Chapter two hundred and fifty seventh seven hundred years
Gao Wen was a little surprised at this moment, but because he had discovered some clues before, he didn't have much surprise in his heart.
He just looked at the blond elf man who was wary of him in the distance, and some memories related to the other person appeared in his mind. It was from the memories of Gowen Cecil seven hundred years ago. He knew clearly what the elf was, and he also knew how this elf accepted human employment as a free warrior, and once became a subordinate of Gowen Cecil in the mixed legion. Although these memories were not his own, after nearly a year of fusion and adaptation, he was able to skillfully put himself in it when extracting Gowen Cecil's memories.
Even Gowen Cecil's relatives and friends would not see the sense of incongruity in his reaction, and the elf named Saldrin would not see it.
But even so, Saldrin still had no intention of putting down his weapon. He held the short bow in his hand tightly and swept his eyes quickly over the surrounding Cecil combat soldiers. He could feel that these people were just ordinary people with little magic power in their bodies. However, the equipment of these people also had a unique and automatic magic reaction. He had never seen this type of soldier, and there was no corresponding army in both human and elves' army, but he guessed that the missing unit was destroyed by these soldiers.
The elf ranger's reaction was expected by Gao Wen, who laughed: "Although this situation will be embarrassing, I am still very happy to see an acquaintance seven hundred years ago appear in front of me. Solderin brings your people to put down their weapons. There is no need for us to end things badly."
Saldrin frowned. He knew the strength of Gowen Cecil. If the one on the opposite side was really genuine, even without the strange soldiers around, the team he led would not be able to leave here. However, surrendering also had the knowledge of surrender. He was silent for a moment, and slightly relaxed the bowstring in his hand and was almost unobservable: "Will you let these soldiers go?"
"They are soldiers of Tifeng. I know the changes in this era, so I can't let them go," Gao Wen noticed the changes in Saldrin's bowstring, so he said lightly, "Under normal circumstances, I will solve them all without leaving any hidden dangers, but since you are here, as long as you are willing to cooperate, I can guarantee that they will be alive."
Gao Wen could be sure that after he finished speaking, the soldiers of Tifeng who held the weapons tightly relaxed to varying degrees of muscles, no one was willing to seek death. Even these soldiers who were extremely loyal to the Tifeng Empire were the same. They were not stupid, so they naturally knew that there would be no meaning to resist in this situation. It would be very appropriate to give them a step to surrender with Saldrin's favor, and this was also a step for Saldrin.
The Elf Ranger exhaled. Although he knew that if it was Gowan Cecil in his memory, the other party could understand what he meant, he did not really relax until then. However, before putting away the weapon, he could not help but question for the last time: "I still can't believe you are real, how do you prove that you are the real Gowan Cecil?"
Before Gao Wen could speak, Hedy, who was standing next to him, couldn't help but: "How can you repeatedly question the identity of your ancestors?!"
Gao Wen raised his hand and calmed down Hetty, then looked at Saldrin with a smile: "Do you want me to prove my identity?"
Saldrin looked at Gao Wen quietly, his expression not changing.
"Okay, that's what you mean," Gao Wen spread his hands, "I know the real reason why you 'never exert your power to more than 70%'. I also know that this reason is the initial reason for letting you leave the Silver Empire and travel around the mainland. You once went to the great wizard Bardega for this reason, and the field that the great wizard is good at is..."
"Okay, you need to say nothing," Saldrin let go of the bowstring and waved his hand to order the soldiers behind him to disarm. "I believe you are the real Gowan Cecil. I am willing to deal with you, and I believe you will keep your promise and ensure the safety of these soldiers I bring."
The soldiers of Tifeng were disarmed one by one. The feeling of raising their hands to surrender without fighting really annoyed these elite soldiers, especially the three knights, who were even more angry, but reason forced them to accept this fact. This was the best result.
The resurrected Gowan Cecil was actually real, and he stood a hundred meters away from them. In this situation, they even had to be glad that their commander was an old acquaintance of the enemy, which at least saved their lives.
On the opposite side, Gao Wen couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. After knowing that Saldrin existed, he hoped to solve the problem without bloodshed. He knew that the strength of this elf ranger, a high-level ranger, even if his own talent could not break through to the legend, his combat power was quite terrible. Gao Wen's current strength may still be able to deal with Saldrin, but in the battle he may not have the spare time to protect others. Once the Cecil combat regiment fights with this Tifeng elite, damage will inevitably be avoided.
The unavoidable casualties on the battlefield are one thing, and the avoidable casualties are another thing.
The captives were confiscated one by one and tied their hands. Extraordinary people like the mage and the knight also added an additional layer of rope made of magical silk thread just in case. However, Saldrin avoided this treatment. Anyway, ordinary ropes and shackles could not control a high-level ranger. It was safer to have Gao Wen personally press the formation in the team than any method.
Before being taken away, Saldrin took a curious look at the still busy open-air excavation site. In the end, he couldn't figure out what was digging in this place.
On the way back to Cecil's leadership, Amber was looking at Saldrin curiously. The seemingly rash half-elf stared at the high-level ranger and felt uncomfortable. Saldrin couldn't help but frown: "Is there any problem?"
Amber looked carefully at Gao Wen and Hetty not far away, lowered his voice and muttered to Saldrin: "I'm just curious, are you Lao Zongzi's friend back then?"
