In a cave in the mountains behind Coco Village, there was a rapid and intensive sound of striking iron, and the piercing sound startled flocks of birds in the forest.

Thirteen years ago, who left the royal family, Xuan Hai would never have imagined that he would forge spirit metal in a dilapidated cave thirteen years later. The fire was blazing, burning the originally cool cave as hot as the summer outside the cave, and he didn't seem to feel the soreness of sweat flowing into his eyes, but he was engrossed in hitting the shapeless charcoal black metal on the forge again and again with the hammer in his hand, and each blow of the sea would make the black of the metal a little darker, and the gold hidden under the black would be slightly revealed.

Feeling the vibration from the handle of the hammer, always afraid that time would pass too fast and not be able to accompany Xuan Yun for a longer time, Xuan Hai blamed the time for passing too slowly for the first time in his life, if time could pass a little faster, he was too old to hold the forging hammer at this time, maybe a month and a half ago Jin would not have led someone to break into Coco Village.

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"Why me? I'm just an ordinary guy who helps the villagers build farm tools. ”

"Because you can still pick up a hammer in your hand."

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Finally, the frequency of the hammer gradually slowed down, and finally stopped completely, he put down the hammer, picked up a bottle of water in his hand and poured it over his head, the cold water flowing through his cheeks made him sober from self-blame a lot, and when there was about a third of the water left in the bottle, he drank it and moistened his dry throat. Bao Hai put down the bottle, turned his head to look at the stand on the side, on the stand was his work of the month - a pair of armor that shone with a bright golden light, but this armor was still incomplete, lacking a helmet, which was also what Bao Hai was building.

"Hey, hey, you can't stop." Balk walked in from outside the cave and saw Bahai standing in front of the forge in a daze, so he narrowed his eyes and urged.

Ying Hai just glanced at Balk, "I'm a human, not a machine, and if it's a human, it will be tired." ”

Balk didn't care about the indifference of the sea, laughed strangely, and said, "Hehe, he deserves to be the chief blacksmith, he really has a character." ”

"I'm not the chief blacksmith for a long time."

"Oh, don't be modest, we all know that the one in the royal family can't compare to your craftsmanship," Balk walked up to Bao Hai and smiled, "I really don't know what those old guys think about driving people like you out for such a trivial matter, but we really didn't expect you to willingly make farm tools out of those broken copper and iron in such a broken place." ”

"There's nothing reluctant," he said, looking at his right hand, "it's a lot easier to build farm tools." ”

"Alas, it's easy, but it's a pity for your beautiful wife." Balk feigned pity, but anyone could hear the mockery in his tone.

When he heard Balk mention his dead wife, his originally calm face suddenly surged with anger, like a volcano about to erupt, but the crater was shrouded in a deep sense of powerlessness, so that the angry magma could never erupt, and he could only tremble and clench his fists, but he didn't know where to smash his fists.

Balk's remorseful look made Balk even more interested, and he leaned into his ear and said in an uncomfortable voice like metal across glass, "I don't want your daughter to leave you too, so let's get to work." ”

When Balk left, he couldn't bear the grief in his heart anymore, and slowly squatted down weakly, holding the forge table with both hands, and the man who had been dealing with iron for so many years that he had forged himself into iron began to sob. Bao Hai really regretted that he should not have helped the traitorous general build weapons for money, so that their family would not be kicked out of the royal family, and his wife would not die because of a serious illness but no money for treatment, and he still remembers what his wife said to him before she died:

"Here, our family can finally live without worries."

"I'm sorry, I'm really sorry...... "Yu Hai couldn't control the tears in his eyes anymore, and the large teardrops fell to the ground, but they were quickly evaporated by the high temperature in the cave. He clenched his fists again, he wanted to smash his fist into the forge in front of him, but he couldn't do that, he couldn't let his hand hurt, because he had to build a helmet for Kim Bandit.

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The first thing Bingchen felt after waking up was itching, especially the position of his left chest, as if there were hundreds of ants crawling around on his chest, and they didn't bite, but just stimulated Bingchen's skin with antennae as thin as a hair; The second feeling is cool, still on the left chest, as if that part is exposed to the air, and the cool breeze blows, making the itching more obvious.

Bingchen tried to open his eyes, but he didn't squint at the sudden light after being in the dark for a long time, because the environment here was already very dim, only a few slightly flickering oil lamps on the stone wall emitted a faint yellow light. Bing Chen tried to sit up, but it seemed that someone was pressing him, Bing Chen had to twist his neck stiffly to look, only to find that his chest was indeed bare in the air, because the collar had been torn open, and at this time, there was a delicate-looking girl who sprinkled some pale yellow powder on his left chest with a focused expression.

Seeing that his chest was exposed in front of a strange girl, Bingchen, who was already conservative, panicked all of a sudden, and struggled to sit up, but his forehead was held down by a hand, and a familiar voice sounded at the same time: "Don't move, do you want to die?" Bingchen heard it, this was Sun Xiaoying's voice, so he turned his head happily and saw Sun Xiaoying kneeling beside him, but his face was not very good, and there were residual blood stains on the corners of his mouth.

