Returning from the abyss

Chapter 599
Near noon, Lu Ning and Yan Rong returned to the restaurant where they parted ways.Jean and Alex were already seated at a table inside.The equipment on Alex has changed significantly, but Jean has not changed much, and he still has the gentlemanly demeanor.

Lu Ning and Yan Rong went over to sit down, and Jean took the initiative to ask, "Have you gained anything?"

"There are some miscellaneous stories, but we ran into the incident last night and were busy running for our lives." Lu Ning said, "Let's sort it out after everyone comes back later."

"Of course, we are not in a hurry." Jean waved his hand with a smile, "It should be time for everyone to come back."

As soon as the words fell, Zhu Qinyuan walked into the store, looked around and saw a few people came over, there were still some blood stains on her clothes, she must have experienced a battle not long ago.Everyone didn't ask any more questions, and gave Zhu Qinyuan a place to sit down.About 10 minutes later, Yuan Jie and Lian Bisheng also walked into the restaurant.

"Then if you don't mind, let's analyze the current situation from the beginning. I have already told Alex some of our goals, and then you can add the information you have to the part I said at any time. Discussion, what do you think?" Jean smiled.

"Okay, we'll follow you." Yuan Jie said briskly.

"Then the first thing, we already know the connection between the treasure and the ruins. Although we have joined the anvil camp, we still have our own small group. We need to obtain something powerful enough to support our own strength. With a large correction in a short period of time, Treasure is the best one we know so far.”

"Excuse me." Lian Bisheng tapped on the table lightly, "Then do you know where the ruins are distributed?"

"If you find out the relevant information, you can tell it here." Jean looked at Lian Bisheng.

"Of course, it will take some effort to inquire about this matter." Lian Bisheng glanced at Yuan Jie, who scratched the back of his head in embarrassment.

"I'll just say what I heard. The existence of the ruins has nothing to do with the outer city or the wasteland. It is a building with similar power. According to what we know, there are two types of ruins: public and private. The former It is the nobles who have searched for the location of the relics, and encouraged all kinds of 'warriors' to go in and search for treasures, and are willing to exchange some conditions for the type of search harvest. The number of this type of relics is about twenty, and they are huge in size, but the problem is definitely It has been found by many people, and if we want to get in, we have to go deeper."

"This situation sounds so familiar." Zhu Qinyuan sneered.

"So, the other method is non-public. Generally speaking, this kind of ruins are relatively small, and there may be no treasures in them, only some bits and pieces related to the king. Although it is good, it is not suitable for our needs. Not enough." Lian Bisheng picked up the tea, "The advantage of this kind of ruins is that they are huge in number. There are thousands of things like treasure maps traded in the private goods market in the outer city. As long as you can get the real thing, you can gamble inside If there is treasure, no one can snatch our gains."

"I have a question." Lu Ning raised her hand, "Do you know where Ruhr got the treasure from the incident in the school before? According to the information I know, although some people in the outer city own the treasure, but everyone Most of them are still concentrated in the hands of the nobles. Can Ruhr's status and background obtain treasure?"

"I went to investigate this issue." Zhu Qinyuan said, "Someone sold it to him."

"Good guy!" Yuan Jie exclaimed, "Is there anyone who can sell this stuff?"

"If you think about it for a while, you know there must be another purpose." Zhu Qinyuan sighed softly, "I investigated Ruhr's origin, and then used a little money to buy his recent whereabouts. A group named 'Yoshimitsu Kataha' was found in the underground dance hall, with nine people. This group of people is not easy to talk, and their words and deeds are cautious and tight-lipped. They admitted that they sold the notebook to Ruhr, but it was just Because Ruhr 'needs help' and clings to the ignorance of what's going to happen. I doubt this group has anyone."

"Could it be that you fought with them?" Yan Rong looked at Zhu Qinyuan.

"I can't have a one-to-nine match. You really flatter me." Zhu Qinyuan glanced at Yan Rong helplessly, "It's because something else happened in the middle... I'll talk about that part when I get to that."

"So there are various ways to obtain treasures, but we'd better choose the safer path of ruins, after all, you will never know what conspiracy is in it." Lu Ning nodded, "Let, I think we can Explore a public one, and then bet on a few non-public ones."

"Then I have chosen a very good one." Jean untied a scroll from his waist, "The relic [Supreme Apostle] has been proven to be formed by part of the king's research on religion when he was young. The number of treasures can be described as abundant, and because many people are afraid of religious things, it is also the least searched one."

Everyone quickly agreed that it doesn't matter which one they choose.

"Then the first matter is settled. Then comes the second matter, concerning the train."

"We did see a Dacapo conductor, but that guy's attitude is not very good." Lu Ning said, "There is no doubt that the train is indeed a means of transportation between cities, but the key problem with the train is the 'swing train'. Incident. If we can get to the terminal by any train, we can take a special train there, but before we get there, the train goes back to the starting point for special reasons.”

"There are two problems," said Jean. "The first is that if no one has actually been to the terminal, then how come the news that 'the terminal is available for special trains'. The second is that if the train is really so There is no return, how can the nobles return? They should have their own special means."

"It is guessed that there is indeed a way to reach the terminal, but at worst, it may be that the incident encountered by the train needs to be resolved-we have just encountered an incident of the same level, unfortunately that level does not seem to be something we can handle now .” Lu Ning said.

"Okay, after improving your strength, try to take the train line to the terminal." Jean concluded again, "Is there anything else that needs attention?"

"Some sort of qualification is required, but we don't know what that is."

"About this..." Lian Bisheng crossed his hands and said, "This can be bought."

"what?"

"In a place called [No Connecting Gambling Shop], they used a price of [-] chips to set a title of [King's VIP]. By the way, this casino is run by Nest, so I don't think so. What a fool."

