The soft female voice blends into the light wind and moonlit night, as if with a slight smile.

But the more relaxed her tone was, the quieter the groups around the campfire, as sensitive to blood as they were, and they had long since realized that these three people were not simple.

“…… So who's the most well-informed in this camp, call him over. ”

As soon as Lin An's words fell, many people in the camp immediately focused their attention on a thin man with eight-character eyebrows, although the companions around the man deliberately did not look at him, but the stiff look revealed the uneasiness in their hearts.

The Shadow Lynx's gaze fell on the thin man, and the oval vertical pupils gradually drew into thin lines.

The thin man's face changed a few times, he swallowed a few salivas, and stood up from the campfire with a forced smile, just as another sound of footsteps came from the direction of the camp's exit.

The people in the camp glanced in the direction of the people on Lin An's side, and saw that they were ordinary mercenaries dressed up, so they didn't pay attention, and their attention continued to focus on the thin man with eight eyebrows and Lin An's side.

The group of latecomers also noticed that the atmosphere in the camp was not right, and at first glance they saw the pitch-black demonic beast standing slightly taller than an adult, and then noticed Lin An and the others standing next to the demonic beast.

One of them looked closely at Lin An, who was wearing a hood and a cloak and still did not hide her petite female identity, her pupils shrank, and after a hint of unexpected surprise, she looked away, for fear of attracting Lin An's attention.

“…… What happened to Prince Byron? Amani's eyelids jumped as he listened to the thin man's words, "How do you know?" ”

"This matter has been spread all over the place, hehe, hehe, but the villain is also hearsay!"

The thin man bowed his head and rubbed his hands together with a dry smile, "It is said that there were many people near that valley at that time, and many people were introduced to that master in order to kill people, and the people of the Blue Fire Mercenary Group also saw their boss turn into a fireball with a bang. So everyone speculates that His Royal Highness Byron is more than lucky, otherwise, why would that master chase and kill people? ”

Amani glanced at Lin An hesitantly, he hid at the edge of the valley and didn't see the process of the ** division and Lin An's battle, the thin man said this, he was also a little unsure of Byron's situation.

Lin An shook his head at him invisibly, and after two sentences, Amani pressed his doubts and continued to ask:

"Is there anything else? Isn't the vision long ago over, isn't there any news of the secret treasure being obtained? ”

"It's all about chasing after the wind. If you really succeed, it's too late to hide the news, how can it spread everywhere, let alone go out directly from this road! ”

The thin man shook his head. "And the whereabouts of the secret treasure are very strange, it is said that it is very scattered, many mercenaries chased the secret treasure and ran into the mountains, I heard that some people suspect that the landing point is not in the Rocky Mountain, and it flew directly over the mountains and fell into the territory of the other two empires."

He was afraid that Amani would not believe him, so he thought about it and added:

"It's not like nothing like it's on our side. I've heard that many people saw a green light streak across the sky west of Pest City, and flew straight over - how far you think it must be, and I don't think it's surprising that some people will say that those secret treasures flew directly to the Far North Ice Field. ”

The man smiled. I think it's a funny joke.

Lin An nodded, after she absorbed the divine power crystals, she also had a sense of the scattered divine power crystals, and the sense near the Lop Nur Pass was indeed weak.

If it hadn't been absorbed, it was not impossible for the divine power crystals to be scattered all over the continent as the thin man said, at least she felt that the divine power crystals scattered near the Lop Nur Pass had not been dissipated. It's already absorbed. There's nothing special about induction anymore.

However, Lin An could feel the whereabouts of the divine power crystals within a certain range, but others couldn't, so there was still a large influx of people near the Lop Nur Pass. Go into the mountains to find the secret treasure that has disappeared - I have to say that in addition to the vision of the collapse of the kingdom of God, the "secret treasure rumors" that are inexplicably circulating in the town are also an important factor in guiding this situation.