"Are you alright, Xiaoying?" Bingchen asked with concern.

"Me? I'm so much better than you. Sun Xiaoying tried her best to calm her voice, but she still trembled uncontrollably, and kept frowning at the place where Bingchen was dressed.

Bing Chen's injury is indeed very serious, not to mention other wounds, just the hideous scar on his chest that cuts from his right shoulder to his left chest is already very terrifying, and the depth of the wound can even faintly see the white bones under the flesh and blood, fortunately, the wound narrowly avoided the heart, otherwise Bing Chen's few lives would not be enough to die.

"If you change it, you shouldn't need to change the dressing if you have a good rest." The girl seemed relieved to wrap the wound with a bandage before wiping the sweat off her forehead, and it seemed that it was not easy for her to deal with such a dangerous injury. Hearing the girl say this, Sun Xiaoying's frowning brows also relaxed.

The girl raised her head and saw Bing Chen looking at her, so she showed a sweet smile like a ray of sunshine that appeared in the darkness, "Hello, my name is Xuan Yun, I know your name is Bing Chen, Xiao Ying told me." ”

"You're the clouds?" Bingchen sat up with the help of Sun Xiaoying, looked at the girl in front of her with some surprise, and felt that she didn't look very polite, so she sorted out her emotions and said softly, "Thank you for saving me." ”

"I just helped you clean up the wound, you saved yourself, this kind of injury is too ordinary people to hold on." Ying Yun said with a smile.

"Thank you for that, I probably wouldn't have been able to hold on without you."

"Yes, after all, we're all hostages."

Hearing Bao Yun say the word "hostage", Bing Chen reacted to the situation of himself and Sun Xiaoying at this time. Bingchen took a look at the surroundings with the help of the faint light, and found that this was neither a warehouse nor any house in the back village of Cocoa Village, but a damp cave, which should be a cave in the back mountain, but this cave was tidied up, but it was only a few oil lamps for lighting and a few straw mats for resting. Bingchen looked out from the entrance of the cave, the world outside the cave was shrouded in a huge black veil, and a few stars with silver glow could be faintly seen above the night, but the silver glow was fainter than the light emitted by the oil lamps that were about to run out. The strange thing is that Bing Chen didn't see the guards, but Bing Chen also understood, after all, he and Xiaoying were both seriously injured, not to mention being handcuffed made of spirit stones.

This is what Bingchen noticed after waking up. Bingchen didn't expect that the Bandit family could even get such things as spirit stone handcuffs, after all, the rarity of spirit stones is much higher than that of spirit metals, and most of the spirit stone resources are occupied by the atrium, because spirit stones can almost perfectly suppress the spirit flowing in the body, and the effect may not be very obvious to ordinary people, but for people like Bingchen and Xiao Ying, whose spirit flows in their bodies all the time, the spirit pressure stone is the biggest restraint, because once the spirit is suppressed, Not only will they not be able to use inspiration, but their bodies will be extremely weak, and the hardness of the spirit stone is comparable to that of diamonds, so if they want to open the spirit stone handcuffs, they can basically only rely on the key. However, Bingchen found that Xuan Yun didn't even have ordinary handcuffs or leg cuffs on her body, she was just an ordinary girl who was powerless, and the Bandit family was not worried that she could escape.

Seeing that Bingchen had been looking at the entrance of the cave, he thought that he had some dangerous thoughts, and hurriedly said: "There are actually many guards outside the entrance of the cave, and it is impossible for you to escape if you are so seriously injured." ”

Bing Chen shook his head, saying that he didn't have this kind of thought, and besides, he couldn't do anything with the handcuffs of the spirit pressing stone.

Seeing Bing Chen shaking his head, Xuan Yun relaxed slightly, and then opened his mouth as if he wanted to ask something, but he didn't seem to be ready to hear the answer, so he swallowed back the words that came to his mouth, but he couldn't bear the urging of the elf named "Worry" in his heart, so he mustered up the courage to ask in a low voice: "You guys...... Have you ever seen a guy with blonde hair and turquoise eyes? ”

"Oh, you mean Alan, right?" Sun Xiaoying said, "He came into Coco Village with us, but he had a bet with the orangutan, so he shouldn't have been caught." ”

Hearing Sun Xiaoying say Allen's name, Yu Yun suddenly became excited and hurriedly asked, "Is Allen okay?" Are there any injuries? ”

"You should ask him if there are any other places on his body that are not injured," Sun Xiaoying sighed and shook his head, "I can't believe that he can still fight after so many injuries." ”

Hearing Sun Xiaoying's answer, Xuanyun's originally bright and clear eyes instantly dimmed a little, and the whole person was like a daffodil that suddenly withered. Alan and Jin's bet about the covenant Xuanyun naturally knows, so she has been in a great entanglement, Xuanyun looked at the boundless night outside the entrance of the cave, the dim starlight was a little hazy, after a long time she realized that it was actually her own eyes that were hazy, Xuanyun wiped off the moisture in her eyes without a trace, and when she looked at the starry sky again, she had silently made a wish: I hope Alan can learn to be selfish and cowardly.