If a country treats those prisoners of war as slaves and not as human beings, these slaves are undoubtedly very pitiful, but under the pressure of the sword, it is clear that those slaves will also become very capable craftsmen. At least the slaves who built the city walls in Turk Canyon proved the above truth with their own practical actions. When they left, the city wall was just beginning to take shape, and when they returned, the city wall was completely completed, and the captured slaves, under the supervision of the wolf-like local private army, were desperately digging the frozen soil that was not much softer than steel, and then smashed the ice and melted water, and continued to build the barracks that would be used for garrisons in the city after the beginning of spring.

Lei was a little surprised to see those slaves working desperately in the howling wind and snow, looking at the wisps of white smoke rising from their **** upper bodies, in such a cold weather, they were still hot and sweating. Occasionally, when someone slipped and sprained their foot and neck, or was finally too tired to lie on the ground and could not move, immediately those smiling soldiers of the Vant's private army would come up and cut their necks with a knife, and put their hot blood into the frozen soil that had been dug up, blended into mud, and then smeared it on the city wall.

Ray swallowed a little uncomfortably, and Lomat was already a little blue. Jerry said in a low voice, "Don't look at it, the empires will not treat the enemy's captives as human beings." Although an agreement was signed for the exchange of prisoners, few captured soldiers were returned alive. Ray, let's go. ”

With a long exhale, Lei shook his head and sighed: "I don't mean anything else, I just don't understand, so desperately rushing to work, but in the winter, the progress is very slow, and it is impossible to have good efficiency, don't they know this?"

Jerry said coldly: "So, put these slaves in the camp to eat and drink and provide for them? No matter how slow the progress is, in short, they have to work, stay in the camp, they are full of food and drink, they will start to run away with bad ideas, it is better to consume a little more of their strength, let them be honest dogs." Besides, if you can build a house, it will be one. Lei, let's go, we still have to travel for half a month to return to the imperial capital. ”

Lei hesitated for a while, just a young man fell to the ground, and the leather whips in the hands of the two overseers immediately whipped over, and the upper body of the **** immediately appeared with deep blood marks. Ray subconsciously stroked his long sword, but immediately, the faces of those companions in Kari Village, as well as the village uncle, and his own mother appeared in Ray's mind. Gritting his teeth, he said in a muffled voice: "This is deserved, this is what they deserve, damn, give me a point." ”

The two soldiers, who were beating the young man as a pastime, seemed to have increased their strength tenfold at once, and the whip in their hands made a whistling sound of breaking through the air, knocking the young man unconscious. Ray smiled indifferently, threw a few gold coins at the two soldiers, turned the horse's head, and ignored the courteous greetings of the overseers, and walked forward with Jerry with a large group of men.

Bobkat looked at the hapless captive soldiers indifferently, and laughed grimly: "Do you need some help? Our Bicester Empire has produced a kind of snow leopard, which is very fierce, and it is the best helper to oversee the work." Make sure that those slaves don't dare to be lazy, they can tear a person's in the time of a cup of tea. ”

Lei tilted his head and laughed: "So, how about your highness send us a hundred? I have heard that leopards are very useful if they are well domesticated." If Your Highness is willing, it is better to send a hundred lions to our Tyrant Lion Legion, a hundred leopards to the Jaguar Legion, and a hundred snow wolves to the Silver Wolf Legion. ”

Bobkaat laughed: "No problem, in the land of our Bicester Empire, the size of these beasts is much larger than that of your southern country, not to mention a hundred, a thousand can be." ”

Lei laughed: "Then, it's a thousand heads, trouble Your Highness." ”

Pobkat's face was suddenly difficult to look at, no matter how brave the warriors of their Bicester Empire were, it would be difficult to capture a thousand lions, a thousand leopards, and a thousand wolves alive in such weather. Especially how much meat do three thousand beasts have to eat every day, and won't their Bicester Palace become a zoo by then? But Bobkat had already spoken, and he couldn't break his promise at the moment, so he had to agree in a very sullen manner.

Jerry was almost about to laugh wildly next to him, and he said: "Alas, fortunately, our Flying Phoenix Legion and the Crazy Dragon Legion, there are no phoenixes and dragons on this continent, otherwise, it would be very uncomfortable to catch a thousand legendary dragons." ”

Bobkat snorted a few times, suddenly pointed to the northwest, and said, "There are still dragons, but they are on the continent of the sinners. If there were on this continent, I'd be able to capture them, dragon, what's the big deal?"

Jerry was surprised and asked, "How is it possible? I have only seen the legend material from the top secret reading room of our Imperial Library, how does Your Highness know that there are still living dragons on the continent of the sinners?"

