Chapter 32: Scorpion King Serklis (1)

Seeing what Sally seemed to want to say, Rody also felt that he could ask her about the Luciferon family. After thinking about it, he threw out a very tempting condition: "Why don't we talk about it?" Talk about your own experience? Since you are curious... I will say as much as you say, and it is an exchange, how about it?"

Sally was a little surprised that Roddy would suddenly make such a request. After thinking about it, she nodded happily and said, "Okay, then let me talk about it first."

"The Luciferon family—how should I put it, the family's territory is very large, and the lord and even the royal family are afraid of their father's power. The territory has never been..."

Most of the things that the girl kept talking about were already in Rody's mind, and they were only confirmed at this time, but when Sally mentioned her father, Rody still pricked up his ears—" My elder brother was full of confidence in inheriting the title, but my father seemed to have noticed something. After getting sick a few years ago, he began to distance himself from the two of us. Until now, he has not even mentioned the matter of inheriting the title to the outside world, perhaps because This incident finally caused Francis to kill me now..."

Speaking of this, she was a little depressed, but she was obviously more curious about Rody's life experience. She hugged her knees and asked softly, "Then...it's your turn, Captain Rody."

"Me? Huh..." There was a helpless smile on the corner of his mouth. Rody thought about how to describe his life experience. After thinking for a while, he replied, "How old do you think I am?"

"You? Nineteen? Twenty? Twenty-two at most?" Sally looked at Rody seriously. Because of various fighting reasons, she hadn't observed the young man in front of her carefully before. After looking at it, he felt that he seemed to have forgotten to be reserved, and looked away quickly, but his heart beat faster for no reason.

Speaking of which, this guy is still a bit handsome...

"Well, to be honest, I'm thirty-two this year." Rody spread his hands, "My appearance was fixed at the age of nineteen because of a certain wizard's curse. In fact, I participated in wars, and in this world After seven years of adventure, I finally wanted to settle down, so I found such an errand to do it, I didn't expect that the scouts would be unstable..."

The words were full of sighs and sighs, and the words that Rody made up casually really bluffed Sally for a while, and made the daughter of the duke open her mouth in an "O" shape for a long time.

"What? Don't believe me?"

Luo Di raised his eyebrows, shook his head with a compassionate expression, and said, "Actually, this is the first time I've said this, and it's normal if you don't believe it..."

"Ro...Roddy, that—" Sally hesitated for a while, and made a request that made him feel stupid: "The wizard who cursed you...can you let him curse me too? I don't want to grow old..."

Luo Di's expression suddenly became very cramped, and he wanted to slap himself a few times in his heart - how the hell can he forget the temptation of such a reason for women? Okay, I can't explain it...

Fortunately, there is no evidence for this kind of thing. Rody talked left and right, and talked about his "adventures" in a serious manner-in fact, it was a game experience, but those things about geography and humanities were also the same as what Sally had read in books. The subtleties made her believe six or seven points for a while, and she really thought that there was such a curse that made people change their appearance...

However, Luo Di gradually turned the topic back to Sally in a timely manner, preventing the girl from discussing the issue of "permanent youth".

"Did the Duke not stop the matter between you and Francis?"

Sally opened her mouth slightly and hesitated for a moment—it is reasonable to say that such things involving family privacy should not be said casually, but obviously at this time she thought that Rody could be trusted, so she whispered: "For the relationship between us The battle of open guns and dark arrows,

The father has been watching with cold eyes. Over the years... His smile has become less and less, and he shut himself in the study all day long, not knowing what he was thinking. His indifference towards me and Francis was as if he had never had children. This feeling...is very lonely and uncomfortable. "

Rody seemed to remember something, raised his hand and threw a piece of firewood into the bonfire. Under the orange light, he suddenly asked: "When did your father start to change his personality? He used to care about your feelings with you, right?" Is it?"

Sally frowned slightly, recalled for a moment, and finally answered: "Five years ago, my father used to take me and Francis to inspect the villages in the territory every summer, but since five years ago, he suddenly stopped paying attention to it. Do you know why? Have you heard of something similar?"

Roddy didn't seem to hear what Sally said behind, but just recalled in his mind the events of the sixth year after the service of "Cracked Earth". When the Karen kingdom was almost completely disintegrated, some documents pointed the finger at the undead Tasman kingdom, which caused an uproar among the players. The undead secretly handed out an extremely insidious knife, which caused the kingdom's largest lords to fall one after another, causing the situation to collapse...

What are undead best at? If it is used for political struggle, then those alchemy potions and assassins must be the first means that come to mind.

