"You, you, you, you, what did you call me?"
"What, isn't it appropriate?"
"No, no, no, no, no, no, no, how can we be so familiar with each other? Why do you call me Xiao Qian?"
"Isn't it possible? Then forget it."
Facing the cool breeze that was gradually blowing, Duan Qing gathered up his gray robe, and then in the scene where the shouts of death gradually faded away, he replied casually with an indifferent expression: "Anyway, thank you in advance. , at least you saved my life."
"Anyway, even if I don't take action, you can definitely save yourself."
As if they felt something strange about the sudden conversation, the two people facing each other were silent for a while. The red-haired girl with the words "Thousand-fingered Cranes" on her head then waved her magic in a slightly panic. The staff was accompanied by her waving hands: "Now, I just look at you for pity. I have no other meaning! Please don't misunderstand me!"
"No misunderstanding, no misunderstanding, it's all thanks to your actions anyway." Duan Qing still maintained his casual smile: "But even if it is your unconscious charity, it is a blessing for people like us. It’s a big help.”
"I, how can I be as good as you say?"
Slowly lowering his staff, Qian Zhihe's head also became much lower as his mood dropped: "I just, I just... oh, forget it."
"Is there anything else you need help with?" She stamped her feet like a little girl, and turned her gaze from Duan Qing to the front of the empty street: "Just clear out these players?"
"The tide seems to be starting to go out."
Looking at the scene where the enemy figures were gradually retreating away from this place, Duan Qing nodded slightly, and then turned his attention to the city guards who were belatedly arriving to control this area like the world's police. They were shouting loudly: "This battle should be over."
"Which song is this from? Why did everyone leave as soon as I came?"
"Maybe it's because they realized that something was wrong." His eyes stayed on the fat man from the empire who was gradually surrounded by city guards. Duan Qing replied half-jokingly: "Of course, it may also be because you are too powerful. As soon as they saw the red lotus girl appear, they were all frightened to the point of peeing and so on..."
"What you said is not so exaggerated." His cheeks turned slightly red, and Qian Zhihe raised his eyebrows again as if he noticed something: "No! Stop flattering me, okay? I won't be fooled." !”
"Okay, let's get down to business."
Grinning and shaking his head, Duan Qing then turned his gaze to both sides of the street: "Your appearance is indeed an accident. Even I didn't consider that such an uncertain factor like you would be involved. This time, even with your name as Red Lotus Magician, the Beast Alliance, which is affiliated with the local leader - and even the Wings of Freedom behind it, they should not give up easily because of this reason. The plan this time.”
"Either they have a back-up plan." After saying this, he jumped off the rooftop platform where he was and came to the streets of Kenarek Street: "Or... their goal has been achieved."
"Achieved? How is this possible?" Qian Zhihe, who followed him, asked in confusion: "I have already killed everyone back, what other tricks do they have-"
"They can use the advantage of running corpses to continue to maintain firepower - we have seen the effect of this just now." Exit interrupted the other party's words, and Duan Qing, who was slowly walking forward, replied in a low voice: "Since they have no choice Do this..."
"The possibility becomes very high that they have other purposes."
Ignoring the gradually paying attention from around, Duan Qing then walked up to several team members who were still cleaning up the mess. Due to the fierce battle before, the armors of two members named Asahi Dongsheng and Gedman were missing. Shi also bore many shocking scars: "Is he still alive? Are there any missing arms or legs?"
"What are you talking about? Are we people who will fall so easily?" What answered him was Asahi Dongsheng gradually lifting his body up from the mountain of corpses and sea of blood: "Grandpa, I'm still fine. I can still hit ten more!”
"But your body doesn't look like that." Duan Qing grinned involuntarily and said, "Look at this wound... Oops, it must have been accidentally hit from behind."
"That's just a scar on the armor! It just looks very deep on the surface!" After gritting his teeth for a long time, Chao Ri Dongsheng replied angrily: "My bronze armor is puncture resistant. They want to kill it. I’m still very early!”
"They are just flesh wounds, nothing serious." Gedman on the other side heard the sound and gasped and replied: "As long as we go back and find someone to repair it, the damage in this battle should be able to make up for it."
"That's right, at least better than someone else." Ignoring the blood stains on Duan Qing's body that looked like oil splashes, Chao Ri Dongsheng squinted his eyes and asked, "But you - you seem to be more energetic than us? Let's start the fight. Then he was chased across two streets? Where did he go to hang out? "
"It seems that he also brought a young lady who was hanging out with him." Goldman's smiling eyes then fell on Qian Zhihe behind him: "Won't you introduce it to us?"
"Qianzhihe, do you still need an introduction?" So Duan Qing turned around and spread his arms carelessly: "We will be a family from now on!"
Ignoring the loud protest from the girl, he briefly understood the previous battlefield situation, and then greeted the gradually returning figure of a white-haired female swordsman in the distance with his eyes, while asking the surrounding team members in a low voice: "They really all evacuated?"
"It looks like this." Goldman also put away his joking expression: "It's like he suddenly gave up the fight in the middle of the fight."
"We may feel this way, but the NPC should not notice such an obvious change." Recalling what the mustache thief said before, Duan Qing's brows gradually furrowed: "This This battle seems very strange."
"The city guards also stood by and did nothing until they started to withdraw, and then they started to surround them." Glancing in the direction of the figure of the fat noble who was still making a fuss, Goldman lowered his voice. He replied in a loud voice: "But they still captured a few prisoners, which was a bit of a joke."
