There are still fifty days left until the eruption.

Professor Shen arrived at the place today, and they were quite peaceful along the way, because the Kingdom of Elis had not officially stated its position yet, so their team did not encounter much obstruction in the process of going south. After nine days of traveling, he returned to the cave where the waypoint was.

"Listen to the search and rescue team, you are obedient now, now there are more than 30,000 people?"

"I'm afraid it's almost 40,000," Wu Xiaoqing was standing on the watchtower above the city gate when he spoke, and under his feet, a huge flow of people was pouring in from outside the city towards the city gate, and through the telescope, he could clearly see that more people were appearing on the horizon, converging in this flow of people, "faster than we imagined." ”

It has only been more than a week since the cake shed was opened in the city, and Wu Xiaoqing thought that in this medieval era, the speed of news spread was very slow, and it would take at least half a month for them to send bread. But it turns out that in this era when the vast majority of people do not have enough to eat, the attraction of such a thing as having a place where you can eat bread for free is unimaginable for the vast majority of people.

"Professor Shen, don't bring glass marbles this time, we brought too many of them last time, and the businessmen didn't recognize them," Wu Xiaoqing said, "Pearls are useless or anything, just mirrors and lighters...... Well, and medicines, these things are expensive. ”

"Got it, these search and rescue teams have already said it," Shen Changwen said, "Do you personally want to bring anything?" This time we brought a lot of horses, so we could carry them a little more. ”

"Wait, I'll ask them."

Wu Xiaoqing turned on the walkie-talkie: "Professor Shen has arrived at the teleportation point, do you want to bring anything?" Xu Yan, Wang Youquan? ”

Xu Yan quickly replied: "Bring a few more hand-cranked generators, we don't have enough electricity." ”

Wang Youquan: "Give my salary to my wife and ask her to decorate me with some tea and bring it over." ”

Wu Xiaoqing conveyed these needs, and finally he asked with some uncertainty: "Is it that when you come back, we are going to set off to fight?" ”

"That's what it means," Shen Changwen said, "but we don't have to go to the battlefield, there's no danger." ”

"Do you still want to buy weapons," Wu Xiaoqing heard the search and rescue team mention this, but he didn't elaborate at the time, "Is it the kind of machine gun that you buy?" ”

"It's not ......" Shen Changwen said, "It's not suitable for us to buy it, just buy a little*, don't worry, the search and rescue team has already said that this Elis Guards can be regarded as a strong army in this era, and the field is not afraid of anyone at all." ”

"Tough ghost." Wu Xiaoqing couldn't help but complain, originally when he was chatting with the king, he was also very curious about how powerful the king's guards were, who often boasted, but when Xu Yan really went to get close to these so-called "elites", brought back the recordings, and let Wu Xiaoqing listen to them, he was completely speechless about the concept of "elite" in this era.

The so-called elite, these units have no mature command system at all, and on the battlefield, the officer orders the trumpeter to blow the horn, and everyone rushes - and then it depends on God.

The so-called elite, only the most core, less than a thousand people have war horses and swords, and a considerable number of others usually farm around the royal city of Elis, and when the time comes, each person receives a spear and two pieces of skin on his body - these people are often the main force on the battlefield.

The so-called elite, when Wu Xiaoqing gave everyone eggs for the first time, these comrades-in-arms could even jump for an egg, and the officers couldn't stop the chaos even with sticks on the side.

In addition, throughout the army, there was wage deprivation, alcoholism, gambling, prostitution, rape of comrades-in-arms - the same kind of thing happened almost endlessly. Sometimes Wu Xiaoqing simply doubted that this group of people would not be able to cause infighting and be killed by their own people, let alone go to the battlefield to kill the enemy, even if they were blessed by God. If he wants to put his life in the hands of these scumbags at that time, Wu Xiaoqing really feels insecure. It can even be said that in Wu Xiaoqing's eyes, these people are even more uneasy than those primitive people before them.

"I've inspected the armies of several other kingdoms, and really, the guards of Elis, quite good. Although they drank heavily, gambled and prostituted, and occasionally participated in robberies and rapes, at least they were able to fight. Most of the armies in this era have these bad habits, but they don't dare to fight yet," Shen Changwen sighed, "Don't always think about how bad they are, after all, they are at the level of the Middle Ages." By the way, ask the king if he wants to bring something, and we'll have to coax him. ”

"Ah, you still want to bring him something?"