After cleaning the skinny man's stomach and not getting any news of their real concern, Amani looked at him fiercely and dragged the thin man to the woods on the side.

The thin man's companions next to the campfire were all nervous, but when Linantiti and the Shadow Lynx were still in place, the hands of the men holding their weapons tightened and loosened, and they finally did not dare to act rashly, so they could only swallow their anger and prick up their ears to listen to the movement in the woods like the rest of the camp.

After a while, Amani came out, with a faint smile on his face.

"Your Highness has news that the thin man has seen him and His Excellency John pass by this camp;

Later, he also met Master Andrea, Angelia, and Ron, but according to Thin Man, they seemed to be with a group of mercenaries at the time, and the situation was very wolfy;

In addition, Master Grimm and they were lucky, it seems that when they were thrown out, the landing point was on the outer edge of the mountain pass, and the thin man had seen Master Grimm and them in the town before he came to this camp. ”

Amani paused at this point, "That thin man is said to have a very good memory, and anyone who has seen it will never forget it, but I asked him to recognize it several times, and he said that he had never met Master Salin and Master Sidney. ”

"Salin and Andre are together, and since Andre and they are fine, Saleen and they don't need to worry - well, I think I already know what is going on, if nothing else, Salin has played some tricks!"

Lin An didn't continue to explain, "How to solve that thin man." ”

"I gave him a concussion, and his amnesia will probably last for two or three days, and we should have been out of here by then."

Amani glanced back at the forest, he had phantomed everyone's faces when he asked the thin man to recognize him, and of course he couldn't let the other party remember it clearly.

After a short period of inquiry, Lin An and his entourage did not stay in this camp, and left overnight, and the entire camp was amnesty.

Turning over two hills, Amani whispered, "Something is wrong. ”

"Well, there's someone in the back." Lin An said softly.

Amani's pupils narrowed.

He is the best at escaping, and he is naturally also an expert in tracking, and his familiarity with this Lop Nur Pass is far better than Lin An's, but it may be because the distance is too far, Amani just has a vague sense of intuition, but I don't know how Lin An is so sure.

But he looked at the dense woods around him and realized, "Can you know who it is?" Maybe it's someone from the mountains. ”

"No, it's the guy who just arrived at camp one step slower than us."

Amani's mind quickly crossed over a few ordinary faces that had a vague impression of him. The voice was cold, "They're eyeing us?" ”

The other party had just arrived at the camp from outside, and the direction was into the mountains, and of course they would not turn back for no reason, and now they were behind them, and it would not be possible to make people think that it was a coincidence.

"Well, most likely...... Hey, they stopped and stopped following. Lin An stopped, slightly surprised.

……

A place across a hill. The leader raised his right hand, and several people stopped.

"It doesn't feel right, stop following!"

The leader glanced around, always feeling a little uncomfortable. It was as if he was being watched by the woods, and as a highly trained spy, he was very sensitive to the feeling of being spied on.

"Now that the target has appeared, we will definitely go back to the town to join the others, let's take a detour, the target is two mages. Maybe you'll leave some warning traps along the way. ”

Several of his subordinates had no opinion, although they were dressed as mercenaries, but if anyone noticed the appearance of the su zhì when they followed, they would realize that they were not ordinary mercenaries.

"A detour leaves a gap in time. We may not have time to go back before they get to town, should we send a message to the second group? Among them, the subordinates whose faces are so ordinary that they can't be seen when they are thrown into the sea of people.

"Let the second group keep an eye on the main target, although the town is now mixed, the target is also very vigilant, let them not be careless - this mission was personally ordered by His Highness." The leader said cautiously.

"Yes!" Several people's faces tightened.

……

After the stalkers inexplicably retreated, Lin An and his party raised their vigilance and returned to the town at dawn.

The appearance of Titi and the Shadow Lynx caused quite a stir. Lin An soon reunited with John and Andre, who had heard the news.