Bobcart was stunned for a moment, lowered his head, and whispered, "After all, I am the heir of the Bicester Empire, so I can know something that you big nobles can't know." Dragons, phoenixes, these legendary creatures were expelled from this continent in a battle with humans. Do you know the southernmost Dragon Harbor of the Smart Empire? Two hundred miles away, there is also a Dragon Island, which is where the dragons lived before the War of the Gods. Later, all the demonic beasts, including the 'Thunder Beast', were expelled from the Beast. ”

Lei asked curiously: "So, Your Highness, if the dragon is compared to the 'Thunder Beast'... ”

Bobkat snorted coldly: "An adult dragon can kill a hundred elite knights of your Van Empire." ”

The knights of Van were all round-eyed, and looked at Bobkat angrily. No matter how strong the strength of the dragon is, there is no need to compare it with the people of the Van Empire. Along the way, Ray, Jerry, and Bobcart quarreled with each other, and at the same time, Bobcart kept leaking some information to them that only the seven imperial families knew, and slowly, they also arrived at the imperial capital of the Van Empire. Bobkat will replenish the city with a little food and grass before continuing on their way to their homeland.

Strangely, Ray was eager to kill Bobcart right away, and even now, he didn't change his mind about killing Bobcat. However, it is really very strange, after a period of association with Bobcart, Ray has an inexplicable liking for Bobcart, compared to the treacherous and changeable Carlin, Ray found that Bobcart is actually still a man. As for Bobkat, the tense and antagonistic atmosphere between Ray and Jerry has gradually eased, and the three of them can even communicate some more private things... Perhaps, it's because the two empires of Van and Bicester are now close allies, and the two countries have common interests, so the three of them also have that kind of almost friendship.

However, none of the three would admit it.

Ray still watched coldly as several officials from the Ministry of State led Bobcart and them towards the embassy district of the Bicester Empire, Jerry took his men to the military department to hand over the appointment, and the three officials of the Ministry of State happily took the credentials of the Smart Empire to ask to see Krees, and he himself only took Lomat and they rushed to his mansion.

Jerry knew that Lei was too lazy to talk to the group of bureaucrats in the military department, and in order to prevent Lei from making a big fuss about the military department at that time, he simply took over all the things that he dealt with the civilian officials of the military department, so Lei entered the gate of the imperial capital and relaxed.

More than 20 days have passed since the New Year's celebration, and the streets of the imperial capital are still very clean, and the stone pavement is just a little wet, but it is not dirty at all, and it looks very fresh. There were few people on the road, the weather was so cold that the vast majority of citizens chose to enjoy family fun at home in front of the fireplace. Even those nobles who are busy with social activities do not carry out until midnight, and they are still at home to recuperate.

Ray rode his horse and led his guards and knights towards his mansion, and the cold wind blew from the north, but for Ray, this little wind was nothing, he laughed, looked at the rough buildings on the side of the road and said, "Karub, the house in the city of Berserk looks comfortable." ”

Karub and the others also laughed: "Isn't it, the house of the Smart Empire looks good, but it must be uncomfortable to live in." ”

The sound of horses' hooves arose, and at the same time the wheels of the carriage rolled, and a group of men and horses, led by several Van knights, quickly caught up from behind. Thunder and their numbers were too large, and seeing that there were no pedestrians on the road, those knights simply occupied the entire road, so the horse team behind could only stop. From a richly decorated carriage, a man's whispered grumble was heard.

Ray stopped his steed, waved his hand, and motioned for his guards to lean against the side of the road, making way for a passageway. The knights belonging to the Jaguar Legion came up quickly, dismounted respectfully and saluted: "General Lei, you are back?

Lei laughed, these knights were all people who had a friendship in Teke Canyon, at that time, the Jaguar Legion was wiped out, only dozens of their high-ranking knights easily escaped with their lives, and later they performed very well in continuous battles, and they were all promoted because of their military exploits at that time.

Ray jumped off his horse, returned a military salute, looked at the carriage behind which was guarded by a group of knights in green cloaks, and whispered: "Ha, it's not bad, the Civil Strife in the Smart Empire has cheapened us, and they have all agreed to our requests... What are those guys doing? Why are they so careful? Like a bunch of frightened rabbits,, what are they afraid of when they get to Furious City? Look at them, they don't look like soldiers from our empire, do they?"

The red-faced Jaguar Knight at the front lowered his voice: "My lord, this is the younger brother of the Grand Duke of the Duchy of Fort Carson in the southeast, who fled with the princess of their Duchy. The commander of Fort Carson, Count San Rocat, known as the Tiger of Carson, led a mutiny and seized the throne of the Duchy, and is sending people to hunt down the two of them, they are now the only legitimate heirs of the Duchy of Carsonburg. Hey... ”

Lei looked at the carriage behind him in confusion and asked in a low voice, "They have been seized the throne, what are they doing here for us?"

