Under the clear sky, Tails and Kertz stood outside a wild hut, watching two well-saddled pack horses grazing leisurely.

"Are you sure you don't need me to send you again?" asked Ketz, who was holding on to a twig, scratching his head.

"Although the search of Longxiao City is only limited to the city, the major checkpoints must have been reported......

Tails took a light breath and looked briskly at the cabin in front of him.

It was an out-of-town hideout for Grivevo and his brothers.

The mud legs in these shield areas, they had arranged the subsequent escape through their own men who were transporting necessities and dung (the thought of this, Tails's face was black again): two pack horses, just like that, grazing while watching them meekly.

Perhaps the adventures in the Black Way were too colorful, and for a moment after escaping, Tails was about to forget the primary purpose of their trip.

But when he remembered it, he had mixed feelings in his heart.

Tails breathed in the grassy air of the wild, looked at the tenacious weeds under his feet, the unique coniferous forests of the Northland and the few evergreen trees in the distance, and sighed:

It's been six years.

He walked out of Longxiao City.

From time to time, the prince looked back at the distant peak, imagining the other side of the peak, the bustling and messy streets, and the rugged and majestic palace.

He shook his head, ending the past with a smile.

"And do you know where you're going?" said Ketz frowned.

"Yes, I know the directions, and I know where to get stuck and can't go," Tails thought back to the map, remembering the route Raphael had pointed out to him, and found that it was still clear, "Don't worry, someone will pick me up ahead." ”

And......

Tails stomped on the ground, feeling the strange pulsation coming from beneath his feet.

He whispered, "I know how to go. ”

Kez crossed his hips with one hand and stared at him steadily. ‘

It seems to know some of his secrets.

Makes Tails feel worried.

"All right," said the seamstress, after a while, spread her hands, "and if you are in place, let go of the reins......

"This is the old horse of the Fallon family, and it knows how to go home on its own. ”

Speaking of which......

Tails looked at the horse with a sad expression.

He remained fully on guard, tentatively tugging on the reins, ready to dodge the opponent's flying hooves.

But he froze.

"What's wrong?" said Kezic.

"It's nothing," Tails tugged at the reins in amazement, watching the old horse obediently pulled to him, tentatively reaching out to ** its head: "I'm just...... I didn't even talk to animals before...... Horses are one of them, but today ......"

The old horse of the Fallon family looked at him meekly, and even stuck out his tongue and licked Tails's palm with an affectionate attitude.

Tails suddenly felt a sense of accomplishment.

What's going on today?

Single dog welfare?Even the animals are obedient?

He blinked, thinking that the world was wonderful, and then remembered the riding instructions of Nicolai in his memory, and stepped into the saddle neatly.

Kezi looked at the obedient old horse, and looked at him with disdain: "Cut, looking at your familiar appearance, you must have been on a lot of good horses, right?"

Tails raised an eyebrow helplessly, and was about to leave.

"Wait. ”

Ketz suddenly spoke, revealing a strange smile:

"I'll give you a gift at the end, come here. ”

"Tell you a little secret from Grivo. ”

Tails was stunned.

But with the friendship of life and death in the cave, he still obediently rode his horse forward, leaned over and leaned over his ear.

Grivo's little secret?

Could it be......

As soon as he leaned down on horseback, Kez grabbed him by the neck and smiled evilly.

Tails was shocked.

In the next second, Ketz stepped forward lightly on tiptoe and approached Tails' cheek affectionately......

"Poof. ”

A kiss on Tails' lips.

Tails was stunned for a moment.

In the next second, his jaw dropped in shock!

"You, you, you!"

"What are you doing!"

A frightened Tails reacted exaggeratedly and pulled the reins back, wiping his lips!

It's still wet!

She actually licked it!

Lick it!

He felt the touch on his lips and pointed at the smirking Kezi in disbelief: "You, you—"

"Hahahaha!" Ketts laughed heartily as he leaned over a branch, bending his waist down, "Little brat, that's a funny reaction...... ，”

Tails looked at him in a daze, and found that the other party only felt that this action was ...... Practical joke?

She put this ...... As a prank?

"Is there a mistake?"

Tails forced himself to put on a disgusted stinky face, wiping his lips as he said angrily, "Hey, hey, hey—this joke isn't funny at all, okay!"

"Who do you think you are......"

"Oh, not interesting?"

