32.Chapter 32: The Scorpion King (1)
Seeing that Sally seemed to want to say something, Roddy also felt that he could ask her about the Russifron family, and after thinking about it, he threw out a rather tempting condition and said, "Why don't you talk about your own experience?" Since you are curious... I'll say as much as you say, it's an exchange, how about it?"
Sally was a little surprised that Roddy would suddenly make such a request, thought about it, nodded very happily and said, "Okay, then I'll talk about it first." ”
"The Rusiflon family - how to put it, the territory of the family is very large, the lord, and even the royal family are afraid of their father's power, and the territory is from..."
Most of what the girl said was something that Roddy had in her head for a long time, and it was just confirmed at this time, but when Sally mentioned her father, Roddy still pricked up her ears - "My brother was confident about inheriting the title, but my father seems to have sensed something, and after falling ill a few years ago, he began to distance himself from the two of us, and until now, he has not even mentioned anything about the succession to the outside world, perhaps because of this incident, Francis is now going to kill me..."
Speaking of this, her mood was a little low, but she was obviously more curious about Roddy's background, she hugged her knees and asked softly, "So... It's your turn, Captain Roddy. ”
"I?heh..." A helpless smile pulled up at the corner of his mouth, Luo Di pondered how to describe his life experience, and after thinking for a while, he replied, "How old do you think I am?"
"You?nineteen?twenty?twenty-two?at most, right?" Sally glanced at Roddy seriously, because of various battle reasons before, she had not carefully observed the young man in front of her, and at this time she stared carefully, but she felt that she seemed to have forgotten to be reserved, and her eyes quickly moved away, but her heart was beating faster for no reason.
Speaking of which, this guy is still a little handsome...
"Well, to tell you the truth, I'm thirty-two years old this Chinese New Year's Eve. Roddy spread his hands, "My appearance is set at nineteen years old because of a certain wizard's curse, in fact, I have participated in wars, adventures in this world for seven years, and finally want to settle down, so I found such an errand to do, I didn't expect the scouts to be unstable..."
The words were full of sighs and sighs, and Roddy's casual words really frightened Sally for a while, making the duke's daughter's mouth open into an "O" shape and stunned for a long time.
"Why?
Luo Di raised his eyebrows, shook his head with a compassionate expression, and said: "Actually, this is the first time I've said this, and it's normal not to believe it..."
"Luo ...... Roddy, that-" Sally hesitated for a moment, and made a stupid request: "The wizard who cursed you... Can you get him to curse me too? I don't want to get old..."
Roddy's expression suddenly became cramping, and he wanted to slap himself a few times - how the fuck could he forget the allure of such a reason for a woman?
Fortunately, there is no proof of this kind of thing, and Roddy talked left and right, and talked about his "adventure experience" - in fact, it was a game experience, but those geography and humanities were also closely related to what Sally had read in books, and she believed it for a while, and she really thought that there was such a curse that made people's faces change...
However, Roddy gradually turned the topic back to Sally, preventing the girl from discussing the issue of "eternal youth".
"Didn't the Duke stop the matter between you and Francis?"
Sally opened her mouth slightly and hesitated for a moment - it stands to reason that this kind of thing involving the privacy of the family should not be said casually, but apparently at this time she thought that Roddy could be trusted, so she whispered: "Father has always been a cold observer of the battle between us. Over the years... His smile became less and less, and he locked himself in his study all day, not knowing what he was thinking. He was as cold to me and Francis as if he had never had children, that feeling. It's lonely, it's not very comfortable. ”
Roddy seemed to remember something, raised his hand and threw a piece of wood into the campfire, and in the orange light, he suddenly asked, "When did your father start to change his personality?
Sally frowned slightly, remembered for a moment, and finally replied: "Five years ago, my father used to take me and Francis to patrol the villages in the territory every summer, but since five years ago, he suddenly stopped paying attention to them. Do you know why? Have you ever heard of something like this?"
Roddy didn't seem to hear Sally's words later, just recalling in his mind the events of the sixth year after the opening of "Ripp". When the kingdom of Cullen almost completely fell apart, some documents caused an uproar among players when they pointed the finger at the undead Tasman kingdom - at that time, many evidences showed that the collapse of the kingdom of Cullen was not only due to the invasion of the orcs, but also because the undead secretly delivered an extremely insidious sword, which caused the kingdom's biggest lords to fall one after another, causing the situation to collapse...
What are the undead best at? If there is one thing to do ********, then the alchemy potions and assassins must be the first means that come to mind.
