"Are we really going to be so serious? In the middle of the night..."
"If you have any questions, go to Teresa and tell her, otherwise just work hard."
"...You think I don't dare to say it? The last time we were asked to come over to guard the valley, I already gave them my own suggestions..."
"Are you sure that's your suggestion? Stop joking. If you really don't want to come here, you should at least suggest going to Fenghua Town instead of supplementing food and magic crystals..."
Amidst the biting cold wind that kept the sound of crunching snow, a few figures who appeared in the valley gradually pushed aside the obstruction of the trees, and then slowly passed through the place with complaints and comments from time to time.
It seemed like an inaccessible place. As the distance got closer, the voices of the two men in black walking at the front became clearer and clearer. Then, when they crossed a certain line, they suddenly stopped speaking at the same time.
: "..."
"...did you hear something?"
"Did you hear that too?"
"It seems to be over there..."
Wow——
As the two people who stopped gradually raised their sights, a few pieces of gravel suddenly fell from somewhere on the cliff beside the valley, and the scene of white fragments mixed with snow and ice falling down.
Then he attracted everyone's attention: "...You two, go up and have a look."
The surrounding air seemed to freeze for a moment as the wind and snow stopped, and then flowed again as the figures of the other two men in black nodded and walked out from behind the team. Duan Qing, who was squatting in the snow bushes in the distance, withdrew himself.
With his eyes, he took back the two small stones pinched between his fingers into the palm of his hand: "This trick finally works... Is Val gone?"
"He's gone." Qian Zhihe who followed him replied very quietly, and at the same time tried his best to cover his long fiery red hair with the pulled up hood: "Those villagers in Greenstone Village should be able to get it soon.
notify……"
"So what if we get the news? There is nowhere to hide in that place." Duan Qing frowned and curled his lips: "If these people really walk past us... it will be inevitable that they will be discovered."
"Then what should we do?" Qianzhihe said anxiously: "They, they are coming soon..."
"What else can be done?"
After lowering his voice and reading these words, Duan Qing, who was squatting in the grass, slowly took two steps forward, and then walked around behind another short tree amidst the inconspicuous sound of the snow shaking:
"If we were discovered now..."
"Aren't all the promises I made before invalidated?"
A reflection suddenly flashed in the dark night mixed with wind and snow, and quickly dissipated as two arms suddenly stretched out from behind the trees. A man in black who had just passed by the tree was also caught in the neck by these arms.
, was dragged behind the bushes without any precautions. The sudden sound of movement also attracted the attention of the other two people in the team, but they just turned their heads and glanced at it, while dragging the man
Duan Qing, who was hiding behind a tree as the man in black, skillfully twisted to the right, twisting the magician behind him with a frightened face: "Okay, the first one..."
"So they are all that blind?" Xiao Hongchen, who was hiding on the other side, opened his mouth in surprise, then rolled up his arms and climbed up: "Ha, it's so easy! Leave the few people here to me.
, I am the most...ouch!"
"shut up."
Avoiding the vigilant gazes of the other men in black who were shooting from a short distance away, the short Mengzhu stretched out his hand to hold the other man's head: "This is not the real world, NPCs have very strong perception abilities!"
"Nu Bang cried and covered..." Xiao Hongchen, who was pressed in the snow, struggled for a long time, and then panted and rolled out of the other party's clutches: "You... you let me go! Can't you be gentle to me?"
A little bit, Captain?"
"Hush——!" He was answered with a long hiss and a warning look from the little girl's eyes: "Stay here honestly! The next battle..."
"There will be a time when you appear!"
call--
The sound of breaking through the sky once again appeared in the scene of the snowy night valley. The Restorationist patrols who had searched from nowhere finally stopped their own steps. The eyes that were paying attention to their heads also appeared one after another nearby.
The strange shapes fell around them. The continuously falling snowflakes did not seem to have any changes due to their inspection, and they still slowly fell in front and back of this narrow valley, until the silence without change spread for a while.
After a while, one of the two men in black standing at the front slowly raised his hand: "Everyone obeys the order..."
"Disperse your formation and stay on alert." His eyes scanned the surrounding area: "Terry, Mel... you two go up there and take a look."
"yes."
The two men in black moved upward in response to the sound, dividing the wind and snow into two straight lines, and slowly disappeared into the cold night sky. The rest of the people also followed their respective movements and dispersed around the valley.
Watching every corner of the snow thicket with vigilance, the gradually spreading warning range then compressed Duan Qing and others hidden in it to further places, making the hiding spots found by spreading out to the left and right become fewer and fewer.
Duan Qing, who was half-hiding behind him, hesitated slightly for a while, and finally took advantage of the opportunity to sneak behind a rock behind him: "Disperse the formation..."
"What should we do, Brother Qingshan?" Qian Zhihe, who also ran to the side, asked in a panic: "If we continue to be scattered like this, we will soon have no place to hide!"
"Don't worry, they won't find us."
With his body pressed tightly against the back of the stone, Duan Qing's raised head gradually showed a strange smile: "Most of the restorers are a group of magicians. Their formations have their own fixed forms. They sneaked into Fenghua Town before.
I have been observing it for a long time..."
"He, won't they come?"
"The person standing on the outermost side will only go as far as where the tree was."
Pointing to the position where he was hiding just now, Duan Qing gestured with his hands: "With the person who just gave the order as the center, they will spread out a square lattice like this, but remove the two eyeliners responsible for sentry, and me.
After killing the guy just now, there should be some gaps in this formation that cannot be ignored... Hmm."
"That's it." Duan Qing, who lowered his head as he looked at the two leaders slowly moving towards this side, let out an inexplicable laugh: "It seems that they also discovered the existence of the gap, and started to
Pay attention to our direction..."
