"I have good news and bad news, which one do you want to hear first?"

Jude expertly slid down from a zhennan tree, shaking the sawdust and leaves off his cloak before speaking.

"Uh...... Good news? ”

"The good news is that your guardian knight has taken your castle for you."

"Really?" Ilea was overjoyed and was about to leave for home, but was stopped by Jude, "Don't you hear bad news anymore?" ”

"What's the bad news?"

"He and your castle are surrounded." "There are about two or three hundred heavily armed soldiers outside the city now, most of them infantry, a small number of archers, and about seventeen or eighteen horsemen, but there are no siege equipment found for the time being." ”

Miss Rabbit's whole body is like being poured with a basin of ice water, cold from head to toe.

"Enemy, where did it come from? Do you see the pattern on their flag, which one it belongs to? ”

"See, it's the rabbit flag of the Arias family." Jude Road.

"My stepmother," Ilea incredulous, "is she crazy?" actually privately mobilized troops to besiege the family's castle. ”

"I don't know if she's crazy or not, but I know that with just the two of us, a dog must be crazy if he wants to fight against the three hundred or so people outside the city."

Half Face also retreated after investigating the enemy's situation, "I've already sent you home, please pay me the reward, the rest of the matter has nothing to do with me." ”

"How can it be okay, our previous agreement was that you sent me into the castle, and I don't even see the castle gate now."

Miss Rabbit reminded, "Our oath is protected by Saturday, and I told you early in the morning that I have no money on me, and that my money is all in the castle, and you don't want to run for nothing." ”

"I can also hand you over to your stepmother, and I believe that she will be happy to pay off the debt owed to me for your daughter." Jude muttered quietly.

"What did you say?"

"Nothing," Jude digressed, "when will Merlin return, he's been gone for two days, and it's getting dark, and he'll not find us in the woods by then." ”

"Rest assured, he has Saturday's guidance, and he can easily find us wherever we hide."

"Aren't you a believer in the goddess of the Silver Moon, why do you have more faith in Saturday than in your own god?"

Hearing Jude's words, Ilea was also stunned, and after a while, she found a reason for herself, "I don't have faith in Saturday, I have faith in the ancient spirit of the Arias family, Merlin said, it was the ancient spirit that guided him to me." ”

"I often tell women that love makes us meet, but it's actually their eye-catching boobs." Jude shrugged.

"Didn't you say you already believed in Saturday?"

"I did say that, I didn't believe in any of the gods and ghosts before that night, and I don't know what you noble young masters who live in castles and are surrounded by servants think of the world.

"In the eyes of a rough man like me, who wanders around begging for a living, it's a piece of shit, good guys, bad guys, believers, unbelievers I've seen and cut down, they're no different, and when my axe falls, whether you believe in Julius, Picia, or Diogenes, believe me, they won't save you.

"If the gods really existed, how could they allow a villain like me to run wild, every priest in the temple claims that their gods are powerful, but there are a few people in this world who have had the privilege of witnessing miracles with their own eyes.

"That's why I've always believed only the little golden things that jingle in your money bag, at least they're pure and don't lie.

"Of course, Merlin is different from his Saturday, you see his abilities with your own eyes, and hear how that distant and unknown being responds to him, that guy has something real."

"But because of that, you should be careful about him." ”

"Why?"

"There is always a reason for one person to approach another, I approach you for money, and Merlin naturally approaches you for his purpose." Jude told the Black Beauty to keep watch around, and he found a place to sit and rest under the tree.

For fear of being discovered by the soldiers outside, the two did not make a fire tonight.

As the sun sank into the valley, Jude's face faded into the darkness, but his voice remained.

"A foreign god who has never set foot on the continent of Brattis before has been linked to the ancestors of your Arias family, eh...... Didn't you ever think it was a little strange that the two were linked? ”

"You mean Saturday has nothing to do with the ancestral spirits of House Arias, and Merlin just wants to make me believe him?" Ilea's heart moved.

"I didn't say that," said Halfface, taking off his new boots and cleaning them of the stones and dirt, "I just said that if I were you, I would keep my eyes open as much as possible, after all, this is a crazy and dangerous world." ”

Miss Rabbit recalled the previous conversations between herself and Li Yu, and her expression became complicated.

"I always thought you were just a rude, brave and ruthless man, who didn't recognize your relatives except for money, but I didn't expect you to be much smarter than you seem on the surface.

"You're right, I told him about the Spirit of the Ancestors first, and Merlin seemed to know nothing about it...... But the second time we met, he changed his mind and said that it was the ancestral spirit of House Arias that guided him and me to meet. ”

Jude smiled, "I wouldn't be alive today with an axe alone." ”

Ilea sighed and looked at the necklace she was wearing on her chest, where there was still no movement.

The girl thought to herself, the family is now in a critical situation, and seeing that the traitor is about to usurp the throne, why is the ancestor still not in a hurry.

I don't want to help myself as a legitimate successor.

Miss Rabbit is now a little discouraged, and even has a terrible thought in her heart, could it be that the ancestors of the Arias family also prefer Blanco to her.

Jude took some food from the horse's luggage, shared it with Ilea and the Black Beauty, and said nothing more, while the maiden lost interest in speaking again while worrying about the besieged castle and thinking about Jude's previous words, and sat down on a stake.

She didn't know how much time had passed, but a familiar voice suddenly sounded in her ears, "Are we here?" ”