Soon our armies met on the border between the two countries, and the other side brought no fewer men than on this side. I glanced at the crowd and spotted King William, his outfit and position indicating his unusual status.

The two armies took up their posture as if they were about to fight, and the two kings waved their troops to a halt at the same time, except for the two kings and a few of their personal guards, plus a few of us, who came to the middle.

"I heard that someone can help us solve the water problem, are these three people?" William is not polite to us at all, although it seems that he is very resourceful, but after all, he is young, and his way of dealing with the world is far inferior to the old king here.

The old king politely gave the three of us out. "These three noble men are here to help us." Look, this is called being able to speak, whether it is false or not, at least it sounds comfortable, and a ruler will not even be polite and not far from the fall.

"Just the three of you?" William didn't look at us, but just glanced at it and said to the old king, "Where did you find someone?" Is it credible? I ......"

I suddenly stood between the two kings, facing William and keeping the old king behind. "I'm not here to listen to your nonsense. I am......! ”

"You're bold!" One of the guards rushed up before I could finish speaking, and I didn't move, lifted my leg and kicked the guy down.

"I'm here as a businessman to talk to you about business, and I'm going to check the water problem, and if it works, you can get clean water. As a beneficiary, you should pay a certain amount of remuneration and provide some assistance. ”

Rose stepped forward and added: "The trading conditions will not be very harsh, here is the list, you take a look." Rose handed over a piece of paper.

William took the list of remunerations that Rose and I had been planning for a long time to decide, and without looking at it, he crumpled it into a ball of paper and threw it back.

"...... you?" Rose angrily wanted to go up to theorize, but was pulled back by the old king's sharp eye.

"King William, you're not right." The old guy is really a treacherous and slippery, and now he will start doing tricks. "The guests are kind enough to help and give some compensation, isn't there any need for this! Can the conditions be harsh and negotiable? ”

Rose's mouth was trembling. "Husband, let's go, don't help them!"

As soon as I reached out and grabbed the rose that was leaving. "His Royal Highness William, we are businessmen, and harmony is precious. If the conditions are not good, what conditions do you think are acceptable? "Damn, I would have stuck your head in my stomach before, but now the interests matter. Businessmen don't lose their fortune if they lose their anger, I endure it!

William finally spoke. "I believe you have also knocked a lot from the old man, just because he is easy to deceive does not mean that I am also easy to deceive. Anyway, if you help him manage the water source, I will get better here, so why should I pay another fee? If you can restore the water source of Baiyet, just let us have a problem with the water source, then ask me for payment! He laughed wildly, turned around, mounted his horse, and ran toward the camp.

Rose burst into a rage and shouted: "I'm so angry, how can there be such an unreasonable person." She looked left and right as if she was looking for something: "Bow, bow?" Whoever has a bow, I'm going to shoot this bastard. I'm. ”

I'm also angry enough, but it's not to the point of getting out of control, but Rose is so angry that she doesn't help her lower the fire, didn't my husband do it for nothing? Raising his right hand in front of her, the various trap locks on the arm guard flicked open, and a gleaming golden crossbow appeared under the black dragon armguard. This is actually a system error! -0x000000008, 112619180 Avenger, after the last time the armor absorbed the dragon soul, it became a detachable form.

Rose looked at me and immediately reacted and removed the crossbow from my hand, and I reminded me, "Be careful, this thing has a lot of power." ”

Rose doesn't really want to shoot people, she just has no place to shoot two arrows to defeat the fire. The Avenger is autoloading, and the arrow is already on top when Rose picks it up. With a slight glance and a pull on the trigger, a crossbow flew out. Rose was unable to control her strength for a moment and was pushed back by the recoil, but fortunately I was able to hold her by the side.

The arrow shot into the sky because the body shook when the rose was fired, but I don't know if it was a coincidence, the arrow flew up and fell again, and it hit the white horse of the curtain accurately. The war horse jumped up as soon as it hurt, and William was unprepared and was immediately thrown off and fell so embarrassed.

"Haha! Call you cross! Rose jumped for joy, and the old king and our guards laughed.

Where is William willing to be humiliated in vain, if he knows to endure it, he will not have a conflict with us. William, who got back up, angrily asked the troops to attack, and I expected him to retaliate, but I didn't expect him to let the troops attack regardless of the overall situation.

The old king had not been fighting with this William for a day or two, and he was also familiar with this William's character, and when Rose was shooting arrows just now, he had already begun to order the troops behind him to prepare for the sudden situation. At this time, seeing that the opposing troops were moving, they immediately put out the shield array, although the shield was broken a little, but the momentum was okay.

