The artificial walkway came to an abrupt end, and the smooth, natural rock formations stretched forward, silent in the dark depths. When Fang Plover saw that the surface of the rock wall showed a smooth edge of ochre red under the faint light of the crystal, he couldn't help but subconsciously stop talking.

Nature can sometimes present a thrilling spectacle, like the gradual layers of color in the cave at this moment, interspersed with light yellow, tea red and a swirling line of white. Follow the direction of the underground river and plunge into the bottomless abyss.

To this day, it seems that you can still hear the echoes of the past.

But the maiden was unaware of this, groped her way down, and whispered, "Be careful, Lord the Chosen, the road ahead is not easy." ”

Seeing that she was struggling, Fang Yu stretched out his hand to help. But the girl seemed to feel his kindness, and only smiled and shook her head: "No need, I'm used to it." ”

The underground river crosses and cuts off the artificial corridor, and the water etchs out the landform behind it, which is tortuous and intricate, but the cave itself is wide and flat.

Fang Yu listened to the rustling sound in the darkness.

It was as if there was an invisible monster lurking between the dark shadows, eating away at the footsteps of the two. But occasionally he looked back, and the light and shadow cut by the crystal's light flickered and was empty.

"Can the Chosen One hear those voices too?" The girl spoke suddenly, her voice soft and slow, but clear in the unique emptiness of the darkness.

Fang Yu looked at her with some surprise. In fact, all he heard was the footsteps of the two of them.

"What sound?"

"The sound of an argument."

"Dispute?"

The girl nodded slightly, her long eyelashes fluttering slightly, almost weak, and in the light of the crystal, they refracted a different color like snow. "I sometimes wonder why people keep arguing......

Fang Ou heard her thin inhale.

But he didn't hear any arguments, only under the dim light of the crystal, the cave ** seemed unchanged, and there was silence

As for why people always have to argue – there are so many causes of argument, resentment, prejudice, fear, anger and even discrimination can be the beginning of a dispute. But in the depths of his eyes, the line of faintly fluorescent text that appeared in his chat bar was reflected:

The so-called dispute is really just a means for people to have the right to speak. The key is not persistence, but contention, and as long as people's dissenting opinions have not been eliminated, disputes will always arise. And people can never have true empathy, so disputes can't go away......

"But Teacher," Fang Yu typed in word for word, "I don't understand this when you tell me this." ’

'Is this what I told you?' ’

Fang Yu couldn't help but look at the girl beside him.

Is this also part of the questline?' Fang Yu asked, "Or is this another teacher's 'chicken soup for the soul'?" ’

'No,' R sent a sigh, "just a feeling." ’

At this time, the girl also came back to her senses and smiled apologetically: "I'm sorry, but every time I come to this place, I can't help but think of something when I hear those voices." I'll make you laugh, Lord of the Chosen. ”

"You better call me Ed, it sounds too awkward to be an adult, I'm just an ordinary person," Fang Yu replied. But he still paid some attention to the other party's words: "Can you hear those voices in this place, what kind of sound is that?" ”

The girl stepped forward and replied as she went, "There are so many voices, men and women, old men and children, so many and so noisy that I can't even make out what they are saying." ”

“…… But I should know what they're talking about, I remember," she paused suddenly, "I remember hearing these sounds before, maybe in one place, but many things I've forgotten." ”

The girl muttered to herself, she lowered her head a little distractedly, and gently shook her right hand with her left hand, as if there should be something there.

Then she looked back, "Can't the Chosen One hear it?" ”

"It's Ed." Fang Yu corrected.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Eddard."

Fang Yu shook his head habitually, but didn't say a word.

The girl closed her eyes and didn't wait for his response, a look of amazement flashed on her face, and she said softly, "Sure enough." Fang Yu looked at her and asked, "So no one else can hear it?" ”

The girl nodded slightly.

