Julian waved his hand and said: "This is just a private conversation between you and me, there is no need to let anyone know. You know very well that Amon is from a foreign country, and how precious the scroll left by Nero is, and he may also know that some Some past events that shouldn’t be told. If one day a conflict breaks out with a neighboring country, you don’t want to see those scrolls on the battlefield, do you?… Besides, instead of reminding me, Lord Dick, you might as well care about the nephews of the Linton family. It should be clear what some of them are thinking."
Rod Dick nodded: "Thank you for reminding me, what I said today is actually for the sake of you, my lord."
Julian smiled again: "Thank you, Lord City Lord, for being so careful. Fortunately, I understand your noble qualities. Everything is for my own good. If it were someone else, I might be confused."
Rod Dick stood up and said, "I'm sorry to bother you, let me take my leave first. I wish us a happy cooperation in the Cape City!"
Rod Dick already understood that Julian might attack Amon, which was not what he wanted to see. But Rod Dick can't stop what Julian hasn't done yet, and even if he does, he won't admit it. Julian has only one promise, no matter what happens, it will be done in secret and not made public, so as not to harm Rod Dick and the city-state honor.
If Julian really attacked Amon secretly, what would Rod Dick do? As Julian asked, if there is anything between this great magician and Amon, who will Rod Dick defend? There is no need to answer this question at all.
Rod Dick has tried to dissuade Julian, but if he fails, he can only choose to compromise and pretend he doesn't know. I hope that Amon has gone far, and I wish that child all the best of luck. Since he survived the great flood, I also wish him a smooth escape this time.
When Rod Dick returned to the mansion and saw the small coconut shell box sent by Aristotle still on the table in the bedroom, he felt a little ashamed inexplicably, prayed to the gods silently, and then added A generous gift, together with the box, was sent back to Aristotle.
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On the official road leading to the border from the east of the cape city-state, there was a carriage running all the way. The driver was a strong warrior. The curtain of the carriage was closed, so it was hard to see who was sitting inside. There were also three warriors following on fast horses, who looked like a rich businessman with bodyguards transporting something valuable.
But if you look carefully, you will find that this car is very light and strong, and the horse that pulls the car is also a good horse that runs very fast. And those warriors obviously also received strict training, and their riding skills were very superb. They also brought horses that could be replaced, and they looked like they were on their way part-time.
No one knew that the one sitting in the car was Julian's confidant Vitrulu, and the warrior riding in the front was Julian's personal guard Captain Haven, and they were the team sent by Julian to secretly hunt down Amon.
After walking out of the city for half a day, Hai Wen suddenly reined in his horse and stopped at a fork in the road. The carriage also stopped, and Vitruh raised the curtain and asked, "Haven, what's going on, why didn't you go forward?"
Haiwen jumped off the horse and said in a low voice: "The target's car has come here, and it may have turned to go to the beach. I need to confirm."
The samurai driving the car asked curiously: "Captain, how do you know that the target has turned?"
Hai Wen: "It hasn't rained recently, and the target's car has only passed by for less than a day. You can still see ruts in many places. If you search carefully in front and to the side, you will find them."
The samurai asked again: "But there are many ruts here."
The samurai driving the chariot was Julian's nephew, and there were so many problems. Haiwen didn't want to waste time explaining, he pulled out his saber and slashed on the wheel of the carriage, leaving a shallow gap, and then said: "Drive the car forward for a certain distance, get off and come back to see your ruts print."
The samurai named Shute really drove the car for a certain distance, then got off the car and looked back, the rut marks left on the soil would have traces every distance, some were blurred and some were clear. can be found. There are more or less bump marks on the wheels of every car, so the rut marks have unique marks. Haiwen has very good eyesight, and he can accurately spot Amon's car intermittently while riding a fast horse. imprints left.
Amon didn't go towards the border as people expected, but turned to the north from the fork, which was a road leading to the port market town. Vitru and others chased after them. They set off half a day later than Amon, and the time was not long or short. The ruts on the road could still be seen, and there was no fork in the road, so just speed up and catch up.
After running for a long time, it was already afternoon, and the capable warriors could still support them, but the horses were tired, so they changed horses and continued to move forward. Vitrulu sat in the car and said: "The sun is about to set, and the man should stop to rest. Our speed is very fast, and we should be able to catch up with him when he is camping at night."
Haiwen shook his head and said: "His speed is not slow, his chariot and horses are very good. You can tell that this person is speeding all the way from the traces of the turning. We chased him all day and didn't get much closer. The man driving the chariot The technology is superb!" This is an interesting misunderstanding, Amon is indeed very fast in running, but his driving skills are not superb. But he used the whip given by Enlil, and he could control the horse freely with just a light whip in the air, much easier than a skilled driver driving a cart.
Vitruh frowned and said, "Don't he need to rest?"
Haven replied: "He drives a light cart, and the two horses are good horses, sent by Tashun-lington. He wants to rest, but don't forget that we also need to rest. After dark, there are mountains in front of us." , it is impossible to run at night. We are already half a day behind, even if he camps at night, he will not be able to catch up when he starts again tomorrow."
