"It's not uncommon to see it usually, but now I feel that it's really scary to have no sunshine......"

Lilith walked on the edge of the desert behind Li Bai, and she used the card spirit summoned by the latter, the goddess of the moon, Elusem, to examine the scenery hidden in the darkness through the hazy moonlight it emitted.

All the members of the team acted in five groups, and agreed to assemble in Riyao Town after the investigation, and she and Li Bai were on their way to a village where there might be news of John.

The edge of the desert is not as sandy as the depths, the ground around it is only half-sandy, and every few steps you can see some vegetation suitable for the treacherous environment growing there, Lilith notices that the ground under her feet is slightly different from the sides, and its texture seems to be a little more "hard", probably "carved out" by the most primitive means, that is, countless trampling of legs and feet or countless rolling of wheels.

"It's hard to imagine what life is going to happen here." Li Bai heard her emotion, and turned his head to look at the many withered and dead plants and creepy bones on the side of the road.

"Suddenly losing the sun, where is it so easy to adapt...... It's squeezing them. ”

Humans are undoubtedly resilient, at least in the short term, and few organisms can match them. Li Bai heard from the innkeeper that there were many changes after Flotis's loss of sunshine, the price of oil rose sharply, the sun was replaced by an hourglass, the grain died, the largest source of food was no longer land, and aquatic products began to occupy the table more and more frequently, although the fish produced by the water lacking sunlight were not as good as before, but at that time, the first thing people thought about was not to starve to death.

People who can afford it have begun to develop fisheries around their homes, after all, there is a kind of fish that likes to be dark and damp for food, and can reproduce in large numbers without sunlight, and its name is earthworm.

"I've heard that because of its proximity to the border desert, there are always a lot of adventurers who are interested in myths and legends, so even in such a barren place, there are still merchants who are willing to risk the darkness to do business, as you can see...... The technology here is very backward, not to mention the current world, your magic technology in Myrazon can explode them ten streets...... Therefore, no one who has power here will be poor, and it is easier for these people to make money. Speaking of this, Li Bai couldn't help but sigh.

"The rest of the people don't have much money...... I think it's poorer than the Middle Ages today. ”

"Under these conditions, many people even have a problem of survival, let alone money." Lilith's affection is not high, "I guess that in those remote and unattractive poor villages, the villagers barter with each other, and for them money is almost completely useless, and there may not be such a village that can survive on its own...... The beasts that haunt the darkness are no more than the sunny days here. ”

The long, boundless darkness brought not only the death of plants and animals, but also the many wild beasts that had descended with the demon army, and the shadows that jumped out from time to time where Elusem shined, meant that this place was far from dead silence as it seemed.

"Speaking of which, I didn't expect you to have a concept of money." Lilith seemed to think of something, and looked at Li Bai's face became extremely strange, "Seeing that you don't go out of the door on weekdays, you thought that you would need me to take care of all the way this time." ”

"I am still relatively confident in managing my finances and taking care of my life." Li Bai gave him a disdainful squint, "Don't forget that I have also participated in the financial construction of large-scale projects before, and I don't do it on the island because I have Joker's help, don't be like I don't understand anything." ”

"And you're just a little kid, how can you take care of me? Burst...... Don't pop up at that time, a monster is scared to pee on your skirt. ”

"How dare you laugh at me!?" The red-haired girl's eyes widened and her face flushed with anger, "I'm an apostle of the First Realm with a special mission to observe you!" It's not a little kid! ”

"Hahaha...... I'll just say you're a little kid, what can you do with me~" Intentionally getting out of the depressing atmosphere caused by the environment, Li Bai took the initiative to provoke Lilith, she not only mocked the other party, but also reached out and pulled it on the ponytail behind her head.

