"There's a lot of uncertainty here, and this time, I'm mostly doing it for personal reasons." Alan shook his head: "This is my business, I don't want to take you on an adventure together." ”

Lucy said, "But if you trick us back like this, everyone will be unhappy." After all, we're friends, aren't we? ”

Hearing her say this, Alan had to nod and say, "Let's go out first, find a place to rest, and then talk in detail." ”

This time, the girl had no opinion.

It's not hard to get out, Alan throws Qianjun to Bloy, and he takes the demon salute to dig a climbing hole between the mountain walls that can be borrowed, and then climbs all the way up. Finally, he fixed his position with a dagger, hung down the speed long rope, and let the three of them get up one after another and exit along the original passage.

The storm was going on outside, and the night was falling, and the world was pitch black, and the outline of anything could not be seen at all. Alan and his men walked along a fjord, braving the wind and snow, and finally found a leeward cave. Bloy found a few large rocks nearby to block the entrance to the cave, and Alan used the marching stove to make a fire in the cave, and the four of them formed a circle to warm up and rest by the fire.

After eating some compressed food, Alan told the truth what he had heard in the ice cave. Bloy remained silent, and Willik said in a deep voice, "Chief, you're going too far. If we didn't know each other before, then after going through so much, there have been many times from birth to death, I thought we were already brothers. ”

"I just treat you as brothers, so I don't want you to go on adventures with me. This time, I don't even know where the exact location of the holy miracle is, but as mentioned in the teacher's notes, that place may be the origin of the sword demon's civilization. Coupled with some of my own personal affairs, when it comes to this, I have to tell you another thing. Eren took out the demon salute, and with a thought in his heart, the dagger turned into a short knife, showing the first stage of awakening.

"Major Luda asked me to hand over the source device, and that's what he said. It's called Demon Praise, and now it's its awakening posture Blood Hymn, and its ability is to activate the blood in the opponent's body, and use it to form a bloody blade from the inside to tear apart the internal organs and body. And this is only the posture of its first stage. My guess is that it has a higher stage of stance. In other words, it can constantly break through evolution like a living being. Alan said, "The important thing is that when we were at that sword demon station on the Alex Plains. I used it to slaughter the other man's commander, and next to him there was a sword demon who once shouted the name of the Calamity Blade. I think the sword demon must have seen a record of demonic praise. ”

"Because when I was testing the flames*, I got a stone chip from a sword demon tribe. It seems that in some cases, there are some patterns drawn on it, which also seem to be related to demonic praise. ”

Willik's eyes widened, "You mean, this dagger should have appeared on the Netherworld a long time ago?" God, so how did you get it? ”

"This is what my father gave to my mother, and my mother gave it to me. There are so many things involved, and the more I learn, the more I feel that there must be some kind of huge secret hidden behind this qiē. Now you also see that this secret is not only stored on the earth, it even spans the star field, and there are some clues on the underworld star. Alan sighed, "The greater the secret, the greater the danger." That's the main reason why I don't want you to go with me, after all, it's just my business. And we also need someone to bring the information back to the Thunderfire Base, so we can't let Colonel Gao Lei think that I have disappeared out of thin air. ”

"Let Miss Lucy bring the message back, and the two of us will accompany you." Bloy said suddenly.

Lucy looked up and said, "No, let Willik deliver the letter." I'm going to follow, if that holy relic is really the origin of the sword demon's civilization, I'm afraid that kind of place should be some kind of ancient civilization relics. I happen to have a subject in Ancient Civilizations in my course, unless you two think you're better than me in this area. ”

"You're almost an encyclopedia." Alan looked at her in surprise.

Lucy said proudly: "It's nothing, in terms of the means of knowledge inheritance, we are far more advanced than you humans. Or do you think that we can fight against the entire Jotun Field. Your Federation's interstellar defense line is less than one-tenth of ours! ”

"Well, Miss Archaeologist......" Alan looked at Willik.

Willik jumped up and shouted, "Don't look at me, I won't do it." How could such a wonderful thing be without me, to have the opportunity to explore the origin of the sword demon, and to make some valuable treasures, and to kill me and not do the boring errand of delivering letters. ”

"Then it looks like I'm the only one to deliver the letter, and the three of you are going on an adventure." Eren didn't have a good airway.

Lucy suddenly stood up and snapped her fingers, "Yes, I remember that there was still a scout team not far from Rinke Gorge. We can entrust them with the information to pass it on to the base, and that will solve the problem. ”

"That's it." Willik hit it off.

Bloy also patted his leg and said: "Tomorrow I will go to get a few dangerous plants to make dry food, it seems that the place we are going to cannot be reached in a day or two, and supplies will be a problem." ”

Alan shook his head and looked at them, a little helpless, but he was moved by the sincere emotions of several people. Decide to put everyone's lives first, and give up this adventure if there is danger, even if the answer is just around the corner!

