"Elaine..."
It is not difficult for an extraordinary strong person to control his emotions, and he can completely keep himself in an absolutely calm state during battle.
However, at this time, Tang Yu discovered that Yi Lian's spirit beside him fluctuated violently for a moment.
"Could it be that?"
Elaine looked into the distance, as if she wanted to imprint this scene firmly in her mind. After a while, she slowly said, "Yes, this city is where I originally lived."
In the past eighteen years, she has not left the city and has not seen the scene outside the city.
But at this moment,
Looking from a distance, through the collapsed city wall, she saw the ruins in the city, the low buildings that had been buried, and the gaps in the city wall that she had seen with her own eyes.
The memory is still fresh.
"There is a discovery here, it seems to be a crystal mine."
Tang Yu looked at the short mountain where Zabol was, and immediately came to the mountain in a flash.
There are still some obvious human creations left here, and more are corpses, both human and dark creatures.
The mine is deep, and very few small source crystal blocks can be seen on the walls. The energy contained is weak, not even a single unit, and they can only be regarded as source crystal fragments for the time being.
Many of the branch caves inside have collapsed, and even if you focus your attention, you can only detect weak energy fluctuations.
There were also many dark creatures that were still alive, but Zabol waved them away.
"This may have been a small source crystal mine originally, but now, the veins have been abandoned. After violent mining, source crystals can no longer be produced here."
They dug out many collapsed caves, some of which were so old that the human corpses that had been sleeping had turned into withered bones.
"Poor, poor, poor, I have never seen such a shabby crystal mine!" Shay muttered, "Even if I dig it all, it can't compare to my income from playing cards."
Tang Yu kicked Xie Yi out of the mine. When he saw Yi Lian going deeper into the cave, he sighed and chased after her.
Elaine has always been labeled as calm, rational, and strong in his eyes.
At this moment, she acted like a real eighteen-year-old girl.
A little girl who lost her parents.
Yi Lian broke through the blocking rocks along the way, stopping from time to time next to the corpse whose face could no longer be seen clearly. Her pace became faster and faster, and her hands tightly clenched in her sleeves trembled slightly.
Tang Yu didn't speak, just followed behind him silently.
Three years ago, Elaine lost her parents. The place where they worked was probably this mine outside the city, right? It is unknown how many people were buried.
Along the way, he saw hundreds of corpses.
Some of them had only been dead for a few months, and a few of the corpses still had vaguely identifiable faces. Many more had been eaten by dark creatures, turned into bones, or were buried in unknown corners.
Once, twice, three times,
Elaine searched the entire mine, looking through all the places where there were traces of human beings.
She turned around and smiled very forcefully. In those sapphire eyes, there were unstoppable waves, like the light of a lake.
"Hug, I'm sorry, I delayed everyone's time—"
She lowered her head and her mouth was blocked before she finished speaking.
An open bottle of Qingling wine was handed to his mouth.
"What are you talking about? Between us, do we still need to apologize?"
Elaine nodded heavily, took the Qingling wine, raised her head, and drank it in one gulp.
She drank too quickly, and the wine seeped out from the corners of her mouth, dripped, and flowed down her collarbone. Her long, beautiful hair also looked a little messy.
She doesn't even care.
Suddenly, he started sobbing.
"I thought I had given up, thought I could be strong... "
"I really want to find their bones and build a monument for them..."
Tang Yu silently lent his shoulder, but his tears could only scratch the cold armor.
He thought and suddenly thought of a way.
Secretly taking out a strand of Elian's hair and using it as a medium, maybe Xingling Xingyue can divine the location of Elian's parents.
He didn't say it immediately.
Too much time has passed, there have been too many surprises, and divination may not be successful. It would be even more heartbreaking to be disappointed after having hope.
‘When Xingling Xingyue is found, then tell Elaine. ’
Elaine's depression did not last long.
When the two of them walked out of the mine, she was the cold-blooded mage again, just as before.
Shay, who was squatting at the entrance of the cave and observing the distance, immediately ran forward with a smile on his face.
Tang Yu asked directly, "Do you know anything about the situation in the city?"
"We just observed it from a distance. The city is divided into an inner city and an outer city. The outer city wall has basically been damaged. Only the inner city wall is still intact, and the humans inside are in the inner city as expected."
Tang Yu nodded, "Elaine, Luo Zhe, Xie Yi, Winnie, Nancy, Xiaoli... you come into the city with me... Xingling Xingyue, Zabol, you stay outside the city and be on guard."
As he said that, when passing by the star spirit, he handed the hair section into the star spirit's hand and gave instructions in the contract.
Then, with Yi Lian and others, they approached the dilapidated city.
…
"This is the artisan district, this is the ghetto, this is...where I used to live."
Tang Yu looked at the collapsed cabin, and then at Yi Lian. She was still calm.
Naturally, nothing could be found in the collapsed wooden house with only four walls, but Elaine still dug out the original tattered bed board from the ruins and put it into the space ring.
The city area is not small.
Although this world is similar to the layout of the Middle Ages, the pre-apocalyptic kingdom and the noble lords divided the land. But after all, they have high martial arts and rune technology. The living standards of ordinary people and low-level awakened people are mostly the same as in ancient times, but the living standards of nobles are different.
And with the power of the awakened ones alone, construction is countless times easier than in ancient times.
The area is much larger than that of Lindong, and the green shade, perhaps coupled with the undeveloped open space on the floating land, can rival it.
They walked through many places in the outer city. There were collapsed houses everywhere, but only a few sturdy ones were still standing. Many rotting corpses were crushed beneath the broken stones and broken boards and slats.
There are almost no valuable items. There are also some merchants living in the outer city, but some ruins have obvious signs of being rummaged through.
far away,
A few dark creatures wandered around. When they heard the movement, they roared and rushed towards them, and were frozen into ice sculptures.
Tang Yu looked sideways and saw a large river flowing not far outside the city. One can imagine the prosperity this mighty river brought to the city before the end of the world.
Several people walked towards the inner city.
After passing through a large area of ruins, we finally saw sporadic red lights on the distant city wall - the light of torches.
It should be daytime at this time, but under the cover of thick fog, it was still dim, just like before the rainstorm.
Only slightly better than night,
Tang Yu and others did not hide their figures until the distance was less than 200 meters, and the sergeant guarding the city finally shouted:
"Who is it? Stop!"