The momentum of good and evil reversed, and the rats and cockroaches in the gutter surged out, almost drowning the space for human existence. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In such a critical period, Ling Qi, who has always liked to follow the trend, has firmly established his position and will never go with the evil for half a step!

So, as soon as he learned that the former Rune people were coming east, he made a gesture to fight evil, went on the road alone, and set off towards the east overnight!

To the east of the town is a vast plain, which used to be very prosperous, but now there are only two or three big cats and small cats left.

This plain formed by the confluence of the Rushing River and the Red Water River was once divided into three major parts by three powerful forces, namely Kailandin in the lower reaches of the Rushing River, Kanan on both sides of the upper reaches of the Red Water River and under the Iron Mountain, and Esgaros and Long Lake City in the upper reaches of the Rushing River and at the intersection of the forest rapids across the northern part of the dark jungle.

Walking on this scorched plain where desertification had begun to appear and the north was even more burned by dragon fire, Ling Qi seemed to hear the wails of ghosts hovering in the air. It was a fresh geism, but it didn't have much appeal to picky eaters, they were too thin.

The vicissitudes of history are set off by lonely souls and wild ghosts, how much evidence remains of the strength of the past?

Even the Rune people, who were once in full bloom, have become ragged savages, and Changhu City, the trading center of the north, has become a small town, which is probably relatively lucky.

The homeland of the Rune was once a fertile land centered on the Inland Sea of Rune, not in the direction of their invasion, but further south, at the end of the long river formed by the confluence of the Red Water River and the Rushing River, southeast of Kailandin.

Between the Kailandin and the Rune Inland Sea, there is also a large area of land, not all of which are suitable for survival, but there are fertile pastures suitable for grazing, and they used to belong to the Rune people.

After leaving their homeland, the Rune people became known as the evil Easterners, not only because they fled to the desert on the east side of the continent, but also because the Rune Inland Sea was almost directly east of the hinterland of Middle-earth, between the Iron Mountain in the northeast corner of the continent and Mordor in the southeast corner. The Rune were originally Orientals, but a long, long time ago they would not have been described as evil.

The Rune Inland Sea, as it is commonly known, is a huge saltwater lake that is revitalized by the Rushing River that originates from the Eled River and the Red Water River, which originates from the Iron Mountain. In the past, it was full of life and fun, but now it is just a dead sea.

The southern part of the Rune Inland Sea, and the area between Mordor, is blank on the map, a large blank space. Because most of the land is mountainous and swampy, it is not suitable for survival, and it is probably barren until now.

When people run their fingertips over the parchment map, there is always a sense of pointing out the country, but if they zoom in to a normal level, they know how widely praised the country is.

Ling Qi galloped like the wind, his speed was definitely faster than that of a galloping horse, and in the middle of the night, he ran a finger distance on the map, but almost passed through the entire plain and entered the territory of Kanan under the Iron Mountain!

The Hongshui River is far away, just as imagined, some villages built along the river have been abandoned, and people have gone to empty buildings. There are still traces of being smashed, burned, and looted, and you don't have to think about it to know that they are the work of the savage Rune!

Ling Qi had already seen some similar scenes along the way, but unfortunately there was no trace of the Rune people, which made him have to start tracking backwards from the source, otherwise it would be difficult to encounter even if thousands of troops were scattered across a large plain!

On the east bank of the Hongshui River, Ling Qi saw a camp of the Rune people, which had also been emptied, but there were still many clues.

For example, it is not difficult to see from some abandoned tools and equipment that these people are extremely unproductive, almost nothing to produce, and their intelligence should be much higher than that of goblins, but their living standards have not improved much, and they are like beasts.

Excrement and leftover bones, as well as a few wooden stakes strung with human heads, prove that they have almost lost their former civilization.

Ling Qi began to follow his breath and footprints, and after returning to the west bank of the Hongshui River again, he found the place where they were separated!

The group of savages inexplicably divided into three groups, and began to advance along the upper and lower reaches of the river, as well as in the direction of due west, which seemed to be a kind of encirclement or sweeping tactic, but Ling Qi did not see much strategic value, because the area they surrounded was not worth besieging at all, it was full of scattered small and medium-sized human settlements, most of which were villages and manors.

To the north of Kanan is the Iron Mountain, a group of dwarves who are stubborn and indifferent and not easy to deal with. To the south of Canan is the confluence of the two rivers, and unless these wildlings are prepared to go home, their ultimate destination is the more densely populated west, that is, in the direction of Esgaros and Long Lake!

So Ling Qi continued to go west on the way home, of course, it was not the same route he had come.

This plain is only a small piece of the palm on the map, but it is actually vast, with a radius of nearly 100 miles, and the area is half that of the dark and dense forest!

At dawn, Ling Qi encountered a small group of Rune people who were snatching a sheep corpse, maybe it was a scattered miscellaneous soldier, maybe it was a scout, who knows!

He observed the quality and equipment of these people a little, and found that their strength was obviously greater than that of ordinary people, and their feet were also very flexible, but the weapons and clothing revealed the essence of the savages, and where would anyone fight with stone tools now!

Barely let these people find out, Ling Qi burst out of the grass, one long and one short two steel knives cut the grass like killing several people in a row, and in less than half a minute, he ended the battle, leaving more than a dozen corpses on the ground!

The Rune were uniformly dressed, almost all of them in battle robes made of simple sewn hides. In addition to the common stone hammers and stone axes, some people even have pig iron daggers and rusted throwing guns on their bodies, which are no better against civilians than stone tools, but they are obviously more threatening to armored warriors, I don't know whether they are robbed or crude.

