Moses touched his companion and said, "Hey, what do you think the city lord wants to do by gathering us together?"

"I don't know." His companion replied in a low voice.

"I know." Allen in front said mysteriously, "A merchant brought news that a rare monster seemed to have appeared in the surrounding area, and the city lord wanted to capture it."

"The entire guard team is dispatched. Is that monster very powerful?" Moses licked his lips, his purple eyes sparkling. He likes fighting.

"I don't know, but it's said to be a very rare breed." Allen shrugged and became excited: "I hope it won't let us down - the captain has come out."

As usual, the captain said some irrelevant polite words and then announced the city lord's order.

Moses looked at Allen in a daze, and Allen looked back at him with disbelief.

"Did I hear you right? Going to catch—dwarfs?"

***

"I didn't sell you out - I just wanted to sell this thing." Du Ze explained haltingly, took a few steps towards Xiu and raised the box in his hand: "Trust me... Okay?"

Many distorted voices echoed among the rocks for a long time. Du Ze stared at Xiu opposite him without blinking, with desperate pleading in his eyes. He knew that whatever he said now would be suspicious, and it seemed like he was making excuses to save his life. Moreover, Xiu opposite him was in the form of a dwarf. Among all races, dwarfs were the most suspicious. They were curious and suspicious. Therefore, Du Ze could only stare at Xiu in the shadows, like a death row prisoner waiting for the final judgment.

Dan laughed quietly, his laughter full of sarcasm, and he said to Xiu in the same way: "Yes, sir, you misunderstood. We are just doing a deal about the 'box'." Although he was explaining, his look was completely saying "It would be stupid if you believed such a poor excuse."

Xiu glanced at Dan, then looked at Du Ze and opened his mouth to say something, but the black-haired young man opposite him said firmly: "I can't hear you."

"My hearing is not good." Du Ze admitted the defect he had always wanted to hide. A silly cuteness had gone wrong. Social barriers and the like could not stop him from continuing to destroy his cold and noble image. Regardless of whether the other party could understand or not, Du Ze pulled out the earphones: "This is a hearing aid. It has no power, so I can't hear."

This is a hearing aid that can help him hear all sounds clearly, but at this moment it cannot let him hear the answer he wants to hear the most - he wants to hear Xiu's answer, even if that answer will lead to his irreparable death.

"Do you believe me?"

Xiu's expression changed for the first time, but his eyes were still as inorganic as before. He looked at Du Ze, then shook his head slowly and said softly, "..."

The moment Du Ze saw Xiu shaking his head, he felt like he fell into an icy cave. He stood there stiffly, as if frozen by despair.

Why don't you want to believe him?

Du Ze thought blankly, is he so untrustworthy? He tried so hard to get close to the protagonist, and tried so hard to show his favor to the protagonist. He thought he could have a special place in the protagonist's heart. So he was just being self-indulgent from the beginning to the end? Just because of Dan's provocation, all his previous efforts were completely wiped out. Even if he was a fool and never took these things to heart, he would still be hurt and feel uncomfortable...

Du Ze didn't notice Dan's slightly surprised expression, so when Xiu held his hand, Du Ze could only watch stupidly as the dwarf's tiny hand wrote on his palm: Follow me.

It is said that going from hell to heaven is just a matter of a moment. Du Ze said that it was too stimulating for him. It turns out that Xiu didn't disbelieve him. Why did the protagonist shake his head at that time? QAQ! Is it fun to bully the weak? Is it fun?

Du Ze was in a state of excitement, while Dan had already calmed down from his surprise. He frowned slightly and looked at Xiu with a helpless, puzzled and disappointed look: "Oh my, I didn't expect you to be so..." The man in green paused and chose a more pleasant word: "Naive, actually believing the words of a betrayer."

Xiu looked at Dan's performance indifferently: "It doesn't matter."

Just like what he just said to Du Ze: It doesn't matter.

