"Hmm..." The moment Elsie became conscious, she only felt a terrible pain all over her body, and she couldn't help but snort in pain, she opened her eyes half-squinted, and saw the blue sky.

She lay in a daze, her body was in severe pain, her eyes were staring upward, and she slowed down for a long time before she gradually recalled what happened, "Sister Linna is dead... Then Doro activated the magic circle, and then, Rick was killed..."

She felt a violent infarction in her heart, as if a needle was pricked, "... My body hurts, what's wrong with Rick, are you all okay. ”

Elsie turned her head strongly, she lay on the withered yellow grass, the shrubs around her had lost their leaves, the trees were bare, barren, and there seemed to be mountains in the distance, and there was no trace of human life in sight.

"Where is this, everyone?" Elsie rested for a while, and finally sat up, there was nothing around, it was very quiet, not even the birds chirping.

"What a desolate place," Elsie looked around, and a gust of wind blew, "Shh ”

She didn't react for a while, but now that she gradually mastered her body, she found that her body was frozen and stiff except for pain.

"It's so cold here. Elsie clenched her cold fingers and slowly stood up, she clasped her hands around herself and rubbed: "Are you separated? I don't know if everyone is close, do I wait here or go to them?"

She walked around the starting point, there were no clues around her, and there was a withered and defeated look everywhere. "If today is still the day we escape the imperial capital, now is... February 29, because it's still late winter. ”

Atlantis is a country that is like spring all year round, and now that the temperature is low and the surroundings are decaying, it seems that it has indeed teleported far away from the empire.

"It's cold... You have to move, or you'll freeze here when it's late. Elsie looked up at the sun, the cold winter sun hung obliquely in the sky, Elsie did not feel the warmth of the sun, but he knew that the sun was in this position and it was probably not early now.

"In which direction? Elsie hesitated again, knowing that she had to leave at once, and she was afraid that she and her companion would go in the opposite direction.

"If it's Doro, where will he go?" Elsie pondered, only the edge of the mountain could be seen in the east and west, and only the horizon was in the north. ”

"Forget it, take a gamble! You can only meet if you live, and if you continue to stay here, you really won't have a chance to meet. Elsie lifted her foot and walked north, unaware of it, and before she knew it, she had become much more decisive.

Elsie wore a gray coat around his waist, his wounds were soaked in blood, and every step was painful, but fortunately it didn't affect his movements, and not only was there no one along the way, but no creature was seen.

The surroundings were getting darker and darker, Elsie thought it was going to be dark, and when he looked up, he found that the sky that was originally quite clear was slowly accumulating dark clouds, and the sky was dark, "It's not going to change the sky, is it?"

She regretted a little that she shouldn't have chosen this path, the trees and shrubs in front of her were getting denser and denser, there were no leaves but they were all twisted thorns full of spikes, and now she couldn't see the sun, Elsie was afraid that she would deviate from the direction of the road, so she had to look in one direction, and occasionally it hurt to be scratched, but the uncomfortable thing was that she was blocked from seeing more and more clearly.

Suddenly, Elsie stopped abruptly and looked around vigilantly: "There is a voice!" There were bushes and thorns all around, she couldn't see clearly, and she touched her body habitually: "The staff... The staff is lost. ”

Elsie now feels like she's back to when she was helpless when she first left Gree, and she now only hopes that it's all her delusion.

She stayed where she was, not daring to move, her eyes looking around, but she didn't notice that a thorn crawled softly under her feet, wrapped around her ankle before Elsie could react, and hung her upside down.

"Ahh

Elsie was in pain and fear, and just as she was desperate, an urgent cry came: "Elsie!"

A sword qi rushed over and cut off all the thorns, Elsie fell down violently, fortunately a few more thorns dragged him just now and reversed his position, this time it was not his head on the ground, but Elsie also fell not lightly.

She felt in a daze that someone helped him up, and Elsie shook her head and looked at the people around her, "Doro!!"

