Almighty Alchemist

The huge convoy dragged a long track on the country road, extending towards the north.

After passing through the Bilias Mountains, we entered the Maiha Plain.

This is the largest plain area in the Lance Empire. The waterways on the plain are criss-crossed, the ditches are densely covered, and the well-developed and good irrigation facilities ensure the stable development of the empire's agriculture.

Spring is the season for sowing. Along the way, you can often see farmers plowing the land hard. The crops that the empire abounds in are not much different in essence and form from the world that Xiuyi once experienced in his mind. Even the farming methods have many overlaps, but there are slight differences in some details.

For example, the livestock used here are larger and more powerful hexagonal beasts. They have a huge body and a docile temper. They even have a large water bladder under the big head with six horns, which can complete the watering work during the farming season.

In terms of work efficiency, although the feudal era in the magic world did not have technological products, it created a feudal civilization not inferior to the technological era through its own unique magic culture.

In some ways, even more so.

Huey loved sitting in the carriage, seeing creatures he had never seen, and experiencing ways of life he had never experienced.

Only at this time, he will feel that life is beautiful, interesting and memorable.

Compared with the hellish experience he had experienced before, the plants and trees in front of him made him feel special.

"Is the scenery outside so beautiful?" Lilith complained dissatisfiedly in her ear.

Sitting in the carriage paved with red velvet, she could vaguely smell a woman's fragrance. Compared with the once wild half-elf bandit, Huey found that Lilith was more and more feminine.

She started paying attention to grooming and fashion.

Just like what people say: there are some things that don’t need to be specially taught. The yearning for a better life makes them willing to learn and accept.

"Ordinary life is only worth envying when you can't have it." Xiu Yi replied with a slightly melancholy voice.

Lilith looked at him in surprise: "Sometimes I really wonder what kind of person you are and why you have such thoughts. Most of the time, you don't look like a teenager, but more like a sophisticated adult. Can a rough experience really change a person so much?"

There was an imperceptible smile on the corner of Xiu Yi's mouth: "No, I need to add some talent."

A fast horse ran over from outside the carriage. It was Rele Yesa, the bandit leader of the third-level warrior.

"It's getting dark, there's an abandoned small village ahead, why don't you stay there tonight."

Xiuyi nodded: "Go and inform Mrs. Christine."

"OK."

The convoy heading to Winrington was composed of the Dardanelles and Christine's Weston families. At this moment, Christine is in another carriage.

After getting permission from Christine, the carriage headed towards the small village and arrived an hour later.

This village has been abandoned for an unknown amount of time. It is uninhabited, barren and overgrown with weeds. There is a small forest in the west, and a few small white flowers emerge from the sparse bushes.

When they came to the village, people discovered that there was already a convoy parked here.

That convoy didn't have many people, and it looked like they came from another place, but their target direction was the same as that of Xiu Yi and the others.

Lele Yesa came over again: "There are other teams here, do you need me to find out?"

"Let Huo Ding negotiate, he is better at this." I hope there will be no troublesome people, Xiu Yi thought.

Not long after, Huo Ding came back from another convoy with a civilized stick and walked gracefully. He came to Xiuyi's carriage, saluted first, and followed the noble rules, and then whispered: "The convoy from the border claims to be the Eter family. They say they have taken refuge because of the war and decided to move to the country."

"Where are they going?" Huey asked.

"Winnington."

"Going the same way." Xiu Yi muttered, "Who is in charge?"

"A person who is similar to me, named Dutch. The interesting thing is..." Huo Ding glanced back at the convoy, and then said softly in a low tone again: "I smell a similar smell from him."

Same taste?

Xiu Yi was slightly taken aback.

He fully understood what Huo Ding meant.

It is not the detectives who are best at spotting liars, but the liars themselves.

Even if there is no reason at all, just a few ordinary conversations, they can smell the secret hidden behind the professionally trained smile from each other.

But now, Huo Ding found this feeling from the leader of the opponent.

what does that mean?

