"Who are you?"

Fang Zhu stood up from the corpse of the gray tree man, looked around, and the voice of inquiry also echoed twice in the spiritual world.

"Can you hear my call, young human...?"

"My name is Moon Yarit."

"Young man, please come to me..."

"The Heart of the Mountain... needs your help."

The owner of the voice sounded a little weak.

"The heart of the mountain?"

"Where are you?"

“Underground here.”

"Deep underground, young humans have not had much time..."

The voice gradually became weaker.

The endless cold wind blew the snow on the rocks, and the sound of the wind gradually overwhelmed other sounds. Below the rift, everything seemed to be silent except for the sound of the wind.

The sound disappeared.

Everyone saw Fang Zhu standing alone between the corpses of the gray tree man in a daze. Tang Xin looked at him with a little worried and asked: "...Pizi, what's wrong with you?"

Fang Yu woke up from his trance state with a shiver, looked at the others with some strangeness, and asked, "Didn't you hear it?"

"What did you hear?" The walnuts and others were stunned.

"The sound of the wind," replied the Big Catman, "it seems to bring some hostility from the depths of the ground."

"Mr. Big Catman, did you hear it?"

"It's a lion man, little guy," he shook his head, stood in the snow, and looked around with a gray look vigilantly, "I mean the uninvited guests coming downstairs."

Fang Yu looked at the others and was convinced that everyone had not heard the previous voice.

Silweid was coming to him, looking at him with his blue eyes, and asked in his silent mouth:

"Miss Tata?"

But Miss Tata was not here. Fang Yu understood what the other party meant in an instant. He had the ability to communicate with Miss Tata, and Silweid knew it.

On the one hand, he was surprised by the keenness of the ship's officer, and on the other hand, he nodded.

"There is a voice, it says it's called Mun Yarit. It lets us go to it..."

"This sounds like a special task. I know that many such things will definitely be rewarded in the end!" Tianlan was inspired and began to chatter with his own.

“But it could be a trap.”

"Mr. Big Catman!"

"It's the Lion Man, Fuli."

"Help me," Parker jumped with his short legs on his back, waved his hands under the rock, "help me up!"

The Lion Paladin bent down and caught him.

Parker climbed up with his hands and feet and grabbed the rocks, while he said unhurriedly: "Seriously, I think Tianlan is right!"

"If there is no reward, you won't feel that way."

These words made the Paparal people think about it for a moment, and seemed to agree with it.

Fang Zhu looked at the towering crack, and there was only the sound of whimpering wind left in the surrounding environment.

At this time, the naturalist lady's lips moved.

Fang Ling noticed this detail, "Jita, what do you know?"

"...Mon Yarit, it sounds like a tree man's name, Brother Ed," Jita flashed with thick eyelashes, and underneath it was a star-like eye. "...Arit is a title, meaning wise. This means it may be an elder, or even the heart of a tree."

"The Heart of the Tree?" Fang Yu thought of something, "Have you heard of the Heart of the Mountain?"

"The Heart of the Tree is a special title among tree people, referring to the elders who dedicate their lives to the Holy White Tree and guide the tribe with special wisdom," Jita said, shaking his head, "But I have never heard of the Heart of the Mountain, Brother Ed."

Fang Yu also guessed that the owner of the voice might be a tree man, but what the other party said was a bit too confusing.

Dealing with intelligent creatures in the wild and helping them solve problems often get some precious feedback.

But there are also many deceptions and traps.

"Whatever it is, we have to go down and take a look first," he thought for a while, "in short, it's not too late to find the earth source crystal first, and then find this wise man."

The big cat man smiled and said, "I don't object."

"It's not fair," Parker used his hand to tick the claws of the big cat man who was holding his collar, "and let me down."

"Because he is the leader." Reed smiled and then let go of his claws.

"This hateful hierarchy, because he is the leader of the group, he has the final say, so the Paparals will be locked in a small dark room. I will run away from home one day!" Parker patted the snowflakes on his cloak, and chatted endlessly.

Tianlan only lighted her head as if she was pecking at rice, and she was very curious about this.

Fang Ling looked at Walnut and others underground, "I originally planned to let you and Miss Betty stay outside, but the current situation may not be safer outside than below."

"We will be with you, Captain Ed." Walnut underground replied immediately.

Fang Yu nodded, "But you must understand that the threats that underground are real, and I must ensure that everyone obeys the command."

The walnut underground quickly replied, "I understand, we have actually participated in guild activities and know what to do."

Zaozi and others nodded.

Only Beiji seemed a little hesitant, but Fang Yu didn't care much about her opinions, and they would take good care of the girl's underground walnuts.

