Chapter 293 Harold: Don’t try to run!
Time is brought back to the present.
According to the information provided by Candice, the "Relic of the God King" has begun to gather manpower, but Harold has not received any letter from Kucera.
Maybe something went wrong, maybe he changed his strategy temporarily, or maybe the letter was simply lost...
Although this was a good opportunity, Harold could not let the caravan stay too long just to wait for Kucera's letter.
After thinking carefully, he said to Candice: "Miss Candice, are there any powerful mercenaries in the village now?"
"There are quite a few mercenaries in the village, but whether they meet your requirements depends on what level you mean by 'good strength'." Candice smiled and answered vaguely.
I see. What it means is that most people in your village are noobs.
Harold rubbed his forehead in distress.
At this time, he saw a tall and strong blue-haired man walking behind Candice with a girl who looked only in her teens.
The male one shares the same model as the adult male NPC with blue hair in the desert in the game, while the girl is a smaller version of the adult female with blue hair and twin ponytails.
The two men, both wearing the red eye patches that symbolize the Gilded Brigade, stopped in front of a tent and began to select the goods displayed on the hides of pack animals.
Harold's eyes lit up, and two familiar names were on the verge of coming out of his mouth, but under Candice's gaze, he just pretended to cast his gaze at the two of them with curiosity.
"Who are those two...?" Harold asked with interest.
"That's Gabriel, and next to him is his daughter Jade. The two of them are free mercenaries who came to the village to replenish supplies." Candice replied.
Harold nodded, seemingly unable to hide the admiration in his eyes: "It can be seen that they are very strong. I wonder if they are still accepting commissions now."
"I've already asked this for you. Unfortunately, they don't want to be enemies with the 'Legacy of the God-King'." Candice lowered her voice and said regretfully.
Harold: "I think so, but I think it is necessary to try again. If they are willing to help, our chances of winning will be greatly improved."
Candice paused and continued, "However, due to some unknown reasons, these two only move around in this area. They never enter the heart of the desert. I'm afraid your wish will be in vain."
I know why you don't want to go deep into the desert.
Harold thought.
But this has to start from the timeline before Jade was born: Jade's father, Gabriel, was a member of the Tanit tribe who believed in the Red King.
Tanit is an ancient matriarchal tribe. Most of the tribe members believe in the flower god. However, the two beliefs have always coexisted in the tribe. The people of the flower god and the people of the Red King live in harmony.
Except that the mistress must be the "daughter of the Mistress of Flowers", the treatment of the people of Prince Red is no different from that of the people of the God of Flowers.
But the bad thing was that Gabriel was not very lucky. He happened to meet Babel as the mistress. After becoming the mistress, Babel was committed to eliminating dissidents. All the followers of the Red King were regarded by her as unstable factors that needed to be eradicated.
So Gabriel, like other followers of the Red King, was coerced and lured by Babel to go to the ruins to look for the secret treasure left by the Red King.
In addition to tampering with their food, water, and route of advance, Babel also planted killers in their team. From the very beginning, she wanted to destroy all chances of survival of this team.
Her conspiracy almost succeeded, but what she didn't expect was that Gabriel and his good friend Samel were too strong. The two of them successfully killed the assassins planted by Babel, but at this time, they were the only two left in the exploration team composed of Red King's followers.
They certainly could not go back to the tribe. Once they returned to Tanit, they would surely be greeted by Babel's butcher knife. So the two of them left the tribe and formed the Thutmose Mercenary Group. While working in the heart of the desert to earn funds, they tried every means to crack the secret of the golden dreamland.
But neither of them was good at research, so they "invited" a scholar named "Youfei" from the rainforest area to the desert to help decipher the red sand slate.
As they spent time together, Youfei was moved by Gabriel's personal charm and chose to leave her family and stay in the desert. Gabriel was also influenced by Youfei and began to think about the relationship between the individual and the group.
As their relationship heats up, Gabriel's good friend Sameer can no longer sit still. He sees that Gabriel's faith is wavering.
Gabriel no longer regards the Golden Dreamland as his ultimate goal, which is equivalent to no longer recognizing the ideas of the Red King's followers. Samel believes that all this is caused by Youfei, and that Youfei bewitched Gabriel, so he killed Youfei. He thinks that doing so can make Gabriel sober.
But Samel didn't expect that after all this happened, Gabriel abandoned the mercenary group they had co-founded, left quietly with Jade, and never set foot in the heart of the desert again.
Harold's gaze caught the attention of two people who were selecting goods. Jade whispered something to her father, and Gabriel replied with a few words. His hands kept moving. He picked out a few backpacks and put them aside, preparing to compare them carefully before making a plan.
The two of them pretended not to notice anything unusual. Harold could only shake his head helplessly and thought:
Gabriel was a man who valued friendship, but he was also a little worried about gains and losses, so after learning that his good brother had killed his beloved wife, he did not choose to take revenge, but chose to leave and not meet him.
His inner conflict can be seen from his actions. He did not want to go to war with his good friend who had shared life and death with him, but he could not forgive the other party for what he had done. Perhaps because he did not want Jade to bear a blood feud, he never told Jade about his past.
His behavior pattern has always been approach-avoidance, and his reaction now is completely consistent with his character...well...as I expected.
Harold thought about it, thanked Candice, said a few polite words to her, and then walked towards Gabriel and Jade.
You can't avoid me. I'm short of people right now, so I've decided that it's you.