At the end of winter, the farther north it gets, the colder it gets, the clouds cross the moat formed by the Rocky Mountains and enter the Merlin, and the white white occupies an increasing proportion of the earth, and the white-green intersection can be seen near the snow line at the foot of the Rocky Mountains.

As the clouds travel south of the Rocky Mountains, they can often encounter flocks of birds, enter the Merlin border, and disappear any living things, and occasionally see animals such as snow deer and gray wolves looking for food on the ground, and the faint gray shadow is also fleeting.

"Look, what's that...... Oops, a lot of people! ”

Lin An was holding a copy of "Denny Fen. The Ten Conjectures of Semimis, after reading the last chapter without hurry, sandwiched in a hollowed-out ivory bookmark, closed the book, and put it into the space, before getting up and coming to the screaming Athena, and following her pointing to look down.

At the end of the field of vision, a few gray and black pillars of smoke appeared, and on the snow below the smoke pillars was an elongated procession, only the beginning, not the end, like migrating black ants, moving sparsely and sparsely to the south.

"It's a refugee." Saleen came to the two of them, and after only one glance, he affirmed.

"Are they migrating? Why migrate on such a cold day?" Athena is strange.

"Disaster doesn't depend on the time of the season, if there is a choice, no one will want to leave their homeland," Salin said in a faint tone, his dark golden eyes flashed with the blue light of the Eagle Eye, and he looked at it for a while, a little surprised, "It seems to be a planned migration, not an ordinary refugee." ”

"Is it a refugee from the front line of Gaunt? Could it be a migration presided over by the army?" Lin An frowned.

How could the battle on the Northern Front turn out to be so bad?

Merlin's military lacks confidence to the point that it is not even certain that Gaunt City will be able to hold back the army of the undead, so should the residents of the south of Gaunt City be cleared in advance to prevent the army of the undead from crossing the Gaunt line?

Several people didn't look very good.

It is impossible to appreciate the cruelty of war without seeing it with your own eyes, even if you have seen the war that took place in the territory of Little Perre, but compared to the meaning behind the scene of Merlin refugees migrating in this icy midwinter. The so-called war between the Holy Empire and Pere is like a fight between filial sons.

"Stop in the next town and ask about the origins of the refugees and the fighting in the north."

Naturally, no one objected to Lin An's words, waiting for a quarter of an hour after the group of migrants disappeared from their field of vision. In their sight, a fortified city with walls more than three feet high appeared.

By this time they had flown across the northern border of Stuart and across the southern counties of the Meryl Kingdom. Cities like this with high walls and thick walls are typical of the northern part of Meryl.

The snow added a touch of slaughter to the city, and in the middle of winter, there should not have been too many people gathering in the open air, but at this time, the north gate of the city was full of ragged refugees, the tall gate was mercilessly closed, and the soldiers on the city walls shouted at the refugees under the walls.

The outer city inside the city walls was closed to the doors, almost no one came in and out, and a few thin filial sons like firewood sticks knocked on the door one by one and begged. With filthy faces, slightly convex lower abdomen, and full of numbness, a few refugees who did not know whether they were alive or dead were huddled under the eaves. Wake up occasionally, lower your head and grab a handful of ice and snow to eat -

This is the scene that Lin An and the others saw after landing in the city.

On an empty snowy street, they meet a lonely refugee child again, and Athena kindly takes a beef muffin and an apple out of the space and walks in front of the black filial piety.

Haven't reached out yet. The child she had given her pounced on like a wolf cub, snatched the thing from Athena's hand, and pushed Athena away by the way, turning her head and running wildly, and shoved it into her mouth fiercely.

"Ouch!"

Athena was caught off guard. Sit on the snow.

Several children of different sizes didn't know how to come out of that corner, blocking Xiao who was grabbing things back and forth, and their fists and feet rained down on the child's body.

"Hand it over!"

"Hand over the food!"

The child who was beaten only curled up with his head buried at the bottom, and even in the midst of punches and kicks, he still desperately shoved things into his mouth.

Athena was dumbfounded.

She doesn't need to eat, and there will be no dry food prepared in the space, so the things that are taken out are all leftovers that Lin An and they couldn't eat before, and Athena thought it was interesting to hide a few, and she almost forgot about it when she put it in the space, but just such a beef muffin and apple, it can make these children snatch it like they are desperate.

She was so shocked that she forgot to stand up.

It was not only Lin An and his party who saw this scene, the sound of laughter came from the window of the house next to him, and a child's little face flashed in the window.

The childish words and laughter of the children in the warm house came faintly, as if they were saying something to the adults in the family, naïve and ignorant of the world, just simply funny for the struggle of the refugee children and the fall of Athena.

After a while, a crack opened in the doorway of the house, and several dirty dry cakes were thrown out of it, and the crack in the door quickly closed again.

The children who beat filial piety seemed to have a dog's nose, quickly abandoned the child, threw themselves at the dry cakes, snatched the dry cakes, and scattered in a hurry.

