Chapter 133 Camp Attacked
Chapter 133 Camp Attacked
late at night.
Follow a forest road until you reach a magnificent town at the end. The lights there are dim, and even in the dark, the town is illuminated by the lights and turns a fiery red, which is clearly visible in the night.
The sound of wooden wheels rolling was heard from deep in the dense forest. A carriage slowly drove out from the road. The driver looked around vigilantly with a small knife on his waist. There were four armored soldiers standing around the carriage, so the carriage was moving quite slowly.
The carriage was not a carriage, but a wooden cage, in which were imprisoned five or six girls who looked to be about fifteen or sixteen years old. Their eyes were dull and the tears in the corners of their eyes had dried up. They were only wearing thin clothes and did not even have a piece of cloth on their lower body.
There were many marks of whipping on his arms and thighs. The bloody scars were still bleeding, and the bruised wounds told of the pain of the past.
There is also a huge iron ring around the neck. The iron ring is pitch black with red ripples on it, flickering like a heartbeat. The iron ring is square in shape with a hole inside, fitting tightly around the girls' necks. The iron ring is very large, and when it is put on their necks, it is as wide as their shoulders.
"Why is it so quiet around here?" The driver curled up and trembled, asking about the abnormality.
"Delivering goods in the middle of the night, the noise is even more creepy."
"That's right, don't scare yourself. The capital city is just ahead. Don't be afraid."
After listening to the guards' consolation, the driver gradually calmed down and said calmly: "Okay, okay..." Although the driver agreed verbally, he was still uneasy in his heart, because the woods were too quiet. Even when the carriage passed by, there was not even the sound of any startled birds in the woods.
However, at this moment, a big cat was lying on a branch on the tree trunk, quietly waiting for the opportunity. However, behind the big cat, there was a huge face hidden in the shadows. It was difficult to see what it was, but its eyes were glowing red. From the outline, it could be seen that it was a face. The heavy gasping sounds seemed to tell the big cat that he was extremely hungry and thirsty.
"Don't be impatient, wait until they get closer." The big cat actually spoke, reminding the dark shadow behind him.
"Huh..." said the black shadow, and merged into the black shadow again.
However, at this time, the people in the carriage did not notice anything wrong and were still laughing and joking.
"Do it."
As the sickle-like waning moon hung high in the night sky, the cold light spread from the sky to the earth, spreading a layer of white frost.
Accompanying this are the heart-wrenching screams and the scarlet flow of fresh blood.
……
Two weeks later, at night.
The Second Prince's troops set up camp on an open lawn. The lawn was covered with tents of all sizes, but what seemed out of place was that there were three wooden houses in the central area.
The wooden house was very small, only about ten square meters in size, and the three items in the wooden house were naturally spare items that Zero One and the other two had taken out directly from their storage bracelets.
The second prince sat in front of the campfire in the center, looked up at the three small wooden houses, then looked back at his own simple tent, his eyes full of envy. The second prince had originally planned to prepare camping tools and tents for Lingyi and others.
But who would have thought that Zero One would actually take out a wooden house from the storage bracelet and live in it, which shocked the Second Prince so much that he couldn't close his mouth for a moment. Just when it seemed that only Zero One had such a peculiar building, Leo and Alice also followed suit and took out their own wooden houses, which stunned the Second Prince and the soldiers he led.
The second prince had the opportunity to take a peek inside. The wooden house was also very simple, with a long desk next to a window, a large bed, and a small room. The second prince did not ask what it was used for, but from the performance of Leo and Zero One, they would feel extremely relaxed and happy after coming out of that room.
The Second Prince shook his head helplessly, looking at Lingyi's wooden house with some envy, and said: "No matter how many times I see it, I will be shocked. There is actually a house contained in the storage bracelet."
"Does His Highness the Second Prince need one as well?" Lingyi's voice suddenly sounded. When the Second Prince looked up, he found that Lingyi had appeared beside him at some point.
"Ah? Oh, not really, hahaha, how could that be, right?" The second prince spoke incoherently and pretended to be strong.
Lingyi shook his head and sighed, then sat down by the campfire: "How long will it take us to the imperial city, the capital Andressa?" Lingyi asked curiously.
"From the looks of the surroundings, we should be about the same." The second prince said, holding a piece of cloth with a map drawn on it. He stretched out his hand and gestured, muttering to himself, "This is the border junction of the capital Andressa. If we walk out of the jungle, we will see a forest road. If we follow the forest road, we will reach the capital Andressa."
"About two weeks, which is about right." Lingyi said, staring at the sparks of the campfire, gradually becoming absent-minded.
The Second Prince tilted his head and looked at Lingyi, asking, "How many secrets do you have?"
"Hmm? How many secrets can I have?" Lingyi also smiled and looked back at the second prince.
There was a hint of complexity in the Second Prince's eyes. If he was passionate when he saw Zero One two weeks ago, then now Zero One was calm and steady. If one just met his eyes, one could feel the oppressive and suffocating feeling.