Vitru: "Then it must be done as soon as possible. We won't be able to chase him after he arrives at the port and sails out to sea!... There is indeed something wrong with this man, otherwise he wouldn't have escaped like this. Master Julian is too wise!"
They didn't stop to rest until it was very dark and they couldn't pursue fast horses, and they changed horses and set off at dawn. Julian's personal guard usually protects the Master Magician purely for pomp, and has not suffered too much except showing off his power. Of course, this kind of fast horse and journey is hard work. Magician Vitrulu was in the car, but fortunately the rest of them were mid-level warriors, so they could hold on even if they gritted their teeth.
What they were worried about did not happen, and after chasing for another day, they found that Amon's carriage had turned around again near the port, and went back west in the direction it came from. This is a road along the coastline, which happens to bypass Cape City to the neighboring city-state of Tanis.
Discovering this situation, Vitrud was very puzzled and said to Haiwen: "What's the matter with this Amon, doesn't it mean that he doesn't want to leave the country, but instead goes to Tanis?"
Haiwen pondered: "It seems that the direction he is walking is indeed in this way, but the destination is not necessarily Tanis. He may want to go to other places through Tanis."
Vitru: "He is running all the way, obviously trying to avoid tracking, why didn't he leave the territory of Eju?"
Haiwen shook his head: "He has a lot of money, and he doesn't even feel safe to hire a bodyguard. Of course, he has to leave quickly, so that no one will find out. This person may not know that we are chasing him, just out of caution, It should be just as Lord Julian judged, he has a dark secret."
Amon really didn't know that someone was following him, but he also considered this possibility, so after leaving Cape City, he walked eastward first, all the way fast, turned in a place where there was no one, and made a big circle. It was time to get rid of the pursuers, but unexpectedly, they ran into the group led by Haiwen and chased them from behind.
Riding horses for several days in a row is definitely not an easy job. The several warriors who followed were also tired. On the third day, they took turns sitting in the car to rest, and their speed gradually slowed down. Amon's speed also slowed down, because his horse was also tired, and it happened to stay ahead for about half a day.
The road they took leads to the city-state of Tanis, and Haiwen is not afraid that Amon will run away. He must rest when he enters the city-state, as long as he stays for a day, he can catch up. There are more market towns along the way, and there are many vehicles, horses and pedestrians coming and going, and the rut marks in many places cannot be seen clearly. Haiwen asked along the way if there was a luxurious carriage passing by, and the driver was a young man.
Many people really have the impression that the carriage driven by Amon originally belonged to Tashun-Lington, but the aristocratic decoration and family marks were removed, and it was really conspicuous on the road. Based on the inquired information and looking at the intermittent ruts, Amon's distance is getting closer and closer.
Julian's nephew, Shu Te, a warrior, asked Haiwen again: "Captain, since you can find the ruts and there is no fork in this road, why do you keep asking?"
Haiwen had no choice but to explain patiently: "People can change chariots and horses, and chariots can also change drivers. What we want to chase is people, not chariots. So far, that Amon has not changed chariots. His chariots and horses are very good. It doesn't seem to know that we are tracking."
Continuing to track, Haven discovered one thing. Amon turned the carriage into the jungle camp on the way. When he went on the road the next day, he couldn't find any news about the carriage, but the ruts were still there!
The reason is very simple. Amon knew that the carriage he was riding in was very conspicuous. After he crossed Cape City from the north, he was also worried that people would recognize him unintentionally, so he made a small modification. He had been taught by the old lunatic, and although he hadn't processed magical artifacts yet, it was very easy to transform the carriage with the method of processing artifacts.
The surface of the luxurious wood has been blackened and yellowed, and it looks a little old. It looks like an ordinary carriage, and the shed has also been treated to remove redundant decorations, and the color is also different from the original. Amon was cautious enough, trying not to let people find out his whereabouts, but Haiwen and others still followed behind, getting closer and closer.
Haiwen chased the ruts and asked around along the way, finally knowing that Amon's carriage had changed. Some people still have an impression of the driver that Hai Wen asked about. It was a young man who drove the car with a whip and a branch on the shaft.
At noon of the day, after calculating the distance, they would be able to enter Tanis City at dusk. On a section of the road in the wild, they found very clear ruts. Vitruh raised the curtain and asked, "Haven, how far are we from the target?"
Hai Wen replied, "It's getting closer and closer, only a few tens of miles away."
Vitru waved his hand: "Shute, stop the car, I'll track him with magic, this distance should be fine."
Vitrud got out of the car, went to the side of the rut and took out something. It was a sacred stone inlaid with a base, like a lamp, and the pattern of the magic circle was carved on the base. Vitrulu held the thing in one hand, and gently waved the staff with the other hand, chanting. The sacred stone emitted a conspicuous light, like a lamp being lit, emitting a circular aperture outward.
The image of the rut was reflected in the aperture, and it was constantly changing: the rut stretched forward intermittently, as if the carriage chasing Amon was galloping. Not long after, a carriage appeared in the circle of light, and the image turned an angle to show the front of the carriage, and several followers finally saw Amon. The stranger was still wearing the old clothes he had just arrived in the cape city-state, he was holding a long whip in his hand, and there was a branch on the shaft of the chariot.
