Like a fairy elf, the blue-and-white maid player flickered between the gloom and darkness of Liberty City, and the spotless white contrasted with the chaotic streetscape at this time, accompanied by the noise and noise scattered by the villa area towards the distant city center. The smile that was slightly revealed slowly disappeared on his face, and the white-cloud-like figure named Secret Whisper Ning Lan finally froze near the City Lord's Mansion where countless moats were intertwined, and the posture recovered from the rapid running state was then transformed into the same appearance as the usual calm and unhurried appearance in the gradually calming breath, Shi Shiran walked in front of Duan Qing, who had been waiting here for a long time: "Sir." ”

"You didn't chase it, did you?"

Gesture glanced behind Ning Lan, and then a mischievous smile appeared on Duan Qing's face: "Are you bullying other people's children again?" ”

"Nothing." A smile bloomed on the maid's face again: "People are the top players among the top players, and even the weapons are at the legendary level." ”

"You've got two of those weapons." Duan Qing shook his head and replied, "If I hadn't stopped you, I guess you would have wanted to send people back, wouldn't you?" ”

"Mr. wouldn't have let Ning Lan do this."

His eyes inadvertently looked around the surrounding streets and alleys for a moment, and whispered Ning Lan quietly walked to Duan Qing's side: "The city has become like this because of us, and Mr. probably doesn't want the grudge between the two sides to be deeper, right?" If Ning Lan really solves that hundred-mile solo tour——"

"That guy has a feud with Mengzhu." Shaking his head, Duan Qing interrupted the other party's words in an indifferent voice: "Even if we don't send them back, they won't thank us for this, the reason why we didn't let you kill him is mainly because we want to delay some time." ”

"We don't know where their resurrection points are registered." He turned his head and hid his body and gaze in the corner of the street not far away: "If this accelerates the transmission of news and the gathering of people, we will have even less choice." ”

"It's pretty small now." Feeling the aura that appeared in the area far away from the alley that Duan Qing was observing at this time, Ning Lan replied in a low voice: "There are a lot of people over there, and it looks like they are fighting with someone...... Well, it feels familiar. ”

"Look at Ning Lan, you are the teammate who was distracted before." The dull voice then came from in front of her, and Duan Qing's beckoning action that belonged to Duan Qing without looking back then also appeared in front of her: "Even if you don't remember the information we heard from the Dongcheng Society before, you should have an impression of the place in front of you, right?" ”

A heavy roar then sounded in the building that the two people were staring at, accompanied by a loud and delicate cry that belonged to the woman, and then three or two mixed screams appeared above the almost collapsing building with the sudden flying dust, and finally slowly fell in the scene of the snow spirit phantom ice gradually walking out of the gate: "...... Phew, it's not here either. ”

"Don't look for it, we've found it." Attracting the attention of the white-haired woman with gestures and greetings, Duan Qing then gave a whistle to Xue Linghuanbing who came forward with a smile: "It's simply the aesthetics of violence?" ”

"You, you all saw it just now?" Looking back at the tavern wall behind him that was slanting down along the pierced hole, Xue Ling's face turned red involuntarily: "Who made them so bold, even if they don't answer my questions, they still want to do something to me......"

"What?" Duan Qing rolled up his sleeves with a gesture: "Think you can do whatever you want if you occupy Tristan's old mansion?" See if I don't freeze them one by one and throw them all into the pan—"

"Okay, okay, I know you're good." Laughing and pulling the other party's body, Xue Ling's face also showed a warm smile: "Everyone has been almost killed, what are you going to do?" ”

"I'm going to have to vent my anger for you." Duan Qing, who was pulled back, let out two dry laughs: "I have to work so hard to find people from place to place, and I have to suffer from their anger...... Wait, aren't they the new candidates for the throne? ”

"No, it's the Borderlands they've recently bought." Snow Spirit Phantom Ice pressed her forehead: "Although most of them are NPCs who don't know where they came from, they are probably a clan secretly supported by the people of the Borderlands...... Hehe, it looks like the information that Dongcheng will give us can't be trusted, maybe it's mixed with a lot of forces that they want to take advantage of the opportunity to shovel their teeth and something. ”

"Mr. Chop, huh?" Glancing towards the southeast where they were, Duan Qing pursed his mouth: "I'll settle accounts with them when I have the chance." ”

"You just said you found it?" Xue Ling Phantom Ice immediately noticed a certain sentence that Duan Qing had said before: "Have you found Mengzhu?" ”

"Of course I found a clue to her."

Gasping for the answer, Duan Qing gestured to the black-clothed guards who were running silently not far from where a few people were: "It was Shanaiduo who told us the news, let's go somewhere in the villa area and try our luck, and the result is like now." ”

"You stabbed the hornet's nest?" Quietly hiding behind this corner, Xue Lingphantom Bing, who had some understanding, then glared at Ning Lan next to him: "Did you fail to sneak in?" ”

"If there is a place in this world that Ning Lan can't enter, probably no one else can sneak in." Shaking his head and sighing out this sentence, Duan Qing then shifted his gaze back to the dark alley: "I don't blame her this time, I asked her to take me to such a deep place, but——"

"There is always a reward for paying." He snapped his fingers and pointed to the location of the looming plaza in the center of Liberty City not far away: "If it weren't for this trip, we wouldn't have been able to find out so much amazing information." ”

"Liberty Square?" Glancing in the direction Duan Qing indicated, Xue Ling's face also became strange: "What's going on there?" ”

"Not much there, the problem is what's connected there." His gaze stayed for a moment on the black-clothed figures who were constantly gathering towards the streets and alleys around that square, and then Duan Qing's expression became bitter: "Really, that little girl's brain hole under the urgency is still as amazing as ever." ”

"In such a situation, probably only a place like the Bridge of Miracles can give her a glimmer of life for her survival."

