To the west of Tavaré, it is now the territory of the Kingdom of Light, and the team can be resupplied at any time, so the marching speed is also very fast.

Ten days later, with the help of the natives who had newly joined the Kingdom of Light, the team quietly crossed the Brand River in a deserted place on the other side and entered the New World colony under the jurisdiction of the royal family, the northern part of the New World in the political sense.

After Jacques crossed the Brand River last time, fearing retribution from the elite warships and the Wharton family, Jacques and Lily arrived at Medis in just over ten days.

However, this time into the area controlled by the Empire, the closer you get to Medis, the more sparsely populated, and the country towns on the side of the road are all in ruins, as if there has just been a war, and you can't see a single person for dozens of miles.

Later, it was the sentinels sent by Shui Zhao who found a few residents in the mountain col, and only after questioning did they know what had happened here.

Counting, this has something to do with the war between the Kingdom of Light and the invasion of Stuart's colony more than half a year ago.

After the main force led by Hei Shuo, Yin Zhongwei, suddenly appeared on the west coast of the New World, it was divided into more than ten troops and interspersed eastward, relying on the superiority of troops to first intersperse and separate various towns, and after seizing the passes, and then turning back and slowly dealing with the encircled towns in the rear.

Therefore, most of the imperial immigrants did not have time to evacuate eastward, and they were surrounded by the armies of the Kingdom of Light.

Relying on artillery bombardment and preferential selection of those who surrendered, most of these towns chose to surrender due to the huge disparity in strength.

In the face of the surrendered imperial immigrants, the policy of the Kingdom of Light was to allow them to evacuate with their possessions, but there were only two evacuation routes, either north to the northern part of the New World or south to the colony of Castile.

Forced by tensions between Stuart and Castile, most of the migrants chose to retreat north.

For the handling of Stuart immigrants, Hei Ye still kept his promise and ensured their safety before crossing the Brand River.

The Kingdom of Light needs land, not population, and it is natural to deal with unstable factors. And in fact, the West Coast region is different from the East Coast, which is inaccessible and dominated by large farms and small mines. Immigrants made up less than 10 percent of the population, and a great deal of the work was done by employing indigenous people, and even if they were to be driven out, it would not affect economic production.

However, the two or three hundred thousand imperial immigrants who crossed the border to the northern region of Medis had a great impact on the region under the direct control of the royal family.

Some of these people intended to return to the Empire, and most of them traveled lightly, and after entering the Medice region, they turned east without stopping, leaving the eastern seaboard.

But there are still many people who are already in their homeland and have to look for a new way out.

The situation in the Medis region is similar to that in the south, the towns near the main transportation routes are well developed, but there is still a large amount of undeveloped land around the towns.

In order to motivate immigrants from the empire to come and settle the land, the Medis region has always had a traditional law that if you occupy and cultivate a certain piece of land for three years, if no one objects to it, you can get official recognition and apply for a certificate of ownership of land in a nearby town.

It stands to reason that the Medis region will be able to accommodate these displaced people who have lost their homes, even if they come from the Duchy of Stuart, they are still subjects of the Empire.

However, problems have arisen, and even though the Medis Region has responded in a timely manner by evacuating displaced people to various parts of the region, there have been many clashes between locals and displaced people.

At the beginning, it was all friction caused by some small things, and the two sides held each other, but both sides were more restrained, and the situation did not deteriorate, and it was resolved with the mediation of government officials.

Mayor Medis had thought that the homeless people would be able to integrate into the local area quickly, and as long as the Kingdom of Light would not be greedy for the Northern Expedition, he would be able to rest easy.

Unexpectedly, after a period of stability, Fiennes, a small town west of Medis, had a number of murders overnight, and the dead were all newly relocated refugees.

The conflict between the locals and the homeless people was suddenly intensified, and the tension between the two sides almost almost broke out. Cow Bar Literature Network

With the mediation of the local mayor and the city guard, the situation was finally suppressed, and the mayor promised to find the murderer as soon as possible.

However, what I didn't expect was that it took a month and still didn't find the murderer.

A month later, the murder happened again, this time with more than a dozen dead, all of them still homeless, and the whole town was terrified.

More than a dozen people died at different places at the same time, and no one believes that it was not organized and premeditated.

Sure enough, the conflict broke out, and the newly settled displaced people organized themselves to catch a few local bastards who often bullied the displaced people, and beat them in private, and finally hanged them all.

The locals quit and organized revenge, but fortunately, the mayor of the town promptly invited the city guards from several nearby towns to block the situation, and the situation was prevented from deteriorating further.

But the problem was still not solved, so the town was divided into two, and the fence was pulled up, and each passed by. At the same time, all forces are mobilized to find the real culprit of the incident.

The mayor of the town did not believe that those gangsters had the ability to organize and kill more than a dozen homeless people, and the deaths of the homeless people were extremely miserable, they were disemboweled, and most of their internal organs were missing.

There must be something unusual about such a strange death.

It's just that before the mayor of the town can find out what happened, a new mess has happened.

On the night of the incident, which was also the first night of quarantine in the town, the camp of the City Guard was attacked, killing and wounding many people, most of the men in the City Guard camp were borrowed from other towns by the mayor of Fiennes, which should have nothing to do with the grievances between the two sides, but the death of the dead was the same as that of the displaced people.

Some of the injured said that the attacker was a human, some said that it was a strange beast, but the description of the appearance was somewhat consistent, all of them were pitch black, strong, walking upright, and extremely fast.

The situation is no longer a dispute between the locals and the homeless, but there is a possibility that there has been an attack by alien beasts.

The people immediately felt that Fiennes was not safe and left for the big town. The borrowed city guards did not dare to stay long, and withdrew to the town with the dead and wounded.

Overnight, most of the residents of Fiennes fled the town.

Strangely, in the following month, Fiennes returned to calm.

Those who stayed behind also forgot about the previous conflict and went on numbly, and the mayor of Fiennes Town got drunk to celebrate the end of the crisis, and now wait for the fleeing residents to return sooner.

Come back and live a good life, the mayor of the town will collect taxes well, perform his duties, and be safe and stable.

Just a month after the Fiennes massacre, the same incident occurred on the same day in several nearby towns, including three "Ripper Bloodbaths" in Medis. A large number of imitation crimes in various towns were reported to Medis, and after the fermentation of the newspapers, it received the unified title of "Ripper Blood".

Mayor Medis remembered that such cases had first occurred in Fiennes, and sent someone to consult with the mayor and captain of the city guard in Fiennes.

As soon as the people sent out for two days, there was an urgent report that the entire town of Fiennes had died, and the two grandmasters in the town, including the mayor, were also killed, and the death was unified, except for other injuries, all of them were disemboweled.

It was then that someone remembered that more than two years ago, there was a similar case in Yorktown, where the perpetrator acted only one day a month, and similarly disemboweled the victim and swallowed part of the internal organs.

The case was previously closed by the Yorktown City Guard as the suspect Gabriel's insanity, but some insiders revealed that the mercenaries who killed the perpetrator claimed that the murderer had transformed into a black-haired, half-human, half-wolf monster before his death.

Mayor Medis took this news very seriously, and on the one hand, the whole city was under martial law, and on the other hand, he sent people to several towns near Fiennes Town to carefully investigate to see if there was any connection with the events in Yorktown.