Law of the Dragon

"My hands are so sore..." Yarrow complained in a low voice.

"It's so loud that I can't sleep..." Eros poked his head out of the wool blanket to accuse Yarrow when he heard Yarrow's complaint.

The veins on Yarrow's head popped up all of a sudden, and he had the urge to drop his six-stringed violin to quarrel with the false king, but when he saw the sleepy Larry, he suppressed his anger again.Of the four of them, only Larry was the weakest, with that banshee cry that would soon drive him mad, and then life would be worse than death.

Larry is a good boy, for him he must be calm, Yarrow said to himself, calm down...can't be calm down!

"Hey, Sacre! Have you figured out a way?!" The woman shouted at the man sleeping in the blanket on the other side.

Sa Keluo turned over, yawned, and murmured in a sleepy tone: "I'm thinking about it, I'm about to figure it out..." As he spoke, Yarrow heard a thin snoring sound coming from there. .

Eros covered his mouth and yawned, looked at the deep night, climbed into bed again, and surrounded himself with a soft woolen blanket.

"Hello!" the woman whispered.

"Good night." Eros turned over and fell into a deep sleep.

As a result, the next day, Yarrow was the only one with dark circles under his eyes, and Larry only had some scratches on his head, which didn't matter, so he went on the road with them.

"It's strange, Yarrow. In the past, you used to watch the night or practice swords. I didn't see you like this at that time." Thakro looked at Yarrow with a tired face and said. He remembered that Yarrow was not like this before. look like.At that time, he was only eleven or twelve years old, and he was asked by his father to go to the battlefield. At that time, Ya Luo took him by his side. It was a defense battle in the western border. Luo didn't sleep for four days in a row, and he was still in high spirits when he was on the horse. It's not like what he is now--it's too appropriate to describe it as "half dead"!

Yarrow replied disdainfully: "Two different things, Thakro, I don't like playing the piano at all, and I can't get excited about things I don't like."

Speaking as if he liked fighting very much, Eros looked up at the sky in boredom, the sky was blue, with a look of "nothing has anything to do with me".Speaking of which, since this morning, they have not seen any birds or other animals. There will always be some strange things in the river, but these are the lowest level of monsters, like black feather fish or something , so some even Eros couldn't name them.

Because there were too many strange things in the river, they walked along the river far away. Fortunately, after the flood some time ago, the shoal here was very large, but they could walk along it on horseback, and it was not close to the river.Even in the daytime, when the sun was shining, the forest looked dark and gloomy. Even walking in, they could feel the temperature drop. In order to avoid any troubles, they did not intend to enter the forest.

"I think we're lost." Thaklow kept comparing with the map, and finally said in frustration.

Eros and Yarrow had to stop and check around Thakro, pointing fingers at the map.

"What kind of broken map is this, why do we get lost?" Eros blamed the innocent map.

Yarrow snorted, and said, "If we're lost, why is it the map's fault, it's well marked, and we're on the wrong track."

Eros couldn't help raising his voice: "Why did we go wrong, we went up the river, there is no reason to go wrong!" He turned his head to look at Sa Keluo, hoping to get his approval.

After receiving Yarrow's threatening gaze, the Duke, who was on both sides, coughed in embarrassment: "I think... what you say makes sense."

Before they continued to argue, he quickly pointed to the map and said, "We set off from here. It takes about two days to travel on horseback, but considering the complicated situation here, it is not very easy for us to walk. quick……"

"Can you get to the point?" Yarrow said coolly.

Thaclow had no choice but to say: "The place the two bishops said is probably here," he pointed to somewhere in the Crota River, "and the place where we started is here, that is to say, as long as we walk along the river , you can get here..." His fingers followed the bend of the river to reach the river section that the bishop said, "We will only pass through a fork in the river."

After hearing this, Eros stood on the horse lightly, looked around, sat down again and said, "I'm not lost, there is a fork in the river not far ahead. Next, we just need to continue walking up the river... ..."

But Yarrow interrupted Eros: "Sure enough, you are an idiot." Before Eros could argue with him, she said, "We crossed a fork in the river yesterday."

"We're lost!" Eros sighed, "Sure enough, the Chief Cabinet should send us a team of guides."

Sa Keluo frowned and said, "Actually, it's not necessarily lost."

"Is there any explanation for this extra river?" Yarrow said coolly.