Kezi rolled his eyes, stretched out his tongue and licked his lips lightly, and winked at him slyly on the horse: "What, do you want to go further?"

Frightened, Tails lifted the reins again and took a step back.

Tails was in a messy mood, and he just felt that the whole world was full of malice - he really didn't know what expression to use to face this rude and violent her.

"Cut," looking at his reaction, Ketz said disdainfully:

"It can't be the first kiss, right?

Tails' expression darkened, and the pride in his heart made him feel that he couldn't show weakness.

"Hmph, self-righteous woman!" Tails put on a disdainful expression, "My first kiss is so much prettier than yours!"

However, he is a pervert who kills people without blinking.

He was greeted by a burst of laughter from Ketz.

Tyers, who was bored with himself, shook his head wryly, and was about to shake the reins and leave.

"Thank you, kid. ”

Ketz's voice came slowly.

Somewhat muffled.

Tails looked back in confusion.

"Yes. ”

"When you grow up, you have to be a good man," at this moment, Ketz's face was a little gloomy: "The kind that can take responsibility and make people put it on their shoulders." ”

"Even in the deepest darkness. ”

She was distracted, and her expression was lonely.

I don't know what I'm thinking.

Talston paused, slightly sour.

"Thank you, Kez. He said silently.

But Ketz chuckled and shook his head.

"Kezi is a nickname, not my official name. ”

Tails looked puzzled.

"The cripple has a big tongue, and he thinks my name is too long, so he ...... After so many years, I've gotten used to 'Kez'. Ketz's right hand was inserted into his forehead, and he shook his head back, smoothing the messy hair back to the back of his head.

Coupled with shaking her head and stretching her waist, Ketz's set of movements is smooth and natural, chic and neat, and with her beautiful figure, she actually has a strange sense of beauty.

At that moment, Tails suddenly had a thought that made him slightly ashamed:

The rough-voiced woman in front of her...... Seems to be charming, too?

Tails let out a low cough and quickly shook his head, banishing the boring thought and the strange feeling of a new resurgence on his lips out of his brain.

"Christina," Quetz smiled:

"Christina Ramon, that's my name. ”

Tails shrugged: "Okay, Miss Ramon......"

But he was stunned.

"Ramon ......" Tails chewed on the surname, his face changing slightly.

The way he looked at Kez was different.

"I heard from Grivo that your father was a military doctor?"

Ketz frowned: "Yes, a madman, it wasn't normal before he disappeared. ”

"And the biggest thing I learned from being around him was learning how to stitch – dead or alive. ”

She shook her head disdainfully, clearly disapproving of her father.

"Yes," Tails was in a strange mood at the moment, and his taste was indescribable: "How did you come to Longxiao City and come to the shield area?"

Ketz paused slightly.

"Twenty years ago, my father shoved me into the hands of my old colleague and disappeared," Ketz shrugged, "I ran into a couple of bastards and a bunch of shit in the barracks...... Then I met the cripple and he took me out. ”

A few seconds later.

Tails said with difficulty, "What's your missing father's name?" ”

Kez fell silent.

"Cobb, or Cobo?" she shook her hand seemingly indifferently, "It's okay, I've always treated him as dead anyway......"

Ketz snorted, "I never counted on him." ”

But then she noticed that Tails shuddered slightly.

The prince looked hesitant and his expression unusually heavy.

He lowered his eyes.

As if he didn't dare to face her.

"What's the matter?" said Ketz, who then deliberately smiled shyly, picked the corners of her mouth, and teased again, "Oh, are you reluctant to marry me back to the castle?"

But Tails had no idea of laughing.

He didn't pay any attention to Ketz's words, just nodded apprehensively.

"Kez, I'll keep an eye on it," the prince's voice was a little muffled, and he turned his horse's head, "if I can find him." ”

"Find your father. ”

He said gloomily, "Also, thank you." ”

"Miss Ramon. ”

Ketz looked at him strangely, but didn't say anything after all, just snorted lightly and waved at him with a slight expression.

"Take care. ”

"The little kid prince. ”

Tails never dared to look back.

In the next second, he raised the reins of his horse and walked away in the direction of his memory.

Take Longxiao City with the memories there......

Stay behind.

————

The sun sets.

Tails rode cautiously through the wilderness outside Longxiao City, neither fast nor slow.

