University of Beltamen, France.

Professor Khaki pushed open the door of the president's office, and looked at the president who kept drinking and leaned back on the chair to sleep when he was drunk, he closed the door with his backhand, walked straight to the desk, and whispered to Xiongqi, who was curled up in the soft chair, "Qifeng is back." ”

Headmaster Xiongqi, who looked like a homeless man, turned his body at the first moment, his bloodshot eyes, messy hair and beard, he just looked at Professor Khaki like this, his lips trembling but he couldn't say a word.

Professor Khaki saw his appearance and sighed slightly, before the mentor Qifeng was sent to the desert by this old guy in front of him to tell the news of the five families of the patriarch Huosuo, and then he stayed in that desert to investigate, and today Qifeng came back and brought back the worst news.

Professor Khaki retreated slightly, and said, "The Horso tribe has been wiped out. ”

Xiongqi was only stunned for a moment, then jumped up like a lion and ran to the door without saying a word, but was punched in the face by Professor Khaki, who had prepared in advance, causing him to sit back in his chair.

Jump up and hit back; Jump up again, hit back again.

Neither of the two old men spoke, the principal Xiongqi was faster and faster each time, and Professor Khaki punched harder than the other.

The dull sound of fists echoed in the principal's office, and finally, the headmaster, whose mouth was covered with blood, used all his strength and sat down in the soft chair without moving.

A sweaty Professor Khaki approached him and saw him staring blankly at the ceiling, and said, "Did you wake you up?" Do I want to punch you two more times. ”

"Khaki, go get me that bottle." Headmaster Xiongqi's voice was hoarse.

Hearing his words, Professor Khaki breathed a sigh of relief, and knew how to drink, which meant that the old fellow had eased up, and he turned to leave, not seeing Xiongqi holding his head and sobbing.

Professor Khaki went and returned, there was an extra bottle in his hand, the bottle was glass, and it was clear that there was only a small half bottle of wine inside, Professor Khaki handed the wine to Xiongqi, and then pulled a chair and sat in the doorway.

Xiongqi took out a cup and poured a full glass, judging by the amount of wine presented in the bottle, I am afraid that he can only fill the wine glass in Xiongqi's hand twice. Xiongqi carefully stuffed the wine bottle, then took a small sip from the wine glass.

This bottle of wine was a gift from the patriarch of Hoso when he was young in order to thank him for introducing Nasha to him. It is said that the previous patriarch of their tribe kept it privately, and it is the best quality Horso wine.

Just like the patriarch of Huo Suo said, there are too many Xiongqi who can't help themselves, but even if Xiongqi goes, what's the use, he can only be torn apart by the five families who are almost crazy, adding another wisp of grievance to that desert. The two of them know this well, they are no longer young, they can't do things with blood and impulsiveness, and they can do a lot of things clearly.

But it's still uncomfortable.

"I can't save you, I'm sorry." Principal Xiongqi drank all the wine in the cup, then smashed the cup, then kicked over the desk, and scolded: "You stupid, you, you can't stop you from saying it earlier, can't I save everyone?" You told me in the letter that I should save you, you have to tell me that your tribe warriors can deal with all dangers, what kind of score are you putting up with me, bastard! ”

Venting, Xiongqi sat back in his chair and asked Professor Khaki, "You say, if I go to save him, will he come back with me?" ”

Professor Khaki shook his head solemnly and said, "No." ”

"And what about Nasha?"

"No, it won't."

"And what about his godson?"

"No, it won't."

Xiongqi was silent, and then whispered, "Yes, you are the patriarch." ”

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There are two figures gradually elongated in the sunset of the desert, and two men are supporting each other and walking in the yellow sand.

Mu Qiqiang swallowed his saliva and whispered to Mu Qinghe: "We only have one water bladder left, according to our current itinerary, it will take three days to reach Nouakchott." Judging from the water intake of the two of us, we will not have any more water replenishment for at least one and a half days, but the two of us are now in a state where we will die without drinking water for half a day. ”

Mu Qinghe's lips were chapped, and he just hurried silently without saying a word.