Ask below. Lin An learned that it was indeed Salin and Sidney who attacked those who escaped in the shadows, which made the matter of the ** master and Byron boiling.

Andre and the others also teamed up with the group of noble children of the Meryl Kingdom to "resist the attack", and almost arrived in the town around the time of John Byron's party. Then the two parties converged, and then Master Green came with several of Byron's subordinates.

Byron vomited blood and fell into a coma after interrupting the fusion of the divine power crystal, and now he has come to his senses, because he is not sure about the situation of the divine power crystal, and he does not dare to take the secret medicine he carries casually, and he is now weak and bedridden, but there is no major problem.

Instead, Salin and Sidney, who did not come out with them because they were going to attack the fugitives in secret, have not yet returned.

Lin An couldn't cry or laugh.

Not surprisingly, this kind of trick could only be proposed by Salin, and Lin An also knew that they were distracting pressure for her:

After all, no one thought that she and Titi could join forces to kill the ** division, in their hypothesis, if Lin An finally needed to escape under the ** division, the more news spread, the more insiders in the mountains stood on the opposite side of the ** division, and in the process of being chased by the ** division, the greater the obstacles suffered by the ** division, the less danger Lin An would naturally be.

No one expected that the ** division would die, because it was guessed from the news of the Meryl nobles safari team they later united that this ** division that suddenly appeared in the Lop Nur Pass was probably Perre's famous "Eye of the Abyss", and this was the only one who liked to kill the weak with sight-type spells, regardless of the identity of the strong.

"If you knew that the 'Eye of the Abyss' was dead at their hands......"

Amani glanced at Lin An with a subtle expression.

Lin An was vague about how she escaped, and she put most of the credit on Titi and Amani, apparently not intending to tell the truth so as not to attract Perre's revenge.

Because of Lin An's statement, Amani was recognized by Andre and others, especially John:

He fought side by side with Amani before, and handed over the safety of each other's masters to each other in a critical situation, Johnmu protected Byron from the mountains safely, he also thought that Amani had indeed practiced the words of using illusion to lure away the ** master, creating a chance for Lin An to escape, so the two were tied, Johnm felt that Amani valued Cigna, and felt a sympathy in his heart.

"Actually, I wanted to do it, but I didn't have time to make a move, your lady has already solved the other party." Amani smiled bitterly in his heart, but because of Lin An's words, he could only silently accept John's gratitude.

Because of Byron's case. Lin An could only temporarily put aside his worries about Saleen and Sidney and go to visit Byron first.

Byron fused the finishing power in half of the divine power crystals, and Lin An estimated that his body did not digest this power as smoothly as the shadow lynx, so that he would guide his current situation, overall, this was not a bad thing.

But after Lin An saw Byron, he suddenly realized that this incident was really happy or sad for Byron:

Because Byron's emerald green eyes had turned dark green, and there was a hint of dark silver in the depths of his eyelets.

Lin An didn't need to examine Byron's body, he could see that this was obviously a sign that had stimulated the bloodline talent. It's just that he didn't inspire the bloodline talent of Merlin's royal family, but the bloodline talent of his maternal family, the Phillips family, known as the "silver-green Phillips".

Byron was obviously aware of his situation, but his mind had adjusted before that. After seeing Lin An, he was still bitter and happy:

"It seems that I am also one of the lucky ones in this exploration, but I didn't expect that I would break through to the elemental civilization because of this."

The elemental divine power is one of the several divine powers of the goddess of nature, and Byron has been staying for a long time in the late stage of the Golden Order. After absorbing half of the divine power crystal, it is strange that the elemental civilization is not smooth!

"Elemental civilization won't be a bottleneck for you, if nothing else, a year or two at most. You will be able to break through to the Black Iron Sword Master, and with you now just over thirty-five years old, your future is limitless! ”

Lin An didn't know how to comfort this prince who didn't know whether he was tricked by fate or favored by fate, so he could only congratulate:

"Have you ever considered focusing on cultivation, maybe the grand occasion of Master Don Quixote's generation of royal family lineage, one law, one martial arts and two masters, will be reproduced in you and His Royal Highness Yokyadan!"