Fang Yu saw her turn around again, and couldn't help but ask, "Eve, what do you think those voices are?" ”

"I don't know, maybe it's just a memory in my heart, Mr. Ed," replied the girl in a thin voice, "I've been here for too long, and Joshide hasn't come back, and I don't hear his voice out of all the voices—"

Fang Yu looked at the girl's lonely back, and suddenly felt some sympathy in his heart.

Somehow, it reminded him of Sylvid, and at the same time of Miss Mia, and he remembered the last time he had seen each other in the ruins, the moment the silver-haired wolf maiden turned away, and there seemed to be a similar loneliness in her back.

It is not unusual for Miss Ship Officer, who is almost isolated, to make such a connection. But he was a little puzzled, as the witch of the sea, how could Miya have the same temperament?

Is it because she will go to the second world and seek justice for her comrades-in-arms alone?

As he pondered, the girl stopped again, turned her head sideways, and the dim light shone just on her somewhat pale cheeks: "Here it is, Mr. Eddard." ”

Fang Ou looked ahead, and in front of him was a huge cavern, and the light of the crystal only shone a small piece of land. At the end of the light, he saw some strange, black crystals, one by one, like blooming stamens, growing in clusters within the cave.

Crystal clusters are a natural phenomenon unique to Aitalia, and most of the time the magic is crystallized, and it is not an exaggeration to say that this world is a world of crystals. On the ground, you can see large and small strange hair crystals, and the Guy crystal is the most spectacular of them.

And underground, it is probably also the crystal kingdom, the gray earth-colored earth crystal is contained in the depths of the earth, and mixed with different metal elements, the crystal will also show different colors, not just the monochrome of the elemental magic itself.

Black crystals are also very common, but clusters overlap each other, like dragon scales, covering layers and growing layer by layer, but it is only seen in Fang Yuan's life.

He subconsciously raised the luminous crystal in his hand, and opened his mouth slightly wide—a noun that jumped into his heart—the dragon's first scales. Undoubtedly, this is exactly what the Blood Shark Sky Pirates are digging deep into the gravel rubble to find.

And it is quiet, in the depths of the underground river here.

And it was so beautiful, so beautiful that one could forget the terrible meaning that had been given to it, and the layers of crystals, reflecting the flowing brilliance, made the cave gradually brighter - in Fang Yuan's eyes, it was clearly a dragon prostrate on the ground.

A crystal dragon.

It twists its slender neck, covers its wings, and slumps low on the ground as if it were in eternal sleep. Unlike the aggressiveness of the Dark Dragon itself, its serene posture gives these crystals a special beauty, huge, elegant, and harmless.

It was only when he got closer that Fang Yu saw that the crystal itself was not a dragon, or it was rather a dragon-shaped cocoon, and the owner of it had long since been emptied.

This was the first scale of the dark dragon, after which the fire of Venus fell to the dust, and I don't know how many creatures were lost in the fire. But its first birth was only born here, in the depths of an inconspicuous, even unknown, cavern beneath this Idus.

Is this where Nicol Bolas became a dragon?

Fang Yu couldn't help but have a strange thought in his heart.

The girl heard him inhale softly and asked, "Mr. Ed, what are you looking at?" ”

"These crystals ......"

"That's not what we're looking for," the girl was stunned for a moment, then smiled, "These crystals are contaminated with the power of darkness, they must be ugly, right?" It doesn't matter, they're not dangerous, as long as you don't pay attention to them. ”

"Ugly?" Fang Yu shook his head, this is also ugly, then is there anything beautiful in this world?

"Not really," he replied, "is pretty to look at these crystals alone—but you're right, they're the product of the dark." ”

The girl walked cautiously in front, and was a little curious when she heard this: "How can it be a product of dark power?" Mr. Ed, you're not comforting me, are you——? ”

"Comforting you?" Fang Yu was about to speak, when suddenly he saw a black strange shadow, flashing from between the crystals. He hurriedly shouted, "Be careful! ”

The black shadow stretched a lot at once, and rushed towards the girl with teeth and claws. Fang Yu was not slow to react, raised his hand, five fingers and one piece, and the platinum angel seemed to slide out from between a dark blue light door, raising his sword to block.