"When you go back this time, don't come back, the Guardian is like a shallow pond with a lot of silt, you can't get out if you sink in." Mu Qi continued to himself: "If we can make it to Nurkchott, we will take a plane from there to France, and then you will fly directly from France to your home city, I can only send you to France, and you will have to go the rest by yourself." ”

"Old patriarch, they won't have an accident, right?" Mu Qinghe asked in a hoarse voice.

Mu Qi replied: "It's hard to say, judging from the traditional style of the five major families, they will leave the Huo Suo patriarch to ask for information, and other useless people should be disposed of to prevent anyone from leaking secrets to the outside world." ”

"Can I just run away like a coward?" Mu Qinghe stood still in place.

"You've really grown a lot." Mu Qi sneered: "I remember the time I met at the Chateauru Boxing Stadium before, and you were chased all over the field by three low-end fighters. What, don't want to run this time? ”

Mu Qi pulled Mu Qinghe and continued to walk slowly against the wind and sand, and said in a faint voice that could only be heard by two people: "There are some things that can be left, and some things that cannot be walked." It depends on whether your friendship is worth risking your life, and you are lucky, because no one in this world is worthy of a royal family to die with. ”

"You just think I'm mocking you, the most unproductive guardian can become the most honorable, it's easy for people like us to be jealous and sneer at you." Mu Qi teased and enjoyed, and said with a twist: "Patriarch Huosuo and the Huosuo clan are not because you died, the five major families may not know that you are a person until now, so you don't need to carry this heavy burden, since the patriarch Huosuo made a choice at the last moment, he wants you to run instead of negotiating terms with the five major families at the cost of handing you over, then, you have to live well." Because this is the last wish of the old patriarch, this friendship needs to be borne by you. ”

"I didn't find you before, it turned out to be a chatterbox." Mu Qinghe's face was expressionless, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

"Let's talk about it, I finally met someone I wanted to talk to, I had to talk about it. Don't think we're going to get out of the town, maybe we'll just be lying on a bunch of sand dunes and then gradually being buried. Then I should be proud, I am the only person in this world who dragged a member of the royal family to die together, and no matter how the history of the Guardian is written, it is destined to be inseparable from my name. The more Mu Qi spoke, the more excited he became, his feet slipped, and he fell hard, even with Mu Qinghe in the yellow sand.

Mu Qinghe got up from the ground and continued to walk forward silently, he couldn't mention the slightest interest in talking about this scar man who looked like a neurotic man the more he came into contact.

"Hey, wait for me, are the members of the royal family so arrogant?" Mu Qi stood up, patted the sand on his face, and continued to walk forward against the wind.

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The Bering Strait has a beautiful legend that has not been around for a long time, but it is deeply believed by the inhabitants of both sides of the strait and the ships that often mingle in the area.

Legend has it that there is a "ghost ship" roaming in this area, this ship is not like other legendary ghost ships, it will not avoid other ships, on the contrary, if anyone is lucky enough to see it, it will stop next to the person who meets it and throw a soft ladder at him, all the people who meet it will also eat fresh food on the boat, most of the people who see the ghost ship are fishermen or tourists who meet danger at sea, and when they wake up after they have eaten and drunk enough, they will find themselves staying in their own boat, and the boat is parked in the sea close to the land.

There is no pattern in the time when this ship appears, and there is no logic in the place where it appears, and there are rescued people who can't find a single crew member when they go around the cabin, and this ship is more like sailing according to their own wishes, leisurely and unrestrained.

Some say it was a three-masted schooner, others said it was a modern propeller-propelled ship, because in half a day it was seen separately on both sides of the strait.

But there is no doubt that the ship has been used as a protector by the coastal dwellers around the strait, who even call it "the messenger of the gods".

As the night deepened, a white fog rose from the sea, and a huge triangular mast saw its figure through the mist, and the ship floated silently across the sea, and the whole ship was filled with an eerie silence that did not match its size.

A man was lying behind the railing of the boat, sniffing and sneezing, muttering as if to blame the damn dampness for aggravating his rhinitis.

"Squeak, squeak." He strode into the cabin, his shoes on the old wooden planks, the smell of decay penetrating the marrow as if the next foot would pierce the board.

