"Qili, is that you?" Ed was surprised and delighted, but he didn't expect that the person who brought him out was actually the little girl who left separately before.

"Of course it's me, the big fool has been chasing after me for so long and hasn't seen it, such a reckless, if the enemy can easily lure you out and kill you!"

The two of them quarreled for a while, and Qili had actually been hiding in the ranks of the rangers before, but she had been busy with the tasks issued by her church recently, and the identity of the mercenary was just a cover-up.

Her Avenger Church had fallen during the War of the Gods, and the whereabouts of Nemesis were unknown, leaving the remnants underground, falling into silence like many other defeated believers.

Over the past few hundred years, they have secretly developed believers, licked each other's wounds in the dark, survived by engaging in shady deeds, and gradually expanded their power.

Qili is an orphan who was adopted by the Negesis Cult since she was a child, and since she was a child, she has listened to the teachings of the Nemesis priest and learned different powers from the psionics.

As a member of the Church of Vengeance, Kiri has to complete several missions from the top every year, and in addition, she can freely accept the tasks issued by the outside world according to her own wishes, similar to that of a mercenary.

Because of his greed for fun, this year's task indicators have not been completed so far, and seeing that the deadline at the end of the year is approaching, I rushed to do the task last time and didn't continue to walk with Di Liya and them, and in the past two days, I have completed a non-stop rush to the junction of the church near Hill to receive the next task.

This time, she accepted the commission of a big businessman nearby, and the location of the mission was not far from the march, and after Qili had entered the army as a forest ranger, she had already met with Delia, and after obtaining her consent, she decided to ask Ed to help complete the task.

"So Delia, she already knew you were here?" Ed asked.

"Yes, my sister is not as stupid as you, I am in the team of forest rangers for a reason, but it does not conflict with your goals, and I can help you fight at that time, if it weren't for Sister Deliya's insistence this time, I wouldn't want you to join me!" Qili reached out and smoothed her ponytail, and said with some impatience.

According to her, this mission does look a little different, and after hearing about it, Di Liya wanted Qili to give up, and when persuasion was fruitless, she let her come to Ed to accompany her, but the little girl had to agree, in fact, she was a little bottomless in her heart.

After figuring out what happened, Ed naturally agreed, in his opinion, the task is secondary, if it is too difficult, he will take the little girl and leave, Di Liya may also have this consideration, I am afraid that Qili is too persistent, like the last time I dealt with hundreds of mercenaries and slave hunting teams, if I didn't happen to meet Ed and them, I am afraid the consequences would be worrying.

The mission location is not far from the main road, leaving the camping site, passing through a small forest, and on the way Qili tells Ed the relevant information.

In recent months, there have been people missing in this nearby village, and in this turbulent time of war, it is not unusual to say that no one cares except for the family members involved, who knows if they are afraid that the enemy will attack and the coward himself will run away in advance.

However, ten days ago, a passing wealthy merchant escorted goods to Hill Castle and passed through this place, and woke up in the middle of the night to see that his son was actually missing.

The wealthy merchant sent a lot of people to search, waited in the same place for a day and did not see anyone return, so he had to set off to deliver the goods to their destination, and then issued a search mission among the mercenaries of Hill Castle.

The power of money is infinite in the eyes of mercenaries, and soon someone investigates the long-term disappearance of the nearby population, and catches him red-handed when a criminal commits a crime, but the other party is just a simple ordinary person, and a little delirious, according to him, he was forced to make a deal with the devil, using an evil creature with the power to charm humans to lure the prey to the devil's cave.

Naturally, they don't believe that the so-called devils and other evil things have not appeared in a big way for thousands of years, and only in children's pillow stories still exist.

But it is said that the person did hold a flower with strange energy in his hands, but it soon withered, and the mercenaries who caught him brought the people back to the rich merchants, and under the temptation of heavy money, they gathered people to go to the devil's cave in his mouth to check, who knew that a few days passed, and no one returned.

