[Western Fantasy] Cardinal's Life Goal

"Map, is there a problem?"

Delin frowned when he recalled the premonition that day in the auction house, the ominous premonition.Thinking about it now, auctioning ten maps every year is very suspicious. He frowned and looked at Sears: "Have you ever bought it?"

Sears was slightly embarrassed. He turned his head and struggled to find the map he had found in his pocket—thanks to Chemier, it was still lying in its original position.In order for Delin to see clearly, Sears had to move down, then flicked his fingers to ignite a small piece of moss on the top of the stone wall, and opened the map by the light.

Delin looked at the piece of flame above his head that seemed to be falling silently, feeling a little complicated.The pain in the right hand seemed to be a little deeper.

Sears' light tut caught Delin's attention, and he scratched the surface of the map with his fingertips, and said, "This paper...is quite complicated." As he spoke, he gently tore off the map. One corner—contrary to During's expected hardness, this corner was easily torn off, and Sears shook the edge of the paper so that Durling could see the layering clearly.

"...The Chamber of Commerce is really boring." Delin was defeated by the instant sight of this treasure map.

Sears peeled off a layer of paper along the edge of the paper with a complicated expression, and responded: "Indeed."

A folded piece of white paper fell out of it and landed on Delin's face.The boy picked it up with his uninjured left hand and threw it away roughly.The first sentence that catches my eyes is: Welcome to the other world, players of Daqie Miye Academy——Gears.

On the map, the outlines of the mountains are outlined with black and red lines—the black outlines are very familiar to Delin, and they are the outlines in Sears' map.The red line climbs the edge of the black line and stretches out in two directions, outlining completely different effects.Sears moved his head to Delin's side, and the profiles of the two were pressed together, and then the envoy stretched out his finger and pointed to a part of the map: "Look here."

That's where the two fell into the underground forest.

On this map, the red folds abruptly where the black continues to extend, straight down with a frightening sharpness, and someone marked "underground intersection" here with a thin red stroke.After this phrase, followed by a large number of densely packed names of evil beasts, invisible lines appeared under the refraction of light, pointing to different places.

Delin clicked on the surface of the map, and after confirming that there was no divine power attached, he couldn't help sighing: "...This can be regarded as a work of art."

Sears' complexion was a bit ugly - this kind of advanced map has been publicly advertised and auctioned for so many years, but no one has actually taken it seriously.In the beginning, the continuation of this rule was because he couldn't remember why. The map drawn by the gear organization was like a slap in the face, and his sense of pride inherited from the family was wiped out.

...The eyes are higher than the top, and Chemiye's punishment will arrive.Sears cursed in a low voice—this kind of rule has lasted for many years, and not too many people should have discovered it.But the envoy remembered the bastards in Gongbili who seemed to be winning every trial. It seemed that Sanmai had already received the news.

Does the gear want to stand in line?No... The news from Zhuo's side did not highlight this point, not to mention that cooperating with Sanmai did not help the Gear Organization.It is hard work being caught in the storm, but at least they are free, and no one will be free enough to coerce these guys.

It was just a game, then—a game the Bran family had been losing until today.

Sears clenched his hands tightly.

Delin didn't think as much as the envoy thought. He looked at the map carefully, and found something wrong in a corner of the map—an invisible gear was drawn on a spot near the blockade.

He poked Sears with his elbow: "Look here."

The god brought the lord back to his senses, he took the map with both hands, and slowly turned the paper over under the firelight.When the paper was tilted to a certain subtle angle, a line of words appeared on the edge of the gear.

"Players are welcome to participate in the treasure hunt. When the starting point of the last day comes, we have prepared a mysterious gift."

This highly emotional statement seemed to Sears to be sarcasm.He squinted his eyes and folded the map, turned sideways and planted a kiss on Delin's face: "Let's take a look after we're done."

Delin didn't dodge, moved back into the arms of the envoy, and asked softly, "What about Momo and the others?"

"Don't be afraid, with Binhuo here. It won't be worse than us."

"Fal—?"

Sears' voice turned cold all of a sudden, "It's coming for us, they should be fine." After saying this, he carefully wrapped his arms around the boy's waist.The injured hand was still left behind by Delin, but Sears was not as relieved as he was.

Sanmai... He looked at Delin who was half-curled up in his arms with his eyes closed, and thought: If you don't return the courtesy, I'm really sorry for your effort.

