"Just, just one bite, okay?"

With the sound of kicking horses' hooves, a weak, old woman-like voice came from above Ada's head.

Ida felt a warm hairy mouth on her forehead, tickling her skin, and she couldn't help but let go of a hand holding the reins and hit the spiky mouth, "Don't think about it." ”

If it had been three days ago, the white fox would have howled immediately. In addition to crying, it also plays tricks, pulls Ida's hair, rolls, and bites the horse's legs...... But Ada is already determined, and she won't let go no matter how much trouble she makes. After such a long time without a cat's leaves, Baijiu finally wilted, and he had to accumulate the strength to speak for a long time.

"I've been with your Mesoko family for a thousand years, and I've watched you grow up for generations," after a while, the white fox suddenly let out a long sigh, "I really miss your father's boy." ”

Ida stared straight at the towering mountains in the distance in the twilight, as if she hadn't heard.

Mesoko House ...... She hadn't heard these words for a long time, so much so that now she felt a little unfamiliar.

The death of the old earl was like taking away the last glimmer of glory from the family, and also took away all the memories of her family - when the battle of Jiyingling was over and the rebels retreated, this place seemed to have nothing to do with the former free city.

On the crumbling and ruined city walls, a papal flag was erected in the wind, and as the knights came in and out, black sailboats, thorny hearts, and wild bears fluttered on horseback...... Among the family crests, only Mesoko's white fangs are missing.

After settling down Monroe, Ida sat outside the city, looking at the unfamiliar Jiying Ridge, and sat blankly for a long time. The city, including its surrounding territories, had become the possession of the Holy See, and the man who had caused it had been let go by her own hands.

She originally wanted to follow the rebels to catch up, but she didn't expect that under the pursuit of the Holy See Jury, Tianxiangqu broke into a small group and fled, and after two days of chaos, Ida not only did not know the whereabouts of Romandan, but was almost recognized by the Holy See knights.

After evading the Holy See's Inquisition, Ida rode out on her horse in a daze—Baijiu seemed to be able to faintly discern his scent from where Lin Yuqing had walked. She thought that if she could find Lin Yuqing, she would go together, and if she couldn't find it, she would go with her heart, and go wherever she went.

"You said, your father has agreed to me eating leaves, why don't you listen to him? He's a good boy. ”

Ada's face froze when she heard another phrase come from above her head.

"You've learned to use your father as an excuse. She said in a cold voice, "I heard a cat leaf from your mouth again, and I soaked the rest of it in horse urine." ”

Since leaving the mountains and forests near Jiying Ridge, she has never seen a single cat leaf, only the weight of this on her body in case of contingency, so this threat is often particularly effective. Unexpectedly, today Baijiu actually broke the jar and broke it, and shouted in a sharp voice: "I won't say that you won't give it! Tell you, grandpa is gone, you can smell the smell of that kid yourself!"

Ida didn't eat it softly and hardly: "If you don't do it, get out of the house and go find a tree to possess you!"

"I can't—"

"I don't care, you're going to eat cat leaves anyway, what's the use of asking you?"

"No conscience!" Bai Jiu was so angry that his four paws trembled, and he drilled into the spiritual weapon on Ada's waist together, I don't know if it was because it hadn't eaten cat leaves for a while, it was a little more flexible, and it got into it at once, and threw down a sentence: "Grandpa doesn't cover you anymore!"

"I'll use you!" Ida sneered, but she didn't know where the tears came from. While secretly hating her shame, she silently wiped her eyes on the horse's back for a while, and when she had calmed down, she looked up again, and she hurriedly stopped the horse.

Before you know it, the sun is about to set.

Along the way, the more unfamiliar it became, Ida was not familiar with the terrain and did not dare to rush at night. She took the beautiful little brown mare and drank water, fed a handful of wild berries, and the palm of her hand was tickled by it, and she couldn't help but giggle a few times. After tethering the horse to a tree, Ida climbed up the tree nimbly.

She picked up a knife from the battlefield, whose blood had blackened the hilt, and Ada hung it on a branch beside her, making sure she could reach it as soon as she reached out.

Whoever sees her now will not believe that she was once a noble lady.

Dressed in a pair of peasant women's pants that Monroe had made smaller, Ada's light yellow hair clumped and tossed back in a mess. Her skin was rough, and her fingernails were always covered with mud, and no matter how much she picked, a layer would accumulate the next day.

She figured out how to swing a knife and cut fast, and she learned how to sleep in a tree.

In the mottled and swaying shadows of the branches and leaves, Ida hesitated for a moment, but still held the spirit weapon containing Baijiu in her arms.

By the time the silver moonlight poured down the layers of leaves, Ida was already asleep, and her even breathing sounded in the wind. The artifact under her arm lit up slightly, and a white shadow silently emerged, and the shadow pushed Ada's coat through its nose and slowly pulled a leather pocket from within.

