Mochi's cry paled in the shouts of the Syndicate thieves.

"Fishman friends! Fishman friends! Fishman friends! ”

The cries of thieves and minions came and went.

Mo Qi glanced at the merciless sky with tears in his eyes.

"Is that undead thief your friend? Need me to let her mom go? Otto asked, pointing to Linda, a female thief who was still tied up.

Mochi shook his head and said, "We don't know her, she just stole from us." Please find out the things, and then you can use this female undead as firewood. ”

"Mr. Mochi!" Anvena said indignantly.

Moqi glanced at Anvina, and knew that the female fish-man was moved by compassion again, so he changed his words and said, "Good, good! I know. Then you tell Otto to give the thief back to us, and then you can let her go. ”

Anvina relayed Mochi's words with satisfaction.

Following Mochi's instructions, Otto retrieved Mochi's artifact fragments and released Linda Sangunar. When the undead thief left, she glared at Otto dissatisfied.

The glowing artifact fragments aroused Otto's curiosity, and when he handed the thing to Moqi, the bald thief specifically asked, "Mr. Moqi, what is this ......thing?"

"A useless magic prop, I usually use it as a lighting tool." Mochi explained.

After listening to Moqi's explanation, the bald Otto nodded, and did not ask anything more: "The dinner will be held in an hour, don't forget it, you two." ”

Over the next hour, Mochi walked around the town and got a rough idea of where they were. They are currently located in the Alterac Valley, in a town called Steinbrad, less than two hours from Alterac Castle.

Although they knew where they were, they still couldn't hear from Akarin.

Mochi specifically told Otto to send his men to find Akalin, but Moqi was not hopeful, Akarin's stealth ability was too strong, and the thieves of the Syndicate would certainly not be able to find his whereabouts. After thinking about it, Moqi decided to set off tomorrow morning to find Akalin himself, after all, artifact fragments were the only way to find Akalin.

When the dinner is ready, Mochi and Avena arrive on time.

The food at the feast was quite hearty – smoked venison, roast bear, lamb chops, ham roasted from the hind leg of a wild boar...... In the face of all kinds of meat, Anwena eats very happily, but Moqi has other concerns-

"It's all fucking hard vegetables, it's strange that you don't have mouth sores in this diet!"

Even when the little duke clinked glasses to Moqi, what he drank was goat's milk.

"Thank you so much! Two fish-man friends. The little duke raised his glass and said.

"It's all easy stuff to get hot! You deserve mouth sores......" Mochi muttered as he held up the quilt.

"Miss Anvina, what is Mr. Mochi talking about?" The little duke asked.

"Oh...... She said thank you for your hospitality, the dinner food was really generous. Anvina glared at Moqi and said politely.

The little duke waved and said, "Where are the words?" We live in valleys all year round, and the mountain climate is cold and the variety of food is not abundant. I feel guilty for not being able to serve delicious fish to the two of you. ”

Anvina smiled and said, "Little Duke, you are so sweet. However, fish is not a must-eat food for us. For those of us who live near the water all year round, it is a new experience to be able to eat such delicious venison. ”

"That's good! I would also like to recommend our venison here to you with this special sauce......"

Anvina and the little duke were talking all kinds of polite words that were not nutritious, and Mochi was sleepy when he heard them.

When the dinner was almost over, and Mochi could no longer stuff the venison, the little duke proposed to go out together.

Mochi had never been in the habit of taking a walk after dinner, and he was about to refuse, but Anvina nodded and agreed to the little duke's proposal.

"Mr. Mochi, this is the minimum etiquette! You have just finished a dinner at the host's house, how can you refuse an invitation? Anvena said righteously.

With that, the little duke walked out of the auditorium with Mochi and Anvena and walked towards the hill outside the town. They were accompanied by Otto and twelve bodyguards, who lurked thirty yards away wherever the little duke went.

"Uncle Otto has been so careful since he witnessed my father's assassination, and I hope you don't feel offended." The little duke said with a smile.

"What a shame it is about your father." Anvena said.

"It's okay, that's all in the past." After saying this, the little duke stopped talking and walked silently towards the top of the mountain.

Mo Qi, who had eaten well, was a little sleepy, and he followed behind the little duke with a numb expression. A small snowflake fell on his neck, and he looked up at the sky, only to see scattered snowflakes falling in front of him. ，

"Thank you, Mr. Mooch." When he reached the top of the mountain, the little duke turned around and said with a serious expression.

"You've thanked us so many times, and you've arranged a great dinner for us, so really don't say thank you anymore." Avena said.

"No, you don't understand." The little duke shook his head and said, "Mr. Mochi, Miss Anvina, I have always been desperate in the past, and I have never had illusions about the outside world. But when I saw Mr. Mockey, I realized that I was too cowardly in the past, and that a fish-man could work hard to achieve an alchemical level that surpassed that of a human apothecary. Why shouldn't I try? ”

The little duke said excitedly, as if he wanted to release all the things that he had suppressed in his heart for so many years.