Sa Keluo looked at the map and said: "We have been walking along the river, so there must be no problem with the distance before sunset yesterday. Afterwards, we ran into the forest in a panic because we met the Banshee, but in fact We didn't run very far from the river because Larry fell off his horse."

As he said that, he used his hand to only place one place on the river on the map: "Probably at this location, this morning, we walked out along the trail that we ran into the forest at night, that is to say, in fact, we did not deviate from the original place." After that, we continued to walk along the river and came here."

"We didn't go wrong," Yarrow hesitated slightly.

Eros is very happy now: "I just said that the map is wrong!"

Sa Keluo shook his head: "This map was drawn by the elves of the Valley of Elves after they came to the third district. In principle, there will be no such errors in the maps they draw, and this map is very detailed, much better than the ones we use. Military maps have to be several times finer."

Eros sighed in his heart, saying that Hildor's military map was so sloppy, but he asked: "If we are not wrong and the map is not wrong, then is this river wrong?"

The three of them looked at the Crota River at the same time. The river flowed silently, and the sun shone on the water, which was quiet and beautiful—except for the black-feathered fish that occasionally jumped out, it was quite beautiful.

"Don't be kidding," Yarrow took the lead to break the calm, "This river is not alive, how can it..."

Sa Keluo waved his hand, turned his head to look at the two of them, and said, "Of course the river will not be alive, but... it may also be the problem of the current flood. The surge in water flow has caused part of the water to divert. It's also possible. The elves arrived in the third district three months ago, and the water fork might not have been separated at that time, so it's normal that it wasn't marked on the map."

After hearing this, Eros nodded half-understood, then turned to look at the river.The river looked very peaceful at the moment, and looked like a good old man, but there were dangerous dark species hiding under the water.However, that is wrong, no matter how many people die, there will not be so many banshees.

When he was running towards the forest last night, he glanced back. The river was almost full of banshees crawling out. Their green skin almost lit up the entire river.When he came last time, there were only some black feather fish and other small dark monsters. There is no reason why these things have flooded like this in just a few months.

Even if these little monsters are in a daze and pull people into the water regardless of time and place, they will not be in the same situation as last night. The day and night here are simply different.

"Your Majesty, it's time for us to go," Saclow patted Eros on the shoulder as he rode by.

Eros nodded lightly and followed Sa Keluo forward. It seemed that they believed that the Crota River, which was in a flood period, had changed its course without authorization and diverted part of the river.

After that, their progress slowed down, Thakro kept comparing the terrain with the map, and Eros rode curiously along the river beach, arguing with Yarrow without saying a word.Although Yarrow temporarily acquiesced in the existence of this false king in terms of major prerequisites, he did not show any respect for the king.

"No, we went wrong." Thakro said very firmly this time, it was almost night, and they couldn't turn around and start again, so they all got off their horses.

"Maybe this is the fork it branched off from, and we should follow the other," Eros said.

Yarrow said coolly at the side: "We need to be able to go there, the original bridges on the river have been washed away - of course, if this river branched out, there would be no bridges at all. And there was such a mess in the water that we couldn't possibly swim through it."

"And I don't want to swim across," Thaklow said, "but I can't figure it out, because the terrain here is completely inconsistent with the map, but judging from the degree of shoal formation, this river should be more than just a river. Formed three months ago."

"That's...the map is wrong?" Yarrow asked hesitantly, was he really fooled by the idiot Eros?

Sacre shook his head.

"Could we... have walked into a river that the elves didn't even notice?" Eros looked around.

"It's impossible in theory, and it's impossible in practice," although Yarrow didn't feel good about his other half of the blood, but he couldn't stand Eros talking about them.

"Anyway, it's almost night, we have to find a place to rest." Thakro said.

Yarrow glanced at Su Keluo sadly: "Would it be me playing the piano for another night?"

"Well..." Sa Keluo coughed lightly, looking around, trying to avoid the topic.

"Anyway, I don't know how to play," Yarrow said firmly, seeing the appearance of the other two, "I don't care, I must sleep tonight!"

"There's a bridge over there!" Eros looked around and finally got a good result.

In the afterglow of the setting sun, there is really a bridge across the water farther away.

"Go and see, maybe you can find a place to spend the night." Saclow rode his horse and ran towards the bridge.

"Wait a minute!" Eros suddenly grabbed his cloak, forcing him to stop.

"What's wrong?" Arrow asked after him.

"...Where's Larry?"