Chapter 448: Escape on a Stormy Night
Rogge's words surprised the four people around him, and they all looked at the note in his hand, only to hear Antonio ask, "Do you know this magician?"
"No, I don't know him," said Rogge, looking down at the name and address recorded on the slip of paper in his hand, "but I know the name, and when I went to Ivan's house with the little villain, I found some letters in his basement, and one of them had the exact same name, and I thought it should be a coincidence." ”
"It turned out to be Ivan's accomplices!" said Catherine, indignantly.
"It should be his student," Roger said with a smile and a pun, "he called Teacher Ivan in the letter, and you didn't even call me Teacher Teacher." ”
"I'm ......" Catherine looked at him a little embarrassed, Rogge raised his eyebrows at her and smiled: "But it doesn't matter, the little villain has been raised by me for ten years, and he uses me to eat me every day, and he doesn't care if I call Dad." ”
"Bad wolf, you're taking advantage of me again, believe it or not I'll slap the tavern cured meat in your face!" said the little furball, who stood up all the feathers all over his body, and spread his wings menacingly to look at Rogge.
"Ah, I remember, we need to hurry!" Rogge pretended to grab the little furball and put it on Catherine's head, then grabbed Elizabeth's hand and turned away, saying as he went, "Hurry up and keep up, don't be left behind!"
"Stupid girl, I'm getting more and more trying to stuff the bad wolf in the marinated meat vat. The little furball pouted and squinted at the eagle beak and grunted angrily.
The group left Blackhardt to get a few small animals and wild fruits in the golden fields outside the town, and as they sat around a campfire in the autumn sun for lunch, they saw Rogge and Elizabeth standing in the nearby wilderness, muttering something.
"Lilith, go over and see what they're up to. Catherine pushed the little Lori who was sitting next to her with a mouthful of oil, Lilith looked up at the two, hesitated for a moment but stood up and walked towards the two while chewing the meat in her mouth.
When she walked a few steps behind the two of them, Rogge jerked back to stare at her and said to Elizabeth, "Ah, here comes the little scoundrel who stalks." ”
The vampire princess slowly turned to look at Lilith, little Lori walked to them unhurriedly, stretched out her little hand to Rogge, Rogge subconsciously took a step back, pointed at her and said, "Don't even think about it!"
"Oh!" little Lori agreed obediently, turned around and hugged Elizabeth's legs with her two little hands and asked, "Bad princess, stupid girl let me ask what you are whispering to the bad wolf?"
Rogge, who was standing on the side, glanced at Catherine with a black line on his face, touched his forehead and muttered, "What a little fool who betrayed his teammates!"
Elizabeth looked at little Lori silently, still with a trace of fear in her heart, she didn't want to talk to Lilith directly, and turned her eyes to Rog's face.
Seeing this, Rogge beckoned to Lilith, called her to the front and said, "Her Royal Highness has promised to shorten our travel time, and when we finish eating, we will directly use the dimensional passage to go to Checheng, and then set off from there to find Anne, which can save several days." ”
"It turns out that bad princesses are not bad sometimes!" Little Lori glanced up at Elizabeth, turned around and ran back to report the news, Rogge looked at her back with a smile, looked back at Elizabeth beside her, and found that she was staring down at the greasy little handprints on her skirt and frowning.
"Oh, I'd like to remind you to be careful. Rog shrugged his shoulders and snickered as he walked over to the campfire, and Elizabeth sighed helplessly and silently followed.
Hearing the news that Lilith had brought back, the three of them were also happy, they finished lunch as soon as possible, and then asked Tali to summon the light god to open the dimensional passage, and teleported the group to the outside of the car city.
When several people came out of the dimensional gate and suddenly saw the overwhelming rain of arrows rushing towards them, everyone was shocked and hurriedly cast spells to resist the attack of the arrow rain, and Antonio, Tali and Monica, the little flower spirit, opened their shields at the same time to protect everyone.
After a tidal wave of arrows, countless arrows scattered around several people, turning the ground near them like a hedgehog's back, Antonio, Tali and Monica carefully disarmed their magic shields, looked at the top of the tower in surprise, and suddenly heard Rog behind him say, "Guys, you better take a look over here." ”
The others invariably looked behind them, only to see a large group of soldiers rushing towards them with deafening chaotic footsteps and shouts of killing, and several people turned around to flee when they saw that the situation was not good, but behind them there was only the closed gate of Checheng, and there was no other way to go.
"Go back to the dimension!" Rogge shouted, pulling Elizabeth and Catherine up and turning and entering the dimensional gate, followed by Antonio and Tali into the dimensional gate, the lantern god floated in and closed the dimensional door, reopened an exit nearby, and let them out after making sure it was safe outside.
Standing on a nearby hill and watching with trepidation at the fierce battle between the two armies below, Antonio noticed that the attackers and defenders were flying two different flags, the defender was the flag of Erus, while the besieging flag represented the Duchy of Deiz.
