The scream, mixed with unspoken Elven words and vicious curses, lasted for nearly half a minute, leaving both Lucy and Artoria dumbfounded.

It wasn't until the end, perhaps even the white ghost himself was exhausted, and the voice gradually became quieter. He squinted his eyes and glared at Lu Xi with a gaze that was almost cursed, seeing that the latter's liver was fluttering carefully, and finally squeezed out the last few words from between his teeth: "Secret Treasure...... Gatekeeper ...... Seal...... Void! ”

These words seemed to have exhausted the last of the white ghost's body and vitality, his eyes finally lost focus, the only remaining soul fire was completely extinguished, and his withered chest dried up in a clear arc, and there was no more beating and undulating that represented life.

"He's dead...... Artoria let out a heavy sigh. She herself didn't understand what the complicated feelings mixed in her chest were.

"It's dead." Lu Xi also shook his head, expressionless and joyless: "It's a pity, although this guy can understand my words, he speaks upside down, otherwise we would be able to figure out a lot of secrets." ”

"Secret? Ah, do you mean the passage out? ”

"It's not all. The true meaning of this tomb, the legend of Laxis and Richard, why there are demons on Mount Atlas, why there is an altar to the Bloodthirsty King...... Even the origin of this group of white ghosts. Lu Xi looked at Artoria: "I have a hunch, these are shocking mysteries that are enough to affect the development of the world in the future. ”

Artoria's eyes widened, and she looked at Lu Xi in a daze, as if she couldn't keep up with the other party's train of thought. After a long time, she shook her head and said, "I don't understand at all...... Well. Lu Xi, am I not particularly stupid? ”

"It doesn't matter. This has nothing to do with IQ, it's related to cuteness. Lu Xi comforted the other party with a sentence that Artoria didn't understand even more, and then turned his attention to the wooden pole in his hand.

For those who are strong in the legal system, the importance of the staff is needless to say, even if it is a temporary substitute. Moreover, judging by the words of the white ghost just now, the two of them are far from being out of danger at this time, so they need to prepare a little weapon at hand.

Lu Xi took the ironwood staff body that had been sharpened into a regular shape in his hand and observed it, and nodded with satisfaction. Then he used a knife to carve a shaped rune on the head of the staff, and then the ice crystal was embedded in the center of the rune. Lu Xi held the staff and waved his hand casually, and a small ice arrow was condensed, and this simple staff was finished.

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Even the assembly line products distributed by the Federation to front-line battle mages are better than this thing, but it's better than nothing.

"Let's move on." He reached out and picked Artoria on his back.

At this time, Artoria was very honest, and said nothing. just buried his head in Lu Xi's back, blushing while listening to the other party's heavy heartbeat.

From an early age, Artoria's ambition was to become a great Imperial Knight, leading her soldiers to protect the territory and its people, despite the unconditional doting of her parents and brothers. But she has always held herself to very demanding standards. Cute furry animals, luxurious jewelry, beautiful dresses. She also liked the things that these girls liked, but she overcame them with a will far beyond ordinary people. Because in her eyes, all of the above will only make her weak.

Swordsmanship, spearmanship, rage, horsemanship, the art of war, and rigid chivalric etiquette. These coldness are the things that accompanied Artoria's girlhood. Artoria knew that she was not a smart person, so she put in ten times the sweat of ordinary people to get to where she is today. She felt that these were all taken for granted, and naturally she didn't know that her sassy and heroic posture of hard work had also unknowingly infected many people, and it also became the biggest reason why her father decided to come to the throne of God by himself.

His Majesty Otto will not admit that the reason why his daughter succeeded to the throne was simply because of the female control, really!

However, it was only in this dark, cold and damp underground cave that Artoria, who was seriously injured, reached the most vulnerable moment in her life, and only Lu Xi was accompanied by her. Only at this time did she suddenly feel that being cared for seemed to be a particularly happy thing.

The two were moving on, and I don't know how long it took, Artoria heard Lu Xi's voice in a trance: "Artoria ......"

"Huh?" The knight princess let out a low cry as if she had been electrocuted, and quickly raised her head with a red face and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"Are you hungry?"

As soon as these words came out, Artoria suddenly felt as if her face was burned by fire, and she was red: "Who ...... Who is hungry, too, too rude! ”

Before the words were finished, a "grunt" sound that the masses liked to hear sounded very appropriately.

