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Chapter 368 Deadlock (4,000 words)

The first time I heard of "Nefi" was after Roddy failed to ambush the undead Magda.

At that time, Roddy severely injured Magda, but almost lost his life for it. He fell in a pool of blood and was rescued back to the Duke's Mansion and was always in a coma. Before he woke up by nightmares, he was always repeating this name...

And earlier... when Roddy took her to escape Francis' pursuit, he personally admitted that the "her" he liked carefully had red hair.

Sally was extremely curious about who the woman Roddy had been sacred, but she didn't have time to ask the question until she left Iversa.

However, at this moment, everything seemed to be revealed.

The originally slightly hot body almost instantly became cold. Sally's eyes were stiff and looked ahead. In the dim vision, Nefi muttered a few words of sleep and fell asleep, but what flashed in front of her was all the scenes of Roddy and Nefi in the past few days-

"Brother Roddy is so nice..."

"He knows what snacks I like the most, and he also made my favorite grilled fish, which is so fragrant..."

The scenes that I didn't care about before were now pierced into my heart like thorns, making Sally's face paler.

When she recalled the battle in Mogra village, she remembered Roddy's expression in front of the collapsed wooden house, which seemed to have some emotions that she could not understand.

Sally didn't know the allusion of "suspecting the neighbor's stealing the axe", but obviously the more she thought about it, the more she felt that Roddy had planned everything, and what made her suspicious was the fact that Roddy found Nafi's mother - everything seemed to be too smooth: Nafi had been worried about for half a year, and it was almost solved by Roddy's arrival. What was the truth of the matter?

What made Sally feel most uncomfortable was the real purpose of Roddy when she appeared in front of her - was he just here to save Nafi, but never cared about him?

When some emotions appeared, Sally's expectation for Roddy quickly turned sharply...

A woman's sensibility is not at all "reason", and when she is in such great joy and sorrow, she loses most of her judgment.

Lying on the bed, her body stiffened and did not dare to move because of Nefi's hug. She even thought of calling Nefi's to ask carefully, but in the end, she responded to the sentence "The greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment". Her wishful thinking towards Roddy made her feel more and more hopelessly stupid...

Forget it, since he wants to lie to himself, let him go and never see you again.

Such extreme thoughts came to her mind, but after thinking about it, she was tossing and turning in the bed and finally couldn't make up her mind to have a big fight with Roddy.

She could kill her brother with one knife, but for Roddy, Sally would rather endure those sufferings silently...

The night was quite long, and Sally couldn't fall asleep because she knew some "truth". Roddy also sat at the desk and pondered for a long time because of the problems in Camilla's letter.

Although I have read "On Self-Awareness of the Defense System", Kardga's notes have always been somewhat high and low. Roddy, who has not conducted in-depth research on "arcane", can easily ignore some of the "basic knowledge" in the eyes of advanced arcaneists in some aspects.

The energy of the basic defense magic array in the city will gradually dissipate... Roddy has never considered such a thing, even his own urban management interface] has not reminded him, but now the problem is in front of him, Roddy has to face the problems caused by the insufficient "rechargeable crystal".

In the letter, Camilla gave a "two months" time limit, which means that Elson City may completely lose all its original energy in two months, resulting in Camilla losing her life.

This question made him frown into a knot. After thinking for a long time, Roddy could only think of two ways: the first was to use the "Rechargeable Crystal Manufacturing Theory" to directly create enough Crystals.

But Roddy, who has skimmed this book, knows very well whether there are so many expensive materials to ask for, and it is impossible to meet the standards within two months.

The second way is to find ready-made "charged crystals": except for Wagra City and Elson City, there is no way that there are only a few high-elf ruins. As long as you spend your energy searching, there will be more or less remaining crystals in the ruins.

However, although this method is feasible, it is full of uncertainties... Where is the ruins? Is it possible that I can't get enough 30 crystals to find all the ruins? These are all inaccurate things.

Two months are quite long, but if the task in front of you is full of uncertainty and the consequences of failure are serious, Roddy has to consider the possibility of "setting right away".

He wrote and painted on parchment paper, opened the [Map Bar] and carefully looked at the terrain of Jingyu Forest. According to his memory, he drew some marks in a place that might be ruins. Then he began to write letters to Soderol, the village chief of Brudy, Camilla and Duke Angma, carefully preparing for what he might do next...

After finishing all this, it was already early in the morning. He cleared his mind about the messy information about the forest ruins, lay on the bed, and soon fell asleep.

Six hours later, Roddy, who had a comfortable sleep, was awakened by the chirping birds outside the window.

It has been a while since he was out of the harsh war environment, and such a rest without warning is really valuable for Roddy. After getting up, he washed up briefly, put on a loose robe, stood at the stairs and asked, "Sally? Camilla? Have you gotten up?"

After a while, Nafi, sleepy-eyed, appeared at the handrail of the stairs on the second floor in her loose pajamas: "Brother Roddy...Sister Sally seems to have gone out, I didn't see her, ha--Oops-"

The long red hair was messy, and Nefi seemed to have no idea of ​​caring about his image at this time. Roddy smiled and did not take it seriously, but just asked, "We are going to Everta as soon as possible, and we may set off within tomorrow."

When Nefi heard this, he immediately became energetic, hummed a nursery rhyme and went to wash up. Roddy turned around to prepare breakfast, and not long after, Sally returned with a somewhat dazed pace...

"Why did you go out early?"

Roddy only heard her footsteps, but because she was placing the tableware, she did not see her absent-minded look. Sally opened her mouth, tried to adjust her emotions, and whispered: "Go to Lord Rubens to ask about things. The morning prayer will last for a long time, so I want to get up early."

That being said, but I felt so aggrieved: You guy sleeps so soundly, probably because you want to take your sweetheart away...