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"So you completed two of these three tasks yourself?"

Some time later, in the evening, in another dark alley near the Liberty City Square, the people of the Qingling Adventure Group who had gathered together again also resounded with the exclamation of the rising sun, and the muffled sound he made when he kept slapping the box in front of him while doing nothing: "This is too efficient, isn't it?" ”

"It's just a coincidence, and the problem hasn't been solved or anything." Standing in the dark corner with his arms crossed, Duan Qing replied helplessly: "One has no materials, and the other has no confirmation, so it can't be completed at all." ”

"At least better than us, we didn't even get in the door." Pointing to the same box at his feet, Gedmayne, who was sitting cross-legged on the other side, replied calmly: "The City Lord's Mansion is currently heavily guarded, and at the same time refuses all strange visitors, and there are still a lot of people who want to meet the City Lord with us, but they have all been driven out. ”

"I don't know what that Reiner is doing in there, isn't there a third less candidate for the throne now?" So Duan Qing's face also became entangled: "If he doesn't come out quickly to command, what's the matter with hiding in the City Lord's Mansion every day?" ”

"Didn't the guy who replaced the city lord himself before sentence himself to a prison sentence?"

The answer to his question was Snow Spirit Phantom Ice, and the figure squatting in the corner and observing the outside also appeared in the most conspicuous position of this dark alley: "Since the truth about the identity of the city lord has been revealed, the credibility of the Free City has dropped a lot, and the officials and caravans who come and go to the city have lowered their status by three points when negotiating, and even the prestige of the candidates for the Twelve Thrones has also dropped a lot. ”

"Rainer has mostly taken a conservative approach, and when it comes to things like city management, things that can be dealt with negatively are dealt with negatively." Speaking of this, she looked up at the City Lord's Mansion not far from a few people: "Although it can't solve any problems, at least it can allow Free City to survive on this continent for a while longer." ”

"A good general, but not a good ruler...... Is it? ”

Sighing and saying such words, Duan Qing's gaze also became lost: "It's not that he can't say that it's wrong for him to do this, but this concept is tantamount to slow death." ”

"Although the interior of the city is still in the style of 'freedom', the level of chaos is also greater than before." With her hands folded in front of her, Ning Lan, who was still guarding Duan Qing's side, looked in the direction of the figures walking back and forth in front of the dark alley: "Even these city guards who are constantly hunting us down seem to be a little more unscrupulous than before. ”

"No, they shouldn't be Reiner's men."

Slowly shaking his head, Duan Qing's eyes flashed a little essence: "Losing the identity of the city lord, Reiner's dominance over the city should not be as strong as before, and the reason why he has been cowering in the city lord's mansion is mostly because he can protect himself from the attacks of other forces." ”

"According to you, the city of freedom is actually a city divided by many forces?" Asahi Dongsheng squinted at the city lord's mansion that he had just been driven out: "There is no 'emperor', let alone someone who is authoritative enough?" ”

"These black-clad guards in front of us aren't some City Guards of the Free City, are they?" Gedmane's gaze also had a little more contemplative flavor: "Interesting." So whose men are they now, and what are they searching for? ”

"It's either us, or Mengzhu, or something." Duan Qing replied in a low voice, "Although I also have some conjectures of my own, but-"

"It's actually very easy to know the answer, just grab one and ask it."

The air in the dark alley changed a little with the actions of several people, and finally disappeared into the darker and darker corner with the division of labor discussed among each other and the preparations made by each other, and the blue-white figure belonging to the dark whispering Ning Lan then flashed at the entrance of the dark alley near the end of the square for a moment, and threw a small piece of gravel towards the side of a patrol guard not far from this place. The gurgling sound and the faint echo of the clothes breaking through the air in the alley then attracted the attention of the guard, and with his surprise and subtle steps, he walked in the direction of the dark alley, and then the magic wind that appeared out of thin air suddenly appeared behind him, blowing out his body that had just leaned out of the corner of the alley: "How-"

"Hey."

The thick hands then familiarly pulled his neck, pulling him into the darkness deep in the alley like a rag doll, and the ordinary face that belonged to Duan Qing then appeared between the gaps in the palms that were almost about to cover his mouth and nose, echoing in the whimpering sound of his struggle, and the gray-robed magician also chuckled slightly: "How is it, the operation of my magic is okay, right?" ”

"Someone has already brought it to you, if you have anything to say, just ask quickly." What answered him was the sigh of Xue Ling's phantom ice: "There is one less person over there, and the abnormality will soon be discovered." “

"Rest assured, this kind of thing abounds in the Free City, and someone dies every minute." Waving his hand, Duan Qing's voice finally turned to the guard who had been tied up: "So please take it easy, this gentleman, we don't mean anything to hurt you, as long as you can answer us a few questions, we will definitely guarantee your safety and will not let you become a part of the besieged river." ”

"Are you the Twelve Throne Candidates?"

He looked at the figure that was still tightly covered and pressed to the ground, and added in a low voice as if he had just remembered something: "You just need to nod or shake your head." ”

The other party nodded hurriedly.

"Reiner's men? Eduin's men? Garo's men? It can't be—it's old Joel's men, right? ”

The other party nodded hurriedly.

"Old Joel disappeared a year ago."

The tip of the spear belonging to the Snow Spirit Phantom Ice then crossed his eyes, accompanied by Duan Qing's voice that gradually became eerie: "There is no name of him in the Twelve Thrones now, let alone his subordinates. ”

"This is your last chance – to name it."

He squatted in front of the guards, and at the same time motioned to the rising sun and slowly let go of his hand: "Who is it?" ”

"Ryu—"

"Huh?"

"Longor."