I ruined Tyra.

Facing Inès and W who came up to him to show their concern, Hedley first explained the reason for his lateness, and then without taking a rest, he took out the map from his arms to confirm the mission location and prepared to continue the mission.

“But from here forward, the work really begins.”

The old partner who had worked with him for more than ten years immediately replied: "Everyone is in place."

Hedley nodded, and looked at W who was already calling on his subordinates to prepare for battle, his signal was very clear.

After gathering her subordinates, W realized belatedly that Hedley did not continue talking. She turned around and saw that both of them were looking at her.

W blushed for a moment, what a disgusting formalism! Couldn’t they just post the task and solve it quickly?

"Foolproof."

After getting the reply, Hedley was about to continue speaking when he noticed the burnt grass and neatly cracked soil in the dense forest in the distance. He raised his eyebrows.

"It seems that you are not idle?"

One of the culprits, W, quickly put his arm around Inès’ shoulder and responded in a brotherly gesture, “Oh, it’s just a warm-up exercise, it can’t be considered a ‘direct attack’.

Are you right? "

Inès rolled her eyes but did not break free from the other person. Instead, she responded with a harsh remark.

"Don't worry, next time I will sink your body into the shadows before anyone finds it."

Looking at this pair of bickering lovers, Hedley sighed on the surface, but in fact he was overjoyed in his heart. It seemed that there should be no major problems between the two, and he could let them cooperate without worry.

“Again, our mission is simple: don’t let anyone get close to the target.

Keep all suspicious dangers out of this canyon, and fire upon anyone who approaches without warning.

Any questions? "

"Yes, yes, yes!" W raised her hand enthusiastically and asked, pointing at the canyon.

"Where is the destination?"

"I can't tell you. The escort mission is carried out in sections. The route map has been distributed. We will reach the destination in three days and someone will come to take over."

Inès glanced at the direction the giant was moving and asked worriedly:

"Hedley, what are they transporting?"

"This is also..." Hedley was about to say that this was also a secret that could not be disclosed, but then he reacted and quickly held Inès down.

"Wait! Using your magic to test the transport team is a violation of the contract. Don't underestimate them! Stop! Now!"

"But you said they were just a transport team... No!"

Inès, whose spell casting was suppressed, frowned. Damn, it was almost there. However, she could already see the general outline, but she would rather not see it clearly.

"The transport team... I had a preconceived notion. This is indeed a transport team that needs protection. However, what they are transporting is... a huge... shadow...

A ship... no, a painting...

skeleton?"

Upon hearing this important information, the spirit Hellagur who was watching on the side stroked his beard. The huge skeleton was nothing more than a mobile city and a mobile battleship. It seemed that in this plot timeline, the Tower of Babel already had an important means to avoid or even resist natural disasters.

"Who?" Just as Ines discovered the cargo, a doubtful shout came from above.

Knowing that she was in trouble, Ines quickly retracted all her shadow spells and hid away. Then she noticed a spell fluctuating near the transport team, which soon disappeared without a trace. She guessed that it was the opponent's detection spell.

Fortunately, she took it back quickly, otherwise it would have been discovered.

They were silent for a while. After confirming that the other party had not noticed him, Hedley gave her a look that told her to be more careful next time, and then continued to arrange the task.

Soon, everyone received their tasks and took their subordinates to their respective posts.

However, this escort mission was more difficult than expected, at least for this mercenary team.

When Ines woke up from her coma, she saw the canyon that had become a battlefield and filled with smoke, as well as that disgusting-looking dead cockroach. She was raising her hand, not knowing what bad thing she was going to do.

Noticing Ines's open eyes, she lowered her raised hand. What a pity! It was a rare opportunity to slap Ines.

"Awake? If you can wake up a little, please wake up soon."

Hearing this, Ines sat up, covered her head and began to recall what had just happened.

"Hiss~ My head hurts, what's going on now?"

Seeing that Ines was probably fine, W stood up and looked around. She just quickly found a place that seemed relatively safe and tried to wake up the unconscious Ines.

A sober and capable mercenary is always better than an unconscious mercenary who is unable to help.

“It’s nothing, but in case you lose your memory from the fall just now, I can remind you.

An hour ago, we were ambushed. The enemy was very fast and the warlock had no time to build magic fortifications. The team was broken up and there were only two of us nearby. "

After being reminded by W, Ines finally understood the current situation and frowned. Then she checked her communicator and found a slight noise coming from it, which made it seem unusable.

W tossed his communicator, but again, only noise was heard.

“The communication has been interfered. I don’t know what means they used. The other party is very professional, more professional than any of our previous prey.

But the good news is that the other party did not go towards the escort target. It seems that they only found a little information based on hearsay, but actually know nothing."

Just when W was about to say something, she noticed that Inès's expression was not right. Her smirk faded, she looked in a certain direction, and then looked away.

