Chapter Twenty-Three: The Comeback
Wild West Wilderness, stationed in the camp of the Terran coalition army on the border of Zhongzhou. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Whoa......
Two streams of slightly yellowish liquid slammed into the cliff wall of the Great Death Rift Valley of the Abyss, and the vapors of the liquid in the air were intertwined.
"Damn, Lao Tzu's urine has been so dry and yellow for several days, I really don't know what strange disease I have!" cursed a man as he lifted his trousers, his face was pale, his body was very thin but he was wearing a large red worn armor, and it was not difficult to see that he wanted to use foul language to embolden himself.
Next to him stood a man in green armor. Although the armor was equally shabby, and the pants were also lifted, the expression was the one that I was accustomed to.
"Hey, man, stop complaining, it's been less than a week since you've been here, and I've been yellow for three years. The climate here is dry and cold, and the food is all yellow grains, without a little green shadow, and the urine is of course yellow. The man in the green armor joked.
Hearing his joke, the man in red armor smiled painlessly, but still frowned.
"Rhy, a small village from the capital of pasture, was sent here three years ago. The man in green armor introduced himself.
"Booker. The man in red armor paused, squeezed out two words, and then stopped talking.
Booker didn't seem to expect Rhys to introduce himself, because he knew that the people assigned to the West Frontier were all vicious people, and he wasn't, so he didn't want to talk to them too much.
"Judging by the color of the clothes they handed you out, you're from Qingyun City?" Rhys asked.
But when he asked, there was no response.
Seeing that he didn't speak, Rhys smiled and said, "You can't stop talking all the time when you come here, you'll suffocate to death." Because we're here for the rest of our lives, and we, the prisoners, are your family, so there's no way you can't stop talking to your family, right?"
Hearing Rhys say this, Booker's pale face was a little excited, and he shouted in a sharp voice, "Who is the prisoner?! Who is the family with you?!"
"Aren't you? As far as I know, all the people who come here are the ones who have done great things in the cities. The high-sounding words of the officials in the city to give us a chance to be reborn are, in my opinion, nothing more than to let us come to this desolate border to guard the exit of this demon for them, and to reduce the financial expenses of the army for them. Rhys said indignantly.
Seeing that Booker was a little moved, Rhys continued: "After the end of the Chuzhou War, the major races agreed on the number of people of each race stationed on the border of Zhongzhou, and the Terrans also divided the number of people to various power towns. In order to make up this number, they sent criminals from all over the country here, and what murderers and robbers ......"
"That's enough!" Booker didn't want to listen any longer, "I'm not a criminal, they said they'd let me go back when the situation on the border with Zhongzhou stabilized." ”
"The situation is stable, let you go back, haha, you can't really be naïve to believe what they say, do you? Rhys sneered.
"You'll let me go, you'll let me go......" Booker's voice grew quieter and quieter, and finally drowned out his own sobs.
"I'm from Qingyun City......" Perhaps not wanting to deceive himself anymore, Booker began to tell the story
After listening to Booker's intermittent introductions, Rhys realized why he kept insisting that he was not a prisoner.
Booker was born in Qingyun City, a veritable wealthy businessman, and has always lived a rich life without worrying about food and clothing. This world is like this, rich people can live an arrogant and arrogant life, but the world of rich people is also full of intrigue competition.
A few days ago, a family that competed with him in business spent a huge bribe to buy off a criminal officer in charge of the city, and put a trumped-up murder charge on their family's head, as a result, the whole family was put on death row, and he himself was sent to the distant and wild western frontier.
"Hearing you say that, you're not a prisoner. Rhys said as he looked at Booker, whose shoulders were shaking.
Booker looked up at Rhys and said, "What about you......?" What crime have you committed?"
"Hmph...... They say I'm guilty, but I'm just rooting out the sin for the Dragon Guardian, and even if that person gives me 10,000 choices, I'll kill him 10,000 times. A hint of coldness flashed in Rhy's eyes.
