Chapter 1: The Ette Family

The large convoy dragged a long trail along the country road, stretching towards the north.

After passing through the mountains of Bilas, we entered the plain of Meha.

This is the largest plain area of the Reims Empire, with waterways and ditches, developed and good irrigation facilities, which ensure the stable development of agriculture in the Empire.

Spring is the season for planting, and along the way, farmers can often be seen ploughing the fields. The crops abundant in the empire, in essence and even form, are not much different from the world that Xiu Yi once experienced in his mind, and even the farming methods have many overlaps, but they are slightly different in some details.

For example, the animals used here are larger, more powerful hexagonals, with large bodies, docile tempers, and even a large water bladder under the big head with six horns, which can be used to do the work of sprinkling water during farming.

In terms of work efficiency, the feudal era in the wizarding world, although it did not have scientific and technological products, created a feudal civilization that was not inferior to the technological era through its own unique magical culture.

In some ways, even more.

Huey loved to sit in the carriage and look at creatures he had never seen before and experience ways of life that he had never experienced before.

Only at this time will he feel that life is beautiful, interesting, and memorable.

Compared with the hellish experience he had, every grass and tree in front of him made him feel different.

"Is the view out there so pretty?" Lilith grumbled.

Sitting in the red velvet carriage, she could vaguely smell a faint feminine fragrance, and compared to the once wild half-elf bandits, Huey found that Lilith was becoming more and more feminine.

She began to pay attention to dressing up and fashion.

As people say: there are some things that don't need to be taught, and the yearning for a better life makes them willing to learn and accept them.

"An ordinary life is only worth envying when you can't have it. Huey replied in a slightly melancholy voice.

Lilith looked at him with some surprise: "Sometimes I wonder what kind of person you are, how can you have such thoughts. Most of the time, you don't look like a teenager and more like an older adult. Can a bumpy experience really make a person change that much?"

A subtle smile twisted into the corners of Xiu's mouth: "No, you have to add some talent." ”

Outside the carriage, a fast horse came running, it was Leleesa, the bandit leader of the third-class samurai.

"It's getting dark, and there's a little abandoned village in front of us, so why don't you stay there tonight. ”

Xiu Yi nodded, "Go and inform Lady Christine." ”

"Okay. ”

The convoy to Winrington was formed by the union of the Dardanelles and Christine's Weston family. Christine at this moment was in another carriage.

With Christine's permission, the carriage headed for the hamlet, arriving an hour later.

The village has been abandoned for an unknown amount of time, it is uninhabited, barren and overgrown with weeds. To the west there is a grove with a few small white flowers bubbling up in the sparse bushes.

When they came to the village, they found out that there was already a convoy staying here.

The convoy was small in number, and it looked like it was coming from another place, but it was aiming in the same direction as Xiuyi.

Releyesa came over again: "Is there another convoy here, do you need me to investigate?"

"Let Hodding negotiate, he's better at that. "Hopefully it won't be a nuisance, Huey thought.

Not long after, Hotin came back from another convoy with graceful steps, and he came to Huey's carriage, saluted and did the aristocratic rules, and then whispered: "The convoy from the border, claiming to be the Ette family, said that it was because of the war and decided to move to the country. ”

"Where are they going?" asked Huey.

"Winrington. ”

"Same way. Xiu Yi muttered, "Who's in charge?"

"A man about the same size as me, named Ducky. Interestingly......" Hotin glanced back at the convoy and then whispered in a lowered tone again, "I smell a kind of likeness from him." ”

The taste of the same kind?

Xiu Yi was slightly stunned.

He understood exactly what Hodin's meant.

The best at spotting scammers is not the detectives, but the crooks themselves.

Even if there is no reason, just a few ordinary words of conversation, they can smell the secret behind that professionally trained smile from each other.

And now, Hording has found this feeling in the other party's head figure.

What does this mean?

Huey's brain was spinning rapidly, and he whispered, "Are there any decent bandit groups in the Mehar Plains?"

