Chapter 173 Encounter



He is abnormal in so many aspects, but when it comes to love, or the reproduction that love represents, can he still remain normal?

An overly calm thought flashed through his mind, but what Suli said was: "I don't know what I will face in the end, and I don't know what I will do when faced with the choice of transforming into a monster and surviving, or dying... But at least now, I don't think you deserve to die, or even die for such an inexplicable reason."

Just because I'm back, I deserve to die?

It's totally incomprehensible.

Egbert suddenly became proud. He was always excited by Sully's initiative. "Lord Sully is right. He said that you should be let out alone. Instead of getting entangled in these things, you should think about how to break out."

"By the way, since you have already given the gift away, I think you don't have any deep attachment to this city. In this case, go back to your original idea and find the other two tribes of monsters, and then die in the battle. This is much better than wasting your life in the hands of your own people."

At least we have to give Gabriel a reason to delay his death, even though this reason is essentially just another reason to die.

Gabriel was in a daze.

Roy had already taken out several weapons from the alchemy tools, and Egbert took a spear. When he was the Son of Light, he was best at using spears and swords.

An inch longer is an inch stronger. The best choice at this time is a gun.

When Gabriel was briefly confused, Lan Zhe stuffed a few bottles of medicine into his hands. The Dark Saint said calmly, "We are ready to break out. As for you, whether you choose to go with us or really want to die in the hands of your own people, my advice is that you at least don't die in front of Suli."

"I agree with this point." Roy raised his hand and said, "From the beginning, the young master did not do anything to harm you. He even let Lan Zhe save you from suicide. You would not repay kindness with hatred and die in front of him, leaving a psychological shadow on him."

Suli's eyes twitched. During the two days he rested in the hotel, no matter how much he explained to them how dangerous the scene he saw at the dragon was, this group of people's attitude when faced with the possibility of making him face the dangerous scene again was...

Who dares?

You have to practice before you do anything!

Who lives and who dies will be determined after the fight.

That's roughly the attitude.

Sully wanted to say that he would never vomit again because of the bloody appearance of others.

But it didn't work at all.

Suli took a deep breath and calmed his turbulent emotions.

The young man took the initiative to stand in front of the door that was only slightly opened. After exchanging a glance with the other humans, he pulled the slightly opened door open as they nodded.

Outside the door, the monster named Colin heard the noise and turned around, only to see Gabriel.

Or rather, he could only see Gabriel's figure.

The other humans had very small elemental fluctuations on their bodies, and at first glance, no monster or beast would think they were threatening.

Colin shouted, "Gabriel, do you admit your guilt?"

"I...I..." Gabriel stuttered.

He didn't think it was wrong to just want to see the person he cared about, but he did violate the king's rules and returned to the monster's territory as an outcast.

"You, you, what do you mean by you? You're not even Gabriel, you're obviously Gabriel Jin." Roy acted like a gangster and glanced at Lan Zhe's hand.

Who would believe it?

Although the resource reserves are high, the monster is not generous enough to use the drugs that can bring the dead to life. If it leaves for just one or two days, its bones can be cut, its flesh cut, and it can be completely repaired by surgery, and its face can be completely changed.

Those drugs are used to save lives, right? Who would use them for cosmetic surgery...

As long as he sticks to this point, Gabriel is just his younger brother Gabrielkin.

As soon as these words came out, everyone saw the confusion that flashed across Colin's eyes.

Lan Zhe found it interesting, so he simply brought Gabriel to the center of everyone's attention. He spoke calmly and calmly, which was completely different from Roy's agitation: "Look carefully at this face. What makes you say he is Gabriel?"

"He was just Gabriel's younger brother who lived in another city. After Gabriel learned that his brother had been exiled, he chose to come to this city and wanted to see the place where Gabriel once lived."

Colin didn't believe it, but he looked at Gabriel's features with some suspicion.

"I don't believe it. Don't think that you can prove that Gabriel is Gabriel King just by saying this."

"If they were really brothers, how could they not live in the same city?"

"Can't there be disputes between brothers? Your attitude makes it seem like all blood-related people must love each other. What? Can't others quarrel with each other?" Roy crossed his arms over his chest, clasped his weapon at his waist, and raised his chin, revealing his utter disdain.

