It doesn't matter what the lord is.

The little slime burst into tears.

Lid walked dozens of miles in the thick snow, and suddenly stopped. His smile faded, and he put his hands in his sleeves and said calmly:

"Okay, stop following me."

A figure emerged from the snowstorm behind him. It was the man standing at the top of the assassin's path, the commander of the hidden guards who had always been elusive. There was no expression on his face, and he looked at Lid indifferently. Lid did not look at him, because it was really uncomfortable to look at him.

At first, Alayya described Xiluo's eyes as those of a dead person, but in fact, the commander of the secret guards was ten thousand times more like hers. His skin was bloodless, and there was no light in his eyes. If it weren't for his agility, countless people would believe that he was a zombie. Staring into his eyes was like staring into a lifeless corpse, making people feel uncomfortable.

Lid looked at the tenth-level Hidden Guard Commander and said:

"The Lingwu Lord asked you to come?"

The commander-in-chief of the Hidden Guard spoke in a hoarse voice:

"Your Majesty said this isn't the first time you've tried to figure out her intentions."

Lid didn't care and said with a smile:

"It's not the first time I've figured out her intentions. Let's put aside the threats. Judging from the results, we both got what we wanted. We should always be reasonable, right?"

The commander-in-chief of the Hidden Guard paused and replied:

"Your Majesty said that you don't have to worry about your two guards. Lingwu's army will ensure their safety."

Lid nodded and said:

"Better so."

The little slime poked its head out from Lid's chest and asked in confusion:

"Beji...what are you talking about? You're talking about 'guessing the intention' and 'don't worry'. Are you playing dumb?"

Lid patted its round head and said:

"There are more and more frantic giants, strange fish lurking at the bottom of the lake, crystals in the hearts of giants, and the mother sandworm that suddenly awakened. There is something wrong with this trip north. I plan to investigate these things, so I need a reasonable excuse to escape from the main force."

The little slime asked in confusion:

"Why do you want to break away from the main force? Wouldn't it be better to investigate with Lingwu's army?"

Lid yawned and replied:

"Because we don't know if there is a traitor. If we follow a large army, there will be too many people and too many eyes, so it will be difficult to find any clues. Even if we find clues, they may be wiped out first. Lingwu's army has tens of thousands of people. With this number, there is no way to guarantee that there is no one with ulterior motives."

The little slime said thoughtfully:

"I see. So you are deliberately trying to provoke the Lingwu Lord? Can't the people in other territories see that? I think they are usually quite smart."

Lid laughed and said:

"It's not just fools who get fooled; smart people are just as easy to fool. Being smart means they have their own opinions on everything, and as long as you conform to their opinions, they will easily believe them. No one has been optimistic about me since the beginning of my journey north, so when I achieve something, they find it incredible, but when I hit rock bottom, they feel relieved, thinking that this is how it should be, and that this is in line with their perception."

Lid looked at the commander of the Hidden Guards and said calmly:

"As for choosing that time to speak up, it's not to help your lord who is in a dilemma, but I just don't want to owe her a favor for nothing. If she really wants to maintain her dignity and doesn't let me leave, not only will I be unable to leave, but I will also have to thank her for protecting me, which is really disgusting. Before that, I took the initiative to leave the main force, so we don't owe each other anything."

The breath exhaled by the commander-in-chief of the secret guards was completely heatless, and there was no white mist at all on his lips.

He looked at Lid and said coldly:

"You have good self-awareness. Lingwu doesn't owe you anything. Your Majesty can handle the situation just now without your help."

Lide certainly believed that Lingwu Lord could solve it, as long as he killed people. Kill four of the seven territories, and the remaining three would naturally obey. Even if this move would cause some trouble in the long run, Lide believed that she could definitely do it in such a situation, because it was the most correct choice.

