"Understood, understood!" The elder hurriedly nodded in reply.

"Then tell me about what has happened during this time, and I will listen to everything in every detail."

"How late?"

The old guy swallowed and spit, as if he was about to do something tirade: "Three days ago, the lord passed by here, and went to Martini without stopping, accompanied by about a dozen people, two of whom were knights under his command. ”

As he spoke, he secretly observed his words and looks, and when he saw that I didn't react, he immediately tried to recall: "And! And also! On the fourth day after All Souls' Day, the steward, who had come from Vevey, delivered the order of the lord of the lord, and took away the young men of the village and the food for the winter. ”

"All Souls' Day? That was more than 30 days ago, and did the nearby villages also pull strong? ”

"That's right! That's right! Not only Sion, but Vevey, Martini, Truno, Pensa, every village, there are not enough men to pull in the number of strong women, and now there are only useless old men like me and children without wheels in the village, and if the men do not come back before Christmas, it will be difficult for the orphans and widows to survive this winter. ”

Speaking of sadness, tears welled up in his sunken eyes: "God, have mercy on us! ”

"If the king of Paris has issued a conscription order, why didn't Baron Léman go to the royal court?" I doubted his contradictory answer and opened my mouth to ask.

"Because the lord paid the duke a sum of money to excuse himself from this military service, my nephew is the groom of Vevey Castle, and he told me himself, I can assure God that there will be no falsehood!" The elder was anxious, and hurriedly moved out of God to suppress himself.

It is no wonder that Baron Otto levied heavy taxes at the Martigny Pass and trafficked human beings in danger of being excommunicated from the Vatican, in order to pay off a huge gap in exempt money.

"According to your description, the Barons of Lémans have gone to Martiny, and the garrison of the Château Vevey is empty?"

I coughed twice and explained quietly, "The lord is not in the castle, and I am worried that I will not be treated with the specifications." ”

"No, my lord, whenever the lord goes out on patrol, his uncle will preside over the castle on his behalf, and there are about a dozen standing guards, and they will definitely do their best to entertain you when they hear that the lord is coming."

The old fellow wished that we would leave early, so that we could throw this hot potato to the others: "Why don't I send someone to the castle overnight to inform you and remind them to get ready to meet them as soon as possible?" ”

"Forget it!"

I waved my hand to stop the attentive elder, and said, "Your Excellency the Baron is not here, and it would be rude for me to visit rashly, so I won't bother." ”

When the old guy heard this, his expression became nervous again, and his crying face was piled with a fake smile: "Starting from Sion, is there a relatively convenient way to Swabia?" ”

Swabia, a Frankish word with an accent at the back, is obviously beyond the scope of the old man who has been in the ravine for a lifetime, and he seems to have swallowed the painful appearance of a toad, proving that being old means at most eating dry food for a few years, and is not absolutely proportional to the so-called experience and wisdom, and his world is limited to the three points and lines of Vevey, Sion, and Martini, and Rome and Paris are as far away as outer space.

"Taxi ...... Waben? ”

He struggled to spell out obscure words, inevitably mispronounced the accents, and the wrinkles at the corners of his mouth deepened.

"The village goes in and out of the mountain on the next road, and the end is the lord's castle, the place you are talking about......"

"Thank you, Elder."

I motioned to the left and right to take the old guy away, and I was so worried that I was going to waste a lot of tongue and get a pile of unnutritious nonsense.

"He's got very little to offer, my lord, and my scout will be back soon." The hunchbacked elder, codenamed Four-Eyed, disappeared down the mountain, which sounded mocking to me.

"I hope your scouts have figured out the road ahead, and the large army of five or six hundred people has to ensure supplies along the way, and they have to avoid idle people and so on as much as possible, and the route is quite difficult to handle."

I turned and walked to the cleaned house, where the fire had already risen, and a few soldiers under the eaves were scrambling to hold a struggling goat, which seemed to be my last meal of the day.

"Roast old and chewy." I dropped the sentence.

As for the wild fruit wine offered by the elders, everyone was very unhappy to share the poor goat, mainly because the spices in the poor countryside were difficult to find, which caused the unpleasant taste, and the wine made by the wild fruit soil method was like sand mixed with water.

"If your people can't bring back good news, don't wake me up." After straightening the straw under my fur, a wave of tiredness slowly hit me, and I lay down with my clothes, and said to Codename Four, who was hidden in the darkness.

"My lord, my lord......" I was fascinated by the gentle fragrance of the girl, but my spirit still lingered in the hometown of the sleeping god and did not want to leave.

"Hmm......"

