High Above

"This is a big problem!"

The member of the Dragon Worship Cult who contacted Ian was Pansha, the grandson of Elder Manya. The mountain man's foreign trade director spoke solemnly at this moment and told Ian about the current dire situation.

"Lord Xio is actually very cautious. He knows that his disguise is not very good, so he has not officially appeared from the beginning to the end. He only uses the dragon soul sense to help find the location of the group of villains in Feiyandi... As a result, the enemy may be with us. There were spies among them who passed on the news that Duke Thorin and Fei Yandi had been guarding the surrounding area in advance and directly captured Sir Xiou and Lübeck's team."

"After that, Lord Xio wanted to take back the dragon soul, but the other party used some special spiritual ritual to imprison the Lord's dragon soul with the trace of dragon soul in the Lord's prosthetic body!"

"Don't be impatient yet."

Ian took a deep breath, and then said calmly: "What did the King of the Mountain say?"

"Something happened to the king. He said some time ago that he had found the remains of the Ice Mongolian Dragon four hundred years ago. He has not come back yet - but we think that the king must have been plotted, and even the enemy's target was the king from the beginning... "

Although Pansha looks careless, he is actually a careful person. He described the situation to Ian in very detail and with clear semantics: "We don't need to worry about the king himself. After all, if we can make the king unable to leave, we can Efforts are useless – the problem is how to rescue Lord Xio.”

"what can I do?"

Ian asked calmly: "Do you need information from the Western Region or medicine? If there are other places that need help, please let me know."

"Huh?"

Pansha was a little surprised. He seemed to have not expected that Ian would actually be willing to help: "But, Ian, you just joined the Dragon Worship Cult not long ago... Although you are also a holder of dragon blood, you can develop well in the imperial capital now. It’s been the biggest help to us.”

"After all..." He smiled bitterly: "If something unexpected happens... I mean, after all, we have to prepare for the worst."

"If that's the case, we will probably have to wait for you to come back and take charge of the overall situation in the future."

To put it nicely, in fact, I don’t expect Ian to be of any help.

Ian was silent for a while, and he was not surprised by this.

His age and advantages are also disadvantages. The advantage is that everyone thinks he has a promising future, is willing to invest resources, and is willing to protect him.

The disadvantage is that no one thinks that Ian can really do anything now. Whether it's the Alchemy Association's research on biological warfare, they didn't say anything to him from beginning to end, or the Dragon Cult didn't tell him anything until he asked. It's the same thing when you tell bad news.

This is protection.

Just like the elders don't want their situation to affect the juniors who are studying seriously, everyone feels that Ian should improve his alchemy now, as he has more important things to do in the future.

So for now, forget it.

"Alas." He sighed in his heart and took out the spiritual protection necklace that Xiou gave him from his arms: "What is the problem? Xiou's body should be specialized in soul and spirit. One scale is enough to protect all The first level and part of the second level damage and curse psychic energy.”

"His deformed body makes his soul extra developed. Logically speaking, he shouldn't be plotted so easily."

"But in other words, if someone is focused on this and deliberately plots against Xiou... Xiou who did not expect this, with his intelligence, it is really difficult to have any counterattack."

——It should be the Book of Silver Glory.

The Book of Silver Glory was stolen, and there must be some skills related to true dragons in it... In other words, the reason why the Nanling Dragon Worship Sect cares so much about the Book of Silver Glory is because there is something in it that can target Xiou's Teratosaurus' state approach.

It can be treated, but it can also be restrained. So this time, Xio may have really delivered it to his door.

With his mind spinning, Ian ignored Pansha's slightly pessimistic tone. He still said calmly: "Recently, the Empire and Feiyan Land are engaged in biological warfare. It is said that there are all kinds of madness in the Western Plains. Feiyandi may have established a stronghold in such a chaotic environment and captured Xiou and others."

"But I know that the Empire is about to launch a counterattack. I can tell you the specific time later. If you really want to rescue Xiou and the others, taking advantage of the Empire's counterattack should be the best opportunity."

"Contact Marquis Barton. The empire may be a bit big, but at least the Nanling Province does not want the chaos in the West to spread to Nanling. They should also not refuse the Dragon Worship Cult's plan to help them destroy the Flying Flame Land."

