While Bill and the others were working hard for the Warriors Tournament, Knight ushered in a blizzard that raged for days and nights, mercilessly devouring everything on the land.

On a snowy morning, the sun slowly rises from the eastern horizon, shining warmly on the earth, and the Alto territory is surrounded by a white expanse!

On this day of the New Year, a large crowd flocks to the mountains on the southern side of Alto's territory for the end-of-year hunt.

This group of new owners from Alto's territory, under the personal leadership of the Duke of Caldis, went into the mountains and forests one after another. In addition to Caldis, Robit, Cook, Miller, and Mompot, as well as the knights Rossabar and Tarret, as well as the lively Mariara and the domineering Anne, while Xordo and Derain remained in the town.

Cook and Miller are more cheerful, and the two talk the most along the way. Miller teased Cook and said, "Hehe, you're going to meet an opponent today, and someone is going to compete with you!" ”

After saying that, Miller glanced back at Mariara behind him, with a gloating look, which made Cook very angry. He glanced at Miller, didn't bother to pay attention to him, and rode directly up the ridge with Caldis and Robit in front.

Although the snow on the flat ground is knee-deep, the snow on the mountain is not so deep, probably because the wind is blowing away. The group walked a long way up the mountain, but not a single prey appeared around, probably because the refugees often came to hunt in front of them, and this place had already been hunted.

Robitt looked around, looked up and sighed, "The prey here has long been gone, and it seems that we have to go deep into the mountains." ”

Cookzema followed, and Robitt said, "Let's go, I'm here anyway, so why don't you go home empty-handed?" ”

Caldis did not speak, and when Cook said this, he continued to ride forward, and Montpot and Tarret, who were beside him, immediately rode after him. For a whole morning, everyone was only concerned with the journey, and no one hunted a single prey, and the time was not long before noon.

After unremitting efforts, everyone finally came to the deep mountains and old forests, the surrounding woods became more and more dense, and the mountains on both sides became more and more steep. The mountain road was no longer walkable, so everyone had to go down the mountain to the bottom of the valley and walk hard in the deep snow.

Not far from the bottom of the valley, a flock of birds flew overhead, chirping non-stop. Countless beast footprints appeared on the snow in the valley, and when they saw the traces of their prey, everyone immediately became excited and sped up to follow.

At this moment there were several pheasant cries from the side of the mountainside, and Mariala was the fastest, and she immediately turned over and dismounted, and climbed quickly with her bow and arrow.

Seeing Mariara rushing to hunt pheasants, everyone had to sit on horseback and wait, watching her perform how to hunt pheasants.

Suddenly, there were a few fluttering sounds on the mountainside, and several pheasants were frightened and spread their wings and cooed and flew high.

When Mariara saw that her prey was about to fly away, she was in a hurry, and immediately drew her bow on the spot, and shot the arrow with a whoosh.

A few seconds later, a pheasant let out a terrible cry and quickly fell from mid-air, slamming into the snow valley not far ahead.

At this moment one of the guards turned over and dismounted, and ran to collect prey for Mariara.

Mariara happily walked back and said to Cook, "Hmph, do you think you're going to hunt?" He even underestimated us women.

Cook sneered, and he reached for three arrows on the string, aiming them at the flock of pheasants flying away, and then swished all three arrows out together. With the sound of bang, bang

Cook's archery skills are really extraordinary, and this Mariara is obviously down, and she pouts very unhappily and mutters: "It's good that the family can reproduce, so you don't need to kill them all like this." ”

No matter how you say it, Maria is reasonable, Cook is too lazy to defend at all, and he can't explain whether he is angry with a woman or a man, so Cook calmly rode away directly.

When he had not gone far, there were several more wild duck cries in the waterhole ahead, and Cook turned over and dismounted and walked up, and with a whooshing arrow he hunted another fat mallard.

Cook was quick on his feet, and in a short time he took the prey himself, and then handed it to Mariara and said, "I'll shoot one of the big ducks this time." ”

Mariala, who had been arguing with Cook all the time, suddenly smiled happily and seemed to be in a much better mood. She snorted, reached out and snatched the duck from Cook's hand, then looked back and forth at her prey.

Cook smiled and asked, "How's it going, isn't it good-looking?" ”

Maria gave Cook a blank look, and then the two chatted sweetly, and the sudden intimacy made everyone difficult to get used to.

Miller suddenly felt a little sick in his stomach, waved at everyone, and rode his horse to the valley beside him.

After a long time, he didn't see Miller coming, so Robit asked Montpot worriedly, "Why, why is this Miller coming with him?" ”

Montpot smiled and said, "It's probably because the peanuts have a bad stomach, you guys go first, I'll go back and wait for him." With that, Mompot turned his horse and went to find Miller.

Mompot returned the way he came, searching around several nearby valleys, but instead of finding Miller, he came across a few bandits passing by. Fearing that Miller had been captured by the bandits, Montpot hurried down the valley. Soon Mompot fought with the bandits, and in a few moments they were knocked to the ground, causing them to roll in the snow.

Just as he was about to interrogate them about Miller's whereabouts, Montpot heard a strange noise in the woods, and he vigilantly raised his spear and took several steps back. I saw a man in black quickly rushing down from the mountain forest, he held a spear in his hand, a long sword at his waist, and directly stabbed Montpott.

In order to save Miller, Montpot desperately swung his sword to meet him, and soon fought with the man in black in the snow.

Mompot never expected that this bandit was very good, and after dozens of moves, Montpot didn't take advantage of it at all, but that man became more and more courageous.

Seeing the bandits gathering around him, Montpot knew that it would be very disadvantageous to entangle him any longer, and he had to go to everyone for support as soon as possible.

