147. The Wayfarers (I)
Because the news came more urgently than expected, Lin Ziyue held on to her spirits the next day, ignoring Su Jiujiu and Blue's advice, and insisted on embarking on the journey.
"My main thought is to go to Mirror Flower Villa before that conference...... I've always had a terrible instinct that the immovable coordinates might really be because of captivity, if there really is a council......"
"That prisoner is probably being treated as a symbolic sacrifice, right? And then take advantage of the people's emotions to completely start a demon extermination war, and even Dongsheng stretches out his hand to other continents?" Meng Li was always quick to keep up with Lin Ziyue's conjecture about the worst-case scenario, and said all the things she didn't really want to say.
Due to the extremely negative speculation of these two people, the spirits of the others are a little tense, especially Xuanyuan Yan, unlike Meng Li, although he can't say that he cares about other colleagues, he does have the friendship of colleagues in it, and he does not approve of Meng Li's concept of "being alone".
After all, they are still people who know, although they are demons, but they are also demons they know.
However, Xuanyuan Yan didn't have Lin Ziyue or Meng Li's negative concept of human nature, but the group was really in a hurry.
Yu Tingrong joined the mercenary team of the "Visitors from Heaven", and Xuanyuan Yu took her to the government office of Cape City to register, these official organizations are similar to those skill guilds and other buildings on the Azatar continent, but the scale is much smaller.
The teleportation array in the Dongsheng Continent is not available in every place, although the transmission formation is common, but the teleportation array is only available in big cities, so the three of them can't come over to meet, which makes Lin Ziyue breathe a sigh of relief.
"There are enough people now!"
Xuanyuan Yu protested to Lin Ziyue like this.
As a result, he didn't notice that Yan Yao was nesting in the crack of the window, and as soon as Yan Yao opened his mouth, Xuanyuan Yu was startled: "Lin Ziyue is popular, what can we do?
"You know what I mean, right?" Xuanyuan Yu shouted at Lin Ziyue with a little grievance.
The crow spun around and pointed its tail feathers at the idiot in love, too lazy to take care of him.
Counting the crows, there are nine people in total, and if it weren't for Botiss being included in the ranks of animals, there would be ten people.
A group of people rented three carriages and went straight on the road.
Lin Ziyue was listed in the disabled and supply warehouse, so she enjoyed a carriage as a matter of course, Xuanyuan Yu died without giving someone to drive for her, Tang Lingling and Yu Tianrong had one, Su Jiujiu naturally undertook an errand, and finally Blue drove a car with Meng Li and Xuanyuan Yan sitting inside, of course, occasionally a group of people will change shifts, but fortunately, there is the natural pressure of Yan Crow, Su Jiujiu and Bo Tisi, they don't have to worry about the problem of untamable horses.
It's magical, the upper and lower lines of the fish dumping...... It's actually sleeping.
Sometimes after sleeping for a long time, Tang Lingling naturally said that this was an old problem of the senior sister, but when Yu Qianrong went online again, she was greeted by Yan Yao and Xuanyuan Yu's subtle and mocking eyes, which made Yu Tianrong confused.
It went very well a few days ago, Lin Ziyue finally recovered, and forcibly kicked Xuanyuan Yu into the carriage, she was almost suffocated to death these days, and she was finally able to drive to play, of course she had to try. Fortunately, the crow kept squatting on the horse's head, pointing east to east and west to west, and there was no problem at all, otherwise the whole trip might have been slowed down a few bit.
At first, Tang Lingling hadn't come out of the depression of leaving the Flower Dynasty faction, but three days later, the group stopped in a big city for a day to rest, so Tang Lingling was dragged by Su Jiujiu and Lin Ziyue to go shopping.
Yu Dumping? Still in Meng Li's place, he is going to die and live abrasively.
Although this big city does not have sea transportation compared to Haijiao City, its own heritage is not known to be many times richer and more prosperous than Haijiao City, Tang Lingling was dazzled in an instant, if Su Jiujiu hadn't watched it closely, this little girl would definitely be lost.
On the noisy streets, large restaurants and businesses abound, and people in green shirts and gorgeous robes come in and out, but they are not like the cape where the huts come out one after another. Occasionally, I would meet a vendor with a burden sitting on the side of the street to rest, Tang Lingling asked a few words when he bought snacks, only to know that they all lived outside the city, and walked far away every day to carry things into the city to sell.
After walking around the city for a long time that day, he lost consciousness when he walked to his feet, and Tang Lingling was half-dragged and half-supported by Lin Ziyue and Su Jiujiu and took him back to the inn where he stayed.