Elsie exclaimed in surprise and threw herself into Doro's arms, "I thought we were far apart! Didn't Rick find him?

Dylan avoided Elsie's gaze.

"I can still hold on, let's go find him, he's still hurt!" Elsie struggled to his feet.

Doro picked him up and whispered, "Rick is dead." ”

Elsie softened suddenly, she grabbed Doro's arm, and asked in disbelief, "I don't believe it! Didn't we enter the magic circle together? Now everyone is here, why is Rick ......?"

Doro's expression was a little unbearable: "There are too many of us, our energy is insufficient, and the teleportation is very unstable. ”

"It was an expected surprise. ”

Elsie looked at Dylan, who had his head down, and now looked more like he had completely closed himself off than he had been so reticent before.

He must be the saddest man.

Elsie's heart hurt even more, not only because of Rick's departure, but also because of Dylan's heartache.

Snow gradually fell from the sky, and for the first time Elsie had seen snow in reality, the crystal clear snowflakes fell lightly on everyone, and then melted little by little, and the surroundings gradually became white, but no one was in the mood to appreciate it.

"I'm so cold," Lily said timidly, her uneasy gaze at Dylan, her eyes looking around helplessly, Elsie had seen her look like this for the first time since she had known her, even though it was more like a little girl.

Doro helped Elsie and said, "We can't spend the night in the wilderness, it's more likely to meet humans on the plains, so let's continue north." ”

No one responded to him, but as he led Elsie away, Dylan and Lily silently followed.

It was getting darker, and Elsie could barely see anything because of the snow falling around him. Doro hugged her shoulders tightly, and Elsie looked back, Dylan had draped his coat over Lily without saying a word, and Lily was holding it tightly with both hands, but she was still shivering, and her lips were purple from the cold.

Under normal circumstances, Doro and Dylan can still survive for a while in this cold night, but now that they are both covered in injuries and have experienced the torture of the unstable teleportation array, Elsie felt Doro's body tremble, she grabbed the coat that tied the wound with her hand, and tugged at it: "Why don't you put it on first..." ”

After holding on for another half an hour, Elsie's body stiffened, almost being pushed away, she felt as if she was about to lose consciousness again, and Doro also noticed it, and kept calling her softly in her ear: "Elsie... Wake up. ”

"It's almost time for people to get there... Elsie. ”

"Elsie... El?"

"Wake up, there's light ahead!"

Elsie smacked her wit, she forced her eyes open, but she couldn't see anything because of the wind and snow, are you lying to me... Before she could say this, she was about to faint again, but in a daze, she seemed to hear someone shouting in front of her: "...... Hey!who?!"

Elsie was dizzy again, and Doro didn't dare to carry him on his back in order to maintain her body temperature, so he had to walk away with half of his arms.

Dylan silently followed, not looking, but also holding Lily by the hand to support her walk.

There was indeed a light in front, and the closer they got the more they found that there was more than a little bit of it, like a camp, and everyone was forced to approach, and at once two heavily armed men rushed at the door, they were tall and mighty, tightly wrapped and armoured, and one of them pointed a spear in his hand at them and asked, "What people?!"

Several people huddled together, speechless, and another patted his companion's arm: "Look, three of the four of them seem to be children?" The man with the spear put the gun down a little and looked closer: "It seems to be, but how could a child be here in such a cold weather?"

"Don't ask so much! Look at these people wearing so thin, two of them are freezing and fainting!Let's help them in first!" The man slapped his companion hard, and the companion's spear was almost unsteady, and hurriedly "Oh oh!" went to La Elsie, his hand didn't touch Doro but looked up at him violently, his face was blue from the cold, his body was shaking uncontrollably, but his eyes were clear and resolute, the man was startled by Doro's eyes, so he had to explain: "Hey, I want to help you hold on, if you don't go in, you will freeze to death!"

Doro just didn't let go, the man didn't care when he saw that they were still children, and half-pushed and half-helped Doro to lead the two of them in, and the two of them took Doro and his party back to the camp.