Chapter 49: In the Deep Forest
"There is another one, don't let him run away!"
The fire spread in the Hall of Trees, but the callers quickly realized that it was more important to leave the culprit than to put out the fire.
The element made him escape to the kitchen by the smog of smoke, where there was a window leading to the forest outside, which was the route they had planned for escape, but then he suddenly heard a shout from behind: "He is here!"
He looked back and saw several summoners breaking open the door and rushing in. Elements make him furious, "These hindrance bastards!" If it weren't for these nosy guys, they would have retreated smoothly after completing the mission.
He turned around and raised the staff in his hand and paused hard on the ground. When the end of the staff hit the wooden floor, bright flames rose up, and several fire snakes spread in all directions from there.
"Be careful, Fire Ring Technique!" Some of the candidates who rushed in were conscious and screamed and pulled their companions back. But their level still requires some luck to avoid this spell. When the person who was not lucky retreated, he tripped up by a wooden barrel. The barrel rolled to the ground with it, and the mushrooms inside sprinkled all over the floor.
The fire snake spread along the man's trouser legs, turning it into a walking flame amid his screams. The grease crackled in the high temperature, and a burnt smell of flesh instantly filled the air. The remaining few people looked pale and almost vomited. Soon the human figure in the flames was only left, and the skeleton turned into ashes.
The fire spread on the walls, burning the wooden cabinets and ceiling into charred scales, and the entire kitchen was swallowed by the flames in a flash. The elemental force stood in the middle of this sea of fire, holding up the staff in his hand unruly - he knew he could not escape, and planned to fight to the death before he died.
But it was at this moment that a neat and orderly spell in his mind suddenly disappeared out of thin air.
Elemental Slightly stunned, suddenly thought of something, and his face turned pale. And this moment of stunned silence made him unable to maintain his calmness. The seven-level magic array formed by spells in his mind collapsed suddenly, and all spells wandered in his thoughts like disorderly chaos. The familiar spells in the past seemed strange and alienated at this moment.
"No!" He widened his eyes and shouted: "Remember it for me!"
But to no avail, most of the fire in the entire kitchen disappeared suddenly, and the magic flame was pulled away from the manifestation form and turned into a free elemental state. The original ether rushed back towards the center of this collapse point like a landslide.
However, just as this huge force was about to turn the element into powder, it seemed as if an invisible hand had intercepted them from it and changed their form, allowing them to capture the rising water vapor, and then condensed the water vapor into water droplets and fell from mid-air.
A drizzle drizzled in the kitchen, extinguishing the remaining flames. Just as the element was stunned, several candidates with their backs and waists rushed over and pushed him to the ground:
"We've caught him!"
The hot floor made his face roar, and the latter rolled his eyes and screamed, but no one cared about his feelings at this moment.
...
The man withdrew his gaze from the fire that soared into the sky in the distance and looked coldly at the edge of the forest. In the dark outside the window, a ranger raised his hand and compared him with a normal gesture. He turned around, crossed his hands and looked at the tall man in front of him, and then spoke:
"Mr. Leader, how long do you have to consider? The order was sent by your guild. You should have confirmed it, right?"
The leader of the Holy White Stone Guild raised his head from the projected light page in front of him and looked at the other party: "What are you going to do in that place at this time?"
“Our mission destination is that place.”
"But you can absolutely use a more peaceful way, and you have seen that the tree man has no malice towards us. If you ask, the Heart of the Tree will meet you."
"The Heart of the Tree is still sleeping, and we don't have time to wait for it to wake up. And to be honest," the man shrugged, "I don't think that those people can stop the monsters outside. If they attack this place, our mission will fail."
"But you have to admit that they did a good job before, repelling Crystal three attacks, and the last two casualties were not serious." The leader of the Saint White Stone Guild said: "At present, Orca's reinforcements have arrived, just waiting for the people from other guilds to arrive at the forward camp. I don't know why you think so?"
