early morning

Surdak woke up, and Natasha beside him was indeed gone.

A stack of sun-scented clothes neatly laid out at the head of the bed, and Surdak got dressed and walked out of the bedroom.

When they came to the dining room, old Sheila and little Peter were already sitting in their seats, Natasha was wearing an apron and bringing out cereal porridge and multigrain cakes from the kitchen, and Rita walked in from the outside, with some blades of grass on her apron, and it looked like she should have gotten up early to feed the cow and Gubo in the house.

Surdak still remembers the first time she saw Rita, when she had a vegetable face, and even though she was starving every day, she could still feel that her body was very strong, and now she was eating better, her whole body was bulging like a balloon, and her shoulders and thighs were fleshy.

Now that Rita is also a big girl, there are always some other thoughts in her clear eyes.

Sheila Sr. is also thinking about Rita's marriage, and many young people in the village have a good impression of Rita.

It's only recently that many young people have become estranged from Rita.

The main reason is that Surdak has been promoted too quickly recently, and those young people who have some ideas about Rita almost dare not come out to find Rita now, for fear that they will really be together in the future, and if they are a little unsatisfactory in life, his brother Baron Surdak will take a group of subordinates to beat him half to death.

Many say that Surdak is now the master of this barren land.

Surdak also felt that Rita's husband should not be a peasant in the middle of nowhere, and he had told old Sheila about it, and perhaps he could find a young knight of the guard battalion.

Sheila Sr. sat on the throne, Natasha sat down next to Surdak, and Rita sat opposite Natasha.

Everyone in Natasha's house sat down after their plates were filled with the food they needed.

Taking a spoon and scooping a spoonful of cereal porridge into her mouth, Rita asked Surdak vaguely, "I heard that the Red Dragon Treasure is just an underground cave with nothing?" ”

"Well, there's no treasure there, and there's no Quirsella!" Surdak said, nibbling on a piece of multigrain cake.

"I'll just say it!" Rita said contentedly with a wink of her big clear eyes.

Little Peter couldn't understand what Surdak was saying, so he turned to Rita and asked, "Auntie, what is Quirsella......

Seeing little Peter's inquiry, Rita patiently told little Peter about the legend of the sword of Quelsella, so much so that little Peter almost forgot to eat.

……

Surdak came to the police station, prepared to arrange the daily affairs of the police station, and then went to the city of Hylanza to apply for the funds for the formation of a guard battalion squadron in the barren land, according to Viscount Emmett, if he did not get it back quickly, this fund would be canceled immediately.

As Viscount Emmett said, next year naturally there will be funds for next year......

Andrew was already familiar with the magical power conferred by the 'Flame of Fury' Demon Pattern, he stood in the courtyard, holding the butcher in his hand and burning with the raging flames, and was sparring martial arts with the ogre, the ogre Gullitm held the bone-crushing stick in his hand, and whenever he was at a disadvantage, he would forcibly use brute force to wipe out Andrew's hard-built advantage.

Surdak stood on the edge of the flower pond and watched for a while, and saw Samira sitting at the door to maintain the 'withered painting' longbow in his hand, so he walked over and said to her: "I plan to go to the city of Hylanza recently, the patrol on this side of the barren land will continue, before winter, I estimate that the bandit group hiding on the other side of the desert will run here to loot the village, we can't let them come to the house, if I have the opportunity, I also want to see in the desert, where are those bandit groups hiding, I heard that there are dozens of oases hidden in the desert, Always go in and clean it up and let them know who is in charge of the wastelands now. ”

"How long are you going?" When Samira is not in the world, the hood on her head is pulled open, and her pale red eyes glow in the sun.