This thing is caused by Rose, I'm not good at system errors! - 0x000000008, 112619180 let the old king's troops meet the enemy alone. Looks like we need the help of a pet! "Tank!" At this time, only tanks are more efficient.

Sure enough, as soon as he confessed, his huge body frightened his opponent. He lifted his two forelimbs, his whole body stood up, and then slammed down and concentrated all the strength of his body on the bone hammer of his forelimbs, and slammed it down to the ground. As soon as the two bone hammers touched the ground, there was a loud bang, and the whole ground trembled violently like an earthquake. The cavalry that was charging on the opposite side was shocked and jumped three feet high, and none of the fallen horses could stand, and the cavalry of the brigade immediately fell and turned over on their backs.

I pointed forward with one hand: "Tank, Dragon Flame Spray." "Tanks that have eaten dragon meat will use dragon flames.

The tank's terrifying eyes flashed green, and his body stopped abruptly and began to inhale, then suddenly spewed crimson dragon flames forward. The cavalry on the opposite side was still lying on the ground struggling, and suddenly a large area of dragon flame came down, who could dodge! All of a sudden, a large number of soldiers were set on fire, turning into burning men and running wildly on the ground.

Although William on the other side does not know how to be a man, he is very good at military command. After finding that the cavalry was frustrated, he immediately ordered the troops behind him to push the heavy ballista out, this thing was supposed to deal with the shield array, but he didn't expect that he even brought this thing.

Only a creak was heard, and the ballista wound up. With a bang, a bowl-thick arrow was fired, but only a "dang" sound was heard, and everyone clearly saw the giant crossbow arrow spark on the tank and flew out. Wentian ran over and patted me. "Is this your pet?"

"Yes. What's wrong? ”

"Defense so high?"

"Of course, didn't you hear me call him by name?"

"By the way, his name is Tank." Wen Tian remembered it now. "Sure enough, it's more sturdy than a tank!"

The old king also shuddered and said, "This is your subordinate? ”

I nodded. "It's my pet, how's that? Are you confident in my strength? ”

"Yes. Of course. ”

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As we spoke, Tank suddenly stretched out, and the elytra on his back stood up, and I knew what he was shaking at the sight of the flashing arcs of electricity all over his body. "Tanks, don't fire." I'm still counting on him to help with the mission, what to do now behind the shelling? It's all that damn mission limit, otherwise just call a few dragons. Hearing my order, the tank immediately retracted the extension tube, but fortunately I shouted quickly.

"Watch out over there." Rose reminds us that we see that trebuchets have been erected behind the Roseta army on the opposite side, and this William was ready to fight in the first place.

The tank glanced at the trebuchet on the other side and immediately rushed in that direction. Although such a large trebuchet is not a threat to the tank, it will still bleed if it is smashed. Seeing the tank rushing over, of course, the soldiers over there tried their best to block it, but unfortunately the opposing troops lacked outstanding individuals, although the overall combat effectiveness of the soldiers was higher than that of the tank, but a single soldier was simply an ant, and he couldn't stop the tank at all. The steel contradiction array used to deal with cavalry charges was like a bamboo fence against the tank, and it fell apart at the slightest touch. The soldiers' swords slashed at the tank, and there was no reaction at all except sparks, and even the heavy tomahawks could not cut through the nearly one-meter-thick carapace of the tank.

Seeing the tanks traversing the entire Roseta army position, the soldiers had nothing to do. The trebuchet, which had not yet had time to fully deploy, was smashed into a pile of broken wood by a tank hammer, and the ballista next to it was also smashed into scrap metal. William's escort dragged him out of the position to avoid being crushed into a patty.

Although everyone sees that the tank is very brave, I know that the health of the tank is very fast, and the attacks of those soldiers basically do not break the defense, but the blood is also very fast little by little, and there are too many soldiers. "Rose, help Tank add blood, my healing skills are not as good as yours."

Rose nodded, and an advanced recovery technique was gathered, and just as it was about to be sent, Rose suddenly let out a startle. Boom, that magic exploded around us, healing is also magic, and it will explode if interrupted in use. Rose clutched her waist and fell, and Princess Lara, who was standing next to her, held a bloody dagger in her hand.

"Smack." A loud slap knocked Princess Lara flying, and she spun around in the air a few times before landing, falling to the ground and never moving again.

"Rose, are you alright?" I'm afraid something will happen to the roses.

