Chapter 128 53. Consultant
"Huh? The Ancient Saint! I'm sure! I'm sure that statue just moved!"
Darkus was looking at the slate map carefully, and Chupa Coco was suddenly startled next to him. He howled so loudly that he trembled with fright and almost threw the slate map to the ground.
"That statue really moved just now!" Chupa Coco pointed to the lizard-style statue on the mountain in the distance, looking at Darkus who was pretending to glare at him with sincerity and shock in his eyes.
The team had been marching on the edge of the Thorn Valley before, and nothing strange had happened since Eye of the Storm, a huge arcane dragon, joined the team.
We didn’t encounter satellite cities, we didn’t encounter spiritual node ruins, we didn’t encounter objects like star monuments and pyramids.
That group of unreliable herbivorous dragons never came back, but there was another Ankylosaurus in the team. Darkus’s evaluation is that this guy is a bit confused, and his paint job is also a bit strange. Except for the head part, which is fiery red, the other parts are black and shiny, like an enlarged version. Beetle. I was very happy to eat meat as my first meal after joining the team. Maybe I joined the team because I often had enough to eat in the wild? He was too embarrassed to expose the giant beast, so he didn't ask.
The Skink Lizards in the team were also amazed. They said it was the first time they saw an Ankylosaurus like this. However, this Ankylosaurus is just painted a little strangely, and has no unique skills or special features.
After that, no other giant beasts joined the team. They couldn't avoid the arcane dragon and turned around and ran away.
The behemoths in the team slowly got used to the arcane dragon hanging behind the team. They are breaking through the bottom line little by little and returning to their previous appearance. They sometimes respond to the screams of distant giant beasts, letting those distant giant beasts come over, and then wait for the giant beasts to come over and see the arcane dragon's reaction, and they never tire of it. Once, a tyrannosaurus even came. The tyrannosaurus roared and ran over. When he came closer to take a look, he realized that something was wrong, so he said a few harsh words and disappeared in an arc.
Darkus often sees some strange dinosaurs, but the ancient Triceratops never appeared. He had the illusion that Arcane Dragon always had the look of a kindly old father when looking at the giant beasts.
At this time, the team had arrived at the city of disguise, Horotho, three days ago, at least on the slate map.
Akadan can sense the network of Dan's spiritual veins through the characteristics of the Skink Seer, and this is what he said conclusively. Kalien has been conducting various reconnaissance in the sky in the past few days, often flying close to the mountains, but he has never found any trace of the city. However, there are signs of eruption of the active volcano in the distance.
But the team never found the entrance, and Darkus's perception of the stone slab was also blocked, or there was no stone slab here at all.
There are only broken stones and crumbling statues on the mountain covered by vines.
Darkus glanced at Genevieve. Genevieve understood what he meant. She closed her eyes and began to feel carefully. After a moment, she shook her head at him.
"Good guy, I saw one of the three abandoned temple cities along the way. How can such a big city fly on its own? A city of disguise?"
Darkus thought that this abandoned temple city was not like the mist. The city is as hidden in the fog as Slanwupeck, and it seems like the ancient saints played an abstract prank by building the entire city in the mountains.
The Druchi and Skinks in the team had already formed separate teams and started searching separately. After several days, they found nothing.
Darkus put the slate map back into the chest of the noble robe, and began to pace around in thought with his head down. He began to fall into mental internal friction. Did he choose the wrong route at the beginning? If you can’t find it, should you go to the Malente Swamp to see the battle site of the Battle of Tehenhoyne’s fame? However, a thousand years have passed. It is estimated that the snake pits where Skaven were sacrificed are gone, and there will be nothing to see if they go there. Or go through the Marente Swamp and go to the Huahuan Desert? Then go north to have a look at the Hall of Unknown Constellations? But this route is the final alternative route. He wants to take the black ark and go there in the future, inspect the coastline, and find an island that can be exploded to build a black ark. If you don't take this route, you will have to go directly to the first city, Itaza, through the depths of the Thorn Valley, or ask Master Ma to go to another place.
"I'll go look for it in the water too." Genevieve said hello to Darkus who was thinking.
The team has been camping for three days. The giant beasts have been placed in a temporary fence. Only the Arcane Dragon moves alone. At this time, it is lying on a wind vent not far away with its eyes closed, feeling the flow of Aegir's wind. , it doesn’t seem to need to eat, as long as the wind of Aegir can absorb it, it can move. Magical winds like Aegir Wind are very abundant in the Lustria continent. Aegir Wind flows when it is windy or rainy. Of course, it would be better if there is a heavy rain.
