"It is rude to ask a woman's age. Artoria frowned, and Ye Mu hurriedly stopped his mouth in fright.

Along the way, the two chatted, but most of the time it was Ye Mu who was asking Artoria to answer.

Along the way, Ye Mu learned that Atolia was not the only demi-saint, in fact, Ye Mu had seen more than half of the demi-saints of this country that day.

The rest of the generals like Zhennan, Zhenbei, Zhendong, and Zhenxi who are guarding the Quartet all have the strength of a half-saint, and the great generals of this country and the warriors with the title of military gods are all pure saint-level blood-streaked warriors.

Ye Mu sighed and shook his head, suddenly feeling that the gap between him and them was too big.

"In addition, the two people who guarded the door for His Majesty were both people with king-level strength. Artoria added.

"Okay, don't say it anymore......" Ye Mu collapsed, how could he be favored and regarded as a hero by Shuangcun at the beginning, but when he arrived in this palace, he didn't even have the qualifications to guard Nangong Nan?

The two of them hurried during the day, and at night there was an inn to rest in the inn, and if there was no inn, they just found a random place to set up a tent.

Ye Mu slept very hard, and he slept more peacefully than when he was with Xiao Dizzy, because there was a demi-saint beside him, although there were monsters that didn't want to die, but there were very few, so basically the two of them were able to sleep until the next morning, and they slept very peacefully.

On this day, when the two were passing by a small village, Artoria suddenly took Ye Mu behind her and said, "Something is here." ”

It was a small village, with only a few dozen houses built on both sides of the road, and although the population was small, it was also terrifyingly quiet.

At the front of the house, countless people sat lazily on the ground, looking up at the sky or bowing their heads, in short, no one spoke, no one worked.

It stands to reason that it is the middle of summer, and the laborers are the first choice for these farmers, but it is strange that they are so lazy.

Although there has been no famine in the Luanfeng Empire for a long time, it does not mean that every household has a grain reserve that can support one or two years without labor, and it is necessary to pay a grain tax every year, and the tax of 200 catties per household is not heavy but not low.

Artoria's fears were not unfounded, for she could see that the men's clothes, though not ragged, were tattered and unkempt, and had apparently not been in good hands for a long time.

Not only are these so, but they are all yellow and thin, obviously they haven't tasted a full meal for a long time.

That being the case, it proves that the farmers here do not have food reserves.

Just as he was puzzled, an old man on crutches, supported by a child, walked up to the two of them, and he asked weakly, "You two, is there anything you can help me with?"

The child supporting him was also yellow-skinned, obviously hadn't eaten for a long time, and his eyes looked a little dull.

"Why don't you go to the fields and work in the fields during the summer planting season, but are so lazy and lazy, preferring to starve to death in front of your house than to work and grow food?" Artoria asked sternly.

Through conversations along the way, Qi Sheng was probably able to figure out that Artoria in front of him was actually a very strict person, so her attitude towards these peasants who were waiting to die was also very strict.

The old man smiled wryly, shook his head, stretched out three fingers to Artoria, and said tremblingly, "It's March, it hasn't rained in March! The people are miserable, and they are miserable!"

The old man said and wiped the tears overflowing from the corners of his eyes with his hand, which made Ye Mu feel very uncomfortable in his heart, and without saying a word, he took out the food he had prepared earlier from the space ring.

An endless stream of food appeared from Ye Mu's spatial ring, which made the old man's eyes widen, and saliva flowed from the corners of his mouth.

"I still have some food here, you call the villagers to come over for dinner, and when you're full, you can tell us why it doesn't rain for three months, which leads to drought. Ye Mu said.

The reason why Ye Mu said this was because when he and Artoria came, they saw a clear spring and a lake on the road.

The vastness of the lake can be described as endless, which is an exaggeration, but it is also very wide and the water is very clear.

The lakes and the villages are only a few miles away, and if you are more diligent, you can dig ditches and bring water from there to the villages, so that there will be water for farming, and there will be no so-called drought at all.

"Good, good!" the old man nodded hurriedly, and called all the people in the village. It's very strange, there are clearly dozens of houses, but the only villagers who come are the few they see, and there are less than ten people in total.

These people all got some food from Ye Mu.

Dismounted, found a place to tie the horses, and the two became guests of honor, and the villagers knelt on the ground in gratitude and praised their virtues.

When the villagers were all full, they all gathered again, sat on the ground in a circle, and looked at Ye Mu and Artoria in the middle.

"Last year was a good harvest year, but this year we encountered a drought, which caused the spring seedlings to die in the ground, and there was nothing to do in the summer, so we could only wait or wait for death. ”

The old man explained.

"Old man, I saw springs and lakes on the way here, so many water sources, why don't you quote them?" Ye Mu asked.

"I don't know, sir. The old man sighed, shook his head, and said, "Naturally, we also know that there is such a water source, but we can't directly lead them to the village!"

"Why?" Ye Mu and Artoria asked at the same time.

This time, it was not only the old man, but also the others.

"I don't know what kind of monster came to the back mountain in the village, all the water within a radius of five miles has evaporated, not to mention farming, even if it is the water we eat on weekdays, we can only go ten miles away to eat. ”

A villager said bitterly.

"Yes, because of this, many people in the village have fled, and only we, the village guards, have stayed in the village to find an opportunity to hunt down that monster and bring stability and peace to the villagers of our village as soon as possible. ”

Another said.

In this way, the two of them understood that there was a monster at work, which is why this village is so miserable.

"Where is that monster?" Artoria asked.

The old man was stunned for a moment, looked at Artoria and Ye Mu on the side, and said in disbelief: "Could it be that the two of you are blood-streaked warriors?"

In fact, the number of blood-streaked warriors has always been very rare, even the weakest human-level bloodstreaked warriors are only one in a thousand people.

Therefore, in a certain country, the blood-streaked warrior is a natural nobleman, and a blood-streaked warrior will be given a knighthood at birth, and even enjoy the state's subsidies for a lifetime.

Of course, this country is in the Western Continent, and the Qingluan Empire does not have this kind of treatment, because the Qingluan Empire has a large land area and a large population base, which makes the blood-streaked warriors continue to be born here.

"Exactly. Ye Mu said.

There was an uproar, the elder knelt on the ground all of a sudden, and the people around him also knelt on the ground, and they shook their heads at Ye Mu and the others, and said earnestly: "I beg for the two blood-streaked warriors, for us to get rid of the monster in the back mountain!"

"Lead the way!" Ye Mu said, already standing up with Artoria.

Under the leadership of the villagers, the two came to the back mountain.

The mountain behind the village is a towering mountain, because of that monster, all the plants here have withered, withered and yellow, clearly in the middle of summer, but as dead and silent as late autumn.

There are no flowers, birds, fish, insects, and even annoying snakes have not appeared once.