This is the third day of Allen's arrival in the mountain town.

It was night, and the City Lord's Mansion was lit up. In the study, the warmth leaks from the floor and walls, and even in late winter, I don't feel cold. The castle lord's mansion has a temperature control room, and during the winter steam is generated and flows through pipes that are laid to the main rooms of the castle lord's mansion. In winter, walking around the city lord's mansion does not feel cold even if he wears thin clothes. This was especially true of Rychde's study, where the old earl, dressed only in a thin coat, sat at his desk and read the few secret reports sent by Jardine.

This is a spy sent by the people who spy on Allen, and as the army expands, Rykerd also tries to build his own intelligence system. This spy team has only been established for more than half a year, and its scale is not large, and its ability is limited, but it can still report to monitor one or two people on its own territory. After being screened by Jarting, the report that was put in front of Pickard's case was simple and straightforward.

In terms of time, where Alan has been in the past three days and who he has contacted are all detailed in the report. There were a few places that Reddock read several times, and after reading the reports, Reddock snorted heavily.

It just so happened that the eldest son, Yopuni, pushed the door in, heard this heavy snort, and knew that his father was in a bad mood. Yopney gestured to Jadin, who quickly stepped back. He walked up to the Count's case and asked, "What happened?" ”

Rykerd shoved the spy in front of Yopney and pointed to the places to look. Jopney's eyes crossed and he frowned: "This Sir Allen has been in contact with Remington, and he went to the Diamond Queen Theater last night, is it to see Parson?" ”

"I told Parson not to get entangled with that singer, he didn't want a woman to do anything." Lucked shook his head: "Look, if it weren't for that Ollie, how could outsiders be so easy to grasp his whereabouts." But what I don't mind is that these two boys don't talk about contact with Allen! ”

Yopuni thought for a moment and said, "Parson, I think it's because of Ollie's relationship, so I don't dare to mention it to your father. As for Remington, that's a lot of fun. He had raised his question the night before, and had learned about the army you had sent outside the city, father, could it be that this Sir Allen had done it? ”

"Needless to say, although this bastard didn't do anything in the mountain city, he clearly wanted to stir up the relationship between our father and son. I hate those two boys, one has little tendons, and the other is timid and afraid, they are all mud that can't support the wall! I had contact with my sworn enemy, and he didn't even tell me about this father, this is to make me angry. ”

A smile flashed in Yopney's eyes, but he said, "They're just ignorant." ”

"Forget Parson, this kid Remington is not small, and he still doesn't understand the importance of it? I think he is determined to oppose me, and he has not been allowed to go out in the last few days. Send someone for me to keep an eye on him, and let him stay at home honestly. If this boy dares to be verbose, he will knock off his leg for me. Why don't you lock him up until the viscount leaves? Rickard knocked on the table and said, "Also, go and inform Gonza and ask his men to stay in the barracks for me, and not to step out of the mountain city." If they let that guy find out, the Empire's Iron Cavalry will probably drive to our mountain city tomorrow. ”

Yopuni nodded: "I've already informed Gonza, and I think he knows the severity." ”

Rykerd sighed and said, "If only Remington were half as sensible as you, I, as a father, could breathe a sigh of relief." ”

"It's not early, you go back and rest."

"Don't be too tired." Yopuni smiled and walked out of the study. As the door closed, he glanced at the old man in the crack of the door and walked happily to his bedroom. He did inform the alien general, but he also made a deal with Gonza. Of course, these agreements are unaware of Laked.

"This old thing, he keeps saying that he wants to entrust me with important tasks, and even a regiment commander has suppressed me from going to me. Father, father, you are too calculated, can you still hold these powers into the coffin? Closing the bedroom, Yopuni muttered, "It doesn't matter if you don't give it to me, I'll just take it myself." ”

The mountain road is vast.

The Snake Road became almost the private road of the Earl of Ryced's family, from the people to the nobles and wealthy merchants of the city. No one will walk on the Snake Highway if they don't have to. Besides, it is lifeless here, and it is even more cold and foggy at night, and whoever is full will run to the Snake Mountain Road. Reckerd simply set up a gatehouse at the entrance of the mountain road and sent guards to guard it. Unless it's Rykerd's own family, outsiders need to be passed on to each other.

It's the end of winter, but the weather hasn't shown the slightest sign of warming. In particular, the mountain city is built on the mountain, and it is even colder at night. The cold fog on the snake mountain road is deeply locked, and the sight distance is no more than five meters. Even though there are street lamps every three meters on the mountain road, in the night fog, this street lamp is faintly like a ghost fire, and can only barely illuminate every square inch of land.

