The long fairy road is wonderful

Chapter 1278
On other people's territory, you must be polite, otherwise you will be easily beaten.

However, Miranda is not a greenhouse flower ignorant of the world, nor is she an idealist with only a passion and a naivete. category of intuition.

So she naturally didn't want to continue beating around the bush, and said it bluntly.

Victor didn't seem to expect Miranda to be so direct, and was a little surprised.

He stared into Miranda's eyes like a lamb at the slaughter, weighing where to put the knife.

Miranda, on the other hand, was not afraid. There was hardly any expression fluctuation on her face, her eyes were still piercing, and she never avoided it.

The time they stared at each other was not too long, it was probably just an illusion, Victor chose to give up, and leaned back, leaning on the expensive leather backrest, the weight made the chair creak.

"Your Highness Miranda, since you want to get to the point, I don't need to talk nonsense."

He picked up a cigar from the desk, skillfully pinched off the end of the cigar and lit it.

The scented mist slowly rises, looming over Victor:

"Please go back, Your Highness Miranda, don't continue to chase. If you turn around now, you can pretend that you have never been to Lighthouse Castle, and you and I have never met."

Now Miranda's expression finally changed slightly, she said:
"We're tracking down the pirate group. Does anyone feel troubled?"

Victor neither denied nor admitted.

"Who can let the famous Mr. Victor deal with me specifically? The Shadow Heart Pirates?"

"A man I can't afford to offend."

He didn't specify who it was, just shook his head:
"I can't afford to offend that person, and neither can you and the country behind you. The best ending to this matter is that you turn around and go back. Anyway, you have already made enough gestures. There is no need to cling to it. After a while Everyone will act as if nothing happened.”

Listening to their conversation, Lin Tianci felt the feeling of 'I was involved in something important again' lingering and became clearer.

On the surface, the whole thing is that the pirates attacked the port. In order to recover the stolen things, Miranda had to take people out to sea to track them down, and sent a request for help to other countries along the route. Everyone worked together to eliminate the pirates in the Heart of Shadow. group.

The matter was as simple as that, but along the way, Lin Tianci always felt that something was wrong, and there seemed to be some conspiracy hidden under the simple matter.

Even if Ms. Nutao, who was not in an escape state, suddenly ran out to show off in front of Lin Tianci, Sai Li kept reminding Lin Tianci that this matter was not as clear as it seemed.

Watching the conversation between Miranda and Victor now deepens this feeling.

"I always think of myself as a pure businessman. Whether it's things between countries or pirates, it actually has nothing to do with me. I just need to make good money."

"My actions make you feel that the business is threatened?"

Facing the questioning, Victor still had the tumbler's attitude of neither admitting nor denying, and continued to persuade:
"Your Highness, you should not be that kind of spoiled waste. Your motherland is just a remote backcountry in this world. If one day..."

After speaking half of the sentence, Victor did not point out the other half. He believed that Miranda understood what he meant.

Miranda did understand, but she didn't back down:
"I cannot accept your request."

As soon as this remark came out, the atmosphere in the office immediately became serious, and the bodyguards standing by the wall seemed to have their eyes on Miranda.

The silence lasted for three or four seconds, and Victor let out a long breath:

"The instruction I got was very simple, as long as Her Royal Highness Princess Miranda is not chasing the Shadow Heart Pirates, I think His Highness should be a smart person, so I persuaded you to give up first. If so..."

- Bang!

The sudden explosion interrupted Victor's words, or he didn't intend to finish his words from the beginning.

A puff of smoke rose from the cigarette smoke caused by the cigar, and metal projectiles almost invisible to the naked eye crossed the distance between Victor and Miranda at breakneck speed.

With a tinkling sound, the round metal projectile fell to the ground.Lin Tianci shook his numb hands, thankful for his quick response.

Victor acted without warning, and it was too sudden. Although Miranda had already noticed it, she had only half drawn her long sword before the bullet hit him.

The lethality of muskets in the magical world is not high, mainly because anyone with a bit of skill can resist the continuous fire of small and medium-caliber automatic weapons. It is further reduced.

But low power doesn't mean it can't kill people, especially in this kind of surprise attack.

Victor held a delicate pistol, and moved very fast like a juggler, but he didn't expect that the surprise attack would be intercepted. He smacked his lips to express his disappointment, and then drank:
"Kill them!"

After finishing speaking, he ducked under the desk, and his fat body disappeared immediately.

Miranda didn't bother to thank Lin Tianci, because the bodyguards and guards who were standing by the wall drew out weapons such as scimitars and killed them.

She quickly drew out the long sword at her waist to block the blade from one of the bodyguards.

"Quick, we must get back to the ship."

Miranda would come to see Victor, mainly because it was on his territory, and he had to give him some face.It turned out that it was a Hongmen Banquet when they arrived at the place. If they had known about it, they would have packed up their supplies and left quickly.

