Early the next morning, the refugees carried the wounded Haba and pulled a long line to continue their hasty escape to Ritunburg.

Far away on the northern plain of this group of refugees, several knights galloped quickly on horseback. In order to speed up their journey, Cook and his team avoided the crowds and the pursuit of the barbarians, chose the more remote jungles and wilderness, and took a shortcut to Ritunburg.

However, when passing through a mountain village, he encountered an evil nobleman who was wandering and robbed the villagers' daughters. They stopped to help the villagers convince the nobles to rescue the girls. As they passed through a valley, they encountered robbers who were robbing by fire, so they killed them for the refugees before continuing on their way.

As a result, they were delayed for a short time on the way, and by the time they passed through the boundaries of Rysburg, which had been occupied by the barbarians, and on the way they had almost been spotted several times by the patrolling barbarians.

However, everything went relatively smoothly, but fortunately, there was a calm Teresa Knight by his side to protect everyone, and everyone did not encounter any danger.

The horses galloped wildly, and after a long journey, they finally arrived at Ritunburg in the afternoon. By this time, the refugees who had fled from Lysburg had already come to rest in the city, and they were surprised to find that people were talking about what had happened in Riesburg, what Tubis slaves, what was a lion slayer.

Miller listened to a rough idea along the way, and he said to Cook as he rode his horse: "In the three days we have been on the road, I didn't expect that Lisburg would fall so quickly, and there would be such two powerful characters, and we must get to know each other when we have the chance." ”

Cook was in a very unhappy mood, and he replied indifferently, "What is there to know about a Tubis man, or a slave?" ”

After saying that, Cook whipped his whip and sped up his horse and ran quickly towards the Duke of Ritunburg's palace, Cook was so anxious that he could rescue Robit immediately.

Ryttenburg is also one of the sixteen kingdom's domains, but Rythunburg has a smaller population and is much smaller than Rysburg. However, it was also an important city in the kingdom, so it was also garrisoned by a large army.

Garrisoned at Ritunburg was a veteran knight named Phyllis, forty-six years old. Ever since the Duke of Ritunburg was executed for a crime, he took over Ritunburg with his knights and spent most of his life here. However, the war of the kingdom took most of the knights from the fort, and now there are only 200 knights stationed in the fort, plus infantry and archers, and the total number of defenders in the city is only 800.

Originally, the food reserves of Litunburg were quite abundant, but with the influx of a large number of refugees, the food of Litunburg was consumed quickly, and these reserves were completely unable to support such a large number of refugees, so Captain Phyllis had a headache. In order to settle these refugees, Captain Phyllis was constantly busy every day, and he could hardly spare time to arrange the defense of Ritunburg.

With the fall of the royal capital and Reesburg, the barbarians are getting closer and closer, but Phyllis has nothing to do, and the only thing he can do is to move these people to the safer territory of Dragon City as soon as possible. Dragon City still has the hero Thatcher, and there are still the few remaining knights in the kingdom, at least to make a final resistance.

The arrival of Cook's party relieved Phyllis, and he was very grateful to the gods for sending him a few good helpers at such a critical time.

At the door of the Duke's Palace, Phyllis smiled brightly, and he greeted everyone warmly and said, "Yo, this is not the Cook brothers of our chief instructor's family, welcome, welcome." Yo ho, Lord Teresa is here too, that's great. ”

Delan nodded silently, an embarrassed smile on his face, and didn't say a word.

Cook was an anxious man, he didn't even bother to explain anything, and said straight to the point: "Captain Phyllis, now that the royal capital has fallen, and His Majesty the King and the princes have all died in the battle at Yuguan, those past grievances should be forgotten along with the dead, and there is no need to continue to imprison Big Brother Robit." We're here for nothing else, just to take Big Brother Robit to Dragon City with us. Today, we don't care if you agree or not, we have to decide. ”

No one expected Cook to say it so firmly, and he didn't even care whether Captain Phyllis would agree, and it seemed that even if he wanted to do it, Cook would not hesitate to do it.

De Lan's brow tightened when he heard this, and he immediately looked up at Cook, a little surprised by Cook's recklessness.

Phyllis was stunned for a moment, then he frowned and approached Cook, looked Cook up and down, and said, "Cook, your father and I are friends of life and death, and it must be no problem for you to take Robitt away, but you must promise me one thing first." ”

Seeing that Captain Phyllis had no intention of obstructing him, Cook was not so nervous, and hurriedly asked: "The captain has any orders but it doesn't matter, as long as I Cook can do it, I will do my best." ”

Phyllis nodded and said in a sad tone, "I just hope that you can take these refugees and send them to Dragon City safely, and that's it." ”

Delan was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and hurriedly asked, "What?" Won't the regimental commander evacuate with us? ”

Phyllis shook his head and replied sadly, "The kingdom has fallen, Your Majesty and the princes have died in battle, and my good brother Fawkes has also been martyred, what face do I have to live." As a defender of the land, I should live and die with Ritunburg, so that I can be worthy of my identity. ”

Originally, he thought that this Phyllis was just a vulgar knight leader, but Cook was very moved by what he said, and he did not expect that his loyalty to the kingdom was far greater than his own life. Under normal circumstances, the general commander would mobilize the people and organize everyone to resist the attack of the Tubis, and hold the fort of Ritun to the death. But Phyllis didn't do it, knowing that it wouldn't help, so he prioritized the safety of the people.

