After the initial shock, when Zhao Xu intervened to explain, everyone realized that they had been connected together by Zhao Xu's magic.
It's not a fourth- or fifth-level "spiritual link", but just a second-level "ally conversation technique."
It is the group version of the zero-level spell "Messaging", and it can also prevent the contents from being interpreted by moving the lips.
For a time, after Zhao Xu's spell encryption method, the entire Watcher Guild began to discuss excitedly, and everyone pointed to their own goals and spoke.
Finally, Shuang Jian rearranged his discipline, and it wasn't so chaotic for a while.
And considering that there may be a strong enemy on the side, it is even more impossible for them to escape when they reach this point.
Therefore, Shuangjian continued to arrange his men according to the previous deduction, but compared with before, he specifically emphasized the personnel stationed on the lake.
Slowly, when the union executives continued to speak later, the arrangement meeting turned into an exchange meeting.
In the end, everyone finished talking when Zhao Xu's spell duration was almost exhausted for 70 minutes.
According to the initial arrangement, their group consisted of the warrior Shuangjian, the barbarian Judun, the ranger Qiu Xue, the rogue Tie Zhi, the poet Ke Lu, the priest Qingkong, the mage Chen Nuo, and Zhao Xu, a total of eight people. The first batch launched into the water.
After Zhao Xu took the scroll of "Underwater Breathing" with a level 5 caster level handed over by Frost Sword, he directly spread out the parchment, which was almost 30 centimeters long, glanced at the arcane text on it, and guided him to cast the spell. Come.
Gradually, a ball of blue light began to appear in Zhao Xu's palm, like a clear spring floating in the air.
Then he walked up to each person who was about to enter the water, gently touched each other, and transferred the energy of the light group to them.
The original duration of "water breathing" was 2 hours per level for a total of 10 hours. On average, everyone got a full 1 hour and 15 minutes of breathing time.
After completing this, everyone took an alchemy lighting rod worth 2 gold coins in turn, then tied a stone and jumped into the water.
It was impossible to light oil lamps or anything at the bottom of the lake, so Frost Sword prepared a large number of lighting staffs from the beginning.
The surface of Jingyue Lake was very clear, but after sinking for a certain distance, Zhao Xu's vision and senses were greatly suppressed.
At the same time, the water pressure also squeezed his body, which made him slightly uncomfortable, especially after deep diving.
According to what was recorded in the notebook, the mage tower directly hit the mud at the bottom of the lake. In other words, they and their group had to explore the bottom first to have any chance of finding the mage tower.
So in the first wave, everyone spread out, in groups of two, and started looking for the entrance to the mage tower at the bottom of the lake according to their own abilities.
It's just that Jingyue Lake itself is extremely wide. Its area alone is equivalent to two or three football fields combined.
However, when Zhao Xu reached the bottom of the lake, he found that most of the bottom structure of Jingyue Lake was essentially hard rock, with a layer of silt accumulated over time.
If the mage tower had been smashed down by force, it would probably have smashed open the rocks at the bottom of the lake, which should have been exposed very abruptly. However, he didn't see anything, some raised gray things, Zhao Xu tapped it with the scepter in his hand. It was basically the sediment at the bottom of the lake, not the top of the mage tower.
Until an hour later, everyone followed the original agreement and floated back to the water automatically when the time was almost up.
When Zhao Xu and his soul-capturing demon followers finally showed up, they all looked at each other in confusion with the other seven people.
Everyone shook their heads and said that they did not find anything suspicious of the Mage Tower.
After hearing this, President Shuangjian's face became a little gloomy.
Finding the ruins of the mage tower was indeed a problem for him. No one dared to ensure that no one would raise the mage tower within a hundred years.
But after seeing such detailed records in the notebook, Shuang Jian was basically certain that the mage tower still existed and had not been excavated.
"What should I do?" The poet Ke Lu was also a little frustrated.
Originally according to Frost Sword's plan, the next time they used "Water Breathing" for the second time, their entire team entered the tower neatly.
Who would have thought this would be the case.
"Mr. Kuangfeng, what do you think?" Shuangjian was a little confused at this time and quickly asked Zhao Xu for advice.
Zhao Xu didn't expect the ball to actually be kicked at his feet, but his thinking was very clear, "Go on, try to expand the scale. If it doesn't work, just wait until tomorrow and try again."
Seeing Zhao Xu's serious look, Shuang Jian also nodded heavily.
Next, Zhao Xu did not go down again, but used his own spell slots to cast the "Water Breathing Method" twice in a row.
This time he divided the time evenly among 20 people, giving each person just over an hour of breathing time.
But when everyone emerged one after another an hour later, they all shook their heads and said that they had gained nothing.
For a moment, the members of the entire union looked at each other, and there was no time to wipe away the water dripping from their bodies.
It was as if God had played a huge joke on them.
At this time, Shuangjian finally panicked. He took out the remaining three "Water Breathing" scrolls and gave them to Zhao Xu, and withdrew all the shares that their core team had used to enter the tower.
