Chapter 957 188. Battle reports can lie, but battle lines cannot
The miners held torches and pulled carts, gradually disappearing into the deep night outside the valley.
The remaining people stood among the houses, as if they were experiencing a dream.
Not long after, some people began to react and ran into the house to rummage through their previous belongings. More and more people are joining the hunt. Little Small took away most of the valuable things and resources, but some bulky and unused ones were left behind. For example, a clock with gold hands.
This exquisite machine left over from the Goblin Empire era was violently dismantled just for the golden pointer. The mahogany tables and bookshelves were also dismantled, and only the books survived - not because they realized the value of knowledge, but because all the books were taken away by the lame Babu.
Not long after Free Blade left, the originally orderly house became like a robber and was ransacked.
When the miners searched around and were about to target the chefs and workers who had indirectly oppressed them, a fire dragon lit up in the west of the mine.
The guards who ran back to Izawa Bay brought reinforcements.
The miners who were excited about the harvest seemed to have been poured cold water on them. They woke up and huddled aside with their bulging clothes. Worried that they would be caught and thrown into the mine again...
On the contrary, the chefs and workers who were worried before breathed a sigh of relief and ran to the entrance of the valley to greet them. But when they saw the approaching team, they were too frightened to speak.
Knights in sleek armor, mages wearing mage robes, and rangers jumping nimbly around the perimeter... No matter how naive they are, they will never think that these elite knights are sent by the nobles behind the foreman.
The cavalry raised their spears and pointed at the workers blocking the front. The captain in bright silver armor stepped forward and said condescendingly: "Who are you?"
"Sir Knight, we are "Workers in the mine!" the bearded chef said respectfully, "The miners here rioted, killed the foreman and guards, and arrested us... They just ran over there——"
He hoped that the knights could destroy those mud-legged people, so that the five gold nuggets in his pocket would belong to him...
"Don't believe what he said, the people of Liberty City just like to hide among the civilians and spread evil. The teachings." A young man dressed as a noble held the reins and stood side by side with the knight captain.
"People from Free City? We are not -"
The young noble grabbed the spear, wiped his pedals, pierced the chest of the bearded chef, pulled it out with force, raised the spear and shouted: "The people here They are all believers seduced by Liberty City, destroy them!"
The cavalry behind him moved and rushed towards the crowd who were screaming and running away from them.
The bearded chef with wide eyes covered his chest and stumbled to the ground. The gold coins that fell out of his pocket were trampled into the soil by the running horses' hooves.
It was impossible for the miners and workers without weapons to fight against a group of elite cavalry. They easily killed everyone who moved in sight, captured a few alive, and interrogated the miners who left.
"Sure enough, there is collusion with the people of Free City."
The young noble snorted coldly, and said to the team secretary: "For the record, under the leadership of General Weiss, we eliminated...hundreds of Free City people They also discovered their commander and were ready to pursue him!"
...
"General Weiss destroyed nearly a thousand elite Liberty City soldiers in Eze Bay and was launching an attack on his stronghold! Attack..."
Crash——
The held "Glory of Rekaner" was lowered, revealing a pair of black eyes full of shock: "Have we developed so many people?"
"Impossible." Francois said Little Small With Lame Babu, it will only last a week at most, no matter how powerful they are, they will not be able to develop so many people," said Olmedo next to him.
"So the news is false?"
"This is normal... Wring out the water is almost the actual number of people...it will be reduced by about ten times"
" Is this cotton soaked in water..."
And with the style of the Rekaner Kingdom, they might just grab Little Small by the tail and massacre a village as a victory. There was such a joke in the new capital a few days ago. An old man accidentally fell into the water while admiring the sea view at the port. He tried to save his life in the cold, but the city guards at the port turned a blind eye. In his haste, he had to shout: "I am from Liberty City!" "The city guards suddenly changed their color and picked him up and took him away.
In any case, Little Small, who has high hopes from Francois, seems to be in a dangerous situation, but in fact it is not safe at all.
The Ruikaner Kingdom may have decayed and reached the end of a kingdom, extorting merchants, taking advantage of civilians to vent their anger, killing good people for credit, and exaggerating the results of battles... But there must be a group of people loyal to the kingdom in Ize Bay.
They'd better find Little Small before Eze Bay and provide help.
Knock knock knock——
The door was knocked, and the maid Abby stood outside the corridor, saying that there was a gray rat outside who wanted to see Annan.
"Grey-haired rat? See me?"
Annan thought it was Jerry and his "goddess", but the guard brought in a strange and beautiful gray-haired rat.
The only connection between rat people and beauty is when they destroy beautiful things, but there are always exceptions, like Della who has elf blood and Maria who has been cultivated for dozens of generations. Their rats There are very few human features, and they look almost human.
The gray-haired rat in front of him has a petite and slender figure, more like a demi-human race. Unlike the smooth-skinned Argonians, she has fluffy and soft gray fur, and is covered with a women's leather armor.
The long hair next to the tall mouse ears is tied into several braids that hang down to the hips, with the tail hidden in them.
Annan's eyes were sunk into its fluffy hair, making it difficult to move away.
"Handsome Lord Annan, I carry Ymir's letter." Even its voice is as beautiful as a nightingale.
Fortunately, Annan still remembered the business: "Ymir?"
"Her death letter to me," it said.
Annan took the letter, which contained two paragraphs of elven text:
[Things I expected:
The disgusting rat man wants to control me;< br>
They have no advantage except quantity;
And, I'm afraid I can't escape. 】
[Things I didn’t expect:
There is actually a gray rat that can communicate normally;
We were deceived by the McKeon clan. This general attack is just a cover, their real trump card is the plague;
I have a way to get the gray rat to bring the news out. 】
"Plague?" Annan raised his head.
"It's spreading in the north." said the gray-haired rat.
They have territory in the north, just ask Xing'er City.
Soon, news came back from Xing'er City that the plague that had been raging in the past few days had not been extinguished, but had become more and more serious, even causing the empire's assembled legions to postpone their attack.
This menacing plague can be regarded as an answer to the cold winter: they cannot attack in the cold winter, so let the plague harvest on their behalf.
(End of this chapter)