The bright lights tunnel through the darkness and swept from afar, like a few lightsabers, scanning something in the darkness.

In that direction, the man carrying a cow-eyed lantern was wearing imperial-style armor. The tassel-like relief pendant on the shoulder armor was hanging down like an eagle feather, and the neck guard was like a curly blade at the collar, but the whole body was pitch black, with a face armor that only exposed its eyes, and a bunch of pale feathers were inserted on the helmet.

In Fang Zhu's impression, the Empire did not have such an army. The border guards were wearing gray wolf-skin shawls, and the guards helmet was a bunch of golden-red phoenix feathers. Unlike other imperial legions, there was no army in the Empire that had such an outfit.

Miss Nightingale lay in front and looked down at the imperial soldiers. They were about the upper floor of the mine, and the height of a cliff was at the height of the imperial soldiers below. The beams of light penetrated the cave could not shine on the things above their heads, but Fang Zhu, Luo Wei and his group could see the other party clearly.

They saw the soldiers of the Empire passing through the caves lined with stalactites below, and the lights in their hands gradually faded away. These Oshus seemed to be very familiar with this place, but were just patrolling on a routine basis, without stopping in the middle, and looked very familiar.

"Huh, it made me a little nervous," Xiaoyao wiped his sweat and was shocked. "It's really an imperial army. I've seen them in the king capital," the silver Weislan master craftsman kept chattering as usual, but still lowered his voice and looked back and asked the others: "What do you think if we were discovered, we would be the Imperial people?"

"Are you a good baby?" Shui Wuming replied angrily, "There are a few people who really abide by the rules by the caller, and we are not doing anything. What else can the imperial people do? They will expel us from the country. Besides, even if you really do something, the only ones who come to cause trouble for you will be the members of the alliance."

The former looked like he suddenly realized.

But Fang Yu realized that they had not figured out the truth of the matter. The key to the problem is, why is the Imperial Army here? He turned his doubtful eyes to Silvede, and then he realized that his shipmaster was also looking at him, with a playful look in his eyes, "Silvede." He spoke in a low voice.

But the Miss Shipman interrupted him with a smile and said in a low voice: "Captain, don't say it, let me guess." She said: "Does the Captain, think that the Imperial Army should not appear in this place?"

"No," Xiaoyao heard the two men whispering, and did not think he was annoying as a light bulb, and he said, "Didn't you say that the Imperials blocked the mining area below before, so what's so strange about the Imperial Army appearing here?"

Shui Wuming punched the guy and winked at him in the dark - Didn't you see anyone whispering to the "young couple"?

But Fang Yu didn't care.

Because he really wants to discuss this issue.

"It's strange that it's not the Imperial Army," Luo Hao said on the side, "it's this Imperial Army."

Fang Yu looked at the other party, worthy of being the people in the group. Luo Wei and the others did not realize the problem, but everyone in the Qihai Brigade obviously experienced too much and was much more keener than ordinary people.

But the person who spoke next surprised him.

Liu Liyue, who had been huddling behind, pretending to be cold, said at this time: "The Imperial Army is divided into two systems: the Border Army and the Central Garage Legion. I have never seen those Imperial Border Army active in the legend, but the garrison army is a group of stinky guys, and they will never be these people."

"The Empire Border Defense Corps is the main force of the Empire's foreign war, and there are many legends about them." Luo Hao kept silent on weekdays, but this fat man from the military knew these things as if he were aware of them. "The most famous one is the silver-gray wolf-skin shawl they draped on their shoulders. Of course, there must be not so many wolves in the Empire. The Empire Border Defense Corps has maintained a scale of more than 200,000 people all year round, and has been rotated in seven or eight years. Even if there are so many wolves, they will kill all the Oshu people according to this method of killing."

Seeing that he was talking interesting, Shui Wuming couldn't help but smile and asked, "So what are those wolf-skin shawls?"

"Most of them are imitations, and imitation of artificial leather is not a problem for alchemy and magic. However, for non-commissioned officers above the knight class, most of them are genuine, and not just decoration, but also elemental magic attached to them. The Imperial Army is organized like this. They recruit soldiers from ordinary people. Most adults have to go through three to five years of military service in their lives, but only the backbone will stay in the army for a long time. They are non-commissioned officers and knights in the Imperial Army."

Luo Hao continued: "The non-commissioned officer knights are not real knights, but they have gradually become a part of the civilian promotion system over the years. Going further up, they are the real imperial knights. They have been promoted from ordinary people to the aristocratic class, but they have no real power and their income is very small. Many people even went bankrupt to maintain the dignity of the aristocrats."

"Even so, this class is not hereditary, and titles are often not inherited. However, this is the last dignity that the empire relies on to maintain its force and the reason why the imperial border guards have been able to maintain combat effectiveness for a long time."

"So what?" Xiaoyao asked.

"So the following people are neither affiliated with the Central Garage Corps nor the Border Defense Corps." Liu Liyue helped him summarize.

"But they were wearing the armor of the Imperial Army, and the style of the battle robe was exactly the same, except that the patterns representing the legion belonging to were different." Fang Zhu replied.

