Although it is a little offensive to think about it, on closer consideration, there are certain words that only Mina, who has known for many years, can understand. So Thomas forgave himself, after all, it was his priority to provoke Mina, and the details were not important!

Walking through the snow, he turned to the stables behind the temple. It's a mud hut that can only accommodate a few horses, but the insulation is okay. Just to make it easier for unicorns to get in and out, the door was not closed.

Thomas quietly pushed open the door and entered, where the unicorn Azel was standing in the stable, squinting and dozing. Its ears moved, and its mouth opened like a human grin. This indicates that it has noticed the Ranger, but still does not bother to open its eyes, and instead lies down relaxedly.

Thomas leaned over and stroked the silver horns and long sideburns on top of its head, and the unicorn wriggled and rubbed its head against him. Maybe now it's the only female creature in the world who can accept his head touching. And the unicorn and the stable in front of him always made him feel a little nostalgic.

"Which do you like, a horse or a cat?" murmured Agel.

"I guess I don't like horses. He sighed and said, "I was still in school when my great-grandfather died, and I don't really know if his horse was sold or died." ”

"I've heard that horses are very loyal and spiritual creatures, and maybe they cry when their owners die. It's like Chitu and Guan Yu in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. So I don't like horses, I like independent, proud, headstrong cats. ”

"But now I realize that I was wrong, that cats' little hearts are very sensitive and fragile, but they don't show it. When the owner treats them badly, she will just quietly leave. ”

With a sigh, he gently lowered the unicorn's head, stood up, and threw the fish bone into the small stone mill to grind.

Icewind Dale's specialty giant hardhead trout is a favorite of both locals and bears. Its skull, which can achieve an effect similar to that of ivory carving, is a famous product of the Ten Towns, attracting many ivory carving artists and merchants. Leftover bones are generally of little use, but can actually be crushed for feed, calcium and protein.

In the evening, nothing seemed to happen, and Thomas cheekily followed two meals, which were very much supplemented with some fat and salt.

The dwarves and barbarians followed the gnomes to his mechanical shop, resting and towning. Despite the dismal business, the fact that the dwarf goods are sold without warranty and absolutely no guarantee of safety still angers all the wronged customers who have ever bought his goods. Although he has long since written out the instructions and terms of use, it is not binding on the people of Icewind Dale.

Mina also rested early to recharge her energy for tomorrow's trip.

The unicorn Agel also lay down to rest peacefully after Thomas was on guard.

The ranger was half-asleep on the wall, half-asleep, with his sun-dried pasture and hides, and with a longbow in his arms.

"Huh?" Amid the sound of howling winds and falling snow particles, he heard wheels and reindeer hooves running over the snow, slowly approaching, and finally stopping in front of the temple.

"Tell Mina that someone is coming. Thomas pressed his bow against the wall, pressed his knees down, wound hard, and covered himself under the skin of the animal, and felt for the door of the temple.

A small benefit of physical travel is that you can see a range of about 10 meters at night, just like daytime, but the picture is black and white.

However, if you want to stimulate and cooperate with the truly powerful abilities of visitors from other worlds, you must shoot the evidence of the stars.

He approached cautiously, heard the man knock on the door, entered, and could not hear the sound of the speech afterwards.

Touching the doorway and making a quiet gesture to the parked reindeer, Thomas placed his longbow at his side and put his ear to the door.

"Captain Markham, it's so cold, you don't have to warm up at home, there must be something very important?" he heard Mina's kind voice.

"Paladin, you must know that there is a lot going on right now. Not to mention the attack by the snow monster and the fire this morning, the focus is on the monster who claimed to be Kaisso's man, and the private trial and torture of the Goddess of Cold - in case you don't know, the Spokesperson has been missing for days, otherwise you should have seen her as soon as you arrived. ”

"No wonder the little girl didn't come out to greet her...... You mean you simply can't maintain the laws in the town after losing the support of her power?"

"Yes, she should have been responsible for all these things, but now Mr. Gantt and I can only reluctantly pretend that she is still there. But there seem to be people in the town who are already suspicious, otherwise those cultists shouldn't be so rampant?"

"Hmm, where was she doing before she disappeared? Are there any strange people in town?"

"Uh......" the captain of the guard pondered his words with a slight embarrassment, "she was in her own house before she disappeared, the Speaker's Mansion? As for the strange people in town, even if you get rid of the strangest of the gnomes, there are still a lot of them! You know, there are so many foreign merchants, adventurers, and fugitives, and now that the snow is closing the road, they can't get out." ”

Mina also fell silent, she was usually the one who pronounced and executed the sentence, and rarely reconnoitred on the spot.

"Messad, come in!" she called.

