"Rustle."

In the forest, the breakout team led by Douglas is constantly attributing, and every once in a while, the Holy Sword Knight will lead the guards to silently stop the fleeing footsteps and turn back to delay the footsteps of the masked black-armored pursuers, so as to win more time for the large army to break out.

Two knights followed Douglas closely, their eyes like eagles and their swords tightly protecting the blonde youth they had sworn allegiance.

Douglas's face was grim at this time, and he silently followed the pace of the knight, as if he was thinking about something.

Ning and the three followed, his right hand holding the short sword was already sweating, and he was nervous, constantly scanning the trees around him.

"Don't be nervous."

A broad and powerful palm rested on his shoulder, Ning He turned his head, Zhu Yaotang grinned at him, he noticed Ning He's nervousness, Lin Ling on the side pursed his lips and lowered his head, it could be seen that the two of them were in a bad spirit.

"I'm here, it's okay, didn't I escape with you just now?"

Zhu Yaotang lifted the long sword in his hand, which made Ning and Lin Ling, who saw it, feel slightly warm.

Lin Ling nodded slightly, his pale face was a little more ruddy.

The attrition of the team continues, and there are constantly strangers in the middle of the process, that is, players who can't run and are abandoned. While in the castle, Douglas selected all the young players for the bishop to bring back to the royal capital, and most of his side were young and old, female strangers.

This is a sign of loyalty to the kingdom of Io, to the king, and his duty as a knight to the king.

He only left Zhu Yaotang, Ning and Lin Ling, who were asked by Zhu Yaotang.

"Ahh

A female player next to them fell, and the wind and dust along the way and this part of the escape made her embarrassed, and finally collapsed because of this unexpected fall.

Seeing a young player sitting on the ground and crying, she felt very aggrieved that she was taken by her boyfriend to play this game for the first time and suffered such an inexplicable thing.

The two of them were taken from the suburbs to the castle lawn by the soldiers of the kingdom in a panic, and their boyfriend was still full of excitement to plan the future of the game with him, saying that he wanted to become a lord and become the protagonist of the story.

After Douglas gave them the right to choose, the two entered the castle gate after a whisper, who had wanted to be separated at the front of the steps, Douglas chose his boyfriend to be in the ranks, leaving her where she was.

At that time, her boyfriend still stood up and wanted to fight, go out together or stay together, and then her boyfriend was gone.

The knight beside Douglas gave him no room to argue, stepped forward, kicked him to the ground, and passed out. Frightened by the situation, she crouched next to her boyfriend and cried, and when he was taken away by the other chosen players, she followed the hapless team here and was hunted down.

After fleeing for so long in a strange environment and a group of strangers, she was helpless, and her apparent strength was finally shattered by this fall.

She didn't want to go.

Seeing this, Ning He stopped and wanted to do something, Lin Ling also stopped, her face couldn't bear it, she wanted to go over and help the female player, but Zhu Yaotang stopped her first.

All but the three players, including the other players, did not stop, and they walked around the players and the three people sitting on the ground, and continued on their way tiredly.

Escape is important, and the pursuers behind don't know when they will catch up.

"Let's go."

Zhu Yaotang glanced at the crying female player and sighed.

"But ......"

Lin Ling wanted to say something more, but Ning He, who had stopped on the side, moved again, and he hesitated for a while and finally didn't stretch out his hand.

Zhu Yaotang said softly: "You must be able to save yourself before you are qualified to manage others." ”

Lin Ling looked at Zhu Yaotang and Ning He, who walked back with a somewhat gloomy expression, and finally bit his lower lip with his upper teeth, and followed the two of them into the army.

The female player has an extra short sword in front of her.

......

One day and one night, the next day when the sky was gray.

"Whew! Whew! ”

The woods in front of him finally sparsed, and Ning He could see the light, and he gasped and followed the rest of the breakout troops to finally rush out of the woods.

Outside the woods was an endless field, and Ning He stopped and put his hands on his knees. Lin Ling's face beside her was flushed, her short sword had already been handed over to Zhu Yaotang to help hold, she was able to get to this point thanks to Zhu Yaotang's support, otherwise she would have been abandoned like those players before.

Brutal World One, brutal game. In the eyes of the player, these NPCs who don't treat them as human beings have not disappointed them, and none of the guards or knights have chosen to help them, after all, everyone should take care of them on the way to escape.

Ning He didn't forget to turn his head to look at the others who rushed out of the woods in the gap of rest, except for the three of them, no other players ran out.

He felt a little sad in his heart, and there were players who wanted them to lend a hand more than once on the way to escape.

Everyone is not stupid, many people can see that the three of them are protected by the NPCs in this breakthrough team, intentionally or unintentionally, and even knights take the initiative to come over to hand them water and dry food when they stop halfway, which is also an important reason why they can come out.

Douglas ordered everyone to rest in place, and one of his attendant knights was assigned to explore the way, and the other was responsible for counting the number of people.

