Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 331 The night is too dark

For some ulterior reasons, the lord's dinner tonight took a little too long.

When he and Karen walked out of the "Kingfisher Feather", it was almost midnight, and the whole Peacock City had fallen into silence. There was not even a slight breeze between the slightly dilapidated mud-brick houses in the town, only a few stars in the sky. Flickering silently in the night sky.

Karen leaned on the pine porch pillar of the "Kingfisher Feather" tavern, quietly looking at this sleeping human town, and her purple demon eyes seemed to be shining like stars;
She suddenly realized that without the bloody battle that took place in the Red River Valley and the East Rift Soul Land half a month ago, Peacock City would never be what it is today—in this human bridgehead, instead of Starlight and sleep, there will be fire, blood and the sound of killing.

Karen Lepage was thinking about fate, life and death, unconsciously stroking her snow-cold cheeks;

Then, she suddenly felt that something was wrong, and when she turned around, she found that a certain Duke was looking at her jokingly in the dark.

"Why?" Karen folded her arms in the standard attitude towards hooligans, staring at Xia Houyan suspiciously.

"You're so flat." Xia Houyan smirked.

"You're so quick." Karen Lepage retorted without giving an inch.

"That's not what Lina and the others said." What kind of person is the lord, how could he pay attention to these false attacks, and roll his eyes as if they were spraying water.

Karen stared at him for another two seconds, then looked away suddenly.

"Over there in my house. Demon Realm. Qiuyue City." The human-devil hybrid looked at the dimly lit streets of Peacock City, and said softly, "The scene is completely different from your human towns... The houses of the demons are not built with mud and bricks. Yes, the dark 'magic crystal' is used... The surface of the magic crystal house is as smooth as a mirror, and in the darkest night, they will also reflect the light of the stars..."

"Homesick?" Xia Houyan picked up a cigar gifted by the Southern Army, and popped a flame with his fingertips. Before he could light it, Karen suddenly reached out and took the cigar out of his mouth.

Karen didn't even look at the lord, and directly opened her red lips, and put the robbed cigar into her mouth.

"Damn, isn't it bandit nature? You even want to snatch this shit?" Xia Houyan cursed helplessly, flicked his fingers, and lit the cigar for Karen.

Karen held a dimly burning cigar in his mouth, tilted his head to look at Mr. Xiahou, and suddenly pulled back the hair hanging from his temples, and smiled lightly.

This smile was too bright, and it didn't match Karen's sullen face on weekdays (including the two hours in the tavern just now), and the official Xiahou was stunned for a while.

"I wish I could be homesick too..." Karen bowed slightly, put her arm on the railing of the porch of "Kingfisher Feather", and sighed softly, "But... I don't want to. Autumn Moon City... I No. Actually, I don't want anywhere. Elliot Igor, I'm a half-breed who was never wanted, how can I have a 'home'?"

"Your father still misses you very much." Xia Houyan hesitated for a moment, couldn't bear it, and still accidentally revealed the fact that he had been in correspondence with Duke Sinomas.

However, Karen, who was preoccupied, apparently did not notice the implication.

"Maybe..." Karen stared sadly at the silent street, and sighed, "...but I don't really want to see him either. Sometimes, I feel that the Land of the Cracked Soul is quite suitable for people like me—— No one wants it, there is no way out, everyone is an enemy... This wasteland is really a good garbage dump."

"Miss Karen Lepage!" Jahouyan raised his eyebrows, "As the current owner of this garbage dump—ah no, this wasteland, I want you to pay attention to your wording!"

Karen ignored him, but, even more unexpected by the lord, the half-blood princess stretched out a hand, pulled him closer to her, and then gently rested her head on his right arm .

Xia Houyan can swear to the revolutionary mentor that when he faced the Scarlet Flame Demon Vulture, he was never so nervous that he dared not move like he is now.

Moreover, Karen's long dark brown hair also drooped like running water with her movements, making the back of Xia Hou's hands itchy.