It didn't matter whether Du Ze betrayed him or cheated him. He had already identified this person, so it didn't matter. No matter how much that person wanted to kill him, no matter how much that person wanted to escape from him, he had already caught him and would never let go.

This is the stubbornness of the dwarf and the bias of Xiu.

Dan just looked at the flax-haired dwarf who looked at him emotionlessly. In his bright eyes were stubbornness, cruelty, and madness that Dan had never seen before. The owner of the amber eyes said softly, "He is mine."

The soft and tender tone seemed to be coquettish, but the strong desire for exclusivity contained in it actually made Dan feel a chilling fear. Dan even looked at Du Ze, who was always confused and out of the situation, with some sympathy: In fact, not being able to hear anything and not knowing anything may be the happiest thing.

"Oh, I can't joke with you anymore." Dan patted his head helplessly with the book in his hand: "Okay, I was playing a prank just now. This gentleman did buy a box from me and used this dress."

He clapped his hands, and a piece of clothing fell from the air into his hands. Xiu recognized that it was the clothing Du Ze had been wearing, and a flash of surprise and displeasure flashed across his eyes. Dan took it all in and confirmed his inference.

"I'm sorry for the offense. I think this magical dress must be made by you. The name of the dwarfs is well known. I have a humble request. Can you tell me how this dress was made?" Dan said with a smile, "Of course, I will pay you a reward that will satisfy you."

If Du Ze could hear what Dan said, he would definitely spit shit on him. Now, a certain stupid and cute guy can only watch Dan and Xiu perform a silent drama, not knowing how far the plot will unfold. The thing he wants to do most now is to pull Xiu away, so that Dan won't do anything weird again. As for being tricked by Dan, he can only endure it for the time being, and talk to Dan about life after the protagonist's level reaches 100!

Before Du Ze went to pull Xiu, Xiu had already pulled Du Ze out. Dan didn't seem surprised by Xiu's reaction, and said behind them: "I have a piece of news that you will definitely be interested in."

"Recently, the city lord is about to advance, so he is anxious to find a suitable weapon." Dan said with a smile: "At this time, the city lord learned a piece of news that made him ecstatic. The legendary dwarfs appeared near Harpas City... At this time, the city lord is leading his guard team to welcome you, Your Excellency."

"If you need a deal, I'm always here to serve you."

Du Ze felt Xiu suddenly squeeze his hand. He looked down and found that Xiu's bloodless face seemed to be even paler. Du Ze was terrified. Could it be that there was something wrong with the wound again? Du Ze didn't know whether he should admire Xiu or feel helpless for following him here despite the pain.

A shadow fell, and Du Ze looked up reflexively. A figure landed on the high rock. The gently flapping bat wings indicated that it was a... demon. Du Ze panicked and found that not one, but several demons emerged from various places on the rock and surrounded them.

The demons stared at Du Ze and Xiu in the encirclement with their purple eyes, some deep and some shallow, without blinking. A thought flashed through their minds at the same time: they really are dwarfs.

Surrounded by the demons, Du Ze had no idea why this had happened. He turned around to look at Dan and found the man in green standing respectfully behind a piece of fat. After a closer look, he realized that the fat was also a demon, and he seemed to be of high status. A demon that could make Dan behave so respectfully... A terrifying thought formed in Du Ze's mind: Could this guy be the Lord of Harpas who "mainly eats human flesh and is not very friendly to humans"! ?

System: Your enemy [Meat Mountain Devil] is online.

The Lord of Harpas looked at the short Xiu with envy. The fairy ears half hidden in the linen hair revealed his identity as a dwarf. This was an ancient race, the dwarfs who created the mechanical civilization in the legend! With him, would he still worry about not being able to become stronger?

When he finally shifted his gaze to Du Ze, who was wearing a tattered black robe, the Harpas City Lord narrowed his eyes and began to question Dan beside him: "Why is there another one? Who is he?"

"That person is probably one of the dwarf's men, an insignificant human."

"Human race!"

