Because of the fever, a certain girl who has always been noisy finally couldn't resist the exhaustion of her body, and dozed off on the bumpy carriage, and Cochi, who was driving the horse in the front seat, looked at Rong Ruo helplessly, and handed a bottle of potion from the front, "It's mushroom juice, drink this and sleep." ”

Rong Ruo took the medicine bottle and poured it down, her little face suddenly wrinkled, and she stuck out her tongue and couldn't help but sigh, "Senior, you should add some sugar to taste." ”

Kochi's expression looked helpless, his mouth slightly open, but he couldn't think of what to say, so he finally lowered the brim of his hat, and drove silently as if he hadn't heard anything.

After drinking the medicine, Rong Ruo quickly fell asleep on the bumpy carriage, and Kochi took off his coat and handed it to Xinghe to cover her. In order not to disturb her rest, Xinghe lowered his voice, and even Pixar was very obediently lying on the window edge of the carriage, not making a fuss.

But in fact, without Rong Ruo's talk, they have nothing to say, Xinghe looked at the scenery outside the window to pass the time, the station is fifty kilometers away from Jiangcheng, it takes more than an hour to take a carriage, and he has enough time to be in a daze.

After running on the wilderness for about ten minutes, the carriage passed through a woodland and arrived on the main road, where Xinghe could already vaguely recognize some roads, the last time they left Jiangcheng, Rong Ruo drove the carriage from this road when they left the city.

In the past, Jiangcheng was not prosperous, but it was also the largest city in the nearby area, and there were many travelers on this road. But now there were only three of them on the road, and the wreckage of some carriages could be faintly seen along the way.

"Mr. Gurank, how is Jiangcheng doing now?" The closer he got to Jiangcheng, the more uncertain Xinghe became, he didn't know if the treehouse they used to live in was safe, and he didn't know what the scenery they had seen had become now.

Kochi raised the reins, "The situation is not optimistic, we received news before we lost contact with Jiangcheng, most of the public facilities in Jiangcheng exploded, it should be Sniff's handiwork." We went into the city once when we searched for Sniff, but we didn't go too deep, and there were many violent reforms and traps in many parts of the city. ”

Xinghe chuckled in his heart, so it seems that most of the places where they once lived are gone, "What about the civilians in the city?"

"Before the city was locked down, most of the civilians had fled and are now housed in a refugee camp north of the city, do you know anyone in the city?" Kochi looked back at the others.

Who do you know?Xinghe raised his head and looked at the roof of the carriage, whether the relationship was good or bad, the few people he knew in Jiangcheng were Du Ze, Balbo, and Emilio, and now most of them are no longer in Jiangcheng.

"The city is locked down, what about those who didn't escape?" Anton asked, looking up.

Kochi straightened his hat, because he had his back to him, Xinghe couldn't see the expression on his face, and only heard him sigh, "So we have to subdue Sneef as much as possible, so that the army won't erase Jiangcheng." ”

Anton's eyes sparkled, "Because one person is going to erase a city, how important is Sniff?"

Xinghe answered this question for Kochi, "Because the Empire is afraid of a repeat of the Danchester incident, they are afraid that the 'original sin' will spread again." Earlier, in the library of the Academy, he had consulted a large amount of literature on the events in Danchester, and of course the Empire would be afraid of another outbreak of the plague that had claimed hundreds of thousands of lives.

Kochi looked back at Xinghe, with a surprised expression on his face, but he didn't refute Xinghe's statement.

Anton didn't speak again, Xinghe patted him on the shoulder, he also felt that this was unreasonable, but in this Demon Spirit Empire, the two of them had no right to speak. They didn't want to see Jiangcheng, an existence close to their hometown, destroyed, and they couldn't discourage the empire's plan to erase Jiangcheng, so he had to take over the work of acting as a decoy for them, hoping that they would still have a place to store their memories after Sneve was subdued.

For the rest of the road, no one spoke again, and only the occasional snoring sound was left in the carriage, because Mr. Balbo's house was in the suburbs, so their convoy did not enter the city, but drove along the road on the outskirts of the city.

However, Xinghe can still see the black smoke rising everywhere in the city and the tiles everywhere through the car window, the damage to Jiangcheng is even more serious than he imagined, when the carriage crossed the Gong River, Xinghe saw the Colosseum from a distance, the landmark building was damaged because of the collapse of the remains of the underground cavemen, when they left Jiangcheng, the repair work was underway, and now it is only a remnant wall remaining, and the rest of it must have been blown up by Sniff.

