A dozen middle-aged people and two elders from the Yantaihe clan rushed to the edge of the matrix, and at this time the sun was about to set, and they stopped in front of the matrix breathlessly to look at the woods not far away.

"What now?" asked one of the dwarves.

"What else can I do?" said Iwatai anxiously, frowning, "Go and pick up the children outside the matrix." ”

"According to the girls, the boys must have gone to the river in the northwest direction. "What a presumptuous, the river is a common source of water for goblins, and goblins are often found there. ”

"Elder, what are we going to do? Another dwarf said.

"Hmph!" the other dwarven elder snorted and said angrily, "What else can I have in mind? We've all rushed here, so naturally we're going to get out of the matrix and get those little cubs back." ”

Yan Tai exhaled a breath in his mouth, and walked out of the matrix directly, and everyone also walked out of the matrix and rushed to the northwest when they saw this.

As soon as he walked less than a few dozen meters, he heard a rush of footsteps coming from the woods in front of him, and Archie, Kunu and other dwarf boys ran out of the forest sweating profusely, and saw the adults in front of them all speeding up and rushing over.

"Archie!" Iwatai saw Archie running towards him.

"Dad!" Archie threw herself forward into Iwatai's arms.

He kept gasping for breath, and after a moment of calming down, Archie looked up at an angry Iwatai speechless.

"You kid who can't even hold a forging hammer is running outside the matrix to mess around?!" Iwatai blushed and opened his mouth to reprimand loudly.

Tears rolled in Archie's eyes, and he blushed, lowering his head and sobbing while saying "I'm sorry". The other dwarven men were also reprimanding their children, and they had learned that they had been attacked by goblins.

"Don't cry, just be fine, go back to the matrix. The elder reminded loudly.

When everyone heard this, they all pulled their children and walked back. Archie was pulled by Iwatai and walked a few steps, and suddenly stopped, standing in place, holding back tears and shaking his head.

"What's wrong with you?" Yan Tai asked him with a calm face.

"Wow-" Archie suddenly raised her head and cried, "Dad, go ahead...... Save Brother Zero! He is ...... Let's run away and be on our own...... In the back...... Fight a horde of goblins!"

"What?!" Iwatai glanced at the woods behind him.

After hesitating for a moment, he pulled Archie and said, "Let's go back to the matrix first." ”

One after another, everyone ran back into the matrix, and then they saw a bulky figure running out of the woods.

Tanmon gasped for breath and ran weakly in front of everyone, Kunu looked at Tanmon who ran back alone, and asked him loudly: "Why did you run back alone?!"

Tanmon didn't reply, panting as he ran to the edge of the matrix, Kunu reached out and grabbed Tanmon by the collar and asked him viciously, "I asked you where Zero is?!"

He ...... He ......," Tanmon gasped, looking at Kunu inarticulately, "and he seemed to ...... Still to come......"

"You bastard!" Kunu punched Tanmon in the bulging face, and Tammon was knocked to the ground by Kunu, bleeding from the corners of his mouth, and he lay on the ground panting as he stared at the dark sky.

Kunu was pulled by the adults, he struggled to pounce on Tanmeng, his eyes were almost bursting with flames, he shouted at Tanmeng: "You useless pig! You are a waste of food and air to live! Zero ran back to save you, and you actually left him alone and ran back! If it weren't for you, he would have come back with us! You are a pig! A pig that has dragged everyone down! You are a disgrace to the dwarves!"

Archie's cries echoed all around, the boys blaming Tanmon and the adults persuading him, and the scene became chaotic.

"I'm going to save that kid!" Iwatai said.

Everyone looked at Yan Tai one after another, and someone opened his mouth to persuade: "There is a large group of goblins in the forest, and we people can't save him at all......"

"yes, and...... He's not a dwarf. Another said.

"How can you say such a thing?!" Iwatai turned his head and angrily accused, "It was Zero who saved our child, he is now being chased by hundreds of goblins, and you want to leave him alone! What do you make these young children think of us parents?!"

"But he's a human being," the elder said aloud, "a thousand years ago, it was because of human persecution that we were exiled to this dense forest, and he doesn't belong to us dwarves, so we don't have to risk it to save him. ”

"But if it weren't for him, our child would have been in trouble right now!" Yan Tai looked at the elder and said anxiously, "I don't care what kind of humans are in the outside world, Zero is a good boy in my opinion, he is kind, sincere and brave, even if he is a human!"