Lin Tianci felt even worse. At least there was a banquet to eat at the Hongmen Banquet. He came here to listen to the chat, and was immediately surrounded and beaten...

No matter how big the office was in time, it was obviously not that big. Coupled with the large number of opponents, it can be said that Lin Tianci and Miranda were surrounded when the fight started.

If Miranda was alone, no matter how good she was at fighting, she would be no match for two fists and four hands. She could control the front but not the back.With Lin Tianci around, he can share a lot of pressure and only focus on one enemy.

Perhaps Miranda sensed something was wrong from the very beginning, and it was obviously a very correct choice to keep Lin Tianci, who was the most capable fighter on board, by his side.

Turning sideways and easily dodging the knife, Lin Tianci stretched out his right palm and slammed directly on the opponent's unprotected chest.

The bodyguard who was beaten flew into the air immediately, and crashed into the expensive-looking glass cabinet behind him with a bang, his face and body were covered with scratches from shards of glass, and he was sobbing several times. I can't get up even if I live and die.

The other guards who besieged Lin Tianci saw the tragic situation of their companions, and immediately became more careful, but this did not change the fact that these people were easily kicked away by Lin Tianci with three punches and two kicks.

In terms of intuitive combat effectiveness, people on this plane are actually not that high.

The reason is simple, they have no pressing need.

Still taking Sevilla as an example, the wilderness of that plane is filled with a huge number of monsters, and there are especially many countries, and they all have enmity with each other.

Whether it is against monsters or against enemy countries, the pressure of survival forces them to become stronger, and the emphasis on combat effectiveness is completely different.

In Sevilla, the fastest growing magic is evocation spells, because the spells of this faction can shed devastating destructive power, followed by protection and conjuration.The development of magic schools that lack direct lethality and cannot protect themselves, such as the transformation department and the prophecy department, is very slow.

This is due to practical needs, but the number of monsters in the plane of Lemuria is relatively small, and they are all gathered in the outer ring area, and there are almost no reports of monster sightings in the inner ring area.

Wars between countries are also very civilized and decided by the wave guards, instead of staged a full-scale war if there is a disagreement, which leads to the development of Lemuria in terms of combat effectiveness is actually very weak.

Victor's guards must be one in a million. After all, they are rich, but in terms of combat effectiveness, they are not as good as Sevilla's ordinary city guards.

In terms of the ranking system, Lin Tianci estimated that none of them exceeded level [-], and perhaps level [-] was barely enough, but they were stronger than ordinary people and dared to cut people.

In terms of physical fitness and the application of qi, it is very rudimentary. In the eyes of a monk who is good at this aspect, the subtlety of the moves is equivalent to his mother's mental retardation. It would be no wonder if it was difficult to fight.

As soon as the palm wind blows, the surrounding guards are swept away as if struck by lightning. This ability is not enough to warm up Lin Tianci.

After easily settling down the guards who were besieging him, Lin Tianci lifted himself up, passed through the cigar and gunpowder smoke like a breeze, and squatted on the desk to catch Victor.

Capture the thief first, capture the king first, with him as a talisman, at least the distance from the lighthouse to the port can be walked more easily.

But Victor is indeed an old fritter. Lin Tianci looked down and saw a secret passage with the baffle opened right under the desk, and he couldn't see where the end was at a glance, and he couldn't see Victor at all.

If you jumped in hastily, it would be too uncomfortable for Victor's people to block both ends of the tunnel. Not to mention anything else, filling it with water and smoke would make Lin Tianci feel ashamed, so you can't enter the tunnel casually.

I didn't catch the leader, but it's certain that I shouldn't stay here for a long time.

Lin Tianci immediately turned back and kicked a guard who was fighting with Miranda to the door with a kick. The force was strong enough to break the thick mahogany door in reverse. , the wide door panel also fell to the ground.

The guard who was originally guarding the door poked his head out of the door opening, and then saw the enlarged sole of the shoe...

As I said before, the combat effectiveness of people on this plane is not very good, and it is really not troublesome to deal with these guards, but Miranda looked at Lin Tianci in surprise, as if to say, 'Aren't you a mage? '.

Since Lin Tianci used to show his ability to cast spells in front of Miranda, and did not show that he was particularly good at melee combat, Miranda preconceived that Lin Tianci mainly relied on magic to fight. Unexpectedly, this 'mage' who is also strong in hand-to-hand combat is flying. rise.

However, Miranda didn't pay too much attention to this little problem, so she escaped first.

The two rushed out of Victor's office in a hurry, and were about to run along the spiral downward slope toward the exit. Just after running less than ten meters away, they saw a cylindrical thing with wheels underneath pushed up from below. ...

—It’s a cannon.

(End of this chapter)