And more importantly...
Hey, it has to be something full of unknowns to be interesting enough ~ how can I miss it?
"Xiao Guang, we're going in, are you ready?"
Chapter 410: Chapter 38: Contradictions
Looking at the sumptuous delicacies on the table, and Tyler Tours, who had tied the tablecloth on the opposite side and had a kind, even attentive face, Lan sighed deeply again.
"Father, I've said it all, just prepare some food. It's like this every time. How can the two of us eat so much?"
Taylor smiled and stroked his black beard, without even looking at the exquisite dishes on the table, his attention was always on the precious daughter in front of him.
"Hey, Xiao Lan, you are busy with the work of the Internal Security Bureau every day, and it is rare to come back. Dad hasn't seen you for more than a month. What's the matter with being richer? Although our Tulls family is not rich, we can Enemy country, but it’s not like you have to worry about eating a meal.”
"Come, come, try this Lin fish steak. This is a super rare specialty that can only be caught in Luohe River, the capital of the kingdom. Your grandfather knows that Xiaolan likes fish the most, so he specially entrusted someone to bring it to you. He has been raising it, waiting for you to come back and taste it."
"………..All right."
Lan knew his father well. Not only did he dote on his daughter, but his character was full of the typical stubborn characteristics of a literati. He was very tough. It was pointless to argue with him.
Even if he doesn't persecute him forcefully because of doting, he won't change his point of view because of it. Instead, he just rambles on and on until others accept his proposal.
If not, his mother would not have conflicts with him, and he would not have made the decision to leave the city lord's mansion and live alone in the city by moving back to his mother's house alone.
Not only the father, but even the grandfather, Griffith Tours, who is revered as the patriarch of the three dynasties and is now nearly 9 years old, is also stubborn.
In fact, Lan also understands that she herself has the same personality, but there are some differences in the values of life from her grandparents and parents, and there is no difference in her stubbornness.
Under his father's satisfied gaze, Lan spent some time having lunch with him. After the maids took away the dozens of large and small plates on the table, basically eating a small amount of delicacies, Lan was always in the kitchen. After observing all aspects of her, Taylor took off the tablecloth on his chest, and looked curiously at the long sword leaning against the girl.
"Xiao Lan, are you changing your sword? But I remember you mentioned the relationship between [Devil Slayer] and you..."
"Well, due to some things, there is something wrong with [Slaying Demon] temporarily, and it is being repaired. This knife is called [Qing Lan], and it was temporarily lent to me by a... friend."
Seeing the worry in his father's eyes, Lan, who knew what he was worried about, hesitated for a moment, but still spoke to comfort him.
"Father, don't worry. The natal knife is just a joke my daughter made with you back then. It can't be true. [Qing Lan] is a good knife inferior to [Slaying Demon]. I like it very much."
Hearing what she said, Taylor was visibly relieved.
"So that's the case, I said it was just unrealistic nonsense, a knife is a tool, how can it be related to human life, it's fine, it's fine, haha!"
Hearing this, Lan frowned instead.
"Father, the sword is definitely not a tool, but my partner. It is the same for [Slaying Demon], and it is the same for [Qing Lan].
"Uh, okay~ Take it back, it's dad's fault, dad apologized to you, good girl, don't be angry."
Taylor, who dotes on his daughter, obviously has no intention of arguing with her on this matter. Although it is a bit perfunctory, the other party has said so, and Lan can't continue to say anything.
Just when she was about to bring up the real purpose of this trip, the city lord suddenly changed the subject and brought up a topic that Lan didn't want to discuss.
"By the way, Xiao Lan, you're already 20 this year, right? It's not a problem for girls to dance with swords all day long... You are not satisfied with the couples you were looking for before. Dad recently We have found some new candidates, they are all young talents with good character and extraordinary family background, why don't you take a look and find some time to bring them to you for a meeting?"
"well………."
Start again, start again.
Lan already knew that there must be such a process every time she returns home.
Indeed, she thinks she still has a bit of beauty, and the status of the only daughter of the Tours family is indeed prominent enough. Those nobles who are messed up at home and abroad must have squeezed their heads and wanted to climb this giant tree. Even if the father meant to make people into a family.
It's not that Lan doesn't understand Taylor's thoughts. After all, in his opinion, girls always have to find someone to rely on, otherwise they will not be able to support the sky alone like men at critical moments.
Like his grandfather, he is full of prejudices, such as thinking that monsters are inferior beasts, women are inferior to men when they are outside, and so on.
This kind of thinking is ridiculous to Lan. She has no plans to start a family at the moment, let alone fall in love with a vase nobleman who doesn't know her at all, and is only greedy for her beauty and family status.
"Father, I should have made it very clear to you. My daughter doesn't have that kind of thoughts at the moment. Lan will never marry before the sword is sharpened and the demon is not eliminated."
As if he had expected such an answer, Taylor sighed heavily.