"Oh? Where is he? He hasn't been taken away yet, right?"
"over there."
Pointing at the backs of several imperial guards who were enduring the loud noise of the fat noble, Goldman showed a somewhat surprised expression: "Why, are you going to get involved too?"
"Don't forget that we are in the name of guards now." Duan Qing smiled and showed his white teeth: "We are not outsiders. What's the point of helping to find clues."
"But they are all a group of players. Let's go over and ask...Hey, hey!"
The calls in his ears were getting farther and farther away from Duan Qing, who was walking forward, and were replaced by the fierce shouts of the fat nobleman Volavos who was gradually approaching. He had just experienced the thrill and death of life and death before. The stimulation seemed to make the imperial nobleman's mood become hysterical. His fingers pointing at the imperial guards at the front were already splattered with his own saliva. As if they were mentally prepared for the fat man's reaction, the imperial soldiers who stood there and accepted the complaints and scoldings of the imperial noble showed no signs of resisting, until the fat noble himself was shouting and breathless. When he was out of breath, one of them muttered a sentence in a low voice: "What's so cool about this? He's just an incompetent fool..."
"What did you say? How dare you slander an empire's nobles?" Volavos, who had just taken a breath, immediately raised his voice again: "You are soldiers of the empire! You are protecting the safety of our great Frey Empire. People! What have you done now? You even allowed these thieves to wreak havoc in the Castle of Thebilis!"
"When I become a cabinet minister, I will definitely give you a copy in front of the emperor!" He raised his finger again: "You are the ones who insult your vocation!"
"The soldiers of the empire will only protect the glory of the empire and the legal residents of the empire." A timely voice then appeared behind the row of soldiers, in the middle of the group of player prisoners who had been tied up by Wuhuada: "Instead of like You are such an empire borer."
"you--!"
It seemed that he was extremely angry, and the fat player's originally fair face turned red: "Who? Who said that? As a thief, you still dare to speak nonsense, I will chop off your head now!"
"Now that I have done what I did today, I have no intention of going back alive." The voice still said unhurriedly: "As for why we want to get rid of you, you should know it yourself."
"Watch your words." An imperial soldier who looked like a military commander who was in charge of escorting them squinted his eyes and warned: "Everything you say now may become evidence in court and may aggravate your crimes. .”
"Then we have to say: This fat man is an incompetent moth!"
There was some commotion among the prisoners tied to the ground, and then there was the scene of a player covered in blood gradually standing up. The player was gradually turning into a white light in Duan Qing's eyes, and finally took him with him. The voice that shouted loudly fell down: "If we can't get rid of all the moths today, one of my colleagues will surely take your head off your neck in the future!"
"For the glory of Frey Empire!"
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The attack that occurred on the streets of Thebilis Castle quickly spread throughout the free world. However, this incident was not famous because of the attack itself, but because of what was revealed after the attack. The clues turned into an eye-catching reversal plot. Many good people then turned over the background of Volavos, who was at the center of the incident, in an attempt to find out what kind of secret was behind this incident that was similar to a civil uprising. A huge whirlpool followed this. As a trigger, this incident began to slowly spin over the entire empire.
As one of the people closest to the center of this incident, Duan Qing and his team are still in a state of confusion, just because Lord Volavos, as their employer, is also falling into a trap that even himself I don't even know where the plot is going.
"Where are we going?"
Walking on the empty streets near the central castle, a group of players led by a group of imperial soldiers gradually began to hear discussions that Duan Qing and others had deliberately lowered: "Where is that fat man?"
"I heard that he never came back since he was taken away by the imperial soldiers that day." Duan Qing, who was asked, replied in a low voice: "It seems that he was summoned by the local army commander."
"Did that fat man...really commit any serious crime?" Asahi Dongsheng still whispered in his ear: "Will something happen to us too?"
"How do I know? You know everything we have done." Duan Qing shrugged his shoulders helplessly: "As for whether something will happen... it probably depends on the local laws and the attitude of the judge."
"The empire is a country where the monarch is supreme, but the empire also has corresponding laws."
She said this in a low voice, and the white-haired woman named Xue Ling Huan Bing then spoke up with her own voice: "If it is an ordinary criminal, it is usually handed over to the local city lord for sentencing in accordance with the law. Then it was handed over to the Imperial Army for execution.”
"But The Thebilis Castle is a little different, because this is originally a military fortress." Gedman on the side looked up and looked around the towering castle: "So the highest officer here is the commander of the legion stationed here. Your Mightiness."
"Well, this is not good news." Duan Qing, who had already entered the central castle with a slight sigh, said in a low voice: "Although I don't know how this incident will turn out. level, but at present we can only take one step at a time.”
"Let's all play it by ear."
His face darkened, and he quickly disappeared into the wide gate above the castle. The steps that went up gradually also continued to move back under the feet of several people, and finally led to a fortress hall-like building. The sight of the place and the tightly guarded rows of imperial soldiers appeared in front of Duan Qing: "I am the commander of the Empire's Second Army and the top person in charge of Thebilis Castle, General Steele."
At the end of the center of the fortress hall, a middle-aged man wearing an imperial military uniform and sitting on a military throne looked down at Duan Qing and others who walked in: "Now let's talk about what Volavos committed. The crime of corruption——"
"I have some questions I need to ask you about."
