Act 155 Resurgence I.
"I have my own way." Brando replied that he would not reveal such a secret as the passing pointer. Now that the petrified fog that this big bug is the only bit of a threat has been sealed, and he can't compete in strength, the fanatic talent will last for a while, so it is no problem to stalemate for fifteen minutes. He was now starting to be a little glad that the battlefield was not on the ground, the frost fangs shook the ground, and the skills of rolling could not be used at all under the ice, otherwise he wouldn't have to struggle, just wait to die.
Noticing that Anlek was still a little uneasy, he added: "Don't worry, if I wanted to kill you, I would have killed you a long time ago, and the crimes you committed in Ampesel were enough for you to die ten thousand times." But since I didn't kill you just now, I won't deal with you now until I find a way to get your ring ring. This is an open secret between the two, Brando simply mentioned it bluntly, Anlek smiled coldly when he heard it, and did not answer, but Brando knew that this guy was obviously unwilling and was looking for a way out.
With this sentence, Anlek finally settled down a lot, at least Brando didn't have to worry about this guy suddenly having some thoughts of ending up together.
The rest of the time was a boring stalemate, Anlek thickened the ice over and over again, and the ice wall technique almost formed a huge ice lump in the throat of the frost eater's fang, but fortunately this thing didn't need lungs to breathe, otherwise it would probably be the first boss to die of suffocation. But Rao is so, Brando's storage zài still makes it feel very uncomfortable, and at first this thing jumped up and down for a while, about ten minutes, before it finally quieted down, as if it had exhausted its body, anyway, it was motionless, but Brando could still feel the temperature of this thing. Knowing it's not dead yet.
Whether they were playing dead or really exhausted, he didn't know, but it was at least a good sign that the thing was temporarily settled, and as long as there were a few minutes left, they could get out as planned.
Brando didn't know where Kouhua had dug up. But in a quarter of an hour, it's enough to dig up a distance of several hundred meters. The Frost Devourer Giant Worm has no intelligence, as long as it doesn't make a sound, it's unlikely that it will catch up, and Brando can only be glad that this thing doesn't rely on smell but by hearing, otherwise he would be able to catch up with this thing even if he ran ten miles away.
But just as he was slacking off a little, he suddenly felt himself restrain the big dick and shake it, and then raised his head slightly.
"What is this for?" Brando was stunned.
He felt the Frost Eater Fang shrink back. Is it to escape? But instinct sues sù he doesn't quite resemble. He was wondering, but he didn't expect that after the frost devouring fangs retreated slightly, he suddenly rushed forward, this time he didn't even react to An Lik in front, and was directly knocked to the side, if he hadn't reacted quickly, he would have been crushed into a meatloaf by this giant beast. Anlek wasn't crushed into a patty, but Brando, who was stuck in his mouthparts, was unlucky. At this point, Brando finally understood what this thing was trying to do.
It's going crazy!
I don't know if it's because of a toothpick stuck in the mouth that makes it unbearable, or because it's because a piece of ice is stuffed in the throat that makes it too uncomfortable. Anyway, after a short silence, the boss went completely berserk. It slammed directly into the ice wall in front of it, smashing huge holes in the wall and speeding through the underground glacier, which was nothing more than instinct for Frost Fang, but it was miserable for Brando. The monster led him into wall after wall of ice, and even with Brando's physique, he was almost vomiting blood.
Brando's eyes were full of stars, and he thought to himself that this script shouldn't be played out like this, he had the intention to activate the passing pointer at this moment. But there is no more way. First of all, he didn't dare to move his hands at all, otherwise the big worm would bite off, and he would have to go to see Master Martha. But if he didn't move, even he didn't know where he would be taken.
He only felt that he was shuttling through the dark underground, but he didn't know how far he had walked, anyway, his back had been numb from the collision, and suddenly, his back was empty, and only the sound of the whirring wind was left in his ears. Brando instinctively felt that they should have penetrated the confines of the underground glacier, and he looked back to look around, but it was good that he didn't look at it, and he almost lost his soul when he saw it.
This thing actually led him straight out of a cliff, and outside was an abyss, which looked even more outrageous than the abyss below the Spiral Hall, and the darkness below was almost endless, as if it could lead directly to the river of brimstone.
"Stop!" Brando shouted wildly, and now he finally couldn't care about anything, and hurriedly let go of the sword in his hand, and went to take the passing pointer hanging on his chest with his backhand.
And in that moment, Frost Eater's Fang let out a wail, and most of his body rushed out of the cliff, like a derailed train, and fell into the abyss with Brando. It wasn't until this time that Brando finally touched the dial, "Give me a boot!" He shouted wildly in his heart, and there was a crisp click, and Brando felt as if it was a flowing ripple that spread out in all directions centered on him, and then for a moment, the whole world slowed down in his eyes.
He saw that he and the Frost Eater Fang were still falling, but the rate of their fall was negligible, the large worm seemed to be half-hanging in the air, and the large hole it had drilled out of the cliff was only a stone's throw away.