So... Is it possible that before the orcs decided to invade the kingdom of Karen, the undead had already planned to do it... Or even already in action?
Thinking of Sally's words, Roddy quickly remembered a notorious poison - "Soul Stripping Potion". This medicine is colorless and odorless, extremely difficult to detect, and after long-term use, it will make the user indifferent, and eventually completely lose his memory, and even lose the most basic thinking ability, becoming the walking dead.
This potion was discovered for the first time in history, and I have the impression that it was a great lord in the kingdom who firmly supported the rebel army, and that lord was originally very supportive of the rebel army, but then his personality suddenly became indifferent, and finally he didn't even care about his children, and then suddenly closed the door, and even didn't let the servants into the house, and finally starved to death in bed...
"Have you ever heard of the undead?"
Sally's change of subject made Sally a little uncomfortable, but she kept up with Roddy's thoughts, nodded and replied, "I've read in books that the Tasman kingdom, which is silent in the southwest of the kingdom and full of dead people... It seems that the kingdom has not been in contact with them for hundreds of years, and it is rumored that it is because they have closed off the only way to communicate with the outside world?"
"That's right, there's a country full of the living dead. ”
Roddy's gaze suddenly deepened, in the 595th year of "Ripping the Earth", the Tasman Dead Kingdom finally tore through its previous disguise, launched an invasion of the Karen Kingdom, and divided a large area of land with the orcs... The kingdom has almost disappeared from the map completely.
There isn't a good thing about the undead raised by those bitches. Roddy clenched his palms slightly, and in his memory, these undead were far more terrifying than orcs. Orcs are synonymous with madness and savagery, and as long as you're stronger than them, these guys will honestly go back to grazing. But the undead... Far from it.
The crackling of the campfire made the woodland seem more silent, and after a full day's rest, Roddy knew he needed to continue his journey - the Silent Forest was much safer at night than during the day, especially in Styro Creek, as the most time-consuming swarms of bees and mosquitoes did not appear at night, a pattern that was so different from other forests that Roddy had at least a day left to traverse the entire map.
But now he has to face the final boss of this dungeon, and only by killing it can he continue to walk the rest of the road.
"Steiro Creek" is not a brainless monster farming dungeon, and its own story is related to the indigenous "wood elves" living in the forest, who have a village in the Silent Forest, which is the main mission distribution center for the entire player who originally came to explore here. The original plot flow was roughly due to the fact that the wood elves found that the water source of the stream would be toxic at certain times, so the village chief issued a task for players to investigate, and the final quest task was naturally for players to work hard to finally kill the boss who polluted the stream - a level 10 scorpion king "Sekris" who would summon a large number of poisonous scorpions.
Although Roddy is not here to do tasks and gain experience, if he doesn't fight this boss, then he will have to take a detour that is at least three days away, and all the dangers on the way are far more terrifying than the level 10 scorpion king.
"If, when you return to Houllier, your father still ignores what Francis has done... I think you must be prepared for the next round of assassinations. Roddy put the horn bow on his back, sorted out the remaining dozen or so arrows, carried a shovel made of wood tied with stones, and was about to extinguish the bonfire, when he found that Sally suddenly grabbed the corner of his clothes—
Roddy looked back suspiciously, and when the two looked at each other, Sally's gaze made him feel a little strange.
"What if... I mean, if -- I happen to this again, you're... Can you help me?"
Sally is not a naïve girl, she actually sees the political situation and the current situation more clearly than Roddy, and the words that come out of her mouth at this time carry a little expectation, even a little ambiguous, but perhaps in her heart, the slightly tentative meaning is more obvious.
After all, this is the duke's daughter asking each other, and at this moment, any normal man will probably not hesitate to make all kinds of promises in exchange for the beauties' hearts. Sally was ready for the other party's readily agreed, but she didn't think about the other party's answer, which still surprised her.
"I'm not as good as you think, and when you get to Hollier, you're left to do it all - I don't have that much time to spend with you and Francis... Besides, I don't have that ability right now. ”
Roddy folded the remaining vines and replied in a calm tone.
If Roddy is just a player with a casual attitude, after being reborn at this time, he may think about bubble beauty, swiping money, and living a so-called happy life - but obviously, as a Roddy who was reborn with hatred, what he wants to do is to prevent all the tragedies in his memory from happening...
Sally is a variable in his eyes that can change the tragic trajectory of the Russiflon family, and to put it more bluntly - if Sally can't change the outcome of Francis's eventual seizure of power, Roddy will definitely not go to any trouble to continue to risk protecting her.