Some of the mercenaries suspected that they had found a large fortune in the devil's treasure trove, and that they had only found the bodies of the missing, so they took the fortune and flew away with it, regardless of the commission promised by the rich merchant.

However, after that, the rich businessman sent some people to the incident site to investigate, and they all went and never returned, and then everyone knew that they must have stabbed the hornet's nest, and several waves of people who went there in a row were probably killed by the devil.

At that time, the news that the new commander was preparing to go on the expedition came out, and Ed led people to select mercenaries, and those powerful teams were all gearing up for this big order, and the other weaker stragglers were even more afraid to risk their lives to this terrifying place unknown to the enemy, so the matter was delayed.

The wealthy merchant Tong Guò, who couldn't find manpower, posted the news through different channels, although he knew that most of his son was dead, but he still wanted revenge, and finally let him find the Nemesis Church where Qili was, and this is the basic situation.

Along the way, Ed and Qili also came to the vicinity of the destination, I don't know if it was the reason for listening to this story, Ed always felt that the grove in front of him looked particularly eerie in the pale moonlight, and the intelligence said that it was in this area, and they had to search for specific targets nearby.

This is not a small place, and in order to save time and rush back before dawn, Ed had to agree to Qili's request to search separately and tell her to be careful.

The search process was unexpectedly smooth, the devil seemed to be very confident and swaggering, not only committed many crimes but also never changed the location of the nest, and after a while, the two found suspicious traces.

It was a cavern that looked like it was about to collapse, and in the vicinity, several waves of missing mercenaries had left a secret message pointing to it.

Ed and Kiri glanced at each other, and cautiously slipped inside, followed by the latter.

From the outside, it looks like a nest left behind by a large burrowing animal, and only when you enter the interior does you realize that there is a cave.

The corridor seemed to be reinforced by an unknown force, and it looked crumbling, but it was actually sturdy to the touch, and at intervals the walls were inlaid with shimmer stones to provide minimal illumination.

Along the way, Ed and Kiri heightened their vigilance, but they didn't find any defenses or any other defenses, and there was no sign of fighting.

Ed walked in front, and suddenly felt the cool air coming from behind, as if a cold wind was blowing, he quickly glanced back, but Qili followed him well, nothing abnormal.

"Did you feel that something was wrong, as if there was someone behind me just now?" Ed asked.

"It's someone, me, don't be suspicious, hey, you can't be a coward, this girl will help you look at your back, you can rest assured and boldly open the way in front!"

Ed reluctantly turned around and continued to move forward, muttering in his heart: "I'm not worried about you in the back, this task shouldn't be made up by this girl herself, why do I feel weird." ”

After a while, in this silent and deep environment, only the slight footsteps and breathing of the two of them gave an illusion of the length of time, as if the passage never ended.

Ed suddenly felt a cool breath from behind him, and even the back of his neck had goosebumps, and the young man couldn't help but look back, and continued to take two steps forward as if he didn't know.

The yin aura behind him became heavier, and it seemed that the devilish enemy in the dark was one step closer to his target.

Ed also has a trace of fear in his heart at this time, human beings always have a natural fear of the unknown, even if the power is strong, it is inevitable, especially this kind of god chatter, something similar to an invisible ghost is even more unbearable for Ed.

However, the reason why the strong are different is precisely because they can face their inner fears calmly, rather than choose to run away.

Although Ed was apprehensive, he still pretended not to notice according to the plan, lured the other party deeper, and when he felt that the attacker was close enough to him, he immediately took action.

Between them, the young man turned around suddenly, grabbed a figure like lightning in his left hand, and made a gesture to fight with his right hand, and his spiritual power was ready to inspire the fighting flame at any time, entering the state of maximum combat power.

"Hey, why are you?" Ed's powerful eyesight had now adjusted to the glimmer of light in the cave, and he turned his head to see that the person he had caught was actually Qili.