But the Second Prince was also tempered on the battlefield. Although he was a little shocked, it didn't last long. He nodded and said, "How many secrets can you have? Take the matter of this house for example. You never gave me a direct answer. It's the same today. And what about the faucet, the electric fan, and the barbecue grill? How did you come up with these things?"
Lingyi smiled faintly and said, "Who knows? Judging from the Second Prince's appearance, he probably has never been to Nord Town."
"As soon as I arrived in Nord Town, I went to discuss this trip to the Holy Land with you, the dean, and the mayor of Nord Town. I didn't have time to go shopping..." The second prince said unhappily, but then he thought something was wrong. "No, what did you say? Does everyone in Nord Town have that kind of thing?"
Lingyi looked at the Second Prince. His deep, pitch-black pupils seemed to be able to restrain the Second Prince. The corners of his mouth lifted slightly. "Who knows? I can only say that you can just take a walk around Nord Town when the time comes." After Lingyi finished speaking, he looked back at the bonfire again, but unlike before, this time Lingyi frowned slightly, staring at the bonfire with his fists clenched, as if there was some irreconcilable hatred.
"Is that so..." It was the first time that the Second Prince saw Lingyi like this.
Over the past two weeks, he watched Lingyi change from being anxious to being calm, and Lingyi's progress amazed the Second Prince. Lingyi no longer looked like a fifteen-year-old boy, but more like a fifty-year-old middle-aged man. He was hard to see through and guess.
"Then..." The Second Prince wanted to continue chatting with Lingyi, but suddenly there was a restless sound in the camp.
"Help, help! Help!"
A hoarse male voice sounded, and the quiet camp was instantly awakened. The soldiers on night patrol ran to the left of Zero One first, and the other soldiers in the tent also ran out of the tent, checking the situation vigilantly.
The second prince and Lingyi also stood up nervously. Lingyi glanced back at the wooden house. Leo and Alice should still be practicing at this time, so they didn't notice the situation outside.
The second prince roared: "What's going on?"
After a while, a soldier hunched his upper body, ran to the second prince in small steps, knelt on one knee and said: "Your Highness, someone broke into the camp..."
"Run, run!" The hoarse male voice sounded again, interrupting the soldier's message.
Looking up in the direction of the sound, I found a man covered in blood. Judging from the exquisiteness of his hair and face, he did not look like a farmer. Although his clothes were tattered, they were of high quality. He should be a well-mannered scholar, but for some reason he was so panicked that he broke into the second prince's camp.
However, what was ridiculous was that all the soldiers in the camp could not stop him. The soldiers chasing him from behind could not even touch his heels. The soldiers beside him wanted to stretch out their arms to stop him, but he dodged them cleverly. His reaction speed was excellent and was not inferior to that of third-level adventurers like Leo and Alice.
The second prince was also stunned when he saw this scene, and quickly ordered: "Come here, stop him!"
Following the Second Prince's order, two soldiers immediately raised their spears and pointed at the man: "Stop!"
"Run, run, run!" the man shouted, ignoring the soldiers' warnings and continued to rush forward.
The two soldiers nodded and rushed towards the man at the same time. Incredibly, facing the attack from two spears, the man slid to avoid the soldiers' attack and appeared behind the two soldiers. Although he staggered two steps and fell to the ground, he turned over in panic and continued to run in that direction.
The two soldiers were stunned. The second prince was also stunned: "Who is this guy? How can he escape like this?"
"Judging from the way he dodged, he seemed very unfamiliar with it, and he had no chance to fight back. He wasn't even ready to get up. He might not have much strength..." Lingyi lowered his head in thought, continuing to observe the man's actions.
"Shoot! Shoot! Stop him!" The second prince would not allow his camp to be tortured like this by a guy, so he quickly ordered the arrows to be shot to stop the manic man.
"No need, I'll do it, Pegasus." Zero One stretched out his hand to stop the Second Prince's actions, and then Zero One's body collapsed instantly, turning into streams of blue-green light, chasing in the direction of the man.
The man seemed to realize that something was chasing him, so he quickly raised his hand to block it, but Zero One's light stream passed through the man's skin and gradually gathered behind him.
Lingyi's body appeared behind the man, aimed at the man's neck, and chopped it hard. The man immediately lost consciousness and fainted on the ground.
The Second Prince was stunned for a moment when he saw Ling Yi's action. After a few seconds, he immediately clapped his hands and cheered, "Good! Great, you are really an amazing person, Brother Xueyan."
"That's not what I'm worried about. What I'm worried about is what happened to this guy." Lingyi didn't have time to argue with the Second Prince, but hurriedly bent down and supported the man's body.
"What do you mean by 'encountered'? What could this guy encounter?" The second prince also came over, and a group of soldiers surrounded the man, wary of his next move.
"What he might encounter is what we are afraid of." Lingyi analyzed calmly, "When he fired two more spears just now, it was obviously the reaction of his body under extreme tension. But he was not proficient in using it after all, so he fell down."
"There's no way it's possible, is he pretending?" the second prince questioned.