Colin: …………

"Then since he is Gablikin and his relationship with his brothers is not good, why did he come to this city?"

"Don't you think this is totally abnormal? Besides, if Gabriel was not Gabriel, how could he know where my sister was in the first place and give her a gift?"

"Besides," Colin sneered, "the most important point is, since he is Gabriel King, not Gabriel, why didn't he just leave the city after handing the gift to my sister?"

"But the question now is, isn't it that we are questioning you?" Suli clapped his hands lightly, drawing everyone's attention to himself. Then he tilted his head and said in a clear voice, which seemed to increase the radiance of his youthful temperament, "Don't answer a question with a question."

"You are the one with the problem now, not us." Suli nodded.

Egbert was so excited that he almost took off. It had been a long time since he had acted with Lord Sully. And it had been a long time since he had seen a group of people who did not use their brains as brains and were shocked by his words...

Ignoring all this, Egbert cleared his throat and said cooperatively, "Don't ask us who we are. We are just accompanying him to see the place where his brother once lived, and then fulfilling Brother Gablikin's last wish. We will also help clean up the place where he once lived so that the next resident will not feel uncomfortable."

"What reason do you have to question us when we are so considerate? Or is it that just because you don't believe in the existence of Gabriel, you arbitrarily define Gabriel as Gabriel, and then try to punish him on the grounds that Gabriel is Gabriel?"

"Oh?" Egbert pretended to be enlightened. "You are not punishing me. You are inciting other monsters to anger Gablikin. Then, Gablikin will be outnumbered and will not have a chance to explain himself, so he will die on the spot."

Egbert actually has a better way of saying it, but he is also considerate of women.

Otherwise, it would be easier to divert the conflict by letting Colin's sister confront Gabriel directly.

However, this behavior will hurt two people, although these two people have already left the category of human beings and are now monsters.

Lan Zhe, who discovered his subtle thoughtfulness, became the villain in the team besides the gangsters.

He crossed his arms over his chest and did not walk out of the room completely, letting the shadow of the house add a layer of blurry special effects to him. Then he said: "Gabrikin's current value may not be high. After all, his strength is not that strong. But who can say that he will definitely not surpass his brother? Fortunately, he has broken through the current level of strength within the limited time."

"By doing this, have you ever thought that the king might lose a warrior who is loyal to him in the future?"

"Even if he didn't succeed, he could still do what his brother did and kill as many water or feathered creatures as possible before he died."

No matter how hard Colin opened his mouth, his throat could not make any sound.

However, the other monsters did not discuss as humans expected.

Even if they do speak, their arguments are very well-reasoned.

"Colin loves his sister, so how could he possibly believe that there is a bad relationship between brothers? Secondly, Gabriel and Gabriel look so much alike, so even if there are occasional misunderstandings, it's nothing."

"Besides, how could the situation be as serious as you say? If we really wanted to kill Gabrikin, you wouldn't have a chance to explain it to him now."

"No monster would want to have anything to do with an exiled monster. Who cares how complicated the relationship between Gabriel and Gabrielkin is? What we did did not violate any of Ergonkin's rules. On the contrary, as outsiders, you should carefully explain whether you have submitted your identity documents to the mayor of Ergonkin."

This kind of conversation led to a silence in the situation.

Suli looked at the monster whose eyes flickered from time to time, and at the others who had become a little stiff because they found that things did not develop as they imagined. He sighed and said, "There is no need to completely erase your mistakes."

"What we said is not completely impossible. As for what you said, there may be some truth in it, but don't you think you have blurred the point too much?" Suli looked at the silent monsters and grasped the rhythm in an instant.

He said calmly: "I understand that you don't want to be punished. In this case, why not just take a step back and pretend that nothing happened."

"And Gabriel King doesn't plan to stay here for a long time this time. He just wants to clean the room and leave immediately." Su Li blurred the existence of Colin's sister.

Now there was no anger on the monster's face.

Suli's tone became calmer: "If it weren't for you, we would have taken him away long ago to prevent Gablikin from staying in Ergonkin for too long due to his emotional fluctuations."

