Matthew paused slightly, and asked the three of them with some interest, "Did any of you bring cigarettes?" ”

Not really, Karil shook her head with Barrett, few magicians smoke. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"If you can, I'll have some wine," Kiyoshi took out a brown water bag from under his robe and shook it in his hand.

"Wine? Not bad either, thanks. ”

Matthew took the water bag, unplugged it, took a sip, and took a long breath of wine.

"Feeling so much better......"

In fact, Kahlil has never been very fond of research...... Although the wine is slightly better.

"Barrett," Matthew asked, taking the wine bag and starting to move on with the three of them.

It's probably because the trip is still far away, and there is not much time.

"In," Barrett hurriedly sped a few steps to follow.

"How many years have you been a mercenary group," Matthew asked, his voice as heavy as his footsteps.

"About five years," Barrett thought for a moment, "what's wrong?"

As a general rule of thumb, people who ask such questions generally make some particular decisions.

Kahlil suddenly remembered something called "putting up flags", which made her bad feeling even stronger.

"It's been five years...... Matthew sighed a little and drank a little more.

"Speaking of which, you don't know what I did before I set up the mercenary group, do you?" He asked, talking to Barrett, but he didn't look back.

"You never mentioned what the hell was going on."

Barrett is really a little anxious, it is not Carlil who has a bad premonition, Barrett has been in this mercenary group for five years, and he has never seen Matthew like this.

"The Immortal Flower Mercenary Group has been established for about ten years, and it can be regarded as a veteran mercenary group, although there are not many members, but the strength is not bad"

Matthew said, not meaning to let everyone answer.

"Ten years before the mercenary regiment was formed, I was a soldier and served in the regular army"

It can be seen that it is not surprising to the three of them at all.

"At that time, I still had hundreds of small soldiers under my command, and in a small country on the other side of the continent, I lived some unchanged days every day," Matthew looked a little nostalgic when he said this.

"Looks like it was going well." Kahlil said, taking the heater out of her right pocket and moving it into her left pocket to heat herself evenly.

"Of course...... It was much more comfortable then than it is now."

"If I want to be promoted, there are more than a few hundred people under my command," Matthew was quite proud of this, "The soldiers I led back then were somewhat famous in our area, whether it was combat strength or discipline, there was no one who could not be trained under me." At that time, everything was fine, I had friends, I had skills, but I didn't have a brain back then. ”

"Don't get the hang of it?"

"Don't open your mind!" Matthew continued, "When I had the ability, I didn't know how to fight for power, but I felt that I could be satisfied with a stable life, and I had the ability to pursue and the goal to pursue, but I didn't fight for anything, and finally ended up like this." ”

"Don't say that, in fact, the mercenary group is also very powerful now" Kahlil didn't like the atmosphere very much, she thought about talking about something else to ease the situation.

Although they were noisy all day, Carlil could also see that Matthew and Barrett, as the leader and deputy head of the Immortal Flower Mercenary Regiment, had absolute prestige among the people, and at the same time, everyone maintained a good rapport - this was nothing better in a small group.

"Of course," Matthew said with great certainty, "Half of the current Immortal Flower Mercenary Regiment is composed of soldiers led by me back then, and their existence ensures that the fresh blood absorbed by our regiment can be well integrated into us and become the mainstay of the mercenary group." ”

"So, what happened to you, and where are we going now?" Barrett preemptively asked, and that was the point of the question.

Matthew sighed again, silently changed the wine bag to Qing Ci, and said, "Thank you, I still have to be sober and sober, and I can't drink anymore." Then he looked up at the valley between the two mountains in the distance.

Karil subconsciously looked up with Matthew, the place didn't look too far, but it didn't look like it was coming close when she walked.

The so-called lookout mountain runs dead horses.

"At that time, the military rank was not promoted, but some of the achievements were still there, and I could collect a lot of money every month, I originally thought that I would go up a little bit in this life, and I would get it like this in my life."

"Train every day, deal with military affairs, patrol when it's time to patrol, have dinner with my wife when I get home, and then have a child in the future"

"I was twenty-three years old at the time, and speaking of which, twenty years have passed......"

"Time...... It's a ...... of what a fast time."

No one interrupted him. At this time, all you can do is listen.

"Until one day, a bastard played some tricks on me, and I never dreamed that he would do something to me."

"Friends?" Kahlil interjected with a question.

"Friend ......," Matthew replied, then whispered in a self-deprecating tone, "Friend ......"

"And then?"

"A perfect frame-up, I was inexplicably involved in a case of theft of royal jewels, and I still haven't figured out how he used to pull me into this case, which is a hundred miles away."

