At night, at a seaside resort hotel on the outskirts of the city, Bing Zhixiao lies on a couch by the pool and looks at the vast starry sky in the sky. Alice had no heart to enjoy the beautiful hotel she had found, and she had all the newspapers she had bought from the stall in her hand, and she had read every one of them about the two warring sides of the Demon Moon and St. Pecia, and all the news that had come made her even more worried.

The battle situation on the front line is unfavorable to the Demon Moon, and in less than half a month after the resumption of the war, the army of St. Vickya has broken through the two fortress cities on the front line of the Demon Moon, five military strongholds have been occupied, and the famous general 'Immortal General' Edward, who has served the empire for 37 years, died on the battlefield, and his 35,000 elites were completely annihilated. Clearly, Santa Vickya was well prepared for the resumption of the war.

The only consolation is that General Philip Ruhl's 'Endless Trench' defense line is still in place, having successfully repelled no less than six attacks by the Santa Vickéa army. However, the 700,000 troops amassed in St. Vickya have arrived at the front line of the war on the 5th of this month, and are preparing to launch a new offensive against the 'Endless Trench' defense line.

HERRINGTON CAME TO THE BALCONY WITH TWO CUPS OF 'VISA' AND HANDED ONE TO ALICE. Lovely Lisy didn't react, still staring at the swaying branches not far away. Hurrington had no choice but to put the wine on the balcony fence, and jumped off the balcony to walk to Bing Zhixie's side: "Why don't you go and comfort her?"

"I'm thinking about something. Bing Zhixiao lay quietly on the couch, letting the night breeze continue to blow on his scarred body.

"You're just lying here and doing nothing?"

"How did you go to the campfire over there?"

Hurington said angrily, "I...... I can't talk about you, but she's your apprentice. ”

Bingzhi said evilly: "I said that I was thinking about one thing. ”

"What's the matter?" said Hurrington, "what is more important now than comforting your apprentice." ”

Bingzhi said evilly: "I'm thinking about how to send her back to the Demon Moon Country." ”

Hurington was stunned: "You're going to send her away?"

"Hmm. ”

Hurington thought for a moment and said, "Yes, it's better to send her back than to let her worry about it here, and her parents must want her to be by their side at this time." Have you thought of anything you can do?"

Bing Zhixiao turned his head to look at him.

"What do you mean? Me?" said Hurington, pointing to himself, "you mean to let me send her back." ”

Bing Zhixiao nodded: "As a price, I will pay you 50,000 gold coins." ”

"50,000 gold coins. Hurrington glanced at Alice, who was still distracted on the balcony, and said, "It's not good, I ......"

"100,000. ”

Hulingerton was stunned for a moment, and said angrily: "I'm not for money, have you asked her opinion? Is she willing to go back?"

Bing Zhixiao didn't speak.

"She is now your disciple, and you should learn to respect her." ”

Bingzhi said evilly: "Let her go back is the best choice." ”

"But you'll have to let her decide. ”

After a while, Hurrington said again, "By the way, did you arrive at Bubble Street early in the day today?"

"Yes. ”

Hurington said angrily: "Then you didn't make a move until Zuihou? Do you know that our situation was very dangerous at that time, and you are 100% sure that you will rescue Alice and me before death comes?"

"Nope. ”

"Then you're weishenme, why don't you come out sooner to solve this matter? can you watch us die and see Alice hurt?"

Bing Zhixie showed an unhappy look on his face: "Are you blaming me? Your attitude has always been very clear, I don't like to cause trouble, but you always keep causing all kinds of trouble, is it my responsibility for you to conflict with those hooligans?"

"Okay, you're amazing, I can't talk about you. Hurington tugged at his collar and drank the wine from his glass in one gulp.

"What are you arguing about?" said Alice, awakened by their argument, and jumped off the balcony and walked over.

Hurrington said, "Your master has decided to let you go back. ”

"Weishenme?" Alice looked at her master eagerly.

Bing Zhiyi just said very blandly: "You should go back." ”

"No, I don't. Alice said: "I'm very worried about my country, but I can't help when I go back, I want to continue traveling with you." ”,

Bingzhi said evilly: "But you can't go where I'm going next." ”

"Where?"

"Sindelmore, the capital of St. Vickya. Bing Zhixiao said.

Heventton was also surprised: "Why are you going there all of a sudden? We have traveled thousands of miles from the north to the south to get here, aren't you just going to the Eastern Continent to find clues about that special rune stone?"

Alice suddenly remembered that the master had said such a thing in the tavern, but she didn't know that it was weishenme.

Bing Zhixie replied simply: "Jihua has changed, I have decided to go to Sindelmore. ”

It turns out that he received a letter from the bank, in which Linda asked him to come to Sindmore as soon as possible, with important clues about Dragon Zero. After thinking about it, he decided to temporarily give up looking for Dragon Zero in the Eastern Continent, because Alice's uncle Rost gave him a letter about the existence of Dragon Zero in the Eastern Continent was too vague, and only asked him to look for Crescent Bay that had long been forgotten in the Eastern Continent, and the letter also said that about Crescent Bay, the Luo Shen Kingdom in the Southern Subcontinent had been looking for many years, and in the end he still found nothing. He thought that instead of looking for Crescent Bay that he didn't know existed so aimlessly, he should look for more valuable clues.