Artoria couldn't wait to find a crack in the ground and never come out again, but she heard Lu Xi say: "Well, I'll just say, even my stomach is hungry, Artoria has no reason not to be hungry......"

Can't expect too much from the natural IQ, it took Artoria three seconds to understand this, and couldn't help but angrily knock Lu Xi's shoulder with a clenched fist: "You, what do you mean by this!" Just, even if it's Lu Xi, I ...... such an insult."

"It's a pity that I don't have anything to eat now, so let's take this first." Lu Xi took out a chocolate snack wrapped in leaves from his waist bag and handed it to Artoria. When everyone entered the mountain, they naturally brought enough dry food, but heavy physical things such as supplies, tents, pots and pans were naturally placed in the subordinates, and Artoria and Lu Xi rode on the heads of the working people to make a fortune naturally without carrying it.

As for Lu Xi's piece of snack, it was made by Sai Xiliu herself, whether it was flour or chocolate sandwiches, it was mixed with a lot of drugs she had prepared herself, which was said to be able to quickly replenish the calories needed by the human body, which could be regarded as an otherworldly magic version of field rations. Of course, the taste is naturally much better than those "cat food".

After receiving the snack, Artoria looked at Lu Xi with a blank eye, she was worried that this would be the only food left for the two of them, so that Lu Xi would not have nothing to eat. It wasn't until the latter also found an identical piece of dim sum that she was relieved to put the dim sum into her mouth. She was indeed hungry, and barely had time to chew before the snack ran down her throat.

When people are hungry, the most uncomfortable situation is not to have no food on an empty stomach, but to eat a little bit of something that is not even a stomach pad. Although this snack is labeled as high-calorie and high-nutrition by Sesilu, it is nothing compared to Artoria's foodie attributes. The knight princess only felt that the small snack melted away without a trace after turning around in her stomach, but it made her stomach acid excited, and she felt even more uncomfortable.

"Open your mouth!"

"Huh?" Artoria, who was about to be hungry for low blood sugar, opened her eyes in a drowsy manner, and subconsciously opened her mouth, and saw Lu Xi break the rest of the snack in half, and one of them was stuffed directly into her mouth.

"Woo woo woo ......" Artoria couldn't say anything with a piece of snack stuffed into her mouth, and could only look at Lu Xi with sad and moved eyes.

"Don't worry, don't worry about me, we'll get something to eat soon." Lu Xi patted Artoria's head with a smile and slowly chewed the remaining half-fast pastry: "Also, don't make this kind of noise, it will make many people misunderstand." ”

Lu Xi carried Artoria on his back as he held on to the cave wall. The stone slabs on both sides of the cave road are also broken, and you can feel the broken stone slabs in a while, and you can feel the dirt and rocks on one side, and occasionally you can feel the wet moss. Lu Xi sensed that the cave should be faintly uphill, and he felt the light in front of him getting brighter and brighter, so he quickly stopped, and then glanced at Artoria slightly.

As a natural knight princess, she is ignorant most of the time, but once she is on the battlefield, except for the occasional provocation of the pig, she is still very sharp most of the time. She opened her eyes and bowed her head to Lu Xi in an inaudible arc, indicating that she understood.

Lu Xi lowered his body and cast a light body technique and hazy technique on himself and Artoria, the stealth technique is not something he can do now, but with only the previous two spells, Lu Xi firmly believes that he can hide from most of the professional scouts and sentinels.

Artoria gently patted Lu Xi's shoulder and motioned for him to put himself down. After such a long time, although it is still far from recovering its combat effectiveness, some simple slow walking can still be done, not to mention that if there is an emergency, Lu Xi who is carrying himself on his back will not be able to deal with it.

Then, the two of them tiptoed to the mouth of the cave with the rock wall, and the scene that caught their eyes naturally surprised the two.

Outside the mouth of the cave is an irregular stone platform, a series of paddles carved with rudimentary tools leading to a natural valley below. The wind still can't see the sky from the high ceiling, but you can only see countless huge stone pillars hanging down, densely covered with luminous moss, like a magical sky lantern, reflecting the scenery of the entire valley as if it were day.

Unexpectedly, in this Atlas Mountain, there is such a breathtaking landform.

Of course, daylight is an exaggeration, but at least it can achieve the effect of a nighttime town that is lit up, and to Lucy and Artoria's surprise, there is actually a town in the valley.

A town of white ghosts and blue men. (To be continued.) )