It gets dark early in winter, and by the time they return to Abyss City, it's already dark.

Just when someone was deflating a steel fork in a hot pot restaurant in Abyss City, in a distant human society, several people in a wooden house were sitting around a rough dining table, eating rice porridge that was as thin as water in a wooden bowl.

Fortunately, there are many magical beasts in the surrounding woods, and today the hunting team beat a big wild boar, which made the porridge have a little oil and water.

Around the dining table sat a teenager, a girl, a middle-aged aunt, a middle-aged muscular man, and a bald old man, and among the five of them, the yellow-skinned, black-haired, black-eyed boy was faintly the leader.

The bald old man said to the young man while drinking porridge: "Xiao Ji, our food stock is only enough to last until January next year. ”

The young man known as Xiao Ji frowned, and the wooden bowl in his hand stopped at his lips.

In the summer, he suddenly appeared in front of a group of desperate victims and stoned a giant bear with a slender tooth that was about to eat a child, so he suddenly became the leader of this group of victims before he could recover from this world with slimes.

At first, he wandered aimlessly with the people displaced by the floods, and they eventually arrived in the basin under the guidance of a "kind" nobleman.

From the moment he settled in the basin, he made collecting food a top priority.

It's just that when his brain was hot, he decided to expand the size of the team, and as a result, the swarm of victims was beyond their capacity.

Looking at the ragged, thin-skinned, and glazed-eyed victims, he couldn't make the decision to drive them away anyway.

Most of these refugees are elderly and weak, and hunting and gathering teams composed of young and middle-aged people cannot obtain enough food to meet the needs of the population.

What's more, the "kind" nobleman sent someone to claim that this was his domain during the autumn harvest, and the victims who settled here had to pay taxes, but this year everyone suffered, and the "benevolent" lord agreed to put this year's taxes into next year, and if they could not pay enough taxes next year, all the people here would become slaves of the lord.

The victims were indifferent to the news, for them being a slave this year is no different from being a slave next year, maybe they can run as far as they can next year after a year of repair.

However, Comrade Ji Shijun, who has become the leader of the victims, was not discouraged by this situation, because he still had hole cards.

Ji Shijun drank all the rice porridge in the wooden bowl in one go, and then asked, "Grandpa Nick, does the person I trouble you to inquire about has eyebrows?"

Nick is the grandson of a knight, his father has become a free man, he can write and calculate because of his family background, Ji Shijun let him manage supplies and go out to inquire about news.

Ji Shijun formed his own small team, and because he couldn't get used to them using common plants and animals to name himself, he gave new names to people he knew.

The five people who are eating together now are all the high-level leaders of the "Whooping Slime Pioneer Group".

Nick also drank the rice porridge in the wooden bowl in one go, and then said: "I heard from the adventurer's union in the city that that person returned to the north two months ago, and now he should be at home to help the disaster. ”

"Disaster relief?" Ji Shijun's heart suddenly jumped, if the person he was looking for was for disaster relief, I was afraid that his plan to borrow food would fail.

"I know that. "I've heard that they're the richest family in the north, and even the baths are made of gold, and every day they eat with a dozen or twenty maids dancing beside them." And whenever the orcs of the northern wasteland are plagued, they will bring food to the orcs. ”

Bruce is the captain of the hunting party, he is a former adventurer, and he has served as a guard for many caravans, so he can be regarded as well-informed.

Ji Shijun's heart skipped a beat again, and the figure of the first filial daughter of Azeroth appeared in his mind.

Then Nick continued, "I also heard that his subordinate Artoria is leading the disaster relief in the northwest. ”

Ji Shijun looked confused, he seemed to have heard an incredible name.

"Who is Artoria?" he asked.

"I know this man. Bruce said, "She was summoned by the brave more than 300 years ago, and was later sealed by the Demon King, and I heard that the Earl of McCaden helped her lift the seal two years ago, so she served under the command of the Earl of Maccaden." ”

"They seem to have a daughter. Nick added.

At this time, Ji Shijun was already stunned to the extreme, and there were too many slots that caused him to crash for a short time.

At this time, Bruce finished drinking the rice porridge in the big wooden bowl, then scooped up a large piece of meat with a spoon and handed it to Ji Shijun, saying, "I'm too late, I can't eat this piece of meat, you can help me eat it." ”

Ji Shijun glared at Bruce fiercely, and then said sternly: "Uncle Bruce, how many times have I said that you are the captain of the hunting team, and we can only have something to eat when you are full and strong!"

Bruce shrunk his neck, and after a while, he said, "I see that you are so busy every day, and you eat so little......"

Ji Shijun glared at Bruce fiercely again, and Bruce reluctantly ate the small piece of meat.

At this time, Ji Shijun saw that everyone had finished eating, his expression became serious, and then he said: "I will go north tomorrow to seek the help of the Earl of Maccaden, and I will bother you to take care of your home during the time I am away." ”

At this time, Aunt Natasha, who had not spoken, asked cautiously, "Will the Earl help us? Will he let us be his slaves before he will help us?"

The other people here obviously have the same concerns, this is not related to the reason, why would the richest man in the north help him, and a sad face slowly appeared on everyone's faces, especially the girl sitting next to Ji Shijun.

The girl tugged at Ji Shijun's sleeve, and then said, "Xiao Ji, I don't think it's better to trouble those noble lords, maybe his charity is not enough for you to entangle back and forth." If you sell my sword, you can buy a lot of food. ”

Ji Shijun shook his head and said, "That sword of yours is your family's heirloom, and it can't be sold." If you don't have a sword, how can you protect everyone when you gather food and wood? Don't worry, I have a way to get the Earl of Maccaden to help us. ”

The girl lowered her head, and after a while, she said weakly, "Okay, I'll listen to you." ”

Then she said, "I'll help you pack your bags." ”

The place where everyone eats is the place where they work during the day, and the place where they live is not far away. After a lot of hard work, the residents of this area finally lived in wooden houses until the beginning of winter.

After the girl left, Bruce raised his eyebrows at Ji Shijun and said, "Xiao Ji, I think Guoguo seems to be interesting to you, why don't you fight for it?"

Aunt Natasha on the side echoed: "Guoguo, that girl has a good figure and high strength, so she is a good choice." ”

Ji Shijun sat there dealing with the matchmaking of the two middle-aged people, shaking his head from time to time and refusing.

"I don't have the energy to think about it right now. Ji Shijun said, "Let's talk about it when we get through this difficulty." ”

Then he made arrangements for everyone's work, Bruce continued to lead the team out hunting, Natasha continued to take the prey skins into winter clothes with his hands, and Nick regularly took them to distant cities to sell when he had more magic cores, and then bought back the necessities of life.

Ji Shijun's most important job before leaving was to stabilize people's hearts, and he was worried that others would think that he had left everyone behind and ran away, so after arranging his work, he visited the homes of more than a dozen henchmen to do ideological work.

It wasn't until the middle of the moon that Ji Shijun dragged his tired body back to the wooden house.

In the not-so-bright moonlight, Guoguo was drying her freshly washed clothes on the rattan in front of the wooden house. The wind is a bit noisy tonight, and tomorrow morning the clothes will be dried and then they can be put in the baggage.

Guoguo gave him a sweet smile when she saw Ji Shijun coming back, and the next moment, Ji Shijun rushed towards her.

However, a black shadow took a step faster than him, and the bayonet sword in the black shadow's hand instantly poked the fruit into honeycomb coal.