Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Charles came to the middle of the crowd and looked at the refugees opposite, it can only be described as refugees, this group of people seems to have not experienced normal social life for a long time, their clothes are all torn, some people still have grass and leaves, Charles looked at the deserted land on both sides of the road, the ground is a little dry but there is no particularly strong drying phenomenon, it does not look like it is caused by drought, and there is no drought in Karajan within the wall

So these lands are because no one takes care of the crops are dead, this is a long process, and as a farmer, how can you watch these crops die in front of you, this is not scientific, and these people in front of them can be sure that they are farmers, both men and women have all kinds of calluses on their fingers, this is a characteristic of long-term farm work, if you have to say that you are moving bricks, I have nothing to say

There is also the fact that these people's bodies are now very emaciated, and from some holes, you can see that the skin is wrapped around the ribs, and these skins have no wrinkles, which shows that this group of people has endured hunger for a very long time, and the sudden weight loss in a short period of time will have skin folds similar to stretch marks or weight loss

Charles came to the front of the crowd opposite, and a wooden stick was handed over to the crowd, and Charles took it lightly in his hand, uh... This should be an attack on the other side, looking at the owner of this wooden stick, the skinny boy opposite, Charles asked helplessly, "What are you going to do?"

The boy gasped twice, let go of the stick, and it was such a light attack, which made him lose most of his strength, and at this moment he was still standing here was already very hard, staggering but not falling, which made Charles very strange, this state is not ordinary starvation, this is a state that has not eaten for many days, why would Charles know, because Charles had an awkward hunger strike with his parents in his previous life, and five days later it was similar to this state, but it was not so miserable

"Do you have a master? I want to talk to you in charge," Charles shouted, and shouted out to knock down the four opposites, who had gone out to low blood sugar and blood oxygen levels due to excessive hunger, and now they should have all kinds of lights in front of them, and they were really confused

Charles looked over the crowd and looked at a dense pile of firewood not far away, to be honest, there are so many straws gathered in a dead crop field, don't you really think that the people who are stopped by you will not find the strangeness here? Charles looked at it for a while and found that the dozen or so people hiding behind really had no intention of coming out, and couldn't help but shout angrily: "You can't get out! Is it interesting to do this?!"

This voice fell again, and then there was a large-scale fall to the ground, and these people really couldn't hold on

Seeing this, Ji said to Baroque, a merchant next to him: "Mr. Baroque, we might as well eat something here, and cook some porridge for these people by the way, unless we kill all these people in this state..."

Baroque is not the kind of miser who does not pull out a dime, and he also saw this situation, the situation of the bunch of people in front of him is not the kind of robbers who block the road, and these people who don't give food will really die, Baroque hurriedly ordered the caravan people to pull out a few large bags of grain, these grains are the food of the caravan, not Baroque goods, they are originally used for consumption, and the Baroque can still bear this loss

When they saw the food, the eyes of the group of people in front of them shone brightly, and they could really see the light, which frightened Charles to think that he had seen a subhuman race whose eyes could glow, and at this time, those who were hiding behind the straw pile also came out, a total of eighteen people, which Charles had already discovered

These eighteen people are wearing leather armor, they are also thin but not to the extent of skin and bones, and they still retain some combat ability, these eighteen people can be seen at a glance that they are not peasants, as for the profession... It may be a mercenary or a soldier, and the level of the military is a little bigger, because they are very regular in their march, and they are obviously headed by the leader of the leader

It is not so much that these people were called out by the charr as they were lured out by the food, and they also followed the refugees to the cooking place, and the friends and mercenaries were organizing the order, and the charr stopped the eighteen people

The leader looked at Charles viciously: "Who are you, what are you going to do? Let's pass!"

Charles spread his hands: "This is not good, they can eat as they please, because they can't threaten us when they are full, but do you guys... Let's talk first, we need to know who you are"

"As for me, I'm from a magical country, my name is Charr, and it's useless to tell you anything else, my companions and I are here to travel the world, so can you tell me who you are?"

