Longmen Memoirs

"They will be blown to pieces just like your comrades lying in ambush behind."

Following her words, there was a sudden roar of explosions in the air.

"What...when?!" The other party listened to the explosion in shock.

w looked helplessly at the frightened Sakaz in front of him.

"Hey, I said it's live bait, is there no trap?"

Who knows how to use bait? Only the hunter. For the hunter, her bait is prepared for the prey. Not all prey can have a keen sense of smell and escape intact after eating the bait.

"You should have killed earlier, or simply escaped. Now I give you another chance and we can do it all over again."

Sakaz took a few steps back.

"You lunatic!!"

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His retreating steps stopped because a sword was pressed against her back.

w saw Ines.

"Who is behind...!" Sakaz subconsciously wanted to resist.

"Keep your voice down and don't move around." Ines whispered: "Although it is just a thin sword that a layman can wield, I am not a master of swordsmanship. If I miss it, you will die."

"when will you……"

"I have a high affinity with shadows. Do you really think you can catch me without a single investigator?" Ines explained kindly: "Come, tell me, who is your master?"

"I won't."

Before he could finish his words, the rapier penetrated his body, and Ines gently turned the hilt of the sword.

Sakaz howled in pain.

"We don't have much time. You can talk more and suffer less."

"Be gentle..." W reminded kindly, with a fearful expression like a harmless little girl: "How can you let others talk when you've torn their internal organs?"

Sakaz's face almost became hideously twisted in pain.

"Kazdel...will not...forgive you—"

Kazdel... Ines thought.

She slowly drew out the bloody stabbing sword and looked at the fallen Sakaz.

"Well, thank you."

But you can represent Kazdaele, ha, just because you are mercenaries like us.

She seemed to understand something. Based on Hedley's previous words, they were probably involved in a dispute that was far beyond their capabilities.

Ines became increasingly uneasy.

"You are really not good at torture."

w looked at the miserable corpse of Sakaz on the ground.

"...It's such a shame that you're still alive."

Ines glanced at W, picked up Sakaz's scarf and slowly wiped the blood on the rapier.

"Then you can wait until he gets rid of me before attacking him. You are too anxious."

"Hmph." The wiped rapier was put back into its scabbard: "Compared to you, of course crushing them will take priority. How much damage have these bugs caused me to suffer."

"You, who should die by my hand, have exposed your flaw. No mercenary can hold it back."

She would never admit it because she was afraid that Sakaz would jump over the wall and pull the injured W to support him. In W's state, she had no chance to resist.

"Haha." W shrugged indifferently: "You look like a Sakaz, don't you?"

"I'm fascinated by it."

"The movement just now was quite loud. It should have attracted many enemies."

There was sufficient tacit understanding between her and Ines. Although neither of them wanted to admit it, Ines could understand what she meant when she said the word "live bait" and believed that she would arrange it during the evacuation. Explosives and traps.

She can't move, so Ines has to trigger the trap.

But this also means that Ines may have left her where she was, and she may have deliberately deceived Ines into letting her die to drag the enemy back. In fact, there was no such thing as a trap, and then deliberately pretended to be injured and unable to move. .

There is no trust between Sarkaz mercenaries, trust is a luxury, they all say so, but unfortunately... none of them do it.

"Isn't that just right? It can keep them away from the target team." Ines didn't take it seriously: "He said to let one or two go...that means everyone else is dead. This level cannot solve so many colleagues. What's more, he is afraid, on the battlefield... [{

"Hey..." W jumped up from the ground quickly, no longer stumbling like he had been seriously injured just now.

"... Are your injuries really just fake?"

"No, no, no matter how you say it, the wounds are real." W hurriedly denied: "It's just that I don't care that much, but you, you can tell that I have prepared small gifts for them just from the moment I wake up. Already?"

"If I don't wake up, it will be my turn to be the live bait, right?"

Ines sneered.

"Then I will wait until you are dead before closing the net."

"Humph, if one day you meet someone who can really see your inner thoughts..." Ines looked at the frivolous W and said, "You probably won't be her/his opponent."

"Yeah, I'll wait and see."

They evacuated the repair site side by side, and after dealing with the pursuers, their whereabouts were much safer. Kazdai is located in the middle of the continent, with wilderness, plains, forests, and valleys. This land is not as barren as imagined, but War and chaos brought down her, as they can bring down any country.

"here we go……"

w pulled back and looked at the huge land cruiser traveling between the plains and forests in the distance. It looked smaller because it was still some distance away, but not far.

"You don't need to say it."

"Could you use your magic to detect the nearby area?" W suggested enthusiastically.

"……Do not."