"It turns out that you call it Crystal, but it doesn't matter. Do you think the strength of that thing is limited to this? It's just a test," the man shook his head and said, "If the Orca people have not arrived yet, maybe I'm not that anxious yet. But the arrival of reinforcements may have given it a signal, and if it takes all its strength, it will be ruined."
The leader of the Holy White Stone Guild was slightly silent. They had only obtained the same news from another very important source of information not long ago. This made him think carefully and hesitate:
"I have to ask the guild."
The man looked at him and reached out and said, "Please."
The leader of the Holy White Stone Guild pulled his deputy and walked aside, took out the communication crystal, and waited for the sound of connecting from the other end of the crystal to be heard, and immediately asked in a low voice: "President, what's going on with that order?"
"Old He, the news is not written very clearly, to help the people of the Twilight Guild complete the task."
"I understand, but the President, the situation below is not optimistic at the moment. Why not wait until the reinforcements arrive before completing this task?"
"This is what the people from the Twilight Guild asked."
"But then our people could be in danger."
"Old He, I understand what you mean," the president's voice seemed a little optimistic: "But don't worry, the guild will compensate you - think about it, what are we coming to this world for? It's just to collect more valuable high-dimensional information. If necessary, the loss of starlight is also an acceptable price. You should understand this?"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! The leader of the Holy White Stone Guild understood what he said: "What price did the people from the Twilight Guild offer? It's worth our doing this?"
“A lot, including but not limited to the complete transfer of their share of this mining area to us.”
The former couldn't help but take a breath of air conditioning when he heard this: "What kind of task are they worthy of this?"
"That's not our business."
"But if the monsters outside attacked... are the people from the Twilight Guild playing some tricks..."
"Don't worry, even if those monsters occupy the mining area for a while, we can still wipe them out. If several of our guilds unite together, they can't even do this little thing?"
"But that would happen, this matter would be a big deal."
"Even if we pay taxes to the king, the income below the mining area will be stable and profitable for us. No one knows better than us about the crystal reserves below the mining area in the past few months."
The leader was silent for a moment before nodding, indicating that he understood. He closed the communication crystal, walked back to the other party, and spoke, "Okay, let's talk about how we cooperate specifically?"
The man smiled and looked at the side and said, "Before talking about this, should you invite the lady outside the door to come in first?"
The leader of the Holy White Stone Guild was slightly stunned and couldn't help looking in that direction. The door pushed open. Outside the door, there was a expressionless nightingale Miss Alice, who stood outside the door, looked at the two of them calmly, and said in a plain tone: "Captain, it seems that there is a fire in the other side of the Tree Hall."
"Don't care about that for now," the commander shook his head, "You're here just right, Rainbow, there's something to notify you."
"I heard it outside," Alice's tone was not in any emotional fluctuation, "Do you want me to inform others?"
The former was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said, "Okay, let everyone gather, we may take action later."
Alice nodded. She glanced at the man, who was also looking at her, with some fun in her eyes. But Alice was indifferent and just closed the door and walked out.
"That's our Nightingale Team Leader." The leader of the Holy White Stone Guild explained to the other party.
The man nodded, but thought about it and sent a message:
"Follow the nightingale and have a look."
...
Alice walked down the tree house and stayed at the door for a moment, and couldn't help but recall what had happened before:
"... The heart of the mountain that the tree man mentioned is actually pure crystal, the central stone buried deep in the mountains. If there is anything wrong with it, the entire Nognes area will probably become a forbidden zone of life."
Time reflection stopped, "I was by the side of Captain Ed and the others at that time. The tree people mistakenly thought that I was with them, so they happened to hear these things. Captain Ed and I saved my life. I shouldn't have revealed these to the outside world, but Miss Rainbow, you know Captain Ed and the others..."
"Don't worry, I just see you with them and ask about their current situation," Alice looked at the other party, "but I don't want my private affairs to affect the team. They are them and we are us, so there is no need to tell the team leader about this."
"I understand, but Captain Ed and others are also good people,"
“That’s two different things.”
