Chapter 203: Black Thorns and Mind Reading
"First-class materials, second-rate ideas, third-rate workmanship and a complete lack of purpose. "This is the conclusion that Lolana has come to after carefully examining the gem armament. These priceless murder weapons are no different from a pile of scrap in her eyes.
"Even the refractive tower that the teacher installed on the tower has never used such extravagant materials...... It seems that Lord Beifeng Sword Saint must have offended some alchemist back then to be so deeply pitted. The eldest lady sighed as she stroked the gems set in the armour, and her face was full of pain.
Whether it is a woman's thirst for jewelry, a merchant's thirst for profit, or an alchemist's thirst for raw materials, she cannot tolerate this kind of wasteful behavior.
"There may be a possibility of reinvention and upgrading, but it can't be done with our current conditions. I think Palanti will love this thing to death, but it's not good for her upbringing. Luo Lana took out some bits and pieces of gadgets from her cuffs, struck them twice on the gauntlet, held up her cheeks and said with some hesitation: "The necessary link for the bronze rank to be promoted to silver is the tempering of life and death, and you know this truth. If Palanti is armed with gems, it can indeed exert the greatest power, but it is also equivalent to limiting her future path. ”
"If this little toy can make her lost, it only means that she really doesn't have the talent for it. El shook his head disapprovingly. Of course, he also knew that he didn't have a backache when he stood and spoke, and he had to change it when he had just come out of the mountains and was begging for life in Isttalon, if he waited for such a gem to be armed, he didn't know what he would be happy about.
However, he was very confident in Palanti, that the girl was not a delicate aristocratic daughter. Although no one was willing to admit it to her face, lest the child's tail reach the sky, she could indeed be called a true warrior. And a true warrior will never be affected by the weapons in his hands to affect his will to fight.
"Since they made it themselves, there should be no shortage of raw materials in the place. Lolana tapped the largest gem on the gigby with a small hammer, looked up and asked El, "Is there any gem of this level, even if it is a rough stone, as long as it is not engraved with nonsense." I suddenly felt like I had found some inspiration and might be able to make something interesting. ”
"There are indeed others, but they are all in the hands of Ximako, after all, it is someone else's property, and we are embarrassed to sweep it away. El pulled out a round rough gemstone from his belt and put it on the table, laughing. It's just that he didn't have knowledge, and he thought that those gem weapons were valuable goods, so he didn't pay attention to these raw materials that didn't use the knife at all, but just took a piece as a souvenir when he left. It was only now that he heard Lolana say this, and he realized his negligence.
But it's not a big deal, the North Wind family has disappeared, and Ximako, as the only heir at present, is still an unknown illegitimate child, so he can find a reason to exploit him casually when he finds time in the future. In this regard, El is equally confident in Lorana.
"If nothing else matters, I'd like to see the captive. Seeing that Lolana focused on the rough gemstone, El scratched her head and said.
"Oh, do you have mercy?" asked Lolana with an eyebrow raised, meaningfully.
"I'm just a little curious about who would be interested in that kind of old woman. El said angrily: "She is too unprofessional as a spy, and she was actually scared by a few children and showed her feet." Judging from her origin alone, you can't see the appearance of a spy at all. ”
"If even you can see it, then what kind of spy are you doing. Lolana gave him a blank look and snorted, "Now it seems that the Prophet had planned to have the members of the Brotherhood pretend to be refugees. If it weren't for our presence, he would probably be using these refugees to calculate Sword Castle at this time. However, he did not expect that we would come, nor did he expect the series of upheavals that would take place inside the Sword Castle, and these chess pieces that had been thrown out in advance would be useless. ”
"Now that he's out of use, it stands to reason that he shouldn't use these pawns now, so what about this woman's sudden exposure?
"We only have a remnant of the army, a bunch of refugees, and we can't take care of anything about it, what secrets can we have? If we really want to say that there is a secret, isn't the identity of you and Tiana the biggest secret?" Luo Lana rolled her eyes and shook her head: "No, our ideas have gone into a misunderstanding. Since we can't have any intelligence here, that is, she didn't expose it for the sake of intelligence. She overheard my conversation with Tiana...... There must be a keyword, the Cursed Sect, the Blood Sacrifice, or something else?"
"Do you think she heard a keyword when you were guessing, and that keyword is the truth she knows?"
"Let's assume that she is the hidden spy sent by the Brotherhood, and as a spy, she must also be an insider of the Brotherhood, and must know the real hole cards hidden by the Brotherhood. Under this premise, she panics when she hears the outcome of our guesses, and this panic means that the Brotherhood's hole cards are most likely a double-edged sword. Lorana's eyes flashed with thought, and she quickly connected all the clues together, gradually piecing together the truth of the facts.