"Hey! is also an apostle of the first realm, his reaction is so slow, he can't even realize that he was knocked unconscious and abducted. Then he pulled out his legs and fled at the speed of light, "Pee your skirt!" ”

"You guy......" Lilith was stunned for a moment, then her face turned black and dark...... It was dark all the time, she stretched out her hand, and the thick-skinned magic guide book that had never left her side appeared in her hand, clicking on the gift given by the mentor before leaving, her eyes flashed and stared at the pages full of incantations, she planned to give the other party a little bit of power this time!

"Let's get a taste of slime slime...... DoMoKeSaLaMo！！ With the incantation that lit one of the pages, Lilith shouted angrily, stretched out her hand and pointed at Li Bai, who had escaped more than a dozen steps away, and a blue light glowing with water burst out.

The Magic Slime's trait is to return all physical damage, and the Magic Slime is ...... No matter how strong you are, it's useless, and it's not slow, and by the time you find out, I'm afraid you'll already be close to this guy.

Lilith snickered inwardly, she pulled out a camera out of nowhere, and chased it forward.

Dare to curse me, if Yin succeeds this time...... I'm going to take a picture of you being toyed with by slime tentacles and sell it for a high price!

"Huh!?" While escaping, Li Bai heard movement behind him, and when he looked back, he was startled, "This is ...... What the hell is this!? ”

The blue light was flying much faster than she could run, and the second she saw it, it was already flying in front of her. Under the crisis, Li Bai could only instinctively squint his eyes and raise his left hand to block in front of him.

The little girl's hand should not be heavy, almost the same as Cheng dù who fell on a fall...... Right?

There's a play! Lilith, who was following behind, clenched her little fists and cheered loudly in her heart, because Li Bai was still following Elusem, she could naturally see the other party's movements clearly through the light it emitted...... Now you're done! No one can save you!

But unfortunately, sometimes, luck just likes to joke with you.

Just when Lilith was waiting for Li Bai to make a fool of herself, a white shadow suddenly appeared in the darkness of the road next to her, impartial, and knocked it away just before the blue light hit Li Bai.

"Huh......?" Li Bai was stunned, she hurriedly stepped behind her to stabilize the trend of falling backwards, and then looked down at the two mysterious creatures that fell on the side of the road.

"It's plasticine...... No, it's a slime? The crystal glue-clad transparent creature that was constantly wriggling on the sandy ground was undoubtedly the kind of miscellaneous monster in the magic novel, Li Bai's eyes jumped, and his brain made up the picture that would appear if he was knocked down by this thing.

"Aha...... This kind of trash can't be hard for you anyway, right, uh- I mean, I just want to scare you, nothing else! Quickly putting her hands behind her back, Lilith smirked brightly.

"I'll settle accounts with you later." Glaring at her, Li Bai turned around to look at the white shadow that could be said to have saved her once a few steps away.

All Elusem provided was a soft moonlight, which was still a little blurry from this distance, and only vaguely recognizable it was a four-legged animal with white hair.

"Rabbit?" Walking in to observe, Li Bai muttered suspiciously, his face puzzled, "How can a rabbit have such a fast speed and still crash into that mass of slimes?" ”

The blue slime slime...... If she's not mistaken, she should be a card elf, but her ability is low, and although it has an effect, it's just a double monster, and the process required to exert the effect is too cumbersome - but even so, it's a card elf?

"This is no ordinary rabbit!" The red-haired ponytail girl leaned over and spat out a word of nonsense with certainty.

“…… I certainly know this is no ordinary rabbit. Li Bai angrily scolded her, "What I care about now is, what kind of rabbit is this!" ”

Naturally, it is impossible for an ordinary rabbit to have that speed and strength, not to mention that in this "dark age" when the sun has lost its daylight, the beasts that look the same as the original are almost all extinct.

But it really looks quite ordinary, with a round body, no variegated white hair, bright red eyes, two ears that are erected, and ...... Except for being too fat, it looks like an ordinary rabbit.

