Chapter 13: Passing Shoulders
Really fast horses, galloping all the way. The closer he got to Lilisa's house, the more panicked he became. Finally, Makoto reached the area where the fire was burning, and looking at the corpses all over the ground, it was clear that he had experienced a battle. One of the two sides of the battle was a bandit dressed similarly to the man who attacked him, while the other side had never seen him, like a local patrol guard. At the very center of the fire area was Lilisa's home.
"Lilisa! Alice! Masei shouted anxiously, and he led his troops into the fire, searching for them in the endless flames. But his cries were so faint in the open prairie in the midst of the raging fire. In an instant, Masamu felt a deep sense of powerlessness, and he couldn't accept that the person he had been talking and laughing with a few hours ago had just disappeared into the fire.
"Help me!" Finally, in the endless firelight, a voice answered Shinseung's shout. Zhencheng was excited at first, but soon his mood fell into a trough again. This cry for help was none other than Lilisa's boss, Hogg. The more you don't want to see anyone, the more they will always be dangling in front of your eyes. Masei frowned. Reluctantly, he ordered two sword and shield men to rush into the fire to find Hogg's whereabouts.
"Ah, that's great. It's a few good people! Soon Hogg's crying thanks reached Makoto's ears. The sword and shield soldiers pulled Hogg out of the ruins of the house and dragged him in front of him.
Now Hogg was covered in a thick layer of soot, and with his already dark skin, smoky in the fire, he was now like a suckling pig roasted to seven or eight medium rare.
Hogg wiped away the tears and snot from his face and greeted his savior with a smile. When he saw that his savior was the same person who had been kicked out of the house by him yesterday, his smile seemed to freeze on his face.
"What about Lilisa and Alice?" Zhencheng didn't want to talk nonsense with Hogg either, so he asked directly.
"It's your business!" Hogg also grimaced, and was questioned by the people who had been snubbed in the past, and Hogg felt ashamed.
"Don't talk nonsense, hurry up! Do you want Lilisa to die in the fire?! In a hurry, Zhencheng lifted Hogg, who weighed more than 200 pounds, and put it on a still burning fire, as long as Zhencheng let go, Hogg would become a real roast suckling pig. Lilisa was gracious, and he couldn't let her go in danger. But to this day, Hogg is still thinking about trivial things. This annoyed Makomi.
"They, they're not here." Hogg's tone gradually softened, and when it came to life and death, he lost his temper in an instant.
"And where are they now?!" Zhencheng still clung to Hogg, and he couldn't stand Hogg's vagueness.
"I don't know about this, they were taken by a gang of bandits. After taking them away, the gang set fire to the house," Hogg recounted in a trance.
Looking at Hogg's dejected face and frightened eyes, Makoto knew he wasn't lying. "Tell me the direction the bandits left, and I'll chase them!" Masei let go of his grip on Hogg's collar and said sternly.
"They went northeast. About half an hour ago," Hogg watched in amazement as Masei mounted his horse.
"Wait a minute!" Hogg suddenly stopped Mako, he didn't expect Maseung to desperately try to save the person he had just met, he was so weak and incompetent in comparison. Hogg swallowed and hesitated, but opened his mouth and said, "Liliza, those bandits said something before she was taken away. He said he knew you were supposed to be an earthling. I don't know who the earthlings are, but that's what the bandit said. ”
"What?!" Shinseung's eyes were filled with shock. Hogg's words aroused deep doubts in his heart, he did not expect that someone in this strange world would be able to know his identity. Is there something hidden in this? The more he thought about it, the more anxious he became, and he desperately wanted to find him and ask him to understand. "I see, I'll ask Lilisa after I get her." In the face of Hogg, Zhencheng still pretended to be calm and replied, and then he galloped away.
"Hmph, those guys are red-eyed! They're no match for a reckless little kid like you, so send them to death! In the end, Hogg said viciously to the back of Zhencheng's distant back. But he didn't know that Zhencheng had just defeated a group of red-eyed people. If Hogg had seen this, he would have dropped his jaw.
Leaving the fire zone, Masei led his troops all the way to the northeast. The cold air blew on Makomi's cheeks, which were red from the fire. Calmed him down a lot. After calming down, a wave of chagrin erupted from his heart, knowing that he left home to recall the troops to better protect Lilisa's mother and daughter, but because of his own departure, their mother and daughter were killed.
