The wide and sinister sea, the city full of sin, the mysterious yet ordinary Endless Bridge, and the twelve soaring light pillars... Although many things happened in the middle, the scenes that took place in the Free City remain the same.
It was so clearly reflected in Duan Qing's memories that even after such a long time, such memories still did not disappear from his mind. Whenever he calmed down and tried to summarize what he had experienced in the free world.
Everything, the scenes that happened by chance in the east of the Free Continent are also a story that he can never ignore. This naturally includes the players and NPCs who stayed there later, as well as the dead and alive.
And those figures who ran away and were never seen again.
He had imagined that he would meet someone among them somewhere in the game world in the future, but he never expected the timing of this scene.
"I didn't expect to see you here."
He reached out and took off one of the bandages tied to his body. A middle-aged uncle sitting opposite Duan Qing smiled and sat up from the hospital bed. With a sincere smile on his face, he greeted the Lie Yan Legend who followed him in.
They met face to face, and finally returned to Duan Qing: "This should be the third time you have saved me, right?"
"If we include the time when our Fool Adventure Group was hired by you...yes." Duan Qing stared blankly for a while, then he still bent his waist: "And...I
I didn’t expect to see you here, Lord Tristan.”
"I am no longer one of the powerful people in that city." The middle-aged man smiled and waved his hand: "Stop calling me with honorifics, just call me Ristan."
"Ristan..." Duan Qing straightened up and smiled inexplicably: "This naming method that can be used by removing the head...did you learn it from the Lord of the City?"
"Lord City Lord?" Tristan's smiling expression paused slightly: "What does that mean?"
"Ah, it's nothing." Duan Qing hurriedly waved his hands: "It's all in the past, and I don't think you need it now, so... let's talk about what's going on now.
"
"What's going on now..."
The chaotic noise outside was still heard in his ears, and Tristan's eyes slowly lowered: "This matter in Zaraha City is not something I want to get involved in. I'm just here.
On my way home... I just passed by here by chance."
"Go home?" Duan Qing asked in surprise: "Isn't your home in the City of Freedom?"
"There is no native family in the Free City with the surname Tristan." The middle-aged man shook his head and replied: "We and Long... Rondoer's family are typical foreign nobles, and they are also members of the Free City Brawl."
The products of the family were able to survive to that point in time because of the favor of the city lord and the unity between the outside families. It is a pity that Rondoer did such a thing in the end, and I had to defend myself.
I must be responsible for everything I do, so... I can only take my family with me to find the hometown where my surname originally came from."
"Your hometown?"
"On the fringes of the empire."
Pointing to the west where they were, Tristan replied in a low voice: "A place called Uriel, using its current name... should be called the Province of Uriel."
"Uriel Province?" Lieyan Legend, who was standing next to Duan Qing, replied in surprise: "Isn't there nothing in that place? Except for wasteland, it is wasteland..."
"Is that so?" His eyes stayed on the other party for a while, and Tristan sighed and said: "That's really a pity. We originally wanted to find a village quietly and live there well...
"
"Since you don't know the situation there, you probably don't want to stay here, right?" Duan Qing pointed to the left and right here: "Why did you become a part of the resistance force?"
"This is not what I want."
Seemingly referring to his past experiences some time ago, Tristan's voice deepened again: "You should know that I left with my family members before. After that, we did not choose to meet up. Instead, we said
We decided to make plans after arriving in the empire. Later, when we heard about the truce between the two countries, we planned to gather at Zaraha, the main city of Ferron County, but we didn't expect... what greeted us in the end was not the scene after peace at all.
"
"The situation here is even worse than in Free City." He replied with a gloomy look on his face: "We who don't know the so-called 'rules'... were quickly detained by the Empire as spies."
"Hey, hey, don't scare me." Lieyan Legend looked at the two people separately and then raised his hands: "Won't your wife and children also be killed by the Empire?"
"No, they didn't come in at all." Tristan shook his head: "Although now, I have lost contact with other people..."
"Then why did you help the rebels?" Duan Qing pressed the topic at the right time: "Is it just because the imperial people treat you like this?"
"Even in the Free City, I don't have the temper to retaliate." The middle-aged man shook his head again: "I just..."
"I just saw the shadow of my past in this group of people during this brief contact."
"so you……"
"I just don't want to see them go down the same path I did."
Pointing to the fierce debate outside that was still going on, Tristan said in a low voice: "Survival may be the reason for them to fight for this, but hatred is not. This seemingly weird city... also
It's not worth the lives of these people. I have heard about the stubbornness of the Feron people in the past, but it is absolutely impossible for the current principality to break the relationship with the empire because of them, so in the end, their behavior
It’s just suicide, there’s no other use for it.”
"The person who rules here is not a city lord. If you fail, you will have to pay the price with your life." He gestured to the other two players to show the other wounds on his body: "Those people from the empire don't know what sympathy is, and they are just as angry as a small family.
…It will only bring death.”
"So...you want to help them?" The look on Duan Qing's face became a little weird again: "In order to prevent them from killing themselves?"
"At least I can give them some wise enough advice." Tristan replied in a low voice: "It can be regarded as... repaying their kindness for rescuing me from the Empire."
"But they look more like they are using you." Legend of Flame pointed outside: "When they mention you, they are more like discussing a bargaining chip than a companion."
"I was not one of their companions." Tristan laughed again: "I just wanted to lead them to give up their hatred and leave alive."
