"Milou is back! Tell us about it. Which Highness are you sending refreshments? ”

In the busy corner of the side room, as soon as a fair-skinned, delicate-looking millet-haired maid returned, a group of maids immediately chattered around and curiously asked the maid who could go to the front to present refreshments.

“…… His Royal Highness Odin is so majestic that those who serve him dare not approach him at all! ”

“…… Archduke Stuart is said to be gentle and kind, and his blue eyes are like the sea! ”

“…… Yes, Lily in the main dining room only saw him once last time, and every time she had the opportunity to deliver food to Archduke Stuart in the future, she desperately rushed to go! ”

The maids took advantage of the gap between serving the nobles to gossip, they were only added from the vicinity three months ago to the palace maids, the rules are not as strict as the palace, originally could not have the opportunity to directly serve in front of the officials and nobles, but one of the maids in this group is said to have won the favor of the queen, and then the status of this group of palace maids has been greatly improved.

It is said that the maid was able to win the favor of Her Majesty the Empress Xià, precisely because Her Majesty liked her young vitality and was good in her superiors, so the head of the palace did not restrain these maids very much, and indulged in some laziness and discussion outside of their duties.

This is a refreshment room, from the kitchen freshly baked food and refreshments, etc., must be carried out here for the first time, responsible for the delivery of refreshments after the maids retreated, but also mostly waited in this side room, all the maids of different status whispered or placed refreshments in twos and threes, leisurely and leisurely, with an elegance of aristocratic life.

The back door opens. Another group of pastry chefs and cooks in clean white aprons entered, put down the refreshments in their hands, and everyone immediately took over.

The steward of the side room commanded the staff, and saw a brown-haired, brown-eyed and freckled girl who came in at the end, recognized the red man in front of Chef Moore, who had been brought in suddenly in recent days, and hurriedly greeted him.

"Ouch, Miss Vivien, why are you here in person! Is Chef Moore having something to say? Or is the pastry shop too busy and needs manpower? ”

"Trouble the steward. If there is, there are really three or five people to go back to help in the pastry room, and Chef Moore told me to come over in person, because I want to see the situation of the refreshments, and I don't know if the adults in front of me are not satisfied, and if they are not satisfied, we can also do our best to replace the types. ”

Lin An said with a smile. Sweeping your gaze over the table where the pastries are placed, and roughly estimating the quantity, you will have an idea of the popularity of each type of pastry.

"Chef Moore's pastries, when have they ever disappointed!" As he spoke, the steward called five idle grandmothers and maids to come over, and another Nanfen grandmother came to tell Sù Lin'an about the eating of the pastries.

"I saw the pastries for His Majesty and several His Highnesses, and it seems that they haven't been sent much!" The pastries for the emperor's family were separated from those of the nobility. The types are also different, and Lin An can easily distinguish them.

"Her Majesty the Queen didn't show up today, except for the two princesses, Her Majesty Xià and several His Royal Highnesses are not fond of pastries, let alone pastries, and even the fruits sent to them have basically not been moved, but His Royal Highness Odin also ate a few pieces of wine shortbread." Stewardship.

"Didn't eat?!" Lin An's face was stunned and solemn, and he said anxiously, "Why didn't you say it earlier, I have to go back and tell Chef Sù Moore quickly!" ”

She went back in a hurry. Chef Moore was not surprised, and said calmly:

"Didn't eat? Well, it's okay if you haven't eaten it. ”

After finishing speaking, he said to himself again, "...... If I eat too much, I'm worried! ”

Then he told her, "You are a new face, stay in the back kitchen for the next two days." Don't run around, lest you get into trouble. "I look like I feel something.