Tang Lingling hugged the two "sisters" alone, laughed and slammed the door, but cried and threw himself on the embroidered pillow and the red brocade quilt, and kept shouting nonsense in his mouth, Tang Lingling's voice became very muffled through the pillow, but the "why" and "thank you" were so heavy that they were so heavy that they were so sad to hear it.
Su Jiujiu sat on the edge of the bed, held Tang Lingling in his arms, and coaxed softly, but Lin Ziyue sighed, being able to cry out the knot in her heart that had been held for so many days was the beginning of Tang Lingling's real step out of the shadow of the Flower Dynasty faction.
She still felt that she was sorry for this child and dragged her down, not that this stupid child was grateful to Lin Ziyue like now, but these words were not easy to say.
So Lin Ziyue looked at Su Jiujiu, Su Jiujiu nodded slightly, and Lin Ziyue walked out.
As for what Su Jiujiu and Tang Lingling said...... Lin Ziyue is not worried, if Su Jiujiu is unreliable, then Lin Ziyue feels that there is really no one around him who is reliable.
When she set off again the next day, Tang Lingling's expression was very calm, and the innocent girl came back again, but occasionally when she looked at the woods on the side of the road in a daze, there was always a touch of melancholy reflected in her eyes.
Lin Ziyue drove the carriage, and finally drove Xuanyuan Yu in, turned her head, and noticed that Tang Lingling was sitting outside the carriage leaning on Su Jiujiu's shoulder, and could only let out a long sigh. As a result, Lin Ziyue was also ridiculed by Yan Ya, who saw through her thoughts, after all, she had heard before and after the incident, and Yan Yao had always been very impatient with Lin Ziyue's behavior of worrying about others.
"Are you living so big because someone else lives for you? You grieve for her and can't make her feel less sad, so why do you make yourself uncomfortable?"
Lin Ziyue was speechless.
There was reproach in Yan Crow's eyes: "You can't be soft-hearted about what you want to do, and you are not a person who can't see through." ”
"Maybe it's because there are so many people, so I ...... Some of them flinched and tried to hide themselves. Lin Ziyue smiled a little miserably.
Yan Crow nodded on Lin Ziyue's cheek with his beak: "We support you, we are with you, we will be proud of you, and naturally we understand...... It is possible that you will fall. ”
"Before I knew it, I was still dragging a lot of people down. Lin Ziyue touched her face that she had just been touched and said.
Flame Raven's eyes sparkled, "You made your choice, and we did ours." It's just that we make the choice to support you. ”
“…… Thank you. ”
"Xie Mao, it's not because of the pot of the soul contract! I don't have a choice, as long as you live well, you're the biggest for me-"
Before Yan Crow's words fell, he suddenly felt that something in the depths of his soul was broken, and the invisible connection between him and Lin Ziyue was forcibly severed.
Lin Ziyue looked as usual: "During the time of separation, I learned a lot of things, but I can always find more surprises." The thread of cause and effect is really a good thing......"
She smiled and tilted her head, and there was a well hidden under the tenderness in her eyes: "Don't you think?"
The flame crow's feathers exploded in an instant, but he was unusual, although he was so angry that he was like thunder, but he flew away from Lin Ziyue's shoulder without saying a word, and the black feathers passed through the bright green canopy, and seemed to spread his wings to the sky through the gap.
There were tears hidden under Lin Ziyue's eyes, she pinched her nose and didn't make an extra sound.
Xuanyuan Yu poked his head out of the carriage, and he heard all the conversations, and this matter was told to him by Lin Ziyue after he made up his mind last night. Lin Ziyue didn't hide it from Xuanyuan Yu, and he didn't want to do anything to stop her, knowing that she was hurt at this time, he got out of the carriage and took the reins from Lin Ziyue's hand.
Lin Ziyue just wanted to get back into the carriage, but was grabbed by Xuanyuan Yu: "Xiaoyue, can you sit with me for a while?"
"Hmm...... Good. ”
Obviously, she was the one who needed to be accompanied, but Xuanyuan Yu asked Lin Ziyue to sit with him for a while.
Lin Ziyue buried her face on Xuanyuan Yu's shoulder, extremely relieved.
Meng Li, who was driving, was extremely surprised when he saw Yan Crow flying away, but he noticed that Lin Ziyue and Xuanyuan Yu's faces were not good, he just turned his mind a lot, but he didn't ask.