"He's the rich man in our little place, who has a monopoly on our side of the trade and keeps raising prices for profit, but it's not enough for me to cut off his head, but he's ...... He's a brute who has reached out to my young sister, his ancestor!, only fourteen years old......" The coldness in Rhy's eyes turned into burning rage.
"But I eventually killed him, gouged out his wide eyes, and made him never look away, so that he would remember me even if he went to hell. But no matter what, I can't get my poor sister back......"
When Reese's tone changed from anger to sadness, even Booker on the side felt sympathy, and he could only walk up to Rhys and pat him on the shoulder with his hand that was still stained with urine. This is the first time in the life of this rich kid to comfort others, although a little rusty but very sincere.
"It's good to come to this place where birds don't, although the place is a little desolate, but at least the people here are equal, no matter what you used to be, here are all Terran warriors guarding the border. Compared to the officers who hide in the city and shout, we can be called 'warriors'. Rhys said with a look of pride.
Booker's mood improved after listening to Reese's words, and his brows furrowed, but he was still a little worried and said, "But those other criminals ......"
"Don't worry, I'll introduce you to them tonight, everyone have a glass of wine, and we will be brothers in the future." Rhys knew what he was trying to say, so he said comfortingly.
"Got wine?" Booker looked at Rhys with straight eyes.
Since he came to this place, he has never drunk a drop of wine, and although the taste of wild meat can be beaten, he can't eat without wine.
"Of course, this is our own brew with those yellow grains, sweet and strong. Rhys's description alone made Booker drool.
"Then let's go back quickly, I'm ...... Likes to drink two sips. Booker instantly forgot about the unpleasantness and just wanted to have a good drink.
"Look at your urgency, haha...... Okay, it's not too early, let's go back. Rhys laughed.
The moment the two turned around, Rhys suddenly paused and grabbed Booker in front of him.
"Booker, do you feel like this...... Something is wrong. Rhys said as he looked at the familiar cliff mouth behind him.
"Something is wrong?" Booker walked over to the place where he peed just now and looked at the ground, "Hey, I peed here just now, why is it gone, I can't do it so fast......!"
Booker seemed to have suddenly discovered something, and hurriedly jumped down from where he was standing, looked at the place just now with puzzled eyes, and muttered, "Why do you feel a lot taller?"
Rhys had noticed something strange about it, he had been to this place no less than a thousand times, but he had never noticed a big rock here.
At this time, it was almost dusk, and he took advantage of the faint light to take a closer look, and unconsciously put his hand on his waist, and touched the iron sword full of rusty spots.
Finally he noticed a clue that the huge rock was slightly blackened compared to the rock next to it, and there was hardly a weed on it.
"Who's there? Come out quickly, or I'm welcome!" Rhys warned the "rock," but his voice trembled.
Anyone would have laughed when they saw this, two men with iron swords threatening a stone, but he certainly couldn't feel the fear of the two of them, the fear that a familiar thing around them had changed in silence.
The two of them gasped with nervous expressions. It turned out that the "rock" in front of him actually stood up little by little.
After standing up completely, Rhys realized that the "rock" was actually a person, but it was only the muscles that were as angular as a rock that made them mistake it for a rock.
"Monster ...... of the Demon Rock Clan" Rhys looked at the rock monsters that were coming towards him little by little, and a race that hadn't appeared in a long time suddenly flashed in his mind.
When he came to his senses, he hurriedly turned around and tried to flee the place, but he found that it was too late to escape.
Countless "rocks" have come from all sides, one, two, three, four...... Each one was expressionless.
Booker was too frightened to speak, his sword hands trembling, he knew that these monsters had not come to say hello to him.
"Listen, Booker, I'll cover you in a moment to find an opportunity to sneak out, and when you get out, hurry to the camp and inform them...... The monsters are back. Rhys said calmly to Booker.
But Booker was not as calm as him, sweating profusely, and looked around nervously after a panicked "um".
