Ian's father rode alone on his skinny horse and left the small town. Seeing Allen on the wall, he waved his hand and gradually became a black dot in the distance. Allen returned to a house in town, where the mayor had arranged for him to rest. Walking into the hall on the first floor, Regis was wiping his Iron Slaying Sword, Adele was flipping through a book of poems by the window, and Lucy and Father Miro were playing chess. After greeting everyone, Allen returned to his room.
A moment later, someone knocked on the door and Edward came in. As he closed the door, he said casually, "I've already settled his salary with the guide and paid him double the original price. I also reminded him not to leak the matter of Tarin Aisha."
Ellen said "hmm" and looked out of the window, "I want to borrow your Tower Forest Gems."
"No problem." Edward narrowed his eyes and said, "You want to cause some trouble for Marquis Pierre?"
"Do you think it's feasible?"
"Of course. We can also borrow the power of that marquis to help us clean up the remaining cavemen, if he has that power." Edward walked to the door and gently knocked on it. Not long after, a Dark Blade Warrior appeared. Edward whispered a few words in his ear, and the warrior nodded and left. Only then did Edward return to the room. "It's done. The cavemen won't march during the day, so we should still be able to catch up."
"Very well, then I have one more thing to ask you."
Edward's pupils quietly turned ice-blue, which made him look very cold. He said indifferently, "There's no need to ask. I wanted to tell you today. Yes, I deliberately exposed the Tarin Gem to Ice Wind when I was in Tarin Aisha. "
"That's reasonable. Otherwise, with your cautiousness, how could you have been caught by a mere corpse?" Allen said coldly, "Then, aren't you going to explain?"
"What explanation do you want to hear?" Edward did not avoid Allen's gaze. His tone was so calm that it was almost cold. "It's very difficult to kill Frost Wind in a complicated environment like Taryn Aisha. I don't think there's anything wrong with using the Taryn Gem to lure it out of the ground. "
"That's right, but you should have told me before you left."
"You also know that reptile isn't an ordinary beast. It has intelligence, and it's not low at all. Firstly, I didn't have time at that time. Secondly, if I told you, I was afraid that you would expose yourself to Bing Feng. It has been proven that Bingfeng has taken the bait. We have solved the biggest hidden danger in that underground city. "
"Then do you know that in order to get rid of Ice Wind, I have to kill him. How many people did we sacrifice? How many did this town sacrifice? If you had told me in advance, at least I could have been prepared, and not so many people would have died! "Allen said solemnly.
The atmosphere in the room was heavy. Edward lowered his gaze. "Regarding this, I admit that I did make some mistakes. Firstly, I didn't think that Ice Wind would drive the Subterrane Dwellers out of the underground city. Secondly, I didn't expect that you would stay for a nameless town. Originally, these two mistakes could have been made up for. As for the Subterrane Dwellers, I had planned to travel through the night and lure them to Marquis Pierre's territory. That way, we could use the marquis's army to deal with Ice Wind, and you wouldn't have to take the risk yourself. If we had done that, there wouldn't have been a second mistake, and we wouldn't have had to sacrifice half of our soldiers. "
"What about Dragonspear Town?"
"This is what I don't understand. This town is just a chance encounter on the road. The people in this town aren't your subjects. In my opinion, you don't have to take the risk for them. They aren't your responsibility, Lord Allen. We lured the Subterrane Dwellers away. As for whether the town would escape or fall to the Subterrane Dwellers, it doesn't affect my plan at all. To be honest, it doesn't affect my plan at all, but you … "
Suddenly, Allen punched at Edward. Edward's expression changed slightly. Then, he was hit squarely, and his entire body flew out, crashing into the wall before bouncing back down. He lay on the ground for a long time, unable to get up. Blood flowed out of his nose and mouth. Allen asked coldly, "Why didn't you dodge?"
Edward stood up as if nothing had happened. He wiped the blood off his face and said, "If it makes you feel better, taking a punch isn't a big deal."
"That's why I'm afraid of you! Edward, although we are of different races, I believe that all creatures have emotions. Even the residents of the Star Region of Chaos have them, but their emotions tend to be evil. But you, you are as calm as a machine at all times. That's right, Dragonspear Town isn't my territory, and the people here aren't my subjects. I have no obligation to protect them. But their disaster was caused by us. Don't you feel a little guilty? "Allen said loudly.
Edward looked at him calmly. "Guilt and self-blame. These negative emotions will only affect my judgment. My job is to assist you. I'm the brain of the entire team. What I need to do is to obtain the greatest benefit at the smallest cost. This is the basis for all my decisions. You are not calm now, and there will be no results if we continue to talk. I suggest you calm down first, and then we can talk. My lord, impulsiveness will not make things better. It will only make things worse. Most importantly, we can't afford to lose, so I have to be very careful with every step. "
Seeing that he was about to leave, Allen sighed. "Edward, I admit that you are right about many things. But you have to remember that you are not a machine. You have a life and a soul. There are some things that we can't judge purely based on interests. Otherwise, this kind of life will be meaningless. "
"I'll remember that. When I make a decision in the future, I will consider your emotional needs and make adjustments."