"Hey, daughter, you are always so stubborn. If you are a boy with such lofty ambitions, Dad will naturally support him with all his strength. After all, killing monsters and helping the human race is a lofty mission passed down from generation to generation by the Tours family, but girls ... You have to get married. Dad is also reluctant, but you are already 20, and other noble daughters of the same age are already pregnant and even holding dolls, and your grandfather is also..."
Lan supported his forehead with a headache. Once his father started to babble, there would be endless truths and teachings. The Tours family was the best at this. What's more, he still understood it with affection and acted with courtesy, and his words and deeds were all out of genuine care and love.
This made the girl unable to open her mouth even if she wanted to refute.
She didn't even dare to tell her father the true meaning of the word "destroying demons".
Bite the bullet and listened to her father's non-repetitive nagging for nearly half an hour, from the cultivation of girls' housekeeping to the responsibility of nobles to pass on to future generations. Seeing that the Lord of the City had no intention of stopping, Lan finally could only restart her usual practice. s method.
"Who says girls can't be alone? Don't you see that Miss [Fei Yanhua] in the three major legends of the capital, is only in her early twenties and has become famous far and wide. How many legendary stories have created that men can only look up to in their lifetime?"
"Also, the current ruler of our country, Her Majesty Lilia, the first Queen of the United Kingdom, is a few years younger than me. Do you want to say that Your Majesty is unable to support this huge country?"
"Oh, it's different, daughter, they..."
"It's nothing different. Okay, father, I've made up my mind. What you say is useless. I didn't come to you today to talk about this."
After interrupting the topic forcefully, Lan took a deep breath, looked at Taylor Tours who still seemed to be trying to persuade her, and lightly parted her lips.
"Father, you must be more aware of the situation in the Demon City and the northern part of the kingdom than I am. Now that the conflicts are intensifying, we are constantly at odds with the Ten Thousand Demon Mountains. I wonder what your plans are going to be?"
"Huh? Planning to...? Daughter, what do you mean?"
"Okay... Let me change to a more intuitive and urgent question. Father, the mountains of the ten thousand demons are closed, and the main road leading to the north of our country is blocked by a large area. , several times wantonly searched and arrested the whole city, arousing public resentment."
"Our Tours family's fight against foreign enemies is to protect the people. Is this action putting the cart before the horse?"
"…………"
Taylor suddenly fell silent, and the eyes of the father and daughter met in the air. Probably, only they themselves can understand the meaning.
Although she had learned part of the story through eavesdropping, Lan still decided to ask the prepared question. What she wanted was the answer from her father, to find out how much the family had done behind her back.
to decide on the next course of action.
Lan knew that her father doted on her very much, as long as he asked, he would never hide it, after all...she was also a member of the Tours family.
After a long silence, the city lord spoke.
His voice was full of helplessness, guilt, and undeniable determination.
"Lan, this is... a necessary sacrifice, for the sake of mankind."
Chapter 411: Chapter 39: Clean the battlefield for me!
Wei Lisi and Xiaolongniang, who stepped into the teleportation array, were sent to another unknown place through space magic as expected.
It was still a grotto, but it was obviously different from before.
"Here... wow!"
As soon as she came out, Miss Willis was presented with a small surprise.
Two human beings wearing simple leather armor, probably guards, were beheaded in the same way as in the underground black market. The headless corpses fell on the ground, blood splattered everywhere, and the lady pastor accidentally kicked them as soon as she stepped out of the teleportation formation. One of the unlucky ones rolled its head on the ground.
"Ah, really... I can't bear it! You kill it, kill it, at least go back and tidy up the corpse before leaving, it's very chic, right..."
Throwing the Holy Flame casually, and burning the two dead heads rolling around like balls at her feet into ashes, Wei Lisi turned her gaze to the only exit of the grotto ahead.
Here, it is obviously inside a fairly well-built stronghold. The stone cave with the teleportation array not only opens in one direction, but also has burning torches on both sides of the road for lighting.
Passing over the corpses of two fallen headless guards, the two women continued to move forward along the passage.
This place is quite complicated, the roads extend in all directions like an ant's nest, and the faint smell of blood is always lingering nearby. Obviously, not only the grotto where the teleportation array was located just now, but also quite tragic battles took place in other places.
Although they didn't know the way, Wei Lisi could see a lot of dead bodies with the logo of the Ghost Thieves every time they walked.
These people were not all beheaded with a knife, many of them died in a messy manner, pierced through the heart, twisted their necks, and a few looked even more weird, as if they hacked each other to death due to internal strife?
It seems that the number and methods of intruders are quite a lot.
Tracking the traces of the battle again, after wandering around the grottoes extending in all directions for a long time, Wei Lisi has seen at least hundreds of corpses of members of the Ghost Thieves Group. Already completely dead.
At this time, Wei Lisi's ears moved slightly, and she turned her head to look at the depths of a passage that smelled particularly bloody.
There are many dense footsteps, approaching them quickly.
"Master, the smell is very messy, do you want to act first?"