Ines had a cold face, what did you think of me, an unmanned reconnaissance drone?Still a hound.

"No, your expression like this usually proves that we will all end badly." W said hurriedly.

"You're right." Ines's expression softened a little: "But you can't escape, so just fight hard."

"You're not good at frontal combat, so I'm the only one who can do it?" w pointed at himself.

"Let's go west first. After meeting with Hedley's team, we may be able to make a turn for the better."

"What if we can't make peace?" W asked again.

Ines raised her lips and smiled.

"Then none of us will survive."

Northeast Kazdale

11:23a.m weather/cloudy

"More than half of the convoy has been wiped out, but we were unable to intercept the transport team before it arrived at the A5 assembly point."

"There are a lot of decoys...several of the most thorough convoy teams are just smoke bombs."

"Either the Tower of Babel insists on taking the wrong side, or... our team doesn't need protection at all."

"It's a pity that Garson is dead. If his team and he were still there, we might not have to go to such trouble at all."

"...Yes, we can't delay it any longer, we must solve it quickly."

"I thought it would be enough to leave the follow-up cleanup to those desperadoes... I didn't expect that they couldn't even do this. It seems that the level of mercenaries also fluctuates greatly, and Hedley's team is stronger than expected. .”

"If the other party doesn't find it first... maybe it can be used by us."

"Then leaving the court...our people haven't found their whereabouts yet, and they didn't participate in this mission?"

"No, but don't get your hopes up."

"Want to continue chasing? But maybe there's something ahead..."

"..."

"I understand, General. No excuses will be made."

----

"...lost you?"

"Tsk, let's go after Fengdou. If one of them is injured, they won't be able to run far. You go to the east and I go to the west."

w stopped running.

Actions involved injuries, which consumed a lot of her physical strength. Pain was only secondary, and excessive fatigue was one of the main reasons for slowing down her pace.

She felt that her steps were getting heavier and heavier, and each action required more effort than the last time.

"Huh...huh." She panted, looking at the silent woods behind her: "These guys, it seems, are really not easy to mess with."

"You don't need to tell me, just hide, tsk."

They hid in the ruins of a passing town. The Sakaz people ran past them, and their footsteps almost sounded in their ears. It wasn't until they were far away that the two of them breathed a sigh of relief.

"Forget it, you haven't stopped since just now. You will go blind. Don't your eyes hurt?" W looked at Ines's eyes. There was visible fatigue in those amber eyes, which were covered with bloodshot eyes. , it is no longer as clear and bright as when I first saw it, as if it is about to dry up, and the heavy dark circles under the eyes are the sequelae of excessive and frequent use of spells.

"Nonsense, of course it hurts." Ines blinked, trying to relieve the fatigue and pain: "But at least we can find an exit-"

Sakaz's voice came from the surroundings again, and Ines hurriedly stopped speaking.

They poked their heads out and saw the fight in the street.

An unknown mercenary was desperate and tried to raise his hands in surrender.

"No, no, I surrender -"

Blood spattered and dyed the blade red.

"Ah, crisp and clear chopping sounds, have you seen their skills?" W whispered: "They are just pretending to be mercenaries, they are not mercenaries at all!"

"Speak less!"

W had no intention of stopping. She felt that she could hardly run away this time, so she couldn't nag her before she died.

Ines is a very annoying person. She is not even allowed to say a few words before she dies, yet she wants to die with her. There is probably nothing more unlucky than this.

"Even if there are no other ambush, the few people who can be identified in the ruins now are completely unbeatable."

W's words made Ines wary.

"What do you want to do?"

"Ah?" W didn't seem to react. Ines looked at her with warning eyes: "What time has it been? Why are you still monitoring me?"

"No, I'm just not blind yet -" Ines saw what W was holding in his arms: "You are holding so many...are those crossbowmen's grenades? What are you going to do?"

She reacted quickly because she saw W's smile, a bright smile.

"You want to die with them."

"It's a normal thought to kill one person, right?" W asked.

"Don't die, it's pointless."

"Meaning?" W was stunned for a moment, then she hugged the crossbow in her hand tightly and asked, "Then what's the meaning of our lives?"

Don't mercenaries live just to die one day?

"Sarkaz is indeed a lunatic." Ines gritted her teeth and lowered her voice.

"Because you are not crazy, I never trust you."

She wanted to trust someone, unless that person was also a madman, but if he was also a madman, then who would dare to trust him.

So this guy, w, he never trusts anyone, no matter if he is a madman or not, she always has a way【}

"Hey, w! Wait!"

Ines looked in another direction and rushed out holding the crossbow.

"Tsk, come back!"