Volume 1 Mottled Boy's Dream Chapter 3 Dragon Guard
After more than ten days, most of Su Yuan's injuries have healed, and under Su Yuan's repeated pleas, Su Yi finally agreed to leave the next day.
In these days of recuperation, Su Yuan has not been idle, every morning to the academy to recite and practice words, the rest of the time is browsing books about the empire, after all, he is about to leave Selangor for the first time, Su Yuan is full of yearning for the outside world.
As usual, Snow Sleeping City is snowing heavily, and this weather seems to never end. In the cold wind, a carriage slowly drove into the distance on the post road outside Xuemian City, and Su Yuan in the carriage looked at Mrs. Li outside the city gate through the small window, and vaguely saw Mrs. Li waving goodbye to Su Yuan in the wind and snow in the snow.
The mother's parting advice echoed in her ears: "Yuan'er, you are extremely talented, you need to work hard, and you must not live up to your parents' hopes." You must listen to Guan Bo more when you are outside, and remember not to make trouble, it is no better outside than in Selangor. In case something really happens, remember your parents at home. ”
Looking at the gradually blurred figure in the snow under the city gate, Su Yuan's eyes couldn't help but reddened slightly.
Su Yuan didn't expect to be reluctant when he left, and he didn't know when he would come back next time, and whether he would come back with pride at that time.
However, Su Yuan is a child's heart, and it didn't take long to leave these emotions behind, the itinerary was monotonous and boring, there was heavy snow outside the window, and only the occasional sound of horsewhip beating broke the silence.
Su Yuan simply sat on the wheel, "Uncle Guan, are we just going to take the carriage all the way to the interior of the empire?"
Guan Bo laughed, knowing Su Yuan's thoughts, "Childe, the road is still far away, the weather in Selangor is bad, the snow is thick, and the carriage can only drive slowly, and the journey behind Selangor will be much faster." ”
"Isn't it possible to ride a pack eagle when you leave Selangor? ”
The pack eagle, a flying beast commonly used in the Cloud Empire, has a gentle temperament and can be ridden by humans after domestication. Important towns in the empire have built eagle flying spots, and after paying a sufficient deposit, they are piloted by the beast tamers to a fixed flying point. But pack eagles are beasts after all, so there are often accidents that do not listen to the teachings. The weather in Selangor is not suitable for pack eagle flights, so the pack eagle flying spots are closed.
"Childe, now there is enough time for the martial arts academies to accept apprentices, we don't need to be in a hurry, and we can also learn more about the customs of the empire along the way. ”
Su Yuan could only reluctantly accept Guan Bo's statement, I am afraid that the whole trip was arranged by his father, and Guan Bo was just acting on orders. In order to pass the boring journey, Su Yuan continued to babble and ask many questions about the empire, Guan Bo was obviously well-informed and could calmly respond to Su Yuan's various questions.
After more than ten days of trekking, the carriage came to Yuanzhou, which is close to Selangor, and the weather from Yuanzhou to the south will gradually be mild, Su Yuan and Guan Bo either took a pack eagle or a carriage, and enjoyed the scenery along the way, and after more than three months of trekking, they came to Yangzhou within the empire, and Yangzhou went south to the imperial capital.
Early in the morning, after changing two horses in a small town, the two began to set off towards their final destination, and for the place they were about to come to a long-awaited place, Su Yuan swept away the fatigue of the long journey, and urged the horses to run non-stop.
"Childe, there is a place to rest in front, and the horse is tired after running for a long time, let's rest and walk again. Guan Bo's voice came from behind, this place is only half a day's journey from the imperial capital, the road is full of pedestrians and commercial vehicles, and there are several teahouses and restaurants on the side of the road are places for pedestrians to rest.
The two of them chose a teahouse and sat down to ask for a few snacks, Su Yuan observed the surroundings, the teahouse was not big, there was a young man in white and three strong men in the front position, the young man in white looked about the same age as himself. On the left there are two young men and women dressed as merchants, and in the rest of the seats there are pedestrians dressed as businessmen.