"To be honest, I'm also quite excited, maybe I will return to the imperial capital. The great-grandfather who has not been out of the mountain for a long time. will directly send someone to arrest me into the Sword Saint Mountain. ”

Byron laughed, Lin An couldn't see if he was really pleased, but after experiencing what he had seen and heard in the Kingdom of God. Lin An intuitively felt that Byron would not be in a state of mind for too long.

There was a knock on the door, and Master Green and John entered.

Because of the harmony all the way in the exploration of the Kingdom of God and the fact that there were no differences and fights, the two sides are also familiar with each other a lot, so Master Green did not care about Lin An's presence, and after interrupting the conversation and smiled apologetically at Lin An, he said to Byron Binbao:

"Your Highness, Meryl's young masters from the Quentin, Phiddis and Luo Pei families insist on contacting the private soldiers in your territory and going into the mountains to rescue you."

Because they didn't know that the "Eye of the Abyss" had fallen, after the group converged in the town, they coincidentally concealed Byron's situation for safety.

The Meryl nobles didn't know that Byron was in the inn where they lived, and as the nobles of Merlin's vassal country, those Meryl nobles had to do everything they could to save Byron, even if they were pretending.

Speaking of which, they are also innocent, if Byron really has an accident in front of them, they and the family behind them will end quite badly.

"I'm fine now, Lynn has returned safely, if they don't forget their loyalty and are anxious for my safety, let them come in and see me." Byron thought for a moment.

"Your Highness, it's too chaotic here now, and more people will come in the future, for your safety, your news should not be leaked, let's leave here as much as possible." Master Grimm built yì.

"Of course, I'll just meet them and take them with me then,"

Byron paused, "Also, have you contacted the City Lord of Pest City?" When will the garrison arrive? Let the leading admiral do his best to control the situation here, I don't want Lop Nur to be chaotic again. ”

Seeing that they began to talk about business, Lin An got up to leave, and John's left with her, and only after going out did he say to her:

"Someone paid a big deal to pay the innkeeper to send us a note, specifying that you should receive it."

As he spoke, John took out the note that had passed the security check and handed it to Lin An.

The note is just an ordinary piece of hard white paper, simply folded in half, with no writing on it.

Lin An stroked the paper, and the overflowing magic made the paper quickly reveal the hidden handwriting on it:

"You're being watched, and if you're interested in this news, see you at the back door of the Sheeptail Tavern at a quarter past ten."

……

"Have I seen you?"

When John brought people in, Lin An felt that the other party's mental fluctuations were somewhat familiar, but she had seen too many people during this time, and the impression left on her by the other party was obviously not very deep.

"I think maybe you'll be more impressed."

Someone came from pulling the cloak. A crystal one-handed sword with restrained magic was revealed, and the facial features on his face changed for a while, and the disguise technique was lifted:

"Marcus. Stone, mercenary alias 'Crystal Magic Sword'. ”

"Oh, I remember, we met in the Arcane Order." Lin An suddenly, pulled down his hood, and revealed his true face, "It seems that you are indeed coming for me." ”

"I'm tempted to ask you for help." Marcus said in a deep voice, straight to the point about his intentions. But there is not much inferiority in the tone, and it can be seen that he is a proud person inside.

"What's going on with the Watcher?" Lin An didn't care too much about what the other party asked her for, and directly asked what she valued. Because it reminded her of being followed when she went out of the mountain.

"This is something I stumbled upon, and it seems that the other party has been staring at your people since yesterday."

"What was yesterday?"

"It must have been before noon, when most of your companions hadn't returned to the town, with only one mage and two or three wounded warriors together." Marcus recalls for a moment, affirming.

