Chapter 200 Too Late

()The second hundred is too late

The information we got is that there were some private conflicts between the two families of the Dark Elf and the White Elf, and then the two sides made trouble for each other, which resulted in a diplomatic incident. Then, based on normal circumstances, the current situation should be that the captured white elves are being guarded by a group of black elves. If the scene were more exciting, there might be incidents of prisoner abuse and other things that would be interesting to see. However, what I see now has nothing to do with this prediction. Oh, no, I can’t say it has nothing to do with it. At least my prediction was partly correct. Or a small part. A very small portion. . .

"Mammoth enters one."

"Oh, that's good, kid. Look at me jumping as a dragon."

"Hey, I didn't see this step. What a mistake! But don't be complacent. I still have a backup plan. Now, it's time for my cavemen to move forward."

"No, how did your caveman get there? Did you cheat?"

"This is a tactic, what do you know?"

The above paragraph is a conversation that I overheard through ghost bugs. At this time, the two people who made this conversation were sitting on both sides of a stone table. On the stone table between them, they were constantly moving some small sculptures. , coupled with those conversations, I can basically confirm that these two people are playing some kind of board game popular in the underground world. However, the problem is that the people sitting on both sides of the table are not two laid-back college students or otakus or gay friends, but two elves who should be in a hostile state. . .

Yes, the two people playing chess happen to be two elves, one black and one white. The one on the left is a black elf that I have never seen before, and the one on the right is more surprising. Because this guy turned out to be one of the white elves in the magical image I had seen before.

That magical image was shown to me by the patriarch of the Elf City. What was recorded in it was the appearance of the young elves who were captured this time. And the white elves I see playing chess now are those of us. One of the white elves that should be rescued.

"What's going on inside?" Kristina resisted when she noticed that I had sent the ghost bug in. She couldn't help but whisper in my ear and asked.

Persephone was also very curious and asked: "What on earth did you see?"

"The situation has changed." I replied quietly.

"What do you mean the situation has changed?" Kristina asked.

"Something happened that we didn't expect." I pulled Kristina and Persephone out of the cave and moved further away, and then I dared to speak in a slightly louder voice: "I The ghost bug saw two elves playing chess in that door."

"Is this strange?" Persephone asked doubtfully: "They hid the prisoners here. Isn't it normal for the guards to feel bored and play chess here for fun?"

"No, this is not normal at all." I explained: "Because one of the two elves playing chess is a white elf. And this guy is one of the people we want to rescue."

"Do you think it's possible that the guards were bored, so why not let one of the white elves play chess with him?" Kristina asked.

"It's probably not very sexual." I explained: "It can be seen from their conversation that these two people are very familiar with each other, and their status should be equal."

"Your ghost bug hasn't been discovered yet?" Persephone asked.

I nodded and looked at Persephone: "You mean to let me command the ghost bug to investigate further?"

Persephone nodded and said: "No matter what happened to these two people, at least we need to confirm the exact location of these hostages before we can take the next step."

I thought about it and felt that what Persephone said was right, so I began to concentrate on manipulating the ghost bugs and began to investigate this place in depth.

Behind the door is a small circular hall with rough walls. Although there are no sharp edges, it is obviously not completely artificial. This place should have been a cave originally, but it was repaired later.

After passing through this small hall, you can see a Y-shaped branch road. There are doors in both directions of the branch road, so you can't see what's going on inside. After a little hesitation, I let the ghost bug crawl to the right first. Anyway, we don’t know the situation on both sides, so no matter how much we guess, we are just trying our luck. So I just picked a random channel.

Not bad, the one in two chance actually got me right. Go through the door on the right and there is a short passage. There is still a door at the end of this passage, but it is different from the previous door. This is a metal door, and it is quite thick. Fortunately, the ghost bug's ability to penetrate walls is not affected by metal, so no matter how thick the metal door is, it is of little significance to my reconnaissance operations.

