Treasure hunter, sailing on the blue sea

In a silent exchange, Alka and the others didn't even see where the person who came to replace the cracked stone was.

In this way, he was led by Split Stone in a daze and walked toward the mountains ahead.

At this time, they finally understood how the cracked rocks usually moved, and they seemed to have melted into these rock fragments.

You may not even need to come out and just walk directly through the land. If it weren't for fear that Alka and the others wouldn't be able to keep up, I don't know where they would be. He might not even have his head come out, and he could just dive into the dirt.

As a last resort, Alka and the others could only jump around on the surface.

Fortunately, although the mountains are steep, most of the areas are still gently sloping and can be walked on.

And unlike what they thought before, the so-called stone forest is not in the center of this mountain forest area, but in the edge area.

They didn't travel very far.

It's not far from where they just stayed, about twenty or thirty kilometers away.

No wonder they met the sentry cracker here. It turned out that they had forced themselves into the surrounding area where others were gathering.

As he got closer and closer to the gathering place, Split Rock no longer kept swimming in the earth, but his entire body emerged from the earth and began to walk with normal legs.

Or two hooves.

In this way, we came all the way to a steep cliff.

Alka looked up and looked at the height of the stone wall in front of him. It was at least 20 meters high and was covered with sharp and steep rocks.

It still takes a lot of effort to climb from this rock wall to the top. Of course, Alka can fly directly.

However, the cracked stone did not continue to move upward, but stopped in front of the stone wall.

"Here we are."

As he spoke, he sank directly into the stone wall.

Alka and the others were left standing there looking at each other.

Two seconds later, Split Stone walked out slowly again. Although no expression could be seen on his face, everyone could feel his trace of embarrassment.

"Sorry, forgot."

After speaking, he walked over and rubbed his clay arms that seemed to be made of clay.

Several small pillar-shaped stone pillars appeared in his hands.

Holding these stone pillars tightly, he made a sound like a spell, but it also sounded like a rhythmic sound produced by striking stones.

As the sound came out, Alka and the others clearly felt something different on their bodies, and a simple brown totem appeared on the back of their hands.

"You can go in now, follow me."

With that said, the cracked stone passed directly through the stone wall again.

Although Alka was able to pass through directly with the earth card, he still did not use it. Instead, he stretched out his hand and put it into the stone wall, as if his hand had reached into the mud, falling directly into the hard stone wall.

This experience made Alka couldn't help but smile: "It's interesting."

As he spoke, his whole body sank into it.

Xia Daiti and the others followed closely.

They need to hold their breath as they begin the process of crossing the stone wall. After only about seven or eight seconds, they saw the light and emerged from the stone wall.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Alka stood on the spot. Xia Detti and others who filed out could not help but stop in place and looked at the scene in front of them.

They were in a sunken place, surrounded by stone walls rising into the sky to form a sunken place. It completely wraps this place up.

In the center of the depression, there are sharp stone pillars protruding from the ground and reaching into the sky.

Each stone mop is like a tree in the forest. This arrangement forms a stone forest.

It perfectly matches the name of this place. As soon as Alka entered, he felt the extremely strong earth element atmosphere here.

But it is not pure, because the water element inevitably floats in the air and spreads all over the world. Even here, the water element is still a bit strong.

The problem is the residents in the stone forest.

At first, they would think that the Stonehoof clan were all the same as Splitstone, with their upper body similar to that of humans and their lower body consisting of ox hooves and tail.

But it was obviously completely different from what they thought.

The first thing Alka saw was a resident whose lower body was still made of cow's hooves and tail, but whose upper body had completely turned into stone and he didn't even know what his head was.

His strength is only about three levels, and his body type is at the lower-middle level among the overall residents.

There are also semi-elemental creatures with weird lizard-like upper bodies. Of course, there are many upper bodies that still resemble humans.

Compared with these weird appearances, the cracked rocks that had been considered weird in front of them before seemed somewhat normal.

From this we can learn that the appearance of the upper bodies of these semi-elemental creatures does not seem to be fixed.

Right next to them, there was a guard watching them.

Alka looked at this guard and suddenly nodded with satisfaction.

Because this is the most harmonious and normal thing he has ever seen.

The upper body of the semi-elemental creature in front of him is not that of a human, but a semi-elemental creature with a human body and an ox's head.

Paired with the ox hooves and tail of the lower body, it looks very harmonious.

The harmonious combination makes Alka look very comfortable.

It feels like a tauren shaman with a strong earth element style, and even makes Alka feel friendly.

The kindness comes from the previous works.

Even his weapon is a totem like a thick stone pillar standing next to him.

"Strange creatures of flesh and blood? Did Split Stone bring you in?"