Lin An thought thoughtfully, thinking to himself that it seemed that an old man of the court like Chef Mohr was like him. The power is not as strong as the nobles, but the news of connections cannot be underestimated, but he asked with a look of surprise on his face:

"Aren't these two days a hunt? Is there something wrong? ”

As he spoke, his eyes met Chef Moore, and Chef Moore's expression was a little sluggish, and he said in a trance:

"The news has been bad lately, let's settle down a little, so let's do it, since Your Majesty doesn't need pastries, you don't have anything to do, go back to the servant's room to rest, don't come out when you don't have work."

Lin An nodded, a hint of gloom flashed in his eyes:

She and Salin both speculated that if Odin chose to break the boat, this time entering the hunting ground without the protection of the army would be an opportunity for him, and all kinds of signs seemed to be developing in this direction, but it was too smooth, but it was too obvious, but it made her a little suspicious, and she felt a sense of uneasiness in her heart.

At this moment, a dull drum beat was heard ahead, and the penultimate hunt began.

Shout!

A straight ash arrow grazed the air, and a gray muntjac the size of a fawn poked its head out of the grass and was nailed to the trunk of a nearby tree by the neck.

The tail feathers of the long arrow trembled slightly, and several fox dogs with thin limbs sprang out of the bushes and barked wildly around the trunk, and then there was a sound of horses' hooves and calls:

"Your Majesty, I've been shot!"

As soon as an experienced guard heard the dog barking, he immediately knew the result.

One of the fastest guards drove his horse across the bushes, and sure enough, when he saw the gray muntjac nailed to the trunk of the tree, he quickly jumped off his horse, stepped forward and pulled out the long arrow of ash, and when he lifted the gray muntjac, he cried out again with great joy:

"It's a four-eared ash muntjac! Not dead yet! ”

Although the gray muntjac was pierced through the neck and was bleeding profusely, it did not die completely, and was lifted in the air and trampled on all fours, which caused the wound on the neck to tear a lot.

But the vitality of this gray muntjac is unexpectedly tenacious, there is no excessive bleeding weakness at all, the four ears are erected, and it struggles despite the bloodshed, and is slapped hard by the guard's big palm, and the struggle is a little weaker - such a strong vitality can only appear in the demonic beast.

The cries of the guards intensified the sound of horses' hooves behind them, and more than twenty knights with blue iris insignia appeared, and Lenster was surrounded in the middle, a dark green longbow in his hand.

"It's really a four-eared gray muntjac, the size of the monster is generally larger than the beast, and this is still a young gray muntjac. There must be a group of gray muntjac nearby, maybe there is more than one four-eared gray muntjac, otherwise this four-eared gray muntjac will not be light and outlier! ”

One of the guards closest to Randster said in surprise that if he could find a group of more than ten gray muntjacs, and two or three more four-eared gray muntjac in the middle, it would be a rare harvest!

The main reason is that the demonic beasts in the hunting ground are too difficult to find, according to the custom, one demonic beast can be compared to the harvest of ten similar demonic beasts.

The arrow was fired by Lancet. Accidentally hunting a four-eared gray muntjac also made him a little excited, and looked at the four-eared gray muntjac that seemed to be still quite energetic, so he motioned to the guard carrying the gray muntjac:

"Let it go, we'll follow!"

When the guard heard this, he immediately understood Lancet's intentions, and let go of the bleeding four-eared gray muntjac, which had just landed. Immediately chirping, stumbling towards the bushes.

"Keep up!"

When the gray muntjac ran out of a section, it was almost invisible, and the guard in charge of dog training roared, and the petite but fierce fox dog immediately bared his teeth and ran out without a sound, and Lenster and his party of more than 20 horsemen followed closely behind.

No one noticed. The guard with the ash muntjac fell behind and mounted his horse at the latest, and after a slight pause as he passed a clump of trees, a long ash arrow with the Stuart family insignia engraved on the end of an arrow fell onto the bushes, and the arrow pointed in the direction of Lenster and the others.

The vast forest of the hunting grounds is only the edge of the sea of trees at the northern foot of the Rocky Mountains, and from the topography, the sea of trees falls like a long green skirt into the southern part of the shallow Sumisipi Basin.