Ling Qi obviously cared more about something invisible to the naked eye than about their combat and production capabilities, and that was the only reason why he suddenly became noble and willing to spy on the enemy alone.

He took a deep breath, and the few spirits that had just grown up in the air immediately wailed into his belly.

A hint of discoloration flashed in his eyes, Ling Qi was slightly surprised, the quality of the twelve fresh souls was even inferior to a warrior from Changhu Town, probably comparable to two untrained civilians!

This reminded him of the meager reward after killing the orcs, he originally thought that the soul quality of the people in Changhu Town was particularly good, or that the orcs with low intelligence were not real natural creations after all, and the soul energy was weak.

Now it seems that even those fallen human beings have enough soul quality.

I don't know if it's because of the loss of the inheritance that has caused their bloodline to degenerate, or because of some unique reasons in this world, such as the world's rejection of evil!

Ling Qi shook his head, even such a harvest was much more cost-effective than slaughtering orcs.

The soul quality of an ordinary Rune is equivalent to that of a fierce wolf cavalryman, three to four times that of an ordinary orc infantryman, but its combat strength is not half that of the former! Moreover, the pile of fat meat on the lonely mountain is not easy to gnaw, and the bones in the middle are too hard!

Even if the soul quality of a single Rune person is only five to one-sixth of that of the townspeople of Long Lake, thousands of Rune people make up for the lack of quality! If you kill all these people, you will be able to slaughter at least two or three of the towns, and no one will say that he is bad, but will only praise him as a hero!

Therefore, since hearing about the invasion of these savages last night, while asserting that this is a disaster from the leader's point of view, Ling Qi has already had a crazy idea from his personal point of view!

Maybe that's not crazy, after all, he first established his power and joined the side of justice, and he still refuses to turn back, just under the idea of making war money, seeking another kind of wealth that others can't see!

At noon, Ling Qi returned to Changhu Town, and he made a decision that no one expected!

He decided to lead eighty warriors from Long Lake Town, known to outsiders as the Witch Guard, to the eastern plains to face the menacing Rune!

In one night and half a day, several groups of fleeing civilians have already arrived in Changhu Town, bringing news that the eastern savages are coming in droves!

How many of those savages are there, some say hundreds, some say thousands, and some say that in the desert further east, there are still hundreds of thousands of savages ready to go!

And from Ling Qi's speculation on the east side of the Hongshui River based on the size of the temporary camp of the Rune, if they were just a lone army, there would be at least three to five thousand in number, but everyone knew that it could not be a lone army that came out of the nest.

Three to five thousand enemies, even if they are all only stone-throwing, and taking eighty people is a meat bag to beat a dog.

Besides, those Runians don't just throw stones!

Their bravery, their madness, there was even a hierarchy among them! There was a group of Ruen Greataxe warriors in rudimentary leather armor that Ling Qi had never seen, but had spread among the refugees, even daring to charge head-on at the cavalry, and they could defeat them with the same number!

These savages have become a nightmare for the remnants of the defeated army!

Fear, discouragement, despair!

These emotions did not have a great impact on the fully reformed witch guards, and the demonic nature gradually awakened in their hearts, more cruel than crazy?

The others, including some of the reserve city guards who had drunk the diluted potion once or twice, were all terrified!

Faced with the persuasion of a fleeing lord to block each other with death, Ling Qi only had a look, and he was hit by a witch guard riding a horse and flew out, looking at the bursts of exclamations caused by falling in the crowd, spraying blood mist, and becoming crippled even if he didn't die!

Regarding the fear and hatred of some people, Ling Qi only said one sentence to Nitin, who was in charge of staying behind:

"Anyone who dares to cause chaos and bewitch the crowd with evil words will be killed!"

It wasn't until he rode away from the mechanical rumbling gate that his cold voice came from outside the door again.

"The town of Long Lake welcomes all those who come to evacuate and will provide adequate food and clothing. But if someone has bad intentions or selfish intentions, they want to stop me from saving more civilians. Then, the orcs on the lonely mountain in the north will definitely not mind adding a late night snack!"

"Everyone has the right to live, not just you!"

One by one, the witch guards who walked by ran out of the town of Long Lake, which was a fortified refuge in the eyes of the townspeople and evacuees, with cold faces, and they stepped into the wilderness without the slightest fear.

"Are those the guards of Master Lynch?"

A refugee child watching with envy looked at the majestic warriors, all of whom had uniform armor and carried huge machetes, which made people feel chills when they looked at them.

His mother immediately covered his mouth, and there was not much envy and respect in her eyes, but more fear and... Hate!

The mayor of Long Lake provided them with food, clothing, and even shelter. The town of Long Lake had its tall walls and powerful warriors they had never seen before, which gave them peace of mind.

But since there are a large number of enemies to the north, why should the lord leave with his living strength, wouldn't this put them in danger? Could it be that the lords of Changhu Town also have the same thoughts as the lords of some of them who fled in advance in their past territories with their families and mouths?

The refugees couldn't tell, even some of the townspeople of Long Lake couldn't tell, they just regretted that they hadn't tied themselves to someone's chariot earlier, such as those witch guards whose skin first turned red and now turned back, believing that the lord would never give up on them even if he chose to run away...

As for some high-sounding excuses, or promises made in the past, when it comes to the critical moment, no one will take it seriously. People seldom believe in heroes, unless the time comes when they have to!