Watching the note suddenly turn into ashes, Barbara whipped her mount and asked, "Mr. Beta, what was written on the note?"
"I didn't write anything!" Liang Lidong said truthfully.
Barbara, however, was not convinced. "Mr. Beta, the Longman family is greatly indebted to you. If it's a harsh condition, please tell us, and we can help you settle it. It will be a way of repaying the favor that our family owes you."
Liang Lidong knew that Barbara would react this way. He said, "That was indeed a blank piece of paper. This should be Mark's way of sowing discord. He deliberately used this method to arouse suspicion between us. If you don't believe me, then you've completely fallen into his trap."
"Is that so? Then I'll believe Mr. Beta first."
Barbara thought for a moment and said with a smile. She chose to believe him, at least on the surface, but Liang Lidong didn't know what she was really thinking. Also, the mayor and his wife would definitely learn of it. What they thought was another matter. It had to be said that the older, the wiser. The mayor's mansion had the upper hand at first, but with Mark's move, the situation might be reversed very soon.
What was more troublesome was that a Necromancer was lurking in Winterwind. Liang Lidong felt a headache at the thought of the moving catastrophe. Compared to the Necromancer, the threat of the Temple of Life was nothing. However, Mark's timing was rather strange. Liang Lidong spurred his horse forward and talked to Joan Of Arc telepathically.
"Joan Of Arc, have you noticed anything unusual about the Temple of Life?"
"No!" Joan Of Arc's lovely voice was filled with confusion. "The people of the Temple of Life have been staying in the temple peacefully. I haven't seen them do anything."
"But I ran into Archbishop Mark just now."
"What?" Joan Of Arc's voice was full of surprise. "I've been watching the temple. Nobody has come out."
Liang Lidong thought for a moment and said, "Mark has gone back. Keep an eye on them."
"Alright!"
Because of Mark, the whole team was silent. In fact, he had been very quiet before, but now his silence was tinged with awkwardness and stiffness, as if he was isolated from the crowd by an invisible wall. Liang Lidong's EQ wasn't low. Of course, he could feel the strange atmosphere. In this dreary march, the troops seemed to take a long time to return to the castle.
After entering the castle, Barbara and the black-robed girl went up to the second floor, while Liang Lidong returned to his temporary residence on the top floor. He opened the window and looked at the cavalry fortress and the infantry fortress in the distance. Training was going on over there, and loud shouts could be heard. Not long after, the infantry seemed to have begun to assemble. Liang Lidong looked at it for a while, then let out a long sigh. With a slightly disappointed mood, he said to Joan Of Arc telepathically, "Come back. There's no need to continue monitoring the Church of Life."
"Why?" Joan Of Arc was puzzled. "I haven't seen Mark return to the temple."
"They may have discovered that you're monitoring the Church of Life. So, Mark should have gone to another secret base, and that base is most likely connected to the Temple. You won't see them return to the Temple. "Liang Lidong revealed a smile:" And the one in danger right now is me, you should come back. "
"What's going on?" Joan Of Arc was very nervous.
Liang Lidong told her what had happened and then said, "In any case, the mayor and I used each other before, so they won't have too much trust in me. Mark's plan will most likely succeed. But I still hope for a miracle, so I plan to stay in the castle for a while longer and see how the mayor and the others respond. I'll try to convince them. "
"That's not good. You know that it's dangerous to stay, so why don't you leave?"
Liang Lidong said. "Because it's dangerous, so we must be fully prepared. If the mayor really turns against us, we must have a way to leave this place."
"Okay, I understand. I'll be right there."
Then Liang Lidong began to set up warning spells on the seventh floor. Joan Of Arc appeared on the balcony once, grabbed two scrolls, and left. Not long after he set up the warning spells, a delicate maid came up and invited him to go downstairs to the main hall for dinner.
What's going to come will come. Liang Lidong calmed his mind and went down to the first floor. Around the dining table in the main hall, everyone was already there. As soon as Liang Lidong came down, he found that everyone's eyes were on him. He walked to an empty seat and sat down, then looked around at the people around him, and finally his eyes fell on Mayor Uther.
Coughing slightly, Uther said, "Since everyone is here, let's start eating."
Because the nobles were particular about not talking when eating, everyone buried their heads in food and no one spoke. Uther was the first to finish the food on his plate, then he wiped his mouth and sat down to wait. When Liang Lidong finished his food too, he asked, "I'm told that you ran into Mark on your way back?"
Liang Lidong nodded. "There are two things I'd like to clarify in advance. Firstly, the paper ball that Mark gave me was blank, and secondly, Mark is trying to drive a wedge between us. I hope that you can trust me more and not be tricked by Mark's action. "
Liang Lidong's words were not without reason. Everyone looked at each other and nodded their heads lightly.
Uther thought for a moment and asked, "I'm told that you're looking for two more women. You can draw their faces, and Winterwind can help you look for them."
Liang Lidong thought for a while and then shook his head. Blondie had left a message saying that the enemy was very strong. Although he had never seen Blondie and Whitey fight, to be able to pull him from Earth here and resurrect him, this was definitely not the ability of an ordinary person. Even if they were so strong, they still said that the enemy was strong. Then with his current strength, there was no way he could compete with the enemy. If he drew their faces and if the enemy got wind of it, it would be bad.
After being rejected by Liang Lidong, Uther did not say anything. He just smiled and let it go. After the meal, everyone returned to their rooms to rest. Liang Lidong was no exception. Setting up a magic array was a very taxing task. Although Liang Lidong looked fine on the surface, he was actually quite tired.
After he returned to his room, he checked the warning spell and found nothing wrong. Then, he put on his clothes and went to sleep. He didn't know how long he slept, but he was woken up by the warning spell in a daze. He jumped out of bed and found that the sky outside the window was already dark. However, his "Cloud Dragon Blue Pupil" immediately started to activate, and soon his vision began to adjust. To him, there was no difference between the surroundings and daytime.
The warning spell had been activated. Liang Lidong saw a pool of blood at the door. It wasn't a lot, but it was obvious that the intruders had been heavily wounded by the warning spell. The sound of a large number of footsteps on the ground could be heard coming from the stairs outside the door. They were getting closer and louder.
"You still don't trust me after all?"
Liang Lidong took out a Feather Fall scroll from his Backpack and jumped out of the window, gliding forward. However, he soon discovered that a lot of archers were waiting for him on the ground. At least a hundred longbows had locked onto his trajectory the moment he jumped out.
This is a bit bad! Liang Lidong clicked his tongue.