Not long after, the young man and woman got up and were about to leave, when the three men in black sitting next to them also got up at the same time, and the leader said to them, "Slow down, two. ”
The young man and woman exchanged glances and looked at the three men in black vigilantly.
The leader in black said: "We are the Imperial Dragon Guard, the Second Legion of the Imperial Dragon Army, and we have tracked you here from the Imperial Capital, suspecting that you are a foreign race of the Sea Clan. After speaking, a bronze token with the word "Yu" written on it appeared in his hand to indicate his identity, and it seemed that he was the leader of the three.
"Say we're the Sea Clan, but is there any evidence?" the young man looked indifferent.
"The Sea Clan has scales on its back, as long as you take off your clothes and look at it. ”
"Heh, I'm afraid it's indecent to strip in public, right?" the young man sneered.
"It's an extraordinary situation, and I'm afraid there's no other way. After saying that, the three black-clothed men approached the young man and woman in a surrounding manner.
The young man and woman looked at each other, "It seems that this is the only way." With a helpless expression, the man began to undress.
Just as the attention of the surrounding people was focused on the man, the woman suddenly shook her hand, and three black lights flew towards the three black-clothed people respectively. The man in black is also extremely good, either dodging or blocking with weapons, and all the hidden weapons are missing.
Seeing that the sneak attack was fruitless, the woman took out a hidden soft whip and hit a man in black, the original three-foot short whip had become a long whip when it crossed the air, and the long whip had not arrived, and the wooden table in front of the man in black had been divided into two by strength, which showed that the woman was fierce and fierce. The man in black was not weak, he pulled out his long sword and swung a sword qi to slash at the long whip, and after the two qi collided, the canopy above the teahouse was blown apart by the strong wind, and the man on the side also fought with the two men in black, and the people in the teahouse suddenly encountered a change and avoided in the distance.
After a while, the tea house was already in a mess, and the young men and women were originally in battle with the people in black, but at this time, they were more enemies with fewer enemies, and they immediately fell into disadvantage.
Su Yuan, who was watching from the sidelines, said to Uncle Guan: "Uncle Guan, should we help?" The Sea Clan and the Youyun Empire are mortal enemies, and although Su Yuan is not very old, he can also distinguish the situation.
"It's good that you don't have to make trouble. Guan Bo lightly pressed Su Yuan's shoulder with one hand and smiled.
"I can't help much, but you can. A hint of cunning flashed in Su Yuan's eyes, "I heard Commander Zhang say that your strength has reached the late stage of the Feather Rank. ”
"My strength is not as good as when I was younger. Guan Bo sighed and said: "Their strength is not much worse than mine, besides, those three people have an advantage, and the defeat of the alien race is not a matter of time, we are not familiar with life from afar, and it is better to have more than one thing." ”
Su Yuan's understanding of the outside of Selangor is mostly from the old gentleman of the academy and the imperial history books, the history books say that the sea clan can survive on land and in the sea of a different race, with fish scales on the back, more than 7,000 years ago under the leadership of the dragon clan, united with Bai Yuan, blue scorpion, blue wolf, phoenix four tribes defeated the sea clan, and drove it to the Qianjo Islands in the West Sea, but the sea clan was not willing to be defeated, and planned to return to the land for many years, confronting the imperial garrison on the coast of the West Sea all the year round, and sent a large number of sea tribe spies into the interior of the Youyun Empire for assassination. Stealing information, or other sabotage activities, most of the Empire's hatred for the Sea Clan has been instilled since childhood, and the Empire and the Sea Clan are like two natural enemies, never dying.
Accidentally encountered the Sea Clan spy here, Su Yuan was mostly excited in his heart, although he did not have the strange figure and hideous face as he imagined, but the hatred in Su Yuan's heart did not decrease by half a point.
