"Let's make a deal. ”

Lan Meng took a breath, the tips of his teeth against the coating of his tongue: "Let's make a deal......"

The girl read the words from her lips, and she took two steps forward as if she were walking on thin ice, and turned around, making eye contact with Alex.

"I can make it happen. ”

Lan Meng's breathing was slightly shortened by two minutes, her body tensed, and her feet moved quietly, slowly, step by step.

One of her hands rested on the edge of the table behind her, and the other hand carefully fumbled for the empty cup on the table.

"You're terrible, Elemental Child. ”

Lan Meng licked his lips that were white from nervousness: "That's why I didn't tell you the truth." ”

"Terrible?"

Alexey leisurely folded his hands behind his back, his chest raised high: "A gentle mage like me is only my enemies who will find it terrifying. Are you that kind of person? ”

"I'm not. ”

Lan Meng suddenly raised her hand and threw it, a cup crossed a black shadow in the air, she didn't look at the effect of the throw, and as soon as her fingers were forced, her prepared body had already supported the round table with one palm.

Coherent!

Between the lightning and flint, only to hear the glass window shatter, the blue dream full of strength kicked and shattered the only window in the compartment, with the opportunity, the girl's whole person became a silver shuttle, swimming into the rivers and lakes like a fish, the slippery silver scales glittered under the blue sky, she stepped on the white snow under the window, rustling, there was a sound and the cold wind of Norff rushed into the room together, the transparent fragments turned into broken whispers, and were quickly hidden by the ice and snow, leaving only the pale color.

"But I hate you more than your enemies. ”

Lan Meng's parting words extinguished the fireplace in the room, and the flame of the firewood was extinguished, just like the melting smile on Alexey's face, leaving only the cold iron blue color: "I don't know what to do." ”

His shadow jumped out of the window, and if anyone saw it at this moment, he could see that the thick black like rice paste had just landed and turned into a pitch-black civet cat, and the next second, Alexei in the room sang a short spell in his mouth, and the darkness surging in the whites of his eyes suddenly squeezed into a distorted two-color vision with the golden pupils that narrowed into a thin slit.

There is a halo of the sun in the vision shared with the civet, the wind outside is not strong, and the vision under the clear sky is wide, but the blue dream that took the opportunity to escape from the window did not even leave a footprint, as if the rustling sound just heard was an illusion.

"Don't try to escape. ”

The ears of the civet cat transformed into a shadow twitched, and the beast with a sensitive nose leaned over a little to sniff the air by the window, chasing it out for only a few seconds, even if it was covered up well, the body fragrance on the girl's body had not dispersed so quickly, and there was still a trace to be found.

And without the assistance of magic, mages are hardly different from mortals physically, except for the rich knowledge in their brains.

What's more, Lan Meng is a mage of the illusion department, facing the severe cold of Norf, and without supplies, the girl's body will soon freeze on the icy polar ice field.

Blue Dream is not a fool.

If she wasn't sure, she wouldn't have run away.

Unless she doesn't want to live anymore. But Lan Meng, who has a dream, is obviously a person who cherishes her life, and there must be some reason for her to take the risk and be willing to trek alone in Norf, who has almost no way out.

Otherwise....... Alexey thought of another possibility.

She's not alone!

"Cunning woman. Let me guess who's going to help you leave. ”

From the perspective of the shadow civet, Alexei could clearly see a line of smell that was imperceptible to the naked eye wafting a hundred meters away.

No matter how far away, the civet cat's nose can't smell it.

Blue Dream is not alone.

Alexei had guessed that someone was assisting her - but who could that person be?

After thinking in place for a few seconds, the black cat outside the window jumped into the room through the crack in the window again, and the small animal with no hair and only a touch of color barked at the mage twice, and from the open pitch-black throat, an obscure short spell came out - the black cat sitting upright, and the black cat at the mage's knee level was restored to Alexey's shadow.

It's careless, it's overconfident and relaxed.

Alexei didn't expect that other mages would dare to meddle in his prey and prey on him?