The sea of trees at the northern foot of the Rocky Mountains is famous for its vastness, and even if the forest enclosed by the hunting ground occupies less than one-thousandth of the sea of trees, if a horse gallops into the forest from the easternmost part of the forest, it will come out from the westernmost end. The journey also takes at least one day and one night.

Therefore, this hunting forest is more than enough for the nobles participating in the winter hunt, and in the limited time, the nobles who are not prepared for horses can even hunt at the edge of the hunting forest, and even the master of the prophecy system cannot cover the entire forest with the monitoring range of spells, and monitor the movements in it at all times.

However, for Lin An. In a certain way, the forest is her strongest home field, with the cover and protection of the forest, even if it is a ** division. Nor can she find her sizài in it.

At this time, Lin An was sitting on the trunk of a yellow fir tree on the northwest edge of the hunting ground forest.

“…… It's bad, there are too many people going in, and the forest is very unfriendly to outsiders. Lin An withdrew his hand against the trunk of the tree and said to Salin below.

There are trees and animals in the forest, and he can't speak, but in the feeling of Lin An, who has become the messenger of the dawn, there are also joys, sorrows, and sorrows:

Outsiders broke the tranquility of the forest, and many hunting teams went around expelling and killing prey, and even wantonly destroying the trees, making the forest very unfriendly to these suddenly invading creatures, constantly complaining to Lin An, reflecting the situation when the forest trees were cut down and the beasts were killed to Lin An's perception, and Lin An's perception was also disturbed, and from time to time I saw the wailing and moaning of the forest animals, and the tracking of the target was interrupted from time to time.

"Can't find Odin?" Saleen asked under the tree.

"It's a bit of a hassle." Lin An frowned and smiled bitterly.

The forest has no independent and clear consciousness, and she can't distinguish the difference between others and people based on her name, voice, and appearance, so when she communicates with the forest, she can only interpret it in her own way as much as possible, so that the forest can understand what she means.

According to their estimation of Odin's purpose, Lin An passed on "blood" and "people with malicious intentions" to the forest, and the forest returned that it was the situation near a large number of hunting teams that were destroying the forest to hunt prey, and Lin An had to sift through this huge amount of information one by one.

"Odin and Byron's hunting teams were the first to enter the forest, looking for the teams that went deepest into the forest." Saleen built yì road.

"I've seen it, and the first ones I saw were the teams that went deepest into the forest, and none of the royal highnesses were in it!"

Lin An snorted lightly, "They are not fools, the hunting harvest is just a matter of face, how can it be compared to the safety of life, just fight for it in normal times, now is not the time to take risks...... Hey, found it, Charles is on the west side!

Scold! This guy is really guarded, obviously he entered from the northeast, but now he has run to the west! ”

Lin An was overjoyed, his mood fluctuated, and his consciousness communication with the forest was interrupted instantly, and he immediately calmed down and perceived again.

But. Probably because of proper precautions, Charles's hunting party was not embellished by Odin, Lin An saw that most of his guards were not keen on hunting, and most of them were on guard with a vigilant attitude, and the atmosphere was tight inside and loose outside, and only the beasts that jumped in front of them chased and shot them.

Lin An did not find Odin nearby, except for two or three noble hunting teams that Lin An was not familiar with. The only familiar ones were the hunting party of the nobles from Meryl.

Princess Joanna, who was not supposed to participate in the hunt because of her female status, was also among them, wearing a hunting costume surrounded by those Meryl nobles and guards, looking at the direction of the two hunting teams, they would meet in a quarter of an hour at most, and I don't know if it was artificial or coincidental.

There was no movement on Charles's side for the time being, and Lin An had no intention of taking a closer look. The many messages in the communication with the forest are filtered and filtered one by one, and the burden on the mental power is not small, but fortunately, Lin An's strong mental power can support it in this way.

