Chapter 214 Heavy Rain and Invasion

()Avis and I were like ants on a hot pot, circling around the edge of the valley outside the Elf King City, but this damn Elf King City passed by their own Elf tribe. After so many intrusion tests, even if there are loopholes, they have almost been patched. Facing this iron-barrel-like defense, Ives and I felt like a mouse was dragging a turtle with no way to eat.

"How can we get in this damn place?" I sat helplessly on a big tree and sighed as I looked at the Elf King's City across the canyon. It is already eleven fifty at night local time. In other words, it will soon be the next day. However, we wandered around the outside of the royal city for several hours but could not find a way to get in. ..

In fact, it would be very easy if Ives went in by himself. The Elf King City does not restrict the access of the Elf clan, so members of the Elf clan can come and go freely and will not be followed. However, as a foreigner, although the elves will not restrict me from entering the city, as long as I enter the city, there will definitely be elves watching me. This is the normal defense measure of the Elf King's capital, and there are never any exceptions. So now I can't enter the city openly and can only think of ways outside.

"How about we go back and bring your familiars that can dig holes or make disguises?" Ives thought for a long time and still felt that he should go back first. After all, spending time here is not an option.

When I looked at the Royal City over there, I almost wanted to agree with Ives's opinion, because it was impossible to enter the Royal City while staring at it like this. However, we have worked so hard to get here before, and it always feels a bit useless if we run back empty-handed. However, just when I was about to give up, large dark clouds suddenly appeared in the sky, and then in just a few minutes, large raindrops began to fall one after another, and the rain became heavier and heavier, and within thirty seconds it became rainy. It turned into a heavy rainstorm, and there was the roar of falling rainwater everywhere. I could even feel the extra pressure from the heavy rain hitting my armor. ..

"Damn it. The rain is really heavy!"

Elvis licked his wet long hair and said: "The climate here is like this. It was fine one second, and then it suddenly started raining heavily the next second. In fact, it has been relatively rainy in the past two days. It’s rare. Under normal circumstances, it’s normal for us to have three rains a day. Sometimes it rains five or six times, each time lasting more than two hours, which is normal.”

"Is the rain always so heavy here?"

Avis nodded and said: "The amount of rainfall now is just normal. Sometimes when the rain is heavy, it doesn't feel like it's raining. Instead, it feels like standing under a waterfall, and the impact of the falling raindrops Even if it can be smashed, you will feel strenuous standing there, as if you are carrying something on your body.”

"That's really exaggerated." After I sighed, an idea suddenly flashed in my mind. Avis was about to say something, but I reached out to cover his mouth. "Stop talking, I seem to have thought of something."

Avis didn't know what I was thinking, but since I said not to speak, he didn't open his mouth, but just waited there. After a while, he asked in a small voice: "What solution have you come up with?"

I pointed upward and said, "This is the way."

"This?" Avis looked up at the sky. As a result, all I could see was a curtain of rain pouring down from the basin. "You want to use the cover of heavy rain to enter the city? That's impossible. Even if it rains, people can't be hidden on the rope bridge. As for flying in from the sky... I don't think you can fly in such heavy rain. "

"No. I don't intend to use the heavy rain to sneak in." I said and explained: "Think about it. It rains heavily every three days in your place. With such a heavy rainfall, it is impossible for all the water to stay in the city, right? If the city cannot be soaked with water, then the water needs to be sent out. Your royal capital is at a very high location, so they only need to gather the water in the city and then open several channels to connect it to the canyon outside. , rainwater will naturally flow out of the city."

"Are you trying to get into the sewer?" Ives finally understood my intention.

I nodded and said: "The rainfall here is so terrible. The water accumulation on the ground must be very serious. So there must be a lot of drainage outlets. And they are very thick, otherwise the roots will not have time to drain water. I think this is an excellent access channel."

After thinking for a moment, Avis nodded and said, "This might work."

"Then don't wait any longer. Go down and take a look."

"OK."

I have a lot of tools on me, and going down the cliff to the bottom is no big deal for me. Ives is an elf, and his ability to climb high and low is not much worse than that of a monkey. Both guys were very athletic, so we got to the bottom pretty quickly.