But what Lin Ziyue didn't know was ...... Late that night, Meng Li heard a voice in the forest, scolding in a low voice in the demon language, mixed with the swaying bushes of "Danglu", almost inaudible, if people who didn't understand the language, they would probably be arguing with rats.
So Meng Li is very relieved, all his worries have been swept away by himself, that sand sculpture is willing to make trouble, then let him be awkward, it's so boring along the way, just watch the fun.
Lin Ziyue's biggest trait is here...... It's just that she hasn't noticed it herself, has she?
Her invisible contagion and affinity make it difficult for the people around her to let go, so she always meets fate everywhere...... That's her own line of cause and effect.
Meng Li didn't plan to point out Lin Ziyue, anyway, he couldn't change it.
He listened to the whispered curses outside and the wind mixed together, and felt that it was unbelievable that he was actually greedy for this kind of life.
The night passed peacefully, perhaps because the wind and trees outside were a little loud, Lin Ziyue always slept unsteadily, and she always dreamed that Yan Yao sprayed her aggrievedly in front of her, making her stomach knot when she got up in the morning.
Let you go, why do you still complain about me so much!
On this day, while resting on the edge of an inaccessible lake, the group's journey began to be unstable.
At first, there was a strange roar in the woods, but soon the roar rushed out of the woods, startling the horses on the side, if it wasn't for Su Jiujiu's quick reaction, he immediately released the coercion of his body to forcibly calm down the three horses, I am afraid that the carriage would be overturned.
The yellow and white striped beast shadow pounced directly on Lin Ziyue, who was sitting on the stone by the lake, Lin Ziyue's moon staff had not fallen into her hand, dozens of spatial cracks appeared in front of her out of thin air, Xuanyuan Yu sat beside her with an indifferent expression, just raised his eyebrows and raised his hands, as long as he closed his palm, the turbulence in those spatial cracks would come out at his behalf.
The gray demonic beast that looked like a tiger and a leopard turned its head, its huge tail flicked on the ground, and the choking red smoke was raised by its tail, and as a result, in Xuanyuan Yan's sneer, the poisonous mist was sucked clean by the white smoke before it spread.
This monster has blown up, and most of the leopards who can walk alone are expelled after failing to compete for the leader, and their IQ is no different from that of people. Just now in the woods, it was too focused on the crow, and it didn't notice that there were such difficult bones to gnaw on here, and it wanted to take away a human who looked more delicious, but it turned out that there were not only demon clans in this group of people, but also high-level demon clans far beyond themselves.
This spotted leopard was covered with burn marks, and Lin Ziyue could see it at a glance, knowing that it was only a momentary matter for Yan Crow to solve or drive away this demonic beast, but Yan Crow seemed to be using it as a sandbag to vent his anger, and he didn't kill him, so this spotted leopard was so cunning that he took a look at the hole and immediately pounced on the resting people here.
However, what awaits it here is not a feast of feasts, but a group of even more formidable enemies.
Dozens of seconds later, the spotted leopard died under Meng Li's sword, after all, it wasn't just the Yan Crow who was hiding awkwardly these days. Fortunately, Yu Qianrong went offline, and the "projection" was sleeping in the carriage, otherwise Meng Li couldn't stand her brainless praise that was close to "killing", it was too embarrassing.
Lin Ziyue looked at the woods and shouted, "Come out! It's me who is wrong! I should have asked you for that thing!"
There was no response, the other few people were not stupid, Yan Crow didn't appear all day, they all guessed something, and quietly watched Lin Ziyue scream at the forest.
"If you want to follow, come out! Why embarrass yourself so much! If you want to go together, let's go together! I'm sorry for making up your own mind! Don't be so angry with yourself!"
There was still no movement, Lin Ziyue shouted a little embarrassed, too stupid.
However, that night, when a few people were resting in the carriage or keeping vigil under a makeshift shed, Meng Li heard the chattering scolding outside.
He was very upset when he heard this, so he simply got out of the carriage and drove Xuanyuan Yu and Xuanyuan Yan, who were on vigil, to sleep.
Xuanyuan Yan was a little depressed: "I'm not a human being, it's the same whether I sleep or not, sit here and meditate......"
"Let you in, you'll go in, Rory. Meng Li was impatient.
Xuanyuan Yan shut up and glared at Meng Li suspiciously, before getting into the carriage, but he pricked up his ears against the corner of the window.
