"So you still want to continue to study these elemental reactions and the like?"
Sitting on the carriage that was driving on the starry night again, the white-haired woman named Xue Ling Huan Bing stared at Duan Qing who was sitting at the front of the carriage: "Don't you plan to take a good rest?"
"I am one of the "Gods and Demons" monsters who has persisted through three rounds of the Tower of the Abyss by relying on the title of 'Iron Man'. What does this level of fatigue mean?" He pointed at the opponent and gave a thumbs up, which belonged to Duan Qing. A smile appeared in front of Xue Ling Huan Bing at the next moment: "Don't worry, you can just rest in peace and leave the precautions to me."
"I'm not worried about the safety of the convoy, I'm worried about--forget it." He cast an indifferent look at the other carriages that were also moving slowly around him. The words he wanted to say were swallowed back: "Anyway, you stinky men don't want to go home. You just want to waste your last energy outside every day before you give up, right?"
"If you really feel tired, just come in and rest for a while." She yawned widely, and her blushing cheeks disappeared as she turned around and got into the car: "I won't mind."
"...Ha." The corners of his mouth turned up involuntarily, and Duan Qing, who didn't look back, responded with his last low laugh as the two temporarily separated. He looked up at the countless brilliant stars shining above his head. , and then returned his attention to the surface of the flame and frost magic elements intertwined between his palms: "Okay, let's continue, if we use frost energy first, and then use fire energy -"
"Isn't it over yet?" Then there was the sound of horse hooves in his ears, accompanied by the face of Gedman approaching with the reins: "Look at you working there, let go The firecrackers were set off so much that they almost became a nuisance to the residents.”
"Has someone started complaining to you already?" Duan Qing still didn't look up: "Their feedback is really fast."
"After all, we are already quite famous in this team. Both the Sioux and the Wabu tribe know us more or less." Pointing to his nose, Gedman smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Of course. It’s especially easy to come to your door.”
"Okay, I will restrain myself a little bit." Waving his hand, Duan Qing dispersed the miniature magic elements still condensed in his hand at the corner of his eyes: "At least wait until this night is over. "
"Actually, it's not as difficult to support as you and I imagined. These tribes on the grassland originally spent the whole day migrating." Stretching himself vigorously, Goldman smiled lowly. He replied: "It is common for them to rest while on the road. The only thing they need to worry about is night raids. With so many people standing guard around the convoy, this problem is nothing now."
"It's a pity that we could have enjoyed a more peaceful night." Duan Qing, looking up at the night sky, sighed and replied: "It's still troublesome for you all. Not only do we have to rush on the road at such a late hour, but we also have to protect the safety of the convoy."
"Isn't it the same for you? Otherwise, you would have got into the carriage at the back?" Gedman smiled and pointed to the carriage behind the other party: "Okay, I will continue patrolling, and ——”
"Sultu seems to have something to say to you. If you have time, go and take a look."
Leaving behind this last message, the large shield warrior quickly disappeared in front of the convoy, and the faint shouts followed the cavalrymen who were also rushing back and forth around him, walking forward unhurriedly. The depths of the grassland that the convoy faced gradually extended. Duan Qing, who was sitting on the edge of the carriage and was silently dazed for a while. He was thinking about something and then closed his slightly absent-minded eyes. He identified the distribution of the fleet, and finally sighed and walked out of the carriage. He stood up and said, "I can guess what you want to ask."
"Your Excellency Surtu."
A few simple climbs then appeared between the orderly carriages side by side, bringing Duan Qing's figure to Surtu, who was also staring at the front of the motorcade: "Are you looking for me?"
"I thought I would wait until dawn before looking for you, but I didn't expect that you didn't rest either."
The messy hair wrapped in the headband kept fluttering in the night wind, and at the same time, the voice of the leader of the Sioux tribe was particularly low at this time: "It's not a big deal, I just want to ask you about the previous battle. .”
"You are now the supreme commander of this mixed migration team, and it is our duty to report the battle situation to you." Duan Qing shook his head indifferently: "But there was really nothing to say about the battle just now. To put it simply, we discovered the opponent's location in advance, so we attacked them in advance."
"Discover in advance?" The spirit was also in a state of exhaustion, and Surtu's reply voice also seemed a little weak and low: "Did they appear from that slope?"
"Yes, and the action was very fast." Duan Qing replied, keeping his smile: "If some of us were not alert enough and responsive enough, the final result might not be like this."
"Oh?" Surtu tilted his head quietly: "Who is so good?"
"Asahi Dongsheng in our team, you should also know him." Duan Qing replied without hesitation: "Although we didn't have time to ask this guy who likes to run around how he discovered the enemy, but his contribution lies in He played a huge role in this night attack, so you can continue to pay attention to him and leave your words of thanks to him."
"...Understood." Surtu's burly body seemed to have become a little more restrained as he closed his eyes and regained his attention: "But no matter who discovered or fought off those people, You are all responsible for responding to this attack. If you hadn't forced them to retreat as quickly as possible, the beasts below would not have been able to retreat so easily."
"I have heard about this, including what happened to you, the main migrating team." Duan Qing nodded and touched his nose in a low voice: "What is it called the Luoni tribe, right? "
"In fact, this cannot be determined at all." Surtu replied solemnly: "We only came to this conclusion based on the current situation and the information we know about other well-known tribes on the grassland. That’s all.”
