NOVEL NEXT Chapter 27: Chapter 27
If you see someone like this, please provide clues to the Royal Capital Boreas Palace.
If the clue is verified, you can get 200 gold coins.
If you can bring your beloved son back home, you will get one thousand gold coins.
Sorry to bother you all.
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Alan squinted his eyes and read the letter, then he was silent for a while, then he looked up and spoke to Luo Qixi carefully.
"I'm sorry, I bumped into you unexpectedly, so I subconsciously hid something from you, also considering concealing my whereabouts."
Seeing Alan raising his eyebrows involuntarily, Loki blinked and felt a little embarrassed.
"Well, I understand that adventurers don't tell the truth. Actually, you did tell the truth, but you never said what kind of trouble you got into. I just made a strange guess. Sorry."
Alan looked at Lokixi and was still very confused, so he opened his mouth to test her.
"But even so, you don't have to come back to question me about this, right? You can just write a letter. So I guess there's something else going on, right?"
Luo Qixi hesitated for a moment, then took out a piece of rough paper with slightly curled edges from her wizard robe and handed it over again.
Alan reached out to take it, unfolded it and looked at it, his expression suddenly became gloomy.
This was a reward poster, with concise and crude wording, which formed a sharp contrast with James's missing person notice.
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Night Lion Thieves Group Bounty Order:
Subject: Alan Boreas Graylat.
Features: Brown hair, gray eyes, and a sour face that makes people look unhappy.
Reward: One thousand gold coins.
The swordsman's level is Water God Style - Advanced. He killed nine of my best fighters in the Jaw of the Red Dragon. If you are interested, I suggest you deploy personnel to carry out "hunting" in a targeted manner.
Special statement: Only corpses are needed.
After the success, he contacted the local Night Lion Thieves Gang and exchanged money for the goods.
This reward is valid for a long time.
Night Lion.
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Alan squinted his eyes for a while, then a cold smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"I see. No wonder Luo Qixi came back suddenly. A reward of one thousand gold coins was offered for the bandit gang. Tsk tsk, James, you never disappoint me. Killing people is obviously much faster than bringing them back to the capital, right? The wanted order is so blatant. But why didn't I hear Paul say that? Philip asked him to help find out the news."
Alan looked up at Lokisi, who looked a little overwhelmed.
"Was this wanted order also found in the Adventurer's Guild? To be honest, Uncle Paul has also secretly helped me inquire, but it seems that he has not yet learned that I am wanted."
On the way back, Luo Qixi had seen these two very different "missing person notices" many times, and she also realized that this must have come from the Boreas family in the capital. Combining the information of the missing person for hire and the reward, it was clear that James wanted Allen to die, and the disappearance of his beloved son was just to maintain the dignity of the nobles on the surface. This situation of being strangled by the family made her a little unsure of how to talk to Allen.
After all, he ran away from the village because he didn't know how to read and was looked down upon by the villagers. But he was just looked down upon, but Alan was specifically named and wanted to be killed by his father.
"This child is only nine years old. I don't know what kind of trouble he got into in the capital. Murder? Arson? It doesn't look like that. I don't know why he was so cautious and scared all the way. I'm afraid he had some idea of the future he would face. But even so, he still gave me the only money he had."
She took a deep breath and replied.
"Actually, I got this from three thieves who suddenly jumped out of Senli when I was on my way to Ligate. This bounty should only be spread in a small range in the gray area. I only found out about the search for people to hire in the Adventurer's Association, and didn't get any other information. The Adventurer's Association in the Kingdom of Asura is really sparsely populated, and there are not many commissions at all, so I saw it right away."
Alan's brows twitched wildly.
"On the way to Liget City, thieves suddenly jumped out of the forest?? Are they looking for me?"
Loki nodded.
"According to them, there seems to be a group of thieves searching for you eastwards in the forests along the jaw of the Red Dragon Mountains."
Alan looked a little unhappy when he heard this.
".This.This shouldn't be the case. The traces I left behind point to the north. How could someone be searching in the southern foothills of the Red Dragon Mountains?"
(End of this chapter)
38. Chapter 38: A twist in the storyline? Alan hesitates
38.
Lokixi showed a nostalgic expression.
"I asked, and there are indeed several groups of bandits who went to the north. The group that went south of the Red Dragon Mountains is just this one. They seem to have a base for human trafficking and smuggling in the forest, so they have gathered people to keep looking for news about you. That's all the news."
Alan narrowed his eyes.
"So you were worried that the bandit gang might have already come to Buena Village, and that something bad might happen to the Greylat family, so you hurried back here so that you could lend a helping hand if something unexpected really happened? Is that so?"
Loki glanced at Allen, then shifted her eyes and nodded.
"Yes, I am also worried about Rudy. After all, he is my first disciple. So how are you guys doing recently? Has the village been harassed by outsiders?"
"No~"
"I see."
Alan looked at Luo Qixi with an unpleasant expression.
"It's another butterfly effect caused by my behavior, but this time it's a bit tricky. If I don't handle it well, it might even affect the subsequent plot. If Lokishi stays in the Greylat family for another year or two because she's worried about him, what will happen then?"
'Rudy and I will become adventurers with Loki and earn money? And then save enough money to go to the magic university? This will completely change the plot. How will the childhood and adolescence be defined? And will Alice meet Rudy?'
"No! I have to turn the plot back to the original path. Use words to induce Luo Qixi to leave as soon as possible, so that the butterfly effect can be minimized to the greatest extent."
"I see. So you were relieved to see that I was safe and sound, because the thieves who came to my house as expected did not happen?"
