“…………”

Christie opened her eyes and stared blankly at the sky in front of her.

The whole stronghold was silent, and there was not a single sound, and the girl sat up and quietly watched everything in front of her. She didn't change her clothes, she just got out of bed and came to the door.

Christie didn't stretch out her hand, but the wooden door opened silently on its own, and the girl walked out of the room. In the empty hallway, without a sound, the girl turned her head and walked up the stairs. In front of her, the locked door suddenly opened automatically, and then, the cold night wind whistled through and swept the girl's body through it.

If it were an ordinary Christie, I am afraid that she would have been shivering by now, but at this moment, in the face of this cold night wind, the girl's expression did not change in the slightest. She walked out of the corner barefoot and onto the roof of the top floor of the stronghold, and then the girl looked up at the sky. At this moment, in Christie's right eye, which was as beautiful as a purple jewel, the original faint light became more and more intense, and the rich light flashed out of it, even in the dark night.

No one saw that at this moment, in the dark night sky, thick clouds began to gather, they blocked the moonlight and stars, and even made a low roar from time to time, while listening to the sound in the clouds, the girl stretched out her right hand, spread her five fingers, and raised it to the sky.

"Boom!!"

At this moment, a bolt of lightning suddenly tore through the clouds and slashed down with a roar, just wrapping Christie in it for a while. The girl's whole body was covered with purple electric light, and at this moment, Christie clenched her fist.

"Whew!!"

With the girl's action, the lightning that had been heavily split suddenly returned to the sky as fast as a rewind reversal image, and the clouds quickly dissipated, and in the blink of an eye, the moon that was originally shrouded in clouds and mist appeared in the night sky again. The clear light fell from the sky again.

“………… Rhodes ........."

And at this moment, Christie shook her body, and she stared at the night sky. Something was whispered, and then the girl closed her eyes. Fall to the ground.

"Boom !!"

At that moment, Rod even felt that his ears were deaf, there was only a white expanse in front of his eyes, he couldn't see anything, and he couldn't hear any sound in his ears, for a moment, Rod even thought that he had left this world, but it was only a moment, the white light in his eyes slowly dissipated, and the dark and dark ruin hall reappeared in front of Rode.

"Bang."

Until this time. Rod's body fell to the ground hard, he shook his head, feeling that there was no longer that powerful suction behind him, and then he turned his head and glanced at the ruins not far away. I saw that it was already silent at the moment, and I couldn't see anything unusual at all. Only then did Rod breathe a sigh of relief, and he stood up and looked cautiously.

At this moment, the other mercenaries also poked their heads out of the ruins, walls, and stones in shock, and after making sure that there was nothing wrong, they came to Rod's side in twos and threes. They all looked in the direction of the shattered dimensional passage just now.

There is nothing there.

What's going on?

Looking at the scene in front of him, Rod couldn't help frowning, he didn't feel so strange about this, the plane channel itself was not a corpse, and there must be no scum left after it was destroyed, but what made him wonder was what kind of force could close this plane channel that had been forcibly opened? This is not one of those dimensional passages that has been opened through precise positioning, complex rituals, and extensive sacrifices. And it can almost be counted as the killing move of the devil general who died together. He used the remaining strength here and his own desperate blow to shatter the dimensional barrier, and this shattered dimensional passage was the most difficult to close. For example, a formal plane passage is like a water pipe, and opening the valve can lead water from that side to this side. So to close such a plane passage, just close the valve, and then take something and gamble tightly.

…,

But this brutal behavior of the devil general is tantamount to smashing a hole in the dam with a hammer, and then the flood water begins to spray outward unstoppably, in this case, no matter how much you struggle, it is very difficult!

But now, this plane passage is forcibly "blocked"?

This kind of power is not something that everyone has, Anne can't, Seven Love has this ability, but Rod can swear that he didn't lift her seal at all, and the level and strength of Seven Love, who didn't lift the seal, is about the same as himself, plus this plane passage is not connected to the fire element plane, so the role that Seven Love can play is basically zero.

So, who exactly?