Although this valley was forcibly created by the spirit magic god using magic, that happened a long time ago. In a place like a tropical rain forest, such a valley will be completely occupied by plants in just one year, so we came down Later, I felt that the bottom was actually not much different from the top. Apart from the absence of tall trees, this place is still densely populated with various plants. Of course, because the light in the canyon is not as bright as above, the ground is mostly dominated by ferns, mosses or fungi.

Although the plants below are relatively low, there are no large beasts below, so there are no animal trails on the ground. This caused a little trouble for our progress, but after I took out eternity, everything was no longer a problem. With its eternal sharpness, chopping a vine and cutting branches is almost like cutting noodles with a paper knife. It cuts through all obstacles in front of you easily without even feeling any resistance.

This valley was artificially created by the elves. The cliffs on both sides of all canyons are vertical, so the width of the canyon below is only about a hundred meters, which is about the same as the top. After passing more than a hundred meters, we arrived at the foot of the cliff here, and then we began to move around the Elf King's capital. Sure enough, not long after walking we came across a huge waterfall flowing down.

Although it is still raining heavily, the waterfall is a waterfall, which is very different from the surrounding rain. Moreover, I am very sure that there were no waterfalls around the Royal City before it rained. This means that the waterfall in front of you is caused by the drainage system of the Elf King's capital.

After finding the waterfall, we immediately climbed up the mountain wall next to the waterfall with great joy. I don’t know if the mountain wall here is washed away by rain all year round. There are almost no plants covering the surface, but there are a lot of moss and the like. The cliff in this state is as if it has been greased, and the smooth roots cannot take advantage of it. Ives could pull the vines down by himself when he was going down the mountain before, but now he can only rely on my help. After all, elves are not monkeys, and I guess monkeys can't do anything in a place like this.

Compare this to Ives's climbing style. The method I use is much simpler. Directly separate the eternity into several metal sets with short pendants. Then they are fixed on the toes and fingers respectively, so that when climbing, I can insert my hands and feet into the rock wall with just a little force, and then I can easily use the force. As for Ives, he brought the rope anyway. I put the rope directly on him and pulled him up. Anyway, with my strength, even if I hang up three or five more people, it won't be a problem.

As we continued upward, the waterfall above us began to become denser and denser, indicating that we were approaching the outlet. After crossing a slightly protruding rock, we saw a huge drainage outlet. At this time, a large amount of white water was gushing out from the drainage outlet and making a loud rumbling sound.

"President Ziri. How are we going to get in here?" Looking at the gushing drainage outlet, Avis asked worriedly.

If we had discovered this drain earlier, of course we could easily climb in, but the problem is that now the drain is filled with gushing water. If we enter, we will definitely be washed out, so the roots will not be able to swim upstream. So Ives was a little confused when he saw this drainage outlet.

In fact, I have already thought of my worries about Ives. But it's different from Ives. Although I had thought of this problem earlier, I also thought of a solution at the same time, so I was not worried at all.

"Of course you can't get into such a drain, but don't worry, there will be no water here soon."

"How do you know?" Ives asked doubtfully.

"Because I'm here." The sudden appearance of the little dragon girl startled Ives, but because Ives knew that I was a beast tamer before, he immediately realized that this was my magic pet.

"Excuse me, are you...?" Although he probably guessed that the little dragon girl was my demon pet, Ives still asked aloud. After all, the magic pets in everyone's impression are all ferocious-looking monsters. But Xiao Longnu is a beautiful girl, which is a bit inconsistent with the general appearance of demon pets.

"I am the little dragon girl who is my master's demon pet. Don't be surprised, this is my human form, and I also have a beast form. My race is the Eastern Dragon."

"Dragon?" Ives thought for a moment and asked, "Are you talking about that kind of Eastern monster with a very long body?"

"I'm not a monster, I'm a dragon!" The little dragon girl immediately became unhappy when Ives actually called her a monster.

Ives also knew that some advanced creatures didn't like others classifying them as Warcraft, so he apologized quickly, and I also came forward to give some advice, and then said: "Little Dragon Girl, don't waste time, let the rain stop quickly. "

"Okay." Xiao Longnu immediately started executing my order after hearing it.