After successfully passing through the door, the ghost bug immediately discovered that the environment in this room was just a simple lounge. There were two beds on one side of the room, all covered with messy animal skins, and on the other side of the bed was a table and several chairs.

There was no one in the room. But there was a cup of unknown drink still steaming on the table. It shows that the people here left not long ago.

On the opposite side of this room, there is an iron door. Although it is not as big as the previous one, it is about the same thickness. After passing through this door in the old way, there was a burst of yelling and cursing from the front, and what was more confusing was that the language was incomprehensible.

Although I couldn't understand what the other party was saying, I at least confirmed the target's situation.

Behind this iron door is not a new room, but a corridor. The corridor is only a little over two meters wide, with cells on both sides separated by metal fences. The guy who was shouting in an unintelligible language was standing at the end of the corridor, and as the ghost bug climbed to the top of the guy's head, I immediately saw a dozen white elves being held in the cells on the side, and these white elves were The elves were all handcuffed to the wall with huge chains. Even without the big iron door outside the cell, they would never be able to escape.

After confirming the target location, I immediately let this ghost bug lurk here, and then I commanded another ghost bug to quickly start moving towards the previous fork. After reaching this fork, I ordered the ghost bug to start moving to the left. .

There wasn't anything too complicated behind the door on the left side of the fork in the road. It was just a fairly huge room. At this time, the room was actually filled with the corpses of black elves. Yes, they are all corpses. All the black elves are dead, and it seems that these guys died from some kind of poison or soul attack, because the corpses in front of them all died peacefully, without any trace of struggle. . Apparently they all died in their dreams. If I hadn't let the ghost bug get close to sense it. I really couldn't find that all these people were actually dead.

Although the death of these guards was very strange, now we finally know why there are no secret sentries in this place to guard the outside. After all, apart from the prisoners, there are only two black elves and one white elf whose camp is temporarily uncertain. This means that there are only three living people outside the cage. Of course, it is impossible to return them under such circumstances. There are extra manpower to set up hidden sentries.

"Since there are only three people on the other side, we have nothing to be polite about, right?" Kristina asked.

I nodded and said: "I thought we were going to fight a fierce battle, but I didn't expect it to be so easy to deal with. There is no need for a plan now. I will count one, two, three and we will rush in together. Kristina, you and Bo Ersephone dealt with the two targets playing chess at the door. I went straight to the inner cell to deal with the one who was talking."

"clear."

After the information was confirmed, we quickly returned to the wooden door inside the hole over there. Then, after I counted down three two one with my hand gesture, I suddenly raised my leg and kicked the entire wooden door in. The two people who were playing chess were knocked to the ground by the wooden door that suddenly flew over without any reaction. Then before they could get up, Kristina and Persephone had already pressed their heads with staffs on the left and right. As long as the two people move at all, they will turn into a corpse in the next second.

The battle here ended in only tenths of a second, and I rushed directly into the fork in the back, kicked off the wall at the corner to offset the inertia and turned, and then rushed directly to the iron door. The eternity in my hands has long been attached to the blades and claws of both hands. He was still some distance away from the door, just waved a few times, and then hit the door headlong. There was a bang, and the iron door that had been cut into several pieces flew apart.

I didn't stop even after I passed through the room at the back. I faced the second iron door with a burst of fireballs. With a bang, half of the iron door melted away, and I walked through the doorway that was still dripping with molten iron and entered the cell at the back. Because the speed was so fast, the black elf over there didn't realize what was going on. It wasn't until I entered the cell that he realized there was an invasion.

Seeing my appearance, the guy opposite immediately started to touch the dagger hanging on his waist in a panic. But as soon as he touched the hilt of the sword, I made a brutal charge and smashed his entire body into the wall behind him.

The white elves locked in the cage only heard a bang. Then I saw a burst of smoke and dust rising from the wall, and then they looked at me in shock. I backed out of the big human-shaped hole on the wall, and then waited for two seconds before I saw the black elf who was showing off his power in front of them just now fall down from the hole. Of course, this guy was already dead at this time. It's in human form, almost turning into a meat pie.

