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February 26, 2049

Game time AM10:23

Southern border of Misha County, tributary of Jinhui River, Long Bridge

"Drink!!"

With a roar, the huge sword-shaped scepter crashed down, knocking more than a dozen swarming mutants to the ground, and then suddenly burst out with a sharp blue stream of light that swooped out and flew away with a swish. He killed seven heads whose original appearance could no longer be seen, and forced back these undead vanguards who could not suppress their hunger and thirst.

At the same time, a seemingly long and slender cross fell from the sky seven or eight meters away, followed closely by a slim figure. The high-level priest's robes that were already stained with black blood were flying in the wind, revealing A decadent and dark post-modern aesthetic.

"The movement is a bit slow~"

Xia Lian easily picked up her star-gold cross of unknown tonnage, turned to Cordoba, who was rushing like a chariot among a group of mutants, and smiled: "The monsters on the other bridge have been cleared away by me, sister. oh."

The tall and mighty 'Captain of the Steel Rangers' rolled his eyes angrily, swung the Punisher's Staff with a motion as if he were playing baseball, and smashed the two mutants away, causing them to crash into another. Bo roared and rushed over, knocking down one of the enemies, and responded loudly: "Sister, if you want to make sarcastic comments, why not help chop down a few more. I've consumed too much in the past two days, so I won't hold back any longer." It’s easy to flame out!”

"Eh? I thought the representatives of Tianzhu Mountain were all monsters~"

Xia Lian chuckled, flicked her slender arm, and the cross whizzed out like a boomerang, and drew a semicircle in the air, blasting away more than a dozen ferocious-looking heads before flying back again. into the owner's hands.

Cordoba laughed dryly, activated the two powerful runes on his arms, and rushed forward with his staff, which was almost as powerful as a battering ram, to attack the area that had just been ravaged by the cross. He stepped on it again and finally pushed back the monsters that had already crossed half of the long bridge. Then he turned back and complained in a bad tone: "Please, not all agents have enmity with you, the goddess doesn't." Have you ever been taught that it’s wrong to express your anger?”

"No, the goddess has no time to deal with such trivial matters."

Xia Lian dragged the heavy cross to Cordoba, stood in the middle of the long bridge and kept giving the nearby mutants who were still alive... to be precise, the mutants who were still able to move, her forehead was covered with tiny marks. beads of sweat: "How many came here today?"

Cordoba thought about it for a moment and answered uncertainly: "One hundred? Well, it could be two hundred."

Xia Lian sighed, then tore open a scroll, releasing several white and pure halos, sweeping away the remaining filth on the long bridge, and said solemnly: "It's the same as over there, but the number is much greater. There are so few, and it’s not even noon yet, so these things are really piling up.”

"I no longer dare to think about how many people this plague has killed."

Cordoba's expression didn't show much emotion, but his tone was full of anguish and helplessness: "Not counting those dead who failed to stand up again, we have killed nearly a thousand mutants who can die a second time in these days. It’s just that these are all real people.”

Xia Lian glanced at the former, stood on the spot with the cross and panted slightly, and said: "I have experienced many equally tragic and even more uncomfortable scenes, but in terms of the degree of weirdness, this disaster can definitely be ranked among the top. Three, may the goddess bless these innocent souls.”

"Didn't you say that the goddess is very busy..."

Cordoba vomited casually, and then said sternly to Xia Lian with a big face: "Go back first. Your physical condition seems to be getting worse. Those guys on the other side of the river can probably stay calm for a while. , it’s better to seize the opportunity to rest more.”

Xia Lian chuckled: "You are indeed very different from the agents I have seen in the past. Not only are you touched by this scene, but you also know how to care about girls."

The corner of Cordoba's mouth twitched, and he laughed dryly: "You, an elf who has lived for hundreds of years, told me, a rune creation that has not yet passed the bail, that you are a woman... Well, that's not true, someone as sexual as me... …Ah no, there are not many people who are agents of sensibility.”