So... is it possible that before the orcs decided to invade the Karen Kingdom, the undead had already planned to do something... or even did it?

Reminiscent of Sally's few words, Rody quickly remembered a notorious poison - "soul stripping potion". This kind of potion is colorless and odorless, and it is extremely difficult to detect. After long-term use, it will make the user indifferent, and eventually completely lose memory, and even lose the most basic thinking ability, becoming a walking dead.

This potion was discovered for the first time in history. In my impression, it was a great lord in the kingdom who firmly supported the rebel army. The lord originally supported the rebel army very much, but later his personality suddenly became indifferent, and eventually he didn't even have children. I went to care again, but then I suddenly shut the door and didn't even let the servants into the house, and finally starved to death on the bed...

"Have you ever heard of the undead?"

The way Rody changed the subject made Sally a little uncomfortable, but she still kept up with Rody's thinking, nodded and replied: "I read in the book that the Tasman Kingdom, which is silent in the southwest of the kingdom and full of dead people... seems to have The kingdom has never had contact with them for a hundred years, and there are rumors that it is because they have closed the only way to communicate with the outside world?"

"Yes, there is a country full of the living dead."

Roddy's eyes suddenly became deep. In the 595th year of "Cracking the Earth", the Tasman Kingdom of the Dead finally tore through its previous disguise, launched an invasion to the Karen Kingdom, and divided up a large area of ​​land with the orcs... almost completely wiped out the kingdom's territory. disappeared from the map.

Those undead sons of a bitch don't have a single good thing. Rody clenched his palms slightly. In his memory, these undead were far more terrifying than orcs. Orcs are the epitome of madness and savagery, as long as you are stronger than them, these guys will go back to herding honestly. But the undead... is far from it.

The "crackling" sound of the bonfire made the woodland seem more and more silent. After resting for a whole day, Rody realized that he needed to continue on his way now—the night in the silent forest is actually much safer than the daytime, "Styro's This is especially true in the "creek", because the bee swarms and poisonous mosquitoes that take the most time to deal with will not appear at night. This law is very different from other forests, leaving Rody at least one day to cross the entire map.

But what he has to face now is the final boss of this dungeon. Only by killing it can he continue on the next road.

"Styro's Creek" is not a brainless monster-spawning dungeon. Its own plot is related to the indigenous "wood elves" living in the forest. These elves have a village in the Silent Whispering Forest. The main task distribution center of the expedition here. The original plot process was roughly caused by the wood elves discovering that the water source of the stream would be poisonous at certain times, so the village chief issued a task for the players to investigate. The final dungeon task was naturally for the players to work hard and finally kill the polluted stream. The BOSS—a level 10 scorpion king "Secres" who can summon a large number of poisonous scorpions.

Although Rody didn't come here to do missions to gain experience, if he doesn't fight this boss, then he has to take a detour for at least three days, and all the dangers on the road are far more terrifying than those of the 10th-level Scorpion King .

"If your father still ignores what Francis did after returning to Houllier...I think you must be prepared for the next round of assassination." Rody put the hornbow on his back and sorted out the rest. More than a dozen arrows, carrying a soil shovel made of wood tied with stones, was about to extinguish the bonfire, but found that Sally suddenly grabbed the corner of her clothes——

Roddy looked back suspiciously, and when the two looked at each other, Sally's gaze made him feel a little strange.

"If...I mean if—— I encounter this kind of thing again, will you... come and help me?"

Sally is not a naive girl. She actually sees the political situation and the current situation more clearly than Roddy. The words she said at this time have some expectations, even some ambiguity, but perhaps in her heart, that A slightly tentative meaning is more obvious.

After all, it was the Duke's daughter asking each other. At this moment, any normal man would probably make various promises without hesitation in exchange for the beauty's heart. Sally was already mentally prepared for the other party to readily agree, but she didn't think about the other party's answer, which still surprised her.

"Me? I'm not as powerful as you imagined. When you get to Houlier City, you can only rely on yourself - I don't have so much time to accompany you to fight Francis... Besides, I don't have the ability now .”

Rody folded the remaining vines and replied in a very calm tone.

If Rody was just a player with a casual attitude, after his rebirth at this time, he might think of bubble beauties, making money, and living a so-called happy life-but obviously, Luo Di, who was reborn with hatred Di, what he wants to do is to prevent all tragedies in memory from happening...

In his eyes, Sally is a variable that can change the tragic trajectory of the Luciferon family. To put it more bluntly - if Sally can't change the result of Francis's final seizure of power, Roddy will definitely not spend half of his effort to continue taking risks to protect her .