"Damn it, this is so cowardly," Matri punched the wall with a muffled sound. He said angrily, "Just let them take Laila away like that? What did the poor girl do wrong? It's all my fault. I should have held her back!"
"No, no, we can't just let Laila fall into the hands of those people! Those people in the patrol team are not good people," Matri said, turning around and walking out, but his wife Rosa stopped him he.
"Are you crazy!?" The fat woman was wiping her tears and yelling: "How can you go against those people? Besides, how can you stop those adults? Mr. Pusher also said, those people Behind the scenes is the "Cunning Owl's Wisdom". How could the majestic Duke listen to the opinions of little people like us? "
Matri was stunned for a long time, and then let out a long sigh and said, "...but that girl seemed to be crazy at that time. I wouldn't listen to anything she said and had to stop those people...I obviously asked her to hide, but she couldn't do anything." I can’t hold her back..."
"That's all that child's hope is," Rosa said with red eyes. "Who doesn't know that the patrol team's hands and feet are dirty? They say it's a search, but who knows what will be left after scraping the floor three feet away? What? Even our house lost a lot of things, those hateful guys."
Pushe lowered his head, sat on the bed holding a pipe in one hand, and smoked one puff after another, with a sad look on his face, all the wrinkles on his face were folded together, and he remained silent without saying a word.
Laila came to the hotel for just over a year, but the girl was polite and introverted, and she always took everything she did seriously. Although she was usually afraid of outsiders judging her, in fact, everyone in the hotel There are few people who don't like her.
After the incident at the hotel, many people came to ask for news about her. After learning that the patrol team took people away, there were many people who were filled with indignation. But we are all civilians living in the old city, so what can we do except watch?
The few who are enthusiastic just spread the news. On the contrary, more and more people gathered outside the Gear and Magic Book.
Rosa went on and on about the abominations of the patrol. From the perspective of someone like her, being taken away by the patrol team was already a big deal, not to mention that there was a big shot like the Duke behind him. It was simply a matter of another world.
Luo Yu just listened silently.
As he was walking through the messy attic, he saw the glass jar rolling down on the ground - the jar was broken, and the coins were scattered here and there. He didn't know how many had been robbed. The bookcase was also tilted to the floor, and I don’t know how many times it had been rummaged through.
The open books were thrown carelessly on the ground, unnoticed.
The searchers obviously had a clear purpose. They didn't find what they wanted here, so they took Laila away.
Luo Yu usually seemed silent, but that didn't mean he couldn't understand. Of course he could guess why those people came and why they wanted to take Laila away.
He just looked at each book on the ground silently, his eyes wandering among the fragmented clues. At a certain moment, his expression moved slightly, he stopped, bent down, swept two books from the ground, and picked them up from below. Pick up a notebook.
The notebook had a silver-gray cover. He opened the title page and saw a line of small words written above the preface:
"My Elements and Magic, Introduction
——Another solution to the secret of the stars, Ash Lynn, in Imperial Calendar 10@
They swore that they would never allow such injustice to happen before their eyes without doing anything. Just as the white roses of Tanlow bloom, the honor also belongs to the swords in the hands of the knights, and the answer my heart tells me——"
She said: "I believe Mr. Ed will not stand idly by here. Because he is that kind of person. As the sages say, noble people do noble things. That is the noble truth behind all things. I will also go Follow that path until death."
Miss Scholar was dumbfounded.
Is this what the Chosen One should say?
But May's eyes clarified, looking at Miss Scholar sincerely and sincerely, "Jita, please stay here. Help me inform Mr. Ed, tell him everything that happened here, and tell him that May is looking forward to working with him." fight side by side again."
Jita felt that she could not refute Miss Knight.
Because she also has the same wish in her heart. If not for the same reason, how could everyone gather here and join the big family of the Seven Seas Troupe?
She looked at Luo Yu for help. But the leader is not here, and we must not let Miss Mei have her way now, as that will make things worse.
This is an empire, and there is definitely more than just a Death Advent Guild behind those people - yes, like Luo Yu, she could guess the origins of each other just by listening to the descriptions of Pushe and Matri, but it is very possible that behind those people It is the most powerful cunning family among the Seven Mage families.
