His hair was gray, a faint gray color, and it was hard to imagine such an unkempt gray hair appearing on his body, which looked like the hair of an elderly homeless man everywhere on the street, but with his wrinkled face, it made me feel an incomparable harmony and naturalness, as if it should be so. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info his whole body was wrapped in a thick mink coat, and indeed as the legend goes, he must have suffered a serious injury that was almost fatal back then, so his body bones have never been very good.

As I gazed at him, I suddenly had a strange feeling that such an old man, at a cursory glance, if you ignore the mink coat which is obviously of great value, you can easily mingle with the old vagabonds in the streets, or with the veterans who have spent their lives in poverty and misery, and perhaps Gaon has been in the tavern countless times in plain clothes, and listening to the bards singing about his past with the rabid drinkers. The drinkers sitting next to him would never have guessed that this poor, sick old man next to him was the hero of the legend.

I'm staring at Gaang, and Gaon is staring at me likewise. I could feel his sharp gaze roaming over me, and after a moment, he smiled slightly, pointed to the futon lying on the ground in front of him, and said, "Please be seated." ”

I've never seen anything like a futon, but I sat down intuitively, and of course, the squatting posture would be ugly, at least not as chic as I was sitting cross-legged now.

Grace sat on the futon, nodded slightly, and said, "I'm sorry, I've been studying a religion from the East recently, called Buddhism, which I think is very interesting, in fact, I think the things that come from that mysterious country in the East are very interesting, such as the tea I drink now." If I have the chance, I will definitely find a way to go to the East. ”

I nodded warily, not knowing what Gaon meant by this.

"Will you come with me, Emmons?" said Gaon earnestly, "put aside the distractions of Calradia, and walk around the world with me, an old man?"

I looked at him and shook my head slightly: "I'm sorry, I have more important things to do, and when my things are done, if you still have Yaxing, I may be able to accompany you around." ”

Gaon looked at me and sighed, "Young man...... It's always said 'I have more important things to do now', but I don't know that time is running out, and every day something new comes up, and when you are immersed in these things, you will never feel the passage of time, and you will be left with fewer and fewer opportunities for yourself. One day, you wake up to the fact that these things outside your body are just dreams, and the years have long passed. Like me, I was bound to the dust net in the first half of my life, and now I have come to my senses and want to walk around, but I have long lost the ability and time, and I can't talk about regretting it. ”

I felt that this topic was a little too much to talk about, and I said, "This is what you got from that Eastern religion, I'm sorry, I don't believe in your religion, I said that there are more important things to do, and of course there are really important things to do." Compared with the well-being of the whole world, my personal gains and losses are not really important. ”

"All the world?" said with a dumb smile, "You have never left Calradia, and you are too much of a frog at the bottom of the well." When you've actually gone out, you'll understand that the concept of the whole world isn't that easy to mention. ”

I pouted, feeling that I had been disappointed by the conversation with Gaon. I stood up and said, "Okay, that's the advice you gave me as an old-timer, okay, I'll think about it." If you don't have anything else to do, I'm leaving, and it's a pleasure to talk so much with you. ”

Gaon smiled and shook his head: "I can hear that you are impatient, okay, let's talk about something real." Go, Ruth, bring me my map. ”

Ruth stood up, gave me a blank look, and turned to go into the back room.

"Ruth is your man?!" I was a little surprised.

"That's right. Gaon nodded, "Two years ago, I returned to Uxhall and found her pitiful, so I accepted her. Then again, you were too careless in what you did and looked at people at that time, otherwise Ruth wouldn't have been so miserable by you. ”

I don't talk anymore, Ruth's thing, I do have some fault responsibility.

When Ruth came back, she came with a silk cloth in her hand, and carefully spread it out in the courtyard, and it was actually a huge map of Calradia, which was very detailed, from every village to every mountain range and river, there were detailed records and notes, such as Dugan, a village that was almost forgotten by the Calradians, not only marked it, but even briefly wrote in small characters about the history, customs, and even the main points of the march.

The corners of my eyes suddenly jumped wildly, and on this map half the size of a courtyard, I saw my secret base of the Fourth Legion.

The reason why the secret base is secret is because when the legion is fighting abroad, the secret base must give sufficient logistical support, and it must play the role of a refuge at critical moments, so the location of the secret base of the legion is generally kept secret, and even within the Order, it is difficult for one legion to know the location of the secret base of another legion.

But now, the secret base of our Fourth Army Corps has been marked in detail on the map of Gaang, and it is even written in small print: "The valley can only be entered all the way, the outer width is narrow and the inside is narrow, the surrounding cliffs are towering, the dense forests are knotted, easy to defend and difficult to attack, supplemented by the hidden military holes on the cliffs on both sides, almost invulnerable, only fire can be broken." ”

Gaon smiled and said, "See what you're interested in? They all said that how I used my troops to be superb, it was nothing more than that I had worked a few steps harder than others. ”

I calmed down a bit, looked at Gaang who was smiling, and I said, "What do you mean by telling me?"

