88 The orcs are really coming
Seeing that Olena didn't mean to blame, everyone raised their heads, and James said, "Princess, why are you here?"
Among His Majesty's children, the most restless are Princess Olena and Prince Boris, Prince Boris has matured a lot since he returned from the grassland a few months ago, and this princess is still a headache, James is most worried now that His Majesty may not know that the princess is in the cuckoo village, but he must have found out that the princess is missing, and the royal city may have been turned upside down at this time.
Olena glanced at Marlowe without a trace and replied, "Me...... He kidnapped him and came here. ”
The princess raised her hand with an aggrieved face, and Qianqianyu pointed at Marlowe, and more than a dozen pairs of eyes looked at it for a while. Marlowe thought that she would be retaliated against when she said her name, but he didn't expect the other party to make a small report in front of him so quickly.
"How could I kidnap you. Marlowe could only explain. "I hadn't even heard of your name before today!"
"Uncle James, he arranged for an old orc to kidnap me here!"
Seeing that the other party swore not to give up if he did not succeed in wronging himself, Marlowe knew that he had to make it clear today, otherwise how would he cooperate with these humans in the future.
"Captain James, I went to Dorles with Paul and Gandalf, and then came back together, it was just the three of us, and we've been together for so long, have you noticed or heard that I have a secret relationship with anyone......
If it weren't for my friend who came to see me today, I'm afraid that Her Royal Highness would still be wandering around the village, and I think everyone knows what the consequences of wandering around the northern region during this time, and it was out of kindness that my friend handed it over to me. ”
James and his party were indeed with Marlowe every day during this time, they ate together, worked together, and even during their breaks, they were almost crammed into a house to discuss various things, and the more they talked, the more they got to know each other, so Marlowe's words caused them to nod their heads again and again.
James didn't think Marlowe would do such a thing, but if Her Royal Highness said so, then the matter had to be investigated, although everyone knew what the outcome would be.
"Well, I'll send someone to investigate this, Princess Olena, how did you get out of Dorus?"
"I told you that he sent someone to kidnap me!"
"But the royal city is heavily guarded, and an orc can sneak into the royal palace and kidnap you if he wants to operate in the royal city...... This seems to be too unbelievable...... "James is actually saying in his heart: Princess, can you give a reasonable explanation!"
Olena knew that what she seemed to say was too outrageous, so she changed her words and said, "I took a tailwind airship to Victor Province." ”
"Wait, you said you took a tailwind?" Marlowe suddenly remembered something, when Gandalf opened the portal and almost threw the three of them into the turbulence of time and space because of the lack of energy in the portal, Paul teased the old mage that people are confused when they drink a little wine, but Gandalf insists that his energy calculation is not wrong, and judges that there is a fourth person using the portal at that time......
Thinking of this, Marlowe suddenly felt as if he had found the initiator of the incident. The only one who had the audacity to infiltrate the mage's exclusive community and know that Gandalf would open the portal was probably the only one who dared to do so.
"By downwind airship, you mean Gandalf's portal, right?"
Olena's fingers trembled visibly when she heard Gandalf's name, but she still denied, "What a portal, I'm from Victor Province on the goblin merchant's airship." ”
James was already sure that Olena was lying, and every year in late autumn, the Goblin Trader's airship would cancel the route between the royal city and Victor Province, mainly for safety reasons, whether it was the war or the bad weather, these green-skinned dwarfs stayed away.
Her Royal Highness has been locked up in the palace for too long to even know this common sense...... James suddenly felt some sympathy for Olena, who had always wanted to venture everywhere.
"We will definitely investigate this matter thoroughly, but for now, please don't run around, it's too dangerous outside, there will be a large army transporting supplies in two days, and when Gandalf's ** division also returns, he will escort you back to the royal city safely." James suggested, but everyone could tell from his expression that he was resolute.
Olena was actually a little afraid of this paladin, not only because of the other party's ability, but also because of the other party's deep trust in her father, and she also expected the other party to say a few good words for her father in front of her, so as not to be severely punished.
"I will, Uncle James. Olena put away her grievances and returned to the princess's haughty expression.
As the princess of the Empire, Olena must receive all kinds of preferential treatment, such as James directly assigning four paladin recruits to protect her and prevent her from leaving the room without permission, and such as using wooden planks to temporarily separate her from a single bedroom, and the bedding is the best and cleanest in the village.
That night, after dinner, Olina went into the small bedroom to rest, and the others were divided into three groups that could rotate with each other, one group went out to inspect the village, the second group rested, and the third group was on duty in the house, ready to go out and fight at any time.
Winter has arrived, and no one can say when the steppe orcs will start to invade Victor Province, Marlowe can feel that the atmosphere has become more and more tense, everyone's faces seem to be frozen, and it is difficult to see anyone open their mouths and laugh.
Marlowe was assigned to the first group, so they spent the first half of the night outside patrolling, and when the second group replaced them, they went back to the house to warm up by the fire, and had to eat some hot soup whenever they could, and when they warmed up, it was almost their turn to lie down and rest.
After walking around the village for hours in the cold wind, even the wooden wall surrounding the village three times, Marlowe was finally replaced before he turned into a snowman.
Returning to the door of the room and shaking off the thick snow on his coat, Marlowe pushed the door and entered, seeing that the first group of people had returned, and the three groups began to prepare for sleep.
Because there was a princess sleeping in the room, which was not too soundproof, everyone tried to make eye contact with their movements, except for the occasional crackling fire, the whole room was very quiet.
Marlowe took off his coat and drank the hot soup, which worked both inside and outside the stove and the hot soup at the same time, finally warmed his body, and sleepiness came in, and he felt a little drowsy.
Boom!
The door was slammed open and slammed against the masonry wall.
"The people on duty come with me, the orcs are really attacking!" Green couldn't think about whether this would wake up the princess at this time, and shouted loudly when he entered the door.
(Only 1000 more words are out today, and two more tomorrow.) After making up a chapter tomorrow, then you still owe a chapter, right? 2333)