Gamici Snow Peak.

It's already dawn. Edward's father handed Edward a cup of hot tea, and Edward nodded and took it, but there was no expression of gratitude. In his own words, "Now each is his master, and the friendship of the past has to be put second". Edward still had a feeling of being kidnapped by the most unlikely person in the safest place.

Marion looked at this Salander officer coldly, although this kid seemed to be a foreigner in Salander's army, but since he was wearing Salander's military uniform, then as a Middle-earther, Marion could not have a good impression of him. Father thought more about Edward's background, and his father still remembered Su Geer's description of Zaitsev, everyone knew that Edward was Zaitsev's beloved apprentice, and now Edward appeared in the Salander army to serve, Zaitsev's background is almost self-evident.

His father struggled to talk to Edward about the past: the bustling city of Suno, the lush plains in autumn, and the thrilling adventures in the town. These shared memories softened Edward's eyes, and the memories of his boyhood wandering around Zaitsev began to revive in his mind, and these memories warmed Edward's feelings, though not enough to melt the gap between him and his enemies.

"Edward, I want you to work with us," my father said. "The Great War has begun, and if it can be ended sooner, many people will be able to avoid needless deaths. I need your help with this. ”

"Arcadio," Edward said after a moment's thought, "Ever since I saw the story of those two Kugits with my own eyes, I have planted the seeds of respect for you in my heart. I know that you are very caring for the people around you, and I know how you work hard for Kazak and the Rhine. I admire you for caring for people's happiness and sacrificing yourself, but if I help you destroy the fortress of Garmic, the lives of more than a thousand people in the fortress will be ruined if the Rhodoks succeed. So I can't help you. ”

"I know what you mean, but have you ever thought that if you hadn't stopped this battlefield early--- I mean you had the opportunity to do so, then in the end, Garmic Castle would still be breached, and whether the Rhodok soldiers who broke the city would choose to slaughter the city in a fit of rage and kill more innocent people. If you don't end the war, you're losing more lives. If you help me, you are not harming those people, on the contrary, you are saving them. ”

"Will Garmic Castle be breached? I think you've heard the story of Lundyaburg--- where the Svadians taught the Kugit a hard lesson, and even though I'm on a different side, I still applaud them! Now the Rhodoks are confronted with the walls of the fortress of Gamici higher than the fort of Lundia; The pre-war preparations were also better; Behind the Garmici fortress there is also a line of Salander forts that stretches for hundreds of miles, and to the south of Garmic, thousands of Salander's elite naval soldiers are waiting for an opportunity to aid Garmic. The siege has just begun, and Garmic can hold out for at least half a year, and after half a year, as long as Salander sends a new force to the rear, the Rhodoks will definitely collapse without a fight, and then the war will end, and Garmic will not fall", Edward tried to make his voice sound confident. "I'm not going to be a traitor because of your demagoguery."

The father smiled and said to Edward, "You see, a few days ago one of my staff ---officers, Mr. Marion, brought me new news about the sea from Ameraburg: your second prince's navy has withdrawn to the sea near Sharetz, I will never lie to you, the so-called sea reinforcements are completely empty talk, if you don't believe it, we can now climb the snow peak to see the sea to the south, there is nothing on it; As for the fortified line of defense of Salander, as far as I know, the most elite troops have already moved north, and these forts fear every day that the Rhodoks have crossed the mountains and go straight to the hinterland, and there is no spare strength to support Garmic; And the trend in the next few years, I can tell you clearly: the Swadias have eased their strength. Now that thousands of Swadia soldiers have been armed, the battle for reconquest is about to begin. If Salander has 10,000 men in war, he will lose 10,000 men, and if he has 50,000 in war, he will lose 50,000 men, the question is only the length of time--- Svadia is determined to fight to the end is a bottomless pit, too deep for Saland's prophets to imagine. I think that within half a year, the Salander army will not only have no time to come to the aid of Gamic, but will even take the initiative to abandon Gamici in order to shrink the defensive line. ”