Xiu Yi's brain was spinning rapidly, and he whispered, "Is there any decent bandit organization in Maiha Plain?"

"I've never heard of it. This is the empire's granary, and it's the most important area of ​​the empire. There are only scattered bandits, but the bandits who have become popular are almost invisible. Moreover, the plain terrain is not suitable for bandits to hide."

"Then it came from the outside... No matter what kind of organization it is, it is impossible for a liar to be the leader. Such a person can be a good assistant, but he will never be able to control the overall situation." Xiuyi said with certainty: "The Dutch you have seen must not be the real leader."

"I think so too. There are a total of six carriages in the convoy, and one of them, the people inside have never come out."

"It will always come out, you have to eat." Xiu Yi said coldly: "I tell my brothers to be careful, don't stumble here, but don't take the initiative to cause trouble."

"I will." Huo Ding nodded and left.

There are about 70 or 80 people in the mysterious convoy in the distance.

Except for some middle and high-level figures who ride in a carriage, most of them follow on horseback.

These people don't seem to have any fighting spirit ability, they look ordinary, they are just ordinary servants, but for some reason, Xiu Yi has a feeling of uneasiness in his heart.

He was wondering, but saw Buckler walking over.

"Those people are a bit weird." Buckler said in a deep voice.

"You feel it too?" Huey asked.

"Yes."

"But I'm very sure that they don't have any vindictiveness on them. You know that the low-level ones may not be able to see the depth of the high-level ones, but it's not that difficult for the high-level ones to look at the low-level ones."

"This is the reason why the weirdness exists. I can feel the smell of slaughter on them, with a strong smell of blood." Buckler said with a serious face: "Although they have tried their best to suppress this smell, I still feel it."

"Like Lele Yesa and the others?"

"No!" Buckler immediately shook his head: "It's stronger than that. It doesn't feel like a robber, but more like a soldier."

Xiu Yi frowned: "A group of soldiers?"

"Maybe, and it's the most elite kind."

"An elite soldier who doesn't know how to fight?"

"That's why I say it's strange." Buckle took a cold look at the distance, and then turned around and said, "I feel the smell of death, and I feel a sense of tremor in my heart. Maybe they hide well, but the prey has a natural vigilance against the hunter. They are like a group of death gods, terrible life harvesters. Although they look powerless now, my feeling tells me that everyone there has harvested at least a hundred lives in their hands."

Buckler's expression was very serious, and his attitude was very serious.

This was the first time Xiuyi saw Buckler's expression like this, which made him a little surprised.

He bowed his head and thought for a while: "No matter who they are, there is currently no evidence that they are coming for us. It is an ordinary encounter, there is no need to be too nervous. Let our people keep a distance from them and make too much contact meaninglessly. If there is anything that needs to be negotiated, let Huo Ding do it. Everyone will set off early tomorrow morning, hurry up on the road."

"good."

For Xiu Yi, all potential troubles should be avoided as much as possible.

He doesn't like meaningless extras.

For this reason, he even gave up using scout bees to scout each other. The world is so big and there are countless strange people. Who knows who can see through his own scout bees? If you bring yourself into trouble because of a meaningless exploration, it is unnecessary.

Both teams are in the midst of busy pre-sleep preparations. They are bounded by a bluestone, and they have a tacit understanding not to invade each other.

Occasionally see each other, but also give each other a polite smile.

The servants of the family quickly made all the preparations for camping, lit the firewood, and set up the tent. After finishing all this, Xiu Yi got out of the car with Lilith, and he followed Buckler. Everything was directed by Buckler and Christine as much as possible.

The convoy on the opposite side had obviously already made preparations for camping. Xiuyi noticed that four people got out of the carriage that Huo Ding was referring to.

The leading one was the middle-aged man named Dach who had communicated with Huoding. He was well-dressed, with gold-rimmed glasses on his face like Huoding, and he had a cute mustache. Judging from his attire, this man and Huoding looked like a pair of brothers.

Behind him, followed by a young girl, an old man with a cane, and a middle-aged warrior with a sword.