Rose frowned and clutched her waist. "Luckily, the Order Suit's activity connection jammed the dagger, and she couldn't stab it to the end."

"Don't move, I'll help you with healing."

"Won't you take care of the tank first?"

"It's okay, he can still stand up for a while."

As a beast tamer, the main way to fight is to add status to the magic pet, so I also know some healing and other magic, but there are usually special reply personnel who don't need me to do it, so I haven't used it. Fortunately, the rose injury is not serious, and the first-level treatment can also be effective.

The old king ran to us with a look of sincere fear: "Are you alright?" I'm so sorry, I didn't expect this ignorant girl to hurt you. She was also confused by that William, don't blame her. The old king knew that his daughter liked William, but she was his own daughter after all, and he still asked for mercy with an old face.

The old king has always been nice to us, and I don't want to mess with him yet. "You'd better discipline your daughter and don't let her show up near us again until we leave, or I won't be able to guarantee what she's doing next time."

"Yes! Thanks thanks! "The old king now sees the strength of the tank, and he is super respectful to us.

He was about to stand up when I grabbed him. "It's nothing for me to spare your daughter, but my wife can't be hurt in vain. I see that necklace around your daughter's neck is good, and I want to give it to my wife. ”

Without saying a word, the old king himself went over and pulled the necklace off his daughter's neck and handed it to me, and I took it and brought the rose at once. The princess was in shock after being slapped by me just now, and there was no reaction when the necklace was taken away. Baby, baby, it's finally in my hands.

Seeing that I was no longer pursuing it, the king turned back and asked the guards to carry the princess away, and ordered her to be locked in the room in front of me, and I knew he was doing it for me, but it was good that he could do it.

The rose was not seriously injured, and it recovered with a simple treatment. The tank was a little strained to not have the support of healing magic, so I had to bring him back. Bayette's army here is still intact, and Roseta's troops over there have long been out of formation, and the tanks took the initiative to retreat, and they did not dare to chase after them, so they had to retreat.

Looking at the Roses beside me as I looked at the Roses in the distance, "It seems that things are not as simple as we think, right?" ”

Wen Tian said on the other side: "The difficulty of the F-level mission is here, the other party has a system error!" -0x000000008,112619180 The king who doesn't know how to lift, just defeating the monster and solving the water problem may not allow the two countries to coexist peacefully. ”

Rose said, "We can use the method at the beginning. ”

"What?" Wentian was taken aback. "Are you really planning to destroy Rosesta?"

Wen Tian obviously didn't understand the meaning of the rose, but I did. He turned to the old king and said, "How about another deal?" ”

"As long as there are benefits, of course there is no problem." The king is no less enthusiastic about profit than I am.

"Do you think doubling the country's strength is a benefit?"

"Of course!" The old man's eyes sparkled with greed. "But how do you do that?"

"I haven't decided on the specific method for the time being, I'll tell you when I think about it. But my intention is to merge Rosetower into your Baiette, so that your people and land will be doubled, what do you think? ”

"It's not so easy to annex a country!" The old king was greedy but not stupid, and he also knew that some things could not be solved by force.

"It's not something you have to worry about, we'll deal with the specifics, and you'll just wait for the receiving country."

"Of course that's good." The old king rubbed his hands and looked a little like a bandit.

"Shall we go back? This Rosetower is not an opponent that can be resolved in negotiations, or whether the water problem should be solved first, this is the fundamental. "Rose reminds me it's time to get down to business.

"Yes, let's go."

Back at the palace to bring all the supplies to be brought, the old king selected 50 of the most elite warriors for us to help us complete the mission, according to my opinion, none of these people will come back, F-class mission undead is impossible.

According to the information provided by the king's advisory group, this Roseta and Bayette are completely surrounded by a crater, which is why there are very few outsiders in the two countries. After carefully studying the map and interviewing some residents, we found out that all the water in this area seems to come from snow from the highest peaks of the mountains, as well as rainwater collected by the mountains themselves. The water is sent by the dark river in the mountain to a large lake at the foot of the mountain, and the water flows through the rest of the mountain range through surface runoff, and part of the lake seeps into the ground to form groundwater.

After studying this information, Rose suggested that we first investigate whether there was a problem with the snow water at the top of the mountain, so that we could follow the water source all the way down to find out where the water was contaminated. The elite soldiers who assisted us all said that the mountains were very steep and impossible to climb, which meant that they couldn't go up with them, but anyway, it would be a waste to just investigate the situation and bring too many people, so we plan to take a few people to see the situation first.

