A round of crooked silver hooks hung high in the cold night sky, and the cold light of the cold light sprinkled the entire city of El with a layer of snow-like light in the middle of summer night. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Even if there is still the warm evening breeze, which will make people's bodies a little sticky, it is an extremely pleasant thing to lie quietly on a rattan chair in the small courtyard, shaking a fan woven of reed leaves in your hand. Maybe there's a bowl of cool red bean smoothie on the small wooden table next to it, or a glass of golden cider with ice cubes.

In this small border town, more citizens like a slower pace of life, and they know better than me how to enjoy this moment of good and short life.

The carriage stopped on the streets of the East End, the Minotaur Ruka jumped out of the carriage, the bluestone slabs on the streets around him were shaken, he turned around and wanted to help me off the carriage, but I was stopped by a look, I propped myself on the railing at the door of the magic caravan with one hand, and jumped down lightly, although I was wearing a magic robe, but my body was not at all weak.

Benjamin's head poked out of the car window and waved goodbye to me and the Minotaur, and I stood there and sighed: What an unforgettable night!

"Jia, I don't think it's wise for you to trouble the half-elf Nicholson at this time!" Benjamin squatted worriedly on the carriage and admonished me as I jumped off the carriage and stretched my waist on the side of the road, all the while trying to dispel my thoughts.

Seeing that I smiled and did not answer, he knew that his dissuasion was useless, so he did not say anything further.

However, after he finished admonishing me, he immediately praised me again: "But, then again, Ji Jia, your ice wall is a newly learned skill? Now even those seniors in the fourth year of your magic academy, I'm afraid there are not many people who have learned three magic skills at the same time, how can you kid rely on your ice attribute affinity to learn ice magic so unscrupulously, you are not afraid of affecting the cultivation of your own magic pool, and the first-year magic apprentice should spend this semester in the constant breakthrough!"

I said to Benjamin lightly, "You know, there are always one or two special magic apprentices who don't need to rely on meditation to rush to the realm in the initial stage!"

Benjamin seemed pleased with my answer, he retracted his head, just reached out of the window and waved a hand at me, and the voice came lazily from the caravan: "I'm suddenly looking forward to an adventure with you on the summer, Jia, maybe it will be an unforgettable trip!"

Looking at the carriage slowly walking away, I whispered in my mouth: "Thank you for tonight's business!"

I patted Ruka, the minotaur who was looking at the golden apple tree in the courtyard across the street, and motioned for him to come with me, and he swallowed hard and withdrew his gaze with great difficulty.

His body height is almost close to three meters, he is obviously a behemoth on the street, the courtyard walls on both sides of the ordinary street are like half-length walls for the Minotaur Ruka, and all the scenery in the courtyard is in full view of the Minotaur Kalu. But his gaze was more likely to fall on the fruit trees in the courtyards, and he drooled as he watched the green sour apples.

Even though the magic caravan was dozens of meters away from us, I could still hear the conversation inside the carriage clearly......

"Benjamin, why do those freaks keep showing up in your academy?" a friend of Benjamin's told him.

On the contrary, the voice of the coachman at the door came to my ears, his voice was a little hoarse, he didn't seem to have spoken much along the way, and then he actually commented on me like this: "Another outstanding water magic apprentice, it seems that in recent years, the magic academy in El City has always frequently appeared outstanding water magic apprentices." ”

Benjamin's escort team is really everywhere, such an ordinary coachman, and he will speak in such a loud tone, I don't know what to say.

"If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would have had a hard time believing that there could be such a genius among the freshmen of the Academy of Magic!" continued Benjamin's friend.

Another friend said, "Yes, fortunately we have become friends, Benjamin, why don't you try to bring him closer to your team, although you already have a magician in your team, but one more water auxiliary magic apprentice, the strength will increase exponentially!"

The carriage turned around and merged into the avenue at the corner of the street, and their whispers in the magic caravan slowly faded to my ears.

"Jia, where are we going?" the minotaur asked me in orc language with a slight hesitation, his words full of caution, and it seemed that the young minotaur must have suffered a lot after leaving the wasteland.

