On the Seven Towers

"We fought a bad war." Wang Jiyuan stood in the bright conference room and hit the table with his palm. The palm was not heavy, but everyone felt as if the table had been pressed down by half an inch. Like everyone here, he wore a military training uniform without epaulets, but everyone could feel that he firmly grasped the atmosphere of the conference room. Wherever he glanced, people would lower their heads involuntarily.

However, when he saw Ji Yijun, Ji Yijun bit his lip and met his gaze without flinching. He was like a little tiger who never learned to be afraid, baring his teeth at the lion king in the forest.

"Don't want to admit it?" Wang Jiyuan looked directly at Ji Yijun, and his voice became deeper, "Don't think that some little girls are proud of you as 'heroes'. You are not worthy."

Everyone present was in a commotion, obviously feeling somewhat aggrieved by Wang Jiyuan's words. Since that battle, the escort team has become more and more popular. Some boys who have been bachelors their entire lives have unexpectedly found girlfriends. But here, the mighty and capable person in the eyes of his girlfriend was reduced to nothing.

"Why don't you deserve it?" Ji Yijun finally couldn't hold it back, "We protected them!"

"Protection? Yes, but you should know what price we paid! We mastered hot weapons, but we were suppressed and beaten by a group of bandits with bows, arrows and sabers! We occupied the high wall, but we were still killed by those guys Inside! They disobeyed orders, acted without permission, had chaotic tactics, hesitated to engage with the enemy, and even had many deserters. This is the performance of our team!" Every time Wang Jiyuan looked at someone, that person would always lower his head in shame. , everyone knows that this is not said casually.

No one present understood the weight of the word "price" better than Ji Yijun. He felt heavy in his heart and could not utter many rebuttals.

Wang Jiyuan was talking about various problems in the battle. When everyone was talking about it, he changed the subject and said, "Of course, the biggest responsibility lies with me. Since it is my team, your fault is ultimately your fault. My bad."

Ji Yijun didn't expect that the other party would blame himself for the mistake. He saw an unexplainable emotion in Wang Jiyuan's eyes, like regret and hope intertwined.

"And I will never be wrong on the same issue twice! This time, we are lucky to have all kinds of outside help, so we are alive and the enemy is dead, giving us a chance to correct our mistakes. But, like this Good things will never happen again. If we make such a mistake next time, it may be you, me, and those who are hiding behind us and need our protection. Do you understand?"

"I understand." Everyone said in unison.

"I don't have much time for you. Set out in three days to wipe out the goblin tribe in the forest. Since these goblins migrated here some time ago, they have caused great losses to the surrounding villagers. The villagers hope that we can protect them. Now We have already recruited some local people into our team, and this can remove hidden dangers in their villages and allow them to follow us with peace of mind, so this is the first step to unite surrounding villages and towns, and the committee does not want anything to go wrong.”

"Captain, we have been training intensively recently, and those guys are much more presentable than before. They will not let you down anymore." Li Tianrui said, "In the final analysis, this is a backward era, and we have a huge advantage."

Wang Jiyuan sneered: "A backward era? If you take a good look at history, you will know that such an era is cannibalistic."

After the meeting, Ji Yijun sent Huang Zheng away and asked him to step up the training of the team, but he walked to the laboratory building. After that battle, he never took the initiative to find Morey. Because every time he saw the figure in the white coat, he felt like there were a lot of bugs biting him in his heart. He knew that Morey did nothing wrong that day, but who said you can't hate someone if you don't do anything wrong?

But today... Ji Yijun hesitated for a long time before stepping onto the stairs leading to the top.

There is a strange smell floating in the laboratory building, and the dark corridors make it look a bit eerie. Not only is it someone who pays attention, but there are several oil lamps lit on the walls on both sides. The light and shadow are swaying, which really adds to the weird atmosphere. .

I remembered the tapping of high heels in the distance, and a vague figure slowly walked towards me. Ji Yijun couldn't see her face clearly, so he asked, "Who is in front of you?"

The figure didn't answer, but kept walking step by step at the same frequency.

Ta, tap, tap, tap...

The voice became louder and louder. Ji Yijun asked several times but there was no response. It was like talking to a shadow. Could it be that there are female ghosts in this world? Even though he had always been bold, his heart was starting to get hairy at this moment.

When the person was only five or six meters away from him, the dim light shone on her face, and Ji Yijun recognized it. It turned out to be Morey's partner Wu Jingrong.

"You woman, are you deaf? Are you pretending to be a ghost to scare me?"

"Hey, it's amazing that this kind of horse can speak human language." Wu Jinrong covered her mouth with her hand and said with a smile.

