Gold is Justice

"In short, you must do what I ask you to do. Can you do this?"

Jelly still lowered her head in fright, not daring to raise her head to look at Ariel.Dake next to him couldn't stand it any longer, and stretched out his hand to push him again.Only then did the child quickly raise his head and nodded repeatedly: "I heard it! I... I heard it! I will do it! No matter what Mr. Mayor says... no matter what I say, I will do it!"

Ariel exhaled, nodded and said, "Very good. Then, you have to protect yourself as much as possible. Remember, you have to do your best to protect yourself. If my life and your life are in danger, then you The first thing to protect is your own life. Do you understand? Other than that, I don’t need any protection from you. Please promise me this point too, is there no problem?”

If the first request just now was for Jelly to obey Ariel completely, but this request now caused some ripples in the young man's heart.

He raised his head in disbelief, and looked at the mayor in front of him with a pair of eyes full of doubts, the president of Mermaid Song who "temporarily" kept him by his side.

If the rumors all along are not wrong...the president, the mayor really has no ability to protect himself, right?

In this situation, her request turned out to be...don't protect her by yourself?Don't even need to be a meat shield?

"That... mayor... I don't quite understand..."

Ariel's eyes instantly became sharp: "Do you still remember what you promised me just now? You only promised a minute ago, and now you are going to go back on it now?!"

After being yelled at by Ariel, Jelly stopped talking, nodded again and again, and said as if being forced: "I know! I know! I will try my best to protect myself...Mr. Mayor doesn't need me to protect! I I will do my best... to protect myself!"

Seeing that he finally started to understand a little bit, Ariel showed a faint smile on the corner of her mouth, and then said: "Very good. Now the last one... When I let you escape, you must not have any hesitation. Leave us alone." What happened to other people, you must try your best to escape, try to escape. Try to escape to a crowded place, never think about coming to save us, and don't think about doing anything for us. You just need Just try to protect yourself and escape from the dangerous place as soon as possible, that's all."

With Ariel saying the last condition, even a stupid person seems to be able to understand the meaning.

Jelly froze in place. After being silent for a while, she finally opened her mouth tremblingly, and said, "Mr. Mayor...do you think that I...are a burden...? Am I...completely...unable to help... Your favor? So...you see it as a...little...?"

Snapped--

Ariel lightly patted the shoulder of this dejected boy with her hand, and smiled sweetly——

"If I regard you as a burden, I will send someone to protect you. But I believe that you will be able to protect yourself, so I will ask you to comply with such requirements. These requirements are not excessive, right?"

These words are not lies.

Although Ariel felt that this boy might not have mastered many ways to use magic, but he should be running fast, right?

After all, that was the speed at which he blocked the out-of-control blood arrow with his bare hands amid lightning and thunder.

However, when Ariel started to comfort the boy, she also found that she had gone too far.

Such comfort and encouragement from myself will obviously make this boy feel encouraged, right?If inspired, would you want to prove your abilities even more?

"Since! Since I am not a burden...Mr. Mayor! I will...I will work hard! I will definitely work hard...I will listen to you!"

Worse, I was really inspired...

Ariel looked at the bright-eyed boy in front of her, obviously a happy young man, but she felt that she should get rid of this "bad" habit of inciting others at every turn.

I don't know if he has kept his request in mind... If he is asked to escape, but the boy remains motionless, and instead thinks that he "can" rush into a dangerous situation immediately, it may make other people feel uncomfortable. Don't protect him...

At that moment, just in case, Ariel began to repeatedly emphasize her three requirements with this boy - be obedient, protect herself, and run as soon as she says.

On the surface, the boy quickly agreed, and he seemed to be much more energetic, and he didn't have the previous depression at all.Since he kept agreeing like this, then it can only be assumed that he listened to it.

The element car galloped on the official road, and soon passed through several towns, passing in front of the crowd who hadn't seen the element car much, leaving a pair of surprised and envious eyes.

From day to night, the element car is constantly galloping.Except for three stops in the morning, noon and night to rest, the car has always been driving on its own road.

During this journey, Jelly didn't say much.In addition to agreeing to Ariel before, the boy once again showed that feeling of shrinking, leaning on Duck's side.

Except for Duck's usual conversation with him, he doesn't chat with Cream and Mochi.