This is the only samurai in the Egg family who publicly appears as a samurai.

Xiu Yi was curious for a moment and couldn't help but look at the warrior a few more times. The warrior seemed to have sensed something and looked in Xiu Yi's direction. At that moment, Xiu Yi's eyes seemed to be pierced by a sharp needle, and he turned his head away quickly, with a turmoil in his heart.

That samurai is definitely a real strong man!

It's just a pity that with Xiu Yi's strength, he still can't see the depth of the other party.

As for Buckler, it seemed that Buckler didn't notice this at all, which meant that the opponent was definitely much stronger than Buckler.

But the problem is that even if Xiuyi met Kevin Biers before, he didn't have the shocking feeling when he touched the eye just now.

Could it be that the samurai is...

Xiu Yi took a long breath, suppressing the shock in his heart.

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"Interesting..." The warrior in the distance gave Xiu Yi a deep look, and then muttered softly.

"Is something wrong, Lord Bruin?" the man named Dutch asked.

"It's nothing, I just found a young man with a very good spiritual sense, and from him, I also noticed a sign of fighting spirit."

The girl immediately asked: "How is your strength? Which one is it?"

"The strength is average, the boy standing next to the half-elf girl." Bruin replied.

Even though Lilith covered her ears with her long hair, the warrior still saw Lilith's details at a glance.

The girl looked at Xiu Yi suspiciously, as if she had noticed something, Xiu Yi also looked at the girl.

The eyes of the two people focused at this moment, and Xiu Yi showed a polite smile on his face, with a shyness unique to teenagers, and then turned his head away with an embarrassed expression.

The girl was also blushing, as if she had been caught peeping, and lowered her head in embarrassment, but said in a low and cold voice: "That boy has a problem, please pay more attention."

They had already entered the rest camp at this time, leaning against the campfire to warm up the fire to drive away the chill of the night. The sound of crackling sparks and broken wood confused the sound, so there was no need to worry that anyone could hear it.

The warrior frowned slightly: "It's just that the spiritual sense is better, what can it explain?"

The girl's face was slightly reddened by the bonfire, and she looked more shy. Her delicate milk-like skin looked even more charming under the light of the fire, but her icy tone was like a frosty moon and icy wind: "I have a problem with what I said. It doesn't mean what he has practiced, but the carriage he is in."

his carriage? Several people didn't understand what this sentence meant.

The girl continued: "There are twelve carriages in that convoy. There are two kinds of family badges, indicating that they come from two families, so there are two chief carriages, but what we saw were three luxurious carriages. The first one was a woman, which meant that she was the leader of one of the families. The second one was a strong man, who was the patriarch of the Dardanelles. The person who talked to Daqi just passed by that carriage. .”

"What does that mean?" Dutch asked.

"If you have paid attention, you will find that all the actions of this convoy and the issuance of orders do not actually come from the first and second carriages, but from the third carriage, which is the carriage that the boy was riding in."

What? The girl's words surprised everyone.

But the girl said with certainty: "That's right, that's it. There is a family warrior who has been passing information back and forth among several carriages. The Barnett who dealt with Daqi just now went to the third carriage to report the situation. Just before they got out of the carriage, the patriarch of the Dardanelle family stood beside the third carriage and talked to the people inside. Don't you think this is very interesting?"

"Damn it, is that boy the real leader of those two families?" Dach whispered.

Everyone believed in the wisdom of the girl in front of her, and only she could grasp such details and quickly analyze the truth behind the scenes.

It is believed that Xiuyi would not have imagined that it was because Leile Yesa, Huo Ding and Buckle had come to his carriage one after another, so that the other party would quickly detect the situation.

On the contrary, the girl with a delicate face continued to say coldly: "There are two people in the carriage, so I'm not sure who is the real speaker, but it seems that the young man is indeed very suspicious."

"That's interesting, who will that boy be?"

"No matter who he is, he cannot be the target we are looking for this time. There is no need for extra complications." Bruin said coldly.