I took out the token I had prepared and waved it in front of the white elves, then I grabbed the fence door in front of me and pulled it back. With a squeak, the metal door was pulled down by me with a burst of metal twisting. "I was ordered to come to rescue you. Are you okay?"

"Thanks for the rescue." A beautiful Elf girl who was chained to the wall first responded to thank us, and then she said very quickly: "Please untie Si Ket over there first, and then go look for it." Meet another White Elf. He is a traitor. We cannot let him return to our city, otherwise the White Elf will be in big trouble."

"That guy you're talking about?" I pointed to the entrance of the passage, where Kristina was dragging the white elf and another black elf in one hand at a time. It looked like they had just learned a lesson, because they both looked like eggplants that had been beaten by frost and were about to die.

"That's him." The white elves around him shouted excitedly, and then began to denounce this guy. Although it's not yet clear what happened, I can roughly guess something from what I saw before about this guy playing chess with the black elf and the words of the white elf imprisoned here.

While using eternity to cut open the chains holding these white elves, I glanced at Kristina and asked, "What's wrong with them? Why do they look like they've been spoiled?"

"What do you mean by a spoiled cousin? President, are you too evil?" Kristina said, throwing the two guys to the ground, and then said: "These two bastards tried to resist, especially this one This white guy actually plans to escape by molesting me, damn it."

"Indecent assault on you?" I looked at the guy on the ground in surprise. Then he turned to the white elves over there and asked, "When did your elves start showing off to wolves?"

"This hero came to save us. This guy is actually not a pure elf, he is a hybrid."

"Hybrid Elf? Oh, you mean half-elf?"

"Yes." The elf princess said, "This guy has a quarter of human blood."

"Oh, this guy can really discredit his own race, whether it's elves or humans."

Although only a quarter of the blood is human, the white elves are not pure elves after all, and their desires are stronger. So it is very normal to do things that elves would never do. At least in my opinion, elves rarely show any disrespect even when facing enemies, and the guy in front of me actually wants to use the female reflex to escape from Kristina's control and escape. It's a pity that he met Kristina. In addition to the so-called humanoid turret, Kristina also has the ability of element conversion. When necessary, she can convert all her mana into attack power. Then she can fight in close combat. Moreover, Kristina's combat effectiveness in this mode is actually stronger than that in the mage mode. However, because she is not good at fighting, her combat effectiveness will be reduced in close combat. But one thing is for sure, that is Kristina's melee combat ability is absolutely very strong.

"Now that you have been rescued, we'd better go back to see the clan leader immediately. Because you people were kidnapped outside, it has escalated into a full-scale confrontation between the black elves and the white elves. If you can't rush back as soon as possible, the two sides will be very worried. A war may break out. You don’t want to become a trigger for war, right?” I asked.

The Elf Princess is a princess after all, and she understands these political things quite clearly. So as soon as I told her, she immediately understood the general outline of the matter. And immediately asked all those captured with her to follow us out of here quickly.

The evacuation was basically smooth. The captured elves were only detained and were not mistreated. So the mobility base has no impact. After I gave them some discarded equipment for temporary use, these elves immediately turned into jungle hunters, running wildly in the forest at a speed no less than ours, and soon left the underground world and returned to the tunnel.

Although we were evacuating quickly, the prisoners were not abandoned by us. In fact, we have not two or four prisoners here now, but three. The black cake that I knocked into the wall was no longer qualified to be a prisoner. To be a prisoner, you must at least be alive.

The remaining two elves playing chess are our prisoners, and there is also a member of the Dark Council who fainted, so there are three prisoners in total. We planned to use the Dark Council Member to exchange for those White Elf hostages, but we didn't expect that such a strange event would happen, so our Dark Council Member was not used. Moreover, I don’t know if this person was too frightened and spent too much mental energy, or he was too nervous and had no sense of crisis. He has been sleeping since he was unconscious until now, with no intention of waking up. This is really strange. .