"Okay," Shi Zhi nodded, but called her again: "Wait, by the way... Please tell the leader, don't trust the people of the Twilight Guild too much. What kind of alliance guild are they? Even our people will never save them."
She nodded.
Alice's eyes quickly returned to reality, turned around and looked in one direction - there was a twilight ranger hiding on the edge of the forest, and she could feel that the other person's eyes were also looking in her own direction.
She withdrew her gaze without a trace, turned around, and walked towards the camp. In her perception, the other party indeed followed. She knew that the other party should see more clearly when she saw her, and the people in Twilight were much higher than theirs.
So she carefully walked through the camp and sent messages to everyone one by one, asking them to gather in the open space not far away, and there might be important tasks later. And when passing by a tree, a shadow extended from Alice's feet and merged into the trunk.
Unlike her sister who is dedicated to Shadow Dance, she is better at another direction - the Eye of the Forest and the Night Owl. That shadow is the Night Owl's skill - Shadow Perception. A high-level Night Owl can leave up to dozens of shadow marks within a range of several kilometers. But of course she cannot control such a large range, but it is more than enough to leave one or two marks without knowing it.
The forest was located at the intersection of light and darkness, and she was sure that the other party would not notice her small movements.
After passing through the last camp area, Alice finally sensed the departure of the Twilight Guild Ranger through the shadow mark she left. It felt like she was standing in the shadow mark position, watching the other party explored from afar, then turned around and left.
She also turned around and looked at the figures in the forest, which were the other people who were heading for the meeting. But she took a step back, left the road, and stepped in the opposite direction from the others, like a shadow, throwing into the dark woodland.
But in a certain direction Alice didn't notice, a dark light was flashing by.
In the woodland, a man in a gray alchemist robe raised his head and stared at the sky, looking at the shadow flying back in that direction. He raised his hand and caught it, and a meaningful light appeared in his eyes.
He put away the clockwork, then wrote a message in the void, and sent it out with his hand.
...
Fang Zhu looked at the element tied up, and a piece of flesh was burned off the other party's face, revealing the bloody muscles and connective tissue below. A loose eyeball swayed in his head, and the remaining eye was also looking at him weakly.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! Ji Ta looked at it and couldn't bear to read it again. He couldn't help but close his eyes and lower his head, but when she lowered her head, the huge round glasses slid down from the bridge of her nose, which scared her so much that she quickly supported her with her hands.
Reed couldn't help but shake his head as he looked at the scene, stretched out his claws from behind and hooked up the hood on her scholar's robe, turned it over and pulled it down, covering the latter's eyes tightly, revealing only half of his chin outside.
"In the future, the scenes that are not suitable for children are not suitable for them, let Ji Ta and Tian Lan see more." Big Cat Man said in a muffled voice.
"Ah, sorry." Fang Rong grabbed her hair, but she didn't expect that there would be one more time. To be honest, he was shocked by himself. These people were a little too rough and just pressed the person on the burnt floor.
But to a certain extent, this was a consequence of his own fault. When he took action to turn others into coke, he never thought that he would suffer the same kind of suffering. Even if he could be resurrected, it would definitely not feel good about that, and it might not leave a psychological shadow.
This is one of the reasons why the candidates need psychological counseling to return to their original world.
Fang Zhu looked up at the burnt kitchen again. The walls and cabinets were charred black, fog was steaming around, and a thin layer of water was accumulated on the floor.
He couldn't help but sigh in his heart that after learning from Mr. Karatu, Jita's control of elements and spells had become more and more perfect. In a flash, he borrowed the other party's spell and turned it into his own spells. He found the opposite attributes from the extreme fire environment, and turned it into a safe situation with his backhand.
This operation has already touched the edge of the superior realm, and it is enough to put it between the magician and the elemental envoy. Of course, this is based on the advantages of naturalists and magicians themselves, but Jita still has a lot of room for growth compared to others.
She was only fourteen years old, and there were still two months and fifteen days left before she was fifteen years old.
Others are talking about the identity of the attacker.