Thinking of this, Mompot hurriedly raised his sword and launched a fierce attack, and when the man in black raised his gun and retreated to defend, he turned around and immediately retreated. But the man in black was willing to let him go, and hurriedly chased after him.

Miller was so sick of his stomach that he hid in a pile of dead grass in the bushes, crouching in a pit of planed snow and nearly collapsed.

Finally, he grabbed a dead leaf and wiped his buttocks. The dead leaves were a little fleshy, as if they didn't feel much to rub, so he grabbed a handful of snow and wiped it carefully.

Suddenly, two figures flashed across the snow in front of him, startling him to the point that he almost slipped into a puddle of. Miller didn't have time to lift his pants and immediately peered out through the gap in the dead grass. He suddenly spotted the familiar figure of Jombus, which could freeze Miller's chickens.

Miller was excited and excited, and he rushed out of the dead grass with his pants in his hand, shouting loudly as he ran, "Jombus, what are you running, stop me." ”

After hearing Miller's shout, the man in black looked back at Miller and asked in surprise, "Miller?" Why are you? You're ......, what are you doing hiding here with your pants on? ”

Miller was stunned for a moment, looked at the pants in his hand, and immediately put on his pants and said, "What's your situation?" Isn't it Montpot in front, what are you chasing after us Montpot? You're crazy, Jombus. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, several bandits who didn't know the situation rushed over, and the first one asked Jombus, "Second leader, do we still want to continue chasing?" ”

"The second leader?" Miller was shocked when he heard this, he looked at the bandits carefully, and then looked Jombus up and down. Then Miller suddenly rebuked: "Jombus, you actually went into the mountains to become a bandit, and you are still good brothers with us." You don't want to think about how Lord Count Fox took care of us in the first place, and in vain you were still a person from our royal capital knight training camp, and you actually did the ugly deeds of bandits. I told you that Jombus, Cook and Robit were right up front, and I saw what face you had to meet them. ”

With that, Miller fastened his belt and strode towards Montpot in front of him.

Reprimanded by Miller, Jombus lowered his head in shame, and then waved his hand at the bandits beside him, telling them to put away their weapons and stop chasing.

Seeing that Miller knew the man, Mompot stopped and watched. When Miller scolded me for coming over, Montpot saluted and smiled and said, "It's a friend I know, disrespectful!" No wonder your spear is so good, it turns out that you are also out of the king of the knight training camp. ”

Miller was very unhappy and said to Montpott: "Montbald is just a thief, and I have no such friends." ”

Since Montpot had not followed, Robit felt that something was wrong, so he asked Caldis to take everyone back to look for him, and he happened to come over at this time.

Seeing that everyone was coming, Miller shouted directly at Cook: "Cook, come and see, Jombus is very powerful now, and he has become the second leader of the bandits in the mountains, and we have been looking for him for half a year." ”

"The second leader?" Cook was so shocked that he hurriedly turned over and dismounted, and rushed over with his spear in his hand.

When Cook walked up to Jombus, he didn't say a word, and kicked Jombus fiercely, directly kicking Jombus to the ground.

Cook was furious, and scolded Jombus who was lying on the snow: "What is the situation of you, if you can't tell you a reason, I will execute you on the spot on behalf of the royal capital knight training camp today, and you will embarrass people everywhere for our royal capital training camp again." ”

Jombus got up from the snow with a disgraced face, and he lowered his head and explained slowly: "Before the fall of the royal capital, I fled to Dragon City with Chrissy and her father Jean, and unfortunately met these bandits from the Dragon Cottage in the Neido Pass, when Chrissy and her father were caught by the bandits and threatened to kill them. Later, the big boss liked me and said that he would make a deal with me, and if I would follow him to the cottage together, they would let Chrissy and her father go. ”

Miller sneered after hearing this: "Oh, in order to save Chriss, you agreed to someone and came to this mountain to be the second leader?" ”

"Yes." Jombus bowed his head and replied truthfully.

Cook said angrily, "You can really do it, Jombus, you even dare to be a thief for that Chrissy." What do you say is good about her, people don't like you, why do you have to stick to others, and finally sell yourself into a bandit, do you think it's worth it? ”

Jombus replied dejectedly, "I know Chrissy doesn't like me, and I don't deserve her in my capacity." So I'm not going to continue to bother people, so I'm just going to stay here and live in a daze. ”

Cook was still very angry after hearing this, and just wanted to continue scolding him a few more words, when Robit said, "Okay, Cook, don't be angry yet." Jombus, you can live your life however you want, but don't mess around with the bandits. You see, our brothers have finally gotten together again, and now it's just you. If you still recognize me Robit as a big brother, you will go with us immediately, and we will not mention anything about the past. ”

Jombus was shocked when he heard this, but he didn't dare to react immediately, and turned his head to look at Cook.

Cook glared at him and said coldly, "Look, you don't want to go with us yet, do you?" ”

Qiong Bush immediately laughed after hearing this, and he said happily: "Go, why don't you go, the brothers are all gathered, how can I be without me Qiong Bus!" ”

Cook smiled when he heard this, but he still complained in his mouth: "Look at your virtue, if you have to be a little more stubborn, I really dare to attack you." ”

Jombus shook his head, walked up to Cook, stretched out his hand and hugged him, and said, "Good brother, who of us is with whom, how can we not listen to our brother." ”

"Go, go!" , Cook pushed Jombus away, pointed to the gang of thieves behind him and said, "Don't get close to me yet, you haven't done it yet!" ”

"They!" Jombus looked back at the bandits and said, "Actually, the bandits are just ordinary people who went up to the mountain to become bandits when they were hungry. Go away, all of you, and tell the big boss that I, Qiongbus, have found my brothers, and I have gone with them, so that he should not come to me. ”

The bandits' expressions became very disappointed, and they left dejectedly, looking back at Jombus as they went.