The sound was louder than cracking rocks, even at very long intervals, and there was also the noise of knocking.

Alka nodded.

Split Stone also waved his hand and communicated silently with the tauren in front of him.

His strength is the same as cracking rocks, and the thickness of his energy may be slightly stronger than cracking rocks.

While they were communicating, Aka saw a semi-elemental creature that was much taller than the cracked stone slowly walking towards him.

The whole thing looked inexplicably harmonious, but Alka had never seen a sample of the upper body.

It looks a bit like some kind of ferocious beast, with three extremely thick sharp horns on its head.

There are bone spurs on the lower back of the elbow.

This tall semi-elemental creature looked very intimidating and put a certain amount of pressure on Alka and the others. He was not a weakling.

Alka blinked and looked over.

The energy response has actually reached the seventh stage, which is amazing.

After he came over, he first stared at Alka and the others with his weird vertical eyes, and then nodded politely.

Split Stone then turned to look at him, and there was another silent exchange.

Then Split Stone introduced to Alka and the others: "This is our elder, Steel Horn Rock."

Alka looked at the elder named Steel Horn Rock, nodded and introduced himself.

"Humans are friends. I can feel the demon blood on you. You are a powerful friend."

Although the elder's voice still had the percussive sound, it was very smooth.

"The treasure hunters who have been here before are only interested in the areas further inside. There are many abandoned mines there, but there are evil spirits inside."

The elder seemed to know clearly what Alka's goal might be, and said directly. In other words, most treasure hunters who come here will look inside. I won't stay here too long

He really hit the mark, and Alka immediately became interested.

"Evil spirit? Can you tell us roughly where it is?" Alka asked curiously.

"It's all there." The elder pointed his finger in one direction and said.

There is a direction that continues deeper into the interior of the mountain.

Listening to this, they only know some of the conditions inside.

Alka thought about the information on the map, even if there were evil spirits in it. The strength is only at the fifth stage, so why don't these semi-elemental creatures go inside?

"Are those evil spirits powerful?" Alka asked.

The elder shook his head: "It's not powerful, but it restrains us, so we rarely enter."

Alka understood after hearing this, and did not continue to ask in detail. If he asked in detail, he would violate the secrets of other people's races.

"Are you going in that direction?"

Looking at Alka who was thinking, the elder asked.

Alka nodded. Although there was no clear target, they had a map after all, so they must go in.

In the original bad situation, he was worried that the indigenous people here might affect or interfere with his treasure hunt.

The good thing is that the indigenous people are very friendly to humans and are even willing to act as guides and provide more information.

The result is neither.

"If you want to go in, please help me find if there are any cores of our people inside. This is very important to us."

"core?"

Listening to Alka's confused voice, the elder nodded: "Yes, three of our clansmen are missing inside. They should have integrated into the earth, but their core should still remain there.

If you can, can you find it and bring it to us. We will provide some compensation you may need. "

Hearing this, Alka couldn't help but think of the blue dots in this area.

"What is it like?"

"It's like the crystallization of the earth. You can feel the strong earth element."

"How long have you been missing?"

“In 810, there were 13 more days and nights, in 723, there were 21 more days and nights, and in 557, there were 6 more days and nights.”

"..." After hearing the elder's words, Alka fell silent. There is no need to remember it so clearly, right?

And has it actually been missing for so long?

Listening to the elder's tone, Alka thought that his tribe had disappeared only a few years ago.

It seems that every treasure hunter who explores inside will receive a mission from this elder.

So when Split Stone heard that they were treasure hunters, he didn't reject them too much.

After all, no one likes a treasure hunter, a character who wanders around in his territory, rummaging around.

If it is emphasized that certain areas cannot be visited, they will specifically go to those areas that cannot be visited.

How can you hunt for treasure if you don’t wander around randomly?

“Every time flesh-and-blood creatures like you want to go inside, I will ask for their help.

It is too dangerous for me and my people inside, and my people cannot afford even a little loss.

Thank you very much friends, you have helped us find the core of two tribesmen. "

The elder said.

Is it really a common task delegation?

Then looking at Alka and the others, the elder said: "There are many evil spirits there. The spirits of flesh and blood creatures are strong, but you also need to pay attention."

Alka nodded: "Thank you for your suggestion, we will pay attention to it."

"We are not flesh and blood creatures, so we cannot entertain our friends properly. Please forgive me."

After all, they don't necessarily eat.

"It's out of the way, it's out of the way."

Alka said quickly.

After chatting for a few words, the elder left.

Alka and the others followed Cracking Stone around the entire stone forest. The entire stone forest was unusually quiet, because all the communication between semi-elemental creatures was not through vocalization.