Edward stared at my father, trying to show a calm expression, but in his heart, Edward felt a piercing cold, for what my father said was most likely true: the war in Kugit was tight, and in the towns in the rear, almost every family had men mobilized to join the army, which had caused dissatisfaction among the lords everywhere--- the Swadias had been fortified in the war, the Kugit had looted very limited, and the scarcity of the booty had made the attitude of some speculative Kugit lords ambiguous; Edward, on the other hand, spent some time in the Castle of Wieha, the pride of the Salanders. He knew that the Sultan had reorganized his armaments over the years and had eliminated a lot of civilian troops to reclaim the barren fields, which allowed the garrison of the fortress defense line to be basically self-sufficient, but the number of troops had declined, and the Salander army in this place had turned into a defensive position; As for the Salander navy, Edward listened to the envoy of the second prince to him: "Keep the boat for you by the sea, and run away if you can't win the battle when the time comes."

All this caused Edward's confidence to crumble.

"No matter what," said his father, "you are my friend, and although our friendship is not deep, I cherish it." I hope you can put aside your prejudices to help me. Of course, even if you don't help us, I won't do anything to you. From this day on, you have lost your freedom, and when the war is over, I will personally send you back to the Salander army. ”

Edward thought for a moment, "Your staff officer's name is Marion?" ”

"Yes", the father smiled, turned his head and pointed to Marion beside him to introduce Edward, "This is Mr. Marion, what's wrong?" ”

Edward stared carefully at the cold face of Marion, comparing the appearance of the two people in his heart, and finally, Edward sighed: "No, it shouldn't matter."

"You Salander, it doesn't matter what it matters," Marion frowned, carving a sunflower into the end of a crossbow arrow. Tonight, Marion and dozens of soldiers will quietly infiltrate the Garmic fortress and wait for an opportunity to set it on fire.

Edward smiled apologetically, ready to find an excuse to perfunctory, but suddenly, Edward saw the crossbow arrow in Marion's hand, and Edward's eyes widened suddenly, "Aoi ''Sunflower?'' ”

The dagger in Marion's hand stopped carving, "Have you seen this?" Marion held the dagger in his hand close to Edward so that he could see clearly.

Edward looked at the bolt, then turned to look at Bruno, who was holding his arm behind him. Father motioned for Bruno to let go, and Bruno snorted and pushed Edward forward. Edward took two steps to keep his balance, and under Marion's forced gaze, Edward pulled out two small crossbow arrows from the hem of his robe, and the ends of the crossbow arrows were carved with two clear and delicate sunflowers.

Marion took the crossbow with a blank face and looked at it with an expression of being out of the world. Then he stood up, dropped the dagger, walked to Edward's side, put a hand on his shoulder, and climbed him forward two steps: "Come, Mr. Edward, let's talk about this crossbow arrow", as he said this, Marion's eyes suddenly bulged, and he grabbed Edward's neck with both hands, and then turned around and threw Edward to the ground, while Edward was still struggling, Marion picked up a crossbow from the ground and wound it with great speed, Edward's crossbow bolt snapped into the slot, turned and stomped on Edward's chest as he tried to sit up, stomping him tightly on the ground, and then pointed the crossbow between Edward's eyebrows.

"You must be curious to know where this arrow came from! Very well, boy Edward, I want to know, now you'd better tell me the story of how you got this arrow, and if you say a word, I'll give you a thumbs-up in your head! ”

Sabel watched the scene with interest. My father and a few soldiers sat up, trying to dissuade Marion, but looking at Marion's hand, which was trembling slightly with anger, they didn't dare to alarm him casually, afraid that he would pull the trigger without paying attention, and at this distance, Edward had no chance of surviving.

The frightened Edward stammered at Marion, who suddenly became fierce, "Yes, sir." Edward had never encountered such a life-and-death situation, and felt a little helpless, but he didn't dare to move casually, for fear that Marion would kill him in a fit of rage.

