Chapter Thirteen The Betrayer
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The desert warrior came over, staring at the corpse slowly falling down in front of the alchemist with cold eyes. Pale and desperate, mixed with unwilling expressions like the alchemist himself. Blood covered his hand, and he shook his sword and the blood beads hit the floor.
"How did you kill him?" Connor Brandik asked in a low voice.
"We have to leave here." Li Ou used a seemingly reasonable reason, "There is not much time, and we don't have time to interrogate the prisoner."
The Knights and the Crows began to pack their luggage. Almost no rested, each of them had fatigue, their morale was low, and their faces were covered with sorrow. Fortunately, no one was injured in the battle - except for the red palm prints on Lu Yuewu's face. She quickly turned her head, her long hair drooped down, covering her cheeks.
"How did they find this?" The bachelor's lady suddenly spoke.
She seemed to be deliberately changing the subject. But Leo was not that stupid yet, and he could guess what happened between them. He glanced at the female mage who was snorting with her chest and snorting coldly, and lamented in his heart. "I don't know." This was his answer and his question. He didn't know what was going on, so that they were like breaking.
"Who knows if someone sets a trap specially." Luo Xi said coldly. Her hostility came so abruptly that Li Ou felt at a loss for a moment, because he felt that she seemed to be... pointing at the mulberry and scolding the locust.
The desert warrior remained silent, but his eyes came to him.
Li Ou took a deep breath, "Maybe." He said, "But it's more likely that there are other reasons. For example..." He stopped his mouth. The people around him were talking a lot, and no thoughts should be revealed. Although each of them was doing their own work, who knew who was trustworthy and who was in a bad mood?
"For example, what?"
Leo made a gesture. "Did they come down from the well? Let's go and have a look."
"Can you find the way?"
"I'll lead the way." The desert warrior jacked.
"Mr. Connor Brandik?"
The desert warrior's eyes swept over everyone. He was looking at them, and Leo realized, assessing them. "I am not trusted." The facts he said made Leo ashamed, but they were like a joke to others. Rosie snorted disdainfully, and the others also accepted the accusations of the desert warriors indifferently. However, they just didn't understand. As far as Leo saw, the faith of the desert warriors was so strong that his glory was far more trustworthy than the vows of most people. "So, I think I'm better with you," he said at last.
The road leading to the well became messy, with gravel and sand paving all over the ground, with messy footprints and walls blackened by torches. You can imagine how arrogant the golden scimitars were before.
"Where did you go just now?" Luo Xi asked suddenly.
He didn't want to answer one by one. The woman, and what they were talking about, seemed to be covered with a layer of fog. So he avoided the point. "Just just went around and looked around," he said.
"Wait." The desert warrior suddenly called them. "Look at this."
He pointed to the corner of the passage, a collapsed wall, and in the cracks of the stone. There seemed to be a little more difficult-to-identify starlight than the dark and cloudy night sky. The alchemist once thought he was confused.
"Can you see it?" asked the desert warrior.
"What did you see?" Rosie approached with a torch, and the corner was bright. "Nothing."
Li Ou turned his head and took a look, "Extinguish the torch." The fire was too bright in the dark, covering up the truth.
"Then I'll be blind." Luo Xi complained casually.
"I'll pull you."
Leo thought this was exactly what she wanted to hear. The female mage reached out and held his right hand tightly. The torch was inserted into the sand, and the bright yellow light was immediately replaced by ink-like blackness. The light like silver moon could not be hidden and shone.
"What is this?" Rosie asked in confusion.
The desert warrior carefully picked up the almost dusty cube of powder. Li Ou shook his head. Even as an alchemist, he had to admit in frustration that he had never seen this thing. He didn't know what it was? It was as thin as snowflakes and as bright as fireflies. In the darkness without light, no one would ignore its light.
The desert warrior's eyes were blurred, as if immersed in some thought. After a moment, he spoke slowly, "We call it Demon Silver, and some people will call it the Star-Slaying Stone." The alchemist had never heard of it. In his opinion, this was just a solid crystallization of a certain rock, an inert component that was of no help to alchemy. But its source is more worthy of attention than its function.
“It’s very common?”
"No, not very common. But it's only available in the desert."
"Lee Ou." Rosie suddenly screamed, with anger in her words.
The alchemist looked up. He found that there was a trace in the passage that had lost its lighting that seemed to be a trace left by some kind of fluorescent animal walking. It was so clear that it could not be ignored, as if an arrow pointed them in the direction.
"Traitor." Rosie snorted angrily, "We have a traitor."
This was already obvious. Someone pointed the way for their enemies. The guards, the golden scimitars, and the dog legs of women crawling with maggots could easily find them. But who are the traitors?