A long spark flashed through the darkness.

The slender blade of the Angel of Energy let out a trembling sound as if it had struck an entity.

'Holy-'

In the chat bar, two words pop up.

The strange shadow retreated under the force, and Fang Yu had recognized the identity of the other party, the dragon's minions, which were almost exactly the same as the ones they had encountered in the tunnels before, but the one in front of them had collapsed to the point that it was almost impossible to maintain its shape.

He was already very experienced in fighting with the dragon's minions, and he could see the other party's intentions with a sweep of his eyes, and as if he was accustomed to nature, lines of data naturally appeared in his mind. He stretched out his hand and pointed, and the angel took the first step, the last to come, and cut into the opponent's back as fast as possible.

The dragon's minions have no way to retreat, so they can only turn back and claw.

But the Angel's sensing ring flashed, and the body automatically leaned back, allowing the claw to return in vain. And the square plover glove turned nearly ninety degrees, and at the moment when the center of gravity shifted back, the angel fell backwards - like an iron bridge.

At the same moment, the blade of its right arm thrust downward, and with that as a base point, it rolled backwards.

And the girl had time to turn around, and a blade light swept not far ahead.

Only then did she look up and 'see' that the Angel of Energy was flying high and falling, and with it, a headless corpse.

The dragon's minions fell to the ground and immediately turned into a cloud of dust, which dissipated one after another. It's just that its death seems to have produced some kind of chain reaction in the cave, only to see the strange shadow in the black crystal sway, and then a cloud of black smoke fell from it, and as soon as it fell to the ground, it immediately turned into a dragon's minions.

These almost melted half-human forms rushed towards the two of them as soon as they took shape.

Fang Yu immediately stretched out his hand to block the girl's body, raised his hand, and snapped his fingers.

I saw him on the left and on the right, each opening a door of light, and two angels of energy were striding out of it.

"Huh?"

Although the girl couldn't see, she could hear the voice, and at this moment she seemed to distinguish between Fang Yuan's occupation and the construct he controlled. She probably didn't expect that the person she had been talking to was actually a respected alchemist.

And such a young combat craftsman.

The strength of the other party also surprised her a little - is there such an outstanding warrior among mortals besides the Oath Keeper clan? Or is it the way it should be, the Chosen One?

Fang Yu pointed forward, and the three energy angels joined the battle at the same time. After experiencing so many dangers, the idle situation was no longer enough to cause any waves in his heart, and as soon as the three energy angels stopped him, the screaming banshee immediately roared through the air.

A flash grenade was dropped in midair.

Flashbangs exploded between the dragon's minions, and while the dark creatures were completely unaffected by the blinding effect, the glowing dust flew down and outlined them in the darkness—solving the plight of the Plover in detecting enemies in the dim light of the cavern.

The three Angels blocked some of the dragon's minions, but more monsters directly crossed the defense line and swooped down on him, the controller.

Fang Plover pulled the girl back two steps, and the ground lurked and bounced, and the gravity trap had an effect between him and the monsters. Fang Yu glanced at the chat bar, except for the previous sentence of 'I rely on', R has not expressed any opinion until now.

He glanced at the silhouettes with glitter dust attached to them, and then broke off contact with the Screaming Banshee and the Lurkers.

The Lurker's spell is a continuous effect, but as soon as the Screaming Banshee loses control, she immediately staggers and falls from mid-air. Fang Yu let go of the girl's hand, turned back to her and said, "You take two steps back......"

The girl was slightly stunned, and hurriedly nodded and stepped back.

The dragon's minions are slowly passing through the area of the gravity trap.