In the past, Baijiu was afraid of Ada, and he didn't dare to steal it after thinking about it several times. But since the two of them had a falling out today, it was like unloading a burden, and simply tore the leather pocket in half, and the cat leaves suddenly spilled out—Bai Jiu looked at it and sighed happily and disappointedly: "It's just so ......."

It buried its sharp beak in the half-dried leaves, its eyes narrowed, and its white hair exploded comfortably, and it couldn't help but tremble slightly.

The white-haired fox's twitching breath was muffled by the rustle of the leaves as they swayed. A gust of wind blew the night, and the horse, tethered to the tree, suddenly kicked its hooves restlessly, and let out a long breath from its nose.

Baijiu finished eating the cat leaves, and just as it was dazed and staggering about to crawl back to Ada's waist, she suddenly rolled over and sat up.

The white-haired fox suddenly stumbled: "Yo, you're awake, wake up, wake up......"

Ada pressed its sharp beak and glanced at the broken leaves on its fur by the light that came through, but said nothing.

"Hmm?" Baijiu's mouth was gripped, and he could only make such a sound.

"Shhhhhh She tensed up, grasped the hilt of her sword, and quietly turned her ears to listen to the night.

Baijiu shook his ears that were soft and couldn't stand up. After a long while, it finally made out a faint murmur in the chaos and numbness of its five senses, as if the footsteps of someone were gradually approaching from the forest behind it.

As the chaotic string of footsteps drew closer, Ida poked her gaze out from among the leaves.

The moonlight lit the tip of her nose and whitened the group of people who had just emerged from the woods.

Figures in the distance approached in groups, their tattered leather armor dark in the moonlight, soaked in blood and no longer reflecting. The weapon and the wounded leg were dragged to the ground with a rustling sound, and as they walked, gasping and looking around, the hasty exhaustion seemed to have turned into a smell that could be felt from afar.

It had been several days since the battle with the Holy See's Inquisition, and Ida had no idea that in the wilderness far from Jiying Ridge, she would see the fleeing rebels, albeit only a dozen or so.

"Where did we flee to?" the night breeze whispered.

After a while, someone scolded back: "Raised by a son of a bitch, who knows?"

"It's been a long time since I've seen the jury after going around so far. Let's rest, Woosa can't hold on. Another voice said.

As soon as the man's voice fell, a jet sound was heard from under the tree, and Ada's heart shrank, and she just secretly screamed, "Oh no," when she heard someone shouting not far away, "There's a horse there!"

Immediately there was a rush of footsteps, and three or four men approached with weapons and torches, and searched the vicinity a few times, but did not find the owner of the horse. A thin man with flexible movements walked under the tree, reached out and touched the horse's neck and said with a smile: "Everyone is injured, a horse, who is it for?

Ada couldn't wait to spit in his face, but she didn't dare to attract the attention of these remnants of the defeated army, so she had to wait motionlessly for her chance.

"The horse is still bolted, why is it gone?" the other man ignored the little man, tugging at the rope and frowning. He thought for a moment, and looked up at the tree—only Ada had already shrunk back, and he looked at it for a moment, then withdrew his gaze.

"Whatever! Even if there is danger here, let's take the horse and leave, what else can we do?"

There didn't seem to be a leader in this group, but they just gathered together to run for their lives, and the crowd gathered together to say a few words, and some people tried to untie the ropes.

As if he understood, the little mare kicked the horse's hooves and shook her head away. If she lost it, Ada really didn't know when she would be able to catch up with Lin Yuqing - she shoved the white fox into her arms and took a breath with her knife. Gritting her teeth, she pushed aside the branch and jumped down, screaming, "Get out of here!"

Caught off guard, they let her land smoothly on the horse's back, and smash it with a neighing sound, and Ida slashed the rope with a backhand swing, and rushed out with a slap of the horse's belly. The deserters could not dodge, and they were knocked over several times, and for a moment they shouted in pain and anger: "Catch her! She knocked people unconscious!"

Ida didn't dare to look back, and galloped desperately in the vast night. She forced herself to calm down, and thought to herself, those people were injured and had no horses, they couldn't catch up, as long as they ran away, they would be safe—

A sharp sound of breaking the air suddenly sounded behind him.

Before she could react, she heard a "pop" sound, and with the brown horse below her suddenly erupting into a long cry of pain, Ada's vision was overturned and turned upside down.

For a moment, there was nothing but darkness in front of her, and the world fell silent.

When the sights and sounds came back into her head like a tidal wave, Ada was suddenly overwhelmed by a sharp pain. Everything was stark: her little brown horse had tumbled to the ground, bleeding from the wounds of the arrows, soaking her trousers and the grass. Thousands of pounds of weight were smashed on one of her legs, and Ida didn't know if her leg bone was broken, because she couldn't feel anything but pure pain.

Far behind, footsteps, firelight, and shouts came noisily.