"Your publicity tricks are useless to me. Everyone knows whether the Land of Souls is a garbage dump, right, my junkyard owner?" Karen leaned on his arm and sneered, " But in fact, when you first came to the wasteland, you were the same as me...the entire empire was unaccompanied, hungry, and your life was in danger at any time..."

"I would like to remind you that when you crossed the arcane spire defense line from the Demon Realm to the Land of Soul Breaker, no bandits kidnapped your sister." Xia Houyan taunted eccentrically, "From this point of view, your The situation is much stronger than mine..."

In fact, when he said this sentence, he should have realized the consequences long ago.

Because Karen turned her head away, she bit him hard on the arm full of resentment.

Xia Houyan's arm was in pain, and he didn't dare to move it. He could only comfort himself and say, now I can be regarded as a strong man who was bitten by a zombie...

Well, being "bitten" by a zombie, in every sense of the word...

...and even more than one.

Karen didn't know which level this guy's imagination was leaping forward, let go of his mouth, and lowered his head:

"... From this point of view, it is more like my 'home', but it is the wasteland of the Land of Souls... From this point of view, maybe I have to thank you, because without you, this wasteland Maybe it will be razed to the ground by the orcs..."

"Then you can rest assured that as long as I am still alive, the Land of Cracking Soul will always be yours, oh yes, and the home of your bandit brothers!" Xia Houyan patted his chest loudly, "Our Shuangfeng Ling, always willing to provide homes and shelters to all kinds of trash... er, talents!"

"After that, things will be different." Karen said, looking at the shadows in the street, her voice suddenly became much lower.

"What do you mean?" Xia Houyan looked down at Karen.

"I mean... you will become different." Karen shook her head desolately, "Think about it, defeating an entire elite division of orcs by yourself, you and your Igor family, How much credit has this done for your human empire? Since the bombing of the Red River Valley, Elliot Igor is no longer an abandoned son of that empire, but a hero of human beings..."

"But I will always be the Lord of Shuangfengling." Xia Houyan smiled.

"Really?" Karen's tone didn't seem to become high because of this promise, "but you also know what kind of place the Land of Souls is...you and your people can really reject another piece of land. A more fertile territory? Can the Igor family really reject Rock Creek City, or even the former Eagle's Rest Fort, for the sake of a wasteland that doesn't shit? Could it be that the heroes of the empire are willing to spend their entire lives staring at the wind rolling on the sandy land? Live in grass?"

Karen's question was not answered for a while.

So she bit her lip and mustered up the courage to raise her head, only to meet the lord's mocking gaze.

"What... what's wrong?" Karen suddenly panicked.

Xia Houyan laughed and said:
"Dear Miss Karen LePeg, I'm sorry to find that although we've had, ahem, 'in-depth' exchanges, you don't seem to be particularly aware of my style . . . City, Eagle's Rest Castle' and other multiple-choice questions, this lord will always have only one answer..."

"...You want them all." Karen rolled her eyes and answered for Ya.

Xia Houyan also turned his head to look at Peacock City, stretched out his arms to hold Karen's slender waist very naturally, and said leisurely:

"Miss Karen, I think I've had a fulfilling life - both now and before... even 'before' longer than you think. I've made mistakes and lost things- ——I must have lost more things than you can imagine... But, I have never regretted the decision I made. When I was in the infected area, I decided to find a purpose for my life and decided to live in Elliott The life that Te Igor expected, to find a way out for his subjects...I don't regret this decision today, nor will I in the future."

Xia Houyan thought for a while, then shrugged and said:
"Of course, sometimes I look back and wonder what would have happened if the original decision had been different...but it would have been another person, another Elliott E. Gore's story, and I'm happy with mine, with the story we have."

Karen hung her head in silence for a long time, then raised her hand, and slapped someone's claws off her waist.

"Dear lord, I suggest that you do not make an inch of it because of what happened tonight." Karen Lepage sneered, "Please remember, I like women. The reason why I came to you is It's just a temporary thirst quencher."

Xia Houyan said dryly:

"But your performance at that table in the tavern just now doesn't seem to be convincing..."

Karen lowered his head and bit his arm again, this time quite hard, Xia Houyan was sure that his arm was already bleeding.