"What's going on?, why is Deiz's army besieging Checheng?" Antonio muttered to himself in amazement as he looked at the battlefield with a sparkling sound.
"That's understandable, Captain," Rogge replied calmly, "There are frequent wars in the border areas of the three principalities, and although it is relatively rare to attack a main city like Checheng, it is not surprising that the Deiz people have taken advantage of the current epidemic in Erus, and the military and national strength have been greatly weakened. ”
"Damn, this is not the time for a civil war!" said Antonio, clenching his fists in indignation.
"It doesn't look like King Deiz thinks so. Rogge shrugged his shoulders and patted him on the shoulder and said, "But this matter should really be taken care of, even if it is a favor for our father-in-law of the second villain!"
"Then I will now go to the army of Deiz and order them to stop the siege. Antonio nodded approvingly.
"You go with Miss Tully, Catherine and I will continue to look for Anne with Her Royal Highness the Princess, I think you will be inseparable from Checheng for a while, and that dead old man of King Deiz is not a fuel-efficient lamp, so don't worry about us, and we will come back to Checheng to find you when we are done." ”
Antonio and Tali thought that there was only one way, but Tali was still a little uneasy about Catherine, so she called Lilith from Roger and whispered to her to take care of Catherine, and at the same time wary of Elizabeth.
After explaining everything, Antonio and Tali went straight to the Deiz military camp with the lantern god, and Rog and Catherine followed Elizabeth to the southwest of Checheng, they climbed over the mountains to bypass the Deiz army besieging Checheng, and gradually moved away from the noisy Checheng and escaped into the silent wilderness.
The sky gradually darkened, a rain cloud drifted from the sky, and a clammy wind blew over the wilderness, heralding the arrival of a storm, and the three men walked silently against the wind on the open field, as if no one was in the mood to speak, but hurried forward.
"There's a little wooded forest in front of us, and we go there to take shelter from the wind and get some food for dinner. Rogge walked between Elizabeth and Catherine, covering half of their bodies under his cloak to shield them from the wind, and trotting them all the way to the sparsely wooded woodland ahead.
When the three of them entered the woodland, there was a rumbling thunder in the sky, and the lightning that pierced the sky from the night sky turned the earth white, and Rog found a relatively sheltered place to stop, and let Catherine and Elizabeth sit behind a tree to avoid the wind, and stood in front of them and called out the little furball.
"Little scoundrel, you need to grab something and come back, it's going to be stormy, and we can't go hungry and rain all night. Rogge looked at the sky and said, "I can't see my fingers."
"I don't want to go, the thunder is so loud, and the wind is so strong, I'm afraid!" said the little furball as he shrank his head.
"If you don't go, we'll only have to eat Monica's fruit tonight, and if we can't even eat anything hot, we might have a hard time tonight. Rogge looked at her helplessly.
Little Furball looked back at Catherine and Elizabeth, who were sitting under the tree to avoid the wind, hesitated for a moment and said, "At least someone has to go with me, not by myself!"
"I'll go with Lilith. Catherine took the initiative to get up and said, "You stay and watch her, and I'll take Monica and Lilith with me, and the three of them will also take care of her." ”
"That's fine, then you go and come back quickly, be careful. Rogge nodded in agreement, letting the little furball fly to Catherine's shoulder, and Catherine pulled out the silver bell and left with the little furball and the little flower spirit.
After the three of them left, Rogge turned around and picked up some dead branches from the surrounding woodland and piled them up where Elizabeth was sitting, the vampire princess silently lowered her head and did not move, Rogge did not talk to her, picked up the dead branches and piled up firewood by himself, waiting for Catherine's return.
Just as he was lighting the firewood and raising the bonfire, he suddenly heard a woman's scream nearby, and Rogge and Elizabeth looked back in the direction from which the sound came at the same time, and vaguely heard several screams one after another, as well as the sound of the girl crying for help.
"Oh no, something's wrong!" Rogge stepped over the campfire and shouted to Elizabeth, "Follow me!" strode in the direction where the voice came, Elizabeth got up from the ground and ran a few steps behind him, his pace slowing down, but Rog didn't notice her change at all, and soon the two of them distanced.
Elizabeth stopped when she saw this, and seeing that Rogge's figure was quickly drowned in the darkness, she turned and ran wildly towards the north with excitement, looking behind her from time to time as she ran, her two pointed ears listening to the sounds around her, but only the sound of the wind howling in her ears.
There was a thunderclap and a torrential downpour of rain, Elizabeth ran wildly in the stormy wilderness, her long dress was wet by the rain and wrapped around her legs, Elizabeth desperately tore her skirt with her hands, and continued to run wildly with her bare legs, all the way to a hill in the north of Checheng.
She stood breathlessly at the top of the hill, looking back at the stormy wilderness, a thunderbolt suddenly thundered in the sky behind her, and Elizabeth muttered to herself in disbelief, "Did I really escape?"