Lid did not bother about this issue. He turned his gaze to the commander-in-chief of the secret guards and asked:

"Now it's my turn to ask. As the commander-in-chief of the Hidden Guards and the leader of the tenth-level assassins, why don't you protect the safety of your monarch and follow me? Do you want to come to Yuxi City to eat buns like Xi Luo did? Sorry, it's expensive enough to support one of her. If there is another one, Yuxi City will probably go bankrupt."

The commander-in-chief of the secret guards really seemed to have no emotions. No matter what tone Reed used to speak to him, his answer was always the same:

"Your Majesty asked me to protect you."

Lid narrowed his eyes and said coldly:

"What if I say I don't need it?"

"You can ask the Lord to withdraw the order. But as long as the Lord does not speak, I will follow you."

After the Hidden Guards Commander finished speaking, he seemed too lazy to talk nonsense with Lid anymore, and his entire body instantly disappeared in the wind and snow. Lid could only vaguely feel that someone was looking at him, but he could no longer sense the specific location of the Hidden Guards Commander. This man seemed to have disappeared out of thin air, and his aura was completely restrained. The King of Assassins at the tenth level was indeed no joke. No one had noticed his presence while he was traveling north for so long, which was enough to show that he had profound attainments in the way of assassins.

Lid took out a handful of lacquered moon armor from his pocket and stuffed them into the little slime's body one by one, saying:

"Follow me if you want... Slime, I brought the remaining Lacquer Moon Armor and Black Crystals with me before I left. The plan is simple. I'll do my research and you'll do your research. No matter what I find out first or what you remember first, we'll be one step closer to the final truth. We must sort out this matter quickly and solve it before the Lingwu Lords and the others encounter the Golden Sun Giant... If they start fighting first, they won't have the energy to deal with other variables."

69. Good Brothers

Lid felt from the bottom of his heart that it was not a healthy way to fight the boss alone. Individual heroism would be replaced by collectivism sooner or later. For example, now, when he was alone at night, he couldn't sleep alone, and there was no one to hug him when he slept. It was inevitable that he would feel empty, lonely and cold.

The only person following her was a man as cold as a zombie. She couldn't call him out and hold him while sleeping.

On the first night apart from Alayya and Shiloh, Lid already began to miss the days when there were sweet and soft girls around him.

With shorter sleep time and the impossibility of traveling intensively for 24 hours a day, Reid decided to find something else to do.

"Beji... Want me to teach you the language of the giants? Of course I can. After all, they also use ancient characters. Although some pronunciations are different from what I remember, generally speaking I can communicate with them. But how much can you learn in such a short time? It's better to let me help you translate."

The little slime was chewing the lacquer moon armor with a crunching sound, and its round body rolled around on Lid's arm, as if doing post-meal training. Lid bent his arm, and the little slime that was rolling towards his fingertips was launched into the sky like a roller coaster, and then landed steadily in Lid's palm.

Lid pinched its body and said:

"I have to learn ancient characters sooner or later. I have already learned part of it by myself when I borrowed the book from Fileta last time, and I have studied it every now and then since then. However, most of the ancient characters I have mastered are those obscure words used in magic, and there are relatively few parts for daily communication. Now I just need to learn this part again, and it will be basically enough."

The little slime broke free from Lid's hand, jumped onto a dark blue rock, looked at Lid and asked:

"Have you learned the magic book I translated? That is a very difficult ancient language. If no one teaches you, it will be very difficult for you to learn it yourself!"

Lid chanted a spell, and a ray of blue flame danced on his fingertips, and the temperature instantly melted the nearby snow. The little slime hid behind the stone as quickly as possible and said loudly:

"Alright, alright, I get it! Stop, stop, it's very dangerous!"

Lid casually threw the flame in his hand, and a thick mass of snow suddenly exploded in the distance, and a deep pit appeared on the ground, and hot smoke continued to come out. The little slime then climbed back onto the stone, looked at Lid, and said in disbelief:

"I never thought you had the talent to be a magician, Biji. You are worthy of being my servant! This is magic that I have never translated, but you are able to use it skillfully. Biji...it seems that you have indeed comprehended the [words] that make up magic. But this also means that your magic needs to be determined, right? What level are you at now?"