The two looked at each other, then Inès tilted her head in the direction she was coming from without a trace, and W nodded to indicate that you finally noticed.

"Keep moving and find a way to reunite with the others."

After making sure that the other party understood what he meant, Ines stood up and checked his condition, while W joked in a relaxed manner.

"Oh, I thought you would at least doubt me. I will keep you as live bait."

Listening to W's seemingly incoherent words, Inès took over the conversation.

"Who do you think will survive if I fight you now?"

"Of course...

hiss~

Tsk, you really have a bad temper. You confirmed my injury at a glance?"

W was just about to say that it must have been her, but the next moment, Ines poked her where she was injured by the explosion, and she gasped in pain.

After covering his wound, W looked at Ines with dissatisfaction and asked her if she was okay.

Ines's face curled up at the corners, as if she had discovered something interesting.

"Oh, so you're in so much pain.

I thought you could even pretend to be in control of your emotions, which made me worry for a while, but it seems that was unnecessary."

W also recovered by then. She glanced at her own shadow imperceptibly and then started complaining.

"The first thing you do when you wake up is to use your skills to observe your teammates? That's really trusting, Captain."

"It's just a habit."

"Ah~ I see. You're such a coward when you open your eyes and alert your surroundings."

W wanted to continue taunting, but the next moment her wound was pressed again.

"Tsk... it hurts..."

After doing all this, Inès withdrew her sinful little hand and stood in front of her with an indifferent look.

“You just said live bait, right?

It is indeed a good suggestion. It would be foolish to carry out an operation with a mercenary who can't even stand steadily.

You stay here, I will help you notify the surrounding enemies."

You better have fun with them and not die too quickly.

See you later, W. "

After saying that, he left without looking back, leaving W alone still squatting and covering his wound.

W wanted to say something, but suddenly she was stunned.

Several mercenaries from behind have surrounded her, and now the injured W has nowhere to escape.

"One mercenary was found. His code name is confirmed. W."

W found a place to sit down. Despite this, she still held the gun and knife handles tightly in her hands and stared at the few people vigilantly.

"Did you catch up so quickly? No, you guys have actually been following us the whole time, right?"

The leading team leader snorted and said contemptuously:

"Given your skills, there's nothing to worry about if you let one or two of them go.

I wanted to follow and monitor you until you found our team, but I didn't expect that I would abandon my companions.

Tell me all the information about that team, at least you can die quickly."

Facing the team leader's questioning, W spread his hands and said innocently:

"This is a problem. I'm actually happy to be honest with you, but I really don't know anything."

Faced with W's refusal to cooperate, the team leader lost his patience. He drew the greatsword behind him, pointed it at W and continued:

"You are seriously injured, and we don't have much time. Hasty interrogation could result in death, which is not good for either of us."

W pointed in dissatisfaction at the direction where Inès left, and continued:

"Then go after her. She knows more than me."

"She used you as bait, don't you hate her? It will be much easier if you cooperate with us."

Hearing the captain's inhumane reply, W lowered his head for a moment.

When the other party got impatient, W raised his head and said with a smile:

"Bait~ Have you ever used industrial Originium debris to lure Originium bugs?"

"What?" The team leader was a little confused. Why was the other party saying this at this time?

W continued to smile.

"It's just a folk remedy. We often run into a lot of trouble because of Originium bugs, right?

However, those Originium bugs have very low intelligence and are said to react to Originium.

But regardless of whether it's true or not, do you know what happened to those Originium bugs that were lured here?"

“Don’t be mysterious” “Bang!”

"what!"

The team leader turned around in surprise and found that his men had been blown to pieces. He turned around in astonishment and muttered, "What... when!"

“Alas, you should have killed him earlier, or just run away.

Now I'll give you one more chance, ahem."

Seeing that the plan was successful, W smiled triumphantly, but her laughter touched the wound, causing her to stop talking before she could even finish her words.

"You damn lunatic!! Ugh! Who... is behind this...?"

The team leader roared angrily and was about to swing the sword in his hand, but the sword was destined to fail as a rapier pierced his chest.

"Keep your voice down and don't move, otherwise I can't guarantee that you will have a chance to survive."

Inès slowly appeared from the shadows behind him, pressed the wound on his back and said.

The team leader tried hard to turn around and looked at the woman behind him in disbelief.

"You...when...? I...can't, uhhhhhh!"

"This is not the answer I want to hear. Come, tell me who your master is."

Seeing that the other party was not understanding, Ines moved her hand, which was originally pressing on the wound, deeper, causing the other party to suffer excruciating pain.

Seeing this, W quickly said, "Be gentle. How can you expect someone to talk when you've upset their internal organs?"

However, her crocodile tears only earned her the captain's final harsh words.

"Kazdel...will not...forgive you!"

Then the captain suddenly fell down, leaving behind Inès who slowly retracted the rapier in her hand that was still dripping with blood.

"Tsk, you really are totally bad at torture."