Section 282: The Hunter and the Prey (4)

After walking a long distance, the young man stopped in silence, he looked at the mud in front of him, there were no footprints, no remnants of the technique, he turned his head to look in the direction behind him, and finally turned and walked back.

The bone crossbowmen began to speed up, and eventually, together with their masters, they ran quickly in the direction they came.

Suspicion is the way to survive, and it is also the only way for hunters to ask themselves.

There is a problem with the footprints.

His prey is not a reckless person, and such obvious footprints are definitely not the path he has chosen.

Back at the creek, the young man walked across the river, looking at the moss that had crushed on a hill, and the ice that had accumulated in the hollows.

Looking back at his memories in his own mind, the young man soon remembered his glimpseβ€”it should have been a mound full of stone and snow, without any outline of the living, nor any breath of the living.

But the young man laughed anyway.

When you find your prey, be sure to tell his master.

With this thought in mind, he raised his hand and began to summon his Bone Eagle.

The featherless bone eventually leaps out of the void, and it falls into the hands of its owner.

He turned his head to tell his messenger who to go to when a light flashed at a high point in the north of a distant river.

What is that?

Is that the light refracted by the sun shining on the bottom of the bottle?

This was the young man's last thought in the world, and in the next second, a warhead flew into the front of the bone eagle's skull.

At this moment, the world in his eyes seemed to stand still for a moment, and the young man reacted frantically, trying to dodge the warhead that had drilled through the bone eagle, but it was useless, he seemed to be frozen, and he could only see the warhead getting closer and closer until it burrowed into his skull, and then the divine warhead ignited the negative energy inside his skull.

The young man fell to the ground, tumbling down the knoll, his body scattered like gravel on the riverbank.

In the next second, the bone crossbowmen around him began to disintegrate.

It was only then that the sound of gunfire streaked over the slightly empty valley.

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"Roland and Higgs are dead." The young Baron of Silent Hill frowned, and he glanced at the subordinates beside him, "I don't think that kid has a way to kill them. ”

The latter, who was dressed in the same way as the young man, nodded: "Yes, but the truth is that they are dead, on the battlefield, there is never an if." ”

"Hmm...... It's discouraging, but it can't be helped, the battlefield is like hunting, always full of uncertainties, which is why the world is so beautiful...... In the last ten minutes, tell Marda and Ducky that they have to get out of the first half after ten minutes, the big guys at Carter Castle are not going to let that signal come and go away, we are running out of time. ”

"Yes, my master, do you need me to join in."

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Forget it, maybe fate didn't want me to separate life and death with His Excellency the Prince today. The young man smiled and shook his head, and at the same time took out the cigarette case from the inner pocket of his jacket, he lit one for himself, subconsciously reached out and wiped it on his shoulder, and then fell silent as if he had realized something.

"Heartless people really want to be happy."

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Marlin watched as the fallen undead creature in the scope didn't move until Fio came over, smashed the skull, and stood up after confirming that it was indeed dead.

Turning over the hill, Marin slipped down the slope and threw the rifle to Jessica: "Your brother has a good gun, you paid him to buy it?" "This gun Marlin knewβ€”the goods that had gone out of his workshop, the barrel and butt he had adjusted with his own hands, and he had thought that Jessica had bought them as a gift from her father, but that her father had given them to his son.

"No, it was given to him by his father." Jessica's answer gave Marlin a standard answer from the side.

So Marin looked at the kid tied to the saddle: "How did you think of bringing a gun bag." ”

"I can die, but I can't die defenseless." Link replied a little shyly, "When I fell, the closest thing to me was the pouch, and I escaped from the camp with it on my back, thinking that if I survived, there would always be a time when I could use it to protect myself, but I didn't expect that when I escaped into that little hole, I would faint in pain." ”

"You're really lucky that you didn't die, let's hurry up." After saying that, Marin helped Jessica onto the war dog, and then jumped up in front of Faye's mount - the supplies of this war dog were all abandoned, about twenty catties, although it was not as heavy as the total weight of Marin and the equipment on his body, but it was strengthened by the physique strengthening technique, and this war dog would not be unable to run.

"I think it's not just the people who are chasing us, my suggestion is to go northwest, through this woodland, from the southern plains of the Rodal and Sibes regions, to the city of Sibes, and then inform Fort Carter through the local church, there is also a train there, and when it is safe we can let Link take the train back to Fort Carter."