Thinking of this, Rod couldn't help frowning and thought deeply. He cast his puzzled gaze on the fox-eared girl who had walked to the broken place of the plane passage just now and was studying carefully, but feeling Rod's gaze, Qilian only raised his head, shrugged his shoulders helplessly at him, and signaled that he had also found nothing.

In any case, this crisis, at least for now, I have survived.

Thinking of this, Rhodes breathed a sigh of relief and forced himself to put this question behind him for the time being, and then, he turned around and gave a new order to the mercenaries.

"Start a full search and report any anomalies immediately."

After hearing the order, these mercenaries also quickly began to act, although they were a little tired, and they escaped death, but now these mercenaries also knew that the road was not the time to rest, so they still gritted their teeth and cheered up, and searched the surroundings. And it didn't take long for Annie, Joey and Marfa, who were in charge of the other three attacks, to gather, and under their reports, Rod had a preliminary understanding of the situation in front of him.

Strictly speaking, this operation can be said to be very successful, Rhodes's sneak attack successfully attracted most of the opponent's elite power, and the next barbarians who were responsible for guarding the fortress were even more frightened in front of the fireball barrage of Seven Loves. And Joey and Marfa took the opportunity to take their subordinates to follow the direction pointed out by Rhodes at this time, and immediately killed them unexpectedly, which made those barbarians even more chaotic, but even so, it took a lot of effort to deal with these barbarians, mainly because those black-robed monsters were too difficult, for these mercenaries. It's too unfamiliar. Therefore, it was also a hard battle, if it weren't for the devil general being held back by Seven Loves, the shadow of darkness would have been dragged to death by Rhodes underground. I'm afraid it's hard to predict who will win and who will lose. And even so, among the two teams of mercenaries, there were still two people who died in battle. The three of them were seriously injured, but fortunately, there were really a lot of spirit masters on Rhodes' side, and they finally dragged those three people back from the line of life and death.

"Two dead?"

Hearing that two people died in battle, Rhodes still frowned a little unhappily, in his heart, these malleable talents are his future pride, and they will not be resurrected, and one will die one less. So when he heard that there was battle damage, Rhodes was naturally very distressed, but for these mercenaries. They were very calm——— with their combined strength of only twenty or thirty people, they were able to successfully take down a fortress stronghold with more than two hundred people and the devil stationed inside, which was already a great victory for these mercenaries. Originally, according to ordinary people's thinking, even if both sides were human armies. The number of people besieging the city is at least several times that of defending the city to have a chance of winning, and now Rhodes can take such a dangerous place with such a few people, plus he expects the enemy to be the first in everything, and those mercenaries are not fools, so they can naturally see the subtleties of Rhode's previous arrangement, and they have long been impressed by this young president. At this moment, I saw that Rhodes was still a little melancholy when he heard the war damage report. This made many mercenaries even more grateful, of course they didn't know that Lu Dao Rhodes was distressed about the elite loss that he had finally gotten so hard, and they just thought that this young elder took good care of his mercenaries, and it was rare for him to be so attentive and so kind. For a while, some mercenaries couldn't help but comfort.

…,

"Please don't blame yourself, my lord, we mercenaries do this, life and death, sooner or later, those two brothers are just unlucky, please look away."

"I understand."

Hearing the mercenary's words, Rhodes nodded. In fact, he also knows that he is a little too drilly, in fact, this is also an instinctive reaction of a gamer, just like in the game, players can sometimes recruit some elite NPCs to follow him as servants through chance and some special tasks, some of them are particularly beautiful, and some have special abilities that NPCs have. These are all huge boosts for players, but unlike players who can be resurrected when they die, these elite NPCs disappear completely when they die, so many players love their elite minions very much, and are unwilling to choose to let them die unless they have to. There are also a lot of otaku players, who specially set up an account to do those weird tasks, in order to recruit a cute girl to be a maid, which is really afraid of heat in your hand, and afraid of melting in your mouth. I'd rather die a hundred times than an NPC once, and if an NPC accidentally hangs up for some reason, these players are really heartbroken.........

"It's just that it's good to be able to live without dying."