On his hairy chest, some crisscrossing scars could be clearly seen, and the collar that symbolized the slave was torn off, leaving a faint circle of blood on the neck. I don't know how he was tricked out of the wasteland by those slave traders, but every minotaur is good-natured, and they are even more attached to their homeland. The slave traders were very afraid of the revenge of the wolf orcs, and they rarely dared to fight the wolf orcs.

For the slave traders, there are two kinds of orcs in the wasteland that are more popular with the human nobility than the wolf orcs, one is the powerful minotaurs, who will be even stronger than the barbarians in the ice and snow tundra when they reach adulthood, or the ogres in the southern wilderness. The other is the Centaur with amazing endurance, for the centaurs who are faster than the galloping horses when running, they are born elite cavalry, if anyone can control the cavalry troops of the Centaur tribe all the time, then he will gallop in the endless wasteland, even the werewolves who dominate the wasteland are also excited about those centaurs.

"Of course I'm taking you home, it'll be our home!" I looked up at him sincerely, now I can only reach his waist height, and it is very difficult to communicate with him at close range!

"Go home......" Ruka the Minotaur looked at the Pai Plateau in the distance.

"Of course, you are free now, and perhaps tomorrow I can find a caravan in the city that intends to trade in the wasteland, and let them take you home. I smiled and said to him, his honest appearance reminded me of the two minotaurs in the moor, and those good days haunted me again.

He shook his head gloomily and said to me awkwardly, "I don't want to go back like this!"

"Oh?"

To be honest, I was a little surprised to hear Ruka say this, and I looked at him suspiciously, I still knew a little bit about the beliefs of the Minotaurs, and I didn't understand why he didn't want to go back to the wasteland.

He sat across from me so he could be eye level with me and not have too much trouble talking.

"I want to feel the winds that are different from those in the wasteland, I want to taste all the delicacies in this world, I want to see the mountains and rivers that are different from the scenery of the wasteland, Jia, I want to travel the whole continent!" said Ruka the Minotaur to me sincerely.

His eyes were sincere when he looked at me, and looking at his honest appearance, I couldn't help but say to him, "If you can be patient enough, then just wait for me and go with me to explore this continent!"

Hearing me say this, his eyes became brighter and brighter, and the flame of hope in his eyes was slowly being ignited by me.

"But before that, you have to make yourself stronger!" I said earnestly to Ruka the Minotaur, "The outside world is far more sinister than in El City, we must have enough strength to protect ourselves!"

For the Minotaurs, the way to increase their strength is simple, as long as they keep eating, they can become very strong.

Ruka thought for a moment and said to me, "Okay, I'm going to explore this continent with you!" ”

I put my hand on his large, furry, very warm hand.

...... Beautiful Dividing Line......

When Fanny opened the door and saw two hairy thighs outside the house, she almost fainted.

At that time, she must have imagined Ruka the Minotaur as those barbarians of the icy tundra, and in her impression, only savages had that. Tracy heard Fanny's call, and ran down the stairs in a small cool sundress, and saw Fanny leaning against the door with a pale face, glaring at me fiercely outside the house, and Ruka sitting beside me with an innocent face, looking timidly at the hostess.

Fanny breathed a sigh of relief, listened to me tell me about the misery of the minotaur Ruka, and found that the honest minotaur was not as unbearable as ordinary people say, and his temperament was honest and honest, so she warmly invited him to stay. Of course, when I tell the story, I simply say that we met in an underground boxing ring, that Ruka himself won the tournament and was freed, was released on the spot by a good slave owner, and the slave contract was torn up on the spot.

Ryan walked out, but he kept exclaiming: a big guy like Ruka is really strong enough.

But for Ruka, my house was so small that our family had to move the dining table to the yard, and we sat on chairs, while the minotaur had to sit on the grass.

Fanny looked embarrassed, took out the last basket of breadsticks, and saw that the minotaur Ruka was still eating with relish, and knew that he was not full yet, these breads were our family's food reserves for a week, and he ate them all, usually enough breadsticks for our whole family to eat, for the minotaur Ruka, it was only three or two bites that could be stuffed into his mouth. I don't know how this guy was treated at the house of the slave owner who escaped from the battle, and he was so hungry.