A large amount of information was filtered one by one, and Lin An quickly found the location of several hunting teams such as Byron, Douglas, and the Bencent family:

Among them, Douglas's hunting party also deviated from the direction of entering the forest, running from the northeast to the east, contrary to Charles;

The Byron and Bencent families seem to have some sort of similar line of thought. Leonardo began to hunt nearby, while Byron seemed to have taken her advice, and the horses under his crotch basically never stopped, and from time to time he ran after his prey, shooting an arrow to change places, but there were many hunting teams near him, and they met with other hunting teams from time to time, and they basically never stopped.

The exchange of consciousness between Lin An and the forest is basically from west to east. After radiating from her position and taking down the approximate locations of Douglas and Byron, her mental strength also felt a little tired, and she was considering whether to take a breath or stop meditating to recover, Ludwig's team entered the range of her forest perception.

His team was not far from Douglas's hunting party, and the two hunting parties did not meet, passing by, and Ludwig's team was moving from east to west. It seemed to be chasing some prey, and he didn't slow down towards the west where Lin An was.

Lin An was stunned, and the forest told her that Ludwig seemed to be carrying something that he hated very much.

This made Lin An a little surprised, even if it was the destruction of many hunting teams. The vague consciousness of the forest has not expressed such a strong disgust, but what is it, the message transmitted by the consciousness of the forest is very vague, and it just keeps expressing strong disgust.

What could be about Ludwig that was so abhorrent to the consciousness of the forest?

Lin Anxin was puzzled, after receiving the blessing of God, this was the first time she had "seen" Ludwig, and she was about to continue to observe, when another hunting team entered the range of forest perception, it was the hunting team led by Lanster, which happened to be near Douglas.

Because Lin An's perception range at this time was in that area, as long as someone entered, it would be transmitted by the forest, and at this time, Ludwig's hunting team was too fast, but it happened to run out of that area.

Ranster's hunting party was chasing a group of prey that I didn't know if it was a deer or something else, the situation was normal, Lin An was about to follow Ludwig's side, but there was a vague consciousness in the forest:

To the east, there seems to be a creature with subtle fluctuations but powerful energy, following behind Lanster's hunting party, and has just entered the range of forest perception!

Lin An was shocked, and a wave of uneasiness arose, and without thinking, he gave up the choice of following Ludwig's side.

The oak branch flew out, the sacred golden veins in the center of the eyebrows spread rapidly, the corolla appeared on the top of the hair, and the powerful and gentle fluctuations merged with the forest, making Salin under the tree look up in surprise, and when he saw Lin An's face, he immediately realized something, and without waiting to ask, Lin An had already grasped the oak branch and waved:

"Shenwen. Proverbs - Trees incarnate! ”

When Lin An's body sank into the trunk of the yellow cedar tree, the force of nature in the forest quickly converged in the direction of her body.

At the same time, it was as if a gust of wind blew over the forest for no apparent reason, and the animals in the forest were stunned, as if sensing something, but the many humans in the forest, most of whom were unaware of the change in the atmosphere of the forest, were still immersed in the pleasure of chasing their prey.

……

Ludwig, who was galloping first in the chase of the guards, suddenly reined in the reins of his horse, and the chasing guards panted and chased after him.

"Whew-Whew-Sir, what's wrong?"

Ludwig ignored the guard's questioning, and looked ahead suspiciously, for a split second. He felt the strong repulsive atmosphere of the forest, as if he was crying out to expel him from the forest, but in an instant, the strange feeling disappeared again.

He didn't know that he was more than ten miles away, and Lin An's consciousness used the intertwined trees as a medium, instantly passing past him and descending on a big tree behind him.

"Let's go, let's move on. There are too many people here. ”

Unable to find a reason, Ludwig let go of the momentary unclear feeling, clamped the horse's belly, and continued to gallop in the original direction.

If one could look down from the sky, they would see that Ludwig's route was pointing in the direction of Charles's hunting party, and at this time. The distance between Joanna's hunting party and Charles was less than a mile.

