Volume IV: The Clash of Light and Darkness One hundred and thirteen, northbound

Almost immediately, Minter remembered the swapped box and the proof in it, and lowered his voice and asked, "Did you think of this then?" Thinking about the almost unreal identity certificates used by his group of four, he felt a little admiration for this enemy duke.

Jada curled the corners of his mouth, and did not answer, but said: "They are blocked here, and it is inconvenient for us to go there, lest they be discovered and say ugly things, let's change to the eastern checkpoint, which is less than a hundred kilometers away from here, and can be reached in a day on horseback." ”

As soon as Junia heard this, she pouted: "Why did you run so far?" Wouldn't it be okay to wait here until those people leave? ”

Shedd whispered to her, "Several of the guards here are neutral, neither close to Prince Mario nor friendly with us, but they recognize your Excellency's appearance. If it weren't for those people in front of us, we would have been able to pass through here quietly, but they must have already alarmed the guards, and we would have been easily discovered. Your Excellency is traveling secretly this time, and it will be very troublesome if your whereabouts are made public. Miss Junia, please be considerate of your plight. ”

Junia stopped talking, Jada glanced at Shedd with satisfaction, and was about to turn around, but was stopped by Minter: "I'm afraid I'll fall behind those people after a hundred kilometers of detour from here to Nomonka?" You say they know what you look like, do they also know what the noble messenger looks like? Maybe the people in front of me will pass by soon, and I don't think it's a good idea to take a detour. ”

Jada stopped when he heard this, turned around and asked, "Then what good advice do you have?" ”

Minter looked up at the jungles on both sides of the level, remembered the time when he climbed the mountain with his grandfather when he was a child, and said with a smile: "The mountains and forests on both sides are difficult for ordinary people to pass, but for martial artists like us, it's not impossible to climb over, right?" Why don't we abandon our horses and walk? ”

Jada looked at the mountains and forests on both sides of the level with some surprise, thought about it, and felt that he had a point. But... "What about Junia?" ”

Minter turned her head to look at Junia, who was already glaring at herself, so she smiled slightly: "Your fiancΓ©e, won't you carry her back?" This part of the road shouldn't be very long, right? I think with your physical strength, you can definitely do it. If you need to replenish your stamina, just look for me. ”

Jada gave him a funny look, and then Shedd spoke, "How can you let your Excellency do such heavy work?" Let me do it anyway. ”

Junia sneered, "Shed! Where am I heavy?! Shedd was dumbfounded, not knowing how to answer, Jada smiled: "Okay, Shedd is still injured, let me carry it." ”

It's been discussed. They were about to turn around and leave. I heard a commotion in front of the level. Look around. It turned out that the soldiers guarding the checkpoint saw the probe out of the window, and Di Namu was obviously dressed in foreign clothes. It is suspected that the noble envoy and his party are foreign spies. yelling and refusing to let them go. They are not allowed to leave and go to other checkpoints. The two sides immediately quarreled. Soon. There was a high-ranking officer dressed as a man walking down from the stone house above the checkpoint. Shouted: "Quiet! What happened?! ”

Jada saw the officer's face. Immediately turned around and whispered to the companions: "Hurry up." That officer used to work under my uncle. Recognize my face. "Let's go ahead of the curve. Shedd immediately picked up Junia on his back and followed. Minter as he left with them. I took a few more looks.

This one in a way. It was the woman he was walking with. At such a time、This kind of place lifts the curtains and looks out。 It won't be for the view. Or arouse the suspicion of the guards, right? He quickly glanced around. Catch a glimpse of the big tree on the west side. Two Nogar dressed travelers were resting. The skin is dark. From time to time, his gaze drifted in the direction of the carriage. casually glanced at Namu a few times. I suddenly knew it.

The angry aristocratic young man saw that the soldiers were pestering them. And the officer stared at him suspiciously. Suddenly, my heart was on fire. turned around and scolded Namu angrily: "It's all you who caused trouble!" What curtains are lifted for no reason?! ”

Namu said coquettishly with an aggrieved face, "Don't be angry. I just want to know what's going on out there. You're such a big shot. It was actually stopped. I was upset. ”

When the young man heard this, he became even more angry. He shouted at the officer, "Do you know who I am?!" Offended me. Beware I'll let you go tomorrow!! The officer raised an eyebrow. Ignore his clamour. He just instructed his subordinate soldiers: "Take these suspicious people to the detention room." Ask for a clear name. After checking that there is no problem, the person will be released. Then he turned around and went back to the stone chamber. The remaining young man and a few of his attendants shouted loudly from behind.

