Duke's expression was very ugly. He put back the wooden boards at the entrance, and then pretended to be almost the same as before. Then he walked back to the tower as if nothing had happened, and asked his team members to wake up the stunned guardians. ≥,
The green hat Locke took the opportunity to ask secretly: "What happened to the captain, your expression is very strange."
There must be something wrong, there are only three people in the mercenary group who know the entrance, and now that someone has slipped in without a sound, he has to suspect that there is an insider in the mercenary group. But the problem is that it is impossible for the leader to tell others the news. After all, the entire mercenary group is his private property, and it is impossible for him to share his property with outsiders.
The other is the intellectual in the mercenary group, the senior mage Upur. He is also impossible. He is the son of the head of the mercenary group. As the legal heir of the mercenary group, it is impossible for him to tell outsiders about this entrance. Then get rid of the two most unlikely people who betrayed the secret, then the person who is most likely to be the ghost is himself.
Thinking of this, Duke's expression became even uglier. He had even begun to wonder if he had been 'framed' by the leader's family. Deliberately tell outsiders the secret of the entrance, and then push the matter onto him so that he can take the opportunity to kill him. Duke thought about what he had done in the past few years. It is true that he secretly embezzled a lot of property of the mercenary group, nearly a hundred gold coins. Things, get rid of him, then he must be prepared in advance, as long as something goes wrong, he will immediately take the opportunity to escape.
When he was thinking this way, a lavender magic signal rose from Pine Wind City, because the sun had completely set at this time, and the signal was extremely conspicuous in the sky.
Not long after, the sound of horseshoes sounded outside the woods, and soon seven people appeared in front of the tower. The leader was a middle-aged man with a beard. Wearing the common standard chain armor, he has a burly body, a long face, and a vicissitudes of life. At first glance, he is a dignified and courageous leader.
by his side. He was a fair-skinned young man, wearing an earth-brown magic robe, with a handsome appearance and a sunny smile. He looked like a very gentle and polite young man. In fact, this is also the case. Although he is the heir of the mercenary group, he has never acted superior to others because of this. No matter who he sees, he always smiles three points first, so that people can see him at first sight. I feel that this person is quite comfortable.
Seven people jumped off their horses, and the white bear mercenary leader walked up to Duke and asked, "What happened?"
Duke told the whole story, and then went on to say: "I have re-disguised the entrance, and my team members don't know that there is an entrance to the ruins hidden behind the tower. Now I am just thinking, except us Three people, who else knows the direction of this entrance."
The mercenary captain's eyes moved up and down Duke's body like spikes. He asked suspiciously, "Duke, you seem nervous?"
Every muscle on Duke's body tensed even tighter: "Hehe, Commander. Are you kidding me?"
The head of the mercenary team showed a little smile and said: "Don't be nervous, I didn't doubt you. Some people know this secret entrance, it may not be us who leaked it, but they may have deduced it from our usual actions. Are you The old man in our mercenary group, how could I doubt you."
Duke breathed a sigh of relief. He said gratefully: "Thank you for the trust of the leader, I will take you to the entrance to have a look now."
After finishing speaking, Duke turned around and walked towards the entrance of the ruins, but before taking two steps, his body suddenly stopped. Then he lowered his head in disbelief, looking at the blood-stained sword tip on his chest, the vision in front of him gradually turned white, then turned black, and then he couldn't understand anything.
With a wave of his hand, the mercenary leader lifted Duke's body aside with his long sword, and said coldly: "Only the three of us know the secret of the entrance, since my son and I can't, then who else but you! "
The handsome Upple came over, looked at Duke's body, and said with a painful face: "Father, I don't think it's the news about Duke's disclosure. There are no eternal secrets in this world, and even the private affairs of God will be passed on to the public." In the human world, not to mention that our White Bear Mercenary Group has occupied Beichen Forest for so long, it is not surprising that some smart people found the secret entrance."
"Son, you have been studying magic in the yellow magic tower. The people there are noble and proud, they worship powerful power, and think that with power, all the conspiracies and tricks in the world are meaningless, and it is normal to disdain the small tricks of the world. But Your current strength has not yet reached the point where you can despise everything. I will teach you a truth now. In order to eradicate unnecessary troubles, you must kill all suspicious people, no matter if he is an innocent person or a real suspect. .”
Upple closed his eyes with a heavy expression: "Father, this truth is too cruel, I can't do it."
The head of the mercenary looked at his son's expression, both relieved and helpless.
At this time, the team members finally found out that Duke was dead. They were very surprised and looked at everything in front of them with some disbelief. The mercenary leader walked over and said: "Duke colluded with outsiders and leaked the biggest secret of our mercenary group. I have already killed him. Now we are going to hunt down those foreigners who broke into our territory. If you If you want, just close your eyes and follow us, if you don’t want to, just die here.”
Locke and several team members glanced at each other and made brief eye contact, and then they closed their eyes at the same time.
The mercenary captain waved his hand, and a few regiment members behind him walked over and covered the Duke team members' eyes with rags, and then they also blindfolded themselves.
Upple took another look at Duke's corpse, and then heaved a long sigh. He cast a spiritual spell on the blindfolded people. Blowing across their faces, they flew for a long, long time before landing on the ground.
But in fact, they didn't move at all in place. Finally, Upple ended the magic, let them walk to the entrance of the ruins hand in hand, and ordered them to jump in one by one.
After everyone entered the underground passage, Upple covered the entrance and walked through the underground passage. After completely entering the ruins, the mercenary leader asked these people to remove the black cloth that blindfolded their eyes.
Then they were stunned by the sight in front of them.