Gaon took a sip of tea calmly and said, "I don't mean anything else, it's probably just too lonely, I want to talk to someone." ”

No way! No matter how lonely Gaon is, he will never tell me this, you know, the relationship between me and him is more inclined to the enemy, I want to subvert the five major powers on the continent, he wants to protect his Svadia, this is the opposite of the fundamental purpose!

"Don't you believe it?" said Gaeng, blowing the foam on the water in the cup, sighing, "The tea is already cold." ”

"And then?" I subconsciously asked.

Gaon raised his head with a wry smile and glanced at me, his eyes were actually full of loneliness, "No more." "What do you mean by Gaon's, is there any implication?" I asked Finn.

Finn shook his head, "No, I can see that he is telling the truth. If it was hinting at something, his eyes would have flickered. ”

"Then what does he mean by that...... "Well, anyway, Gaon is right. Knowing one's own situation and that of the enemy. Sephiroth, act immediately, I need to get the information of everyone in this meeting in the shortest possible time, where they are now, where their troops are, and what Harlaus knows and what he will do. The most important thing is what is happening in the army of Uxhall and Swadia. I have to know all about it before tomorrow's meeting!"

Sephiroth nodded, and the smoke vanished.

"As for you, Finn. I said, "Let me see how smart you can be." ”

Time flew by, and instead of wandering around Uxhall, I stayed quietly in the Happy Lynx bar, and from the evening onwards, the information began to flow back.

As the chief intelligence officer of our Fourth Legion, Sephiroth did a good job. In the past two years, in obscurity, he has quietly spread a huge intelligence network into the five major countries and seven major forces, and once I need it, this complete intelligence machine will run wildly, just like now.

"The three great envoys have all arrived, and there are a total of twenty legion leaders present...... Uh, the Order has expanded so much in recent years? Two Grand Elders came, Elder Tramersino and Elder Loki. There is no news from their troops yet...... "I'm flipping through the news from Sephiroth.

"So far, everything is under control. "At the moment, there are two main issues that we need to be careful about, one is whether Harlaus is aware of our dates. Judging from the situation given by Sephiroth about the North and East camps, there has been no military movement so far, and Haraus does not know about this; the second point is that the high priest, we do not know the reason for his meeting, if it is a meeting to announce your apostasy and want to exterminate us, then we will die. ”

I had a slap in my heart, probably not......

There was a sudden knock at the door, and Finn immediately shut his mouth.

I looked at the door vigilantly, at this moment Sephiroth was outside to do intelligence, it couldn't be him, and the two of us here can be said to have no ability to protect themselves, in case there is any enemy......

"Emmons, I know you're in there, I'm Shirley. Suddenly, a calm voice came from outside.

Shirley?!

I immediately opened the door, and there stood Shirley in a purple veil outside, with a veil on her face and all her eyes covered, and she walked in without even looking at me.

"What are you doing?" Shirley frowned, "There are paper balls everywhere, and you've switched to writing books?"

I hurriedly smiled and waved my hand: "It's nothing, it's just a preparation for tomorrow's meeting, did the high priest ask you to come?"

Shirley nodded: "As you guessed, it was indeed you who the High Priest asked me to come to, and he needs your help at tomorrow's meeting." ”

I can't accept that Shirley gives such a large amount of information at once. I said, "The High Priest needs my help, and what is there that the High Priest can't handle?"

Shirley shook her head regretfully: "I don't know this, what is the high priest's idea is where I can guess, I just came to bring a word, and the words will leave." With that, Shirley lifted her feet and was about to walk outside.

"Wait!" I almost jumped in front of Shirley to block her way, and with this reckless action, Shirley subconsciously slapped my palm on the chest, and I immediately felt like the sky was spinning and flew out, crashing into the wood wall opposite, where the sound of wood breaking was immediately heard.

Shirley frowned and withdrew her hand and said, "What are you going to do? If I hadn't withdrawn ninety percent of my strength in time and passed that one percent to the wall, you would have died!"

I rubbed my chest and said, "I need to know something, or I don't know where to start." Tell me, do you know why the high priest is holding this meeting?"

Shirley shook her head cleanly, "I don't know. ”

"Well......" I said, "you ought to know if the high priest has been in a good mood lately, right?"

Shirley thought for a moment and said, "The mood of the high priest ...... It seems that this period of time has been bad, and it is gloomy to look at, which makes people feel hairy. ”

I let out an "oh" and felt a cold sweat begin to break out on the back of my head, and I continued, "Does the High Priest know about Tramercino's scheme?"

Shirley gave me a disdainful look, "Do you think the High Priest is really old and confused?"