The two elders didn't speak, and their serious expressions looked determined not to save Zero. Yan Tai gritted his teeth, he turned his face to an adult dwarf a few meters away and shouted, "Tabu, lend me your knife." ”

Tabu stepped forward and untied the broadsword behind his back and handed it to Iwatai and asked, "Iwatae, ...... you?"

"If you don't save it, I'll go alone!" Yan Tai took the broadsword from Tabu's hand, and as he spoke, he carried the broadsword behind his back as he took a step towards the outside of the matrix.

"Don't go!" said one of the elders sternly.

Yan Tai felt a strong pressure coming from behind him, and the strong wind rushed to scrape his back violently, and the broadsword on his back rattled in the scabbard.

"Elder!" Yan Tai cried out through gritted teeth.

The elder stood in place, bursting out with a strong fighting spirit, he stared at Yan Tai's back and said expressionlessly, "You must not sacrifice a dwarf in order to save a human!"

"Gah-"

While the situation was at a stalemate, a series of goblin cries rang out from the forest not far away. Everyone looked into the woods, and the goblins' cries were getting closer and closer, and from a distance they sounded like a flock of birds screaming towards them.

A figure rushed out of the woods, Zero gasping for air with his mouth open, and his feet kept running in the direction of the matrix.

"Brother Zero!" Archie cried out in surprise, tears still hanging down his cheeks.

"Zero, it's zero! He's still alive!hahahaha......" Kunu laughed.

The boys cheered and cheered, and Yan Tai looked at Zero as he rushed towards him, and a smile appeared on his face.

Suddenly, several short figures ran out of the forest following Zero, and everyone saw the green-skinned goblins screaming strangely, and they ran closely behind Zero like green ghosts.

"More than that!" someone shouted.

As soon as Zero ran out of the forest a few dozen meters, a large number of goblins followed him out of the forest. There is a small plain between the matrix and the woods that is more than 500 meters apart, and Zero has only run a few tens of meters, followed by more than 50 goblins, and there are many more in the forest, and large trees are shaking in the shrill cries of goblins one after another, and a large group of goblins is attacking here.

Zero didn't dare to stop at his feet, he knew how many goblins there were behind him, and the little meat on his body was not enough for the goblins behind him, he ran forward desperately, and kept gathering the magic array in his hand to cast magic to repel the goblins that were about to pounce on him.

Zero's hands were constantly flashing with colorful light, one magic array after another flashed out, and Zero threw whatever he thought of, all kinds of fire balls, wind blades, thunderballs...... He was left behind by him. However, this did not slow down the goblin's pursuit, and after one or two were repulsed, several pounced, and his magic had little effect.

"There are too many goblins, his physical strength is almost at the limit, and he doesn't have time to return to the matrix!" someone shouted.

Archie shook Yantai's arm and pleaded, "Dad, please save Brother Zero!"

Iwatai looked at the goblins surging in front of him like a tide, and his heart became a little empty. Goblins are difficult to entangle in their numbers, thousands of goblins rush to their faces, as strong as a dwarf can forge such a divine weapon, they can only avoid their edge, circle the alchemy matrix to live, dare not offend the territory of the goblin. Iwatai has never been afraid to fight with goblins, but this time there are too many goblins, even if all of them present rush over, that is, the mud cow enters the sea, and there is no return.

Yan Tai stood in place with his fists clenched, his teeth clenched and he looked at Zero, who was almost exhausted not far away.

Zero kept running, he felt like he was about to reach his limit, his feet were heavy as if they were tied to a sandbag, he was so sore that he could collapse to the ground at any moment. He remembered the night five years ago when he was chased by the needle-maned wolf when he met Josevi, and he had run away like this, but then he was even more desperate than he was now, and there was no hope of running around in the middle of the night.

And now, hope is in front of him, in the matrix 100 meters away from him, as long as he can run in, he can live. The goblin's cry rang in his ears, and he could even hear the sound of the goblin's claws rubbing against the land, and the sense of crisis was as if the scythe of death was about to hang around his neck.

