Chapter 25: The Choice [II.]

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Within three hours, Cohen and his party gathered at the mercenary union one after another, and seeing that everyone showed up on time, Connie nodded with satisfaction and asked, "Howl, have you figured out from which gate Vandal came out of the city?"

Hal took a note handed to him by Rose, glanced at it, and said, " Well, I asked the knight on duty at the city gate, from last night to this morning, only the west gate leading to the direction of the dwarves has a small number of travelers pass through, and the other city gates are some business travel teams, I always feel that Vandal will return to the Rocky Canyon, Mia was killed by the wolf king in the Rocky Canyon to save him, if there is any place in this world that belongs to their most embarrassing memories, I think there is only the Rocky Canyon, he will definitely take Mia's body back to the original battlefield!"

"But I wonder if the Captain will return to Gustinshire with Mia's body, after all, that's where they met!" Rose asked suddenly.

Hal shook his head and insisted, "I trust my instincts, and judging from the investigation of the city gates, Vandal has a much better chance of going to Rocky Canyon. After all, it was a long distance from the Holy See to Gustinshire, and Mia's body could not be exposed to the air for a long time, and it was impossible for Vandal to return to Gustinshire with a corpse alone. ”

Connie glanced at Hal and said, "Then you mean that we are chasing Vandal in the direction of Rocky Canyon?" Hal nodded affirmatively and replied, "Yes, let's go to Rocky Canyon!"

After getting Hal's answer, Connie turned to look at Cohen and Rachel, Cohen hurriedly took out a large bag of magic materials and a list from the ring, and said, "You count and see if there is a mistake!" After saying that, he quickly took out all kinds of magic materials from the bag and placed them neatly on the ground.

Connie took the list, counted it carefully, and after a while, nodded to Cohen and said, "No problem, it's all on the list, now I'll arrange the personnel." Because there is still the last magic material, you need to go to the Crescent Lake of Thunder Cliff to pick the Flower of Forgotten Thoughts in the northeast of the Holy See, and the Rocky Canyon and the Crescent Lake are exactly in the opposite direction, so I plan to divide you into two teams, with Hal and Ross and I in charge of chasing Vandal, and Cohen, Rachel and my friends in charge of going to the Crescent Lake of Thunder Cliff to pick the Flower of Forgotten Thoughts, and she will take care of the flower picking. Cohen, after you pick the flowers, turn back to the mercenary union, and if we haven't brought back Vandal, go straight to the rocky canyon to meet us, do you understand?"

After hearing Connie's arrangement, everyone nodded in agreement, and then Rachel suddenly asked, "Connie, when is your friend coming?"

Connie smiled: "Don't worry, I'll let her buy some spell casting materials, it's estimated that it's about the same, let's go, let's go to the West City Gate first, the material store is just on the way." After speaking, he took the lead out of the mercenary union, and the group followed Connie closely and walked towards the west gate.

When passing by a material store called 'The Shepherd', Connie motioned for everyone to wait for a while, and walked in, and it didn't take long for the door of the material store to open again, only to see a very delicate girl wearing an ice blue water show shirt walking quietly behind Connie, with snow-white hair, holding a short scepter with a blue body in her hand, and the eyes that faintly shimmered with light blue light, made everyone feel a cold air that was thousands of miles away.

Connie seemed accustomed to everyone's eyes, and smiled, "This is my best friend of Connie, there is no one, Emilyda Shelly, she is my companion since childhood, and she is a rare dual-line professional, a water elemental mage and an auxiliary priest. With Connie's introduction, Xuelu nodded slightly to everyone and said hello.

Although everyone was a little unaccustomed to Xuelu's aura, they introduced themselves out of politeness. But the dual-line professional really surprised everyone, this is a special existence that only occurs in tens of millions of people, and it requires a very strong talent perception to achieve, in short, it is the perversion of praise among all the people in the Noah continent. Now this pervert has actually appeared in front of everyone, and she is still a quiet and cold girl.

After a brief pleasantry, Connie repeated the tasks of the two squads and smiled at Catherine, "Baby Snowdew, how long will your Sunny Sky Wings last now?"

Hearing Connie's special sweet nickname, Xuelu smiled: "It's about five hours in the case of blessings, and about two hours in the case of no blessings." If you cast Wings on the three of you, you'll be able to fly to the edge of the Desert of the Dead and the Rocky Canyon. As for me, I'll barely get to the outskirts of Thunder Cliff. After that, you need to spend half a day meditating to replenish your mental energy before you can use it again. ”

"I haven't seen you for a while, but the baby's ability has risen again, and the dual-line professional is really strong. Connie said as she ran to Shelly's side and pinched her delicate little face. Xuelu seemed to have long been accustomed to Connie's small movements, and after gently pulling Connie's sleeves with two fingers, she stood there quietly.

Connie rubbed her hands in satisfaction, she was getting more and more out of control of Xuelu's smooth skin. After seeing the strange eyes of everyone, Connie Ha smiled and said: "Probably the situation is like this, the three of us crossed the desert of the dead and ran directly to the Rocky Canyon; There is a signal flare here, and when it arrives at the rocky canyon, it is directly crushed, and the positions of each other are known. ”

Everyone nodded, Xuelu didn't say much, slowly stretched out the scepter, and chanted in a low voice, a moment later, an ancient totem suddenly appeared at the feet of everyone, and the air currents visible to the naked eye slowly wrapped around everyone, and then slowly floated, this is Xuelu's crisp voice sounded in everyone's minds: "Relax your body, control the airflow with your mind, and provide simple ideas to control the direction of flight, such as simple ideas such as ascending, descending, forward and backward." After speaking, he accelerated violently and flew directly to the altitude of dozens of meters, and a figure the size of a meter dot appeared in everyone's eyes.