Although the underground world is the territory of the black elves, because they don't know that the prisoners have been rescued, there are no pursuers or people specifically targeting us. All we have to do is avoid the ordinary patrols. For a team with me and Kristina, this is really simple.

They returned to the surface through the entrance to the underground world without any danger. As soon as they left the surveillance range of the guards, several captured white elves immediately cheered with excitement. Only the princess and the patriarch's son showed more worry. These two are destined to become leaders in the future, so their thoughts are more complicated than ordinary people. They knew that it was not the time to cheer yet. If they could not rush back before the war broke out, it would be too late.

"Stop shouting." The team leader's son shouted to his excited companions: "Now is not the time to cheer. Our top priority now is to return to the clan as soon as possible and not let the two sides fight."

Those elves were just venting their emotions, not really getting carried away, so they immediately calmed down and started to speed up after hearing the words of the patriarch's son.

Although our mission was carried out very quickly and there was not much delay on the way back, however. To our surprise. We came back a little late.

In fact, before we met the elf clan leader, we first encountered a large number of black elf troops that collapsed. Each of these black elves were in ragged clothes and covered in blood. It looked like they had experienced a brutal fight. Moreover, these guys were all dejected, obviously having suffered a defeat.

Because of our good reconnaissance, the rescued elves and I avoided these disintegrating troops, but seeing such a scene still made us feel nervous. After all, the outbreak of war is not a good thing for those of us. For me, Kristina and Persephone. Failure to prevent the outbreak of war means mission failure, and for these white elves, this is a loss of vital interests.

Because none of us wanted a war to break out, we were all nervous when we saw this situation. However, compared to us. The mood of the white elves was obviously slightly better. At least they saw the miserable appearance of the black elves, so they estimated that their side should have won, so the burden on their hearts was slightly lighter. However, this good mood did not last long. When we passed through the broken troops and caught up with the retreating White Elf troops, we soon discovered that things were far from as simple as imagined.

Originally, we saw the Black Elf troops abandoning their armor, and we actually won a great victory with the White Elf, but now it seems that things are far from that. Although compared to the chaotic retreat state of the black elves, it was like a rout. The order on Bai Jingling's side is obviously much better. But the fact that there were injured people almost everywhere in the team was not reassuring at all. You must know that the elves are very good at life magic, which means they are very good at treatment. However, under such circumstances, there were so many wounded people who needed to be carried back. This can only mean that the magic power of the healers has bottomed out.

Generally speaking, it should be a normal phenomenon that the magic power of healers bottoms out after a large battle, but it is abnormal for this normal phenomenon to happen to the elves. Because the elves have moon wells, they can hoard moon well water. This moon well water is the best magic regeneration potion. It not only restores instantly, but also has no side effects. Regular use can actually increase the magic limit and the magic regeneration speed.

Precisely because of the existence of the Moon Well Water that can restore demons, theoretically speaking, the legal personnel of the Elf Tribe should not suffer from a lack of magic power. However, now it seems that the person responsible for the treatment has not only lost his magic power, but may have also used up the Moon Well water.

Looking at the miserable retreating team, we quickly passed through the troops in the rear, and then caught up with the Elf Clan Leader and the others who were walking in the middle.

"Mother, what's going on? Has the war still broken out?" The son of the Elf Clan leader ran over and asked as soon as he saw the leader.

When the leader of the Jingling clan saw his son, he was first excited and then sad. But in the end she didn't say anything, she just hugged her son and then turned to me.

Seeing the gaze of the leader of the Elf clan moving over, I quickly bowed and apologized in embarrassment. "Sorry, we still haven't been able to complete the request!"

