The way forward is through the border of the Riverlands, but the battlefield is in the other direction of the Riverlands, so there is no danger at all.

However, along the way, there were many refugees who fled from the riverland.

The refugees, some of whom dragged their families and some of whom were alone, were generally scruffy, yellow-skinned, and wary of strangers, all of them carrying rudimentary weapons such as stones or branches.

The passing of the envoy procession, or the carriage carrying a large amount of supplies, attracted countless covetous and greedy eyes, and was followed by many refugees on several occasions.

However, this is not a problem, and the accompanying knights will naturally be able to send them away.

In general, these are poor people whose families have been ruined by the war, but there are many more pitiful than them. For example, those who had no chance of escaping, and the many dead bodies that could be seen everywhere on the roadside.

People who are sick or hungry and unable to walk seem to be everywhere along the road, most of them collapsed on both sides of the road, some have died, their bodies are stinking and rotting, some are not yet dead, but they are also pus-and-burning, staring blankly at the sky waiting for death, and some are weak and gasping, looking eager or pleading in the face of the passing procession.

Elderly, women, children......

It was rare to see young and strong men, even among the refugees who were able to continue their journey, and it was evident that the young and strong laborers had been forcibly conscripted by the army while they were in the Riverlands.

"In the power game of you princes and nobles, it is always the innocent who suffer the most." Inside the carriage, the bald eunuch Varys's voice was soft, but it was hard to hide the sarcasm.

"It's not you, it's us." Lan Li corrected his words, but it was difficult to detach his gaze from somewhere outside the car window—

It was two figures, one large and one small, and the mother in her patched clothes stood there, clinging to the emaciated corpse of her three or four-year-old child, her eyes blank and motionless, looking like a dead corpse.

It wasn't until the carriage was far away and could no longer be seen that Lan Li withdrew his gaze and frowned.

There are tragedies everywhere in the world.

That's the conclusion he came to along the way.

War has destroyed the originally stable social order, ruined countless families, famine, disease, plague, banditry, and ...... The aristocratic class was not deeply affected by the disasters that struck, but the common people became the direct victims.

Lan Li felt even more complicated about this, even if it was just an introduction, even if no one knew about it, but this could not hide that this war was completely caused by him.

"Yes, indeed."

Varys on the other side didn't notice that Lan Li was absent-minded at this time, or that the bald eunuch himself might be very uncomfortable at the moment, and his tone was in a trance, obviously out of state.

"Sometimes I think, what are you doing all this for?" Varys's words are a bit of a clue. Lan Li ignored him, but frowned and thought.

Maybe I should do something about it?

Just as he was thinking this, there was a sudden commotion in the rear team, interrupting Lan Li's thoughts.

Looking at the probe, he didn't see the specific situation, but the commotion came and went as quickly as it came, and even as soon as it was heard, a knight rode up and reported to him.

"One of the servants went mad and wounded a few people."

"Crazy?" Lan Li raised his eyebrows when he heard this.

"Yes, my lord, madness, but he only wounded a few of us and ran away without much damage." The knight frowned and replied, "He has a lot of strength. ”

This seems to be just an inconspicuous accident, but Lan Li attaches great importance to it, and even gets out of the carriage to investigate it himself.

Then he saw what he suspected in a wagon-

A chest with a lock pried open.

Lan Li frowned at this.

Since becoming Minister of Justice, he has had little time to attend to other matters, but he has never forgotten many situations.

For example, this box in front of you.

In the early years, he was specially "alienated", and he couldn't get rid of it after always following his buttocks, and all the toys inside became bloody human organs, and others would go crazy when they saw it......

Obviously, the servant must have thought that there was some treasure in the box, and secretly opened it to steal it.

"It's really okay to find guilt for yourself." Lan Li pursed his lips.

It didn't make much of a difference, and he didn't pay much attention to it, and after checking it out, he went back to his carriage and continued to ride—

It is faster to ride a horse, but the team is not going fast, and it is very tiring to ride all the time, so it is naturally more suitable to ride in a carriage in this case.

……

Lan Li didn't care, but some people took it very seriously.

On the other side, some of the people who quietly followed the group among the refugees set their eyes on the servant who had escaped from the group, thinking that this person seemed to have something strange or knew something, so they tried to track and arrest him, and finally succeeded in bringing him to the lead girl.

The captured servant was dressed in a light linen shirt and trousers, with messy brown hair and half of his cheeks, now stained with damp mud, as if his head had been slammed against the ground before.

However, Rhaenys didn't care about the other party's appearance, but stared at a bloody "finger" tightly grasped in his hand.

"I don't know which unlucky guy he bit off his finger, and he still treats him like a baby, and he won't let go no matter how he pulls it." A round-faced man in leather armor spat at the ground and said, "Miss, I think he's just a madman, nothing special, it's best to kill him." ”

Rhaenys ignored her subordinates' words, and instead asked the captive with a serious expression, "Where did you get this thing?" ”

The captive didn't speak, didn't seem to hear, and always stared at the people around him with that kind of round-eyed expression, and his lower lip was unconsciously bitten by his teeth but didn't realize it, looking irritable and bloodthirsty.

It seems that he really is a crazy person.

Rhaenys, however, doesn't think so. Her eyes remained fixed on the fingers in the man's hands, both excited and suspicious.

Because in her opinion, this thing is the finger of a "god", and it is freshly cut off!

In this world, magic is closely related to gods, and she was quite proficient in this kind of knowledge in her previous life, and after being reincarnated in the god-like city of Braavos, she has learned many rare skills and knowledge.

It may seem reckless to break into the enemy's core stronghold alone, but who would have thought that she was actually one of the few magic masters in the world when she was only a teenage girl on the outside?

So she clearly recognized what it was.

And that's why she's excited-

The gods are ethereal and ethereal, and even if they know that many of them have physical existence, they are rare, and no one even sees the real body.

The more she knows, the more awe-inspiring she becomes, but the more Rhaenys knows, the more curious she becomes, and she has long wanted to study the gods, but she usually didn't have the chance.

But I don't want to be right now—

In addition to her excitement, she was full of doubts.

The servant's escape from the ranks seemed to prove that the finger also came from there, but the indifference of the advancing ranks did not seem to know the value of the thing.

Just thinking about it, it seems impossible, didn't Lan Li say that he was the messenger of the Seven Gods?

How could you not recognize such a thing with the aura of a god?

"It can't be a bait." Muttering secretly, Rhaenys frowned as she thought, even seriously doubting that she had been exposed.

But it doesn't seem possible......

The center of her mind was racing, and the girl's face was cloudy, and finally she suddenly raised her head and ordered: "Follow me, we won't follow!" ”

"Are you finally ready to go back?" The tall and thin guard beside him breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this.

"No, I'm going to go along and have a good talk with the man." The girl replied, her little face resolute.

Sneakily observing and tempting in the dark is not in line with her mind, but she has to do it for the sake of safety, but now that the other party has noticed something, let's go up and talk openly and honestly!