Ai Ze wanted to report Zhang Tong's thighs, because judging from the current situation, Zhang Tong was obviously even more powerful than that seventh-order mage. That mage was respectful in front of him, he must be a big man.

It's not that Ai Ze hasn't seen a mage, he still remembers that more than three years ago, a fourth-order mage came to the family, and he only stayed for a week, and all the big people in the surrounding towns came to visit him. Those city lords and nobles who were usually high-spirited bowed in front of the mage one by one.

There was also an earl who was very humble and expressed his desire to let his children go to the Immortal City to learn magic, and was willing to be a trainee apprentice in front of the mage. If that fourth-order mage was willing to accept his own child, he was willing to offer five hundred gold coins a year for tuition.

Five hundred gold coins is a lot of money, and you can buy a manor with luxurious villas, slaves, and two thousand acres of land.

However, the fourth-order mage just asked the earl's child to come and let the child do the test, and then said that this child was not very talented, and it would be difficult for him to reach the first-order mage stage in this life, so he directly refused the earl's request.

Mages are high up in this world, because they are extremely powerful and can influence nature, they are the most powerful force in this world.

And now, that person with thick eyebrows and big eyes can make an ordinary-looking high-level mage obey him, this person must be good.

Azer made up his mind, and he was ready to hug the thigh hard.

And over there, Zhang Tong and Qin Kuairen also planned to ask Ai Ze well, because Ai Ze didn't behave like an ordinary child who had fled. He looks like he should be about eight years old, of course, it is not ruled out that he is smaller and older.

The kid has a maturity that doesn't quite fit his age.

"Your name is Ezel, isn't it? "Now it can only be Qin Kuairen and Ai Ze to communicate, after all, Zhang Tong doesn't understand the language of this world.

"Yes, my lord, I am. "Aize behaved very well, obviously he was hungry now. But when Qin Kuairen asked, he still put down the potatoes in a regular manner and replied concentratingly.

"Where are you from, and how did you get here?"

After sorting out the word order, Ai Ze said, "My lord, I came from the Dawn Kingdom in the east. ”

"These children are your brothers and sisters?"

"No, I met on the way to escape. And then they went together, and they came from all over the world. In Ai Ze's description, the current problems of this world began to be gradually exposed in front of Qin Kuairen and Zhang Tong.

As Qin Kuairen and Zhang Tong guessed, Ai Ze is not an ordinary child, which can be seen from his conversation and upbringing.

He is the only son of a second-class baron in the Kingdom of Dawn. The aristocracy in this world is basically similar to that on earth, the highest is the royal family, then the prince, then the prince, then the prince, the prince and the baron, and the lowest privileged class is the knight, and the knight is not a nobleman.

The titles of dukes and uncles are divided into three classes. The first rank is the highest rank of nobility outside the non-imperial princes, and the third rank baron is the lowest rank among the nobles.

Eze was born into a second-class baron, which is considered the lowest level of the nobility. But even the lowest nobles were still much better than the commoners.

There were more than a dozen servants in Ezza's house, as well as eight guards who could wear leather armor, bend bows and shoot arrows, and fight with swords. The house of the Aize family has more than fifty rooms, stables and gardens, and more than 3,000 acres of land. And Ai Ze is actually eleven years old this year, but because of his slow development, he looks tender and relatively short, and he looks like an eight or nine-year-old child, and he is only one meter three eight tall now.

Because of his family's privileged background, Ai Ze has received cultural education since he was three years old, and has now basically completed the basic learning of the Chinese language. And finished the enlightenment of "A Brief History of the Hella Continent", "Legendary Mage Story", "Hela Epic" and other books.

And since the age of eight, he has been learning archery and sword fighting with the guards at home, but because his body has not yet developed, although he has mastered the technical movements well, he can't really fight.

If everything went smoothly and nothing else, after the old baron died, Eze would become the new baron and own all the property.

Originally, things were supposed to be like this, but the entire continent began to slowly undergo some changes nine years ago (that is, the time when Qin Kuairen traveled back to Earth).

It started in the northern icefields, and at first it was a small reduction in the yield of farmland, and it did not attract anyone's attention.

By the following year, however, agriculture in the Icefields had begun to shrink extensively, with most crops infected with unknown diseases, and a quarter of the country's farmland yielding less.

The king of the Icefield Kingdom panicked and hurriedly asked for help from the surrounding countries. But for the cry country's request for help, most countries actually have the mentality of watching a play. There are even some countries that do not deal with the Icefield Nation to take the opportunity to raise the price of food to the Icefield Nation.