"I can't die, I can't die......" Zero's mind kept echoing these four words, his eyes were fixed on the front, and the silver-gray pupils suddenly lit up, the brilliance flowed like colorful water waves, and even more dazzling white light burst out from his eyes.

Zero looked back at the many goblins that were already rushing towards him, and several of them were already jumping high and about to pounce on Zero's back.

"I must not die!"

Suddenly, a huge thrust was generated around Zero's body, as if an invisible barrier rose around his body, and at the last moment, the barrier suddenly expanded, and many goblins that were about to pounce on Zero were violently bounced out, and a large open space was pushed out within a range of dozens of meters around Zero's body, and all the goblins closest to Zero flew backwards.

All this happened in an instant, the light in Zero's eyes suddenly dimmed, and there was a "buzz" in his mind, and after a moment of mental trance, Zero fell to the ground weakly.

The next moment, Zero felt that someone was grabbing his shoulder, and Zero cried out in his heart, "My life is over", and suddenly his body flew forward. In a daze, he saw the plain below him, a large area of fierce goblins behind him, and Iwatai running hard in front of the goblin group.

Zero was caught by the dwarves, and he gasped and was lifted to the ground by the crowd.

The two elders took a few steps forward and stepped out of the matrix, one of them pushed forward with one palm, and the majestic fighting spirit carried the flying dust and pushed the many goblins that came to the face, and Yan Tai, who rushed outside the matrix and threw Zero back, took the opportunity to run into the matrix.

"Retreat!" the two elders shouted, and everyone stepped back.

The goblins outside the matrix continued to chase and rushed into the matrix. The moment they rushed to the edge of the matrix, the inscription in the groove lit up with a violent light, and only a "poof" sound was heard, and the rushing goblins instantly turned into a mess of flesh in the air above the matrix, and green blood and broken bones and internal organs fell to the ground, emitting a trace of white smoke. Large swaths of goblins swooped down on the matrix in droves, all of them being broken into flesh by a flash of electric light at the edge of the matrix, and from a distance, it seemed as if there was an invisible power grid blocking the goblins outside the matrix.

The wide plain was stained green with goblin blood in a few moments, and the large smashing goblin corpse at the edge of the matrix, everyone frowned at the disgusting scene in front of them, and several boys turned their faces to the side not to look at it again.

After a few tens of seconds, the goblins stopped their suicidal behavior, standing at the edge of the matrix and not daring to break into the matrix again, just watching the crowd in the matrix let out a series of strange screams.

"Hmph, the goblins who don't know how to do it dare to break into the alchemy matrix set up by my dwarven ancestors. An elder looked at the goblins outside the matrix and said coldly.

"Zero, are you alright?" asked Kunu as the crowd gathered around Zero.

Zero shook his head and didn't speak, just sat on the ground panting and greedily breathing in the fresh air, he looked up at the sunset on the horizon and laughed inadvertently.

It's great that I'm alive.

When Zero followed the group back to the dwarven village, it was already dark, and many dwarves gathered at the entrance of the village to greet them, and the parents gathered around their children, checking their bodies for injuries and scolding them. Zero squatted against the big stone lamp lit on the fire at the entrance of the village, and looked at the scene of parent-child gathering in front of him expressionlessly.

Suddenly someone called his name, and Zero came back to his senses, watched Ishine run towards him, and before he could react, he grabbed his neck.

"It's great you're alright......" Ilman said in a choked ear.

Lula and Zeya followed and stood beside Zero, and they both looked at each other, smiling without saying a word.

Zero laughed weakly, raised his hand and patted Yimeng's back and said to her, "Let me ...... first Let me get up first, my legs are sore to death now......"

"Oh! I'm sorry. Lemon quickly let go of Zero's neck and took a step back.

Zero stood up with difficulty holding the big stone lamp behind him, Zeya looked at Zero and said, "We all heard that you were attacked by goblins outside the matrix, and you saved everyone, you are so brave!"

Zero smiled weakly and waved his hand and said, "It's nothing, and thanks to you calling the adults, otherwise I would have died." ”

"That's amazing, you can escape from so many goblins, you can't run away with other people, those goblins are difficult!" said Lula, clenching her little fists and wrinkling her nose.