"That's all. If you have any more questions, we don't intend to explain them in detail. Because now we plan to leave Ergonkin directly."

"There's no need for you to make things any bigger, right?"

The last rhetorical question touched the hearts of the monsters present.

Lan Zhe's words were truly heartbreaking. For a group of monsters that abide by the rules set by the king, once they were told that they violated the rules and were no longer loyal to the king, they would become panicked.

But this kind of panic can easily be reversed into forced calmness due to the living environment of these monsters.

This is why they are not as easily guided by emotions as humans.

But on the other hand, this kind of forced calmness is not without its own countermeasures.

Besides, what Colin feared most was that his sister would be related to Gabriel, who was supposed to be dead.

On the one hand, the sister is likely to be sad about Gabriel's doomed death. On the other hand, the gift of "Gabriel Gold" is like a reminder to Colin's sister that Gabriel cares about her very much, but because of his own incompetence, he cannot realize this care.

For women, who are always delicate no matter how they change, this action can easily lead to painful torture that lasts for who knows how many years.

This is probably what Colin is angry about.

Suli's eyes were calm and his breath was steady. It did not change because he was surrounded by many monsters, nor did he feel that he was no longer useful just because the people around him could already deal with most situations.

as always.

Suli still stood in front of the crowd.

"So be it." A monster standing beside Colin said this for him.

Colin took a deep breath, and seemed to be willing to ignore what he had done. He also took responsibility and said, "It's my fault that I didn't understand the truth of the matter and took the initiative to vent my emotions to Gabulijin. This is my problem, but you'd better leave Ergonikin as soon as possible, as you said."

"Gabriel King" said in a harsh tone. He looked for a long time but didn't find "Colin's sister" in the crowd. Finally, he lowered his head and said disappointedly: "I understand."

The chaotic fight that should have taken place was quietly stopped in the verbal clash.

The group left Ergonkin directly under the cover of night.

Under the moonlight, Suli's eyes glowed with a clear and faint light.

Out of understanding, just like he knows that the people around him will always do things to him that are in line with the common sense of the world before he traveled through time, but not in line with the common sense of this world.

Because of the forced calmness of the man before, who thought he was out of control and was almost suppressed, the three men probably all felt a vague sense of loss and guilt towards him.

Not wanting to understand why this inexplicable guilt came, Suli did not intend to give them too much time to let them unwind their delicate hearts. The young man raised his eyelids and said calmly: "Tell me what you found out during our conversation with those monsters."

This topic illuminated the silence.

In an instant, Egbert was like a domestic dog with droopy ears, transformed into a rabid hound with wagging tail.

"The most obvious thing I saw was that the group of monsters did not behave according to our predictions."

Egbert also analyzed the reason: "One reason is that we did not consider the possibility of their calm response. Another reason is that the so-called rules set by the King of the Beasts may not be the last one issued a hundred years ago, but the closed loop of the rules was completely perfected a hundred years ago."

He also commented on this group of monsters.

"They are calm in the face of difficulties, have a high degree of collective dedication, a strong sense of collective awareness, and are full of trust and support in the face of the demon king... In my opinion, even if they are just ordinary residents of a city now, once in war, they will become the best weapons under the control of military orders, and each of them will be able to exert far more power than their current individual strength."

Then, Egbert turned his attention to Lan Zhe.

The Dark Saint was speechless: "Don't say everything you need to say and then look at me with a reserved look. You really act like you're showing off."

Egbert coughed.

Lan Zhe showed an expression of dismay, but he still said: "According to Egg's analysis, there is another point, that is, those monsters still have emotions."

"Whether this emotion is based on the need for reproduction or is an inevitable expression of individual emotions, Gabriel's performance indirectly proves that there are no restrictions on this part in the rules and possible manipulation of consciousness."

Lan Zhe glanced at the still lost Gabriel, then retracted his gaze and said, "Personally, I think that the reason why this emotion has not been sealed is that the emotions of the transformed monsters as humans were sealed during the Rota County period. They are like a blank sheet of paper. In the early days of transformation, the rules of the monster world were scribbled on them, and they eventually evolved into this state."