But this honest minotaur didn't even mention the word 'hungry' before the meal, and I thought to myself a little reproachfully, I really was negligent!

But luckily the Minotaurs are vegetarians, they don't eat any meat, otherwise Ryan and I would have gone hungry.

The meal was very harmonious, the Grimm people did not think that the minotaurs were the same kind as those fierce orc werewolves, compared to those vicious steppe wolves, they were more receptive to the good-natured minotaurs, at least Fanny and Rryant did not object to eating at the same table with Ruka, Tracy Yao watched Ruka munch on the bread with interest, which made her have an illusion, that is, the bread made by Fanny today was very delicious, so she curiously cut a small piece with a silver knife and put it in her mouth...... His brows were twisted, and he took a sip of broth to swallow the bread that was also in his throat, which was not delicious!

There was some strange noise at the courtyard wall, and Rryant and I were the first to turn our heads to look over.

The next door neighbor's bin poked his head out of the wall, and smiled a little awkwardly under the gaze of me and Leant, his exaggerated expression always made me feel like a clown, I really don't know how he survived on the battlefield, just when we looked at him puzzled, he suddenly raised a hand, and in his hand he was still holding a cloth bag of wheat flour, which was bulging.

He called out to me softly, "Jiga, come and take it!"

"Bing, what is this?" I hurriedly ran over, took the bag in his hand, and asked him through the wall.

The fence between our two houses was a bit high, and I had to pick up my feet to catch the heavy sack. But Bing didn't speak at this time, he seemed to be peeking at Tracy, in the middle of summer nights, girls would dress very cool when they were at home, of course Tracy wouldn't mind being looked at twice by the Minotaur.

"Ahem!" I coughed softly, and if Tracy found out, Bing would be miserable.

Everyone knows that the girls on our street are not easy to mess with, whether it is Sister Da Li, Tracy, and Anne, they all have a very hot temper, so if you count it, Tracy is the most gentle one among them, but this guy has a strong sense of justice, and has been instilled with some very terrible thoughts by Ryant, that is, the kind of thinking that on the battlefield, no matter what, he will not give up his companions, sometimes, I think: Fortunately, Tracy is a girl, so she doesn't have to go to the battlefield, otherwise Ryant's old-fashioned thoughts will kill my godsister。

Then again, Tracy has a bad temper too, at least she doesn't like Bing very much, not that she thinks Bing is distracted, but that he is not a big man sometimes.

Bin came to his senses at this time, his face suddenly turned very red, and he just said vaguely: "Well, this is a bag of bread, Dali saw a special guest at your house, and thought that maybe your family might not have enough bread to eat tonight, so let me bring these over, so treat your friend well, I'll go back!"

"Bin, thank you, and thank Sister Dali on my behalf!" I hurriedly said loudly to Bin's back.

Bing just raised a hand, signaling that he was heard.

The bread in the cloth bag is very mixed, there are all kinds of styles, white bread, black bread, wheat cakes or something, I think Sister Dali may have taken out all the things that could be eaten in their kitchen in a hurry.

Fanny sat down in her chair and sighed, "Da Li, that kid, what a careful person!"

Whenever Fanny complimented someone else's girl, Tracy would shrink like a quail, facing Fanny's tons of gunfire at the slightest disagreement.

Ruka the Minotaur is not a picky eater, but he prefers coarse-grained black bread to white bread, which he says is chewy.

Well, for the first time, I questioned the taste of the Minotaur, how could black bread be better than white bread made from black flour mixed with wheat flour and bran?

At night, Luka the Minotaur can only sleep outside. According to Fanny's idea, even if she sleeps outside, she must at least bring out a large bed so that Ruka can have a good rest.

This proposal was opposed by me and Ruka, and the Minotaurs generally prefer to sleep on the grass, and the stars can only make them sleep soundly when they look up, and in such summers, a simple straw mat is all that is needed.

Fanny and Ryan went to bed early, Tracy and I lay on the ridge of the attic looking at the star map in the sky, and Ruka lay on the grass under the house.

On such a quiet night, I told Tracy how to distinguish the star map in the sky, but I didn't expect that Ruka also knew star maps, and yes, the Minotaurs were also nomadic tribes in the wasteland, how could they not understand star maps! )