Calling wind and rain is the power of the divine dragon. This is somewhat similar to a racial stunt. It does not require learning. As long as it grows naturally, it will come naturally. Moreover, this kind of ability brought from the mother's womb is far more powerful than most of the spells learned later in life. Not only is the effect great, but the consumption is also extremely low.

Regardless of what Xiao Longnu did, the rainstorm began to weaken in the blink of an eye. The previous downpour suddenly turned into a drizzle in just ten seconds, and soon even the mist-like drizzle stopped. However, although the rain has stopped, the drainage outlet cannot dry up immediately. After all, it takes time for the accumulated water on the ground to collect. But we don’t need to wait until the water in the city is completely gone, as long as the water is not so strong.

I hung it at the drain and waited for about twenty minutes, and it was already early morning on the second day. Although the drainage outlet has not stopped flowing at this time, the water potential has been significantly reduced. Not only is the flow very gentle, but the upper half of the drainage outlet is basically out of water.

I saw that the water level in this channel was almost full and I immediately said: "Okay, let's set off. It looks like we can leave."

Avis glanced at the water flow and nodded in agreement to enter now. According to the previous method, I still walked in front when entering the drainage outlet. Although the water flow in this drainage outlet has been much smaller, it is still difficult for normal people to stabilize their bodies here. Water seems to be gentle, but in fact it has a strong impact. Even though we are in this drainage outlet now, the water surface only reaches our waist, but this terrifying resistance is definitely not something ordinary people can resist. Moreover, because water is buoyant, it does not mean that you will not be washed away if you are strong enough. Once the body floats. There is no place to borrow power. It doesn't matter how strong you are.

The method I used was still the same as before, using eternity as a fixator, constantly nailing into the wall to fix myself, and then relying on my own powerful strength attributes to crawl forward little by little. As for Ives, he could only rely on the rope connected to me to keep himself from being washed away.

Fortunately for us, this drainage outlet is not very long, and it turns into a horizontal channel after moving forward a short distance. We then quickly entered a large circular room.

The plan went relatively smoothly up to this point, but when we got here, I was suddenly dumbfounded. My original plan was to climb all the way into the city along the drainage outlet, but what I didn't expect was that there was such a large circular sewer collection point under the city. The water in a certain area of ​​the city is connected to this collection point through hundreds of pipes, and these pipes are only as thick as my waist. A pipe of this thickness cannot actually be considered very thin, but people will certainly not be able to pass through it. You must know that the widest part of the human body is not the waist. This pipe is barely as thick as my waist, and there is no way I can get through it.

"Damn it. Did your royal capital's designers build prisons before? How come even the sewers have been specially treated?"

It was also the first time that Avis knew that the drainage system under the royal capital looked like this. Regarding my words, he could only shrug helplessly and said: "I didn't know this place would be like this. President Ziri. What should we do now? Go back the way we came?"

"It's almost one o'clock in the morning. If we go back now, we have to wait until tomorrow before we can come back again. We must find a way to get to the ground from here."

"But those pipes..."

"The pipeline is indeed a little bit tricky. But that's not a problem."

"Huh? Why isn't this a problem?"

"The pipe is indeed very thin, but can we widen it ourselves?" I said and pointed to the top and said: "Based on the height we climbed outside before and the slope of the pipe here, we are only about 30 meters away from the city ground. It’s only five or six meters away. As long as we dig a road up.”

"That's what it is, but won't we be discovered when we dig the tunnel?"

"Just don't make any noise."

"But is there a way to dig a tunnel without making any noise?"

"Of course there is, it's just that you didn't know it before." I said and directly summoned the little dragon girl again. Then he told her that she needed help digging a hole.

After Xiao Longnu understood my request, she directly pressed her hand on the wall next to her. Then we watched the soil beneath the pipe above our heads begin to fall downwards. Soon there was a circle of hollowed-out soil around the pipe.

Avis looked at the soil that fell off automatically and said: "Even if the little dragon girl can dig out the soil like this, this is just the beginning. As you continue to go deeper, the soil above will accumulate in the channel and you still won't be able to dig it out."