Yesterday at noon. That is, after they left the kingdom of God, the mages and warriors that Marcus mentioned should be the first to return to the town of Master Green and Byron's subordinates.

If the other party and the person who followed them out of the mountain are in a group, then it means. Not only did the other party have their eyes on her, but they also knew that Byron was with her.

"Is there a characteristic?" Lin An asked.

"There are seven or eight people on the other side, the strength is balanced, we are not sure of the uniform, they act very low-key, without any characteristics, like thieves and assassins who walk in the shadows, but there seems to be some differences."

Marcus said. There was always some discomfort in his heart, and he felt that in addition to Lin An and John, there seemed to be a third pair of eyes here. "My men are already eyeing them, right across the street from you, and you have someone go to the back door to meet my people, and they can identify you at once - I hope you do it, they are very sensitive, and I have been keeping an eye on them before."

Hearing this, Lin An glanced at John.

John nodded, pushed the door open, and left.

After John left, a man in hideous black armor appeared in the shadows behind Lin An.

He was like a darker shadow, enveloping Lin An, and the two stood together, like light and darkness being clearly distinguished, but extremely harmonious.

Marcus finally understood where the discomfort was coming from, as if he had seen a huge black beast figure flash away and follow John's away.

"So, let's talk about what you want from me." Lin An said with a smile.

She was very interested in Marcus's request, and she didn't know what it would take for the other party to bow her head and find someone like her who only had one side.

As soon as John left, his news had not yet been verified, and Lin An's quick mention of it made Marcus's eyes look surprised, but he said without hesitation: "I ask you to shelter the Hammer Mercenary Group and myself for half a year." ”

"Hammer Mercenary Regiment...... Well, I remember the news about the Secret Treasure, you are the source. Lin An thought for a while, and she somewhat understood why the other party asked for her protection.

"To be precise, that news is related to us, but it is not from us."

Marcus's tone leaked a little helplessness, and he confessed about the previous tracking of the Hammer Mercenary Group, and the narration was very objective, and Lin An sensed that he did not add fuel and vinegar and help the Hammer whitewash.

"It does sound like a disaster, so you didn't spread the news about the secret treasure." Lin An bowed slightly, and his expression didn't care about being followed before, and the fact that the other party knew about the destruction of the Gun and Fire Elite.

Marcus sighed and nodded:

"If nothing else, it should be Ryan - well, the innkeeper who clashed with you that day, and he was the one who gave us the news of you and Guns and Fire - he was afraid of guns and fire and retaliation, so in order to get out, he released false news, but unexpectedly, a few days later, there was a real vision."

So by mistake, he got the gun, the fire, and the hammer into it.

"It seems that you guys haven't had a good time these days," Lin An glanced at Marcus, pursed his lips and smiled, "Obviously you also guessed that this incident has something to do with us, that's why you came to me for shelter?" ”

"A little guess,"

Marcus admitted, "The falling treasure has caused quite a stir, and I believe that the secret realm that appeared in the sky is more attractive to those people, and the hammer and I are nothing more than an ant in front of them, and you and the Byron's Highness are the safe trees." ”

Marcus is not a philanthropist, and with his strength, it is not impossible to leave the hammer alone, but because of the secret realm, after this, he is afraid that he will have to be chased and killed for a lifetime, or incognito for decades.

Only by taking refuge under the wings of Lin An and Byron, and with the passage of time, can he completely get rid of the sequelae and not worry about being suddenly kidnapped or murdered one day.

And for Lin An and Byron, it's just a gesture.

(To be continued)

ps：

Thank you Saka Orlando and Rosa for the pink ticket! o(n_n)o~

Now I've started to brush Odin.,Actually, this copy has been interspersed with the prelude to this brush royal family.,Well,I hope everyone can get in touch.,Anyway, I'm a little worried about one by one.,Everyone doesn't remember the previous plot.。

Just a hint, in fact, the plot of this surveillance was mentioned in the conversation between Odin and the captain of the guard in chapter 582.