At this time, Andrew also took his hand and walked over, and said to Surdak, "Captain, or you will let me bring some water and dry food, and go into the desert and cut down the bandits." ”

Surdak waved his hand and said, "Wait a little longer, when I set up the security squadron of the guard battalion in the barren land, then we will go to the great desert together, and now what you need to do is to help me take care of this place." ”

The ogre walked up to Surdak with a big belly, and said to him angrily, "Captain, I want to go to the Brimstone Mine, there has been no word of mouth over there for a while, and I am afraid that so many kobold slaves have all become food for the salamanders." ”

After Andrew retracted the flames, he would re-sharpen the blade of the 'butcher's axe' with a whetstone, and carefully wipe it with an oil rag, and he would say as he wiped his weapon: "Didn't the truck carrying the brimstone just come back from the mine the day before yesterday?" It's not that the security situation over there is fine, Luke also saved an adventure group that strayed into Puss Mountain a few days ago, don't you think they saw the boundary monument? ”

The ogre didn't care much about his bone-shattering stick, the traces of blood in the past had not been cleaned up until now.

"Maybe it will come out in a few days! I'll take a look and come back......"

The ogre said to Andrew with a smile.

Wearing a long loose dress, Aphrodite leaned out from the terrace on the second floor and said to Surdak in the courtyard, "Captain, I want to go with you to the city of Highlandsa. ”

She didn't wear that cold Mithril mask either, and there was a natural seductiveness in those eyes.

Surdak said, "You are going to the city of Hylandza? ”

Aphrodi nodded, her loose cotton dress forming two clear drop-shaped silhouettes at her chest, and she leaned against the railing with a look of anticipation.

"You're not afraid of being found out by the law enforcement team?"

Surdak asked, looking up at Aphrodite.

"I can be your squire......"

After speaking, Aphrodite drew a magic pattern circle to himself, and as a series of spells were recited, dots of blue magic light swirled and fell from the top of Aphrodite's head, and at the moment when Aphrodite's spell stopped, he suddenly turned into the appearance of a young knight, and even the clothes on his body became a set of ordinary leather armor, and he actually wore a sword on his waist.

Surdak and Andrew opened their mouths in shock, it was hard to imagine how such big breasts and buttocks disappeared in an instant, Aphrodite in front of him had a neutral beauty, but the eyes were still dark purple, and there was still an indescribable beauty.

She stood on the terrace and walked around, smugly and said to Surdak, "What do you think, Captain?" ”

"Can you guarantee that you won't be seen by the magicians in the city?" Surdak was a little worried and couldn't help but ask.

"Absolutely not, I promise!" Aphrodite patted her chest with her hand and said proudly.

Then he complained and sarcastically said to Surdak: "I have never seen you so careful before, it is true that the bolder the position, the smaller it is!" ”

Surdak remembered the situation when he met Aphrodite on the execution ground, remembered that she was a man who had his wings cut off and turned his back on the king of sin Azmodan, although he gradually settled down in Wall Village, but he had never left Wall Village for so long, although it could not be said that it was a prison here, but Aphrodi wanted to go outside to see, this feeling Surdak could still understand.

He pondered for a moment, then stood downstairs and said to Aphrodite, who had become a handsome guard upstairs:

"Okay, you and I go to Highlandsa City this time, but you must remember not to cause trouble for me, or there will be no such thing in the future."

"You agreed? Got it! I promise! ”

Aphrodite cheered with some excitement.

It no longer changed back to its original appearance, so it 'Tengtengteng' ran downstairs.

……

Surdak asked for a Gubolai horse from the old village chief, he and Aphrodi rode away from the entrance of the village, the weather was getting colder and colder, the market at the entrance of the village gradually became depressed, only a few villagers set up stalls, Aphrodi rode a horse, and followed Surdak happily, and the villagers who knew Surdak looked at Aphrodi with surprise.

Surdak was about to ride his horse to the Paglos Pass, when a wounded donkey appeared on the loess road far away, and there was a villager lying on the back of this donkey, after Surdak was promoted to the rank, his five senses also improved, although he was far away, he still saw some blood stains on the person on the donkey's back.

He took hold of the reins of the horse, turned its head, and slapped the horse's stock with the whip in his hand, urging it to run faster.

Gubolai horse ran in front of the donkey like a gust of wind, Surdak jumped down from the back of Gubolai's horse, walked in front of the big donkey, and saw a villager lying on the donkey's back, the injuries on his body were not too serious, they were all some knife wounds, the wounds were not deep, but the blood loss was a little much, the whole person's skin showed a miserable white, and the hands and feet were a little cold, only one breath left.

