Longmen Memoirs

w threw the dagger in his hand.

"I still think you have no chance of winning in a hand-to-hand fight, but, well, you did get slapped for being careless." She glanced at her arm: "Thank you, it just left a small scratch on my arm. It’s a cheap lesson.”

"It may not be so cheap next time," Ines said.

"Heh, you can't involve me entirely." W said: "No matter how much you like to play tricks on others, you and Hedley are quite similar."

"You make me feel strange. High-profile mercenaries like you are basically dead." Ines said solemnly: "In other words, you can arouse the interest of so many colleagues in such a short period of time. After you I never stood up to you before joining, so it’s natural to be suspicious.”

"So, who do you think I belong to?" W asked funnyly: "I heard Hedley say that Li Ting was just like me, rising up so quickly..."

She seemed to be deliberately inducing: "I'll give you three chances, Miss Ines."

"You deliberately approached Hedley, why?" Ines asked.

wStop talking.

"You said it yourself."

"what?"

"There are a lot of people in Kazdale who want his head."

"...You can be so calm and honest, so why did you change your mind?"

"Hmm..." W thought for a while: "I feel like it's more profitable this way, and compared to Hedley, I now want the head of the Liting leader. I think I can make a name for myself!"

Her smile looked a little crazy.

"Then you have to lose your life first." Ines seemed to see a stupid lunatic: "Go back to the past, what do you want to earn?"

"None of your business."

"You're shaken. It's so funny. You can just find any excuse to excuse yourself. Ha, you are exactly the same as the W I know now."

w looked at Ines with disgust.

"It's your spell again. It's such an eyesore. My reasons have nothing to do with you."

"That's hard to say."

They stared at each other, never putting down their weapons and vigilance, but the sudden roar made them both stunned at the same time.

"what sound?"

"...to the east." Ines was not sure, because the ground was shaking and something had broken open the land: "Something is approaching. There is more than one team, but one of them should be genuine, hum. , so cautious.”

"Sounds like a big business, how many people do they employ?"

"Hedley is right." Ines held the sword tightly: "This battle is bigger than before, and there will be a battlefield ahead of us that we have never experienced before."

"Are you afraid?"

"Ha." Ines sneered.

"Hedley should be arriving with this team, have the courier turn on the radio."

"You dare to order me?"

"Okay, okay, yes, yes." W put away the dagger perfunctorily: "You can continue to guard your campfire, I will go to the camp to check the situation."

Ines didn't answer. She watched w walk away, then turned to look east.

Through her amber eyes, she saw a huge beast roaring at the edge of the sky.

Majestic and mysterious.

"That [=

She wasn't sure what she saw was of this world...monsters.

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Hedley was always late, and he deliberately made himself late.

"Sorry, Zhongyu changed the route once and wasted a little time." He said this with no apology on his face, just calm and serious: "From here on, the work really begins."

"Everyone is in place."

Ines nodded to Hedley in front of her.

"Well..." He looked at W again, like a worried father: "Where are you?"

"Nothing is lost."

"Judging from the burning grass and neatly cracked dirt, it doesn't look like either of you are idle here?"

"Oh, it's just a warm-up exercise, not a direct attack." W replied with a smile and winked at Ines: "Right?"

"Don't worry, next time I will sink your dead hand into the shadow before others find out."

Hedley sighed again. He had sighed like this often since W came.

"Again, our mission is simple, don't let anyone get close to the target." He said: "Keep all suspicious dangers out of this canyon. Those who approach can open fire directly without warning."

He did a double take.

"Any questions?"

"No." W shook his head and said, "Where is the destination?"

"It cannot be said that the escort mission is carried out in stages. The route map has been distributed. When we reach the end point in three days, someone will take over."

"Hedley." Ines pondered for two seconds: "What are they lucky for?"

"This is also...wait a minute, Ines." Hedley's words suddenly stopped: "Using your magic to test the transport team is a violation of the contract. Don't underestimate them, stop!"

"But you said they were just a transport team..." Ines hesitated: "The transport team... no, I was the one who prejudged it. This is indeed a transport team that needs to be protected."

"But their luck is... huge." Ines did not stop the spell. Her eyes flashed with a strange light, and the expression on her face became dull: "This shadow."

"A ship? No, a..." She murmured in disbelief: "Skeleton?"

[North of Kazdale, there is a birch forest.

The time of life there begins in spring and ends in winter.

In the long midwinter, there was only death, and all life left there at the same time. Only the source stone crystals exposed on the surface reflected the moonlight.

Gray and white tree trunks, slender shadows cross and overlap on the snow, lifeless.

That’s what I saw—and that’s what’s happening in Kazdaele, a land that’s been dead for years. 】

ps: There will be Chen Mo in the next chapter, and this Chen Mo may be different.

Chapter 6 Endgame

Let’s go back to the original problem about trolleys.

I think if it were me before, I would probably be a resigned person.

I was not prepared to be responsible for the life and death of others.

I am very ordinary, and I have the same mentality as most ordinary citizens. I am ordinary, cautious, and even cowardly.

I would choose most.

Between relatives and strangers, the former will be chosen.

Kelsey is right.

Some unknown change was taking place in me, and I knew its origin.