Both of them held iron swords in their hands, back to back, and watched as the approaching monster slowly spun in circles.
Rhys silently counted in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "Three, two, one, rush!"
The two men rushed forward, and Rhys swung his iron sword at the rock monster closest to him. When the iron sword touched its body, it made a muffled thud, as if it were slashing at the rock, but the rock monster continued to approach him unmoved.
Booker didn't choose to hit hard, with his thin body, he grasped the shortcomings of the rock monster that was not so flexible, and kept shuttling and dodging while looking for an opportunity to escape.
In order for Booker to escape, Rhys constantly attracts the rock monsters around him, and he swings his iron sword frantically, occasionally hitting them where they are in the right place, which also succeeds in angering them, and more rock monsters abandon Booker and go straight to Rath.
This also left Booker with a chance to escape the encirclement, and he quickly slipped under the armpit of a rock monster and fled without looking back.
Rhys, who gave up his chance to Booker, was not so lucky, and more and more rock monsters surrounded him, and eventually he drowned in a huge pile of rocks, never to rise again.
After a while, there were several screams of birds at the edge of the Great Rift of Death behind, and the cries were sharp and piercing, like the mournful chirping of crows, which was very terrifying.
It didn't take long for several huge black birds to fly up with powerful wings and stop on the cliff face. Those who participated in the Battle of Zhongzhou will definitely recognize these birds, they are the flying mounts of the Dark Alliance, the Black Wing Dragon Ao.
Several stout black winged dragons shook their heads and gasped, apparently taking a lot of their stamina from flying up from below, and there was still a person sitting on top of each dragon.
They are the Dark Golem Leader, Brown, the Demon Rock Clan Leader, Demon Rock Naiba, and some of their own followers.
After several people jumped off Long Ao, Long Ao, who was unrestrained, immediately ran to Reis's corpse and tore the fresh corpse flesh with his long sharp beak.
Brown, wrapped in a robe, walked up to the corpse gently, and took off the hood on his head in a rare way, his long brown hair tied deep into the robe, and a pale face showed a sickly beauty.
This kind of "beauty" didn't even mean Naiba on the side, although he had long known that Brown was a woman, but he didn't expect that a woman as vicious as a femme fatale would look so weak that people didn't feel the urge to be pity. But it was just a thought, and Naiba didn't dare touch her, because there was more to it than her body in the robes......
"Ran one. Brown looked at Rhys, who had been torn apart beyond recognition, and said expressionlessly.
Hearing Brown's words, Naiba realized that he was a little out of shape, so he said in a rough voice, "I've already asked my 'dog' to chase the other one, don't worry." ”
"No need. After saying this, he looked into the distance, only to see a larger black pterosaur flying back from afar, and its huge feet were still holding a person.
"Bang ......"
It was Booker who had just escaped that fell to the ground, but he was no longer what he was just now, and his eyes were closed and he was already out of breath.
"I hope that the leader of Naiba can train your subordinates well, and someone else's little trick will make your subordinates out of proportion, I hope this situation will not appear. Remember the purpose of our visit, there is no room for error this time......" Brown looked in the direction of Qingyun City in the distance and said coldly.
Naiba was preached by a woman, although she felt uncomfortable, but she was helpless, who made her a red man next to Nadas, and a "left envoy of the abyss" and she had to obey her.
More than ten years ago, Naiba openly contradicted her in front of Nadas, so that he didn't have the opportunity to enter the Black Altar to see Nadas again for more than ten years, and it wasn't until the past few years that the relationship eased, and he didn't want to make the same mistake again.
"Got it. Naiba bowed his head slightly.
"Well, let's go, we still have a long way to go, Long Ao is too conspicuous, I don't want to alarm the nosy barbarians in Xiye, we need to walk to Qingyun City. The answerer has arrived......" Brown said and walked straight inland.
Naiba looked at Brown's back with complicated eyes, how could such a meticulous and ruthless woman win the competition of the "Left Envoy"? I'm afraid that she would have to wait for her to make a mistake......