"About this, the solution is very simple." As I said, water suddenly poured out of the pipes above. Ives was shocked at first and then it started to rain again, but he soon understood This is because we are using water flow to impact the soil, so that we can continuously expand the channel without worrying that the soil inside cannot be dug out.

Using this method, we quickly opened a passage more than five meters long underground. According to normal reasoning, this place should be very close to the ground. I asked Xiao Longnu to stop for a while, then summoned the chili pepper and asked her to go up and test it with her spiritual power. After confirming that there was only less than half a meter of soil on top, I immediately took the pepper back and asked Xiao Longnu to continue digging.

Our luck is really good. After the last layer of soil was removed, we reached the ground, and this place happened to be located on a less crowded road. Of course, even if the flow of people is small, it is troublesome to go directly to the ground.

Although it was easy for us to go up, there was a big hole left in the ground, and this fool knew that someone was coming up from below. So how to cover the hole is a troublesome problem. The ground of Elf King City is not a masonry pavement, but is covered with a layer of short green grass like a carpet. This kind of grass is very low and soft, and can act like a carpet on the ground. Moreover, this grass is not afraid of being trampled, and it will not die even if someone steps on it every day. However, although I am not afraid of stepping on it. But the growth rate of this turf is very slow. At least it's incomparable to ordinary grass. As a result, we were unable to seal the hole in a short time. After all, even if we fill the hole back with soil, we can't replicate the turf above it. If it were simply filled with soil, it would be like leaving a white cement block on the black asphalt road, which would be very conspicuous. Therefore, the disguise of the cave entrance is a big problem.

After thinking for a long time, I finally decided that it was impossible to disguise the entrance of the cave so that it was completely invisible. It could be done if Amynis was still with me, but the problem is that Amynis is not here now, so I have to find another way.

Since there is no way to fill it back in. Then you need to cover it with something else to make it less conspicuous, at least to ensure that no one notices that there is a big hole underneath. When I thought of this method, I suddenly had another idea.

After thinking of a way, I no longer hesitated and quickly emerged from the ground with Ives. After Ives came out, he looked at the big hole in the ground and was worried. Obviously he also knew that if this thing stayed here, it would definitely expose our whereabouts. but. I have already thought of a solution to this problem.

"Little Dragon Girl, please reverse your spell now." I pointed at the sky and said.

"Upside down?" Neither Xiao Longnu nor Avis understood what I meant.

I explained: "Before, you resisted the natural rainfall and turned the heavy rain into drizzle. Now you reverse the spell. Don't stop it from raining, but in turn help it rain. Make the rain fall harder, and the bigger it is. good."

"Oh, I understand. Master, do you want to use rainwater to cover the hole in the ground?"

"correct."

Ives also understood now. When the city was hit by heavy rain. The water on the ground must have been too late to dispatch. As long as the rain is heavy enough, it can cause localized flooding on the ground. Then once the ground is flooded. Can anyone else notice that there is a piece of turf missing from the ground below?

Xiao Longnu, who understood this, immediately began to manipulate the weather in reverse. It was supposed to be raining heavily when we came here, but with Xiao Longnu's help, the rain that had just subsided for a while suddenly started to intensify. When we were outside the city, the rain was just relatively heavy before, but now it has completely turned into a waterfall. There were rumbling roars everywhere, and only a curtain of rain could be seen five meters in front, and nothing else could be seen. It only took less than five minutes for the water on the ground to accumulate a thin layer. Although it can't cover the big hole on the ground for the time being, the water surface is slowly rising. As long as the rainfall does not drop, this place will soon be visible. The ground is no longer visible.

After confirming that there was no problem with this place, I immediately asked Ives to guide me in the direction to the royal court's secret warehouse. As for the little dragon girl, I arranged to find a hideout in this place and hide it. Because of the need to maintain this heavy rain, Xiao Longnu cannot return to the Phoenix Dragon Space now. She must stay outside to control the weather. However, Xiao Longnu is a dragon, not a snake. She is not good at penetration, so it is better to let her stay with her. Hidden here, the probability of being discovered is much lower. As for the issue of combat effectiveness, there is no need to worry about this. There is no shortage of combat power around me, and this mission seems to require auxiliary abilities rather than combat power.