The knight hurriedly explained: "We, the Van Empire, are the lord states of the alliance of their three principalities, and they have come to ask us to send troops to help them regain their thrones. Generally speaking, in such a situation, they will eventually be incorporated into our empire, which is a good thing to send to the door. ”

Ray's eyes lit up, he didn't know anything else, he didn't know anything political, and he didn't want to know what those ministers who played politics would do with this matter, he only knew that the Duchy of Carson was one of the three principalities in the alliance, so it was enough. The military department has made a plan to use the Triple Alliance to train troops, but I'm worried that there is no good excuse to send troops, and now, hehe...

Ray waved his fist excitedly, and said happily: "Okay, good, great, don't you just want us to send troops? What's the problem, ha, Lomat, you take someone to escort them, haha, there is a good thing now." Tell Jerry that I was the first to find out, and that old man Gaddafi is going to send troops, and he is also the first of our dragon legions to go out, so they don't want to take advantage of us. ”

After laughing for a while, Lomat comprehended and led two hundred guards to escort the two carriages in the direction of the Ministry of State, Lei grinned and got on the horse, the more he thought about it, the more excited he became, and saw that there was no figure on the road, so he simply rode his horse and galloped, and the wind whistled past Lei's ears, which made Lei feel very happy.

Ray's war horse was carefully selected and given to him by Li, and it was a rare good horse in the 'Divine City', and now he was so urged by Thunder to move back and forth frantically, instantly throwing Kalubu and them away more than thirty meters. Kalubu and the others grinned and watched Lei Ze run wildly, knowing that Lei saw that there was a battle to fight, and his hands and feet were itchy. War is a thing that no one likes in peacetime, but as long as a person has participated in that kind of cruel and bloody war, then he will fall in love with it like an alcohol.

Rezema is running wildly, this is already his mansion, the city where he and Jerry live, as mentioned earlier, is an urban area with several women's colleges, and there are also some small businesses nearby, specializing in the business of this college, so unlike the previous mansion of the Lomart family, there are many civilians living nearby.

A thin black shadow suddenly rushed out of the alley next to it, and a girl's voice behind it shouted angrily: "Lin, I said, you are not allowed to run out to play in this weather, you have to get your clothes dirty again." Come back, Lin, come back... And this man, called Lin, had already rushed to Ray's horse's hooves.

Ray's reaction was fast, he saw clearly that this was a little boy who looked no more than seven or eight years old, just the age of playfulness and activity, his thin body looked like he could be trampled to death with just a horse's hooves, and his frightened eyes and desperate expression made Ray tremble fiercely in his heart. Lei's big hand grabbed the reins heavily, and the fighting spirit in his body exploded with all his strength, forcibly strangling the momentum of the war horse's galloping. The horse, which was enjoying its galloping, was suddenly grabbed by the reins, and at the same time an irresistible force threw itself to the side, and it helplessly erected its two front legs, and after a wild neigh, it was carried out to the left by the huge force.

The horseshoe began to slip on the wet stone road, and after a few sparks appeared, the horse fell to the ground with a pitiful slump, and it screamed in pain. Thunder, on the other hand, was so strong that his whole body flew out in the direction of the horse's fall, like a bear rolling down a hillside, rolling all the way and smashing against a fence on the side of the road. 'Boom', the snow on the wall was shaken off the boss, and the thunder snorted and lay down below, dizzy for a long time without getting up.

The horse easily got up on its own, and a slender figure rushed out of the alley, and when he saw the person in front of him turning over on his back, he screamed, knocked the head of the little kid named Lin hard, and ran towards the thunder quickly. The thin arm easily pulled one of Ray's hands, and the girl pulled Ray's body a little embarrassed, but found that she couldn't pull this huge body at all, and couldn't help but ask with a cry: "Sir, you, you are okay, right?"

Lei stroked the frayed cloak and trousers on his buttocks, got up with a wry smile, and muttered: "******, it's really unlucky, I'm going to get home and I fell like this, who did I provoke?" Lei casually glanced at the little girl who was only a little more than five feet tall and only near his chest, and his eyes suddenly couldn't be turned away.

With long tan hair, brown eyes, dexterous lips, a tall and straight nose, and a slender and refined chin, the whole makes up the face of a superb little beauty. There was only a padded jacket on the weak body, and it seemed that he grabbed a piece of clothing and ran out after the little boy. At this moment, there was a burst of panic and fear on this extremely beautiful face, especially when Lei stood up straight, standing in front of her like a bear, the little girl's face was full of panic.