And Cream and Mochi didn't have much interest in talking to this non-member civilian who didn't have much combat experience. The crowd of Mermaid Song chatted with each other and bragged along the way, which was also used to get through this time. It's a boring rush time.

Before I knew it, it was already the tenth day since I left Pelican City.As the time entered the middle of October, and the element car continued to move towards the north, the surrounding scenery gradually began to become desolate, and the clothes on everyone gradually increased, and they began to pay attention to keeping warm.

On this day, the road where the elemental car was located began to show patches of hilly areas.The official road also disappeared a day ago, and weeds were overgrown where the wheels rolled, and the speed began to slow down, and even gradually drove up the hillside, making it difficult to move forward.

"President, can't the car go up again?"

Cream held the dragon's head, looked at the large stretches of mountains in front of him, turned his head and said.

Although Ariel had expected such a situation, the situation in front of her still made her a little frustrated.

After getting out of the car, she slightly wrapped the cloak she wore to keep out the cold, and looked at the scenery in front of her.

There are many strange rocks and staggered peaks.

The hillside covered with all kinds of weeds was cut down like a knife blade.In some narrow mountain roads, people even need to turn sideways to barely pass.

Those intricate dead wood stumps, mudstone streams have washed the entire mountain area into unstable structures.It seemed that it had just rained two days ago, which cast a bleak feeling on the mountain.Turning his head and looking at the opposite mountain, he saw that there seemed to be a thick layer of mist between the lush forests, and the farther he went, the more he couldn't see clearly.

Everyone got out of the car, put on their luggage, and carried it.

Ariel raised her head and glanced at the mountains again, frowned, and said, "Cream, can you find the way?"

Cream also slightly tightened the backpack on his back, jumped up, jumped on the half waist of a branch next to him, looked forward for a moment, and said to the following——

"President, in any case, they should not live in this area. The hillside in this area looks very steep, and it is not very suitable for large-scale gatherings of people. If possible, they should live closer to the river. It is close, and the hillside is not so steep, and there is no risk of mudslides."

Ariel nodded and said, "That makes sense. Then which direction do you think it will be?"

Cream looked again for a moment, and said, "If it were me, I would live on a slope facing the sun. Our slope is shady, so we should climb over this foothill. I will lead the way."

As soon as the words fell, Cream immediately jumped from this branch to a tree in front, and after a few more vertical jumps, he disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Ariel hugged her arms, and after thinking for a while, she turned her head and looked at Mochi behind her: "How is it? Do you smell it?"

Mochi is now trying to adjust a small bow on his back.It seemed that the small bow bought in the previous town didn't quite fit her idea, and now her eyes were full of disgust.

But when Ariel asked, she still closed her eyes well, sniffed hard, and said, "President, it's still afternoon, I can't smell it anymore."

Ariel shrugged and said nothing.

After a while, Cream suddenly emerged from a bush in front of him.He patted the dirt on his body, waved to everyone, and the group followed Cream.

Walk through the bushes and climb up the hillside a little bit.

If there are some hurdles that Ariel can't get over, Ariel will put Dak on his back and let him carry herself over.

After stumbling all the way for an afternoon, everyone finally turned over the foothills.Came to a slightly sunny direction.

Ariel looked at the sun in the west that was gradually sinking into the ridge, turned her head to look at Mochi, and said, "What about now?"

Mochi also took a look at the sun that dyed the western sky blood red and slowly sinking, closed his eyes again, and felt silently.

This time, she did not give up immediately, but waited for a long time.

Waiting until the sun finally set completely and the entire sky was occupied by endless darkness, the blood girl finally opened her ruby-like eyes, stretched out her hand, and pointed at a person on the opposite hillside. Direction, said: "There, although it is not very strong, there will be a little bit of human smell coming."

Ariel let out a breath, and finally let go of her heart.After all, this means that I will not make a trip in vain.

She looked at Cream, who was making marks on the tree, and said, "How about it? Shall we continue to explore the road at night?"

Cream turned his head, looked at the pitch-black forest in front of him, where he could barely see his fingers, spread his hands helplessly, and said with a smile: "President, please spare me. The night here is too dark. It is very likely that you will encounter danger if you continue to move forward."

Dak also said: "I think so too. Anyway, there is still time, let's get here first today."

"I'm going to explore the way."