Loki nodded. Looking at Alan's solemn expression, she thought he was worried about thieves coming to his house. Considering the current situation, she carefully spoke to try to comfort him.
"It seems that you must have walked on the road since we separated that day. This way, you would not leave any traces in the forest. So the thieves lost track of you and naturally couldn't find Buena Village. You don't have to worry too much."
"Yes, it was indeed a false alarm. Will you still travel as planned?"
"Yes, I'm relieved if you're all right. I'll continue my journey as planned."
".I see."
After saying this, the two were silent for a while. Loki stepped lightly on the ground in embarrassment. She had rushed back in a hurry. Now that she had confirmed that nothing had happened in the Greylat family, she didn't know what to say.
"That"
"By the way, how did you deal with those highway thieves?"
Luo Qixi was stunned, frowned, and looked directly at Allen with a look of anger.
"I killed them and disposed of their bodies. Their deaths were not a pity."
Under Loki's gaze, Allen realized that there was distrust in his words, but he only subconsciously felt that Blue Mother was kind and was afraid that she would let the thieves go out of soft-heartedness. Because Loki asked too many questions about Allen, the thieves followed the scent and chased to Buena Village, and even secretly sent people to track Blue Mother.
Thinking of this, he bowed his head and apologized.
"That's not what I meant, but thank you."
Loki looked at him, smiled, and tapped Alan's head lightly with the wand in her hand.
"After all, I used to be an adventurer, I won't make such a mistake."
"Feel sorry."
The two continued to fall into silence. After a while, Luo Qixi patted her face gently.
"Well, now that you are confirmed to be alright, I should go out for travel as planned. Goodbye, Alan."
Alan was stunned for a moment, but he deliberately led the topic to the current situation, so he just blinked and then nodded.
"Then don't we need to tell Master Bao and the others?"
"Ah no, it's too late. I'll leave now, and you don't need to tell them I came back, this is for the best."
After saying that, Loki looked up at Alan, the moonlight flowing on her pupils, and the corners of her seemingly cold mouth curved into a bright crescent.
"However, it seems that you have been living well in the Greyrat family since we separated that day. You don't look as anxious as you did two months ago. You look much softer now than you did two months ago. This is good, as you have restrained a lot of your aggressiveness."
Alan looked up in surprise and looked at Loki who was staring at his face.
"Really?"
Loki looked at Alan's bangs neatly placed on his forehead and his straight eyebrows between his hair in the moonlight, and nodded.
"Yes, the shape of your eyebrows has changed, your hair has grown longer, and your eyes are not as sharp as they were two months ago. If I were to rely solely on the description of your appearance on the wanted poster, I'm afraid it would be difficult to match you up at the moment, so don't worry too much."
After saying that, Loki blinked. Seeing that Alan was slow to respond, it seemed that he had no intention of continuing the conversation with her.
After looking at Alan quietly for a few breaths, she restrained the smile on her face, turned around, and waved gently to Alan.
Just like what Alan did to her two months ago.
"As you said, we will meet again in this life. It's so soon..."
"Then, goodbye."
Alan was stunned for a moment, looking at the corner of Loki's clothes swaying in the wind, and responded subconsciously.
"Oh ok. Bye."
Luo Qixi turned her head and walked out of the yard. Alan subconsciously looked at her back.
In the moonlight, her magic robe was obviously stained, and some places were even curled due to sitting. Her boots, which were relatively clean when they first met, were now stained with a lot of mud. As she walked, a fallen leaf stuck to the sole of her shoe fell to the ground.
The heels of the boots show obvious signs of wear.
Alan lowered his eyes and looked at Loki's boots, a little dazed.
"that."
Loki paused and tilted her head slightly to look at Alan. Her soft blue hair stuck to her slightly sweaty forehead under the moonlight.
Alan looked at Luo Qixi, and after a pause, he seemed suddenly discouraged, and then he seemed to relax and let down his tense shoulders and spoke.
His tone finally returned to his usual leisurely and lazy state.
".Um. I think I should come up and sit for a few days. Rudy keeps telling me that he misses you and..."
".and?"
".Although it is said that we will meet each other everywhere in life, such a hasty meeting has actually completely lost the meaning of reunion, so why bother to pretend that we will meet each other everywhere in life? What is the difference between you and me and ordinary passers-by? Uh, no! That, I mean, haven't Rudy and the others been with you for so long? Uh, how should I put it?"
Lokixi couldn't help but blink as she watched Alan repeatedly choose his words. She turned around and interrupted Alan.
He only responded with one word.
"good."
Alan stared at Loki's smiling face that reappeared.
He suddenly felt that the moonlight tonight was a little too bright.
I wrote this plot and reorganized the story line.
If Loki knew that something happened in the Greylat family, she would definitely turn back.
Whether it was giving up her original travel plan after the big transfer and deciding to look for the Greyrat family, or confessing to Rudy that Greyrat was her second home.
All of them can support this behavioral logic.
Looking back, Allen is only one of the factors that led to this result, and the proportion is not large.
But Loki is a romantic person at heart (she fell in love with Rudy when they met again in the maze), and this wonderful experience of meeting again as if destined under the pressure of crisis was the fundamental reason why she chose to stay for a few more days.
(End of this chapter)
39. Chapter 39: The day of reunion, the time of night talk
39.
As a result, I came up and sat in Alan's own bedroom.
First of all, the main door downstairs was locked at night, so Alan naturally climbed up to the window and tiptoed to open the door. Loki was embarrassed to disturb everyone's sleep in the middle of the night, so she wandered around after entering the house, not knowing where to go.
This naturally turned into a strange situation where he had to come up to my room to drink some water.
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