Sally was made laughing and crying by the other party's scoundrel words. The resentment and anger that had accumulated since the attack on Roddy was not as unbearable to her as it had been at the beginning - after all, Sally was gifted and would not mess around with meaningless things.

However, the main reason why she was calm at this time was a little curiosity in her heart: why was Luo Di in a daze just now?

A guy whose archery skills are terrifying to the extreme, and who can take himself under Francis's nose to evade pursuit, is certainly not a simple scout captain, and more than a dozen kinds of speculations about Roddy have popped up in his heart, such as "fugitive mercenaries in disguise", "adventurers who don't wash their hands", "officers who are being hunted down in neighboring countries" and the like. The guy in front of him was suddenly full of question marks, and his style of acting all the way was as flawless as a machine, only the brief stunned moment just now made Sally feel... In the other party's heart, there may be a lot of unknown past.

This should be a breakthrough.

Roddy's mouth was numb from chewing herbs, and he took out a water bladder to drink, and when he tried to rinse his mouth, he heard Sally's slightly sudden words in his ear - "What are you thinking?"

Spit out the water, Roddy turned his head, and after a moment of contact between his gaze and Sally, he shrugged and replied truthfully, "Alone." ”

"Women?"

Roddy's eyebrows were raised, and he looked at Sally with neither friendship nor disgust, but there was some depth in his eyes, which made Sally feel that his whole person's momentum seemed to change slightly.

"I... I'm just curious, if you don't say it, forget it. ”

For no apparent reason, Sally felt as if she was asking something she shouldn't have asked, as she saw Roddy purse her lips.

There was a moment of silence in the atmosphere, and Roddy took another sip of water, as if calming some emotion.

“... She's beautiful?"

Sally wanted to say something else, but it seemed to come out of her mouth without thinking about it - the situation of women's natural gossip seems to be the same everywhere, although Sally regretted it a little when she said it, but she looked at Roddy cautiously, still expecting an answer in her heart.

At this time, the gap between the identities and status of the two will be smoothed out due to the complex and dangerous environment. Luo Di was stunned by this question, his mouth opened slightly, and the sentence "It's okay with you" hesitated for a moment, and after thinking about it, he still didn't say it.

With a sigh, Sally heard the answer she wanted to hear, but didn't feel close enough.

"Well, it's beautiful. ”

Sally keenly noticed that Roddy's gaze was slightly darkened as she answered, but it was quickly filled with her usual confidence and energy.

"Let's go, let's keep going. ”

Roddy didn't seem to want to talk about it any longer, and got up and began to check his packing.

Although Sally on the side resisted the desire to continue asking questions, her mind couldn't help but start imagining what that "beautiful woman" was like...

What would it be like? How did they meet, and what happened between her and Roddy?

The jumbled thoughts even made her forget about Roddy dressing her wounds, and it wasn't until Roddy motioned for her to climb onto her back that she realized what Roddy had done in the time she had just stopped: looking for herbs, treating those wounds with what little bandages she had left.

Thinking back to this journey, the food that Roddy left for Sally was the bacon that the soldiers rarely distributed, and he himself nibbled on hard black bread to satisfy his hunger - girls are always delicate, although Roddy's previous style of doing things made her ashamed, but these details that she ignored also invisibly changed Sally's impression of him.

In general, Roddy is a "weirdo" in Sally's eyes.

"Remember not to speak loudly at any time, some things can be provoked, some things are really not to be provoked, although I know what line is the safest, but in the forest... I'm afraid there is never a place that is absolutely safe. With Sally on his back, he confirmed the direction and said as he walked, "If we hadn't dodged in time, three giant spiders would have appeared there and attacked us, and they were not much smaller than war horses. ”

Sally shuddered at the thought of the huge, fluffy spider, wrapped her arms around Roddy, tightened her arms slightly, and asked in a low voice, "I want to understand, how do you know so much knowledge?"

Having died hundreds of times in this forest, it is difficult to forget this knowledge.

Roddy replied in his heart - not to mention the giant spiders that the player nicknamed "King Eight Spiders", from the smallest hare to the strongest Parsengo Tiger King in this forest, he can recite the attributes of almost every species.

However, this kind of thing can't be explained to Sally, so she can only casually say nonsense: "Everything has a law, people are afraid to enter here because most people don't understand the laws here, and I know more than the average person." ”

"Did you see it from a book? Why didn't I see it in the library? That's a creek?!"

Sally suddenly heard the rustling sound of water in front of her, and as soon as she exclaimed, she immediately covered her mouth and apologized in a whisper, "I'm sorry."