Zero leaned against the big stone lamp tiredly, smiled silently and said, "It's really hard to entangle", the firelight fell on his face, which was slightly pale from fatigue, and he looked up at the stars in the sky, not knowing what he was thinking.

Zero sensed someone approaching him, and he looked down to see the dwarves all in front of him looking at him. Zero straightened up, not knowing what was happening, and suddenly the dwarves collectively bowed to him.

"Huh, what are you doing here?" said Zero, bewildered, as he bent down.

"Everybody is grateful to you, Zero. Yantai said to Zero with a smile.

"Thank you for saving my family, Takushi. ”

"If it weren't for you, my stupid boy would have been captured by the goblins. ”

"You are such a brave and kind good person~"

"Thank you!"

......

Zero listened to the different opinions of the dwarves in front of him, he didn't know what to say, so he could only smile and nod to them. It's the first time that Zero has been praised by so many people in person, this feeling has never been once in his life, it seems that he is still a relatively shy person, and he will feel cramped when he is grateful by so many people, originally he thought he was a very thick-skinned person.

After the commotion, the elder shouted, "Since everyone is fine, let's go home and rest." ”

When everyone heard the rumor and was about to lead their children home, someone suddenly shouted, "Wait!"

Everyone looked back at Kunu with a gloomy face, he took a step forward expressionlessly and said under everyone's puzzled gaze: "Zero's bravery, we are grateful, but the culprit of this crisis has not been punished as he deserves!"

The boys put on serious expressions when they heard this, and they turned their eyes to Tanmeng, who was hiding behind their parents.

"Alright, Kunu, stop making trouble. Kunu's mother whispered to him behind him.

"Mom, this matter can't just go over like this, you told me since I was a child that the brave should be rewarded, and the despicable must be punished!" said Kunu sharply.

"That's right! Tammon should be punished for instigating us to get out of the Matrix to catch the goblins!" said Duno.

"That's right!

"Zero went back to save him, he actually left Zero alone and ran back!"

The other boys spoke out against Tanmon.

"That ......," Zero raised his hand and explained to the crowd, "I actually told him to run first, you don't have to stare at this one......"

Tammon kept his head down and hid behind his parents, Etta and Bra, who stood awkwardly in place, not knowing how to defend their son.

"Elder, I suspect that Tanmon deliberately lured us outside the matrix, and he may even be a spy of the goblins, please punish Tanmon according to the clan rules!" Kunu said loudly as he looked at the two elders who were speechless.

"Kunu, you're going too far!" said Etta as she glared at Kunu, "No matter how wrong he is, you can't say he's a spy of the goblins!

"That's it, no matter how much you look down on our family, Tanmon can't say that he is a spy of the goblins! Bula said as he looked at Kunu's father, Tato.

"What's wrong with my son?" said Tato in a cold voice with squinted eyes, "If it weren't for your useless son, my Kunu would be in such a state of danger today?"

"You...... You ......" Bra was momentarily speechless.

"Bra, your son really should be disciplined and disciplined. ”

"That is, even if you are stupid, you have to harm others......"

"I really don't know how you usually educate your own children?"

"It's too much to leave your companions behind and run back on your own!"

Everyone looked at me and blamed Tanmeng's parents, and Tanmeng stood behind his parents with his head bowed, his teeth clenched, his fists clenched, and his whole body trembled.

"That's enough! don't say any more!" suddenly shouted Tammon.

He took a few steps forward, walked in front of his parents, bent down to his knees facing everyone, slammed his head on the ground, and said, "I'm sorry! It's all my fault! I'm sorry everyone! Don't embarrass my parents, I'm willing to be punished! Elder, I'm willing to be punished!"

Everyone fell silent and looked at Tanmeng who was kneeling on the ground, his bulky body looked like a ball of flesh at this time. Zero frowned and sighed softly, he looked away from the scene.

One of the elders opened his mouth and said to Tanmon, "You will be punished for cleaning the poultry pens for three months starting tomorrow." Now, everyone is gone, and everyone goes home to rest. ”

When everyone heard this, they no longer dwelled on this matter, and led their children back to the house. Tanmon's parents stepped forward and pulled him up from the ground and patted the dust off his body.

Zero walked back with the Yantai family, he turned his face to look at Tanmeng, who was brought home by his parents, and the other party's lowered face was hidden in the darkness, walking forward step by step.