Of course, Rhodes will not suffer as much as those players, but these elite mercenaries have indeed taken a lot of effort for him, and he will definitely be unhappy if he really dies in such a place. But Rhodes also understands that, just like the mercenary said, everyone has their own fate, and luck is so, are there fewer people in the world who have gone through birth and death, survived on the battlefield, and then were hit by a car in front of their own homes?

So Rod was depressed and depressed, and after a while, he was gone.

And the next report made Rod have some small surprises——— those villagers really didn't hang up, but survived!

This is also thanks to Marfa——— this middle-aged mercenary led his subordinates from the sewer according to Rod's order, and then went all the way to the lower floor, and soon came to the basement floor, and then found those villagers who were imprisoned by the bone cage, and the mercenary was also present when Rod promised, so he quickly reported to Rode, but at that time, Rod was playing Zhenghuan and didn't hear his report at all, so the mercenary had to make his own decision and rescued these villagers, Then he led them out of the fortress in the direction they came in on the side of the sewer. Fortunately, this decision was made in time, otherwise. In the explosion just now, this group of villagers may be either dead or disabled.

At this time, the mercenaries who were scouting around also came one after another to report that the fortress had been completely cleaned up, and there was no longer a single barbarian soldier to be seen except for the corpses.

It wasn't until he heard the news that Rod let out a long breath.

Huā took such a lot of work. This fortress is now in its own hands.

Thinking of this, Rod felt his body shake slightly. After exhausting his soul power, Rhodes felt extremely tired at this moment, and he even wanted to just close his eyes. Then find a random place to sleep first, and then talk about the next thing. However, Rhodes also knew that it was not the time to sleep, so he took out the strength of staying up all night and forcibly cheered up, then looked at everyone and continued to give orders.

"Very well, now, this fortress belongs to us......... Everyone's worked hard, Marlene. You and Lì Jie, as well as the others, can go and rest. Seven Love, you go and look around, you're idle anyway, and you're not tired, aren't you? I'll leave it to you tonight........."

"Hey.................."

Hearing this, Qilian immediately made a bitter face.

"Master, you are really cruel like this, people's skin can't withstand such destruction."

…,

"It's an order, less nonsense."

Rhodes leaned against the wall, his sword in hand. replied angrily. Hearing Rod's order, Qilian looked at him carefully, then nodded, then turned around and flew out of the fortress.

Watching the figure of Seven Love disappear, Rhodes breathed a sigh of relief, then closed his eyes, and began to contact the canary guarding the stronghold, after taking the fortress, Rod was ready to reset the entire center of the stronghold here, which naturally had to be changed, and the summoning gate on the side of the stronghold should also start to be prepared.

After receiving Rod's spiritual call, the canary's voice soon appeared in Rod's ears.

"Ah, Commander, good evening......... You're coming to me so late......... Is it because the fortress has already been taken? ”

"That's right."

Hearing the canary's inquiry, Rod snapped his fingers triumphantly.

"The fortress is done, but it's tiring......... I'm going to take a break and start work early tomorrow morning. When the time comes, I'll assign you some of the permissions to build the Summoning Gate, is there any problem? ”

"If there is a problem, it is not without it."

"Huh?"

Hearing Canary's words, Rod was stunned.

"Did something happen?"

"yes, it's about Christie."

"Christie?"

Hearing this name, Rod's originally somewhat hazy sleepiness was immediately swept away, and he stood up straight with a serious face.

"What happened to Christie?"

"Specifically, we don't know what happened to Lu Dao, Commander. Just now, we suddenly heard a loud bang from the rooftop, and then Bubbles noticed that the door to the rooftop had opened at some point, and when we went up to check, we found Christie fainting there......... We just sent her back to her room and was resting. ”

"How's Christie's doing?"

Hearing this, Rod's face sank slightly, and then asked in a low voice.

"The body is not bad, and you know the strength of the bubbles, Christie just suffered from some cold, and now she has recovered, but ......... Oddly enough, when we asked Christie why she was going to the rooftop, she was at a loss, completely unaware of what we were talking about......... Captain, Christie probably doesn't have the habit of sleepwalking. ”

"I don't think so."