In Alka's eyes, he could see fluctuations that should be similar to spiritual links for communication.

The entire gathering place seemed unusually quiet.

Moreover, the entire stone forest was much smaller than what Alka and the others had seen and imagined before. These sharp stone pillars are probably equivalent to their residence.

It is a completely solid stone pillar, but it has gathered more earth elements. It should be equivalent to a dormant cabin. Alkabi gave a more vivid analogy.

In addition to the small gathering place, the entire Stonehoof clan is also very small in number.

Simply doing the math, it's probably just over 300.

This is only the number of a small village, too few.

These semi-elemental creatures can probably be distinguished according to their size. Their weakest is the second stage, and the strongest is the elders' seventh stage. Most of them are around the third stage.

"How do you reproduce?" Lucilia, who was sitting on Alka's shoulder, finally couldn't help asking, although it was a bit presumptuous.

But after all, these semi-elemental creatures have been here for more than 800 years, but there are only more than 300 of them, which is really shockingly few.

Hearing Lucilia's words, Split Stone still replied in a stumbling voice: "We can't reproduce... This is no longer our former home. We are the Stonehoof clan, but it's just a branch left here. Our clan members That’s all.”

Although the voice was calm, Alka and the others could feel the loneliness and desolation in it.

Simply put, they are called semi-elemental creatures, and they are obviously unlikely to reproduce like normal humans.

The process of reproduction may be more similar to the birth of elemental creatures.

And how could it be possible that the element interface here had such a strong concentration of elements with a single attribute like the element interface in their former home.

Without external conditions, they would naturally have no room to continue to reproduce.

As time goes by, they will lose more and more people due to various accidents, until the entire race dies. This is their foreseeable future.

Because they have no hope for the future.

If their thoughts are biased toward humans.

Maybe elemental creatures don't have such troubles, not necessarily.

Alka couldn't help but think wildly.

As I wander around and learn about Alka through my own eyes, I also discover more questions. That is, although the concentration of elements here is indeed very high, it may be too messy for the elemental creatures in front of them.

And there are also water elements that don't seem to be suitable for them.

Alka had previously thought that the cracks on their bodies were some kind of decoration, after all, it seemed that every clan member had such presence on them.

But obviously, he thought too much.

These cracks are evidence of their malnutrition.

Generally, elemental creatures obviously do not eat any food, but absorb elemental energy to survive.

In this boundless sea, the concentration of water elements is much higher. Even if they gather so many earth elements here, it is still not enough in the previous world.

This race with only a few hundred people left is much more pessimistic and miserable than Alka imagined.

I couldn't help but sigh silently.

"What's wrong?" Lucilia asked, sitting on Alka's shoulder.

"It's nothing, I just saw some problems."

After wandering around for a while, there wasn’t much to do in this place.

They passed directly through the stone wall and walked out of the stone forest from the other side. Under the gaze of the cracked stone, they headed towards the interior of the mountain range.

"Their future is pretty bleak, isn't it?" Lucilia asked.

It was hard to say just now, but now that they were the only ones left, Alka nodded and said it.

"Ah, it's really..." Pororo didn't know what to say for a moment.

But the word miserable can indeed be applied to them.

After chatting for a while, they did not move forward quickly. After all, it was not very safe here.

Alka looked at the map in his hand.

Look at some of the blue dots above.

The scope of this map is so large that it almost completely encompasses the entire mountain range and its surroundings.

And there is definitely no very detailed detection of the mountains, so the mountain areas are blurry, but it is still a correct map.

This also means that even if the location of concern is not large, it is still on such a large map.

If it is reduced, it must occupy a large area.

In other words, the location is very vague.

It seems that when we get to the area around the point, we will definitely have to explore it and let Xia Daiti draw a more detailed map.

Thinking like this, Alka stretched out his hand and clicked on the blue dot.

There are more than a dozen blue dots here.

So only a few of them should be their targets, if the core of the so-called semi-elemental race after death is considered a magic item.

Clicking several times in a row will result in a three-no-information bar.

Alka finally found one of the columns showing information.

[Stonehoof Elemental Life Crystal]

[Difficulty: Elemental Sensor (Second Stage)]

【Famousness: 325】

[Treasure information: The semi-elemental creature of the earth - the deceased member of the Stonehoof tribe, the elemental crystal left behind after death.

For them, such elemental crystals are equivalent to the core of the body, and are also very precious and rare elemental materials. Seems important for semi-elemental creatures.

Under normal circumstances, it can only be obtained in areas with extremely high concentrations of single elements or at element interfaces. 】

Alka looked at the information above, and it seemed that this thing should be the item the elder asked them to find.