Lan Zhe then turned his attention to Roy.

The two-star mercenary felt that all the contempt he had received in his life had been concentrated on these few days.

"Look at what I'm doing. What else do you want me to add?"

"Is it the last rule from a hundred years ago, the hidden meaning of this time? Or is it that emotions can, to some extent, become a possibility for a turnaround in war? Or, in other words..."

Roy deliberately kept the question a secret, but when he found that no one was cooperating with him, he could only say with a sad heart: "Those monsters, rather than still following the rule of the jungle, it is better to say that the rule of the jungle has become outdated. They are following the decision made by the 'king'."

"The time a hundred years ago was very subtle. Perhaps that was the time when the rules of sealing emotions appeared in Rota County. Elvi was transformed into a monster more than two hundred years ago. Just looking at Elvi's abnormal appearance, it can be confirmed that in addition to the influence of blood problems, madness may also have caused the split and changes of memory and emotions."

"When humans are human, memory is very important, but once they become monsters, what effect will time have on consciousness and the brain... I think it would be more appropriate to kidnap Custer and let him study him patiently."

After everyone shared their findings, Sully nodded and said, "You are all right."

Moreover, these three people each completed the points that others had not discovered.

But Sully couldn't in good conscience say they had discovered it all.

But it doesn't matter.

After all, as long as there is still the perception of "rules", it proves that this thing still has drawbacks.

No one thinks there are any rules for humans to have three meals a day, and no one thinks there are any rules for humans' physiological needs.

The sun rises in the east and sets in the west.

These things that are integrated into life and every aspect of life are the easiest to stick to.

In addition, since the word "rules" is mentioned so many times, it proves that the King of Beasts may not have the cognition to integrate various rules into his life.

This is an important point, and Sully thinks so both intuitively and rationally.

The King of Beasts did not tell the monsters why they should abide by those rules, and he emphasized the word rules all the time.

It's like...

Copy and paste.

Suli's eyes flashed, and then he said: "Since you all know, let's make an assumption."

"If you wanted Gabriel to stop following those rules, what would you do?"

"Of course, this problem does not need to be considered right now. Just think about it slowly."

Sully said as he placed the crow that had been nesting on his head like a decoration to avoid being discovered by the city's land monsters in the palm of his hand.

"What we need to consider now is whether we can defeat those monsters..." The young man looked ahead and sighed softly.

Under the moonlight, a large amount of water vapor rose from the area that should have been a plain.

Gabriel, who was still immersed in the fluctuations of his emotions, suddenly looked cold. He took a defensive posture and said quickly: "It's a water monster!"

As he finished his words, an ugly-looking fish floated directly in the mist and attacked him.

"Protect Lord Sully!" Egbert immediately became alert.

"I know that without you telling me." Roy sneered as he looked at the aquatic monster that tried to attack them.

There were quite a lot of these monsters, more than a dozen of them compared to the few of them. They had to at least make sure that everyone could fight one against two.

But as a non-combatant, Suli clearly does not have this ability.

The only thing he could do was to be protected by the crowd and observe the characteristics of all the aquatic monsters with cold eyes.

Fortunately, Egbert, who already had some understanding of light and heat, no longer regarded the elements as simple forces. On the side he was guarding, a large amount of water vapor was directly evaporated, forcing the aquatic monsters that had returned to their original forms to transform into human forms and fight him at close range.

Having been hammered by crows, beaten by dragons, and witnessed the joint battle of unicorns and mermaids at close range, Egbert has extraordinary experience in close combat.

When facing these aquatic monsters, this experience became the most powerful weapon. In a one-on-three situation, Egbertis was not at a disadvantage, and even vaguely managed to forcibly reduce the difference in elemental power levels by relying on combat awareness.

Because of his carelessness, the monster closest to Egbert had its heart pierced by the spear in his hand.

In a one-on-two situation, Egbert looked more relaxed.

Lan Zhe on the other side was impatient with close combat.

Although he would, he didn't want to dirty his hands.

The potion with unknown effects was directly lifted up by the dark elements, and a large number of differentiated elemental factors were all under the control of the Dark Saint. At that time, each small group of power carried part of the potion, until the dark elements lifted the potion to a sufficient height, and then threw it all at once.