"Is this guy a spy?"
"They must have defected to those monsters."
"We need to interrogate it carefully, he must have accomplices."
The elementals were dying, but at this moment it seemed that some strength had finally been restored. He looked at the people around him weakly, and suddenly spoke in a hoarse voice: "Give me a pleasure, you know I will not speak. And you can't torture me... This is a violation of the Star Gate Declaration."
Everyone was furious: "Do you still know the Star Gate Declaration!?"
But the element made the only one sneer weakly and did not continue to speak.
Everyone was a little powerless. No matter which side the other party served, their behavior did not seem to be a violation of the Star Gate Declaration. They were here to help build people, so the other party could naturally choose to help the monsters outside. At best, it could only be said that the camps were different.
However, Fang Yu retreated his gaze and looked at this element and felt that it was not that simple. He knew more about things than others, so he naturally knew the deep reason of the dispute. Of course, these people might also be fascinated by the crystal, but they had to figure out their origin first.
Theoretically, the guilds in this area formed an alliance for this crystal mine, and driven by common interests, they would not fight each other in internal conflicts.
He turned around and asked the others, "Does anyone know what kind of guild this person belong to?"
Due to the previous battle, everyone still maintained a minimum respect for him and shook their heads.
Freely selected summoners? But it is not necessarily true. Freely selected summoners generally do not have such courage. Fang Yu unconsciously ignores himself. Although no one can recognize the origin of this person here, it does not necessarily mean that the other party is really not a member of a certain guild.
He looked at the actions of the other party before, but he didn't look like a temporary group of callers. Even if it was a free adventure group, there were some subtle differences between its members and the callers in the guild.
Fang Yu looked at the other party and then said, "Actually, it doesn't matter whether you open your mouth or not."
The other party was slightly stunned.
"We can't torture you, but we can imprison you - according to the Stargate Declaration, we can capture enemies until the end of the war. We will hand you over to the tree people, and you know that there are some ways for the goblins to read your superficial thoughts. This is enough for those who have not been trained professionally."
"Yes," everyone around suddenly became excited, "I almost got confused by you, the boy. Fortunately, the boss has a solution."
That element changed his face.
But at this moment, Reed suddenly took a step forward, drew the holy sword from behind, and blocked the elemental force. But he was still half a step slower, and a loud noise came through the wall and hit the other party's heart.
The big cat's face changed, and he turned around and pressed his chest with his claws, but a little white light had emerged from the latter.
"It's a piercing shooting, there are rangers outside," he stood up and looked at the others, his hair and bearded, and his voice was solemn: "Everyone stays in the hotel and don't move. There are also their people here, Cuiye, please help look at the others."
The poet knew that it was important and reliably compared them with a gesture of no problem.
In fact, they had expected that the other party would have a backup plan, but they didn't expect that the attack did not come from inside the hotel, but from outside. They were negligent and allowed the other party to succeed. After saying this, the Lion Paladin chased out with a quick glance. It flipped out the window, and from the perspective of the light, he happened to see a shadow flashing in the forest in the distance.
Fang Zhu and Ji Ta also happened to chase after him from the direction of the main entrance.
"Mr. Reed, how about it?"
"Let him run away," said the big cat man twisted the copper ring on his beard, squinted his eyes and looked in that direction. "But I remember his smell. The wind will tell us his whereabouts. That guy is not far away."
But before he finished speaking, Fang Zhu and Ji Ta suddenly froze.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! All three of them heard a subtle, almost undetectable trembling sound suddenly came from a distance. The sound was extremely small, but it was clearly audible. This extreme contradiction gave people a strange feeling.
It was like an invisible ripple that was running through this underground cave from another level of the world. Among the three, the naturalist lady was the most sensitive. She couldn't help but stretch out her hands to hold her ears, and her glasses were hit on the ground with a "splash".
But Jita seemed to be unaware of it, and only frowned in pain. Fang Yu realized the other party's expression, grabbed her shoulder, and asked, "Jita, what's wrong with you?"