These people looked at Charles in surprise, looked up and down for a long time, and looked at Charles's outfit, Charles is wearing the same style as the Admiral of One Piece today, but with a little more fancy, this body will never be seen in the Pioneer Country, because Salen, a person who has been to the Magic Country, has also said that the little friends are dressed in their own style, in other words, they are not the same as the people in this world, how can these Pioneer Country soil buns have been seen

Since I haven't seen it, it is not easy to look at Charles, and the person in charge feels that it is enough to pretend to be forced, so he coughed and said: " Well, nobles from the magical realm, we are the Dirandot mercenary group, as you can see, there is a famine here, we people haven't eaten anything serious for nearly half a month, our brothers ate the last food in order to protect everyone, and now there is really no food, we see that your convoy just wants to beg for food, if not, everyone can only starve to death, this is all true"

Charles didn't argue, this guy took Charles for a fool, what he said was true, but he just didn't say the most important point, why is there a famine now? But since these people don't want to talk about Charles, they don't ask, get out of the way and let them pass

Thin porridge is boiled quickly, people who have not eaten for a long time can not eat any solid or dense staple food except for thin porridge, because the stomach that has not been digested for a long time can not digest anything except thin porridge, and can not eat more, hungry people will not know full because of the lack of energy in the body when eating, and finally support themselves alive

Lance and Euphemia took their friends, and the mercenaries were persuading and guarding this group of people, if they died because of a meal, it would really be worth the loss, and the people of the caravan watched these people eat the hot gruel in a big gulp, and even blew it, even if they were burned, they swallowed it desperately, and a little bit would not be wasted, and everyone had a shock in their hearts

The kind priest girl shed tears while watching the refugees eat, and Yahuo pulled the corner of La Charle's clothes: "Charsa, can you help them?"

"This..." ", Charles looked at the little friends around him and said helplessly, "I always want to know what the hell is going on, their leader didn't tell me the truth"

Ji took out his weapon from his backpack: "Restrain them, Charr you go straight to hypnosis"

The friends gave a thumbs up to such a decisive set, this plan is very much in line with everyone's appetite, and now they are waiting for those people to eat and drink

This meal was eaten for more than half an hour, these people were eating nonsense, and they hurried to stuff everything that could be eaten into their mouths, if it weren't for Lance's decisive request to let the mercenaries stop eating even if they hurt people, I'm afraid they would really kill people

The eighteen strong men were different from the refugees, these people ate and chewed slowly, not because they were not hungry, but because they were always ready to fight, and they could not affect their combat effectiveness because of eating

It was this behavior that made Mo Tuotuo conclude their identity, they must be very elite soldiers, because it is difficult for ordinary mercenaries to have such a sense of vigilance and responsibility, this group of people has always been protecting the refugees, and it is the same now, these people also stopped eating after seeing that the refugees were full, and they cherished the things in their hands, and then got up and walked towards their friends

The next moment, each of them had a weapon around their necks

The leader's face did not change, his neck was tightly attached to his throat when he was in class, but in his eyes, the blade on his throat was as if it did not exist, and the soldiers behind him were the same, this person asked very calmly: "What does this mean?"

"In order for you to tell the truth, we have decided to help you, these poor people, whether you need it or not, so we need accurate information, of course you haven't lied to me before, but what we need is the whole thing, if you don't say we can only use some magic", Charles took out the book of Laplace, and the book on Charles honestly looked like a magic weapon, and the other canes, fans, and shapes were really not intimidating

Charr's threat made the face of this tough guy with the tip of the knife and his face change, the threat of magic is so good, but the tough guy quickly put on a non-caring appearance: "Whatever, since you want to hear me, I'll tell you, it's all the same anyway"

"Look at the reverse you came from Karajan, then you must have seen our Dolandi's border army, ah, yes, I was... was once a wing officer of Dolandi's Western Army, with two thousand right wing troops under my hands"

