Chapter 354: Reconnaissance (Part 1)

In the early morning, a melodious eagle cry sounded over Violet Harbor. It was the cry of a gale eagle. Gale Eagles are a specialty of the Blood Rock Highlands. They are full of endurance and are mostly used for communication after domestication. A gleaming Gale Eagle swooped down from the sky, skimmed over the city, and finally landed on the roof of the main building of Roger's Paradise.

Geraf stretched out his hand and let the Gale Eagle rest on his wrist. Pulling out a piece of paper from the thin tube attached to the eagle's leg, Geralf casually took out a piece of raw blood that was still bleeding and threw it into the sky. award.

A moment later, the note was delivered to Roger's desk.

After reading the contents of the note, Roger showed a faint smile on his face. Geralf gave him a strange look, but he didn't ask. He knew very well that the duty of a guard was not to ask the master's affairs thoroughly.

"That guy Maud asked me for help." Roger crumpled the note casually and threw it into the trash can next to him: "He hopes we can lend him the soldiers of the slave catcher."

Geralf was taken aback, this had never happened before. Storm City is considered to be a fairly well-run city in the Borderlands. Maude secretly funded Dick in Bloodrock Wasteland, and cooperated with Roger in Violet Harbor. He almost single-handedly controlled the interests of most of the border lands, and after many years of operation, Storm City has strong people and strong horses. Its two main forces, the Thunder Knights and the Storm Infantry, have about a thousand soldiers serving all year round.

This is a huge military force, which also shocked bandits like Dick and slave merchants like Roger.

But now, Storm City wants to borrow troops from Roger?

"It seems that our friend has done a good job. I heard that Maude planned to take down the city of Suer not long ago. Now it seems that he must have suffered a big loss, and he also lost a lot of manpower. Otherwise, he would not have complained to me. Borrow troops and prepare to fight back."

Geralf lowered his head and said, "Are we going to prepare?"

"No need, just keep on the sidelines. Maude's appetite has been too great these years, and he has gradually forgotten that we are in a cooperative relationship. If that brat can kill him, it doesn't matter to change partners." Roger thought for a while, and wrote Zhang The note was handed to Geralf: "Three days later, this message was sent back."

"I see."

It was also early in the morning, in the city of Sur, a strange smell was wafting from Allen's house. It smells a bit faint, but it is mixed with other smells, so it becomes a strange smell. People who smelled this strange smell subconsciously left the main hall, as if an ancient beast was dormant in the hall.

Allen frowned and looked at the strange thing in front of him,

Looking up at Lucy, he said, "Are you sure this is a cake?"

"Why not?" Lucy said with her hands on her hips, "I baked this myself early in the morning, using honey, egg yolk, flour, and a variety of secret ingredients to make it... a cake!"

Allen stretched out his fingers suspiciously, and gently scraped a small piece of the completely shapeless, clay-like thing, then put it in his mouth and tasted it.

"How?" Lucy looked at him excitedly.

As if licking the venom, Allen's face turned blue. The next moment, he was already running to the toilet, and it didn't take long before he heard the sound of vomiting.

Adele, who was flipping through the collection of poems beside her, shook her head and said, "Guys who don't have cooking talent, don't just make strange things to harm others."

"Is it so unpalatable?" Lucy tore off a small piece and threw it into her mouth.

Then there was one more person in the toilet.

It wasn't until he drank fresh milk that Alan felt his stomach gradually relieved. As for the "cake" that was comparable to poison, it had already been thrown into the trash can. The beaten-down Her Royal Highness lay down on the sofa listlessly, and after a while she jumped up unwillingly and shouted: "My lady can even make a third-level special bullet, so why can't I make a piece of cake?"

"Food and ammunition are two different things, right?" Adele never tired of beating Lucy.

"What's the difference between things that are both made with recipes?"

"Okay, Lucy. Let's talk about the cake later." Allen put down his cup and said, "You said earlier that there might be veins of Themes silver in Storm City?"

Lucy nodded and said: "On the silver coins they minted themselves, Xiao Qi found the composition of Themes silver, so it should be correct."

"If there is such a thing, we can't let it go in Storm City." Adele closed the poetry collection and said, "Themes silver is a rare metal, high-end magic weapons, the inner wall of the main gun of the magic starship, The reactor stability box of the Rubik's Cube perpetual furnace needs to use this kind of metal. At present, there are no veins of this kind of metal found on the earth. We can only occasionally find and collect it from a certain colonial star. Otherwise, we have to buy it from them at a high price .”

She looked at Lucy.

