Chapter 254: A Barren Town
"My lord, my lord, we have all surrendered, obediently, don't kill us, okay? My lord, spare your life! The cries of pleas for mercy reached Mordred's ears.
Mordred saw such a scene when he entered the tiled house. About dozens of people dressed like beggars squatted on the ground with their heads in their hands, and the movements were done to the standard of thieves.
There is not even a person who resists stubbornly with a weapon, all cowardly! It seems to be really harmonious, probably ...... Maybe they didn't have weapons in the first place, right?
"No weapons?! This is also called rebellion?!! Mordred turned and yelled at the knight who had been following behind him, that was the news he had just gone to investigate.
"This ...... Well...... knight didn't know how to answer Mordred, he was helpless, "My lord, but they did kill the officials here." ”
"Humph!" With a thud in his nose, Mordred seemed to blame the knight for his incompetence.
In fact, Mordred was angry at her positivity in the palace. At that time, she was suffering from a lot of paperwork, and as soon as she heard that there was a war to fight, she hurried over.
However, the ideal is very plump, and the reality is often very skinny. Mordred really repented!
How good do you think it is to stay in the palace and deal with paperwork? I have to come, or I have to rush to come. Although paperwork was a giant pit for Mordred, it was only after Mordred emerged from that pit that she found herself in an even more terrifying and bottomless abyss.
"My lord, we didn't kill the official, we can explain this!" The old man dressed as a wizard crawled up to Mordred and said.
????? Mordred was even more confused [Could it be that tell me that this rebellion is just a fictitious thing?!] 】
"My lord, I can testify!" At this moment, a thin middle-aged man stood up from the captive holding his head.
"How do you prove it? When am I a big fool? Mordred complained.
Out of the reach of Mordred's sight, the knights nodded one after another [Mordred's round table is the stupidest and stupid~]
In Mordred's questioning, the middle-aged man took out a lot of seals and a letter of appointment from King Arthur. This person turned out to be a local official?!! Mordred was stunned, and this kind of operation??? Mordred's mouth never closed the whole time. It's also simply no one!
"That'...... Then you...... Then you were assassinated and there was a rebellion here??? "After verification, he is indeed the official who was assigned here five years ago, Melle Gebi Marle ~ Gebi (damn it). [Don't complain about the name yet.] 】
But if this guy is a local official, the theory that there is a local rebellion is self-defeating.
Other words..................
"In other words, you're here for my amusement!! Mordred thrust her sword at the wizard and Malegbi. The great sword was firmly planted on the ground, and the blade of the sword, which was exposed to the ground, trembled slightly under Mordred's tremendous force.
Damn, well, Mordred could have lived a free and leisurely life in the royal capital. Although the paperwork is terrible, at least it is safe and sound.
As soon as I heard that there was a war, I came, but I found that I had been tricked. In order to fight this war, Mordred didn't even want the rich fiefdom in southern Britain that she was about to get, so she didn't care about anything in order to fight this war.
It turns out that this is a place where birds don't poop and chickens don't lay eggs (this is Mordred's future fiefdom), and this feeling of being cheated on Mordred is really sad.
It's like finding a very beautiful young lady on the Internet, and after running out, I found that it was a sow that became sperm, which really hit people's spirits very hard!
"Give me a reasonable explanation, or I won't be able to control my trembling hands!!" Mordred said angrily.
"After three years of famine, we didn't produce any food, and we had no choice." Malegbi sighed and said this, as if there was something else hidden.
It turned out that since this official came here to take office, the town has suddenly been in trouble. I have to say, it's really unlucky. The already barren town was all over at once. Residents fled one after another, and many died of starvation.
Most of the residents who stayed in the area were also nostalgic for their homeland, and they relied on some of the food they had stored in the past and hunted to make ends meet. The people are almost gone, and most of the remaining people don't have the ability to go out. Malegebi had thought that the disaster would not last long and that it would get better soon, but it lasted for five years.
He also sent people to other towns to ask for help. But this town is notoriously poor, and everyone thinks that they are crying poverty here, cheating food from other places, and no one takes it seriously. Because something like this has happened before. It's all to blame for the previous officials' inauthentic behavior, which made Malgebi and the townspeople take the blame for him.
So, Mallegbi is like that. Pretend to be killed, then relay the news of the rebellion to the outside world.
In this way, someone will be sent from above. Malegebi had really done enough here, and he thought that if someone came, he would be able to pick and leave.
After at least five years of hard work, Malegebi did his best. She had a brain stir and thought of a solution. Mordred unsheathed her sword from the ground and walked out.
"Don't, my lord, although we have deceived you, the people are innocent!!" Malgebi and the wizard burst into tears.
"What's the hurry? I didn't say it didn't matter. Mordred walked in again, the only difference was that she had a struggling Merlin in her hand.
"The best mages in all of Britain are already here, you know what to do." Mordred said. The eyes of both Malgebi and the wizard lit up.
Mordred then put his sword across Merlin's neck, "You know what to do, right?" I don't need to remind you?! ”
"Uh-huh!" Merlin was still stuffed with a cloth ball in his mouth, and he could only nod frantically under Mordred's coercion.