People in Teyvat, starting from saving the grass god

Chapter 224 Black Snake Knight

It is not a safe thing to cause damage in underground caves.

Especially someone like Rhodes, who directly demolished all the caves on the upper level of the black fog area.

If it is changed to underground with a worse geological environment.

Such a smash would definitely cause a chain reaction, destroying the entire cave.

But that is relative to ordinary underground caves.

The same cannot be said for the Chasm.

In the Legend of Liyue.

A star once fell in the wasteland west of Liyue. As the star fell to the ground, the wasteland facing the impact turned into a vast and deep abyss, from which beautiful jade, gold and stones grew inexhaustible, thus creating Liyue's mining industry for the next thousand years.

Thanks to this star.

The rock texture of the Layered Rock Abyss had transformed into something extremely hard and solid. Even though Rhode's violent demolition had almost destroyed everything here, the surrounding rock walls only shook for a while, without even a trace of cracks that could cause a landslide.

After killing all the four abyss apostles who were entrenched here.

Rhodes moved his wrist and began to dig up the rocks that buried the black fog area again, releasing the abyss power that had been temporarily suppressed.

With the suppression of these rubbles, he didn't have to worry about falling into a situation where he would need to withstand excessive power from the abyss like before.

Just gradually devour the abyss power here.

just.

Perhaps the noise from smashing the black fog area just now was too loud.

Rhodes had just dug up a small area of ​​stone when he heard footsteps coming from not far away.

many people.

At the same time, he did not intend to cover up the sound of his footsteps, and just approached Rhodes quickly and openly.

Another abyss monster?

With such doubts in mind, Rhodes looked in the direction where the footsteps came from.

However, the next scene made him frown.

Since the abyss ores that can emit light in the black fog area have been buried, the light here is much dimmer than before. Only with the faint light from the star mushrooms and lucky light insects growing everywhere and other ores affected by the Frost Nail can one vaguely see that there are traces of suspected buildings where the footsteps came from.

When I saw the general outline of the building.

Rhodes recognized it.

It's the inverted ruins.

In fact, he knew that the inverted ruins were near the black fog area.

But when he first came to the Black Mist Area, he did not see this relic.

At that time, Rhodes thought that the actual distance of the ruins was not that close, so he didn't see it.

Now let’s see.

This was probably because the location of the ruins was blocked by protruding rocks, and Rhodes' attention was all on the black fog area below at the time, so he did not notice this inverted ruins.

And when they walked out of the darkness, there were sounds that were obviously those of metal armor walking on the ground.

What caught Rhodes' eyes was a team of knights wearing black armor and holding various weapons.

A dark empty shell.

No.

To be precise, they should be called Black Snake Knights.

After the fall of the ancient Kingdom of Kanrea, due to the curse of heaven, the knights of the ancient country gradually lost their intelligence and memory over time and turned into the disobedient killing weapons they are today.

Apparently the noise just now startled them who were guarding the inverted ruins.

Looking at the Black Snake Knight getting closer and closer, Rhode used the power of wind element to transmit his voice: "I have no intention of entering your territory. I will leave now. I don't want to hurt you."

For such a warning.

The Black Snake Knights seemed not to have heard anything and continued to move forward with their weapons in hand, with no intention of stopping.

"Just leave now. I don't want to have a conflict with you."

Rhodes warned again.

In terms of combat power, these cursed Black Snake Knights were not as strong as the Abyss Apostles. They were just more numerous. If Rhodes wanted to clean them out, he wouldn't have to do anything.

The reason why I give repeated warnings instead of taking action as soon as I meet you is because of that.

Simply because he didn't want to hurt these Black Snake Knights.

Different from the abyss monsters that have been infected by the power of the abyss and lost their sanity.

Although the Black Snake Knight has also lost his intelligence and memory, he still retains his instincts as a human, which is to protect the former citizens of Kanreya who are also deeply tortured by the curse and transformed into Hillichurls.

A knight who fights to protect his people.

Even if such people turned into monsters, Rhodes didn't want to kill them for no reason.

But no matter how he warned, these Black Snake Knights turned a deaf ear.

"Tsk."

No matter how reluctant he was, since the other party was attacking him with such hostility, it was impossible for Rhodes to be merciful.

Just as he grasped the bow in his right hand, ready to strike first.

A dull sound, as if someone's mouth was covered by something, suddenly came from behind the Black Snake Knights.

The Black Snake Knights, who had been showing murderous intent, also stopped after hearing this voice.