"Of course," Shen Changwen said, "this kind of king is not good to say, it is an ancient tyrant. When you're in a good mood, you can give you anything, and when you're in a bad mood, you can turn your face when you say it. We're going to have to find a way to coax him right. ”

"But he doesn't understand anything himself," Wu Xiaoqing scratched his head, "he likes to eat the most...... You can't bring anything to eat...... Why don't you bring him two packets of instant noodles? He's eaten it twice, and he likes it. ”

"You ask him, is Wang Youquan in the palace, let him ask, give the walkie-talkie to the king, and let him talk to the search and rescue team."

"Okay, you wait a minute."

After about three minutes, the king's voice appeared on the walkie-talkie, and when he heard the answer of the search and rescue team, he was a little surprised and overwhelmed, although he knew the abilities of these oracles, but the experience of talking to people thousands of miles away was unimaginable for the king.

"Are you going to bring me a gift from Heaven?" The king was surprised and couldn't believe it, "Whatever you want?" ”

"Yes, in this way, you don't have to make a decision in a hurry, I will make a list for you to choose from, and tell me if you have chosen."

……

While the king of Elise was unable to sleep at night because he could choose gifts from heaven, the commoners of Elise were also experiencing the first great change in their lifestyle.

Running from the feudal era to the communist era, I am afraid that none of these people can fully express this experience.

But one thing is for sure, all of them, like their king, were so excited that they couldn't sleep at night.

Fam, a foreigner who had only been in the royal city of Elise for two days, had lined up four times and eaten four sweet cakes, which were sweeter than all the sweetness of his life for the past forty years.

Fam was a freeman who inherited the land left by his father and the lords that his father left him. Most of the past 40 years of his life are the history of struggles with wheat, beans and weeds. Because the land he was allotted was not close to the river and there were no wells, his harvest would be much worse than that of the others when summer came, and this led to his final harvest and the pitiful amount of food he could eat.

His father was the poorest peasant in their village, and he soon inherited this honorable title. But he is not as good as his father, and his father can afford to marry a wife, and he ......

No, in fact, his life is better, at least his father can't eat the cookies he eats now in his life.

Fam still remembered the first time he saw the cookie drawing on the messenger who came to the village.

The golden color, the rising heat, the slight bulge on the body of the cake...... Even the prettiest woman in the village had not been able to give Fam such a punch as that picture. After making sure that the messenger said that everyone in the royal city of Elise now had free cookies, he resolutely left behind his piece of land, which could not feed him, and took the seeds to be sown at the end of summer, and a quilt that had been handed down from his ancestors, and set out for the royal city of Elis.

At first, Fam was still very apprehensive, he always thought that he came to the city, found it a hoax, and he couldn't find a job, and finally starved to death in some dark corner of the city. But when he walked out of the village, out of the town, and on the road to the royal city, all his feelings disappeared at once.

He saw a crowd, a crowd of people, like him, who had nothing, all gathered into a stream of people. Fam felt like a drop of water melted into the sea......

Along the way, everyone was talking about cookies, some of whom had actually eaten them before, and as they described the deliciousness of the cookies, Fam could feel the uncontrollable saliva in his mouth, and he could hear swallowing sounds coming from the throats of those around him.

By the time Famm finally reached Elis, he had been out of food for two days, and there were still people in the crowd who had been hungry longer than him, but all of them had a bright look in their eyes, especially when they were queuing up at the city gate for inspection, they could directly smell the sweet fragrance coming from the city, and the fragrance was like an invisible rope, which touched the nerves of everyone in the procession.

Check, pass, queue...... As the team slowly moved towards the bread shed, little by little, Fam still had a strong sense of unreality in his heart. It's as simple as that, and you can eat the cake? He's just standing here, doing nothing, and eating bread?

This feeling lasted until a hot, piping hot biscuit was shoved into his hand, and he suddenly came to his senses.

In an instant, Fam felt like the whole world was gone, and there were only three things left: the cramps in his stomach, the saliva in his mouth, and the bread in his hand.

When the soldiers lined up for them and blew the whistle, Fam hesitated to look at the people around him, the long-term farming life in the countryside made him a little afraid to eat something that did not belong to him, even if this thing was in his hands, there was still a subconscious worry. But when he noticed that everyone around him had started to eat with their mouths open, Fam felt like his head was blank.

These three things in the world of Fam naturally combine into a simple, but also the most powerful behavioral driving chain, completely suppressing the existence of everything else.

Fam could barely remember the rest, how he ate the bread, how he went back to continue the line, he couldn't remember anything...... Suddenly it was all a sweet dream, and now, only the strange fullness in the stomach reminded Fam that it was all reality.