The line that divides the sky is crossed again.

The curtain of the night was torn open, revealing the glow of the scorching sun.

Simon, who was assembling something around the campfire, felt the moment of dawn and immediately took out his ball.

"18 hours......

This time, the night was exactly the same as the adjacent day.

It can even be described as a fraction of a second, which is very outrageous.

"Coincidence? Or is it necessarily so. ”

Simon muttered to himself, putting the ball back away.

They have only been here for a few days, so they can't be hastily sure.

At this time, as the day came, all the other people who were still in the room came out and gathered around the campfire.

Arka looked at the crowd and said, "Then let's divide into two teams according to the teams that were divided last night." ”

Jason, Juanlu, Lucilia, and Zero and One, they stay in town.

Lucilia is the only one who can speak both languages, and Jason is also the main force in gathering intelligence.

The rest of the group naturally explored with Arka to help Shadetti survey her surroundings so that she could accurately map them.

For a normal treasure hunt, intelligence is obviously much more important than the so-called map.

But for their team, intelligence is just as important as maps.

Even the map takes precedence over intelligence.

Arka had already asked the inhabitants of the island yesterday if there was such a thing as a map.

They replied yes, but the question was what their map said, which could be described as graffiti, with only dangerous areas marked and nothing else.

They even scribbled the entire island, with very little precision.

To put it simply, only the person who draws can know how to use this thing, so to speak, it comes with encryption.

If it doesn't work for a long time, maybe he won't be able to understand it himself.

It can't be used as a map at all, which is obviously a bit strange for a small town that has lived on this island for many years.

But Arka couldn't help it, so they had to paint it themselves.

However, this rough map can also help them with which areas to draw first.

Then everyone acted together.

He followed Arka to the port at the back of the town.

Although it is at the rear, the gate of the town is separated from the port by 3 km.

Fortunately, they built a path.

Two groups of small town hunters can also be seen patrolling the road.

In addition to them, there are some fishermen from the town on the path, dragging fishing tools.

Hunting, planting, fishing.

In this way, there are many sources of food in the town, and it is clear that they don't have to worry about food.

It is true that they did not see any thin or hungry people in the town yesterday.

All the way to the port.

This port is a small port, as Shiraishi said before, although it is a small port, but there are also two large ships of about 40 meters on it, as well as many small fishing boats.

The two boats were towed ashore, apparently the town's own boats.

Arka came to the harbor and with a brief call, a ship approached from afar.

If it weren't for Arka's harmonica telling the sound of dawn, they might have to float straight up from the bottom of the sea in front of them.

Dock the Sound of Dawn at the harbor.

"Alright, I'll leave the rest to you." Arka looked at Jason and said.

"Don't worry."

After saying goodbye to the two squads.

Arka and the others walked directly towards the outside of the town, but he did not stay away directly, but around the wall of the town, to the place they had entered before.

Sure enough, they saw Shiraishi, who brought them over yesterday, and was patrolling the city wall with a team of hunters.

"It's you, what's the matter?" Shiraishi looked at the Arka and asked.

Looking at the actions of these people, it is obvious that they came early by themselves.

Hearing this, Arka smiled and said, "We don't know much about this island, and you also said that it is dangerous, so we hope to find a guide." Take us around the island first and tell us about some of the areas that we can't go to or are dangerous. ”

After saying that, Arka also added: "Of course, we will pay. ”

Hearing Alka's words, Shiraishi nodded knowingly.

He knew this very well, and 5 out of 10 strangers who came to the island had to be guided, and 4 out of the remaining 5 would be looking for a guide in the following time.

The last one died on the way.

Although it is an exaggeration, it is spread within their hunters.

After thinking about it for a while, he said, "Okay, then I'll be your guide." ”

"You?" Arka was a little surprised.

Isn't this man the captain of a patrol? And a toucher.

Does this count as desertion?

"What? Can't I? I also grew up on this island, so don't worry, I've worked as a guide a few times before. ”

Shiraishi said with a smile, dispelling Alka's concerns.

Okay, after all, the person in front of you is quite strong, and he doesn't mind what he and the others mind about.

Then he said: "Actually, it's too boring to look at the gate, if there are really wild beasts rushing to the gate, then our town can also declare it finished." ”

Arka nodded in agreement and said, "Of course, I can't ask for it." ”

Hearing Arka agree, Shiraishi smiled, and then summoned one of his team members to say a few words to him, and then directly carried his bow and arrows, and walked over with a few pots of arrows.

"Let's go, do you have any places you'd like to explore? The island is huge, and you can't expect to visit it all in one day. ”

Hearing this, Arka nodded, and then flipped his hand, and a palm-sized golden sail appeared in his hand.

"A golden sail until you show us around the island, is that enough?"

Looking at the golden sail in Alka's hand, Bai Shi took it directly with a smile and said, "Of course it's enough, I have to say, you strangers are quite generous." ”

Put it in your pocket.