"I haven't heard of it, this is the granary of the empire, it is the most important area of the empire, there are only scattered bandits, but the bandits of the climate can hardly be seen. Moreover, the terrain of the plains is not suitable for bandits to hide. ”

"Then it's from outside...... No matter what kind of organization it is, it is impossible for a liar to be the head of the figure, such a person can be a good assistant, but he can never control the overall situation. Huey said with certainty: "The Daqi you have seen must not be the real head." ”

"That's what I thought, too. There were six wagons in the convoy, one of which was never made out of the car. ”

"It's always going to come out, but it's not going to have to be eaten. Xiu Yi said coldly: "Tell the brothers to be careful, don't make trouble here, but don't take the initiative to cause trouble." ”

"I will. Haddin nodded and left.

The mysterious convoy in the distance was about seventy or eighty people.

Except for some middle and high-level figures who ride in horse-drawn carriages, most of them follow on horseback.

These people don't seem to have any fighting ability, they look ordinary, just ordinary people, but for some reason, Xiu Yi has a feeling of unease in his heart.

He was wondering, but saw Buckler approaching.

"Those people are kind of weird. Buckler said in a deep voice.

"You feel it too?" asked Huey.

"Yes. ”

"But I'm very sure that they don't have any fighting spirit in them, you know that the low-level may not be able to see the depth when looking at the high-level, but it is not so difficult for the high-level to look at the low-level. ”

"That's why weirdness exists. I could feel the smell of killing on them, a strong smell of blood. Buckler said with a serious face, "Even though they have tried to suppress this aura, I still feel it." ”

"Like Rayleesa, they?"

"No!" Buckler immediately shook his head, "It's stronger than that, it's not a bandit, it's more like a soldier." ”

Xiuy's brow furrowed: "A group of soldiers?"

"Perhaps, and the most elite kind. ”

"An elite soldier who doesn't know how to fight?"

"That's why it's strange. Buckler glanced coldly into the distance before turning back and saying, "I feel the smell of death, and I feel a shudder in my heart." Maybe they hide well, but prey have a natural wariness of hunters. They are like a bunch of Grim Reapers, terrible reapers of life, and even though they seem powerless now, my sense tells me that everyone there has at least a hundred lives on their hands. ”

Buckler's expression was serious and his attitude was serious.

It was the first time Huey had seen Buckler's expression like this, and he was a little surprised.

He looked down and thought for a moment, "Whoever they are, there is no evidence that they are coming for us at the moment. An ordinary chance encounter, there is no need to be too nervous. Keep our people at arm's length from them, make pointless contact with them, and let Hotin do it if there's anything to negotiate. Let's set off early tomorrow morning, hurry up on the way. ”

"Good. ”

For Huey, all potential troubles should be avoided as much as possible.

He doesn't like meaningless extraneous branches.

For this reason, he even gave up using the scout bee to scout the other party, the world is so big, there are countless strange people, who knows who can see through his scout bee? If he brings trouble to himself because of a meaningless probing act, it is unnecessary.

Both convoys are preparing for a busy camping trip. Each other is bounded by a bluestone, and they have a tacit understanding not to invade each other.

Occasionally, they will give each other a polite smile.

The servants of the family soon made all the preparations for the camp, lit the firewood, and set up the tent. After all this was done, Huey and Lilith got out of the car, and he followed behind Buckler, and everything was directed by Buckler and Christine as much as possible.

The convoy on the opposite side was obviously ready to sleep in the open, and Huey noticed that four people had walked down from the carriage that Hotin was referring to.

The first one is the middle-aged man named Daqi who has communicated with Hodin, he is well-dressed, wearing gold-rimmed glasses on his face like Hodin, and has a cute mustache.

Behind him, followed by a young girl, an old man on crutches, and a middle-aged samurai with a sword.

This is the only samurai in the Eger family who openly appears as a samurai.

