"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..."
In the biting cold wind with the sound of crunching snow, a few figures who appeared in the valley gradually opened the cover of the trees, and then slowly passed through the place with complaints and comments from time to time. A seemingly inaccessible place. As the distance got closer, the voices of the two men in black walking at the front became clearer and clearer, and then they suddenly stopped speaking at the same time as they crossed a certain line: "..."
"...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 white fragments mixed with snow and ice fell. 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 held 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."
"What should we do?" Qian Zhihe 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 defense. 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 Duan Qing, who dragged the man in black and hid behind a tree, With a skillful twist to the right, he pushed 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’m the best at this kind of job of beating sap… 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 pinned in the snow, struggled for a long time, and then panted and rolled out of the opponent'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!"
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 abnormality fell around them. The continuously falling snowflakes did not seem to have changed in any way due to their inspection, and they were still falling slowly in front and back of this narrow valley. After the unchanging silence dispersed for a while, the two people standing at the front were One of the men in black slowly raised his hand: "Everyone obeys the order..."
"Disperse your formation and stay on alert." His eyes scanned the surroundings: "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 expanding warning range compressed Duan Qing and others hidden in it to further places, making the number of hiding spots found by spreading out to the left and right less and less. 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 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 array 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'm going to make them understand that their decision to spread out their formation... was 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. A faint buzzing sound gradually appeared in the eyes of the two people, along each seemingly invisible path. The place swayed back and forth: "...We have opened the Eye 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. He quickly turned 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 looks like an ambusher. Several men in black surrounding them also followed the magician's move and turned in the direction of the magic. However, a slender figure suddenly appeared behind their sight, following him like a shadow. He pressed close to the man in black near the edge: "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 Enyu Ninglan disappeared, and her body that was left in place exploded into the sky. The magic bombing from the Restoration search team also followed the leader's anger. , kept falling under the cliff near the inside of the valley. The remaining men in black standing on the periphery of the formation also nervously raised their staffs and pointed them at the positions they were responsible for, but another leader not far from the angry captain He frowned slightly, and then reminded his colleagues: "Don't get angry. It's useless to scare them away. Now that we have confirmed that there are people here, should we send out 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 ray of light appeared and hit a wall of crystal clear ice like glass. The violent impact then suddenly flew around, blowing the black hood on Mengzhu's head to the side. The leader who looked back at her also put away the angry expression he had pretended before, and replaced it with a look of anger. The weird smile after the conspiracy succeeded: "Finally the tail is revealed, little guys..."
"Oops……"
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 far away: "Big, 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, and various rays of light like an aurora then crossed over and passed Duan Qing's position, and then all hit the cliff behind with no one around, taking the lead. 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 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 fell to the ground again 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 chance of survival."
"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 motioned 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 go 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 words that the leader was about to say were blocked, along with the roar that filled the sky. Back in his mouth.
