A bright bonfire leaps into the square pulp's vision.
The warm light hit the open wilderness in all directions, and the whistling wind of the flames was already hidden under the voices of people's conversation, and there were a few sharp screams and laughter from children, but at this moment, no one blamed them anymore.
Fireflies were flying on the dark lake. At this time, a witch doctor in a yellow robe walked down from the high platform in the distance. The crowd became a little quieter, so he made a way for it and let the old man slowly walk to the bonfire. Under the reflection of the fire, the witch doctor's bronze face was painted with mysterious patterns. He held a cane with bone pieces hanging in one hand and a quaint stone slab in the other.
Fang Zhu learned about the general steps of this celebration from the clergy in the Temple of Marland.
First, the igniter ignites the holy fire, and then a great ritual holder will come up to recite the prayer, praying to Android Ma that more lives will be born in the desert, and the shadow of the flame will take away the decay; after the ritual is over, Babaltan, the king of the sand, will appear and accept the audience of his own people, and then receive the envoys of Kaorin-Ishurien, and the link of offering gifts.
After all this is over, there will be carnival, dance and dinner, and the celebration will last until the second half of the night. Those who are unwilling to leave can even stay until dawn.
Then the guards drove away the remaining people and closed the palace gate.
This old witch doctor should obviously be a ritual holder.
Fang Yu had no intention of listening to the long prayer recited by the other party, and turned his eyes to other directions: more and more people were gathering in this open space, and the light of the bonfire was only illuminating a small circle under the platform. In the distance, in the darkness was a vast sea of ​​light like stars - the starry light was the crystal of light in people's hands.
The glory of the darkness extends beyond the palace.
Most of the residents of Questak should be gathered at this moment, and there is a larger square outside the palace, which should be equally spectacular at this moment.
Most of the guests who can enter the palace are nobles and merchants of some status, nor are they purely civilians. They were able to enter with Alev's warrant. Ordinary people who are not qualified will gather in the square outside the palace, where the bonfires are more and larger than here, and there are various performances.
The royal family will distribute food, fruits, vegetables and fine wine outside so that the poor can also participate in this annual celebration.
On the contrary, the nobles need to carry their own food—
Fang Rong thought that this was humane. After all, all the princes needed was a social occasion and they didn't care about food and drink. Some of them were domestic servants, so they could bring food and drinks that were enough for a banquet.
In addition to these two places, the temples will open today, and believers will pray in the temple and share the communion. Before he left Ms. Marlan's church, the scene was to prepare for this grand celebration tonight.
However, this celebration is only grand in Questak. In other areas of Istaniya, only each family has its own preparations. There are no parades or carnivals. It is not as common as the winter festivals in Kaurin-Ishurien. From north to south, even in places like Vanrik, where snow is not affected.
Fang Yu retreated his gaze and the prayer of the ritual holder was finally finished.
"May Android bless the rustling sea."
The other party used a congratulation as the conclusion.
The guests in the square also responded in unison, and prayers came one after another, like the waves of the sea.
For the Istani people, the sand sea is one with them. This thousand-year-old hometown carries the living civilization of the desert people.
This congratulations are said in Kaolin's language, and this ellipse can understand them. It was definitely not the case in the past. However, after Istaniya joined Kaolin-Ishurien, more and more tourists and conveners were attracted. This ancient country had to "go to the countryside" and make some adjustments and innovations.
Fang Yu looked around again, guessing how many of the guests present were the callers.
Every year, the Penelope royal family invites guests who are not nobles to enter the palace to participate in this celebration. Most of the invitees are callers - to be precise, tourists. As you imagine, this is actually a business. How many people are invited and who to invite is naturally a private transaction between the royal family and major travel agencies.
Almost 300 places are distributed to major travel agencies every year. These travel agencies are the "cross-border travel agencies" that Fang Rong had heard of in the past. Of course, Xingmen Port's sightseeing channel cannot be operated by Xingmen Port himself. Behind it is operated by more than 100 "cross-border travel agencies" from all over the world.
There are about twenty-seven such travel agencies in the third competition area, three of which are larger. Ai Xiaoxiao's family and Tang Xin came to Aitalia through one of the three "Star Hui" travel agencies. Among them, Sand Celebration is one of the classic tourist projects, and Ai Xiaoxiao has mentioned it more than once.
However, the sightseeing itinerary is divided by season, and the itinerary of Ai Xiaoxiao and his group did not include this celebration. In fact, if it weren't for the extension of the Star Gate, their family and Tang Xin would have returned to Earth long ago, so they would naturally not be able to catch up with this celebration.
Ai Xiaoxiao mentioned this incident, which was quite a pity.
Fang Ling looked around and didn't know if she and Tang Xin were here. The two should be with the rest of the Qihai Brigade.