Hawk family.
But those are nothing. What's more important is that if Miss Mei fights against the opponent here now, it is very likely that she will face off against the patrolling guards. Those patrolling guards represent Ayin Block's city guards.
It represents the empire.
But Luo Yu only looked at her.
He gently placed the silver-gray note in his hand on the table, closed its flyleaf, and gently stroked the silver words with his hand. The young elementalist raised a hand, "Elements, at your command," he said, and a slender magic wand appeared out of thin air in his hand.
Luo Yu turned around and said to Mei Yi with the utmost care, "I'll go with you."
"ah?"
Jita looked at the latter with a look of surprise, "Luo Yu?"
Luo Yu said: "There are certain responsibilities that we are destined to be unable to escape, and Laila is also implicated because of us. The leader is not here, but we are here."
He rarely spoke at length.
"Jita, in the past I was always afraid, afraid to face, afraid to make choices, afraid to give my father and mother a definite answer. Because there are some things I know people's expectations of, I just doubt myself and whether I can do it. All that?"
"After the battle in the north, I finally understood. If I always question my decisions first, it may not be a sign of maturity, but cowardice, because I am afraid of taking responsibility, afraid of giving a promise to others, and afraid of shouldering everything. The responsibility behind it.”
"But one day we have to face all this. The Seven Seas Brigade does not just belong to the leader's team, nor does it belong to anyone here. Whether it is honor or responsibility, it should only be It belongs to everyone in the brigade. And I am also a member of this team."
So it behooves him to make a decision about it.
And when a person makes a choice, he will naturally understand the direction he belongs to.
"But... but..." Jita was confused, "But the leader is still in Lavender, what about his game? We can't do what we did in Kaolin-Ithulian at this time and let the Seven Seas Brigade The regiment is targeted by the empire..."
"Will not."
Luo Yu shook his head and returned to the state where he cherished words like gold.
But he had never been so indifferent, as if he had seen through the fog everything that belonged to the future. Luo Yu couldn't help but think back to the day when he was confronting his parents, when he gave up everything he was good at and couldn't refute the doubts.
Pleasant maturity sometimes happens in an instant.
"Because I've calculated it."
He said to Jita:
"This is the optimal solution."
Jita was opening her mouth in surprise.
Those past memories flashed through Miss Scholar's mind more than once.
She seemed to recall the time when she first met him——
That was in the SL regional finals. It was from that competition that she stood out and entered Tapolis's sight.
The same goes for Luo Yu.
I remember that it was the last game. In that final showdown, two almost exhausted opponents faced each other. The young man who was not favored by everyone raised his head and said to his opponent in an almost determined tone:
"I have already calculated..."
"I still have a chance to win."
That's pretty much the same tone.
Then he won the championship.
Then he became a member of the elite youth academy of Tarpolis.
His parents had already arranged his future path, but after that, the boy seemed to have forgotten all the glory he had had. For a long time after that game, Jita never saw the other side showing such a side.
She almost forgot——
The young man in front of him is actually a genius elementalist in Tapolis.
She was chosen to be the owner of Guriel's grimoire.
And he is the Silver Feather of the Oak Knights.
They are the backup for Tapolis' future main elementalists.
If Jotapolis still exists.
Mei Yi also looked at Luo Yu with soft eyes and nodded approvingly, as if she recognized the other person as her companion. She said, "Mr. Luo Yu is right, and Mei agrees with it."
She looked at the old businessman and Matri and Rosa beside her, and said seriously: "We don't know anything about this place. After we rescue Laila, we may have to trouble Mr. Pusher and everyone."
Matri was looking up at them in surprise. Even Rosa stopped crying and looked over with red eyes.
"What are you..." Pushe put down his pipe and looked at Luo Yu, Mei Yi and Jita. He couldn't help but want to say something, but he didn't know where to start. One step forward from here is a head-on confrontation with the Empire. The Cunning Owl family has a long history, originating from the Seven Mage family, and now Duke Hawke can even influence the empire's decision-making to a certain extent.
Influence the decision of the supreme magic emperor.
