As if to show their obedience to the majesty of the sky, the next few days became a period of idleness for most people, because the heavy rain that had been brewing for several days over the Feron Plain did not seem to be coming. Stopped without permission within a short period of time. Although the pouring rain has weakened a little in the past few days, the continuous rainy weather has not changed at all, and this has also made the soldiers of the Principality, who were originally unable to carry out most operations due to the rain, have to spend more time. did several things they had never done before.
Such as repairing several fortress facilities that collapsed due to the impact of heavy rain, and dealing with large areas of water that are about to become troublesome.
"Captain! There is too much water in the eastern warehouse, and part of it has flooded into the brothers' barracks!"
"Where are the flood levees? Where are the flood levees you built? You lazy guys, I told you not to fill them with ordinary stones. Can that thing be of any use?"
"Yes, captain, there is also as much water outside the fortress as a river. If you want to go to Falon Mountain to collect it, it is no different from swimming there..."
"Then swim there! Then find a way to transport it back! Team Harry! Go to the Feina River in the south and find a way to drain all the damn water out!"
"...Is it really okay for us to look at it like this?"
Duan Qing, who was sitting on the top of the high fortress, watching all this, then sighed deeply, while Anyu Ninglan, who was standing behind him holding an umbrella, still maintained his smile, which was wet by the rain. Her short hair didn't seem to affect her chic and calm posture at all: "Would you like to go down and help me? They look very troubled..."
"Ning Lan, do you want to help?" Duan Qing, who was sitting on the edge of the high platform, whispered without looking back: "It's really surprising. When did you become so enthusiastic?"
"I just heard about your deeds of fighting side by side with them here." Ninglan, holding an umbrella and leaning against her side, still maintained her smile: "If sir still has feelings for this place, then helping them should be It’s best to make Mr. feel comfortable.”
"Ninglan really knows me very well." So Duan Qing sighed again: "But now we are members of the Empire, and we are still members of the Empire who are hated and hated by them. If we help without permission, maybe Instead, they regarded him as an attacker and killed him on the spot...Hey."
"How's the investigation going?"
He turned around and shouted loudly at the ruins behind him exposed in the rain: "Did you unearth anything new?"
"No." From the rubble-strewn ruins of the fortress, Gedman's shout came from a distance: "We have been soaked in the rain for so many days, and it's still such a crazy weather. It's a miracle that we can find any clues. !”
"If it weren't for the fact that the rain seems to be showing no signs of stopping, I wouldn't want to come here at this time." Duan Qing slowly got up from the ground with his knees pressed: "I have endured it for two days. There is no reason why we should not continue to wait..."
"It's not just for money." Xue Ling Huan Bing's angry voice then sounded from the corner of the ruins in front of Duan Qing: "If we don't clean up this place, most of the money, clues, etc. will be gone, and you won't If you want to continue watching the show, come over here and help me!"
As Duan Qing said before, the members of the Qingling Adventure Group who were left here succeeded in becoming the most leisurely people in this fortress without much effort. The status of the Imperial Investigation Team and the status of adventurers also made them These guys in the principality soon became the target of most people in the principality, and eventually they no longer even had ordinary respect. The investigation of the incident has reached a certain bottleneck, and the phenomenon of several people being bored at home has become more and more obvious as time goes by. In order to break this embarrassing situation, Xue Ling Huan Bing was the first to come up with The method is unique to adventurers.
That is - working.
"It was hard for me to convince them to give us this job."
Seeing Duan Qing walking over with his head shaking, Xue Ling Huan Bing crossed his arms angrily: "Although the money may be a little less, cleaning the ruins is better than finding clues. I think those who have been bullied must be The people of the Principality probably never thought that we would be so enthusiastic about this attack."
"That's because they have identified us as the murderers." Duan Qing rolled his eyelids: "And...did we really find out?"
"First, don't worry about so much." Xue Ling Huan Bing shook a little of the mud off his hands: "Compared with those adventure groups from other principalities, don't you think we can grab such a good job? Have you already gained a huge advantage?"
"Indeed, if you don't count the heavy rain." Duan Qing held his chin and nodded his head: "And considering the new monsters and new events that players who venture out in the heavy rain may discover, this deal Maybe I even lost a lot... Oops!"
"Don't complain all the time."
Withdrawing the fingers that hit the opponent's head, the veins that appeared on Xue Ling Huan Bing's face also shrunk a little with Duan Qing's pained expression: "We don't have the status of a principality, so we can't steal their business. , that guy Dusk can give us some trust for the sake of Qian Zhihe and the Mages Council, but others can't."
"If we go to grab business, we might be beaten back by others - is that what you mean?" Asahi Dongsheng, who was arranging the rubble in the distance of the ruins, laughed and responded: "Don't be afraid, you have your brother Asahi Dongsheng." Here, if they dare to take action against us, then I will send them all back with one axe!"
"Come on, we can bully those small guilds now." Goldman's sarcastic voice then rose in the corner: "If we encounter a monster-level team like Jianghu, wouldn't we still be the only ones? It’s worth the beating.”
"By the way, speaking of Jianghu...where have they been recently?"
"Their purpose should be related to the investigation team itself."
Duan Qing, who shook his head and hid under half the ceiling, finally put down the hand that had been covering his head: "Since Reina has been gone for so long, they should not have stayed in this place. There’s a reason.”
"That's not necessarily true. I saw their people in a certain direction of the fortress two days ago." Asahi Dongsheng immediately raised his objection: "Although I didn't see Duan Shanyue, the uniformed man wearing a bunt And the Jianghu logo is still too conspicuous."
"Are they still here?" Duan Qing opened his eyes: "What are they doing here?"