The mercenary leader didn't let them have much time to be surprised. He continued with the cuckold and said, "Locke, follow their footprints and find them. We will follow you."
"No problem!" As expected of a professional scout, Locke squatted on the ground. He picked up the dirt on the ground with his hands, tasted it, and said: "Head, they have been away for more than an hour, and one of them is a spellcaster. I can feel the magic elements cheering."
Liang Lidong did use magic, but it was a magic scroll, a small-scale lightness technique. Can increase the subject's movement speed and slightly reduce weight. It can save a lot of physical energy when people travel for a long time.
This ruin is exactly the same as in the game three hundred years ago, nothing has changed, time seems to have frozen here. Everyone is a person with relatively sensitive skills, and they have the effect of light spirit, so they move very fast.
Liang Lidong led the crowd to walk in this huge ruins, turning left and right without a moment's hesitation. They avoided many gathering points of Warcraft. It has been nearly two hours since they entered the ruins, and they haven't experienced a single battle yet.
Katerina followed behind Liang Lidong. Asked in a low voice: "Your Excellency is very familiar with this place, have you been here before?"
"I've been here, it was when I was a mercenary." Liang Lidong replied casually: "My friends and I have spent a lot of effort in order to find out the terrain here and the distribution of monsters. A week. So to speak. The topographic map of this place has been recorded in my head."
Back then in the game, in order to go to the center of the ruins and get water from the bright well, Liang Lidong and his friends. Died an average of three times in this ruin, and finally got the Bright Well Water. In fact, the reason why this task is so difficult is because they didn't know the distribution of monsters at that time, and they walked into the territory of those difficult monsters several times, and then they were crushed by extremely powerful monsters, or they were crushed by extremely large numbers of small monsters. Warcraft chased and ran around.
This time Liang Lidong came with two missions, one was to obtain some rare alchemy material, and the other was to retrieve the bright well water for Tina.
The alchemy material used to make 'Tifa's Bracelet' is called 'Luminous Mushroom', which grows in the dark, but there are places where a large number of bright elements gather. There are very few environments that can meet these two conditions, and one of them is the ruins of the Zuze Kingdom with the 'bright well water'.
Liang Lidong led the crowd to rush left and right. In the silent underground ruins, except for the occasional roar of a monster from a distance, the rest was the sound of their footsteps stepping on the ground.
This kind of sound is transmitted in all directions, and then it is transmitted back in the form of echo. After listening carefully for a long time, you will feel that there are people walking towards you in all directions around you. This is an auditory illusion, which is easy in a quiet place. Will appear, especially shabby people.
After walking for a while, Katerina couldn't take it anymore. In fact, not only her, but several of her subordinates also had constipated expressions on their faces.
"How far is it from the first goal?" Katerina asked.
"It's here!" Liang Lidong stopped suddenly.
In front of them is a grand temple, which is a pyramid-shaped altar made entirely of dark blue boulders. This pyramid-shaped altar was about 200 meters high, and in front of them was a half-closed gate. Looking from the other half of the gate, the inside is pitch-black, as scary as the throat of an evil spirit.
"After entering from here, there will be a staircase leading to the altar. There are always thirty-seven floors. The alchemy materials I need will grow before the seventeenth to twenty-story. It’s enough for me. The second mission goal is on the top of the altar, which is a spring, very precious spring water, I need it.”
"Then what are you waiting for, let's go up now, I don't want to stay in this ghostly place for a moment!" One of the assassins said impatiently.
Katerina gave her subordinate a hard look, and then she asked, "There will be danger inside, right?"
"Yes!" Liang Lidong pointed to the top of the altar, and said, "There is a kind of worm living in it. It looks similar to the white cabbage worm we usually see, but the worms here are very big, and the worms at the bottom are about 100 meters long. Half a meter, the closer to the top floor, the bigger the worms, I remember the worms on the top floor should be four meters in length, they are monsters, they know some attack magic power of the light department, the power is not small, what's more disgusting is that they are used to the dark The world, so hearing and vibration perception are very powerful, and it is almost impossible for us to walk through it by stealth."
"That is to say, we can only force our way in?" Katerina asked.
Liang Lidong nodded: "Yes, this is why I hired you. If you are fighting in the dark, no professional is your opponent."
Katerina smiled: "You have a good plan. We are really good at fighting in the dark. What about you, you are a spellcaster, so why not use magic like light?"
"These bugs are all light monsters. Although they live in the dark, they yearn for the light. If they see a bright light source, they will revel, or even go berserk, rushing towards the light source regardless of everything. , we will be very passive instead.”
"For battle, we need formation configuration." Katerina looked at Liang Lidong: "Do you have any good suggestions?"
Liang Lidong said: "You are professionals, I will listen to you."
Katerina nodded in satisfaction. It is a pleasure to cooperate with experienced people. At least they will not act in a hurry or point fingers at random. She looked at her subordinates, and then said: "Old rules, one-two-three formation, Mr. Beta, you follow behind us."
Liang Lidong nodded.
The so-called one-two-three formation is actually a sharp arrow formation. After several people took their positions, seven people walked into the entrance of the altar. It was pitch black inside. It took a long time for everyone's eyes to get used to the almost complete darkness. world. Not far away, they saw a bug with a faint fluorescent light crawling before them.
Generally speaking, a light-type magical beast emits a white fluorescent light, which is a sign that the light-type magical elements in its body are in the majority.
Everyone didn't move anymore, and even their breathing slowed down. The bug should have crawled over a dozen meters in front of them, but for some reason, it stopped suddenly, facing the place where Liang Lidong and the others were. position, erected half of his body, and swayed slightly from side to side, as if he was looking for something. (… )