"So you want to gamble?" Yan Rong asked.

"Yes, it's just that you can only use luck and some conventional skills in that place. If you want to make a fortune, you will end up miserable. I saw a person thrown directly into the meat grinder." Lian Bisheng shook his head, " But none of us are good at those ordinary games, and we don't have much money, so it's not easy to make enough money to change everyone's qualifications."

"As for this, I'll try it later." Jean said, "If it's poker and dice, I've dabbled a little bit."

Lian Bisheng glanced at Rang in surprise: "I didn't expect a gentleman to be good at this?"

"You have to know that people with money and leisure always research some strange things, and my interest is quite normal." Jean stroked his beard, "Very good, it seems that we have successfully solved another problem. The last One thing, Dark Sage."

Lu Ning told what Ana said, but even Ana herself had heard this part of the information, and there was no evidence at all.

"It's a pity that based on this information, we can only think that he is more difficult to find." Jean was a little disappointed.

"Then I probably won't disappoint you here." Zhu Qinyuan said and threw two stones on the table.

They were two tetrahedron-shaped stones, with a black eye pattern on one of their faces, which was split by a crack in the middle, and even the stones were slightly cracked.If you look closely, you can see that the two stones are slightly different. One has round eyes, while the other has Danfeng eyes.

"Regarding the incident just now, after I met those people from Yoshimitsu Kataha, they told me that if I want to gain trust, I have to do one thing for them first - I don't believe they would trust me so easily, but If I don’t agree, it’s not easy to follow up. Sure enough, what they asked me to do was to kill people.”

"Kill who?"

"Some of the people who they said were following them recently dressed up like religious groups. Most of the religions in the outer city have some problems. Although they can do it themselves, they just met me and sent me to deal with this problem." Wish Qin Yuan snorted disdainfully, "I didn't do anything directly, I did some investigation first. The group of people looked like ordinary office workers, they had neither weapons nor armor, but everyone was wearing a necklace. Hold a stone like this."

"What about after that?" Yan Rong asked.

"I hired several private investigators and asked them to inquire about the relationship network of six of them. These six people have no communication at all in their lives, and they don't even have any coordination and synchronization in their actions. It can be determined that they are acting separately, not in a group. Action. This makes me very strange, the outer city is a place where no one cares as long as the murder is done in a concealed place, Yoshimitsu Kataha and the others don't worry about killing a few office workers, right?"

"They obviously want to use you to step on the thunder first." Lu Ning said.

"Naturally, I probably don't understand the origin of these followers." Lian Bisheng agreed.

Zhu Qinyuan took a sip of tea and continued to tell:

"I know there is a problem, but it would be too stupid to do nothing if there is a problem, so I picked a person who lives in a remote place, and went into his house at night to ask him first, but the defense method on that guy is obviously It's more powerful than I thought - the moment I just entered the room, he and his wife jumped up from the bed at the same time, the black exoskeleton grew wildly on the body, only two of them held a piece of this in their hands The stone didn’t change much. I was lucky, and I used some means to kill them with Heike’s own undead characteristics... I can’t keep my hand, or I’ll die there, understand?”

"There's no need to explain this." Lian Bisheng waved his hand, "But you must have gained something, right?"

"That's right, some information about the dark sage. The man's exoskeleton fell off when he was about to die, and he was very surprised by these changes. He told me that this was the task given to him by the dark sage."

"Tsk." Lu Ning shook her head, "An answer, a blessing, and a mission. It seems that the Dark Sage will not give you something so easily."

"It's a pity that I can't ask so many questions. I only asked him how he met the Dark Sage. What he told me was that when life hits the lowest point, there will be a road leading there."

"It's such an urban legend again!" Yan Rong looked unhappy, "This group of people like to hide, the lowest point of life? Can people who are dying get in?"

"I think this should be related to the state of mind. It sounds like a dark sage is someone who uses people's desire to get them to do something for him. Where are these two stones? Did you take them directly?" Jean pointed to the table superior.

"You'll know what's going on when you pick it up."

Lu Ning reached out to touch a stone, and then held it in her hand. Suddenly, an intuition like a road map appeared in her mind, and the blurred images of several people also appeared in her mind.

[Track them and monitor their actions. 】

It seemed that someone was talking to Lu Ning like this. Of course, when Lu Ning let go of her hand immediately, all of this disappeared.

"The leader of the cult." Yan Rong tried it, then threw away the stone and muttered.

"We can easily break free from the stone, but those people can't. What do you think is the reason?" Zhu Qinyuan and others tried before speaking.

"That blessing, or rather, a curse?" Yuan Jie said, "After all, these are the two I got from the Dark Sage, right? But how are we going to meet him? It's not that bad for us to die." Easy really fell into a trough, right?"

"We can try to adjust our personal mentality, some principles similar to self-hypnosis." Jean hesitated a little and said, "I just don't know if you are willing to try it. After all, there may be other ways to meet the Dark Sage. If so It is not beautiful to damage your physical and mental health.”

"It's okay, it's best to hurry up, let's try after we get ready for other things." Yan Rong waved his hand, "Is there anything else?"

"Well, about Alex's companion." Jean glanced at the young man who hadn't spoken yet, "I have no way of knowing what happened to the bonfire from the outer city, but I can find out about his last companion, that Ed Some whereabouts of Meng. Although not necessarily in this outer city, but Edmond does not seem to have a fixed shopping place, and a black engraver is easy to remember if he does not deliberately conceal himself. "

At this time, Alex finally spoke: "We found out that someone saw Edmund a day ago. He drove a carriage bought from Dacapo to the southeast of the wilderness. Not the one we rode, It can only move on the ground - the question is, where did he get so much money? Our income can only meet everyone's survival needs, and buying vehicles is not something we can afford!"

(End of this chapter)