Under the extremely intimidating gaze of Her Majesty the Saint, Cordoba forcibly swallowed the second half of his sentence, changed his words unusually stiffly and said with a smile, then turned around and faced dozens of people who were holding weapons tightly and were standing on the other side of the long bridge. One end waved to the people watching here and shouted: "Hey! The processing here is almost done, you can take over for a few hours."

"Thank you for your hard work, Uncle Cordoba."

A half-orc boy wearing simple leather armor, with two daggers hanging on his waist, and holding a dagger was the first to come forward. He stood on tiptoe and hammered Cordoba's shoulder twice, and said with a smile: "I'll hand you over next." Give it to us, uncle, you and Sister Xia Lian go and take a rest quickly."

This gray-haired boy with a pair of pointed ears is the little wolf that Cordoba brought out from Fair City before. Although he still looks thin and small, he is much better than when he first met. When he was rescued, both his physical condition and mental state improved a lot. It seemed that he had completely recovered from the grief. However, for some reason, this young man who was originally calm and upright in outlook was not feeling well during this period. He became more and more unkempt, and his overall temperament became more and more carefree.

In other words, Cordoba and he have not known each other for a long time. If those people in Fair City who have been with Little Wolf for more than ten years see him like this now, they will definitely think that this child must be stimulated in some way. Or accidentally ate something strange.

However, because no one in Fair City was spared except Little Wolf, no one except himself would understand how much this boy had changed, and there was no way to know why he made such a change...

Except himself.

"Boy, how many times have I told you to call me Brother Cordoba! It's brother! Not uncle!"

Cordoba glared angrily at the young man in front of him, whose ears were no bigger than his chest. He grinned and said, "I'm not much older than you!"

Little Wolf curled his lips and took out a black stone and polished it on the blade of the sword: "You can be considered an uncle even if you are tall. Besides, what's the benefit of calling you eldest brother?"

Cordoba clenched his fists and squeezed out two words plus a punctuation through his teeth: "No!"

"Then don't bark."

The little wolf rolled his eyes.

"Boy." Cordoba was silent for two seconds, and then laughed sinisterly: "I suddenly thought of a benefit of you calling me big brother..."

"Oh, tell me."

"Does it count if I can save myself a fat beating in one second?"

"Brother~~"

"..."

Cordoba looked at the young man in front of him who seemed to have a completely different face. He held it in for a long time before uttering a meaningless MMP.

"Look at your potential."

Xia Lian glanced at Cordoba with disdain, then pinched the little wolf's ears twice with a smile: "Don't be afraid of that thing that's not even a human being. If he dares to bully you, my sister will take care of him for you. "

The little wolf nodded like a fool, and then made a face at Cordoba: "Uncle, uncle, uncle, uncle~"

Cordoba: "..."

All in all, after leaving the long bridge to be guarded by dozens of guards and adventurers in Shava City (as well as Xiaolang who volunteered to help and a player specifically responsible for liaison), Cole fought in a bloody battle for more than two hours. Dova and Xia Lian returned to the city and took a short rest in the side hall of the city hall.

Of course, the only one who really needs to rest is Xia Lian. Cordoba, a player who does not consume physical energy due to his special nature, actually does not matter whether he rests or not. At best, he just enters a low-consumption mode outside of combat. After all, Not only does he not need to sleep, he doesn't even have a feeding system or a sense of taste.

"Little Wolf is quite interesting, isn't it?"

Xia Lian lay sprawled on the large sofa, stuffing dry flour pancakes into her mouth that were easy to carry and very hungry, and smiled at Cordoba: "To be honest, when I first heard you say that he went through that... When I was doing this, I was worried that the child would never recover, but I didn't expect that his mental quality would be so good."

“Sadness and anger don’t solve problems, so rather than doing nothing but complaining, it’s better to suppress them and explode when the time is right.”

