinates with experience in exploring ruins.

One is Pock, and the other is Jabas, whose fate is still unknown.

"Layton, wake up Pock, I want to ask him some questions."

Xia Duo thought that since he could wail and scream, he should be able to answer the question, but the pain would make Bock unable to concentrate, but with the existence of a psychic spell, he didn't need to be very focused, as long as he could subconsciously answer the question.

It wasn't easy to soothe the painful Polk to sleep, but it was very easy to wake up, Layton just pulled away the magic effect he had originally applied to Polk, and Polk immediately woke up and let out a painful wail.

Xia Duo was about to cast a spell, but Bock's performance surprised him, and the spell casting action was paused.

"Please, Lord Lord, - save - save my father Jabas, he- he is still - in the ruins!"

Pok gritted his teeth and said almost word for word, and Xia Duo even faintly saw a trace of blood in his mouth, which really changed Xia Duo's opinion of Poke.