Lid said lightly:

"Just like the others."

The little slime stared at Lid for a long time, but of course it couldn't tell Lid's realm of cultivation. After watching for a while, the little slime used its slime ball to conjure a pair of glasses and put them on. It stretched out a small tentacle to push the glasses, and said to Lid in a teacher's style:

"Okay. Since you asked sincerely, I will be merciful and teach you the ancient characters you use in daily life! First, the basic vocabulary... Biji, hug me."

Lid picked up the little slime with both hands and squatted down. The little slime stretched out its tentacles, wrote some complicated words on the ground, and then explained to Lid what they meant.

What the little slime didn't expect was that Lid's learning speed was much faster than it thought. After teaching all the vocabulary in the morning and all the grammar in the afternoon, Lid could communicate with it in ancient language in the evening. And he spoke it quite fluently. When the little slime opened his mouth, he thought he was some old monster who had lived for thousands of years.

Faced with the little slime's surprise, Reed did not explain anything. He had already started thinking about the next investigation plan.

The little slime rose to the middle of the seventh level by devouring the Lacquer Moon Armor, and the rare material of Lacquer Moon Armor was completely consumed. During this period, the little slime ate at least hundreds of Lacquer Moon Armor, which was worth more than tens of thousands of gold coins, but it only helped the little slime rise from the sixth level to the middle of the seventh level.

Although it seems a bit worthless, Lid had prepared for this a long time ago. He felt that the little slime was like the equipment in the game. Getting it was just the beginning. What followed was an endless strengthening hell. Even the most abundant wallet would be quickly drained. It was just such a tormenting little goblin.

Fortunately, there are still hundreds of black crystals for it to eat.

In the past few days, every time the little slime grew a little, Lid asked it if it remembered the source of the black crystals, but until the lacquer moon armor was eaten, the little slime still didn't remember it. It just vaguely remembered that this was a very important thing, perhaps more important than the demons, but the memory was like a layer of fog, so it couldn't remember it smoothly.

"Then there's no way."

On the day when the Lacquer Moon Armor was used up, Lid exhaled a breath of hot air and said to the little slime:

"We can only prepare to launch Plan No. 2."

The little slime scratched its bald head with its tentacles and asked in confusion:

"Then, what is that?"

Lid stroked his chin, looked towards the north, and said casually:

"Hmm... what is it? Why don't we go directly to the core bloodline of the giants? The higher-level giants above the Seven Commanders will surely know something that we don't know, right?"

The little slime trembled and almost rolled off Lid's shoulder.

……

At the same time, in the large army where Lord Lingwu was, Young Master Hua Liang was wondering why a ninth-level master under his command had mysteriously disappeared.

He remembered that the man just went out to the toilet and never came back.

In fact, on the deserted, white ice field, this once powerful young master was stabbed in all four limbs by a cloaked man with a knife, and was writhing ugly on the ground like a maggot.

The cloaked man tapped his face with the blade of his knife and asked indifferently:

"I'll ask again. Where is Lid?"

The expert from Hualiang Territory turned over, facing upwards, his eyes full of fear, and said in a trembling voice:

"I'll tell you, I'll tell you. He was kicked out of the team and went over there alone... Let me go! Please, I won't tell anyone!"

The master from Hualiang Territory originally wanted to use his fingers, but both of his arms were disabled, so he could only point in one direction with his chin.

The man in the cloak paused and asked again:

"Who kicked him out?"

The expert from Hualiang Territory swallowed his saliva and reported the names of the seven territories without hesitation. He seemed to have seen something horrible not long ago, and now he answered whatever the other party asked.

The cloaked man nodded and stabbed him in the heart, causing hot blood to spurt out.

