Pillars of Ita

Fang Plover suddenly turned his head and looked into the hall.There are people coming and going in the direction of the hall, most of them are the chosen ones in adventure costumes, wearing long cloaks to cover the armor and magic battle equipment underneath.However, what Fang Yan paid attention to was not his peers, but just now when he felt a gaze fall on himself.

But his gaze passed through the crowd, and the sense of staring suddenly disappeared.The little girl at the receptionist of the Adventurer's Guild behind her was still chattering about the abandoned mining area of ​​Nozpitz and the Adventurer's Guild itself.But Fang Plover, who had a feeling in his heart, couldn't listen anymore, turned around and nodded to the other party, then turned and left.

"Weird guy..." The little girl murmured strangely as she watched Fang Plover leave in a hurry.

Walking out of the hall, Luo Hao, Papalal and Luo Yu who were guarding outside greeted him. "How is it?" Luo Hao was a little bored waiting, straightened up from the pillar by the gate, and asked while stretching.Luo Yu also looked in this direction.

Fang Yan frowned and shook his head at the two of them, winking, signaling them to leave here first.

Nozpitz is a city that prospered because of the mining industry. It was already quite prosperous a century or two ago, but with the closure of the mining area, the city is now in decline everywhere.Leaving the central area is even more desolate and lonely. The streets are empty, and there are almost no pedestrians.

Surrounded by dilapidated buildings, there are no lights in the dark windows, and the red brick walls are covered with vegetation.Most of those tall buildings were factory buildings that were closely related to the mining area in the prosperous era, but they were vacant early this morning, and the iron gates were half open, with no one guarding them.

The four of them didn't say a word, there was only the rustling sound under their feet, and the quiet environment made the Pappalals feel a little creepy, they caught up two steps and asked sharply: "So what's going on, someone is following you us?"

Only then did Fang Zhi stop, looked back, and waved his hand, a few beams of golden light flew from the clear sky, flapping its wings and gently landed on his hand. "When did you let it out?" Parker stared at this scene with wide eyes and couldn't help asking.

"Just when you have nothing to do and can't stop looking behind." Fang Yan replied angrily.

Pappalal was so thick-skinned that he only took this as a compliment and hummed twice.

Fang Yan had nothing to do with him, so he could only reply to Luo Hao: "There are people following us, not just one."

"who is it?"

"There should be three teams, but they are in one gang."

"The local guild or?"

"Mostly local guilds."

Fang Yan felt a little strange that he didn't find the owner of the gaze from the Adventurer's Guild just now among these people.That gaze seemed to appear only for a moment, then disappeared into the crowd and never appeared again.

It's just that the feeling was too mysterious, and he didn't know how to tell others about it.

Luo Hao reacted: "These people probably followed us all the way from the airport. When did they notice us?"

"I'm afraid it's earlier than we thought." Fang Yan remembered the attitude of the little girl from the Adventurer's Guild towards him.

The Seven Seas Brigade is no longer a fringe role with no name and no attention. I am afraid that since the Seven Seas Traveler entered Hong Kong, it has already attracted the attention of interested people.

Luo Hao asked, "Will the other party have something to do with the people who died in the guild?"

"The Guild of Death is still in charge of us now?" The Paparars sneered at this speculation.

Indeed, the elite group of the Deathfall Guild is still confined to Ayn ​​Brock and is subject to investigation.As for the Stag Principality, the other side probably wouldn't be able to spare more people to make trouble for the empire, and they didn't have the guts either.

Fang Yan shook his head: "I asked Alisa to check, and there is no Chosen faction in Nozpitz."

Luo Hao was a little surprised, "I thought the power of the Chosen Ones was pervasive."

"It's true that Nozpitz is a bit shabby, but the abandoned mining area is a paradise for adventurers," Fang Plover said, "Miss Alyssa also thinks that there is no power of the Chosen here because there are other secrets hidden underground."

"You mean the Imperials?"

Fang Plover nodded.

When he was at the Adventurer's Guild, he found out that someone was there first, and he took him away before they did.He guessed that even if it wasn't the person behind the Imperial Workshop, it should be inseparable from it.

Although the little girl from the Adventurer's Guild told him that the person who took away the craftsman was the Chosen One, but that didn't mean much. The Chosen Ones could also cooperate with the aborigines, or even be employed by them.It's like the relationship between the death guild and the Hawke family.

Those who are following them now also point to this point, either explicitly or implicitly.No matter how interested the local recruiters are in the Seven Seas Brigade, there is no need to contact them in such an unfriendly way. The attitude shown by the other party is more like a kind of surveillance.

Who will monitor the Seven Seas Brigade?

It was obviously only their first time in Nozpitz.

The only conclusion that can be justified is the stakeholders, and the only stakeholder of the Seven Seas Brigade in this abandoned mining area is the tower-type magic furnace.

"But why did the imperial people make such trouble?" Luo Hao asked rhetorically, "If they really don't intend to let other people intervene, they just need to block this mining area and it's over. The Imperial Workshop more or less represents the official The power, it's not that they don't have this ability."

"I'm also a little confused," Fang Plover frowned, "Do you know the element of earth?"