"Elemental Realm..." Jita murmured in a daze.
With a buzzing sound, the beep pierced the ear drum, and everyone developed auditory hallucinations like water in their ears.
Fang Yu felt that the whole world seemed to have been reversed, and the next moment, the dazzling light ball on the top of the cave flashed and suddenly went out. The surroundings fell into darkness, and the strange hallucinations that had been before suddenly disappeared completely, and the surroundings returned to silence.
And for a moment, he heard a riot sound, which came from the hall of the tree behind him. It was noisy voices, the sound of utensils breaking, and the sound of disputes.
Then Fang Zhu felt a big furry paw grab him. He knew that it was the Big Cat Man, and he couldn't help but feel it. The voice of the Lion Paladin came from the darkness: "Ed, are you okay?"
"I'm fine, where is Jita?"
"I, I'm fine, Brother Ed..."
"What's going on?" Fang Yu asked.
"I don't know what happened to that light," asked the big cat man in a hunched voice: "I remember that even in the middle of the night, it wouldn't completely go out."
Fang Yu felt something might have happened, and it was at this moment that a red light lit up in the darkness. It was his communication crystal - Fang Yu quickly took out the crystal and wiped it gently with his hand. Silvede's voice came from inside: "Ed, how are you doing there?"
Hearing the gentle voice of the ship's officer, Fang Rong felt his heart calm. He took a breath before calming down: "We are fine here, but the light suddenly went out. Where are you?"
"We are fine," Silweid said calmly, "but I just received a message that those who were investigating outside found a large army of crystals, passing through a crack outside the valley."
"Crystal launched an attack?" Fang Yu frowned. Crystal's attack came much earlier than they expected, and the hall of the tree was attacked. At the moment, the light of the heart of the mountain was extinguished again, and various accidents followed one after another, always giving him a bad premonition.
"Although it is not necessarily a general attack, it is very likely. Now all teams are heading to the Thorn Front to organize defense. They also know that this attack may be difficult and have already warned us," she stopped. "Captain, where are we?"
Everything collided, and the most important thing at the moment was of course to defend Crystal's last wave of attack, otherwise everything would be over. But Fang Yu had a vague premonition in his heart, feeling that the matter here was not simple either.
He pondered for a moment and finally made a decision: "You go to the Thorn Front to meet with the others first."
"Okay," Silvede responded, "Ed, be careful."
"the same as you."
Fang Zhu put the crystal back and asked the big cat man beside him: "Mr. Reed, can you find that person?"
The latter nodded slightly,
"Follow me."
...
Alice didn't expect she was discovered.
Fortunately, she was cautious enough and left a shadow mark along the way. This action saved her life, otherwise she would not have noticed the two nightingales and Rangers of the Twilight Guild who followed.
It would be fine if the ranger was alone, she could still get rid of the other party by relying on her own speed, but the nightingale in the dusk was too fatal to her. The other party's level was higher than her and had richer experience than her.
I can only say that it’s fortunately not the Nightingale who is full-time movie dance, otherwise the other party would have killed her long ago.
But even so, the bloody wound on her right shoulder was left by the other party - it was the souvenir left to her by the other party for the first time. And that time, it was all based on her shadow mark and found the opponent in advance - otherwise the wound should not be on the shoulder, but should be 20 centimeters on the left and cut into her throat.
Alice used a shadow dance technique to escape from the battle, but the shadow dancer could only walk 120 feet in a day. She had used half of the distance before, and there was only one chance left.
The wound was constantly bleeding, which was double bad news for her - while the blood loss took away the physical strength, it also attracted enemies. Although the light had been extinguished and the surroundings were darkened, for the keen nightingale, darkness itself was not an obstacle. They could pursue enemies within a certain range by relying on their smell.
This is different from the natural sensitive sense of smell of cats and canines. The ability of the nightingale's tracking comes from acquired training. The higher the level, the stronger the tracking ability. But her opponent's level is not low.
