"It makes no sense, Ender." Ella said, "Gehrman's soldiers, why do they come all the way to harm us?"

Ender bit his nails lightly and didn't answer. After a while, he seemed to be saying to himself: "...No one believes me, I can only stare at them myself."

"Don't do anything stupid!" Ila said loudly.

"I won't let them find me. I am much more familiar with this valley than they are. I will wait quietly on the mountain. If they really come to measure the terrain, then forget it; if I find out what they are going to do, ghost…"

"What can you do?"

"I don't know. I'll keep an eye on them anyway."

Ella frowned and stared at Ander: "You can go up the mountain, but you have to call me." She felt that if she followed him, she could stop Ander from doing stupid things.

"What are you going to do? You will only hinder me!"

"If you don't agree, I will tell your mother!" Ella said, "No one will be able to go up the mountain by then!"

Ender stared at Ella for a long time. There was nothing he could do, so he sighed heavily: "Okay, okay! But don't cause any trouble to me then!"

The group of Germans quickly packed their luggage, and the eight strong horses were already settled in the stables. The village chief and some big shots in the village entertained them in the banquet hall. The village chief drank a lot of wine and looked very happy. During this period, Ender stopped observing the foreigners. He knew that if he acted too cleverly, he would only make them suspicious, so he went home early to sleep.

Ender got up early the next day. Those Germans, before dawn, they pulled out three horses, loaded their equipment, and were ready to set off. Ender hid behind the wall and watched them. When the Hermanns set off, Ender followed quietly, and when he turned the corner, he saw Ila guarding them with a satchel on her back.

She hugged her chest, and her expression seemed to say: I know you won't come to call me. "I brought cheese and croissants." Ella patted her satchel.

Ender gestured impatiently, asking Ella to lower her body. Ella followed Ander obediently. The chickens in the village had not yet crowed. The two figures blended into the night and quietly followed the outsiders out of the village.

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After climbing halfway up the mountain, the Germans finally stopped to rest. At this time, the sun has come out, and the golden light is shining on the blue sky. The weather is a bit dry.

Ender crouched behind the bushes and whispered to Ella: "They don't seem to be planning to go to the river. This road goes to Old Santos."

Old Santos guards an ancient monastery on the mountain, and devout villagers only go up the mountain to worship on holy festivals. Ender liked Santos very much and often went up the mountain alone to see the old priest. Why did the Hermanns take this path?

"If they go to old Santos, they must be doing something evil." Ender's black eyebrows almost knitted together. He remembered that old Santos once got drunk and said when he was half drunk that he had been guarding something all his life. I have no descendants, I don’t know who to entrust this task to, and I don’t know if a certain group will send a successor...

Perhaps these Herman soldiers are here to **** the thing that old Santos is guarding?

Ander whispered his guess to Ella. The girl who usually has great ideas just blinks her eyes now, not knowing what to do. She likes Guani Monastery and does not want outsiders to get involved there: "How about we go down the mountain and tell the adults?"

"It's useless, they won't believe it at all." Ender gritted his teeth, "Let's go up to the mountain first and tell old Santos the news and see if he can do anything!"

Ender knew a shortcut up the mountain. He bypassed the resting Hermann team and took a road that was more difficult to walk but could reach the monastery faster.

They kept going all the way, and finally climbed to the small pass near the top of the mountain, where the dark ancient monastery was. From a distance, it looks like an ancient tomb.

Ender and Ella almost burst into the monastery.

"Santos, Santos!" Ender shouted in the dark chapel. The podium and benches here were all made of stone. The candles burning on the shrine illuminated Joshua on the diamond-shaped shelf.

An old priest with a red nose hurried out of the inner room with drooping slippers. The priest's robe was greasy. He looked like a white-bearded dwarf with a face pocket covering his face.

"Ander, what are you yelling about!" Santos smelled of alcohol. He must have been woken up by Ender from a hangover.

"A group of Germans are coming!" Ender said out of breath, "...Ila and I followed them all the way. They are coming to the monastery... They must be here to do something bad. So let’s run up first…”

Old Santos heard a few uncomfortable words, but he still couldn't understand what Ander meant: "Child, don't be impatient, speak slowly..."

The old priest settled the two children on the bench and poured two glasses of water. The two finally reconciled their anger, and you explained the matter to me one sentence at a time.

To Ender's surprise, the old priest, who was usually startled, looked very calm now.

"What's wrong Santos? Do you have to think of something? For example, bolt the door and let's hide somewhere..."

"No, Ander." Santos raised a hand, his brows tightened. Ander had only seen this kind of old man during church service. "There is nothing we can do now. We can only pray to the Lord." Blessed.”

"Why?"

"They're here to grab the Holy Grail."

"Holy Grail?" The two children's eyes widened. They heard this story when they were children, UU Reading www. uukanshu.com That is the treasure that protects this mountain range and the village.

"Yes, children." Lao Sang stood up, and the light outside the door illuminated his pink skin and pale beard. "I am a descendant of the Knights Templar. The Holy Grail guarded by the Knights from generation to generation is the Holy Grail. Underground in this monastery, the Germans discovered the secret and came to **** the Holy Grail.

"Children, go down the mountain quickly. You can't control what happens next here. Go down the mountain quickly and tell the villagers the news... But in fact, it doesn't matter whether you tell them or not. If they take away the Holy Grail ..." Lao Sang stopped talking, his expression gloomy.

"What about you?"

"Me?" Lao Sang blinked blankly, "I want to stay here. Even if it's Lucifer or the demon army led by the Fallen himself, I still have to stay here. This is my duty..."

"Then we'll stay here too!" Ander stood up suddenly. He didn't know where his courage came from. Although Lao Sang had not finished what he said about the fate of the village, Ender knew that if the Holy Grail was really snatched away, a huge disaster would occur in the village, and everything he cherished would rot in the soil.

No one knows the secret here, and no one believes what he says, so he can only guard the Holy Grail here with Santos.

Santos blinked, his eyebrows were knitted together, and he actually smiled: "It turns out that the successor of the Knights is here." Although Ander was as tall as him, he still touched his head, "It turns out that the successor of the Knights is here." The successor arranged by the Lord is here..."

There were sounds outside the door, the snorting of horses, the stamping of horse hooves, and the marching footsteps of a group of people.

The Gehrmans have arrived.