After Mo Tuo's explanation, the friends knew that the name of this official was the general's military position, and the wing officer was the general of the two wings, and there were many other officers, such as the front officer, the shield officer, the bow officer, and the spear officer, which had something to do with the war mechanism of this world, in short, he could command two thousand people to prove that this man's position was below one person in that border army, and only the other four people were of the same class as him

"You continue"

"Huh~~~", the man who introduced himself as Kent sighed and said: "A year ago, the national capital began to stuff some people into the border army, this kind of behavior every year everyone didn't care about it at all, but not long after that, some strange actions began to appear in the army, because it didn't involve my subordinates, so I didn't put too much effort into it, and then..."

Kent paused as he said this, his subordinates all looked wrong, Kent sighed again and continued: " I don't know what the reason is, the other troops began to give up training, because I haven't accepted those guys from the national capital, so I don't know what happened, and then in February this year, our Western Army has a fixed time for military exercises in February, but this year it was canceled, and at this time I found out that something was wrong, I went to find out the reason why the general is famous...

Kent punched a hole in the ground, gritted his teeth and said: "After I fled back to my camp, their attack came, my department because I don't know why the battle caused a great reduction in combat strength, and I was injured at that time, although I tried my best to save but the defeat was irreparable, so I took the last three hundred people all the way out, and..."

Kent couldn't go on, this must be the most critical place, everyone looked at Kent and his soldiers, and finally one of the soldiers spoke: "They eat people"

"Ah~~?", the listening of the friends is absolutely fine, but this answer is a bit too unexpected, and Charles is surprised to want to confirm it

"They eat people~~!!!", Kent roared angrily, half-squatting up, his eyes red and startled Charles

"Calm down, cannibalism, who are they?", Lance asked, thoughtfully, as he pressed Kent down

"The Western Army... no, it's the people we've seen except for the people who don't eat people, and I don't know what I'm talking about", Kent shook his head vigorously, obviously these things were not what he wanted to remember, and the same were the soldiers

"Okay, calm down," Charles said, "just nod or shake your head, you... have seen the Western Army, and civilians, and people of various identities, they are divided into two kinds of people, one is a humanoid monster that eats people, and the other is an ordinary person who is eaten, is that so?"

Kent nodded painfully, as if he wanted to nod his head off, these tough guys cried, this is the result of maintaining the high pressure for so long, he just said that he came out with a team of more than 300 people, and now there are only 18 people sitting here, including him, and it happened in February, it is already September, how have they lived for most of the past half a year? With such a group of people living, unimaginable pressure, Charles thinks he can't do it

At this time, Mo Tuotuo and Baroque, who were listening together, also screamed, and the friends looked over dissatisfied, and Balag said in horror: "Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God! Karajan has not had a caravan from the outside world for half a year, and they...

Everyone finally realized the seriousness of the matter, Mo Tuotuo also said: "I have been in this industry for thirty years, and I still have dozens of friends, and none of them have come back after they have gone out in the past six months, I thought that something good had happened, after all, a good mercenary group in the pioneering country can always be appreciated as soldiers, but now it seems that...

However, the friends stood up one after another, and no one had time to accompany the two of them to be scared or sad, Charles said in the eyes around him: "There is no time to think about this now, since we entered the Dolandi, we have entered a huge net, and we can only survive by tearing this net, and the closest place to us is the Western Army that we have just passed not far away."

"Hey!", Kent looked at his friends in surprise: "That's the Western Army, even without my troops, there are seven or eight thousand people, no... It's a monster, you..."

The friends began to walk in the direction they came, and Ji took out the weapon from the backpack: "Our brigade level is very low, but that's only because we have just established it, besides, the Western Army will not be more powerful than Karajan's border army, right?"

"Not really, there's a big gap"

Lance carried the greatsword on his shoulder and said in his calm voice: "Then don't talk nonsense, follow us, you can live"