Cook was so impressed that he immediately agreed to his request. Then Phyllis led everyone into the Duke's Palace, and introduced as he walked: "This was originally the official residence of the Duke's Palace, and the old Duke's son was engaged to Princess Tina when he was very young. But once Princess Tina came to Litunburg as a guest, the Duke arranged for his son to accompany Princess Tina to hunt, and by the way, let the two of them get along more and cultivate a relationship, but on the way, they were attacked by a group of bandits, and the princess was unfortunately killed. Later, this incident made the king very angry, thinking that the duke had not protected the princess well, so he ordered the execution of the entire Duke's palace! ”

Cook was very unhappy when he heard this, and said: "This king is really, isn't that an accident, and it is cruel to even execute the duke's family." ”

Phyllis smiled and said, "The king's temperament is like that, and this was all more than ten years ago. Later, I was in charge of garrisoning Ritunburg, and this ducal palace became the camp of our Knights! Come, go this way, the dungeon is down there. ”

After saying that, Phyllis led Cook, Miller, and Deran into a dark tunnel and down to the dungeon under the Duke's Palace.

Although the Duke's Palace in Ritunburg is not large, the low dungeon is not small at all, with three floors of cells.

The three of them followed Phyllis to the bottom, and Phyllis explained: "Robit's crime is too serious, if it were someone else, he would have been killed by the king a long time ago, but fortunately, the reputation of the First Duke's Palace is outstanding, and the king has extrajudicial mercy and let Robit survive." I didn't know when the king would suddenly come to inspect him, so I had to keep Robit at the bottom according to the strictest standards. ”

Cook's brow furrowed slightly, in the dungeon corridor on the ground floor, the ground was extremely wet, and the top of one side was still dripping and leaking. The smell of mold was in the air, and the smell was terrible. He never thought that Robit had spent the past nine years in this kind of place, and after today, he didn't know how he was now, whether he was in good health, and whether he still recognized himself.

After following Phyllis for a while, the ventilation here has improved, and the air is not so bad. Finally they came to the door of a special cell, where the heavy chains were slowly opened by the guards. The chains had not been touched for nine years, and had been covered with several layers of rust, and it took great effort for the guards to tear them off the iron door.

After opening the cell door, several people bowed their heads and went inside. I saw that all kinds of weapons were placed around the cell, and there was an arrow target used to practice shooting in the next room, and it seemed that the things in this cell were quite complete.

Phyllis explained, "Your father sent me a letter telling me to take good care of Robit! I had Robit set up this cell, and I opened a door to the walls of each of the four cells and combined them into one large cell for Robit to live in. Usually his belongings are handed in through the window, and every day he is brought hot water and food, blankets and clothes and other things are changed regularly! This is a storage room for weapons, next to it is a bow training room, the one on the left is a place to eat, and the innermost room is a place to sleep and rest. ”

Cook nodded again and again and thanked him and said: "This looks like a simple home, I believe that Big Brother Robit will not be too aggrieved to live here, Captain Phyllis has really worked hard for you, I thank you for my father." ”

Phyllis shook his hand and said, "No, no, this is what I should do." I am also honored to take care of the children of the First Duke. ”

As he spoke, a tall man walked out of the cell, who looked to be about twenty-two years old. The man was a man with big limbs, black hair, a long beard, and two deeply sunken eyes, and it was clear that he had not seen sunlight for many years.

He was amazed to see so many people entering the cell together, and kept looking Cook and Miller up and down.

Phyllis stepped forward and whispered a few words to him, only to see the man's look startled, tears of excitement, and asked in an almost sad voice, "Cook, is that you?" ”

After hearing this, Cook counted his nose, two lines of tears burst out, he couldn't help the thoughts in his heart, and directly rushed over and hugged Robit tightly, crying loudly and saying, "Brother Robit, it's me, I'm Cook!" ”

Tears slowly rolled down Robit's face, and he hugged Cook so hard that he couldn't say a word.

It was a few days and nights without daylight, and Robit thought about it day and night, hoping to see his friends and relatives again. Nine years have passed, and Robit thinks that he will never be so isolated from the world that he will never see his former little brother Cook again. But today, the brother of his dreams finally came to see him, and how moved Robit was at that moment.

At this time, Miller wiped a handful of tears, and also stepped forward to hug the two of them and said, "Brother Robit, have you been doing well all these years?" ”

Robit looked at Miller for a long time, but he didn't recognize it, and a look of confusion appeared on his face.

Nine years is not a short time, and now Miller is fifteen years old, and his appearance is very different from that Miller back then. Miller couldn't recognize himself when he saw Robit, and called Robit sadly and said, "Big Brother Robit, I'm Miller, how can you not recognize me." ”

Robit was shocked, he wiped away a handful of tears, and looked at Miller again with wide eyes.

In an instant, Robit searched out Miller's appearance from his memory, he shed happy tears, hugged Miller in his arms, nodded again and again, and said: "Good brothers, you are all my Robit's good brothers." ”

There is not much to talk about when old friends meet, a simple hug is the deepest greeting, and countless days and nights of thoughts are only for today's reunion.

Seeing their happy appearance, Phyllis on the side also smiled happily, and he hurriedly greeted everyone and said, "Okay, it's rare for you brothers to get together again, let's go up and have a few drinks together." ”

Hearing Phyllis say this, Cook and Miller pulled Robit left and right, and couldn't wait to help him out of the dungeon together.