Chapter 14: The Castle in the Snowstorm
"Captain, there's still no way we can make it through this jungle before it gets dark."
Outside the jungle, vice-captain Embo is talking to "Muxi".
"Muxi" looked at the map drawn in the past half a month, and most of the direction had been explored, relying on the knight's equipment, although two people still died during the period, but it was quickly made up.
"Gather the knights, go straight all the way, keep watch when the darkness comes, and continue to move forward when the night passes, Embo, you know the character of the Earl, if we can't find the castle, we will all die."
This interrupted Embo's attempt to warn that the night was too dangerous.
Every time he went back, he could see that the Count was getting angrier and angrier day by day, and it seemed as if Grand Duke Trixy was going to send knights on patrol.
Although he did not know the relationship between the two, the danger of the night was definitely not as terrible as that of the Count.
In the dark night, as long as the 30 of them are tightly assembled, they are still afraid of some beasts.
It was getting dark, and they waited outside for the day.
Early the next morning.
30 people walked in under the leadership of the captain of "Makisai".
In the early morning, there was a glimmer of light in the jungle, accompanied by the crisp sound of birdsong, which made the knight who had been nervous for many days relax at once, and greedily breathed in the breath of nature.
"Whew, it's really cool after I put off my mask, I can breathe freely."
Suddenly.
The eyes of the knights began to change, and many knights looked at the knight who spoke, then at the captain, and then lowered their heads and continued to walk forward.
Twitter squeak –
I don't know how long I walked, but the road behind me was no longer visible.
Only the same jungle ahead.
Although they had been marking the way they had come, none of them had gone back to check the markings.
And the marks set by the knights have been secretly erased by the free men.
When the 30 knights step into the jungle, they either become partners of freedom or become souls of freedom under the sword.
Feel the warm feeling of the sun.
"Muxi" raised his hand.
"Stop, rest in place, watch around, prepare lunch, replenish your strength."
Short and understandable commands were conveyed.
One of the knights took out the hard bread, took a bite and exclaimed, "Sure enough, you can only feel free when you eat bread." ”
Freely...
The atmosphere has become a little weirder again.
Except for a few people who knew about it, the rest of the people sighed that it was too hot, although it was a snowy day, but after walking all morning, the clothes under the silver armor were already soaked.
"It feels so easy to take off the silver armor."
A few people ate the bread for a while, and then ate it as if nothing had happened.
Free and easy.
[I will come to save you soon, thank the captain for leading us to find the direction of life.] 】
A few free-minded people bite the hard bread in their hands, as if they are gnawing at the shackles of rebellion against fate, and are trying to break this shackles and find true freedom.
Half an hour later.
The team set off again.
Finely Twisted –
"Muxi", who was walking in the forefront, moved his ears slightly, stopped and shouted: "Alert, the beast is coming." ”
Soon, a 2-meter snake with a thick bowl mouth appeared in front of the knight's eyes.
The coiled sturdy snake body allows the knights to feel the hidden power.
Hiss –
The snake hyacinth kept spitting out.
"Mu Xi" looked at him vigilantly, secretly took a few steps back, and then raised the silver sword and said majestically: "Let's go up together and kill the evil snake." ”
"Come on."
Under the sword of chaos.
Two knights died, because of the toxin, the snake had been broken into pieces.
"Keep going!"
The 28 people also cheered up and walked forward.
Until the sun was about to set, they came out of the jungle.
"Keep going, don't stop, eat the food on the way!"
The knights grimaced, eating hard bread and walking forward.
Rustle Rustle –
Snow was falling in the sky.
"It's bad weather."
The snow was even heavier, and it was accompanied by a cold wind, which made them shiver.
Quack Quack –
The crow cries along the way also made "Muxi" unstoppably bored.
At this time, at the end of the line of sight, a castle stood in the wind and snow, looking solemn and solemn in the afterglow that was about to fall!
"Muxi" was also excited at this time.
[This is the castle of the Grand Duke of Trixy from 200 years, Daddy, I found it!] 】
"Captain, is this the goal of Lord Earl?"
The vice captain also saw the hand of "Mu Xi" that was trembling with excitement, and asked this sentence after thinking about it.
He couldn't understand why an abandoned castle was worth looking for so long, and it cost them 4 knights.
"Embo, do you want true freedom?"
"Captain, what do you mean by this, how can you say the word freedom as a knight, we have the responsibility to maintain the dignity of the count!"
At this moment, Embo fell silent, and he remembered the strange behavior of the captain along the way and the freedom that the knights said from time to time.
Then I looked at some knights and faintly walked behind "Mu Xi", looking at him with a strange light in their eyes.
Gollum –
Enbo couldn't help but swallow his saliva, trying to ease the tension.
"Captain..."
"Makishi" stepped forward and raised his arms in front of the knight behind him and shouted.
"I know you, you are all lost lambs, all lambs under the earl, your souls are lost and not free, but this is not right.
We should be free, why should we obey the Count! ”
Then "Muxi" stretched out his finger and pointed to the castle in the moonlight, the castle looked quiet and beautiful under the wind and snow, very beautiful, so that the knights were a little stunned.
"Do you know why the Count let us find this castle?"
"Muxi" glanced at the knights with confusion in their eyes, and shouted: "Because, this castle is the castle of the Grand Duke of Taxis!" Hidden inside is the secret that you can become a Grand Duke!
The Count's Court of Malobic is greedy, he wants to keep this secret to himself, he wants to enslave us for generations, so that our children and grandchildren will all be slaves of his Marlobeque family.
But why should we be enslaved by him if we are free, and, moreover, why can't we ourselves become grand dukes? ”
The knights' breathing suddenly intensified.
"For the sake of the great cause, freedom will not be destroyed!"
Enbo was startled, and felt a chill in his heart when he looked at the slogan shouted by the knight, and what was even more terrifying was that the person who also shouted the slogan came out of the jungle.
"For the sake of the great cause, freedom will not be destroyed!"
"Team, Captain, are you trying to betray the Earl of Malobic?"
"Makisai" ignored Enbo, but looked at the free people.
"We're all free men now, but he."
"Muxi" pointed at Embo and shouted in grief: "Our knight vice-captain, he wants to pull us back into the slavery of Marobic, will we agree?" ”
"No promise, no promise!"
Look at the angry free man.
"Muxi" smiled, took out his short sword, and held it high.
"Now we must kill this man who threatens us, and give this short sword to the betrayed vice-captain!"