"Is your ultimate goal to visit all the islands?"

Arka nodded.

Understanding Alka's purpose, Shiraishi said directly: "Three days, if you want to visit the island, it will take three days, and after the last day is completed, you need to pay another golden sail, no problem, right?" ”

"No problem."

Although it is not known the exact value of these currencies on the island, the price is acceptable to Arka.

And if Shiraishi is the guide, it will be much more suitable than Arka thinks.

After all, he is the leadership.

It can also better convey to the leadership of the entire town that Arka has no malicious intentions.

After nodding at Alka, Shiraishi took out the kind of rough map that Arka had seen yesterday from his arms.

Isn't it, do you really want to use this map?

Looking at the eyes of several people, Bai Shi was slightly embarrassed, and said, "Although this map is a little simpler than the map used by you strangers, it is enough for the people on our island. ”

He had also seen the maps used by these outsiders, and their sketchy maps could indeed be called graffiti in comparison.

But what can be done, after all, they are just a small town with a population of only a few thousand.

Looking at Shiraishi's slightly embarrassed expression, Arka nodded, not saying anything.

Then he placed the map in front of them and gestured to it, "If you want to visit the whole island in three days, you have to do what I say, otherwise it will take more time and be dangerous." ”

"Let's start here, the bay you came up in yesterday, it's safer over there."

After seeing that everyone had no objections, he led the people and began to walk in that direction.

Then he began to take Arka and the others around, and it was still a different route from yesterday.

The first place they arrived was a ruin that they had never seen before, but it was evident from the stone and patterns on it.

It must belong to the same force as the ruins they saw yesterday.

And obviously, this is also the reason why Shiraishi deliberately brought them here.

"These ruins must be of interest to you outsiders."

"If you're interested, you can take a look, it's an activated one."

The crowd looked around the ruins, but apparently they couldn't read unless Lucilia was around.

However, their main purpose this time was to draw a map, so a cursory look at it was enough.

Arka asked curiously, "Has it been activated, has it been activated?" ”

"After being activated, the vegetation on the island became more lush." As he spoke, he gestured around.

The area around the ruins is indeed more lush than in other places, and the ruins are also in a dense forest.

"It used to be very desolate."

As he spoke, he saw that everyone was not too interested, and then continued to lead everyone and began to walk around this ghost place.

According to the time of day, if they were really allowed to walk freely, the island would be visited by them in a day.

But with the current way of travel, it is clearly impossible.

And they also saw that the place around was indeed dangerous.

It didn't take long for them to take them from a different path to the same bay they had landed on.

There are still footprints of their landing on the beach, and they have not covered them up.

"According to the older generation, hundreds of years ago, this was not actually a bay, but I don't know who activated one of the ruins here and blew it all up into the sky."

Hearing this, the Arka and the others turned their heads to look at him in some surprise.

There is no sign of that in this bay.

"The ruins will explode?"

"Of course." Shiraishi nodded.

The side shows that some of these ruins are really dangerous.

After taking a look around the place, he led the group on.

As he walked, he took out a kind of dust from his bosom that he had seen yesterday and threw it on everyone's bodies.

While throwing him away, he explained: "This kind of dust can disgust some of the surrounding demonic beasts, and if you continue to move here, the number of demonic beasts will increase, and meaningless battles will be very troublesome." ”

After all, they basically didn't encounter even a single demonic beast along the way, and Shiraishi used his skillful experience to take Arka and the others around almost every demonic beast's territory.

And he doesn't know the specific strength of Arka and the others, so it's better to avoid the battle as much as possible.

After walking a few steps, Arka saw a ruin not far away, but Shiraishi did not stop.

"Aren't you going there to have a look?" Matresa asked weakly, a little curious.

Hearing this, Bai Shi, who was leading the way in front, turned his head and looked at it, and said casually: "It was a section of the city wall leaking out, and the ruins of this city wall have circled around the island, but a large part of it has been buried in the soil, nothing unusual." ”

As he walked, he said, "This island must have been a huge city in the past, and it must have been our ancestors who spoke the same language as us.

It's a pity that there is no specific record and inheritance, otherwise there would be no need to be harmed by these damn ruins.

How big is the ruins of a city-state, I believe I don't need to say that you also know, how can every exposed ruin be useful? Most of them are like this, just a pile of rotten rocks. ”

"It's just that there are strange things buried in the ruins that can be activated by some language, be careful, but not overly careful."

He was like a tour guide, leading the group to take Arka on a tour of the island.

As if to introduce the story of the scenic spots, the ruins and some dangerous areas are introduced.

While walking and chatting, he also pointed to a short distance and said: "We have to go around again, because there is a ruin in front of us that was activated a few years ago, although it was finally closed, but it also affected the surrounding area and made it very dangerous. ”

Not every ruin closed is useful.

"And the stinky boy who activated the ruins is still staying in the town with a broken leg."

