Chapter 26: Departure (I)

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The cloudy sand passes through the small transparent hourglass columns, flowing slowly until it overflows the crimson tick marks.

Gordon lifted the suitcase and took one last look around the small cavern. The light was dim, the sand walls were mottled, and the corner of the plank bed showed signs of wear.

He turned, took a deep breath, and pushed the door open.

Fifteen teenagers, fully armed, like silent ghosts, walked out of the caves. They carried heavy bags, their faces were hidden in their hoods, and their broad cloaks fluttered like dark clouds.

In addition to their own unique weapons, each was equipped with a standard six-piece Assassin suit: a silk spine, a dagger in the sleeve, a crossbow on the back, a knee thorn, a boot blade, and a poison in the teeth. Intradental poison is a poison capsule hidden in a tooth, and if an Assassin is caught and cannot withstand torture, he can bite through the poison capsule and commit suicide.

At the end of the cave, the leopard and several big men of the Blood Prison Society were waiting quietly. Freckles pulled her hood and glanced at Gordon vaguely, understanding each other.

"Out." The leopard shouted. The crowd gathered into a long dragon and walked through the hall. The colorful and glittering river of fungus light surrounded them, and no one was amazed by it; It was getting dark, and no one was afraid of it.

"Red hair, why don't you pick mushrooms and eat them?" Freckles bumped the crocus with her shoulder and asked narrowly.

Saffron patted the backpack with her backhand, and the two animal skin backpacks were like small hills, higher than people's heads, and they were almost invisible. "I picked it all night yesterday, and I packed all the mushroom varieties I hadn't tasted." He straightened up triumphantly, "Well, I didn't think I still had this hand, right?" ”

Freckles, Atay, and Tracey were all dumbfounded. The corners of Gordon's mouth curled slightly, and after three years, the red hair still hasn't changed at all.

It was pitch black all around, and along the winding sand ladder, Gordon began to walk up. The stairs that had been thought to be long and difficult to walk at first seemed to be completed in the blink of an eye.

Outside the base, there was a silence filled with dust and haze, and the Gobi Desert at night exuded a cold atmosphere. An airship is moored in the rubble, and several members of the Blood Hell Society are loading water bladders, bread, and dried meat into pods.

"Finally I can see the sky!" Saffron raised her face and excitedly raised her arms into the night sky, gulping in the wild air. Freckles and Atay and Tracy looked at each other and smiled.

Everyone boarded the airship in turn, and as the propeller "buzzed" and turned, the sand and dust were stirred, and the airship trembled and continued to rise. Gordon stood by the pod, watching the milky white starlight fall overhead, and the ruins of the sand cave below gradually becoming as small as insects and ants.

Three days later, the airship entered the territory of the Land of Sand. Whenever approaching the town where an assassination target is located, the airship lands at night and stops in the middle of nowhere. The teenager on this mission jumped out of the pod and sped away, and the airship continued to fly to its next destination.

Looking down from the airship, the desert covers most of the land of sand, and the large and small oasis towns are divided by the desert like a grid. Located in the east, the city is half built on an oasis and the other half on the edge of the sand. The sandy land is bordered by the Sea of Jewels, and the coastline stretches all the way to the east, with several independent cities and small kingdoms scattered along the way. Across the azure sea of gems is the Aquarius Domain.

Skimming through the clouds, the airship began to slow down and slowly fall.

"The Crescent Oasis has arrived." The leopard's eyes were on the five Gordons, the other teenagers had left, and they were the only ones left in the pod.

Gordon picked up the suitcase and greeted the leopard: "Thank you, sir, for sending us all the way." ”

The other four didn't bother with the leopard at all, got up on their own, and packed their bags. The leopard was not angry, but had a rare good temper: "Boy, work hard, you have to win glory for the base." ”

The airship hovered over a sand dune, and Gordon jumped first, sprinting down the terrain.

It was the middle of the night, the stars were shining, and the nearby clumps of camels were bright green. With a kick of his legs, Gordon jumped over and looked ahead: the vegetation was gradually thickening, the sand date forest stretched into a lush green wall, and the sound of the river flowing was as if there was no sound.

The leopard stood in front of the airship, his eyes deep, staring at the five figures and running away until they disappeared into the night. "Hide the airship and everyone change their costumes. An hour later, we entered the city by another road. He ordered.

At this time, thousands of miles away in the Jinbihuang Garden Square, a grand farewell banquet is about to come to an end.

Among the roses that surround the square, troubadours in Phnom Penh robes sit on the ground and pluck the strings. The music of harps, violins, pipe organs, six-stringed harps, trumpets, flutes, the buzzing of bees, and the chirping of warblers are intertwined and floating.

Waiters in snow-white uniforms shuttle back and forth with fine wine and juice. The surrounding tables are filled with delicacies from the mountains and seas: roasted dragon fin with lychee and red wine, baked foie gras with orange abalone, pan-fried chaffinkle breast with truffle cheese, smoked white sea bream, plum and walnut, tiger prawn, avocado salad, ice pear, snow leopard tail caviar soup...... The banquet was about to disperse, but more than 2,000 expensive dishes had not been touched, and the dignitaries and celebrities attending the banquet did not care about these.

The newly appointed Sancho parliamentarian reached for a handkerchief, wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead, walked to the table, picked up a bowl of iced apricot soup and drank it all. He was old, and the open-air banquet for more than five hours in a row was really a bit unbearable.

"Mr. Sancho, I wish you good health." A middle-aged gentleman in a tuxedo raised his glass and greeted Senator Sancho familiarly.

"I wish you good health, too." Sancho looked at the middle-aged gentleman with a slight puzzlement. The other party is of medium stature, ordinary in appearance, featureless, and does not remember where he saw it at all. "With all due respect, ...... you?"

The middle-aged gentleman took a sip of champagne: "I think you should have received a gift from me this morning." ”

"Oh my God." Sancho's eyes widened in surprise, "Dear Don, I really didn't recognize it, how did you change?" ”

"Relax, my friend." Gauss calmly put down his glass, "This is just an unpopular martial art, not worth mentioning." ”

"You're too modest." Sancho's forehead began to sweat again. The area around the Garden Square was heavily guarded, with at least a hundred silver-level masters and dozens of gold-level masters standing guard and patrolling, and it was said that a diamond-level master was secretly lurking. He couldn't imagine how Gauss had managed to get into the banquet.

"I'm just here to see the world." Gauss's calm voice revealed fiery ambition, "Jin Bihuang, I have longed for this land for a long time. ”

Sancho wiped his sweat: "I mentioned to you in my letter last time, Inspector Ti Qingsi ...... her"

"This woman is dangerous." Gauss looked at Ti Qingsi in the crowd from afar and shook his head slightly, "We need to be friendly with the Hunter Guild, but not too close. I am willing to give this woman a gift, but it does not mean that I should rush to cooperate with her. ”

"Is she more dangerous than you?" Sancho said jokingly.

"Maybe more dangerous than me, she seems to have a very terrifying power in her body, even I can't fathom it."

"It's incredible, it looks like I should stay away from this charming lady."

"It's best not far or close. By the way, a few guests over there seem to have a good relationship with you, if you have the chance, can you introduce me to them? ”

"Of course, I'd love to."

"Thank you very much." Gauss smiled slightly, "She's leaving, it's time for you to see her off." ”