Owen shook off the snow from his hood and let out a long sigh:

"What sin have I come to suffer with you?"

He tossed and unbuckled his belt, inserted his cold palm into his crotch, and shivered at the sudden low temperature, still babbling witticisms.

"Oh, it's not very good to live too close to God, and you can feel the power of his old man's wrath before anyone else."

"Where do you put your hands?"

I inadvertently swept his hand between his legs, frowned in disgust, and all sorts of dirty and filthy images immediately came to mind.

"Don't you see where to put it?"

Owen squeezed out a nonchalant expression, and deliberately moved his hand in the crotch of his pants: "It's hot here, can't it be stuffed in to warm up?" ”

I rolled my eyes, and there was nothing I could do about him, so I had to pretend to be deep and turn my head to look at the snow falling from the sky.

"Oh, God really tortures people."

A small snowflake flew and landed in the palm of his hand, and soon disappeared: "Actually, if you think about it, it may not be a bad thing......

The sun had not risen today, and its reign was overthrown by gray clouds, causing the temperature in the valleys to plummet, and the frozen air to clear snow, as if God had accidentally knocked over the jar of salt, and sprinkled it all over the earth.

After two bowls of hot soup, I have made a new decision, and a bold battle plan has been born, crazy, which has always been the admirable trait of successful people. But it will also become a shortcoming for losers to be ridiculed by the world, geniuses and madmen, often only in a thought.

"Go back?"

When I gathered the crowd to announce their thoughts, their surprised reaction was completely expected, even accurate to the different demeanors of each person, except for Codename Four, who stood calmly in the corner, keeping a distance from the others.

Or that those people unite to consciously isolate her, representing the upright knight and the assassin leader who symbolizes darkness and blood, after all, they can't stand together intimately, knights have the pride of knights, and Enides has the faith of Enides.

"That's right, go back and teach you a new word, it's called killing a carbin!"

I said with my eyebrows fluttering as I made a lively gesture.

"There is a god of war in the ancient East, he once encountered a similar dilemma as ours, he led thousands of remnants of the defeated generals, was driven away by hundreds of thousands of enemies non-stop, and was also embarrassed by lack of food and clothing, but the god of war was not discouraged, he relied on a river called crimson and the enemy repeatedly circulated, crossed the river four times in a few months, and made hundreds of thousands of pursuers dizzy, constantly disintegrating and dragging down the enemy's encirclement, looking for local strength advantages, successfully breaking through the encirclement and suppression, and destroying the enemy to the greatest extent, Brilliant results have been achieved. ”

I will tell you the classic examples of the four crossings of Chishui in simple terms, hoping to make them understand as much as possible.

"But ......"

One of the knights seemed to understand, and scratched the back of his head in confusion: "There isn't a river around here that has red water?" Besides, there is no river big enough ......"

His voice grew quieter, and everyone nodded in agreement, as if they all agreed.

Cast pearls before swine......

I smiled bitterly in disappointment, feeling a kind of loneliness of being high and outnumbered, and the others of the code name four quieted down, crossed their arms and asked faintly, "How are we going to lure the enemy out of the castle?" Now that it's snowing again, they're even more reluctant to attack. ”

"That's what your people need to do."

Finally, there was a kind of person who could communicate, and my exhausted passion was rekindled, and before I knew it, my voice was raised.

"I estimate that as soon as the enemy enters the city, the old and young people who are loyal to Baron Otto must be eager to report our situation to the new master. But as long as the enemy's commander has a long brain, he can't let go of the opportunity to make meritorious contributions, isn't the other party under the banner of the royal family of Paris? The purpose is obvious, it is clearly coming at us! ”

"I should understand, use yourself as bait, you really try this trick repeatedly."

Codename Four replied coldly, and nine times out of ten I remembered the unpleasant memories of those years in Italy, and I also used the same trick to turn the tiger away from the mountain and break through the castle defended by the rebels who were several times my own.

I laughed dryly and haha: "Now that you understand, let's act immediately, I have to keep abreast of the enemy's movements, including the deployment of troops and the specific number of people, can your people guarantee that the task will be completed in time?" ”

"There is no task that Enides has accepted, and although I don't have many people left, it is enough to meet your intelligence needs."