After continuing to travel for some distance, Masumi noticed that there were new traces of trampling on the grass in front of him, and these marks were sloppy, and it was obvious that he had left in a hurry.
"Hey! Little brother! Just as Makoto was about to chase after him, a loud and crisp female cry came from the hillside not far away.
Maseung raised his head vigilantly and looked up the hillside. The first thing that catches my eye is a thin girl and her voluptuous red hair.
The girl trotted down the hillside and scurried to Mako. Seeing the arrival of the red-haired girl, the sword and shield soldiers set up their sword and shield.
"Hey, do you use such a big stance to deal with a girl?" The girl waved her slender arms, raised her little hands high, and said with a smile in her eyes.
Looking at the petite body in front of him, Zhencheng ordered the troops to lay down their weapons. He didn't bother with the little girl now, he was only thinking about Lilisa and Alice who had been taken captive. So Zhencheng asked perfunctorily, "Is there something wrong?" ”
"Oops, oops, it's so cold. Actually, it's not a big deal, it's just to thank you for saving me just now. I was trapped in a cage before for some reason. It just so happened that you robbed the cage halfway. The girl rubbed the tip of her frozen red nose and continued, "But don't worry, you're not a good guy." They are the bare-eyed men, the notorious bandit group of Grans. ”
"Do you know the identity of these people?" Hearing this, Makoto became interested. He has a lot of connections with the Red-Eyed Crowd right now, and he desperately wants to know more about them.
"Of course, I dealt with them and wanted to get some oil and water out of them. Well, the result was that they were arrested. The girl spat out her tiny red tongue and grimaced.
"How many people are there and where is the lair?!" Seeing that the girl knew about the gang of robbers who had kidnapped Lilisa, Masei couldn't wait to ask for relevant information.
"Oh, little brother, don't worry about it first." Seeing that Zhencheng stepped forward to ask urgently, the red-haired girl took two steps back, her eyes narrowed slightly, and she smiled at Zhencheng. She said, "As for me, for the sake of being saved by you, I told you these news." But for now, that's the end of my reward. If you want to know more, then bring some silver~" The girl grinned and stretched out her little dirty hand.
After listening, Zhencheng threw the money bag to the girl without saying a word. "Tell me everything you know!" Makoto's tone was urgent.
"Little brother is refreshing!" The red-haired girl quickly grabbed the money bag, weighed it, and smiled with satisfaction. With a wave of her small hand, her slender fingers pointed to the northeast, she said, "I don't know the lair of this gang, but I still know where they want to go now." They are going to the City of Bells, and from the 'True Girl' River on the outskirts of the City of Bells to the sea. There are channels for them to sell stolen goods near Haikou. There were thirty or forty of them, and now they were walking slowly with their goods. You keep going in this direction, hurry up, and you should be able to catch up tomorrow morning. ”
"Good!" Zhencheng agreed, but he didn't leave in a hurry, but turned over and dismounted and walked straight to the red-haired girl, saying, "One more thing, you have to follow me before proving that what you say is the truth!" Before the girl could react, Zhencheng picked up the girl's delicate body and threw her onto the war horse.
"Ahh The girl screamed, a blush flashing across her cheeks. She leaned on the back of the rickety horse, glared at Makoto angrily, and roared coquettishly, "What are you doing? Whether you believe me or not, that's your business, I've already told you what to say! Let me go! ”
"I will, but not now!" After saying that, he also turned on his horse, and continued to gallop away with the girl with the sword and shield troops in the direction the girl pointed.
Along the way, the girl swayed from side to side, trying to escape at all times. It wasn't until Masumi turned around and gave the girl an angry look that the girl was quiet for a while.
"Alas!" The girl let out a long sigh knowing that she had no hope of escaping. She adjusted her posture and slowly approached Makomi, who was riding a horse. As the girl approached, Makomi also felt the warmth coming from behind. Makomi was originally dressed very thinly, and he just needed some warmth in this long cold night. So he did not reject the girl's move.
"My name is Elu." The red-haired girl reported her home. She is now completely clinging to Mako, like a clingy kitten.
"My name is Makoto," Makoto politely said his name.
