Chapter 14: Parting
"Let's go back."
"Hey."
Charaire didn't look back at Gar after all, and rode Nicol with Nami and left straight away.
Jia Er watched Xia Lei'er's back fade away, and the incomparably painful feeling in her heart, maybe the next time they met, they would become real enemies, fighting each other.
"Prince, is that what left them? What's going on over there? The deputy, Hei Jia, had come to Jia Er's side at some point and asked worriedly, he was worried that the prince would not know how to explain when he returned.
Garer came back to his senses, still staring in the direction where Charle had disappeared and said, "Yes, we have got the information we need. ”
"In that case, let's go back." As the person Jia'er trusted the most, Heijia knew more or less about the prince's heart, and didn't want him to stay here any longer to be sad about this matter.
"Okay, let's go back." So the well-trained Hunter troops retreated to the Mana River Bridge to the west under the order of Black Armor. In fact, Black Armor knew that Xia Li'er and the Scale Demon were going to return to their territory through this place, and he hoped that Gar Er would leave quickly. Finally realizing that everything was irretrievable, Garr had no choice but to ride the unicorn dragon and follow the group.
A kilometer away, Charelle and Nami rode Nicol briskly towards the Mothman Archery Battalion not far away, which had entered a state of battle. At this time, the scale demon who had withdrawn from a distance, with the assistance of the deputy commander Yao Shan'er and Rot's son Dana, as well as the vanguard of the Mothman Bow Battalion, had successfully joined the main force of the Mothman. In the front, Deputy Si Rote saw Nicol coming from a distance, and the two figures on his back were needless to say that Charelle and Nami. Strangely, Charelle and Nami didn't seem to be nervous at all, even though they were all facing the enemy. The anxious Yao Shan'er couldn't wait to flap her wings and fly over.
"Sister, are you all right?" Yao Shan'er asked with concern as she hovered around Nicol. Xia Lei'er was worried about how to answer Namei's questions one after another at this time, and she didn't notice that Yao Shan'er had come, so she agreed: "Hey, we're fine." ”
Xia Lei'er felt a burst of joy in her heart at this time, and then said to Namei: "Sister, I will answer you these questions later." After speaking, his mouth raised a smile and stole fun.
"Okay." Nami was stunned for a moment, and found the Mothman and Scale Demon troops waiting in front of her, so she reluctantly squeezed out two words.
At this time, in the distance, the last rays of Carter's star were slowly and completely drowned out by darkness. Xia Lei'er saw that the sky was almost completely dark, and she could only see a black shadow in front of her, she knew that the scale demons had all withdrawn, she patted Nami's shoulder and said, "I'll go first." Then he jumped into the air and nodded to Yao Shan'er, and then swept towards the black shadow, and Yao Shan'er followed.
"Miss Charelle, what's the situation up front?" Without waiting for Xia Li'er to land, Roth asked anxiously.
"Sister......" Pei Pei and Bai Qianmei greeted each other with concern.
"It's okay, I sent them away, I told them to prepare for war." Xia Li'er's face was a little solemn, because she would no longer have time to worry about Jia'er, who she had been worried about, and the most important thing at the moment was to prepare for a battle to defend her home with the Ant-Man.
"Ahh ......" Roth exclaimed, but although the result was unexpected, it was also reasonable. Because either the two sides have gone back to prepare for war, then they have now fallen into a vicious war. If you think about it, this result is a favorable choice for the scale demon and the mothman.
"Sister Lei'er!" Behind Roth, Dana nodded to Charelle.
Xia Lei'er looked at Dana, was silent for a while and nodded at him: "Well, good job, Dana, we have to fight side by side together." In the face of this best playmate who grew up with Tagu and herself, Dana, Charelle naturally has no complaints about him, after all, Dana obeys his father Roth and obeys the tribe to flee. In Chariel's eyes, Darner is her dear brother.