Speaking of which, his tone could be heard to be a little angry.

Without waiting for Arka and the others to ask curiously, he said to himself: "After the ruins are activated, the surrounding stones seem to be alive, and they will attack when they see them alive. ”

By this time he had stopped, and the crowd followed his sight to see what he had said, the living stone.

It is like a humanoid stone giant made of countless large and small stones, with a height of 2~4 meters.

The lower body is a gravel roll, and the upper body is composed of a stone head and irregular fists.

The rubble moved aimlessly around the ruins.

I saw that the magic power in Baishi's hand gathered, forming a ball of water, which was thrown out by him vigorously.

The water balloon slid past and landed on the nearest stone man with pinpoint accuracy.

The stone man looked at the white stone that was attacking him, and moved angrily.

The speed of movement is not fast, it is roughly equivalent to a normal person's trot.

And Shiraishi just stood in place with his waist crossed.

He said in a relaxed tone: "Don't be afraid, just look at it." ”

The stone man raised his stone fist and was about to smash it at the white stone, and then he was reduced to pieces and scattered all over the ground.

At this time, Shiraishi explained: "They can only move in a circle around the ruins, and when they come out, they will be broken into pieces like they are now." ”

"And their stone heads, apparently, can't understand the difference between inside and outside."

Then they saw another pile of stones gathering around the ruins, forming a new stone giant.

"But the stone monsters around this ruin can't be killed, the number is fixed, and killing one will reunite one." Shiraishi said helplessly, and then kicked away the stones scattered in front of him.

That's why this ruin can't be solved.

Julia's voice sounded in everyone's ears: "These are all stone elements, there should be some spell creation or spell array in the ruins that has been activated, so that all the magic around here is approaching the earth element, so there will be such a thing." ”

She was keenly aware of the changes in the environment around the ruins.

Everyone nodded, but Shiraishi didn't understand what they were saying, and didn't care.

Because Julia uses the language of the white crocodile, not the lingua franca of the homeland sea.

In this way, they walked and stopped, listening to some explanations from Shiraishi from time to time.

Along the way, he also killed some prey that he couldn't see.

I walked for more than ten hours, and finally returned to the town.

"Continue tomorrow, and I'll wait for you at the gate then." Shiraishi waved at them and said with a smile.

They have communicated all the way, and they are relatively familiar.

Arka is also convinced that Shiraishi is really a chatterbox.

Very expressive.

He really talked like a tour guide all day.

But that's obviously a good thing for them.

"He said it was getting dark, how did he feel it?" Simon was a little puzzled.

Hearing this, Arka said, "The white bird has returned, which means that the night is coming." ”

There is obviously no timekeeping tool in the town, and this chaotic day and night is obviously not a problem that timekeeping tools can solve.

And the people of the town, as to whether they want to rely on a bird on the island day and night.

When a bird with white feathers but only the size of a palm arrives, it means that night will soon come.

"yes, it looks like we can observe the birds later." Simon thought for a moment and said.

He's been studying the day and night here.

Then they came to the corner of the town, where they had rented the house yesterday.

As soon as I arrived, I saw Juan Lu using his portable boiler to make dinner.

After watching the people of Arka return, he smiled and said, "I just thought that it was going to be dark soon, and you should come back." ”

Lucilia also walked out of the room.

"Where's Jason?" Arka asked, looking at it.

"He met a hunter who had traveled outside today, and went drinking." Juan Lu said.

Arka nodded.

Although it was dangerous at night, it was outside at night and the town was safe.

And they rested.

Pololo also began to tell Lucilia and Juanlu about some of the things they had been through today.

The two of them are also very curious about the specific situation of this town, especially the ruins that can be activated.

"When you're done with the map, take me out for a walk." Lucilia said.

Shadetti came to Alka's side and asked, "Do you want to draw it?" Or do you wait until you've seen the whole island? ”

Arka thought for a moment and said, "Let's draw the places I visited today, don't draw too carefully, wait for a few days to visit the island, and then draw a map of the entire island." ”

"How?" He looked at Natsuyo and asked.

After all, when Xia Daiti draws a complete map, he has a habit of perfection and makes a part of the map, I don't know if there will be this.

Xia Daiti nodded: "No problem, I'll leave it to you after eating, and draw it roughly." ”

For this kind of drawing part of the map of an island to practice her hands, she didn't demand herself too much.

As soon as he was about to start the meal, he saw Jason come back, and he could smell a faint smell of alcohol on him, but he seemed to be in good shape.

Looking at his smile, the information he received was obviously good.

After eating.

Xia Daiti had also finished the first draft of her practice and handed it to Alka.

"Take a look."

Arka took the map.

It was really shoddy, with only simple lines, but with the blinking of the eyes, the light flashed from above.

Dense white spots.

A few flashes of blue light.

and a point of light that has never been seen before.

An orange pillar of light.

So conspicuous.

(End of chapter)