Hearing Makoto's name, the girl named Ailu chuckled. She prostrate forward, her soft pink lips close to Mako's ear and whispered, "That's a strange name." No, it's not just the name, you're weird. Strange behavior, but also can summon strange warriors. Little brother, you have aroused my curiosity. ”
Ailu's words were true, and the roots of his ears were red. He had never had a girl ever been so close to him since he was a child. As Ailu spoke in his ear, the heat coming out of his mouth was just right to blow through the roots of Makoto's ears. Not only that, but now Majo can feel that his back is being pushed against two soft unidentified spheres. According to Makoto's guess, this could be ...... Thinking of this, the body temperature of Zhencheng's whole person is rising.
"Hey, little brother, how do I feel that you are getting hotter and hotter" Ailu, who was behind Mako, felt like she was now holding a big heater.
"Ahem, nothing." Maseung coughed lightly twice, thinking that the heat in his body was a physiological reaction after Ai Lu approached him. But at this time, the temperature of his body was still rising. As the temperature of his body increased, there was also a hot pain in his left hand, which had been bitten by the Blue Flame Wolf before. The pain in the flesh and skin reminded Zhencheng. The wound from his bite from the Blue Flame Wolf didn't seem to have healed, and after that, he experienced a fierce battle and was still frozen in the cold wind for a long time. Then he approached the fire again, and after roasting the fire for a while, it blew again in the cold wind. With such a tossing method, the iron-beaten body can't bear it.
"I've got to call myself a doctor." Masei weakened quickly, he slowed down his horse, and he used his last consciousness to open the conscription summoning interface.
"Hey, little brother, what's wrong with you?" Ai Lu looked in surprise at the true confession that had been majestic a few seconds ago, but now fell off the horse like a soft noodle. The moment he fell, a dazzling light lit up on the grassland again. A physician stepped out of the light. He approached Masei and began to treat him. Ai Lu also wanted to come forward to see how Makoto was doing, but was stopped by Makoto's loyal sword and shield soldiers. The unconscious Makoto was unable to give them orders, so the soldiers turned on the auto-escort mode.
"Hey, but your master asked me to stay, and that's how you treat me?" Ai Lu stared at the sword and shield soldiers who were guarding Makoto tightly, but her question seemed to sink into the sea. The sword and shield soldiers still stood numb, not responding at all.
"Okay, since you won't agree, then forget it, the old lady is gone!" Eru rolled over and dismounted, wrapped in a loose cloth coat, and glanced at the sword and shield soldiers, but they still didn't respond.
"Cut! A bunch of dead wood lumps. Ai Lu walked into the distance without looking back. When she had reached a certain distance, she untied the thick cloth that had wrapped around her body, and in the thick cloth was the money bag that Makomi had given her earlier. "Tsk, this money is enough for me to spend for a while." Eru looked contented. Then she reached for another part of the thick cloth and pulled out a black, hard object from it, which she had stolen when she was close to Makomi. "What the hell is this thing for?" Eru fiddled with the black rectangular object in her hand. She didn't know anything like a cell phone.
"Forget it, don't care, go to the black market and ask when the time comes." Eru tucked her phone into her full chest, where there was a built-in pocket. She looked back in the direction where Maseung was, and in the night, there was no trace of Makoto and his party at all. For some reason, there was a faint worry in Ailu's heart. "Oh, what the hell am I doing, just leave that idiot to fend for himself!" Eru scratched at her short cherry red hair, no longer thinking about superfluous questions, and she disappeared into the twilight.
At the same time, Zhencheng, who was in the midst of treatment, faintly emitted a pale green light.
When the host falls into a coma, the system will automatically select a passive skill after 30 seconds to assist in healing......
1。。 10。。 20。。 30。。
The 30-second countdown ends, and the passive skill is being selected......
Passive Skill Selected, Passive Skill: Flesh Rebirth (Passive Effect 1: Maximum Recovery of Three Critical Damages.) Passive Effect 2: Increases non-lethal damage healing speed by 40%)
With the blessing of passive skills, the host is recovering rapidly......
The mechanical prompt echoed in Zhencheng's mind, and Zhencheng's consciousness was dimly accepting all this. Time passed minute by minute, the sky of the grassland, the night gradually receded, a ray of morning sun slowly climbed to the earth from the far east, and the morning was coming. When all the life of the grassland was greedily waiting to suck the first mouthful of morning dew, under the illumination of the morning light, Zhencheng slowly opened his eyes.