"Adjutant Jane's homework is very sufficient~" Yang Shou smiled and nodded approvingly. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"You are a genius that Miss values, and you can't be sloppy in protecting you." Jane put away the map, still looking like no one was close.

"Thank you anyway,"

Yang Shou didn't think it was wrong, and said politely: "However, my route to the Twilight Valley, I think we can change it a little." ”

Seeing Jian's puzzled gaze, Yang Shou pointed to a certain location on the map and explained: "My grandfather once came here, and his old man said that from this position down to the bottom of the canyon, we can find a natural cave, from which we can directly cross the rift. Compared to walking around the ground to the other side, it can save at least 6 hours. ”

"Your grandfather even told you about this kind of thing?" Jane couldn't help frowning, and the tone of her voice was obviously not very convinced of Yang Shou.

Seeing this, Yang Shou coughed a little unnaturally, and said with a smile: "What's this...... You know, people love to nag when they're old, and my ears are almost callousing when he takes risks. I remember this very well, absolutely yes, don't worry~"

Jane was a little skeptical.

The terrain in the wasteland is intricate, and following the normal route does take time. But if Yang Shou's intelligence is wrong, it may take the two of them twice as long to reach the Twilight Valley, and then they will definitely miss the rendezvous with the large army.

But...... Yang Shou's performance in the past few days has surprised everyone, and before leaving, Caroline's sister also instructed that she could discuss with Yang Shou more in case of trouble, he has the most ghost ideas.

Thinking of this, Jane decided to believe Yang Shou once.

Seeing that the girl nodded, Yang Shou also breathed a sigh of relief, in case the other party refused to believe him, it would be really a bit troublesome~

……

Jane followed Yang Shou and ran forward on the ravine-strewn ground.

Yang Shou in front of him didn't seem to need to look at the map at all, his footsteps didn't stop at all, he climbed a mountain, and he could immediately find the direction of his next head. Occasionally look up at the terrain and determine the current position of the two without thinking.

Maybe his grandfather once showed him a topographical map of the place?

What level of soldier is that he is qualified to keep the map as a personal collection, and what kind of memory can he remember the details he saw when he was a child so clearly?

In Jane's opinion, and even in Caroline's opinion, Yang Shoudu is becoming more and more mysterious. The closer you get to him, the more you feel that he is unfathomable and elusive, and there are always one mystery after another in Yang Shou waiting to be explored.

Staring at Yang Shou's back, Jane was a little distracted.

Lightning flashes, thunder rolls,

Thin strands of rain floated down from the sky and fell on the face. As far as the eye can see, you can see a mist under the clouds in the north, presumably there is already a torrential rain.

"Carefully on the ground,"

Yang Shou turned around and reminded Jian: "When the ground is wet, many dormant poisonous insects will crawl out to feed, and stay away from the grass. ”

Jane looked away unnaturally and nodded in understanding.

He hadn't noticed his gaze just now, had he?

"This is it,"

Soon, Yang Shou stood on the edge of a cliff, looked around, and said firmly: "That passage is below here, we have to find a place to go down." ”

"Abseiling?" Jane asked, looking around for something that could be fixed.

"Well, Adjutant Jane, work hard~ Tie it strongly, I don't want to do a free fall at a height of more than thirty meters~" Yang Shou laughed and walked to the side with his own thoughts.

Jane didn't speak, looked around, and quickly settled on a huge rock.

After taking a closer look and making sure that the rock could carry the weight of two people, Jane took the rope out of her backpack and expertly tied a knot at the lower end of the stone.

turned around, and was about to ask Yang Shou to come over, but found that the open space behind him was empty, and Yang Shou had disappeared!

"Yang Shou?" Jane's heart tightened, and she subconsciously held the hilt of the sword, frowning and shouting.

There was only the sound of the whirring wind in my ears, but after a moment of silence, there was a strange cry of "squeak~" from the dead grass in the distance, and the grass shook.

Jane was about to draw her sword, but found a wide-brimmed hat rising from the grass, which turned out to be Yang Shou.

There was a hidden cave in the grass, and Yang Shou had just gotten into it, and two animal cubs had been picked up in his arms, one left and one right.

"Do you recognize this?"

Yang Shou walked over, looked very happy, showed Jane the cub in his arms, and said with a smile: "The cub of the giant hyena should have been born less than half a month ago. ”

The two cubs look exactly the same, a bit like a domestic dog, but much stronger. The huge head has black stripes, a very short nose, and a round nose with big dripping eyes.

Jane had never seen a giant hyena, but she had heard of this beast of prey in the wasteland. Adult giant hyenas reach a body length of 3 meters, are accustomed to group predation, and have a fierce personality, and can hunt large prey of the size of a toothless elephant in a group of more than ten hyenas.

"You don't want to steal these cubs, do you?"

Jian frowned, looked at Yang Shou and said, "Don't tell me you still have a talent for druids, if we find out with a pack of cub hyenas, they will go crazy." ”

Druids have a talent for taming animal companions, and if they can raise an animal from an early age, its strength is far greater than that of ordinary animal companions, so Jane asked.

"Of course not~"

Yang Shou shook his head, teasing the two hyena cubs while laughing: "Adjutant Jane, do you think that after we leave the army, someone will chase and kill us later?" ”

Yang Shou's thinking jumped too fast, Jian was stunned for a moment, and replied, "If nothing else...... There should be. ”

"Clever~"

Yang Shou turned around and walked back, motioned for Jane to follow, and continued: "When they catch up and find that there is a rope tied to this big stone, won't you be able to see at a glance that we are going down from here?" So we had to find a way to make it impossible for them to see it. ”

As he spoke, Yang Shou had already walked some distance and put the two giant hyena cubs on the ground.

