Chapter 20: The King's Sword (2)
When Renesas, Gabriel, and Lucifer wake up from their coma, they find that Gu Shiyu has disappeared. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Brother Guzi ......"
"Brother Guzi ......"
Gabriel and Lucifer began to shout in all directions, but the attentive Resa circled around the campfire, looking for clues.
"Come on!" Renesa shouted.
Gabriel and Lucifer hurried around them.
"Look here!" said Ressa, gesturing to the ground. Around the campfire, scattered were some ashes of burned plants and trees, and there was a clear half-footprint on the edge of the ashes.
The footprints are small and do not look like those of men. Ressa placed her foot on top of the footprint, which was smaller than hers.
Everyone looked at each other.
It was clear that there had been another person in their vicinity, and that person was probably a woman.
"If this woman kidnaps Brother Gu Zi, Brother Gu Zi is dead, and she will never go too far. "Lucifer carried the rain through the valley and knew it well.
"You're right! If she left footprints, they would be deep enough to be found. Renesa nodded and said, "Let's scatter and find it quickly!"
The three of them held torches and searched carefully in the grass and woodland.
However, it was already completely dark, which caused great inconvenience to the search, and no other traces were found.
By the time the three of them got back together in relative silence, Ressa was already crying.
"What do you say?"
"Miss Rissa, I think this person only kidnapped Brother Gu Zi, and didn't embarrass us, there shouldn't be too much hostility, Brother Gu Zi should be safe for the time being. ”
"I think so, too. Miss Ressa, let's hurry to the princess city, tell Princess Catherine and Brother Guzi's good friends, and let's figure out a way together. ”
Ressa wiped away tears and nodded, and the three of them turned on their horses and galloped along the avenue in the starry night.
"What did you say? Gu Zi returned to the Lost Land and disappeared?!" Her Royal Highness Princess Catherine was so shocked that she sat down in her chair, and then struggled to stand up with the armrest, and shouted with tears in her eyes: "Blow the bugle immediately! Even if I dig three feet into the ground, even if I step on the lost land, I must find him!"
Eldred pulled the three Rysas aside and inquired about the details.
The loud horn sounded, and nearly 10,000 soldiers ran out of the barracks and prepared for departure in the square.
Human heroes from Erathia, dwarven heroes from Yoland, Diya heroes from Roland, and swamp heroes from Mellind, more than 200 people gathered in the conference hall. Even the mentor of the Hero Guild, the giant scythe, came with the local heroes.
Yolande shouted in the hall: "Send troops! Send troops! Whoever dares to touch a single hair of my family's grain, I will make him pay a price ten million times! If he loses a hair, I will kill 10,000 people, and if there are two less, I will kill 20,000!"
"Who are you going to kill?" shouted the mentor as he hurried into the hall.
The person you are most afraid of is the mentor, and when he saw him coming, his arrogance suddenly dropped by three points, and he shouted to himself: "Whoever dares to touch him, I will kill him!"
The giant scythe waved his hands and shouted, "Calm down, everyone, we need to figure out who did this first, and then decide on the next move!"
Gru also came with Murak and the others. However, as soon as he entered the hall, he was held to the throat by Catherine's sword.
"Hurry up and let Gu Shiyu go, otherwise I will kill you immediately!"
"Your Royal Highness Princess, you may have misunderstood, I didn't plot against Gu Shiyu, I want to invite him too late. ”
"If you want to say that the Lost Land wants to harm him the most, I'm afraid it's you!"
"Why should I hurt him? He's not my enemy!"
"We all know that he is the Chosen One! He has come back to draw the King's sword after his atoning journey, and you, as the guardian of the Lost Lands, have been thinking about how to prevent this from happening! Because you know that once he draws his sword, the whole Lost Lands will be reduced to a battlefield again!"
"Yes, on the surface, Gu Shiyu's disappearance is the most beneficial to me, but have you ever thought about it, Your Highness Princess, and Zoro also has this possibility! Now that he has been defeated by our alliance, won't he try to provoke a conflict between you and me? He will be very happy to see us fight each other!"
