"But……"

"Where is the south?" Fang Plover stopped looking at the corpses and suddenly asked.

"The River Styx," Sophie reacted and whispered, "There is a ferry there. The river flows through the deepest part of Ander's underground. Some people say that it goes straight to the center of the earth, but no one has ever confirmed it."

Fang Yu suddenly remembered a legend.

The Skaven, the Mardaran Mole Men and the Offen Rabbits (not mammals, a branch of the Offen Demon Clan) together form a rodent alliance that is widely distributed underground in the continents of Aitaria. They jointly worship a

The myth of the center of the earth means that all the underground rivers in Aitaria flow to the depths of the earth, where the souls of the mountains rest.

The kingdom of the dead.

Therefore, the name Styx is actually a very common name for the rat people. Any river near a rat village may be called Styx by them.

The Lizard Man Prince knelt down in front of the Mouse Man's throne and looked carefully at the latter's death. The Neander chief's left fist was clenched tightly, as if he was holding something. He stretched out his hand, broke it open, and took the thing away.

He came down and glanced at it with his burnt yellow vertical pupils.

"We'll go there," Fang Zheng said, "do you know the way there?"

Sophie nodded.

The others had turned and walked out of the house.

Teneric also straightened up and walked towards Fang Plover. When passing him, he thrust something into his hand.

Fang Yu was slightly startled and looked back. The lizard man prince said nothing, leaving only his back. Then he lowered his head to look at the thing in his hand. It was a brooch in the shape of a lily in the palm of his hand.

sparkling with light.

There is a line of ancient dwarf writing on it, and the motto engraved on it is like a quiet time, like water flowing:

‘Time passes like water, and wisdom increases day by day’

Fang Plover's heart tightened, feeling slightly dazzling.

He thought for a moment and carefully put the brooch away.

Sophie looked at his movements and asked: "Do you know this brooch? It doesn't look like something from the Rat Man. I really wonder where I have seen this motto."

Fang Yu nodded, but had no further answer.

Other people who entered the village to search also returned one after another, bringing back bad news from everywhere. Almost no one in the village survived. There were corpses here and there, as if they had been attacked suddenly, and there was no prior knowledge.

No sign.

The dwarf Snowin was found dead in his bar. His heart was stabbed with a dagger, and he fell on the bar counter with blood flowing all over the floor.

The discoverer brought back the dagger, but it was ordinary and there were no clues on it.

But Sophie asked the man to turn the dagger around, and then said through gritted teeth: "It was the people from Jefflett's red team who did it."

"But this is just an ordinary dagger." Fang Pliong asked.

"The people from Jeffree's red team can't hide it from me," Sophie replied word for word: "The front tip of the dagger is seriously worn, but there are no gaps on the surface. This is a spare dagger, usually used for

Throw.”

"Only the Nightingales of the Jefflett Red Team like to do this, because their main dagger is usually a union standard and will definitely not be left on site."

Of course it's not necessarily absolute.

But here, she knew it was very possible.

"Ed, help me catch up with them," she said to Fang Plover, her tone pleading.

Fang Yu nodded, but after thinking for a moment, he suddenly stopped and asked another question:

"Why are the Jefflett Redcoats ahead of us?"

Sophie was stunned.

Contrary to what Fang Plover expected, the River Styx in the south of the Ratman Village of Ander is not an ordinary underground river.

Under the leadership of Sophie, everyone arrived at the place after passing through a group of caves with rugged terrain. When Fang Plover saw the mighty underground river rushing forward, he couldn't help but be stunned. It was a fluorescent river.

Green underground river, emerald green is the color of the luminous algae in the river. The green light reflects the strange underground caves in the distance, the spectacular stalactites and the symbiotic underground flora.

The river is wide and the water flow is slow, and the river is filled with a dreamlike blue mist, which reflects the green water and is azure. It is really like the legendary fog that permeates the land of the dead, and a lonely ferry stands there.

In this heavy fog.

The trestle extends into the river, and a fog lamp hangs next to it, which stays on all year round.

This place is so similar to the legendary real River Styx that even Fang Plover couldn't help but be startled before he realized that the ferry was not built by the rat people, but in the style of the ancient Sinsus snake people.

.

Seeing this scene, he couldn't help but wonder in his mind whether this ferry had anything to do with the original black holy city on the ground.

Suddenly someone in the team screamed.

Fang Plover raised his head and saw something flowing down from the upper reaches of the river in the thick fog. But when he looked carefully, he found that it was a swollen corpse soaked in the water. It was a human being with pale skin.

, staring at the people on the river bank with bulging black eyes.

Floating slowly down.

Then more floating corpses appeared, flowing down from the upper reaches. Each one was shy and heavy, with a bulging belly. Under the translucent skin, it seemed that green and bulging intestines could be seen, swimming like worms.

Disgusting.

Several girls from Silver Wisland couldn't help but retched in disgust when they saw this scene. Following their lead, others also made gagging sounds.

Fang Yu also had some acidity in his stomach. He couldn't help but ask Sophie: "Is this the river like this...?"

Sophie was separated from the scene by a layer of light, which was slightly better, but she shook her head with a pale face: "I have never seen a scene like this. What is happening below..." But suddenly, she

Stopped.

Everyone was watching the underground river water suddenly become bleak, the green light gradually disappeared, and a heavy layer of black appeared under the river water, like mud, and the spreading black color gradually infiltrated from the upper reaches.

Until it polluted the entire river.

Fang Yu stared further away, and a golden clockwork fairy flew out of his hand. He clearly saw a huge thing coming out of the fog somewhere.

that's a boat

The high bow is a ferocious dragon.

The slender hull has a round shield with skulls and spiders painted on it.

An open horizontal sail looked dilapidated in the mist.

And suddenly, a distant singing sound came from the mist, like ghosts, whispering songs to the dead.

"Yo ho, yo ho, the ancient ship route"

"The ancient ship road leads to the mist of death..."

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Chapter completed!