"Uh," Xiaoyao was stunned when he heard this, "Why are you so skilled?"

"I just have a certain interest in the military system in the Central and Near Military System. Aitalia is in this era," Luo Hao has all the bad habits that netizens of this age should have, including the founding of politics and the home. "Not only the imperial people, I have also studied the wilderness people of the Kaolin people and Rotao. In addition to the mysterious and mysterious forest elves, some of them must have not yet left the clan era."

The fat man was obviously a little resentful of the residents of the Giant Tree Hill. He took the opportunity to hack the ball while Miss Aitela was away.

Fang Yu didn't explain his reasons, because since he was wanted every now and then in Kaolin-Ishurien, he had a premonition that he would encounter the same trouble in the empire, so he studied his opponent in advance. As expected, wouldn't it be used in Aiyin Bullock?

He was deeply relieved that he had the foresight. Of course Miss Nightingale also said that he hoped that their captain would have the foresight in other places next time.

Liu Liyue didn't say a word, disdaining to explain to others why she knew about the Imperial Army.

"Can you recognize those patterns?" Luo Wei asked him.

Fang Yu shook his head. The Imperial Army's border guards had more than 20 large and small, ranging from thousands to tens of thousands, and there were as many as hundreds of patterns and decorations. How could he remember it?

Besides, even if I finish writing it, the military system is a secret of the Aoshu people. What is circulated outside is just public information. Even if there are some heralds in private that he does not understand at all, it is entirely possible. It is extremely possible to see two eyes and smear.

"Is there a possibility, I mean a possibility," Parker, who was standing by, finally spoke. The Paparal man finally recovered from the painful experience of Sibao, rubbing his butt and speaking, "Are these imperial soldiers in the third system that exists outside the two systems?"

"There is such a possibility," Luo Hao nodded, "What we know may not be comprehensive. After all, these things are military secrets. But the question now is, why did the imperial people spend a lot of effort to hide this system? What is the reason why are they worth doing this?"

"And," Alissa added, "Why do these strange soldiers appear here?"

"Uh," Parker asked, "Is this important?"

Liuli glanced at him.

Although it was not stated clearly, the meaning in my eyes was very obvious.

MDZZ.

"What's your look!" Parker asked loudly.

"You know it in your heart."

Everyone looked at Fang Yu, because he was the one who issued the order here. Fang Yu thought for a while and interrupted them: "In short, no matter what the situation of these imperial troops were and what organization came from, we would never be wrong to follow up and see. We came here to find out where ancient alchemy came from."

Everyone nodded.

The rest of the Qihai Brigade Group all took Fang Yu's opinion as the basis. Even if the maid had complaints here, she would not disobey her own lady's intentions. She was born to be cautious and opposed Fang Yu's taking her lady to all dangerous places. But Silweid seemed to be happy with it and was keen to take risks everywhere with Fang Yu, which often bothered Xie Sita.

As for Parker, who had always wanted to fight against their captain, claimed that one day he would raise the flag of rebellion to someone who was arbitrary, but even the box with Jiao Buli Meng remained silent about it. Therefore, the first lieutenant (his self-proclaimed) usurped the captain's throne was repeatedly frustrated. Fortunately, our Paparals were indomitable and were still persistent in maintaining the resistance on the ship.

He is the only one in this organization, plus Fang Nini, who was lured by food and pulled her mount - Xiaojiao. Of course, Mr. Lizard, who could spit out fire, would not speak, but only watched the actions of the two people coldly and kept his reservations about it.

As for Luo Wei and Xiaoyao, they are just outsiders, and they lack understanding of the "complex" relationship on the ship. Their current identities exist as the hiring party in this small "archaeological group". Due to lack of experience in this type of activities, they can only listen to the professional opinions of Fang Ling and his group. Of course, this major has to be quotation marks and question marks in Fang Ling's mind. Since our captain himself has participated in this type of activity for the first time, fortunately, at least his mouth is very hard.

Fang Ling has no experience in archaeological activities, but he is very experienced in adventure, and is well aware of how to deal with the power of the official - the relationship between the wanted party and the wanted party. After all, no one can match his experience in this area, and the current link is just right.

The Imperial Army had been away for a long time, and the bottom was dark, but this was not a problem. Fang Zhuo took out a few goggles and distributed them to everyone.

"What is this?" Shui Wuming asked with a heavy mechanical structure attached to it, and she held it heavily in her hands. If it were not necessary, she would not want to put such things on her head in a dark and narrow environment.

"A device that converges and enhances light," Xiaoyao took the goggle and knew it well. "The core is a light element crystal inside, and the bulky mechanical structure outside is just to strengthen it and the light path array."

"Speak human words."

"A night vision device."

Shui Wuming threw him a roll of his eyes and stretched the elastic band of the goggles on his head.

She raised her head, and the huge device covered half of her face looked a little head-heavy.

Others also followed suit and put on the device, and then couldn't help laughing out loud when they looked at their funny looks.