The self-confidence of Code No. 4 comes from the understanding and trust of his comrades-in-arms, and even if this intelligence network that has been developed for thousands of years is artificially destroyed, as long as there is still one person left, it will not collapse.

Leonardo said: "If a giant is cold and takes a black fist, it will take some effort to slow down." ”

"If we lie down any more, we'll all freeze to death!"

Owen gritted his teeth and squeezed out this sentence, his nose was red like a ripe cherry: "Seeing that the sky is going to be dark, and the snow is still unabated, don't you hide in the castle to roast the fire at this juncture, and run to the cold and freeze to suffer?" How stupid does it have to be? ”

yes, how stupid it must be, the faint snow gradually accumulated into a little thickness, and I couldn't feel the sensation from the waist down.

"Thinking backwards!"

I shouted from the bottom of my heart to cheer myself up: "I wish there were as many enemy commanders as I am, but...... Damn, my fingers hurt! ”

"Hey, my lord, let's go to the back and bake the fire, there is a dense pine forest to cover it, and the people in the castle should not be able to see the fire here."

Owen had an astonishing memory of the places he had walked, a human navigator, and the situation along the way had been etched into his mind when he came in the morning.

"How about I'll take some people to keep an eye on it, and you and the others will warm up and change shifts later?" It's better than freezing all of them to make ice sculptures here. ”

"Okay."

There is a limit to being a soldier, I thought for a while, and immediately dispelled the idea of demonstrating the proximity to the people, and I couldn't wait to escape from this ice and snow as soon as possible, and fly with a group of flames.

"Don't hold on, we'll be back for you soon, hold on to ......"

Owen showed an expression that he couldn't do anything about you, and there were words in his mouth: "Lord Duke, I really don't know why you like to endure hardships with soldiers......"

He arched his hand deep into his crotch, probably thinking that I was going far, and grumbled again: "Endure hardship, endure hardship, and pull us to accompany ......"

I hissed and poured boiling water, and the warm water flowed through my throat to every nerve ending, and I could clearly perceive that the body was slowly thawing, and the whole half-paralyzed person regained its vitality.

"Your Excellency!"

An Enides appeared at the fire, and the soldiers sitting around walked away in amusement, afraid to avoid the so-called black devil.

"Look over there......"

The hoarse voice made it difficult to distinguish age, adding to the mystery, and I looked in the direction of his finger, and somewhere outside the mountains there was a fire that was almost undetectable, but just the right amount of vagueness.

"From the location of the castle, it is a small half-blind corner with a narrow visual distance, about twenty miles away, whether it is near or not, and it is not far away."

"The location is indeed ideal, continue to monitor."

I gave Enides a look of approval, and the latter was cold and untouched, emotion must be insulated from darkness, and it is also the weakness that hinders man from becoming a god, so this group of enigmatic Enides, cold-blooded, serious, unsmiling, thoughtless, like a machine that faithfully executes a predetermined program, has only two options in their eyes: yes or no.

Stuffing some hard jerky indiscriminately, and with a little strength, the first group of resting soldiers went to change back the comrades who were in ambush in the snow, and Owen scolded and dragged his right leg, and moved slowly to the fire in a strange posture.

"Bastard, I don't feel this leg anymore."

He pulled off his boots, unwrapped the layers of fur and approached the light, and the big mother's toes were the color of gray, apparently frostbitten.

"Ah, it's nerve-wracking, this gift of Dianyi."

Owen muttered as he held the dagger, burning in the flames for a moment, quickly slicing through the skin of his toes while it was hot, squeezing out the blackened blood.

"Who's Dian Yi?" I asked curiously as I handed him lukewarm water, which wasn't so hot.

"The pagan goddess of ice and snow, the only god on Mount Olympus who is willing to fall into hell with Hades, the king of Hades, is deeply in love with the man who does not love her, and is destined to end a tragic life."

Traveling around the world broadened Owen's horizons and informed him of many moving legends.

"Greek mythology!"

I stomped my foot, and the soft cotton-like snowflakes danced in a brilliant splendour: "Crush is painful and great, isn't it?" ”

"I don't have the time to care about what a crush is or not, I only care about one thing, when will the enemies in the castle be stupidly chased out of the net!"

Owen's incomprehensible style ruined the literary style I worked so hard to create, and his contradictory symbiosis, half gentleman, half rogue, hated very much!