The captain who found the fighters asked, "Do you have a way to tell if there is a problem with the water?" I'm referring to a quick and safe test, not an experiment that makes people drink water. ”

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The captain said without hesitation: "It's a good test, the poisonous water has a special taste, and it's obvious that you can distinguish it by licking it with your tongue." People like us who are physically strong need to drink a large bowl of poisoned water to have adverse reactions, and tasting a few drops will not hurt people. ”

"Well, you find the 5 smartest ones. Note that combat effectiveness is not important, but the brain must be good and the skills must be flexible. ”

"Understood." The captain quickly found 5 of his men, and he was 6 people.

Let the six of them sit on the top of the tank with Wentian, and I took off with roses, mainly because the tank has to spread its elytra when flying, so it is inconvenient to ride. Nine of us and the tank flew towards the highest peak, and after flying over a forest we saw the peak, not very high, but not small. We found a place to land above the snow line at the top of the mountain, and led everyone down to start looking for water.

They tasted the snow and it turned out to be fine. To be reliable, I melted it with eternal snow and took some ice from under the snow layer, which turned out to be fine. It seems that there is no problem with the total source of water, then the water must be polluted in the process of flowing. Because I summoned the tank at the beginning, and now the system is wrong! -0x000000008,112619180 I'm restricted from summoning magic pets.,Even if you put away the tank, you can't replace it.,So the plan to summon the Trailblazer to make a hole can't be realized.。

We couldn't dig a hole and we couldn't study the flow of the underground river, so we had to go down the mountain first. When we reached the foot of the mountain, we walked towards the big lake. Everyone here knows about this lake, but few people can get here, mainly because the lake is surrounded by a forest, and there are so many monsters in the forest that no one can get here.

Because the lake is so large that it is easy to find, we found the outlet of the underground river by the lake. The water gushes out of a crack in the mountain, like a waterfall. We went to check the water quality of this waterfall and found that the waterfall is also drinkable water.

A samurai tasted the water in the lake, but there was still no problem. Rose said: "This is the inlet, even if the lake water is polluted, there will be no reaction here, we have to go to the center of the lake and the outlet to test." ”

I flew to the middle of the lake with one of the samurai to test the water, and the others went to the outlet on the other side of the lake to test for system errors! - 0x000000008, 112619180 test. We still haven't found any pollution in the middle of the lake, which means that there is no problem with the lake. It's a pity that the lake is too dangerous, if only the people here could walk through the forest to get water here. I flew with the samurai to the mouth of the lake to join the others, only to see the samurai gulping water. They all tasted it at first, why did they drink so much?

After seeing me come down, the ignoring leader stood up and said, "The water here is poisonous, but the concentration is much lower than the toxins we have there, if the water over there only has this toxin standard, we can mix it with the rain and drink it together, then there will be no problem!" ”

"There is a faint amount of toxin at the outlet, but not in the lake, which means that the source of the toxin is not far from here. Let's look downstream. ”

As you go downstream along the river, you gradually enter the forest. After walking almost a kilometer, we tested the water quality again. This time, the captain only dipped a drop of river water and tasted it, but he immediately spat it out and spat desperately. "This water tastes so strong, much higher than the concentration we have there, if only one bite of this water can kill people, my tongue is already a little numb!"

"Then don't taste it, this must be the source of the toxin. Tank, you go back and pick up the rest of the people, we're going to search here, there must be a source of toxin nearby. ”

The tank obediently picked up the people, and we started to check the water quality in the vicinity. You don't need to taste the water in this section just now, you can smell the obvious odor with your nose, it seems that the source of poison is very strong, but until the tank brought all the people, we still didn't find anything, after all, there are too few people and the search is very slow.

It's much faster for new arrivals to help with the search, and it doesn't take long for someone to find the problem. "Captain!"

"What's the matter?" The samurai captain asked.

"You'd better come and take a look here."

We gathered there together, and saw the warrior pointing to the ground beside him. I looked at it, and at first I didn't notice anything, but when I looked closely, I realized that there was a large gel-like mass stuck to a plant on the ground, which had completely died, and it didn't seem to be long, otherwise the leaves would have fallen off.

Wentian wanted to touch it with his hand and was stopped by me, so I took a garbage whiteboard sword and came out. He stabbed the tip of his sword a little, and as a result, blue smoke immediately began to rise from the sword. Wentian was startled, thinking that he was lucky not to touch it.