After the ceremony was announced that the celebration began, the atmosphere around him suddenly relaxed. There were already people crowding in the open space, and people's discussions became more and more noisy. Everyone's emotions were more or less excited, and from time to time, people laughed.
A royal official appeared on the platform. Fang Rong looked in that direction and realized that the king of sand Babaltan might appear next. He was also a little curious about the legendary king of sand, but now there is something more important, but he has to walk away. When Babaltan appears in a while, the scene will definitely be quiet again.
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Taking advantage of the noise in the space, he turned around and separated the crowd and walked towards the periphery. These days he entered the palace no less than twenty times. Although he did not find any opportunity to enter the Forbidden Palace, he was already very familiar with the outer area of ​​the palace, and he also found several routes to enter the Forbidden Palace.
Because there are aristocrats around him, although there are crowds of people, everyone is esteemed for their identity and is not as crowded as canned sardines like outside the palace. He didn't spend much time, so he separated the crowd and walked to the periphery of the open space. There were naturally guards guarding and patrolling outside, but Fang Zhu was not surprised but happy when he saw this scene.
As expected, in order to prevent accidents, the Penelope royal family indeed dispatched more guards to this place to maintain order on this day. However, the troops guarding the palace were limited. There were more people here and fewer people there. This was a matter of course.
He walked quietly to the outside of the square and towards the library. The guards guarded there had been familiar with him these days, probably because they knew his relationship with Prince Alev. Seeing him coming over, he asked:
"The celebration is about to begin, will Mr. Ed stay for a while?"
"The carnival hasn't started yet, is the library open?" Fang Yu asked pretended.
The guard laughed secretly, and he didn't expect that the young alchemist, like them, was only interested in the carnival in the second half of the celebration. "It's not time for the library to close, Mr. Ed."
Fang Yu nodded, thanked him, and walked in that direction.
But of course he didn't go to the library. After walking a short distance, he suddenly turned around and walked into a path without a trace. As soon as he entered the path, he knew how to flash behind a bush, hid in the direction of the place and looked around, and the surroundings were quiet.
After confirming that there was no one around, Fang Zhu took off his coat and hid it down the bush. Then he took out a long robe and headscarf from there, covered it with it, took out a control glove from the shaking bag, opened the craftsman system, and reconstructed a knight scimitar on his body in a flash.
He took out a small steel mirror and looked at himself. Judging from the appearance, if he didn't look closely, he would look like a palace guard and a desert knight.
The only thing that made him dissatisfied was that he was a little shorter.
The Istani people probably have some giant genius blood, and their average height is not low. The palace guards have been strictly selected, and they are all extremely taller than ordinary people.
He wore such a long robe, which was inconsistent with ordinary desert knights, as if the Paparals were wearing human clothes.
But forget it, just barely enough.
After making these preparations, Fang Yu turned out a dark crystal from his pocket. He naturally could not carry any weapons to enter the palace. It was not possible to flexibly construct, and it was not possible to informatized crystal. However, he used some small means to change his informatized crystal to a communication crystal.
But in this way, the original communication crystal can no longer be brought. After all, no one would bring two communication crystals to make people suspicious.
Fortunately, communication crystals are not available at all, so there is no need to worry about it.
He released two 'wasp-I' from the information crystal, then released them one by one, pulled down the goggles, and began to detect the situation around him.
After a few days of temptation, he was actually very familiar with the nearby area - this path leads to a quiet garden, after passing through an iron fence gate, he enters the courtyard of the Forbidden Palace; on weekdays, of course there are heavy troops there, and there are two teams of guards patrolling back and forth on the nearby trail. He was determined to enter the Forbidden Palace from passing through the iron fence, but he did not have this opportunity to perform.
But today, after the troops in the palace were drawn, the defense here was obviously much empty. Fang Zhu quickly saw through the vision of the clockwork fairy that although the patrol guards were still there, they were obviously less than before. He let his "Hornets-I" fly lower, pass through the vision of a clockwork fairy floating in the air there, and slipped over from below without knowing it.
There are naturally alchemists among the royal guards, and Fang Zhu discovered this early in the morning.
After passing through his vision, he easily saw the fence gate in that direction. There were still guards beside the gate, but at least half of the number of people were reduced.
Seeing this, Fang Yu finally breathed a sigh of relief. It was almost as he expected that his chance came. He then carefully let his clockwork fairy stop on the tree there, let the camera always look in the direction of the guards, then lifted up the goggles, looked around again - after confirming that there was no one around, he walked out of the bushes.
Fang Yu took a light breath and said it was impossible not to be nervous. Although such infiltration seemed to be common for him, this kind of grasp would cause huge disputes, which was obviously different from the previous few times.
He calmed himself down. The words Bishop Faris had said to him before seemed to have worked. After all, he was clear about what he was doing and what the purpose of doing so was. Fang Rong didn't have much hesitation left in his heart.
