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While the bar owner, Uma, was asleep, Mr. Levins, who had behaved strangely in his eyes, was riding his three children on the road leading to the border checkpoint. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

There is no doubt that the haggard-looking Mr. Levins is Alan, and the three children are Steven, Stanny, and Miranda. They left Yuewan Village a month ago, but just out of the mountain, because of the double blow of excessive sadness and wind and rain, the little girl Miranda fell ill, but fortunately, Dr. Doolittle had superb medical skills, coupled with the careful care of the three people, the little girl's condition had just improved two days later, and she couldn't wait to embark on the journey of chasing the murderer.

The whereabouts of the murderer were found in a small town outside the mountains, but because the murderer was very careful about his words and deeds, the owner of the small town hotel only provided a clue that the murderer might be a southerner.

So Alan and they bought two horses in the town, Steven and Stanny rode one together, the little girl Miranda was still weak, so she could only share a horse with Allen, and the four of them quickly rode all the way south to inquire about the whereabouts of the five brothers.

At first, because the three children had no experience in horseback riding, they traveled very slowly, but fortunately, the five murderers went all the way around the large town and actually picked a remote path to travel, so the speed was not fast, and the characteristics of the five people were very obvious, so although the four of Allen set off late, they never lost. And through their route selection, Alan preliminarily judged that the five murderers should not be Yous, so the purpose of their trip is even more mysterious.

In this way, Alan chased the murderer for thousands of miles, all the way south to the junction of Yuss and Higg, Alan originally thought that the murderer must have crossed the border to Higg, and was planning to chase after him with him, but accidentally found that the five people turned around and went east along the border.

In this way, Allen and the others chased from the late spring to the beginning of summer, until they chased to other towns near the town of Wulang on the eastern border, getting closer and closer to the murderer, just when they thought they could catch up soon, they found that they had suddenly lost the traces of several people, and as a result, they stayed in the vicinity for a few days, inquiring everywhere, and today finally learned from the mouth of Uma, the owner of the Bird Bar, that the five murderers had gone to the border, so they did not dare to delay, and hurriedly chased after them.

The five murderers changed from southbound to eastward at the beginning, which once made Alan wonder if his guess was correct, but now it seems that the five murderers are not from the Yuss Empire as Alan thinks, but why they chose to transit here, Alan has no way of knowing.

Along the way, Alan walked mostly in remote areas, sleeping in the open air, Alan not only suffered from insomnia for a long time, but also lost his appetite, not only described as haggard, but also plummeted in weight, and his already not strong body was as thin as paper, which really made Alan like a different person, if he hadn't been with him day and night, it was really difficult to recognize his identity.

After thousands of miles of riding training, the three children have changed from the initial sitting on the back of the horse to the ability to fall off, to now can trust the reins of the horse, ride the horse galloping, especially Stanny is simply a skilled knight, which may have something to do with the fighting spirit he has practiced for two years, making him significantly superior to other peers in agility, speed and strength, even Allen's riding skills at this time cannot be compared with him. However, due to financial constraints, the four of them still rode a horse in pairs as if they had just set off, and if it weren't for the tight schedule, Alan was thinking about earning some gold coins.

"Brother-in-law, you must be hungry, I brought you two lamb chops, you can eat a little. ”

The horse galloped down the official road, very steady, and Miranda, who was sitting in front of Alan, took out a clean handkerchief with a few pieces of grilled lamb chops in it, which should have been left in the bar just now and brought out by her.

"Put it away, I'm not hungry, while it's still early, we have to rush to the border as soon as possible to inquire about the situation, if the five of them have already gone to Hig's side, we don't have a seal to clear the customs, and we have to find another way to get there." ”

Seeing that Alan didn't accept her affection, the little girl pouted and put away the handkerchief a little unhappily.

"Brother-in-law, what are we going to do if we don't have a seal for customs clearance?"

The two men on the horse behind heard the conversation between the little girl and Allen, and urged the horse to catch up, and the youngest boy sitting in front asked.

"I don't know, let's go over and see the situation first. ”

Alan also has no experience in this kind of thing, so he can only take one step at a time.

"No, we will smuggle in the past, and the revenge of killing our father, and the sea of swords and fires will not stop us. “

Stanny said with red eyes and gritted teeth.

"That's right, but our purpose is revenge, not death. ”

Alan faintly rejected Stanny's suggestion, and the latter seemed to want to say something, but Alan had already whipped the horse's buttocks, and the horse was in pain, and suddenly accelerated forward, and he could only urge the horse to follow.

Wulang Town is only a dozen miles away from the junction of the two countries, and the four of them have already seen the border checkpoint from a distance in front of them when they say this.

The border between the two countries is located in the remnants of the Togolese hills, which is still mountainous and densely forested, and the checkpoint is located between two small hills. Since this checkpoint is not an important link between the two countries, it has only been a small post for each country on the hills on either side of it, but now the situation is different, there are large barracks of Higg's army near the checkpoint, and it is expected that close to the size of a brigade of troops will be stationed here, and similarly, the garrison of the Higg Empire on the opposite side has increased significantly, and the situation in the south has eased, allowing Higg to draw more troops north, which can be seen from the change in the situation.

However, this change, in the eyes of people who do not know the truth, may still think that the situation between Yous and Higg is tense, but the actual situation is that the new border guards are mainly used to suppress bandits, the former Bols rebels escaped into the Great Rift Valley of the Dragon, once made people think that the situation in the eastern part of the empire has been peaceful since then, but in less than half a year, the rebels who lack supplies have taken off their uniforms and started to be active in the east again as horse banditsDo no evil. This kind of banditry even once affected the borders of the Yus Empire, so the Yus Empire used this as an excuse to increase the deployment of military forces on the border, and the chain reaction was that the Hig Empire has also increased its military strength recently. However, although the border guards of the two countries are hostile to each other, the main task of the border guards of Yuss at this stage is to patrol the border and prevent the horse bandits from entering, while the Higg side is on the one hand to monitor the movements of the Yuss border guards, and at the same time, it is more to prevent the Yuss Empire and the Bols horse bandits from colluding and giving covert support to the horse bandits. Therefore, although the armies of the two countries are facing each other on the surface, the commanders have always restrained their men and horses to avoid any kind of conflict.

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