Xiu Yi was curious for a while, and couldn't help but look at the samurai a few more times, and the samurai seemed to notice something, and looked in the direction of Xiu Yi, at that moment, Xiu Yi's eyes seemed to be pierced by a sharp needle, and he quickly turned his head away, and a turbulent wave had arisen in his heart.

That samurai is definitely a real powerhouse!

It's just a pity that with Xiuyi's strength, he can't see the depth of the other party yet.

As for Buckler, it seems that Buckler didn't notice anything at all, which means that the other party is definitely much stronger than Buckler.

But the problem is that even if Xiu Yi faced Kevin Beers before, he didn't have the sense of shock that he had just now.

Could it be that the samurai turned out to be ......

Xiu Yi exhaled a long breath, forcibly suppressing the shock in his heart.

"Interesting......" The samurai in the distance gave Xiui a deep look, then muttered softly.

"Is something wrong?, Lord Bruin?" asked the man named Ducky.

"It's nothing, it's just that I found a young man with very good psychic sense, and from his body, I also noticed a hint of vindictiveness. ”

The girl immediately asked, "How is the strength?"

"The strength is ordinary, it's the boy standing next to the half-elf girl. Bruin replied.

Even though Lilith covered her ears with her long hair, the warrior was able to see Lilith's bottom line at a glance.

The girl looked at Xiu Yi with suspicious eyes, as if she had noticed something, and Xiu Yi also looked at the girl.

The eyes of the two of them focused at this moment, and Xiu Yi's face showed a polite smile, with a hint of shyness unique to teenagers, and then he turned his head away with an embarrassed expression.

The girl was also blushing, as if she had been caught peeping, and she lowered her head in embarrassment, but spit out a low cold voice from her mouth: "That boy has a problem, you should pay more attention." ”

They had now entered the rest camp and were leaning against the campfire to ward off the chill of the night, the sound of crackling sparks and broken wood confusing the sound, without fear that anyone would be able to hear them.

The warrior frowned slightly: "It's just that the spiritual sense is better, what can it say?"

The bonfire roasted the girl's face slightly red, looking more like a delicate look, and the milk-like delicate skin looked even more delicate and moving under the firelight, but the cold tone was like a frosty moon and ice wind: "I said something wrong, not what he has cultivated, but the carriage he is in." ”

His carriage? No one understood what that meant.

The maiden continued: "That convoy had twelve carriages, two family coats of arms, indicating that they were from two families, so there were two chief carriages, but what we saw were three luxury carriages. The first sat a woman, indicating that she was the leader of one of the families, and the second sat the strong man, who was the patriarch of the Dardanelles. The man who had just spoken to Ducky had passed by the carriage. The third carriage was supposed to be a relatively important family child, so it was the young man and woman. ”

"What does that mean?" asked Ducky.

"If you ever pay attention, you will find that all the actions of this convoy, the issuance of orders, did not actually come from the first and second carriages, but from the third, which was the carriage in which the teenager was riding. ”

The girl's words surprised everyone.

But the girl was very sure: "That's right, that's it." There was a family of samurai who had been passing messages back and forth between several carriages. Barnett, who had dealt with Ducky just now, went directly to the third carriage to report the situation after he returned. Just before they got out of the carriage just now, the patriarch of the Dardanelles family would actually stand by the third carriage and talk to the people inside. Don't you think that's interesting?"

"Hell, is that young man the real leader of those two families?" Ducky whispered.

Everyone is convinced of the wisdom of the girl in front of them, and only she can grasp such details and quickly analyze the truth behind the scenes.

I believe that Xiu Yi could not have imagined that it was because Releyesa, Hordin, and Buckler had come to his carriage one after another, so that the other party would quickly detect the situation.

On the contrary, it was a girl with a delicate face, and she continued to say coldly: "There are two people in the carriage, so I can't be sure who is the real person, but it seems that the young man is indeed very suspicious." ”

"It's funny, who could that boy be?"

"Whoever he is, he can't be the target we are looking for this time, and there is no need to make a difference. Bruin said coldly.

The old man, who rarely spoke, suddenly said, "In that young man's body, I feel some magical power. ”

This sentence surprised everyone.