Roddy still didn't look up and said casually: "By the way, I just received a letter from Everta. There are some emergencies. I may need to rush back as soon as possible. I need to prepare for it today, maybe I will set off tomorrow, you-"

He turned around, but saw Sally's appearance, his face changed slightly, and he asked, "What's going on? What happened?"

Sally had obviously cried, her eyes swollen, and she had not sleep all night, causing her eyeshadow to be extremely heavy, making Roddy almost think that she was cursed by the shadow spell... But soon he realized that Sally's physical condition was normal, but his eyes seemed to be avoiding him.

"No... nothing happened, it's just Lord Rubens's side...I won't let me go back."

Sally couldn't continue to say anything, she was so confused. Yesterday, Nefi had just confirmed to return with him, so she woke up early today and couldn't wait to discuss what to set out... Roddy's words made her more and more like this a scam.

"It's okay, it's not a problem whether she can't go back." Roddy thought she was sad because she couldn't go back together, so she comforted her: "Then I'll leave first, and after I've solved those things, I'll come back to find you, okay?"

Roddy felt that he could not control the affairs of the sect. The Cardinal must have his own reasons for not letting her go, so he did not dissuade him. However, such words made Sally's tears roll in his eyes: Is this bastard not even willing to do it perfunctorily? It's really...

She almost didn't want to be too late for a moment, and lowered her head and said, "...I, I'll go back and change my clothes first."

After the words came, Sally hurriedly walked past Roddy. Roddy opened her mouth slightly, and the more she thought about it, the more she felt something was wrong. At this time, Nefie walked over from the side after washing up. Roddy hurriedly said, "Go to have dinner first, I'll get down later."

Then he rushed to the second floor in a few steps, reached out to block the door of Sally's bedroom when the door was about to close, and then walked in.

"What's wrong?"

Roddy closed the door gently, and with a "click", Sally finally stopped in the middle of the bedroom.

"What's the decision of the sect? Or is there something wrong?" Roddy took a few steps forward, wondering, but then he saw Sally slowly turning around

Throughout the whole night, Sally told herself countless times that Yu Qian pretended to "I don't know anything", but seeing Roddy's "innocent" look, she felt so depressed that she almost went crazy. Finally, she took a deep breath and whispered: "Camilla... Her name is Naifie."

"She has red hair..."

Sally's voice was choked, "You've been lying to me, right?"

Roddy's pupils shrank suddenly, and he thought a lot in an instant, but when he recalled it, he couldn't remember mentioning this name to anyone.

Sally saw his face changing, and even believed that this was the reaction when the lie was exposed. She continued: "You were seriously injured and kept calling her name when you were unconscious in the Duke's Mansion... You kept thinking about her in your heart, and now you came here just to save her, right? If it weren't for a coincidence, you wouldn't care where I died—

"Sally"

Roddy frowned and interrupted her directly.

"You have never spoken to me in this tone. Now for her, you are finally willing to show up, right?"

"Her mother, who has been missing for half a year, found it as soon as she said she could find it. I actually believe such things... Actually, these are all fake, right?"

Sally turned her eyes to the side, as if there were two tears on her cheeks that had lost weight overnight, which made Roddy feel confused.

He took a step forward and suppressed his voice: "She didn't know me before this. If you judge this, don't you think you are arbitrary?"

"Arbitrary? How do you look at her? Maybe you didn't even notice it."

"I... this matter is quite complicated. You won't understand it even if you say it, but it's definitely not what you think."

"It's not what you think" in most cases basically means "it's what you think". Roddy felt a little pale and powerless after saying it - after all, there are many things that are indeed lying and making up the facts, and after Sally exposed it, all this could not be explained at all.

Sally reached out to wipe her tears, as if she could no longer control her emotions, sobbing: "I know I have been wishful thinking for so long, so... I will never bother you again in the future-"

"Can you stop drawing such a conclusion?"

Although Roddy is not smart about his relationship, it does not mean that he has no temper at all. Sally's angry words made him feel helpless and depressed. But after thinking about it, he found that he had only one way to confess: "I haven't told you because I'm afraid you are worried..."

"In that battle on the border, I accidentally controlled a city of ruins of high elfs, and Camilla's mother was imprisoned for some reason. I was saved by her in that battle, so I promised to take her daughter back-as for the dream I said... I don't mean that there was a person I loved called 'Nefei, but she had already..."

“…dead.”

Having said that, Roddy's gaze was also a little scattered. The entanglements of the two time and space cannot coincide in the end. Some things are the same, but some things have changed their trajectory forever, which is something he cannot stop.

He didn't tell Sally because he didn't know how to explain it himself.

Sally was touched by some emotions in his words, but she was unwilling to believe his confession because of her stubborn judgment... She turned around, Sally turned her back to Roddy and chose to remain silent.

The atmosphere between the two was in an unprecedented deadlock. Roddy took a deep breath and felt that he had said enough. He sighed, turned around and opened the door, but broke the door handle directly because of the uncontrollable force.

"Crunch"

The spherical copper handle was pinched and deformed. Roddy took several deep breaths in a row, but he could not calm down his emotions.

The more you care about someone, the more difficult it is to get into a fight.

Roddy slowly walked outside the restaurant, rubbed her face hard, and then said to Nefi as calmly as possible: "Sally won't eat for now. Let's wait until we go shopping on the street and prepare to go back at noon today."

Nefi didn't know what was going on. When she heard Roddy's suggestion, she happily raised her fork: "Okay, Brother Roddy is the best."

Looking at her innocent appearance, Roddy's eyes were filled with unspeakable bitterness, but she tried hard to squeeze out a smile on her face and whispered: "But... your sister Sally may not leave with us."
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