Ella can’t remember how many times she asked this question. The answer she got every time was vague:
"Back to King of Sweden, the sun has been setting for a while. We just finished dinner and came up to change shifts."
Ella sighed. Of course, she couldn't tell the specific time from this group of pirates. She stood on the city wall and continued to look into the distance. After a while, she asked again: "What time is it now?"
"When I return to the King of Sweden, I can't even hear the birds chirping. It must be very late."
Ella tapped her toes anxiously, and finally said unbearably: "Call me Glahid!"
Glahid was inspecting the deployment of archers on the city wall. After receiving Ella's order, he immediately ran all the way to Ella and asked: "King of Sweden, what's wrong?"
"I don't know much about the speed of your English knights." Ella said, "In your opinion, how long will it take for these knights to search the camp and come back?"
"I'm thinking about this too. Logically speaking, they should come back anyway. If they don't come back now, I'm afraid they might run into some trouble."
"Trouble? You mean you encountered an enemy ambush?"
"I don't think the knights of the King of Knights would fall into an ambush so easily. As for the current situation... I can't tell."
"Even if you encounter an ambush, it's a bit..."
Ella tilted her chin and thought. Suddenly, an idea flashed in her mind like lightning. She clapped her hands and shouted: "Raise the elite troops immediately, attack lightly, and run with me!"
"Are you going to support them?"
"No - let's go after Bjorn."
"Now?"
Glahid was surprised. At first, the English knights said they wanted to pursue them, but Ella disagreed because they were worried about traps, so they sent a team to investigate. Now the people sent out have not come back, anyone can guess that there are
There was a trap, but Ella was ready to pursue him again. He couldn't figure out the idea of mobilizing troops.
Ella was not prepared to explain. Her eyes were a little confused, but she still answered firmly: "Yes, now. Now is the time."
…
Amy could no longer tell how many times she had walked around Bjorn's camp. The piles of rocks looked ordinary, but they repeated the same scene over and over again, making it difficult for them to figure out where they had been.
, or maybe they have never been there before. The road there is not completely straight, but has a slight inclination. When walking along it, it turns in a direction without knowing it, but they are completely unable to detect it.
Their stomachs rang several times, not to mention wheat flour, and even sand Bjorn did not leave them. The continuous state of panic caused the water in their bodies to quickly evaporate in the form of sweat, and the water they brought had already
Finished.
With little energy left, they had to take a break in front of a pile of rocks, hoping to meet others.
"It's already so late. If you don't go back, Your Majesty will starve to death."
"Starve to death?" the knight responded weakly, "The King of Sweden can eat anywhere in the city. But we are about to starve to death."
"Your Majesty has become a workaholic recently. She often forgets to eat when she gets started! If I hadn't reminded her, she would have starved to death several times."
Amy muttered. Then she sighed: "I think we can't get out of here on our own. Let's wait until your Majesty comes to pick us up. By tomorrow morning, she will find out anyway and send someone to look for us."
"I don't understand why Bjorn made the camp like this." One of the servants complained, "Don't they get dizzy when walking by themselves? It takes a long time to get familiar with it, right?"
"They must have retreated after building it." The knight said, "I'm afraid Bjorn expected that we would come to the camp to check, and deliberately wanted to use this to delay our action, so that we could not pursue it in time."
"Yes, Your Majesty has always been suspicious of using troops. I don't know whether it is an advantage or a disadvantage."
Amy sighed, leaned against a pile of rocks and looked at the sky. Suddenly, she sat up as if thinking of something and said:
"That's not right. They were able to retreat a long way in the time it took to build this stone formation. Being able to build this stone formation first shows that they were not in a hurry when they retreated. But since they are not in a hurry, with the current strength of both of us, they
You can retreat slowly. Why bother?"
"you mean……?"
Before Amy could speak, a firework suddenly appeared in the distant sky. It was very gorgeous. Amy was stunned for a moment: "Isn't this the thing that His Majesty made through alchemy? It used to be used as an alarm in the palace in Sweden.
It was used and later burned during an invasion. The intruder still doesn’t know who it is. Why is it here now?"
"The King of Knights asked the King of Sweden for some. This is our tool for transmitting signals at night!" The knight stood up in a panic. "It's a signal from our scouts who stayed outside! The enemy has appeared!"
"Appeared? Didn't you confirm that there was no ambush?"
"There is definitely no ambush within the dangerous range." The knight corrected, "But we have been delayed inside for so long. The enemy can forcefully march back here from a very far distance!"
Amy's eyes suddenly became sharp. Without thinking, she raised her hand and shot a pillar of fire into the air!
This was a signal sent by Amy. The natural protection of Loki could not maintain this flame for too long. But Amy gritted her teeth and persisted. In the dark night, the pillar of fire was particularly conspicuous.
The knights who were lost in the military camp seemed to have found a lighthouse and began to rush towards Amy from all directions.
"Finally found you! Did you see the fireworks just now? The enemy is coming!" Every knight shouted when they came, "We have to leave quickly. Where is the way out?"
But no one can answer this question. Everyone is lost in this pile of rocks.
The second firework shot into the sky from a distance. Compared with the previous brilliance, the color of the fireworks this time was extremely monotonous, even a little pale, which made people feel disgusted.
And the faces of the knights became equally pale: "This is a signal that the enemy is approaching! We have to find a way out before the enemy surrounds us."
"But how to get out? We've been wandering around for a long time! This place is very evil. If it weren't for the pillar of fire, we wouldn't be able to find you!"
This quarrel did not last long. The third firework was quickly shot into the air. This firework was very fast and disappeared with a "pop" sound.
"Something is bad, the investigators have begun to evacuate! The enemy is very close to us!"