Ning He saw Douglas walking towards them, Douglas took off his helmet, and his originally flowing blonde hair was now very messy and sweaty.

He leaned against a dead tree, took a deep breath, and looked at the three of them with some surprise: "I didn't expect you all to survive, but luck is good." ”

“......”

Ning He looked up at him speechlessly, he hadn't recovered at this time.

Zhu Yaotang smiled a little embarrassedly: "Didn't you come out alive?" We followed the adults closely, and of course we could come out. Also, thank you for the water and dry food you provided us with along the way. ”

"Huh."

Douglas smiled noncommittally, at this time he did not have his previous demeanor, the same embarrassment.

One of his knights approached him and wanted to get down on one knee.

"Forget it." Douglas raised his hand, he glanced at Zhu Yaotang and the three people sitting on the side, and said to the servant knight: "What do you say directly." ”

"Yes, sir! I've finished counting, and you still have two Servant Knights, five Knights of the Holy Sword Order, and twenty-one Guards in your ranks......"

Hu Cong knight glanced at the three people in front of him, and continued: "And these three strangers. ”

"You can rest for a while, too."

Douglas closed his eyes, and a wry smile flowed from the corner of his mouth, unexpectedly

"Yes."

Hu sat down to rest near the knight, his eyes still drifting in the direction of the forest from time to time, and no one knew if they had gotten rid of the masked black armor.

After the conversation between the Knight and Douglas ended, several people fell silent until there was a noise in the direction of the forest.

It was a dense sound of footsteps. Douglas opened his heavy eyelids in some despair.

This most high-profile young man in the kingdom of Io had a strong sense of grief and unwillingness in his heart, and when he left the city of the Addams family, he never thought that he would be ambushed in the kingdom!

He is a Knight of the King, the Knight Captain of the Knights of the Holy Sword...... He is the second in line to the throne of the Addams family, the son of Arling Adams, the patriarch of the Addams family and one of the three dukes of the kingdom!

It's a conspiracy! This is against him Douglas Adams, it is against the Addams family, it is against the king's conspiracy against the kingdom of Io!!

Douglas stood up with a hideous expression and drew his long sword.

The knight shouted, "Assemble! Get ready for battle! ”

They had no strength to escape, and they could not run away in the woods, let alone in the open plains.

So, before dawn came, Ning He participated in the first battle in his life, which was different from the previous virtual battle in the world of machine martial arts, and he personally experienced the cruelty of the battle.

Ning He looked at the masked black armor that kept rushing out of the forest, his hands were empty and there was nothing.

"Whoa."

A sword with a delicate pattern still hidden in its sheath was handed to him, Ning He was stunned, he looked up at Douglas incredulously, the arrogant blonde young man who had never dealt with him and Lin Ling.

It was his ornamental ceremonial sword, and even on the way to escape, he did not discard it because it was a burden.

It was the sword that the king had given him at the ceremony on the day he was knighted king, and his father watched him with satisfaction.

Douglas looked at the young man under his command, and he noticed the peaceful behavior of the previous one. Anyway, he is going to die now, and it makes more sense to give this stranger a weapon and let him die in battle than to be slaughtered and die.

"Thank you." Ning He took Douglas's saber, and he drew this exquisitely sharp ceremonial sword.

The masked black armor was already approaching, the remaining soldiers had already engaged them, and Douglas and his servant knights collided with the blades of the rushing enemy, and the entire edge of the woodland was thrown into a chaotic battle.

Zhu Yaotang was guarding in front of Lin Ling, fighting with three masked black armorers alone, he showed amazing swordsmanship and martial arts, Lin Ling's hands holding the short sword trembled a little, and his face was pale.

There were also several masked black armor gathered around waiting for an opportunity, and one of them couldn't help it, and rushed towards Lin Ling with his knife drawn.

Lin Ling's eyes darkened, and he looked at the people who rushed over a little dizzy. A young person who lived in the era of peace, where did the Blue Star Federation experience this, and at this time she felt deep regret and fear in her heart.

She pushed her dagger forward with her eyes closed and both hands, intending to stab her foe.

There was no response from the dagger that was pushed forward, and she heard the crisp sound of weapons clashing in front of her. Ning He, who appeared at some point, stopped in front of her, and he gritted his teeth with the long sword in his hand and tried his best to fight the masked black armor.

Sweat was pouring from Ning He's forehead, and every time he swung his sword, his heart trembled. The masked black armor on the other side seemed to see his rustiness and nervousness, and he slowed down his attack, even revealing a mocking and hoarse laugh.

He began to slash at Ning He one by one, deliberately toying with him.

Anyway, this group of people is already a turtle in the urn, and now except for their small battle circle, the other divided battle circles have reached the final stage.

The exponentially masked black armor easily divided the group of exhausted soldiers, and then annihilated them one by one.

There were few soldiers of the guard and a few knights of the Knights of the Holy Sword Order, and more and more masked black armor gathered around Douglas, and they took turns to play the noble knight of the king like monkeys.

And his servant knight had already been pierced by several swords and died tragically.