Fang Yu was relieved and talking to smart people was simple.

In an unknown environment, the fewer the unstable factors in the team, the better, so he must make three rules with these people in advance.

In theory he could indeed put these people out there, but as he said, it was almost the same as waiting to die.

For someone who is cold-blooded, this is the best opportunity to get rid of them. Anyway, when you get here, the other party is useless. However, for Fang Yu, he is still disdainful of using these small tricks.

After everything was arranged, everyone began to penetrate the crack.

In order to prevent possible dangers, Fang Zhu arranged for the Big Cat to take charge of the head, while Parker, who has certain exploration ability, worked with the Paladin as the team's ears and eyes.

He and Silvede were responsible for breaking the rear, because Xie Shita was there, he could fight no matter what the situation happened.

Others were placed in the middle of the ranks, with their Miss Naturalist and the sole priest.

There is also Tianlan, who is responsible for the livening atmosphere. With this chirping poet, others will not be so nervous and uneasy.

Besides, Tianlan is not stupid either. Knowing when to inspire everyone and when to shut up, as a poet, this should be considered excellent.

As for the Walnuts and their group underground, Fang Zhu's only expectation for them is not to get out of place. Generally speaking, as long as they are not attacked suddenly, the number of callers in the more than ten levels should not be unable to do this.

...

In the darkness, if there are subtle sounds lurking—or like footsteps like shadows, or whispers with chuckles—people are often more likely to have hallucinations in extreme quietness.

The team is moving forward silently. Sometimes the walnuts underground will turn around suspiciously, but this is normal. In the dark, people will lose their sense of direction and then feel that there is someone behind them.

Fang Yu had already gotten used to it, and he only silently adjusted the clockwork fairy he controlled.

The rock walls in the cracks around him were chiseled out like knives and axes, crisscrossing and extremely sharp. The ever-ending wind carved deep marks on it, outlining its rugged outlines from the cracked pointed rocks.

The broken rocks appear icy blue, and the deeper and darker the more they go in.

With the rustling footsteps, the dim light was spreading along the stone wall.

Tang Xin lit up the crystal used for lighting on the staff. The light was dim and not as bright as the torch, but it was better to be stable, without consuming oxygen, and would not attract dark creatures that were catching heat.

What kind of lighting method is used? Adventurers have had their own discussion in their years of experience. In the low temperature underground, open flames will make you as conspicuous as the sun, and become a conspicuous target of creatures with thermal sensation ability a few thousand meters away.

And crystal lighting is much lower-key.

Both the Big Cat Man and Parker are outside the light and dark junction of light, and both have the ability to see things under the dim line.

The former inherits the typical characteristics of felines, while the latter is said to be the leader in the vision world - the Paparals have vision that is worthy of pride.

The big cat man stopped first. His high reconnaissance ability and intact vision in the dark allowed him to see some traces between the gravel fragments on the ground.

He pressed Parker's shoulder and turned the Paparal who was walking forward like a ok person.

"Who is pulling me...Big Cat? What's wrong?"

Reid patted his shoulder and signaled him to look in one direction.

Parker looked into the darkness in that direction, and he looked carefully for a moment before the reconnaissance skills formed a red mark in his vision.

The red spots were printed on the gravel-covered ground.

Then more markings appeared and extended forward into the darkness.

"footprint?"

"It hasn't been gone for long, at least twenty people."

"I know." Parker argued. This detail was discovered first by Big Cat, which made him, the crossbowman known as the King of Night Thieves, feel a little embarrassed.

But he is not a nightingale after all, and the glory of the past has long passed.

"There is something in front." Parker's eyes pointed and suddenly found a little red light in the darkness, which made him slightly relieved.

The big cat man smiled slightly, grabbed his chin mane with his claws and tied it into a copper ring on his braid, "Is that right? Why don't you go and try it?"

"Of course, that's what I found."

Parker didn't doubt that he was, and thought he was able to do something, ran over and approached the red spot of light, ready to bend down to pick up the thing.

But it was at this moment that he heard Fang Yu's voice coming from the team channel: "Be careful ahead!"

At the front of the team, there is the clockwork fairy of the square leopard.

In the narrow crack, glaciers and cold wind divide the terrain below into crisscrossing. The clockwork monsters have very little effect on detecting here. Square pilos only release them and distribute them at some forks as early warning.

And at that moment, he saw a black shadow flashing through his vision in one of the directions.

Parker was looking up in panic and looked at a shadow that suddenly slipped out from behind the rock wall not far from the red light spot.

It has an ice blue flat appearance, thin as if it was a shadow, its pale hands were shining with crystal luster, and it seemed that a layer of scales floated on it.

