Chapter 0040: Temptation
When Wu Hao appeared at the dinner table with dark circles under his eyes the next morning, staring at Ethan Lien with resentment, he was a big prosecutor in a high position in the city government, and for the first time, he was so embarrassed that he was so embarrassed that he didn't dare to talk, and he talked about Wu Hao's deeds in the orphan camp with his children in a disguised way, which caused the two little children to ask questions again and again.
"Brother William, have you really seen an orc?" The little girl looked frightened.
"Uh... Sort of. ”
"And have you..."
“....”
Now that he is not yet developed at this age, he can't feel the taste of sexual life, plus Ethan Lien's family is very enthusiastic about him, and Wu Hao, who is still in the stage of Taoguang cultivation, is of course impossible to lose his temper, and after a while, he went down the stairs to ease the atmosphere and chatted with the two children of the chief prosecutor.
Ethan Lien and his wife also accosted each other from time to time.
After some small talk, Wu Hao learned that each of the residents in this complex was a family member of a high-ranking officer with a noble status, and although Ethan Lien, a commoner, also enjoyed the treatment of a high-ranking officer, he was given a place to live in another small city, which was occupied by the tribe seven years ago, and is still being rebuilt shortly after its recovery.
"This is my old man's home." Ethan Lien said.
"Old man?" Wu Hao asked.
"That old guy led the team to participate in the Battle of the Black Stone Tower, and he should be fighting in the wetlands at this time." Ethan Lion did not reveal the identity of the owner of the cabin, nor did he continue to talk about the war, but said with a strange smile: "The bedroom where you rested last night is actually his daughter's room, maybe you will get to know her after a while." ”
Hearing this, Wu Hao frowned.
Yesterday's continuous march was really tired and didn't pay attention, after getting up this morning, Wu Hao did smell a faint fragrance in the room, but there was no other decoration in the bedroom except for the bed and wooden cabinet, he thought it should be a guest room specially used to entertain friends, who knew that it was actually the boudoir of a certain noble lady.
"Could it be..."Ethan Lien didn't have many friends in the plot, and Wu Hao immediately thought of a certain character.
"It's okay, that young lady hasn't been back for a long time." Ethan Lien then explained, as if to comfort Wu Hao not to worry about the discomfort of the owner of the bedroom after knowing this, and began to get down to business: "Next, I will arrange for you to continue your professional studies, and those friends of yours are also in this city..."
Ethan Lien carefully talked about the follow-up arrangements.
It turns out that after the test of the professionals in the orphan camp, the orphans who passed the test will be gathered separately and arranged in the vocational academy established after the victory of the war, and they will not stay with other orphans who have not passed the test, that is to say, the different colors of clothes that Wu Hao saw when he first exercised were actually all the first few batches of orphans who did not pass the test.
"It seems that those people are the lowest cannon fodder after being eliminated." Wu Hao said secretly.
According to the past, there are not many orphans who have passed the test, but the test does not refer to the orphan camp where Wu Hao is located, but all the lucky people under the age of 16 in the entire orphan shelter, ranging from 6 to 15 years old, have more or less passed the test, and the total number of these people is also very considerable.
So there will be a second screening.
The second screening is based on the potential of the orphans' professional qualifications shown in the first test, and the orphans who do not pass the screening will still be scattered in the academy in the rebuilt city, and the orphans who pass the test will be sent to a higher level of study in a large city college that was not destroyed in the orc war.
According to Wu Hao's understanding, apart from the royal city of Lordaeron, there are only four large cities that have not been destroyed in the war.
Brill is one of the largest cities in the world.
Originally, because Wu Hao was identified as a disguised demon in the test, all the people who passed the test in that orphan camp were isolated and not sent away with the completion of the test, and the best result was just to go to a small city college near the orphan camp, who knew that Wu Hao became a new sage in a blink of an eye, causing the fate of these orphans to be changed.
Especially the group of followers under Wu Hao.
"The King's College you are about to go to, most of the colleges are the children of nobles, and there are only a very few rare commoners." Ethan Lien ended his long narration, looked at Wu Hao and said seriously: "Your friends are in another academy in Brill, and only the little girl named Demitian has been sent to King's College to study a month ago because she has shown extremely high pastoral talent. ”
Hearing this, Wu Hao was slightly stunned.
"The Academy, along with the tutor, doesn't know who you are, Sage." After separating his wife and children, Ethan Lien changed his respectful tone, and looked at the contemplative expression on Wu Hao's face with some confusion: "They know at most that you are the seventh student of the old sage, if it is not necessary, please don't have too much contradiction with them." ”
"Understood." Wu Hao nodded.
