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What's in the far north?

There are snowstorms, heavy fog, lighthouses that never go out, and Northland folk songs with long tunes that seem to have the aroma of flaming wine.If the opera in Midnight City is the confluence of elegant violin and harp sounds, and the wind in the small windmill harbor has shell bells ringing crisply, then the folk songs in Xuewu City are the thick and long sound of horns.

Loyal believers say that the folk songs of the Northland are god-given voices from the sky, but some local elders also say that these folk songs come from a long and untestable age. The lost bard.

Not to mention that since the bard has disappeared, why are there still songs circulating? The theory of the voice bestowed by the gods is not reliable.

At this moment, when Nightingale uttered the name of the Northland ballad, Zhenzhou and the others finally heard the song she said.

Different from the northern folk songs in my impression, the singing sounded in the black iron fortress is ethereal and ethereal, with the coldness of snow and the lightness of wind, but it does not have that kind of thick feeling.The voice that belongs to Samuel is clean and transparent. He hums softly, sometimes without lyrics, just sighing in confusion.

This song is called "Snow Fairy", and it is a ballad sung to children.

Nightingale said: "Samuel was always singing the wrong name of the snow elf because he had a snow elf himself."

As Samuel hummed softly, Nightingale's expression became more and more sad.At this time, a player in the team suddenly raised his hand to catch a snowflake, and said in a daze, "It's snowing."

The others looked up one after another, and they saw the snowflakes falling from the top of their heads.

But this is a black iron fortress, a lava hell!

Where does the snow come from? !

"All alert!" Zhen Zhou immediately drew his sword.

The moment the sword was unsheathed, the first snowflake finally fell into the molten iron. With a sound of "呲", the snowflakes turned into water vapor and dissipated. It seemed that there was nothing unusual, but the countless snowflakes brought countless water vapors, and gathered into fog, but it was only for a moment that it fascinated everyone's eyes.

The temperature also changed.

Originally, the black iron fortress was only hot, and the high temperature affected everyone's attribute bars. If they stayed in this environment for a long time, the [Heat Poison] debuff would appear.But now it's not just hot, with one meter as the limit, below one meter is hot, and above one meter is cold, ice and fire.

Although this is just playing the game, what the players can feel is less than 1% of the real situation.But this is the first time I have come across such a strange situation where my body is half cold and half hot.

"I'll go, this dungeon is really perfect."

"Lost vision, double debuff of freezing and high temperature, I think the planner wants me to die."

"Will the singing have hallucinogenic effects?"

"It's not clear yet."

"Count the number of people first!"

Ds's elite knights, with rich experience and strong strength, were surprised, but still adjusted immediately.Counting the number of people is the first priority after losing sight, to prevent teammates from getting lost or being kidnapped by NPCs secretly.

This number of people, broken, lost one.

"Fuck!"

"I knew it!"

"Isn't this too weird? There was really no movement at all, and people disappeared?"

"I didn't reply to the message, I was blocked!"

In the end, it was Zhen Zhou who spoke, suppressing all voices, "Don't worry." He looked at Nightingale again and asked, "Do you think that is really Samuel's voice?"

Nightingale frowned, "Very similar."

Zhen Zhou: "The big boss may be coming out. From now on, try not to be alone, and ensure that you are always in the sight of your teammates. Don't rush forward, and keep everything safe."

Also in the fog with limited vision, Chen Tian and Yin Sui and his party were ready to return.

After exploring in the fog for so long, they did not find the second dwarf corpse, and the continuous wind and snow were enough to cover up all traces.But the ice marrow is there, it is there, and it is not there, and the group directly found the place where the dwarves were suspected of digging the ice marrow.

The ice marrow is hidden in the ten-thousand-year-old ice, and it needs sufficiently hard iron to dig out.The dwarves are professional blacksmiths. Their ironware has special shapes, and the imprints left on the ice become an important basis for Chen Tian's judgment.

"It seems that this is where they dug the ice marrow. After digging the ice marrow, they encountered danger on the way back. One of the dwarves panicked and jumped into the water, but died unexpectedly, and was sealed in the ice by accident. Underneath, the body floated all the way to the place where Caigou found him."

After sorting out the entire line of action of the dwarves, the group was about to turn back, but on the way back, they bumped into a group of guards from the City Lord's Mansion.

The guards rode at full speed, dragging behind them a wooden cart full of boxes and covered with black cloth, marching rapidly through the fog.

Chen Tian and Yin Sui glanced at each other, quickly confirmed that the other's guess was the same as their own, and then called the other two to follow along.