A series of screams rang in his ears, but Lan Zhe naturally stretched out his hands and covered Suli's ears.

"Don't listen to those awful, ear-staining noises." Behind Lan Zhe was a group of corroded aquatic monsters. He chuckled and said, "Sully, you just need to stand here and wait for us to bring you victory."

Roy, who was not far away, pressed the back of his neck. When he heard this, he responded from a distance: "Of course."

"I always feel that the only thing we can do is to help the young master fight." As he said this, Roy clenched his fist and was quietly hidden in the water mist by the ice element he output.

In an instant, all the water mist turned into ice crystals.

The sound of heavy objects falling to the ground continued to ring, but what made Egbert raise his eyebrows in surprise was that the two enemies facing Roy were also frozen into ice blocks in the middle. Then, with the naked eye, those ice blocks were scattered all over the ground under the division of the ice element, and Roy's enemies were given eternal death.

"Luckily, the crow has patiently explained the attack patterns of these monsters before." Roy said with a bright smile as if nothing had happened, "After this battle, Lan Zhe, you must prepare more meatballs. Now we have to feed not only the young master, but also the crow that eats everything."

The crow's eyelids twitched, and he stretched out his claws unhappily while maintaining his half-human height, but he easily pierced through the scales of the enemy approaching him.

"What good does it do you to be weird?" said the crow.

"I don't know what benefit it will bring to me, but it will definitely benefit the young master." Roy stretched his head, looking inexplicably lazy. He said, "I bet that the young master's slow growth in height must be due to you."

As soon as this was said, Suli decisively withdrew his hands that were stretched out to the crow.

He had just habitually reached out to the victorious crow and waited for it to get smaller so that he could continue to nest on his head.

Gesturing to show the height difference of more than 20 centimeters between himself and the others, Suli said calmly but emotionally: "It is better to let others take care of you for the time being."

Du Ya: “…”

The crow laughed angrily, but not at Sully. Instead, he stared at Roy. His voice was inexplicably cold: "Do you feel that you didn't fight enough just now? If so, I don't mind fighting with you again."

"I mind!" Roy raised his hand to refuse, "Young Master also minds!"

"It's time to sleep, why fight?"

When these words fell, compared to the ease with which humans and ravens dealt with their enemies, Gabriel finally pinned the last crab under his claws and slammed it into the ground.

What's even more outrageous is that compared to other humans who tried to get intelligence, he, who should have been mortal enemies with the other two races, left a survivor in this encounter.

Gabriel patted the crab under his claws vigorously. After making sure that the crab had fainted, the gray wolf turned into a human and said, "I say, why did you act so quickly?"

"You didn't seem so brutal when you fought me before..."

Each of their attacks was outrageous. Egbert evaporated all the water in a blink of an eye, Lan Zhe poisoned everyone in an instant, and Roy, apart from consuming a lot of elements, didn't even have a cut on his body.

Unlike him, he had a large clump of hair pulled out when fighting with the crab.

...The appearance of the humanoid body is that there is a bald spot on the head.

Gabriel touched his scalp distressedly.

"I told you, we just wanted to ask you for directions." Roy said as he gathered all the monster corpses together. Egbert cooperated tacitly and compressed the light element, which exploded instantly on the corpses.

I don't know how the raging flames came about, but they set everything on fire and left no trace.

"So you didn't fight me to a draw, but do you think it is necessary to fight me to a draw?" Gabriel's mouth twitched.

Lan Zhe led Suli to a raised hill. They might have to rest here tonight, but it would be better to stay as far away from the place where the battle took place as possible.

After hearing what Gabriel said, Lan Zhe replied in a light voice: "You are right. As a reward, you will keep watch tonight."

Gabriel: ???

"Don't take it for granted that I'm the same as you guys."

Egbert slowed down his pace following Sully after hearing this. He turned around and answered Gabriel who was standing still: "Compared to dying at the hands of these nameless ordinary enemy monsters, dying at the hands of the dragon Elvi, Elvi Bescemer, is it more dignified for you?"

"And you can start thinking about how to hurt Elvy when you meet her now."

