To the north of the royal capital, on a wasteland off the main road, a carriage was driving at high speed.
At the front of the car, sat Michelle and Benjamin.
Before, after leaving the royal capital, the two of them had been heading towards Pearl Lake. However, after walking for a while, Michelle seemed to have discovered something. Her face changed slightly, she stopped, squatted down, and put her ears to the ground.
Seeing this, Benjamin couldn't help but become a little nervous.
"What's wrong?"
Michelle did not answer, but made a silencing gesture to signal Benjamin to keep quiet. Then, she stayed close to the ground, frowning, as if she was concentrating, listening to some movement in the distance.
Is there a situation
Benjamin knew what Michelle was doing. Therefore, he did not disturb Michelle, but stood aside and quietly waited for the results of Michelle's inquiry.
About five minutes passed.
"The Paladins chased them out. There were many people. I heard the sound of their horse hooves." Michelle stood up, patted the ashes on his body, and said, "However, the sound of their horse hooves was very chaotic, and I don't know what they are." Which way are they chasing... In fact, many of them are going to the royal capital."
Hearing this, Benjamin couldn't help but frown.
He had also read about the method of listening to sounds by leaning against the ground in some books before. And now, Michelle can hear the sound of the Holy Knight's hoofbeats, which means that the distance between the church people and them is not far away.
Trouble...
Although the place where they are now is quite remote, it is only such a big place to the north of the royal capital. The opponent is riding a horse and there are many people. No matter what, it is enough to find them again.
And when the Paladins conduct a large-scale search, how far can they run on just two legs
Unless they can get out of this area before the Paladin discovers them, it will only be a matter of time before the church people catch up.
"How about... let's grab some horses?" Thinking like this, suddenly, an idea flashed in Benjamin's mind and he blurted out.
Michelle looked at Benjamin and raised her eyebrows in slight surprise at first. Then, as if after some consideration, she nodded and agreed with the idea.
Thus, there was a scene where they were sitting on the carriage.
Their original intention, of course, was to grab two fast horses, sit on them and run wildly, farther and farther. However, two fast horses are not so easy to find - it is impossible for them to really steal the Paladin's horse.
At the same time, in order to prevent being discovered by the Paladin, they could not return to the main road and could only wander carefully on the edge. Once Michelle heard the sound of horse hooves approaching, they would immediately turn around and move away.
In this way, with great difficulty, they hit a carriage.
The carriage looks very simple and a bit shabby. However, what happened to be that the carriage was actually empty, just parked on the side of the road, without anyone there. The horses tied to the cart were so bored that they began to rub their noses on the ground.
Therefore, when they saw the carriage for the first time, they couldn't help but feel a little suspicious.
At that time, Michelle walked carefully to the carriage. After confirming that there was no problem with the carriage, she took a look at the surrounding situation, squatted down, and put her ears back to the ground, trying to detect the movement of the paladin.
However, soon, she stood up, frowned and said: "All the sound of horse hooves disappeared, and all those paladins seemed to have returned to the royal capital. And, not only the paladins, but also those who left the royal capital with us Those people, the sound of their horses’ hooves is gone too.”
Hearing this, Benjamin couldn't help but feel a little strange.
An empty carriage appeared on the roadside for no reason, a Paladin who left the city and returned, a traveler who disappeared inexplicably... If he hadn't already determined the attributes of this world, he would have thought that he had stumbled into some supernatural copy.
Where are people? Maybe gold started falling from the sky in the royal capital, so they changed their minds and all ran back.
Thinking of this, he lowered his head and looked at the ground around the carriage.
The surrounding ground was very messy, with horse hoof prints crisscrossing it. Obviously, the one tied to the carriage was definitely not the only horse that had been around here. Not only that, but more importantly, there are faint traces of small crosses on some of the horse hoof prints.
Being able to print on horseshoes, such an exaggerated thing, is probably something only the church can do.
However, those horse hoof prints bearing the traces of the church ended near here. Looking at the direction, it seemed that those people stopped here, and then returned the same way.
"It seems that the owner of the carriage was taken back by the Paladin." After thinking about it, Benjamin came to a conclusion.
Michelle also nodded.
However, roughly inferring the origin of the carriage did not seem to be of much help to them in speculating on the church's actions. Has the church started arresting people again? Why? If they didn't want people to leave, why would they open the city gates and let people out
It's weird...
Moreover, he is probably the person the church really wants to arrest. The Paladin just caught a bunch of innocent passers-by, but didn't even bother to start a search. Which song is this from
Benjamin was still wondering, but Michelle didn't care so much. She walked straight forward, held the handle, and boarded the carriage in a few steps.
"No matter what the church plans to do, there is no need for us to refuse the carriage when it is presented to us." She looked around inside the carriage again, then turned back and said, "Come up, there is nothing wrong with this carriage, we have to get away from the royal capital as soon as possible."
So Benjamin also got on the carriage.
With the carriage in hand, the two of them did not drive directly in the direction of Pearl Lake. On the contrary, in order to avoid being discovered by the church, they planned to take a long detour.
They veered a little more toward the west.
To the northwest of the royal capital, dozens of kilometers away, you will enter the mountains from the plains. The mountains in this area are not high, most of them are small hills, only one or two are slightly higher. Among them, the most famous mountain is called North Mountain, which was once the headquarters of the most notorious bandit in the kingdom, the North Mountain Bandit.
The bandits had been wiped out long ago, and the boss Scar Man who had a chance to escape was also killed by Benjamin with one shot. At this moment, North Mountain should be just an empty barren mountain.
Of course, they didn't plan to hide there. If you really want to go there, the road will take you a bit far, but it will make you have long nights and lots of dreams. They just wanted to take advantage of the complicated terrain nearby to sneak into the Pearl Valley while avoiding the church.
Passing through the underground rock passage, reaching the Valley of the Broken Army, and finally escaping from the Kingdom of Hori, this is their real goal!
In this way, the general route of the entire escape was determined, and the two drove forward without moving forward.
Time passed little by little, and they also moved away from the royal capital little by little. The journey was uneventful, they didn't encounter anything, and the lingering sense of danger began to slowly subside. Even Benjamin has entered the conscious space at this moment and continues to repair the cracks.
Gradually, as the carriage sped along, it passed noon, the sky became brighter, and the shadows of the surrounding trees gradually lengthened in the sunlight.
The repair work went on for a long time, and Benjamin felt mentally exhausted, so he left the conscious space and prepared to take a rest first.
On the carriage, he glanced at the completely unfamiliar environment around him. Suddenly, he turned his head and looked at Michelle.
As it happened, there was nothing to do while sitting in the carriage, and it was time to resolve the questions in his mind.
"In the beginning, you always acted mysteriously, as if you had other agendas. But now, why do I suddenly have the feeling that you are sincerely helping me?" He frowned, asked.