Seeing the way this girl puffed out her cheeks and put her hands in a circle to her mouth, Ed knew that it was this girl who was playing tricks on her behind her back.

"Oh, let go, I don't know what's going on, Eddard, what are you holding me for, you won't want to take advantage of me again!" Qili patted Ed's hand away, looking like she had just woken up.

"Hey, you said I was charmed by that devil just now, I don't remember what I did, Ed, do you know?

Looking at this girl's smiling appearance, Ed knew in his heart that what was controlled by the devil was not true, this bad guy did it on purpose, I really don't know if this whole thing was made up by the other party!

Ed stared at the little girl who still had an innocent expression with a cold face, until he looked at her unnaturally.

"This is not a place to play around, you must know that I almost fought just now, next time if the enemy uses the same method, your companions may still think that it is their own people, as long as the reaction is slow, then the enemy is likely to succeed, you will kill others!"

"Okay, I know! Ed is just like the old guys in the church who discipline me at every turn, Kiri is not so stupid, I came here once during the day, the passage is safe, and the real tricky ones are ahead!"

Ed was stunned for a moment, "So, the thing about the mission is true, there is really a devil?"

Qili successfully changed the topic, secretly proud in her heart, and put on an impatient appearance on the surface, "Of course it's true, how can I have time to have fun with you, it's better to play with Sister Di Liya with this kung fu." Just in front, there's a gate in the way, and I can't open it because I don't have enough strength to ask you for help, but there's probably a great guy behind there!"

Saying that, Qili sped up and ran forward, behind Ed touched his head and sighed helplessly, this girl is really born to restrain herself, she can't get her.

Knowing that there were no enemies in the tunnel, Ed let go of his speed and galloped forward.

Only then did Ed realize that the length of this passage was really amazing, the first two people had taken less than a fifth of the time to walk due to cautious progress, and the back distance was winding, as if it was going to go underground in a circle.

As he walked, Ed let the engraving record the terrain, and thanks to Guò's powerful computing power, he gradually constructed a three-dimensional image of the place in his mind, and it seemed that they were indeed gradually approaching the center position.

At the end of the door were two large metal doors with mottled surfaces that looked very old, depicting many patterns of ancestors about the deeds of their ancestors, but unfortunately they were too old and dilapidated.

Ed didn't spend much time discerning, and his knowledge was far from enough to deduce the original appearance from the little remnants of the images, and perhaps Ed could consider becoming a naturalist when he had collected enough information about the world in the future.

Regardless of the thickness of the gate, just its tall Cheng dù, Ed knew that what Qili said was right, ordinary people are afraid that it will take dozens of people to work together to open this gate, and the little girl herself is not enough.

Ed probed with a panoramic insight, and found that the gate was completely cut off from the probing of a qiē force, and it was completely impossible to know what was behind it.

Kiri stepped aside and spoke to Adnunu, signaling that his time had come.

The young man rubbed his hands, stepped forward, and pressed the door to exert force, the target did not move at all, Ed knew that his estimate was wrong, this door was heavy, even if there were more mercenaries, I am afraid it would not be able to open.

At this time, there was no time to think about what happened to the mercenaries before, Ed waved his hand to Qili, motioned for her to step back a little more, and then put his hands on the gate again, instantly consuming a reserve of psionic energy regiment, and with the help of guò engraving, he bypassed the necessary enlightenment ritual of ordinary knights and opened his spiritual power.

In an instant, the flame rose up, licking the top of the cave, and even the air made a clattering sound, and then the spirit flame shrank back, clinging to the surface of Ed's body, putting every ounce of power into the propulsion.

Qili next to her also became serious at this time, she took out her powerful weapon, put a sharp arrow coated with poison on the small bow, and aimed at the gate from behind Ed.

"Heh! open it for me!" As the young man exhaled, two huge and incomparably heavy metal ancient doors finally moved, and the mysterious and terrifying devil's lair slowly opened a gap between the two.