Because of the reflection and refraction of the snow, although the sky has darkened, the surroundings are not so dark, and it is bright and bright like five or six o'clock in summer.

The lurking soldiers fell four or five shifts, the cold penetrated into the bone marrow, and many of them gritted their teeth and persisted, but the castle at the foot of the mountain was brightly lit, and the noise from afar seemed to proudly show us how pleasant the banquet was on their side.

"In a few moments it will be completely dark, and the light of the fire will illuminate the sky overhead, and the enemy will easily spot our tracks."

Owen smashed the charcoal-shaped wood with his sword, and the flames obediently gathered up, leaving only the looming sparks.

"Well, it's very warm to lie on in the extravagant and cooked cowhide cushions, and in this not very cold winter, it's enough to survive the cold all night, you can try it."

I curled up in a ball wrapped in skin, and sure enough, I felt the warmth coming through the cowhide, a bit like the fire kang burning in the northeast.

"It's interesting, where did you learn it?"

I turned over comfortably, so that the frozen side was next to the heat source: "It's so cool to ask everyone to try it......"

Owen held the kettle that was gradually losing its temperature, looked at a corner with a dull look, and fell into a deep memory: "Back then, in a ravine in Thrace, that broken place was definitely an ice cave, and you had to pee with a stick and pee at the same time, or there was a chance that it would freeze together with your inheritance......

He took a sip of hot water, and the residual water on his lips quickly formed into a thin layer of slight ice: "The snow is not as deep as the horse's belly, and it is really difficult to walk, and when I look back at the camping at night, grandma's, I can still see the place where I started in the morning, and I have been crawling and rolling in the snow nest for two days, and the hooves of the war horse are frozen, and when I step into the snow, the horse's legs are broken at the knees, and the white bone stubble is frosty, and there is no blood at all." ”

Owen measured his calves, slightly emotional.

"Mei'er is my baby, a gift from a countess after a jousting tournament, docile, strong, pure-blooded, I have never seen such an obedient war horse as it, Mei'er must be very painful, two big watery eyes staring straight at me, it is talking to me, yes, it has always been very spiritual, friend, please help me finish! I know, really, I understand, so Mei'er stayed in that barren ravine forever, and I had to move on. ”

"Lie down for you." I didn't know how to soothe the knight's sudden sadness, so I clumsily gave up the warm leather bed.

"It's okay, I'm fine."

Owen raised the kettle in his hand, but the white steam was long gone.

"After two more days of walking, the road was gone, and the snow completely covered everything, when I knelt on the ground in despair and prayed, tears rolled down into ice crystals, perhaps God heard the prayer and sent an angel when I was about to utterly despair."

A look of longing and holiness appeared on his face, as if it had been reproduced yesterday: "A girl, to be exact, a lost girl, we met, a fateful encounter, she probably came from a nearby village, she was caught in a snowstorm on the way into the mountains to collect firewood, and lost contact with her companions, and had already trekked all day before meeting me. ”

"We don't speak the same language and don't know each other's names, but I always remember her fiery red hair and healthy wheat complexion, so beautiful and unforgettable, I call her the kiss of fate, which comes from the myth of my homeland, that children with red hair are the lucky ones who have been kissed by the goddess of fate, and their lives will be accompanied by happiness and good fortune, away from the temptations of the devil and the shenanigans of the elves."

"Red Hair ......"

I repeated his words in a blur, and the smile unconsciously hung on the corners of my mouth, yes, I remembered Serena's beautiful long blonde hair, soft, smooth, and intoxicatingly scented, just as her dignified and confident smile was eternally engraved into my life.

Owen didn't notice me, and went on to himself, "We decided to go together, and the sound of two people creaking in the snow echoed through the forest of Notda, and to me, it sounded so wonderful! Before we knew it, it was dark, and we found a sheltered mountain nest to spend the night, and the wind at night was like a sharp knife, and like the roar of a dragon, it was terrifying. ”

"I've eaten all the food I brought, and I'm worried about how to fill my stomach, the kiss of fate has her own way, unhurriedly picking up the snow at the root of the tree, tearing off the black-green moss and putting it on the fire to roast, and then the two of them gobbled it up with snow and water, haha, I actually ate it, do you believe it?"

(End of chapter)