At night, when the moon was dark and the wind was high, William sat weakly in a wind-eroded cave, he gently stroked Catherine's coffin beside him, and a helpless wry smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

His right arm hung limply, and a shocking wound nearly split his arm in half. Originally, with William's special physique, even more serious injuries than this could be healed in an instant, but the man's knife was smeared with some kind of fierce poison, although William did not die because of this, but the injuries on his hands could not be improved for a long time.

William was both remorseful and self-reproachful, he had underestimated the danger of the journey. After secretly breaking through the city under the arrangement of the monk, he thought that with his own ability, he should make it all the way to the east without hindrance. But as soon as you enter the desert, nature reveals its unfathomable power. The raging sandstorm almost has the ability to change the world, and William has endured all kinds of hardships to protect the crystal coffin, but he has also completely lost his way.

He trudged in the desert for more than ten days, and just as he was about to run out of oil, he crashed into the lair of a gang of robbers. William immediately killed and sucked blood, and finally saved his life.

The gang of robbers didn't know how powerful they were at first, and as soon as they fought, William killed several people in a row, and then a bloody battle, after they left more than a dozen corpses, the remaining few people scattered and fled, and the yellow sand was long, William couldn't catch up, so he had to give up.

But he didn't expect it to be the beginning of a nightmare.

The few who fled quickly gathered a large number of people and killed them. It turned out that they had seen Catherine's coffin, so they broke the news that there was a vicious strange man from a foreign land, carrying a coffin of rare treasures. This news was like an incomparably sweet bloody gas, spreading more and more widely, and the more bizarre it became, it soon attracted countless ferocious and greedy hungry wolves. Wave after wave of robbers gathered and attacked William one after another.

At the beginning, William naturally had the upper hand, and he was like a hundred enemies in a no-man's land, and he was bloodied. But this did not deter the robbers, but only made the legend more believable, more concrete, and more bizarre.

At first, the legend was only comparable to gold, but gradually it became priceless, and finally the robbers even said that the treasure could buy a country.

The robbers who arrived soon learned the lessons of their predecessors and began to fight in a roundabout way, taking advantage of their familiarity with the desert, and did not attack head-on, but hung from a distance, constantly harassing.

After several battles, the robbers gradually discovered William's secret. Although this strange man is terrifyingly strong, once his body is exposed to the sun, he will immediately be seriously injured, which is almost like the devil in the old legend. But neither the devil nor the gods can deter endless greed. The robbers quickly figured out a tactic to keep attacking as soon as the sun came out, and as soon as the sky began to darken, they fled thousands of miles away.

The battle turned from William's one-sided slaughter to a stalemate. William had no choice but to fight and leave. When he finally came to Peter's path, he was already at the end of his crossbow.

Nearby there is a castle called Broken Leaves, which is said to have been the border of the Eastern Empire. William had ventured into the city thirteen days earlier to leave a secret message, but to this day there has been no response.

The robbers sensed William's weakness, and from a week ago, even at night, they no longer fled far away, but surrounded William and kept approaching.

No one wants to work so hard for so long and take so many lives, but let others steal the soup, but no one wants to use their lives to make wedding dresses for others. The encirclement is slowly shrinking in this subtle and contradictory state of mind, constantly testing William's bottom line.

Outside the cave, the wind blows through the large expanses of wind-eroded rocks here, sometimes letting out the wailing and angry roar of ghosts and wolves, and sometimes the whispers of eerie horrors. William knew that this place was called the Devil's Valley by the bandits, and it was said that anyone who entered the valley would be tempted by the devil and never get out of it. This is also an important reason why the robbers have not launched a final attack for a long time.

William is naturally not afraid of any devils, he himself is the devil in other people's mouths. Compared to the devil, human beings are more terrible things, and human desires are countless times more vicious than those of the devil.

William sat quietly in this dark cave, he didn't know how long he could hold on, he could only try to use this rare rest time to recover his combat strength a little more.

Suddenly, a dazzling fire lit up in the darkness, and a young man sneaked in without knowing it. He was blazing and looking at Catherine in the coffin.