Through the gaps between the Black Snake Knights, Rhodes saw the source of the voice.

It is a black snake knight of particularly huge size.

The armor on his body was not pure black, but had a hint of green, and one could see the element of wind surrounding the armor. In his hand he held a giant sword that was almost as tall as himself.

Under the command of this special Black Snake Knight.

The Black Snake Knights who were originally hostile to Rhodes began to retreat and soon returned to the ruins.

"Halfdan?"

If I'm not mistaken, this special Black Snake Knight is the leader of these Black Snake Knights, Knight Halfdan of the Kanreya Palace Guard.

He shouted at the Black Snake Knight under his command to retreat.

Halfdan did not return to the ruins with them, but stared at Rhodes from a distance.

Having lost the ability to speak, he was unable to express what was in his mind.

Rhodes couldn't guess what he wanted to do. He could only stare at him while continuing to devour the abyss power at hand.

Such a confrontation situation.

It lasted until another light sound of footsteps was heard, and then Halfdan left on his own initiative.

"He has something to say to me?"

Looking at Halfdan's gradually disappearing back, Rhodes pondered secretly.

Halfdan was a very good knight.

Among the people Rhodes knew.

Only Jean, the Knight of Favonius who strictly adheres to the chivalrous code, can be compared with him in principle.

"Is it about those hillbillies?"

Rhodes muttered.

It was precisely because Halfdan was a qualified knight that if he had something to look for Rhodes for, it would definitely not be related to him or those Black Snake Knights, but most likely to be related to those innocent Hillilians waiting to die.

"But I have no way to remove the curse from them."

Rod couldn't figure out what Halfdan wanted to say to him.

If it's a problem involving the abyss, then maybe he can help.

When it comes to the curse of Sky Island, there is no way around it.

After all, the curse was something that Dainsleib had determined was an incurable disease. Even the gods couldn't solve it, so it was even more impossible for Rhodes to help him.

Just when Rhodes was still wondering what Halfdan was going to do.

The owner of another set of footsteps appeared.

She also had no intention of hiding herself. Otherwise, with her skills, although she might not be able to hide it from Rhode's ears, at least she wouldn't make such a big noise.

Night orchid.

This was the first time that Rhodes met this intelligence officer who could be called Liyue's ace.

She did not put on any disguise and appeared in front of Rhodes in her true appearance.

"Nice to meet you. My name is Ye Lan, and I'm an employee of Liyue's General Affairs Department."

Ye Lan seemed to have confirmed Rhode's identity. After introducing herself, she glanced at the severely damaged black fog area and asked, "Did you do all this?"

"Ah."

Rhodes nodded in response.

"It's dangerous to make such a commotion down in the Chasm."

"Don't do that next time."

After a brief reminder, Ye Lan continued, "I have already done what you asked me to do. The executive officer has now reached a fork in the road. I estimate that I can delay him for a day. Is that enough?"

“A little less.”

"It would be best if we could delay it for a day or two longer."

Rhodes pondered, "Can you remove the seals on the Sky Nail within a day? If you can, then there is no need to delay him any longer."

"Sorry, no."

Ye Lan shook her head decisively and said, "That's why I came to see you."

"Oh?"

"The mechanism over there should be easy to destroy, right? I've read the action log of the Fatui Company, and they were able to find a way to break the mechanism. You should have no problem, right?"

Talk about this.

Rhodes thought it was a miracle.

You must know that no matter how elite the Ninth Company of the Fatui is, they are still mortals, and they use the evil eye developed by the Fatui which has a strong negative effect on the body, not the real Eye of God.

With such physical fitness, they were able to walk all the way to the location of the Frost Nail in the underground mining area where there were dangers at every step, and they actually found a way to solve the pollution in the abyss.

If Zhidong and Liyue had not fallen out later, Liyue would have unilaterally cut off their supplies, and Zhidong would have abandoned them and left them here to die.

With adequate supplies.

Rhode had no doubt that their mortal army alone could solve the problem of abyssal pollution under the abyss.

As for Ye Lan's abilities.

Rhodes had even less doubt.

This is a master who can fight back and forth with the Ninth Executive Officer.

Even the people in the Ninth Company combined would not be a match for her alone.

So why does Ye Lan look like he can't solve the problem by himself when the Ninth Company can handle it?

However, what surprised Rhode was that

Ye Lan replied: "When did they get there? I have been following them. They just got out of this heavily polluted area not long ago. They are still a long way from the location of the sky nail you marked for me."

"ha--?"

Now Rhodes was speechless.

Bad dish.