The cubs who left the nest began to scream instinctively and desperately, and the sound of "squeak~squeak~" was incessant, and it was spread far away by the wild wind.

Jane somewhat understood Yang Shou's intentions, and couldn't help but be surprised by Yang Shou's quick reaction: he must have just gotten into the hyena den by accident, could it be that he thought of this method in just a few seconds?

Giant hyenas are very protective of their offspring and will definitely rush back as soon as they hear their cubs' cries for help, and it is likely that they will leave the adult hyenas to guard their dens.

In this way, the giant hyena pack can temporarily block the trackers behind them, buying time for Yang Shou and Jane.

"Hey, what's going on~Hurry up~"

Jane heard Yang Shou's shout, turned her head and realized that Yang Shou had run back at some point, standing on the edge of the cliff and waving at herself.

"Hmph, you're clever."

Jian pursed her lips and snorted softly, but her expression quickly returned to normal, and she trotted towards Yang Shou.

……

The bottom of the canyon.

The large army set off slowly, and in the corner where no one was paying attention, Adjutant Liu quietly left the team with four men in black.

After a few hundred meters behind the team, several people approached the cliff, quickly found a gentle slope suitable for climbing, and skillfully climbed to the top of the cliff.

"The two of them just left, so they hurried up to catch up and killed them when they saw it!" Adjutant Liu turned around and ordered, his tone fierce.

The four people who followed Adjutant Liu were all masters with strong physiques and neat skills. These people have been on the battlefield for a long time, and they usually stay by Viscount Thomas's side as a guard, and in terms of strength, they are even stronger than ordinary personal guards.

Hearing Adjutant Liu's words, the four of them leaned over to obey the order and followed Adjutant Liu to the east.

Adjutant Liu has an inexplicable hatred for Yang Shou.

He was also born in poverty, crawled in the army, and lived a life of licking blood from the knife edge, and later I don't know how much effort and hard work he had to endure to climb to his current position.

Yang Shou is an ordinary pariah, with such an arrogant attitude, he doesn't even care about Viscount Thomas! That's it, but how could he be inexplicably appreciated by Lord Caroline?

Lord Caroline is the idol of every soldier, every time she fights, she takes the lead, sympathizes with her subordinates, and the key is that she is like an elf, and her approachable personality, it is not an exaggeration to say that she is a saint in the hearts of soldiers.

Viscount Thomas intended to pursue Caroline, and Adjutant Liu knew about it.

In his heart, he is not worthy of the icy and jade Caroline, if Caroline can marry Thomas and watch his lord love her every day, Adjutant Liu will also have an inexplicable perverted pleasure in his heart.

But seeing that Yang Shou talking to Lord Caroline, Adjutant Liu must not accept it!

Moreover, at Yang Shou's age, Adjutant Liu was at the height of Yang Shou, when his status was the lowest, and he tried his best to flatter him, so he stood out among ordinary soldiers.

Seeing that Yang Shou was so young, he relied on his own ability to mix in the barracks, and Adjutant Liu's heart was extremely unbalanced. So much so that every time he saw Yang Shou, Adjutant Liu would have an indescribable hatred in his heart, and he would be so jealous!

But now, thinking that he would soon be able to kill this untouchable man with his own hands, Adjutant Liu's heart would be filled with pleasure.

What I can't get, Yang Shou, who is also a pariah, don't want to get involved!

Several people hurried quickly at the expense of physical strength, and the time quickly came to an hour later.

In the vast wilderness, as far as the eye can see, there are dead grass fluttering in the wind.

Occasionally, a foraging hare ran by, looked at five tired and panting humans in confusion, chewed on the blades of grass in their mouths, and disappeared into the grass.

After searching in the wilderness for an hour, Adjutant Liu was tired and sweaty, but he didn't even see the shadow of Yang Shou and the others.

At this time, looking back at the road he came, Adjutant Liu's heart became more and more bottomless, and two words were written on his face: wonder.

Where did these two guys go?

From that position to the Twilight Valley, there is only one way to go, unless Yang Shou doesn't care about military law, he doesn't want to get there on time at all, and he runs away halfway.

Impossible.

Adjutant Liu quickly denied this speculation, and with Adjutant Jian following, that Yang Shou would never be bold to such a point.

"Huh~Huh~ My lord, did we miss them halfway?"

One of his subordinates came over, panted, wiped the sweat from his face, and said, "Adjutant Jian took that Yang Shou, and the speed of the journey was definitely not so fast." ”

This is the most likely speculation.

Adjutant Liu nodded and waved his big hand: "Don't think about it, first spread out and search around, so that they don't hide, and then look back!" ”

Several people took their own orders and quickly scattered in all directions.

The wilderness was empty, the sparse grass was knee-high, and there were few places to hide. Several of them were very experienced, and after a quick search in the grass, they searched for the surrounding rift.

"Roar!"

Suddenly, there was a low roar not far away, and several people tightened their scalps and subconsciously turned their heads to look.

More than a dozen giant hyenas lay on their stomachs in the grass, slowly poking their heads out, their animalistic eyes making people shudder.

Seeing a few humans in front of them, the hyenas seemed to be very angry, pouted, showed their sharp teeth, and directly assumed an attack posture. Several people subconsciously held their weapons, and slowly retreated while lowering their bodies, trying not to provoke each other.

Adjutant Liu was depressed at this time, and thought of hatred in his heart: Damn, why are these giant hyenas so manic, they usually walk around when they see heavily armed humans!