Roger and Evelyn searched in a mountain forest north of Blackwood Pass, and what they were looking for was naturally Xiao Chen. They saw the approximate location of Xiao Chen's fall in the air, but it was completely difficult to see a place deep in the dense forest from the sky, and to dig into the woods and grass from the ground to find it.

Evelyn had a ring on her finger, it was Elaina's storage ring, after most of her body was destroyed, she soon couldn't hold on and returned to Xiao Chen's meditation world, and the equipment on her body was put into this ring by her and handed over to Evelyn for safekeeping, "It's a pity that Tasia and Elaine have returned to the meditation world, otherwise as long as any of them are there, they can easily find Xiao Chen's location." ”

"Hopefully we'll have a little luck. Roger looked at a watch in his hand, "It's been an hour." Today, many mages have fallen from the sky, and the people of the empire will definitely send people into the nearby mountains and forests to find those mages. Although it is rare for mages to fall in this direction, there is no guarantee that they will not run into the team that comes to search. We'd better find Xiao Chen before they enter the forest. ”

"What are we going to do if we encounter that kind of team? Do we dodge or fight?"

"It's not difficult to win against them, this kind of thing will not be handed over to the elite troops to do, but they will send a dozen teams to search the net every time, and if they alarm one team, it is likely that they will be heard by other teams, and then they will cause a steady stream of trouble. So let's hide first. ”

"There seems to be a voice. Evelyn abruptly interrupted Roger's words, and the Dark Elf Ranger's brilliant ear skills brought them to a lowly moaning Imperial mage.

"Come and save me. When the man saw someone approaching, he immediately shouted.

"Be quiet! There may be enemies around. Roger immediately replied in the lingua franca of the Empire, and he reached out to Evelyn and walked over first.

The mage lit up a ball of light, and when he saw that it was a warrior of obvious imperial blood who was walking over, he was relieved and said, "You are finally here, I am wounded in the waist, bleeding, and I have broken my leg. Help me. ”

Roger lifted the mage to his feet with a slight lift.

The mage looked at him and said, "Why are you alone, and you don't wear standard armor?"

"I'm a mercenary recruited by Duke Stuart to do some cleaning up the battlefield. Roger replied.

The mage was not suspicious, it was a common practice, and the Duke did recruit mercenaries, and he had seen quite a few in the camp.

"Your gear doesn't look like a regular mercenary. ”

"Of course, I'm a high-ranking warrior, and my mission is not to save people, but to search for lone enemies. Roger replied.

"Then it's no wonder. The mage nodded.

Roger walked up and asked, "I've looked around and found nothing, have you seen or heard anything unusual since you fell here?"

"Nothing else. The mage stretched out his hand and pointed in the northeast direction, "That's the direction, I heard a falling sound before, maybe there were our companions there, but I shouted a few times and no one answered, I guess the man fell to his death." ”

"Are you sure it's going in this direction?" asked Roger again.

"Sure, right behind those big trees. The mage said.

"Thank you!" Roger poured fighting energy into his hand and slapped the mage on the head, and the unsuspecting mage was smashed into his skull in one fell swoop, and he vomited blood from his mouth and fell to the ground to die.

Roger took off his storage ring and walked in the direction the mage pointed with Evelyn, who had followed him.

"I didn't expect you to kill your former compatriots without hesitation. Evelyn said, glancing at the corpse on the ground.

"Only elves will treat their own kind like this, well, some Chinese will too, others will not. Roger said.

"Isn't it different in the eyes of the Imperials? Then why do you call yourself Imperial?"

"In empires and kingdoms, the relationship between people is like a tree, the leaves belong to the branches, the branches belong to the branches, and the branches belong to the larger branches, layer upon layer, down to the trunk. Do you think that as a leaf, I am the same kind as a branch?"

"But you belong to the same tree, don't you?"

"When autumn comes, the leaves have fallen and the branches are still there. When the branches can't stand the wind and frost and decay, the trunk is still there. A tree trunk that can live for a thousand years will not treat leaves that do not live for more than a year as compatriots, and vice versa. ”

"I didn't expect you to be quite literate, so what kind of relationship do you want people to have?"

"I don't know. Roger looked at his feet, "Maybe it's a piece of grass, at least one grass looks like the other." ”

They walked for about five minutes, climbed a small slope, crossed a small stream, and finally came around behind the big trees. There are many traces of broken branches here, and the grass on the ground has been pressed down a lot.

"It's been a drop here. Roger said.

"Wait a minute, I've got a discovery. Evelyn picked up a ring from the ground, "This is Tasia's ring. Xiao Chen is really here, but it looks like he has already left. ”

"Look along the footprints. Roger said.

Evelyn used her night vision to track the mark on the ground, picking open the branches and walking forward, but took a few steps before retreating.

"How?"

"It's a little trick, the footprints are stepped on twice. Evelyn closed her eyes and listened intently, and suddenly rushed out four or five meters to the left, and pushed away a bush on the ground, and behind it was Xiao Chen's shocked face.

"Xiao Chen!" she pulled out Xiao Chen, who was squatting on the ground.

Roger noticed that Xiao Chen's expression was very strange, it was a nervous and defensive look, and asked, "My lord, how are you?"

"My lord?" Xiao Chen's expression was a little strange, "It seems that you know me?

Evelyn let go of him, "What's the matter? Did you break your head?"

"You, you must be a dark elf. You're Evelyn, aren't you?" Xiao Chen said, turning to look at Roger, "Your words...... , look at your outfit as a swordsman, there is a faint flash of thunder on the sword, you are Roger, right?"

Roger and Evelyn looked at each other, the appearance of this person in front of them was undoubtedly Xiao Chen, he was clear and organized, but the words he said were very strange.

"I'm Roger, and she's Evelyn. But who are you?" Roger looked at Xiao Chen warily.

Xiao Chen showed a friendly smile and said, "When we first met, I was Xiao Chen. A Xiao Chen you don't know. ”