Seeing this, Minter smiled secretly, and quickly followed Jada and the others, just in time to hear him say: "That guy has always been a gentleman, he has no ability, I didn't expect Lawler to send him, and he didn't forget to take the woman with him when he ran for his life, but the woman had never seen the world, and caused him so much trouble, and when he arrived at Nomonca, his father knew about it, and he didn't know what to say." ”

Minter smiled slightly, thinking that if Namu was really going to get to Normonca, she might not be the one who suffered.

The mountains and forests next to the checkpoint were much sparser than they were back then, so when they sneaked over, they had to bend down, hold their breath, and walk as quietly as possible. Junia had turned to Jada's back before going up the mountain, but she was bending forward with the person on her back, and the physical strength was too much, and before she was halfway there, Jada was already panting. Junia couldn't bear to see it, and whispered: "Jie, you let me down, I can go by myself." Jada looked back at her suspiciously, and seeing that her gaze was quite determined, he found a more open and stable place and let her go.

When Junia first got off the ground, she walked quite steadily, but soon began to be crooked, feeling aggrieved, but thinking that she was asking to walk, she had to reluctantly endure it. Minter walked at the end, saw this scene, looked at the small mountain village on the other side of the level, took advantage of the unpreparedness, quietly pinched a small piece of mud in the palm of his hand, found the opportunity that Jada and Shedd didn't see, and shot the mud block at Junia's ankle, she suddenly fell to the ground, and let out an "ouch"

Jada and Shed turned their heads when they heard the sound and saw her fall, the former frowned and said, "I said a long time ago that you are not used to this kind of road, and you are still strong?!" If you are injured. Won't it slow down everyone's trip? The latter leaned over to check her foot: "It's just an accidental fall, no sprain." ”

Junia didn't expect that her fiancΓ© not only didn't comfort her, but also said that she was stubborn, and Shead's comfort made her even more sad, and she couldn't help but have red eyes and was about to cry. Coldly caught a glimpse of a snake hanging from the trunk behind Shed, and spit out a long tongue of bright red se, and immediately rolled his eyes in fright: "Snake... Snake..."

Shedd didn't hear clearly: "Miss Junia, what are you talking about?" Seeing that the snake began to move, Mint hurriedly stepped forward and drew his sword to cut the snake before turning back and saying, "It's okay, this snake is not poisonous." He pulled out a glass bottle: "This water can repel snakes, ants, insects, snakes, if you need it, just spray a little on your body." ”

Junia was still staring at her big eyes and shaking. Jada sighed, took the bottle and rubbed a few drops on her arms and calves, and heard her wow. Grabbed herself tightly and cried, so frightened that she hurriedly covered her mouth: "Are you crazy? It's so close to the garrison! ”

Hearing this, Zhu Nia accepted her crying and changed to sobbing, but she felt even more aggrieved in her heart, she was frightened for nearly a month, and when she returned to her own country, she couldn't even cry, she glanced at her fiancΓ©, and her mouth was flattened. Tears flowed down her cheeks.

Minter looked a little dazed, although he secretly did something, but he never expected this young lady to be so cooperative, so he hurriedly said: "I see that Miss Junia is frightened, you two are also tired, there is a small mountain village in front, let's pass the checkpoint, let's find a place to rest there." There is not much dry food left, so you should buy a little. ”

Jada frowned, "It's too close to the garrison. Doesn't it matter? ”

Minter smiled, "As long as we don't meet the soldiers, I just saw that there is a road in the other direction of the village, so let's pretend to be a stranger from that side." ”

Jada thought for a moment and sighed, "Okay. He looked at Junia helplessly, and looked thoughtfully at the road he came, and muttered in his mouth: "I thought the checkpoint here was very tightly guarded, but I didn't expect to really climb over, it seems that after I go back, I have to let the army pay more attention to this kind of place..."

Mint cursed in his heart and said, "I seem to have heard some strange movements of the soldiers under the mountain. You might even find us. Let's go. ”

Jada woke up from her musings, and she couldn't comfort Junia. Picking her up and leaving, Shedd glanced at Junia worriedly, and took a step ahead of him, while Minter was still behind.

Coming to the village under the checkpoint, Minter asked Jada and the others to stay in the woods on the edge of the village, and offered to buy dry food by himself, Jada hesitated: "This... Not well, you're the only foreigner among us, if you are discovered..."Minter said lightly, "Do you want you to go?" You are not an ordinary person at first glance, and it is too difficult not to be noticeable; And Shed, this dress is simply to tell people that you are not a good citizen. If I don't go, do I want Miss Junia to go? ”

Jada was speechless, looking at the two people who were walking with him, and had to admit that what Minter said was the truth.

