Chapter 260: Begins
Perhaps Valentine felt this, and on the fifth day, he did not come. Arthur www.biquge.info still feel glad that he was able to have peace all day. But two days later, Valentine still didn't come, and Arthur began to worry if something happened to them.
But his sanity tells him that Rhy's abilities can handle any situation. Arthur then had to admit that he wanted Valentine to come and visit.
Just when he was hesitant to take the initiative to visit Valentine, three days later, Valentine arrived again.
Guarded by Rhy's silence, Valentine and Arthur sit by the lake and fish. They didn't talk, just looked at the calm waters together. The bait on the hook had long been pecked clean, but they didn't care.
It's been a long time since Arthur felt this calm and comfortable.
Since inheriting the Golden Lion, Arthur has always been in a state of anxiety and difficult to calm down. Only by being alone by the lake can he regain his peace. But he knew he was running away, and that this escape was temporary. So even when it was calm, he was never comfortable.
But with Valentine, Arthur could feel calm and comfortable at the same time.
They grilled fish together, dug worms together to make bait, picked wild mushrooms and wild vegetables together, picked branches together, searched for pearl-crowned long-tailed snowfinches together, and did many things together, like the water of a lake, like the cold air of a forest.
Even if it was a brief escape, when he was with Valentine, Arthur was sure that he was happy, and the long-lost calm and comfort made him reluctant to give up on Valentine, but he was careful not to show it.
Before leaving, Valentine gave him a picture of Arthur's favorite woodpecker and invited Arthur to his home.
"In County Mackinra, in Bossey, go all the way west to the hills, and find a house with a bird carved on the wall, and I welcome you at any time. ”
"I'll go when I get the chance. ”
Arthur thought about inviting Valentine to the final snow mountain as well, but he quickly rejected the idea.
After seeing Valentine away, Arthur smiled wryly and thought to himself, why invite someone else to a place he didn't want to stay?
Not long after returning to the camp, Salina came.
She hugged everyone and the audience recounted their experiences and shared her joys and sorrows.
And then that question inevitably arises. But Arthur didn't give Salina an answer, just as Jonathan didn't give Witt an answer.
Salina stayed in the final snow mountain for three days. During these three days, she stayed with Arthur for a long time, and they talked several times, but to no avail, until Salina was leaving, Arthur told Salina that the current Golden Lions were not capable of taking risks.
Salina asked Arthur, "Is it that the Golden Lions can't take the risk, or can't you?"
Arthur replied, "Because I now represent the Golden Lions, I can't." ”
After Salina left, the daily routine of the Golden Lions continued, and everything looked the same as ever, no different, but Arthur knew that it was the calm before the storm. He looks back on his journey, and it seems, as it is now, always in the calm before the storm, always in the illusion.
A month later, when Arthur heard that the location was in Bosisse, not far from County McKinra, and that the mission was to expel the monsters, Arthur said he would lead the team.
In the past, the Golden Lions had a record of Rick leading the team on several missions, but that was only for war missions, and Rick no longer led the team since the unification, so everyone didn't understand why Arthur was going.
Witt said he could do it, and Jonathan persuaded Arthur to stay, but Arthur insisted. Werther wanted to say something, but seeing that Arthur had already made up his mind, he suppressed what he wanted to say and insisted that he must go along.
The final mission was led by Arthur and Werther, with Jonathan and Hawkins remaining at camp.
It had not been a long time since he left the camp, and Arthur had to say goodbye to Woo for a long time. Knowing that Arthur was going to a far away place this time and would be in danger, he held Arthur in his arms and kept making pitiful "woo" screams, rubbing Arthur's face repeatedly, not wanting him to leave.
Arthur hugged Wooi and comforted him for a while, stroking it almost all over his body, and then broke its claws and said goodbye to it.
As the team set off, Woo ran after Arthur's horse, and then it flew into the sky, hovering over Arthur's head, and continued to "woo".
Witt said, "Maybe Woo feels something, Arthur, you shouldn't go." ”
"It's just a mission, what's the big deal?" Arthur looked at Wu Yi in the air and said loudly, "Go back! Go back and wait for me!"
Woo's cry was even more pitiful, as if she was wailing and crying.
Werther sighed heavily.
Arthur raised his hand, and Woo Yi immediately approached, rubbing the hand with his mouth, Arthur stroked Woo Yi's face and the top of his head, and then said, "Go, wait for me to come back, it won't be long, I can't stay there all the time, next time I leave I will take you with me." ”
Hearing that she would be on a mission with Arthur next time, Wu Yi was so happy that she finally stopped wailing and let out a cry of excitement.
Arthur smiled, his stroking hand nudging Wooy, who finally circled a few times before turning and flying towards the camp.
Werther knows Arthur's strength, and with him and Nayin on this mission, it stands to reason that he should be full of confidence. But unease, and a bad feeling that he could not describe, had always haunted Werther.
When he was still half a day away from his destination, Witt said to Arthur one last time: "Let me go to the front station, you lead the team as support, if there is a need, I will immediately send someone to ask for support." ”
Arthur asked Werther, "Will this mission be difficult, and what difference will be it this time that we have taken on so many missions to exterminate the monsters?"
Werther couldn't answer, and Arthur didn't take Werther's offer.
Two days later, Werther's hunch was confirmed.
The whole team was ambushed by a large number of monsters, suffering heavy casualties, and in the process of fighting against monsters, Arthur was injured to protect his companions. Although Arthur eventually led the group to defeat the Monsters, the whole team was in dire need of high-quality healing and rest, and their location was wreaked havoc by the Monsters, which no longer had such conditions.
After consideration, Arthur led the team to McKinrashire overnight, and on the way the team encountered another storm, Werther saw that Arthur's face was getting worse and worse, and the wound was open again, and he was anxious but helpless.
Nayin warns Arthur that you are in a state of high fever and must rest. But Arthur still braved the wind and rain and rode at the front of the team.
When Arthur led the team to McKinry, all the way west to the hills, and found a house carved with a bird motif, everyone was shocked.
Eventually, Arthur subconsciously thought, "It's you?"