After that, Trode almost dried his tears and his throat became hoarse. During this time, Alicia held him all the time, without comfort, but gently stroked his head with her hand, silently listening to his seemingly endless cries

Seeing that Trode had gradually stopped crying, Alicia whispered in his ear, "No matter how uncomfortable it is, we still have to face it, don't we?" ”

"Hmm." Trode replied in a weak tone, using all the strength of his body, and walked away from Alicia. Only then did he realize that he had been lying in Alicia's arms until just now, and his face could not help but turn very red. And Alicia realized this, and her face was no less flushed than Trode's

Afterwards, Trode and the others were taken to identify the body, and although everyone's mood was very heavy, in order to find the former good friend, everyone was staring at it and not letting go of every detail.

"Huh?" Trode asked the soldiers on the side, "Are there only those corpses?" ”

The soldier replied affirmatively, "Yes, sir, the remains of our people are on the other side, do you want to take a look?" ”

"Take me there." Trode hurriedly commanded.

A moment later

"How is that possible?" Trode looked at the body in front of him suspiciously, and said, "Where did it go?" ”

Trode really didn't believe what he was seeing, and went over all the bodies. This added to his doubts, and at the same time forced him to start guessing another possibility

"Roy withdrew with them?" When Trode said this, he felt that he was quite stupid, and Roy was not a professional spy and had no way to contact them, so it was really useless to follow the British and French troops back to the barracks.

However, in the current situation, there seems to be no reasonable reason other than that this reason can explain the current situation. In this way, Trode told his team about the situation with suspicion.

"So there's a good chance that Roy is still alive?" The first to speak was Hans, who was so excited that he had lost all his previous loss.

Vincent nodded and said, "It should be so, after all, we didn't find him in the city after all the effort, so now there is only this possibility." ”

Amphitri continued: "Do you think he will pretend to retreat with the enemy and then escape halfway. If that's the case, he's still halfway back by now. ”

However, Marcus disagreed with her point of view, and he said silently: "It shouldn't be like this, after all, the defense force left by the enemy is obviously only used to delay time, and there is no intention of fighting with us, I don't think Roy will fail to see this." I think he may have been forced to retreat with the large force out of the form of helplessness at the time. ”

"I think so, too." Leona nodded in agreement with Marcus's point of view and said, "After all, Roy is just an ordinary soldier in disguise, and he can't resist at all due to the factors of compulsory orders. ”

Trood remained silent, just listening to them. Although he also felt that Marcus's explanation was very valid, for some reason, he believed that this was not the case at all. Even, it was completely groundless, he even thought that Roy had voluntarily evacuated with the enemy.

"What are you thinking?" Trode felt a poke in his body, and he looked to the side, where Alicia was looking at him curiously.

"No" Trode shook his head, he still felt that those words were difficult to say, so he felt that he didn't say it, but replied to Alicia softly: "I didn't think about anything." ”

"Who can you fool with such a clumsy lie?" Alicia looked at him with a smile and said, "You don't think the same as theirs, then say it, no matter what you want to believe at this time." ”

"Whew!" Trode took a deep breath and began to think. Indeed, the situation of Roy is still not optimistic, although it is certain that he is at least not among the dead now, but he is still in a state of uncertainty about his life and death. Everyone is very concerned about his safety, and they thought of a possibility, although it is a bit outrageous, but if you don't say it for everyone to know, it is a distrust of your partner, and it is also irresponsible to Roy

"Okay." Trode nodded at Alicia, and then waved his hand to let everyone listen to him first, he cleared his throat first, and then said slowly: "First of all, what I said below has no basis, it is just the result of my subjective guess, but I also want you to hear it." ”

To Trode's surprise, everyone looked at him with very serious eyes, without the slightest suspicion of him, at least not the preconceived idea of doubting his words until he finished speaking.

Trode looked around at all of them, and then said word by word; "I think Roy retreated with the enemy of his own volition."

Marcus asked, "What do you mean by that?" ”

"What about this," Trode scratched his ears a little embarrassed, "although I think what you just said is very reasonable. However, "

"Based on the feeling of being a partner with him for a long time, I don't think he will do anything like that." Vincent added to Trode.

"That's it." Trode smiled a little embarrassed: "Because it is unfounded, it is normal that you don't understand." ”

"Well," Marcus sighed, "you say that there is no reliable basis for it, but it is surprisingly convincing." In contrast, my argument seems to be reliable, but it is not convincing to everyone. ”

Leona smiled meaningfully and said, "I feel like this kind of thing is amazing, anyway, I think it's better to follow the feeling, sometimes the effect is better." ”

"So you believe me?" Trode asked in surprise with a big mouth.

Alicia stepped forward, approached Trode, and said, "Of course, we're all waiting for him to come back!" ”

"Okay, that's it, we're going to wait for the day he returns." Trode raised his hand and said, "He ran to the enemy without saying hello to us, and I didn't teach him a good lesson when he returned!" ”

Everyone also shouted after Trode: "Wait for him to come back!" Good lesson! ”

The voices of the people swirled upwards, rose into the sky, passed through the clouds, and spread to every corner of the land of North Africa. Of course, it also reached the man's ears