Egbert sped up and rushed towards Sully's position.

He already had a partial solution for how to change Gabriel's anomaly.

Fighting fire with fire is a good option.

There should be bigger rules above the rules.

But now, what Egbert needs to think about is how to snatch Lord Sully's side from the hands of the other two while he sleeps.

This is obviously a difficult problem.

Roy and Lanzhe, these two people, have no idea that humility is a virtue.

Gabriel was speechless, and finally had to carry the dizzy crab towards the camp that was quickly built.

When the crab woke up, it saw Lan Zhe cooking in a hot pot. The Dark Saint said curiously, "I wonder if there is a way to quickly distinguish between transformed monsters and natural monsters. Leia doesn't need Suli that much, probably because there are a lot of natural monsters in the aquatic world. Come to think of it, the number of puppies a fish can give birth to is simply exaggerated."

Even though there are many of them, their strength is much weaker.

"So why are you asking if this crab is a natural monster?" Roy sat on a chair, holding a bowl in one hand and a hard baguette in the other.

Lan Zhe was stirring the food in the hot pot with the handle of a spoon. When he heard what Roy said, he turned his head and said to him, "Of course, if it is a natural monster, then it and humans belong to two completely different species, which means that we should be able to eat it."

Crab:!

"It doesn't matter whether the meat is too tough or too tender. As long as it's edible, it can serve as a supply in the future when we have to fight a protracted war." Lan Zhe said with an unchanged expression.

Crab:!!!

The aquatic monster transformed into human form without a second thought.

"Don't eat me!" The crab that turned into a human form looked like a broad and fat man.

But no one was surprised by his change, including Sully.

When the crab woke up, Lan Zhe, who was boiling water in the pot, looked directly in the direction of the crab.

At that time, Egbert also quietly moved closer to Sully.

Who knew that the crab did not remain unconscious and try to gather intelligence, but was deceived into waking up directly after a few words.

Gabriel, holding a piece of bread, approached the warm fire and added: "It seems that this crab is a natural monster."

The crab looked as if he was almost frightened.

Roy was speechless. He put the cleaned bowl aside and took the crab to a remote place for interrogation.

Not long after, the crab was no longer around the two-star mercenary who had returned.

Unlike Gabriel at that time, they really needed to ask for directions. Based on this premise, Gabriel who took the initiative to attack still had a chance of survival.

But this crab was different. When the group of aquatic monsters saw them, they immediately launched an attack, and their attacking posture was to try to kill them with every move.

After Roy came back, he condensed the ice element with one hand and asked Egbert to melt it into water for washing dishes.

While washing dishes, he said, "That crab is a small group of aquatic monsters. The role of this group is like the investigation soldiers sent by humans before the war. The purpose is to explore the recent movements of Ergonkin."

"The Beastmen have shown too clearly that they want to declare war on the other two tribes. Since Leia has no intention of submitting to the Beastmen, then his attitude towards the three tribes must be to cooperate with the Feathermen. Moreover, the Feathermen have just split from the Dragons and are in a weak position. If the Beastmen want to attack, being mobile and attacking directly should be the best option."

"These small groups were sent out based on that."

In response to the results of these interrogations, Egbert's attitude was: "Even if we can find out where Ergonkin is, it won't be of much use."

"When Ophelia attacked the Mercenary City, Willard was directly involved. Apart from other things, Willard knew most of the internal intelligence of the Mercenary City at that time."

The importance of intelligence...

Lan Zhe handed Suli a cup of hot milk. After seeing the latter holding it in his palm, he joined the topic: "The purpose of Leia sending people to explore may not be to gain an advantage before the war. Elvi's movements after being supported are easy to predict. She can't start a large-scale war with the current state of the dragon race."

"Besides, the dragon territory still belongs to the Feather Tribe, and Elvi can't stay there with the dragons for long." Lan Zhe drew a circle on the ground with the other end of the chopsticks, pointed at a part of the circle and said, "In other words, the purpose of the Leia group's exploration is mainly to find out when Elvi will get close to the beastmen."

Knowing this time point, Leia could at least be prepared in advance that Elvi had already obtained Suli.

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