From the Abyss Invasion to the Blasting Star.

Chapter 396 The Invisible Recruiter

Even Terris couldn't keep the Frost Bone Dragon, so Lu Heng had to turn his attention back to what was beneath the ice.

Just now Su Muyu reminded me that there were energy fluctuations coming from under the ice, which meant that there was something underneath.

The Frost Bone Dragon has revived, and it is very likely that the Skeleton Lord is underneath.

If the Skeleton Lord is really down there, that would be the biggest threat.

"Mu Yu, go down and take a look." Lu Heng waved his hand and asked the three members of the team and the elf team to find cover and prepare to deal with the targets under the ice.

Howling!
The blue phoenix bird let out a loud cry, dived vertically, dived into the ice cave, and reached the bottom in an instant.

Under the perception of the Blue Luan divine bird, the bottom of the ice cave is clearly visible.

Su Muyu frowned and said, "It's gone. The energy fluctuation just now is gone. When the Blue Luan Divine Bird went down, it also felt the space fluctuation."

"Is there no target at all?" Lu Heng asked with a frown.

"No, I've checked every corner." Su Muyu looked thoughtful.

"I'll go down and take a look."

As Lu Heng spoke, he jumped into the ice cave. He stepped on the wall of the ice cave, slid diagonally downward for more than a hundred meters, and reached the bottom of the cave.

The bottom of the ice cave is connected to an underground cave. Under the light of the Blue Luan divine bird, it can be seen at a glance that this cave is the treasure cave of the Frost Dragon.

The cave was filled with sparkling gems, gold and various ornaments.

The moment he entered the treasure cave, Lu Heng felt the suffocating breath of the abyss, and quickly covered his mouth to avoid inhaling the foul air of the abyss into his lungs.

Behind him, Su Muyu and others followed in.

Xie Shien opened his spiritual force field to block the foul air from the abyss outside the force field: "Such a strong aura from the abyss. If an ordinary person stays here for a few days, they will be deformed."

Tyrese also jumped in, frowning as he observed the situation in the cave: "We are still a step too late, and this frost bone dragon has awakened."

Lu Heng walked forward along the cave, carefully observing the ground and walls, and said as he looked: "It will definitely take a long time to revive the skeleton of such a powerful creature. And the abyss aura here is so strong, I suspect there is a source of abyss pollution here."

When this revived frost bone dragon flew out of the ice cave, it exuded a strong aura of the abyss, and it had obviously absorbed a large amount of abyss energy.

Moreover, the abyss breath here is so strong that it is even more terrifying than when the fire demon Gross resurrected from the bottom of the sea.

Su Muyu had already explored the treasure cave with the help of the Blue Luan Divine Bird. When she reached the middle of the treasure cave, she pointed to a place and said, "There should have been something here, but it's gone now."

On the stone block where her finger was pointing, there was indeed a palm-sized circular mark, which was obviously left by the long-term placement of objects.

Now the items on the stone pier are gone, they must have been taken away.

This treasure cave is where the Frost Dragon collected his "treasures" during his lifetime.

However, for dragons, the things they collect are not necessarily treasures with great power.

Because dragons collect treasures according to their preferences.

Dragons love gold, gems, and all shiny things will become their collections.

If a dragon has to choose between a bright gem with no attributes and a dull forging material, it is very likely that the dragon will choose the gem.

Of course, dragons are intelligent, and the higher the level of the dragon, the higher the intelligence.

Therefore, dragons will also collect treasures that contain energy. Their so-called preference for shiny things is relative.

There are many collections in this treasure cave, but most of them are gold, gems, and some crystal cores.

Gold and attributeless gems are valuable on Blue Star, but there is no need to bring these things back from afar.

Su Muyu squatted down, picked up a few crystal cores, wiped off the dust on them and put them away.

Lu Heng walked to the stone pier and looked closely at the circular marks on it.

There are some debris on the edge of the circular mark, like what is left after the metal material oxidizes and rusts.

Lu Heng reached out and picked up a small handful, then took a closer look. It looked like the debris left over from rusted silver jewelry.

The metal silver generally does not rust, but if it is in a sulfur-containing environment, silver sulfide will be produced.

"There should have been a silver ornament placed here, but I don't know the specific style." Lu Heng gestured with his hands and guessed the height of the ornament.

Among the treasures collected here, many are elven-style accessories.