……

After a second-class oak seed broke, Lin An's consciousness descended on the tree incarnation.

At the same time as she opened her eyes, Lancet's hunting party happened to enter her line of sight, and at this distance, Lin An's spiritual power was enough to sense the strong man who was less than a mile behind Lancet's team.

**Division!

Lin An instantly sensed the identity of the other party.

At the same time, the eyes of the strong man hidden in the forest opened. Looking around, at the same time, a faint silver-gray brilliance drifted from his hand, and there seemed to be invisible ripples in the air, swinging out in circles, but the feedback was nothing.

Shi Yi frowned and appeared from the place of invisibility.

He was dressed in a black robe, with little understated ornamentation, faint spell fluctuations surrounding his body, and a prominent protrusion in the middle of his hooked nose, which made him look stubborn. Somewhat gloomy.

If Salin were here, he might be "pleasantly surprised" by the "happy meeting" with his former teacher and current enemy:

Bobot. George - One of the Twelve Elders of the Mage Tower, Lucius, a magical genius who died in the trials of the Sky City under the design of the Mage Tower. George's own grandfather.

After waiting for a while, the forest was still as usual, and the figure standing in the treetop slowly disappeared, and the real body of the ** master was on another tree more than ten zhang away, and his thin face showed doubts:

He suddenly had a feeling of being stared at just now, was it an illusion?

"Forget it. Even if there are people, do they dare to harm my business? ”

Master George's eyes were cold, and he muttered to himself, as if he were speaking to someone unknown present.

A gust of wind blew through the forest. The leaves rustle slightly.

After the words fell, Master George raised his eyes and glanced in the direction of Lancet and the others, the figure was slightly blurred, disappeared into the air, and a faint wave chased in that direction, and in a moment he saw the figures of Lancet and the others.

He stood on the tree and watched the hunting party hunting down for prey, the grey muntjac was driven away by the guards and hounds, leaving the most suitable angle for hunting in front of Lancet, and the young archduke drew his bow and arrows, and the gray muntjac fell to his death under the arrows.

"A Duchy Grand Duke...... Hmph, that Dickens guy is going to blame me for the trouble. However, this is also my wish, not only to get one more benefit, but also to make me angry, who told that genius girl to mingle with that hateful traitor of Saleen, maybe my Lucius is ......"

Thinking of this, a cold light flashed in Master George's eyes, after Saleen betrayed the Mage Tower, he looked back and carefully checked Saleen's connections, and faintly found some clues about that trial, but there was still no definite evidence.

And for him, as long as Salin motives and signs, it is enough!

If it weren't for the fact that the Mage Tower's attention to Lin An some time ago had revealed Saleen's whereabouts, he would not have thought that this hateful traitor would have returned to Merlin's territory and taken refuge in the Royal Secret Magic Order - the more cautious Saleen hid his whereabouts and looked for a backer, the more he would confirm Saleen's suspicions, as for whether it was true, when Saleen was caught and searched with a spell, the natural truth would be revealed!

"Who!"

Ranster was not without good hands around him, because Master George thought of Salin, the murderous intent in his heart accidentally leaked out for a moment, and an inconspicuous middle-aged guard beside Ranster immediately shouted a warning alertly, and at the same time, a feathered arrow slashed through the air and shot in the direction where Master George was.

The feather arrow seemed to shoot into a thick layer of air, and with a ripple, Master George's figure was revealed.

He felt a great loss of face, snorted coldly, stared coldly, looked at the middle-aged guard who told him to break his tracks, and the face of Lancet, who was surrounded and protected by the guards behind him, changed, and suddenly shouted:

"Kalia, be careful!"

(To be continued)

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Update is late again......-_-

Bump your head, sure enough, it's easier to get into a single from a double, and it's more difficult to get a single into a double - I want to change the double change at the beginning of this month, how fast to adapt to it~==