But what made Xuanyuan Yan depressed was that he heard the somewhat dumb and deliberately lowered voice, and he could hear that it was Yan Crow, but what the two said, Xuanyuan Yan didn't understand half a word.
He snorted to himself twice and decisively meditated and rested.
Meng Li added some firewood to the bonfire, and a few sparks jumped on Yan Crow's body, Yan Crow didn't raise his eyelids, and closed his eyes to take care of the feathers on his body.
"You're going to spend it like this?"
"You don't understand. ”
"I don't understand anything? Face problem? Seriously, no one knows what happened between the two of you, even if it's awkward, no one knows, what can't you pull your face? ”
"I'm just angry! Why can she make random decisions, as if I don't have a contract and I'll leave without looking back! I followed her because of the contract! Su Jiujiu ran to Liuhe and tried hard to find her traces, so I didn't have it!"
"Then let me ask you, if there was no contract in the first place, would you have looked at her more?"
Yan Yao stopped talking, thinking that at the beginning, in that village, Lin Ziyue dragged Si Nuo to escape, very incompetent, but she struggled with all her might, and she could still remember the restraining effect of water, and in the end, it happened to let her successfully end the dungeon, or was it because of her luck?
Meng Li said again: "In other words, without a contract, you will not be interested in this human being at all, let alone treat her as your own person and be angry with her like now, right?"
Yan Crow stared at the pile of wood branches swaying in the firelight, and her eyes couldn't hide her confusion, because Meng Li was indeed telling the truth, but Yan Crow still stubbornly lost her temper: "But why did she decide? The contract is a two-way street!
Meng Li couldn't help it, and a smile appeared on Bing Cube's face: "You obviously can't bear this contract." ”
The crow froze, its beak caught its tongue.
"Without the contract, you don't even have a reason to stay with her, but you are unwilling, because you have long been accustomed to Lin Ziyue's existence like Su Jiujiu. ”
Meng Li's eyes narrowed slightly, and he was shaken by the firelight like starlight: "I think Lin Ziyue ...... Not quite normal. ”
"Where is she normal?" said Yan Yao sullenly.
"No, no, that's not what it means, it's that her affinity is too attractive, but it's not the same as the dazzling leadership charisma, it's a more subtle and gentle bond, and I suspect that's the nature of L's abilities. ”
"The line of cause and effect. ”
"Yes, if you fall on your body a little bit, you will naturally get more and more entangled. So what do you still have a headache for? That's how we're all being held by her. Although Meng Li's tone was cold, his eyes were very peaceful.
Yan Crow lowered his head: "Dislike her!"
"Whatever you want. Meng Li put away the fugue smile on his face and looked at Yan Crow: "But she gives you freedom, just to give you a choice." Since she has this heart, you should use your brain more...... Do you know why she didn't break Botiss's contract?"
Yan Yao glared at Meng Li: "This is also a point that annoys me, why only kick me away and keep that dead hemp rope?"
Meng Ligan stared at the crow for a long time before he said, "Have you been a crow for too long, and your brain has become a sand sculpture." She gives you a choice precisely because she values you! I hope that you will move forward with you out of your own will, and not because of the seal, you will be forced to follow her everywhere...... She may encounter more danger in the future, and when she dies, what will you do? She is reluctant to let you die to unlock the soul seal for you, what are you drilling here!"
"I'm just not happy! Why is she acting like I'm so afraid of death! I won't betray her!"
"You say that now, what about in the future?
There was a bonfire reflected in the eyes of the Yan Crow: "I will never turn my back on Lin Ziyue, no matter whether the contract is alive or dead, I will not inherit the title of Andos, I will only be a Yan Crow, and I will always be in the future." ”
Because that's the name she gave me.
"The old man with the crow head has a deep understanding...... I'm afraid I'll be angry with you, right?" Meng Li shook his head amusedly.
Yan Crow's anger dissipated, Meng Li's words did have a good comforting effect on him, if it weren't for the tip of the bull's horns, he would have thought of these things a long time ago.
Neither one nor a bird noticed, as Yan Crow said what he said just now, a black silk thread rippled along the night and floated into Lin Ziyue's carriage, and the moonlight in her hand flashed away, and she put away the black silk thread.
It wasn't until after experiencing more things that Lin Ziyue knew that Yan Yao had inherited the title of Wusi without making a sound.
And the reason is just that he is sad under the moon this night, and he shows absolute sincerity.
At least now Lin Ziyue and Yan Crow don't know, in fact, Andos, who is jealous and hateful, is originally the Wusi who was an undercover agent in the demon world under C.