"Earth element?"

Luo Hao realized, "You mean the elemental creatures that live underground?"

Fang Plover nodded, "Under what circumstances do you think earth elemental creatures will come to the shallow surface to move around?"

"Elemental creatures are creatures that are compatible with elemental forces, and generally they will not leave areas where elements are active," Luo Yu thought for a while, and replied, "Unless there is a huge change in their original habitat, they will not be forced to Leave the ground and come to the shallow surface. However, elemental creatures that lose their habitat will generally become irritable and aggressive."

"That's right," Fang Yan glanced at the latter appreciatively, "This is exactly what I heard."

"Wait," Luo Hao had a bad feeling, "Don't tell me, there are still a large number of invading earth elements under the abandoned mining area, right?"

"almost."

"What does almost mean?"

"It almost means that although it is not in the middle, it is not far away," Fang Yan replied, "People from the Royal Geological Society of the Empire discovered that the groundwater below the mining area was exhausted, which led to the settlement of the mine tunnel. During the joint restoration process with the Craftsman Association, there were some A large amount of earth elements surged up from below, causing the mining area to be paralyzed to this day."

Luo Hao hesitated: "Do you think...?"

"On the surface, it looks like a series of accidents," Fang said.He already felt that he had vaguely grasped something, "But in fact, it is not that simple. If there was an aquifer under the mining area, how could the earth element live in that place? The place where the earth element lives is rich in elemental power, and the geological structure It is stable, and it is impossible for things like mine settlement to occur, unless..."

"Unless there are people digging there," Luo Hao's eyes lit up, "these people destroyed the earth elemental layer, which naturally caused the mine tunnel to sink, and the earth elementals that lost their homes also swept the entire upper layer of the mining area furiously. So the imperial people What are you doing, there are no valuable mineral deposits under the earth elemental layer."

Fang Plover shook his head lightly.

If he could, he would like to find out what the Imperials were doing.The Oshu people found a tower-type magic furnace from the abandoned mining area of ​​Nozpitz. At first, they thought it was just a coincidence, but now it seems that the amount of the other party's underground work seems to be much larger than imagined?

Could it be that the entire Nozpitz underground mine was turned upside down just to find out the origin of the magic furnace, but that didn't need to go deep into the elemental layer.

"Then what should we do?" Luo Hao asked, "It seems that the situation below the mining area is somewhat beyond our expectations."

If it was something else, maybe they had already left.

But Fang Yan told them the significance of the magic furnace.

They have seen all the star devices in the sunken ship, but the research results are still far from being used by the Seven Seas Brigade.But the zero-type magic furnace can immediately improve the utilization efficiency of the magic furnace of everyone in the Seven Seas Brigade.

The Type Zero Magic Furnace is the only design that can completely match the Type Zero crystal. If you don’t know that its blueprint still exists in the world, it’s fine. It’s a big deal for Fang Plover to spend some time and complete it bit by bit.But the original design is likely to be underground in the abandoned mine of Nozpitz, and it's hard to say that they just walked away without in-depth investigation.

Fang Yan cast his gaze behind him.

There are a few sneaky figures in the alley, but those people obviously haven't noticed that they have been exposed.

"Anyway, shake off the tail first."

This is a good proposal, neither Luo Hao nor Luo Yu objected, but the real person in charge of the actual operation is the Paparael.This self-proclaimed King of Nightingales is not good in other aspects, but the level of confusing people is second to none.

There was a clockwork goblin watching from the sky, and it was difficult for the three groups of people on the other side to give full play to their superiority. After walking a few times in the winding alleys, they wiped out the followers behind them.The group of four returned to the airport to meet up with the others.

In the past, most of the adventures of the Seven Seas Brigade were improvised, or just happened to travel somewhere, and it was often impossible to make preparations.

But now that we know that we need to go deep into the underground of the abandoned mining area, and there are countless violent earth elements below, of course everyone needs to discuss it in advance.Get ready, divide your troops into several groups, and go to inquire about the situation underground in the mining area, and most importantly—whether there is a dead zone below.

However, most of the information that came back was not bad.Although there are many weird things underground in this mining area, it seems that the imperials did not block the mining area. Many summoners from the Adventurer's Guild completed tasks and went deep into the mining area to perform clearing and rescue tasks, and brought back many useful things. information.

Some people even sell map information such as which areas have a lot of earth elements and which areas have more aggressive earth elements.Ms. Nightingale and Ms. Ship Officer, who were in charge of intelligence collection, didn't save money, so they bought a lot of them.

From the intelligence point of view, there should be no dead area underground in the mining area. According to the news sent back from the Resurrection Temple, there has been no missing information registration in the mining area for more than half a year.Often what the Chosen fear most is not death, but disappearance.

Death is nothing but the loss of starlight, and disappearance may mean that there is an unknown dead zone in the underground area.

But even after collecting all kinds of information, they still found a local guide from the local adventurer's guild.The guide did not take them deep into the mine, but found another way for them to the abandoned mine.

That guide is actually a 'Grey Dagger' man.

