In the end, Qiu Xuan did not go to the house of Alec Mountain for the first time.

The location of the 15th Grade C Beam that they had left Auxer through before was extremely remote, almost on the edge of Drow City, where few people went. Qiu Xuan first had to follow all the way to find the location of the most central Zhuoer Market, and then he could determine the direction of Alec's house.

She walked along the path along the side of the beam, and it was close to sunset, and the remote beam was usually not visited, and the only people she encountered on the way were a few townspeople hurrying to get home.

On the way, Qiu Xuan spent a few dollars of silver to exchange a small amount of poor black bread with a ground merchant who was collecting a stall and returning home, and this was still in the case of good luck - as I said before, this winter was surprisingly long and difficult, although it is now nearing the end, but the corpse that died quietly under the heavy snow is far beyond the imagination of the public.

It was good luck to meet a merchant who had extra food on hand and was willing to exchange, so Qiu Xuan didn't pay much attention to the fact that the merchant on the ground sold her the brown bread at a price far above the market price.

Her teeth tore at the black bread that was frozen like a stone, and she suddenly remembered the black-skinned merchant Barrens at the Drow Bazaar.

He has always boasted that he would never change the price at will, and he traded with people at the standard of one penny of silver and one liter of wheat. So even in this winter, which is tantamount to another disaster for everyone, does he still adhere to this standard?

If it's that person, though......

Hearing the familiar sound of stepping on the ground from far and near, Qiu Xuanpiao's ignoring line retracted from a distance, and gradually settled on the team stepping on the plane of view.

The first thing I saw was the blood-colored cloak that gradually burned out of sight, and the owner of the cloak straddled a black horse. Qiu Xuan was not too surprised to meet the patrolling knight team at this moment, she stopped, and just like that, she faced the oncoming mighty Silver Armor Knights.

The chief knight of the city law enforcement team straddled the black horse led by him, and the group of centaurs seemed to pass her without squinting, but at the moment when the bright cloak passed by, the knight chief on the black horse said sideways: "Have you found the balance in your heart?" ”

Qiu Xuan stopped in place, silently brushed the bone whip in the space, and simply found a roadside step to sit down and wait.

Unsurprisingly, the last stop on the City Enforcer's patrol was Grade 15 Beam C on the edge of Drow, where the knights' day's work was over.

Qiu Xuan waited for nearly ten minutes, and suddenly she looked up and looked back, and saw that under the afterglow of the sunset that was about to end, the knight chief wrapped in silver armor was walking in this direction.

The scarlet cloak behind him, which symbolized his status, had been removed, and even the majestic black horse was now gone. The knight slowly walked forward step by step, except for the extremely eye-catching silver armor, he looked like an ordinary citizen of Drow City.

"Jussi."

Qiu Xuan sat on the steps and shouted, and the knight chief, who was tightly wrapped all over his body, came over, thought about it, and sat down at the place where he was going down the steps.

Immediately after, he began to undress.

Qiu Xuan: "It's not good. ”

The knight in the hard helmet looked back at her with some inexplicable looks. His movements were fast, and he took off the heavy full suit of armor that looked difficult to take off, and even in such a late winter, the single layer of cloth that he simply wore under the armor was already soaked with sweat.

It is understandable that this era has not yet developed to a certain extent, and all the knights of the law enforcement team are still using a complete set of clumsy and heavy armor handed down from ancient times. That thing Qiu Xuan had seen once on the display cabinet in the living room of Alecshan's house, and each set weighed at least dozens of kilograms, and it was difficult for normal people to ride horses and fight every day with this thing.

Jussi had removed all the equipment from his body, and the whole person looked a little embarrassed, as if he had just been fished out of the water.

However, he still wore the Knight of the Square Banner helmet on his head, and looked like he had no intention of taking it off for the time being.

"Why bother, don't everyone know that identity, aren't you bored?" Qiu Xuan glanced at him.

Jussi sat there in silence for a while, and after a while he spoke, but it was something else.

"I didn't expect you to stay in Osier for that long," the chief knight of the City Law Enforcement Team began, his voice a little distorted as it was completely muffled in his helmet. "Did you encounter something bad, so you delayed?"

"A little." Qiu Xuan didn't want to discuss too much, so she skipped it after a brief mention, "Do you have anything to do with me?" ”

Jussi then chuckled, "Obviously you are waiting for me here, but now you are asking me what I am looking for you." ”

"I said it, since everyone already knows it," Qiu Xuan ignored the meaning in the other party's tone, and just continued. "Are you really blind to see the signal from the fifteenth beam? The law enforcement team doesn't have a fixed patrol line, and now even if I don't come back from Beam 15, you have a way to use the other beams as your last stop at the end of your work. ”

"Jussi," Qiu Xuan lowered her eyelids a little as she looked at the chief knight sitting on the steps below. "You are also from the Alex family, according to what you say, in fact, I don't have to go to that family to find unhappiness, you can directly listen to God for us."

The knight commander in the lower position also raised the thickly wrapped square flag helmet, "However, your speculation about the face under my helmet has always been just your guess, and I have never admitted it. ”

"You don't have to admit it, as long as I know I'm right."

Jussi shook his head, he seemed to laugh, but he didn't, everything was stuffed under the overly heavy helmet, and it was difficult for others to analyze other causes and effects from him except for the identity of a "chief knight".

"You're right, Aph." His tone dragged out as if he was sighing for a long time, "This armor is heavy, it's really stuffy. ”

The last glimmer of light in the sky completely dimmed, and it was at the moment when the afterglow dissipated, the knight chief raised his hand and removed the silver armor from his face, revealing a sweat-soaked and slimy face.