With the chariots and horses from the City Lord's Mansion leading the way, Chen Tian and his party returned to Xuewu City as quickly as possible without taking any detours.

There were many people lurking near the City Lord's Mansion. As soon as Chen Tian and Yin Sui showed their faces, they heard whistles behind them.

It's black killing.

And his inseparable good friend Wushuang.

"Why haven't you gone in yet?" Chen Tian was very surprised.

"By entering, do you mean entering the city lord's mansion? Or going to prison?" Hei Sha narrowed his eyes.

"Haha, it's okay, it's okay."

"Tsk."

Yin Sui glanced over coldly, "Get to the point."

Hei Sha shrugged, "We are waiting here specially, because we want to ask - do you want to form an alliance?"

Chen Tian was surprised, "You actually thought of forming an alliance with us?"

Black Kill: "Is this strange?"

Strange, you are such a person who is going to assassinate the city lord if you disagree, how can you take the initiative to ask for cooperation with others?

Chen Tian cast a small look of distrust, Heisha wanted to "tsk" again, met Silver's warning gaze, and held back again.He lamented in his heart that he was really calm, and with a smile on his face, he said, "One moment and another moment. Let me ask you, do you want to form an alliance?"

Chen Tian answered quickly: "No."

This time it was Hei Sha's turn to be surprised, "You didn't even ask me what's going on, and you agreed?"

Chen Tian proudly puffed out his chest, "If you want to trick me, let Silver beat you to death."

Black Kill: "..."

Wushuang: "..."

The alliance is temporarily reached, even if it is viewed from any angle, it is not strong.

Hei Sha said: "Your elf teammate is still trying to make an igloo with Tchaikov's eggs, but Wushuang and I went to the Santo's Mansion and found a hidden dungeon by accident. Guess who is locked in the dungeon ?”

Chen Tian: "Haha, it can't be Samuel, right?"

Hei Sha's expression suddenly became weird. Seeing this, Chen Tian blinked, "I guessed right???"

Even the most impossible answer, a random nonsense, can be answered?

Chen Tian suddenly felt a sense of absurdity, and immediately asked Heisha and Wushuang to take him to the prison for investigation regardless of the three sevens and twenty ones.The group of people didn't talk nonsense, followed the route the two of them had set out in advance, and used expensive invisibility potions to sneak into the dungeon.Chen Tian didn't even bother to say hello to Tchaikov's eggs and Herschel, and his eyes were full of Samuel who was locked in the dungeon.

He felt that Black Kill was lying, but when he really saw Samuel, everyone was stupid.

"Fuck, this looks, isn't that Samuel? Didn't he say he was in the Black Iron Fortress? Teleportation? Twin brother? Or did he never go to the fort at all?" Cheng Jinhong looked at the man lying in the prison whose life and death were unknown. The boy, incarnated as a mobile turret, keeps launching "why".

Black Kill: "Yeah, we also find it strange."

Chen Tian squatted down in front of the cell, looked at the wounds all over his body, and frowned slightly as he had obviously been beaten severely.At this moment, Yin Sui suddenly said, "He's not Samuel."

"Huh? How do you say it?" Chen Tian raised his head.

"There's no blood on him." From Yin Sui's perspective, Chen Tian squatting at his feet was like a mushroom, which reminded him of that night in Mr. Zack's house.So much so that while he was talking about Samuel, his eyes still stayed on Chen Tian.

Chen Tian punched his palm, "That's right, he's got injuries all over his body, but he doesn't have a drop of blood, he's not human at all! Jinghong, hurry up, wake him up!"

Cheng Jinhong hurriedly used the healing technique, and "Samuel" who was lying on the ground grunted and gradually woke up.

Hei Sha raised his eyebrows in displeasure, and he discovered this too quickly, which is boring.But he really wanted to form an alliance with Chen Tian, ​​because judging from the current information, only the two players who triggered the mission "Death of the Dwarves" received it first, and he was afraid that the mission here could only be triggered by the first player. Can receive it, and neither he nor Wushuang is good at reasoning and solving puzzles.

Use your brain, no matter how interesting the plot is, you will be led by the nose, it is better to fight and kill for fun.

At this moment, "Samuel" woke up and saw a few strangers, and immediately shrank timidly into a corner, staring at them with frightened eyes, "You, who are you?"

Chen Tian put on his trademark smile, "Don't be afraid, we are here to save you."

"Samuel": "You know me?"

Chen Tian: "We know Samuel, how about you? Who are you?"

"Samuel" eyes brightened, "Do you know the master?"

Owner?

In the blink of an eye, Chen Tian had a flash of light in his mind, "You said he was your master? Did he ask you to dress up like this? He ran out secretly, right? But the city lord discovered your disguise, So I beat you up and locked you up here again?"

