Chapter Twenty-Nine: Escape from the Inner City
Wren took the eighth master to drill out of the open mouth behind the big tent, and saw a fiery red light in the sky, as if the exploded fireworks had been suspended in the air in a dispersed state. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
This is the magician's flare magic, which can be used both for signaling and lighting. Such magic hung over the barracks, and the entire barracks were illuminated, making it difficult to hide people in dark corners.
Wren and Eighth Master still returned to the gap behind the wooden house, and crawled out of the barracks from there. During this time, the sound of a large number of soldiers running around has been heard.
"You can't walk the bridge, the watchtower should be watching. Walking with the eighth master, we walked over the water. The eighth master got off the wooden fence and said to Wren behind him.
Wren agreed, and followed the eighth master along the dead corner of the watchtower in the direction of the river surrounding the barracks.
The river is five or six meters wide, the water is murmuring, and I don't know the depth, the eighth master does not try, and runs directly to the river, only to see a white ice floe formed on the river surface in front of the eighth master, and the eighth master runs forward on the ice floes, and the floating ice grows to the other side of the river like vitality, so a floating ice bridge is formed.
Surprised, Wren did not forget to flee for his life, and crossed the river with the eighth master. Then the ice floe automatically cracked into small ice floes, and as the river washed away, the previous ice floe bridge disappeared in an instant.
"What are we going to do next? The gates must have been blocked by a large number of soldiers. Wren was sneaking through the woods next to the street and asked the eighth master who was leading the way in front.
"It's okay! The main gate is not easy to walk, and we go to the wrong door. The eighth master was confident, dodging the alarmed patrol soldiers on the street all the way, and headed in the direction of the water gate in the inner city.
There were also some patrolling soldiers on the Watergate, but they were all heading in the direction of the barracks, and perhaps it seemed to them that it would be much more difficult to get out of Watergate than from the gates of the other drawbridges.
The gate of the Water Gate is an iron fence, the width of which is only for small children to pass through, and adults cannot enter and exit freely. The iron fence was lowered into the water by four large chains, and the gallows were raised from the city walls, each of which required two horses to stir it. Both gallows were guarded by soldiers, and the horses were not usually on the city walls, so it was not easy to open this water gate.
After the patrol soldiers near the water gate had left, the eighth master and Wren left the bushes where they were hiding and came to the river. The river here is relatively wide, with a width of more than ten meters, which was originally used to transport materials by boat, and the river is also a little deep.
"Help me get the wine gourd, this is my treasure, don't lose it. I'll call you when I'm done with it. The eighth master took the wine gourd off the head of the cane, handed it to Wren, and then stepped into the river in front of him at will.
The eighth master is like a stone, it sinks when it enters the water, and it doesn't make any splashes, and the noise is not loud. Wren hid in the shade of a nearby tree and waited.
After almost three minutes, Wren hadn't seen the eighth master come up to ventilate, and he began to worry about the eighth master. Just as he was about to go into the water to wipe it, the eighth master's cane with an egg-sized jade jade on his head stretched out from under the water, and after a few seconds, it quickly retracted under the water. It seems meaningless, but Wren understands what the eighth master wants to convey, the eighth master is okay underwater, don't worry.
Wren was also anxious about the safety of the eighth master, forgetting that the eighth master was a magician who knew ice magic, unlike ordinary people entering the water, staying in the water for two or three minutes was nothing. But he didn't know what the eighth master's underwater limit time was, so he was inevitably nervous.
Ten minutes passed, the cane of the eighth master did not appear again, and the noise on the side of the barracks became louder and louder, groups of cavalry rode along the street, and a large number of armored infantry with spears in their hands swarmed out, scattered to search in the bushes. Bang bang bang - there were a few more flares in the sky, illuminating the whole inner city as if it were day.
Seeing this scene, Wren felt scared in his heart, what a dangerous environment he was in to assassinate Zhuo Si. Anda. also dragged the eighth master into such a dangerous situation, and even Mo He and Sha Anna could be implicated by him. Such a thing must not happen again in the future, if you can get out alive. Magical fireworks exploded one after another, illuminating Wren's handsome and determined face.
At this time, there was finally movement under the water, and the iron fence seemed to be pushed up by something, making a sound of metal rubbing, but the sound was very slow, and the barracks were so boiling that it was estimated that no one would notice.
Grunt, a string of bubbles, and then the eighth master floated out of the water. Seeing the appearance of the eighth master, Ren hurriedly stood up and let the eighth master find his position.
"Give me the wine gourd first. Then get into the water. The channel opened. The eighth master beckoned to Wren and said.
Wren threw the wine gourd to the eighth master not far from the shore, who took the wine gourd and froze it with magic, and then re-entered the water. Wren jumped into the water as well, then let go and let go of his dagger and sink into the river.
It was pitch black everywhere, discernible only by the light transmitted from the water above. A cane with a green jade head studded with jade reached over and stabbed Wren, then stopped in front of him, motioning for himself to grab it. Wren grabbed his cane and followed the cane's traction as he paddled under the dim water.