I nodded immediately: "I understand, okay, you go back, I have my own measure tomorrow." ”

Shirley said "En" and didn't ask any more questions, and the purple shadow disappeared in a flash.

Finn was still there frowning and thinking, so I closed the door: "Don't think about it, I probably know what's going on, inform Allen, bring our cavalry here, and inform Arthur to control Elindaha immediately, no matter what method he uses, no one can be allowed to pass through there before the morning after tomorrow!"

Finn's eyes widened: "What a situation, so serious!"

I wiped the cold sweat from the back of my head: "The more serious ones are still to come...... If I'm not mistaken, the High Priest knows about the Night Show. ”

"And then?" asked Finn, puzzled, for he didn't know the relationship between the night show and the high priest.

"Then, Calradia is finished. I said.

"It's strange that the moon is blood-red today!" said Carter, the owner of the Happy Bobcats, the man whose memory had been erased by Giggs, as he walked upstairs as he muttered something.

"The moon is blood red today?!" Finn was stunned for a second when he listened, and immediately pushed open the window to look out.

Not only is the moon blood-red, but even the night clouds in the sky are blood-red.

"How similar to those legendary nights of blood and fire thirty years ago. I said in a deep voice, silently putting on the mech, the improved mecha II already looked a little close to the normal knight's armor, although it was still inevitably bloated, but at least it didn't look like a monster.

Wrapping myself in my mech and wrapping myself in a black cloak, I walked out of the Happy Lynx Tavern. Finn and Sephiroth followed me, he also put on a black cloak, strange to say, under such a blood-red moon, almost everyone was terrified, but when they saw our black cloak, they seemed to see a very normal thing, and even some people who were originally frightened and spun around, after seeing our black cloak, subconsciously showed a stable smile at us.

"It's an illusion. A voice descended from the sky, and then a violet shadow descended from the sky and landed beside me: "Emmons, how did you get so tall? at least two meters!"

I smiled, "This isn't illusion, it's science." Shirley, how do we get to the lower city?

Shirley waved the veil and said, "That's not necessary, we dug a tunnel near the Earl's Palace, which leads to the venue." This was arranged by the high priest. The Bloody Night Moon Illusion, which is almost miraculous tonight, is also cast by the High Priest and can make people lose their minds for a short time, and unless they see the black cloak we wear, they will fall into anxiety and mania. This would cover our safe entry into the venue. ”

Shirley said as she led us through the streets, and soon came to the door of a closed shop, where some black cloaks had gathered in twos and threes, and when they saw us, they were stunned at first, and then they saw Shirley beside me, and they immediately became awe-inspired.

Shirley didn't look at them with her eyes at all, as if they were ants everywhere, and people would not spend time staring at them unless they were bored to a certain point. Shirley walked to the door of the shop and knocked lightly, and soon the door opened, revealing a bald man of the Mediterranean style.

He also wears a black cloak. The man glanced at Shirley, then at me and at Finn and Sephiroth behind me, and said, "Holy Maiden, please come in." A few of you, wait outside, and let your Legion Commander bring you in when the time comes!"

Shirley said quietly, "This is the Fourth Legion Commander Emmons and his entourage. I have been commanded by the High Priest to lead them first. ”

The bald man immediately laughed and nodded and let us in.

As soon as I entered, I saw that it seemed to be an oil shop, with pressed oil drums everywhere, and after walking a little further, I saw three shiny wooden oil presses in the open space of the house, and more than a dozen baskets of olives on the ground. It's a standard oil shop.

Shirley walked to the oil press, waved her hand slightly, and the oil press immediately moved away in place, revealing a pair of iron door knockers on the floor below, and pulling open the iron door knockers, and below was a dark passage. Shirley floated in, while I hunched over, barely following in.

After a long detour in the passage, I vaguely found the feeling of playing hide and seek under the crypt of Uxhall, and after walking for more than half an hour, we came to a heavy steel gate, which Shirley pushed with some difficulty, and the door made a heavy grinding sound and opened inside.

Inside, there was a huge room, or better suited hall, with a dome at least ten meters high, with a ceiling made of marble and walls of solid granite, with small pits carved out every few meters, in which were placed permanent lamps, and the oil of the lamps flowed down the wooden troughs and down the ground.

The room was very large, more than ten times larger than the reception room of the ordinary lord's mansion, and a podium had been piled up in front of the room, but there was nothing below. I looked up and saw an old, tall figure standing on the podium, with his back to the doorway, and I knew who it was just by looking at the black robe with white piping.

I immediately knelt down on one knee and said aloud, "Emmons, the commander of the Fourth Legion, have seen the High Priest!"

The man looked up, but did not turn around, sighed, and said, "Emmons, you are here...... I haven't seen you in two years, come and let me see. ”

I obediently walked over, walked up to the podium from the side, and stood in front of the old man.