Dr. Zhang walked out of the village chief's house and took the girl from the Liu family all the way home to grab medicine. happened to meet the cat in the bushes outside the house, and stood on tiptoe to look at the window of Liu Qin'er's boudoir. He coughed dryly, and bluffed Luo Yin hurriedly squatted on his waist and looked around.

"Don't look at it, it's me!" exclaimed Dr. Zhang.

Only then did Luo Yin see Doctor Zhang outside the bushes, stood up and smiled a little wryly, scratching the back of his head in embarrassment.

"Hiding under the window of someone else's girl, sneaky, what kind of system is it?" said Dr. Zhang.

Luo Yin hesitated and said: "I...... I have something to do with Qin'er...... Seeing that there are many of you, it is not easy for you to go in. ”

Doctor Zhang frowned slightly, and snorted coldly: "In the past two days, I have seen the two of you mingling together all day long, and when you come back, you are either wet or gray-headed, where are you going to get into trouble?"

Although this Doctor Zhang is known as a doctor, he is actually a terrible blue and black-robed warlock, but he is arrogant by nature, and he doesn't care about the big and small things in the world, since he got tired of those swords and swords more than ten years ago, he has been living in seclusion here, studying his herbs and saving people with peace of mind.

"I didn't ...... No, the two of us are ...... I went up the hill to catch a bird, and I went into the water to catch a shrimp!" Luo said vaguely.

"Hmph, catching birds and catching shrimp?" Doctor Zhang had already noticed the large bruises on Luo Yin's face, shoulders and arms, and knew that there must be something big to hide, but he didn't move, just said leisurely, "You don't have to go to Qin'er today, she is sick and has a bad fever, and she needs to recuperate." ”

"Sick?"

"Yes, I suffered internal injuries, and I can't get better if I don't have half a month. Doctor Zhang said.

"This ......" Luo Yin said, frustrated for a moment, and regretted in his heart, "Damn, it's all my fault." ”

Doctor Zhang saw it all in his eyes and answered, "Oh, blame you?"

"Ah, ah, no...... I mean...... It means that I shouldn't have been greedy and dragged her to swim too far in the sea that day, and that day we ran into a strange fish that was more than one person long...... Coming straight for us, the two of us were fighting with the fish, and Qin'er was hit in the stomach by the tail of the fish...... It's my fault, I didn't protect her!" Luo Yin made up nonsense, not daring to tell the terrifying truth.

"Really?"

"It's true!"

The corners of Dr. Zhang's mouth curled, and he stroked a small handful of beard on his chin with his hand, knowing that he was lying, and the internal injuries were clearly caused by internal forces. He didn't ask any more, just waved his hand, and wanted to go back for the time being, and come back when Liu Qin'er was healed.

Luo Yin had no choice but to leave disappointed, and while walking, he looked back at the window of Liu Qin'er's house from time to time. Back in front of his house, Yu Bao'er rode a bamboo horse and ran over to play with him, he didn't pay attention, he didn't speak, just sat on the bamboo bench under the window and looked at the gray sky and the same gray sea in the distance, all he thought about was Liu Qin'er's injury.

This small fishing village of Jialan is the southernmost point of the Dawning Continent, and at this moment, at the northernmost tip of this vast continent, through the primeval forests, and then over a mountain range covered with thick ice and snow from east to west, you will arrive at the plateau where the Shesheng people have lived for generations. Throughout the year, the land and hills are covered with cold winds, frost and snow, and the vast expanse of snow covers the land and hills all year round.

At this time, at the junction of the primeval forest and the foot of the Forgotten Mountain, outside the lobby of the general's inner courtyard of the vanguard outpost camp of the Shesheng clan, a scarred and exhausted frost wolf was lying on the side of the door of the lobby with half-squinted eyes, and inside the hall, a shadow knight with a bloodstained face, torn armor, and a badly fractured right arm was reclining on a stone chair, and a witch doctor was correcting his bones and nailing a splint to hold the bones in place. There were a number of wolf-tooth warriors standing around, all of whom looked at the wounded Shadow Knight with puzzled and somewhat frightened faces. A man dressed in a black robe and wearing a black mask, sitting on the general's seat in the middle of the hall, asked:

"Captain Shadow, what happened, why did you come back alone and hurt so badly?" his voice was not loud, a little hoarse, but inexplicably breathtaking.

"Report to General Mercury, I waited a few days ago to complete the search mission, but I didn't want to be ambushed in the canyon just after leaving the Blue Mountain Boundary on the way back, the person who came could not see clearly, covered in a black veil, and his skills were far above us, my companion was killed, and I escaped by luck. The Shadow Knight replied.

"What kind of weapons and methods did that man use?" Mercury asked.

"I didn't hold any weapons, the moves were all close-quarters killing moves, and after the move, there suddenly seemed to be a confining force swimming all over the body, and the whole body was like a fire, the pain was unbearable, and the muscles and bones were paralyzed. The most terrifying thing is that once he is hit by the power of his fists and feet, the next moment his hands and feet will be sore, his body will be sluggish, and his movements will become extremely slow. Captain Shadow replied, "Because of that, we are powerless to fight back. ”

"There is such a powerful character?" General Mercury couldn't help but be taken aback, and said, "As far as I know, the South Dawn Sea is just a few villages, inhabited by fishermen, at most second-class Jialan guards are stationed, how can I hurt you Shadow Knights in the slightest?"