Minter struck the iron again and said while it was hot: "Besides, I have such a young appearance, others will not think that I am a suspicious person, I will be back soon, don't worry." Without waiting for him to stop himself, he rushed out first. Jada raised her hand and gave up.

As soon as Mint turned out of the woods, he put on a short cloak and a felt hat that his grandfather had worn, and looked like an ordinary Dinoga boy. He familiarized himself with the village, and found that the whole village was much depressed, not so lively, and even the few shops that were barely passable in the original business had closed down more than half, and the delicatessen he once patronized was even reduced by half to half of the storefront, and became half of the tailor's shop, and half of it was changed to sell fried noodles and fruit noodles and local wine.

Sitting behind the counter in the deli was not the woman I had seen back then, but a young man with raw eyes. Minter noticed that the red rope knot was very peculiar on the sign hanging in front of the store, so he smiled and walked into the store and asked the young man, "I heard that this is the best delicatessen in the neighborhood, may I ask... Is there any bread with oriental flavors? If so, give me twenty, right? ”

The young man's eyes flashed, and he said with a smile: "You are unlucky, the oriental bread will not arrive in a few days, if you don't dislike it, how about going to the kitchen and seeing what kind of food can enter your eyes?" ”

This meant that it would take a few days for the person to arrive, so Minter was a little relieved, pretending to go to see other food, and looking for an opportunity to hand the young man the information he had written down on his back in the past few days, and then returned to the woods with a large bag of fried noodles and dried noodles, and said, "That's all, on the way back I saw a well, so I secretly filled a few bags of water, which should be enough for us to use Normonka." ”

Junia asked curiously, "Why do you want to pretend secretly?" That's just well water. Her emotions had calmed down, and apart from the fact that she was still a little pale, she was basically fine. Because of the relationship between Mint and the snake just now, she has a much better opinion of him.

"It's not rich," Minter explains: "I see that people seem to be very close to their possessions, and if people look at them twice, they will be scolded, so I'm worried that they won't let me fetch water, because it's not an abundance of water." He looked at the village from afar: "There are actually many residents here, there is a garrison, and it is located on the main traffic road, but the village is depressed, you can see that it used to be lively, I don't know why it has become like this?" ”

Jada snorted coldly, "What else is the reason? At that time, Prince Mario ordered the expulsion of foreign merchants under the pretense of the last king's will, and the economy of the whole country was dealt a major blow, and this small place, which had prospered by passing merchants, would of course become depressed. It is a pity that even if His Majesty and I reopened the trade routes and called on foreign merchants to do business again, they would not come. Hmph, I have come up with so many preferential policies, those southern businessmen are unmoved, I have heard before that they are all bold and shrewd people, in order to make money, even dare to work hard. Now it seems that it is just rumors. ”

Minter was a little unimpressed. Merchants are willing to work hard to make money because they have huge profits. Now in Noga, Prince Mario's power is still very strong, no one knows if he will make another deportation order, and when the time comes, even if foreign businessmen invest more, they will not be able to get it back, how can they take this risk?

He wanted to say it, but then he thought that Jada was a member of the Noga royal family, and if he found out and came up with a good way to make the country richer and richer, what good would it do Easter? So he didn't speak.

After packing up the dry food and resting almost, the four of them got back on the road, and then turned around the foot of the mountain, and were looking for a place to get a few horses to walk, when they happened to meet a few horse dealers pulling a dozen or so horses to the fork in the road not far ahead, and hurriedly chased after them, so to say, they bought four horses at a high price.

Junia happily got on the horse with Jada's support, and Sheddy also had a little smile on his face, only Jada was a little depressed. If it weren't for walking, it wouldn't have left those good horses, and now these horses are just ordinary goods.

Minter chuckled and rolled over on his horse, and suddenly felt a heat on his body, and then the heat became more and more obvious, and suddenly remembered something, and secretly screamed that it was not good.

How could he have forgotten that he had been drinking the Transformation Pills for a full month, and today was the day when the Avatar Effect ended?!

What to do? He raised his eyes to look at the three people in front of him, and Jada soon noticed that his face was different: "What's wrong?" He pulled the reins and walked towards him.

At this time, Mint felt that his body was slowly changing, and he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

(The state has not been very good lately, do you think the plot is a little slow?) Anyway, it's really inconvenient to reply now, and I have to wait a long time to reply to the second one... οΌ‰