"Samuel" looked at Chen Tian timidly, "How do you know, did my master tell you?"

Cheng Jinhong: "Damn..."

Vegetable Dog: "Who would have thought of this..."

"Samuel" then stumbled to confess his true identity, "My name is Miaomiao, and I am a snow elf..."

As the voice fell, "Samuel" also changed back to the appearance of a snow elf.Snow elves are bigger than elemental elves. They look like two or three-year-old children. Their body texture is ice blue, and their hair is made of snow. With the blink of their eyes, snowflakes fall from their eyelashes.Can speak, but mentally not high.

When he talked about Samuel, his eyes were full of joy and dependence, but when he mentioned his departure, he was full of loss.He said that the old city lord would not let Samuel go out, but Samuel wanted to go to the dwarf kingdom to make a sword for his friend, Miss Nightingale from afar, so he went secretly.

Snow Elf stayed in the City Lord's Mansion, pretending to be Samuel, trying to get away with it.But soon, one day, the snow elf couldn't remember the exact day, the old city lord rushed into the house angrily, exposed his lies, beat him severely, and put him in the dungeon.

"He's so scary, I almost died." The snow elf shrank himself into a ball, with scars everywhere on his short arms and legs.

However, Chen Tian keenly grasped the key point in his words, "You just said that Samuel collected a lot of precious materials and planned to send them to the Black Iron Fortress to ask the dwarves to make weapons. But then he changed his mind and went there in person. ,Why?"

Snow Elf tilted his head suspiciously, "He just... went?"

Chen Tian: "No, think again."

Snow Elf: "Ah... I remembered, the master received the letter one day. He didn't want to go because it's his birthday next month. I remember it! Birthday! Banquet! Beautiful clothes!"

Chen Tian: "What's in the letter?"

Snow Elf: "Sword!"

As for the specific connection with the "sword", the Snow Elf couldn't tell.Because he couldn't read, he didn't read the letter at all, but heard a few words of Samuel's muttering.

But for Chen Tian and others, the facts are clear enough.

Samuel wanted to forge a sword for Nightingale, but he didn't intend to go himself.But something might have gone wrong with the casting of the sword, so he had to go there himself.

He thought he would turn back soon, so he asked the snow elf to pretend to be him, so as not to be discovered by his father.But in the end, Samuel was gone forever, and the dwarven furnace collapsed.

The system pops up a prompt.

[Congratulations to the player for triggering the mission 'Behind the scenes', do you accept it?]

The third seemingly independent task that is closely related to "Death of the Dwarf" and "On the Collapse of the Furnace" appeared.

Chen Tian stood up with burning eyes, "I have reason to suspect that Samuel was deliberately lured to the Black Iron Fortress. This task name is the biggest hint."

Yin Sui leaned against the door of the cell, folded his arms, and asked, "Who do you suspect?"

"The biggest suspect is of course Louis XIV." Chen Tian put his hands behind his back, looking full of wisdom, "After all, there are a group of dwarf prisoners in the underground palace, and the timing of their appearance is too ingenious. If he really did all this, then He is on the throne, and he wiped out the entire dwarf kingdom without any effort, he is really ruthless."

Cheng Jinhong, Caigou, even Heisha and Wushuang all looked at each other in blank dismay.

what is this?

what with what?

Why did it involve Louis XIV again?

Chen Tian started pacing again. In ancient times, Cao Zhi made a poem in seven steps, and now there is a sweet wine seller who can tell the truth in three steps. , unlike his style."

The most important thing is that now is the stage when Louis XIV is constantly accumulating strength, and it is not a good thing to rashly start a war against the dwarves.It is true that he is a tyrant, but he is not a tyrant without brains. He must have sufficient interests and certainty before he can do anything.

Thinking of this, Chen Tian couldn't help but think of what Silver asked him when he was eating melon by the hot spring lake just now.He said, "Do you think Louis XIV knew what was going on in the kingdom of the dwarves?"

When asked this, Silver still had a smile on his lips.Now it seems that he has doubts for a long time.He also said that I have a dark heart, obviously he himself is the darkest.

Chen Tian was able to bend and stretch, leaned close to him, and tugged at his sleeve, "Apart from Louis XIV, do you have any other suspects?"

Yin Sui smiled, "Want to know?"

Chen Tian: "Yeah."

Yin Sui: "Please."

Hei Sha finally couldn't help it, and gave a soft "tsk", "Have they always been this gay?"

A little upset.

Hasn't he and Wushuang been the No. [-] CP in Sicily all along?