"Yu Haruka, I ......" The "Duke" seemed to try to explain something.

However, Lu Yuyao didn't want to hear his voice at all: "Enough! That's enough! You're good, and Verina is good! Anyone is good! I don't want to see any of them now! You're all gone! Let me go! ”

The "Duke" was at a loss for a while by his daughter's anger, and he wanted to say something more, but when he saw Lu Yuyao's eyes that had been filled with flames, he had to grit his teeth and disappear into the room helplessly.

"Let's go! Let me go! The roar gradually turned into sobbing, and then slowly turned into crying, and finally Lu Yuyao slowly exhausted the last trace of strength in the wail, and his eyes turned into pitch black.

In the haze, Lu Yuyao felt that someone was caressing her cheeks, she wanted to pat it away, but these hands brought her such a beautiful and nostalgic feeling, she called in a low voice: "Mother, ......"

Lu Yuyao's mother looked at and caressed her daughter gently, "Huh? What's wrong? ”

"Is this in a dream? Or are you finally here? Lu Yuyao asked with grievances.

"Is it important if it's a dream or not?" Lu Yuyao's mother said softly.

"I'm sorry, you must be disappointed with the way I look, right?" Tears fell from the corners of Lu Yuyao's closed eyes.

"It's okay, everything will pass, it's just ......" Lu Yuyao's mother hesitated slightly, but still said with some reproach, "You shouldn't lose your temper with him." ”

"I know, but I just can't help ......," Lu Yuyao said with some self-reproach.

"There are times when everyone is helpless, even your father." Lu Yuyao's mother said, "That's right, his strength is very strong, but you must also know that no matter how strong his strength is, he still has his limit, he is not a god, it is impossible to count everything, and it is impossible to do everything." No, not even a god can do it, so don't be angry with him. You're still young, there's still so much to go, and later, you're going to go through more, more, and you shouldn't tie yourself up to this. ”

Lu Yuyao was silent, and his slightly opened eyes were full of thoughts.

"Why don't you tell them the truth?" The light from the bungalow fell on the grass in the middle of the night, and the "visitor" sat at the round table on the grass, and the cold night breeze blew through her long snow-white hair, causing a ripple.

"What? Alone with me and wearing a mask? Angry? The "Duke" sat across from the "visitor" and asked with a grin.

"Do you think I'm angry?" "Visitor" asked in a quirky tone.

"Unexpectedly, I actually lost to my daughter." "Duke" shook his head and sighed.

"You haven't answered my question yet." The "visitor" seems to be genuinely angry.

"The truth is sometimes too cruel, and it's ......," the "Duke" hesitated for a moment, and said, "I don't make uncertain promises!" ”

"Humph! That's your style! Then you are ready to be hated to death! The "visitor" scoffed.

"That's my own doing!" "Duke," he said, spreading his hands.

At that moment, the door of the bungalow was pushed open with force, and Verina ran out shouting, "Father! 'Angel' Lord! Oh no! Something happened! ”

"What's wrong? Let's Miss Verina so panicked? Out of the corner of his eye, the "visitor" glanced at the "Duke", as if he already knew something.

Running all the way to the "Duke" and "Visitor", Verina said anxiously; "Yu Yao, that girl, ran away from home!"

The Duke frowned, "When did you find out?" ”

"Just now, I wanted to go to see her again before going to bed, but I found that her room was empty, and then, my servants and I searched the entire 'garden', and finally we couldn't find Yu Haruka."

The "Duke" tapped his fingers on the white round table and asked earnestly; "So, what about dinner? Did she eat dinner? ”

Verina looked at the "Duke" puzzled, she didn't understand, at this time, why the "Duke" was still entangled in whether Lu Yuyao ate or not, but maybe out of habitual trust, she still replied; "She's had dinner, and there's nothing left."

