"Haha, of course I'm not dead. ”

Hikser put up his cane, struggled towards them, and smiled: "You forget, we told fortunes in the tent - I will live a long life." ”

Grivo made a disgusted "believe in you to have a ghost" expression.

"As for you, Drew," Sexhur kept his usual smile, glancing at Tails, who was already frozen, and then looked back at Grivo in his wheelchair, his gaze rolling over his missing legs:

"You can see that you have lost a lot of weight...... Little hedgehog, I miss the years when we ate sand together in the desert......"

This sentence has a good effect: the kidnapped Tails and the driving Kevin are both stunned.

Little hedgehog?

What is a little hedgehog? Who is a little hedgehog?

Grivo twisted in his wheelchair and coughed unnaturally:

"Ahem, it's okay......"

But Heather's seemingly emotional words continued: "I still remember that you were forced to ...... with those desolate women in the tent."

At that moment, Grivo's face turned the color of pork liver.

Only the darkness of the night can cover up a thing or two.

Before the other two's admiring and suspicious gazes turned to him, Grivo angrily interrupted Hisser's laughter: "Shut up, shut up, shut up!

Hisher shrugged.

Grivo stared at him with an ugly face, gasping for breath as he pondered something.

"Kevin, thank you for sending him here. Now, you're going to go a little farther first......"

Grivo paused, as if he didn't feel safe, and he narrowed his eyes again, and whispered a warning: "Well, you don't want to hear anything about me killing you if you know about it, do you?"

Kevin shuddered slightly.

He looked at the young man who was dying in the arms of the boss, and squeezed out a smile that was both frightened and weird: "Okay...... Top dog. ”

Only after Kevin walked away did Grivo let out a breath.

The veteran looked at Hisher unhappily:

"Very good, old crow, since you are in Longxiao City, very good, I have a treat...... As long as it's on my territory, you can set the ...... location."

"But ......"

Grivo's expression changed, and he said sharply, "You are not allowed to fucking mention the past...... Not a word!"

He looked very serious.

Tails listened suspiciously to the conversation between the two, but he had already guessed something and preferred to remain silent.

Leave everything to Hisser.

"Really, what a pity," Sexer sighed. seemed to be very sorry, and his tongue was repeated: "Those precious years can't be easily forgotten, in the cage of the desert god beast, we were reduced to slavery and lost our dignity, and you swallowed blood, fought to the death with a personal or inhuman opponent, grabbed the last bite of stinky food, gritted your teeth and lived......"

"Until ......"

Grivo's face changed again.

"Oh hey, I'm ......" he closed his eyes in pain and chagrin, and said viciously:

"Shut up, shut up, shut up!"

"Don't mention it again!"

Heather smiled and nodded, braced her hands on her crutches, and coughed lightly.

After making sure to see that Sexer stopped talking, Grivo slowly exhaled, as if avoiding great danger, and shook the Tails in his hand: "Okay, after saying what you have to say, I am still in a hurry to get rich......"

At this point, Grivo's words came to an abrupt end.

The veteran frowned, his gaze darting around Tails, who was no longer struggling and trying to recover.

Then he looked at the new Hipser.

And Hipser, still with that mysterious smile, looked at him quietly: "Then, Grivo, I would like to ask you for a favor. ”

Grivo's expression froze on his face.

The next second, Tails only felt a relief in his body: he was let go by Grivo.

", old crow," the veteran looked at the hostage in disbelief and then at his old friend, "you didn't ask me to meet in this strange place on a whim." ”

Tails fell to the ground, only to feel that his limbs, which had been deprived of oxygen for a long time, were sore.

"This fart kid didn't pop out of nowhere because of a coincidence. ”

Faced with Grivo's uncertain inquiry, Sexer shook his head.

"Of course not. ”

He leaned on his crutches and stepped forward slowly.

"That's right, I want to ask you to help him," Sixer's expression slowly became serious: "Please send Prince Tails out of Longxiao City secretly and safely under the many checkpoints, and send him to the designated place." ”

"Grivo. ”

The three fell silent.

Tails braced his arms from the ground and stood up with a smile he hadn't seen tonight.

Sure enough.

The connector that Putile was talking about......

It's Hipser.

He, no, their common, respected teacher.

"It's you, teacher. Following Putirai's advice, he smiled kindly and appreciatively at Hisser.