"Eye of the Storm, where do you think the intersection of this temple city is?" Darkus walked over and stroked the arcane dragon's thick and powerful dark red forelimbs, and suddenly asked like a convulsion.
Darkus immediately came back to his senses, shaking his head and laughing. However, the mad Earl Marius of the Ivyland of the Empire has his warhorse mount Daisy Kurt von Helding II as an advisor. Why can't his half-crazy Druch have an arcane dragon as an advisor? ?
The Eye of the Storm opened its eyes, looked at Darkus in front of it, thought calmly for a while, and then turned its eyes to Genevieve, who was walking deeper into the river.
"In the water?" Darkus leaned on the forelimbs of Eye of the Storm, held his hands in his arms, and looked at the river with an unknown name.
The afternoon sun dispersed the light smoke-like mist covering the river surface, and the clear river water rushed down, with small eddies appearing from time to time, and finally crossed the Malente Swamp and finally merged into the sea.
Eye of the Storm blinked at Darkus, his purple-blue pupils filled with wisdom, as if he was a wise man who could see through everything.
Darkus nodded without saying anything, and patted Eye of the Storm's neck.
Eye of the Storm looked at Darkus walking away, then closed his eyes and took a rest.
In the past few days, Elmir had been searching the river with the pirates from the Lengyan family. The pirates were working particularly hard. They were all eager to find something and make a difference.
Elmir swam slowly around the corner in an extremely weird posture. She kept stroking the rocks next to her with her hands, trying to find something. Her purpose is very simple, that is, to be able to make a normal job. Two skinks swam quickly beside her, looking at her swimming style in amazement. She also turned her head to the two skinks. She always felt that these unreliable skinks were either looking for something or an entrance, or they were simply coming to swim in the river and then look for it.
The next second, her hand was empty, and the inertia of her body plunged directly into the arm. She saw the eyes of the two Skink lizards change from surprise to surprise and shock. She was also shocked, then she turned around and stretched out her arms.
In the sight of the two skinks, the hot-blooded servant following Umak disappeared from their eyes in an instant. After a while, the arm of the hot-blooded servant suddenly appeared again, and then the whole body appeared. After a moment, the two skinks recovered from the shock, looked at each other, nodded, and swam towards the hot-blooded servant. Elmir realized that there must be a problem here. She waved her hand to the two skinks swimming over, signaling to stay where they were. The two skinks saw her instructions and indeed stopped. She pointed at herself and then behind her, then swung back and entered again. There was just a nest inside, but she could float up there, so she decisively chose to float up.
"This!" Elmir emerged from the water. With the elf's good eyesight, she could vaguely see a sealed passage and two lizard-style statues next to it in the dark environment. Her expression instantly changed to She was ecstatic, and then she couldn't wait to dive into the water. She took out a serrated dagger, inserted it into the sand, and quickly swam out of this strange place. The two skink lizards were still waiting for her. She took out the serrated sword from her waist and inserted it into the sand again. She signaled to them to continue waiting where she was, and then quickly surfaced. She wanted to inform Dafa as soon as possible. Master Kevus, we can’t let the lizard men take away this success.
Darkus and Franais on the shore were sorting out their equipment, and he was also preparing to go down for a walk. It would be great if you can find the entrance. If you can't find it, just treat it as an afternoon swim. As Darkus' most trusted lieutenant at present, if Darkus goes into the water, Franais will definitely need to follow him. As soon as he took off his noble robe, Almir's head emerged from the water not far away.
"Master, there is a passage under the water!" Elmir began to shout excitedly.
The eye of the storm in the distance was awakened. It opened its eyes again and looked here. Darkus raised his thumb with his right hand to signal to it, and then dived into the river.
"That's right, you go and notify the gathering, and open the passage by the way." Darkus observed the sealed passage in front of him, nodded to Almir next to him, and then floated down again.
Darkus went to study the camouflage device, which was a magical optical camouflage device. Then nothing happened. He searched for a long time but couldn't find the corresponding projection source. The position of the camouflage was extremely concealed and natural. He observed outside for a while. There was no sign of the fish and shrimps swimming there. It seemed that the fish and shrimps also thought that there was no way to pass, or there were devices or magic to dispel them and prevent them from getting closer.
The monitor lizard Kami and several monitor lizards swam down. The monitor lizards could still swim down at this depth.
