Chapter 234: Adoption (II)
The summit of Keith Peak, a humble tent 23u!]
When Elton, the leader of the lizards, learned that his defected nephew had been sent back by the nobles, he immediately summoned the lizardmen in his tent and ordered martial law to prohibit anyone from approaching the tent.
"Carter, did you really meet a nobleman?" Looking at the nephew kneeling in front of him with a look of anger, Elton asked in a low voice.
For Elton's anger at the moment, Carter couldn't help but feel guilty. After all, his nephew, who was the leader, was the first to defect, and the bad influence almost caused the entire camp to riot, but thinking of what he heard when he met Robin, his shame for Elton suddenly weakened a lot.
"Uncle, I have met a lord named Robin. He was entrusted by the Marquis of Timos with full responsibility for the rebellion, and I was directly commissioned by him to have me go up the mountain to find him."
"Lord?" Hearing Robin's title, Elton couldn't help but frown.
In the eyes of ordinary lizardmen, the Lord is already a great person, but as one of the influential leaders of the lizardmen group, Elton obviously has a much deeper title to the empire than ordinary lizardmen, so after hearing that Robin is nothing more than a lord, he immediately doubts whether Robin has enough rights to fulfill his promise.
"Uncle, we don't have time to hesitate. Viscount Cremont is preparing to bombard Pinkith Peak with railguns..."
"Live.! ~" Hearing Carter mention this, Elton suddenly said angrily: "They can't do this, Keith Peak is the core of the entire Keith Mountain Range, if the Kith Peak is flattened, the entire Keith Fire Ring will be bō, they will definitely not make such a crazy decision!" ~”
Lord Robin, however, said that Viscount Cremont's Knights of the Hammer would begin to withdraw in seven hours, and that his troops would all be evacuated after twenty-four. They'll start bombarding railguns again after evacuation, and it's been three hours now, uncle! n”
"Evacuation ......"
Carter's words made Elton hesitate, his common sense told him that Keith Peak was unlikely to be destroyed, but he was not a professional geologist after all, so he was not very sure of the extent of Keith Peak after it was flattened. Thus, Carter's suggestion that the Knights of the Hammer would start shelling after they had evacuated somewhat made him doubt his own judgment.
"Uncle, before I entered the camp of Lord Robin, I saw a man leaving with a large pile of papers. I peeked at it and saw what appeared to be information about the mining industry...", and in an attempt to convince Elton, Carter began to talk about his undoubted discovery.
"Mining ......"
Hearing these four words, Elton froze in place as if struck by lightning. Originally, he thought that it was impossible for Viscount Cremont to bomb Keith Peak because he felt that bombing Keith Summit and destroying the original mining area of the green people would be a more costly move, so he thought that Viscount Cremont could not be so stupid. And as long as Viscount Kremant does not use heavy weapons such as railguns, it is impossible to attack Keith Peak with the army alone, in this case, with the current extremely abundant supplies on Keith Peak, his lizard clan can support Keith Peak for a long time, have enough time to fight patience with Viscount Cremont, and find a suitable opportunity to leave the Gotha planet and start over.
But now, after hearing Carter say that Lord Robin was looking up information about the McCenae metal mining on Keith, Elton was starting to get a little nervous. He began to believe that Viscount Cremont would really flatten Keith, because if Keith really had a larger store of Mycenaean metal than the other mines, then it would be the only viable way to mine Keith, and it would be a good idea to wipe out the remnants of their rebel army.
The inner wavering made Elton no longer so calm, and he pulled Carter in front of him: "You said that the Knights of the Hammer will start to evacuate in four hours?" ”
"Yes, they're incinerating the bodies of other mutants and concentrating the captured weapons in the car, which I saw with my own eyes." Thinking back to that hellish scene, Carter shuddered involuntarily.
"Futz, send two men down the mountain. If you find out that the main force of the Knights of the Hammer is really evacuating, you must report it to me immediately. Elton pushed Carter away with an anxious order.
"Yes! ~"The burly lizard man received the order and immediately hurried out of the tent.
"Carter, tell me now. If we are willing to surrender, can that nobleman named Robin really ensure our lives? ”
"It should be," Carter said uncertainly, "I see that their station is independent, and it is not mixed with the Knights of the Hammer, so there should be no affiliation." And when one of the knights showed us around the incineratorium, I noticed that the warriors of the Knights of the Hammer were very polite to him. By the way, in that lord's camp, I saw at least four knights, very powerful knights! ~”
"Four knights?" Elton flows out of the god of disbelief sè.
"Yes, I promise all four of them are knights. And I've heard that the lord named Robin crushed our entire army with only three men, Kaul... Lord Harald had his head cut off just by looking at him. ”
“……………”
Elton had also heard the rumors that Carter had said, but he had always thought it was Viscount Cremont's record, but he didn't expect that the person who actually accomplished it was actually a Lord.
In Elton's perception of the Imperial Title, a knight who appears in the territory of the Imperial State should at least be a Baron, and only in the extragalactic galaxy can you see the trainee knight of the Lord Title.
However, there was another circumstance in which the knight would receive the title of Lord of a foreign land if he did not wish allegiance to Hoffmann the Great and insisted on retaining his nationality. And such lords often hold the power of a nation in their hands, and are in no way inferior in personal status to some of the newly promoted barons who have returned from the extragalactic system. If this is the case with Lord Robin in Carter's mouth, then his acceptance of the Marquis de Timos's entrustment of full responsibility for the rebellion proves that he is at least on an equal footing with Viscount Cremont, and should have the absolute right to protect the lives of his subordinates.
"The lord was looking at the mines of Keithpeak, so he was going to mine here. But this is the planet of Viscount Cremont, and the resources here belong to Viscount Cremont.
Could it be ...... Is this one of their agreements? Elton's mind was spinning fast, and he began to understand Robin's true intentions.
Seeing that Elton seemed to be a little distant, Carter suddenly asked puzzled, "Uncle, is this important?" ”
"Of course it's important, as the saying goes, you don't get tired of cheating, and promises are the least reliable things.
If the Lord wants to recruit us, he must need to borrow us somewhere. And if he doesn't need it, then he just wants to trick us down the mountain and kill us. ”
Elton's words reminded Carter of the mountains of corpses and blood he had witnessed, and he shouted in horror: "That ......"
"It is clear that Lord Robin had only received the mining rights of Keith Peak from Viscount Cremont. Of all the human races, we lizardmen are the only ones who can climb the Keys Peak and endure the harsh conditions here. Therefore, the purpose of his surrender to us is probably to ask us to open mines. "So...... He won't blow us up with a railgun? ”
"No, I'm afraid it's Cremond with a railgun ... [This chapter is not finished, please click on the next page to continue reading!] ]