He still remembered the rendezvous point that Raphael had marked on the map - Longxiao City was still locked down, and the guard and search were still inside the city, and he was very close to the rendezvous point, as long as he got out of the city, he could reach it in less than a day.

Still, he proceeded cautiously, trying to find places like hills and bushes, preferring to take long detours to be safe, away from checkpoints and villages, and any place that was populated, and observing his surroundings with his "hellish senses" whenever he went to a new place.

Even though he was tired, he tried not to stop and rest as much as possible, and immediately fed his hunger with the dry food and water that Ketz had prepared for him.

Thanks to the horsemanship given to him by Nicolai, he went round and round for most of the day, trying to bypass some of the peasants and woodcutters who were working in the fields, praying that they would not find the suspicious passerby, and finally reached the appointed rendezvous near dusk.

Tails couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw the taiga that Raphael had told him about, compared it with the iconic hills around him, and confirmed that it was in front of him.

According to the plan, the first wave of secret men will be waiting for him here, escorting him across the boundaries of the Troubled Stone Tomb, the Dusk Snow River, and Spear City, to the barren stone land, the border between Qiyuan City and Longxiao City.

Tails used his hellish senses to try to feel the movement in the bushes, and was relieved to see that there were only ordinary bird calls and small animals running back and forth.

He rode into the bushes, dismounted in front of a tall cedar tree, and patted the old horse on the neck gratefully.

The old horse snorted in response, and then ate the weeds under the tree with pleasure—not a quick walk, but much better tempered than Miss Jenny in the stables of Valhalla.

Tails turned, took another heavy breath of wild air, and looked contentedly at the small taiga, which was so inaccessible that the secret science had chosen as the meeting place.

He sat down against the tree, pulled out his water bag, and poured a mouthful of water into his parched lips to relieve the pain in his limbs and the friction damage on his inner thighs from climbing the black path.

The first step has been completed.

Tails said silently, drawing a small circle in the soil with his fingers: the saddest level has passed, and Longxiao City is already behind him.

He drew a great circle to the west.

He was in the western part of the Troubled Stone Tomb, one of the largest fiefdoms of Longxiao City, under the rule of the aged Earl of Nazaire, from the forest, and further southwest, past a tributary of the Twilight River.

Tails continued to draw a line downward.

After crossing the river, he would be able to reach the Spear City under Longxiao City, and then head to the Barren Stone Land, which was the boundary of Qiyuan City, and further south from the Barren Stone Land, the Great Desert was in front of him.

When you enter the desert, it is the army of the Kingdom of Stars.

Tails thought to himself.

At that moment, he suddenly heard a strange bird call.

Well?

Is the agreed manpower coming?

Tails stood up curiously, trying to search the twilight jungle—

"Bang!"

With just one breath, almost the moment he heard a loud noise, Tails felt a pain in his back!

His whole body was out of balance under the tremendous force of the rear.

Plop and fall to the ground!

The pain in his jaw had just arrived, and before Tails' nerves could feedback normal information, he felt a tightness in his back!

Bang!

The pressure hits.

Tails was shocked to find that his hands were firmly choked!

How-

Tails subconsciously wanted to struggle, but only then did he react: his whole body was pressed to the ground, his hands were cut back, he couldn't move, and he didn't even react to the crime of the prison river!

Syllable!

His water bag was just now falling, dripping limply into the soil.

"Wow," said a somewhat familiar male voice, like a gong ringing, and laughed, "Look what I've caught?"

"A big fish jumping around!"

Tails heard this voice, and when he thought of something, his face turned pale!

The prince gritted his teeth, raised his head with all his might, and looked behind him with a muddy face: "It's you!"

Tails exclaimed indignantly:

"Dead Crow!"

With the prince's shouting, a flock of birds was taken away from the bushes.

Under the setting sun, in the golden bushes, I saw the forerunner of the Qiyuan City Mission, Ned Monty, one of the five war generals, kneeling on Tails's back, holding down his struggling hands.

With a malicious smile, the Dead Raven slowly approached Tails' ear:

"Shh......h The Little Prince. ”

"Let's be lighter for each other's convenience...... Okay, okay?"

Tails could only see the other's brown hair.

But he can feel that Monty's method of suppressing him is very professional, whether he rolls over or kicks his legs, he is in the worst position, and he can't exert his strength at all!

Not to mention that Tails had already consumed most of his physical strength because of the Black Path.