But she had no time to stop and deal with the wound, so she could only take out a bandage, bite one end with her teeth, and bandage it back and forth with her uninjured hand. Although she could only stop the bleeding for the time being, she could only take one step at the moment.
But what made her even more nervous was losing direction - she still remembered the direction of the tree hall before the light went out, and she knew Ed and the others were there. But the other party's ranger with a better sense of direction had been forcing her to change the route. After exploring in the dark for a while, Alice didn't know whether her intuition was reliable.
She even felt vaguely that there was another eye in the darkness watching her.
She has experienced such a scene.
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Alice later found out who was the person opposite her at that time. The military told him that the person was named Kaka, who was a newcomer from the Jeffrett Red Team... A newcomer made their brigade of the Rainer who was in a mess.
However, the Jeffrett Red Team can be regarded as BBK's first-line reserve guild. I heard that BBK has already achieved the strength to reach the top ten this year, and the one who will fall from the altar is either the crown of Silver Forest or another ninth-ranked League of Gods.
However, Alice suddenly realized how she could be distracted at this time. Being too nervous seemed to make her feel a little confused. She shook her head vigorously, trying to take herself out of this embarrassing situation.
But it was at this moment that a creepy feeling suddenly rose from her heart.
Without thinking, she rushed forward, and a sharp roar was coming from the darkness. An arrow swept straight past her head, bringing up a few strands of hair. The feather arrow hit the trunk behind the tree, making a muffled sound, and the tail feather still shaking under the influence of huge force.
But Alice didn't have time to see there.
She knew that she was far from being out of danger, and in that moment she had already determined what she was thinking in her heart - there was a combat craftsman, and she immediately understood how she was exposed. But her shadow mark was useless to explore from mid-air. Her heart couldn't help but sink a little, feeling that she might not be able to walk far.
It was at this moment that Alice saw a sharp sword light that lit up in her vision.
The blade moved forward as if she had cut into an illusory shadow. The nightingale girl turned into a fog and merged into the dark environment - Shadow Walking Technique. This was the second time she had used such ability.
If she could not escape the other party's pursuit, she would have to shut her eyes and wait for death.
The other party was obviously a little annoyed and let out a low curse from a distance: "Annoying shadow dancer." The other party obviously hadn't grasped her position for a while, so he shouted into the forest: "Don't run away, you can't escape, why waste everyone's time?"
Alice sat behind a big gray-white tree, and she didn't dare to let out a single bite.
...
Fang Zhu and the Big Cat Man stopped. The two looked at the gurgling river water in front of them and couldn't help but look at each other for a moment. The people they chased were quite experienced. The abilities of sensitive smell and the most feared thing was the flowing water. When they chased this place, they could be considered as having broken clues.
The two couldn't help but look at the scholar lady who followed behind. The latter lost her glasses and had to grop in the dark to keep up with the two. But the Big Cat Man asked her if she wanted help, but Jita shook her head. She really relied on her own ability to catch up.
"I can find a way to find footprints with magic," Jita squinted his eyes and looked at the river in the dark, and replied softly: "But if he walked along the river, I had no choice. Magic only strengthens our abilities and cannot create non-existent things out of thin air."
"It's not impossible," she paused, and the man added seriously: "It's just that I can't do it."
"Then try it," Reed looked at the other side of the river and replied, "If there is really no way, we will go back and get along with others first. There should be clues in the hotel, if Cui Ye can see those people."
Although the three of them understood that the moment the light was extinguished, the other party had probably escaped.
But it was at this moment that Fang Yu suddenly raised a finger and made a gesture to silence the two of them in the darkness.
He stood by the river, tilted his head and listened in one direction, only to hear a faint sound from the forest over there. The sound was not loud, and it was even covered by the rushing sound of the river. However, after the three of them calmed down, they could still hear the content clearly:
"Stop running...you...why do you waste your time?"
Without saying a word, Fang Yu directly released three clockwork fairies and flew in that direction.
He raised his right hand and watched three heavy silver lights pass through the river and flew into the forest there.
Chapter completed!