With a long stretch, I opened my eyes slightly, and Codename Four was dressed in black, perfectly blending into the darkness, and if you don't distinguish carefully, it's easy to mistake people for an illusion.

"Maybe I'm tired, I've slept soundly this night, when is it now?"

"It's almost night."

Codename Four struck the fire sickle, the shining spark was fleeting, cutting a beautiful and dazzling arc, with a pungent burnt smell, she lit the torch on the wall, and a warm orange light filled the room.

"The scout has just returned, and he's waiting outside."

I nodded vaguely and sat up wrapped in a long robe, the roast mutton on the table that had been cold exuded a different fragrance, which made my greedy stomach gurgle again.

"It should be fine to have a late-night snack......

I grabbed my little belly and said to myself, "Oh, it's okay, you said yours." ”

"Wait, I'll see." Codename Four snatched the plate in front of me, and watched it intently in front of me, his face almost closed.

"Hey! Don't eat it! ”

I roared very gracelessly, like a wild dog guarding food: "It's cold, if you want to eat, I'll let people go over the fire again." ”

Codename 4 didn't answer, she examined every detail of the roast lamb leg with a serious expression, as if she had a microscope in her eyes: "It stands to reason that the fat on the surface of the mutton that has been put for so long should be condensed into a white solid, but ......"

She frowned: "I was staying here just now, and no one came in. ”

"Are you tired of being suspicious?"

I put on my boots with a big grin, and out of the corner of my eye, I measured the distance from Codename Four, thinking about the possibility of forcibly taking food.

"In other words, this sheep has been manipulated before." She had been muttering, and suddenly said as if she was facing a great enemy.

"Tricks?" I touched my stomach weakly, as if I really felt a dull pain in my stomach.

"Are you talking about doing tricks ......and feet?"

Codename Four threw the plate on the table, reached into his arms and groped for a long time, and saw that my face was red and my heart was beating: "Eat this first." ”

She took out a small clay bottle the size of a palm, and the smell of congealed blood emanated from the unscrewed mouth of the bottle, which was quite unappetizing.

"What's this?"

I pinched my nose. Refusing her eagerness to force-feed: "It smells like stinking black blood from a dead man, you won't want me to really drink it, will you?" ”

"I'm not kidding, my lord, for your own good, let's drink it quickly."

Codename 4 put the clay vase in my hand, and in the blink of an eye, a very thin needle was pulled out from between the strands of my hair, and at a certain angle it reflected the flow of color, probably silver.

"Mithridatis, a universal antidote, harmless to the human body."

"It's weird to hear the name."

I gritted my teeth, tilted my neck and poured it down, the first taste was not as unpalatable as I imagined, but after a while, the disgusting taste rushed down the stomach and rushed back to the stomach, and the snot and tears flowed out together, and the mouth was numb and I knew that I was completely gone.

"This thing...... Are you going to kill me! ”

"Mithridates is a universal antidote developed by the Pontic people of Anatolia, and it is said that it is made by feeding a flock of ducks various poisons from a young age, and finally extracting the blood of the surviving duck."

Codename Four said lightly, and the work in her hand did not stop at all, only to see her holding a silver needle, dipping it in the cup with residual wine, and then carefully piercing the mutton, and then taking advantage of this time to continue.

"The mutton is a little wrong, I suspect that someone has poisoned it, and from experience, the other party is probably using a colorless and tasteless oriental poison, Ogshadimon."

"Poison!"

I pinched my throat and pulled my fingers in desperately, whimsically trying to vomit out her so-called poison, but to no avail, I choked on my nose with sour water and tears all over my face.

"Quick, look it up! Is it really poisoned? Will I be in danger? ”

Code 4 took out the silver needle and observed the color change of the details by the light of the torch.

"Theoretically, Mithridati is effective against all poisons, even if it is very toxic, it can delay the spread of toxins in the bloodstream, buying time for the preparation of antidotes."

As she spoke, she burned the silver needle on the flame repeatedly, watching it slowly blacken: "It's Ogshadimun, it's okay, Mithridates can detoxify." ”

I breathed a sigh of relief, and my shoulders softened: "Someone poisoned me, could it be them?" ”

Suddenly, a thought flashed, and the relaxed nerves tensed again: "The people outside have eaten that sheep, and the remaining bones have been taken out to make soup, you quickly divide the antidote!" ”

"It's late, it's been too long since dinner, and the effects of Ogshadimon's medicine have reached the heart through the bloodstream, and those people outside are afraid that they will never wake up again, and the enemy is waiting for this time."