In the eyes of ordinary people, the nobles represented the real empire, and opposing those big men was no different from opposing the empire.
But this is the only way. Perhaps only these chosen people, fearless in heaven and earth, dare to challenge the authority of the Oshur people head-on, right? That was the only possibility to bring the poor girl back from the patrol team.
While there are many risks, there is also a silver lining. Scenes from more than ten years flashed through Pusher's mind. After the Lynn family fell apart, he also lost contact with his friends.
But the memories of the past are still hard to let go of.
Sir Lyn had been of great help to him in his time of trouble, though the Sir himself might not have known it all.
Until one day, Laila came to see him with the letter.
The little girl looked at him anxiously through her glasses. The hand holding the corner of her clothes was pale due to nervousness. She asked in a weak tone: "Please, please, can you let me stay here temporarily? I... I will definitely find a way to raise funds."
That day still seems like yesterday when I think about it.
The old man looked at the fragments of glasses gathered up in his hand, and sighed in his heart, thinking that if he had a daughter, she might be as old as this.
He lowered his head, held up the pipe in his hand and took two strong puffs, but finally made up his mind. He was just a dedicated businessman, and there were no ups and downs in his life. But when things came to a close, he decided to risk his life with these young people.
After all, ordinary people also have sympathy.
On the contrary, it is difficult for those high-ranking figures to
Empathize with these little people.
He tightened his grip on his pipe, raised his head and said to Mei Yi and Luo Yu: "I'm going to think of a way. After you rescue Laila, I'll think of a way to send you out of the city. After leaving the city, to the south is the mining area on the Clover Plain. The personnel there are complex and difficult for outsiders to investigate. You have your own sailboat, so it shouldn’t be difficult to escape..."
Mei looked at the old man, put her hand on his breastplate, and bowed deeply to him, "Sorry to trouble you."
Pushe sighed and nodded.
Mei Yi looked at Luo Yu, "Mr. Luo Yu, please come with me."
The two of them walked out of the attic and down the stairs one after the other.
In the hotel lobby, Alyssa was guarding the communication crystal at the front desk. The crystal was an old antique and worked sometimes, so she had to watch it all the time.
Many people have gathered here. Miss Nightingale doesn't know those people. Some of them are hotel guests and some are people living nearby. They all heard that something happened to the gear and the magic book, so they gathered here.
See if you can help in any way you can.
The crowd seemed a little silent. Apparently everyone had heard about Laila, but they couldn't come up with any good solutions.
But at this moment, the crowd suddenly silently separated into a lane, and Alyssa saw the knight lady holding a kite shield and an ax gun, who was fully armed. Behind her was Luo Yu, who was wearing a silver robe and holding a magic wand.
The hall fell silent for a moment, and everyone watched this scene quietly, watching Mei Yi and Luo Yu walking towards the hall.
Luo Yu looked at Alyssa.
But Miss Nightingale didn't look surprised at all, and didn't ask the two of them why they were there. She only reminded them, "The box hasn't come back yet, so be careful."
Luo Yu nodded to her.
Then the two separated from the crowd and left. Immediately behind them was Jita who hurried out with the magic book in her arms. When she saw Alisa, she was so frightened that she stopped suddenly and said, "Love...Miss Alisa..."
"You want to go too?"
Alyssa asked her.
"Sorry, Miss Alisa, I..."
Jita was a little angry. Alyssa asked her to take good care of everyone, but instead of doing her job well, she also joined in.
But if Miss Mei Yi and Luo Yu both went, she couldn't worry about them all, so she could only go with them.
"Go ahead," Alyssa just smiled. Of course she knew what kind of people that guy was surrounded by, "I'm here to contact the group leader. The tournament in Lavender has come to an end, and the group leader and the others should be on their way back. Once you contact the leader, I will come back to support you."
"Miss Alisa..." Jita was a little touched.
But the latter patted her on the shoulder and said softly: "Be careful in everything. I believe Luo Yu is calm enough, but you have to keep an eye on Miss Mei and be careful of her acting too impulsively."
"I see."
Jita nodded to her seriously.
…
Laila was hugging the compass tightly. Fortunately, the vicious people around her no longer paid much attention to this area. Although she couldn't escape, she finally felt a little calmer.
