The dismissal of Adjutant Yang Liu for dereliction of duty caused an uproar within the Wind Wolf Squad and even the Knights. The members of the Wind Wolf Squad who had always been following Yang Liu pleaded for him, but Yang Liu just pursed his lips and said nothing.

  Now is the most critical moment in the war with the dragon clan. Doing so will inevitably reduce the attack power and cohesion of the Wind Wolf Squad. For this reason, the captains of other teams also said that this should not be the case.

  The captain of the Ice Wolf Squad, Sander, rushed to Cesare's tent and said, "Your Highness, by doing this, you are undoubtedly handing over the Great Bear Pond area to the dragon people."

  Cesare stopped fastening his armor, turned to look at Xander, but said nothing.

  "Your Highness." Sander stepped forward. "This is too sensitive a time. Yang Liu shouldn't be guilty of this, right?"

  "A person who abuses his power cannot be the leader of the Wind Wolves," Cesare said. "Are you going to continue to defend her?"

  "Yang Liu..." Sander said hesitantly. It is true that Yang Liu often likes to regard herself as Cesare's spokesperson, but...if it is about abusing power...Sander thought it was instructed by Cesare.

  Cesare raised an eyebrow. "Is this what you came for?"

  Sander shook his head. "We found traces of human activities in an abandoned village about a hundred kilometers north of Xiongcheng. Xiongcheng has blocked the pass, and the people and merchants will not leave the city, so we think it is possible that they are the Dragon Clan."

  Cesare walked over to the sand table and asked, "When did you find it?"

  "This morning," Sander said, "our people searched the village but didn't find anyone. About 30 kilometers north of this village there is another abandoned village, and our people have already started searching."

  Bear City is southwest of the Big Bear Pool and the Little Bear Pool. Cesare looked at the geographical location on the sand table and thought to himself. Could it be Dragon Gol or another dragon tribe? He retreated to advance and gave up the fortress of the Big Bear Pool, but ordered the Thunder Wolves and Wind Wolves to set up the crossbow cart on the cliff behind the fortress of the Big Bear Pool, waiting for the dragon tribe to take the bait -

  Without Longgor's dragons, Cesare was not afraid. Moreover, Cesare was sure that Longgor would not return to Darkwhisper City. He ordered Sander to let people spread the news of Longgor's release, and it would be best if everyone in Darkwhisper City knew that the red-haired man was released unharmed.

  Then he had the news of his poisoning and Yang Liu's dismissal spread, so that the withdrawal from the Daxiongchi Fortress would appear beyond doubt.

  "So should we still track down the people in the abandoned village?" Sander asked.

  Cesare shook his head. "You go to the Great Bear Pond, and the Wind Wolves and I will go to the abandoned village."

  It was already dusk, and it was time to continue on our journey.

  A Jin and A Xiang followed A Lan to pack their luggage, Jasmine went to fetch water, and Qu Fuer saw that no one was paying attention to her at the moment, so she got up and went out.

  The dragon was right next door. She touched the dagger on her waist and approached the man cautiously. Jasmine would certainly not have expected her behavior. Leaving a wounded dragon alone in front of an Elima man, then the only fate waiting for him would be death.

  This was the first time that Qu Fuer saw living dragons. She thought that those guys who ate human flesh and drank human blood looked like monsters, but she didn't expect that they were no different from herself. As a person from another continent, how could Qu Moli understand that kind of innate hatred?

  Every child of Elima grew up listening to those stories. A hundred years ago, Darkwhisper City and Elima had always maintained peace and even had a history of marriage. Until one day, Darkwhisper City broke that peace. The delegation that set out from Elima to the East was killed by people sent by Darkwhisper City. The angry Pope of Elima accused Darkwhisper City of betrayal, and when Elima was not ready to fight, the dragon cavalry army of Darkwhisper City had already approached the city.

  They slaughtered villages along the way, and the former Bear City was in ruins. Men were disemboweled and their heads were hung on the city walls as a protest, while women were insulted and died in shame. No one understood why the Secret Language City was so brutal and barbaric, and the pope died gloriously in battle because he personally went into battle.

  When Fu'er was in Quewu, she heard the most about the war in the north, and she saw the most people who lost their families and came to Quewu for comfort. She had forgotten when she had the idea of joining the Knights and killing the enemy with her own hands. Anyway, when she could remember, she had already practiced wielding the dragon spear in Quewu.