When I came to the meeting, I got a lot of scolding, or at least complaints, but of course there would be no abuse, elves can't do that kind of thing. However, the result was not quite what I expected. The leader of the Elf clan just shook his head at me, and then said: "This is not your fault. In fact, you being able to rescue them is already a huge help to us. Although you still did not catch up to prevent the outbreak of the war, this is Because our battle broke out too fast. It is absolutely impossible for you to rush back before the war breaks out, so I don’t blame you. I promised you that I will pray to the Tree of Life to help you gestate one, but this process It will take about a day, so you still have to wait a little.”

"What you said made me feel extremely ashamed. In the end, I didn't help much but still had to receive the reward. This kind of behavior made me feel very sad, but we really need these seeds, so I won't be polite about it. However, we, the Frost Rose Alliance, are not scoundrels who take advantage of others for nothing, we will repay the help. Please tell me what you can do, we, the Frost Rose Alliance, will never back down."

The leader of the Jingling clan just said to me that it was no longer necessary, but I still expressed my persistence, and I insisted very seriously. The other party saw that we really refused to take things for free. Finally he nodded. but. This matter still needs to be discussed before we can make a final decision.

It took time for the large group of elves to return, but the leader of the elves finally took us out of the group and returned to the elven city first. After praying to the Mother Tree of Life for us to allow a seed, the Elf Clan Chief gathered the three of us together with the group of young elves rescued this time and the three captives we brought back.

After some explanations from the rescued elves, we finally figured out the general outline of the matter.

When we went to rescue these white elves, according to the information we got from the elf clan leader, there should be some kind of conflict between the two families, the white elf and the black elf, and then the incident expanded step by step. It finally became what it is now. However, according to these rescued elves, things are far from that.

According to their introduction, in fact, the two families that everyone thought were in conflict had no conflicts at all. On the contrary, it should be said that these two families are actually very close. This incident was entirely a play they directed and acted on their own.

The cause of the matter was that there was some friction between the Dark Council and the Black Elf Empire, and the Black Elf Empire was over-unified. Therefore, the power of the Dark Council is somewhat powerless in the Dark Elf Empire. For this reason, some senior members of the Dark Council feel that the Black Elves are a threat to the Dark Council. This huge group that exists within the organization is not suitable for the development of the organization.

Because of this idea, the Dark Council decided to cause some trouble for the Black Elf Empire, and then used this as an excuse to ask the Black Elf Empire to open up some power to the Dark Council and no longer be able to stay outside the organization as before.

The Dark Council's so-called troublemaking method is actually very simple, which is to send a sacred object of the Dark Council to the Black Elf Empire for exhibition. Then he took the opportunity to cause trouble.

Coming here is a plan of the Dark Council. But I didn't expect that they had their own calculations, and others also had other people's calculations. After the family in the Black Elf Empire learned about this, they took the initiative to take over the transportation task. Then he planned to guard and steal the sacred objects for himself.

In order to complete this plan, the family of the Black Crystal Empire colluded with the family of the White Elf Empire to start trouble, and then sabotaged the transportation mission in the name of the White Elf. The purpose was to make the holy objects "lost", and then they You can quietly "pick up" the sacred object and keep it for yourself.

Although the family will suffer a certain blow due to the loss of the holy relics in this plan, they are only undertaking the transportation task. To put it bluntly, they are just a commercial company and do not have any serious political interests. Moreover, this family actually knows the intentions of the Dark Council, and they have taken this into consideration. Although the loss of creatures is their responsibility, they can distort the matter and say that the Dark Council deliberately leaked the news to let the white elves snatch the sacred objects. The real purpose of the Dark Council is to find excuses to attack the black elves. The Elf Empire has just taken action.

Because half of this lie is true, it is easily recognized by the Black Elf Empire. After all, the Black Elf also has its own intelligence power, so with a clear goal, you can get an overview of the matter through comparative analysis. .

Because the deception of this matter is very strong, this family can be sure that it will be able to escape the accountability of the Black Elf Empire. And because the Black Elf Empire believes that this is the conspiracy of the Dark Council, it will naturally help their family to block it. Sanctions from the Dark Council. But in fact they can get the sacred object.