'Grey Dagger' is a nicer name, but it's actually a branch of the local Thieves Brotherhood in Nozpitz. Before the Big Cat Man and Miss Attila left, they were very good at dealing with characters in these gray areas .But now, this task fell on Miss Nightingale.

Fortunately, she was also a Nightingale herself, and she was regarded as a 'person' of the Brotherhood of Thieves.

The 'Grey Dagger' told them that there is more than one entrance to the abandoned mining area, and many organizations and local forces have their own methods of entering the mining area. The one he told them is just one that some smugglers often use.

Nozpitz is close to the border area of ​​the empire. With this intricate mining area, smuggling activities have never stopped, and 'Grey Dagger' itself is one of the best.As for taking adventurers to sneak into the mining area, that's just to make some extra money.

"Did the adventurers enter the mining area in this way?"

Luo Wei asked.

The stolen mine tunnel was narrow and low, and the man with the gray dagger was walking in front holding the oil lamp. At intervals, he could see that it had been reinforced with wooden stakes. The lamp flickered and stretched forward in the endless darkness.

After hearing her question, the person from Gray Dagger looked back at the others, and replied, "Of course not. If you take the quest from the Adventurer's Guild through a formal way, you just need to enter the mining area normally. But don't you guys?" Similarly, if you want to go to the depths of the mining area to make a fortune, of course you can’t go through formal channels—”

"why?"

"Because those places are guarded by the Imperial Army, and you don't have the rules of the Adventurer's Guild, they won't let you go deep."

"And what about you, have you ever gone deep into the mines?"

"Us?" The man with the gray dagger shook his head. "We usually don't go deep. We have our own way, so there's no need to take risks down there. I'll send you to the mining area later, and I have to leave."

Luo Wei nodded curiously.

Fang Yan looked at her, in fact, not only senior sister Luo Wei, Xiaoyao and Shui Wuming were also in this team, as well as Liu Liyue hanging far behind.The delegation originally said that they would give all contestants a week off, so Shui Wuming took Luo Wei to join their team.

That Elite lady craftsman said that there is no other place to go——

But Fang Yan could roughly understand that the other party was probably sent by Virus, and he didn't know what kind of medicine the Ice Mountain Goddess had taken wrongly. Why did he seem to believe that he could get a layer of wool from the Seven Seas Brigade.

Never give up.

As for Luo Wei, it was naturally sent by Ms. Ming.The purpose is to monitor him, so that he will not forget the time of the training camp - these are the original words of Ms. Ming.

Fortunately, Senior Sister Luo Wei is friendly and never appears aggressive in the team. As the main craftsman of the Godslayer, she rarely has the opportunity to take risks outside, and she is a bit novel about everything—especially in this cave. Be a mouse.

As for Xiaoyao's side, it's purely a personal interest. He is a master who can't be idle. He heard that Fang Plive and his party were going to Nozpitz, so he volunteered to join the team.Only Liuliyue's joining was an accident. After the game, he theoretically wanted to return with the Colin-Ishurian delegation, but he didn't expect such a thing as Ayin Brock to happen in the middle.

As a result, the Continental League was delayed for more than a month, which caused him to stay in Xinta'an and had nowhere to go, so he had to act together with the members of the Seven Seas Brigade.

Fortunately, he and Fang Yan are old partners, and most people in the Seven Seas Brigade also know this guy.

But this guy is still out of the crowd as always, hanging far away by himself, looking leisurely and leisurely, not worried about any danger lurking in the darkness.

The man with the gray dagger quickly led them to their destination, and jumped out of the pit in front.Outside the tunnel is a more open cave, which doesn't look like a mine tunnel, but more like a group of naturally formed caves.

The gray dagger didn't seem to intend to go any further. He hung the lantern on a stalactite before introducing this place to them.The karst cave here is connected to the mining area, and its approximate location is to the west of the mining area. In the early years, there was a collapse accident in this area, which led to the independence of the karst cave area.

Later, the Gray Dagger opened up this place again for the purpose of smuggling, but the specific route was only in the hands of the Brotherhood. He handed over the map to Fang Plover and the others, telling them which places might be dangerous, which places Don't step on loose rock formations easily.

Fang Plover wrote down one by one.

There are still two places on the map where you can find a dead elevator, and the Brotherhood has repaired one of them, from which you can go to the deeper mining area, and that is their destination.

After explaining this, the Gray Dagger didn't stay any longer, he wished them good luck, collected the final payment, and returned the same way.However, the other party was still conscientious, and actually left the lantern to them. Although everyone in Fangyan wore luminous crystals, Liu Liyue at the back didn't mind at all. He took the lead and walked ahead with a lantern.

"This guy..." Luo Hao couldn't stand this careless guy, and was about to say something.But Fang Yan hurriedly pulled this guy back, what a joke, he wanted to trouble Little Princess Liuli if he couldn't get along with him.

"what?"

"It's nothing, don't mess with him if you have nothing to do."

"he is great?"

Fang Plover nodded, a strong mouth is also a strong category.

What's more, Liu Liyue is not really reckless, Fang Ploy has already noticed that the other party has released a clockwork fairy when he was in the tunnel - as for you asking him how he noticed, because Fang Ploy himself also released a batch of clockwork fairies. Loitering ahead.

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