Mo Qi whispered: "It's better to be desperate, don't just have hope." ”

The little duke ignored Mochi's fish-man language and continued, "I was in the past, and I never planned for the future. My only wish is to be buried next to my father when I die, to be buried in the city of Alterac......

"But it's different now, Mr. Mooch, you saved my life. Gave me more life and time, and I was thinking maybe I could have more. Like my ancestors, I became a nobleman who was admired by the world, not a thief leader whom everyone spurned. ”

The wind and snow became more and more wild, and the little duke, standing on the top of the mountain, danced and told his thoughts, like a young eagle eager to try, his eyes were full of yearning for the sky.

"So, I made a crazy decision - I want to restore the kingdom of Alterac!"

The little duke's eyes burned with fire, his chest rose and fell violently, and the thin and thin boy stood on the top of a small mountain, but he was as confident as the king of the world.

"Mr. Mochi, Miss Anvina, would you like to help me?"

Mo Qi sneered and said, "Why the hell should I help you!" Young man, your lines are too middle two! ”

Seeing Mochi's mouth, the little duke looked at Anvina expectantly and waited for her to translate.

Anvena frowned, her severe mental cleanliness made it impossible for her to accept any swear words, so she translated Mochi's words into, "Young Duke, why do you think we should help you." ”

"Hey, hey, hey! If you translate my words like this, the meaning will be completely different! Mochi protested.

"From the first time I saw you, I knew that these two must not be ordinary fishmen. So I have a gift for you. The little duke took out a glowing thing from the delicate cloth bag.

"Artifact fragments?!"

Seeing the things in the little duke's hand, Mo Qi's first reaction was to check the package, and found that the artifact fragment was still lying quietly in the package, and the fragment in the little duke's hand was another piece.

"This is what my father took from Aiden-Pirenod. Although its origin is not very glamorous, it is indeed a genuine artifact fragment. I knew that Mr. Murch had the exact same thing there, so I guessed that Mr. Murch would not miss another fragment. The little duke said with a smile.

"What a precocious child." Mochi also used to treat him as a child, and really underestimated him. This young bandit leader is no worse than an adult in terms of insight into people's hearts.

"Mr. Mooch, I think I can do better than my father and Aiden Pirenod. I'll pay you more when we reclaim the castle, and I'll make you chief magician when the nation is founded. Well, Mr. Mooch will grant my request! The little duke looked at Mochi with burning eyes.

At a young age, they will write blank checks, and such a person must be terrible when he grows up. Mo Qi sighed, and at the same time, he received a cold prompt from the system-

"You triggered the quest [Little Duke's Ambition], do you accept it?"

It's nice to be young...... Mo Qi sighed with emotion that since graduating from junior high school, Mo Qi has never had the boyhood dream of "conquering the world and dominating the country". Moqi still remembers the promise of the second year of his life - it was in the second year of junior high school, and Moqi had just walked out of the Internet café with his best buddy. Young people at that age always love to imagine the future, and they will always be on their lips at every turn, and some more upright teenagers will engrave the name of their favorite girl on their arms...... I don't know how embarrassed the expression on their faces is when they see the scar on their arm after all these years......

Mochi and his best buddy once promised each other in a barbecue restaurant that when they grow up, they will definitely make a career in the big city, become a business elite, drive the best sports car and marry the girl they love the most at the time. (I can't imagine the barbecue restaurant owner's face when he heard the Form 2 vows of two junior high school students.) ）

Many years later, Mo Qi and his buddies failed to become business elites, Mo Qi could not leave the laboratory several times a year, his iron buddies worked as clerks in large companies introduced by his parents, and the girl who was regarded as a goddess of heaven was also unknown in college.

This story tells us that it is not enough for young people to have a secondary two soul, but also to have a practical long-term plan and a more visionary aesthetic.

Therefore, when he heard the vision of the little duke, Mochi did not pay attention to it at all. Mochi had his own plans in mind, and when he found Akalin, he asked Akalin to steal the artifact fragments from the little duke.

At this moment, he never imagined that the high-five alliance between him and the little duke would completely change the direction of history, and he never imagined that everything that happened that night would be called the "Snowy Night Alliance" by later generations.

In the famous historical work "The Legend of the Fishman Emperor" in later generations, there is a special record of this-

Black Gate 33 years, autumn.

The king and the Duke of Facu-Rest, Jr., will meet at Steinbrad.

It's night, and the Alterac Mountains are snowy and the mountains are reckless.

The king and the duke stand on the north peak.

The Duke of Faku-Rest said: When the heroes of the world are only you and me, he will collect these rivers and mountains in the hands of the two of us, although Ai Xing can let you and me gallop, isn't it beautiful?

Wang said: Ahhhh