"The only thing that can match the characteristics of the monster card is ......" Li Bai held his chin and pondered for a long time, his eyes lit up: "Could it be, little white rabbit?" ”

"White Rabbit?" Lilith first showed an inexplicable expression, and then she reacted, "You mean that mortal bone monster with 1 star but 2050 garrison power?" ”

"Well, that's the only way to explain why it was hit by the magic slime but wasn't injured at all, but the slime was hit and still dizzy over there."

As he spoke, he squatted down, Li Bai slowly stretched out his hand to the rabbit on the ground, this stuffed animal was not afraid of life at all, and was not shocked by the dragon blood breath that vaguely escaped from her body, but rubbed her fingertips with his head pinned.

"Unusual little guys." Li Bai, who had been holding back in the oppressive atmosphere for a while, suddenly felt that he had been cured, and sure enough, it was not unreasonable for humans to choose cute furry things as pets.

"Why did you end up in such a barren place?" Pinching the back of the little white rabbit's neck and holding it into his arms, Li Bai lowered his head and said to himself while stroking it, "Are you lost, or is something chasing you?" ”

Lilith looked at Li Bai's chest—the dead rabbit that had ruined her good deeds was nesting comfortably in the other party's plump breasts, and the head of the rabbit, which seemed to her to be extremely hateful, arched from time to time, showing leisure.

I'm not angry...... I'm not angry at all...... It's just a rabbit......

Taking several deep breaths, Lilith tried to convince herself that she was a promising future Magister who had nothing to do here, what was she doing with a rabbit? Right!

And, and-

Isn't it just breasts, I'll have them sooner or later......

"Liz." Unlike his little friend, who had his own thoughts, Li Bai suddenly stopped teasing the little pet he had just acquired, and slowly glanced around with a slight frown, "Did you notice anything wrong, around here?" ”

I guess I was just inadvertently right. There was a chill down her spine.

In the dark, her sixth sense was informing her of the approaching danger, and she was also sensitive to the atavistic body, and heard the signs of a large number of life activities in the distant darkness.

What would chase a harmless mortal bone monster (the White Rabbit has only 150 attack power) to a place like this?

If it was any other beast, it would be okay to say - her soul was weakened again, and she faintly began to control the strong aura that belonged to the dragon clan in her bloodline, and there was really nothing to be afraid of in this dimension where the level of strength was not high, and no matter how powerful the beast was, it was not very daring to approach.

But in case...... It's the demon army led by Nelofa, and it's very difficult for them to deal with it. That kind of opponent can't be scared off by intimidation, I'm afraid you have to use the duel plate.

(Although the old man who was looking at the shop didn't mention to me the exact time of the demon invasion, Floris remembered very well when she was cursed to lose the sun, almost a year...... The amount of material and troops mobilized in a cross-border war should be far greater than I imagined, so it is really unacceptable

They must have left Floris and gone to the higher Sacred Realm, where they will probably still be here. ）

(Or for a better reason, even if they've already started, there will be a surplus of troops left...... After all, the dimensional channel is not as big as she wants, and even she shouldn't be able to do this kind of thing. ）

In an instant, the key point of the matter had been considered clearly by Li Bai, and she now began to hate the rudimentary means of communication of this backward dimension...... Even if you get out of here, it's impossible to contact others because of the sudden situation here, and you'll have to wait until you meet up in Sunshine Town.

"Something is wrong...... Lilith looked confused, "what's wrong, it's so dark around here...... Ay? Wait, is there something wrong with my ears, I think I hear the sound of horses' hooves? In this kind of place? ”

The sound of the horse's hooves smashing on the sandy ground came from far and near, although it was a little scattered, but it was mostly in the direction of the rabbit scurrying, Li Bai's guess was correct, the other party was indeed chasing the little pet in her arms.

"I don't think it's any ordinary guest." The red-haired girl pursed her lips, she was not an ordinary human being, although her five senses were not as sharp as Li Bai and far beyond ordinary people, but even so, the sound of horses' hooves in her ears was slightly abnormal, and it was estimated that ordinary people might not be able to hear it.

