The walls of the quarantine area were torn down. As of today, Innsbruck has officially lifted its quarantine.

Ironically, this is not good news for most of the city's citizens.

In the past, compulsory conscription was only carried out outside the city. Due to the epidemic in the city, recruiting a sick person into the barracks is likely to infect other healthy soldiers in the same dormitory, so the recruiting officer does not recruit in the city by default.

Compared to the hell on earth in the quarantine zone, the citizens within the outer walls of the quarantine zone, although they risk contracting the epidemic, are not harassed by the strong men, and it is not clear whether they have made or lost in the short term.

It wasn't until the walls of the quarantine zone collapsed that they realized that their previous lives were not a loss, at least they would not be forcibly conscripted. For a while, there was even a certain statement in public opinion:

The plague is protecting us from going to war.

Of course, this kind of exaggeration only appears in the mouths of some extremists, but no matter how much the recruiters preach to defend the country, most people still have an attitude of disgust and resistance to forced conscription.

Especially at this point in time when Christmas is approaching.

In the inn where the blue sword lived, the number of residents gradually increased. The innkeeper couldn't stop smiling every day, and it was a good thing that business was booming, and he couldn't be dragged into the army when he was old, so he was full of praise for the subsidence of the epidemic.

And then he was really dragged into the army.

"Wait, sir!" The innkeeper grabbed the door frame, trying not to be dragged away, "I'm over fifty years old, and I can't go to the battlefield anymore, so you can spare me!" ”

"Shut up." The guard said indifferently, "You can't go to the battlefield, and you can be a logistics officer in the miscellaneous battalion." As mentioned above, those who are less than sixty are among the recruits, come with us! ”

So the innkeeper was dragged out.

I heard that many citizens pretended not to be at home and ran to the inn to hide as outsiders in order to prevent being conscripted, and these guards came to search.

They were about to go upstairs when they saw Eleanor, who heard the sound, and her eyes fell on the sword at the other's waist.

"Mercenaries?" One of the guards was about to step forward, but was grabbed by the arm by a colleague next to him, "It's Lord Alfred, don't get into trouble." ”

The three guards avoided Eleanor and stumbled upstairs.

Eleanor walked to the living room and stared at the open door of the inn.

"My husband was taken away by them." A voice sounded behind him.

Eleanor turned back and saw a thin woman standing at the steps leading to the cellar.

Eleanor, the innkeeper's wife and the cook who prepares meals for the guests every day, had spoken a few words with her, but could not say anything at this time.

"I told him a long time ago that if you can't go out of the city to take refuge, you can go to Bohemia...... But he just didn't listen, and he was reluctant to give up this inn handed down from his ancestors...... It's good now, but the people are gone, what's the point of guarding the store......"

The cook muttered to herself, her eyes lost focus, and then she seemed to come back to her senses, and said softly:

"Would you like something to eat, this guest? There were also some steaks and bacon in the cellar ......"

"At your husband's age, he shouldn't be a soldier." Eleanor tried to comfort her, "At most, I will be an auxiliary, transport materials, or stand guard or take care of logistics." ”

"You don't have to comfort me, guest." The cook laughed bitterly, "My parents are bohemians, and they were forcibly conscripted into the army in the early years of the Imperial War, and they were responsible for the army's food supply. Later, the army was defeated and fled, and their whereabouts have been completely unknown since then, and I think they probably died in the chaos......"

"What is absolutely safe in such a thing as war? In the final analysis, people like us are like duckweed without roots, washed away by the current...... Needless to say, when the meal is ready, I'll go down and prepare the meal for you. ”

The cook turned and went down to the cellar, and Eleanor looked at her back and was speechless for a long time.

The guards brought a few more residents down, all of them citizens with numb expressions, and they were escorted out one after the other. Eleanor watched in silence as they went out the door and then walked up the stairs.

Back to the room, enter the Fire Island. Eleanor saw Aske practicing Mia and Mi'er, first breaking through the defense with a punch in the former's dazzling dual-wielding attack, knocking Mia away, and then a series of moves + slashing bullets put the long sword on Mia's neck.

"Got it?" Asker said.

"Understood." Mi'er said.

"I don't understand." Mia was so angry that she almost jumped, "He didn't say anything!" Mi'er, what do you understand! ”

"When the situation on the battlefield is too complex, how to deal with the question of the priority of the various variables." Mi'er said.

Mia:???

She dragged Mi'er to discuss tactics. When Asker turned around, he saw Eleanor standing behind him, looking like she was talking and stopped.

"What's wrong?" Asker asked.

"Asker." Eleanor whispered, "How can we stop a war?" ”

"Let this war be won and lost as soon as possible." Aske replied, "War is the last resort to political negotiation, and when war breaks out, it means that conventional political means cannot achieve the goal, and war can no longer be stopped." ”

"Joining a side as soon as possible and completely destroying the opponent's will to resist is the only condition for the end of most wars. On the rare occasion that an armistice will be agreed because both sides cannot afford casualties, but that will inevitably be after a much more tragic and protracted tug-of-war, and the probability of this happening is very small. ”

"Defeat the Wolf family as soon as possible?" Eleanor muttered.

"Yes." Aske said, "Be strong, Eleanor." ”

"Hmm." Eleanor's eyes were firm.

She had gone to Sidlifa to practice the Indomitable Sword. Asker looked at her back, and heard someone whisper in her ear:

"This knight girl is so easy to deceive, isn't she?"

"I didn't lie to her." Asker said calmly, "Ending the war as soon as possible is indeed the answer she is seeking, isn't it?" ”

"Yes, but that's also your selfishness." Medea smiled, "Black-hearted boss, give the employees chicken blood." ”

"If I were a black-hearted boss." "In the first moment, I had to squeeze out some lazy employees who used their 'blind spots' to wander around me and not work," Asker said. ”

"You have the ability." Medea straightened her chest, "It's not certain who squeezes whom." ”

Aske turned his head away in embarrassment.

After arguing with Medea for so long, of course he wouldn't blush so much that he couldn't say anything back because of the other party's meat jokes.

But it's too big to fight back.

The gaze will be involuntarily sucked over, not a matter of concentration, it is purely male instinct. And staring at each other and talking is too obscene, which damages the prestige of his regiment leader.

"Is there a clue to Jade Hope II's potions?" Asker stiffly changed the subject.

"Hey, isn't that your job, Commander?" Medea folded her arms and held them up.

"Your own potion, so let's have a snack." Asker said.

"Why should you be self-reliant when you can rely on men to eat soft rice?" Medea said justifiably.