The Glory of Noxus.

Chapter 349 Daughter of Darkness Anne
Noxus Empire.

Northland border, Iron Thorn Mountains.

The endless mountains look like sleeping horned dragons, crawling on the earth.

Scattered snowflakes have not yet melted, decorating the mountains in the cold air.

Huo Jixing walked along the winding and rugged mountain road, looking at the ice and snow scene in front of him, feeling emotional.

After a few years, he returned to the place where he first fought.

The snow-white poro in his arms also popped up and made excited sounds after entering a familiar environment.

Huo Jixing's steps were light, and the terrain that was once difficult to walk was now like flat ground.

When he left the capital this time, he thought that he was facing the Black Rose, so he did not borrow [Noxtra] for fear of leaving any clues.

Instead, he relied on his own speed to directly cross the small half of the Noxus Empire.

These places have long been reduced to ruins, and the former secret experimental base seems to have suffered a devastating blow.

It also allowed him to piece together what happened after he left.

He gave carefully prepared gifts to every villager to celebrate the birth of his daughter.

Villagers have different opinions about the fire.

Huo Jixing slowly stopped and stared at the broken scene in front of him.

Huo Jixing exhaled a breath of cold air, looked up at the red flag dancing in the cold wind above his head, and stepped inside.

The surrounding low walls of earth and stone have long since collapsed, and the scattered stones are stained with black marks, as if they have been roasted by fire.

In the end, he looked helpless.

Huo Jixing's eyebrows were raised, and a cold look appeared in his pupils.

Madame Amorin suddenly disappeared.

"Ok?"

One night, the two-story wooden building suddenly caught fire. The fire illuminated the village and burned everything.

There were no traces related to the magic experiment left in the ruins, as if all the secrets had been completely erased by invisible hands.

Huo Jixing's inquiring led some villagers to recognize his identity and then revealed the news about Gregory and Amorin.

Master Gregory was extremely anxious. He and the nearby villagers searched the mountains but could not find any trace of Mrs. Amorin.

Huo Jixing left this northern village with a solemn expression and rushed to a nearby town.

Gregory and Amorin lived a happy life in the village. Their love and understanding made the surrounding villagers envious.

But it took a long time, and coupled with the erosion of wind and snow, there were almost no useful clues in this ruins.

Huo Jixing immediately decided to abandon all the locations marked later and head straight for the Iron Thorn Mountains.

After several consecutive locations were like this.

The two-story wooden building in my memory disappeared, leaving behind a ruin and ashes on the ground.

He walked on the stone road paved with earth and stones, looked around at the almost unchanged houses and buildings, and came to the once familiar location.

Huo Jixing straightened up, glanced at the ruins on the ground, and turned to leave.

Some people say that Gregory and Anne were buried in the flames and could not escape this sudden disaster.

He touched the low earth and stone wall again, and could only feel the rough and hard texture, as well as the traces of flames remaining on it.

Later, villagers would often see Annie playing alone in the small wooden building, holding a teddy bear in her arms, looking lonely and silent.

Mrs. Amorin is not only gentle and kind, but also gave birth to a lovely girl for Master Gregory.

He got the information he needed to know, about Amorine and Gregory.

He took a deep breath, crossed the low wall, and entered the ruins of the small building, trying to find some clues.

The arrival of the little girl added some joy to the village, and Master Gregory was even more delighted.

In front of the empty village.

Time has erased too many details, and this ruin cannot reveal any more information.

He whispered softly, his eyes looking extremely cold, escaping into the vast wind and snow.

He was going to the village to ask other villagers what happened here?
Half an hour later.

However, just last year, a sudden change broke this tranquility.

On the way, he visited several marked locations based on the information investigated by the Reiser Guard Corps.

However, something even more shocking happened.

"Missing?"

However, when Huo Jixing followed the trail, what he saw made him frown.

Such a strange thing has led the villagers to speculate that Mrs. Amorin may have encountered misfortune or been kidnapped.

Huo Jixing held onto the [Lingfeng] around his waist, squatted down, and picked up the soil on the ground, seemingly sensing something, but found nothing.

Some people also say that in order to avoid missing people after seeing things, Gregory left with Anne and went to a nearby town to start a new life.

"What exactly happened that night? Or was everything caused by the thing in Amorin's body?"

Huo Jixing thought about it and remembered that he had come into contact with the things in Amorin's body through [Nanli Fire].

Thinking of this, he understood that only after meeting Gregory could he understand everything that happened.

Yes, Huo Jixing didn't believe that with Gregory's strength, he would fall into the sea of ​​fire together with Annie.

He remembered the [Noxian Calendar] he had seen in Gregory's study.

An ordinary member of the secret society possesses a book like the [Noxian Calendar]?

You must know that the [Noxian Calendar] records the major events of the Valoran continent in detail, which is definitely not available to ordinary secret society members.

"Now that I think about it, both Gregory and Amorin are not simple!" Huo Jixing shook his head gently.

Buzz!Buzz!
The wind and snow trembled, and Huo Jixing's forward speed suddenly accelerated, as if flying at a low altitude, ignoring the terrain, and rushed to the small town in the north.

Snow Ridge Town.

This is a newly established town on the northern border of the Noxus Empire.

It was once a large village with a population of a hundred households.

As the Northland was pacified, more and more colonists came here, eventually forming a prosperous small town.

In the center of the town, a tavern was opening its doors, and customers would come in from time to time.

As the owner of a tavern, if there is anything Malchin is good at, it must be how to keep his head down and retreat.

In front of him, noisy voices mixed with the sounds of large wine glasses clinking and beer spilling.

Every once in a while someone would yell for drinks.

As soon as their coins landed on the bar, Marcin slid a full glass in front of their waiting hands.

