Until everyone left the camp, the necromancer did not appear, or even intervene to stop them, but they still did not let their guard down, and began to flee north on their horses.

The fat man Oro didn't care about his baggage, and spread his legs and galloped in front of the team, because he was in the woods, so he ran faster than a war horse.

Day and night, after eight days, the group reached the northern edge of the Forest of Ten Thousand Beasts.

The trees on both sides of the trail are thinning out, and the sunlight shines through the gaps in the leaves.

At noon, Oloch rushed out of the forest almost in a row, and Renard and the other six men followed on horseback, and this scene looked like cavalry was chasing the fugitives.

After leaving the forest, the flat and wide fields in front of you make you feel refreshed.

Christopher took out the map and compared it for a long time, and finally determined: "We are within the barony of Stephens, and there is a small town less than two kilometers ahead. ”

When everyone heard this, they all felt a sense of pleasure for the rest of their lives, and Renard commanded, "Go to the town and rest for two days." ”

The others did not object, not to mention that Lei Ye had the most say in this team, even their bodies did not support continuing to move forward.

It is true that the north of Arthur's kingdom is much more prosperous than the south, and there is also a lot of money, which can be seen from the fact that the small barony can build bluestone roads.

If it were in the south of the kingdom, with the exception of a few counties or Duke Edmund's main city, there were few realms that would spend money on roads.

Although the barony's stone pavement looks old and dilapidated, it proves that the lord here once had a good economic situation.

In addition to the roads, the architectural style of the northern town is also very different from that of the south.

Southerners like to build houses with stones, because there are many rainy seasons in the south, and stones can effectively avoid the erosion of rainwater, making the houses strong and durable, and ensuring that they will not be damaged for tens or hundreds of years.

Northerners are accustomed to using bricks and tiles, because there is less rain in the north, there is no need to worry about the house being eroded by rainwater, and the brick house is very beautiful, which greatly satisfies the northerners' love of exquisite character.

The group arrived at the town at two o'clock in the afternoon, and the outer walls of the town were very high, but the layout was very simple, there were no battlements, arrow towers, and not even a moat around it.

Obviously, the purpose of the city wall was only to defend against the beasts and monsters in the Forest of Ten Thousand Beasts.

The north is very densely populated, with nearly 20 million people living on 700,000 square kilometers of land, while the south has less than 2 million people living on 130,000 square kilometers.

Therefore, although the town is a bit remote, it is also inhabited by five or six thousand people, which is more prosperous than the viscounties in the south.

The streets are full of people, dressed in simple but spirited clothes, indicating that the living conditions here are good.

The noise of the city diluted the gloom in the hearts of the people, and Renard liked the atmosphere, and as he rode through the streets, no one expressed awe or disgust at him.

Obviously, prosperity means openness.

The class concept of northerners is smaller than that of southerners, perhaps due to the fact that there are so many nobles in the north that people have become accustomed to it.

The most important thing is that most of the southern nobles were meritorious nobles canonized in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and all of them had their own land, while most of the northern nobles were empty nobles who were later rewarded and did not have their own territories.

If these nobles don't get along well, I'm afraid that they will live worse than ordinary commoners, and they will have to enjoy a drunken life while keeping their family honor and face.

As a result, many empty nobles were swollen and fat, wearing decent clothes in front of them, wandering among their kind, and behind their backs they were destitute and needed to borrow money or pawn to survive.

This is somewhat similar to the children of the Eight Banners in the late Qing Dynasty, who not only want face and enjoyment, but also have no money and no ability.

Renard once heard Heidi say that many northern nobles should dress brightly even if they can't afford to eat.

People are rich in front of people, and people suffer in the future, this sentence is still very appropriate here.

Compared with today's city of abundance, this place is more than a star and a half worse, so everyone has no intention of visiting, and directly finds a hotel to stay.

The hotels in the north are very different from those in the south, with restaurants on the ground floor and guest rooms on the upper floors in the south, while hotels in the north are not the same, where the front room is the restaurant and the backyard is the guest room.

The layout of the house is different, and the personality of the person is also different.

The northerners are more suave and not as bold as the southerners, and the innkeeper will not giggle in front of the crowd, but politely ask if he wants to stay, if he wants to eat, etc.

At this time, it was lunch break, and there were many mercenaries and adventurers in the restaurant, most of them talked elegantly, and even if they were drunk, they would not open their mouths to scold their mothers.

And what they said suddenly caught the attention of Renard and the others: "Have you heard, there are a large number of demons in the Ambrizette Mountains, and they have destroyed several towns, and they are eager to go east." ”

The others chimed in: "I already knew, I also heard that His Majesty the King has sent troops to exterminate the demons, or it won't be long before these guys will roll back into the mountains again." ”

As soon as the words fell, someone immediately retorted: "Extermination is certain, but I don't know how many people will be lost, I heard that last time in order to repel the demons, the military killed and injured nearly a thousand people." ”

Again, thousands of dead and wounded!

The meaning of these three words is very obvious, it is not only the first time that the demon has rushed out of the Ambrizette Mountains to harass other parts of the kingdom in the north on a large scale.

Renard took a sip of water and said softly: "No wonder Your Majesty wants to withdraw the southern army to the north, it turns out that the matter has reached this point." ”

He sighed, feeling more and more headache and exhaustion.

Lei Ye simply didn't think about these things, and shifted his attention to other places.

I saw that there were a lot of paintings hanging on the walls around the restaurant, and most of them were sketches by students of a certain college.

There are no famous artists in this kind of place, and the paintings are not bought from taverns, but are mostly given to the boss or simply remain here.

Lei Ye looked at it casually, and when he swept the fourth painting on the left, his gaze immediately fixed on this work.

It's not that the painting is outstanding, or that there's anything about it, it's the person who painted it, Gilbert Duncan.

Then, he suddenly remembered that this illegitimate child seemed to have not appeared in front of his eyes for a long time, and his mother also seemed to have evaporated from the world.

Maybe it's because the vision and pattern have become bigger, Lei Ye has long forgotten about this former opponent, or he can't be called an opponent now, because the other party is not worthy.

Renard took a deep breath and said to the innkeeper, "Boss, I bought this painting." ”

The innkeeper hurriedly waved his hand and said with a smile: "Say you want to buy it or not, you can take it as much as you like, anyway, it was all picked up when cleaning the room." ”

Lei Ye nodded when he heard this, took off the painting, and directly tore it to pieces.

The boss who saw his actions was stunned, and then shook his head with a wry smile, and said nothing.

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