Chapter 39: Father and Daughter
Jin Tong did not put Clara in a sack like he had kidnapped Li Yu in the first place.
He helped the little maid to climb onto the horse, and then he got on the horse, and took the reins, and the brown horse sneezed, and at the urging of his master, he stepped into all four hooves.
Soon the oncoming cold wind made Clara feel excited.
When she went out, she thought it was just a short trip, and she didn't expect to ride a horse, so she didn't wear the kind of cloak that was particularly windproof.
Seeing this, Jin Tong pulled out a blanket from behind her ass and threw it to the little maid.
"Thank you." Clara said, she wrapped herself in the sheepskin blanket, leaving only her head outside, feeling the heat on her body, and then looked around curiously.
"We're ...... Are you heading in the direction of Teacup Castle?"
"That's right."
"But Merlin and the Black Dog Guard are there right now, along with the warriors of House Arias."
"That's why no one thought we'd leave from there."
Jin Tong paused, and then continued, "Last time, we evacuated from the territory of the Pobo family from the south, but Merlin will definitely focus on that direction this time."
"Then you can go north."
"............" the golden pupil was silent.
Clara didn't quite understand why the golden pupils reacted this way at first, but soon it dawned on her, "You're scared of the prophet Merlin."
"I'm a hundred years old, and I've been an unbeliever for a hundred years, and I don't believe in anything strange or weird, until that night, when I met him, and saw him run over that stream, and his feet on the water, and he didn't sink at all.
"I...... For the first time, I couldn't understand what I was seeing, and that's it, and then I caught him, but he disappeared from under my nose, the real vanishing, the kind without any warning, just suddenly disappeared, as if it had become air."
"Uh-huh, I understand that the Prophet is not from our world, and he can move around the kingdom of God and the mortal world at will." The little maid said, "I often see him disappear."
"I learned a little bit about him when I went back, and I thought it was just some rumors spread by some fools in the countryside, but now I can't tell which ones are rumors and which ones are the truth."
"I've faced countless enemies in my life, but none of them are so incomprehensible to me, so I have to be very cautious when facing him, and I can't make any mistakes."
"You can actually choose not to be a match for him." Clara suggested.
"Huh?"
"It's much happier to be a companion with Merlin than to be an enemy of him, and Miss Ilea should feel that the most."
"Yes, it's a pity that he and I are destined to be enemies, not friends." Golden Pupil Road.
"Don't say it so absolutely." Clara said, "I know a man who is very similar to you, not a good person, but not very bad, and he ended up joining the Shuangxiu Sect."
"You seem to have misunderstood something, the reason why I gave you the blanket just now is not because of a clear conscience, but because the person who gave me the order asked me to bring you back in good condition."
Jin Tong said coldly, "You are no different from a piece of cargo in my eyes. And I can assure you that there is absolutely no one in this world who is worse than me, and the blood on the hands of the man you know is probably not as much as a fraction of mine."
Clara closed her mouth.
At first, the golden pupil thought that the little maid was finally frightened, but after a while, Clara spoke again, "Where are those companions of yours? And there were quite a few of you who attacked the prophet Merlin that night."
"They have other things to do...... The more people who do this time, the easier it is to be exposed, and it is easier for me to succeed alone."
"What's that?" Clara rose up again and became curious.
"It's none of your business."
"Oh." The little maid changed the question again, "Then where are we staying tonight, and are we going to sleep in the wilderness......
Jin Tong was a little annoyed by the question, "Didn't you hear what I was saying just now, I'm a bad guy who kills people without blinking, not only men, but I also kill women, the elderly, and even babies in swaddling clothes, I won't let go, aren't you afraid?"
"But you also said that you did what you were told, and the man who ordered you asked you to bring me back intact." The little maid blinked.
「…………」
Jin Tong only wants to give himself two mouths now, why did he just need those two more mouths.
Clara then asks about her captors.
Jin Tong only said that it was a big man, and he would know when he saw that person.
Before he knew it, the two of them had approached Teacup Castle, and the golden pupil narrowed his eyes, and he could even see the drone floating above the castle, which was a magical creation that he had never seen before.
The golden pupil instinctively felt wary and repulsed by those flying iron birds, so he didn't stop any longer, immediately hit his horse, and walked into the woods on the side.
Since most of the people from the nearby villages had gone to see Ilea's initiation ceremony, and the guards of the Arias family were also stationed around Teacup Castle, there were no people in the woods at this time, and it was very quiet.
In addition, the golden pupil went around and around, picking a remote place to walk, and the whole way was unexpectedly smooth, and seeing that he was about to walk out of the forest, the golden pupil's hanging heart was also slightly relieved.
But at this moment, he suddenly heard the sound of Si Si Suo from the bushes beside him.
Then an old peasant came out of there, holding a hare and a simple trap.
The four eyes were facing each other, and both sides were surprised.
Golden Pupil didn't expect to meet someone else here, and that person saw him and Clara.
As for the old peasant, he was hunting without his lord's knowledge, and he still caught rabbits, animals that were protected in the territory of the Arias family.
He didn't expect to be broken by someone, and he was a little at a loss for a while.
A touch of murderous intent flashed in the golden pupil's eyes, he had already moved the idea of killing people, and one hand had already pressed on the hilt of the sword, but the next moment Clara's voice sounded.
"Father, more is better than less, don't you want to take me to Black Rock City to buy a puppy, let's go."
Hearing this, Jin Tong was silent for a long time, but finally removed the hand that pressed the sword, nodded, and no longer looked at the old peasant, and rode past the man's eyes.
The old peasant breathed a sigh of relief, looked around again, took the hare into his bosom, and hurried out of the woods in the other direction.