Saldrin was stunned by this inexplicable natural word: "What does old rice dumpling mean?"
"It's Gao Wen," Amber said carelessly, "what he told me that the zombie dug out of the coffin is an old Zongzi, but he clearly taught me this, but he didn't let me say that..."
Before Amber could finish speaking, she felt someone knocking her head quickly, and Gao Wen's voice came from the side: "Do you think I can't hear it if I lowered the sound?"
"Old Zongzi, why are you walking soundless... Oh my god!"
Saldrin stared at Gao Wen pounding on the amber's head in a daze. Suddenly, he felt as if he had seen the Gao Wen Cecil whom he had just met in the wasteland of Gondor back then, and was also the same careless and unrestrained. He could quickly get along with anyone in the team, whether human or alien mercenaries. Although Gao Wen did not have the habit of knocking on others at that time, this kind of free and easy appearance was indeed very similar.
But in the second half of memory, after Ansu founded and Govin Cecil became the Duke of the Southern Front, this free and easy gradually disappeared. The heavy responsibility and some pressure made the legendary knight who rose on the Northern Expedition more and more serious and serious. In Saldrin's last memories of Govin Cecil, he could not remember that the other party looked so relaxed and cheerful.
After lying in the coffin for seven hundred years, I lie back to my 25th? Or have I experienced life and death and seen through something?
Saldrin believes it is the latter.
There is no need to pretend to be deep for a person who has become a legend, has created great achievements, and has experienced a cycle of life and death.
His guess was accidentally hitting the truth. Gao Wen's free and easy mentality did come from his life and death and incredible experience, but the years he experienced were far beyond the imagination of the elf ranger...
After returning to the territory, Gao Wen directly handed over all the prisoners to Knight Philip who was waiting in the military camp. He decided to temporarily detain these people, beat them up and send them to the mine to mine or to the construction site on the North Bank to do infrastructure. After the spring of the next year, they can also let them go to the North Bank to clear the land. Anyway, there is work everywhere in the territory now, and the territory has developed to this day, so there is no fear that these people will cause trouble.
The mercenary mage I caught before was "educated" and was sent to the mechanical manufacturing center. It was a perfect kill for the mercenary mage below the middle level after being "educated". The mercenary mage is now very honest and has received the first month's excellent production bonus.
As for Saldrin, he was taken directly to the lord's mansion by Gao Wen.
To get information, you still have to start from this "old acquaintance".
Saldrin walked into Gowen's "castle". The moment he entered the hall, a warm breath came to his face. The cold wind of the cold winter outside was completely isolated. The not-so-tall and magnificent "castle" inside was so warm that Saldrin felt incredible.
The environment here makes him feel very comfortable.
Silver Elf is a species that lives in the tropical areas of the southern continent. Although the entire Silver Empire is not trapped in the scorching heat due to the influence of mountains and magic whirlwinds, they are generally more adapted to the warm living environment. Although Saldrin has been traveling in the northern part of the mainland for many years and has adapted to the relatively cold climate here, he would still be very happy if there was a warmer environment.
But what surprised him was that he did not see heating devices such as fireplaces in the hall.
“Here is heated with a 'warmway',” Gowen saw Saldrin’s move in the hall looking for a fireplace and explained casually, “I invented a means of heating. There is a copper heater deep in the mansion, and the fire runes heat it, and then the heat is sent to the rooms through the heat pipes and brick passages around the heater. The walls here have mezzanines and the roof is insulated to make it feel much more comfortable to live in than a cold castle. Recently I am planning to improve this thing so that it can heat the entire block.”
After listening carefully, Saldrin looked at Gao Wen in surprise: "When did you understand these things?"
"I have some special experiences," Gao Wen smiled slightly, and walked towards the study with Saldrin. "I haven't seen each other for seven hundred years, and I think we have a lot to talk about."
Saldrin smiled and followed: "It's true."
After arranging Amber to guard the door, only Gao Wen and Saldrin were left in the study. It can be seen that when there were no one around, the elf ranger who seemed to be indifferent and alienated had a hint of relaxation.
Gao Wen sat down behind the desk and signaled Saldrin to find a seat next to him to sit down. Then he looked at the "friend from seven hundred years ago" curiously: "How could you get to Tifeng?"
"Just traveling around," Saldrin replied casually, "I am just a free ranger. When the employment period of a country expires, I will naturally look for a new employer."
This is obviously not the whole reason, but Gao Wen did not look at it in detail, but smiled: "Speaking of it, seeing that you are still traveling, has that problem not been solved yet?"
"I'm almost giving up," Saldrin sighed helplessly. "Thinking about it, the potions prepared by Master Bardega do not work. Maybe no one in this world can help me."
"Actually, you're pretty good. No one can tell that your true strength and you've got a name that sounds very majestic, 'Blonde Saldrin', I heard that I'm following the path of a popular lover..."
Saldrin glanced at Gao Wen: "Would you be happy if you don't?"
Gao Wen subconsciously touched his hairline: "Forget it, my hairline has finally stabilized recently..."
Saldrin sighed and suddenly felt that reuniting with an old friend in seven hundred years was not a very happy thing.
"My house is quite hot, don't you take off your wig?"
Chapter completed!