Rogge strode past the two girls, came to the bank of the bloodstained river and squatted down, inspecting the remaining bloodstains on the snow. His hurried passing made Lilith notice the abnormality first, and she raised her head to look at him. Looked over.

"Did you find something good?" The little girl stood up and jumped behind Rogge. She threw herself on his back and pressed her chin on his shoulder. She looked down and saw something on the ground in front of Rogge. A clear stain of blood.

"Yeah? You're vomiting blood!" The little girl shouted in a feigned panic. Catherine on the side was startled, and hurriedly came over and asked, "What's wrong? What happened?"

"Don't listen to this brat screaming, I'm fine!" Rogge looked up at Catherine, poked Lilith's little nose with his finger and said, "I think we found the two men in black robes who escaped."

Catherine looked down and saw that the snow in front of him was stained red with blood, and he was holding a black rag in his hand.

"This is a special cloth for a cloak. The bloodstains on the ground were not covered by last night's snowfall. There are large damages on the ice next to the bloodstains, indicating that the two guys cleaned and bandaged their wounds here." Rogge gave the clues. Pointing it out to Catherine, he said.

He gently pushed Lilith away from his back, stood up and looked up at the sky. After confirming his position, he said: "It seems that we are going in the right direction. We just made a big circle, but we did not escape away from them." route."

"Then let's catch up!" Catherine looked around excitedly, but then asked Rogge with a confused look on her face: "But, which way should we chase?"

"This way," Rogge pointed to the upper part of the stream and said, "The ice in this small river is not thick. One person can easily break it with his feet, let alone two people stepping on the ice. The ice in the middle of the river is The ice didn't break, which means they didn't cross the river."

He pointed to the ice by the river and continued: "There are obvious damages on the ice by the water. It should be that they deliberately stepped on the edge of the stream in order not to leave footprints on the snow. The traces went all the way upstream. , which is also consistent with their direction when coming from downstream.”

Rogge turned back and pulled Lilith in front of him, held her little face with his hands and said, "Little guy, you fly upstream first and search for traces of those two guys from the air. Catherine and I will follow you! "

"I'm hungry and can't fly!" Lilith shouted in a coquettish voice with her little mouth pouted.

"It doesn't matter if you can't fly, it's okay if you can jump and catch up with them!" Rogge picked up the little girl and threw her into the sky.

The little girl waved her arms in mid-air and screamed, turning into a little owl in the red light. She turned back and glared at Roger fiercely, and said angrily: "You have to pay a price for bullying children, be careful with your dry food!"

"I'll wait for you to come back for dinner, little darling!" Rogge smiled and waved to her, watching Lilith fly away in a puff of anger, he turned back and waved to Catherine to follow her.

The two chased Lilith along the direction of her flight, and found two pairs of footprints leaving the river bank at the bend of the river. Rogge asked Lilith to track the target first. The little guy soon came back to report that two pairs of footprints were spotted one kilometer ahead. Dark shadow.

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Since it was already dark at this time, Lilith's eyes couldn't bear the white light reflected from the snow, and her vision became as white as a blind man. The little owl, unable to continue flying, fell back on Rogge's body and got into his hat. inside.

"Let's keep chasing, we must catch them!" Rogge did not embarrass the little guy anymore. He and Catherine ran all the way, and soon saw the two figures.

The sound of them running on the snow alerted two black figures. The man in black robe turned around and recognized Rogge running in front. He couldn't help being startled, and hurriedly accelerated his pace and rushed into a forest.

Seeing that the two of them were about to run away, Catherine raised the silver gun in her hand and prepared to shoot, but Rogge suppressed the muzzle of the gun. He said: "Don't shoot. It's difficult to control the distance. If someone is killed, then... There will be no one alive! You follow, I will catch up with them!"

Rogge turned around and rushed towards a towering tree, flew up the trunk, and quickly climbed up to the top of the tree as if his hands were attached to the bark.

He glanced at the direction in which the two men in black robes were escaping, jumped from the top of the tree, grabbed the branches of a big tree opposite in mid-air, swung forward with all his strength, and continued to jump towards another tree ahead. Tree.