Rose swallowed a mouthful of saliva, looked at Connie, and exclaimed, "Mind sharing, your friend is not an ordinary person, this is a skill that can only be touched by high-level spiritual priests, this is also terrifying, right?"

Connie smirked, "That's, don't look at whose friend it is!" After speaking, he beckoned to Hal and Rose, and continued: "Let's go, first slowly familiarize yourself, the blessing time is only two hours, and if you don't hurry up, you will have to walk through the desert of the dead, and a bad pool in that ghost place can take your life." ”

Hal and Rose looked at each other, nodded, and slowly followed Connie in the direction of the Rocky Canyon, and before leaving, Hal specially shouted to Cohen: "We'll be waiting for you at the Rocky Canyon camp!"

Cohen nodded slightly, signaling Hal to rest assured, and at this time, Xuelu's figure reappeared in front of Cohen and Rachel, and said in a slightly cold tone: "Let's go too, try to rush to Crescent Lake before the sun goes down, the Flower of Forgotten Thoughts is open for a short time, it's midnight, let's rush over just in time to have a good rest." I can rush to the rocky canyon with all my might early tomorrow morning. You're good at it!"

Cohen and Rachel both smiled wryly, the first time they tried Wings of the Sky was inevitably a little scrambling, the two hurriedly relaxed their bodies, slowly familiarized themselves with flying with their minds, and followed Xuelu towards Thunder Cliff.

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And before dawn, in the Gobi Wilderness on the border between the Desert of the Dead and the Holy See, Vandal carried Mia's body on his back and staggered forward. The heavy armor on his body has long been lost, a brown tights and a wide white silk coat are draped casually, his hands are clasped behind Mia's corpse, and a one-handed knife taken from the mercenary guild is stuck diagonally on the belt; the night of walking has made Vandal gasp for breath, his eyes have long lost their former lustre, and the bloodshot and dark eye bags make the whole person look very haggard.

Tightened the corpse on his back, slowly squatted down, gently put the corpse on the ground, reached out and took out a kettle from his arms, shook it in the air, and said with a wry smile: "There is still some water, Mia, drink some water!" Vandal lifted Mia's forehead with his hand, sent the kettle to the closed lips, held her right hand and gently held Mia's chin, with a little force, the originally closed lips slowly opened, and the left hand held up the kettle and carefully poured water into the mouth... The water slowly overflowed in his mouth, dripping on the dry ground and disappeared instantly, Vandal held Mia's chin with his right hand and pushed it up, his lips closed again, but the water still dripped from the corners of his mouth to the ground... Along with the droplets of water, there were also Vandall's tears.

Looking at the droplets of water on the ground that were gradually drying up, Vandal kept shouting, "If you wait for me, I will accompany you, wait for me, Mia." With that, he stroked Mia's cheek with his right hand and kissed her gently on the forehead. Mia's body was slowly shrinking from the blessing of the Spirit Room Magic Array, her eyes were deeply sunken, her cheeks that were originally a little blood-colored became pale, the half-moon white on her nails disappeared completely, and only the wound on her neck revealed dark red muscles. Looking at the scene in front of him, Vandal seemed to be pressed down by something, and he could no longer breathe, and the whole person fell down, his hands grabbed his hair hard, and he kept twitching on the ground, psychological pressure and a huge sense of exhaustion hit at the same time, Vandal's eyes were dark, and he fainted.

The dawn of dawn pierced the dark night, the east gradually appeared white, as the temperature rose, the blazing air flow and strong hunger made the comatose Vandal wake up, looked at the body of Mia beside him, and then looked at the desert covered with yellow sand in the distance, Vandal gritted his steel teeth, carried Mia's body again, and walked step by step towards the direction of the rocky canyon.

The blazing heat of the Gobi made Vandal sweat rain down, and the life-saving little half pot of water had been all spilled when he was unconscious just now, and the things in front of him gradually began to blur, and his footsteps began to walk unobediently. Dragging his exhausted body, Vandal set up Mia behind a small hillside, took off two clothes on his upper body, one to cover the corpse's face, kissed Mia's forehead, and walked out of the house with a silk coat and a knife.

Came to a place with a lot of vegetation, and after taking a few breaths vigorously, he vigorously plunged the knife into the ground with his right hand, and suddenly half of the blade sank into the surface, and the excessive force made Ao Yan's will even more blurred.

"I can't die yet!"

A voice in his heart kept shouting at him. Vandal raised his left hand, his mouth bit his arm, the huge pain instantly made him sober, and his right hand gathered strength again, and the muscles and bones of the hand holding the handle of the knife burst out.

"Break the !!" A dull cry was heard, and the powerful force instantly twisted the blade, the ground shattered, and a large pit appeared in front of Vandal's eyes. After a short rest, Vandal desperately picked up the broken earth with his hands, touching the ground with his hands from time to time, and after a while, his face finally showed a satisfied look - the ground was already very wet.

He buried the kettle in the deepest part of the center of the pit, and then spread out the silk coat and covered the pit, and covered it tightly with mud all around, and put a small stone in the middle of the silk robe, which was faintly concave in the middle, and when he had done everything, he went back to the hillside and rested;

In order to keep his mind clear, Vandal had tooth marks on his left arm, and he just sat quietly on the ground, looking at Mia beside him, thinking about the two of them in the past. Looking up at the position of the sun, Vandal slowly walked to the position where the silk clothes had been placed just now, gently picked up the soil around him with his hands, carefully rolled up the silk clothes, and filled the pot full of water in the half of the kettle in the pit; Bury the kettle in the soil again, cover it with silk clothes, and walk back down the hillside to continue to rest.

With a full jug of water in his arms, Vandal picked up Mia's body and continued to walk forward.