"And then you became a scapegoat." Qing Xi said softly.

"Yes, as you said, all the evidence proves my guilt, I was arrested, but I escaped from prison with the help of my brothers," Matthew said lightly, but everyone can imagine what it was like.

"It was only after I escaped that I realized which bastard had framed me, and I was sure that he was a thief himself, but it was too late, I couldn't do anything, I couldn't do anything."

"At this time, I regretted that I didn't be like those jackals, unscrupulously trying to climb to a high position. Until now, when I was easily framed, there was no officer who could clear my name. ”

It sounds like a heavy story, although the plot is very ordinary, but the protagonist of the story is right in front of him, and from his own experience, Kahlil is still a little touched.

"When I evaded my pursuers and struggled to find my wife, she was stabbed in the left ribcage with a sharp blade by an assassin just a stone's throw away from me, and I still remember the moment when her blood spurted out."

"...... dead?" Barrett asked, a little trembling.

"No, it's okay, my alchemist friend who helped me escape at the time saved her life with something, but that only slowed down her life."

"And now?"

The four of them had already climbed through the mountain unconsciously, passed through the middle of the mountain they had just seen, bypassed the peak, and turned from going uphill to walking sideways along the peak. It's just that no one pays attention to this detail now.

"That bastard not only framed me, but also planned to kill all the people I was related to, and exterminate them all" Matthew's voice was flat, flat and abnormal.

"Thanks to that alchemist friend, he made a device with a mage, and with that magical device, I could let my wife hang for a while—like a coffin, but at least I could get out of there with her first."

"The whole country, me, my wife, and even the friends and soldiers who helped me were hunted down and killed, and we had to escape from there, and according to a suggestion of an alchemist, I fled to the snowy mountains of Icefield City for the first time, and they all followed."

"She's so badly wounded, I know it's almost impossible to save again, and the assassin's dagger is still poisoned."

"The alchemist told me that with the power of the ice and snow here, he could keep my wife alive for up to another twenty years, but it would be impossible to transfer it after it was arranged, and if there was no way to cure her, then one day in the future, the magic would gradually dissipate, and the time she would wake up from the ice and snow would also be the time when she would die completely."

I think we can already guess that.

Carlil looked at the backs of Barrett and Matthew in front of her, and then turned back to look at Qing Ci, wanting to say something, but couldn't find anything to say.

"We chose a place in the snow-capped mountains, this place is backed by snow-capped mountains, there is usually almost no wind and snow, and at the same time, there are no minerals and demonic beasts on the mountainside, no one will come to such a place at all, here with the alchemist's method to place her in it, after settling it, I thought about finding a way to save her in twenty years, but I didn't expect that I traveled in the world for ten years and found nothing, until ten years ago, I found another place in the snowy mountain...... We'll go there again later, and that's where our trip will end. ”

"Well, then, I'll be letting you see her soon, and though she won't be able to come to greet my new members and old friends, she'll be disappointed if she knows......" Matthew said as he smiled, smiling unconsciously as he remembered the man's relationship, "but now I don't have any other choice."

It's here.

Between Matthew's slow talks, the crowd walked for more than an hour, until this time, Matthew stopped on the back of the snowy mountain before.

A hole......

Although the two-person high hole was nearly half buried by snow, half of the curve was enough for everyone to see what it looked like.

The entire rock wall is covered with traces of excavation, probably someone has carved the originally small cave into its current state.

"I'm back...... I'm sorry...... This...... It's been a long time to leave......"

Matthew said softly, clearing the snow from the hole.

"We're running out of time...... It's been twenty years...... It's time...... It's time to wrap up...... Twenty years on the road...... Sorry ......"

Sweep the soft snow to both sides by hand so that everyone can easily get in.

"But this time...... We have only one choice, as for the result...... That doesn't matter, does it? My dear. Come on......"

Matthew walked in, and the three of them followed silently.

"I'll introduce her to you, and I'll introduce you to her."

Matthew took a few steps forward slowly, and his voice was very soft, very soft.

"Barrett Harlan, my current deputy in the mercenary group, is a very powerful magician...... Qing Ci, the newly-arried, magical Oriental swordsman...... Kaliel, a fox girl, is a magician like Barrett. ”

"You guys, know my mercenary group...... Why is it called ...... Immortal Flower......"

As he spoke, the crystals on the stone walls of the cave emitted a faint blue light one after another, illuminating the cave less than ten meters deep, so that everyone could see it clearly.

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Happy Holidays everyone!

It feels good to sign up, uh-huh.

There are some things these days, and the last few chapters are really not very satisfying, and I may delay the draft a little, and I will make up for it later, well.