"I have to say... your idea is better than ours." Duan Qing sighed helplessly: "And you are much more sleepy."
"Oh, really?" Tristan smiled and shook his head: "Because I'm not the type who goes crazy just to repay a favor. Enough of such people have died."
"It's actually very simple to find a reason to defeat the Imperials - it's no problem to regard them as associates of the Restorationists." Duan Qing continued: "With your wisdom and experience... you wouldn't have thought of this.
A little?"
"I will only do my best, and if they don't succeed... I will leave on my own." Tristan still maintained his smile: "There will naturally be people to deal with the restorationists' matters, such as mages.
People in the Council and you...am I right?”
"...You win, old fritter."
The dull atmosphere only lasted for two seconds, and then gradually disappeared with the smile on Duan Qing's lips: "Except for what I already know...it seems that I can't ask anything else."
"I'm not familiar with this city. I definitely don't know what you don't know." Tristan replied with a smile: "You are the person who inherited my Aries identity. I believe you can definitely discover the secrets here, no.
?"
"...What about the next plan? You should be able to talk about this, right?"
"I only appeared here because I was rescued from the concentration camp by them. That small organization and their next actions...only they can decide."
"Hart specially asked me to come to see you, but he didn't ask me to find out what you are talking about now."
"I suggested to him to use adventurers to help me, but I didn't expect that he would use it on me first..."
"This is also their unanimous decision. To be precise... they want me to come over and inquire about your identity."
"Then...how do you plan to repay them?"
The narrow room was silent for a moment as Duan Qing and Lieyan Legend looked at each other. Finally, with the pungent smell of medicine flying out of the room, the figures belonging to the two players then walked out of the door of the room, and among several
Under the gaze of the evil-faced shadow, he returned to the meeting place where tables and chairs were scattered. The heated discussion still kept ringing in the center of the shabby meeting place, but the content of the discussion was no longer the same as what Duan Qing and Duan Qing had left before.
The time was completely different, and the eyes that gathered again because of the appearance of the two people only stayed on them for a moment: "So I think we should start with the dandy captain, the captain of the empire's first team.
It's just a false name, his abilities are not worth mentioning at all..."
"Then we must first solve the problem of concentration camps! If we don't rescue those compatriots, how can we have the face to call ourselves liberators?"
"Compatriots? Only cowardly guys will be captured in that place. We don't need to rescue such people! And as long as the empire is defeated, the problem of concentration camps will naturally be solved..."
"Wait, wait, wait, we can do these two things together. Just like Hart arranged before, we can continue to implement the attack plan, and at the same time, we can take the opportunity to disrupt the Imperial people and wait for an opportunity to carry out this attack.
Rescue operations……"
"I don't recommend you do this before you are very sure."
As these words appeared, the staggering figure belonging to Tristan then appeared behind the passage where Duan Qing and Lieyan Legend had just walked out: "Don't think it was easy for you to rescue me. In fact, the imperial people placed them there.
They have recruited a lot of troops. Before, they just regarded me as an ordinary businessman, so they didn’t monitor me much..."
"The strongest fighters who resist the imperial power are imprisoned in the depths of the concentration camp. They are our mainstay." Following the other party's words, Marklos, who had been opposed before, immediately spoke up and said: "The imperial people are already on alert.
Now, the place must be heavily guarded."
"Unless we go outside the city to get help, we can't find more people in Harlem City who dare to stand up and resist the imperial people." Dick, who was playing with the knife in his hand, also darkened his face: "Those people are the only ones we have now.
hope."
"Don't worry, we won't give up on our brothers." Hart, who was sitting in the middle, waved his hand: "It's just that this rescue method... we still have to think about it in the long run."
"We have no time." He said this in a low voice, and the masked Bowen stood up from the corner of the dilapidated hall: "The 20th of this month is coming soon, if we continue to delay
Go down..."
"You fell into their trap Bowen, they announced this time deliberately!"
"But ten people died last month! If we don't take action this month..."
"We will definitely take action."
Pressing his hands around the scattered square table that was noisy again, Hart's gaze gradually became serious as he looked around: "I promised all of you before I left that I would definitely rescue everyone."
"But you didn't bring anything back." One of the figures present questioned in a low voice: "Those so-called weapons and equipment are actually of no use. What we need are people."
"People... I also brought back three or two."
His eyes fell on Duan Qing and Lieyan Legend, and Hart's eyes became much deeper: "Their strength and trust have been verified in previous actions. Now...it's time for everyone to talk.
.”
"The old rule is, raise your hands to agree. If you don't raise your hands, you will be deemed to disagree." He pointed in the direction of the two people, and then raised his hand: "Only if everyone agrees, their joining will be approved.
...Mr. Ristan."
"..."
"You should agree too, right?"
Through the gap between the two players, Hart's eyes stopped on the middle-aged man who was still wearing many bandages: "You are one of the members who strongly suggested that we hire adventurers before."
"Of course I agree."
"……Hello."
Looking at the hands gradually raised by the people around him, Duan Qing, who finally realized what was about to happen, hurriedly turned back to look at the smile on Tristan's face: "You won't push us into the fire pit, will you?"
"How can it be?"
He was answered by Tristan's innocent look: "Don't you trust your old friend?"
"We are the nobles who used to be the best at forming gangs. The last thing we can do...is betrayal."
This chapter has been completed!