The air was silent for a moment, and Mina couldn't help but suspect that she had misjudged, but the answer to ask the unicorn with a telepathic link confirmed that the Ranger had indeed arrived.

There was a deliberate delay for a moment before Thomas pushed the door open and appeared in front of her and Markham.

As soon as Mina saw the smile on his face, she knew that it was deliberate, and she couldn't help but be angry.

"Forget it, this guy is useless anyway, I'll go myself!"

"With your character and intelligence, it's useless to go. Thomas said contemptuously.

"I've run out of spells, though. That's why I need Agel's help. ”

"She's too tired to go out!" Mina said hurriedly.

"It's okay," the unicorn's voice sounded in her head, "I didn't have much weight along the way, and now I'm rested." ”

Mina treats it like a lover, no, goes a step further than that. Because their lives are meant to be one. She is basically reluctant to ride when she is not fighting, and even the armor is Mithril armor that has been purchased at a huge cost, which is strong and light—and expensive! Mina's armor is enough to buy a house in Shanghai, so the unicorn's armor is equivalent to a villa.

But when it understood what Thomas meant, it began to snort unhappily: "Do you not only pet me like a cat, but also make me a hound!"

However, the unicorn followed Thomas and the captain of the guard to the house of the spokesman of Brynsander, the best small building in town, and the most luxurious mansion north of Miraba.

"Uh, are you sure it's here?" said Thomas as he turned to the captain of the guard with a helpless look on his face after opening the door.

It was as if it had not been inhabited for decades, covered in dust and cobwebs. You know, this is in the cold Icewind Valley, not the tropics, where do so many spiders come from.

"I swear she was still living here a few days ago. ”

"What about the servant?"

"They were all killed, and the bodies were not decomposed. But it's cold in Icewind Dale, and I don't know how long I've been dead. ”

"That means you don't have professional personnel to destroy the scene - it doesn't matter anyway, the scene has already been changed by the prisoners. ”

"Changed?"

"If I'm not mistaken, this dust and cobwebs are a magical curiosity often used by Southern criminal gangs. It is possible to hide their footprints very cleanly. ”

Thomas's heart was bleeding as he said this: "A bunch of losers, how good it would be to give me all this money to buy special arrows, then I don't have to worry about the number at all." ”

However, this also shows that the value of the spokeswoman is far more than that of the hidden powder.

He pulled out the only magic weapon he had now, the Apple Buster.

The Apple Buster is a dagger with a dull orange grip that once belonged to a halfling. Before the adventure began, he would use this dagger to peel apples and eat them. Because it is rarely used to fight, his companions call it "Apple Buster".

Thomas also never fought with it, but used it as a survival knife, used to cut, peel, process, chop trees, open paths, and climb...... Because it is enchanted, it remains sharp and strong even after being tossed around by all kinds of spoilage.

When you slap the hilt, it glows with a clear light. Wielding a dagger, the Ranger easily slices through the cobwebs that block his view and heads deep into the room.

Though he didn't hold out hope, he let the unicorn try to smell it, but it didn't come to fruition.

"Obviously, the enemy knew that there were people like me who would come and track them, so they did counter-tracking work. ”

He sneered and began to check the situation in the room: "Judging from the destruction at the scene, the murderer should not have used a long weapon. ”

"These people were mortally wounded in the back or in the vital parts, and they looked like the actions of thieves or assassins. ”

The most important evidence:

The Ranger opened the servant's wound, and a little blue flame burned lightly inside.

"This is the manifestation of the Plague Flame, the manifestation of the uncontrolled burning of the magical energy that makes up the world, objects, and human beings after the Plague of Magic, and it is likely to be another form of Curse Flame. Although less powerful, it is widely used by thieves due to its ability to cause pain continuously. And the war system generally doesn't like this kind of insidious weapon enchantment, and even if it is used, it is because the shipment is too large, and it is cheaper than normal enchantment. In addition to those crime cities north of Cat City, the Sword Bay area is the most popular. Because of the Great Rift caused by the earthquake volcano of Neverwinter, there is a large amount of distorted magical energy. ”

When he saw the plague flames, he felt the stinging and twitching of the wounds on his body, as if to warn and remind him.

"Agel, please go tell that Slorin dwarf that our old friend is in Icewind Dale. Get ready to meet. ”

He couldn't help but sigh as he watched the water vapor condense into frost in the air, "Why don't you guys still let me go, even if I flee to Icewind Dale?"

"As long as you do Xie Xiaofeng, you will always be Xie Xiaofeng. Cortana replied, "It's not just the rivers and lakes where there are people." Even if you flee to a place where no one is around, the rivers and lakes will catch up with you. ”