On the way, Su Yuan heard Guan Bo mention the Dragon Army, which was one of the three most elite legions of the Imperial Clan, responsible for the defense of the empire.
After a long battle in the field, the two Sea Clan men and women were injured in many places, and the weapons in their hands no longer had the power they had at the beginning, and they were still struggling to support at this time, but they were just dying and struggling, and the three dragon guards were still cautious to prevent accidents at the last moment.
But the accident happened, when the Sea Clan woman broke free from a dragon guard grappling at the cost of a leg injury, and leaped to the side while the long whip rolled towards a woman under the table in the distance and a little boy in her arms, the long whip returning with the boy in her hand in the air.
"I'll kill him first. The Sea Clan woman stepped back and threatened the Dragonguard.
The leader of the dragon guard sneered, "I thought that the Sea Clan was full of arrogance, but I didn't expect it to be despicable and indecent. At the same time, he motioned to the other two dragon guards, who stopped and pressed on one of the enemies step by step.
The Sea Clan woman sneered, "The Sea Clan and you never have to talk about benevolence, righteousness and morality. Apparently this agitation didn't work for her.
Seeing the dragon guard pressing forward, the Sea Clan woman's hand suddenly exerted force, the boy cried loudly, and the woman heard the boy crying and screamed like crazy and rushed towards the Sea Clan woman, but was whipped away by the Sea Clan woman, and her life and death were unknown. Seeing this, the leader of the Dragon Guard stretched out his hand and motioned for the other two to stop.
The Sea Clan woman looked at her companion not far away, "You go first." ”
The Sea Clan man was also extremely decisive, and plunged into the woods next to him, and disappeared after a while.
"Huh...... , the kindness of the woman. The Sea Clan woman continued to laugh.
The leader of the Dragon Guard showed a look of pain, he knew that what the Sea Clan woman said was right, compared to the two alien thieves and the information they stolen, the life of an ordinary boy was nothing, and his compassion also made him enlist in the army for many years and made countless meritorious contributions but still a squad leader, if this mission failed, maybe the captain's position would not be able to be kept after returning this time.
Su Yuan, who witnessed the whole process, was furious, and at the same time, he was also very dissatisfied with Guan Bo's inaction. Suddenly, he noticed that the white boy behind the alien woman was approaching her, intentionally or unintentionally, and the alien woman's entire attention was focused on the dragon guard, unaware of it.
Su Yuan took advantage of Guan Bo's inattention and his shoulders were slightly heavy to break free from the restraints, and his footsteps moved forward quickly without sound. It was too late for Guan Bo to come back to his senses, and stopping Su Yuan at this time would definitely make the alien woman notice, so he could only pay attention to the sea woman with his whole body, and protect Su Yuan whenever there was a disturbance.
The Sea Tribesman woman still had a sneer on her lips, as if she were greatly pleased by the pain of the enemy and the cry of the boy in her hand, and she kept moving backwards, and if she got a little closer to the woods, maybe she would have a chance to escape.
The retreating Sea Clan woman suddenly felt a crisis behind her, and she desperately wanted to twist her body when she was terrified, but it was too late, a sharp pain struck, and a dagger pierced herself in front of her.
When the white-clothed young man succeeded in the sneak attack, Su was only a few steps away from the sea tribe woman, he rushed behind the sea tribe woman with a fierce force, and the boy had already been snatched in his hand, the sea tribe woman reacted and struck Su Yuan with a long whip in her hand, but the long whip did not arrive, but an afterimage had passed by the sea tribe woman.
The leader of the Dragon Guard didn't look at the result of the sword just now, and said without looking back: "Xiaoliu, you stay and deal with it, report the matter to the general, and Ah Hai and I will hunt down the fleeing aliens." With that, he and a dragon guard chased after the Sea Clan man who had fled into the woods.
At this time, the body of the Sea Clan woman behind her slowly fell.