The tip of the sword smoked but did not soften, and it seems that this is not a strong acid. One of the samurai sniffed and said, "This smells like that kind of toxin!" ”

As soon as he said this, the samurai around him said that it was indeed this smell, which meant that this thing was a toxin. But we don't know what the toxins are, and there's still no way to solve the problem!

Rose looked at the toxin and said to me, "This must have been left by some kind of animal, it dripped from the top of this plant, which shows to have been killed by the toxin." ”

Wen Tian looked at the plant and said, "To be able to drop to this height, this creature is not small!" "That plant is sixty centimeters tall, and if this creature didn't deliberately spray toxins, it means that this guy isn't too small.

"That's too." A samurai shouted over there, and we hurried over.

This time it was even more terrifying, a large drop of crystal clear venom gel hung on the leaves of the tree more than two meters above the ground, and the entire half of the branch of the big tree was withered and yellowed. Rose looked at it and said, "It seems that the analysis is wrong, this thing is not big, it can climb trees!" ”

"If you can climb a tree, you will definitely leave claw marks on the tree, so pay attention to it."

A large group of people immediately began to look left and right around the surrounding tree trunks. I suddenly looked back in one direction like a nervous start, stared at it for a long time and didn't see anything, I looked back again with doubts and continued to look for claw marks, but I still remembered my reaction just now. I just felt a feeling of being watched, and it was very cold, as if there was a cold air from the soles of my feet to the top of my head. What is it that makes me feel this way?

"This way." A samurai finally discovers the claw marks.

I ran over and looked at the claw marks. This mark is very strange, with two deep incisions appearing on each side of the tree. Generally speaking, animals climb trees and leave juxtaposed claw marks, but why is this a single one? And two traces appear on both sides. The two marks are more than one and a half points above the ground, and they are horizontal, and the incision is like a knife cut. 、

This incision says a lot. The horizontal incision indicates that the creature was either going up or down the tree at that time, it was just squatting on the tree. What creature can hold itself horizontally to a tree?

Rose looked at it for a long time and said, "I don't think it's right, this creature shouldn't leave such claw marks no matter what, it can't stay at all from this angle." Besides, there won't be any creatures that climb trees with just two toes! ”

"And what could it be?"

"There are claw marks over here, too." A samurai shouted.

"There's one over there."

"That's a lot over here."

All at once the system is wrong! -0x000000008, 112619180 Everyone found a lot of claw marks, almost all over the direction that extended into the deep forest. The height of these traces is about one meter two, which makes us even more strange. What creature would be able to jump around from such a high position all the time?

"Could these not be claw marks from climbing trees?" Wen Tian boldly guessed: "Maybe this is a mark, just like animals leave their own scent information everywhere to mark their territory, this guy likes to draw pole marks on trees?" ”

"Unlikely in general?" Rose touched the marks on the tree: "These marks are two or three inches deep, and you don't need to cut them so deep to make a mark." There must have been a load attached at that time, which is why it left such a deep trace. ”

I looked at the traces again. "Is there a problem with the distance between these traces? Judging from the depth of the incision, the weight bearing at that time was not less than a ton, and the volume of such a heavy creature should not be small, but you see, almost every tree on this beast path has traces, and there are traces on both sides of the road, this thing should not like to take the zigzag route, right? ”

"That's not right, that's not right, what the hell is this?" Wentian squatted on the ground with his head in his hands, worried.

Suddenly, I turned my head and saw a dark shadow flickering between the two trees and disappearing. "Don't run." I screamed and rushed forward. Two and a half months behind me automatically broke away from my body and chased after me, and when they saw me running, they also chased after me.

I rushed to the spot where the dark shadow I had just seen was, and looked around, only to see something in the distance that appeared to be a tail flash and disappear. I quickly chased after it, but there was no trace of it when I got to that location. Half Moon violently cut off a tree, and a dark red thing appeared behind it, but it moved as fast as lightning and disappeared, and two and a half moons quickly made a bend and chased after it.

There was a sudden jolt ahead, and the tank landed in front of the thing from the air and slashed a large tree with its scythe-like forearm, but the guy turned around and disappeared. It's too fast, and it's especially adapted to scurrying from tree to tree.

"Over there." I stretched out my hand, and a month and a half swerved around the front to stop the monster. The thing turned around and tried to run again, only to intercept it again after another month and a half. By the time it turned again, the tank had already blocked that side. The four directions of the monster were blocked by me and the tank and two and a half months, this time depending on how you run.

"Ahh Suddenly there was a scream behind me, it was the Rose in their direction. Oops, turn the tiger away from the mountain!