His blonde hair was drenched and sticky to his face, and he was pulled back of his head in disapproval. Jusse Alecshan seemed to laugh at himself helplessly, and said, "This image is really bad now, and it can only be difficult for you to barely look at it for a while." ”

"Actually, there's one thing I'm curious about," Qiu Xuan said coldly as she sat on the steps of the next step. "You don't look like you're a direct member of the Alex family, you know...... They are mostly brown-haired. ”

"Because I'm not recognized." In an instant, from a knight in a high position to a blonde black merchant who walked through the black market, Jussi did not feel uncomfortable at all, and even said it easily.

"You know, ever since Lord Beelzebub adopted me, my surname has been taken by my name. But in fact, I am a rebel son of the Alexan family, or it can be said that I am an unorthodox bloodline, and the people have already rejected me, and now that I have become the chief knight of Lord Beelzebub, they have directly removed me from the genealogy, and declared that there is no such person anymore. ”

Qiu Xuan thought for a while, "So, before Lottie, they said that there was no such person as you in the family at all, because the people in the Alecshan family who knew about this matter had always tacitly acquiesced that you were dead, so they kept silent. ”

"So to speak," Jussi shrugged his shoulders as he looked indifferent. "But ever since I had that idea, I've been prepared for not being accepted by the world. If they find out what I have done, not to mention the people who removed me, even Lord Beelzebub, they will probably think I'm crazy. ”

Are you sure Beelzebub didn't know about your plans......

The question stuck in Qiu Xuan's throat and didn't get asked, she lowered her head slightly and glanced at the person sitting on the steps wet like a water dog, and repeated it again.

"Anyway, you're essentially from the Alex family...... You should know what your family says about listening to God, right? ”

"You got a bone 'defect', didn't you?" Jussi seemed to know what she was trying to say, "But you should also know what it will cost to use defective products to listen to God." ”

Qiu Xuan's face was clean.

"Only 'defective products' can listen to God." She said this again, and met Jussi's slightly surprised look. "Because whether it is the previous pair of human bone earrings, or the bone whip in my hand now, the people of the Alecshan family have used them since ancient times to be able to 'hear' the will of your so-called gods."

"Listening to God is not allowed by the rules of this world, how can there really be a chosen family that can listen to the words of the gods in the flesh without paying any price? The previous patriarch, after he used the defective product to listen to God, he lost his mind and became a madman, which is the price to pay for listening to the heavens. And what you can hear from the so-called 'genuine human bones' from now on, you as a member of the Alecshan family should know better than me, right? ”

Jussi seemed to recall something from her words, and his face became ugly.

"Indeed, the true deeds of the gods that the ancestors 'heard' and saw in the past recorded by the family are probably all pompous and superficial congratulatory words praising great merits."

"There's a good chance we'll only have this one chance." Qiu Xuan sighed softly, "Actually, it doesn't matter who the person who listens to God this time is, what matters is the result, if you want to complete the plan in your heart to break the scale, we can't wait for another winter solstice." ”

She raised her hand to pat Yussi's shoulder, but decisively gave up on the idea when she caught a glimpse of the other party's sweaty state. Got up from the steps and stretched his slightly stiff arms in the face of the still completely gloomy sky.

"I'd better go to Alex's house again, after all, no one knows what the price of those who listen to God will pay this time...... I still hate your Kugin Alecshan, so I might as well fool him into listening, I think it's okay. ”

Yussi first came back to his senses, and when he heard this, he didn't react angrily, just shook his head and laughed.

"Kukin is an old fox, and he is very sorry for his life, he will not risk this for nothing."

"Theoretically, as long as the conditions offered are attractive enough, it can be done." Qiu Xuan slowly walked along the path in the dark until he remembered the location of the official market of Zhuoer, "Of course, it is very time, and you can also use some extraordinary means. ”

Long before he met Yussi's law enforcement team, Qiu Xuan was ready to go with the people of the Alec Mountain family who scolded him and then drove him out. Of course, she knew that even if this family was the "Apostate Family" on the face of Drow City, it didn't mean that they didn't spare their lives, and it didn't mean that they could use defective products to listen to God even though they knew the danger, just for that speculation that was still in doubt.

But Qiu Xuan also knows that in such a family, there will always be a few "rebels" like Yusie.

Just like Lottie, the brown-haired girl who first saw it before, just like Jussi herself, like ...... The head of the Alec Hill family.

Not everyone thinks that "survival" is the most important thing, although it is not easy for those who can do it. But in the hearts of some people, there are always things in the world that are more important than life.

They can give everything for the morality in their hearts, even if it is the most important life in the eyes of the world.

Kujin Alecshan is not such a person, so Qiu Xuan also knows that the person who listens to God in the final decision is obviously unlikely to be Kujin.

What is the point of sacrificing the lives of the "good guys" to save the lives of the "bad guys"?

She closed her eyes and didn't want to think about it, but the footsteps behind her suddenly became a little worse.

Qiu Xuan turned around and saw Yussi standing not far behind her, looking apologetic. "Master Beelzebub told me to go back...... Sorry, you'll have to go to Alex's house on your own. ”

It's still something. Qiu Xuan waved her hand behind her casually, signaling that she knew to go, she turned her head and paused for a moment, but still asked out loud.

"How much do you know about Beelzebub?"

Yussi, who was about to hurry back, was stunned for a moment, and didn't understand what she meant for a while. He hesitated for a moment, and was just about to sort out his words, when he heard the person who asked the question and then took it himself.

"There is only a liter of wheat between Antonio and Sherlock."

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