He left. Allen laughed bitterly. That guy had completely misunderstood him. Lucy pushed open the door and entered. She blinked and said, "It seems that your conversation was very unpleasant."
Allen facepalmed. "I don't know what that guy Edward has experienced in the past. I don't believe that he was born so cold."
"He is indeed very smart and calm. But you have to be careful. He is a double-edged sword. If you don't handle him well, I'm afraid you will cut yourself. "Lucy held Allen's face and said.
"He is very important to us. Perhaps, I should try to understand his past."
Night fell again.
Two spots of yellow light lit up, and a humanoid shadow crawled out of the cave. The night wind blew a few sparse yellow hairs on its head. It crouched on the rock and looked around. Then, it saw a gopher passing through a crack in the rock. Its eyes lit up and it nimbly jumped over, pouncing on the gopher. The gopher struggled with all its might, but it was caught with both hands and brought to its mouth. A lipless mouth opened. It used its sharp teeth to bite off the gopher's head and gnawed on it with relish.
While eating the gopher, it turned its head left and right, casually looking around. Suddenly, something flickered in the night. The familiar blue light made its whole body tremble. It didn't even care about eating the gopher. It threw it away and then used its hands and feet to run towards the flickering light. More and more Subterrane Dwellers crawled out of the cave. Their lives were reversed, and their lives were no different from those of bats. They slept during the day and moved at night. There were still two to three days' journey to the entrance of the Great Tunnel, so they couldn't waste a single minute of the night. They had to hurry through the night and find a place to hide and rest before sunrise. Otherwise, the sunlight on the surface would blind them. Although their eyes weren't as useful as their noses to them.
A few Subterrane Dwellers began to fight over the corpse of the rat that was abandoned by their companions, until a Subterrane Dweller with totem patterns all over his body and a necklace made of Tarin gems jumped to their side, punching and kicking them to separate them. That was the leader of the Subterrane Dwellers and had a high status. Ordinary Subterrane Dwellers didn't dare to resist and could only let themselves be beaten. At this moment, a joyous cry sounded in the distance. The Subterrane Dweller from before ran back, holding a crystal fragment in both hands and presenting it to the leader.
The leader of the Subterrane Dwellers took it and cried out in surprise. It compared this irregular fragment with the necklace around its neck and found that there was no essential difference between the two. It was clearly a fragment of Tallinn gems. The leader grabbed the Subterrane Dweller and shouted anxiously before kicking it. The Subterrane Dweller pointed in the direction of the gem fragment and led the leader there.
Not long after, they found a similar flash in the northeast. Although it was several kilometers away, it was unusually obvious in the night. The leader of the Subterrane Dwellers let out a long howl, and the others who came out of their hiding places understood the meaning of the howl. The remaining Subterrane Dwellers began to change direction. They couldn't allow the Tallinn gems to remain on the surface. It would make their lives worse than death.
Under the night, an undercurrent was quietly moving.
Firelight City was bathed in the tranquil moonlight.
The name of the city came from Marquis Pierre's family emblem, a ball of blazing flames. In order to make the city more worthy of its name, Marquis Pierre filled the entire defensive wall with braziers, and stipulated that all the braziers must be lit when night fell, so that the city would look like a rising flame and live up to its name.
As a result, the soldiers on guard were exhausted. Gods above, everyone knew that running around Firelight City's defensive wall would break their legs. After all, this city wasn't small, and the defensive wall was naturally very long. The few soldiers responsible for lighting the braziers tonight were sitting behind an arrow mound and slacking off. Anyway, their commander wasn't on the defensive wall right now and was fooling around with a woman in his office.
"Let's make a bet. I say that sooner or later, Commander Darren will die on that woman Luo Wei's stomach." A soldier with a face full of spots said, "Once, I happened to pass by the commanding officer's office. You don't know how loud Luo Wei was screaming. You can imagine how much effort our commanding officer spent on her."
"You're not passing by. You're going to peep." Another yellow-haired soldier laughed and said, "But then again, that woman Luo Wei's breasts are as big as a cow's and her legs are long. If I can fuck her, I'm willing to die. "
"Come on, then Lord Darren will cut off your pair of eggs and feed them to his hounds."
A few soldiers immediately laughed, and one of them leaned on the wall and laughed until he was out of breath. As he laughed, he quieted down and pointed to a hillside outside the city. "Look over there, what's that?"
A few heads popped out from behind the wall. The soldiers looked over and saw something emitting a faint blue light on the hillside.
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