I sighed again and lay down on the grass.

There were clouds drifting through the sky, layers of clouds changing in mid-air, and in my eyes, they were almost as unpredictable as the world.

"That's good. I closed one eye and raised one hand above my head to paint: "It's nice to be able to grab a cloud as soon as you reach out, but you never want to catch it." ”

"Leave that damn cloud alone," Heert asked nervously, "Sue my boss, isn't our relationship with Fischette very good?

"Do you really want to hear it?" I said lightly, "If you do, you may be able to think about it, and you can even think of something that you don't have." ”

"Trust me!" said Heert, "I swear in my name that I will not think about it, and I will keep it a secret!"

"Your Hailt's name is not very valuable, it doesn't matter if you tell others or not, this matter can be seen by anyone with a discerning eye. I put down my hand and whispered, "Fischette may be worrying about this, but it's me, the one who thinks I'm smart, and I haven't realized it." ”

"What's that?"

"The problem between me and Fichette is similar to the problem between you and me. I closed my eyes: "Fischette is a prince, he will be king, and I will be one of his ministers." In other words, I will obey him in the future, and I will obey any of his commands, but our relationship has always been that he listens to me, and it is he who is called by me. ”

"Yes, yes. Helt said, "It seems that His Majesty reminded you last time. Didn't Fischette say he didn't care?"

Fichette said that. It's just trying to confuse the past. "I slowly think back to the time of Qiē. As if he was muttering to himself, "Fischette knew I didn't want to talk about such a thing in front of the elders, and there were several elders present at the time, so Fichette said that." Now that I think about it, he should have wanted me to have some time to think about and face it, so that I could understand it myself, but I didn't understand his good intentions at the time. ”

"Speaking of which, when Fischette was with you," Helt sat down on the ground, "all those fools were pretended?"

"Probably!" I nodded, and said with a wry smile, "when Fischette was with me." Forced to pretend to be like this to cater to me, he cherishes me so much. It's really hard for him to have a bad friend like me. ”

"And what are you going to do?"

"Perhaps, in order for my character to develop unhindered, I should kill him?" I said, opening my eyes and looking at Helt, word for word, "just as you did with me later." ”

"No, Fischette┅┅He's our brother!" Helter's body shook violently, and he said in a trembling voice, "Besides, I didn't think about what I wanted to do to you."

"If you continue like this, one day you will do the same. I closed my eyes again: "There's nothing strange about that. ”

"Don't do this, boss, you can't do this! Think about it again┅┅" Helt grabbed my shoulder and shook it violently: "Think of a better way to deal with your relationship with Fichette! Haven't you been thinking about it these days?"

"You still want to hear it?"

"Yes. Top dog. I want to hear ┅┅"

"Aren't you impulsive?" I looked at his hand grabbing my shoulder.

"Boss, I┅┅" Helt said. The hand left my shoulder: "I've calmed down now." ”

"Well, since you still want to hear it. I gathered my thoughts and said what was on my mind: "I thought about it the other day, I have to choose between killing him and giving up the dominant position. ”

"In the case of the former, I don't know if I can be ruthless to do this, even if I can be ruthless, then I will definitely live in a kind of regret for the rest of my life┅┅In other words, after doing this, I will lose not only Fichette, but also the qiē that I once had in my heart and was proud of, and I will no longer have the shame to face all my relatives and friends around me. If I had to choose another one, I would still have this qiē, but for my flamboyant personality, the process would never be easy. I fiddled with the grass beside me: "┅┅If I really want to decide to choose the latter, I will gradually adjust my mentality, and try my best to improve the relationship with Fischette, so that he can gradually become the leader, that is, let Fischette be the boss." ”

"Boss, make up your mind. Helt looked at me very nervously, "Which one do you choose?"

"Which one do I choose┅┅" I pulled out two small grasses and held them up in front of my eyes, looking left and right: "On one side is Fischette, on the other side is self, which one shall I choose?"

"It's not just Fischette here!" Helt pulled out a handful of grass and shoved it into my left hand: "Fischette has me here, Moya, Jack, Marfa, Sister Rhona, Winsley, Merlin, and your parents, your two brothers, and a lot of nice people, a bunch of people!"

I looked at the large pile of grass on my left hand, and my vision was blurry, and I couldn't tell who was convincing whom.

"Alright, Boss, let's make a decision. Helt whispered, "Just choose one, it's not difficult┅┅"

"I┅┅"

"Choose one ┅┅ is a man, just be simple. ”

I looked at my two hands, my left hand gradually clenched, and my right hand loosened weakly, letting the grass slide down. Holding the pile of grass with both hands in front of his nose, he took a deep breath of the aroma of the grass in his hand┅┅"Boss!" Helt shouted: "Did you choose Fischet?!"

I nodded.