Hearing Canary's inquiry, Rhodes pondered for a moment and shook his head. When he was in Deep Rock, Rhodes would go to see Christie every night when he finished work, and the girl had been sleeping in her bed very well-behaved, without the slightest sign of night travel, and Rhodes could feel everyone's every move in the stronghold, which meant that if Christie really had sleepwalking, Rhodes might not have noticed it at all.

"Did you find anything else?"

Thinking of this, Rod gathered his thoughts, thought for a moment, and then continued to ask. Canary is a thoughtful person, although this is just a projection, but the personality will not change, sure enough, after hearing Rod's inquiry, Canary quickly gave an answer.

"Yes, Commander, I asked the mercenaries stationed around the vigil, and according to them, it seems that there was a thunderstorm just now."

"Ray?"

Hearing this, Rod didn't know what he was doing, and suddenly remembered the huge thunder and lightning that hit the plane passage before.

"What kind of thunder?"

"I didn't see it with my own eyes, so it's hard to say, but I heard from those mercenaries that the lightning strike was very powerful, and it happened to split on the roof, but I went to check it carefully later, but there was not the slightest trace of lightning on the roof."

This is really a strange thing, in other words, on weekdays, Rod probably just heard a rumor and passed. But what he had experienced just now made it difficult for Rhodes to think that it was just a coincidence, Christie fell on the roof of the building, where there was thunder, and there was a powerful lightning bolt on his side that split down and sealed the broken plane passage, if it was a coincidence, this timing was too coincidental. Thinking of this, Rod couldn't help but move in his heart.

…,

"Christie said she didn't know anything?"

"Yes, Captain, Christie said she slept in her room all the time, never went out of her way, and I don't think she was lying......... Commander, do you want me to investigate? ”

"No need."

Hearing Canary's inquiry, Rhodes was silent for a moment, but finally shook his head and rejected her suggestion. In fact, after hearing the canary's report, Rod already had a number in his heart, before in the Golden City, Lìtia was not able to cure Christie, at that time Rod and Seven Love suspected that she was very likely to have the bloodline of the six-pillar demon god, now it seems that this situation is also proving their conjecture——— but the whereabouts of the six-pillar demon god has always been a mystery, and Rod does not know whether there is a demon god who uses thunder and lightning in it, Christie's current situation, although it still makes Rod a little worried. But this kind of thing, it's not good for him to say it to others.

"You ask Bubbles to take care of Christie, the fortress here is already in hand, and tomorrow you can start building the Summoning Gate, and then I can start transferring the system. By the way, get Shanna ready, and those mercenaries, we'll be busy from tomorrow. ”

"Understood, I'll tell Miss Shanna and Mr. Kavos."

At this, the canary paused, but soon she continued.

"By the way, Commander, there is one more thing......... Yesterday afternoon, a merchant named Mace came to you, saying that he had something important to discuss with you, and since you were not there, he went back. It's just that looking at his appearance, it seems to be a very important thing, and I hope we can convey it and report this news to you as soon as you come back. ”

"Oh?"

Hearing the canary's report, Rhodes raised his eyebrows, it seems that the person who should have come has indeed come. Mace, this guy, disappeared after the midsummer festival, originally Rhodes thought that he didn't plan to wade into this troubled water——— it's no wonder, although businessmen have positions, but they still give priority to interests, the south is the center of finance and commerce, Rhodes's starlight offended the south hard enough this time, thinking that if Mace really unites with him, then it will inevitably be difficult to sell and transport goods in the future. At this level, Mace's reluctance to work with him is understandable.

It's just that now it seems that this fat businessman has changed his mind again? What exactly did he think? These Rhodes are still unknown, but it is naturally a good thing for Rhodes to be able to make a turnaround, otherwise, it will be too difficult to achieve the self-sufficiency of the entire guild with his own strength.

"I know, let's deal with this matter after we build the fortress."

Thinking of this, Rod gave an answer, and the canary nodded slightly, and then cut off the communication.

"Hoo ..............."

It was only at this time that Rod rubbed his forehead and felt an unusually tired feeling.

It seems that the troublesome things are still to come. (To be continued.)