Chapter 77: Robbery and Murder (I)
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The second day of the festival is a very good day, in fact, today the inhabitants of the surrounding villages come to Pezaros to participate in the festival, and the festival is getting more and more lively every day. biquge.info Many of the unique events start on the second day, and the winter festival will not end until the snow falls again.
Generally speaking, this festival of the inhabitants of the territory of Pezaros lasts at least 5 to 7 days, and there is never a winter festival that lasts longer or shorter than this time. Even the shortest winter festival lasts for nearly five days, while the longest never lasts longer than seven.
However, it is very difficult to get in and out of the south gate of Pezaros during the winter festival, and in fact this area is the most lively place in the whole of Pezzaros. Therefore, Chen Kai and the others had to go out from the East City Gate in a circle, and then turn around and march south.
Even so, when the group did turn to the south, it had been half a day since they had left Pezzaros. It took a morning just to get to Guò, which is less than five kilometers away, because there are so many people on the road. Countless residents of Pezaros, even those living in remote areas, gather in Pezaros on the second day of the winter festival. If in the past the number of inhabitants of Pezaros was just over 800,000, today the entire city is home to at least a million people.
At the same time, hundreds of thousands of inhabitants of the surrounding territories of Pezarus will arrive here, including believers in the goddess of nature, or Adella, the goddess of winter, in addition to merchants. Therefore, when traveling south, Chen Kai would encounter civilians in a hurry from time to time. Some are on horseback, some on flatbed carriages, but more on their feet.
Chen Kai sat in the carriage and looked at the residents, although he knew in his heart that the gods occupied an extremely important position among the ordinary natives. Because they can't change their living conditions, many aborigines who don't have the talent of professionals can only place their spiritual sustenance on the gods. They hope that their fate can be changed, and most of the temples in the game are not for wealth, they just need the faith of these ordinary people. Compared with the real-life belief that religion has turned into a taste for the sake of accumulating wealth, the religion in the game is more realistic. Because in the game, the gods are relatively real.
Of course, the gods in the game are not entirely good or have no **, and even the closest people can betray them in order to compete for believers or priesthood. However, at present, it seems that although there is a competition between the various gods, believers have happened, but perhaps it has just experienced the divine war of the last era, and in less than a thousand years, the various gods have not completely recovered from the divine war. Therefore, although there is occasional friction between them, they are still mainly based on cooperation. At least that's the case, as for whether this is the case, it is unknown, but at least Chen Kai knows a little bit about the three sisters of the goddess, that is, the three goddesses of life, earth and nature, although there are also dirty differences, but the alliance between them is the strongest. Because the kingdom of the three goddesses is connected. At the same time, the throne of the gods of the three goddesses is also stored side by side. In any of the temples of life, earth and nature, you can see the throne of the three gods on the throne of the main temple, which represents the relationship between the three goddesses, and no throne will be missing.
Due to the problem of the itinerary, Chen Kai's lunch was settled on the spot on the carriage and on the war horse, that is, cold bread and warm water. For mercenaries, this kind of lunch is commonplace, and it is similar for Chen Kai. The only thing that was more depressed was Chen Yi, she felt that the cold bread was too hard, and in the end she could only use the small magic stove she carried with her to heat it up a little before eating. Although she was called a loser by Chen Kai, it was undeniable that Chen Kai and the others could always find valuable items from the pile of things that were considered garbage she bought.
For example, this time, Chen Yi spent nearly 50,000 gold coins to buy a lot of useless jewelry, but only two small crystal earrings were identified by Xu Fei as having special magic fluctuations. This is not to say that these two earrings are magic items, but because the material of these two crystal diamonds is special, and they belong to a very special frost-based magic crystal, a real ice crystal diamond. According to Xu Fei's estimate, these two Frost Ice Crystal Diamonds alone are worth at least 100,000 gold coins. Of course, buying such a thing can only be said that Chen Yi was lucky to pick up a leak, but she still didn't get back her private money from Chen Kai. This made Chen Yi extremely angry. As a result, Chen Yi was sulking in the car alone, and he didn't care about these Chen Kai at all.
The journey in the following days was very boring, perhaps because of the heavy snow, basically no thieves came to rob Chen Kai and their caravan. As a result, the march was very smooth and relatively fast, and it took almost four-fifths of the time to reach the border of Pezarus and enter the territory of another nobleman. Then Chen Kai and the others entered the stealth travel mode again, and it was the kind that came out by day and night, because this territory belonged to the hung Viscount Miranda. Although only a viscountydom. And since the death of Viscount Miranda was taken back by the royal family. But know that Viscount Miranda is only a member of the Miranda family. The old Archduke Miranda was very angry about the death of his grandson, even if this grandson was the most unsuccessful cannon fodder. After all, nobles who can be named viscounts are not born so easily.