Hearing this, the "Duke" breathed a sigh of relief, and his eyes showed a glint of relief, "It's good to eat...... Verina, don't panic, I'm leaving, so let me find it! Also, I guess you will lose contact for a while, and during this time, you will act according to the plan and maintain the status quo as much as possible! ”

"You're going to be out of touch for a while? How long will it take? Verina vaguely guessed something, but she was not sure, after all, this was the "Duke", how could she fully see through the "Duke's" thoughts?

"About one to three years!" "The Duke" said after a rough calculation of the time in his mind, "believe me, it won't be more than three years at the latest, and everything will come to fruition." ”

Under the tumbling gray clouds, rusty, even scattered, weathered, scrapped cars strewn across the cracked road, which is lined with endless wilderness and mountains lying on the skyline in the distance. A cold wind blew, creating no life in the wilderness, leaving only a deathly silence with it, and then blowing into the dark city skyline in the distance.

Four figures in dark blue cloaks walked on the road, and on the sleeve of their left arm, a snowflake was the background, and the wolf head emblem with a hideous face seemed to shimmer with hunger.

"It's the city up ahead, right?" The four of them stopped and looked at the skyline in the distance, and one of them asked in a hearty female voice.

"In this environment, do you expect to have other 'big cities'?" The other man's voice sounded like a teenager who wasn't very old.

"This is it! Sima Luming! Here we go! The third person looked at the city in the distance, and under the cloak, Zhuge Fox's eyes flashed with the same hunger and anticipation as the "Cold Tooth" emblem.

"Lord 'Phantom Fox' and Lord 'Blood Wolf', what are we doing all the way to the south?" The dark city is in front of her, "Phantom Curtain" asked with doubts, now her face is a little more mature, and there are also a little more vicissitudes, but in the face of this city, she still can't help but have a trace of fear in her heart.

"Come to the appointment." Zhuge Fox looked at the city in front of him with a solemn expression, about a month ago, "Cold Tooth" received an unsigned invitation letter from an internal line, inviting him and the "Blood Wolf" to come here, originally he thought it was a trap of the "Empire", and he didn't want to pay attention to it, but after thinking about it for a few days, he finally decided to go to the appointment with the "Blood Wolf".

"Going to an appointment?" "Starlight" glanced at Zhuge Fox suspiciously, now he is no longer the little hairy boy he was back then, the war has carved a few marks on his face, but it also makes him look more like a soldier, "Boss, do you mean that invitation?" Didn't you say it was a trap? Why did you come to the appointment again? ”

"If I'm not mistaken, this should be the ...... Li Fei's hometown, right? "Blood Wolf" Catherine stared at the city in front of her, and deliberately paused when Li Fei's name was mentioned.

"Hmm." Zhuge Fox nodded vigorously, "The hometown of the boss is now that guy's territory, the commander-in-chief of the southern part of the 'empire'......"

"You suspect he sent the invitation?" Catherine asked.

Zhuge Hu said: "I'm not sure, but my intuition tells me that we should come this time." Moreover, I have a vague feeling that something big will happen on this trip. ”

"Big deal? What big deal can be? Now that the empire is in the limelight, our situation in the north is already very difficult, and at this time we are all running down, I am afraid of ......" "Phantom Curtain" muttered.

"I'm sure 'Ymir' they can handle it! What's more, in just one month, it shouldn't be a big problem. Contrary to the "Phantom Curtain", Zhuge Fox was not too worried about the situation in the north.

"However, fox, since the European operation, the Black Rose has been shrinking for two years, and they don't seem to be having a good time, and the whole operation, we have no results except for the loss of Li Fei, you say, is there really any hope?" Catherine asked, somewhat frustrated.

"Yes!" Zhuge Hu replied firmly, "I have a hunch that this time, maybe there will be new changes, and although I hate Black Rose, I believe in her!" I'm sure she's not going to stop there! ”

"I hope your hunch is correct!" Catherine sighed softly, and in an instant became alert again, "Everyone be careful, get ready for battle. ”

"'Blood Wolf' boss, what's wrong? There is an ambush? Phantom asked.