Lord Harpas became angry instantly. He hated humans, but their meat was indeed very delicious. Thinking of the taste, Lord Harpas licked his lips involuntarily, and his eyes began to burn as he looked at Du Ze. The back of the continent was basically full of demons and undeads, and there were too few traces of humans. He hadn't had a meal for a long time.

"Take them away."

After hearing the order from Lord Harpas, the demons looked at each other, and then one of them came out. It was Moses. He approached Du Ze and Xiu cautiously, ready to test the other party's strength - the other side was the legendary dwarf, an enemy type that they had never encountered before.

Du Ze watched the meat mountain demon king open his mouth and yell, and then a demon jumped down and walked towards them. The momentum of their approach did not look like a friendly meeting. Du Ze thought of Xiu, who was in dwarf form beside him, and he felt unwell.

Now the enemy is mostly demons, here is a powerless human loser, and here is a seriously injured dwarf who focuses on life skills... Is it necessary to be so cruel! The opponent is the demons, the demons with the strongest individual strength!

In "Mixed Blood", the enemy can be divided into individual strength, group battle strength, anti-military strength, siege strength, etc. according to the size of the enemy target: the demons have the strongest individual strength, the beasts have the strongest group battle strength, the undead have the strongest anti-military strength, the dragons have the strongest siege strength, and other races also have their own characteristics. Du Ze is now very lucky to experience the powerful individual strength of the demons...

Du Ze looked at Xiu beside him, gritted his teeth and opened the box in his hand - dwarves don't know magic or martial arts, in other words, they are technology geeks. Therefore, now he can only rely on him to protect the protagonist. Du Ze's only hope is to rely on the artifact in his hand. Although he may be controlled by the magic knife, he can return to normal after zero point restoration.

The box broke apart the moment it was opened, and Moses stopped and stared at the broken box warily. Under everyone's gaze, a small black vortex appeared where the box was broken, and something gradually emerged - first the tip of the knife, then the long blade, and finally the scarlet handle. The long knife fell from the vortex and silently cut into the hard ground, standing there quietly, the slender blade reflecting a light silver-red halo, as if it had some kind of magic that made it impossible for people to take their eyes off it.

The eyes of Harpas City Lord lit up instantly. Not only him, but almost all the demons had greed in their eyes. That was a good knife, maybe even a divine weapon.

Du Ze stretched out his hand to grasp the hilt of the magic knife, but this action stimulated Moses on the opposite side. He didn't even care about his fear of dwarfs and rushed to Du Ze almost instantly.

So fast - Du Ze only then truly realized the gap between him and this world. He didn't even see how the demon came to him. The next moment, Du Ze felt a sharp pain in the back of his neck. It was so severe that if the opponent exerted a little more force, his cervical vertebrae would be broken.

Xiu reached out his hand and tried to support Du Ze, but his current size and strength were too much for him, and they both fell to the ground. Moses didn't look at the two men, his eyes were fixed on the magic knife, and he stretched out his hand to grab it as if he was tempted. The Lord of Harpas immediately became gloomy and snorted heavily, but his men didn't react at all, ignoring him and continued to reach out for the magic knife.

The Lord of Harpas was furious. He stepped heavily on the ground, and a spike instantly appeared from under Moses and pierced upwards. Moses seemed to wake up at this time, and retreated with all his strength, barely avoiding the spike that was about to pierce him. He looked at the Lord of Harpas, and cold sweat dripped down: "Lord Lord, I..."

Harpas City Lord ignored Moses's defense. He moved his fat body to the front of the magic knife and stretched out his hand to pull out Burning Desire. Burning Desire's slender blade reflected Harpas City Lord's face. The flawless silver blade cast an unknown red light on Harpas City Lord's eyes. Harpas City Lord stroked Burning Desire's blade in fascination, and said with a little regret: "Why is it the knife?"

The Lord of Harpas is a high-level earth magician. On a continent where elements are scarce, the fact that he can become the Lord of Harpas City speaks volumes about his strength.

