27, evil teammates
Hoffa and the two strange German wizards stood on a narrow reef at the same time, less than half a meter away from each other, and they could hear the breathing of the opposite side. Both sides did not hide their murderous intent at all, but they were extremely vigilant and adopted an extremely conservative posture.
The two black-robed wizards were not in a good state, their faces were pale, and they were holding each other, and their bodies were burned by the acid spewed by the insects.
Hoffa wasn't well, he was drenched, and he held an open shell in his hand, the best weapon he could find at the moment.
He held the shell in his hand and confronted the two black witches on either side of the reef.
"Get down!" he said.
"It's you, Bach, and we're two of us. The red-haired wizard said.
"Anker, don't talk nonsense with him, just kill him. The blonde wizard said in a feeble tone.
"You take the worms off your body before you speak. Hoffa sneered at the blonde wizard.
Unexpectedly, the blonde wizard's face changed greatly after hearing his words, and his already pale face suddenly turned as white as paper, he jumped more than half a meter high, and his palms frantically touched his body, "Bugs... Where are the bugs, where are the bugs!?"
It wasn't enough to touch it himself, so he grabbed his companion stubbornly: "Anker, where is the bug on me?"
The red-haired wizard didn't look at him, staring at Hoffa.
Hoffa kindly reminded, "Behind your ears." ”
He fainted limply from the finger-long, red-and-green caterpillar behind his ear with a tinniting scream.
Hoffa was dumbfounded, he was just sarcastic about the other party, but he didn't expect that this seemingly tall and strong man was actually afraid of reptiles in his bones.
"Hey, Aldo, are you a woman?"
The red-haired wizard cursed. His face was gloomy, and he kicked his friend, and when he found that the guy had fallen to the ground, he retreated to the edge of the reef without saying a word.
"It seems that you are the only one left. ”
Hoffa said slowly.
The red-haired wizard snorted coldly, sat cross-legged, and ignored him.
Hoffa put down the shell, sat down as well, and began to meditate.
He bluffs just to scare the other side. Even if it's 1v1, in the absence of magic, the other party is also a man in the prime of life. Fortunately, he was afraid that he had some unknown hole cards, so he didn't dare to tear his face immediately, and instead began to try to recover his magic.
I have to say that this is the safest way, in the current situation, whoever can be the first to recover the magic power can gain control of the situation.
However, an hour passed, and two hours passed...... At night, the moon rises and the tide rises, gradually flooding the reef in the shallows. The giant carnivorous insects that remained on the shore gave up their plan to hunt the three people in the sea and quietly disappeared into the dark jungle.
Hoffa and the red-haired wizard had been meditating on the bug-fearing dark wizard waking up from his dizziness, and the magic on their bodies showed no signs of recovering in the slightest.
Under the moonlight. The faces of the three were not very good-looking.
A crab crawled out of the crater of the reef, climbed from the trouser leg of Hoffa to the middle of the two black-robed men, and after a walk, jumped into the sea.
"Can your magic be used?"
The red-haired wizard asked warily.
"Guess what. Hoffa replied ambiguously.
"Hey, Grindelwald student, which side are you on?" said the blonde wizard, "or join our guild." ”
"The last one who called me with this scale has lost his head. ”
The blonde man subconsciously stretched out his hand to the wand on his waist, but was stopped by the red-haired man next to him: "Now that you have no weapons, are you still so rampant?"
Hoffa spat into the sea and sneered: "Why, a guy who is even afraid of insects still threatens me?"
"It's like you don't have any weaknesses at all, I'm not afraid of bugs. ”
"Why don't you try, what's the point of just talking. ”
He snapped his knuckles, and the muscles of his arms and shoulders propped up his shirt with sharp edges.
"You're .....!!"
The red-haired man seemed to be calmer, and he pressed the blonde man, "It's not time for us to see life and death yet." Bach, what about Lemay, hasn't she been with you all the time? Why didn't I see her? ”
Hoffa did not answer.