"Are you sure, Master Bonfield?" the girl asked unusually nervously.

"No, I'm not sure. Unexpectedly, the old man shook his head and replied: "Magic is not fighting spirit, fighting spirit is generated by the power from the inside out, even if the other party does not make a move, you can judge it from his pace, behavior, bearing and many other performances." But magic is different, changes between heaven and earth may produce changes in magical power, a breeze blowing, it may be caused by magic, or it may be the force of nature. Magic is based on nature, and in such a situation, no one can make a clear judgment. I just felt its presence, but I couldn't tell where it came from. ”

The girl groaned slightly, and finally made a decision: "Anyway, it is necessary for us to test this Dardanelle family, as well as the young man who is not the patriarch but has the status of the patriarch. ”

I don't know why, there is always a feeling of uneasiness in the bottom of Xiu's heart.

He couldn't tell where he came from, but it was like a prey that spontaneously felt danger when it was targeted by a hunter.

To his astonishment, this feeling of danger did not come from the unfathomable samurai.

Huey is never afraid of a formidable opponent he can see.

But for the opponent with a secret mind, Xiu Yi can't help but be wary.

Just now, the moment he met the girl's eyes, Xiuyi's heart suddenly jumped.

What seems to be the problem?

Xiu Yi stared at the four people sitting around the campfire.

"Not true. Huey said suddenly.

"Is there something wrong?" Christine asked him with a smile, noticing that Huey had been observing the girl in the distance, "Or is it that our boy has taken a fancy to the girl over there?" ”

"Ladies will never hide weapons under their dresses. Xiu Yi said coldly.

This sentence surprised everyone.

Lilith looked at Huey, "You mean ......"

"That's right. Huey's excuse: "The woman had at least three weapons on her, a long one, a short one, and a throwable weapon." If you look closely, you can see that she walks in a way that resembles Lilith. Lilith, you may not have noticed it yourself, but your habit of carrying weapons on your body has caused you to walk in a somewhat strange way. When you stick a dagger in front of your lower abdomen, your bending motion will be greatly affected, and you will have to bend your knees and squat. In addition, weapons such as the Rapier can usually only be strapped to the leg. When ladies wear long skirts, they will habitually lift their skirts a little in order to avoid soiling the hem of the skirt by the dirt on the ground. But you, who have a weapon strapped to your leg, never do that, because that would expose you. There is also a front chest ......"

Huey was about to finish when Lilith coughed sharply.

Xiu Yi immediately realized that the content of this part was not suitable to talk about, so he could only keep his mouth shut. But everyone already understood what Huey was referring to.

"The girl is a good melee hand, even though she makes herself look like a normal girl, and she is ...... in performance She is the heart and soul of this team. She's the real leader. Huey said with great certainty.

Coincidentally, the souls of the two teams discovered each other's secrets at the same time.

The eyes of the two people focused again, but this time, neither of them flinched again, looking at each other curiously, speculating.

At the same time, doubts rose in my heart.

On the surface, of course, they are distinct from each other, do not invade each other, and each rests and sleeps after a good dinner.

The night is the world of little creatures, filled with the whining of insects and frogs, and occasionally two beautiful birdsong streaks across the sky.

The sound of the rubbing of leaves and the sound of flowing water also add infinite vitality to the silent night.

Xiui couldn't sleep at this time, he was holding his head and thinking back to the previous scene.

The girl's eyes, as if he had seen them somewhere, gave him a deep sense of vigilance.

Completely instinctive, several scout bees buzzed out of his hands, and the crystal ball screen reflected the darkness all around.

The wind and grass were blowing, and there was a clear rustling sound.

Huey frowned, flicked the crystal balls, and directed them to continue flying.

In the depths of the dark shadows, there was a faint movement that caught his attention.

After a moment of closer observation, his pupils began to dilate.

Then he quickly pulled out of the tent and went into Buckler: "Tell me to go down and get ready for battle immediately." ”