"Is this the legendary rare treasure? Beauty is beautiful, but to say that it is worth it is a bit exaggerated. ”

William couldn't even be stunned, and threw the boy to the ground like a beast, a scimitar against his throat, and blood was already flowing slowly down the blade.

The young man was not afraid, but looked at William with interest by the light of the fire, "Ha, what kind of devil, it turns out that he is also a person, and he is quite handsome." ”

William didn't have the heart to listen to him at this time, not to mention that he was still speaking in a language he didn't understand, and his eyes were so sharp that he would cut off his head.

The boy sensed William's reaction keenly and immediately switched to fluent Latin.

William's expression moved, and the knife momentum slowed down, although the young man's Latin obviously had a slight accent, but the expression was accurate and fluent, and even the choice of words and sentences was quite elegant, with an old-school monastic style. Is he Peter's man?

But the strange thing is that this young man has obviously realized that he is dying, and he is not afraid at all. And why did he keep praising my handsomeness, and praising Catherine's beauty, and constantly boasting that he himself was actually handsome, and wise and powerful? Shouldn't he be identified at once, or is he not really Peter's man?

"Who are you?" asked William, tightening the scimitar in his hand with a fierce look.

"What do you think I'm wearing on my wrist?"

William's eyes swept and he couldn't help but smile, it was a small cross, exactly the same as the one given by the monk.

"I came here when I saw your code, is this how to treat guests?"

William breathed a sigh of relief and put away the knife, but he was still wary of the young man in front of him, he didn't dare to trust anyone easily.

"Why didn't you say it earlier, aren't you afraid that I'll kill you with a knife?"

The young man quickly took out a strip of cloth and a bottle of medicinal powder from his arms, and under William's vigilant gaze, he bandaged the wound on his neck while taking care of himself, and said with a smile: "If you want to kill early, since you don't kill it, then you won't kill it again, what do I have to be afraid of? It would be terrible if I couldn't say what I wanted to say." ”

William could not be so calm, and he hurriedly asked, "How many of you are there?"

"Of course Peter is in the capital, how can he be here. Well, I'm the only one. I thought it was going to be a group of missionaries, but I didn't expect it to be a famous devil, tell me what happened, it must be very interesting. ”

"Just you?" William laid down his knife and sat down in a dejected manner. Although I don't know what method this young man used to sneak into this place secretly, but the sword just now William has already tried out that this young man's strength is not ordinary at all, and one or two robbers can steadily cut him to the ground.

"You go, staying here will only accompany me to death. ”

The boy's mouth opened wide in surprise, "Death, so you're not playing tricks on those bandits." ”

"What do you mean?"

The young man looked at William and said with a smile, "I have heard that devils are very cunning, but you don't seem to be very good at this." Don't you know how famous you are now? This is a weapon that works better than anything else, and with this, you will still be afraid of those little people?"

"Do you have a way to get us out of the encirclement?" asked William, though he wasn't quite convinced.

The young man gestured with his hands and said, "You are a little taller than me and a little stronger than me, but this is not difficult to solve, anyway, you are wrapped in a black robe, and no one has ever seen your face." Do you want to break through? Give me your clothes, and I will use your fame as a reward, and I will help you to retreat from the enemy by the way. ”

"You, do you really have a way? Those robbers are not easy to mess with. ”

The boy pointed to himself, "I'm not one to mess with." Stop talking nonsense, if you believe me, take off your clothes quickly. ”

William could only use a dead horse as a live horse doctor at this time, and soon helped the boy put on his trademark black robe, and he was high and strong, and there was not much difference between the two in appearance.

"I'm gone, and the group is mine. Look at the opportunity and leave. Follow the route I just said to enter Shattered Leaf City, and I'll look for you later. The boy was eager to try, and when he finished speaking, he turned around and was about to leave.

William looked at the young man's back, and suddenly an indescribable respect suddenly appeared in his heart. Although this boy was the companion of those hypocrites, he was very different from them, he had no elaborate hypocrisy in him, but like a burning flame, straightforward and coarse, and swaying.

William solemnly saluted the young man: "Please be sure to tell me your name." ”

The young man pulled down his veil, and the flames jumped, illuminating the confident smile on the corner of his mouth, and he replied word by word in Chinese: "Li Xuan, up Li Xuan." ”