The prince's mood sank.

He......

How could it be him?

How did he end up here?

What about the secret people?

Wait a minute!

Doesn't that mean......

Monty's smile was a little terrifying, and with the excitement of catching prey, he said softly, "Are you looking for someone from the secret department of the kingdom?"

At that moment, Tails' pupils shrank!

His heart skipped a beat.

"I'm sorry, they're all busy right now......"

Monty's words made Tails' heart cold.

All "busy"......

Tails looked around in disbelief: the silence of the jungle, the silence of the air, the look of lack of life.

Yes, the people from the secret department should have been waiting for me here for a long time.

But......

There was no movement at all......

What's going on?

"The reluctant 'busy,' you know?" said the Death Crow smirked, chilling for no apparent reason, "so I volunteered to take the job from them generously and 'voluntarily'." ”

I saw him lick his lips, look at Tails who was twisting his head and looking pained, with the pleasure of playing with his prey, he sneered: "I'm here to greet you." ”

"What, aren't you happy?"

The sin of the Prison River flooded into his brain, and Tails forced himself to calm down.

How did he know about this place?

It's not ...... Does the secret department know the meeting place?

Is there a traitor in the secret department?

Is it an intelligence leak?

Or - was it deliberately deliberate, their plan?

Like six years ago?

Thinking of this, Tails suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.

"How did you get out? I remember that the Meteorite had obviously blocked the entire Longxiao City, and most of the powerful people were among them, especially the Qiyuan City Mission, whose interests were closely related to me!"

The other party just sneered: "Aha, my relationship with the thorn is much more complicated than you think!"

Tails took a deep breath, the smell of soil filling his nose.

Damn it!

"Do you want to, you want to tie me up and take me to Qiyuan City?" the prince said, turning his head and saying with difficulty.

Monty's palpitating laughter came again with a sense of sorrow:

"Hey, hey, I don't think it's a good choice. ”

"Aren't you talking to Ian?" said a frenzied and contented smile on his face, like a madman.

"He has been asking me to 'entertain' you if I have the opportunity to meet you......"

Monty's hand increased with force, and Tails let out a cry of pain.

But he didn't have time for that.

In the Hall of Heroes, at the end of the day, Viscount Windy City, Ian Ronnie's hideous face and cruel words appeared in front of Tails' eyes at the same time.

The cold wind of dusk blew, and Tails only felt chills all over his body.

The soil beneath him is also cold to the bone.

Worst.

He quickly recalled everything he had to say about Monty.

Ned Monty.

Dead Raven.

Scout Spearhead who participated in the war against the Freedom League and the White Mountains.

Five generals, former white-knuckle guards, old colleagues and subordinates of Nicolai

Now, he is the lord of Qiyuan City, the first officer of the mission.

He is absurd, open-mouthed, and has a crazy smile.

"Wait!"

Tails stopped thinking and gritted his teeth.

Monty's terrible laughter paused slightly.

"You might as well think about it," Tails tried his best to maintain his tone despite his embarrassed description and his life threatened, "The Star Prince has disappeared in Longxiao City. ”

"But a month later, I appeared strangely in the ...... of Qiyuan City"

"Do you know what that means?"

Monty stopped smiling, but his light eyes stared at Tails motionlessly.

There was a chill in his eyes.

"You should also know that I am the key to the war between Qiyuan City and the Free Alliance," Tails sneered, "and if I propose it to Grand Duke Ronnie, the stars can help them, on the condition that ......"

At this moment, the Death Raven suddenly burst out laughing!

"Hahaha

Tyles, who was interrupted, was slightly stunned.

"Ahhh......h

"Tails Bright Star is not big, but the trouble is not small......"

"So there is: the necessary guidelines for dealing with the little prince. ”

Tails was slightly stunned: "What?"

Deal with my ......

Necessary guidelines?

Monty lowered his expression and chuckled under his breath.

For some reason, Tails was terrified, and he subconsciously felt that something was wrong!

Article 1 ...... the Guidelines

The smile of the dead crow turned into ice, as if the ice had turned into ice water, but it was generally frozen:

"Shut him up. ”

In the next second, Monty's face turned grim, and his right elbow hit the back of the boy's head like thunder!

"Boom!"

There was a heavy muffled thud.

This was the last voice Tails heard before he lost consciousness.

(End of chapter)