"I'm sorry I didn't say goodbye to you before. ”

Heather smiled and winked playfully, her eyes flashing back and forth behind her monocle: "It's too late." ”

Tails shook his head with a smirk.

In this way, what Putile said, the way to ask someone to help the Star Prince secretly get out of the city is ......

"No way!"

Grivo's gruff voice rang out again.

Tails looked at the veteran in front of him with confusion.

I saw that Grivo's expression was annoyed and his breath was short, and he stared at the old crow in front of him: "For the sake of past friendships, it's no problem for me to invite you to dinner or something...... But this thing?"

Grivoy angrily pointed at Tails: "It's not 'a favor', it's a big problem!"

Tails raised an eyebrow.

"I'll send this prince out of the city, and once he is discovered......"

"But they can't find out, can they?" interrupted Heather with a laugh, "Just like before, we're pretty good at running - whether it's a cage or a bone-man tent. ”

Tails' heart moved: the barren bones.

And also...... Desert gods?

As if choked, Grivo opened his mouth and twitched for a few seconds, and finally waved his hand: "Don't mention the past...... Also, it's not a matter of discovery or not. ”

The veteran turned to Hisser, his face full of displeasure: "This matter is too risky, and it involves the lives and deaths of so many of my subordinates - do you know how the Meteorite would repair the shield area if he knew......?"

With every word Grivo spoke, the aged Sixer nodded slightly.

It's like listening to him pour out his troubles.

Grivo snorted dissatisfiedly, "You don't know, after that Nunn was hung up, what happened to Longxiao City...... Do you know what awaits my brothers once I fall?"

"This, I just want to be as far away as I want......"

Tails coughed, "You just wanted to trade me for a bounty......"

Grivo's face froze, and he glared at Tails viciously, "Shut up!

He turned his head again and said to Hipser, "Help him? ”

"No amount of friendship will do!" Grivo's final tone was categorical and unquestionable.

Heather sighed, but said nothing.

The scene cooled down again.

A few seconds later.

"That's it, old crow," Grivoy snorted coldly, and bowed to Tails, "for your sake, I won't take him for your sake - take him to someone else, and get as far away from me as possible." ”

"I'll act like I never saw you. ”

Tails' face darkened.

What the?

Hipser's eyebrows slowly gathered, and his thin hands on crutches trembled slightly.

But then, he opened his eyebrows.

"All right, Grivo," Heather smiled again, "and before I leave, I'll just ask you to do one more thing. ”

Grivo's eyes widened, his head tilted, and he had a "what else do you want" expression: "Hey, I said you ......"

"Alas," Hipser's expression changed instantly, and he shook his head in pity, "You know, I sometimes dream back in the middle of the night when I remember that we used to be in the flying squirrel tribe......"

Grivo's expression changed again.

"Good......" Grivo interrupted him as if begging for mercy.

"If there's a fart, let it go," the old soldier glared at the old crow painfully again, then looked away, and waved his hand in self-deception: "Lao Tzu should have passed by the dung pit and accidentally inhaled." ”

Summerer smiled with satisfaction again.

He nodded and spoke softly, "Look at his eyes." ”

As soon as these words came out, both Tails and Grivo were stunned.

"What?" this is the blinking, scratching head of the wheelchair veteran.

"Whose eyes?" was the same puzzled Tails.

Heather took a deep breath.

He took a step forward, the smile on his face slowly disappearing, replaced by a rare coldness and sternness.

"Drew Grivo, for the sake of you, who I healed and saved you countless times in the cage of the Desert Beast," Heather said word by word, "Look carefully into this child's eyes. ”

Hearing this, the first person to be stunned was Tails.

It's mine......

Eye?

Wait a minute.

And so on and so forth...... In this world, more than one person has told him about it, and his eyes are ......

"Well," Perhaps it was Hisser's rare look that worked, but after a few seconds of puzzled staring, Grivoy relented, pushed his wheelchair, and approached Tails with a reluctant expression.

"Smack!"

Tails, who was still pondering in doubt, felt a pain in his arm, and was pulled by Grivoy to him.

He looked up and saw Grivo's menacing eyes.

It reminded him of the one-eyed dragon duke of the Nation of Stars, Gausd Nantop, who was far more aggressive than the veteran in front of him in the Hall of the Stars.

Grivo was still upset, but under Sixser's stern gaze, he approached Tails, narrowed his eyes, and studied the prince's eyes in the dim moonlight.

Tails was stared at uncomfortably, coughing lowly, trying not to blink.