She made a gesture quietly, and the black-clothed people hidden in all corners of the room appeared one after another, and I opened my mouth wide and was speechless in surprise when I saw so many people ambushed in the small room.

"You know what you have to do, keep quiet, let the enemy in, and make sure you catch them all."

She assigned the task without emotion, and held a sharp short knife in her right hand at some point: "It's impossible to catch the mouth alive, so don't worry about killing!" ”

The man in black disappeared silently into the darkness, moving lightly as if he had never appeared, and handed me the four short knives codenamed, turning around and extinguishing the torch.

"Lie here as bait, the enemy's target is you."

Her voice shifted gear, and seemed to be far away from me, speaking in a completely commanding tone: "When the fight starts, you keep your weapon for self-defense, and if the situation is not good, God has always taken care of you since someone covers the retreat, isn't it?" ”

Is there any room for negotiation now? I ignored her angrily, tossed and turned to lie down in several positions, always feeling inconvenient to go out of the knife, and finally had to rush down with a stupid face and lie down, pressing the right hand holding the knife with my thigh.

"I haven't heard of using important people as bait, and I don't know if my life is too worthless or if you are too sure, tsk." I gritted my teeth and rolled my eyes while the code name four was out of sight.

Human beings are animals yearning for light, once in the environment where they can't see their fingers, it is easy to produce anxious emotions, and there is always a heavy sense of oppression that penetrates into the skin, slowly converging into the heart of great pressure, so that the pacemaker that is constantly working around the clock is overwhelmed.

Imagine how people can sleep in such a tense and weird environment? I can't remember the first time I opened my eyes helplessly, the outlines of the objects in the room were faintly visible, and the surroundings fell into a death-like silence, death is not terrible, people are going to die, what is terrible is that when you know that you are about to die, but you can't know the specific time, the torment and despair of waiting are enough to crush the most determined giant.

Just as I was groggy and almost fell asleep, the hairs all over my body stood on end for no reason, and my sixth sense told me that something seemed to be rushing towards the door.

"Bell!"

Before he could react, the sound of metal striking broke the silence of the night, followed by a terrible scream, a warm liquid sprayed onto his face, and I didn't have to guess that it was blood, hot, fresh, pulsating blood.

When I came to my senses, I flipped to the side and touched the body lying on the ground with my fingers.

"It's a man!"

The arteries of the neck were cut open and the traces of bone stubble could be faintly felt, and the viscous blood gushed uncontrollably, damp a big puddle:

"It's not her!"

I don't know what I was glad about, but I calmed down a little, and the room had become a fighting arena for hand-to-hand combat, fighting all the enemy and me.

There are people falling around me, one, two, three......

The overlapping corpses covered me, forming a wide physical barrier:

"What should I do?"

I scratched my ears and cheeks and couldn't think of an idea, and I hesitated to go or stay: "Damn, I can't see anything!" ”

The battle became more and more intense, and the corpses pressed on my body became heavier and heavier, but even so, both sides were silent and did not speak, except for the collision of weapons and the moans of death, there was no movement of any living people, and the atmosphere was oppressive and terrifying, giving me the illusion of watching a voodoo doll pantomime in a murderous room.

A strong hand pressed on the shoulder, and easily pulled me out of the pile of corpses like a chicken: "Who is it! ”

I was startled, and I felt the knife stabbing at the man.

"Ping!"

Blades intersect and sparks splash ......

"Let's go!"

The female voice was short and firm, just drowned out by the crunch of the weapon's impact.

Someone lit the straw in the room, the fire elf jumped and tumbled excitedly, greedy **** all combustible objects, and immediately jumped violently, exploding the golden flames, and I finally saw the scene in front of me.

Both sides of the fight were dressed in the same black clothes, and they were fighting each other, and it was impossible to tell who had the advantage, and there were many miserable-looking dead people lying on the ground, and there was a commotion in the distance outside, and the soldiers who had found the fire were coming.

Codename Four frowned on her forehead, her extraordinary heroism gathered between her eyebrows, radiating dazzling brilliance, some people only belonged to the destined belonging, and in the current number four, Arya Oliveiras Crescent was in the shadow of the sword, she was incarnated as a reincarnated Valkyrie, heroic and unstoppable.

"You're safe, sir."

The rushing soldiers surrounded us, and the rest of us continued to pounce on the burning house, the thatched roof of the roof had burned to the ground, and the entire beam of the roof was broken.

"What about the enemy?" I choked on smoke in my throat and coughed in pain.

"More than a dozen people, some come and go."

She coldly put away the dagger and pronounced the death sentence of the person who was still in the room.

(End of chapter)