"Did you hide her? Our target is Lemay, and it has nothing to do with you. As long as you hand over Lemay to us, we will not embarrass you in the slightest. ”
"It's not a coincidence," said Hoffa, in a mocking tone, "that Lemay is also my target, and I will not embarrass you as long as you stay away from her." ”
The blonde man was furious, struggling to sit up from the reef, "Little brat, don't force me to teach you what respect is for your teacher!"
The red-haired man pressed him back hard.
"Aldo!
"What are you waiting for, he's only one person!"
"Not now, don't block me!"
Aldo, whose eyes were bloodshot red, finally calmed down under the pull of his companion, he tugged at his collar, and turned his head away with a cold snort.
Hoffa looked at the redhead named Anker, wary. He is not afraid of impulsive enemies, but he is more afraid of those who remain calm in this situation.
"You can still talk, but unfortunately, Lemay is not with me, and she is separated from me. So it's useless for you to ask me. ”
"Is that ......?" the red-haired fox narrowed his eyes suspiciously, and said slowly, "In that case, do you have any plans?"
"Why should I tell you. ”
The redhead was not annoyed: "I have a proposal, would Mr. Bach be interested in hearing it?"
"Not interested. ”
The redhead said to himself, "We don't have magic now, and you've seen this island, it's strange and dangerous, and I think we might have to cooperate with each other to survive on this island." ”
"Cooperation?" Hoffa laughed, "What if you recover your magic first?"
"We may kill you, or we may send you to the Guild's headquarters in Berlin and put you in custody for your teacher, Grindelwald," said the redhead. How to do it depends on the situation. ”
"Do you think I'll agree to such a cooperation?"
"I suppose you wouldn't have hesitated to kill us if you had recovered your magic first, perhaps in Mr. Bach's option, there was not even such a thing as imprisonment. The red-haired man said calmly, almost brutally.
Hoffa was slightly moved, the red-haired man's calmness made his hands itch surprisingly, and he wanted to get rid of this scourge quickly, but he forcibly restrained this impulse.
Because he was right, they were in a terrible state now, lacking food, lacking fresh water, and without even the shelter they needed to survive, so they had to hide on the reef.
If there is another life-and-death contest at this time, even if he can win, the final result will be to be eaten by the vicious and strange carnivorous insects on the island, or to sit on the shore and be roasted into dried fish by the distorted sunlight of the day.
"I have a small offer. ”
Redhead said. "Since our goal is Lemay, why don't we find her first, and then calculate this little thing between us?"
"I can't guarantee that Lemay is on this island. ”
"Lie, she's in the same boat as you. Aldo said coldly.
"You're looking for her everywhere, and I thought you'd know a little bit more about what she's capable of. Hoffa scoffed.
"This ......"
The redhead browled his chin tightly.
"Lemay is on this island. Aldo said firmly.
"What did you say?"
"I said, Lemay is on this island. He repeated.
Now even his companions were confused: "Have you seen her, Aldo?" ”
"No, but I just know that she's hiding somewhere on this island. ”
"Which corner. ”
"I don't know. ”
"Aldo, don't be kidding, okay?"
"Why am I kidding you, it's a feeling, like I'm sure I hate bugs, she's on this island. ”
"What do you think, Bach?"
Hoffa's brow furrowed slightly, and he had a hazy realization at the thought of the strange giant insects and unheard of plants on the island, but he was not sure whether his fleeting thoughts were true or false. He shook his head, suppressing the strange feeling.
"Okay, let's cooperate. Since our goal is Lemay, let's put aside our contradictions, if she is really on this island, the situation must be quite dangerous. ”
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......
Chloe didn't feel like she was in danger, in fact, she just felt a little weird about her stunning.
After Mary died of fear, she once again chose to go on a magical rampage. However, the place where she appeared was 108,000 miles away from the position she expected.
She thought she would probably be at sea when she woke up, but she wasn't.
Ever since she could remember, she had somehow come to a bustling white stone square.
On three sides of the square are houses with sharp slate roofs, and on the fourth side is a majestic building with a few small windows in the wall that are higher than the top of the chimneys of the houses, and which are made of solid limestone and look like a blockhouse or castle. There are some market scaffolds in the square area below it, and there are people coming and going under the scaffolding.