"Can you do the latter?" Helter glared at me with two eyes, "You promise?"

"I can do it. Fichette's smiling face slowly came to my mind: "After all, what I cherish most is the friendship with Fichette, and I have no interest in being a king at all┅┅"

"But can you really put up with him?" said Helt, who was skeptical, and relieved, "that your character is much more arrogant than mine. Can you bear to kneel down to Fischette every day? and say a lot of nonsense about my Wang Xianming?"

"I said I could do it. Again, I nodded solemnly and said, "That's sacrifice." This is called sacrifice. Fischette is my friend, and I am willing to sacrifice these for the sake of Fischette. ”

"Boss, I knew it was so. With a loud shout, Helt slapped me on the shoulder: "The boss won't let me down┅┅"

"Hmm," I said, "don't push too hard." ”

"Wait a minute, ┅┅!" Hailt shoved me away, "This is not right!"

"What's wrong?"

"It's obvious that you're preaching to me, why am I persuading you now?"

"You're too easy to settle. I shrugged helplessly.

"Damn! Forget it┅┅Don't bother with you about this. Helt spread his hands, "Now that your problem is solved, what can I do? I'm not you, how can I deal with the matter between us?"

"I can't help you with this. I shook my head and said, "You are a smart man." You can think a little farther, think a little deeper, and don't get dizzy. ”

"It's that simple?"

"It's as simple as that. I said, "If you still can't let go of your mind after you think clearly, you can sue me at any time." ”

"And then?"

"I'll give you this spot. I pointed to my throat and said, "If you use the sword in your hand to poke at me, I am afraid of pain, so I personally hope that you will move a little more quickly, and then you will be elevated." ”

"Is it that simple?" asked Heert.

"It's that simple. I replied to him.

After a moment of silence, this time Helt looked at the grass on the ground in a daze, "Let's go, it's not something that can be thought about for a while." You can go back to the camp and think about it again. I stood up and patted the dust off my body: "This is the end of the matter." There's still work to be done. ”

"What's the matter?"

"Have you forgotten the six thousand men?" I said, "since you have come out, let me go and walk around them!"

"I said boss," Helter whispered, "we don't have to go." ”

"Why don't you have to go? It's a necessary scout. I moved my aching body and walked out: "We're not going to camp. ”

"That's right┅┅" Helt jumped up from the ground: "Wait for my boss!"

Before approaching the mouth of the canyon, Helt and I took off our cloaks, hid them, and went into the woods, crawling all the way to the edge of the canyon. It looks like a wolf bèi, but fortunately no one sees it.

"Boss. Helt kept his voice low: "Further on, you can see their camp, but you might run into their patrols." ”

"You're not so useless, are you?" I replied in a lower voice, "how can you scout if you don't get closer?" be careful, we need real information. ”

Haier nodded, "Okay." ”

"Let's separate a little bit. I said, "Contact with a gesture." ”

With that, I chanted softly, and a few soft vines wrapped around my body and limbs, and there were patches of green leaves stretched out on them, and a thin layer of camouflage had completely covered me. And a vine that surrounded me hardened, changing my outline with its lines┅┅This magic I commanded the elven magician to "teach" me.

At the same time, there was a chant beside me, which was somewhat similar to the one I had just had, and I turned my head in surprise, only to find that Helt was also using the same magic, but on closer inspection, there was a slight difference, not to mention that the vines on his body were thicker, and there seemed to be a lot of fluff on the leaves.

"You've learned too?" I asked in a low voice.

"Yes┅┅" As soon as Hailt moved slightly, his body suddenly trembled: "Damn!"

"What's wrong?"

"Do these elven magicians also have to depend on their status when they teach magic? It's the same learning, why do I only get this?" Looking at the beautiful vines on my body, Helt said dissatisfied, "These hairs make me itchy and painful┅┅"

I smiled secretly and crawled to the side, not forgetting to say to Helt, "When it comes to threats, you are still tender." ”

We were fifteen arm's lengths apart, and we crawled one after the other toward the edge of the canyon.

I concentrated all my attention and crawled forward, my ears picking up a single qiē sound within a radius of fifty arms, my nose not idle, and the air mixed with various smells was slowly inhaled. I can distinguish rotting leaves, dead wood, and the scent of flowers. There is even animal droppings ┅┅ in this dense forest where even sunlight can't cast it. Vision is nowhere near as sensitive as hearing and smell.

As I went forward, Helt stopped to guard me, I advanced a certain distance, and then gestured for him to follow, and again and again we came to a cliff beside the gorge, and a little further on we could see the camp of the troops.

This is the edge of the jungle. The trees had begun to thin out, and I had to be more careful as I went.

There was a faint sound overhead in front of me, and I froze in an instant, and made a pause gesture to Helt - the sound of a branch breaking.

