"Miss Zhan Mei, can I ask a question?"
Lid asked blankly.
"Of course, what's the problem?"
Zhan Mei replied with a smile on her face.
"...why are you sitting on my horse?"
At this moment, Li De was holding the rein with both hands, and Zhan Mei was sitting in front of him, with her elastic body leaning back against him, and the distance between the two was very close. Zhan Mei turned her head, looked at him puzzled, and said as a matter of course:
"Because my horse is gone."
"Gone??"
"Public and private are clear, public and private are clear."
Zhan Mei raised her index finger, and earnestly popularized science:
"Now I'm on vacation. Does Mr. Lied know the concept of vacation? It means that I don't have to charge like I used to, so the horse I ride will be given to those who need it more. Of course I can't walk on the ground Well, I can only squeeze in Mr. Lied, if Mr. Lied doesn't welcome me, I can... change my position?"
Before Lide could react, Zhan Mei suddenly fell to the side, her two smooth legs hooked the horse's neck, and she hung upside down on the horse. She didn't forget to wave to Lide and shouted:
"Look! So you can't see me?"
Lide stared at the pair of bare legs crossed in front of his eyes for a while, stretched out his hand to pull her back, and said:
"You'd better sit here."
"That's great~ I know Mr. Lied is a good man!"
Lide let out a mouthful of hot air, rubbed his eyes that were sore from the cold wind, looked at the snowflakes in the sky, and suddenly remembered that since Zhan Mei was by his side, it meant that he could finally ask about something openly up.
Lide slowed down the speed of the horse a little, and asked Zhan Mei:
"When I entered your Lingwu, I always felt that the security on the border was a bit too strict, and high-level military officials also appeared there. What happened?"
Zhan Mei was silent for a while, then replied:
"Since Mr. Lied is our companion now, we won't hide anything. There are actually quite complicated reasons for this... Has Mr. Lied heard of [Church of the Abyss]?"
Lide recalled it for a while, but there was no impression in his mind, so he simply shook his head.
Zhan Mei combed the horse's mane casually, and explained to Lied at the same time:
"To put it simply, because of some origins thousands of years ago, most human beings believe in the old gods. The old gods are enshrined in temples everywhere, and various festivals are basically related to the old gods. There are even some data showing that The national formation may also be a gift from the old gods to mankind... But in fact, the upper three races have more than one old god, and there are two races [Void] and [Kungu]. Since they and the old gods are called the upper The three races indicate that they are of the same level, and naturally there are corresponding believers on the human side."
Zhan Mei paused, then continued:
"The Church of the Abyss just mentioned believes in Kungu. However, their beliefs are more or less evil. There have been living sacrifices in the past not once or twice. Those people are just like crazy alchemy Just like a teacher, he doesn’t regard human life as anything valuable, and he can do everything for his own beliefs. We think that no matter what, we can’t let this kind of person come to Lingwu, otherwise it may lead to a big mistake.”
Lied asked:
"Is there anything to say here?"
Zhan Mei said:
"Because strictly speaking, our Lingwu does not belong to the territory of human beings. We snatched this land from the giants. Compared with other places, the effect of the national defense formation here is obviously discounted. And you should know, right? The giant race itself is a creature created by Kungu, and this land is considered fertile ground by the Church of the Abyss, and we must always be vigilant against them taking root here."
This time without Lide asking, Zhan Mei has already begun to add explanations:
"Also, what Mr. Lide asked, why should we suddenly be on guard at this time. In fact, Lingwu started to guard against this church a long time ago. Since it is a church, it will definitely promote its teachings and attract new believers. We will take this opportunity Thirty-four undercover agents were sent back and forth to the Church of the Abyss, but these thirty-four people lost contact at the same time last month."
"Traveling northward is an unshakable event in Lingwu every year. We are worried that the church of the abyss will make trouble while we are away. And their methods have always been very strange. In addition to knowing that they will treat people as living sacrifices, the living sacrifices How the specific process was carried out, and for what purpose, I am afraid that only the victim knows. According to past experience, the victim usually loses blood all over his body, and his eyes are terrified, as if he had spied something extremely terrifying before dying. Although we have found out many of their movements from the undercover agents, they have always kept the core secrets like the living sacrifices under strict protection without leaving any loopholes."
"So for us in Lingwu, they are an unknown danger. In order to deal with this danger, we can only take what we think is the most correct action, which is to put heavy troops on defense. Both the General of the Japanese Guard and the Prime Minister Yu Zuo stayed in Lingwu , in order to deal with all kinds of chaos that may arise.”
Lid thought for a while and said:
"That is to say, you are fighting on two fronts this time? It's really not easy."
Zhan Mei scratched her head embarrassingly, and said:
"It's okay... ah, we should be in front of the Plain of Weeping Night! Let's put aside the matter of the Church of the Abyss for now. This time, I will trouble Mr. Lide to protect me!"
Saying that, Zhan Mei wrapped her cloak tightly, put on her hood, and her slightly hot body leaned against Lid's body naturally.
…
In Lingwu territory, there is an empty wilderness.
The ordinary-looking young man half-kneeled on the ground, stabbing a complicated pattern on the solid frozen ground with a dagger. If the high-ranking Lingwu who was in charge of heading north this time came back, he would be able to see at a glance that the pattern that looked like a Bana flower and a giant octopus was the same thing as the pattern on the heart crystal of the giants.
"Let's draw blood."
The young man said in a low voice. The girl with scales on her body raised her wrist, and there were many long scars on her thin arms. She drew out the dagger and slashed at her wrist without hesitation, without frowning, as if she didn't feel any pain.
The blood dripped onto the curse pattern, quickly filling the grooves of the engraving as if it were spiritual, and then quickly solidified, adding a bloody stroke to the curse pattern. The whole pattern seemed to come alive, dozens of tentacles flipped visible to the naked eye, and then fell silent again.
The girl didn't stop bleeding either, she lowered her hand and let the blood continue to flow.
The seal of the curse was officially completed, and the young man buried it with the surrounding snow, and soon the snow field returned to its usual appearance, and no one would suddenly be idle and dig a hole in the snow field, so this place is very safe .
The young man showed a smile, stretched out his hand towards the girl, and said:
"Good job. Come on, let's go to the next place."
The girl nodded, raised the hand that was not bleeding, and put it in his palm, the sleeves naturally slid to the shoulder. Apart from the scaly part, the supposedly beautiful arm was covered with scars, which looked distorted and ugly, quite different from those of her peers.
She completely self-injured this arm until it was about to rot before replacing it with another one. She didn't know how many times she cut herself with a knife during this period, and how many spells like this she completed.