"Instead of thinking about it, why don't we ask her in person, maybe you can get more clues from her. Er rubbed his temples and said with a wry smile, he has always stayed away from this kind of brain-burning problem, sometimes thinking too much is a waste of time, and he really can't avoid it, only a battle.
"You're right, I'll go with you. Reluctantly, Lolana hid the gem in her cuffs, stood up, put on her cloak, and said to El. After all, the processing of gemstones is not a short-term thing, and now she must solve the urgent problem.
Tima was imprisoned in a nearby house, and in view of her special constitution, Lolana chose a sturdy house and set up the cage for the prisoners herself. From the outside, it looks like a prey wrapped in black thorns and rattans, and the huge barbs growing from the thorns block all the doors and windows, making it impossible for any humanoid, large or small, to escape.
Perhaps Lolana wanted to use this woman as bait to catch other ghosts, and there were no other guards outside the house. In addition to the nearby guards, only a few imps and Baron Farrah, who were also informants and suspects, were ordered to wait and not leave.
When El and Lolana came over, they saw Wren holding a wooden stick and guarding the door of the house with a straight face, Baron Farah curled up under the big tree and touched his head and sighed, and the remaining two girls surrounded the crying little Momo and whispered comfort. The child still didn't understand what had happened to his mother, and it was more like a scared person who didn't know what to do than worried.
"General El!" Seeing El coming over, Wren's eyes lit up, and he immediately put on a posture and stood upright, and reported loudly: "Report to your lordship, no situation has been found, and there is no abnormality in the prisoner!"
"Stop pretending, get out of the way. El patted him on the head, and when he saw the relieved expression on the little ghost's face, his heart suddenly became unhappy. This kid was standing at the door, in fact, he wanted to ask himself to ask for a favor for the woman there, he didn't have so many ghost eyes at his young age.
Lolana stretched out her finger and shook it twice, and the thorny rattan wrapped around the doorway quickly retreated to the side, and the door opened automatically. El looked up and saw that the room was also covered with black thorns, and the woman was trapped and unable to move, and the thorns wrapped around her body slowly sucked blood like leeches. Tima's face was as pale as paper, and it seemed that it was not easy to even maintain her own life, not to mention struggling, and life and death were all in the whim of Lolana.
El looked at Lorana with some surprise, he had seen Lolana use this trick before, but he didn't expect these black thorns to be so terrifying. From this point alone, her strength as an alchemist is really not to be underestimated.
"We rescued you from Baron Farrah, and now it seems to be a matter of pure meddlesomeness. But even if you don't appreciate it yourself, you have to consider your own children, right?" El looked at Xiao Momo, who was crying at the door, sighed and came to Tima, and said softly: "It's not easy for everyone to live in this world, so why embarrass yourself." If there's anything you want to say, say it now, so you don't need me to ask one by one, right?"
Tima opened her eyes, looked at the young general in front of her, and squirmed her lips, but said nothing.
"If she cared about her child, she wouldn't have run away alone, or if the child was hers...... Leave it to me. Lolana pushed El away, moved her fingers, leaned over to give Tima her trademark commercial smile, and chuckled, "You know who I am, right? Now I'm going to ask you, you can answer or not, and I can get the answer." But your attitude will determine your life and death. ”
Without waiting for El to object, as soon as Lolana raised her finger, Tima's body was involuntarily pulled into the air, and the girl stared at her expression and asked abruptly, "Are you a spy of the Brotherhood?"
Without waiting for Tima to speak, she immediately asked, "Why did you run away?"
"Cursed cults, evil gods, blood sacrifices?"
"Is it a blood sacrifice? The Brotherhood is going to perform a blood sacrifice, and it's going to kill a lot of people?"
"Very dangerous, how dangerous?"
"You're a core member of the Brotherhood...... No, you're a family member of the core members?"
When Lolana said this without stopping, Tima's face had changed drastically, and she tried to grit her teeth, but the little devil standing in front of her seemed to have learned the art of mind reading, and squeezed out her thoughts little by little.
"Muhammad, Hagnam, are you Hagnan's woman, no...... Are you his daughter?Are you worried about him?Is he going to die?No, he's going to be hurt?Is this the Brotherhood's hole card?" Lolana stared into Tima's eyes, quickly answering herself, her face becoming more serious.
It took less than three minutes for Tima to collapse to the ground, staring blankly, and Lolana ignored El's shocked look of "What the hell is this?" and said to him with a deep face, "I'm afraid we're going to be in trouble." (Jiangsu.com)