332.Chapter 328 – Ranch Wilford’s Escape Plan

Chapter 328 – Ranch Wilford Escape Plan
Ten days later, late March in the Protoss Empire.

Frosty snow drifted in the sky, the vast snow plains extended to the sky, blending with the gray and white sky, and all the original outlines on the snowy ground were covered by thick snow.

Hundreds of kilometers outside of Bandera City, a city-state close to the battlefront of the Northern Border Province, there was still no one in sight, only barren snow plains.

The further north one goes, the more common the abnormally bad weather becomes, and it is common to not be able to travel for two or three days due to the weather, while the scattered snowy city-states and villages and towns are becoming fewer and fewer.

Under this blanket of snow, a sled suddenly appeared on top of a hillside, cutting through the frost and snow on the ground and startling a white storm.

“Woo-hoo, take off!”

“Faster and faster!”

“Meow meow meow! You two drive slower, don’t fall off the cliff!”

The sudden laughter and childish shrieks were extraordinarily clear in the wind and snow.

Only the two people sitting on the sled could be seen, even though the air was filled with the smell of cold, with a hint of frosty sting, they could not hide the excitement that overflowed on their faces.

Only to see Ranch and Cid were sitting on the sled car, the big black fox led in front of them was pulling the sled all the way furiously, the tips of its ears were burning with golden flames, snowflakes splattered under its powerful footprints, each step deeply imprinted into the snow, leaving behind varying shades of golden light and shadow.

Boss Cat deadpanned Ranch’s shirt.

It could tell that Ranch and Cid were really having a good time!
If it was Tata who was by Ranchi’s side at this time, she would have made Ranchi drive slower with a stern face, and if it was Huubao, she probably would have politely reminded Ranchi to pay attention to safety on the snowy plains, except for Cid, who would only have told Ranchi to drive faster.

“Meow! Stop driving so fast!”

Boss Cat knew that she had long since completely lost sight of Ranch, but still desperately exclaimed.

“What? Not fast enough?”

Ranch asked the Cat Boss in his arms as he lowered his head in the howling wind and snow.

At once he pressed down and shook the reins of the sled, signaling the big fox to go faster.

“Meow!!!”

Boss Cat opened his mouth again and swallowed a mouthful of snow.

It wasn’t until the sled sped down the hill and settled down on the gradually snowing ground that the crimson painted body slowed down again, still standing out in the snow.

“Haha, even if I fall I won’t get hurt anyway, doesn’t he …… still have a wind attribute wheelchair?”

Cid laughed as she looked sideways at the little black cat on Ranch’s lap and said.

She knew Ranchi had so many strange equipment magic cards on him.

Considering the secrecy of the investigation of their final destination, the two of them changed their identities and appearances once more after leaving the Snowy Plains Province.

Instead of continuing with Loch and Sid’s Proteus Royal Magic Academy identities, they changed into magical artisans and merchants of the Snowy Plains Province, wanting to come to the North Border Province to do business.

This would prevent them from being counter-tracked on their way back after investigating anything.

However, Ranchi did have an inordinate number of high-grade purple magic cards in an encapsulated state that were unused, more like magic card merchants than magic card merchants, and the advantage of encapsulation was that it was easy to identify their effects in an unowned state.

But the quality of these cards, Sid can’t explain, most of them are scrap magic cards used for decomposition, there are all kinds of them, unlike the ones for the little black cat, even Sid doesn’t understand what he’s doing with so many useless cards.

She only knew that almost all of these magic cards were obtained by Ranqi in the imperial capital using his connections before he left, in which Duchess Crowleys helped a lot, and she didn’t know what kind of deal they had reached, so she paid Ranqi such a large sum of money in advance.

“Meow ……”

The cat boss sobbed, not responding as it once again turned into a weeping cat cat head.

It didn’t want to be with these two anymore.

“If we can dig up some great information this time and expose it, the harvest of imperial prestige will never be small.”

Rancic said assuredly as he slowed the sled a bit, letting go of the reins with one hand and hugging the cat boss well.

The sled continued to move, its skis rubbing against the thick snow, making a “gurgling” sound, and the snow trail that was stirred up at the back was like a long tail that stretched on and on.

Despite the howling wind, the two men on the sled didn’t care, still enjoying the feeling of pushing back.