Lucy spread her hands and said: "Actually, the production of Themes silver in Idahua Star has been declining these years. Even our royal reserves are at least enough for hundreds of years. But this is far from enough. After all, it is the center of the space war. necessity."

"Okay, I'll go to Storm City to have a look." Allen clapped his hands and said, "It's not okay to just sit here and wait for Edward's activities. I have to do something too."

"Then I'll go too." Adele stood up.

"No, both you and Lucy stay. I'm not going to fight, it's better to be alone." Allen stood up and said, "Tell Edward, I'll leave for a few days first. As for Mogu's ransom, I'll give it to him Let's deal with it."

When Allen was about to walk out of the hall, Adele said indifferently: "I think it's better not to trust him too much. I always think that Maritan man has other plans."

Allen turned back and said with a smile: "Everyone has their own and what they want. Edward is no exception, as long as he doesn't do anything to harm us. Then before that, I will believe him."

"If you can't even trust your partners, this kind of life..." The next words were not spoken, Alan just laughed twice, and left the hall.

Putting on casual clothes and carrying a knife case, Allen left the city alone. He rode his horse to the forest one kilometer away from the city of Sur. Allen dismounted and shouted into the depths of the forest: "Bai, I'm back!"

The sound kept echoing in the forest.

After two more calls, Allen leaned against a tree to rest. The war horse was grazing quietly beside it. After a while, the horse felt uneasy at first. It looked up into the depths of the forest and kept kicking its hoofs. There was a rustling sound in the forest, like the whisper of a demon. A faint power pervades the forest, as if the entire forest is a kingdom of existence.

The war horse finally couldn't bear the fright, turned around and ran away. Alan didn't chase it either, the old horse knew the way, and it would return to Sur City.

Standing up, Allen found that all kinds of snakes were constantly drilling out around him. The snakes stopped when they were seven or eight meters away from him, formed a snake formation, and just looked at Alan quietly. Not long after, a huge shadow appeared from the woods, and that huge body alone gave people a heavy pressure. When two clusters of bright yellow lights lit up in that shadow, the pressure was intensified.

The nearby snakes pressed their bodies tightly to the ground, for fear of offending the huge creature. Allen stared directly at the shadows that kept pouring in, and suddenly from behind a tree, Bai's huge head popped out. It swam to Alan's side and stopped, lowered its head, spit out a snake letter and licked Alan's face.

Allen patted it on the head and said, "Good guy, I haven't seen you for a while, you've grown up again."

Bai tilted his head and narrowed his eyes. Then he hissed a few times to the snake group next to him, and the snake group retreated immediately, this guy is getting more and more like a king snake.

After the snakes retreated, Bai suddenly went back into the forest. It didn't take long to swim back, and threw a black-haired wild boar on its mouth to Alan's feet. The black pig was trembling and dared not move. Bai arched the wild boar with his head, then looked at Alan.

Allen couldn't laugh or cry: "Bai, I don't want to eat it."

Bai looked at Alan, and then at the wild boar. With the last opening of his mouth, he swallowed the wild boar whole. Allen shook his head and said, "I'm relieved to see you so energetic, Bai, I have to leave for a few days. I'll see you when I come back."

Waving goodbye, Allen turned around. After not taking a few steps, I saw Bai swimming from behind. With a big head arch, Alan was arched on his head. Allen said with a smile: "I have to get down to business, stop playing, and let me down."

Bai shook his head and hissed a few times.

Alan seemed to understand what it meant, and tried to ask: "Are you going with me?"

Bai nodded.

"Okay, but no one can see you." Allen patted its head and pointed in the direction of Storm City: "Go there."

The white snake raised its head and rushed forward fiercely. It swims at full speed, and its speed is astonishing. Allen was careless and almost fell off it. He quickly grabbed Bai's unicorn and stood on top of its big head. I saw the trees on both sides retreating quickly, and in a blink of an eye they entered the countryside. The yellow-brown rocky ground was receding like a tide, and the strong wind blowing Alan's hair upside down. Standing on Bai's head, seeing the vast wilderness on both sides, Alan suddenly felt that the world was so vast, and couldn't help but let out a clear whistle.

The mood is carefree.

In this way, Alan used the King Snake instead, and arrived at the edge of Maude's territory in the evening of the next day. If it is riding a horse, it will not arrive until tomorrow at the earliest, which shows how fast Baiyou is moving.

At this moment, the sun is setting. Allen and King Snake appeared on a high slope, looking down, the dusk was getting darker. A small town under the hillside is billowing with smoke, and now it is time for every household to have dinner. The town looks very peaceful, but the flag with the symbol of Storm City hanging on the clock tower is doomed to have no chance of peace in the end.

This is a town under Storm City.

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