Three horse-drawn carriages methodically crossed the ridges of Balbo's cornfields, and on several of them, Xinghe saw signs for sale put up by the Jiangcheng government. Balbo was just a human being, and the city hall of Jiangcheng would not bother to find out who the heirs to his property were, and the land was naturally put up for sale in the name of the government.

Xinghe could already see Balbo's old house in the distance, just as Shigego said, only a pile of charred remains remained in the barn next to the house, "Where are the tombstones of Jugo, Rei, and Mr. Balbo?"

Jugo got up from his seat and pointed in a certain direction behind the house, "In the field over there, behind the house." ”

Xinghe, Anton, and Lan Yue all looked in the direction he pointed, because the house was blocked, they didn't see the tombstone, but saw the first carriage driven by Jose suddenly stopped.

"What's wrong?" Xinghe wondered, there was enough vacant space to park in front of Balbo's house, why should he park his car here.

"Be quiet and sit back in the car. Cocci gripped the reins and stared at the house as if he were on the verge of a great enemy, and in the first carriage, José stepped out of the carriage, holding a dagger in his left hand, and his black book floating beside him, and slowly walked towards the hut.

Ye Zhiqiu and Dan Huangsheng also got out of the car, they didn't go to see Jose, but were guarding the sky, and Cherie on the last carriage also got off, she came out of the back carriage with a suitcase, opened it by the side of the carriage, and dozens of small golden balls with wings flew out of it and flew towards the hut.

It took Xinghe a moment to realize why they were so nervous, and he saw the cooking smoke on the hut, "There's someone in the hut!"

"Who is it, Snève?" Anton was also excited.

"It's not clear. Xinghe shook his head and continued to look towards the hut.

Cherie also walked towards the hut after releasing the little golden balls, José walked in front, and he made his way slowly towards the hut, leaving a trail of footprints in the snow, and before he could reach the edge of the hut, the door of the hut suddenly opened.

Xinghe's heart tightened, but he saw a big black dog barking wildly towards Jose, and before it could reach Jose, it was firmly entangled in the snow by a pile of cobweb-like things that appeared out of thin air, unable to move.

But the big black dog was still barking.

"It's Mr. Balbo's dog. Lan Yue exclaimed.

Xinghe nodded, it was indeed Balbo's big black dog, but if the big black dog was also in the house, who was the person who was making a fire inside?

José didn't move on after the big black dog appeared, but looked warily at the door that had been opened, and in this gap, Cherie had already walked behind him.

Jose made a gesture to Chery, Cherie nodded, waved her hand forward, and with a beep, Xinghe saw something fly in through the door, it should be the golden orb she released just now.

There was a crackling sound in the house, and then the windows of the house were broken, and a ball of electricity was shot at José with a shard of glass, José clutched the dagger and didn't move much, and his black book ate the ball of electricity for him.

But the attack on Jose and Cherie did not stop there, and immediately after the electric ball was swallowed by the black book, two magic balls containing a lot of magic power shot at the feet of Jose and Cherly, and suddenly a large number of snowflakes splashed, blocking Xinghe's vision, and Xinghe could only faintly see a person jumping out of the window and scuffling with Jose.

The fluttering snowflakes soon fell, and the attacker revealed her face, a woman, quite tall, with a gas mask on her face, holding a short knife in her right hand and a short wooden stick in her left.

Her sneak attack on José didn't work, and she only had a slight advantage in hand-to-hand combat with a short knife that was longer than the dagger in José's hand, but José didn't look very hard, blocking his opponent's short sword with a dagger and using the black book to defend against the arc of electricity that shot from the tip of the short stick.

It's just that Jose is not alone, and Jose is also surrounded by Cherry, who is known as the Spider Queen, and she seems to be very good at using things that resemble cobwebs.

Several cobwebs firmly bound the attacker and removed her weapon, José walked over and ripped off the gas mask from her face.

"Doctor Emilio?" Xinghe looked at the familiar face hesitantly, didn't Shigego say that she went to the Elven River, why was she here?

Xinghe looked at Shigego suspiciously, only to see him shake his head, "I don't know, Doctor Emilio and I are separated in the River of Elves. ”

Xinghe looked at Garcia Emilio who was subdued, and then at the people in the car, and for a moment he felt that he had probably figured out why Dr. Emilio was here.

A few of them agreed to act as bait because they didn't want to see Jiangcheng, their second hometown, ruined, and didn't want to see the place where Ling's memories were left disappearing, and Rong Ruo followed in anger because she didn't agree with Valhalla's action of using a few children as bait.

Then it didn't seem so hard to understand that Dr. Emilio was in Mr. Balbo's old house in full gear, everyone was stupid.