Moses wanted to make a few more excuses, saying that he had been possessed by a demon for some reason and wanted to take the weapon in public. At this time, Moses saw the Lord of Harpas turn around and smile at him: "Do one thing for me, and I will forgive your previous disobedience."

Moses knelt down to the Lord of Harpas in great joy and said, "It's all at your command."

"Come here..."

As soon as Moses walked in front of the Lord of Harpas, he heard the Lord of Harpas say to him with a smile on his face: "... Let me test the sword."

"grown ups……?"

Moses, with half of his waist and abdomen cut off, fell to the ground and looked up at the Lord of Harpas in disbelief. From his perspective, the Lord of Harpas' eyes were covered with a layer of faint red light.

"I forgive you."

The Lord of Harpas drew out his knife. He was very satisfied with the sharpness of Fenyu. If the magician was not weak, he could have cut Moses in half directly instead of cutting him in half and catching him in the waist. After venting his unhappiness, the Lord of Harpas left the dying Moses behind and turned to walk towards Xiu and Du Ze. Perhaps because he had just punished his disobedient subordinates, the Lord of Harpas was in an unusually happy and excited mood. He looked down at the dwarf holding the unconscious black-haired young man and said loudly: "I am the Lord of Harpas City. I would like to invite the master to visit my house for a while."

Xiu looked at Harpas City Lord silently, thinking about countermeasures. At this time, Harpas City Lord was attracted by Du Ze. The familiar yet unfamiliar smell of the human race made Harpas City Lord, who had just finished "exercise", feel hungry. Once he noticed it, the hunger was instantly magnified countless times. Harpas City Lord had never felt so hungry before, very hungry, so hungry that he wanted to stuff the human race in front of him into his stomach immediately to fill the endless emptiness.

So what is he waiting for? He is so hungry and the food in front of him is so delicious, why not start eating right away?

Controlled by desire, the Harpas City Lord raised the extremely enchanting magic knife and cut off Du Ze's left hand before Xiu had time to react. Even in a coma, Du Ze twitched because of the sudden severe pain.

The Harpas City Lord picked up the severed palm, and under the gaze of everyone, he greedily and hungrily bit off five fingers, crushed the finger bones with a crunch, and swallowed them mixed with blood and flesh. After the brief satisfaction, there was an even greater emptiness. The Harpas City Lord stared at the unconscious human with red eyes.

Not enough - not enough - not enough at all -

The red light on the Burning Desire blade became brighter and brighter, as if it was emitting a sigh of satisfaction.

Harpas City Lord once again raised his knife, intending to cut up his delicacy, but the moment the magic knife chopped into the flesh, it stopped. Harpas City Lord looked at Xiu's hand holding the blade, and even though he was blinded by desire, he still had some rationality: that was the hand of a dwarf, a hand that could create supreme equipment.

The Lord of Harpas stared into Xiu's eyes and said with forbearance: "Let go."

Xiu didn't say anything, his amber eyes were filled with cold anger. The sharp blade broke his palm, and red blood flowed down the silver-red blade, and was then greedily absorbed by the magic sword.

——Give it to me.

Harpas City Lord looked at Xiu impatiently. In his red vision, the color of his eyes, which were bright and bright due to anger, became darker and darker, more and more charming - it seemed to turn purple. Harpas City Lord thought he was having an illusion, he rubbed his eyes with his other hand, and then looked again.

The pair of eyes in my sight indeed turned into a deep purple. In the rich and enchanting purple, the pupils were slender and tall.

Those are the eyes of the demons.

——Do you want power?

think.

——Why?

If there is power, no one can take him away from me.

——You want to protect him?

No, I want him all to myself.

He was mine, all of it—mine.

So give me the strength to take back what is mine.

Give it to me.

——【Black Box】

The author has something to say: Protagonist: He is mine. Reader: ...Hehe. Author: Hehe. Protagonist: Yes, unanimous approval. Reader: WTF!!!