Cordoba nodded solemnly, and then said with a wry smile: "Do you believe it? The child said this himself the day after he was rescued by me. On the first day, he didn't say a word, except to I shed tears while walking and eating without any movement. I was afraid that the boy would become dehydrated from crying. But early the next morning he said to me what he just said that sounded ridiculous and stopped crying. , and then...started calling me uncle."

Xia Lian smiled: "It seems you are not really angry with him."

"Nonsense, how unpromising I must be to be as knowledgeable as a little kid. If he has a good spirit, he can call me uncle instead of uncle."

Because he personally rescued the little wolf, Cordoba, who had a certain sense of responsibility for the latter, spread his hands: "I just don't know how to coax children, so I just accompany him to fool around."

"Okay! Very good!"

Xia Lian patted Cordoba's shoulder suddenly (leaving a faint handprint), grinned and said: "I didn't expect you to be quite responsible. If it weren't for the fact that a rough guy like you is not my sister's cup of tea, Actually, it’s not like I can’t think about it…”

Cordoba blankly glanced at the physical attributes in his attribute column that were simply cheating compared to mainstream players, and then at the 6% of his health that had been wiped away by Xia Lian's slap. He suddenly felt very I am glad that I am a relatively rough man, but at the same time, I also wonder inexplicably that if this saintly sister really finds a less rough man to be her partner in the future, will she accidentally beat him to death one day?

"Hey, are you thinking of something very rude?"

Xia Lian looked at the other party suspiciously, and after Cordoba vowed to be more polite, she sighed softly: "By the way, it starts tomorrow..."

Cordoba nodded slightly and said seriously: "Well, Mo... uh, didn't Hei Fan greet us last night? The preparations over there have basically been completed, and everything depends on tomorrow. "

"Don't be so careful. I don't have time to care about your little secrets right now."

Xia Lian curled her lips, and then asked with a serious expression: "Has he told you how sure he is? No matter what, this plan is too risky, and it will be over if you are not careful. "

Cordoba looked at her in confusion and asked curiously: "Aren't you the first group of people who knew the plan? What were you doing before, and why are you just starting to worry about gains and losses now?"

"I was worried before, and I was worried from the beginning."

Xia Lian gently stroked the star-gold cross lying on her knees and said with a wry smile: "But I must believe in Hei Fan without reservation. Even if others don't believe in him, I am the highest in terms of status and strength." All the saints must believe in him, otherwise how can others feel at ease? What's more, there is no good way. Misha County has not completely collapsed until today. It can be said that it was created by Hei Fan, so except for one way What else can we do outside of the darkness?”

Cordoba smiled, sighing from the bottom of his heart that Mo Tan was pretty awesome, and shrugged: "Yes, didn't he give a choice before? Give up the Twin Cities here, and sweep away the remaining ones step by step. The mutants who come down, of course, I personally don’t want to see this result.”

"Who hopes?"

Xia Lian carefully placed the cross on the ground, and then lay down on the sofa without any image: "This itself is an unsolvable problem, and time does not allow anyone to hesitate, so just believe that guy can create miracles." Anyway, I will take responsibility as much as possible, well, if something unexpected happens."

Cordoba laughed, hugged his arms and said, "So it's not like you're not worried at all, you're just forcing yourself not to show any uneasiness in public?"

"That's it."

Xia Lian smacked her lips and said feebly: "How could you not be worried..."

Cordoba hesitated for a moment and looked intently at the Apocalypse Crystal on the Punisher's Staff, which had dimmed to almost no luster. After a while, he said: "Hei Fan didn't tell me specifically how many percent it was. The odds of winning, but I can feel that he doesn’t feel that he is doing something meaningless, that’s probably it.”

"Is it……"

Xia Lian closed her eyes and murmured softly: "I really did not misjudge the person. If this time can go through safely, I might as well help him and Wangyu get things done."

"Pfft, cough, cough cough cough..."

"Hey, why did you deliberately take a sip of water and pretend to be choked?"

"To express my inner shock."

"Oh, by the way, I just remembered that you have known them for a long time, right?"

"Well, you could put it that way."

Chapter 416: End