Imperial Capital Zion:

Early in the morning, the sky of Zion began to snow again, and the snow white as the size of goose feathers fell one by one, and soon dyed a snow-white in the distance and near. At first, you could see the mountains in the distance, and the white expanse of the earth, but when the snow fell more densely, you could only see a gray patch, and the scenery twenty or thirty steps away could not be seen clearly.

Although there is a saying that snow is not cold and snow is cold, the temperature rises slightly by one or two degrees, but one is full of snow and low visibility in the case of heavy snow, and the other is such a momentum of snow, the ground will soon accumulate thick snow, plus the snow accumulated before, will make it difficult to walk, it is not conducive to long-distance travel.

Jerry Foster looked up at the sky in displeasure, and then turned to the end of the path leading to him, wondering when that important figure would come. At this time, he was more or less conflicted in his heart, hoping not to travel in such weather, but also hoping to leave early and come back as soon as possible, so that he could have a lively New Year with his family and friends. It's been another year of hard work, and everyone cares about that reunion day.

Beside him, there were sixty-four thieves, all of whom were hidden according to his orders. A good thief should always hide his whereabouts and act it as an instinct, which is the basic requirement of Jerry for his men. He has been a thief for more than 20 years, entered the Tao at the age of 14, and is now a veteran thief with a career of 25 years as a thief by Chinese New Year's Eve nine.

Twenty-five years as a thief does not mean that Jerry's thief skills are too great, compared to other outstanding thieves in his guild, Jerry deeply understands that his thief skills are still lacking compared to theirs. This is limited by talent, and the same diligent situation, diligence can't make up for the clumsiness of talent. So Jerry sensibly put more energy into management and organization, which made him a pretty good leader of thieves in the end. Manage a gang of over 200 thieves.

A few days ago, when the mission came to the door, Jerry was quite puzzled, because the person who came to the door was actually the captain of the palace guard. This left Jerry scratching his head. Because under normal circumstances, the relationship between the royal army and the thieves' union is the relationship between officers and soldiers and robbers, although everyone does not necessarily meet and kill each other, but the well water does not interfere with the river water, and there is no good face for each other, but it is a real thing. Because thieves are an essential profession in Aris. But the reputation is not very good, and everyone knows the situation that is not very popular.

What would have it for the royal army to come to a thief group to entrust the mission? and even avoided the thieves' guild transfer and came directly to the door to entrust the mission? Although his own Dark Fang Thieves were indeed the top thieves group in Zion, Jerry really couldn't think of any reason for the Samuel royal to take a fancy to him. Think about it, which royal family does not have its own private power? Those hidden guards, secret guards, etc., which cannot see the light, have always been mysterious and powerful, and they should be more convenient to use under the direct control of the royal family than to entrust tasks outside.

Then I thought about it again. As we all know, the Thieves' Guild has always been a relatively alternative existence in the professional union of Aris Continent, and more than eighty percent of the tasks are not visible, why did Samuel Royal find him. Assassination, infiltration, or spying, or chaos? Jerry's intelligence network had already learned that the regent Cézanne Samus was in power behind the scenes, so it was hard for him not to think in the shadows.

As a result, after receiving the task, Jerry completely overturned his idea, and the main task was only to investigate. The secondary mission is to help the sixteen heavy swordsmen protect the fourteen miners and potion specialists. In addition, there is also a death order, a handwritten decree issued directly by the regent: regardless of the task situation, first guarantee the second prince Xu Zheng?? The safety of Banderey Seves. This mission turned out to be unexpectedly bright and above board.

Jerry couldn't help but wonder why the escort mission would fall on the head of a group of thieves, and on the other hand, he couldn't help but think about the second prince Xu Zheng?? Banderey Seves.

Xu Zheng, isn't that the legendary boy who has the title of a commoner prince? Jerry has never met this young man, but he has heard a lot of rumors about him, and he has obtained such a series of mission requirements from the hands of Samuel's royal guard. I couldn't help but become more and more curious about the teenager.