"Okay." Ethan Ryan stood up and smiled, "If nothing else, let's go right away, shall we?" ”
Of course, Wu Hao, who was unfamiliar with the place, was fine, so Ethan Ryan immediately took him on his journey, this time as soon as he walked out of the wooden house, more than a dozen heavily armed soldiers followed, and the group came to the main road and walked straight north, along the way, none of the refugees who had gathered nearby dared to approach, and they were all busy and retreated.
"That's not right." Wu Hao walked for a while, and suddenly said secretly: "Last night was not normal. ”
Ethan Lion as a high-ranking military officer, although he is a civilian, but a high-ranking priest, it is very common to have soldiers to escort him when traveling, last night's scene seems natural, after a long march to return home in a hurry to be surrounded by refugees is very embarrassing and logical, and then Ethan Lion's words are a little pretentious.
After empathy, Wu Hao became more and more sure of his guess.
As an adult in his forties, and has been leading the army to fight for a long time in a high position, this level of character must be faced with a considerable level of aristocrats and officers, perhaps because of faith and professional belief, there is a certain amount of guilt about the killing of civilians, but it is impossible to be so exaggerated and emotional, or to a child less than 13 years old.
Even if Wu Hao was less than thirty years old in his previous life, it was impossible to beep with a primary school student.
Despite the fact that this schoolboy has an extremely high title.
"Is it another temptation?" Wu Hao suddenly felt very troublesome, although Ethan Lien was a priest, but he did not join the Holy Light Brotherhood, that is to say, faith was not his most precious insistence, and Ethan Lien's temptation was equivalent to the temptation of the royal family, he was frightened and almost blinded last night, and now he carefully recalled the cause and effect and immediately came back to his senses: "It's so tiring to chat with these guys in the city!" ”
Fortunately, camouflage for a long time is almost instinctive, and it shouldn't show any horses' feet.
Shaking his head a little irritably, Wu Hao put aside the distracting thoughts in his head, remembered what Ethan Lien had said, especially after seeing Demithia soon, a joy just rose in his heart, and he was suppressed by himself, and secretly scolded: "Grass!" Am I happy because of an NPC? It's not a show! ”
I'm a traverser!
"The reason why I'm happy is because those little brothers are here." Wu Hao gave himself a reason, and analyzed it little by little: "After all, it took so much effort before, and it would be too tragic to turn into useless work in the end, and now that those guys are there, you can continue to prepare for future plans." ”
The original original plan was that Wu Hao was going to cultivate a group of loyal younger brothers.
Judging from the current situation, the royal family of Minethil doesn't seem to care too much about themselves, on the one hand, the reason should be that they are not very old, and they are from the Lordaeron Kingdom, so they feel that they should be a good chess piece, which can be slowly cultivated and co-opted, and on the other hand, the royal family's confidence in the power of their kingdom.
The threat of a person's behavior is related to the person's own social status.
If Wu Hao is just an orphan who doesn't have much potential, then he cultivates a group of followers and makes trouble at every turn to challenge the rules and authority of the camp, causing others to follow suit, such a thing is very serious, and he must be punished and made an example, this is the sentence that will be executed after the initial test of the orphan camp.
If Wu Hao has some potential, then the punishment must also be there, but it will not be too heavy.
You must know that even in the kingdom of Lordaeron before the orc war, there were also a large number of bandits, these bandits were basically civilians, and there were also many professionals, who wandered around the kingdom of Lordaeron, looting civilians and manors everywhere, and the turmoil brought was not small in the local scope.
The punishment was to regulate behavior and prevent Wu Hao from getting carried away and becoming another potential bandit leader.
However, now Wu Hao is a new generation of sages, although it is just a false name for the current Wu Hao, he can ignore most of the behavioral taboos for civilians of other identities, as long as Wu Hao does not try to change the doctrine of the Way of Light and incite the disciples to fight against the royal power, it is not worth mentioning just to cultivate some followers and win over some peers.
After all, there are so many fanatical followers in the Brotherhood of Light, and a little more follower is nothing.
Moreover, every nobleman has a different number of personal guards, and the lords of various places have private armies, Wu Hao's current status allows him to deal with many people openly, as long as he does not touch the high-voltage line of royal power and divine power, then all actions are harmless and beneficial.
The Kingdom of Lordaeron has three direct legions of kings, and a little private army and personal guards are not enough to see.
It's one thing to have friendships with other people, it's another thing to openly rebel or shout for royal power, perhaps in the eyes of the Minethil royal family, if Wu Hao is keen to deal with other people, the royal family will not only not be displeased, but will feel that this is a good thing, Wu Hao, who is busy cultivating followers and personal power, naturally can't care about developing theocracy.
"If there had been no natural invasion, it would have been true." Wu Hao sneered.
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