The reason why there are elven accessories is very simple.

The main race on the Quel'dorei continent is the elves. Although there are also races such as dark werewolves, it is indeed only the elves who have developed a brilliant culture.

Therefore, most of the most exquisite ornaments and gems in this world are produced by the elves.

It is not surprising to see elven gems and accessories in the Frost Dragon's collection.

Terris walked along the treasure cave and saw something familiar on the pile of gems and sundries on one side of the cave. He immediately walked over and picked up a silver horn cup, with a look of reminiscence on his face:
"This is... the mark of Xiling City. How come there are items from Xiling City here... Yes, this silver horn cup has been placed here for hundreds of years..."

Xiling City was another prosperous city of the elves besides Kolos City, but that was more than three hundred years ago.

The abyss has invaded the Quel'dorei continent for seven hundred years, and the most glorious period of elven civilization was seven hundred years ago.

During these seven hundred years, the population of the elves has been decreasing, just like the number of moon wells.

Many of the once prosperous cities continued to decline and eventually became complete ruins.

Xiling City is a city that the elves voluntarily abandoned because the surrounding areas of the city have been polluted by the abyss, making the city environment unsuitable for survival.

The elves' population has plummeted, causing their power to become too dispersed.

In order to concentrate the power of the tribe, the elves took the initiative to abandon the city of Xiling and gathered the remaining members of the tribe in the city of Kolos.

That was three hundred years ago. From the day Xiling City closed its gates, this once prosperous city became a relic.

After that, Xiling City became a playground for the monsters from the abyss.

This beautiful city gradually fell into disrepair, with ruins everywhere.

Three hundred years have passed. Now, if you fly one thousand kilometers to the west, you can still see the ruins of Xiling City.

After Xiling City became a ruin, this giant frost dragon must have visited there and taken away a batch of collections.

The reason why Tyrese showed a nostalgic expression was because he was born in Xiling City and all his childhood memories were given to Xiling City.

His relatives, his teachers, and his friends all once lived in Xiling City.

He also fought for Xiling City to protect the city where his childhood memories were stored.

Unfortunately, the city was not saved in the end.

He still clearly remembered that on the day when Xiling City closed its gates, he stood outside the city gate and said goodbye to the city and his teacher in his heart.

It was after he left Xiling City that he began to travel in the Quel'dorei Continent. In the battles with demons, he gradually became the Sword Master of the Elf Tribe. Three hundred years later, when he saw the artifacts of Xiling City again, the memories that he had buried deep in his heart were brought to light.

Lu Heng heard Terris mumbling to himself, reached out to pick up an object, turned over the bottom, and indeed saw an elf pattern.

This pattern represents the city of Xiling.

In other words, all the collectibles stored in this area come from Xiling City.

If that's the case, the silver ornaments taken from the stone pier may also have come from Xiling City.

……

Then, Su Muyu took two quick steps and came to a wet layer of melted ice, pointing at a footprint on it:
"And here, there's a footprint here, I feel like something's not right."

Lu Heng walked up, measured the length of the footprints with his hands, and said, "Probably size 43 to 44. The pattern of the shoe prints doesn't look like an elf's."

Tyrese also turned his head to take a look and confirmed: "These are not the footprints of an elf."

Xie Shien speculated: "Could it be Clyde Savile's footprints?"

"No."

Su Muyu shook his head and explained, "When Clyde Savile showed up, he was wearing prison clothes. He was teleported directly from the Forbidden Magic Prison, and the shoes on his feet were also of the Forbidden Magic Prison standard.

"Although this footprint is rather blurry, the pattern is clearly not of the Forbidden Magic Prison standard."

Lu Heng had also discovered before that when Clyde Savile appeared on the back of the bone dragon, he was indeed wearing prisoner clothes.

Xie Shien asked in confusion: "Didn't you say last time that Clyde Saville was not recruited? Why did he suddenly appear here?"

The information that Clyde Savile was not recruited was obtained by Lu Heng from the intelligence department of the Southern Theater Command, and then told to several members of the team.

Lu Heng believed that the information provided by the Southern Theater Intelligence Department would not be wrong, and several members of the team also believed that Lu Heng's information would not be wrong.

So, everyone believed that Clyde Savile had not been drafted, and they were surprised to see Clyde Savile suddenly show up.