"Should we change places?" Holding her staff tightly with both hands, the red-haired girl hiding behind the rock shrank like a frightened bird: "If a fight breaks out here, what will happen to the village?"
people……"
"We must fight. Didn't I just say that?" Duan Qing shook his head helplessly: "The problem is our tactics... In order not to attract more pursuers, we'd better kill them one by one.
Solve it secretly..."
"Dark, assassination?" Qian Zhihe's voice became more and more trembling: "I, I have never done such a task! And I am also a fire magician... I, should I find someone first?
A place to hide?"
"Don't be so inferior. You are strong enough now."
After looking back at the girl's shrinking expression for a while, Duan Qing smiled and comforted: "Don't worry, you will follow me. As long as I have your help..."
"I will make them understand that their decision to spread the formation... is such a wrong decision."
The increasing cold wind once again blew in the narrow valley, rolling up countless piles of snow piled on top of nearby bushes. Several men in black, surrounded by a strange pattern, also stood quietly on the spot.
, as if it had become as motionless as the surrounding mountain walls. In the sky above this area, two other floating magicians scanned the surroundings of the valley with sharp eyes, and a faint buzzing sound followed the two
The radiance gradually emerging in one's eyes swayed back and forth along every seemingly invisible place: "...We have opened the eyes of reality, you can't escape!"
Snapped.
There was another clear sound of stones hitting, and several stones mixed with broken snow rolled down from the top of the other side of the valley. The leading magician who had remained silent sneered and moved.
Quickly turning to the direction of the rock where Duan Qing was hiding: "Humph, this same trick..."
"How can I let you succeed again!"
boom!
As he yelled, the dark energy ball rang out from the surface of the rock, blasting away everything including the surrounding land. However, there was no trace of anything resembling a living creature among the debris floating around.
, not to mention the figure that looked like an ambusher. Several men in black surrounding him also followed the magician's move, and all turned to the direction where the magic flew, but a slender figure was
Suddenly appeared behind their sight, sticking to the side of a man in black near the edge like a shadow: "Please..."
"rest in peace."
Plop.
The small voice that sounded in the wind and snow was inaudible, but it still attracted the attention of the enemies, including the magician who led the team. The sudden turn back quickly revealed that the other person had already encountered a poisonous hand: "
……who is it?"
"Get out of here!"
Rumbling sounds were heard one after another at the place where Ciyu Ninglan disappeared, and the body that left her behind was blown into the sky. The magic bombing from the Restoration search team also followed the leader's anger.
, kept landing at the bottom of the cliff near the inside of the valley. The remaining men in black standing on the outside of the formation also nervously raised their staffs and pointed them at the positions they were responsible for.
Another leader not far from the angry captain frowned slightly, and then reminded his colleagues: "Don't get angry, scaring them away is of no use. Since we have confirmed that there are people here,
existence, should we send a signal..."
Zheng!
The harsh sound of metal friction suddenly sounded behind the angry captain. At the same time, a figure of a blond girl also wearing leather armor appeared and attacked like lightning. However, the swift sword light followed a certain figure.
A magical light appeared and hit a crystal clear ice wall like glass with force. The violent impact then suddenly flew around, blowing the black hood on Mengzhu's head to the side, and turned around to look at her.
The leader also put away the angry look he had pretended before, and replaced it with a strange smile after the conspiracy succeeded: "Finally, the tail is revealed, little guys..."
"Oops……"
Swish——
The invisible sword energy then cut through the bottom air of the canyon, completely separating the two figures who were stuck together. Mengzhu, who was retreating, first saw Duan Qing's stabbing figure in his eyes, and then he was stabbed by Duan Qing.
The strong wind brought by the sword energy pushed it into the distance: "Uncle!"
"We'll talk about the apology later."
Amidst the sound of the earth wall rising suddenly, Duan Qing, who once again separated himself from the other party, said loudly without looking back, but the yellow barrier belonging to the primary magic could not withstand the test from the restorer, and was destroyed the next moment.
The other party's magic exploded into a golden light that filled the sky. Various rays of light like an aurora then criss-crossed past Duan Qing's position, and then all hit the cliff behind with no one around, leading the way.
In the gloomy expressions of the two magicians, Duan Qing's voice echoed around the valley together with the exploding snow: "As for you..."
"We have found out your details."
Amidst the sound of the wind and snow that was still blowing, a magician who had been floating in the air suddenly fell down like a kite with a broken string: "A team of eight people, but there are three melee professions mixed in... What, you guys?"
Are the Restorationists now so short of manpower?"
"……Who are you?"
A man in black near the left side of the team once again fell to the ground with a sudden muffled sound, which finally made the other men in black present feel a hint of crisis. They looked at each other and finally chose to leave the team.
The formation shrank together: "How did you know?"
"...I will count to five, and you can choose to surrender." Duan Qing, who ignored the other party, still raised his voice into the wind and snow: "Otherwise...you will have no way out."
"one."
The gloomy look in his eyes seemed to be about to drip out of water. The black-clothed magician who led the team gritted his teeth, and finally gestured to the colleague beside him, asking him to take out the magic signaling device in his arms.
"……two."
"Wait a minute, we don't mean any harm." He winked at the people around him, and the leader surrounded by the middle shouted loudly: "You are adventurers, right? We have no intention of conflict with you, as long as you are willing
Let us leave, and we can provide you with two pieces of equipment... no, three pieces of equipment."
"……three."
"you……"
A sudden burst of sword light suddenly appeared around the snowy bush, attacking where the few remaining men in black were. At the same time, the leader's words that were about to be spoken were blocked, along with the roar that filled the sky.
returned to his mouth.
This chapter has been completed!