The Icefield Nation has been begging for a year and has not waited for help from other countries, and no other country cares about how the Icefield Nation has reduced its food production.

But in the third year, terrible things happened, and the three countries bordering the ice fields all experienced food production reductions of varying scales. And the first problem in the Ice Plains has already seen a massive famine, because one-fifth of the country's grain harvest has been lost.

Now the human kingdom is starting to pay attention, but they are paying attention too late. By the fourth year, the diseased crop had spread to eight countries. Nearly half of all human countries have experienced reduced food production.

And it was only at this time that the mages of the Immortal City, who had never cared about the human kingdom, realized the seriousness of the matter. They sent the largest army of mages in history, with 3,000 mages traveling around the world to investigate the causes of the reduced food production.

The cause was eventually determined, starting with the emergence of some kind of variant crop disease in the Ice Plains Kingdom that infected some of the farmland. This farmland disease is highly contagious, and the circulation of food spreads these sources of infection around the world.

It's like humans are infected with the plague, and this time it's the crops that are infected with the plague.

And the plague can infect almost all of humanity's staple foods, from potatoes to wheat.

Because it is impossible to isolate one in the same way that humans are infected with the plague. The mages didn't know how to isolate the crops that were already infected, or the fields that were not yet infected but were suspected to be infected.

The Supreme Mage Council of the Immortal City issued an ultimatum to human nations all over the world that once diseased farmland was found, it would be burned and disinfected, and the food harvested from the suspected diseased fields should also be burned.

This decision cannot be said to be wrong, but it is too late. By the time the mages figured out these things, the time had come to the sixth year.

Nearly every seventeen mortal kingdoms in the world have been infected with food diseases. Crops infected with this food plague will have green leaves that are yellow, unable to absorb nutrients. For example, if wheat is infected with this disease, it seems that it can still produce ears of wheat during the harvest season, but the ears of wheat are empty, or the grains in the ears are shriveled and small.

Food shortages began to occur all over the world, and at this time, the mages of the Immortal City demanded that the mortal nations burn the grain?

Which country can agree?

Even if the state agrees, can the commoners and small landlords and nobles below agree? At that time, the problem of the food plague may be solved, but at the same time, the master of the country will have to change his surname!

The Ai Ze family was originally well-off, but as barons, they had to pay a noble fee to His Majesty the Emperor of the Dawning Kingdom every year to ensure that they had the title of nobility.

This is somewhat similar to the aristocracy of the Eastern and Western Han dynasties, where the nobility and the side branch royalty were required to pay a sum of money to ensure the succession of their titles. For example, the famous Liu Xuande, he was the queen of King Jing of Zhongshan, but why did he weave straw shoes instead of being a nobleman?

The reason is that at the time of Liu Bei's father, their family was already in the middle of the family and had no money to pay this noble money to maintain the family title.

The princess and uncle, the annual aristocratic fee that each level of nobles needs to pay is fixed and will not be changed easily. Originally, it was not difficult to pay this aristocratic fee every year with the family background of the Ai Ze family.

But there were unforeseen circumstances, and the crop plague infected the 3,000 acres of land of the Ai Ze family. Ai Ze's father decided to make a decision, and after reporting to the mage, he burned all the grain of 3,000 acres of land in one go, and the land was about to be harvested. This fire is heart-wrenching.

The Ai Ze family has savings and grain reserves, and it is not much of a problem to rely on savings and grain storage to survive for a year or two.

But this is only the beginning of the disaster. The Ezer family could hold on, so they burned all the crops. But there are many yeoman farmers and small landlords who can't hold on! So some people are lucky and don't report to the mages, let alone burn their crops. They all said to themselves in their hearts: What if the mages are wrong?

But alas, the mages are right.

When the crop plague spread to the province of Genoa, where Azer was located, it was doomed to tragedy.

After all, there were a few people like Eze's father, who were in the minority, and the grain production in Genoa had been reduced by 20 percent, and many people had fallen from a state of food and clothing to a state of sometimes starvation. And this is not the worst of times, but the last vestiges of the golden age.

The following year, the grain production in Genoa was cut in half, and the entire province had 3 million people, and nearly 1.5 million people were going hungry. As for how much will starve to death? No one can count it.

One of the largest refugee waves in the history of Genoa erupted, but Genoa did not have food to help so many refugees. Because of the outbreak of crop plagues all over the world, the price of food has skyrocketed.