Even if you raise a pig, it is very difficult for this pig to get the title of viscount, after all, a pig can give birth to many cubs, but it is very difficult to make a piglet become a nobleman. Even if it is an ancient aristocratic family with a hereditary title, it does not mean that every family member can inherit the title of nobility. In fact, in the game, only the eldest son and eldest grandson of the aristocratic family really have the right to inherit, and other noble heirs who want to obtain the title also need their own parents to work hard to get it, and the worst thing is that there is already a big nobleman in the family, and all the heirs cannot get the hereditary title. Although it is possible to own a territory, this territory only has full management and does not have the right to inherit. If you want to obtain a hereditary title and fief, in addition to changing your surname, you must also break away from the original noble family, and most importantly, you must be able to obtain the title of hereditary nobility after three generations. In other words, three generations ago, although your father and grandfather also managed the fiefdom, it was completely a place for the royal family to work for free.
Viscount Miranda is the second generation of the Miranda family, his father Count Miranda Sr. is the first generation to choose to break away from the Miranda family, and this Viscount Miranda is the second generation. The territory they operated was regarded as the most important new territory resource of the Miranda family, but after Viscount Miranda hung up, the territory operated by two generations directly became a royal asset, and the tens of millions of assets invested by the Miranda family in the territory became a bubble. This kind of hatred is not something that can be covered up with a light word, so although the Miranda family did not dare to deal with Count Zaf openly under the suppression of the old Rohan Emperor. But he didn't have any scruples about dealing with Chen Kai, a foreigner or traveler. Of course, he will not be a killer in general, but will use other means, such as finding robbers or simply sending his own people to play the robbers.
It's just that the first wave of the Miranda family's offensive came to naught because of the golden purgatory, the wild boar Momoto, whether it was looking for a robber or playing a robber himself, he was turned into a meat paste used to fertilize the land by Momoto in the Zafaro Forest. At the same time, because of the heavy snow, the Miranda family didn't know that the team they sent to the Zafaro Forest had been wiped out, in fact, they didn't know until the heavy snow fell again, and at this time, Chen Kai and the others had already left Viscount Miranda's territory.
"Idiot! A bunch of idiots!!" Enraged, Archduke Miranda smashed his own table, in fact, relative to him. The Marquis of Zafaro was even more angry. For the huge private army he had managed to experience had been wiped out, and the two most important bandit men he had secretly controlled, the Bloody Hand and the Night Hunter, had also been destroyed. Compared to the total annihilation of the Bloody Hand bandits in the forest, the night hunter Bamezava, who was taken with his head and received a bounty, made him even more angry.
"Kill that Hansting nobleman for me!" These are the words that the Marquis of Zafaro and the Grand Duke of Miranda roared at their personal guards in their private study, although the timing of the shouting is a little different, but the target is extremely the same, that is, the unlucky Chen Kai. Because in the Rohan Empire, neither the Marquis of Zafaro nor the Grand Duke of Miranda dared to attack Count Zaf while the old emperor of the Rohan Empire was still alive. But there was no problem for them to take out Chen Kai, a foreign nobleman who had been linked to Count Zaf, in legend.
When Chen Kai didn't know it, he had already been put on the must-kill list by the two great nobles of the Rohan Empire, and if Chen Kai knew about it, he would definitely feel very wronged, because in his opinion, he and Count Zaf were completely unacquainted, at most, they got rid of each other and got some military supplies. Now he not only has to carry the black cauldron to Count Zaf, but it seems that this black cauldron will continue to be carried all the time, and the worst thing is that now he has become the chicken that the Marquis of Zafaro and the Grand Duke Miranda plan to kill to show the monkey, that is, the chicken to show Count Zaf.
However, Chen Kai didn't know about these, he was now busy arranging for the mercenaries to go to the village on the side to buy supplies, and then continue to hurry. Although most of the people wanted to enter the village to rest, both Hammerta and Chen Kai asked to hurry. Hammer Tower felt that it was not safe around the territory of the former Viscount Miranda who had just left the city, and Chen Kai did not have many gold coins in his pocket. Hope to get to Kazmodo early to sell the goods.
Under the joint urging of Chen Kai and Hammer Tower, everyone basically did not enter the city to rest in the next half month. They had been sleeping in the open and heading towards Kazmodo in the south, in fact, after passing through a territory called Zamos, Chen Kai and the others found that the surroundings were not so cold. For they had traveled a full five hundred kilometers to the south, which was on the national straight of the Rohan Empire, and at least fifty kilometers a day at the rest of the day, except in the domain of the former Viscount Miranda, which was slower. Half a month's journey of more than 500 kilometers is a bit expensive, the horses pulled have changed at least five or six times, and the gold coins in Chen Kai's pocket are mostly spent on buying horses from the villages and towns on the side. But it's this way of rushing. Let Chen Kai and them avoid interception and killing again and again. The interception troops sent by the Marquis of Zafaro and the Grand Duke of Miranda did not know where Chen Kai and the others had gone.