All the warriors praised in unison: "Lord Vitrulu is brilliant, we finally found him!...Look, there is a town in front of him, and he may stop to rest. Let's hurry up and catch up in a while!"
Vitrulu is an excellent sixth-level magician, and he can already cast high-level magic, but at the same time, he is a bit powerless to perform such a brilliant detection of puppet eye and information tracking. He can do it with the help of a magic artifact arrived. The high-ranking priests from the Temple of Isis naturally have a relatively rich family background.
Hearing everyone's praise, Vitrulu put away the magic weapon with a serious face, and said with a smile: "Don't do anything in the town, let's quickly outflank him, and when he leaves the town, we will suddenly take him down in the wilderness. .This person is really hard to deal with. Fortunately, he met me and Captain Hai Wen, and he can't fly away even with wings!"
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A town appeared in front of him. Amon slowly slowed down the carriage, sat on the shaft, hugged Schrödinger and stroked it gently, then took out a bottle of wine from his leather pocket and handed it to the cat to feed it. After running so carefully all the way, no one should be able to detect his whereabouts, right? Schrödinger has been lazily sleeping these days, occasionally waking up, yawning and stretching, eating something, drinking some wine and then going to sleep. It seems that it is recovering, and Amon is relieved a lot.
Schrödinger didn't habitually stick out his tongue to lick the wine. It suddenly opened its eyes, its fur fluffed, and it arched back in Amon's arms. With a cry, it stretched out a paw diagonally backward one finger. Since the reunion in the desert, it was the first time Amon heard Schrödinger's call, and it was also the first time he saw him make such a big movement.
At this moment, the cat, which couldn't even detect the magic, seemed to develop some kind of aura. Amon's unique ability obtained from the underworld became sensitive again, and he could actually perceive the emotion in Schrödinger's cry. The sound sounded like a warning, telling Amon that there was danger behind him.
Amon quickly pulled over and stopped, jumped onto the road and looked back, but found nothing, and looked up to the sky, not even a bird! Schrödinger was still writhing in his arms, as if struggling to get down. Amon gently put the cat on the ground, and the weak cat staggered towards the way it came, scratching the ground with its paws at intervals.
Amon followed the past carefully and found that Schrödinger had drawn a line every fixed distance on the rut. In the car he was driving, a triangular gap was damaged on the edge of the right wheel at some point, and the imprint on the ground was very obvious. Amon suddenly realized something, picked up Schrödinger, jumped into the car, hit the horse and left.
The so-called wise man is bound to make mistakes. Amon has no experience in fleeing, and he didn't realize that he was fleeing. He just habitually didn't want to reveal his whereabouts, so he didn't think thoroughly. After Schrödinger's reminder, he realized that the rut marks were also clues that could be traced.
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Vitrud and the others hurried to the town, walked around the town and set up an ambush on both sides of the road ahead, and then Haiwen entered the town alone to check for Amon's news. There was a smile on the corner of Haiwen's mouth when he walked into the town from another direction, but there were no traces of Amon's car on some sections of the road that should have left traces, indicating that this person was still in the town.
But when Haiwen walked around the town, his face suddenly changed, because he saw Amon's carriage at the market. After walking over to inquire, I heard that a foreigner sold this car at a very cheap price not long ago. Together with the two tired horses, he only exchanged for one of the best horses in the market. Out of town and gallop away.
Vitru's ambush came to nothing, and Amon had already left! With such a delay, Amon should have already entered Tanis City.
After hearing the news, Vitrud said angrily: "This bastard, did he know that we were tracking him and deliberately played tricks on me? After he is caught and interrogated, he must be torn to pieces!"
Haiwen's face was also a bit ugly, and he thought about it carefully before he said: "He doesn't necessarily know that we are tracking, but he just erased all traces of his whereabouts before reaching the city-state. This person is indeed very cautious. But it doesn't matter, if he enters City-state, we can still search him out."
Shute couldn't help but interjected: "Master Vitrulu can still use divine magic to track it?"
Vitrulu wanted to stare at him but held back, explaining: "There is no detection information to search at such a long distance, how can I track it?"
Shute added: "Since Captain Haiwen can chase the ruts, he can also chase the footprints of horseshoes or footprints?"
Hai Wen said angrily: "When you enter the city-state, it's a cobblestone road, and there are so many people bustling around, how can you find his footprints?"
Vitrulu sneered again: "It's already dark. He must not be tired after traveling for so many days. He must live in the city tonight. I have a good personal relationship with Lord Tanis, so I will use the name of Lord Julian to make an excuse. Come to a city-wide search, I don't believe he can hide it!"
Hai Wen reminded: "You can't do anything in the city-state. This time it's a secret operation. Let's keep an eye on him first."
Vitrud nodded: "After a long round, I finally arrived at Tanis. If you come directly from the official road, it will be very close! It's time to send someone to send a letter to Obama. I heard that the patriarch of the Linton family is very fond of Amon. Interested, if there is news of his whereabouts, I will definitely not miss the opportunity."