At the sentry post at the entrance of the mountain road, two soldiers were smoking cigarettes wrapped in cotton clothes. In this terrible weather, it is hard work to watch the night. The guards of the Snake Mountain Road are all drawn from the barracks in turn, and jobs like this, which have no oil and water to fish and suffer from cold, are all installed on the unlucky heads of those who are ostracized in the barracks. It is said that they are on duty in turns, but every time the duty list that the commander discharges, it comes and goes with those familiar names.

There were a few people who were quite bright, and they knew how to stuff gold coins into the pockets of the officers on duty, and they were only then drawn from the duty list. More can only complain verbally, but nothing can be changed, and they have to suffer this living sin in the snake mountain road.

Tonight was no different, but the first two soldiers at the sentry post felt the atmosphere was oppressive, and they didn't know what was going on. Then I heard footsteps, and then again and again. The older one poked the younger colleague next to him: "You go and see." ”

"Why didn't you go?"

Then he kicked him, and the young man cursed and threw away his cigarette butt. grabbed a war knife casually, but it was cold. So he switched to a fire. The gun, tightened the cotton clothes on his body and walked over. Outside the sentry post, there is a bolt at the entrance to the mountain road. The soldier held the wooden bolt in his hand and looked ahead, and a figure gradually appeared in the thick fog.

It was an equally young man, with a long knife in his hand, and he walked with his head buried in it.

"Stop!" The soldier shouted, "Are you blind?" I can't tell that this is the Snake Mountain Road, and the city lord's mansion is above. This is not the place for you to wander around, get out of here, I don't bother to bother with you. If you want to be someone else, you must not be beaten severely. ”

The man grinned: "Just say this to you, you don't have to die tonight." ”

"What did you say?" The soldier plucked out his ears and couldn't hear the man's words clearly. He waved his fire impatiently. The gun said, "Leave quickly, or I'll shoot." ”

The man really didn't seem to understand, so he grabbed the knife and walked forward. The soldier scolded, but it was not good to shoot. Now the surroundings are so quiet that even the City Lord's Mansion listens to this shot. Let the old earl know that he is only shooting to drive out a madman, and he must not put off a layer of skin. At that moment, he bypassed the horse bolt, used the gun as a stick, and stabbed the incoming person in the lower abdomen, trying to knock him out and pull him away.

Unexpectedly, the butt of the gun came to the man's body, as if he had stabbed into a cooked skin, but it was clear that there was still a long distance between the gun and the person, and the soldier looked panicked. The light in his eyes gradually brightened, and he looked up in shock, only to see that the light was shining through the underneath of the man's clothes in front of him.

The man smiled slightly, and suddenly there was a lot of light!

A burst of heat burst out, and the soldier flew upside down screaming. He flew high off the bolt and fell under a street lamp a few meters away. The veteran soldier at the sentry post heard the shouts outside, and ran out cursing with his gun, just in time to see a cloud of flame slowly retract, and finally condensed into a complex pattern of light on the uninvited guest.

The man gently exhaled a breath of hot air from his mouth, and suddenly the lights in the sentry post suddenly turned on, and the surplus salary in the furnace, which had been almost extinguished, suddenly burst into flames. Not only that, but the street lights on the Snake Mountain Road are also lit up one after another. Then there was a roar, the lampshade of the street lamp exploded, and a puff of fire inside rushed to the sky, and the snake mountain road suddenly brightened, and the firelight dispersed the cold fog. The cigarette in the old soldier's mouth fell to the ground, and he couldn't close his mouth to look at the strange scenery of the mountain road. Each street lamp is like a torch at the moment, winding up the mountain road, like a corridor of flames.

All the way to the peak!

Alan smiled: "Smashing the field like this can be regarded as above board, right?" Then he walked forward, and the heavenly fire gas machine naturally surged forward, and the bolt of the horse stopped first spontaneously combusted without fire. The wooden bolt, which had been wet with cold moisture, was difficult to ignite, but this time it burned like dry firewood, and when Alan approached, it broke in the center. Eren stepped over the broken log and passed the soldier. After he had taken ten steps, the soldier knew how to jump up, pointed a gun at Allen's back and said in a trembling voice, "Stop." ”

At the end of the voice, there was a loud bang behind him. The soldier was swept to the ground by the shockwave, and the ground shook the ground. When everything subsided, I looked behind me to see that the sentry post had been blown up, and flames were desperately spewing out of the cracks in the stone pile. The soldier's face turned pale, and he looked at a hand that was pressed under a stone, and suddenly there was a sound of Alan's words just now.

You can not die tonight!

In other words, in addition to him, probably a lot of people will die? The soldier finally broke down, crying and screaming and throwing away the fire. guns, stumbling in the opposite direction.

Alan grabbed his knife and walked up the road. As he walked forward, the street lamps were rushed by the source of the heavenly fire, burning brighter and more vigorously. As he passed, the oil burned out of the lamps and the street lamps went out one by one. So on the mountain road, Allen was the dividing line. There was light in front of him, and there was a deep darkness behind him!