His quick and quiet service didn't draw him any attention.

Therefore, it is rare to get into any trouble.

But there are always troubles.

Compared to the one at the door, there was a belligerent boxer who felt itchy without a fight.

A conversation between the hooded people turned into a dagger stuck in the throat.

Or, the most unexpected thing, a little girl pushed open the heavy wooden door of the pub and walked in.

Malchin watched the little girl humming and jumping all the way to the bar.

The wooden door slammed shut behind her, and the last ray of cool winter air blew through the room. The loud banging sound made several pairs of eyes that had not noticed her look over, and they all expressed doubts about her appearance.

The little girl climbed onto a high stool, her eyes barely above the bar.

Marcin saw her flaming red hair, a tattered doll in her hand, a broken bag on her back, a ragged skirt with strangely short sleeves.

"What do you want to drink?" Marcin would not let go of any business, even a little girl.

The little girl was a little too petite, so she could only stand up on the stool, put the toy down on the bar with a pop, and glanced at the bottles on the shelf.

Marcin could tell it was a stuffed bear, sewn with care and attention.

The stitches at the seams of the limbs have been exposed after years of pulling. I don’t know when and where a button eye was lost.

"Excuse me, can you give me a glass of milk?"

Mal Qin raised his eyebrows when he heard this, but said nothing.

He walked to the end of the bar to get the porcelain jug of milk.

"It's so late at night, it's not good to go out alone, huh?" came a rich voice.

Marcin sighed, one trouble always leads to more trouble.

He took the milk bottle off the shelf and looked back at the bar.

A huge man stood next to the little girl, glancing down at her with his only good eye.

The little girl sitting directly in front of him was now like a small stone at the foot of a big mountain.

This man is simply a pile of muscle and scar tissue, with nooses, chains, and iron hooks hanging around his waist, and a sharp knife slung across his back.

Everything he saw loudly announced that he was a bounty hunter.

The little girl looked up at him, a smile flashing across her face.

"I'm not alone. Tibbers is with me."

She raised the stuffed teddy bear in her hand and smiled.

"Right, Tibbers?"

"Ok?"

The bounty hunter paused and suddenly laughed loudly.

"Your parents must miss you."

The little girl's hands dropped to her sides, her eyes looking downward.

"Will not!"

"Oh, sure. And I think they'd be willing to pay a pretty penny just to get you home safely."

Malchin could almost hear the clatter of coins falling into the bounty hunter's mind.

This guy, who was full of evil, had already begun to figure out the price for escorting her home.

"It's impossible. My mother is missing and my father is busy with something."

The little girl plopped back on the barstool and looked into the teddy bear's single remaining button eye.

The bounty hunter was about to speak again, when Marcin put the milk jug on the bar and deliberately made a heavy sound.

"The milk is here," he said.

The little girl smiled happily at him, breaking the gloom just now.

"thank you, sir!"

She put the bear on the table and reached into the backpack behind her.

Marcin waited patiently, planning to silently accept no matter how many coins she put on the bar, treating it as a discount.

However, he didn't expect that what fell down was a big bag full of money.

Several gold coins engraved with the Noxian Empire's logo fell to the counter, and one of them was rolling towards the edge.

Malchin subconsciously reached out his hand and pressed the escaping gold coin with one finger.

He slowly picked up the gold coin from the bar. The weight and texture showed that it was a genuine Noxian coin.

"It fell!" the little girl said with a smile.

Marcin swallowed, his mouth suddenly going dry.

He stretched out his hand, trying to stuff the gold coins and money bag back into the little girl's backpack, so that no one else could see -

"Such a big little girl actually carries such a big money bag." The bounty hunter's deep voice was a little too loud.

"Tibbers found it."

The little girl didn't care and seemed to have no idea about money.

The bounty hunter sneered and looked at the tattered teddy bear.

"Is it?"

The little girl took a sip of milk and looked at her teddy bear again.

"I found it on an uncle who stopped me on the road. He was a bad guy."

"That's too bad."

The bounty hunter leaned forward on his stool and slid a hand toward the money bag.

The little girl looked up at him with a sly and naughty smile on her face.

"Tibbers ate him."

For a moment, everything in the tavern seemed to have pressed a pause button and stopped.

Then, the bounty hunter's laughter filled the room.

"He's really good at eating,"

He smiled, suddenly stretched out a huge hand, grabbed the teddy bear's head, and snatched it from the little girl's hand.

"This big, vicious monster."

"Let Tibbers go!"

The little girl shouted, reaching out to grab the bear.

"He doesn't like being pulled hard."

"Ha ha ha ha!"

The bounty hunter laughed louder, and his fat muscles trembled.

Malchin put the gold coin in his hand into his pocket, avoided the attention of others, and stepped back.

He wished he could help, but his survival today was down to his ability to get out in time.

But the little girl's voice made him freeze in place.

"I said. Let go."

"Tibbers!"

In the corner of the tavern.

Huo Jixing stopped watching the show and was about to stand up, but he stood there with a look of surprise.

"I remember that Amorin had to suppress what was inside her at all times, but Annie."

"You are actually completely unaffected by that thing in your body and can control the power of fire magic at will?"

He still remembers the scene when he helped Gregory suppress the thing in Amorin's body when she lost control.

As for meeting Anne here, it was indeed a coincidence.

Huo Jixing originally came to the tavern to inquire about information, hoping to get some clues and find out the whereabouts of Gregory, but he did not want to encounter what was happening before him.

He noticed that Annie's behavior and personality seemed a little weird, not like an ordinary little girl.

What happened in the tavern seemed to be caused by the little girl's neglect.

But he knew that with every move and every word of Anne, all of this was developing in a certain direction.

"Daughter of Darkness, you really didn't have the wrong name!"

(End of this chapter)