Catherine pointed to the city ahead and said, "The wind blowing from the city smells of blood. ”

Pitch-black high-rise buildings stand straight up, and the "Empire" aircraft and soldiers shuttle between the high-rise buildings from time to time, vigilantly patrolling every centimeter of the streets of the city, but the seemingly lively city, there are only a few small groups of people on the streets, surrounded by piles of bonfires with decadent expressions, greedily and cautiously drinking the little soup in the blackened and shabby iron fist in their hands.

When Sima Luming first arrived here, these commoners naively thought that their lives would be much better than being ruled by the "Empire" dragons, but that was only the beginning, when Sima Luming completed the transformation of the city, they seemed to have become a burden in the southern fortress of this "empire", and their living conditions were worse day by day.

Now, every meal they have, only a pitiful small bowl of soup and a piece of dry steamed buns, but they have more and more work to do, and most of them are some meaningless heavy physical work, and it feels like Sima Luming is destroying their bodies little by little, until they completely collapse.

The cold wind of early autumn blew through the dark corners of the city, and on the broken wall, a corner of a worn-out poster swayed with the cold wind, and the poster depicted a stout, snake-like tail, half burning flame, half deep pitch-black strange bird, which was once a symbol of hope in the city, but now, it can only sway weakly in the cold wind.

Several scrawny children were running through the street, and one of them accidentally glanced at the poster, slowly stopped, walked to the poster, stared at the poster, and the other children gathered around.

"What are you looking at?" One of the children asked.

"You say, 'Holy Crow', will you come back?" The child staring at the poster asked as if talking to himself.

"Impossible, impossible, my father said, Lord 'Holy Crow' was defeated by the monster on that big spaceship, and left us forever, we can only accept our fate!" Another child laughed and said that they were innocent and carefree, and they did not know how much weight their parents had said the word 'resignation'.

"Humph! One day, I'm going to kill that monster myself! So that everyone can eat enough every day! A child waved his fist at the giant "queen bee" in the distant sky.

"Just you? You're not even a 'sober one', a monster that the 'Holy Crow' can't kill, how can you kill it! Bragging doesn't hit drafts! One child scoffed.

"You! You ......" The pale face of the child who was determined to kill the monster bulged with anger, and he waved his fist to hit the other party, but the other child naturally ran away, and the other children kept coaxing, and they just frolicked and ran to the far side of the street, and the children, who were immersed in joy, did not notice that two strangers passed by them, and walked in the direction of the queen bee.

"Smack! Syllable! Syllable! The metal made a neat and rhythmic crash, and a small group of "Imperial" soldiers, trotting through the streets, swept through the small groups of civilians on the side of the street with a look of amusement and disgust, none of whom dared to look at the "Imperial" soldiers, and they could only bow their heads and eat the pitiful lunch in silence.

"Stop!" The leader of the "Empire" squad suddenly gave an order, and the entire team of "Empire" soldiers immediately stopped.

"Front! This is the first and last warning, stop and report your name! If you dare to stand in the way of the 'Empire' army, I have the right to kill you directly! The Captain of the "Empire" squad shouted in annoyance, he had not seen a human dare to stand in front of him since he came to the city, and it made him very unhappy that his long-standing pride was now challenged.

Someone dares to stand in the way of the "Imperial" troops? When the people on the street heard this, they couldn't help but shift their eyes from the iron bowl in their hands to the distance, and they were all curious about who was so bold as to dare to argue with the troops of the "Empire".

No matter how the leader of the "Empire" squad shouted, even if the "Empire" troops had pointed their spears at them, they still did not stop, one of them was wearing a black leather trench coat, a black T-shirt, black jeans and a pair of black travel shoes, and a silver mask that was half smiling and half crying; The other man was dressed in a thin white shirt, a pair of black trousers, a pair of black military boots, and a black mask that resembled a crow's head.