"The ......"

"Mr. Xu Shuo, please don't talk to me for the time being."

Xu Shuo scratched his head in embarrassment and obediently closed his mouth.

After the pursuers left, Xu Shuo and Lilian began to look in the maze for a lone or small team of minotaurs (after all, this is a maze with many forks in the road, so if the minotaurs want to find them quickly, they will inevitably split up), but Lilian has been reluctant to face Xu Shuo since she woke up just now.

Even now that the two of them were walking together, she was one step ahead of Xu Shuo and stubbornly tilted her head to one side.

Although Xu Shuo felt that Lilian didn't say anything big, the latter seemed to be angry.

"Alas~" Lilion sighed.

Hearing this movement, Xu Shuo wanted to say again, "Actually, it's okay", but after thinking about it, he still didn't say anything.

Unexpectedly, Liliam accosted him first.

"Mr. Xu Shuo, do you know what makes me feel most ashamed?"

Xu Shuo glanced at Lilian in front of her, she still tilted her head, but her pace slowed down slightly. Xu Shuo then adjusted his pace.

"What is it?" Xu Shuo asked.

"I'm not embarrassed to share that thought to you." Lilian paused, "It's kind of shy to say something like that, but what makes me feel even more ashamed than that is that I can't do that kind of thing." ”

"What do you mean?"

"Revitalizing the family and the like," Lilian said in an inaudible voice, "to be a worthy of Mr. Xu Shuo's followers......

"Don't be presumptuous, I think you ......"

"Mr. Xu Shuo doesn't need to comfort me, I know...... After all, I don't have the same blood in my body as my father, and I don't think it matters if I don't inherit the family. It's just that my uncle likes gambling too much, and I'm worried that if he inherits the family property, I'm afraid most of the family's income will be spent by him. Lilien expressed her long-standing worries.

"Hmm......" Xu Shuo nodded, "It's really a headache." ”

"Even if I don't inherit the family's property, at least I want to entrust it to someone more reliable, Young Master Bronn doesn't know what kind of person it is......" Speaking of this, Lilian's eyes dimmed a little, and then she said in a half-joking tone: "It's better to leave it to Mr. Xu Shuo to take care of it, if it is Mr. Xu Shuo, at least he is an upright person." ”

"I don't want it." Xu Shuo said without thinking about it: "In my opinion, that manor and all that money are all shackles, if you accept it, you can probably only stay in Chewa City for the rest of your life." ”

Lilian's steps stopped a little stiffly.

"Shackles...... Is it? ”

"Hey! You idiot! Angela's voice popped up, and it was very loud.

(What's wrong with me, what nerves do you have?) ）

"I think you're just getting nervous! Liliam is the first heir to the Wink family, what is the difference between what you just said and telling her that you will be locked in the manor for the rest of your life, don't you think it's too cruel to say this to a girl who dreams of being an adventurer? Angela said.

When Xu Shuo realized that he had said the wrong thing, Lilian's tears had already fallen to the ground.

"Ahhh I'm sorry! I didn't mean that......" Xu Shuo folded his hands and apologized apologly.

Lilien shook her head as she raised her arm to wipe her tears, she opened her mouth to say something, "No... I...", but after all, I couldn't cry.

"Tsk, what a terrible man, should I say that you deserve to be a virgin or something, which pot is not opened and which pot is really first-class." Angela unceremoniously accused.

(I...... ）

Xu Shuo subconsciously wanted to defend himself, but thinking about it, he was really cheap, and it was really irrefutable.

At this moment, Xu Shuo's afterglow saw two burly figures, and he turned his head to see that there were two minotaurs with giant axes, walking towards him menacingly.

Xu Shuo looked at Lilian, who was wiping tears in front of him, and then looked at the two minotaurs.

"I really don't look at the timing...... Xu Shuo whispered and said to Lilian: "I'm sorry, I'll deal with the guy over there first, you wait for me here." ”

Lilian didn't respond.

Xu Shuo mentioned and rushed towards the two minotaurs, at this time his mana value had returned to a full state, and it was not a problem to deal with the two minotaurs, at this moment he just wanted to apologize for the damage he had caused to Lilian, so he tried to solve it quickly.