In the dark, relying on the lighting of Elusem, the visibility was only five or six meters, but according to Lilith's estimate, the other party was almost close to within fifty meters, and at such a close distance, it was still possible to control the movement and static so low...... Is this a bad comer?

“…… Nearly a hundred scout troops! A batch of even more heavy cavalry will be added to the back! Li Baitie said with a blushing face.

She could feel more troops approaching farther back than the faint sound of horses' hooves, and a faint orange glow began to appear in the haze.

It was the halo of flames.

A dark horse sprang out of the darkness, and the knight on horseback walked around the oblique hand without looking at them, not as a sign of abandonment...... He was followed by more knights, who rode their horses in the direction of the first horseman, and the position of Li Bai and Lilith was soon surrounded by a small circle surrounded by the three outer layers of the knights, and they could no longer escape.

"These people don't have any lighting tools at hand, and they dare to spread out in the dark?" Lilith soon noticed something unusual about the troops surrounding her, "They're not afraid of getting separated? And then get lost in this desert? ”

"They are no ordinary army." Li Bai narrowed his eyes, "They are the final necromancers, the fastest and weirdest rangers in the Mithra Cross-border Expeditionary Force!" ”

"The darkness can't stop their perception...... They are in the darkness like fish swimming in water. ”

She had known about this Ranger in countless strange dreams, and knew that it was extremely difficult to escape the target they had glued to, and now she could only pray that there would be a leader of sufficient weight in the heavy cavalry behind them, which was obviously composed of ordinary people.

Otherwise, they would not have had a chance to escape in the form of a duel, and they could only keep using the embodiment of confrontation against these warriors whose goal was only to obey orders.

But that's undoubtedly a struggle.

There were about 200 people on the other side, all of them cavalry, and there were only 2 of them, and they were all on foot.

If they don't defeat everyone, they can't escape at all, and even in order to be safe, they can't let go of any of these 200 people.

Besieged by the black-armored knight beside him for a while, the distant fire is getting closer and closer, unlike the group of people in front of him, who are full of weirdness and dead silence, the new troops are more energetic.

The hooves of the horses were chaotic, the scolding of people and the neighing of horses were all in one piece, and the pace was undisciplined - ordinary people are ordinary people after all, and this is inherently much worse than those special beings.

The smaller Knights of the End split a gap, and the heavy cavalry took over the direction.

The heavy cavalry looked up and down the two women who were besieged by their own side with malicious eyes, and talked to each other casually.

"It's so strange, how could two little girl's skins appear in such a ghost place for no reason?"

"Originally, it was just a rabbit, but I didn't expect to find two bigger rabbits......

"Do they want to die, dare to wander around in such a place?"

"Lucky to meet us! Otherwise, if you continue to touch the dark, you don't know when you will die! ”

Most of them were amazed to find such a target on the edge of the desert - Li Bai had put away Elusem long before the two sides came into contact, and now she and Lilith looked no different from ordinary women except for the strange clothes they were wearing.

"Zach is not right! I think I found two bigger ones and two smaller ones! Suddenly, such a voice rang out in the crowd.

The others were stunned for a moment, instinctively staring more at a certain part of their bodies, and then suddenly burst into a series of laughs and whistles.

“…… These vulgar and unreasonable deflated three! Lilith was really angry this time, and she took out the thick leather book again, and she was about to do it directly with a black face.

"Don't worry, then things really won't turn any better." Li Bai reached out and pressed it on her shoulder, asking her not to act rashly for the time being, and at the same time leaned into her ear and whispered.

"They're not supposed to be targeting us, we've only been here for a few days? Even if Nelofa already knew that we were here, it would be impossible for these low-level troops to receive orders against us so quickly...... So let's see the situation first. ”

Li Bai is no longer the little girl who will blow up with verbal attacks, in the short period of time she has been criticized and criticized, she is carefully identifying every face in the other team.

In the end, she was greeted by a brown-haired female knight wearing silver half-body armor with only a small face showing behind the crowd.