Chapter 504: Strange big tree!
Gervis lay on the shore and waited for more than half an hour. At this moment, Gervis' eyes lit up and the opportunity finally came.
I saw a small team of guards searching the woods ahead, and a few of them were slowly searching towards the lake.
One of the guards was approaching Gervis with a torch.
There were several large rocks in front of Gervis. The guard took a look over here and walked over with a torch in hand.
"It's you!"
"Fortunately, I have many talents!"
Seeing the guard approaching, Gervis began to conceive illusions in his mind. Now that he had no fighting spirit, he could only rely on illusions to get rid of the guard quietly.
The guard held a torch in one hand and placed the other on the sword at his waist, slowly and cautiously approaching the stone. If any danger arose, he would be able to respond immediately.
But suddenly, the guard seemed to see a hint of gold in the darkness ahead.
"What?"
After seeing a hint of gold, the guard couldn't help but raise his torch higher, wanting to see it more clearly.
With the help of the faint firelight, when the guard saw clearly what was emitting the golden light, he was suddenly startled.
It was a purse. The mouth of the black purse was opened, and there were more than ten gold coins scattered around the purse, but the purse was still bulging.
This was a huge windfall, but although the guard was secretly delighted, he did not lose his vigilance. Instead, he became more careful, stopped and began to observe his surroundings.
The guard first carefully checked the situation behind several huge rocks and found no human figure. Then he looked around and still saw no human figure. Then he began to move and quickly came to the purse.
"I'm lucky! This is enough to cover my income for the first half of the year!"
Thinking of this, the guard bent down, lowered his arm that was on the hilt of the sword, and prepared to pick up the gold coins and purses on the ground.
But when the guard put his arm on the purse, he suddenly realized something was wrong, because his fingers did not feel the purse.
Boom!
But it was useless for him to react at this time, because Gervis had already hit him on the neck with a stone the size of a brick.
After a muffled sound, the guard lost consciousness, and Gervis quickly took the torch from him and helped him behind a rock.
Just three minutes later, Gervis put on the guard's armor and walked out from behind the stone.
The guard was thrown directly behind the rocks by Gervis, and tied up like a dumpling with the wire lock found on his body, and a large blanket was stuffed in his mouth.
In fact, the safest thing to do is to kill him. Otherwise, with his level of skill as a silver knight, he can't be trapped by ordinary ropes.
Fortunately, Gervis found a small bundle of wire locks made of mithril on him, which allowed the guard to escape and save his life.
After all, there was no grudge between them, and if he could avoid killing him, Gervis would not be willing to kill innocent people. Moreover, if he killed him, he would really offend the owner of this place.
The man had his hands and feet tied and his mouth covered, hiding behind some rocks. It was impossible for him to be discovered until tomorrow.
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"gather!"
After changing the guard's armor, Gervis did not leave immediately, but pretended to search the area.
One was to wait to leave with these guards, and the other was to prevent other guards from coming here to search.
After about ten minutes, a call to assemble was finally heard from the road ahead.
When Gervis heard the shouting and saw that the other guards had stopped searching and were gathering, he walked towards there without any hurry.
"Did you find anything?"
This man should be their captain. When he saw the team members coming back, he glanced at everyone and asked.
"Captain, nothing was found!"
"Captain, I didn't find anything here either!"
Several guards shook their heads. Gervis had now turned into the appearance of that guard and also shook his head among the crowd to indicate that he had not noticed anything.
"It doesn't matter if you didn't find it!"
"Today's events are somewhat puzzling. I heard from the captain that it was a thief, but he had no skills. How is this possible? Even if an ordinary person had ten thousand guts, it would be impossible for him to break into the City Lord's Mansion. Besides, the walls of the City Lord's Mansion are more than thirty meters high. Who can climb in?"
"Captain, do you think it could be a wild mage?"
"There are so few wild mages, how dare they come to the City Lord's Mansion to become thieves? If they are caught by the Magic Association, they will be dead!"
"Let's go! Since no one has found anything! Let's gather at the gate!"
The captain whispered with the team members for a while, and finally waved his hand and led everyone forward.
Soon, Gervis followed everyone to the gate of the reception area of the City Lord's Mansion.
At this time, several hundred guards in uniform had gathered here, all standing quietly waiting.
"Deputy Commander! We didn't find anything!"
"Well, go wait over there!"
Afterwards, Gervis and his group of ten people joined the crowd and stood quietly by, waiting.
Only at this moment did Gervis truly feel the extraordinaryness of this place. All the soldiers present were silver knights, without even a bronze knight among them.
Fortunately, these soldiers are not like Gervis, who opens his senses to spy on others all day long. Otherwise, he would definitely be noticed to have problems now that he does not have any fighting spirit.
After waiting for more than half an hour, thousands of guards had gathered in Gervis's area, all of whom had just returned from searching the reception area and reporting.
After the deputy commander of the legion confirmed that tonight's search had yielded no results, he walked to the front of all the guards and began to speak.
"It's late at night now, and there are VIPs in the reception area. In order not to disturb their rest, today's search operation is suspended and will continue tomorrow morning!"
"Squadrons 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 are now returning to camp to prepare for the search tomorrow morning!"
"Sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth squadrons will be stationed at all exits of the reception area tonight. Do not let even a single mouse out!"
"Did you understand?"
"Yes, sir!"
"Very good, let's get started!"
After saying this, the deputy commander did not even turn around, turned around and rode on a magical beast that Gervis had never seen before and left here first.
Gervis also learned from the guards beside him that his current team belonged to the Fifth Squadron, so it was time to return to the camp to rest.
This made Gervis breathe a sigh of relief.
There were not many people in the reception area. Apart from the guests received by the City Lord's Mansion, there were only servants who were specifically on duty. It was now the middle of the night, and these servants could only stay in their manors. Apart from the searching soldiers, there were no other people to be seen on the road outside.
Fewer people meant that Gervis couldn't sneak away. Now that he had left the reception area, Gervis' chances of escaping were much greater.
Besides, this reception area is a key area for search, and if you continue to stay there, you will be trapped.
Soon, led by his captain, Gervis easily passed through the exit of the reception area.
"This City Lord's Mansion is really huge. The palace in the City of Glory is probably not even one-tenth of it!"
After leaving the reception area, Gervis followed the guards silently to a larger area.
The view here is much wider than that of the reception area. There are also many Gothic buildings on both sides of the road. Here, Gervis finally saw one or two people other than the guards.
However, Gervis obviously couldn't leave without these people, and he didn't pay much attention to them.
Instead, he kept looking around secretly and observing the terrain.
After walking for about five or six minutes, Gervis suddenly discovered a strange sight.
"Why is that tree so tall? And what are those bright lights? Neon lights? Or drones? Am I dreaming?"
Just as Gervis passed through a city gate again, he suddenly discovered a tall tree in the distance.
Gervis estimated that he was at least a mile away from the tree, but from here it still seemed extremely tall.
The most important thing is that when he looked carefully, he could see that the big tree was actually emitting a faint fluorescence.
Although the fluorescence is faint and not very bright, it can be vaguely distinguished in the dark.
In addition to the fluorescence of the trees themselves, there were also colorful lights like meteor tails passing around the trees. The lights were sometimes fast, sometimes slow, sometimes close to the trees, and sometimes quickly moving away.
This aroused Gervis's curiosity, but it was night time, and although there was some moonlight, he could not see the scenery in the distance clearly.
Gervis didn't even dare to ask the guards around him, otherwise he would definitely expose himself. So Gervis suppressed his curiosity and decided to wait until he left here to talk about everything.
(End of this chapter)
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