Faye gave him a good idea, and Marin had no objection to it - when he knew that the Baron of Silent Hill was the native profession of the Great Swordsman and the Pale Lord, he immediately had no idea of wrestling with him - at least not in the field, if he dared to do such a thing on the playing field, Marin would dare to call Anonymous to clear the field.

In the wild, there are too many of these stealthy bone crossbowmen, and Marin really doesn't want to fight against their shots and their masters.

And the most fatal problem, Marin still doesn't know who betrayed him.

There were quite a few people who knew about it, and he didn't know if one of them had told the baron, or if they had not been able to keep their mouths shut for a while and leaked the news.

What a hassle.

But I don't think it should be a certain His Majesty who has just lost his beloved daughter and his two ladies who are full of joy.

Yes, Lady Anna knew about it, but the least likely thing to say was Lady Anna, and as for Lady Manly...... Marin felt that she should not risk the madness of Lady Anna's daughter who did not marry and eventually became her henchman.

It is even more impossible to risk being culled by Lady Anna with all the members of the family, including her and her three sons, just to kill Marin alone...... What's more, she should also understand that when it is really time to fight hard, between the good boy of Carterburg and the baron of Silent Hill in the case that there is really only one life, who dies and who lives is really a problem.

Lady Manli, my Queen, I don't think you should be so stupid.

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"How is our Queen's wife?" Watching her maid push open the door and enter the hall, Anna, who was sitting on the sofa reading a book, took off the flat mirror on the bridge of her nose: "By the way, Lianna, how am I like this, is it a bit of a cultured person." ”

"Elves are uneducated, Anna, but our lady seems to understand what she has done wrong, and this stupid woman did not betray Marin, but the bad comments she made to the baron in the party that she never concealed made the baron seem to understand something, and then he got the answer by 'asking' the lady-in-waiting beside Madame Manly, and in general, it was not a strict enough relationship, which made me wonder why you and Goethe were both tight-lipped personalities, why would he like such a woman."

"Because that woman gave the best part of her life to Goethe, who was only a little prince at that time, destined not to become king, or he would not have become the apprentice of our mentor and knew us."

"So humans are really a very strange race, leading the world by age rather than wisdom, no wonder the Chaos will be like a fish in water in this world."

Speaking of which, Lena glanced at the nezumi maid who was cleaning the room, "Anna, what are we going to do with that baron." ”

"Hand him over to Marin, the divination of our Lord Destiny shows that Marin will eventually have a battle with that young man in the arena of Regensburg, so listen, feel, think, my sisters, the children will eventually grow up, and everyone will meet his end, let's wait and see." With that, the lady continued to look at the detective in his hand.

"Are you finally no longer a babysitter?" Lena asked with a smile.

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Not anymore, because I have found that my daughters have a much better perspective than I do, and wouldn't it be better for them to learn to protect each other. Speaking of this, Anna was silent for a moment: "By the way, how is the maid." ”

"She's been manipulated with memories, and I have no intention of helping her unravel them, and sometimes, living in a dream is a kind of happiness, and the fantasy of a handsome gentleman on the side of the road is always better than the reality of meeting a perverted mage with a rancid heart." With that, Anna noticed a couple of nezumi maids walking around the bathroom with their clothes.

"Does anyone want to take a shower?"

"No, Lady Lena, but I always need it when Miss Comeback." The little horn at the head replied.

β€œβ€¦β€¦ You didn't say YES. Liana frowned.

"Your Excellency Marin won't let me speak." Little Horn replied.

This answer made Anna and Lena look at each other and smile, and Anna put down the book in her hand: "Little Horn, maybe the bathroom will be my first use." ”

"But my heart tells me that it must be Lord Marlin and Miss Faye who will come back and use the bathroom first." Little Horn replied in the affirmative.

This made the eyes of the mistress and the chief maid a little more curious.

Just as Lena was about to ask why, a messenger leaped out of the void and landed in front of Lady Anna.

