Chapter 1678 Both Hate and Fear

The commander of York City led his troops and left as we watched.

Although it was not a happy reunion, at least the two sides did not become enemies over this.

When we later returned to Skatha's remains, all we saw was a huge, twisted skeleton.

President Steel Hammer was very excited and shouted that he would dedicate the bones to his two monarchs.

President Aoli curled his lips after hearing this, and acquiesced to President Steel Hammer's idea with a look of disgust.

I asked Gordo in a low voice if he should bury it. After all, it was the remains of his brother.

Gordo shook his head and broke off the smallest and brittle bone skewer from the end of the skeleton. He walked back to the place where he fought with Skatha before, dug a hole, buried the bone fragments, then paved the ground and placed it on top. After a few stones and muttering to himself for a while, he stood up, patted the dirt on his hands and returned to the team.

After walking for about two hours, we met up with the second group of troops led by the old Duke. This group of troops was larger, estimated to be no less than 400,000.

The old Duke was also very happy to see us returning safely. After hugging me, the old man began to ask about various details of the war, and I explained everything in detail.

After hearing this, the old Duke looked slightly stern, and exhaled softly, saying: "This trip is really dangerous and inexplicably dangerous. It's lucky that there were no casualties. After you return, come to my house first, have a drink, and the rest." We’ll make plans later.”

The old Duke's order was not fulfilled, and a large number of troops returned to the border towns in a mighty manner. After giving out rewards to the adventurers who went on the expedition one by one, the old Duke declined the invitation of the city lord and led a group of us back to the capital Da. Cyberjaya.

I have just returned home, and the banquet has been prepared there, with fine wines, fine wines, delicacies, and everything you need.

After the landlady, Barbara, Florence and other family members were brought in, the banquet began.

The banquet lasted from afternoon until dawn, and then ended.

After President Aoli, President Steelhammer, and several other sober guys, I arranged our families one by one, and then followed the two presidents to the old Duke's office.

The old Duke was sitting on the imperial chair, his eyes were shining and he was not drunk at all.

Seeing that he was in such high spirits, I couldn't help but smile and said: "It may be said that the old Duke's sword never grows old. He drank more wine at the banquet than the three of us put together. Not only was he not drunk at all, he was even more energetic than me. It was really It’s so admirable!”

"Okay, you kid, stop teasing me." The old Duke chuckled and said, "It's not that you don't know, I only drank less than ten glasses of wine in total, and the rest was just water. How can water make you intoxicating?" Well, it will only make people pee more."

After joking with each other to liven up the atmosphere, we started to get down to business.

"This little guy Carter Horton seems to really hate you." The old Duke chuckled and said, "But it seems that you scared him so much that you didn't even dare to send troops by yourself, but wanted to do it. He killed someone with a borrowed knife, and appointed the troops from York and Han to pacify the situation for him. If this matter were publicized, he would be so angry that he would vomit blood."

"Aren't all insidious guys like this?" I curled my lips and said, "Unless forced, I will definitely not take action personally."

"You still know too little about this little guy Holden." The old Duke shook his head and said: "He is a very courageous person. Generally, he will never take care of things that are not taken seriously by him. But once he If you take something seriously, you will definitely take action personally, and you will never stop until you are satisfied. But the army that destroyed you this time turned out to be from Han City. It is conceivable that Holden went to all the places in order to get rid of you. How much effort has gone into it, how many favors have been taken on, and it can be seen from this that he hates you deeply and also has lingering fear in his heart."

"You say that I am hated by him, which is understandable. After all, I have threatened him, but you say that he has lingering fears for me, which I do not agree with. If he is really so afraid of me, I am afraid that when he was in Airui City, I will be killed by him in every possible way."

"That's wrong." President Aoli interjected: "Do you really think he didn't want to kill you? If we hadn't marched in with our troops and marched to the city, I'm afraid you would have been either killed or under house arrest now."

As he said that, President Aoli sighed softly and said: "You are too naive. You don't even know how much energy you have. You can just say that you are sitting on a golden mountain and crying for poverty."

"My energy?" I scratched my head, thought for a moment, and said, "I only have two guilds, four intelligence departments and one jewelry store. This is all my property."

"So, you don't know yourself at all." President Aoli shook his head and smiled: "You have no idea what kind of wave you can set off in Zephyr Continent."

"Okay, let's stop this topic for now," the old Duke said, "Let's continue talking about business, President Steel Hammer?"

"Ah, I'm listening. What's the old Duke's order?" President Steel Hammer suddenly raised his head, wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth, and shouted.

"Ahem!" The old Duke coughed twice, hiding his urge to laugh, and continued: "What did you think after fighting that dragon?"

"That's not a dragon at all!" President Steel Hammer said disdainfully: "It's just a monster that looks like a dragon. No matter in terms of physical fitness or dragon breath, they can't be compared at all!"

"Actually, it's not that bad." President Aoli added: "At most, the strength is about the same as that of a young dragon."

The old Duke nodded, turned to me, and said, "Xiao Yi, tell me again about the origin of that dragon."

"It was mutated after the death of an adventurer," I said. "As for the specific reason for the mutation, I don't know."

"Can you describe the specific process of its mutation?" the old Duke asked again.

I repeated the scene I saw at that time, and added at the end: "An adventurer's body also mutated before, but the result of the mutation was not a dragon, but a slow-moving walking corpse. It looked pretty good. It is bloodthirsty and does not distinguish between friend and foe, attacking anyone who comes near."

The old Duke nodded. He thought for a long time and said slowly: "I'm afraid these two mutations are not caused by any natural phenomenon. Instead, someone experimented on them and created these two monsters."

"Experiments?" I was suddenly startled and said, "I heard that Carter Scott, Carter Horton's son, is researching some experiments. I don't know the specific contents of the experiments."

"Yeah." The old Duke and President Auli each frowned in thought.

President Steel Hammer raised his voice and said: "The two mutated guys are adventurers from York Han City, and the lord of York Han City has an ambiguous relationship with the lord of Airui City. There must be some unknown sleazy thing hidden in this. Maybe that These two guys are the guinea pigs for Carter Scott!"