Xia Li'er turned around and jumped into the air and shouted loudly around the crowd: "The Ant-people have retreated, and it won't be long before we have a fierce battle, and for now, in order to avoid any accidents, we must retreat to Mushroom City as quickly as possible." Now, all that's left for us to do is to pick up the pace as quickly as possible and continue on our way. ”
After Xia Lei'er finished speaking, she glanced at Pepe and Bai Qianmei, and motioned for the two of them to go to the front to open the way. Everyone lowered their guards, regrouped, and continued to march quickly towards the Mana River, and the members of the Moth's archery battalion divided into two groups to stand guard in front of and behind the Scaly Demon Clan.
Pepe and Bai Qianmei came to the Mana River Bridge according to Charelle's instructions, and at this moment, the shadow of the Ant-Man was long gone. They continued to patrol the west bank for a few kilometers before returning to the bridge after making sure there were nothing out of the ordinary.
As night fell, under the faint starlight, black shadows on the west bank of the Mana River Bridge jumped into the calm Mana River, clanging. It was the scale demon clan that jumped into the Mana River in order to rush back to the mothman's camp as soon as possible, and the Mana River was crowded with scale demons for a while. Under the order of Deputy Sirot, the vast number of scale demon clansmen swam into the Red Lake like a group of dolphins, and flew quickly towards the mushroom city in the west.
"Sister, is the scale demon really a close relative of your moths?" Nami, who was sitting on Nicol's back, was dumbfounded as she watched such a huge army of scale demons flying in the Mana River, and couldn't help but ask Xia Lei'er, who was holding her behind.
"Well, yes." Xia Li'er was stunned for a moment and replied.
"You don't look like anything like that."
"Silly girl."
With the faint starlight, the members of Charelle's bow battalion formed two columns and hurried to the west to protect the centipede team raised by the scale demons.
About 60 km northwest of the bridge over the Mana River there is a magnificent castle that covers an area of about 3 square kilometres and is surrounded by a 10-metre-high wall made of huge stones. This is the Blue Song City of the Ant-Man, the political and economic center of the Ant-Man colony. Entering from the Lange Gate to the east is three squares separated by tall blue banana trees, and the three squares are almost equal in size, with a total area of about 240,000 square meters. This is the usual place where the three clans of Ant-Man, Mothman and Scale Demon exchange items such as food and tools, and it is also the place where Ant-Man usually gather and train. About 900 meters straight into the east gate of Lan Song City, there is the magnificent palace of the king of Lan Song Country, the Hedian Palace. The palace is a testament to the great craftsmanship and productivity of the Ant-Man, and is divided into two floors, the first of which is 8 meters high and has a fortified stone wall and iron gates, and is divided into three halls in the front, a large corridor in the middle, two large patios on both sides, the innermost chamber of the Lan Ge Kingdom, and the innermost middle is a huge stone seat. The second floor is 5 meters high and is divided into 20 rooms. Standing on the second floor of the Hedian Temple, you can have a panoramic view of the neatly arranged houses and squares of the entire Blue Song City, which is the tallest building in Blue Song City.
In the early morning, the hall is quiet and dignified. In one of the easternmost rooms on the top floor of the Hall, the bright sunlight, like a yellow gauze tent, spreads from the window to the interior. A young man with an ant-man sitting at a square table, holding his temples with his fists clenched, staring blankly out the window into the distance, full of worries. He is none other than Garr, the prince of the Blue Song Kingdom, who is saddened by the impending war between the Ant-Men and the Moth-Men.
Bidding farewell to Charlael last night, Garer led his army to the Blue Song City and did not return to the city until midnight. Looking at the faint light floating out of his father's room, Jia Er knew that his father was not resting, so he held back the doubts and anger in his heart and did not disturb his father, and returned to the room after a few words of peace and greeting his mother. But his mind was full of Xia Lei'er's shadow, lying on the desk and recalling the bits and pieces of his usual relationship with Xia Lei'er, thinking that they were about to meet each other, and he couldn't sleep all night thinking about countermeasures.