"I, I warn you, you better not come over!"

The Paparals rushed to pull out the crossbow behind them, but after pulling it a few times, they couldn't open the buckle on the belt, so why couldn't they pull it off for a while?

The monster walked towards him without hesitation.

Parker's head was filled with cold sweat. He was about to call for the big cat, and he came to save the person quickly, but he opened his mouth and found that he could not make any sound.

He actually couldn't move, but it was not because he fell into a nightmare, but because the other party was moving too fast.

It seemed as if a series of afterimages were left in the darkness, as fast as a ghost.

Before he could make a sound, he felt a chill coming from his throat.

It made him shudder.

...

At that moment, everyone heard a shrill scream coming from the front: "Wow—"

The sound came to an abrupt end.

It sounded like some Paparal suddenly died, and it scared the sky blue behind it almost jumped up: "Pak!?"

The walnuts underground looked back at the square pulp with a little creepy grimacing.

But they only saw Fang Yu shook his head:

"don’t worry."

He was speechless and had already scolded Parker, a living treasure.

"Don't worry about him, it's okay."

The clockwork fairy immersed in the dark has long witnessed the whole thing happening and ending-

A little cold light is emerging from the darkness.

Behind that is a long and narrow blade that separates the darkness, reflecting a pair of silver-gray eyes, as cold as ice and as sharp as owls.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! Before the monster had time to grasp the Paparal's throat with its cold claws, the sword blade was handed out from behind the latter and slashed into its crystal-shaped skull with a sword.

The crystal made a fragmented sound, and the sword blade went down without any obstacles. The monster's body also shattered, scattering like a broken statue, turning into two pieces with a rush, collapsed all over the ground.

Parker seemed to be the one who was hacked to death, and he screamed with fear.

But he called for a long time and found that he seemed to be alive. He couldn't help but open his eyes, blink, touch his neck, and found that he was intact.

Parker looked up and found that the big cat man had passed by him. The other party held the holy sword in his hand and fiddled among the fragments of the ground for a few times.

“How does it feel?”

"Wait, you know where it is!?"

“Not sure.”

"Not sure!" Parker screamed, "It's not the first time!"

"Is that true, when was the last time?"

"Uh, almost a year ago, in Traveler's Swamp... no, wait, don't change the subject," Parker fainted, "You can't always do this, are you the Knights of Marland?"

"Overall, I'm a relatively unique type," the big cat man smiled gracefully, bent down to pick up a piece of fragments, and looked through it. "Actually, I want to see if it has a brain, but it seems that the other party is still easier to deal with."

"Better than that," Parker said this with gritted teeth, "I always feel like you're saying I'm brainless."

"No, Parker, nothing."

"Then what are you laughing at, damn it."

"You don't think that the Paladins should be serious, Parker. If you have fantasies about this, I can hardly satisfy it."

"No, I haven't, shut up."

When Fang Zhu arrived, he saw the crossbow archer who was depressed by the side.

The Big Cat Man was handing over something, a ring, which seemed to be a relic of a caller's life. The Lion Paladin placed the ring in his furry palm and looked at him: "This is what Parker discovered."

"I discovered it, and for this I almost died and was killed by someone." The crossbow archer immediately turned around and said loudly.

"Isn't this dead yet? I saw that the Big Catman was making his sword in a very timely manner."

"The alchemist who kills heaven!"

Fang Yu shook his head, "Okay, I will remember you."

There was silence in the darkness, and after a while the faint voice asked, "Is there any reward?"

"Uh, a little bit."

"A little bit!" Parker gritted his teeth: "That's settled."

He ran back again.

Tianlan and Jita couldn't help laughing. They had seen Parker like this a lot.

This reminded the two of them that they had taken the risk with Miss Aitela earlier, but Miss Aitela always had a way to deal with the Paparals at that time.

It's Brother Ed's turn now.

As outsiders, Walnut and others in the underground had nothing to say, just staring at the fragments on the ground.

Fang Zhu also looked at the fragments. A line of gray and white text was now floating in the darkness:

Jingxie (disordered minions)

Jingxi Beast seems to be a classification of its race, and the disordered minions are the name of the monster itself.

In the context of Aitalia, generally speaking, any prefixes with disorder, activity, wandering or activation are mostly the components that are not running away.

Disordered Guards, Golemns, Wandering Armor and Revitalized Usages, are all very classic constructed creatures in this world. They used to be man-made creatures, but for some reason they produced intelligence, either for spell enlightenment, or for souls, or even controlled by ghosts who pretended to be gods and ghosts.

But in any configuration, they have at least one thing in common, that is, they must have been man-made things, or the product of some intelligent group.