……

When the two woke up at night, the fish was dead. Fortunately, it was winter and it hadn't stink.Sears rummaged through the past and found it to be quite fresh. The two people who had just recovered a little bit of strength simply made a living, found some firewood at random, and after Sears lit it, the two began to grill fish happily.

"Although it was not my intention to fall, the distance to the blockade line will be shorter if you cross from here." Sears explained.

Delin sat next to the envoy in silence, and couldn't help asking, "How do we get up?"

Sears paused, obviously skipping the most important question.The envoy raised the short knife that had just been taken out of the magic weapon of space, and slashed a few big cuts on the fish with a gloomy expression.A light fragrance wafted out, and Delin felt the twitching sensation in his stomach, looking forward to the unexpected dinner.

The night among the mountains was obviously more lively than the day, and besides the sounds of beasts, it was accompanied by the laments of countless students.On such a bad night, the underground forest was extraordinarily quiet.The cave they were in was not far from the high cliff, and in front of them was a not-so-big lake.Although it is an underground forest, the trees are not as tall and luxuriant as those in the mountains. The two divided the grilled fish into two parts, skewered them with sharpened branches, and then went outside the cave.

The night wind passed over their heads, and the temperature in the underground forest was obviously more comfortable than that on the high cliffs.When the two came to the cave exit next to each other, light snow began to fall in the sky. The sky was gray and there was not a single star to be seen.

The surface of the lake is calm, even the moonlight is dim.

Sears found a thick blanket from the magic weapon, and didn't dislike the dirtiness of the two of them at all, so he directly covered it.Delin rubbed his right hand to the side of Sears and took a bite of the grilled fish, his cheeks moved.

Sears looked sideways at Delin's appearance, feeling a little itchy in his heart.He freed a hand to poke the boy's face, and Delin glared at him.

"Actually, this is also very good." Sears pulled a smile at the corner of his mouth, "There are no extra people to disturb."

Delin lowered his head and continued to eat fish without speaking.

Sears lowered his head and wanted to make fun of it, but saw Delin took a bite of the fish fiercely, then raised his head suddenly, and put his lips on his mouth accurately.The envoy was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously pried open Delin's mouth slightly.

Then a piece of fish was fed in.

Delin quickly turned his face away, his voice was dry and hoarse: "Eat well."

Following the moonlight, Sears keenly noticed the beige color on the tip of the boy's ears.

The two of them blocked the entrance of the cave with sundries and slept in the middle of the night. Before dawn in the morning, Sears woke up Delin.He looked at the palm of Delin's right hand—maybe it was handled fairly well, the palm was no longer so scary, at least he didn't have to be afraid of touching things.

Holding the knife still doesn't work.

The two cleaned up the things here a little bit, and Sears cleaned up the two of them with a little recovered power, so as not to be dirty and uncomfortable to look at.

At four o'clock at this time, those noisy evil beasts also fell into a light sleep.This is a better time to hurry than any other time of day.The two sorted out their equipment and made a simple floating lamp with dead branches and leaves.Then Sears took out the concealment device and activated it.

The mask silently enveloped them.

Delin turned out the map and compared the directions, and looked at the forest in front of him hesitantly—although it was not very dense, the branches intertwined with each other, and there were not many places where they could see the markers.If you get lost in this underground forest, things will become more complicated.

Sears seemed to see his concerns, and approached and touched the boy's head.

"Let's follow the map." Sears carefully held the boy's right hand—so as not to accidentally open the healed wound again, "Did you see this? As long as the direction is right, the light can reflect a complete picture here." arrows."

Delin was held in Sears' arms, but he was too embarrassed to move too much.He looked in the direction Sears pointed, and there was a four-pointed star standing still in the corner of the map.It was dark at this time, and the arrow could only be made to appear by the light of the floating lamp lit by Sears.Delin flipped the map, thinking it was a bit amusing.

The envoy wrapped his arms around the boy's waist along the way, and planted a kiss on the side of his face: "We need to speed up. Since the map marked 'underground entrance', there should be an 'exit'."

After hearing this, Delin folded the map, leaving only the route they traveled and the four-pointed star at the top.

A weary beast cry sounded from the depths of the underground forest, and then it passed through layers of tree leaves and soil, and finally dissipated in the midair of the underground world.

Before the night passed, the two set foot on the road.