No, there is a slightly older child who is still with that filial piety.

He finally snatched an apple from the mouth of the child, who was no longer able to protect the food, but did not run away, nor did he immediately eat the spoils, hesitated, but walked slowly in the direction of Athena, and Xiao behind him stared at him with a vicious gaze, limping away.

“…… Dear Miss, your apple ......"

The apple that the eldest child who snatched the apple was holding in his hand, the red apple skin had been bitten twice, stained with slush and saliva, Athena shrank in disgust, revealing a smile:

"Here you go, you can eat!"

"Uh......"

The older child stood awkwardly, struggling to restrain the upwelling of his saliva, his belly beating like a drum, but not eating the apple as Athena had said.

He had just seen the scene of Athena being pushed down, and in his previous experience, after he took revenge on the wild boy who snatched her things, and flattered him, such a rich lady often did not reward him stingily, but in the current situation, is it a failure?

Athena's reaction was a little far from his expectations, and the older child didn't know what to do, but instinctively didn't want to give up.

"Are you a refugee heading south?"

A deep male voice came from behind me. The eldest child's heart thumped, and he didn't even notice that someone had walked behind him, or that he and the children had come up. I didn't notice that there were Lin An and others nearby.

The eldest child hurriedly turned around and met his eyes. It was a tall man in a strange robe.

The man did not wear a hood, his hands were naturally tucked in wide sleeves, and the posture that was somewhat strange in the eyes of the child, the other party did it very naturally and calmly, as if he were born to be like this, and with the smooth robe made of silk, it was full of some indescribable mysterious majesty.

Older kids also noticed. There was not a single bit of snow on the shoulders of the mysterious man, and the thin ** falling from the sky flew an inch away from his body, as if encountering an invisible barrier, and automatically retreated. Fall at the feet of the mysterious man and accumulate a small snow circle.

The eldest child's eyes showed irrepressible envy, and he bowed down without any rules, and ate and said:

“…… Yes, yes, honorable lordship, I, me. I'm from Midwinter, in the eastern plains of Meryl......"

The longing and awe in the eyes of the older child were so familiar that Salin seemed to see himself when he was eleven or twelve, and if it weren't for the little trickery that the boy showed after snatching the apple, he might not have bothered to talk to this child.

"Midwinter? Oh, I remember. It seemed to be the closest fortified city to Gaunt City in the east of Meryl, but it was also nearly a hundred miles away from Gaunt City - why are you going south, could it be that the demons have already broken through Gaunt City?"

"No, of course not, my lord, that evil devil will never be able to break through the strongest defense of the human race!"

The child struggles to organize the language, racks his brains, and wants to pour out everything he has," ...... It's just that the militia in charge of relocating us said that those demons will drive the terrifying undead to attack the city, and the army is worried that the demons will spread the plague to the crowded city, turning the living into corpses, and driving them to attack the villagers and the army...... Therefore, the city near Gaunt City must disperse the common people......"

"I see."

Salin already understood what was going on, the child's words were quite organized, and he may have been taught by his elders.

This is a good object to ask, and if you change an adult, you will know nothing more than that.

The child bowed back and replied, the sound of his teeth chattering gradually could not be concealed, and suddenly he felt a warmth all over his body, as if soaking in warm hot water, he looked up in surprise, and before he could be grateful, Salin continued to ask a few more questions, and the child tried his best to answer, through his description, the basic situation in the north, Salin already had a general understanding.

"By the way, what about your family?"

"My father was drafted by the lord, and I was separated from my mother and brother and sister on the road." The child was originally strongly suppressed, and he was a little depressed when he heard the words.

Salin nodded lightly, those golden eyes did not show any pity as the child expected, the child felt uneasy in his heart, feeling that his psychology was seen through by the other party, only to see a handful of copper coins and a few pancakes appear in Salin's hand, and a low male voice said:

"Thank you for your answer, it's your reward, kid."

The child holding the pancake and copper coin stood in place, watching the back of the blue robe disappear into the wind and snow, and until many years later, he did not forget this unexpected encounter in the snow and ice.

The group went around several taverns in the city and waited for news to be distributed before returning to Feiyun and re-entering the road.

Returning to the news collected by several people on Feiyun, Lin An concluded:

“…… As expected, the fact that the army was still able to organize the relocation in a planned way shows that the order is still normal and the morale has not been defeated by the defeat. ”

"But the situation is still bad, as the military feared, and the retreat of the front to Gaunt City is very unfavorable for us - now we must be glad that it is the middle of winter, and if it is a summer with a lot of animal activity, even if the local population is relocated, the animals moving on the grassland are a potential threat to be transformed into undead." Saleen Road.

(To be continued)

ps:

It's Gaunt City tomorrow...... It's back to the ice field, and this copy of the whole book accounts for the largest proportion, is it aesthetically tired to be written...... Well, this time I won't be in the icefield for long.

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