Three months later.

"Afu, there are still two left in the southeast direction, and the old song in the west is solved."

"Okay."

Qiu Xuan was not holding the familiar double knives in his hand at the moment, but was carrying a half-folded bone umbrella. The surface of the umbrella does not look as smooth and new as when I first got it, and it looks like it has been used for many years.

The umbrella should have been completely damaged in a few high-intensity fights, but luckily there was an amateur forge in the organization of the Xihan Pavilion who could enchant the weapon. Although it is certainly not as good as Hephaestus's craftsmanship, under normal circumstances, the durability of the weapons of the rest of the team is repaired by her, and so is this bone umbrella.

Qiu Xuan estimated that if he was careful, he would probably be able to use it more than a dozen times, because before entering Osier, the handle of the umbrella itself was already holding on to the end of the crossbow, and by then this defective product would be completely damaged.

However, she was not particularly distressed, and it was already an unexpected joy that the bone-made "defective product" could repair the necromantic space with the power of the necromancy. In addition, in the past few months, he has been constantly facing against Oselle's black-robed killer, and the bone umbrella has continuously absorbed vitality to fill the necromancer, and now most of the undead space has recovered.

The long recovery time was much better than expected, Qiu Xuan knew the truth that greed and chewing too much could not be rotten, and her mentality was also very good.

It has now been three months since she and Qin Jiuyuan arrived in Osier and reached a temporary cooperation with Xi Han Pavilion in the open sense. The passage of time is not too long for Qiu Xuan, and in Osier, except for the only things that can be eaten every day, compressed cakes and black bread with a mysterious taste, the rest of life is no different.

Of course, this is also the shelter of an "organization".

After three months, Qiu Xuan had to admit that the organization led by Xi Hanting was simply the Eden that every hungry person yearns for in a ghost place like Osier. They don't have to worry about being divided into several pieces into different people's stomachs every night, like the hungry people outside, and they don't have to worry too much about dying of starvation in the fireworks of the day every difficult day.

Although it is still not enough to eat completely every day, at least there is a place to stay.

Xi Hanting was still busy with his "plan" everywhere, and Qiu Xuan originally wanted to go with her, but was rejected on the grounds that "you have more important things to do".

And unusually, under normal circumstances, the organization would send one or two people to Drow City with Xihan Pavilion every month to trade materials and those things stored in the city. This is a dangerous action, and is often put on hold because a few people can't get to the crossbar, or if twenty cups of blood used to exchange wine are lost in the middle of the road, but it won't be like this.

Since Qiu Xuan came, Xi Hanting hadn't left Osser for three full months. Not only her, but also none of the people in the organization carried supplies along the official road to the beam, as if everyone was ready to rot in this dilapidated place.

Qiu Xuan asked Xi Hanting, but the woman who was tired in the night at that time just waved her hand a little weakly and said, "It's not time yet." ”

Although he has reached a temporary cooperative relationship with Xi Han Pavilion, in fact, Qiu Xuan has only seen Xi Han Pavilion a handful of times after entering the organization. This person seems to have countless things to do all day long, and when she finally sees her once, she will just stare at Qiu Xuan with an inexplicable look for a while, and then shake her head and say nothing.

Qiu Xuan pulled her coat and put it all over her head, and when the large swarm of flies in the air flew away, she took off her clothes and withdrew the bone umbrella she was holding.

"Yes, except for a few people who are physically exhausted this time, no one has suffered any injuries."

Liang came over happily and told Qiu Xuan some things.

Oh yes, Liang was also rescued, when he was cut his throat on the 37th official road in front of Qiu Xuan and the chainsaw man, at that time, Qiu Xuan was busy looking for Qin Jiuyuan when he noticed the connection, and he didn't have time to take care of him. But now it seems that the Chainsaw Man still had a conscience to bring Liang back to tissue therapy, and he is now all right.

Today, Qiu Xuan followed a small team of people out to inspect, and happened to meet a few black-robed people who were about to move at dusk, and took the time to solve it, and it was just right to call it a day and rush back.