Lingyi immediately took out the man's hand, felt his pulse, and shook his head: "His heartbeat is disordered and he is restless. He is obviously frightened. Even now when he is unconscious, his heartbeat is still extremely chaotic, as if he is trapped in a horrible nightmare."
"Oh? Is that true?" The Second Prince asked, looking up at the soldiers and asking, "Is there anything unusual around? Where is the patrol squad?"
"We've arrived and haven't found anything unusual around!" a soldier responded quickly.
"What on earth did this guy encounter? Why is he so scared?" The Second Prince asked doubtfully, "Does he have anything on him that can prove his identity?"
Zero One was closest to the man, and he immediately reached out his hand to feel around in his tattered clothes. He soon found a small stick on his chest, which was about the same width as chopsticks and half the length of ordinary chopsticks. After Zero One took it out, a golden stick appeared in front of everyone's eyes, causing everyone's pupils to dizzy.
"What is this? It's shining with gold." Lingyi asked curiously.
"This, this is..." The Second Prince said, and hurriedly took the golden pole from Lingyi's hand and said, "A pass? Moreover, it is a pass directly granted by the royal family. It is an indispensable evidence for merchants to pass through the city."
"Merchant? Since it's issued by the royal family, then it should be "Imperial Merchant"? " Lingyi asked curiously.
"You can understand it that way, but what kind of horrible things could happen to a person like this?" the man asked, sizing him up curiously.
"I'll try to wake him up." Lingyi said, and his right hand was gently placed on the man's chest. Xiaojiu in his neck quietly poked his head out, but still hid in Lingyi's collar, quietly supplying magic power to Lingyi. A circle of golden light with a little emerald green flowed from Lingyi's body, through Lingyi's right hand, and gradually flowed into the man's chest.
After a while, the man reacted. His fingers shook slightly, and his upper eyelids gradually regained strength and he slowly opened his eyes. "This, this is..." The man asked about the current situation in a trance.
"Awake? What's wrong with you? Why are you so panicked?" Lingyi asked in a soft voice.
"Huh? Ah, so I escaped... cough cough cough." The man seemed to gradually relax at this moment and couldn't help coughing a few times.
"It's okay, it's okay, take your time. What happened to you? Why are you suddenly so flustered?" Lingyi continued to ask in a soft voice.
"I, I encountered a monster." The man's voice trembled a little, and then his body began to tremble as well.
"Monster? What kind of monster? If you knew some detailed information, I might be able to kill that monster." Lingyi asked again, and the man looked at Lingyi.
He looked up at the starry sky and recalled, "That monster... I couldn't see it clearly. I only saw a huge body with two heads, grinning, and every breath it took could create a gust of wind and waves, just like... just like that black shadow..."
Lingyi's eyes widened when he heard this, but the Second Prince still couldn't make out what it was, and asked in confusion, "What?"
"Roar……"
The sound of a wild beast gradually echoed in Lingyi's ears. The sound was very light, more like the whistling of wind blowing through the window. If he did not deal with monsters often, he would not pay attention to it.
"Get down!" Lingyi roared, quickly grabbed the second prince beside him, and hurriedly crawled down, pressing on the man.
"Roar!" A deafening roar caught all the soldiers off guard. Almost no one cared about Lingyi's exclamation, and just stared at him blankly.
However, after just one or two seconds of hesitation, a huge and powerful wave of magic suddenly hit, instantly dispersing the crowd. All the soldiers were hit by this powerful air wave and flew several meters away, falling awkwardly on the lawn and in the tent.
And because Lingyi was the first to notice it, and with the help of Xiaojiu's magic, Lingyi, the Second Prince and the man under him were safe and sound, and were not affected by the magical fluctuations.
"Ah... what's going on with my ears..." The second prince said with a dazed look in his eyes and he couldn't help but cover his ears with his hands.
Lingyi held two people in his arms and looked back vigilantly: "Is this magic power from a fifth-level magic beast? Then I should be able to..."
Before Lingyi could react, a dark shadow flashed in front of him. Before he could even see what the shadow looked like, he felt a sharp pain in his stomach. When he looked down, he found that it was an extremely large leg, and the knee alone was as tall as his body.
Ling Yi was also shocked for a moment. His body was only as big as the monster's knee. How could such a huge body approach so silently?
Zero One was kicked away in an instant and spun several times in the air. Zero One's left eye immediately turned azure blue as he looked at the monster that kicked Zero One away.
However, when the Dragon God's Eye just took effect, it did not see the monster's next move at the first moment, but instead saw two balls of blue light appear on the monster's left and right sides.
Then the monster roared again, and two beams of light immediately approached Lingyi. Lingyi hurriedly activated Long'er's silver dragon body, and his left hand immediately turned into a dazzling snow-white color, and was covered with layers of fine scales.
The two light beams intersected at Zero One's position and shot towards him together. Zero One stretched out his left hand and immediately caught the attack of the two light beams. In the next instant, Zero One's right hand immediately turned golden. When he was about to fight back, the two light beams caught by his left hand suddenly exploded, knocking Zero One several meters away.
"Xue Yan!"
"Huh? Why is there so much noise? What happened?"
"Roar!"
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