"You...why are you swearing?"

"What's wrong with scolding you? Shouldn't you be scolded for the good things you have done these days? I don't know how many girls are holding their quilts and crying because of you. Even Ye Zi is angry."

"I said she has ignored me these past few days. It turns out she is jealous." Ji Yijun pretended to be heartless.

"Fuck you. Can Ye Zi like you? He just despises your character. He's just trying to play with other people's feelings." Wu Jingrong shook her hand like a fly to drive Ji Yijun away.

"We are all adults. We agreed not to talk about feelings or responsibilities. Everything is voluntary. What's the problem?" Ji Yijun asked angrily.

"The problem is that next time before you talk sweetly, you'd better announce how many girlfriends you have. You are now a public enemy in several dormitories, so you can take care of yourself." After Wu Jinrong said this, she left without even looking at him. , leaving Ji Yijun in a daze.

Bad luck, this woman is unreasonable, he thought to himself. But for some reason, he couldn't calm down in his heart. He couldn't help but wonder when he became like this? As he thought back on his experience with flowers in the past two weeks, a feeling of embarrassment emerged from the bottom of his heart, which soon caused beads of sweat to form on his forehead, as if he was walking on the street and suddenly realized that he had no clothes on.

Ji Yijun came back to his senses and found that he had walked to the door of Morey's room without knowing it.

The door was ajar. There was a man inside talking to Morey.

"Mr. Morey, you see, I am the interpreter accompanying the goblin encirclement and suppression team, and the communication between me and the guide must be the smoothest. If you give me that thing, I will definitely be able to find those two people and fulfill your wish. Don’t worry, I’ve even caught a magician with my own hands, and I will definitely avenge you!” the man said with joy.

"Mr. Zhang, how do you know I have that thing?" Moreci said.

"There are no secrets in the school. You want revenge, which is not a bad thing. In fact, many people sympathize with you. For example, I think the same as you. They must pay the price!"

Morey shook his head and sighed: "Mr. Zhang, it's the escort's business to chase down the enemy. You don't have to take their job, do you?"

"Their mission is to encircle and suppress the goblins, but they are not as free as I am. I have hired two mercenaries privately, and they are both good! Plus I have my own gun. As long as I find them, I will never miss them."

"Mr. Zhang, why did you..."

"I was kidnapped by them. Those bastards tortured me and used me as a slave. Those horrible days... you don't want to know. The most terrifying thing is that they killed me in front of me. Best friend Hong Lifeng!" The man's voice choked up, and he wiped his face with his hands, "So, I am no less determined to take revenge than you are!"

Morey nodded thoughtfully and said: "I understand, it's not that I don't want to give it to you, but I have already promised to give it to someone else. Look, that person has already arrived at the door."

The man turned around and came face to face with Ji Yijun.

"Zhang Hong?" Ji Yijun frowned, "Why are you here? What do you want from Morey?"

Zhang Hong's face turned red and blue. He looked at Ji Yijun and then at Morey, as if giving up, "Forget it, Mr. Morey, I'll come visit you next time when I'm free."

He ignored Ji Yijun and walked directly towards the door. Ji Yijun grabbed Zhang Hong and said, "Hey, tell me clearly, what is this?"

"Let go." Zhang Hong pointed at Ji Yijun's hand and shouted, "My reputation is no less than yours now. Can you control me? I have captured the magician alive, why am I still afraid of you?"

"Who do you want to avenge?"

"Let go! Let me go! Who else but Ji Xun?"

"You... want to avenge my father? Why don't I remember that you are a warm-hearted person?"

"You can't control it!" Taking advantage of Ji Yijun's daze, Zhang Hong struggled to shake off Ji Yijun's hand and hurriedly opened the door and ran out.

Ji Yijun looked at Morey with a puzzled face.

Morey spread his hands and said, "He seemed to have gotten the news from somewhere and knew that I could sense Orville's whereabouts, so he asked me for this."

Morey took out a necklace from his pocket. The chain was made of rope, with a small purple crystal tied to the head. There is white light and shadow flowing in the crystal, sometimes converging into an eye, sometimes turning into dots of stars.

"I can no longer feel Orville. The tracking method I used that night can only detect movements within ten kilometers. The next day they ran out of this range. But the tracking eye I refined can I'll help you track it down. There's a bit of Orville in it. When the eyes turn orange, it means there are traces of him near you; when the eyes turn red and warm, it means he himself is near you. Not far away.”

Ji Yijun took the chain and hung it on his chest, "I will kill them, for sure."

"I believe you can do it." Morey looked at Ji Yijun's stern face, "But be careful about Zhang Hong, he is very strange."