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Edge of battlefield northeast of Kazdale

military buffer zone

17: 55 pm

The huge land speeder was like a dormant giant beast running across the wasteland. Compared with it, everything around it seemed so small. Even though it was thousands of meters away, it still looked extremely clear.

Chen Mo put down the telescope in his hand.

This is a temporary stronghold built by a Sakaz magician using magic. A camouflage net was laid out, and the mudstone stood behind him. The young Sakaz girl put on the heavy clothes they wore when they were in Grai. Armor.

"It's much later than planned."

Chen Mo said, looking back at the Sakaz army messenger standing a few meters away. The executioners leaving the court stood silently around them, their cold eyes and matte black armor on their bodies like sculptures.

The messenger was under tremendous pressure. He didn't even dare to raise his head to look at the man who asked this question.

When he lowered his head, he could only see the military boots on the man's feet.

"Captain Hedley changed the route midway..." the messenger wiped the sweat from his forehead and replied in a low voice.

"reason?"

"It's not clear yet." Sakaz said, and hurriedly added: "But before I came, Hedley and his team had already arrived at the rendezvous location. They will meet with the Ba...landmobile within the specified time. Make contact.”

"I didn't see the flames on the battlefield." Chen Mo shook his head and handed the binoculars to Niyan, who reached out and took it: "I remember I reminded Hedley not to have any clever ideas. He didn't seem to have any. Do you listen?"

"Well... Sir, maybe something unexpected happened..." The messenger defended: "Captain Hedley didn't have time to report to you. They may have encountered an obstruction."

"It doesn't matter...he still has one hour." Chen Mo said, folding his hands in front of him: "Go back and tell your people, as we agreed, he won't want to know the consequences."

"……Yes."

The messenger was sent out of the camp tremblingly.

Before leaving, he looked back at the camp door and breathed out softly.

He remembered that two months ago, the people inside personally buried Garson and his mercenary team in their camp. No one knew what happened that day, only that Garson's own head was hanged later. On the sign of a shop in the Scar Market, a place he frequented, his agent was also missing.

Ni Yan watched the sound of the messenger disappearing at the door. She held the telescope and slowly placed it on the table at the back. The table was covered with a combat map, with several points marked in scarlet, and an established route interspersed through it. Finally, Stop at a circled dot.

At this time, Chen Mo was standing in front of the table staring at the map in front of him.

"I need to confirm again, are all our people in place?" He glanced sideways at the mudstone and asked.

"Yes, Hogg personally leads the team. Several mercenary groups that received the mission have our people as internal agents, and the personnel deployed in several important locations are already in place." Niyan said: "Sir, we Ready to act at any time.”

"It's not time yet." He shook his head, picked up the pen, and carefully marked on the original map: "I can't trust Hedley's people, but that's not important. They are chess pieces on the surface. We It’s the backhand.”

He said, "You know why I wanted to kill Garson?"

"Because he is the person on the opposite side?" Ni Yan said uncertainly.

"To be precise, he is the mercenary leader that Tracy has raised among the people. He is doing the same thing as us. The difference is that he uses different methods from us. He is trying to establish a large mercenary group. To assemble these scattered mercenaries for his use, well, as the saying goes, use the enemy to fight the enemy, he did a good job, and Garson is indeed very capable, otherwise he would not have cheated us two years ago. ." He put down his pen as he said: "...But it was only two years ago, and he is dead now."

"Garson's death is part of the plan." Chen Mo said: "Trasis is temporarily unable to use and restrain these mercenaries, which gives us an opportunity. I don't want to see the mercenary team that attacks this time. Any of them come back alive.”

Mud Rock was silent for a while.

"I understand, sir."

"You don't understand, Mudstone." He looked at the tall armor of the Sakaz girl, and her face was blocked by the helmet, so he had to raise his head slightly to see her eyes.

"The entire Tower of Babel, as well as the land cruiser that came back from Rembito, His Highness is on top, and Tracys also knows that His Highness is on top, so he prepared this attack and wanted to give us a cruel blow. He was very aggressive in order to test our background." He said: "He thought very well. Regardless of success or failure, the Tower of Babel will be exposed on the land of Kazdaele, and the war is about to begin, more intense than before. The war started when that ship entered Kazdaele."

"The mercenaries must choose a side, and none of them can stay out of this war." He said: "It doesn't matter if they don't want to choose, because from now on, Kazdaele will no longer need the mercenary profession."

"You don't need to explain it to me so clearly." Mudyan shook his head and said. Miss Sakaz took off her helmet, and her silky silver hair fell down: "I will follow you, and this oath will never change."

"I just wanted to tell you what we were doing."

Mud Yan was quiet for two seconds and then asked: "...I heard that you and Ms. Kelsey had a big fight."

"..."

"You knew already?"

"When I accompanied you to the Tower of Babel last time, I heard someone discussing this matter."

"scout?"

"It's him." Mud Yan did not deny: "He said... Ms. Kalsi did not agree with your plan. Is this why you quarreled with her?"

"To be precise, we just had a simple communication on a certain aspect of the matter and had a few minor differences. It is as elegant as people discussing sweet tofu nao or salty tofu nao."

"Hmm...I didn't understand, what kind of tofu?"