Xu Zheng is a legend in Zion, he is like a pair of hands that can turn decay into magic, and most of the great changes in the imperial capital in the past year have come from his genius ideas. For example, the tap water system in the headquarters of the Darkfang was from that young man, which allowed all the thieves to enjoy a convenient and clean water source. There are also those water towers, which have brought benefits to the whole of Cheng'an, presumably Cheng'an will not suffer from drought next year, and everyone can live a better life. Food is the most important part of the foundation for any country, it directly determines the national strength and the people's living standards, this boy solved the drought that has plagued Cheng'an for a long time, Jerry feels that he should be very grateful to this boy like every Cheng'an citizen. If such a teenager had appeared twenty years earlier, perhaps he would not have been a thief, but perhaps a successful warrior. Or maybe he appeared twenty years earlier, and his parents, who have been working in the fields and forests, will live better and can accompany him until now. Another example is paper paper, when Zion was first sold, Jerry, as a knowledgeable leader of thieves, immediately saw its great usefulness, and did not hesitate to buy it in large quantities, replacing the transmission and recording media of the entire intelligence system with this light and easy to collect thing. At that time, all the thieves who could read and write were brought in to serve as temporary clerks, and Jerry still remembers the fact that everyone copied and copied the words so much that everyone could copy them.

Jerry, the young man who was able to make this series of things, thought highly of him, and had the impression that Xu Zheng was an outstanding person with amazing talents.

But looking at today's weather that is not conducive to travel, and the six royal knights around him are very sure of Xu Zheng's order to travel today, Jerry can't help but be a little disappointed in this young man who thinks highly of him. A truly intelligent person would not choose to travel in such weather, because it is very difficult to travel or survive in such weather.

Jerry is a very hardworking man, whether it is practicing thief skills or performing tasks, including the requirements of being a human being, and later managing the entire Darkfang Thieves Band, he is very diligent, which has led to his achievements and status today. Also for this reason, he doesn't like people who are not diligent.

Diligence made him wait here early with his own men, and waited until nine o'clock when no one came, and Jerry classified Xu Zheng as one of the people who were not diligent. He doesn't like people who are not diligent, so he has more disappointment in Xu Zheng.

Looking around, the six knights, led by Agasi, were all standing under a large tree to avoid the snow. The fourteen miners and the two potions were shivering in the cold wind. The sixteen heavy swordsmen were scattered to protect the sixteen incapable personnel closely, in a one-on-one situation. Except for himself, the rest of the thieves were lurking with their own skills, everyone was frozen here waiting for the late main character, everyone who was exposed had snow piled up on their shoulders, and one of the thieves hiding in the snow was hidden by the thick snow without the slightest trace. It's definitely not easy to be cold in the snow, and it's because of his concern for his subordinates that Jerry isn't very happy. And the longer the wait, the more unhappy Jerry became. Because the other party is a royal family and a task entruster, this unhappiness must be suppressed and cannot be expressed, and Jerry is even more unhappy.

And with the emergence of Xu Zheng, this unhappy mood mixed with disappointment has almost reached its peak.

It wasn't until half past nine that Xu Zheng and his entourage were late.

Jerry thought he was going to see a completely different person, and in his imagination, someone who could do a lot of amazing things should be physically different. Since he was given the title of the star of the imperial capital like the pride of the sky, he must be an outstanding person that he can only look up to. Jerry thought that he would see a young and dusty figure strolling through the snow, and the moment he saw him, he would have the illusion that he was the only one left in the world, and the sky was full of snow and wind and snow. As a result, he only saw a young man in cloth with a blue nose and swollen face, who was not tall, and was slightly shorter than ordinary sturdy boys.

The cloth on his body is newly made, the color is very plain, the style is very simple, not gorgeous or novel, except that it is new, there is no feature, it is really ordinary to the extreme. The face is bruised and swollen, giving the impression that it is the cumulative result of falling out of bed a hundred times while sleeping, and each time it is the cumulative result of the face hitting the ground first. Or at least hundreds or thousands of people punched him in the face at the same time, and finally left this brilliant record.

What made Jerry frown the most was that as the young man approached, Jerry couldn't feel the slightest trace of magic or combat skills on his body, and he was an ordinary person who had no ability to protect himself at all. Not only that, but he was wearing a thick layer of warmth under his cloth coat, which filled him into a bloated fat man, which seemed to match his bruised face.

The boy limped along, shivering from the cold weather, and the bruises on his face made Jerry suspect that some of them were frozen. He was followed by two younger teenagers, with innocent expressions on their faces, like two young entourage. Behind them, four more wildebeest carriages followed, moving slowly, their wheels sinking deep into the snow, as if they were carrying a lot of things.

Seeing this, Jerry was already disappointed in the person he had wanted to meet. Jerry saw a man who had failed in his life, and who had not yet taken two naïve teenagers and four cumbersome carriages to a place like the Magical Beast Forest in the Phantom Forest, and apparently regarded this dangerous journey to the forbidden land of humans as a trip to the mountains and rivers, and behaved like a royal gentleman.

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