Relying on the endless trees and branches in the jungle, Rogge moved quickly in mid-air like a flexible ape, approaching the two men in black robes at an incredible speed.

Unexpectedly, just when he was about to fall from the sky and pounce on the man in black robe, the branch he was holding suddenly broke, and Rogge lost his support and fell from the air more than ten meters high.

Rogge, who was in mid-air, was in danger. He stretched out his left hand to grab the tree trunk. His five fingers left five deep grooves on the tree trunk. He drew his sword with his right hand, kicked off his feet vigorously, and jumped forward. , pounced on a big tree in front, and the silver sword in his hand was deeply inserted into the trunk.

Using the inertia of his body's leap, he grabbed the hilt of the sword and swung it forward. He jumped from the tree trunk and landed in the middle of the road, just blocking the way of the two men in black robes. The two saw Rogge suddenly appearing in front of them, as if Shocked as if seeing a ghost, he hurriedly pulled out his sword and pointed it at Rogge.

"After running for so long, it's time to take a break. In fact, cooperation is not that difficult. Tell me, where is the sacred weapon? Besides William the Bloody Hand, who else is commanding you? What is the name of your organization?" Rogge He inserted his silver sword into the ground and calmly lit a cigar and asked the two of them.

The two men in black robes looked at each other, and without saying a word, both swords came out, attacking Rogge from the left and right sides. Rogge picked up a cigar, drew his sword, and threw it at the tall man in black robes who was attacking from the right. At the same time, he pounced on the short black-robed man on the left with his bare hands.

The tall man was forced back by the spinning silver sword. Rogge took the opportunity to rush in front of the short black-robed man, stepped sideways to pass the falling sword, and smashed it down with the iron fist of his right hand. The short man screamed, and the small bones of his left arm "clicked" break.

Rogge turned around to avoid the slash of the tall man in black robe, stretched out his hand to pinch the wrist holding the sword, knocked the short man with a broken arm to the ground with one punch, and then kicked the tall man in the abdomen with a roundhouse kick, making the man in black robe wail. With a sound, he held his stomach and took a few steps back.

The short man who had just been knocked down struggled to get up from the ground, raised his long sword and stabbed Rogge in the back. Rogge heard the wind behind his head and hurriedly leaned over to avoid it. The tall man opposite him happened to stab Rogge in the back. The sword was thrown towards him, and the long sword flew over Rogge's head and penetrated the short man's chest.

"I hope you can cooperate a little more tacitly next time - I hope you have a next time!"

Seeing the short man lying on his back in a pool of blood, Rogge turned around and cast his gaze on the tall man. Seeing that he had killed his companion by mistake, the man in black robe jumped up from the ground, turned around and fled.

"Hey, baby, you're taking so long! Maybe I should hit you slower and wait for you!"

Rogge took the silver sword he had just thrown out from Catherine, who was belatedly arriving. He patted the panting girl on the shoulder and said, "Come on, we have to catch up with him. We are just one step away from the final interrogation." "

The man in black robe ran forward desperately, with Roger and Catherine chasing after him. Seeing that the distance was getting closer and closer, the man in black robe suddenly stopped.

A steep slope appeared in front of him, with a vast snowfield below. From here, the jungle's cover was lost, and it entered the boundless sea of snow.

Panting, the man in black robe looked back at the two people who were chasing him. He gritted his teeth and jumped down the slope. He rolled down the thick snow quickly, his black cloak covered with white snow. Rolled down the slope like a snowball.

Roger and Catherine chased him to the edge of the slope and watched as he climbed up from the bottom of the slope and continued to stagger northward. They were about to slide down the slope when they suddenly heard a large number of wings coming from the sky. With the sound of flapping, more than ten griffons descended from the sky and surrounded the two people.

"Roger, let me see where you run this time!" When the huge claws of the griffon landed on the edge of the snowy cliff, Douglas on the back of the griffon pointed his spear at Rogge and shouted loudly.