According to the map, there should be a plain in front of them, with no more rugged mountains or lakes, and at high speeds, they should soon be able to reach the destination of their investigation, the northern border city of Bandera.

“Wasn’t there a survey group led by Major General Van Raiku that went there first? Presumably he’ll be the one to find out first if there’s a problem.”

Cid replied without thinking.

“That’s not necessarily true, in case there’s an eighth-order level danger in the north, the investigation group still isn’t quite enough.”

Ranch mused, other than the secret Crowleys told him that he promised Crowleys he couldn’t tell anyone, the rest, he still hoped that Sigrid would clearly realize the level of danger in the North Border Province.

“Anyone who can reach the seventh rank is no longer at the mortal level, it’s easy to defeat them, but it’s not that simple to kill them.”

Cid spread his hands, as if recalling his own strength when he had just reached the seventh rank. “……”

The corner of Ranch’s eye lifted as he looked at Cid, an abnormal human female.

A seventh-ranked woman at full strength would be difficult for a group of sixth-ranked warriors to fight against, but for the one beside her, she was at the level of “easy to defeat”.

Most of the time, Cid gave him the feeling of not feeling distant, and her temper was unexpectedly good, the opposite of a certain unmarried woman.

However, it was only when talking about other powerful people that he could notice this cognitive bias and feel that everything he had experienced in the past was not on the same level as her power.

“Don’t worry about it, Saint Son, even if your rank has always been low, I won’t look down on you, there’s me to cover you, just work well for me.”

Cid grinned, with a bit of childish spontaneity yet with the reliability of a queen making a promise.

“……”

Ranch was silent for a moment.

“If I ever want to retire from the business, will you let me go?”

He’d actually decided a long time ago to disappear back to the Southern Continent when the time came, but lately he’d been nattering with Sid every day without distance, and inexplicably he was a little sad to part with Sid as a friend.

He also didn’t want to be enemies with the Hegemonic Catholic Sigrid in the future if possible.

“……”

Cid hesitated for a moment before speaking, “That will have to be discussed depending on the situation.”

“Such as?”

“If there’s a low favorability towards you, I’ll just treat it as if you’ve betrayed me and just help you retire completely.”

Cid clenched his fingers coldly.

“……”

Ranch wasn’t sure if she was joking about the consequences of telling herself that her favorability was low, or if she was actually threatening herself.

And the cat boss, who was being held by Ranch, had a chill and was shaking with fear; it knew Ranch shouldn’t have gotten involved with this demoness!

There was no way she was going to get along with you!

“But to be honest, in most cases, if you want to leave, I don’t think I’d even let you go easily, I’ve made an exception and chosen you to be the holy son, so naturally you’re going to serve me all the way.”

Cid frankly told Ranch her real answer.

“Understood.”

Ranch nodded, as he probably guessed it would be.

He looked down at the trembling cat boss and smiled, not nervous at all.

“!”

The cat boss was shocked, and he instantly understood what this firstborn was thinking.

He could probably guess that if Ranch wanted to run away, he would use his fake death to create the illusion that “Rocky McCarthy” was dead, so that Sigrid wouldn’t even think of tracking him down!
Then this asshole will change back to the “Ranch Wilford” of the southern continent, and never have anything to do with Sigrid again!
But the cat owner was a little afraid that if Ranch really did this, it would trigger a series of unpredictable chain reaction.

“So what if you ever that saintly woman wants to go?”

Boss Cat gulped and boldly asked timidly in its tender voice.

Sigrid had lost one of her saints once, and if she had to choose between “leaving” or “dying” under her command, the cat boss wondered how determined Sigrid would be to turn her back on a renegade.

If she was really extreme, then Ranch would have to fake her own death!
At that, Cid froze for a moment, as if he had never expected such a situation.

Finally, she revealed a helpless smile.

“I suppose I’ll let go and let her live the life she wants.”

Her voice took on a rare note of guilt and tenderness.

“……”

Neither Ranch nor Boss Cat said anything this time.

It looked up at Ranch.

It felt that if Ranchi really used the False Death Transportation by then, it could again diffuse into another somewhat nascent situation ……

The second chapter is not finished, before twelve o’clock

(End of this chapter)