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When Moshi woke up, he felt like he had woken up—he opened his eyes vaguely and saw Dino standing beside his bed. The boy looked out the window with an uneasy expression, his brow bones casting a shadow over his blue eyes, revealing melancholy.

His brother Diffonor recovered, so he followed the Duke and his army east.

He and his sister Dia stayed in the castle.

Mo Shi was silent for a moment, thinking about how to break the silence. Finally, the silence was broken by the sound of frantic coughing.

Dino was frightened by him at once, and hurriedly helped him up, patted him on the back and handed him water, and Duna immediately rushed over to do this and that. He retched while drinking water, and was embarrassed for a while.

Later, Mo Shi learned that if any snowwalker was sick in this situation, there was a high probability that he would not live for a few days. Snowwalkers' average body temperature and heart rate are slightly lower than those of humans, and their sensitivity to the outside world during sleep is significantly lower than that of orcs, and by contrast, feverish Moshi looks to them like a weak bird about to burn, or a hot carbon rolling in the palm of their hand. Therefore, the herbalist who came to treat Mo Shi had every reason to judge that Mo Shi was in critical condition and was in the midst of life and death.

Of course, it's definitely not that bad.

The heart rate in the range of 60-100 and the body temperature should not be above 40 degrees Celsius.

Mo Shi woke up from a slumber and coughed out what he should have coughed, and he already felt much better.

"No, no, no, no—" The first thing Mo Shi said after he stopped coughing was a long list of negative words. He refused the bowl of medicine that Duna had in his hand.

Medieval potions (or even orc potions) Mo Shi was definitely reluctant to take a few more sips.

He defended his body sovereignty: "No, I really don't drink!"

"Drink, Mr. Morse. And Norwen took the medicine bowl from Duna's hand and held it in front of Mo Shi, "This is the best medicine that the Doctor of Herbs personally made for you." ”

"No, no, no, really—"

"You burned so badly last night that you almost died!" the boy reprimanded with a serious expression. At this point, he looked a little like his father.

There was even a slight growl in his throat.

"It's not ......," Mo Shi weakly defended, but he knew in his heart that no matter how much he argued about the knowledge of herbology and anthropology at this time, they would think that he was just too willful and very afraid of suffering.

Du Na also persuaded on the side: "Lord Mo Shi, I have prepared licorice candy for you, you can eat it after drinking the medicine." ”

Really.

"I can't drink these pills anymore, I'm almost getting better, and these pills will only increase the burden on my internal organs, and even cause endocrine system disorders and prolong the healing cycle-"

"Mr. Moshi," said the young man at last, taking a deep breath, "now that my father is gone, I am your master. ”

What a wonderful sentence!

What qualifications does Moshi have to refute it?

- The king wants his ministers to die, and the ministers have to die.

Mo Shi could only take the medicine bowl.

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The taste of the medicine is not bitter, and it seems that the proportion of hay and sweet root is increased by reducing the powder, probably because Mo Shi was very uncooperative when he drank the medicine before.

Perhaps because a severe cold has hindered the sense of taste and smell, in short, the medicine is bearable.

Mo Shi slowly sipped the decoction and looked at Dino who was sitting on the side.

The boy still frowned deeply and looked out the window.

"Did anything happen?" asked Moshi, "how is the military report from the west?"

The snowwalkers keep a large raven (which appears to be a magical creature to be verified), and this bird has a social system that forms stable family relationships. When a husband and wife and parent-child relationship are cultivated, they have the instinct to seek out each other, so they are used by snowwalkers for communication.

"By the morning, the first group of ravens had returned. Dino replied, "Among them are personal letters sent to us by Mr. Shekha. ”

"We?"

"He started with my name and yours. I haven't heard back yet. ”

I see.

Dino took out a piece of paper cut into a narrow shape from his coat pocket: "First, he asked about your condition. ”

Mo Shi nodded: "I already feel a lot better. ”

He mentions some things about the march, which are similar to his brother's letter. Now that the army has entered the Dark Stone Valley, there are about three days left to go from the Silver Plain, but ......"

"But?"

The boy swallowed, seeming a little nervous, and said, "They weren't preparing to go to the Silver Plain. ”

"What?"

In an instant, countless speculations passed through Mo Shi's mind, but most of them were based on past experiences and fragments from known historical stories, and Mo Shi could be said to be ignorant of the current situation.

"I am now the true master of this castle," said Dino, but not for show-off or anything else, his expression was very disturbed, "I am the supreme leader, the leader of the rest of the army, and there is no reason why my father should not tell me his plans and those of the old knights. I mean, if anything, plan. ”

It's really weird.

According to the normal flow of wars between lords, there should not have been a "plan":

They should assemble at the appropriate place according to the time, place, and even number of people specified in the battle book, and set up the corresponding formation, and then with the sound of the trumpet and the prayer of the priests, the war will officially begin.

In all likelihood, however, the Duke did not intend to follow this suit.

So, what does he want to do?

"If Lord Duke doesn't tell you, Young Master Dino, it's obvious that this is a matter of great secrecy, or maybe it's a ...... thing that is not "moral" enough, a plan that breaks the mold.

Mo Shi pondered, "I want to see the map. ”

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Dino unfolded the northwest corner of a large map on a bed of Mostone.

The roughness and inaccuracy of the map are not worth Moshi's time to complain about at the moment.

Mo Shi quickly scanned the two lands marked with the firesparrow and the autumn crow's family crest.

He quickly found several places to defend that could be called "Main", but after questioning, Mo Shi learned that there were no walls or garrisons between the lands of these great lords, and many of them did not even have frontiers.

It can be said that at the junction of the realm of the Firesparrow and the Autumn Crow, a large part of the north is an ambiguous area, and the south side is involved in possible territorial disputes—there are many plains, which means cities and hunting grounds.

The origin of silver originates from the junction of the north and the south, and the valley of the black stone is located on the edge of the northern mountain range.

The duke plans to detour north?

Go north, and then what?

Follow the path of the mountains and valleys......

Mo Shi's gaze slowly moved to the home crest painted with a blue-black crow, where was the main city of the marquis "Shann" where the bluestone castle stood, and not far west of Shann City, there was another city.

In that city, Moshi asked Dino for more details.

The city was called "Chongci", and Chongci was located in the same valley as Shang'en City, and was the second most prosperous city in the Autumn Crow's territory after Shang'en City, and the middle section of the Hongbo River flowed through it. The master of Chongci City is Xuan He, the younger brother of the Marquis of Autumn Crow.

In a way, Chongci City's position in the territory of the Autumn Crow is similar to that of the Marquis's brother to the Autumn Crow family: it was armed and sheltered, but at the same time, like the old nobles, it did not expect disaster to befall at all.

If the Duke of Firesparrow is hungry for a complete victory in order to gain absolute initiative in the negotiations, then capturing and plundering the city may be a surprising but correct choice.