Facing the giant axe smashed at him by one of the minotaurs, Xu Shuo did not slow down at all, one rolled to dodge the axe attack, and then jumped to the ground, his left hand climbed the gap in the minotaur's breastplate, and used his strength to make himself float in the air, and the short sword in his right hand quickly slashed through the opponent's neck, and the short sword with the black tail of [Shadow Slash] cut off the head in front of him.

(Okay, the next one.) ）

In mid-air, Xu Shuo had already seen another minotaur rushing towards him with his horns.

If it goes on like this, there will definitely be a hole in his body, in a hurry, Xu Shuo kicked the top of the head between the two horns of the bull's head with his right foot, stepped on the rock wall on one side with his left foot, leaned back behind him, and the whole person flipped over from the top of the thick horn tip, this action is very similar to the backflip, but what is more embarrassing is that Xu Shuo did not practice the backflip, so he was the first to fall to the ground.

The rock wall kicked up a cloud of dust under the impact of the minotaur, and two thick horns sank deep into the rock wall.

Xu Shuo did not let go of such an opportunity, he endured the sharp pain in his hind buttocks, stabbed the short sword into the popliteal fossa behind the two knees of the minotaur, forced the minotaur to lose the support of his legs and knelt, and then repeatedly tugged at the throat of the minotaur with the short sword at the fastest speed five or six times.

It wasn't until he saw blood gushing out of the Minotaur's neck that Xu Shuo staggered back, letting the Minotaur's body fall.

He was quite satisfied with the results of the battle this time, mainly because he only used a skill with a large blue cost, saving nearly half of his magic power.

(I've improved, too...... No, should I say that this is the combat power I should have? ）

Xu Shuo's heart raised a little complacency, but this complacency was swallowed up by the empty tunnel the moment he turned around.

“…… Lilien? ”

Lilian, who was supposed to be behind him, was nowhere to be seen at the moment.

(Angela, where did Lilien go?) ）

"I don't know, I guess I ran away from being sad. But just for a while, you shouldn't be able to run far, why don't you chase quickly? ”

Xu Shuo realized that something was wrong, he never thought that a sentence he said unintentionally would have such power, so that a big girl would disappear when she said it.

He frantically searched for Lilien's figure along the path he had come from, knowing that the labyrinth was now roaming with many minotaurs, even ghosts, who were looking for them. If Lilian had been left alone, who knew what would have happened.

"Lilian!" Unable to care if he would reveal his position to the enemies around him, Xu Shuo called out Lilian's name.

He soon came to a fork in the road, left and right, both of which looked the same, which made him not know for a moment what to choose, if he took the wrong path, then he would be further and further away from Lilian.

At this moment, I don't know if it was an illusion or God's guidance, Xu Shuo actually smelled a trace of milky fragrance wafting from the tunnel on the left.

There was no time to hesitate, Xu Shuo immediately rushed to the tunnel on the left.

After another corner, he finally found Lilian.

Lilian was standing more than ten meters away from him, but someone had already reached Lilian's side one step ahead of him, and it was two minotaurs.

The Minotaur was holding an iron axe aloft and was about to split Lilian in half, but Lilian looked up at the black axe with a blank expression, and there was a little relief in her eyes.

"Lilian!"

The iron axe fell suddenly.

Time is stretched by an invisible hand, everything must be divided into success and failure in a second, and it is too late to run.

Xu Shuo struggled to shake out the short sword in his hand.

【Mark】

The blade of the dagger glowed with a light purple glow.

Xu Shuo prayed inwardly, praying that his magic power would be enough for him to perform this move.

The dagger sliced through the air and almost reached its destination with the iron axe.

"Catch me up ——!"

【Stealing the Blade】

Xu Shuo's figure turned into a phantom and appeared where the short sword was, he held the short sword in his hand, and the blade collided head-on with the heavy iron axe.

"Get out!"

Xu Shuo kicked the ground with his left foot, turned his waist to the left, pressed his right hand with his left hand, and flipped forward with the short sword of his right hand with the strength of his whole body against the iron axe, forcing the iron axe to deviate from the falling trajectory and slam it to the ground.

At this point, Xu Shuo was able to turn his head in a pant, look at Lilian, who was still stunned and didn't react to what was happening, and send him sincere concern.

"Are you a fool?!"