Because the Paparals were small and wearing that thing seemed like an alien, they endured the most strange gazes, which made him angry and shouted: "What are you looking at? This is a serious adventure, be serious!" As a result, everyone fell back and forth.

May looked at the thing and frowned with beautiful eyebrows.

The little Paladin Miss can endure the most difficult environment in all aspects, but she still has the reserve that she can't let go. Finally, she put it back without a trace, and the other party said: "Mr. Captain, in fact, May, as the Paparal clan, has the ability to see dimly, and should not use this thing in a shiny environment."

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! "Yes!" The Paparal people were surprised to pull the thing off and abandoned it like a piece of shoes. "I almost forgot that there is something like this! Ha, whoever loves to wear it like a large toad will wear it!"

"You can forget this too." Alisa's voice was filled with contempt.

"This, ha," Parker himself felt a little ridiculous and said, "I just didn't notice it for a while, I'm fussing."

Ji Ta looked at the heavy device in his hand hesitated, and finally sighed and put it on his head. But because he was too petite, he almost staggered forward and fell forward. Fang Zhushe was so scared that he hurriedly reached out to support her, "Be careful!" he reminded.

The scholar raised his head and held the clumsy device with a little pitiful grip on his head.

Fang Yu scratched his head embarrassedly, but the thing was like this structure on the drawings he bought from the Craftsman Association. Well, he admitted that this style is a bit old, but he has tried his best to optimize it, but he gets what he pays for. In this ancient structure, it has been optimized by countless alchemists of his predecessors, and every part is almost indispensable.

As for the more advanced models, the price will be several zeros later.

In front of the shiny price nameplate, Fang Zhun didn't even dare to look at it, for fear that the alchemist from the Craftsman Association would ask him if he needed it, but he couldn't afford it. That would be so embarrassing.

The Qihai Brigade still has some money on the books, but every minute is spent on the blade. The Qihai Brigade needs a lot of money to operate, and it is simply an endless gold-swalking beast. He doesn't want his ship to break down one day in a certain port.

What's more, even if you park in the port, you have to pay a sky-high parking fee every day.

Fortunately, most of the others understood it and did not mention it much. Xiaoyao was very novel about it. He fumbled left and right on it with his hands, pressed several knobs and escape gears to debug it, which made Shui Wuming on the side remind: "Be careful, be careful not to break this thing."

"Don't worry, I know it," Xiaoyao was full of confidence. "Hey, you may not know that this thing is the masterpiece of the crystal craftsman. I have heard of it for a long time, but I have never had the chance to get it. I am a crystal craftsman myself, and no one here knows this thing better than me... Well, except Ed."

Shui Wuming looked at this guy with a frown, full of distrust of Silver Weislan's choice of the main craftsman, "You're the best." She said.

Everyone else brought this night vision device. Luo Hao walked to the cliff and took out a hook claw gun, leaned out and looked left and right, then aimed at a stalactite column that was hanging down from the top of the rock, and nailed the hook claws firmly into it with a bang. The military fat man held the rope and pulled it. After confirming that it was firm, he tied it to a rock on the side and circled it, and then threw the rope roll down.

The rope roll hangs all the way down the cliff.

Then everyone hung down the cliff along the ropes in turn and came to the rock path that the Imperial soldiers had passed before.

At this moment, there was already a hole in this place, and there was no sound around it. Only stones sometimes slipped down from above the loose cliffs, making a series of tiny sounds, which attracted people to look in that direction. The top of the rock is towering, the dark space is deep and towering, and in the empty environment around, there are only some dim light sources from fluorescent moss, and the stars are like sparse stars.

But with the help of night vision devices and the dim sight of the Paparals, you can see that there is a steep cave. The rocks are piled up scattered under the steep slope. When you look up from above, you don’t feel it. But when you look up from below, you will find that the cliff is amazingly high, especially in the environment of this underground cave, which supports a dark and deep space, as vast as a hall located underground.

This is definitely not a mining area.

Silweid took out a three-dimensional map and cast a ghost light from the crystal to project the structure of the entire mine area up and down. Finally, he concluded that they should be located on the edge of the lower mine area of ​​Nordspits. It seemed that their decision to repair the second lift was very wise, avoiding most dangerous areas, although that decision was not safe in itself.

Fang Yu even looked up in that direction. He still didn't understand the reason why the earth elements were not chasing. The large earth elements were extremely niche in their ecology, almost second only to the lord and the elemental lord. What was there below that made them so afraid that they even gave up their pursuit of the "intruders" in their territory?

The elements in the rage are extremely aggressive, and Fang Yu had never heard of such a thing before.

"The direction of those imperial soldiers should be the mining area of ​​Nordspits," the shipmaster pointed to that direction, but looked at the other side with some confusion. "As for that direction, it is the unknown area on the map, which may be the entrance to the lower area we are looking for, but it may also be the place of other secrets. But in short, it is probably only when we follow up to find out."

"Then let's follow!" Xiaoyao said excitedly.

Fang Yu glanced at this guy strangely. "What are you doing so excited?"

Xiaoyao's face turned red, "Isn't this a little curious?"
To be continued...