"Catherine, you are a very sane person, it is a very moment, you have to stay awake. What Gru said is not unreasonable, Gu Shiyu was plotted on the day he returned, and none of us knew that Gu Shiyu had returned! I suspect that this was done by Sauron, after all, the Black Wood Forest used to be his stronghold, and maybe he still had some remnants there. He was most likely to learn about Gu Shiyu's whereabouts first and take action immediately. The mentor advised.
"Wait, I'll find out!If anyone is involved in this, I'll show no mercy!" Catherine withdrew her sword and shouted, "Yoland, Christine, Adric, Eldrid, come with me!"
Catherine immediately recovered from her grief as a fighter.
Hundreds of heroes walked out of the hall with Catherine in their arms. The mentor shook his head and said, "Catherine is out of order! I've never seen her so reckless." ”
"I can understand her feelings. But this thing is definitely not what I did, and I believe she will find the truth. Murak, you are a good friend of Gu Shiyu, and you have served as a sheriff for many years, and you have rich experience in detectives, you can go with them, I hope you can return my innocence. ”
Murak nodded and walked out with the group.
Ressa, Gabriel, and Lucifer followed behind Princess Catherine, and they couldn't help but let out an exclamation when they saw the huge army in the square.
What amazed them the most was a huge black dragon in front of the group, crouching on the ground with its mouth wide open, its throat glittering with dark blue dragon flames.
Ressa knew that the dragon had been given to Princess Catherine by Gu Shiyu. She was envious and a little jealous.
Catherine climbed onto the dragon's back with the black dragon's low hanging wings, and the black dragon circled up, its huge wings flapping up a cloud of dust.
The people in the square erupted in cheers like a tidal wave.
Brandishing his spear, Christine led his more than 200 cavalry to rush out of the city gate like a whirlwind.
Adric also set off! He rode one of the strongest griffons and led nearly four hundred griffons to follow the black dragon into the air.
The infantry team was led by more than 100 druid monks led by Eldrid, and was guarded by Yoland's dwarven heroes and nearly a thousand dwarven warriors.
No matter where such a unit goes, the mountains and rivers will tremble for it.
The pikemen, longbowmen, and swordsmen who remained in the city were frustrated, and returned to their camps under the leadership of their commanders.
When the black dragon and the griffin hovered over the black woods, all the birds and beasts were either hiding in their nests and shivering, or they scattered and fled.
Catherine stood in the bitter wind of late autumn and cried out into the wilderness, "Grain! where are you ......?"
In the empty mountain forest, only her echo could be heard.
Gu Shiyu is catching mice with Crane in the belly of an unknown mountain at the moment.
Ever since Gu Shiyu told him about his escape plan, he had caused Crane to shake his head, saying that such an idea was really bad, but it seemed that there was no better way.
The two have not started eating since a few days ago. I don't know what the thick food is made of, it has an unpleasant rancid smell, and the color and smell are no different from feces. Gu Shiyu once laughed at Crane and said: "You can eat such a thing for a year! I would rather eat a mouse to satisfy my hunger than eat this kind of thing." ”
But both of these things are disgusting.
The two poured food into the corner of the cell and waited quietly for the rat to take the bait.
There are a lot of rats in the dungeon, and they are huge. The first time Crane went out to the wind, he picked up a small piece of iron, which he sharpened very sharp. It was the weapon he had prepared to fight when he fled, and now he used it as a knife for the time being, skinning and disemboweling rats.
All that's left is to chew and swallow with your eyes closed. This is not difficult for Gu Shiyu, he is like Bell, a wilderness survival expert. Grylls, like him, has eaten everything. Crane vomited all over the ground when he ate it for the first time, and Gu Shiyu persuaded him that when he ate this, he had to think about the fragrant steak in his heart, and Crane felt better.
But they still have a second serious test. Gu Shiyu walked to the wooden bucket filled with urine, nodded and said, "From today onwards, we don't want to drink water, just drink this." ”
Crane said with a bitter face: "I hope this bad idea of your kid works, otherwise I will strangle you." ”
"If you can't hold on, then eat what they send, but I have to tell you, I can't take care of you when you run away, you have to take care of yourself." ”
Everyone knows that the food and water brought by the jailers are adulterated with the medicine of the Devil's Curse. If you want to gradually recover your physical strength and magical power, I am afraid that this is the only way.