"Isn't this something you people with good brains should understand?" Asahi Dongsheng glared back with a matter-of-fact expression: "We are only responsible for information and hard work, and the research should be left to magicians like you. Let’s do it.”
"It's best to inquire a little bit, the situation may have changed." Xueling Huanbing on the side gradually raised his eyebrows: "If they want to be disadvantageous to us, we probably have no chance to resist... "
"Maybe I have been persecuted a lot recently, so I have developed some paranoia." Duan Qing, slapping his forehead, said helplessly: "If you want to show up as a big guild, if you want to know, you can ask them directly. Otherwise it’s over.”
"...This is what you said." Xueling Huanbing stabbed the other party hard with her eyes, slapping her hands, then turned around and walked towards the bottom of the fortress: "If I am beaten out, I will I’ll put this account on your head.”
"Be careful." Looking at Duan Qing's frozen movements, Asahi Dongsheng and Gedman, who then walked past him, also patted his shoulders: "Our president has been in a bad mood these days. If If she really makes trouble for you, we can't protect you."
"Went to eat."
The figure gradually disappeared deep into the corridor of the fortress. Several players who had finished their work then walked towards the stairs leading to the lower level as the hazy rain curtain continued to fall. Duan Qing, who was left behind, also stopped. His stunned reaction turned into two wry smiles: "I was just joking."
"Next time, please don't make jokes like this that can easily be misunderstood, sir." The code words that came from behind him were Ninglan's sweet smile: "Otherwise, you will easily get burned."
"I'm not afraid of getting burned or something like that. I'm just worried that she will suffer a loss in front of the world." Duan Qing, who patted the mud stains on his body, shook his head and smiled bitterly, then took his own steps towards the stairs. : "With the current strength of her and you and me, if Jianghu really wants to cause trouble for us, our means of resistance are extremely limited."
"The people of the Long family shouldn't be so hateful." Ningyu Ninglan, who was following behind with an umbrella, raised her hand to the sky: "They may say bad things to you because of your relationship, but they are doing evil things behind your back. Normally not done.”
"So I am more inclined to the theory that they stayed here to protect the principality."
Turning his head and glancing down at the still bustling fortress, Duan Qing's eyes became serious: "I don't know what the principality is facing now, but since Jianghu and their people appeared in front of us, I have already I smell something unusual."
"They never lack reasons for taking action." As he said this, his figure gradually disappeared into the shadows leading to the lower stairs: "Either they want to be wary of the Empire, or... they are wary of something else."
"The attacks we encountered before have been proven not to be done by them." Ningyu Ninglan, who put away her umbrella, echoed in a low voice: "But it shouldn't be done by one of our own, so -"
"Found the trace."
The sound of cold wind, which was different from the cold weather, then appeared in front of Duan Qing, accompanied by Maggie's slender figure wrapped in a black windbreaker. Her body, which seemed not to be stained by any raindrops, then moved lightly. He put away his half-kneeling knees, and then slowly stood up facing the two people: "There is indeed someone secretly monitoring the fortress, and... it seems that they want to take action."
"What about your identity?"
"It should be the group you mentioned before."
Maggie also raised her head gradually, and lowered her fists. Maggie's eyes stayed on the body of the secret language for a moment: "The equipment is uneven, and the strength is also very different, but most of them are adventurers and should not belong to Mercenaries of any camp."
"Mercenaries...heh." Duan Qing sighed and shook his head, and then pointed to the top of his head: "Let us wait and see whether they are real mercenaries or disguised as mercenaries... ...Where is the man named Yinzhu? Is he in that team?"
"We have conducted long-distance observations in that crowd according to Yumeng's description." Maggie replied in a low voice: "There is indeed a character inside who matches the description very well."
"Then it's definitely this group of people." Duan Qing nodded his head: "When are they going to take action?"
"With such heavy rain, they shouldn't be in a hurry to take action."
A faint purple light then appeared above the heads of the three people, accompanied by the strange scene of Violet wearing a cloak appearing in the void: "I have set up several magic eyes. As long as there is any movement outside, I will You'll find out immediately, but—"
"Because of the rain, the soldiers of the principality are currently huddled in the fortress." Duan Qingying said in harmony with the other party's voice: "So the possibility of them attacking the city at this time is not high."
"Even if the rain stops, the possibility of them attacking the city is not high." Looking in the direction of Maggie, who was silent, Violet smiled and waved her hand: "After all, here is It is one of the best undefeated fortresses on the Free Continent, and there is nothing they can do about it just by the few people they have shown now."
"You mean - they may use some off-board moves." Duan Qing nodded and thought: "After all, their target is Yuan Meng, what else is there... How is the situation of that guy? "
"Still in the tavern now."
Pointing in a certain direction of the fortress, Violet covered her mouth and laughed twice: "Don't worry, he is currently immersed in the services provided by that tavern and has no time to waste his energy on escaping."
"Then don't worry about him for now." So Duan Qing waved his hands with a black face: "Go and inform Marshal Dusk. Let them know the information we got back first, although we are still in their minds. We are people who can’t believe it, but we won’t do anything that violates morality.”
"The only thing left is to continue to prepare before it rains and - hope that the rain can last for a while? Really, if those principality soldiers who are still busy outside know my idea, they will not Will they really come to kill you... huh?"
"What’s wrong with you?"
The pace of walking forward paused for a moment. Duan Qing, who had just planned to walk out of the stair area, then looked back at the purple-haired woman in a black cloak who was still motionless. Her hair was not stained by any rain at this time. He also looked at Duan Qing's face with dazzling eyes, and after a long time, he asked with a smile in a low female voice full of magnetism: "You——"
"Did you forget something?"
