Mei said, "Mr. Luo Ling, I owe you a favor this time."
Luo Ling said: "No, you took Ye Zi and escaped from the Tower of Brilliant Wings first. In fact, we don't know what happened exactly, so we need you to tell me."
"Of course, I'll explain it to you slowly once we're somewhere safe."
"Sister Luo Ling! Where are the other people in the office? Did they escape before the protective shield rises?" Ye Zi asked.
Seeing that Ye Zi was first concerned about the safety of others, Luo Ling couldn't help but feel emotional. She said, "Everyone else has left, only Katarina and I stayed. She has already gone to the safe house, let's hurry over there too." Luo Ling led them to the safe house.
"I knew you wouldn't abandon us! But if you hadn't come, we would have been able to find that place, and you wouldn't have to get yourself into trouble." Ye Zi said guiltily.
"With two more people, we'll have a better chance of escaping!"
The four of them turned around a few blocks and saw a team of Temple Knights guarding the street entrance leading to the safe house.
Ye Zi retreated to the corner where they were hiding and said, "There's no way around. There's only one way to the safe house. Sister Luo Ling, don't you know how to become invisible? Can you use this to sneak over?"
"That's impossible. See that priest in the robes? He holds the Eye of Truth, which detects the invisible. We must find another way."
"Unless we go from the sky or the roof."
Luo Ling shook her head and said, "That won't work either. The coverage of the Eye of Truth is very large, and it already includes the safe house. Even if we fly very high, we will still be discovered as long as we land. And when I just flew over, there was no one patrolling in the sky. After we killed those cavalry, didn't you notice that there were many more priests and mages flying around in the sky?"
"They must have discovered that there are still people causing trouble in the city and started to patrol." Mei said, holding the long sword, "I can go to a nearby place and make some noise to lure them away."
As soon as she finished speaking, a fireball drew a bright arc from a distance and hit directly in the middle of the group of Temple Knights, blowing them to pieces.
Three of the knights and a priest withstood the attack with their fighting spirit and shields. They immediately sent out a signal and rushed in the direction the fireball came from. In the distance, mages and priests flying in the sky could be seen gathering in that direction.
There was a line of fire on the ground that shot straight into the sky, and then a wizard in the sky split in two and fell down. Then, at the end of the line of fire, a pair of wings consisting of several white light strips suddenly appeared. The light of the wings reflected a man wearing light armor and holding a flaming red sword. The man's figure was very agile under the support of the wings. The priests and wizards around him retreated in panic when they saw his wings, but the man had no intention of letting them go. The white wings and the red sword formed a red and white afterimage.
"It's Gabriel! He really is attracting the enemy for us." Mei clenched her fists tightly, looking at him from afar, unable to move for a moment.
"Sister Mei, should we go help Teacher Gabriel?" Javier, who had been silent, asked in a low voice.
Mei was silent for a long time, turned her head towards the darkness and said, "No, we should hurry to the safe house. Nothing is more important than your safety right now. If we are exposed, we will let Gabriel down."
"Let's go. Let's go!" Mei took the lead and walked towards the safe house.
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On the second floor of the safe house, behind a narrow wooden window, Mei looked out at the sky in the distance. There were several light shadows flying and interlacing in the sky. They were two great knights of the Temple Knights who were besieging Gabriel. There was also a Silver Leaf Priest and two high-level magicians in the sky, joining the siege. As long as there was a gap, they would attack Gabriel with all kinds of negative magic. The red and white light shadows in the air became slower and slower.
Mei's hands were tightly grasped on the windowsill, and the wooden windowsill made a sound of being overwhelmed as she unconsciously grasped it. She knew very well that it might take a long time for these people to defeat Gabriel, but once the battle of the Royal Magic Tower was decided, the team attacking the Brilliant Wing Tower would be free, and there would be only one ending waiting for him.
"If you want to go, now is your last chance." Luo Ling said behind her.
Mei turned her head and glanced at her out of the corner of her eye, "I thought you would stop me."
Luo Ling said: "There are some things I won't do, but I will respect those who are willing to do it. If possible, I will provide a little help."
She walked forward and held out her hand, holding out three scrolls. "The scroll of advanced invisibility, the scroll of fog, and the scroll of random teleportation. Perhaps they will be useful to you."
"Thank you! If I can't come back, please give Javier an explanation that I didn't abandon him." Mei opened the window and looked up at the red and white light in the sky. She jumped off the windowsill. When she climbed over the wall, her figure began to fade gradually, and finally disappeared without a trace.
After a while, Ye Zi came in. "Javier has fallen asleep. Today was too tiring and difficult for him. But it's the same for us. Just like Mei watching Master Gabriel trapped in a siege... Hey, where's Mei? Why is she gone?"
"She went to do what she wanted to do." Luo Ling said as she closed the window.
"What do you want to do? Go and pick up Master Gabriel?" Ye Zi was actually a little happy for some reason. "Then, can we do something as well?"
"Do you think we should take action?" Luo Ling asked.
Ye Zi pondered for a moment and said, "We can always come up with a thousand reasons to take action or not. If we didn't take action before, we could say that it was to let Javier get here safely. But now we don't take action, it's completely for our own safety. I think sometimes, the meaning of adventure is more valuable than so-called safety."
"What's the point?"
"Sister Luo Ling, please don't laugh at me. I think the meaning is that I can still maintain my original heart and let me still be myself. To be honest, hiding in this room makes me uncomfortable. I feel ashamed. Reason can always make a lot of sense, such as preserving strength, not dying in vain, and making others' sacrifices valuable. But these nonsense can't solve the pain in my heart! Those problems that make me ashamed and heartbroken are all caused by emotions, and reason can't do anything about them." Ye Zi said with a wry smile, "If, if we always use reason to decide our actions, then how different are we from a computer?"
"You convinced me."
"What?"
"Perhaps I am asking you this question just to find a reason for my actions. Let's go!"