From the Rhine to Emster, there was no delay on the way, it took a month.

In October, Emst's sun is scorching during the day, and the nights are so cold that people's joints hurt. After only two days at Stuhl's winery, Liu Ci gave up riding in a carriage and chose to ride with Lydia to the city of Amster first.

The Amster region is mountainous, with the bare hills locked in by the thick fog of the early morning, and the occasional low forest with yellow leaves and a lack of life.

The mountain road, which could only be used by one carriage, swirled and undulated, and Liu Ci and Lydia rode on the mountain road, and the fog wet Liu Ci's hair for a while.

In addition to the large temperature difference, the early morning visibility on the part of the road near Emster City is extremely low.

The horse's hooves on the dirt road are a dull sound of "aggressive", which can be heard far away on the inaccessible mountain road. It's just a hundred meters away, and you can only see a slow-moving white mist in your sight, and no one dares to run too fast on the mountain road that can only be identified by sound, and if you are not careful, you will fall into the mountain and die.

In a turn, the figures of Liu Ci and Lydia disappeared into the thick fog, leaving only the sound of horses' hooves fading away, and the two of them were still moving forward freely.

The sound of horses' hooves faded away until it was inaudible, and a few more horses appeared behind them.

Immediately, a few people dressed as swordsmen were bare-armed, and there was a trace of heat on their heads in this weather, which showed that several people were full of blood and blood, and they were martial arts masters with a small fighting spirit.

One of them seemed to be very good at spouting, and carefully studied the horseshoe prints on the ground, and said to the others, "It's the new seals, and they have just been gone." ”

The leading swordsman nodded, unconsciously touching the saber behind his back.

"Seeing that she was almost at her destination, she hurried away, thinking that she had discovered us and wanted to take the opportunity to get rid of it."

The swordsman in charge of the reconnaissance had a tense face, if Liu Ci found them, according to her actions in Rhine City, he should not be able to put up with them for nearly a month.

It's always good to be careful, though.

The fog cleared a bit, visibility improved, and the swordsmen rode faster.

The way was a bend, and the swordsman who was leading the way was about to slow down with a rein, but the horse running under his crotch did not know what he had tripped, and suddenly leaned forward, and the swordsman immediately fell off his horse.

The three horses behind them were unable to catch up and fell together.

The four of them knew at the moment that they had been ambushed, but they couldn't get up, and the sword light had already split out of the mist.

"Ahh

The screams slashed from the middle, and the three swordsmen had not yet seen the person who attacked, and all of them fell to the ground. Hot human blood sprayed all over the ground, and the only survivor rolled several times to prop himself up from the ground, and before he could see the sneak attacker, the cold blade of the sword was already on his neck.

Liu Ci walked out of the mist and wiped the blood-stained giant sword clean in the dry grass.

"You designed us!"

The surviving swordsman gritted his teeth in exchange for Liu Ci's chuckle: "In your marquis's impression, I have always been brainless, right?" How can such a person endure your tracking for a month? ”

The person with the sword on the stalker's neck was none other than Lydia.

Although these private soldiers also have the title of intermediate swordsmen, they are considered the elite among ordinary soldiers, how can they compare to the former adventure captain Lydia Hera, who was trained by Ye Luzi. Not to mention that Liu Ci also personally took action to solve two, Lydia killed one, and then shot only to catch the last live mouth.

The surviving swordsman didn't say a word, and didn't give Liu Ci a chance to talk.

The war horse neighed at the end, and got up from the ground with its tail shaking.

Liu Ci muttered, "There is not much difference between killing people and killing demonic beasts...... He's not going to say anything, get rid of him, Lydia. ”

The surviving swordsman was loyal, and Lydia swung her sword and beheaded the other.

The head of the person who fell to the ground was still unwilling to open his eyes, Liu Ci swung his sword and cut off the "tripping rope" on the ground, only to put the giant sword back behind him, and Lydia picked two more among the four people's war horses.

Previously, in order to lure the stalkers behind them into the urn, Liu Ci and Lydia hid behind the corner of the mountain and stabbed their horses away with their swords, creating the illusion that the two horses were moving forward on the mountain road.