This Mercury General is the vanguard of the army of sacrifices, known as the ghost, because he is dressed in black, no one knows his face, but also because he has the ability to be ghostly. The Ghost leads 5,000 Sacrifice warriors to garrison the southern border of the Sacrifice Territory all year round, in order to watch and spy on the movements of the Dawning Alliance's army at any time.

His subordinates thought so, too. The Shadow Knight replied, "In the beginning, according to our investigations, those villages did indeed have only some second-class guards with mediocre skills. During the mission, we did encounter a few guards, but we were able to deal with them easily. ”

"Didn't you say don't reveal your whereabouts!" Mercury patted the armrest of the stone chair and scolded, "This time I just want you to go to the South Dawn Sea to find the Four Elephant Stones, so that no one in the Dawning Alliance can notice our actions, why don't you listen to military orders?!"

"The general's anger is not deliberate, but there is a reason for it, and we ...... We had an accident while we were lurking......" Shadow Knight guilty.

"Accidental, tell me the truth!" Mercury said with some displeasure, apparently not allowing an accident to happen to the Shadow Knight, who is a first-class killer.

"Yes. Six days ago, we were ordered to rush to the South Dawn Sea to search for the location of the Tanah Lot Temple where the Four Elephant Stones were buried according to the ancient map, but after searching the sea area shown on the map, there was not even an island in the temple, only the vast sea. Because of the delay in searching the sea area, we hid in the fishing village for a few days, during which our subordinates were careless...... He accidentally left the talisman, so he returned to look for it, but unfortunately he ran into two guards patrolling the sea, so he had to kill them. Later, I didn't think that the talisman was obtained by the fishermen of the Jialan tribe, and I don't know what the reason was, the talisman was activated, and a signal was released, and we followed the signal to pursue it in the middle of the night, and when we arrived, we found a few Jialan guards, so we had to solve the guards again, and wanted to recapture the talisman, but what is puzzling is that we did not find the talisman on them, and finally we threw the corpse into the deep sea to prevent the whereabouts from being exposed. ”

"If a number of guards are missing, there will definitely be an uproar on the Jialan Peninsula, and sooner or later they will be found out. Besides, your whereabouts have been exposed, otherwise why would you be followed by this master of unknown origin?!" Mercury said angrily.

"When the subordinates left the fishing village, they did pay careful attention and did not find anyone following. Moreover, after the accident that night, I immediately evacuated at night, but I didn't know where this mysterious master came from. The Shadow Knight replied with a bowed head.

Could it be a black-robed mage? No, no, no. Mercury secretly denied that the best black-robed mage from Cangyan had a tie with the Shadow Knight at most, and in terms of speed, the black-robed mage could not keep up with the Shadow Knight at all. Is it the Moonlight Knights? The Moonlight Priest of the Jialan Clan, who had fought with me, has a group of Moonlight Knights with extremely high combat power and speed, no, judging from the description of the Shadow, the one who came is more like a mage than a knight. Who could that be?" Mercury pondered, but no movement could be seen from his black-masked face. Suddenly, a name flashed through Mercury's mind—could it be the red-robed mage of Cangyan? Thinking of this, Mercury seems to deny this judgment, because although it has always been rumored that the red-robed mage has descended like a ghost on the battlefield, has the power to destroy the heavens and the earth, and kills the warriors like cutting vegetables, it is said that there are only six of them in total, shouldering the heavy responsibility of guarding the Dawn God and the Cangyan Prophet at all times, and they will not be dispatched easily, and they have not even seen any red-robed mages appear in the fierce battles they have fought for hundreds of years, not to mention that they are just spies in this fishing village that are not worth mentioning.

"As an elite warrior of the first rank of our clan, the only shadow killer on this continent, how can he be easily killed by someone?!" Mercury slapped the armrest of the stone chair again.

"Yes, his subordinates are incompetent and willing to be punished. But......" The Shadow Knight struggled to get up, supported by the wolf-tooth warrior beside him, and removed the staff tied to the frost sword from his back and presented it to Mercury, "but we found this in the hands of the dead guards, and in the humble opinion of his subordinates, I am afraid that this is something extraordinary, so we brought it back." ”

Mercury took the staff and snorted. Then he picked up the staff and looked at it for a while, noticing the extremely complex but delicate runes on the staff, as well as the four red, green, blue and black long transparent gems evenly inlaid around the head of the staff, and thought: "This is an extraordinary thing, but it is different from the usual staff, as far as I know, whether it is Jialan or Cangyan's mage, they all use a complete blood essence stone to make a staff, and I have never seen this kind of strange stone inlaid around the body." Presumably, this item is not owned by Jialan, and I don't know where those guards got it. ”

At this moment, the hall was quiet, and everyone did not know the origin, and Mercury's anger had not subsided at this time, so no one dared to speak again. The Shadow Knight held his injured right arm, also standing solemnly at his side, resisting the pain and not daring to sit down.

Although the mission failed, it was not without gain. The ruins of the Four Elephant Stones must have been just legends, but I don't know why the Lich Protector is so convinced that it is on the South Dawn Sea...... Forget it, you can recuperate first, and then make the next decision after I have made a decision on the next step. Mercury put the staff away from his personal wolf fang, and waved his hand to signal for everyone to disperse.