Lord of the Oasis

Chapter 760: The Rumors Spread

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

“Hey! Claremont, what’s going on with your soldiers? If you want to delay the morning gathering time, you have to tell me first.” Abel barged into Claremont’s tent and questioned loudly.

Claremont and Devitt, who had collapsed on the bed, had yet to wake up from their hangovers.

After hearing Abel’s voice, Claremont opened his eyes in a daze. As he looked towards the door, he noticed that Devitt was sleeping soundly beside him.

“Oh my God!” Claremont shouted.

“Get up quickly!” Abel strode over to Claremont’s bed and shouted, “You two...”

Claremont rubbed his temples. He had drunk a lot last night. He couldn’t remember what happened after that.

“I was looking for Devitt everywhere. So, you two are together.” After the shock, a malicious smile appeared on Abel’s face.

“I drank too much last night...” Claremont tried to explain.

“No need to explain. I understand.” Abel waved his hand and said, “Quickly wake up Devitt. We are about to leave.”

After saying this, Abel immediately retreated.

“No.” Claremont shouted at Abel’s back. “If you want to wake him up, come and do it yourself. Don’t go!”

However, Abel still acted as if he did not hear his shout and walked out by himself.

Claremont lowered his head and looked at Devitt’s naked upper body. His eyebrows were knitted together.

When everyone was ready, they stood in formation in the center of the camp, ready to gather. It was almost noon.

“It’s a rare sunny day.” Abel looked up at the winter sun and sighed.

“I feel that the temperature has dropped a few degrees.” Devitt hugged his arms tightly and shivered.

“It snowed heavily last night, and now the snow has melted. How can it not be cold?” Abel choked.

“You!” Devitt said sulkily. “Aren’t you bullying me because I don’t have knowledge about the snowy weather...”

Abel smiled smugly. After agreeing to keep the secret of last night’s stay for Devitt and Claremont this morning, for the time being, the two of them had to listen to his words obediently.

“Anyway, I don’t care,” Abel said with a smile, “You have to owe me one. I’ll bring my men to make a ruckus all night long one day. You have to wait for me too.”

“Okay, okay, okay.” Claremont quickly agreed.

“Of course.” Abel couldn’t help but tease him. “There won’t be a scene like yours.”

Hearing this, Devitt and Claremont looked at each other.

In their hearts, they silently said, “I must get Abel drunk that day, so that he can experience the feeling of being blackmailed.”

“Don’t you feel that the weather has become colder?” Austin asked Gilbert.

“Yes.” Gilbert nodded.

“Put this on.” Austin took out a cotton-padded jacket from his luggage and handed it to Gilbert.

“It’s so big.” Gilbert put the cotton-padded jacket on himself. He shook his shoulders and said.

Austin looked up and down. His coat was almost covering his knees when he put it on Gilbert. A large part of his shoulder was left.

“Indeed.” Austin nodded and said, “When we get to the market near the volcano, I’ll buy you a suit that fits you.”

When they first received supplies, every soldier would receive not only dry food but also some money.

“Alright.” Gilbert nodded and turned his body forward.

Although the departure time had been delayed until noon, the Caradia soldiers were quite energetic. They followed behind Abel and moved forward excitedly. They would chat with each other from time to time.

However, in such a formation, the soldiers in the last row remained silent.

The reason for such a scene was that Devitt and Claremont were in charge of holding the line.

“Why aren’t you talking?” a soldier whispered into the ears of the soldier beside him.

“I don’t know.” the soldier shook his head and said, “Since the others didn’t speak, I didn’t dare to speak.”

“Stop arguing, the two of you. Can’t you see that Captain Devitt and Claremont didn’t speak?” Another soldier said.

The few of them looked at each other, nodded, and decisively shut their mouths.

Looking at the awkward backs of the soldiers, Devitt couldn’t help but speak to Claremont first. “Yesterday...”

“Shhh...” Claremont quickly gestured at him to keep quiet.

“But...” Devitt’s expression became conflicted as he said, “Anyway, nothing really happened yesterday.”

Claremont glanced at the soldiers walking in front, and after making sure that no one was paying attention to him. He shrank the distance between him and Devitt, and said in a low voice, “Then why did you sleep with me?”

“I should have been drunk,” Devitt tried hard to recall, “And I remember that after I helped you to the bed, you sat on the chair by the bed. In the end, it was probably because it was too cold at night, so I unconsciously lay down on the bed. Anyway, I was really tired at that time. As soon as I sat on the chair, I fell asleep.”

“Okay.” Claremont nodded. Actually, in his heart, he didn’t think that Devitt would do anything to him who was drunk. It was just that the scene when he woke up this morning was really too embarrassing.

After he was three years old, Claremont hadn’t slept in the same bed with anyone, let alone talked about staying the night.

“So, we... are okay?” Devitt stretched out his left hand to Claremont and asked.

“Yes.” Claremont held his hand back and agreed.

However, the soldiers had tried hard to eavesdrop their conversation. The voices of the two of them were too low, so they could only hear a few words sometimes.

However, just the words ‘drunk’ and ‘bed’ were enough to conjure up a big drama that would make one’s blood boil.

“Are Captain Claremont and Captain Devitt talking about something that is forbidden?” A soldier asked with a complicated expression.

“Can’t you guys hear it?” A soldier covered his mouth and said, “Captain Devitt seems to have snatched Captain Claremont’s girlfriend!”

Because the news that he had said was too explosive, the soldier who made the deduction couldn’t help but faint.

“It can’t be. I didn’t hear about this when I was in the military camp.” a soldier shook his head and said, “If it’s true, how come the two of them can still get along peacefully for so many days.”

“Yeah...” the gossipy soldiers immediately fell silent after hearing the soldier’s words.

“According to what I heard....” another soldier emerged from the crowd and said.