Helt replied with a gesture and slowly sneaked to the side to hide himself, just at a distance where he could communicate with each other.

I stayed still, closed my eyes, and listened. There was a few more soft noises ahead, among which was the sound of a tree branch being broken. There are also leaves scraping over the metal surface, and someone is turning around ┅┅ is on a tree!

I slowly moved my body behind a large tree. Hide yourself first, and then look at the tree where the sound came from, but the leaves of the tree are so dense that I can't see anything but the trunk below.

I gestured my judgment to Helt and gave him the next move.

Heert's eyes, hidden under the leaves, blinked, and reached for a little dirt on the ground, which he pinched into a small ball and bounced off the bushes to the side.

In an instant, a frightened bird flew out of it flapping its wings. As soon as the bird flew out, the sound of a qiē in the tree in front of it suddenly stopped, as if the other party was also passively observing.

Although there was no sound at all, the atmosphere was extremely tense. I looked at the tree and almost stopped breathing. After all, it was we who took the initiative, and when we were hiding, we had already hid in the other side's observation corner, and the situation was more favorable to us.

The subtle voice from the tree came again, and it seemed that the other party couldn't hold it back.

"Whoosh!", a crossbow arrow was shot into the bushes! followed by a green figure jumping down from the tree, before the toes touched the ground, the long knife in his hand had already danced, and a few white lights flashed, and the bushes turned into a large mass of debris. As I stared at the knife-wielding fellow, I thought to myself, "Poor bird, where will I find its nest when I come back?"

The flying debris fell, and the guy who danced the knife finally stopped, he panted and stuck the knife into the dirt beside him, and then sat down with his ass┅┅This guy is of medium stature, wearing close-fitting armor inside, camouflaged with leaves on the outside, the armor is a large piece of hard armor, and the branches are inserted into the gaps in the armor, no wonder it makes a noise.

Helt looked at me with his eyes and asked me if I wanted to kill this guy, and I flicked my little thumb and told him to wait.

"Hey, what's wrong with you?" another voice in the tree asked, "Is there anything over there?"

"There's a fart!" The guy sitting on the ground yelled at the tree, "You greedy for life and afraid of death, why don't you come down and see for yourself!"

Another guy jumped down from the tree, breaking a lot of branches along the way.

"Come down, come down, what's the big deal?" Later, this guy was dressed in the same attire, but he was a head shorter: "Who told you to guess that you lost? ”

"I'm going to stay in this place for a long time, this place is really not human. The guy who jumped down earlier cursed dissatisfiedly, and had already taken off his helmet and put it aside: "Where did this small, tight armor come from, is this for human use?"

"Bear with me, I probably won't be able to stay for a few days. The shorter one sighed and said helplessly, "In this tragic war, it would be nice if we could have the life to go home┅┅"

"Oh my dignified Bansai soldier will one day be so depraved that he will not only have to keep watch in this dark place, but also disguise himself as a rogue!"

"Be quiet!" the short soldier admonished, "let the commander hear you, miserable!"

"Sir, fuck sir! Now I know how to put up a fight, and when we are surrounded by the Demon Alliance, their cousins are worse than slaves┅┅"

"Don't talk about this, let people hear that you are really going to die. The short man patted his companion on the shoulder: "Don't complain, we come from different backgrounds, and the world of the officers is different from ours." ”

"I don't need to be reminded, I know┅┅But why are we here?

"I heard that it is to prevent refugees from flowing into our side on the demarcation line. The short man said, "I have heard that it was not a direct order from the military headquarters, but an order from the merciful Lord Zuo Matsuri, who was worried that the influx of refugees would cause trouble." ”

"It's the order of the red-clothed Zuo Priest, so how can they pick us to carry it out? We are the most elite troops in the Bansai Empire. ”

"Haven't you heard? Our commander seems to have something to do with the Left or Right Priest. ”

"It's no wonder, maybe this trip back, the commander will be promoted┅┅"

"But have you heard?" said the short man, "something seems to be going on over there in the canyon."

"How do you know?"

"So you always lose money, you have a pig's brain!" the short man spat out, "You don't see why we have so many lookouts along the canyon? Why did the refugees come like crazy a few days ago? Why didn't the chief allow a single refugee to come and shoot them all?"

"Didn't you say that Lord Zuo was afraid of causing trouble to our alliance?"

"It's really not wrong to say that you are a pig's brain┅┅" The short man smacked his lips: "In the wild, even a dog can survive, not to mention these refugees with hands and feet?

"Why is that?"

"How do I know?" the short man kicked his companion, "Go back to the tree, it's almost time to get my shift, I don't want to get in trouble!"

The two of them climbed the tree with a scolding and continued the conversation on the tree.

I gestured to Helt to stay where he was, and I walked around the tree on which he was standing, climbed to the edge of the cliff and looked into the canyon. (To be continued......)