"Saved!"
Brando shouted in his heart, and he hurriedly drew the Sword of Earth, crawled out from under the terrifying mouthparts of the Frost Fang, and then climbed up his long body from east to west, trying to return to the cliff.
But it was at this time that he suddenly felt that something was wrong.
As if a ghost had sent him to something, he turned his head back—
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Half an hour ago, on the other side of the dark underground world, the mountain girl blinked her eyes and woke up, she stayed in the dark for a long time before she remembered what happened before she fell unconscious, and quickly struggled to sit up. It was dark all around, and the girl was quiet and strong in front of Brando, but now she was groping on the ground in a panic, and finally caught a long strip of cloth wrapped in cloth, and she divided it by two, and then checked the contents with her hand in the darkness - it was a halberd - but Akane seemed to have recovered some rare treasure. A long sigh of relief.
She sat for a while with her halberd in her hand, as if she was not used to the situation, but her vision finally settled into the darkness, and she could gradually discern her surroundings by the faint light that came through the glacier. As far as the eye could see, it was very different from what Brando had seen when he woke up, and it was the bottom of a long crevin in the ice underground. At its widest point, there were as many as seven or eight people in parallel, and from a distance it looked like a canyon, but the canyon gradually extended into darkness until it disappeared into view.
Akane waited for a while, but before anyone else appeared, she stood up a little frightened and called softly: "Lord Lord......"
"Lord Lord......"
Echoes reverberated along the ice walls, echoing through the valley like ghosts.
The mountain girl's face turned pale, and she pursed her lips. She watched as the little prince and Métisa fell out of front of her and disappeared into the abyss below, and then the whole hall fell apart, as if she had fallen along with the broken bridge, and then she was unconscious. Now her chest seems to be piercing, and she must have broken a few ribs, but fortunately, she is a mercenary. This little injury didn't make her shed tears, but she herself was lucky to survive. But I don't know if the lord is safe.
The thought of this made her tremble with fear, and the mountain maiden looked around to the left and right, hoping to find Brando near the left, but she was afraid to see a cold corpse. After searching for a while with this ambivalence, Akane suddenly noticed that there was a pair of feet buried under the ice not far away. The discovery almost suffocated her, but when she looked closer, she was relieved that it was the Cruz military boots, and they were the corpses of the Cruz nobles who were near her at the time.
She took a soft breath. He began to follow the ice and snow that had fallen from above, and soon found that the snowdrifts were littered with the corpses of Cruz nobles, some of whom had been completely crushed by the ice, and their bodies and limbs took on a strange posture. But these things can't bring the slightest fluctuation to Akane's heart, she sat between these strange-shaped corpses with an expressionless face, her expression became more and more relieved, and finally confirmed that none of them were familiar to her, and couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.
But then she showed a look of amazement, where is the lord? Ever since Brando took her in, she had never left Brando, but this time, as if she couldn't see the tall and generous back, she felt like she had no master. Akane touched her heart, her heart empty, but even she didn't understand what was going on.
And just as she was aimlessly moving along the crevice in the ice, a weak moan suddenly came from the broken ice, which startled her a lot; She paused, listened carefully, and finally made sure that the sound was coming from beneath the ice, and she hesitated, she was very sensitive to the sound, and it was certainly not the lord's, nor the person she was familiar with. However, the mountain girl thought about it for a while, and still peeled the ice open, and found that there was indeed a young man wearing a Cruz military uniform buried underneath.
Akane glanced at the gold thread on the other party's neckline, and recognized that the young man was still a viscount, she naturally did not know this knowledge, but following Antitina and Brando, she was familiar with it, and gradually gained some knowledge. Like such a young viscount, most of them are descendants of a large family, not to mention that most of the people who can accompany Veronica have some identity and background in the Cruz Empire, the empire is still martial, and the big family likes to send their children to the army to gild, even the royal family is no exception, these things are still told to her by Brando as a story.
Thinking of Brando, the girl's eyes also warmed a lot.
The young man's face turned purple from the cold, and if an ordinary person was like this, he would have died long ago, but this group of noble officers who traveled with Veronica at least had the strength to go up to gold, so they quickly recovered, and a trace of blood gradually appeared on their blue and purple faces. The young man sat for a while before he regained his breath, and when he opened his eyes, they were as blue as shallow seas, typical of Cruz, and of the same bloodline as Faina, and worthy of envy in the Empire.
But unfortunately it didn't mean anything to Akane, she glanced at the other party, pondered for a moment, and asked, "Can you walk by yourself?" Akane seemed to remember that she hadn't taken the initiative to say such a long sentence for a long time, and even her voice became a little dry, which she wasn't like when she was in the Gray Wolf Mercenary Regiment before. But the Macaro incident hit her too hard.
