Chapter 22: Every Second Counts (1 Update)

"Hero's mound?" Chu Fei didn't know why this place could surprise Ali so much.

Ali knew that there was nothing to hide from them now, and confessed: "The Hero's Tomb is the tomb of the demon slayer hero Hagros, a forbidden place where no one dares to trespass. Most importantly, it's in the deep sea outside Winterfell! ”

"Nautical?!"

Chu Fei suspected that he had misheard, if this was true, how would they have to enter this place.

"No wonder the legend says that you must have a key to open a qiΔ“ and ten thousand catties of gold to enter the treasure house of the thief god, it turns out that these two conditions are indispensable." Ali muttered in distress.

Chu Fei understood the meaning of his words, and understood that the meaning of this sentence was that only the key of the thief god could open the treasure house, and to get close to this treasure house, he had to use ten thousand catties of gold as a load, so that he could sink to such a deep place!

"Now that Lorne hasn't gotten the Golden Gauntlet, he can't immediately move over to it, and he's most likely going to Winterfell on horseback."

Chu Fei speculated that they should still be in time based on the fact that Lorne had already set off. What's more, now that Lorne has a lot of gold, silver and jewels on him, with him not having his inventory to carry around, the speed of the trip must be very slow, so they still have a chance to catch up.

"Yes!"

Ali gritted his teeth and affirmed that he was right.

He said to Vetov: "Find Little Mass at once, and ask him to prepare a clipper, and we will chase him by water, and go directly to Winterfell." ”

"Okay!" Vertov agreed, and immediately left Lorne's mansion through the secret passage to arrange the matter.

"Do you know where the treasure trove is?" Kura asked him curiously, asking Ali how he seemed to know where the treasury was.

Ali replied to her with a smile, "I don't know exactly where the treasure trove is, but I do know where the entrance to the Hero's Grave is." ”

Ali spoke with a look of remembrance, as if he was recalling something that had gone away.

Chu Fei already knew that Ali was a person with a story, and he never thought that Qiu Li, the proprietress of the Wild Fox Tavern that he was in contact with every day, was actually a member of the Thieves Guild, and an important member, nicknamed "Wild Fox".

From the fact that he accidentally saw Qiu Li talking to a portrait of a man in her room and pouring out her thoughts, the man on the portrait she took was likely to be the former president of the Thieves Guild, that is, Qiu Li and the former president of the Thieves Guild were a couple and maybe even a husband and wife!

So he instantly believed Ali and knew that he was genuinely thinking about the Thieves' Guild.

……

Ali also led them out of Lorne's mansion and to the riverside docks in Morninglight to find the clipper they were going to prepare.

Kula was the most comfortable, and let Chu Fei carry him from beginning to end.

also because she went to the Wild Fox Tavern before coming to the dock, and asked Qiu Li to help her take a bath, change into clean clothes, and repair her hair, so that she immediately showed that she was only a little worse than Qin Yin, and the similarity between the two reached more than 50%.

I also heard her suddenly ask: "Listen to Sister Qiuli, you are looking for a woman with black hair and black eyes." ”

"Hmm."

Maybe because she has brown hair and eyes, and the female instinct is vigilant, she may be used by Chu Fei as a substitute for another person, and she is very concerned about this matter.

"What are you looking for her for?"

Kula asked him very warily, even she didn't know that what she was doing was called jealousy.

"Ask her something." Chu Fei replied to her casually, and because his attention was on Lorne's side, he didn't notice the strange sour taste in her current tone, and told her very casually: "A thing that only she knows." ”

I remembered that he came here to track down the whereabouts of the female swordsman, but unfortunately nothing has been found until now.

"I see." Kula breathed a sigh of relief inexplicably, probably experiencing a fairytale heroic rescue plot, which made her unconsciously have a feeling that she was not familiar with. Hearing him answer like this, it didn't matter if it was true or not, but he was inexplicably relieved, knowing that it wasn't her nervous fiancΓ©e or something, and he also thought about it and replied to him: "If it's such a strange-looking woman, I saw it four days ago." ”

She answered him very carelessly, wanting to help him as much as she could.

"Really!" Chu Fei immediately stopped and looked at her excitedly, not expecting that the clue he wanted was by his side.

"Why are you so excited?" Kura was frightened by his excited appearance, and was a little dissatisfied with him, still suspecting that he had a relationship with the woman that she didn't want to see.

"Because ......" Chu Fei couldn't say why, because he told her the real reason, and she would definitely not believe it. But only he knew that this woman was very important to him, related to a big secret of this world, and related to many questions he wanted to understand now!

"I don't want to say it." Kula looked at him and mistook him for not wanting to speak, and recalled: "I saw her at the market, and I saw her asking for directions." I noticed her black eyes and black hair and thought she was a dark elf, which was very strange, but then I found out that she was a human and held a strange-looking sword, so I couldn't help but look at her twice. But I haven't seen it since, so I should have left here. ”

"Four days ago?" Chu Fei calculated, and suddenly became even more annoyed with the coachman, and came to the conclusion that it wasn't for the damn coachman who caused him to arrive in Chenguang Town a whole week late, maybe they might have met. The woman had apparently been somewhere else before coming to Morninglight, and had delayed her arrival here a little.

"What did she ask?" Chu Fei asked her anxiously, knowing that she was now his most critical clue. is also glad that he rescued her, otherwise this secret will probably be buried forever, and he will never know where this female swordsman has gone for a long time.

"Seems to mention Sifu? Masf? It didn't seem right......" Kura struggled to help him remember, because she had only been so obsessed with the woman's appearance that she hadn't really paid attention to what she was doing. So the impression now is not too deep.

"Mares?" Chu Fei boldly said where Milak was going, and tried to see if it was here.

"Mares? Right! She seemed to be asking where Mares should go! Kula immediately shouted excitedly, remembering what the strange woman had said when she asked for directions.

Chu Fei was surprised, surprised that things were too coincidental, he tried it casually.

However, he also knew that he could not go to Mares to chase her again, because he knew that Mares was a month's journey away from Morninglight. Even if he chased after him now, it would be difficult for him to catch up with the other party's four-day journey. What's more, the other party can't rule out that it may be asking in that direction, not necessarily really going to Mares.

"Why do you look disappointed?" Kula was keenly aware that he was not too happy with the news he had received, but rather a little disappointed.

Chu Fei lifted her to make her more comfortable on his chest, and also found that she was quite heavy, and smiled at her: "Because I know that I can't go now." ”

It was already known from the coachman that the road to Mares was without a carriage route, and he had to rely on his own strength to cross it. And because of the rampant bandits along the way, it is even more necessary to cross the territory of the Great Elf Clan, and the crisis of this road is not much weaker than the difficulty of him preparing to cultivate his strength to the Dark Elf Clan to retrieve the sound of the qin. With his current strength and unfamiliarity with the route, he would only die if he forcibly caught up now.

"That's right." Kula leaned her face against his chest, knowing she still hadn't helped him. also opened her eyes and stared at the river outside the dock in front of her, looking at the bright moon reflected on the river, and found that her current strength was just the sparkling waves next to the bright moon, very weak. I have never been so eager to get better soon, so that I can use my strength to help the person next to me.

"Found Lorne, who actually used our money to buy the best eight horses and go to Winterfell as fast as he could." Ali apparently used the intelligence network of their Thieves' Guild to find Lorne, and came over to tell him the news through gritted teeth.

"Where is he now?" Chu Fei only cared about whether they had time or not.

"Frogs, at his current pace, he can reach the Hero's Grave by midnight tonight at the latest." Ali told him bad news, announcing that they were a little too late.