"Is this Luoni tribe the kind of tribe that is good at driving herds of animals as attack weapons?" After trying to come to this conclusion, Duan Qing continued to ask tentatively: "What grudge does he have with our Sioux tribe?"
"He doesn't have any grudge against our Sioux tribe, but he does have a little grudge against the Wabu tribe."
The night gradually receded as the motorcade continued to move forward, and the starlight scattered all over it seemed to become a bit dimmer with the passage of the night wind. Surtu, who looked up at these dim brilliance, then softly Sighing, as if falling into some kind of memory state: "This is also some information I learned from other places. It is that there was some small dispute between the Wabu tribe and the Luoni tribe who have not yet migrated here. The small conflict has passed. According to my understanding of the rules and habits on the grassland, this conflict will not lead to a chase."
"These are definitely not the reasons that drive the Luoni people to use their own herds as weapons and come all the way here." He pulled his solemn gaze from the sky and slowly fell on Duan Qing: " This kind of war, which is close to extermination, is only possible when the survival of the two races is at stake."
"I understand." As if he understood the hidden meaning that the other party wanted to express, Duan Qing nodded his head cautiously: "Isn't it precisely for this reason that we set off urgently and headed to the location we wanted to go along the way? ?The attack just now may be just a sign of the continuation."
"I also hope that this is not the case, but the current situation no longer allows us to have illusions and luck." Surtu nodded his head heavily: "This 'disappearing wind road' may soon be replaced by more What people know is that by that time——"
"We will have more fellow travelers."
He looked at Duan Qing's face with strange eyes, and the latter curled his mouth helplessly, hiding his expression in the movement of turning his head: "In other words, competitors will become more competitive. Right? Haha... Where is the next destination? How far is it from us? "
"We have crossed two scheduled transfer stations in succession, so the time has been shortened a bit." Pointing to the direction in which the migration team was still moving forward, Surtu continued in a steady voice: "If we hadn't Yes, we should be about to enter the habitat of another tribe, but if we calculate the distance, it will probably take a little more than a day to be enough."
"So far?" Duan Qing couldn't help but open his mouth: "Don't you consider the factor of resting in the middle? After another day and night, those ordinary tribesmen will not be able to hold on."
"Of course I know." Surtu replied with his eyes closed: "But our march plan has already been disrupted, let alone-"
"I always have a feeling that those ghostly guys are still chasing after us."
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"Why retreat, Lord Nidu!"
At the same moment, in the dark night at another location deep in the grassland, a group of tribal warriors sitting together to bandage their wounds pulled off the cloth on their faces and excitedly asked the man surrounded by them in the middle. The man said: "We can still fight! We just need to rush forward and chop off the heads of those humble adventurers with one knife, and we can complete our mission!"
"Don't think of things so simply, you guys." With his eyes closed and maintaining a posture as if he was in trance, the man known as Nidu straightened out his hair, which was braided into small bundles: " It is of course very simple to deal with those adventurers, but they have already discovered our existence. If we continue to delay, the battle will definitely turn against us, isn't it?"
"With so many tribal warriors, we turned around and ran away in front of a few adventurers - I can't accept this result!" Another tribal warrior who questioned Nidu also turned livid: "Those things called magic Tricks can't stop us at all! As for those long-range weapons that are more powerful than bows and arrows, as long as we use the beast herd to surround us——"
"Do you still remember what happened to the beast herd?" Nidu still looked calm in front of the others, but his slow and confident voice easily interrupted the questioner: "This is what the patriarch wants us to complete. The sacred mission, the herd specially given to us, wasting it here will make us lose face, not to mention whether those strange adventurers will come up with more weird tricks to continue to waste away in this battle. Our time and our power.”
"Now that the effect of the surprise attack has disappeared, staying there will only gradually increase the possibility of us encountering an accident." He looked around at the other people here, and his scrutiny also shifted to the area not far from the settlement. The beasts lying obediently on the grass said: "Rather than letting us fall into this risk, it is better to wait for the next opportunity. Anyway, the Sioux people will be more tired after this battle." ,Is not it?"
"Lord Nidu is right, we still have plenty of opportunities." In the atmosphere that gradually became quiet, another soldier sitting by the campfire reminded the others in a low voice: "What's more, Lord Alan and his men are not the same." Failure to participate in the battle as scheduled is also one of the unsettling factors. We must find out this matter before making a decision."
"Yes, if both sides attack at the same time, we may be able to win more easily." The atmosphere became a little more relaxed with the appearance of these words, and the fists of the soldiers surrounding the bonfire also tightened. Holding it: "We don't even need to use the herd to fight, it will reveal our identity."
"Master Alan, why didn't they show up? Could it be that they -"
"Were they all wiped out?"
The sudden reply appeared in the darkness outside the campfire. The low roars and warnings from the beasts also occupied everyone's hearing at the next moment. The few soldiers closest to that direction hurriedly stood up and turned their heads, alert. He looked at the stretched figure of a bare-chested player who appeared there carrying a long sword: "Ah ha, it turns out they are your companions. No wonder they all look the same wretched, even Meng Bu It’s the same style.”
"I originally wanted to come over and borrow a fire to warm myself up, but since we are so destined..."
He said hello to the other players behind him who were greeting vaguely outside the group of grinning beasts, and then continued with a smile on his lips.
"Then just reluctantly take another class."