The old man who seldom spoke suddenly said: "I feel some magical power from that young man."

This sentence surprised everyone.

"Master Bonfield, are you sure?" the girl asked nervously.

"No, I'm not sure." Unexpectedly, the old man shook his head and replied: "Magic is not vindictiveness, which is produced by internal and external forces. Even if the opponent doesn't make a move, you can judge from his steps, behavior, demeanor and many other performances. But magic is different. Changes in the world may cause changes in magical power. A gust of wind may be caused by magic, or it may be the force of nature. It exists, but where the reason for its existence comes from, I can’t say clearly.”

The girl pondered for a while, and finally made a decision: "No matter what, we need to test this Dardanelle family, and that young man who is not the patriarch but has the status of patriarch."

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For some reason, Xiu Yi always had a feeling of uneasiness in her heart.

He couldn't tell where it came from, but it was like a prey that would spontaneously sense danger when it was targeted by a hunter.

To his surprise, this sense of danger did not come from that powerful and unpredictable warrior.

Huey has never been afraid of a strong opponent that can be seen.

But Xiu Yi had to be wary of opponents with secretive minds.

Just now, at the moment when he looked at the girl, Xiu Yi's heart suddenly jumped.

What seems to be the problem?

Xiuyi stared at the four people sitting around the campfire and observed carefully.

"No." Huey said suddenly.

"Is there something wrong?" Christine asked him with a smile on the side. She noticed that Xiu Yi had been observing the girl from a distance: "Or maybe our teenager has taken a fancy to the girl over there? She does look good, like a lady from a big family."

"Every lady would never hide a weapon under her dress." Xiu Yi said coldly.

This sentence surprised everyone.

Lilith looked at Xiu Yi: "You mean..."

"That's right." Xiuyi excused: "That woman has at least three weapons on her body, a long weapon, a short weapon, and a throwable weapon. If you look closely, you will find that her walking posture is very similar to Lilith. Lilith, maybe you haven't noticed it yourself, but because you are used to wearing weapons on your body, your walking posture is a bit weird. When you insert a dagger in front of your abdomen, your bending movement will be greatly affected, making you have to bend your knees. In addition, like a rapier Such weapons can usually only be tied to the legs. When ladies wear long skirts, in order to avoid being soiled by the mud on the ground, they will habitually lift up the skirts. But you, who have weapons tied to your legs, never do that, because it will expose yourself. In addition, there is also a front... "

When Xiuyi was about to continue speaking, Lilith coughed hastily.

Xiu Yi immediately realized that this part of the content is not appropriate to say, so he can only shut up. But everyone already understood what Xiu Yi was referring to.

"That girl is a good player in close combat, although she makes herself look like an ordinary girl, and from the performance point of view...she is the core soul of this team. She is the real leader." Xiu said very confidently.

Coincidentally, the souls of the two teams discovered each other's secret at the same time.

The eyes of the two people focused again, but this time, neither of them flinched. They looked at each other curiously and speculated.

Doubts arose in my heart at the same time.

Of course, on the surface, they were clearly separated from each other and did not invade each other. They rested and went to sleep after their respective dinners.

The night is the world of little creatures, filled with the chirping of insects and frogs, and occasionally two beautiful birds chirping across the sky.

The sound of rustling leaves rubbing against each other and the sound of gurgling water also add infinite vitality to the silent night.

Xiu Yi couldn't sleep at this time, he was holding his head and recalling the previous scene.

The girl's gaze, as if he had seen it somewhere before, gave him a deep sense of vigilance.

Completely out of instinct, a few scout bees buzzed out of his hand, and the surrounding darkness was reflected on the screen of the crystal ball.

The wind blows and the grass moves, and there is a clear rustling sound.

Xiu Yi frowned, moved the crystal balls, and directed them to continue flying.

In the depths of the pitch-black shadow, there was something faintly moving that attracted his attention.

After observing carefully for a while, his pupils began to dilate.

Then he quickly took out the tent and entered Buckler's place: "Notice, get ready for battle immediately."

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