  ——She couldn't go into battle to kill the enemy, so it would be good if she could kill an enemy for Elima here.

  She gripped the dagger tightly and stabbed it towards the opponent's chest.

  However, the next moment, she felt that the dagger in her hand was blocked by something, and a huge reaction force hit her, the dagger was knocked away, and she fell to the ground. She saw the person on the bed jumped up, even though he was panting, the look in his eyes was terrifying, the look of someone who had really killed someone on the battlefield.

  Qu Fu'er was not afraid of him. She struggled to get up and wanted to continue picking up the knife from the ground, but was grabbed by the man. Then Fu'er felt someone was strangling her neck. The next moment, the man lifted her up with his hands and she was almost suffocated.

  She struggled hard, grabbed the man's arms with her hands, and kicked hard with her legs.

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  "Who are you?" Long Geer asked in a low voice. He didn't want to alarm the Orientals in the yard. He knew he could not beat those three men.

  Qu Fuer couldn't even speak, and just struggling was almost costing her life.

  "You dare to kill me with your strength." Long Geer chuckled and threw Fu'er to the ground. The girl's head hit the wall with a dull thud.

  Qu Fuer only felt something flowing down from her head. She stared at Long Geer hatefully. She wanted to say something, but her throat was burning with pain.

  Long Geer looked down at Qu Fuer, and he was too familiar with that look, which was the look of every Alimar he killed. He couldn't help wondering where this group of people came from, why some people saved him, and why others risked their lives to kill him.

  He bent down to pick up the dagger and waved it twice in the air. Although the dagger was a little small, it was still useful.

  "Since that woman saved me, I won't kill you." Long Geer squatted down and stared at Qu Fuer, whose blood had already dyed half of her face red. He had more important things to do, so he didn't waste any more time here, so he jumped out of the window and escaped when the Orientals didn't notice him.

  Qu Fuer hated herself so much. She just watched the red-haired man run away but could not do anything.

  She collapsed on the ground like a piece of waste, and her consciousness became increasingly blurred.

  Something flowed into her eyes, and everything in front of her turned red. For example, when Jasmine came into the house and found her, her expression became so nervous, and then there were Ah Jin and Ah Xiang, and Ah Lan——

  Qu Fuer only felt a buzzing in her ears, and then she fell into endless darkness.

  "Fuer! Fuer!!" Jasmine was so anxious that she almost cried. The red-haired man on the bed was gone, and in his place was Fuer, who was lying against the wall, with blood all over her face.

  "Hurry up and carry Fu'er to the bed." Yalan said hurriedly. A Jin and A Xiang carefully lifted Fu'er's head and feet and put her on the bed.

  "Her head is broken." Ah Xiang checked and said quickly. "Dad, do you have any medicine? We need to stop the bleeding first."

  Because Jasmine insisted on stopping Long Gol's bleeding yesterday, they didn't have much hemostatic medicine left. Even Alan, who doted on Jasmine, couldn't help but blame them.

  "It's my fault...it's my fault..." Jasmine was terrified. She had no idea that her actions would lead to such consequences.

  Alan sighed. Fu'er was originally living next door to the dragon man, but now she appeared in the dragon man's house... Alan saw that only the scabbard was left on Fu'er's waist, but the dagger was gone.

  "Don't cry." Alan touched Jasmine's head, "She is probably here to assassinate me."

  "Why?" Jasmine was surprised.

  "Every Elimar has been taught since childhood that dragons are enemies," Alan said, "and you saved a dragon in front of her." He looked at Jasmine. "The war between Elimar and dragons has lasted for hundreds of years. Fu'er grew up in Elimar, so she naturally thinks so."

  "Why?" Jasmine said.

  "At that time, the dragon race was divided into several tribes. The people living in the tribe near Elima were oppressed by both Elima and the dragon who was the leader of Dark Language City at that time." Alan said softly, "Until the leader of that tribe led his people to unify the dragon race and occupied Dark Language City. The defeated leader ran to Elima for help. At that time, Elima City sent an envoy to join us Mingxia to attack Dark Language City, but Dark Language City detained the envoy halfway and killed them all."

  Jasmine bit her nails after hearing this, "How cruel! What about Mingxia? Are we just going to stand by and watch?"

  Alan shook his head. "Jasmine, you are going to be a queen in the future. Some things cannot be solved by being cruel or kind."