Anna picked up the pigeon and pulled the parchment from its feet: "I don't understand, can't the Farolans change a messenger, their Farolan pigeons are better suited to stew than to walk through the void." ”

"Please, Anna, this is the only animal that the Farolians can export other than war horses, don't be too demanding." Watching Anna open the letter, watching her face quickly turn ugly, Liana raised her eyebrows: "It looks like our little horn has won again." ”

"Yes, she won again...... This time back, we must do a transcendent test for Xiaojiao, this child may be a signal of the revival of the nezumi, and there is a psyker among the nezumi again. ”

"It's okay, now they're the rat people of the Lord of Justice." Lena turned sideways, and a portal opened on the wall.

"It's an anonymous nezumi." Her hostess walked towards the portal: "Little Horn, tell my daughter when she comes back, don't forget to drink the medicine she didn't drink yesterday." ”

"Yes, ma'am." The mouse-man maid watched her mistress's mother enter the portal with her and her double head maid, and then carried the basket and headed for the bathroom.

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Looking at the pocket watch in his hand finally walked in the direction of twelve o'clock, the young Baron of Silent Hill sighed: "It's time, let's go." ”

"Your Excellency, don't you really wait?"

"Don't wait, I'm supposed to be in Regensburg right now with the cunning nobles who want to see me go to hell, instead of looking for a future prince in the woodlands north of Carterburg." Speaking of this, the baron smiled, and with a charming smile, he turned his head to look at his servant: "You stay here for five minutes, take them back, and then jump to the coordinates I gave you." ”

"Yes, Your Excellency." After answering the question, he looked up, and in the shadow of his hood, the scarlet soul fire was tumbling.

His lord had gone through the portal and appeared in an alley, and his lord had straightened his collar and tied his somewhat loose tie, and as he walked out of the alley, his shoes scraped away the mud with the help of bony hands that had risen from the ground.

Then he walked out of the alley, and no one paid any attention to his presence, he walked past the warblers and workers who were talking about business, he walked past the police officer with a batons, he walked past the newspaper seller and took a newspaper and dropped the five corners.

A glance at the newspaper - the senior group of the Goddess of Harvest Church upset and eliminated the senior group of the Orthodoxolable Church.

Poor gentlemen, how many people will lose because of this, and they will have to seek death and life.

The baron sighed as he walked through the city gates, gave way to the cyclical priest, passed between two carriages parked on the side of the road, and finally stopped in front of the gate of the club, which the doorman pushed open for him.

"Welcome, Your Excellency." He said.

And the baron in his mouth gave him a tip: "You helped me last time, and this is my reward for you." ”

"Thank you, Your Excellency." The doorman pushed the door and waited for this one to walk in.

The Baron, as he saw it, walked on the carpet, walked through the foyer, into the hallway, was searched by the security guards in front of the special guest area, and then walked through the gap between them, and then slipped into the door that had been opened for him.

"Look, our guests are always so punctual." The middle-aged man sitting at the table opened his hand very satisfied, and took a stack of Movis from the young man on the left.

"Baron Kate, are you who have been on the battlefield so stubborn about time?" The woman on the right hand side of the middle-aged man is playing a fan.

Baron Kate came to her with a smile and kissed her hand: "Yes, Countess, because on the battlefield, time is an extension of life." ”

Then he sat down in the empty seat that belonged to him and looked at his poker friends: "Lord Duke, what are we going to play today?" ”

"If you don't play the Fangcheng battle of the southern Tainans, that thing is really a torment for my head, let's play bridge." The middle-aged man squinted his eyes when he said this: "Baron Kate, where did the white snowflakes on your shoulders come from." ”

"Ah...... Maybe it was accidentally caught when I was teaching my child to play tricks. Speaking of this, the young man stretched out his right hand, and in his hand, an ice flower was blooming: "Madam, this is your gift. ”

"Oh, our Baron is a true gentleman." The Countess smiled and took the delicate flower.

The young man sighed, "My friend, you are so good, and that's how your beautiful wife should have been captured by you, right?" ”

"Yes, my friend, a man has to do something with it but to enjoy it." After speaking, he took the card box thrown by His Excellency the Duke, and while opening the card box, he looked at his new friend: "Let's get down to business first." ”

"Of course, I'm going to win it back today."

"That's up to you, boy." The winner laughed at his poker friend's wild words.

The baron, who was sitting across from him, was also laughing.

Everyone is an actor, taking life as the stage, fate as the song, and each other as the companion dance, dancing to the end, until death.