And the Ice Plains Country, where the first crop plague broke out, was on the verge of extinction. Their food production is only 40% of what they did in their heyday, and they can't feed that many people anyway.

The situation in the province of Genoa did not get any better, and a large number of refugees were denied relief, and they became the most terrible destructive force. Hungry humans are more terrible than the world's greatest locusts.

The weeds were not growing where they walked, and everything that could fill their stomachs went into their mouths. By the time they made their way to Azer's hometown, everything Azer had once known was over.

The city of more than 30,000 people was breached by hundreds of thousands of refugees, who had what to eat. The food stored by the Aize family is the most important fat in the eyes of the refugees.

They only have food in their eyes, only food, and everything else is not important. The guards who had been loyal to the family for generations were originally the protectors in Aize's eyes, they were strong and mighty, and the captain William was strong enough to kill a 1,500-pound brown bear with his bare hands. In Ezza's eyes, it was a Hercules-like existence.

But on that day, Aize saw his protector besieged by a group of refugees, and he fought until his sword broke. He was lifted high by the angry refugees, and then countless people tugged at his limbs, tearing William's limbs alive.

He even saw that some refugees began to pounce on William and eat his flesh, and he was not dead at the time!

Standing on the third floor of the house, young Aize witnessed everything. His father, on the other hand, had put on his full body armor and pulled Azer and the three remaining guards to prepare to flee on horseback.

In the face of an endless flow of refugees, no one can resist.

Fleeing their homeland, Eze and his family have become refugees. When my father went out, he brought a lot of gold coins, but they were useless, and he couldn't buy food even if he had money.

The father and the three guards could only dig wild vegetables and gnaw on tree bark in the field to eat. During the days of the escape, the Aize family traveled in groups with several families. Because if the number is too small, it is dangerous among refugees, and don't think that cannibalism does not exist. Many of the lone refugees in the wave may have disappeared one night, and by the time they are found, they will be reduced to a pile of bones.

Ezel's father didn't travel with everyone, he only went with families who were willing to take their children with them when they fled. Because there are still children, it proves that this family still has the most basic humanity and the most basic bottom line.

And the direction in which Ezel's father fled was the Immortal City. Because Aize's father firmly believes that even if all the mortal kingdoms fall, as long as there are mages, the Immortal City and the eight surrounding satellite cities will not fall.

However, they were finally blocked out of the Black Mountain checkpoint, because the Immortal City had issued a retreat order, and there was no food plague around the Immortal City. But the mages were afraid that the refugees would carry the plague with them. Therefore, the two checkpoints to enter the Immortal City, the Black Mountain checkpoint in the west and the Red Velvet checkpoint in the north, are already in full swing and do not allow refugees to enter or leave.

However, in order to prevent the refugees from attacking the two checkpoints, the Immortal City still carried out a certain amount of food relief, and each person could receive a thin bowl of barley porridge that could reflect the human figure every day. You can't feed people with this barley porridge, it's just the difference between early death and late death.

Ezer's father used all the more than 300 gold coins he had on him to buy off the guards of the Black Mountain Card.

"These are children, please let them live. It's better to go to the Immortal City to beg than to starve to death with us. Please, General!"

Ezer's father wept bitterly, and as a nobleman, he knelt down and kowtowed to a squadron leader guarding the city. Maybe it's because of the money, maybe it's because they are really miserable to see Aize. The squadron leader took the risk of letting Ezer and the children of the family who had been with the Ezer family sneak into the level.

Zhang Tong and Qin Kuairen breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this story.

"Then your father and their parents are still outside the checkpoint?" Qin Kuairen asked, he couldn't say that he was waiting to die outside the checkpoint like this!

Aze nodded, "Hmm." My father and my aunts and uncles were waiting for us outside the checkpoint. My father handed me a token, and I took it to the Immortal City to find Master Von Meier, and he could save us. ”

Qin Kuairen was a little familiar after hearing this name: "Feng Meier, I seem to know this person!"

Zhang Tong glanced at him: "What, old acquaintance?"

"If the von meer I'm talking about is the von meer I know, it's really an old acquaintance. He is another disciple of my teacher, my junior brother!"

As soon as Qin Kuairen's words fell, there was a commotion outside the tavern. A group of soldiers walked into the tavern and said to the tavern manager, "Tonight Master Von Meier will lead a team of mages to Sylvie City, and they will stay in your shop." Hurry up and pack up a box and prepare a good meal. Master Von Meier is going to have a good rest tonight, and tomorrow he will inspect all the farmland in Sylvie City!"