This terrible rainstorm not only helped us cover up the big hole in the ground, but also acted as a very good cover. It's midnight now, it's very dark, and with the heavy rain, even my perfect dark vision only has a visibility of five meters. Now Avis can basically only rely on my description to find the way, and he still needs me to hold his hand. He walked because his current vision range was only one meter around him. If I didn't hold him, it wouldn't be surprising if he crashed into a big tree on the road.

Thanks to the cover of the heavy rain, no one could be seen on the road. The elves are not nocturnal animals, and now that it is raining so heavily, no one is coming out. Even the patrolling guards had to suspend their patrols due to the horrific rainfall. Although this would create a gap in defense, they thought that with such heavy rain, they themselves would not be able to walk. Even if outsiders could enter the city, it would probably be difficult for them to do so, so the guards naturally gave up their plans to continue patrolling.

"Where are we now?" I stopped and asked Ives after encountering a row of huge buildings.

There is a big difference between the interior of this Elf Capital and the Elf City. In addition to the buildings made of plants, there are also many stone buildings here, and there are quite a lot of them. certainly. Because the elves have obsessive-compulsive perfectionism. Whether the buildings here are plant-based or completely man-made, their appearance is equally beautiful. This kind of beauty does not mean how gorgeous it is, but the overall feeling is very coordinated. The elves are all masters of gardening, and the Elf King is a complex of buildings dominated by plants, so you can imagine what the buildings here will look like. Entering this place you feel less like you are in a city and more like you are visiting the World Horticultural Exposition.

After hearing my question, Avis asked me: "What's going on around here? Can you see a sculpture of a female elf?"

"There is a human-shaped shadow over there. But we can't see clearly. Let's move closer and take a closer look." I pulled Avis and walked forward for a few meters before I could see clearly. There was indeed a sculpture five meters away. This is a sculpture of a female elf holding a small bottle in her hands, ready to catch a drop of dew falling from a leaf. Because it rains so much now, I can only see an outline, and I can’t see the specific details clearly. "Avis, this seems to be a female elf catching dew. Is this the sculpture you are talking about?"

Avis nodded and said: "This is the beautiful Weixi, a very famous sculpture. I have seen it before. It is very beautiful. It is definitely a classic of sculpture art. Her location is to the inside of the royal court. The dividing point. From here, turn left and you can reach the abandoned World Tree passage."

"Abandoned passage?"

"Yes." Ives replied: "The World Tree will occasionally experience short-term degradation during its growth, and then some internal passages will become narrow. Although this is rare, it occasionally occurs in some passages. Go up. This passage here is one that suddenly shrank due to unknown reasons. Now it has become very short inside. People can only crawl through it. So this passage is abandoned, but we can use it."

I nodded and said, "Then let's go there quickly, shall we?"

"Okay. You go left now. It's best to walk close to both sides of the street, because there are several new houses near the abandoned passage entrance, and the passage entrance has been blocked behind. If you miss the fork in the road, it will be difficult to find it. "

"The houses here are all built in the same way. How do I know which crossroads you are talking about?"

"I can calculate the approximate distance, and I will alert you when we get nearby. The newly built houses should be slightly different from the old ones in the past, just look carefully."

"I'm sure there is a difference between them, but do you think I can see it with this amount of rain?"

I was stunned by my words. Indeed, depending on the style of the house, you must have a comprehensive concept to distinguish it, right? The current visibility is only five meters, and everything within five meters is blurry. How can I find it?

"Let's do this." Ives said helplessly: "I will let you know when I feel I'm almost there, and then we can go in and take a look as soon as we see the alley. With my sense of direction, there should be no error. Too big."

I'm quite reassured by Ives's sense of direction. The elves are known as the children of the forest, and they feel like they are at home in the forest. Most people will get lost after entering the forest, but elves will not. Although their understanding of the trees is a factor, it is mostly due to the elves' accurate sense of direction. If you observe carefully, you will find that elves do not communicate with trees to ask for directions when walking in the forest. Although they do have this ability, elves do not need this ability at all. As long as it is not the first time to enter the forest, the elves can accurately find the right path in it. Why bother trying to communicate with trees when you can sense the exact direction and distance yourself?

