In an agrarian society where industry is basically zero, the night is always so quiet, and the quiet night sky is dotted with twinkling stars, which makes people feel peaceful, but the moon in the sky is inevitably too big and bright, which makes Ainan feel irritable for no reason.

The big and round moon can make people inexplicably irritable, am I too nervous?

Ainan smiled self-deprecatingly, maybe it was really like this, after all, what he was going to do next was very unusual.

A few dark shadows quietly approached the bright lights in front of them, and the enemy was in the light and in the dark, and it was clear that the guards on the watchtower were sleeping soundly with their heads tilted, unaware of the danger that had come.

As Sloanan said, since there were no enemies on the Empire's side of the Swamp near the wetlands, the guards here were completely defenseless. For errands, everyone, including generals, adheres to one concept - mixing, and it is really not too easy to succeed with mental calculations or unintentionally.

Suppressing the tension in his heart, Sloanan said to Ainan: "There is a squadron of guards at the cantonment, but this squadron is only twenty people, and it is not full. We are strong enough to subdue them, but there may be casualties in a fight. ”

Ainan shook his head and said affirmatively, "There will be no casualties." ”

Yes, there will certainly be no casualties with him.

No one with a little status or strength will look at the food in this deserted border station, and there is no enemy here who cannot make meritorious contributions, and only the soldiers at the bottom will come when they are forced by military orders. Even so, the soldiers will not stay here all the time, from time to time someone will find an excuse to slip away, anyway, the empire is in a period of chaos, military discipline is lax, and the chief officer does not have the heart to pursue it. As a result, the guards of the cantonment are the weakest in the army, and their combat strength may not even be able to defeat untrained civilians, and their will to fight is even weaker to the extreme.

Counting the eleven soldiers on Sloanan Ainan's side, plus him as a mage, the guards at the cantonment site under the sneak attack will fall if they can't put up an effective resistance. If there is a surprise, Ainan's spell is not an ornament.

The guards on the guard tower slept so hard that the soldiers on Ainan's side touched their side and they didn't even notice it, and they were covered by the other party in their sleep and tied up.

It's too easy, too.

Walking through the main gate into the cantonment, Ainan saw the prisoners tied together, who were originally guards at the border of the empire, but when there were real people plotting against them, they were of no use at all.

Just because there were no enemies didn't mean they wouldn't show up, and the Empire's troops stationed on the border between Arathi and the Swamps of Wetlands had weakened to such an extent after a long period of peace.

Looking at the frightened eyes of the captives, Ainan shook his head. Where do these people have the appearance of soldiers, what is the difference between them and pigs waiting to be slaughtered?

The armies on the border have become like such bears, no matter how you look at it as a sign of the death of the country, it is no wonder that the royal family of Soladin will be usurped by Torbairn.

Well, now is not the time to sigh.

Ainan shrugged his shoulders and followed Sloanan, who led the way, into the granary of the cantonment.

In fact, the so-called granary is a very ordinary hut, with several wooden shelves and rows of backpacks hanging from it.

Seeing Ainan's doubts, Sloanan took off a backpack and handed it to him: "Your Excellency, please see, this is the standard configuration for the Imperial Army to load food. In order to prevent his subordinates from greedy for military rations and cause unnecessary losses to the empire, the court mages specially created this magic vehicle. ”

After checking it with his mind, Ainan found that this backpack was actually a magic prop with a spatial attribute, and each backpack contained about 4,000 catties of food.

It's a pity that the function of this backpack is very simple, and it can only hold food.

Ainan secretly said that it was a pity, but he thought about it, this was originally invented for the purpose of loading grain, so it was naturally impossible to consider anything else.

The wizarding world is convenient, no wonder Sloane said that ten people were enough to take away the food in the cantonment.

No matter how many things are inside, no matter how heavy they are, they do not affect the weight of the magic vehicle, they only count their own weight, except for a few special items.

The texture of the backpack is linen, just counting its own weight, how much can a backpack weigh?

Wrapping up the baggage prepared in advance, and then requisitioning the wagons at the cantonment, Ainan and his party left with a more relaxed attitude than when they came.

Before leaving, Ainan froze a sword and hung it on top of the rope that bound the soldiers at the cantonment, and after only half an hour the ice melted, the sword would fall and cut the rope, leaving the soldiers free. As for what the soldiers would do when they regained their freedom, Ainan was not worried.

The soldiers who stayed behind in the cantonment were at the bottom of the army who were bullied, and it was they who had neither the relationship nor the strength to say it. It is strange that the crime of being ransacked millions of catties of grain stored in the cantonment has fallen on his head, and he was not all killed by the chief officer to vent his anger. If you want to save your life, it is only right to take off this military uniform and find a place to hide, anyway, there is chaos in the empire, there are wandering homeless people and robbers everywhere, as long as they don't say who knows they are deserters?

What's more, Ainan also opened a backpack when he left, shook out the food in it and piled it in front of these soldiers, so that they were not afraid of running out of food when they escaped, which was really considerate and thoughtful.

As Ainan expected, the soldiers who were tied up in the cantonment reached a consensus through eye contact before they could go far - rather than being reported and killed by the commander as a tool and scapegoat to vent his anger, it was better to share the food and have a better chance of escaping and surviving.

The figure was drowned in the night, and Ainan hurried to the next cantonment point non-stop, and before the news spread, the imperial army was not prepared, and it was too sorry to get some food.

"Why did the empire establish cantonments in the south, I remember that the empire had not suffered a threat from the south since it was founded."

Speaking of which, Ainan also felt strange, the wetland swamp was barren and unsuitable for human habitation, how could the empire establish a cantonment here. Keep in mind that this side of the swamp near the wetlands is often harassed by gnolls, and it is a significant expense to garrison it every year.

Not to mention, after all, it is to ensure the security of the border, and it is barely reasonable to say - although it is so sparsely populated that you can't see the village for days. But why is there so much food in the cantonment, not to mention other cantonments, the cantonment that Ainan and they just ransacked is enough for the consumption of a big war - a thousand backpacks, a full four million catties of food.

Could it be that there is something in the swamp that threatens the Empire, so the royal family brings some food every year for war?

When Ainan voiced his doubts, Slow was relieved to remember a rumor he had heard when he was stationed at the border: "I have heard that a race from the south entered Arashi from the swamps of the wetlands a long time ago, and these people were far better equipped than the Imperial army, they had long beards, and they were short, like tree stumps...... Belch! ”

Speaking of this, Sloan paused, and Ainan's expression was also shocked.

Short in stature, and from the wetland swamp, how to think like the original owner of the abandoned city they found.