"Damn, it's foggy again." The man took off his coat, which was covered with fine droplets, and he wore a white shirt underneath, and at this moment he rolled up the sleeves of his shirt and vigorously flapped the droplets on the coat.

"It seems that this ghost weather has ruined the Boss's elegant mood tonight." A young white girl with a ponytail slid over in a swivel chair.

"Hestia, you don't talk nonsense." The man threw her the damp coat and said unceremoniously: "Wash it for me, and go prepare for supper by the way, I'll go get the others up and get ready to work, something big has happened recently." ”

"Boss, you're too much, can't you let Athena do these things? Just know to bully me! The white girl rolled her eyes and looked at the man who had gone away in disgust, and in desperation she had no choice but to carry the wet and smelly dress into the cabin on the left.

The man walked up to the second floor, listening to the snoring of different sizes, he shook his head helplessly, and walked into the cabin on the second floor, where there were more than a dozen narrow beds, and on each bed was a "extremely twisted" figure sleeping on it. The helplessness on the man's face deepened, he approached the little girl, pulled up the quilt she kicked under his feet and covered her back on, then covered the little girl's ears with both hands, took a deep breath, and shouted: "Damn bastards, get up and work!" ”

There was a wail around him, mixed with a few small curses.

"Boss, you're like this again!" A woman with messy hair slapped her face on the bed and yelled at a man who was disturbing her dreams.

"Athena, speak quietly, Artemis is still sleeping." The man hurriedly put his hand on the little girl's ear again.

"Sooner or later, you're going to force us to revolt, damn it!" The woman named Athena continued to complain, but her voice was indeed much quieter.

"All right, now everyone get dressed, shoes in hand, and go out gently, and whoever makes a noise will tie him to the boat to catch sharks." The man smiled harmlessly, and the others covered their faces and sighed, but they still obediently picked up their shoes and quietly walked out.

After everyone had gathered in a room similar to a conference room, by the faint candlelight on the table, it could be seen that there were eleven people present, and there was just one more man than a woman, and they were generally between twenty-five and thirty years old, and the oldest was the man in the lead, and his actual age was definitely not more than forty-five years old, and even just looking at him on the surface would definitely think that he was only thirty years old, and two of the women were particularly beautiful, one was cold and the other was charming; Except for a big fat man who laughs happily, everyone else has an extraordinary temperament and has their own characteristics.

But at this time, both men and women were full of grief and indignation, and they glared at the man sitting on the throne together.

The man didn't seem to see their desire to eat people at all, and said to himself: "You are all young talents carefully cultivated by various countries, and you are the best spies in the world, if you get angry because you are disturbed from sleeping, will this kind of thing be transmitted back to your former department, will it make your former colleagues laugh and lose their big teeth?" ”

"It's only three o'clock in the morning!" The cold woman now gritted her teeth, holding the knife and fork in her hand and stabbing the broccoli on the plate fiercely, her current expression did not match her own temperament at all.

"Hehe, I'm sorry, but there is important information, and if it is done, the days when you will blow the sea breeze with me will be over." The man sitting on the throne glanced down at the watch on his wrist and grinned, but there was no apology on his face, and there was a bit of smugness in the depths of his eyes.

Everyone in the room was defeated, except for the fat man codenamed Ares, who was still stupidly happy to eat, and this guy who believed that fat was the best shock absorber enjoyed every meal.

Interestingly, these people on the ship with unknown purposes actually used the names of the twelve main gods in Greek mythology as their code names, but the leader of the team was not called Zeus, but Hephaestus.

"Boss, you're too much, how can this be?" The girl with the ponytail pouted and said, and her charm suddenly became vibrant, which made the person who saw it spontaneously feel a desire to protect.

The corners of the man's mouth twitched, and he said expressionlessly: "Do you want to be caught for sharks?" ”

Everyone present laughed heartily, and the charming woman rolled her eyes, looking at this group of stinky men who didn't know what pity and cherishing jade was, she even suspected that she had been blowing the sea breeze at sea for two months, and her skin was not as smooth as before.

"I'm going to eat some fruit and rehydrate." The seductive girl stood up and walked out.

"Sister Hestia, please bring me some fruit sauce and dry bread." Athena pushed the broccoli in front of her forward, "I hate greens. ”

"Please fry me a large steak." Ares said.