Following Avis's guidance, I started to move him to the left. Of course, I followed his instructions and moved close to the buildings on the roadside. After walking for a while, Ives suddenly pulled me and said: "Stop, I feel that we should reach the entrance of the alley just a little further away, but to avoid missing it, we will start looking close to the wall now. As long as If there is an alley, go in and take a look."

"Okay, follow me."

Elvis nodded, thought about it and then said: "Well, can you contact your demon pet little dragon girl now?"

"What are you doing?" I turned to look at Avis in confusion and asked.

Avis did not answer my question, but pointed to his feet. I looked down and saw knee-deep water, and then I understood what Ives meant. Although I told Xiao Longnu before that the heavier the rain, the better, but now it seems that it is obviously a bit too much. Is this just a little longer? The water on the road was already up to my knees. If it stays like this for another hour or two. All the elven kings have to become Atlantis. Although rainfall is relatively abundant in South America, such heavy rain is still too exaggerated. In order to avoid causing unnecessary trouble, I quickly contacted Xiao Longnu through telepathy.

"Master, what's going on? Isn't the rainfall not enough? I can double the rainfall, but I'm afraid it's too rainy to walk over there, so I don't dare to increase it that much. You don't know , it’s super easy to make clouds and rain in this place. It only takes half of the usual mana to produce several times the usual rainfall. You need me to increase the rainfall now, right?"

As soon as the communication was opened, I was startled by Xiao Longnu's rapid-fire words, and I quickly explained: "No, no, no, no. I don't think the rainfall is small, it's just that it's too heavy."

"Huh? Too big?"

"Yes, you should quickly reduce the rainfall. Let the water level drop by half first, and then keep it at this level. There is no need to keep the water level rising. I want to use the heavy rain to sneak in and steal things. I don't intend to flood the Elf King. !”

"Oh, that's right! Then I'll adjust it right now."

"Okay, after you adjust it, just maintain the water depth and don't let it drop."

"clear."

As soon as Xiao Longnu ended the communication, the rain started to lighten a lot, and the previous waterfall-like feeling instantly turned into a normal moderate to heavy rain state. Although this rainfall is not too small, it is at least much better than before.

As the rainfall dropped, our sights suddenly broadened. Ives can barely see a few meters away now, and I basically have a fifty-meter vision range. With this line of sight, basic movement will not be affected.

For creatures accustomed to seeing with their eyes. It's really painful not being able to see. As soon as his vision returned, Avis immediately discovered the alley. The location where he asked me to stop was very precise. The alley is actually less than ten meters ahead and to our left. He can walk down a long street while being almost invisible, and he can still control his accuracy within ten meters. This accuracy is what the elves can achieve. It has to be said that the Elf tribe's spatial positioning ability is really too advanced. Perhaps their excellent archery skills have a lot to do with this ability.

The alley was just a gap between two buildings and we had to sideways to squeeze in. Fortunately, this passage is not long, and we soon entered the back of the house. There is a small square area surrounded by the back walls of several buildings. A withered tree vine with a diameter of more than four meters stretched out from the ground and grew up to a height of seven or eight meters before ending. This tree vine is actually a root of the Tree of Life, but it is now withered. There are many tree roots like this on the Tree of Life. In fact, they do not affect the health of the Tree of Life. On the contrary, such withering can also help the Tree of Life adjust its branch structure and re-fix the soil, which is still important for the growth of the Tree of Life. beneficial.

Because the Tree of Life is alive and can communicate with elves to a certain extent, the passages in the normal Tree of Life are all flush with the ground, and stairs will grow inside to facilitate climbing. But it's a withered cane, so there's something wrong with it. The narrow passage is only one of the problems. Another problem is that the entrance to the rattan is no longer on the ground, but has become a hole more than two meters above the ground. Fortunately, the height wasn't too high. I just put Ivisto up and got in myself.