However, he did not find such characteristics on the huge corpses before. Their pointed rock-shaped appearance looked more like some kind of near-earth elemental creature.

And until now.

Fang Zhu found layers of magic arrays that were fading from the fragments of these crystals. They were not alchemy arrays, or even a type of magic array. But what is certain is that they would not be formed naturally at least.

When the monster split into pieces, the magic array was fading until it finally disappeared. When the magic array completely disappeared, the crystal fragments also lost their luster in his hands and turned into ordinary stone pieces.

Only then did Fang Yu understand why there were so many ordinary stone pieces in the camp before:

It turned out that they were all the corpses of these disordered minions.

He threw the stone piece back to the ground and asked, "What is its combat power?"

"Level thirty."

"It's very fast," Parker rushed to answer, "it seems to have a little spiritual power."

As a crossbowman who was transferred from Nightingale, Parker's dexterity level is not low. Even he emphasizes the speed level of this monster, which means that it may not be underestimated.

Although Reed divided it into two halves with one sword, with the attack power of the holy sword as high as four or five hundred, this actually doesn't mean anything.

Even creatures above level 40 can hardly block the power of this sword.

Of course, the premise is that the Lion Paladin must be able to hit opponents above level 40.

He used the Paparals as a temptation to behead his head with one sword. Under normal circumstances, this strange structure could be enough for the two of them to deal with for a while.

Fang Yu couldn't help but take a breath. This should be the human-like structured creature mentioned in the log, and there was a huge crab-shaped structure above it, and even a higher-level Jingxi Beast.

He suddenly realized that the process of finding the earth source crystal during this trip was probably not as simple as he imagined.

But they have already arrived at this place and it is not realistic to directly exit. Moreover, these Jingxi beasts seem to be extraordinary, but they do not seem to be unable to deal with them.

But you need to be careful.

Then he looked at the ring in his hand. It was just an ordinary magic ring, and it was even something that everyone in the Seven Seas Brigade at this time was useless.

However, he could at least infer the strength of his master based on the level range where the equipment was located. A person of level 30 or 40 would never carry a magic ring of more than ten levels.

Unless this ring is a legendary level or higher, it is not, it is just an ordinary whiteboard magic ring, level thirteen.

Of course, this does not mean that the owner is also at level 13. Generally speaking, in such high-level areas, there are fewer candidates below level 15 to come here to take risks. They will understand by looking at the walnuts underground.

Because Fang Zhui predicts that the other party may be in the range of about level 20.

"Is this ring left by the person who came to support me?" he asked, holding the ring.

"Parker and I discovered the traces left by each other," replied the Big Cat Man: "The other party has not left for too long, and even if there are earlier victims who have left their relics here, the people in front should have recycled them."

Fang Yu nodded. It seemed that it was indeed mentioned in the log that the teams sent by other guilds to support them.

If the average level of this support team is only about twenty, the other party may not have realized that their behavior in the rift is basically equivalent to death.

It seemed that the people at the supply station had misjudged the seriousness of the problem. He now understood why the camp was destroyed overnight. Compared with the combat power of Jingxi Beast, the people sent by various guilds were obviously too low.

He threw the ring to the walnuts underground behind him. According to the customary rules of Aitalia, the relics were given to the recyclers. There was no objection. But they couldn't use the ring, and they couldn't even sell it for a few dollars. However, for the walnuts underground, it was just right.

The walnuts and the others under the ground obviously did not expect that they would have a share of the trophy. They couldn't help but feel a little surprised. They even thanked the dates they got the ring.

Fang Zhu waved his hand and signaled them to be quiet.

Because it was at this time that his clockwork leprechaun discovered something.

In the direction where the footprints of the other party were missing pointed out by Big Catman and Parker, he first found traces of a fierce battle. The corpse of Jingxi Beast, broken armor, and broken weapons scattered all over the ground.

In the gray vision, the dark blood stains could be clearly seen, and the cracks after the magic exploded on the rocks, but it was impossible to see which side won, and it might not belong to the human side.

Because there are still some residual constructed creatures dormant under the shadows.

Then he saw a corpse-

No, it should not be said to be a corpse, but a person lying on the ground. Fang Yum began to think that the other party was dead and exhausted the starlight. He was a little curious about how there would be such a desperate person.

But suddenly, he realized that he had read it wrong.

Because he saw the man's chest slightly undulating.

The other party was not dead, it seemed that he was just in a coma.

Fang Yu immediately pulled up his goggles and said to the others around him: "There are people living in front of him, but there are many monsters there, everyone, prepare for the battle."

With a clang, the sharp sword in the big cat man's hand was immediately unsheathed.
Chapter completed!