He pulled his headscarf and walked towards the already planned route.
He first waited for the guards to pass by behind a palm tree. After about ten seconds, the rustling footsteps walked over there. The guards would pass by every two minutes. He had known this rule, but it was much better than the frequency of the two guards passing by once in less than a minute.
After passing through the guard, he turned in another direction and walked behind the tree wall made of shrubs. As soon as he passed through the tree wall, a tall black shadow rushed towards him with this eye-catching red light.
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It made a low buzz.
But as soon as the mechanical voice came out, Fang Zhu turned into a magical trick to transform a crystal from his hand and pointed it at him. A green light was shining, and the huge figure stopped in place.
This is a Rongwei puppet. Fang Zhu looked up at the big man with a copper skin that was more than three meters tall and motionless. The red crystal light on his chest flashed, as if it was an eye. Since he chose this road, he naturally knew what traps there would be on this road. He had tried it several times before.
Several times, he used the excuse of not being familiar with his life as an excuse, and often "get lost" in the palace. Then the library guards testified with Alev, and each time he was in danger. After all, he did not really want to enter the Forbidden Palace at that time, and there was no evidence that the other party could check.
The palace is so big that at most, the guards just want to laugh at the library where a "landbuster" alchemist who couldn't find a way came.
The puppet golem is not a flexible configuration of an alchemist. It is actually the creation of a magician and does not require human control. However, although this kind of thing is easy to deal with, it also has hidden dangers. As long as you master the corresponding password and "key", you can easily control it - and there are some means that you can temporarily stop them from acting. Of course, these means are complicated for ordinary people, but they are nothing to a professional alchemist.
The crystal in his hand can temporarily block its magic transmission for a period of time, which lasts for about five minutes. After five minutes, the golem will resume its movements again. Everything is normal and no one can check any problems.
Besides, who would have nothing to do to check a golem that clearly has no faults?
After passing through the golem, there were several guard dogs in the maze of tree walls behind, but Fang Zhu suspected that those who might not be special guard dogs - maybe they were hunting dogs from the royal family. However, it was even easier to deal with these hunting dogs. Fang Zhu only needed to release Miss Nini.
A girl with long hair with flames jumped forward, swaying her teeth and claws:
“rua!”
Several hunting dogs were immediately frightened to their legs and feet, and their limbs and heads were lying on the ground, trembling, and they were only whining in their mouths, how dare they bark any dogs?
Fang Zhu was very satisfied with Nini's deterrence, which Miss Tata could not do. After all, the artificial dragon soul is just called Dragon Soul and does not really have the power of a giant dragon. And Nini is different. Although the name is Nini, it is actually the real soul of Niko Bolas, the only real dark dragon in the past seven hundred years - compared to Toragots is only a semi-finished product.
Moreover, it is not yet known whether Toragots dies or lives.
After passing through the maze of tree wall guarded by the hunting dog, the iron fence behind it was clearly visible. Going over here before, you should always be careful of the guards patrolling in the other direction, but Fang Zhu saw it right through the sight of the clockwork fairy. The guards had just walked here and turned and walked in the other direction.
Within two minutes, no one would disturb him.
Square purse walked towards the iron fence, and through the back of the fence, you could already see the quiet Wang Family Courtyard. A white courtyard corridor passed through the courtyard and extended to the distance until it disappeared behind the shade of the trees. There seemed to be a water area with a glimmer of light under the stars. I don’t know if it was connected to the lake outside.
He looked behind and confirmed that there was no one, then approached the fence, but did not put his hand on it immediately. Instead, he took out a scroll that had been prepared, chanted and lit it gently, and then a glimmer of light appeared from the scroll, covering the fence.
Magical suppression scroll.
It is worth 1,700 Lisell. This is what he got from the Woodpecker Brotherhood. It is a discounted price, but it is worth it - a light white light really appears on the fence, which shows that magic was originally attached to the fence, which is probably anti-invisible, magic alarm and other types.
Fang Yu said intimately that he wanted to save this scroll, but fortunately he didn't save it.
After dealing with the situation on the fence, he covered it up, then climbed up the fence and carefully flipped over the top of the fence. Since it was only the junction of the inner and outer palaces, this iron fence was not very high, obviously not as tall as the outer palace wall and insurmountable, so he gave Fang Zhu a chance.
After turning over the fence, he jumped down with a thud. Behind the fence was a soft mud. The pulp rolled on the ground, but he was not injured, but he was covered in moss and mud on his body.
He patted his body and got up, but as soon as he got up, he couldn't help but be stunned.
Because he was together, he found a figure walking out from behind the bushes not far away.
The figure was obviously shocked when he saw him, and couldn't help but make a "ah". As soon as the sound came out, Fang Yu was stunned.
That was the voice of a woman.
And he knew him.
Not the other, it is the eldest princess' sister, Princess Afifa.
Chapter completed!