The young man nodded, and replied with some gratitude, "I can't thank you enough for saving my life." He staggered to his feet from the ground, thinking that this beautiful lady would come up and help him, but he didn't expect that the mountain girl was really like a puppeteer, and looked at him unceremoniously. He couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed. But he introduced himself anyway, "My name is Baban, and I'm—"
Unfortunately, before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Akane turning around, and he finally realized that the other party didn't seem to want to talk to him more, so he hurriedly stopped her and said, "Please wait." ”
Akane stopped and looked back at him, but her eyes were full of wariness, as if the words 'something, I'm going to leave if it's okay'.
Babaan smiled bitterly and shook his head: "I'm definitely not the only survivor under the ice. May I ask the young lady if you can do me a favor and get them out. Or at least help me get the bodies of my colleagues out, I can't let them go into the wilderness. ”
Akane shook her head directly.
Ba Ba N swallowed, feeling that it was too difficult to deal with this lady, but somehow, he felt that such a mountain girl was more real. He is the heir of a large family, and he has seen those so-called celebrities of high society, but in fact, it is nothing more than that. On the contrary, when facing Akane, he felt his heart skip a beat without hesitation. He scratched at his hair. I thought to myself that I am not a hairy boy anymore, what is wrong today.
However, this hesitation was only for a moment, and Babaan paused for a moment, and immediately replied, "This young lady, you are also looking for companions, forgive me for taking the liberty of it." I mean, in case they're locked under the ice just like the next, and they're in need of your help right now. ”
Akane was slightly stunned when she heard Ba Baan say this, she showed hesitation, but finally nodded.
She wasn't afraid of Brando being sealed underneath. Such a thin layer of broken ice can't seal the lord at all, but she is worried about His Royal Highness the little prince, Brando entrusted Haruzer to her and Medisa to take care of, and now that the little prince is missing, the responsibility lies with her.
So the two began to search and rescue along the ice gap, and within twenty minutes, seven or eight people were rescued one after another, but more were corpses, and the corpses of the Cruz people were placed in a long way, and they were lined up at the bottom of the valley in turn. At first, Ba Ba En was still in the mood to be courteous by Akane's side, but later, he gradually changed his face, you must know that most of these people are nobles with origins, and they actually died here, and this time the responsibility cannot be put on Veronica's head, because they are the military observation group of the Empire, to put it bluntly, they are here to supervise Veronica, if the Knights of the Broken Sword lose a seven-seven-eighty-eight here, they will probably gloat, but until Babaan digs up the corpse of the last Cruz man from under the ice, He looked a little pale at the surviving leader, who was already dead-faced.
In this pile of corpses, everyone else is fine, but there are two people who are the heirs of the Cecil family, which is a bit of a big problem. Originally, everyone knew that the Cecil family and the Eshirico family were mortal enemies in the Empire, and these two people had seized Veronica's handle in the Ring of Trade Winds to grab the pigtails of the female army leader, and they thought that this was a pleasant trip - and it was also the case that the Empire's military observation team never went to the front line, and under normal circumstances, there would be no danger. Who knew that this time Veronica was determined to enter the Hibernation Temple, of course, they could have stayed outside, but these two guys were also confused, and they had to encourage others to follow suit, wanting to see what kind of tricks Veronica had.
Of course, they suspected that Veronica had some kind of collusion with that Toniger, which was a tacit secret within the Observation Mission, and people like Babaan were unwilling to participate in the struggle between the Cecil family and the Eshiric family, but they also did not want to offend the heirs of the two large families, and everyone followed with the acquiescence of the person in charge. The most important thing is that Prince Lenarat did not object, which is tantamount to a kind of acquiescence.
But now the question is, they don't know if Veronica has a conspiracy, but the two heirs of the Cecil family died by accident, and it would be better if only one died, and now it is impossible to say whatever.
Thinking about this clearly, everyone, including Babaan, couldn't help but sit down next to this large pile of corpses in a bit of frustration, unable to find any way. If nothing else, they will definitely be retaliated against by the Cecil family, these big families will not be reasonable, Babaan is okay, his family is enough to keep him out of this maelstrom, but the rest of the people are not so lucky.
But there is one exception to these people.
That's Akane.
The mountain girl didn't know the intrigue between these nobles at all, she couldn't say whether it was lucky or unlucky, none of the people who were rescued or dug up did she knew, the little prince, Medisa and Miss Aloz all seemed to have disappeared, which made her both lost and happy, and the loss was that a person did not know what to do, and fortunately at least she did not see their cold corpses.
As for the Cruz nobles who sighed, what did that have to do with her, she didn't even look at those people, she walked away with her azure spear in her arms, she knew that Brando didn't like the Cruz, and she instinctively stayed away from these high-spirited Cruz nobles.
Anyway, the lord must have a point.
The mountain girl's mind is simple.
It's just that she didn't know that as soon as she walked away, she attracted the attention of those Cruz.
"Who's that little girl?" Someone among the aristocrats who sighed suddenly asked.
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(PS: On the fifth day, continue to ask for votes~) (To be continued......)