Ida did not dare to fall into the hands of these remnants, and dragged her wounded leg with both hands, and as soon as she exerted her strength, she screamed in pain, and it was black again in front of her—but the leg did not move.

Baijiu fell out of her arms, and she also knew that the situation was not good. It looked left and right, and pounced on it with all its strength, a mouthful of fangs biting through the horseskin. The brown horse shook its limbs and struggled to make room for Ada, and she hurriedly withdrew her legs, scooped up Baijiu, and plunged into the forest in severe pain.

Ada didn't know which direction she was running, so she limped to the sound of water coming from nowhere. Through the shade of the trees, she could see that the light of the fire was soon approaching the little brown horse, and she quickly turned her head, but in her ears she heard another tearing neigh—the last one.

Clutching her long knife tightly, Ida stumbled into a patch of white moonlight.

The woods here were so sparse that it was difficult to hide her tracks, and she was wounded and could not run fast, so she could only faintly hope that the people did not know her, and that perhaps they would stop if they got her horse.

"That little is right in front, and she's wounded," a scream came from behind, breaking her luck: "Follow me who can run!"

I don't know if it was because Ida had injured someone, but the remnants of the soldiers became excited, and they responded one after another, and chased them into the woods—they shouted and cursed, as if to vent their anger, as if they were deliberately scaring her, and they never let go, and refused to stop.

Ida didn't dare to think about what would happen to her if she was caught, her voice was hoarse in a hurry, and she couldn't help but ask, "Baijiu, don't you have any strength at all?"

The white fox lay on top of her head and did not make a sound for a long time.

At such a juncture, Ida did not have a word of reproach. She hurried past a few trees, but stopped suddenly—in the twilight of the moon, the ground in front of her fell almost straight, and only halfway up the slope was a steep slope, bare of jagged rocks. In front of this steep slope, the sound of the water suddenly became clear, and from the occasional silver light, it seemed that a dark and heavy river was lying in the night ahead.

Ada glanced at the river in the distance, and then at the broken slope beneath her feet. She dragged a broken leg that made it difficult for her to climb down, and there was almost no road on either side.

"Where is she!"

A shout behind her immediately interrupted her hesitation. Ida looked back and saw that the men chasing her had somehow come so close, and she could even see the eyes of the skinny man who had turned red with excitement.

"Why are they chasing me?" Ida wiped her eyes, her voice crying again. "I—What did I offend them? I didn't take the initiative to harm them!"

"They can do this, so they did it!" Bai Jiu grabbed her hair and stood up, looked back, and said hurriedly: "Don't think about it, hurry up and climb the side and roll down!"

Ida threw the knife out with a flick of her hand, and when she saw it land on a rock, she crouched down and grabbed the edge of the slope. The sound behind her was getting closer, and Ida glanced down the slope, closed her eyes, let go of her hand and fell.

"******!" the thin man was the first to rush forward, and when he stopped, several stones jumped and fell. "What a little, wasted!"

"What's that white thing on her? like a dog?" another man followed, looked down the slope and said, "Eh, that dog has blocked the stone a few times, maybe the little girl won't die." ”

"What if I can't die? The thin man smiled, "Go back and eat meat, go for a walk, and eat a full meal!"

The man next to him immediately laughed: "Let old Pang Li hear it, he will be angry!"

"He's been knocked unconscious by a horse, what else can he do? still be the captain?" the thin man spat and turned to leave, "As soon as we disperse, who knew we were rebels? He was willing to die together, but I wouldn't-"

When their conversation drifted down the slope, it sounded like layers of cotton were stuffed into Ada's ears, which was dizzy and aching, and she couldn't hear anything clearly. When she dragged herself to her feet and reached for the knife, even she was amazed that she could still move.

As soon as she grabbed the hilt, Ada breathed a sigh of relief. Her pants soaked on the wet riverbank, and soon streaks of blood burst out, whether it was her own or that of the little mare.

The people on the slope had already turned around and walked away just now, and their voices were getting weaker and weaker. When his heartbeat calmed down, Ada grabbed Baijiu, who was lying and panting, and just struggled to stand up, and suddenly sent a clear and sharp scream in the gust of wind-

As soon as she looked up, she saw a man rushing out of the woods again, and with a pounce on him, he also rushed down the steep slope. As he rolled down, he slammed into several rocks in quick succession, and the dull sound of flesh made his scalp tingle—Ada was stunned and looked up at the woods on the slope, just in front of several faces.

Those faces, with a pair of white, unwarm eyes, blinked vertically from time to time.

In the half-light and half-darkness, the surface of the body covered with scales and insect shells shone slightly, and they were stained with patches of bright red blood—and one of the aliens let go and threw a human leg down the steep slope.

Ada took a few steps back and stepped into the water, and just then, hearing a few soft sounds, she looked up to see several shadows leaping high into the moonlight.