Liang stretched out his hand to frame an overdrawn member, Qiu Xuan originally wanted to pretend to show the friendship of teammates, but as soon as she was about to get started, another team member who was also physically exhausted quickly shook his head and shook out the afterimage, insisting that he limped back.

- He didn't dare to ask for help from the rest of the squad, as the last member was Chainsaw.

Qiu Xuan withdrew her hand and was happy, she followed Liang not far away, and she heard a rough and ugly voice on her side suddenly sound.

"Your umbrella is going to break." So said the Chainsaw Man.

In the past few months, he has often been scheduled to go out on missions with the chainsaw, I don't know if Xi Hanting warned him about anything, anyway, Qiu Xuan now at least doesn't have to worry about him suddenly getting sick and doing it to himself. And for this person to pop up from time to time some inexplicable words, the other members of the organization also changed from the initial horror to become accustomed to it.

"Oh, indeed."

Qiu Xuan replied without being salty, walked a few steps, and suddenly frowned and looked back at the giant beside him.

"What the hell are you looking at?" Her tone wasn't very good, "You go ahead." ”

The Chainsaw Man didn't speak, he was still wearing his restraint mask that covered the entire gap, and he couldn't see the expression underneath at the moment. The long narrow eyes glanced over, and there seemed to be blood faintly floating out of them.

"Well, we're almost there, just ...... in a minute"

The front Liang sensed the-for-tat atmosphere between the two, and hesitated to open his mouth to try to ease. He looked extremely embarrassed, and Qiu Xuan didn't have time to waste more time on this kind of thing when he hurried back, so he immediately retracted his gaze, and on tiptoe left the team and ran to the front.

Her speed was very fast, and the wounded behind couldn't catch up, but the vague gaze was firmly glued to her back, and the appendage couldn't get rid of it.

Qiu Xuan was a little annoyed, but fortunately, a few minutes later, the familiar stone pavement of No. 37 official road appeared in view. She found the right direction and knew the way to climb the tree house, but before she could move, a figure jumped directly from a high place in the next second, and fell steadily in front of her.

"I'm back."

The black marketeer grinned at her, a little silly, and he couldn't see the sneer that he had been smiling at when he talked to people about business. Qiu Xuan took his hand and shoved something into it without the sight of the other guardians around him.

Qin Jiuyuan was stunned and raised his palm, it was a pressed sugar squeezed from the sugar cane, cut into a square piece.

Nowadays, food is a luxury, not to mention the cane sugar, which was already a luxury before the disaster struck, which could only be seen on the lord's desk. Leng Buding saw this kind of cane sugar in Auxer, and even the well-informed black businessmen were a little stunned for a while.

"I touched it from a corpse, I saw it, and the corpse was fresh and wrapped in cloth, and it didn't get it." Qiu Xuan pulled Qin Jiuyuan towards the stronghold, and said. "Eat it, I've been eating that tasteless cake for the past few months, and I feel that my taste has deteriorated a little."

"Autumn ...... Aph. ”

Qiu Xuan's footsteps stopped, silently looking at the figure that suddenly appeared in front of him.

Xi Han Pavilion looked even more haggard than the last and last time she saw her, and for a moment Qiu Xuan felt that she was so tired that she was tired of her beautiful face, and became the ordinary appearance when she first saw her in the Plague Proving Ground.

"I have something for you to do." Xi Hanting said this, his face could not hide his tiredness, but those eye-catching eyes were bright.

"What's the matter?"

"You've got to go back to Drow."

……

Xi Hanting never told Qiu Xuan all her plans, but Qiu Xuan could guess a little.

Xi Hanting has been busy with black powder these days.

Qiu Xuan once heard the blonde black merchant "Alec Mountain" mention a little bit of the history of the continent, thirty years ago a mining team dug up an untapped resource in Auxer. The lord above attached great importance to this resource, and set up a professional team to excavate this place overnight, and one of the technicians at that time was the previous patriarch of the Alecshan family.