In fact, the inside of this tree vine is not as narrow as Avis said. Although it is indeed not spacious, it is not to the point that it will affect movement. After entering the inside of the tree vine, we went all the way down. Soon the vine turned horizontal. At this time, we could no longer stand upright. We had to lie down and crawl. Of course, we could also pass by squatting, but it was too strenuous.

After walking forward for a while, we escaped from this withered abandoned passage and entered a main passage. A few elves here will come here from time to time, but we don't need to take this passage. Our target is a fork in the wall opposite the passage.

We both quickly got in while no one was around. The branch road here is the connecting channel between the two main channels. There are many such passages between the root passages under the Tree of Life. They connect the root system of the Tree of Life into a huge three-dimensional structure, which not only can grasp the land, but also make the internal passages extend in all directions. Of course, this advantage of being accessible in all directions is only for elves. With human spatial positioning capabilities, one would not be able to go very far in a place like this before getting lost, and then one would most likely be knocked unconscious in this maze-like network of huge passages.

Although there are many elves in this huge underground passage, it is still early in the morning. So except for the patrolling guards, almost no one could be seen. Our method of dealing with guards is simple. Just stand against the wall and cover the two of us with my phantom cloak. There is no light in this underground passage, and the guards are patrolling with their own lights, so as long as we stay still, we can achieve perfect stealth effect, and the guards will not be able to detect us at all.

Using this method, we avoided passing patrols one after another, and then reached a relatively narrow passage easily. This narrow passage must be a fork in the road. So there isn't even a patrol team. But at the end of the road we encountered two guards.

Away from the two guards, Avis told me that behind the two guards was a passage leading to the ground. After going up there is the back garden of the royal court. As long as you go up from here, you have entered the restricted area, but now I need to deal with the two guards. After all, Ives is mainly responsible for leading the way this time, and I am the main force.

Standing at the bend where the guards couldn't see, I carefully sent a ghost insect to slowly crawl along the top of the passage. This was considered to establish the field of vision first. The next step is to take formal action. Avis stared at me curiously. I want to see how I can take down these two guards without hurting anyone.

"Princess. What happens next is up to you."

He was no longer surprised by the demon pet Ives I suddenly summoned, but he was still confused as to why I brought such a delicate girl out. The princess is not only a humanoid demon pet, but also looks like a doll. The most important thing is that she is wearing a princess dress and holding a small parasol in her hand. She does not look like she can fight.

Just when Avis was wondering how I was going to deal with the two guards, the princess suddenly narrowed her eyes and rubbed her eyes with one hand. Then he walked out of this corner while whimpering. When Ives noticed her move, it was too late to stop her. If you walk out from here, you will be directly exposed to the guard's sight. Not to mention that the princess is still making sounds to attract the other person's attention.

However, just when Avis panicked that we were going to be exposed. The voices of two elves came from the other side. "Little sister, what's wrong with you? Why are you crying here alone?"

The princess who was crying so much heard this voice and slowly put down the hand that was rubbing her eyes, then looked up at the two elves and said, "I'm lost. Can you help me, two big brothers?"

Upon hearing this, the two elves immediately replied at the same time: "It is our honor to serve."

The princess, who still had tears on her face, suddenly smiled, and then said to the two guards: "Thank you, big brother. Then can you play hide-and-seek with me? I'll hide, and you can come find me."

"Okay." After hearing the words, the two elves immediately turned around and lay on the wall of the passage and began to count with their eyes closed. At this time, I pulled Avis and ran out quickly from both sides. He ran past among the elves facing the wall, but the two guys were still counting, not noticing anyone passing by.

The princess immediately ran over after seeing us pass by, and before going up the steps of the passage, she shouted to them: "Brothers, I suddenly remembered that I should go home, otherwise my mother will be anxious and can't accompany her now." You guys are playing games. I sneaked out today. This is a secret. You can’t tell others."

"Don't worry, we won't tell you." The two elves promised obediently, and the princess had already followed us to the ground.

Although Avis didn't see anything, he heard all the conversation. After seeing the princess come out, he looked at her in surprise and looked up and down for a few times, and finally looked at me and said: "I have to say that if your magic pet becomes a spy, I'm afraid there won't be any secrets to hide!" ( To be continued.)