The most important part of this plan, there is a key point, that is, the Black Elf Empire cannot be allowed to discover that the original conspiracy of the Dark Council is not what this family said, so this family and the colluded White Elf The Ling family frantically planned this capture incident and then used it to provoke a war. Once the two races go to war, all the intelligence forces of the empire will be concentrated on the battlefield. By the time the war is over, the matter will be basically finalized, so they planned this war to cover up the entire incident.

Part of the above information is what the captured elves know themselves, and the other part comes from the mouths of the two elves captives. Of course, they refused to answer the question at first, but after I asked Ling to take action, these two completely collapsed. You must know that Ling was a real goddess of darkness before, and she tortured people. The Temple of Darkness that no one can compare to. What's more, there are so many elves here. Being healed and injured over and over again. Most people cannot bear this kind of torture. Moreover, it seems that these two prisoners are not tough men, and they surrendered quite readily.

"Things are like this now, so what we need to consider now is what to do next?" After hearing all the information, the elves fell into silence, so I had to stand up and take the lead. "Dear Elf Clan Chief, I would like to ask. Do you plan to retaliate against the Black Elf for this, or take further actions to gain any benefits from it? Or, in other words, do you plan to inform the Black Elf Empire of the truth and then reconcile?"

This question of mine actually lists all the choices. It is obviously much easier to do multiple-choice questions than to think of a solution on your own. The elves only hesitated for a short while and then began to whisper to each other to discuss the matter. In less than five minutes they had reached a consensus.

"President Ziri." The leader of the Elf clan said: "Our opinion is to try to reconcile with the other party. This war itself is a conspiracy. Our cooperation with the Black Elf was pretty good before. This time The war has caused a lot of unnecessary losses to both of us. I don’t want to see more casualties among our people. Therefore, we hope to resolve this incident peacefully. Of course, for the two people who provoked the trouble The family will never let it go.”

After listening to the patriarch's words, I nodded and said: "Very good, since your goal is clear, it will be easy to handle." I said and thought for a while. Then he asked: "Can you leave this matter to us to solve? Of course. This will be used as a reward for our seeds, and there will be no additional charge."

"No. As long as you can help us solve this matter, our elves will give you some extra rewards. Please don't refuse. The elves are not a race that treats their friends badly."

I thought about it and cut into the whole story: "Based on the situation this time, to end this unnecessary war, we first need to let the top leaders of the Black Elf Empire understand the matter at hand, and then both of us can sit down and deal with it calmly. This matter. If the black elves always carry hatred, then unilateral peace is unlikely to be achieved."

"So what do we need to do?" the patriarch asked.

I smiled and turned to look at the dark council member who had been in a "coma" state, and then said: "Dear dark council member, how long do you plan to sleep? After hearing our conversation just now, I think it should be already I know the truth of the matter. Don’t you want to make a statement about this? "

My words stunned the elves present, and just when they were puzzled, the member of the Dark Council on the ground suddenly opened her eyes and slowly stood up from the ground.

"How did you find out I was awake?"

"No, no, no, please don't lie in front of our spiritual master." I pointed at Ling and said: "This is a high-level demon with proficiency in the three systems of soul, mind and spirit. In front of people who are not stronger than her, Next, she is completely defenseless against any little thoughts."

"No wonder, it turned out to be a high-level demon." The member of the Dark Council suddenly looked at the white elf clan leader over there and said: "Don't you white elf clan hate the existence that desecrates life the most? What? Now let's start talking to you. Demons are mixed up? Where is your pride? Where is your honor? Where is your self-respect?"

Hearing this, I suddenly walked over, then suddenly hugged the neck of the Dark Council member from behind, and then pulled her down in front of me. With the sound of the right blade claw, a blade popped out and touched it. On the other person's face. "It seems that our Miss Dark Council member has become a complete Dark Council member. She has even given up her identity as a dark elf. What benefits has the Dark Council given you?" (Unfinished) to be continued.)