"Don't tell me to catch you, hidden one. ”

Alexei, who noticed that something was wrong, reached out and pulled out an old-fashioned pocket watch from his robe.

The style of the pocket watch is old, and the copper-yellow case is engraved with a phrase: only death is the end.

It looks unremarkable on the outside, with a shiny case about the size of a five-year-old child's palm, pinched by Alexena's three fingers, and pressed the button at the top of the case back with his index finger. With a soft thud, the oval-shaped lid opened, revealing the rotating clock dial underneath.

"You shouldn't have done that. ”

Alexey's expression was indifferent, but his tone was extraordinarily calm: "There should be a limit to playing." ”

Although a pocket watch, known as a "time hunter", is a clock, it is not meant to show time.

In order to prevent accidents on this trip, Alexei has already taken precautions against Blue Dream's unexpected escape.

Therefore, his heart is actually not particularly urgent.

But the little beast that always wants to rebel is really unpleasant, and Alexei is already a little tired of playing games about chasing and pacifying.

"Let her learn a key lesson, although the king and the commoners are the same as me, but the bloodline is still somewhat useful. At the very least, you should be glad that you are good enough to be able to live after offending me one after another. ”

Alexey muttered to himself, several methods of punishment swirling through his mind, and at the same time raised his pocket watch in his right hand.

Rather than a watch, the Time Hunter is more of a table-like ornament.

In the mage's eyes, a total of three hundred and eighty-seven runes complemented each other, and the scale of the clock dial resembling the universe was strange. Unlike other timepieces, the Time Hunter from the Master of Council Prophecy has no seconds, minutes, or hour hands. This maverick pocket watch does not need a scale of one to twelve, only the empty central axis driving rune, infused by Alexe's magic, flickering and dimming in an instant to show the whereabouts of its accessories - the beating points of light, like the stars in the sky covered by dark clouds, after the clouds and mist are gone, only the bright moon remains, guiding the travelers under the moonlight.

"Found you. ”

The mage's feet lifted off the ground, and the invisible shield around him easily shattered the remaining slides of the window. Alexey's eyes would not take off the lit dial for a second, and with the unbridled power of magic, he was getting closer and closer to the point where the dial was displayed.

He saw a little bit of color in the vast white snow.

It's a brooch.

Alexei's collar for Blue Dream.

The mage smiled, shaking off the snow from the brooch and attaching the gilded tip to the empty central axis of the pocket watch. The universe on the clock is once again intact, the beating red dots dissipate, and the clock rotates faster and faster, until it is so fast that it merges with the moving hour hand and distorts into a vague vista from above.

"Naive. ”

Think that if you lose the collar, the collar won't work?

On the surface, it is difficult to detect the actual effectiveness of the broken diamond brooch, but in fact, it is the trigger of the "time hunter......

In the indiscernible pattern, Alexei carefully observed two distorted shadows, one of them must have touched the time hunter's hour hand, maybe both, but it didn't matter, Alexei had found the information he was looking for.

The rotation of the clock slowed down in his deliberately reduced amount of mana input, and suddenly, the scene that slowly became clear shook for a while, and the figures in the two pictures disappeared out of thin air!

"Did you find out?"

"Impossible, even if they are discovered, in such a short period of time, the Time Hunters will not lose their tracks. ”

Alexey's face was cloudy as he saw the clock plate gradually split into several patches of color, and a few pieces of broken blue diamonds were overwhelmed and fell out of the fast-moving hour hand and fell into the snow. He silently closed the lid of his watch, and made a few simple guesses in his mind.

Either Lan Meng and her helpers were out of the tracking range of the clock dial, or she used some special props to shield the time hunter from sensing the breath of the hour hand on her body. There are only a few reasons for the disappearance of the figure, and Alexey has not used the pocket watch once or twice, but he has never missed once.

He's going to see it.

If it's the first reason...... Alexei thought of a possibility: Blue Dream had entered the void mirror in her mouth!

Then, everything is explained.