It's a quiet and peaceful atmosphere, not at all like the war-torn world war.
She didn't have to wait long to stand in the square when a crowd of people in the distance caught her attention.
Out of curiosity about the unknown environment, she chose to go over and find out.
After finally squeezing into the pile, she found that in the middle of the pile was a middle-aged woman who had fallen to the ground and was unconscious, and there were a bunch of inferior leaflets scattered around her.
"Are you going to die?"
"Maybe I'm dying. ”
"Who's of it. ”
"The Berkeley woman, the child is gone... Hey, let's leave it alone. ”
The crowd surrounded her, pointing at her and whispering, but no one dared to help.
Chloe's heart sank, these people spoke German. She didn't know what it was or where she was, but out of professional habit, she crouched down and picked up the flyer.
There was a black-and-white photograph of a young boy with unrecognizable light hair.
"Aldo Berkeley. ”
She read the name on the flyer, and learned nothing. So she leaned down again and picked up the unconscious woman.
Touching her head, her body temperature was very high, her skin was burning, but her limbs were clammy and cold, and her face was pale. This woman has suffered from heat stroke, and it is not like the crowd said, she is hopeless.
She helped the woman up, pushed away the crowd of onlookers, and led her to the shade of a slightly shady tree.
Then she went to the nearby shop and asked for a glass of ice water and a little salt, and thanks to her beautiful face and the robes of the monastery, she easily borrowed what she wanted.
He brought the water back and fed it to the woman who was suffering from heat stroke, and in a short time she woke up quietly.
"How are you feeling?"
Chloe asked.
"Hmm..."
As soon as the middle-aged woman woke up, she was in a daze: "Have you seen my child...?"
"What's wrong with your kid?"
"My child is lost and I'm looking for him here. ”
She fumbled up and down, "Where's my flyer?"
Chloe handed her the stack of flyers behind her.
The woman took the leaflet and sighed, "You saved me, you are so kind." ”
"It's okay,"
Chloe modestly asked, "Excuse me, where is this?"
"Where do you ask?"
"This is it!" Chloe pointed to her feet.
"Berlin, you are confused, child. I don't even know what this place is. ”
Berlin...
Chloe couldn't say a word for a while.
Although she was a little prepared to hear these people speak German, she couldn't help but feel a tremor when she heard the exact news.
What happened? Why did the time ability that he activated take him across the geographical space and directly to Berlin, 10,000 meters away, where is Hoffa, and where is he at this moment. Can I still save Mary?
For a while, countless questions and confusions were intertwined in her heart.
"What's going on, kid, tell me, maybe I can help?"
The middle-aged woman beside her asked in a gentle tone.
Chloe grimaced: "I'm lost." ”
"Lost?"
The middle-aged woman touched her head and said sympathetically: "Poor child, if you don't dislike it, you can go to my house for a while." ”
Chloe was confused at the moment, she couldn't think of anything better, all she could do was nod blankly.
The woman took Chloe to a small house in the city and prepared some snacks and drinks for her, but the nun had no appetite at all.
The middle-aged woman sat beside her and comforted her, giving her an idea by the way: "Where are you from, I can help you contact the National Guard, and when the time comes, you can ask them to help bring you back." Of course, it would be more convenient if you could contact the monastery. ”
Chloe's mind was in a mess, and she didn't eat, drink, or talk.
The woman chattered sadly: "My boy is younger than you, I really hope he doesn't meet any bad people outside." Ay... Before my damn husband got divorced, he beat him up three times a day, when he was drunk, when he lost money in gambling, and when he was in a bad mood.
It's too late for divorce, in 1911, my family advised me not to marry him, but I was young at the time, and I married him in a hot spot, and now, it's too late to regret it......"
The woman's mouth is like a fountain, spewing out her resentment about the world endlessly.
Chloe was still thinking about Mary and Hoffa, and she didn't react for a while. When she reacted, she stood up abruptly.
"What do you say?"
"Huh, my terrible husband?"
The woman was startled by Chloe's surprise.
"No, the previous sentence, how many years did you marry your husband?"
"11 years..."
"How many years is that?"
"What are you doing in 1922?"