When they ran in front of Chen Kai and them, they found that Hammertower suddenly made the team change their path. Constant changes of roads and detours. made these interceptors exhausted, and even made two teams of people pose on their own and treat each other as Chen Kai and their affairs, only to find that after a vicious fight, it was their own kind that they were blindfolded to each other in the dark night. Of course, it can't be said that it is the same kind, it should be said that it is people with the same purpose, but after communicating with each other in the end, they sadly found that the people who fought each other for a long time were all aiming for the same goal. But after a period of fighting, half of the people on both sides were disabled, but they didn't even see Chen Kai and their figures, which was considered a big bad luck.
In the end, the two groups of people summed it up and found that they were led by Chen Kai and their noses like this again. Then let alone intercepting Chen Kai and them, it is estimated that just the continuous running can exhaust them to death. In the end, they chose the stupidest, stupidest, and most useful way, and chose to stay on the road to Kazmodo. It is the border entrance to the southern border city of Frederik of the Rohan Empire, which is the only way to Hanstin Kazmodo for the entire Rohan Empire. Because Frederik was basically flat, if Hansting and the Rohan Empire were at war, as long as Hansting captured Frederick, he could quickly rush into the hinterland of the Rohan Empire along the road, so in this place, the spellcasters of the Rohan Empire artificially created a pass. The Great Mozarfi Pass. It was an artificially dug pass, artificially turning Frederik, adjacent to Kazmododo, into a road within the Rohan Empire. On the one hand, this road became a barrier for the Rohan Empire to stop the Hansting Empire, but on the other hand, the inhabitants of Frederikt on the other side of the pass had a feeling of being abandoned by their homeland. Therefore, for a long time, the Frederik people regarded this pass as an isolated gate, and it was not until later that part of the tax revenue of the pass was assigned to the lord of Frederikt.
But the Great Mozarfi Pass was not safe, and in fact the empire was the most chaotic area of the entire Rohan Empire outside of the Zafaro Forest. Because at the time of the construction of the Great Mozarfi Pass. The former high-ranking legendary mages of the Rohan Empire devised a very long and complicated passage to block the forces of the Hansting Empire. This access road is the great Isthmus of Mozarfi, which is very famous or notorious in the Rohan Empire, a 30-kilometer labyrinthine mountain gorge road. In fact, the Great Mozarfi Pass is made up of the Mozarfi Fortress at Moctok, the Great Mozafi Isthmus and the Great Mozafi Pass in Frederik. There was a ten-kilometer stretch of the Sanzhi area, where thieves and robbers were the site of frequent robberies throughout the Rohan Empire, where numerous looters occasionally rushed down from the high ground on both sides of the isthmus to loot passing merchants.
Although both the lords of Moktok and Frederik have repeatedly wiped out the robbers in the Isthmus, the robbers here are still inexhaustible, and there have even been cases of large nobles' convoys being attacked. This place is therefore more dangerous than the Zafaro Forest, but it is the only way to get to Kazmodo.
In fact, Chen Kai and the others had already arrived in Moktok a day earlier, and had been in Moktok City for a day. It's not that Chen Kai doesn't want to cross the Great Mozarfi Pass. Even through Frederik to Kazmodo, because Hammertower had been in contact with the garrison of Mozarfi's fortress on the border of Moctok, hoping to be protected by a patrol across the pass.
But for some reason, Hammertower found that the patrol captain of Mozarfi's fortress seemed to treat him very disregardively, and directly refused Hammertower's request and expelled him from the patrol's station. This made Hammertower very strange, because he didn't know where he had offended the other party.
"I'm talking Uncle Hammertha! Have you seduced someone's wife, why is that person so unkind to you?" Fei Yun followed behind Hammer Tower, and they were now on their way to Moktok, and the Mozafi Fortress was nearly twenty-five kilometers away from Moktok. At least a little more than an hour.
"How do I know! I've never seen this guy at all. It's strange that the patrols here don't usually refuse this kind of extra money before, and the price I give is very good!" Hammertower was very confused. He had no idea that the day before they arrived at Moctok, the two interceptors sent by the Marquis of Zafaro and the Grand Duke of Miranda had already communicated with the patrol leader. Under the pressure of the two great nobles, no matter how much Hammer Tower came out, this patrol captain would not dare to get involved. Although the patrol captain initially had the urge to join the Marquis of Zafaro and their side, when he found out that Hammerta belonged to the line of Count Zaf, he directly chose neutrality, because if he participated, he would definitely end up being crushed to death as a pawn. Whether it was helping Hammerta protect Chen Kai and them, or helping Archduke Miranda to kill Chen Kai halfway, they would make this patrol captain offend one of them.
After offending, whether it is Archduke Miranda or Marquis Zafaro, they can find a reason to kill the captain of this patrol, and Count Zaf, as a noble upstart who has just appeared in the Rohan Empire, although his power is not strong, but as a nobleman who has just risen in power, he definitely has a mistake for this kind of person who helps others to slap himself. So the patrol captain chose to be a turtle with a shrunken head very simply, and simply didn't help either side. T
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