The two were still whispering here, when footsteps suddenly came from afar.

A lantern appeared on the street corner, and then Eldridge's cheek illuminated by the fire.

Seeing the lord standing at the door of the tavern, Eldridge suddenly had a happy expression and ran towards this side quickly;

However, when he saw Karen beside the lord, the lazy dog ​​was obviously taken aback.

"Boss! It's okay for you to stay here! I, ah, want to kill you! Well, this human-devil half-blood girl, ah, why is she here? Something is wrong!"

Karen said coldly: "Does it matter to you where I am?"

Xia Houyan rubbed his arms and said angrily:

"Ai Shuai, do you have something to do with me? Put your farts away!"

Eldridge flattened his mouth, approached the lord, and lowered his voice:

"Boss! Didn't I follow your arrangement and send someone to Rock Creek City, ah, a set of treasures came here... Just now, the [-]th in Rock Creek City... Uh, my good brother gave it to me overnight, ah, send it to me Here it comes! I brought it here specially for you, ah, let you, ah, taste it!"

Karen was stunned when he heard the words, and then he noticed that Eldridge was carrying a large bag, which was bulging with some unknown things.

However, based on Eldridge's mysterious expression, stammering words and embarrassing performance, she has reason to suspect that the bag contains dirty things such as victorious erotic novels, genre comics, and unique weapons related to Victor Laurie. .

When Xia Houyan heard the report, his eyes lit up, and he couldn't wait to urge:

"Open it, open it!"

Eldridge nodded hastily, hung the lantern in his hand on the porch post, and then unloaded the package by the light of the light, untied the rope, and spread it out.

Karen was a little surprised to find that the package was stuffed with a crumpled, limp mass of cloth, which looked like a suit of clothes.

clothing?Karen stretched out her hand, picked up the package and unfolded it.

What appeared under the light was a long white robe. The unique complicated patterns on the fabric and the faint fluorescence emitting in the dark night proved that this was a genuine mage robe—and not that kind of robe. The low-end goods that are crudely made and only apprentices and poor mages will wear, but the high-end enchanting robes that Master Laurie can't afford in his entire life.

"Are you ready to wear the robe?" Karen looked at the lord in surprise.

In her memory, the lord wore everything in Frost Maple Ridge, except that he didn't wear mage robes much—partially due to the existence of a certain chief mage, the identity of "magician" was not recognized among the members of the Igor family. I have always had a low status in my mind.

"Of course I didn't wear it!" Xia Houyan smiled slyly, "Look at the front!"

Karen turned over the robe ignorantly, and found an extremely conspicuous mountain-shaped coat of arms on the chest of the robe at a glance.

For some reason, the pattern of this coat of arms looks familiar...

"Rock Creek City?!" Karen suddenly raised her head as if realizing something.

"This is the exclusive magic robe of the high-ranking mages of the Rock Creek City Mage Corps, the genuine final version!" Xia Houyan introduced triumphantly.

"I entrusted this to Rock Creek City, ah, good brother, ah, I finally got here..." Eldridge claimed the credit, "If it weren't for the magister in Rock Creek City, ah, who loves to roam in the brothels, Ah, this robe is really hard to steal..."

Karen spat first, then looked straight at Xia Houyan:
"You sent someone to steal this robe because you wanted to..."

"Karen, be careful what you say! Is this called a 'robe'?!" Xia Houyan said with a smirk while holding the mage's robe of Rock Creek City, "This is clearly called an 'excuse for war'!"

Karen snorted and fell silent.

"Well, boss, there is one thing, I don't know, ah, should I say it..." Eldridge looked at Karen, then at the lord, and finally couldn't help it.

"Speak!" Xia Houyan was obviously in a good mood tonight, and after the arrival of the mage's robes in Yanxi City, he was very happy, and he even relaxed the control over his subordinates' speech.

"That...you, ah, if you don't pay attention to these, ah, the problem of life style..." Eldridge shrank his shoulders and said, "Miss Katerina, ah, I'm afraid I will have sex with you soon, ah,' The casus belli' is gone..."

The smile on Xia Houyan's face froze.

(End of this chapter)