"Obviously, that person is familiar with the sea of sand." Leo said.
Otherwise he wouldn't have known the Demon Silver and the Star Stone. The answer seemed to be right in front of him.
"Rava Joray? Or his trash son?"
But the answer seems too simple, so that Leo hesitated. "It's hard to say." But no matter who it is, that guy will stay with them calmly for the time being. It's too late to find out that the traitor is far from the hope of cutting off the enemy. "After going back, we have time to interrogate slowly. Now, let's clear the tail first."
The powder of the devil silver sprinkled by others guided them forward. When their eyes gradually adapted to the darkness, to some extent, they didn't even need potions. However, the trajectory of the miniature galaxy could only make the anger in their hearts continue to rise, as if they were ready to move and suppress them.
When passing a corner, Rosie, who was unable to see anything, kicked a piece of gravel, and the stone rolled and collided on the stone slab, making a sound, and it sounded like a mountain collapse in the silence.
"Who?" A man shouted vigilantly in the firelight under the well ahead. They stood still, watching the figure shaking, stretching and extending in front of them.
"What else can there besides the mice under the ground?" Another voice sounded. Through the shaking hanging basket, it seemed that countless figures had landed below. There were ghosts on the wall. The collision of swords and armor made a dull sound.
Another sarcastic voice sounded. "What are the differences between those white devils and mice?"
They burst into laughter together. In the dark underground, it was like a corpse in a tomb ripped off the vocal cords of insects, and it was as if a skeleton was opening and closing its teeth, and the bones were clattering.
"Don't they have any news yet?" asked the man who had just come out of the hanging basket.
"No." said the man at the beginning.
"Will they get into trouble?" another person said.
"Trouble?" Li Ou felt that the voice was familiar in a trance. "We caught them off guard. They were the only ones who encountered trouble. Most of the white devils were injured, and it was easy to deal with them."
Rosie turned to look at Leo. He saw the female mage saying with her mouth, the golden scimitar outside the city. He remembered the guy who was insatiable and thought he was arrogant and arrogant. Now he happened to get it back with all his money and interests. Rosie said again. He nodded.
"You said, why did the Bishop mobilize so many people?"
"Yes, it's just a few mice in white skin. No matter how they are left, they won't do anything."
"We just need to obey orders and not talk about the bishop's affairs." The golden scimitar said, "Did you forget how those guys died?"
Li Ou heard the sound of extremely clear rolling throat ringing one after another. They were all because of fear, and he realized.
"No, I haven't forgotten."
"Then keep your mouth in mind."
Five people, Li Ou made a gesture to the desert warrior and fought quickly.
The hanging basket squeaks up. It's now-
While the medicine still had its effect, the alchemist jumped out one by one. But this time, there was no good luck as before. All five of them were facing him and saw his shadow. "Who?" one shouted. But what responded to him was a series of dancing sword lights. The long sword and the scimitar collided one after another, splashing out sparks.
"White Devil!" The captain of the Golden Scimitar recognized him.
"They, were they all killed by the white devil?" One person looked frightened.
"That's right." Li Ou responded, "It's your turn now."
The space under the water well was small, and the five of them seemed crowded. Li Ou forced one of them to retreat with one sword, firmly occupying the throat. The desert warrior stepped forward with a big step, and the sharp axe blade split the air, forcing the soldier on the left to attack Li Ou had to retreat and retreat. They stood side by side, fighting only with the three people at the same time, so they seemed calm and relaxed.
"Can we hold our gem?" Rosie teased leisurely behind them, throwing a fist-sized stone up and down in her hand. Amber eyes stared at the golden scimitar with malicious intentions. "If you can return the jade to Zhao, I can consider giving you your life." However, the other party was trapped in the endless offensive of the desert warriors, and could not resist it, let alone answer her proposal. "What a pity." The female mage sighed. The stone was firmly grasped in her palm and threw it out.
The stone whizzed past Li Ou's ears, and his heart tightened, revealing a huge flaw, and two scimitars slashed at the same time. He barely blocked one of them and was helpless at the other, so he could only watch it at his arm. However, with a muffled sound, the surroundings suddenly became dark. He took the opportunity to hide and dodge and send the long sword into the man's belly. Only then did he realize that a torch fell to the ground, and there was only another torch around him illuminating it. He understood Rosie's intention.
Therefore, when Rosie threw the second stone, Leo suddenly moved forward, pulled the distance from the opponent with one foot, interrupting their rhythm. Then the surroundings turned into darkness, they were frightened and shouting, but the blade would not show mercy, and the night was not an obstacle for the alchemists and others. The long sword pierced into the soft muscles and pulled it out quickly; the collision between the axe and the bones kept echoing at the bottom of the well, which was an extremely happy kill.
Chapter completed!