  "How can you say that...I..." Jasmine wanted to argue.

  "Because of the war between the Dragon Clan and Elima, Mingxia was able to seize the opportunity to develop. Mingxia has always maintained an open-minded attitude towards the outside world. At the same time, there is a strait between us and them." Alan said, "Also, Uliana in the south is watching the situation. They have made a lot of money from the war between the two countries by selling weapons in recent years. If Mingxia is just watching the situation, then Uliana would like the fight between Elima and Dark Language City to be more intense."

  Jasmine was silent. Seeing this, Ah Jin quickly interrupted, "Dad, I'll go get you some water. Let Jasmine wipe Fu'er." He pushed Jasmine from behind.

  Jasmine turned around and looked at Jin with gratitude.

  She wanted to leave this place quickly, as if Alan had just told her something terrible.

  She was in her prime, her father the Emperor and her mother the Empress loved her, and Mingxia was peaceful again. Even though she had been taught the rules and ways of being a monarch by her teacher since she was a child, no one had ever told her about the bloody history.

  She followed Ah Jin in small steps, "Brother Ah Jin, is what Uncle Yalan said true?"

  Ah Jin said nothing, but walked in front of Jasmine with his hands behind his back. He and Ah Xiang were orphans raised by Ya Lan, so naturally he was familiar with those things. But Jasmine didn't understand. Ah Jin thought, no one had any reason to teach Jasmine those cruel things, she just had to be simple and innocent, that was all, they would take care of those dirty things for her.

  He sighed and turned back, "Silly Jasmine, please be more careful——"

  Before he could finish, he saw the girl squatting on the ground and starting to cry.

  Ah Jin's heart softened. He also squatted down and reached out to touch Jasmine's hair. "You silly girl."

  "Brother Jin, did I hurt Fu'er? Did I hurt Fu'er?" Jasmine asked Jin while wiping her tears. "I didn't mean to do that."

  "We all know you didn't mean it," Ah Jin patted Jasmine. He lowered his head and casually picked a purple flower at his feet. He put it on Jasmine's ear like he did when they were little. "Let's get some water now and clean Fu'er's wound first. Don't cry. It makes me feel bad."

  Jasmine nodded and wiped her nose vigorously, "Then I'll go--" But the next moment she suddenly took a step back and fell into A Jin's arms.

  Ah Jin also saw the group of people descending from the sky on griffins - the figure of the leader was dyed with a golden edge in the setting sun.

  Ah Jin hugged Jasmine in his arms. He looked at the man warily. He remembered him. He had seen his group of people leaving the city in the Elima Imperial City.

  The soldiers surrounded him and Jasmine with dragon spears. Ah Jin said quickly, "We are merchants from the East, and we want to go back to Mingxia."

  Cesare took off his helmet, squinted his eyes and looked at the woman hiding in the arms of the oriental man. For a moment, he actually thought that the girl was Qu Fuer.

  "The pass of Bear City has been closed. How did you get out?" asked a knight from the Wind Wolf Squad. His name was Johnny, and he temporarily took over Yang Liu's job.

  "We..." Ah Jin thought that if he told them the truth that they had secretly bribed officials to escape, there might be other troubles.

  "Your Highness, how should we deal with them? Maybe they are spies?" Johnny asked.

  "Have you ever met any dragons?" Cesare asked.

  Ah Jin shook his head, "Your Excellency, we have never met before."

  Cesare looked at Jin, trying to guess something from his expression, but Jin was so well disguised that he could not get any information.

  "What about you?" So he turned around and asked the oriental girl, "Have you ever met one?"

  Jasmine shook her head vigorously, "No, no..."

  "Who else is in your group?" Cesare saw five camels and horses tied in the yard, but there seemed to be some brown blood stains on the saddle of one of them.

  "It's our family." A Jin replied, "My eldest sister is injured, she is lying in the house." He looked in the direction Cesare was looking, and his heart was shocked. The saddle was stained with blood from the dragon man yesterday, and it had formed a blood scab. How could it escape this man's eyes?

  "Oh?" Cesare raised an eyebrow. "Injured? How did you get injured?"

  Just as Ah Jin was about to answer, he saw Cesare walking straight towards the house. He quickly pulled Jasmine in that direction as well, but he couldn't catch up with Cesare's hand.

  The Knight Commander finally walked to the door and pushed it open.