Longmen Memoirs

The sudden explosion caught Chen Mo's attention.

"They are two mercenaries. They are surrounded." Ni Yan explained, and then asked: "Do you want to support them?"

"No need." Chen Mo shook his head. "Someone will come forward, we won't be needed."

He glanced at the body on the ground.

"Have these people confirmed?"

"Confirmed, they are not ordinary mercenaries. They mentioned a general. It should be a certain army."

"In this way, it seems that there is movement in the west. As we suspected, the troops deployed on the outside can close the net and leave some alive. I need them to tell the outside what happened here. It doesn't need to be too much. As for the so-called general, Did the investigators find his location?"

"Not yet." Ni Yan shook his head.

"As soon as possible."

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The large amount of dust and air waves caused by the explosion made Ines raise her hands to cover herself.

W is an out-and-out lunatic. In the past, she underestimated W's madness. This woman is simply looking for death.

"I found a person, w, who is on the list." The surviving Sakaz warrior did not have any anger because of the death of his companion. On the contrary, he looked at w who appeared after the explosion subsided with admiration: "Throw the explosion with your hand. A source grenade with such a large range is an eye-opening reckless approach.”

He asked curiously: "How did you do it? My teammates were engulfed in flames in an instant, but you yourself are fine?"

w didn't seem to be in the slightest panic about being trapped in a tight siege. She touched her chin, but she was a little regretful that she couldn't kill more people.

"Well, practice makes perfect, right?" She was indeed a little surprised that the other party would ask this.

"...The general will like you very much." Sakaz nodded: "Give up the resistance and tell you all the tasks assigned to you by the Tower of Babel. You will have other places to shine."

w was unimpressed: "Why do you trust me? Why should I trust you?"

"It's a very smart sequence." Sakaz admired: "Mercenaries are a tool of war. If we want to compete with each other, of course we must have a convenient tool in our own hands."

"No." W didn't agree with this statement: "It should be a convenient disposable consumable, right?"

Sakaz said without arguing, "Whatever you think."

He turned his head slightly.

"There is also the mercenary hiding at 17 meters at four o'clock, who is good at detecting spells. Think about it. Put your knife down first. You have no chance of winning. Of course, if you want to try, you can."

Ines slowly walked out from behind the ruins where she was hiding, still holding the thin sword tightly in her hand.

"What do you want?"

The other party looked at her, then looked at w not far in front of him.

"Well... the intelligence is consistent, w, Ines." He confirmed: "Nearly [-]% of your team has been destroyed, and the remaining defeated soldiers are just like this person, not worth mentioning."

He pointed at the broken pieces on the ground with the tip of his knife.

"Under your feet——"

"Ah, yes, these fragments were once whole people."

Ines was silent. The mercenaries were used to life and death, but the other party was obviously more cruel.

"Do you understand?" Sakaz raised his head slightly, his eyes arrogant: "What you are facing are not ordinary mercenaries, nor are they killers or assassins."

"Let's do this. Counting your leader, any two of you three join forces to kill the third person and return here with the head of any one of you. All losses and responsibilities will be calculated on that dead man's head. We The remaining survivors will be accepted."

He looked calm as if he was sure of victory.

"But don't get me wrong, this was not my idea. I also want to explain to the soldiers who lost their lives. If we hadn't recruited people on the battlefield, maybe we would have cooperated more happily."

"...Thank you for your love." W closed his mouth in disgust.

Ines felt a little regretful.

"Unfortunately, I'm not good at fighting. I probably won't be able to win against this disgusting woman." She said that this proposal was not cost-effective for her.

"Suddenly very honest." W looked a little happy.

"Yes, all the remaining options are for us to join forces to kill Hedley."

"That's right, Hedley." W nodded.

They seemed to have discussed the answer.

"Then..." Sakaz was about to say something, but the two of them attacked him in unison.

Their attack failed.

But Sakaz was still a little surprised. He didn't solve the two people immediately.

"I want to hear... the reason why the mercenaries insist on committing suicide." In his understanding, mercenaries are a group of insects who are greedy for life and afraid of death. If they can live, they will do whatever it takes to survive, betraying the mercenaries. It's so common, don't expect this group of people to have any noble thoughts.

"The reason is simple. I don't want to be on the side whose life is being teased." W said with confusion, "I think it's more fun to tease other people's lives. Besides, I don't really want to be at your mercy. How should I put it? The low-level puzzles you pose are too boring."

She looked at Ines again.

"Ah, as for this little lamb who is almost blind and almost mad, after all, she is not Sakaz. You have stepped on her minefield."

"You know what the consequences will be. You have already lost this battle."

"What's the outcome?" W said innocently, "...I don't know."

Transport troops below, in the southeastern highlands of the abandoned city.

"Do you really want to go? The ship is already close."

The cloak covered his figure, and a streak of white hair emerged from under the cloak. Kyle asked hoping Theresa in front of him.