Fang Yu reached out to untie the neckline, then his chest, he pulled the alchemist emblem nailed to that place hard, pulled open the trench coat, and heard only a 'buzz' trembling sound—at that moment, it seemed that hundreds of bees flapped their wings together.

I saw a golden clockwork elf rushing out of his coat one by one, and before they could fall to the ground, they crossed a dexterous arc, pulled up from the ground, and flew into the air with wings.

Fang Yu stretched out his right hand, and the clockwork fairy naturally obeyed his command, forming a matrix on his right hand side.

Fang Yuan's calm gaze looked forward, sweeping over the distorted strange shadows.

He pointed forward: "Shoot!" ”

A firelight.

However, it was the second round, the third round.

Because these monsters were covered in glittering dust, Fang Plover had little to no aim, and was able to accurately discern the location of his enemies from the darkness. Three salvos, bullets swept through the dragon's minions like a storm.

But the Clockwork Elf's damage is limited after all.

Fang Yu didn't say a word, he withdrew his right hand, and the three clockwork fairies flashed backwards at the same time, all lined up in front of him. Fang Yu waved his hand again, and the clockwork fairies immediately fell one after another, like meteors, into the cluster of dragon minions in front of them.

At the same time, the Angels of Energy crossed their arms in unison, spreading their dark blue shields.

And then in the darkness, there were blinding flashes of light.

The air waves and roar from the explosion were almost as close as the Angel of Energy blocking out of the shield, and any further forward was nothing more than lifting the corners of Fang Yuan's coat. As for the girl who was blocked behind him, she was not affected in any way, and it can be said that she was unharmed.

After the explosion, there was smoke and dust.

In the chat channel, R sent him three question marks in a row.

Fang Yu was about to answer, but another sentence came into his eyes:

R: 'Watch out for the right!' ’

Fang Yu's reaction was also extremely fast, almost a slippery step flashed backwards, and a black light staggered past him by a fraction of a second. After the black light, a black shadow broke through the smoke and dust, and slammed into him—with the dexterity of the square plover, it was almost impossible to react.

At the same time, after the Angel is overloaded, he can't move for a while.

But Fang Yu instinctively activated the shield system, letting the other party crash into the shield first. Then he retreats backwards with the help of force, and at the same time, the system's automatic dodge activates, pulling him to lose his center of gravity and give way to the back.

But Fang Yu had already reacted at this time, moved in the direction of the shift of the center of gravity, and then put his hand on the ground, jumped up and hit the other party.

This time, the rabbit rose and fell, and the black shadow was knocked out of the way.

'Damn, Odin's stuff you'll too!?' ’

This time, R was really shocked.

However, Fang Yu didn't have time to reply, although he knocked the other party away, but this move was a last resort after all, and he lost his center of gravity and fell to the ground.

At the same time, he looked up and realized that he was behind the dragon minions that he had just destroyed with the fire djinn. Between those black crystals, there were more strange shadows pouring out of them.

The sheer number of them is simply a tingling of the scalp.

R also saw this scene and hurriedly typed:

'Did you kid poke a hornet's nest?' ’

"Where are so many monsters in this place, be careful, I'll help you pay attention to the side, and you will find a way to get out of this place-'

'You can get into trouble anywhere. ’

Fang Yu secretly pressed his chest with his left hand—just as he could clearly sense that there, the Golden Flame Ring was emitting a scorching temperature.

"Lord the Chosen," the girl's voice was also unusually uneasy, "I don't know how there are so many of these monsters in this place, they are not usually like this. Want...... Why don't you leave me behind, and I—I'll find a place to hide." ”

'That's a good idea,' R sent a line of text: 'She's not going to hang up, you have flexible constructing to help you try to get these things out of the way and then find another way to go deeper.' Remember what I told you, don't force it. ’

Fang Yu thought for a moment, but replied, "No need. ’

'Huh? ’

He released the ring of golden flame in his left hand and closed his eyes slightly.

……