Wren knew that he was swimming in the direction of the water gate, and then the cane led him downstream, and he sank to the bottom, and when his hand could touch the soft mud of the riverbed, the cane continued to swim forward again, and swam for a while, and just when Wren felt that he could not hold his breath, the cane dragged him and began to float, so he accelerated his stroke, and finally surfaced to breathe.
He let go of the cane in his hand, looked around, and found that he was on the other side of the iron fence, and he actually swam out from under the iron fence with the eighth master.
Squeak - the friction sound of the iron fence sliding down sounded, and it seemed that it was indeed the eighth master who used some magic to push it up.
Leaving the inner city, the eighth master and Wren quickly went ashore, because there is no curfew in the outer city, so there are still some pedestrians on the street. Wren and the eighth master pretended to walk as if nothing had happened, although the passers-by were strange that the two were wet, but they didn't pay much attention, they paid more attention to the magic fireworks that rose from time to time in the inner city.
returned to the hotel where the eighth master lived before, and the eighth master simply responded to the waiter, and then led Wren back to his room. Seeing the eighth master and Wren coming in, Mo He looked outside the door, and quickly closed the door without finding anything abnormal.
After the eighth master and Wren changed their clothes, several people sat around the table, and Wren explained that he had entered the inner city today to assassinate the legion leader Zhuo Si. Anda's process. After Wren finished speaking, the eighth master went downstairs and asked the attendant to bring some food up.
The noise in the inner city did not cease until the morning, and there were no large numbers of guards searching the city, and there were no official announcements offering bounties for the arrest of prisoners. It seems that the affairs of the inner city are only the affairs of the inner city, and they do not affect the outer city, and the people in the outer city live as usual.
Wren and Eighth Master rested for a morning, and then began to discuss their next steps with Mo He.
The eighth master already knew that Mo He and Sha Anna were going to send Wren back to the Duchy of Stennis, and the eighth master also knew that Wren was the earl of the Duchy of Stennis. After going into the inner city to assassinate the legion commander, Wren has nothing to hide from the eighth master. And the eighth master is not uncommon for Wren to be an earl, he is not a citizen of the Duchy of Rongen, and he does not have that kind of concept of enemy and self towards the people of the Duchy of Stagnis, he has met many nobles, and he doesn't care about an earl. However, Mo He and Sha Anna were going to send Wren back to China, and he was more concerned about it.
He wrote by hand, took some water, drew a map on the table, and began to explain the route:
"We're on Iron Man Ridge right now. The Duchy of Stennis is probably located in this area, and we are to the southwest of it. If you want to enter the territory of the Duchy of Stennis there are three paths, one is to go directly to the northeast, through the Topa Plains, and then cross the Wind Thunder Mountains to reach the territory of the Duchy of Stennis. The Empire of Jon and the Duchy of Stannis are at war on the Topa Plains, and passing through there can easily be mistaken for spies by the armies of both sides, and even if that is not the case, it is better not to approach the war-torn lands. Even if we make it through the Topa Plains, we'll have to climb over the Wind Thunder Mountains. It's hard for adults to climb the Wind and Thunder Mountains, let alone us with Shaanna.
One is to detour to the northwest, pass through the valley forest belt next to the Topa Plain, and then go to the Wolf's Tooth Mountains, where there is a mountain road through the Wind Thunder Mountains, that road I think should be the path that the troops of the Duchy of Stennis entered the territory of the Rongen Empire before Rennes, where it is very likely to encounter your troops garrisoned, but because of a big detour, it may take two or three months to get there, and it is not known whether the mountain road will return to the Duchy of Stennis at that time. Although the road seems relatively safe at the moment, it will take a long time, and the war will spread to the Po Valley Forest and the Langya Mountains at any time.
The last route is to travel directly east through the Rock Ridge and then to the Makuguro Forest at the foot of the Wind Thunder Mountains, and then north through the entire Makuguro Forest to enter the territory of the Duchy of Stagnis. This road is much closer than the second road, and it takes about a month to return to the Duchy of Stennis based on the distance traveled. But recently, it has been rumored that there is trouble in the Misty City of Panshi Ridge, and the lord of Rock Ridge has sealed off the town, and it is temporarily impossible to pass through Misty City, and Misty City is the only place for Rock Ridge to enter the Makuro Forest. If you successfully pass through Misty City, there is a Makuro Forest that is no less dangerous than walking through the battlefield area. The beasts in the Makuro Forest are famous, and they have no roads, so it's easy to get lost. It must have been very dangerous for a few of us to walk through there.
Well, at present, it is more feasible to go to the Duchy of Stennis on these three roads, and the other roads cannot be reached at all in a year and a half. Also, it's almost winter, and wild travel is even more dangerous. Not only hordes of foraging beasts, but also hordes of robbers. ”
The eighth master has already explained the general situation, and the rest depends on what Mo He does.