The next day the blizzard stopped, and the ground was covered with a thick layer of silver frost. Alan and the others really hit another team near the Rinfeng Gorge, so they asked them to pass the news back. Eren hid the matter of the demon's praise, only saying that it was about holy miracles, and it was possible to solve the alien race of the Blade Demon once and for all. The matter was very important, and the other officers of Lei Huo did not dare to stop them, so they had to agree.

When Eren returns to Rinkeze Gap, Lucy is waiting for him at the rendezvous point. But they didn't see Willik and Bloy, because they found those sword demon robbers and started to act, Willik and the two chased after them, and told Lucy to wait for Alan to come back and then follow the convergence.

Since Willik and the others had been on their way for a while, Alan and Lucy did not stay any longer, following the marks they had left behind. Out of the Rinkeze Gorge, head north along the foothills of the Winter Twilight Mountains. The temperature cooled, and at night, the four of them met in a cave on the north side of the mountain. Willik and the others had set up a fire, and Bloy had struck a dangerous species of wolf, and had skinned the beast and taken the bones, and then cut it into pieces and roasted it on a branch. When Alan and the others arrived, just in time for dinner, Bloy carefully washed the wolf skin with snow water to wash away the filth, dried it over the fire, and gave it to Lucy to wear over her body to protect herself from the cold.

"How's it going?" Alan sat on the fire, and the wind blew for an afternoon, and the muscles in his face were a little numb. He grilled the fire and took a skewer from Bloy.

Willik had already eaten, burped and said, "It's smooth, they didn't know they were already targeted by us." Now rest in a cave half a kilometer ahead of us, and I'll keep an eye on them later. ”

Bloy said, "I'll change you in the middle of the night." ”

So the two set a time.

"Beyond the Wintertwilight Mountains, continue north to the Ice Demon Valley. From the Valley of the Ice Demons, you will pass through the Abyss of the Dead Stars, where there is an abandoned Sword Demon Outpost. After that, there is the barren land. Alan said: "I have seen some map information in the base, but the Thunderfire Base does not have detailed information about the barren land, only that it is an endless snowfield, and it is rarely inhabited. Even if it was a sword demon, I'm afraid that no tribe would take root in that kind of cold place, so even the outpost was removed. ”

"It seems that those sword demon robbers are planning to attack under the desolation, but I am curious how they got the path of the sacrificial procession." Willik picks his teeth with a sharpened twig.

Alan ate some meat skewers, his body temperature rose, and his hands and feet were no longer as numb as before. Hearing this, he said: "The Sword Demon has never been a united race, and the beheading order can only affect it for a while. Ten defeated the staff on the Plains of Alex, which had a huge impact on their prestige. It is not surprising that the other tribes did not sell their accounts at first, but if they dared to fight ten, especially the attention of the sacrificial procession, those robbers could be regarded as bold. But in my opinion, it's certainly not that simple. These guys are afraid that they have an inside line in the sacrificial team, or even a big man in the ten ministries, otherwise how can the news be leaked so easily. ”

"Another point is that the distance between the Coldcrown Glacier and the Badlands is limited. And they have already worked out various countermeasures after the robbery. This shows that they did not enter the Rinkao Gorge before winter, but intentionally. If there are really other sword demon bigwigs behind this, then this is a deliberate action against the king of sword demons. Lucy analyzed.

This is not impossible, after all, once the sacrificial team goes on a business trip, the prestige of the Sword Demon King will naturally be affected. If there is an unfavorable situation in the fight against the Union army, it is not difficult to imagine that someone will take the opportunity to blame it. Therefore, it is possible that this series of events involves a power struggle.

"Regardless, our goal is the Holy Miracle. If the situation allows, take a closer look at the secrets. As for the internal scramble of the Sword Demon, we don't have to pay attention to it. Alan said.

When Bloy returned early in the morning, it turned out to be the sword demon robber who had started to act. Alan and the others also packed their bags and hung them far behind their butts, if there was no accident, they would be able to reach the Ice Demon Valley this evening. Tomorrow morning after the abyss of the dead stars, that is where the barren land is. The sword demon infighting, so that the route of the sacrificial procession was leaked, gave Eren a chance to get close to the holy miracle. If you miss this time, you will have to wait another ten years, and Alan naturally won't stay on the Underworld Star for so long. So he still had some expectations for this operation, and today, the team began to advance into the Wintertwilight Mountains. The three men took turns watching from time to time to confirm the path of the sword demons.

By noon, when they had passed a col, Willik and the others had already slipped into it first. saw Alan stop, and Alan was frowning and looking up. The mountain walls on both sides sway upward, gradually closing and clinging to each other above, forming the shape of a line of sky.

"What's wrong?" Lucy also noticed that he was different, so she asked.

Alan said, "Look at this place, if we go halfway. The Blade Demon cuts off the path from the front and back, and then drops gravel from above. Space is limited here, and we'll be seriously injured if we don't die. ”

"What do you mean?"

"They're aware of us." Alan smiled bitterly. R1058