The prince took a deep breath, not knowing what the hell Heather was up to, but he still chose to believe the teacher.

Just like Gilbert admonished.

One second.

Two seconds.

Three seconds.

At that moment, Tails saw with some surprise:

Grivo's expression changed.

The unhappiness and disdain on his face were gone.

All that remained was astonishment and amazement.

This made Tails' heart move.

The veteran turned his head sharply: "...... the lamp"

But before he could finish speaking, Sixer, as if he knew what he wanted, picked up a burning torch from the ground and threw it far away to Grivo.

Grivo frowned and glanced at the indifferent Hisser.

He waved his torch to make it burn a little brighter, and approached Tails.

The heat and glare of the flames caused Tails to shrink back, but Grivo held on to him.

"Don't move, kid. ”

By the light of the fire, Grivo once again looked into the corner of Tails' eyes, this time, his expression becoming more serious and incredulous:

"Don't blink. ”

Tails could clearly see that as he looked deeper, Grivo's expression changed subtly.

From surprise to hesitation, from hesitation to wood, from woodenness to excitement, from excitement to fall back to gloom.

The other party's brows trembled, and his eyes were full of complex emotions: tangled and painful, moved and relieved, remorse and regret, sadness and hesitation.

Tails was secretly frightened.

How......

It seems like a long time has passed.

Finally, Grivo slowly removed the torch and hung his head deeply.

"No way. ”

In the darkness that no one was seeing, Grivo propped up his wheelchair and bent over to muffle out.

His voice seemed to be separated by a layer of mist, slightly indistinct.

Ricksser, who was on crutches, sighed slightly: "Got it?"

Tails turned to the old crow with disbelief, but he could only see the emotion and loneliness on his face.

The prince subconsciously spoke: "What's the matter......?

"No!"

A veteran in a wheelchair interrupted him.

"No," said Grivo, still with his head down, but his voice began to tremble, staccato even more than when he had just roared, "No, no, no......"

He holds the torch in his right hand and grips the wheelchair arm tightly in his left hand, his shoulders undulating.

Heather shook his head, "You see it." ”

Grivo jerked his head up!

Tails looked at his face in amazement: the veteran stared, shaking his head in disbelief like a detective who had just discovered the brutal truth.

The prince touched his eyelids, and he looked at Sexer, and then at Grivo.

An inexplicable sense of panic crept into my heart.

They all know something.

It's just me.

Only I don't know.

"No," Grivo said as he shuddered, blinking in one eye, and gritting his teeth as he gasped violently, "it's just a coincidence...... There may not be many of them, but there are certainly any, and even if you just need paint......"

"Tails!"

Tails turned to Heather, "Teacher Heather?"

The old crow, who interrupted the veteran, snorted softly:

"My friend may be very skilled, but he doesn't care much about the high-level politics of his neighbors......"

His words were flat and uneventful.

Contrary to Hixer's daily teaching, the eyebrows fly and dance, which is vivid and interesting.

"So can you please tell him," Heather did not look at any of them, but stared firmly at his own crutches:

"What's your full name. ”

Full name?

Tails was shocked!

He got it.

He confirmed what they were all struggling with.

Is that......

The night returned to silence.

Only the torch in Grivo's hand was still crackling.

"Tails," Tails replied subconsciously, his gaze fixed on the obviously abnormal Grivo, "Mine, my full name is ......"

"Tyles Thranzylana Kessel Bright Star. ”

Smack!

The torch fell to the ground and rolled into a pool of blood next to it, struggling weakly.

Grivo sat in his wheelchair in a daze, his only remaining eyes staring at Tails, who was also distracted.

His right hand remained in mid-air, holding it.

But he remained motionless.

It's like living in a dream.

Grivo spoke softly.

"It can't be. ”

The voice that was once rude and irritable and extremely unpleasant seemed to come from the distant mountains at this moment, gentle and calm.

As if he was afraid of disturbing someone's dreams.

Hisher slowly evoked a tired but sincere smile.

"That's right, Drew. ”

The old crow slowly raised his head, and the meaning in his eyes was complex and profound:

"This is Miss Thran's son. ”

"It's in her blood. ”

Multiply.

With the last muffled sound, under the soaking of blood, the torch that was barely swaying on the ground was finally completely extinguished.

This chapter commemorates the Harry Potter series.

By the way, I would like to commemorate Georges Bataille's "The Story of the Eye".

(End of chapter)