The girl staggered behind the crowd, her vision blurred because she had lost her glasses. When she thought about her glasses, the girl felt sad and sad. It would cost a lot of money to buy another pair of glasses. The last time her glasses were broken, it took her a lot of effort to glue them back together.
But this time I can't stick it back...
Her money was gone too, and she watched helplessly as those people took it away. Laila's face turned pale and she bit her lips trying not to cry. But now she was even more worried about where on earth these people were taking her.
The man in the trench coat didn't seem to care that his hands and feet were dirty. She didn't even know what he cared about, and he never said a word to her from beginning to end.
She wanted to ask.
But he didn’t dare to speak.
Only in the pocket of the old magician's robe, a communication crystal was flickering on and off, and emitting warm heat.
The light comes. That was the communication crystal given to her by Miss Alisa, because she often had to act as a guide for the people of the Seven Seas Brigade, which had almost become her regular job in the past two months.
The other party also left her a fixed means of communication.
What might that crystal be used for? Maybe ask those people to contact Britta. At this moment, the timid girl can think of the only people who can help her, probably her best friends in this city.
But will those people help her?
My relationship with them is nothing more than my relationship with my employer.
She was filled with uneasiness.
Just as Laila was hesitating, the front of the team suddenly stopped.
It wasn't the place he had arrived, but the strange man in the trench coat who was frowning and appearing in front of him.
The whole body of the box was wrapped tightly, even one eye was covered, and there was a black mask on his face. Under the mask, the only remaining eye was looking at the guards of the patrol team, giving him a middle-aged look. Full.
The wizard's long pointed hat covers the other half of his face, and he wears a dark robe. His gloves and leather boots are covered with his homemade metal ornaments, including crosses and finger cots, and the thick gloves on his hands In the middle, he is holding a shining silver sword.
In the alley, the long and narrow sword blade reflected the moonlight, shining with a cold edge.
A strange man dressed as a wizard appeared in front of everyone, holding a sword in one hand. No matter from any aspect, the other party looks like the most classic villain from a traditional story.
The man in the trench coat had no consciousness that he was also a villain. He drew his sword vigilantly, pointed it at the opponent, and asked in a cold voice: "Who are you, sir, and why do you want to stop us?"
"Which of your eyes saw me stopping you again?"
The boy asked rhetorically.
I saw it with both eyes! The man in the trench coat was furious. The alley was so wide, and a big man like you stopped here, and then asked them why?
How does he know?
"Crazy." The man cursed in his mind.
He specifically took the secluded path just to be cautious, but he didn't expect that he would end up being blocked in this place.
But who is the other party?
This weird outfit made the man in the trench coat confused about the height of the box.
The box raised its head and carefully judged the number of people on the other side.
And the magic sword in his hand was whispering in his ear, seeming a little impatient, "Quickly, kill these people, they are all bad people, death is not a pity. Think about it, these guys have done good things, has the anger already faded?" Is it overflowing in your heart?”
"...Go ahead, give in to this anger and teach them a lesson they will never forget."
When the box heard what happened from Alyssa, it indeed exploded immediately. He pressed out the communication crystal without saying a word, and then touched the path that these people must pass alone.
As for the other party's so-called deception, it was in front of a high-level magician who was using all his strength.
The city has no secrets.
But the box didn't pay attention to the nagging words of Demon Sword at all.
Who said good people can kill bad people?
The young man raised his hand, and a magic short staff appeared out of thin air in his hand - now he wanted to tell his magic sword that bad guys can kill bad guys.
"ha?"
The magic sword Gwendes is a bit confused. Has this guy figured out what he is thinking?
But the box didn't care.
He just said word by word:
"I am--"
"Just an emotionless killer."
He paused.
The man in the trench coat suddenly realized that something was wrong, and subconsciously wanted to turn his head and close his eyes, but the young man's eyes suddenly radiated an extremely bright light, and the dazzling light suddenly absorbed the minds of everyone present.
"Mind-seizing!"
The man in the trench coat screamed in his heart.
This fucking sword-wielding bastard is actually a high-ranking mage!
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