"Artemis is about to wake up, fry her an egg, and get me a glass of vodka by the way." The eldest Hephaestus said the same.

Hestia listened to the sound behind her, clenched her hands into fists, stomped the ground with her feet, and walked towards the kitchen.

"Boss, what the hell is going on?" It was a rectangular table, and the boss sitting on the main seat sat two rows of subordinates on the left and right hands, and the first one on his right hand sat a cold woman codenamed Athena, who looked innocent and haughty. On his left hand side is a man codenamed Hades, the man has long white hair and a shawl, I don't know if he was dyed or born like this, he has a feminine temperament, and he wears a half-metal mask on his face, and he asked at this moment.

"Our god has sent Hermes the latest news." The man seated on the throne took out a photograph from his pocket and pushed it over the table, where the men and women on both sides of the table looked at each other in a tacit understanding, and without saying a word, they carefully remembered the appearance of the man in the photograph by the light of the short candle on the rusty candlestick in the middle of the table.

"This person's name is Mu Qinghe, at this moment he has the black stone of the Huosuo tribe in his hand, and now he is mixed with the young master of a certain organization of the superhumans, as for their current whereabouts, unfortunately, there is no relevant news from Hermes." The Boss lit a cigar and continued, "You have seen it too, tell me what you think." ”

"He's Asian?" A yellow man with a mustache spoke, wearing glasses and looking like a substitute class teacher at a high school.

"Chinese." A string of smoke rings came out of his mouth, and Hestia was seen as he walked in with a large lunch box.

"No smoking in the cabin, boss, isn't that your rule?" The seductive woman took the opportunity to sneer.

The boss Hephaestus looked helpless, and he shuffled his hand to extinguish the cigar.

"Who is this man?" Hestia snatched the picture from the hand of Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, and then threw it back to her, saying, "She looks average, is it possible that Sister Aphrodite has changed her taste now." ”

The glasses woman who looked at the photo in her hand gave her a blank look, then pushed it to the man across the table.

"Boss, haven't you been to that desert tribe before? Doesn't that the black stone hides a very important secret? The mustachioed man continued.

"That's right, I heard the news before and rushed to the Huosuo tribe, but I was stopped by an old acquaintance halfway and had a fight with him. Hephaestus sighed.

Everyone present had strange faces, they all knew the strength of their own boss, don't look at him when he mixed with his partners, there was no boss at all, but everyone clearly knew that at that time, when this investigation team organized by many countries to explore the secrets of superhuman beings was just established, it was the man in front of him who defeated all the team leader competitors, so many national-level elite masters, all bowed down to his knightly sword, they never thought that the powerful own boss actually had an old enemy?

"Since this kid named Mu Qinghe has obtained the black stones that the previous patriarchs of Huosuo have worked hard to protect, then this person has the capital for us to win him over, and this person needs us to take it seriously, which will be beneficial to us to complete the final task." Hephaestus thought seriously, "Hestia, if this operation is over and we have to return to land, where do you want to go the most?" ”

The charming girl thought about it seriously and said: "I must go back to see my father, he doesn't know how much to miss me, eat and drink at home, sleep comfortably for a day and a night, and even if my two months of sea breeze have not blown in vain." ”

"Yes, go home! Then you say that this child named Mu Qinghe, who is a few years younger than you, will he be homesick? Hephaestus showed a confident smile, "Athena, you hurry up and check the detailed address of Mu Qinghe's house, we will wait for him in his hometown!" ”

"Understood." Athena replied earnestly and walked out of the conference room.

"There will definitely be a lot of powerful superhumans joining us this time, and we can take the opportunity to see the power of those mysterious superhuman forces." The more the eldest Hephaestus spoke, the more excited he became, and finally he slapped the table and stood up, "This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, I am ready to let Zeus and Hera go, their husband and wife are safer to deal with some things." Wait, let Hestia go with me, I don't want any accidents, when you come back, I want this child named Mu Qinghe to appear in front of me together! ”

The mustachioed man and the dignified-looking chubby woman at the back of the conference table got up together, and answered solemnly with the seductive woman.

"Understood!"