Without the annoying "flies", Liu Ci and Lydia got on their horses again.

A piece of yellow paper fell from the dissipating mist and fell to the ground on the corpse, which spontaneously combusted without wind.

The corpse was enveloped in incessant flames, and the flames and scorch scared away the two remaining horses—Emst, a hilly-strewn pastoral area, and the two horses were freed from the wild.

When the sun on Emster cleared the white fog, there were only a few stalls of charred ash left on the mountain road where the murder had occurred, and when the mountain wind blew, everything would be gone.

…………

The city of Amst is the economic and cultural center of the neighborhood.

Compared with the barren land along the way, it is so prosperous that Liu Ci expected.

Liu Ci and Lydia rushed to the city at noon, when the sun was at its strongest, because the city was so crowded that horseback riding was forbidden in the city except for patrols, and the two led the horses down the street, asking about "Moi's Tavern" along the way.

After Arnold sent Rachel and George to school, he himself stayed at the Moy Tavern.

After walking for most of the day, the kind locals told them the location.

Two young women are going to the Moi Tavern, and the locals look at them strangely. When I found my destination, the small tulou was unexpectedly lively.

The swordsman with the sword, with his coarse speech, spoke loudly and laughed.

There were also two magicians hiding in slightly quieter corners.

A few broken tables, dozens of people gathered around the center of the store, talking with beers and pointing at the large template hanging on the wall.

Lydia can still bear it, Liu Ci led the horse and was shocked by Arnold's choice: the accommodation conditions in this place are too poor, she remembers that she gave the other party a lot of gold coins, could it be that in this remote place of Amster, the tuition fee of the Magic Academy is really high to the point of perversion?

Lydia craned her neck to look, and suddenly pointed to the wooden planks on the wall and said:

"It turns out that this is a mercenary tavern, no wonder the passer-by has a strange expression when he looks at us."

Mercenary Tavern? When he was in Rhine City, Liu Ci was haunting the Straiff family all day long, and he didn't know much about the mainland.

Lydia explained, "The Mercenary Guild has a number of proxy points in each city, like this tavern, mainly to issue quests to adventurers and mercenaries in Amster, and the drinks and food are incidental. ”

Arnold was a freelance mercenary before joining Lydia's Adventure Squad.

No wonder he chose to settle here, it seems that he is an occupational criminal.

Liu Ci and Lydia led their horses to the door of Moy's Tavern, and at first glance, they were two types of people from the stinky mercenaries in the tavern, and seeing that the two of them had been standing for a long time, finally the guy with the spirit stepped forward to greet them:

"Hey, two beautiful young ladies, do you want to stay?"

Brushing and brushing, the originally boiling tavern suddenly became eerily quiet.

The mercenaries took the wine in their hands and turned their heads to look out the door. Lydia, who is leading the horse, is still like a swordsman, and Liu Ci, who is also carrying a giant sword, is slender and has a small face, but like a noble lady who ran away from home.

Women do not have an advantage in cultivating fighting spirit, the number of female swordsmen is already scarce, plus they have to fight with others, beautiful girls don't like to be swordsmen, and a convex and backward figure like Lydia is enough to make a group of rough men tremble and swallow saliva secretly.

When they came back to their senses, a few mercenaries wanted to laugh, but they were made afraid to talk nonsense by Liu Ci's inadvertent arrogant gaze.

After coldly glancing around the tavern, Liu Cicai beckoned to the short, short-haired boy:

"Come, I'll ask you something."

The short-haired guy greeted him with a sneer, his face full of hesitation.

Liu Ci took out a few gold coins and threw them around in his hand, squinting at him: "You haven't asked yet, what are you embarrassed about." ”

When she squinted at people, she obviously looked high, but the slightly raised corners of her eyes made her arrogance smart, and the short-haired guy sniffed, feeling that Liu Ci seemed to have a "white light" that people didn't dare to look at directly, and his whole person was gray and couldn't take the stage.

The young man couldn't help buttoning the corners of his clothes, trying to hide a few black spots that were impressive.

It was a stain of oil from the barbecue, and it was really embarrassing.