"Can you rest assured?"

Lan Meng's eyes narrowed: "I don't believe it. ”

"I'll assign you a deputy. Alexei dipped his fingers in a little plum sauce and put it in his mouth to taste, "Sour and sweet, it tastes good, don't you want to try it?"

"The smell makes me feel sour. Hmph, deputy, even if you don't swallow it, there is a thick bitterness on your tongue. ”

Lan Meng raised his eyebrows: "But I can't object, can I?"

"Whatever you want me to do for you, now that you've asked...... Hehe, I'm not stupid yet, I know I have no room to refuse. ”

This time, she comfortably picked up the bread on the corner of the table, bit it into her mouth and chewed it heavily, and whispered indistinctly: "Say, your plan, I'll listen to it." ”

"Before I tell you about my plan, I want to know what kind of illusions you have. ”

Regardless of whether Lan Meng's attitude is submissive or resisting, Alexei doesn't really care if he needs a knife or a combination of a knife and a fork when he eats the next piece of beef. For him, only the results that conform to his personal will are the most important.

"I'm just getting started. ”

Lan Meng replied, "Enchantment, Lost City, Mind Manipulation. ”

"Controlling a Burcente is already my limit. She pursed the corners of her lips, "For a childish reason, I used to be particularly interested in mind-controlling spells. ”

"Of course, after I actually learned, I realized that the reality was not at all the same as I imagined. ”

"Illusion doesn't allow me to have a loyal minions. ”

"If it weren't for the weakness of Bursente's own will, I wouldn't have been able to take advantage of it. ”

"Even so, he always wrestled with me subconsciously. ”

"I can't help you much, you'd better not expect too much. ”

"I know. Alexei bowed slightly, indicating understanding, "I don't expect your illusion to help me much. But I need your face. ”

"I just noticed that you still have some influence over the Black Stork, and if you can control the second Bursente, I don't think it will be difficult to integrate Darune's gang. ”

"But you've seen it too. Their respect for me comes more from my mage status than from me, Blue Dream, as their past leader. ”

"It doesn't matter. ”

Alexei then accentuated the pronunciation and repeated, "It doesn't matter...... All I need is a guide, whether it's you or Burcente, I don't have the energy to waste my time in Darune, you know?"

"Gangs are just a trivial point in my plans. ”

He stood up and gently drew a crossed cross on the table with his fingers: "I need you to use illusion to perform a few miracles at regular intervals. ”

"The Church of the Sun?"

Lan Meng caught a glimpse of Alexey's gesture as he drew the pattern, she looked up, and her tone was a little hesitant: "You're going to meddle in religion, won't you be discovered?"

"What if the priests find out, someone will shut them up. ”

"Just do what I say. ”

"Of course, as a bonus, I'll let go of some of the magic restrictions on you. Alexei stepped forward and stroked Lan Meng's collarbone with his fingers, and under her clothes, three shiny runes were connected into a ring with invisible silk threads, biting the girl's veins, absorbing all the magic power flowing in the blood, and then restoring it to the operational energy of the runes.

The mage, who was their true master, simply flicked a trace of the seal on it, and even a very small amount of magic power escaped the loop of the runes, and flowed through the open mesh like a fish in the net, turning into the capital of Lan Meng's spell casting: "Against ordinary people, these magic powers are enough." ”

Alexei then said to Blue Dream, "This lock will have a key. ”

"So, the key will be in the deputy's hand. Blue Dream turned his face expressionlessly and let out an extremely disdainful sneer, "What are you afraid of?" Alexei, Your Excellency the Elemental Child of our Great Council, could it be that I could kill you if I had the magic power?"

"In front of you, I'm no different from an ant, right?"

"Maybe it's no difference, but compared to other ants, you have wings that can fly, and you have a pair of pincers that are several times larger than others. ”

"I really don't feel at ease about releasing you into society without any restrictions. ”

"Gog, Gasry......" Alexei counted a few people who had helped Blue Dream, both openly and covertly, "I said that I won't give you another chance to get a helper." ”

"Then how can you guarantee that the deputy you sent me will not help me?" Lan Meng smiled, laughing particularly wantonly.

"Naturally, I have a way to guarantee it. To this, Alexei responded, "He has ambition and desire. ”

"But you are not enough to satisfy his desires, you cannot feed him. ”

"Let me guess who he is. As he spoke, Lan Meng swallowed the last slice of bread. She licked the plum sauce from her fingertips and turned her gaze to Alexey's hand—there was another bottle of elf jam that hadn't had time to open.

"If I'm guessing right. ”

She got up, and Alexei picked up, "Then give it to you." ”

"But if you're guessing wrong. ”

Lan Meng put his finger to his lips: "I can't be wrong." ”

"It's Joannis. ”

"The slave catcher. ”

......

The carriage stopped.

The morning light on the horizon is caressed by the warm breeze of late spring, the dew reflects the rising sun, the long boots of pedestrians step on the stones, and the sound of horses' hooves is non-stop.

The grass on both sides of the road is verdant and dotted with wildflowers.

Hurrying all the way, the robbers of the Black Stork finally leaned back to the edge of the road.

They pointed to the wall at the end of their sight, and after several arguments over the two men in the carriage, the robbers, who had many opinions, had to come to a consensus that seemed unreliable.

I can't beat it, I can't drive it away.

A group of gang members who couldn't get the mage at all thought about it, racked their brains and could only maintain the original plan, and decided to completely throw the burden on the upper family.

As for what agreement the Shang family is willing to negotiate with Alexei and Blue Dream, it has nothing to do with them.

"Bring people in. ”

The leader of the robbers, a man in his thirties, of medium height, with an ordinary appearance. He instructed his men to take a series of caravan captives to a large tree on the side of the road, and according to the agreement, it only took a few more moments for someone from the Blue Brotherhood who had received the signal to come and contact them, and buy them all the fruits of their hard work for several days with a lovely gold coin.

Brotherhood of Blue.

He vaguely knew which faction of the Brotherhood was negotiating with the bosses of his own faction, borrowing their hands to do the dirty work.

But in order to survive, the black stork, had to do.