Lu Heng had already thought about this question just now, and now that it was brought up again, he speculated:

“The results of the interrogation by the Theater Intelligence Department cannot be wrong, so it is possible that he was recruited after the interrogation, or was transmitted through other means.

"Clyde Savile is a psychic who can communicate with the Skeleton Monarch. If he gets help from the Skeleton Monarch, there is a possibility that he will be recruited later."

Su Muyu pondered and asked, "Is Clyde Xavier a recruiter on the human side? Or is he a recruiter on the abyss side?"

"This... I'm not sure. Both possibilities exist." Lu Heng was indeed not sure.

The Abyss Battlefield cannot exclude "traitors". According to the rules of the summoning will, "traitors" are also human beings and will be summoned into the Abyss Battlefield.

Therefore, even if Clyde Savile had become a "traitor", he was still a human conscript.

Lin Zeyu interjected: "By the way, didn't they say before that the size of the call-up is always a multiple of 5? There are four of us, plus Clyde Savile, which is exactly 4 people, which conforms to the call-up rules."

Lu Heng shook his head: "No, there are definitely more than 5 people recruited this time, there must be others."

When the call-up countdown appeared, this issue was analyzed based on the countdown value.

There is also a conscription entity within the longitude range of Binhai City.

At that time, Clyde Savile was not recruited, which means he was not the subject of the recruitment.

Now, another blurry footprint appeared in this treasure cave, and it did not belong to Clyde Savile.

This means that other people have appeared here before.

Xie Shien crossed his arms with one hand, pinched his chin with the other, and said with a serious expression: “If there are other recruiters besides Clyde Savile, the situation will be worse.

“According to the call-up rules, in addition to Clyde Saville, there are at least five call-ups who have not shown up.

“These five people have all hidden their whereabouts and have not been discovered by the Elf Guards. Their actions are so consistent that I am worried that these five people are a team.

"A five-member team that has been hiding its whereabouts and appeared at the Bone Dragon's treasure trove is in trouble."

Lu Heng had also thought of this.

If it is a normal human recruit, the first thing to do after entering the battlefield is to contact the main civilization of the abyss battlefield and try to form an alliance.

Because Lu Heng had been to the elf world last time, the elves were very friendly to humans and they could form an alliance as soon as they met.

Under such circumstances, the five-member team that was recruited never showed up in front of the elves.

This is very telling, and now it has appeared in the burial ground of the Frost Bone Dragon.

This means that this team of five people are most likely all "traitors."

Being able to be recruited into the Abyss Battlefield with a danger level of 8, the combat power of this five-member team must be very high.

A team of traitors with extremely high combat power, this is not good news.

Lu Heng took a deep breath and said in a serious tone:
"If these speculations are correct, we are facing a very dangerous situation.

“Assuming that the recruitment scale for the Abyss Battlefield this time is 10 people, in addition to us, there is Clyde Savile, plus an unidentified team of 5 people.

“There is a high probability that this 5th team is a traitor. Things are far more terrible than we initially expected.

“There are a few key points I want to make clear.

“First, the Conscripted Will cannot identify the identity of the traitor.

“So, the draft rules will judge that the four of us on the team, plus Clyde Savile, plus this five-man team, have a combined combat power that can rival an evil demigod.

“That is to say, this unidentified team of five may be more powerful than us.

"Now that this team of five refuses to show up, I can only treat them as hostile targets. So we have to deal with not only the Skeleton Monarch, but also this team of five."

After hearing this analysis, everyone couldn't help but gasp.

Lu Heng turned to look at Su Muyu and asked, "Didn't you see anyone when you were investigating just now?"

Su Muyu shook her head: "When the Blue Luan bird rushed in, no human figures were visible. I only know that there were spatial fluctuations."

When she answered, she thought of a key point, looked at Lin Zeyu, and said: "Oh, right, the Void Thief, the Void Thief should be the first to discover the treasure cave, maybe it has seen the people here."

Lu Heng's eyes suddenly flashed with brilliance, and he asked Lin Zeyu: "Can you still catch the Void Stealer?"

Lin Zeyu immediately raised his sniper rifle, aimed at the ice wall, and threatened: "Get out of here! Or I'll shoot you!"

“Gurgle…”

The Void Thief let out a cry, emerged from the void, then leaned against the wall and slowly moved towards the glittering treasures.

(End of this chapter)