Chapter 16: The Deserted Village

The Danube Plain, here is the richest place in the whole continent, the Danube River stretches for thousands of miles through the entire plain, irrigating 10,000 acres of fertile land, this is a god-given land, is the most important granary of the Doma Empire, now it is late autumn, people living and working in peace and contentment ushered in the harvest season, the land is filled with laughter... It should have been...

After entering the fiefdom of the Duke of Apollo, that is, the Danube Plain, far from being the granary of the empire that people sing about each other, on the contrary, it is full of devastation. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"How did this come to be?" "Walking down a path, Dorina on horseback looked at the abandoned farmland in front of her, she had been here when she was a child, and the beauty of this place was far beyond the reach of their family fiefdom, and the golden scene of the autumn harvest was still vivid, but now it was all deserted farmland and dilapidated small villages.

"There were already hints in the spring of this year," Arthur next to Dolina said lightly: "When I went to pass by here this spring, the situation was not quite right, it should be the season of spring ploughing, but there were not many people in the field at all, I didn't expect it to develop into this field now." ”

"Is this a natural disaster?" Leon was at the back of the team, although he was naturally rejected by Bai that day, and was taught a hard lesson by Dolina, but until now he has not given up, after all, he is a loyal believer in the ass God Cult, so he naturally counts the tail as part of the ass, and the ass of the Inhumans is no less than a new world for Leon.

"It's not a natural disaster..."Comber, who was driving the horse, looked ugly, pulled the hood behind his back forward to cover half of his face, and sighed deeply: "This is a man-made disaster." ”

The sky gradually darkened, and everyone came to a village, which seemed to be deserted, although most of the houses were still intact, but they did not feel the smell of people at all, but it was not very dilapidated, and it must have been abandoned for a long time.

When people walk into a house, it is better to have a place to live than to sleep in the wilderness.

"Anyone?" pushed the people open the house, the room was already covered with a layer of dust, and Dolina's voice echoed in the room, apparently there was no one here: "Hey, servant, come and clean up." ”

"Come on. Leon hurriedly agreed, there was no way, now his life is still in the hands of others.

Of course, a big lady like Dolina can't do these rough jobs, but what is surprising is that Arthur, who has an ice cube face, is surprisingly capable, proficient in making fires and beds, and is a perennial wandering guy, all say that no one is perfect, but this kid is really close to perfection.

"What is this?" said Dorina, who was idle in the courtyard, noticing the flower beds in the courtyard.

Obviously, this flower garden has not been taken care of for a long time, it has long been deserted, overgrown with weeds, the flowers that were originally full of spring in the garden have basically withered away, and there is only a corner of a brightly colored flower that is particularly eye-catching, this flower does not look very big, only the size of a baby's fist, the petals are many and dense, diverging to the surroundings, showing a strong vitality, the most different is the color, the red one even makes people feel uncomfortable.

Before she knew it, Dorina was completely attracted to the flower and reached out to pluck it.

"Is it beautiful?" said Shiro behind Dorina.

"It's so beautiful," Dolina smiled, "but it's so bright, I've never seen a flower like this." ”

After getting along for the past few days, Dolina and the others are already very familiar with Bai.

"For this flower is watered with the blood of countless men. ”

Bai stretched out his hand and folded the flower, although the voice was still that gentle voice, but it seemed to have a kind of disgust and helplessness.

"That's mine! Give it to me!" At this moment, there was a sudden roar in front of the door, and a figure rushed towards Bai frantically.

Comber stopped in front of Bai for the first time, but this person didn't come to Bai at all, stumbled a few steps and fell to the ground and fainted.

"Rebel!" followed by the young man who suddenly appeared, an old man who bent over walked out: "You are travelers, aren't you?

The old man looked to be sixty or seventy years old, his hair was almost completely gray, and his clothes looked very dirty, and it was not difficult to see from the old man's dusty look that life must have been very difficult.

As the old man walked in, Bai quickly put on the hood on his head to block the two cat ears on his head.

Leon and Arthur who came out of the room glanced at each other, both of them were a little puzzled, it has been many years since the Doma Empire strictly forbade discrimination against Inhumans, and this place should have been the place with the highest concentration of Inhumans for a long time, especially the people, the hatred in history has little to do with the people's fears, but along the way, Comber and Bai both wore wide hoods and seemed to be deliberately hiding their Inhuman identities.

"It's okay old man..."Bai stretched out his hand and helped the old man up with a smile: "You also suffer here, we still have a lot of food to bring, if you don't dislike it, you can dine with us tonight." ”

The old man stood up tremblingly: "I see that you are a nobleman, thank you very much, old man, I haven't eaten enough for many days..."

"Look at how gentle people are," Leon complained to Arthur with an envious look: "How nice it would be if my master was a cute "Xiaobai", completely different from someone, can your cousin marry in the future, who dares to marry her, haha." ”

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When the night came, Arthur was eating barbecue by the fire, and looked sympathetically at Leon who was squatting by the sink and washing clothes.

"Shi Ang, let's have something to eat first..."Bai Rousheng looked at Leon who only had a back.

Dolina snorted coldly: "Miss Bai, don't worry about him, he is a typical day without being dead and uncomfortable." ”

"Oops, whose underwear is this," Leon smiled and held up a pair of briefs with a bear drawing: "It's so cute, and I say every day that I'm a seventeen-year-old mature girl, I think your heart is quite a match for your Lori appearance..."

In the middle of the night, Leon's screams were heard far, far away...

Sitting around the fire were the old man by day and the mad young man, who introduced himself as Lao Mai and the young man as his son.

Lao Mai was now gobbling up dry food that didn't taste very delicious, and handed over a piece of roasted meat with a white smile: "Old man, eat slowly, we still have more food." ”

Lao Mai hurriedly shirked it: "Alas, it's enough for a rough person like me to have dry food to eat, hehe, I won't tell you, we haven't eaten anything decent for several days." ”

"It's okay anymore, don't be afraid," Bai's soft voice floated, "I've already burned that flower." ”

At this time, the young man also groaned and slowly woke up: "Father..."

"Are you sober?" said Mai.

Bai sighed: "I'm a sacrifice, and I can barely remove the "poison" from his body, at least make his consciousness sober, but this is only a symptom and not a cure, he has been..."

"I understand," Lao Mai smiled bitterly, "Then thank you very much, he has been tossing a lot during this time..."

If you look closely, Wheat's body is covered with bruises, wrists, ankles, and bruises on his body that have been strangled by ropes, but in addition to these external injuries, he can clearly feel the weakness of Wheat's whole person, as if it was poisoned, which makes people worry that they don't know when they will die.

"These injuries..."Lao Mai sighed: "It was all caused by his desperate struggle when I tied him up, and if we continue like this, we are afraid that we will only have a dead end..."

"What the hell is going on?" Dolina, who had finished repairing Leon, clapped her hands and sat down, she could be regarded as holding back the question: "Isn't this place called the granary of the empire, why did it become like this in just a few years?" Is it because of the war?"

Lao Mai shook his head: "Even if it's a war, I'm afraid it's not so catastrophic... It's not our one or two villages that are deserted now, the entire Danube Plain is probably deserted, all because of that bright flower, which is the real flower of hell watered by blood - ten deaths and life!"