Surdak hurriedly carried him to the side of the road and made him lie flat on the ground, and Aphrodite came up from behind.

Seeing this, he hurriedly rode to the police station to find Andrew and Samira, ogres.

Surdak condensed a ball of holy light in his palm, allowing this holy light to approach the wound on the villager's body, and the warm holy light slowly integrated into the villager's body, as his breathing and heartbeat slowly recovered, the unconscious villager's face gradually had a painful expression, and then his eyelids trembled twice, and he slowly opened his eyes.

"Lord Surdak......"

As soon as he opened his eyes, he recognized Surdak.

Excitement, sadness, anger, grievance, different emotions appeared on his face at the same time, and Surdak hurriedly said to him: "Don't get excited, tell me what happened slowly." ”

"Lord Surdak, hurry up and save our Guta Village, those desert bandits have come to rob our village again, please hurry up and save my family."

The villager cried out to Surdak with a sad face.

"It turned out to be the bandits, how long has it been since they attacked Guta Village?"

Surdak looked at the sky too much, and it was almost noon at the moment.

The villager took two breaths before he said, "They entered the village last night, and when someone saw them rushing into the village, the village chief asked me to run out on a donkey to deliver the letter, and some robbers found out that I had run out, so they rode after me, and I rushed into the rocky hill in one breath, so that I could get rid of the robbers who were chasing me through the rocky area......

Surdak saw that the villager was not in danger of life, except that he was a little weak and had many wounds cut by a knife, so he let him lie on the side of the road.

Then he took out a finely marked map from his bosom, first drew a line between the desert and Guta Village, then drew a line between Guta Village and Wall Village, and drew a line from Wall Village and the edge of the desert, and a triangle just appeared on the map.

Surdak thought in his heart that even if he rushed to Guta Village now, probably those robbers should also take the village and ransack it and escape.

"Captain, what's going on?" Andrew was in the distance, and the voice was already heard.

Surdak didn't look up, he bet that the robbers didn't dare to stay in the desert for too long, and now they were probably on their way back to the desert, and if they had rushed straight from the village of Vol to the edge of the desert, they would have been lucky enough to be able to rob the bandits.

"It was those robbers from the desert who ran out and ransacked the village of Guta, Andrew, Samira, and Gulitem, you come with me to the edge of the desert to block them, Aphrodite, you stay in the village." Surdak mounted his horse and commanded everyone.

Andrew and Samira rode after Surdak, and the ogre stood barefoot behind them with a bone-crushing stick, also looking eager to try.

Only Aphrodite jumped off her horse with a depressed face, stood on the side of the road and complained, "I knew it would be like this...... Well, you can go with confidence! ”

Surdakra snapped the reins, stopped the horses, and turned back to Aphrodite and said, "If this operation goes well, I give you permission to go around the city of Highlandsa alone!" ”

Aphrodi's eyes lit up suddenly, and she asked Surdak, "Are you serious?" ”

"Of course it's true......" Surdak affirmed.

With that, he raised his whip and galloped towards the edge of the desert with Andrew, Samira, and Gulitham......

This time, Surdak took the militia group to train in the barren land, and did nothing, the only thing is to determine the location of each village in the barren land, in addition, the nearest road connecting the villages is also marked on the map, don't look at the barren land looks flat, but in fact, the fault zone and gentle hills and rift valleys in the barren land also form a very complex terrain, if you are not familiar with the terrain here, it is easy to take a long detour.

This time, they had to pass through a gap in the Valley of the Great Wind, cross the rift, and then bypass a Red Ridge Mountain, so that they could take a shortcut and reach the edge of the desert in advance.

In order to catch up with these robbers in time and not run away from the horses, Surdak could only ruthlessly take out the heads of four hellhounds and sacrifice them to the face of the gods, in exchange for the blessing effect of the 'Divine Blessed Body' on the three war horses, and the 'Divine Blessed Body' on the ogre Gulitham.

The group of four ran until dusk in one go, only to see the huge sand dunes that were almost connected at the edge of the barren land.

The dunes looked like the scales of a giant beast from afar, and the entire edge of the desert smelled dry, and the sky was getting darker, and the temperature here was getting colder......