Xiaolong Niang, who also caught this movement, took the initiative to come to Wei Lisi first, her sharp golden vertical pupils guarded the somewhat dim passage under the light of the torch, and it seemed that she might explode into trouble at any time.
"Don't worry, let's wait and see first, and then we can see what's going on."
"Yes."
clack clack clack clack
The sound of running became clearer, and what Wei Lisi was concerned about was that the sound sounded very chaotic and heavy, as if she didn't know how to control the center of gravity and posture at all, and many of them were closer to the tone of the soles of the feet directly touching the ground , that is, without shoes.
Thinking of this, the black-haired girl couldn't help but look at the blond girl with her back facing her, her exquisite jade feet that were exposed and only wrapped in translucent ribbons like decorations.
Xiaoguang doesn't wear shoes because the dragons themselves don't have this habit, and she doesn't like the feeling of restraint when the soles of the feet are completely covered by things. It doesn't matter if there is an invisible protection made of dragon scales, but ordinary creatures are easily injured and soft by doing so. The soles of the feet, not to mention the members of the bandits that I saw before were all wearing boots.
In other words, are these...
At this time, the figures that were rushing towards this side at a not so fast speed finally ran out of the dim tunnel and appeared in front of Wei Lisi.
"Alas!!"
Accompanied by a series of timid exclamations, those girls who were wrapped in thin cloth, many without shoes, and could only run on the stone road with their white and tender feet, stopped in a hurry when they were more than ten meters away from the second daughter. , all with terrified and bewildered expressions.
Knew it…….
They are monsters captured by poaching gangs.
The appearance of these girls can be described as strange, some have cow-like horns on their heads, hoof-shaped feet, some have four slender arms, or have butterfly-like wings and antennae, and some parts of the body have traces like fish scales, and teardrop-shaped patterns at the corners of their eyes.
There is even a light blue translucent body that looks like a liquid flowing slowly, but it is a strange creature in the shape of a human.
But no matter which one, according to human aesthetic standards, it is very beautiful.
While Wei Lisi was observing these monster girls, the other party was obviously timidly looking at the two beautiful girls who suddenly appeared and stopped in the middle of the road. There was a clear difference in the number, but the one that seemed more It seems more vulnerable.
The two sides stared wide-eyed for a long time, and finally one of the monsters, a girl with four-petal pink butterfly wings on her back and long pink hair, mustered up the courage to stand up.
"Two sisters, are you... also Lord Demon General sent from the mountain?"
Demon general?
Wei Lisi was stunned for a moment, and then remembered that this seemed to be another name for monsters. After all, humans might think that monsters evolved into such a form to imitate them, but in fact, this is an evolution to a higher form engraved in instinct.
The real source of the devil's form, the lady pastor who knows a lot of inside information, can probably guess that it should be tending to Severin, the first god who was born of all things, or a specific god.
Since the little butterfly mentioned the demon general, it seems that the one who entered the ghost bandit's lair earlier was undoubtedly the demon from the Ten Thousand Demon Mountains.
Although the best choice at this time is definitely to agree and try to collect more information, Wei Lisi feels that it is not necessary, not to mention that she has always cared about something since a while ago.
"How did you find out that we are not human beings? Humanoid butterflies... Do you know Tielu?"
"Tielu? Hey! You, no, no! Are you talking about the Holy Patriarch? Did even the Holy Patriarch's companions intervene this time!"
For some reason, the butterfly girl with pink hair and pink wings suddenly became very excited when she heard this name. It seemed that the name Tiele was a very sacred and noble existence in her mind.
Obviously it's just a somewhat arrogant and childish silver butterfly...
"You haven't answered my question yet."
It seems that the name of Tierlo seems to be a very useful stepping stone.
The fear and hesitation on Little Butterfly's face disappeared in an instant. She led the group of at least a hundred girls with various monsters, and tentatively got closer. Seeing that there seemed to be no danger, she embarrassedly scratched the two short antennae-like tentacles on her head.
"Actually, it's nothing. The ancestor of our Spirit Butterfly Clan is the Lord Tielu you mentioned just now. It is said that he once followed the great monster god His Majesty. After being inspired by him, the entire descendants of our Spirit Butterfly Clan have obtained the talent called [Exploring Spirits]."
"This ability allows us spiritual butterflies to roughly perceive the goodwill or malice of the target, as well as the nature of the race. Although I am still very immature, at least the two are not human, and I can still feel it..."
"[Talking Spirit]..."
Wei Lisi nodded slightly in understanding, no wonder the little butterfly named Tierou insisted that they were not human beings, so it turned out that they possessed such strange talents, which is really interesting.
But this little pink butterfly doesn't think about it either. If Miss Priest is what she thinks she is, Tierlo's partner, how could she not know the skill of [Exploring the Spirit]? Normal people should have already reacted when they were asked this way.
I always feel stupid and cute, and it is not without reason that I will be caught by poachers.
Chapter 412: Chapter 40: I'm a Proper Slime!
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