Lei looked at this little girl who looked to be sixteen or seventeen years old, and his heart sounded like a drum, and he was stunned for a while. After a while, he suddenly sneezed earth-shatteringly, took off his cloak casually, and put it on the little girl's body that was already trembling. Lei Yi picked up the stunned Lin who was standing next to him, patted his head with his big hand, and laughed: "Boy, don't run around in the future, fortunately I pulled the horse fast today, otherwise you will be unlucky." ”

Lin shouted loudly: "It's wrong for me to run around, but you shouldn't run so fast on the road in the imperial capital." ”

Lei was speechless for a while, and the little girl was already loudly scolding: "Lin, shut up, who wants you to speak?" She looked at Lei cautiously, and a few smiles squeezed out of the corners of her mouth: "Sir, this, you, your body is not injured, right? If you feel that something is wrong, do you want to ask the doctor to take a look?"

Lei laughed inexplicably, and he laughed: "Haha, how is it possible, how can I have something?" Haha, no matter how heavy the impact is, it can't hurt me, don't believe it, you see." Lei put down Lin and blasted out with a punch, he inadvertently urged out his three-percent fighting spirit, and the wall behind him was suddenly smashed into pieces by his fist wind, and more than a dozen big trees inside were shattered by the strong fist wind.

Karub and the others had already arrived at the scene, but they seemed to see something, and they stood by one with strange faces, but they didn't mean to step forward and interfere.

The little girl apologized a little flustered, Lei stammered and said that it didn't matter for a long time, and Lin interjected desperately inside, and the three of them had a lot of fun. It was so easy, Lei Cai said that he was really not injured, and persuaded the little girl to go back. Before leaving, the girl hurriedly took off Lei's huge cloak and returned it to Lei, and Lei took it honestly, and he didn't know what to say.

Seeing the two of them walk into the alley, after a long time, Jerry exclaimed loudly in that deliberately oily voice: "Oh my God, my God, tsk, Ray, what's wrong with you?

Ray hurriedly turned around and asked, "What? what? What kind of demon? Where? Eh, Jerry, is your business done? Why did you come back so soon?"

Jerry said with a strange face: "Alas, fortunately, I moved quickly and came back quickly, otherwise how could I have seen such a good show? It turns out that our General Lei will not only find a woman in the pink goblin, but also fall in love with people? ”

Ray shouted: "Nonsense, I'm... ”

Jerry crossed his eyes: "You're in love with this little girl, at least you've taken a fancy to her." ”

Ray yelled, "No. ”

"Yes. ”

"Nope. ”

"I swear, you've got a crush on her. ”

"I swear, no. ”

"Nonsense, the guy with the wrong mouth, damn, I despise you for this kind of behavior, Ray, you must have taken a fancy to her, otherwise... ”

"Otherwise what? I absolutely not. ”

"Damn, if it weren't for your crush on someone, how would you have smashed my wall in a daze? ”

Lei opened his mouth and couldn't speak for a long time, and after a long time, he made a rude gesture and said viciously: "Whatever you say, anyway, I didn't take a fancy to her, such a small little girl, ****** I will take a fancy to her?" Hmph, if you don't believe it, forget it." ”

Jerry snorted a few times deliberately, and said in a strange voice: "Thunder, a good flower can be folded... ”

Thunder snorted heavily, looked at the blood marks on the top of his horse with a little distress, stroked it a few times, and gently pulled it towards his home.

Jerry looked at Karub and Gosia and whispered, "I swear, Ray has a heartbeat, and I bet if nothing gets in his way for the past two days, he'll definitely go find that little girl." I bet a thousand gold coins. ”

Kalubu said angrily, "Fifteen hundred gold coins, as long as there is anything disturbing in the past two days, the adults will definitely forget today's events." Ha ha... ”

Gosia said faintly: "It seems that yes, our lord, the head does not seem to work very well sometimes, I bet two thousand gold coins, if there is no other trouble, the lord will definitely go to the little woman." ”

Groot exclaimed, "Oh, we all bet on this, so, who bet on us?"

Jerry and Gosia said in unison: "Naturally, it's Lomat, his father is rich now... Ha, that kid just isn't here, and we'll just tell him the results when the time comes, and we'll just make some pocket money. ”

Ray was already yelling over there, "Damn, what the hell are you doing?

Jerry shrunk his neck, looked at his wall that was broken by Thunder's punch, and suddenly gritted his teeth and launched a fierce attack: "Damn, I bet 20,000 gold coins, I want that kid from Lomart to break the fortune fiercely, ******, don't I need money to repair my wall?"

Karub and the others also laughed at the same time: "Well, our bet will be multiplied by ten times, anyway, Lomat is rich now." ”

The group laughed sinisterly, and Jerry swaggered over his crumbling walls and followed Ray to the door of his mansion. Lomat's father, dressed in a rich fur coat, was there to greet them with a smile on his face, and Ray had jumped off his horse and rushed over and hugged him heavily.

Jerry's face was full of smiles: "Ha, I decided, this winter, I moved to Ray's house to live, this is more humane than my own home." ”

The sound of laughter was heard in the cold air.