Roddy sighed helplessly, and didn't have the time to explain anything to her, as he realized that he had found his first landmark after entering the Silent Forest: Steiro's Creek.

He didn't come to this creek to simply replenish water or hunt wild beasts here to satisfy his hunger - he knew there was a "fixed story" dungeon here.

There are two types of dungeons in "Rift": "Random Event" and "Fixed Story". As the name suggests, most of the dungeons that players play belong to the "fixed plot", that is, the plot is exactly the same every time they enter, and the reward depends on the completion and performance of the player, while the "random event" is a very rare dungeon, which usually tests the player's understanding of the game when dealing with unknown situations, ordinary people may be able to quickly understand the play of the "fixed plot" dungeon by reading the learning strategy video, but the "random plot" does not say this, because each "random plot" There is only one chance to get through, which means that players need to deal with unfamiliar tasks completely on their own, and correspondingly, the rewards of this kind of dungeon are also incomparable to ordinary dungeons.

There are many reasons for choosing the "Steyro Creek" dungeon, Roddy is a clear-minded technoman, and his own style of doing things is "efficiency first", and now his and Sally's goal is to safely cross the Silent Forest, and the easiest way for Roddy to think about this dungeon is to penetrate this "Steiro Creek" dungeon and cross a wolf pack territory.

"We've got ten minutes to rest here, and then I'll take you upstream. Thither... There will be battles, there will be dangers, and there will be a lot of weird animals, but no matter what happens, you have to keep your mouth shut, remember?"

Roddy placed Sally on the dry ground, and the duke's daughter, whose legs were bandaged and her skirt was torn in several places, saw that his face was serious, and nodded very quietly, indicating that there was no objection.

She found herself feeling a little used to being cared for. Although she is reluctant to admit it, there is a certain dependence in her heart that she has hardly had since she was a child.

Sally, who is in a big aristocratic family, has lived in a gorgeous mansion unimaginable to commoners since she was a child, but in her eyes, there is always a cold and unambiguous distance between people - it is impossible for a maid to have a heart-to-heart relationship with a mistress, it is impossible for a maid to be a brother to a knight, and a housekeeper cannot talk and laugh with a servant... Everything is so well defined. But at this moment, she looked at the sun that was gradually fading above her head, but she no longer felt cold because of loneliness as before.

Why? She thought to herself, but her eyes couldn't help but look forward.

There, standing by the stream, Roddy was checking his position for the last time.

Compared with the delicate-minded Sally, Roddy's "delicacy" is only reflected in how to survive. After checking the state of the horned bow, Roddy counted the arrows he had brought, and the two arrows combined to make a total of 28 arrows. It's enough for a scout, but if it's used to play a dungeon, it's really a bit worrying, because in the past, he used to use the "Dimensional Quiver" containing thousands of arrows to brush the dungeon.

Filled with water bags by the stream, Roddy confirms that the area he is in is the same common rest area that players were once waiting to enter the dungeon. According to common sense, there will be some other creatures here, but the basic strength is weak, because the powerful creatures will go to the two large pools upstream and downstream to drink. However, in order to penetrate the next dungeon, Roddy knew that he needed to be fully prepared in advance.

Night falls.

After finding a large bundle of sturdy vines from the forest, Roddy shot more than a dozen plump fresh fish by the water's edge with a bow and arrow. Finding a dry and safe place to make a fire, he wrapped a few of them in the wide leaves he had collected and put them on the edge of the campfire to simmer, although the taste was dull because of the lack of spices, but it also made Sally a novelty for the first time to eat in this way.

"Those fish will rot if you don't deal with them. She saw that Roddy hadn't dealt with the remaining dead fish, and whispered a reminder.

Sally had no idea how big the forest was, but Sally had always wanted to ask Roddy why he dared to make a fire here—didn't he know it would attract so many creatures?

"It's useful to keep it, not to eat it. ”

Roddy, who had eaten his food quickly before the campfire, was checking the strength of the vines in his hands, and in addition to these things, he had also gathered some dark blue flowers wrapped in cloth, and then pasted them on the tips of the arrows to roast and quench them - all 28 long arrows were carefully put away after this treatment, and turning his head, Roddy said to Sally, who was a little distracted by the campfire, "Ready to go." ”

"Well... That's—Captain Roddy. ”

Sally hesitated and stopped the silent young man in front of her.

Roddy, who was extinguishing the campfire with sand, stopped, and stood up straight, looking at her inquiringly, with a horned bow, vines, quiver, and a string of dead fish on his back.

"We're going to get out of here, right?"

"Yes. ”

"And... Can I return to Houllier City safely?"

"Yes. ”

"And then?" Sally whispered, "... And then what's going to happen?"