"Ian..."

Pansha was stunned for a moment, and then said seriously: "Very important information. Thank you very much."

"You're welcome." Ian analyzed the information he had and converted it into language: "Where is Elder Manya? He should be investigating who the enemy is, right? Tell him, although on the surface it is the Lingzhi Academy and Flying Fire, but in fact it is Archduke Thorin."

"Longzhiyuan cooperated with Grand Duke Thorin. At the same time, Grand Duke Thorin cooperated with Feiyandi - the thing that sealed Xiou's soul should be the 'Book of Silver Glory'. It was originally collected in the Royal Library of the Imperial Capital. But it was stolen by the Lingzhi Academy and used for related experiments..."

When he said this, Ian was suddenly stunned for a moment, because he thought that the experiments conducted by the Academy of Spiritual Knowledge in Ryan Territory seemed to be about souls and psychic abilities...

It seems that the Lingzhi Institute should have obtained the experimental materials in the Western Region, and then conducted the experiment in a relatively peaceful place in Nanling.

In the Western Plains, they must have a large-scale experiment center, at least the experiments that require more materials must be conducted there.

And with the depth of cooperation between Grand Duke Thorin and Feiyandi, this laboratory must not only belong to the Academy of Gnosis. There must be part of the Flying Flame Land among them.

In other words, Feiyandi's headquarters in the Western Plains should be nearby.

Xiou and the others did find the headquarters of the Feiyan Special Forces in the past, but it was basically equivalent to throwing themselves into a trap.

"Things are getting into trouble."

Ian frowned as he thought of all the things and everyone he had passed since leaving Harrison Port, and immediately realized that things might be more complicated than anyone imagined.

——The self of the Insect Hive Path defeated the independent Grand Duchy of Thorin.

This memory in the precognitive dream was weightless, and it didn't even meet any decent resistance.

If you think about it carefully, it may be that the Grand Duchy of Thorin has been harmed for a long time.

A large number of refugees from the Western Territory were moved to other places, and Feiyandi, Lingzhiyuan and even Grand Duke Thorin himself came and went to cause trouble to this land.

It's both the Lingzhiyuan experiment and Feiyan's biological warfare. Anyone who can really stay in such a ghost place is either crazy or stupid.

But the premise of this idea is that Grand Duke Thorin is a retarded man who takes pleasure in torturing himself and his own base.

But he clearly isn't.

So the question is, what is his real purpose?

Ian's premonition told him that this point was crucial... On the surface, it seemed that only Feiyandi and the Gnosis Academy were using Grand Duke Thorin's power to achieve their own goals, but in fact, it was Grand Duke Thorin who was using Gnosis. He uses the technology of Yuanyuan and Feiyandi to achieve his goal.

"Could it be said that the Grand Duke became independent at this time? But compared to the Insect Hive Road, it is too early - has anything happened?"

All things were vaguely connected together in the young man's mind, and he vaguely sensed that a huge conspiracy was taking shape.

Grand Duke Thorin, at the expense of his own territory as a place of confrontation between the two countries, brought together the biotechnology of the Flying Flame Land and the soul and psionic technology of the Academy of Gnosis. His ultimate goal is definitely beyond everyone's imagination.

That may be a force that can affect the world situation.

But it was difficult for Ian to express this instinctive feeling of danger to others. He could only say to Pansha: "That's the general situation. I will go to the Patrol Knights to ask about the situation."

"...I will pass this news on to Grandpa."

The mountain man said seriously: "But again, Ian, you still have to protect yourself first. We believe that Wang will definitely be able to get out of trouble, and when the time comes, the matter will naturally be resolved."

"If the king can't... you should give priority to not being exposed."

——Don’t expose it? Are you kidding me? Is there anyone who doesn’t know that I am a member of the Dragon Worship Cult?

"I see."

Ian couldn't help but feel a little helpless. Obviously, Pansha still didn't understand how strong the empire's intelligence network was. If he were Elder Manya, he would definitely not be able to say such formulaic words.

After ending the communication, Ian closed his eyes and thought for a while.

Afterwards, he left the laboratory and headed to the garrison area of ​​the Patrol Knights.