She took off her hood, revealing her pure white hair. She looked in the direction the corpse had last pointed and said softly:

"I told you that we are brothers. You risked your life to bring me to Lingwu. Now, it's my turn to save you."

70. Go to the tiger mountain

The little slime originally thought that Reed was just joking, but he didn't expect that Reed would start to seriously consider how to infiltrate the giant tribe's team that night and try to eavesdrop on information from the core bloodline of the giant tribe.

"When I was in the demon clan, I did this before. I concealed my presence and lurked in the territory of the Eastern King Snake Eye, waiting for an opportunity to assassinate the famous demon rookie in its territory, so as to cause civil unrest among the demon clan in the eastern region."

Lid used a black crystal to draw several monster heads on the snow, then drew his own handsome face among them, and continued:

"That was the situation at the time. If I was noticed by a demon above the tenth level, I would almost certainly die. But until the end, no one noticed me because compared to the demons above the tenth level, my existence was too inconspicuous. The aura of those veteran demons would completely cover me, preventing the demons of higher levels from sensing my existence."

The little slime didn't quite understand what he heard, so Lid asked it to imagine a scene of an eagle hunting. The eagle hovering high in the sky can overlook everything on the ground, and nothing can escape its sight, but even it can't see things, such as the ants hiding under the belly of the elephant.

Lid wiped the drawing on the ground with his hand, and drew a new one of a giant, and then drew a smaller version of himself on its back. The ten-fold size difference made Lid look inconspicuous, and Lid said to the little slime:

"According to my observation, many giants have black hair on their backs, which can serve as my hiding place. Their skin is thick and their sense of touch is not very sensitive. As long as I restrain my breath, it will be difficult for them to find something lying on them."

Lid squinted his eyes, poking the snow on the ground with the black crystal in his hand, muttering to himself while thinking:

"The biggest problem is that I don't know which giant to follow so that I can successfully see the core bloodline of the giants... But there is a solution to this. Just like the king's palace must have ministers, guards and maids, the core bloodline of the giants must also be surrounded by a large number of low-level giants who obey their orders. As long as I follow the lone giant, I will definitely have the opportunity to see those legendary high-level giants."

It's just like hitchhiking. At worst, you can just jump off the bus and change to another one. There's always a chance you can reach your destination.

The little slime didn't know what to say. It understood all the truths that Lid was talking about, but it seemed a bit unrealistic for a weak human who was not even at the tenth level to face a high-level giant who could reach the fifteenth level. Although the huge gap in strength made it difficult for the high-level giant to detect Lid's existence, it also meant that a sneeze from the other side could kill Lid.

The little slime thought for a while and said tremblingly:

"Well... my king... I have a stomachache recently, so I'm afraid I can't go with you!"

Reed looked at it with contempt and said:

"Where does your belly come from? Your whole body is just a ball. How can you tell where the head is and where the belly is?"

The little slime was speechless and stood aside and whispered:

"Biji...sooner or later, I will also have a belly. By then, my head will be my head, my neck will be my neck, my chest will be my chest, and my legs will be my legs..."

Lid was too lazy to pay attention to it, and casually stuffed the crystal in his hand into the little slime's body, saying:

"Okay, I didn't intend to take you with me in the first place. I can hide my own aura well, but I may not be able to take you with me. You used to be the decisive weapon of the Old Gods against the Demons, right? It just so happens that the Giants don't get along with the Old Gods either. Maybe those Giants will smell the scent emanating from you, and we will have nowhere to run."

The little slime huddled beside Lid. At first, he did not realize the seriousness of the problem and said arrogantly:

"You still have some conscience..."

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly realized the seriousness of the problem and protested loudly:

“Wait! What should I do then?! Although I don’t want to go with you to the high-level giants, it’s too cruel to just leave me here! This place is full of giants, and I will definitely be crushed or eaten by those big guys! I want to protest, protest!!”

Lid patted its head and comforted it:

"Don't worry, it won't happen."