That's right, this is the story that Lottie, the brown-haired girl from the Alec Hill family, told Qiu Xuan before.

People dug up a pair of earrings made of human teeth in the mining area, and the patriarch of Alecshan used the earrings to "listen to the gods" on the winter solstice, and when he came out, he went crazy, desperately saying "I can't dig any more, disaster is coming." ”

The rest of the story is familiar, when the patriarch of Alec Hill used his body as bait to blow up the entire mining area, along with a nearby Grade B beam. In order to protect themselves, Alec Mountain made a clear relationship with the patriarch, and after a long time, they determined that the earrings of the crazy patriarch were the "defective products" of the authentic products of the gods.

The only thing that is not mentioned is that in fact, the area that was originally going to be mined was excavated from a very special kind of ore.

There has never been a similar record in the history of this continent, except that a technician in charge of mining said that once this mineral is extracted and refined, it will be recorded in the monument of the development of the whole world.

Some executioners speculated that it was the prototype of saltpeter in this world, but due to the differences in the planes of each world, it is not clear whether there are similarities in the progress of history.

Xi Hanting didn't tell Qiu Xuan the details of what she was doing, and Qiu Xuan guessed it from the clues that she was sometimes so tired that she didn't even bother to hide it.

Xi Han Pavilion must be quietly continuing to explore the bombed resource mine behind the back of the official and Osel forces, so it also means...... As the blonde black businessman Alec Hill put it, "destroying the beam" is not entirely fanciful in nature.

Qiu Xuanxiang said that the time that Han Pavilion had spent in this world several times longer than her own was definitely not wasted, and now that Xi Han Pavilion had asked her to go back to Zhuoer City to help her deal with the affairs over there, she could only choose to trust the other party.

Essentially, they are now on the same path again—temporarily, on the same path.

Qiu Xuan took a moment to pack up all the preparations for the road, in fact, the main thing she needed to prepare was food and water. These are the only two things that must be held in the hand and cannot be regained, and the 37th official road is located at the very edge of the Otel plate, and they will have to pay more energy and time to walk back to the beam.

Xi Hanting still had a bit of a conscience, and kindly provided twenty bottles of wine from the other members. As for the twenty bottles of wine that Qiu Xuan had prepared when she came to Oselle at the beginning, they had already been drunk in the past three months - the organization provided shelter, but it would not provide food and water for all members unless necessary, and Xi Han Pavilion could not afford to raise so many mouths.

As soon as the morning dawned, Qiu Xuan and Qin Jiuyuan left the organization and stepped on the thirty-seventh official road, they didn't say goodbye to the other members who were still asleep, and the members who were on duty on the official road and were on duty at night had already been greeted and watched the two leave silently.

There was a slight shock to the touch, and the person walking on the official road paused and stared at the past.

A mountain-like body was hidden in the dim sky that had not yet been fully lit, and there was only one person in this place with such a shell.

"Something?"

Qiu Xuan raised his voice and asked, and the chainsaw man who was steadily blocking them looked up from the darkness, and Qiu Xuan was surprised to find that he was not wearing the restraint mask.

Chainsaw stood on the official road and was silent for a long time, so long that Qiu Xuan suspected that he finally couldn't bear it anymore and wanted to finish himself off here completely, the hill-like figure on the opposite side suddenly spoke, but it was a repeated word.

"He's not an executioner." So said the Chainsaw Man.

"So what?" Qiu Xuan stood a little in front of Qin Jiuyuan, "We're all leaving, does it make sense to dwell on this?" ”

The silence of death returned to the official road.

After waiting for a long time, the black marketeer yawned, grabbed Qiu Xuan's hand with his backhand, and walked over as if he didn't see the obstacle in front of him.

Qiu Xuan's other hand had been pressed on the scabbard, but until they walked to the chainsaw man, until Qin Jiuyuan passed by the man, the person who had fallen silent like a dry mountain never moved.

n.