"Good! First, what do you mean by 'relationship' or something? ”

"That's right, I once took a prisoner called Little Ma Ryan''"

"Be careful! And the origin of this crossbow arrow! ”

"Yes, yes, I'm a trainee warden, and I'm handling some cases in Gamic. During this time, the Rhodoks besieged the city, and I was trapped in the city. Shortly after the start of the battle, the soldiers brought in a Rhodok captive named Marion Jr., who hid in the bushes for an afternoon before killing an officer. During the interrogation I found out that she was a woman, and she said that her brother was Arcadio, so I was ready to save her, I was about to say it, but I didn't have time to do it. And this crossbow arrow was obtained from her, and there was a sunflower at the end. Because of Arcadio, I managed to save Marion Jr. from the dead officer's men. That's it. Edward spoke faster and faster, and the pitch of his voice was high and low, but from beginning to end Edward did not appear to be ambiguous or inconsistent.

Marion's shoulders heaved and he gasped, "Where is she?" ”

Edward's sweat was running down his forehead, and he was thinking about how to tell the extremely emotionally unstable man in front of him to save his name. In the end, Edward decided to tell the truth, "Sir, she was taken away by a man named Aziz".

"Who's that?!"

"I don''t know, sir. He seems to have been sent by the second prince "a certain magnate." Aziz said that the little Pony Ryan had other important uses, so he took him away. It was a dawn not so long ago. But he told me that Miss Little Mary was going to be fine, that's what he said. ”

All that had to be said was done, and everyone looked at Marion and Edward, Edward's nervousness, at a fully wounded crossbow less than a foot from his face.

Marion gasped and slowly calmed down, moving his feet away, "She's not in Garmicch Fort anymore, is she?" ”

"I think so, sir."

Riding Marion's crossbow bolts elsewhere, his father pulled Edward away, who was limp and a soldier helped him pull him into a nearby tent. When his father returned, Marion still maintained his movements just now, and his father didn't know how to comfort him, Marion suddenly looked up and said, "I'm going to go to Fort Garmic, I want to talk to Edward."

"Okay, just don't''", the father said to Marion, pinching his neck.

Marion closed his eyes and shook his head, "No, I won't let him die until Aoi finds him." When I find Aoi in the future, I will ask him what he has done, and if he does something animalistic, I will kill him myself. If it was like he said, I would consider sparing him. Arcadio, Edward is mine, is that okay? ”

His father knew that he couldn't persuade Marion, so he had to acquiesce to his request.

Dozens of soldiers have been preparing for a few hours, and they will sneak into the fortress of Garmic this evening, and then wait for the opportunity to destroy some of the Salander supplies, and finally find a place to hide, waiting for the last moment to come out and cooperate with the attacking forces to attack the city. These are the most elite soldiers, usually around General Garcia, and they are very experienced in quietly doing sabotage work.

Their armament was simple: a light cotton armor, a small crossbow, a pot of crossbow arrows, a bundle of rope, a short knife, velvet, a fire sickle, a wide black cloak.

That's all they have, but the history of these people makes people dare not underestimate them, and with those rudimentary equipment, they have created one brilliant record after another.

As the soldiers were ready, they were ready to sneak in along the rope as soon as the order came, and at the last moment, the sound of crawling came from the cracks in the tunnel. After a while, in the moonlight that came through the hole, the soldiers saw a gloomy face of Marion.

"I still advise you not to go, it's too dangerous, Mr. Marion!" Father said.

"It doesn't matter, I'll have to go and check out Gamic, I've been here more than a decade ago. Edward said that there had been some changes in the road, and that I had to take a look to see if Edward was lying. I had to go over and only then could I consider believing his other words. ”

"Okay," said Father, "stay safe, Mr. Marion".

Marion nodded and stood in the middle of the soldiers.

The moonlight was dim, and in less than half an hour, the soldiers all infiltrated Fort Garmic.