"Mr. Guangfeng, please cast a spell to let everyone go down." Shuang Jian gasped at this time, and even his neck had bulging veins.
"30 people?" Zhao Xu frowned as he looked at the three "Water Breathing" scrolls worth 350 gold coins each.
Originally, he just suggested trying one more time, but even after 30 people searched for an hour, they couldn't find it, which already showed that this method was not very reliable.
He already felt that he would get nothing if he went on, but looking at it this way, Shuang Jian was not reconciled at all. Even if he spent another thousand gold coins in supplies, he would check again.
Zhao Xu, as the party accepting the entrustment at this time, would naturally not be pretentious and persuade the other party to give up.
Shuang Jian agreed, but the group of players behind him who also had red eyes did not agree.
After Zhao Xu took the scroll and cast the "Water Breathing" spell three times in a row, this time a total of 30 people from the Watcher Guild were allocated a share. Everyone lined up around the entire Mirror Moon Lake, jumped down one by one and sank to the bottom of the lake, and then at the same time. Set off towards the center of the lake.
The Frost Sword also sank to the bottom of the water, while Zhao Xu continued to sit by the lake.
At this time, the night breeze was slightly cool, and the three moons in the sky had slowly risen. The soft moonlight also poured on the lake, creating a hazy and unreal feeling.
This time, the Frost Sword broke the cauldron, and Zhao Xu also asked his soul-prisoning demon followers to follow the other party to supplement the effect of True Knowledge at any time.
However, less than 50 minutes had just passed, and when there was still time left, Zhao Xu saw players who usually did not participate pour out of the lake.
"It's all gone." Shuang Jian's whole body was already soaked to the skin. He let the lake water drip onto his hair and hair, and he no longer had any strength to wipe himself clean.
"How could it be? Why is this happening?" The wanderer Tuo Zhi on the side kept mumbling to himself, as if he couldn't believe the difference.
His sister had just gone down with him and was looking at her brother nervously.
She knew that for the ruins of the Mage Tower, their entire union's wealth was basically wiped out.
"Perhaps in the beginning, this mage tower itself was just a mirror, a flower in the water, a moon in the water." Shuang Jian said lonelyly.
After six full steps of "water breathing" and no less than 60 hours of searching the bottom of the lake, the mage tower under the lake bottom could not be found.
Either they are beyond the reach of their current human power, or they simply don't exist.
And even if it exists, there are mysterious forces nearby that are paying close attention and are ready to intervene at any time. This adventure has been cast in a shadow from the very beginning.
He just rashly asked everyone to go back home, but he was really unwilling to do so.
"President, please forget about it."
"But we have allocated too many resources this time. If we go back empty-handed, I am afraid that the union will not be able to continue functioning."
"That's better than wasting time here."
The president, Shuangjian, sighed, walked directly to Zhao Xu, and said helplessly: "Sorry, Master Guangfeng, we may have to hold a meeting first."
After Zhao Xu nodded, he consciously walked to the lake far away from the large army, staring sadly at the night of Xifeng Valley, which had become extremely quiet in front of him.
Under the faint moonlight, only the outline of the day can be barely seen, but it is also more mysterious.
Suddenly, Zhao Xu noticed green phosphorescence coming from the frost sword. Although it was far away, Zhao Xu could barely recognize it as the big word "fierce".
His heart suddenly tightened, and he understood that it was the effect of the priest's second-level magic "Divination".
I'm afraid the other party's priest is holding a second-level "divination" scroll to cast a spell. Divination can only judge the future within half an hour, so spells can only be cast at such a close moment.
Don't think too much, the other party must be asking whether the search will be useful in finding the mage tower.
The answer given by the gods and even the servants of the gods is also very direct, which is "fierce" that will bring bad results.
Not even the neutral "flat".
Zhao Xu felt very calm inside. I'm afraid he was the only one among everyone present who had gained something. As long as he could get the notebook next.
As for how to get this notebook from Shuangjian, one has to think carefully.
As for the Mage Tower, the target of this trip, no matter what mission he participates in, he will definitely get what he wanted in the first place.
Finally, Shuang Jian, who had finished the meeting, led the union members over.
To his surprise, Shuang Jian immediately told Zhao Xu the result of his divination, and also told Zhao Xu their idea of giving up.
"Mr. Guangfeng, what we want to do now is to stop the loss, so I want to ask you if you are willing to buy the ruins information of this mage tower."
As he said that, Shuangjian handed the "lead box" containing the notebook to Zhao Xu.
Zhao Xu also discovered for the first time that he actually encountered the dilemma of buying a casket and returning a pearl.
All he really wanted was the notebook.
However, Shuangjian and others did not hide the divination results from him at all, and the information about the mage tower also attracted the attention of outsiders, so Shuangjian and others did not have high expectations.
And if Zhao Xu pays the gold coins, then Shuangjian and the others will quit. It can be said that this is one of their best ways to stop the bleeding.
After all, they just didn't find the mage tower.
"Promise them." Suddenly, Antinoya's voice sounded from Zhao Xu's ears.
(End of chapter)