"Well, I didn't expect them to notice it so quickly. Is it a mistake of the intelligence personnel?"

"At least there are mercenary guards here."

"We put those warriors in danger they didn't know they were in."

"That's what mercenaries are. We should... and sooner or later we have to bear these responsibilities."

"I can save them, and save some soldiers who will die without knowing the truth because of our mistakes." She retorted.

"I don't deny it, Theresia, but..."

"No Sarkaz, no one, has a reason to die in vain." Theresia said firmly, as if she had thought of something: "If Mr. Chen Mo were here, he would probably say that it is better to save the What they, and I shouldn't have done, was put themselves in harm's way and make their sacrifice worthless, but I still think they deserve to survive if they can."

"Theresia, are you..." Kelsey suddenly understood something.

"The Doctor came to see me before," she answered. "Mr. Chen Mo and his people are also facing it below. He hopes that I can stand up. I should bear this. Sakaz should not continue to live in exile."

"Alas..." Kelsey sighed softly. She opened her hood, revealing her helpless and cold face: "Then I'll go with you."

White hair flutters in the high wind.

Below are the gray urban ruins of Kazdaele.

"Well, thank you, Kelsey."

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w supported Ines, relying on each other's bodies to barely fall down.

These Sakaz were right, they were more difficult to deal with than ordinary mercenaries, and both she and W were injured and exhausted.

"Sure enough, there are still reinforcements... Who are these people?" W looked at the mercenaries coming from all directions with vigilance.

Black figures stood densely on the ruins, and behind them was the tall figure of the ship not far away.

Vision became a little blurred.

w held the dagger tightly, but found that his hand had lost strength due to overexertion, and the dagger in his hand became heavier.

"This number of people..."

"Hey, don't faint." Ines bumped her shoulder.

"Sorry, it's a little...difficult to stay conscious."

"Can you still say sorry?" Ines seemed to hear something unbelievable.

"Last time I saw you fainted...this time it's your turn to help." W said, his words getting softer and softer: "Okay, okay, don't be so stingy, I will just...take a rest."

"Tsk." Ines turned to look at Sakaz, who was gradually approaching: "Fourteen, fifteen... no, more... orderly and silent, professional... no, more familiar with the battlefield than us. of……"

She already understood the identities of the people in front of her.

"...Kazdel...hum."

At this moment, the communicator on his shoulder sounded a noisy sound of electricity.

[I...listen...someone...go rescue me. 】

Ines was stunned.

Communication... has been restored?she thinks.

But immediately, she no longer had time to take care of this. Her spell was not interrupted, but according to the judgment of the spell, a huge thing was approaching and squeezing here.

"This, this is... what does it feel like..." She had never faced this kind of situation before. Her whole body seemed to be in front of a vast ocean, looking so small.

She suddenly realized something.

　【$*

The Sakaz stopped.

The burning ruins squeezed towards the center, and those monster-like enemies were condescending.

At the center of this siege was a woman who suddenly appeared here, a... weird person.

She was not Sakaz, but she stood alone in the center of the battlefield, her face changing color.

Ines was trembling, and W couldn't guess why she was trembling.

Her hearing seemed slightly damaged by the explosion and she couldn't make out what they were saying.

But she knew they were afraid.

Because of the person in front of me?

No, everyone is looking in the other direction, everyone is looking at the other person, even Ines is no exception.

At the last second when he lost consciousness, w saw a... Sakaz.

A slender Sarkaz without any hostility.

Ines was trembling, her hands and body couldn't help but tremble. Because of her Origin Stone skills, she was more intuitively aware of what she was facing than others.

w passed out, this woman is really lucky.

She subconsciously stopped her spell, but it would be better if she said something so that the feeling wouldn't keep spreading in her heart.

"...Hedley."

"Ines! Where is w?" Hedley asked in surprise from the communication: "Where are your current coordinates?"

Ines did not answer, she asked: "Before the war started... you lived... in Kazdaele, right?"

"I want to know something..."

"Are you injured? Stabilize your breathing first and hide in a safe place. We have already asked the transport team to apply for contact with reinforcements..."

"First...listen to me, Hedley."

In front of her, the Sakaz were falling one by one. They were panicking. After mustering up the courage to launch a charge, they began to retreat.

Ines knew that they would not die here, at least not today.

"...Okay, I'm listening."

Ines spoke with difficulty: "The king of Sakaz... the one who lost Kazdare... Your Highness, she..."

Her eyes were fixed on the woman in the center of the battlefield.

"Is she...a woman with white hair?"

Hedley's affirmative words were conveyed, and Ines suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. Although she looked indifferent when talking about the Tower of Babel to Hedley, in fact, she only understood when he was faced with it. What Hedley felt at the time, but fortunately, what she saw was much gentler than Hedley's.

Ines watched the white-haired woman walk towards her.

She suddenly became a little reserved and opened her mouth to say something but couldn't.The woman next to His Highness had an indifferent expression, and the coldness in her eyes was visible.