Soon the passage was blasted open by the giant lizard Kami. Darkus went ashore to regroup the team and began to sort out materials, tools and equipment to prepare for a new adventure.
There were no dangers along the way, but the Tomb Raider mode was turned on, which required constant diving, jumping and climbing. However, the backside did not collapse all the way. The monitor lizards on the ground began to cut down the trees under the command of the skink lizards, and the skink lizards continued to follow behind carrying the wood.
The team sometimes goes up, sometimes down. Along the way, you can often see lizard-style statues with traces of time and decayed wooden frames that will collapse at any time if you step on them.
Soon the team came to a cliff in the middle of the mountain. There was no plank road, but it was very Tomb Raider mode. It was necessary to use equipment such as hooks and ropes on the pieces of pendants or moving objects at the top of the gap. pass.
"Is the lizard man still capable of this? Or is this a parking place for pterosaurs?" Darkus stood in a safe place against the wall, the wind blowing his messy hair, and he occasionally observed the ten animals swaying in the wind on the gap. The two lizardman-style pendants sometimes looked at the distant scenery of the setting sun, and sometimes looked at the hole decorated in the lizardman style opposite the pendant.
A pirate stood up and said something to Elmir, but Darkos was not interested in listening. Likewise, he has no interest in challenging himself, and he is not Laura. He waited for the bridge repair and paving team to follow, and soon the pirate retreated.
"What's wrong?" Darkus guessed what the pirate was going to do and asked calmly.
"Master, he said he is good at this... He wants to challenge himself and use his hook to go over and investigate first." Elmir said a little speechlessly and also a little embarrassed.
"Okay! Very energetic."
Since the paving team couldn't come up for a long time, why not give it a try? This is not a game. If you don’t make a mistake, you can just start over. If you fall, you may still be able to make a profit.
The pirate came out again. He knelt on one knee and saluted Darkus in the distance before standing up. He took out his hook and charged it up, shook it, and then threw it out. The hook hooked the first pendant extremely accurately. He started to drag it backwards. He was not stupid enough to go up directly, but tested it before going up. The sturdiness of the pendant. Soon the second, third, and sixth ones, he tried all the pendants within the reach of the hook claws, and there were still a few in the distance that were just out of reach.
The pirate retracted his hook, arranged his equipment, and knelt down on one knee to salute again.
Chupa Coco and Akadan next to Darkus had already begun to cheer for the hot-blooded species. He nodded slightly towards the pirate. He did not choose to take out the Echo Drum on his back to support the pirate. He was worried about the drum beat. It will disrupt the pirate's rhythm.
The pirate began to jump and swing, and the two hooks on his left and right hands kept accumulating power and swinging. Coupled with the elegant figure of Druchi's trademark, he looks like an acrobatic master, possessed by Laura. Chupa Coco and Akadan no longer cheered, but held their breaths and watched the pirates' movements in amazement.
The pirate made no mistakes, but unfortunately he didn't have Laura's luck. The eighth pendant was not as strong as expected. He began to fall with the pendant, and at the moment of falling. He tried to throw out the hook to grab the ninth pendant, but this time he really made a mistake. The hook was just a little short of catching it. He turned his head and looked at Darkus, his eldest lady, and his companions with a calm expression. He smiled and retracted his claws. He was going to gain a glimmer of life next.
The pirate disappeared from Darkus' sight. He stayed on the stone wall from beginning to end. He had no interest in running to the cliff to see. Before several pirates and skinks could run to the edge of the cliff to see what was going on, the pirates reappeared in his field of vision, followed by the astonished expression of Kalien on the pterosaur, and soon the pirates and Kalli En disappeared from his sight again.
"It seems that there is an optical device outside here, or there is no reason why Kalien can't see such an obvious cliff gap."
After a while, Kalien put the pirates down at the camp and reappeared. He adjusted the speed several times and tried to control the pterosaur to land in the air, but the scene presented by the optical device interfered with the pterosaur. The pterosaur always thought that what was in front of him was a cliff, not the landing place of Kalien's sympathetic feedback.
Every move of Kalien and Pterodactyl was not as smooth as when the pirates were dancing before. It made Druchi and the skinks in the gap in the cliff anxious about this.
"Tell him to try!"
This optical device is indeed magical. The yelling of Carlion outside can be heard inside, but the shouting inside cannot be heard by Carlion outside.
"Good guys, the magical city of disguise."
(End of chapter)