Alice said, "I can go to Sindmore too." ”

Bing Zhi said evilly: "You can't go, it is the capital of St. Vicia, and they will definitely recognize your princess of the Demon Moon Kingdom, if you are caught by them, it will bring even more serious consequences to your country." ”

Alice said, "I can disguise, they don't recognize me." ”

Hurrington also objected to the matter: "Alice, I also think you can't go, it's dangerous, you're going to be in danger of your life. ”

Alice said: "I'm not afraid of danger, isn't there less danger we have experienced along the way?" Just now in Bubble Street, in the Misty Forest of Guiniz, in the Water Cloud Stream of the Ten Forbidden Lands, in Danluer in the Northern Snow Field, which time did I not experience the danger of my life?"

"But this time it's different," said Hurington. ”

"What's the difference?"

"The danger of those events is fortuitous, it's uncertain," Hurington said, "and you're bound to be in danger of it. You are the princess of the Demon Moon Country, you should know that superpowers like St. Vickya, their military strength, how many powerful people they will have, and your master can't protect you. ”

"I ...... Anyway, if I don't leave, I won't go back. Alice burst into tears: "Master, you promised not to drive me away, how can you talk without words? You can't lie to me." ”

Bing Zhiye was silent, he didn't know what to say.

The next day, Ice Evil still failed to convince Alice to leave, so he had to take her on the rest of the trip. Because of the temporary diversion and decision to go to Hindmore, Bing Zhixiao didn't want to stay in the city for long, so after breakfast, he hurried to the harbor of the airship in the suburbs with Alice and Helrington. As soon as he left the city gate, the ice child suddenly stopped on the path between the trees.

"What's wrong, what's missing, or have you forgotten something?" asked Hurrington.

Bing Zhiye turned to look at a big tree in the woods: "Come out, you've been with us for a day." ”

After a while, a beggar came out from behind the tree.

"Ah, it's the beggar. Alice exclaimed, "I saw him yesterday in the tavern." ”

When the beggar approached, Bingzhi said, "You have been following us since yesterday, what do you want to do?"

The beggar said, "I want to go with you." ”

Hurrington was stunned and said, "Are you coming with us?" do you know where we're going?"

The beggar said, "Wherever you go, I will follow." ”

This time, not only Hurington, but even Bing Zhiyi couldn't figure it out. He looked closely at the beggar in front of him, about 1.8 to 1.9 meters tall, with a broad face, a high nose, a large mouth, a very burly figure, but always with a slightly hunched neck, a gray beard, and a look between 55 and 60 years old, probably younger than he looked because of his dirtiness.

"No," said Hurrington, "I wouldn't agree to a stranger going with us. ”

The beggar immediately said, "I am not a stranger, my name is Stanley, and you will soon know me." I am willing to do anything for you, I can help you carry your luggage, I can help you clean your room in the future, I can help you buy things, I am willing to be your servant. ”,

Hurington said: "We don't need you to do this, we can ...... it ourselves"

Bing Zhiye suddenly said, "Do you know us?"

"No, I don't know. ”

"Then you want to come with us?"

The beggar said without hesitation: "I want to leave here, I want to have a more haode life." ”

Bing Zhixiao looked at this person suspiciously, but stopped talking.

Alice said: "You don't want to look for others, you want to find us? ”

The beggar hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Absolutely don't dare, I saw you fighting yesterday, you are so powerful, I don't dare to do such a thing." I've talked to other people and they all hate me being too dirty and smelly and won't let me go along, so I hope you guys can help me. ”

"If you were a beauty, I would be willing to help you, but it's a pity that you're a man, and you're still a bad old man over half a hundred years old." ”

The beggar suddenly knelt on the ground and said, "I am sincere, as long as you can treat me well, give me food, give me a place to live, and don't let me go back to the street to be a beggar, I will be satisfied." ”

Alice looked at the beggar and said sincerely, and said to the master, "He is so pitiful, can we take him away?"

Bing Zhixiao didn't speak.

Hurrington said, "Alice, you have to be a little more vigilant. Suddenly an unknown person approaches you, you should be wary of him, maybe he has some bad idea. ”

"No, you just kill me, and I don't dare to hit your bad idea. I just want to leave the life of a beggar, I really ...... I really don't want to beg anymore......" the beggar cried.

Alice was sore from crying by him, and said, "He's just a beggar, my master is so powerful, how dare he beat our bad idea?"

"Maybe he's a thief who stole our money and slipped." Beggars are basically thieves, and we have a lot of valuables on our airships. ”

The beggar thought for a moment, as if he had made up his mind, and said, "Let's sign a contract, not a contract on paper, but a contract of magic—the agreement of Sgergar, with which you don't have to fear that I will betray you." ”

This is a kind of spiritual imprint contract, and the recipient cannot mentally betray the giver, otherwise he will be severely mentally tortured. However, this magic cannot be forcibly signed unilaterally, and there is no situation where both parties will be subject to each other, it is a relatively equal magic contract, and it is also one of the few contract magic that has not been forbidden to be learned by the Holy Garden. This kind of magic contract is mostly used in commercial trade, and the two parties to the trade will not make promises to each other or unilaterally about a certain thing or business. The brand contract signed on this condition will be automatically dissolved after both parties are mentally deemed to have been achieved, and this magic can also be dissolved by a psychic mage.

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