Drinking urine is not a patent invented by travelers who lack water in the wasteland, in fact, there are relevant written records for a long time, and the urine that was once praised by the ancients as "Huilong soup", and some people even drank it as a kind of therapy to strengthen the body. Sun Simiao, the king of medicine, once drank urine, and praised it as an immortal medicine in "Qianjin Yifang". Maybe he can live more than a hundred years old and have some credit for urine therapy.
Urine is a serum filtered by the human kidneys, even cleaner than blood, and can actually be drunk after precipitation.
Although there is some scientific truth to this, it takes courage to actually drink it. The smell was really bad, Gu Shiyu had to pinch his nose, imagining that he was drinking beer. Isn't beer called "cat urine"?
"Oh my God, this is terrible!" Crane tasted as well, and then bent down and vomited.
"You have to gulp it down, it's not a good wine, it's worth savoring. ”
"I'm going to strangle you when I get out!" Crane choked on tears from the pungent smell.
"The premise is that you can get out. Gu Shiyu grinned: "But I have to tell you, this thing is not much, you have to save some drink, we have to hold on for three days." I hope you haven't misremembered the date, otherwise our efforts have been in vain. By then, it's not you who strangle me, but I'm going to strangle you!"
"I can't be mistaken. You'd better take note of the topographical map of the prison, I don't want to listen to the warden's hymns anymore. ”
"Crane, you said our gear is stored next door to the warden's room?"
"Yes, when I went to the warden's room that day to listen to his recitation, I saw a jailer bring a bag into that room. ”
"Alright, I'll take down the warden first, take over there, and then change into gear. You see the guards start to panic and sneak up from behind, I think you'll get a lot of support from your fellow inmates, and we'll meet up near the warden's room. As long as you have the equipment, there is a way to escape. ”
After a long three-day wait, the two of them recovered nearly half of their combat strength.
Gu Shiyu walked back and forth in the prison, staring at Crane from time to time and said, "Crane, you are not mistaken, right? Why hasn't anyone taken us out to let off steam?"
"How do I know? You ask me, who am I going to ask?" said Crane angrily.
yes, who do you have to ask?
The warden is also walking in the dungeon. It was an evil god from the fortress of hell, and his weapon was the flaming whip he wielded.
"Haven't the guys on the ground left yet?"
"Not yet. However, according to the reports of the Banshees of the Night, after a few days of searching, some of them have gradually lost faith. ”
"Well, there's no way they're going to find us. As soon as they left, the game was ready to begin, and it was a rare pastime of the year. ”
"Is the Chosen one also in the race? Lord Zoro wants us to keep him with Crane and not meet with the others. ”
"Does that work? Crane may have told him all he knew. Let's take a look at the performance of the Chosen One, who is no different from the filthy and obscene prisoners right now. Don't you expect the great Chosen to play against the prisoners? Haha, it must be a fun game, and I wonder if the Chosen One is strong or my prisoners are strong. ”
"I don't understand, why didn't the Banshee of the Night capture the remaining three people?"
"They're the Banshees of the Night who kept them to report to the people in the City of Princesses, you know, if Catherine and Gru get into a fight, it's going to be a big deal. This Chosen One is useful, you must watch it well, Lord Sauron will definitely come in handy. ”
Catherine had been searching the Blackwood for a few days, but had found nothing. She stood dumbfounded in the dark woods, tears rolling in her eyes. Adridrid stood beside her, not knowing what to say.
Murak stepped forward and said in a low voice: "Your Royal Highness Princess, you should take my advice, so many people stay here, not to mention the enemy, even the rats dare not run out." They won't show up until we've left. ”
Catherine wiped her tears and said, "Yolande said that you are an expert in detection, so I asked you to join the search." Didn't you find any clues?"
"With so many people searching back and forth in the valley and dense forests, even if there were traces of the enemy, they would have been destroyed long ago, and I really couldn't find any clues. ”
"I know I'm wrong, and I shouldn't have done it, but I'm not in a hurry?" said Catherine, choking.
"You better withdraw and wait for news, Guzi is my friend, my life was saved by him, I swear to find him no matter what!"
"Do you need someone to help you?" Catherine held back tears and raised her head slightly.
Murak sighed softly and said, "Leave Yolande to me, he's a great jungle hunter. ”