When Duck and Cream wanted to rest, Mochi tightened his bow and said——

"Night is my world. Brother Cheese also told me that if you meet everyone on a mission together, Brother Cheese will go out to explore the road at night, right? Since Brother Cheese can do it, so can I .”

Ariel nodded, and said with a smile: "Okay, you go. But don't come back too late, you haven't slept since the afternoon, come back early and rest early." Mochi put down her luggage, just brought Quiver and small bow, after tying her hair with a rope, the girl nodded, jumped, and disappeared into the darkness in front of her in an instant.

After the blood girl left, Duck, Cream, and Ariel immediately began to clear out a camp where they could rest, lit a fire to cook, and set up tents.

Seeing that everyone was busy, Jelly leaned closer to Dak's side, puffed up her cheeks and said, "I...please let me come too...help me!"

Dak glanced at him, and after a moment of silence, nodded, and handed him the firewood in his hand.

Jelly showed a happy smile and piled the firewood in the middle of the cleared camp.But just when Cream next to him was about to light the fire with a pocket fire, Jelly rushed up and stretched out his hands: "Please... please let me come! I will... I can do it...! Along the way, I've seen you...have lit fire many times!"

Cream, who was holding a pocket fire, saw that the young man was so attentive, so he also smiled, handed out the pocket fire, and said, "Do you want to light a fire? Come, try it?"

Jelly blushed, turned her head, and saw that Duck and the mayor had stopped what they were doing and looked at him, even more embarrassing.

However, he still settled down, stretched out his hands, covered the piled up firewood, closed his eyes, and took a deep breath.

Soon, some bluish-yellow lightning flashed from his fingertips.

These flashing lightnings jumped repeatedly at his fingertips, and with the concentration of jelly, these repeated jumping lightnings began to become more frequent and bigger!At the back, some crackling sounds of lightning and thunder also began to burst out from between the boy's hands!

Ariel raised her head slightly and nodded with admiration.

At the same time, those lightning bolts began to detach from his fingertips and hit those firewood piles.

It can be seen that the violent lightning hit the firewood, and black spots struck by lightning began to appear continuously on these firewood. Some currents would not disappear directly after being struck on the firewood, but follow the grain of these firewood. Swim a little more.

That's how he kept beating thunder and lightning, puffing his cheeks, closing his eyes, and concentrating!

The sound of thunder and lightning striking in the air became louder and louder, and the flickering of fingertips became even more...dangerous!

Ariel even felt that it was a little dangerous for her to stay here, so she moved back a little.Duck next to him seemed to be aware of this problem, and moved slightly in front of Ariel.

Finally, after experiencing a series of crackling and crackling effects, the light of the lightning finally weakened slowly, and those sounds also gradually disappeared.

In the end, it all comes down to tranquility.

Chapter 280 The purpose of this trip

"Ha ha ha ha……"

Jelly kept panting heavily, looking tired.Beads of sweat rolled down from his forehead, making him look as if he had just been fished out of the water.

As for the fire...

Ariel leaned forward to take a look, except that there was still a little afterglow of lightning running on the firewood, and finally disappeared, the pile of firewood looked the same as before.Not to mention ignited, there is not even a little spark.

"I... I... this... that..."

Seeing that after tossing for a long time, the fire was still not lit, and Jelly obviously panicked.He rubbed his trembling hands nervously, and when he turned his head to look at Ariel, it was as if he saw the scariest witch in the legend!

Such an obviously frightened appearance made Ariel really unable to bear to scold him anymore.Even Cream next to him let out a little breath, and handed the pocket fire in his hand and the firelighter that he had prepared but didn't hand over to Jelly just now.

"I...that...I..."

"Here, you use this. Press this button, then light the torch first, and then go to the firewood pile."

Jelly took the pocket fire tremblingly and pressed the button.Looking at the flame that was easily ignited, he ignited the torch in his hand and stuffed it under the pile of firewood.After a while, the fire finally rose.

Seeing that the pile of firewood he had tossed about for a long time did not respond at all, but the fire that could be easily lit with a pocket fire and a fire starter, Jelly showed a feeling of collapse.

He opened his mouth and looked at the fire with dull eyes, completely giving people a feeling of ashes that he has no thoughts, and it doesn't matter if he dies in the next second.

The current atmosphere... looks a little awkward.